Hello From The Magic Tavern - Bonus: Offices and Bosses S3E1 - Chief Executive Fintaur

Episode Date: March 13, 2020

To honor the 5th anniversary, enjoy this bonus episode from the Stitcher Premium series Offices and Bosses! Hornelius the Fintaur helps kick off a new season of Offices & Bosses with new ...Office Manager Traach the Kobold! Arnie, Chunt and Usidore introduce their latest characters for this exciting Chief Executive version of O&B! Who will be the first to reach C level?! Is Arnie a vampire? Grab your stapler and die and let's get rolling!CreditsArnie, aka The Masked CEO: Arnie NiekampChunt, aka P.J. Success: Adal RifaiUsidore, aka Clairm Collaite-Mug: Matt YoungTraach, aka Office Manager: James D’AmatoHornelius, aka Tony Obsidian: John Patrick CoanMysterious Man: Tim SniffenProducer: Adal RifaiPost-Production Coordination: Garrett SchultzEditor: Stephen DrangerSpecial Assistance: Ryan DiGiorgiO&B Logo: Allard LabanTheme Music: Andy PolandYou can support the show directly and receive bonus episodes and rewards by joining our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/magictavern for only $5 per month. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and now Patreon!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:46 I can't take my temperature since I don't currently have a body, but I think my fever broke. One or two more good sneezes in my little excursion through time should come do an end. Oh wow, this isn't my history at all. It's the mysterious man, and he's on Earth. Honestly, that cannot be good. I'm going to have to look into that when I get back, but for now, enjoy this full episode of Offices and Bosses Season 3. You know, the show where Arnie the Human used to door the wizard and Chunth the Talking Badger, sit in a tavern
Starting point is 00:01:16 in the magical world of food and play the role-playing game Offices and Bosses, with the help of a keeper of the game lore and office manager and a rotating cast of magical guests. And listen far be it for me to tell you what to do, but if you want to hear the rest of this series plus our other series and all the other great Stitcher shows, sign up for Stitcher Premium at Stitcher Premium dot com slash magic with the promo code magic. You'll get a free month and you'll be supporting your tavern pal, so go to Stitcher Premium dot com slash magic and sign up for a free month with the code magic. Well, I guess I'll throw it over to Mr. Creepy Voice.
Starting point is 00:01:47 I miss our dynamic. Greetings, kind of person who enjoys things like this. It's me, your friendly authoritative voice, hiding out in a secret government facility, mostly because the Taco Bar on the fourth floor really slaps, welcoming you to season 3 of offices and bosses, known henceforth as Chief Executive Offices and Bosses, the office-based role-playing game, residents of Foon in Joy, in between their home's buns stabs at maintaining a storyline. To answer the question you're probably thinking, it's quite easy to stop listening to a podcast you weren't intending to follow, delete it from your hard drive and never think of it again.
Starting point is 00:02:27 The answer can be found quite readily online. To answer the other question you might be thinking, you don't have to have listened to seasons 1 or 2 of offices and bosses for this to make sense, as much sense as it's going to make. Just know it takes place some time during season 3 of Hello from the Magic Tavern. And now, Hunch behind your three-sided role-playing table shield, finish filing down that 20-sided die to roll a wildly-unernd number of criticals, and enjoy the show. Here not marketing manager IT professional sales rep and temp I am office manager your guide in the realm of offices and bosses and the bosses! Hello, welcome to season three of offices and bosses! A spin-off of hello from the Magic Tavern. If you've never listened to the podcast before, this is everything you need to know. Some amount of time ago I fell through a magic portal behind a Burger King and Chicago
Starting point is 00:03:43 and to the...I'm surprised that no one is trying to stop me. Usually I try to get through this thing without being interrupted and... And yet you found a way to interrupt yourself. And yet you're right. Arnie, you're being rude to Arnie. Oh. Have you felt that maybe the problem isn't other people
Starting point is 00:03:59 that it might be you and you're just sort of... Be me. Projecting. And I'm honestly learning a lot. I don't listen to the show. Oh, well, anyway, thank you. This is a good opportunity. Do you think everyone who doesn't listen to the show?
Starting point is 00:04:13 Yeah, I think I just, you should. I lead with the- Oh, he did that, he'd be thinking people all day. My personality is that I tend to lead with either an apology or just a thank you, but the thing is, I rarely listen to what people say, so I don't know what I'm thanking or apologizing for. I do want to say, if he, if Arnie was thinking people
Starting point is 00:04:31 who didn't listen to the show, he'd be thinking these cities, Cleveland, New Mexico, all of Michigan, Alaska, Honolulu, the city of Alaska. That's, those are famously our lowest demographics. Oh really? John, you started learning about Earth cities? Well, you've been looking it up and I've been looking over a shoulder. Oh, we have stats?
Starting point is 00:04:55 Oh yes, I have lots of insight into how the podcast is performing in various markets. Oh, yeah, apparently we need to go to Austin. What, look, let's save this discussion for under the tavern, a behind the scenes podcast, where me, Yusidor and Chant, talk about all the things that go on, behind the scenes of making a low from the magic tavern. Is there any part of your life
Starting point is 00:05:16 that you haven't tried to monetize at this point? I'm just listening, you're talking about separate conversations, doing separate things, everything for you is a spin-off or a side thing. I know, I'm just... I'm all side hustle, but no core. The other day... The other day... The other day, you charged me five shit bucks to watch him go to the bathroom. I think I'm going to start to twitch. Please, freaking out.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Terrifying. I can't tear my eyes away though. I'm gonna throw bits at him. Bits. Yeah. Ow, ow, ow, ow. Now you better do that the same time every day or your foot. Oh no. All right, so enough fun. Let's play game.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Oh, no, so the grand soon. Was that fun? Was that fun? Look for listeners, I just want to say that we're listening to offices and bosses, where we are going to play the delightful role-playing game, offices and bosses. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is season three, baby. And boys, before we begin, I got to apologize about the venue.
Starting point is 00:06:09 You know, we just couldn't get it together at another place. My place is certainly too small, so I went on Arrow and B, and I found a place for us to play. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know. I mean, it was listed as like a quaint country home And as you can see we're in a mansion full of shifting rooms and portals and I don't know which way out is anymore It's confusing in here. Yeah, and the big complaint we have is that it's not in the country correct because that's false advertising
Starting point is 00:06:42 Oh absolutely absolutely Because that's false advertising. Absolutely. Absolutely. Speaking of just like an ever shifting reality that it's hard to get any grasp on what's happening, why don't we all introduce ourselves? I'm Arnie, I'm an Earth human trapped in this world. My name is John, I'm a shape shifter,
Starting point is 00:06:57 and usually a talking badger. Usually a talking badger? Well, talking is a given, and I'm excited to play it. This is season three. Season three of offices and bosses. And I, of course and I'm excited to play it. This is season three. Season three of offices and bosses. And I, of course, I'm Yusudor, Wizard of the 12th Realm of Ephesius, Master of Light and Shadow,
Starting point is 00:07:13 Minipule, Tower of Magical Blights, Devourer of Chaos, Champion of the Great Holes of Turakus, the Edoves Nome is Fying Elk, the Dwarves Nome is Zonen in Huk Stenges, and I'm known in the Northeast, has Gastraeneus Mastar, and there may be other secret names. Names that if I did that are allowed, would roll a natural 20 every time. Names like, uh, was it James Obs, yes. Well, I don't believe I'll be playing John Sebastian. Ooh. Or John Bastion?
Starting point is 00:07:49 That's not a thing. Never was. And anyway, we're here with us today, is? Yes, that's right. I am trash, the cobalt. And today I will be your office manager. Oh. Ooh. And we should take just a brief moment to say that we are still worried and missing
Starting point is 00:08:12 Metamorphon Visual office manager. Well when we usually play offices in bosses metamorphon the part dragonborn guy who works in the stable Wait, I mean you just replaced him with another lizard guy. Well, he was captured. Yeah, the universe is in bosses season two Gotta assume he's dead by now. Yeah, a trickster god kidnapped tricked him in a game of offices What was it guys named Tony Obsidian or Tony Obsidian it was Dorian Deville the trickster god and We don't know where he is or where he lives or what his house looks like trickster God and we don't know where he is or where he lives or what his house looks like.
Starting point is 00:08:50 But it's on our list of things. Eventually we will rescue Metamorph, assuming he's out there and still lives somewhere. Metamorph, you're listening, we're coming to save you. If you're dead, we're not. Yeah, so, let us know if you're dead. Yeah, so, you know, if you're listening to this in the future, check and see if office is in boss this season seven or eight if we've got around to doing that. It's a wonder if he's listening and dead because then he heard it and knows you're not coming for him. And his steady is upsetting, but you have to think about it in this way, someday we'll all be dead. Oh, but now I do have to think about it in that way. If he's listening and dead, does he not count towards our listener numbers? Fuck.
Starting point is 00:09:22 You would probably know that if you paid more attention to stats. Let's bury him in Cleveland and go ahead and introduce yourself, Cornelius. Oh, yes, I am Honeelius, the Fin-Tar, and I will be taking no questions about my habits. Good, that's good. That's actually a good thing. Yes, I learned my lesson. Sort of look like a...
Starting point is 00:09:40 It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's not important. Okay, and Trash, I want to say no matter what other people are saying. I don't think you're going bold. What? What? What? You're a cold bold, right? Yeah. Yeah. You can just shave. I mean, I just want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it. Just where it hats. What I do. Yeah. We're going to play a game. We got to play a game. This is a variant on Owen B. You guys have been kind of been playing the baby game. Oh yeah, last time I was a baby with a famously long penis.
Starting point is 00:10:12 It's also DJ. No, no, no, no. Version of Owen B came out after the original publishing that just had more granular rules, a greater verse millitude to everything in the game. This is Chief Executive, offices and bosses. CEO would be. This is the real game.
Starting point is 00:10:34 All right, this is going to challenge you more than you've ever been challenged by a game of offices and bosses. Are you guys ready for it? Yes. Oh, it's certainly not. Yes. How could I be? But I'm game to try. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Can I ask you, Horneelies, have you played offices and bosses before? No, I have not. But I've watched many offices and bosses streams where I'm from the lake, let's out into many streams. Uh-huh. And I occasionally see students, offices and bosses' character sheets floating through the streets. Oh, god, and yeah, you see them through your little fish eyes? No, no, no, no, no, why go there? Why go there? No need, why talk about the type of eyes?
Starting point is 00:11:17 So our game begins at the top of a large glass tower. Where within we find thousands of different human beings in a horrible world where only humans exist. Ugh. He says the glass tower? Yes. Are we all like burning alive? No, no, no, no, no. See, in this world, these people form corporations
Starting point is 00:11:44 and they build big, boring, really architecturally indistinct towers that they put in the middle of a quite beautiful historic downtown. Got you like a big, boring, glass penis. Yeah, exactly. I kind of like that. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:59 And we are bringing ourselves to the highest of the high levels, where we find an open office floor plan, where human beings are stuck horribly near one another, and everyone has floating desks, which means there are not enough desks for the people working there. Hmm, scarcity. for the people working there. Scarcity. Where we find our main characters. You all are the heroes of this world. The emplolies. Fuck you. Yes.
Starting point is 00:12:32 I forgot that I don't like offices and bosses. And I want to go around real quick and have everybody introduce their character. I'll need to know your name. I'll also need to know your title, your job position. Oh great. Should I start? Yes please. Yeah, of course.
Starting point is 00:12:47 So my character's name is PJ Success. I'm a seasonal manager. Oh. Oh, what's a seasonal manager? A seasonal manager is someone who was not born vaginally. They were cut open from their birth mother. And there are certain types of bosses that they will be able to slay that Someone of man or woman born would not be able to slay. I'm so sorry. I stumbled over my tongue
Starting point is 00:13:13 I'm not a seasonal manager. I'm a C-sectional manager. Oh, I see I see a sea level manager Thank you, and I of course am Clarem colate mug Vice President corporate direct sales Northeast region. Oh, wonderful. Houston, are you not gonna play John Sebastian? No, I'm not playing John Sebastian. I'm playing Tony Obsidian. Not Tony Obsidian, that's a different one.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Clarem Colate Mug. Clarem, Clarem. How do we spell Clarem? C-L-A-I-R-M. Okay, I think for short I'm just gonna call you Shiv. That's close. That's close. And you know in an office like this it wouldn't be uncommon for someone to take on a nickname. That's where they look at your name and they chip off a piece of it. They nick off a piece of your name.
Starting point is 00:14:05 Oh, you'll be a good nickname for Clarem Colate Mug. John Sebastian. We'll see. Well, I don't think so. I don't think I've got you to do that. Horneley, it's what do you got? Oh. Mm-mm.
Starting point is 00:14:18 I will be playing. Tony Obsidian. Ha. Mergers and acquisitions. Oh, wait, what was the name? Tony Obsidian. wait, what was the name Tony obsidian. Sorry one more time Tony obsidian. That's just not sticking I like that character maybe I'll maybe I'll get a nickname for you. Is that spelled a N. D. Y. Space C. A. N. E. I guess that's correct Look at that call you Kendall for sure. Okay, it's so all right
Starting point is 00:14:44 Yeah, yeah, wait wait wait, I'm very, I haven't really talked to you about this. I'm from a world that is not unlike the, to you folks, fantastical world of offices and bosses. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Damn it, you say? It's wonderful. So it's not as much escapism for me to play offices and bosses.
Starting point is 00:15:02 So I try to play a different kind of role-playing game that I played as a kid. All my past characters have died. Rhine DeGeorgie has died, Orlando Bloom has died. Hayden Christensen died at the end of the game. I thought he was just horribly scarred and burned. Yeah, but then also like just public opinion turned against the-
Starting point is 00:15:21 I like his career. Yeah, yeah. So for this game, you know, a very popular role playing game on my world is Vampire, the Masquerade. And I've always really loved the name of that game that I know next to nothing about. So. That's very popular. I am going to be, masquerade, was it a drink?
Starting point is 00:15:40 A sports drink? Sounds a little insensitive, really. Well, I am going to play a vampire maybe all you all know is I'm wearing a mask That's it. I am the mask CEO Why isn't it called the vampire mask grade? Well, and I'll have to slow your roll on that a little bit there Arnie because you're not CEOs yet Oh to be a sea level boss. That's sort of the ultimate goal of CEO and B.
Starting point is 00:16:10 Nice. Is your questing after the powers of a boss? There are certain relics hidden within the world, certain tasks and deeds that you'll need to perform. But if you make it to the end, you'll reach sea level. You'll be a boss. Since I shouldn't be sea level, I'm going to change my back to my, I miss Spokens at seasonal manager, so I'm going to stay that just so I'm not a sea level manager. Or it could just be called the masquerade and part of the game is finding out their vampires.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Ah. Hmm. What? Well, it's already pitched a better thing than your thing. Thank you. I wasn't really listening to what he said. Let's not go changing it too much. It's very popular. I suppose they know what they're doing. It had a TV show, probably.
Starting point is 00:16:52 That's the only way Arnie knows anything. So, let's cut back to the game. You are employees who are living amongst the bosses. Most employees live huddled somewhere in the lower levels of the tower, but you have actually approached their magnificence. You walk among them every day, which makes your lives very dangerous, but there is that joyous prize that could be at the end of this long, harrowing road, you could become bosses yourselves yourselves. Ooh, yeah, mm-hmm, yes. But first, you must amount to the day's first challenge.
Starting point is 00:17:29 And as I have said, there are many work stations around this office, but not enough for everyone who works here. Find yourselves a station. Oh, okay. All right. So do I, can I see if there are any that are far away from the windows where less light would penetrate? Ooh, okay, well, it sounds like you're ready
Starting point is 00:17:52 to make one of the first moves of our game. To do that, I'll need you to roll a die and add your familiarity or your creative to analyze the situation. Oh, and do I get a pick which of those ones? The way you do it, if you want to sort of use tried and true methods, you'll be rolling from your familiarity. But if you want to come up with new interesting innovative ideas,
Starting point is 00:18:18 you'll use your creative. Oh, well since my creative is higher, I'm going to find a desk and an innovative new way, which is use my vampire eyes. Alright, well roll it up! Okay, let's see here. I rolled a... 8. Plus 2, creative. Okay, so that's 10.
Starting point is 00:18:38 I'll trust you. So, it was on a 7 to 15 things don't go exactly great, but you do get to ask me a question, and I must answer it honestly. Um, hmm. What do you think of my hair? Uh, I'm sorry, is this in the game? What do I think of your character's hair? Or what do I trash think of Arnie's hair? Do we all answer? I love to. I mean, we- Too tall. I have to be honest about it, but you all can just answer the question. Looks great. Uh, how about this?
Starting point is 00:19:09 Why don't you tell me it looks good and... Well, no, that's not the rules I do have to answer honestly. I guess I don't want to know. You already asked the question though and I do have to say bad. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a word. And that's your fault.
Starting point is 00:19:24 That's what you did with your turn. But what do you say my hair has potential? Oh God, Arnie, I don't have to answer this. I don't have to answer this honestly. I don't have to answer this honestly. Yes, I would say it has potential. But because you rolled a partial success, there's a drawback to that.
Starting point is 00:19:40 So you have the information that an extra dimensional totem version of yourself has bad hair. And you know that as your character now. However, you did that using an innovative new method of creative idea and bosses hate that. So you have alerted one of the nearby bosses. They, you know, inhale deeply. And they look around the office. Someone here has new ideas. Everyone at their work station suddenly stops and freezes, hoping that the boss won't notice them.
Starting point is 00:20:20 But this creates opportunities for the rest of you. While people are frozen, they'll have trouble working at their stations. Did we all enter at the exact same moment? Did we all walk in together? I assume we awakened at some point. Just coming to consciousness in this room. Oh, I know one of the sleeping pods, yeah. Yes. So in a high-level corporate office like this, there are sleeping pods where humans sort of stuff themselves
Starting point is 00:20:44 so that they continue to work more and more. Humans love to work. So from where I'm at, who is there a human in my line of sight who looks particularly upset who I could push out of their floating disk? Absolutely. You see, someone who is shorter than yourself and high level corporate politics, the taller you are, the more likely you are to
Starting point is 00:21:06 Draw a higher wage command more respect in the office So yeah, you just look for a short person to target and you you see one in your line of sight. What do you do? Well, I push them out of the space and I take it over. Okay. Now are you gonna be doing this physically or socially? Oh How about socially? Okay, I like that. That is a control role doing this physically or socially. Ooh. How about socially? Okay, I like that. That is a control role. You're gonna be rolling and adding your brand,
Starting point is 00:21:33 and I'll tell you the results. That's a five plus zero is five. Okay, so that's the worst it could possibly go. Well, I could have rolled a four. So you're free. You're right. That is, I mean, look, I'm no math, I choose. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:52 You've got to choose two things for me here. You'll make an enemy. The person in question will give you a lower than five rating on an anonymous survey. Huh? The situation is going to... That's going to trap, though. Yeah, that's not good. All right, all right. The situation is gonna carry unforeseen complications
Starting point is 00:22:11 or your ass is on the line. And I have to choose two. Choose two. You're rolled very badly. I will make an enemy for I do not fear enemies. For Yusodoro does not stare down the face of evil without standing up against it. And second, unforeseen consequences.
Starting point is 00:22:31 So, I think what happens is you step in to try and use your natural social brand to push this person out of their workstation. What you don't know is that this person is really into CrossFit. And they see you, they lock eyes with you, and all of a sudden you're in a conversation about CrossFit. There's no end in sight. I think the word CrossFit is a second hand.
Starting point is 00:23:00 That's trash. Part of me. Now, if I see this happening to my good friend Clarem and me being part of a mergers and acquisitions, may I go and try to assist Clarem here? Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, to do that, you would make an improve role. That is also gonna be based off your brand, though, because you are part of mergers and acquisitions,
Starting point is 00:23:22 you would have advantage in this situation. You'll be growing 2D20 and taking the higher. A 20. A 20, there we go. Whoa. Okay. That's the best I could have gone. Well, it could be a 21.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Well, that's fair to you. That's true. Yeah, much higher numbers. Yeah, so on this, your name is on the project. And it goes perfectly. You swoop in, I want to know, in what way would you be able to redirect a conversation about CrossFit? As you know CrossFit is a conversation pit. Once you're there, you're kind of there. Yes. Well, I don't actually plan on redirecting
Starting point is 00:24:02 it all. I plan on furthering the CrossFit conversation and in fact Bolitiling them with my massive CrossFit stats Oh, oh yeah, yeah, the shorter person obviously sees your taller frame as you begin to talk about CrossFit You know and their six foot cable jumps. Yeah science crunches. Yeah, yeah, it's lateral thrusts. And he tries to keep job, he's like, oh, carry it. What's your time? What's your time?
Starting point is 00:24:30 Three minutes? I'm 256. Oh! Yeah, he runs away in Tony Obsidian. He runs away in shame. Tony, you're the alpha of the floor right now. People know it, people respect it. The workstation is yours. Sorry, Claire. Oh, that's okay, people respect it, the workstation is yours.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Sorry, Clarem. Oh, that's okay, Tony. I appreciate you help the help. Yeah. I was really in trouble there for a second. I want to know more about Chun's character. Where are they in the office? So PJ's success has been hiding behind a plant on the office floor.
Starting point is 00:25:01 As I see Clarem kind of get to put in his place, his place her place, their place, her place. And as I see, oh boy, what is this name? Tobey. Tony Obsidian. Tony Obsidian. You don't remember that name? Start to belittle someone. What I'm going to do is I rush towards someone on the outer edges of the office. Suddenly, I try and physically hit them so they smash out the window and die. Okay, subtly. Yeah. Okay. This is good. This is good. Okay, so this is just gonna be a straight up attack roll.
Starting point is 00:25:34 That's gonna use your productive eight stat. And what weapon are you using? I have a spiked club. Okay, a spiked club is not gonna be great at subtlety. And then I use my forehead. Okay, okay.iked club is not going to be great at subtlety. Then I use my forehead. Okay, okay, you can use your forehead. I have to know what your physical frame is like. Real small, real small. Okay. So I'm at the ice like five, six. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. Well, but follow up question. Yeah. How big is your forehead? Massive. Oh, you've got a five head,
Starting point is 00:26:06 I think you'd be rowing this with advantage. Okay, all right then. Okay, that's gonna be a 14. A 14, okay, you can't. That's the best I could have gone. Yes. Unless you have been cross-bred with a goat, you're not gonna be able to do lethal damage with this,
Starting point is 00:26:25 but you do sort of manage to ram them You're not gonna be able to do lethal damage with this, but you do sort of manage to ram them and because this is a pretty high attack roll, you get to make the choice, you can either, and you can choose two of these, you can avoid taking damage in return, you can resolve stress, which nobody is stressed out right now, which is great.
Starting point is 00:26:42 So, you guys are doing great. You can deal additional damage or you can put your co-workers in an advantageous position. Who would I choose to? Choose to. And I can't put my ass on the line twice. No, no, no, no. You don't wanna put your ass on the line for this.
Starting point is 00:26:56 Yeah, I guess you do. I'll have to. No, he does. Yeah, I could if I wanted to. So what I wanna do is I wanna do additional damage and I wanna put one of my co-workers in an advantageous situation. Okay.
Starting point is 00:27:06 Me, me, me, me, me, me. Great, great. Great, great. Good to sing. So I think you ram into this person. You do catch them right in the hip. They sort of stumble over sideways and crash into another person freeing up another workstation.
Starting point is 00:27:22 And this one is yours. You've asserted your dominance. even being short, which is very impressive It's very hard to do. Thank you so much. So I take over the one station and then I look I make eyes with the masked CEO And give them a little wink. I'm not yet a CEO, but still yeah, I guess I'm you know I think we can work on your backstory a little bit. Maybe you used to be a CEO Left in disgrace, and you sort of come back to reclaim. Look, I wear a mask, but maybe I'm hiding my identity
Starting point is 00:27:51 for good things. You're ugly? Why? Yes, what's the maybe part? What's the explanation? Radioactive face? Maybe I haven't figured that part out. Oh, okay, what a boy.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Really cool creative choice and creativity is your best stat? Yes, and since I can't be CEO, I'll just be the masked BTO. Now there we go. Yeah, I am. Yeah, I am. I am taking care of business. So it seems like the mask is a metaphor for not only you hiding your face,
Starting point is 00:28:23 but you hiding what your characters are about or what they want or what they're interested in. Oh yeah, I should have had a mask in. From the very beginning. Now Claire, it doesn't seem like the mask BTO has been going for this open workstation. That advantage could easily go to you. Are you gonna take advantage of that?
Starting point is 00:28:42 I would like to, yes. Cause it looks like the mask BTO isP.T.O. is over there thinking through their backstory a little bit trying to figure out what might be going on there. Okay. Yes, if I can, if there's something I can do, can I go ahead and make a move? Yeah, yeah, just go on to describe to me
Starting point is 00:28:57 what you're doing. Well, if there's an open workstation, I go over there and I put my lamination machine on top of it so everyone knows it's mine. Yeah, people are very hesitant to move things like that. So I think this is another control. This is you sort of trying to assert your personality in this space.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Okay, so I'm in a Roll Plus brand again. Yeah, Roll Plus brand. That's a 12. Okay, a 12 plus, did you have anything to add to that? Nope. So that's a partial success. Oh. Which means you are going to
Starting point is 00:29:32 incur some sort of social penalty for that. I think what happens is you sit next to the gossipy co-workers and as soon as you get there, they notice that you've taken over the station. It's not the sort of thing where they would kick you out but their friend usually sits there. Oh, that's beautiful. And so they start talking closer to themselves in hushed tones and once in a while somebody will give you kind of a look. Oh, shade. Do I get another move? Because I wanted to order
Starting point is 00:30:03 lunch for everyone. Ooh, okay, I like this. This sounds to me like it would be a, this is a measure. You're going to put one of your skills to the test. Are you ordering lunch to everyone to sort of smooth things over with the people that you're sitting with? Correct. Okay, so if you're gonna be doing that, you're going to choose a method of doing it. And I think that might be a creative solution for you.
Starting point is 00:30:27 Okay. Well, all right. So I roll for that plus creative. Yeah, roll plus creative. It's a 14. 14. So 14 overall, I think you're going to smooth this over with most of them. Great.
Starting point is 00:30:40 One of them is not going to be safe. And I think that's what I'm going to do. I think you're gonna smooth this over with most of them. Great. One of them is not gonna be safe, and I think one of them has an allergy. So you order food for everybody, everybody else gets a food, but you get there.
Starting point is 00:30:56 I'm gonna call up Darpa Soutinos. And from Darpa Soutinos. Darpa Soutinos, I'm calling Darpa Soutinos, and I'm ordering garlic nuts. Garlic nuts? Garlic nuts, and I'm ordering garlic nuts garlic Garlic nuts. Yeah, everybody loves I'm ordering garlic nuts for the whole office But someone on the team has a not allergy I would like it to be known. That's totally obsidian.
Starting point is 00:31:26 Brought to the eggs salad sandwich. I did look in the book before we started playing. And I selected some items for myself, one of which is an eggs salad sandwich. I will be abstaining from lunch. Smart. And instead of having a garlic knot, K-N-O-T, I'm gonna have a garlic knot, N-O-T,
Starting point is 00:31:41 that is just not garlic. Um, and now I want to return to the mass BTO. The garlic knots have obviously filled the office with kind of a thick Italian cooking scent, something that you as a vampire would not be able to stand. But something me as a Tony loves. Yeah, it reminds you of grandma's house. But for you, it's causing you a lot of distress.
Starting point is 00:32:05 You're gonna need to find a path out of there, right? Okay. Is there like a elevator nearby? So there are banks of elevators, but I think the situation is really dire for you. You're probably gonna have to duck into one of the offices. Oh, okay. Which could be dangerous
Starting point is 00:32:24 because that's where the bosses live. Oh, all right, I'm just gonna have to go in there and hope my mask can do the work for me. So I'm gonna need you to make a measure role for me and I just want you to choose which of your abilities you think your character is using. There could be a lot of different ways of approaching this. You know, you could be using your brand, you know, trying to excuse your way approaching this. You could be using your brand,
Starting point is 00:32:45 you know, trying to excuse your way in there. You could be using your productive ate and just using your raw physical talents to get in there. Well, my highest stat is brand, a plus four. So, despite the fact that I don't thoroughly understand what that means, I think I'm gonna go with that one. I'm gonna go in and I'm going to go into an office
Starting point is 00:33:03 and just say hey It's me the master BTO. Oh, that's so unbranded for you. Yeah, that's good. That's good And that's I'm gonna point at the math and Arnie that's that's the sort of thing that you think a really like charismatic person would say Well, yeah, okay You know most people sort of like try to play an idealized vision of themselves in this game, so I said, hey, you're like more like a asthmatic person. I pointed at the mask.
Starting point is 00:33:32 You got, also, I know I maybe didn't go into a lot of description. The mask is really cool. If he's a fantasy world where the rules work different than I will. Sure, sure, sure, sure. Also, it's unfair because he's from Earth and he knows how to do it so well.
Starting point is 00:33:44 Exactly. The rest of us are struggling. If you work in an office and you go into the boss's office, unannounced, wearing a mask, that's a power move. That always goes over well, huh? Yeah, and I, can I, I don't know if this is a lot of trash.
Starting point is 00:33:59 Can I roll for something I think I see? Oh, yeah, absolutely. If you want to do that, all you would have to do is roll define. When you roll a define, you know, offices and bosses, like, kind of ended up in a situation where a lot of people would think they would see things. And there was really no way to control that here in CEO and be it's built right into the game.
Starting point is 00:34:19 Just for fun. I think the guy that I headbutted, I think I see him start to get up, and then I think I see him start to go home, and on his way out, I think I see him slip on a knot, a garlic knot, a little slip knot going on. Yeah, let's see. Okay, and that's that. There's no roll that could be good enough. And what am I rolling for?
Starting point is 00:34:36 So you're going to roll and add your creative. Oh boy. You care if you get it. You hate to see that, it's a 23. So what? So that works out exactly as you say. I hate to see that, it's a 14. A 14, okay, okay, so this is a partial success, meaning you're definitely gonna get what you want,
Starting point is 00:35:13 but there is gonna be a drawback to this situation. You walk in and the boss, blessedly, is not there. You're lucky. But instead, you find their personal assistant. Now, you know how in Foon, we have some people that are sort of insocilled into servitude. On earth, they do this by just hiring someone. Humans will just give away their lives
Starting point is 00:35:39 to other humans for no reason at all. It's so strange. Yeah, we know the word inso Sourcelman, right? Yes, of course. Yes, I am Sourcel things all the time. Yes, I'm a big West Wing fan. What? What's that?
Starting point is 00:35:52 It's Sourcelman. Oh, okay. You know if you see a bird and you favor one wing or over the other? Oh, okay. Those birds fly with one wing away from the sun. No, the sun is to the west. To the east, it's a west way.
Starting point is 00:36:05 Oh. But Arnie, you get in there, you get in there, the personal assistance sees you and goes, Mr. Johnson doesn't have a three o'clock. What do you do? Let's see, I already pointed at my mask. I'm trying to do that one more time. Maybe two fingers.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Let's see here. You wouldn't be able to use creative if you tried doing it again. Ah, yes. I think I should get a mask. Well, these are the things that I have. I have a staple remover. I'm not sure. I just sort of like how it looks like vampire teeth.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Yeah, it makes you feel comfortable. It's a lot smarter. And then for my weapon, I chose one of those really long, one of those really long... Wait of those really long, um... Wait, are you a vampire? One of those long spears? What's that? Are you a vampire? No, I'm just, I got a mask.
Starting point is 00:36:53 That's what I thought. It's vampire the masquerade. There's no indication that the vampires were one wearing a mask. Yeah, I thought you were dressing up as a vampire. Oh, well, I was assuming that I'm, you know, behind this mask, there's no way of knowing if I'm a vampire or not. Except you just said you were. What's that? What?
Starting point is 00:37:11 But we don't know, that's part of the mystery, which will tease out throughout this entire season, but I am a vampire. So, getting back to the weapon that you were describing, you said it's like a really long spear? A very long spear, like five times as tall as me the kind like if I was Is it getting a charge? It is both tall and long Okay, so this is sounding a lot like a lance or your arm strong enough to hold the lance
Starting point is 00:37:38 Hey, I would have wrapped a roll to not be that look on this mask I am not a lance. Okay, okay, but I mean we're going to have to get into the blood doping later on since you are a vampire. Oh, blood. See, why did you have that reaction to blood? What's in it that you are a vampire? No, I'm, I may be a vampire. Are you gonna turn on us?
Starting point is 00:38:03 No, I would turn on you. I feel like you already did this. I feel like we already watched something like this play out over a very long period of time. Just so everyone's clear, I am in no risk of being turned on. Just so we're clear. If you were turned on physically, what would happen?
Starting point is 00:38:21 Well, I guess I would have to go merge and acquire the bathroom. And I want to say that you're forced to put the room. Why? Why? Why didn't bring it up? Don't worry about it. OK, so you've got your lands out. Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:36 You're going to roll an attack. You'll do that using your productive aid. OK, my productive aid is zero. All right, let's see here I got a 12 okay, you got a 12 which means you are successful Lance is gonna do enough personal assistance don't have a lot of physical power They've sort of been warned to the bone by the demands of their job. So you spear them through but in the process You're gonna cause some demands of their job. So you spear them through, but in the process,
Starting point is 00:39:05 you're gonna cause some destruction. I'm just gonna roll to see what that might do. Oh my gosh, okay. Rolling looks like you were very successful. You knocked over one of the bosses filing cabinets. Oh nice. Anytime something's accomplished in an office, it's filed away.
Starting point is 00:39:25 Yes. Amazing. Dark cabinets and what falls out is a watch that glows in the light. I think you, I'm going to need a role from you to see if you recognize. Oh, okay. Come on, recognize it. That is a five. Okay, so you just see a glowy watch on the ground.
Starting point is 00:39:51 It looks, you know, pretty, pretty unimpressive to you. Also, you just committed a murder, so maybe there are other things that are on your mind. Yeah, probably. I think is there any blood? Oh, yeah, there's a lot of blood. Okay I'm just gonna go what was that I'm why did you make a bunch of mouth noises? Why did you rub a hot dog in that blood? There were better easier ways for you to convey that if that's what you wanted to do yeah someone else would have eaten that hot dog Yeah, Ellen's allergic to the garlic nuts. Yeah, that's true Do vampires on your world eat blood so talked dogs?
Starting point is 00:40:31 Maybe they did that's a mystery that will play out throughout the entire season. I hope not Also, I take the watch just because it's there Okay, I would pick up anything, really, everything. You hear a voice as soon as you touch the watch. You hear a voice echoing in your mind, announcing itself, I am the watch of the sixth sigma, one of the artifacts that will bestow upon one person, Boss Hood. Lucky. Collect the other five and a said,
Starting point is 00:41:09 Oh. How many are there total? He's just at six. So, I mean, I can't, I can't repeat myself. This is one of those games where you have to write down, remember what's going on. He literally said there's six, he said five and the other five.
Starting point is 00:41:24 Twice, he mentioned. Let me check your diet. You rolled a 17 less to hide in. That's what that is. Yikes. Okay. So Trash I have a question. So Ornie found the first sigma. Sigma? Yes. Sigma. Sigma. So is he the only one who's able to ascend or can we each vie for the most? Or do we collectively collect six? So in order to collect the six sigma's, you're going to need to work together, but only one of you can ascend. Ooh, interesting. Interoffice politics, interesting.
Starting point is 00:41:56 Interesting. The ultimate challenge. I do, because we were talking about interoffice politics, I want to come back to clam. Clam. Who the fuck is Clarem? What do you mean I'm playing Clarem? Tony Obsidian. Oh. Yes.
Starting point is 00:42:11 Tony Obsidian is playing Clarem. Wait, no, you're Clarem. I'm Tony Obsidian. Now Tony Obsidian is currently tricking Clarem. Oh, that's right. Eyes on your own papers. So, Clarem, you have been enlisted by Tony Obsidian to go get some sugar for him, but of course, can I, can I laminate it?
Starting point is 00:42:34 Well, some, your lamination machine is the thing in question. Tony was enlisted by Karen, who is allergic to garlic knots. I agree. I'm going to go where you away from your workstation. When you get back, you find some coffee has spilled on your lamination machine. Oh, um, oh no, what am I getting to do? Um, I guess I'll... Quit sucking at dick guys dick. Can I roll? That's enough.
Starting point is 00:43:03 Unfortunately, no. Let's keep moving. Your character's very close to being canceled. Well, do I know that Karen's built it, or I don't know? I just see that there's no- You don't know that Karen's built it. You see the cop, you come back to your workstation, you felt okay leaving it because the lamination machine
Starting point is 00:43:21 is there, but it's been defaced. Who do I see in the immediate vicinity? So you see the gals that are all around and they're being pointedly silent. Mm. Which one is closest to me? Let's see here. That's gonna be Bree.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Well, or did you want physically or emotionally? Physically. Okay, then it's gonna be Bree. I'm gonna try to- Just not a curiosity, which one is emotionally closest? Don't take care of him, don't take care of him, don't take care of him. That's Samantha. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:43:52 I've never heard Samantha. Well, I think I'm going to try to cut off Breeze head. Okay. And physically- Physically or emotionally? Physically. Okay, now just warning you, you had the spiked cl- No, no, no, that was PJ.
Starting point is 00:44:08 What is your weapon that you've selected? I have a copesh. It's a two-bladed weapon with two curved blades or the opposite direction. And the longer taller blade has two teeth that curl in. Okay, that's an exotic weapon. Thank you. I also have a copesh.
Starting point is 00:44:22 It's $122 a year. I thought you were gonna say you love copesh eats. You have a copage. It's a hundred and twenty dollars a year. I thought you're gonna say you love copeshy You have a copage that's yearly Okay, I don't know I'm talking about so So I swing to cut off breathe. Yeah, so please roll your attack That's a ten. Do I add anything to that? So no, you just... Preceptivate, right? Yeah, you'll add your productive 8.
Starting point is 00:44:50 Yes. Oh, that's a 12 then. Oh, a 12. I mean, it's still gonna get you in the 7 to 15 range. So you're only gonna be able to choose one to avoid taking damage to results in stress, which nobody's stressed out or deal additional damage here. You only get to do one.
Starting point is 00:45:06 I'll deal additional damage. Okay, so what? That's the move if you're trying to cut someone's head off. Right. Yeah. So you cut off Breeze head. Breeze head separates from her body. It flies over the table and it lands on Karen's desk. Nurse.
Starting point is 00:45:22 And she gives you a look like, what are you doing? When I do one of these, right, point at my eyes, and I point at her eyes, and I point at my eyes, and I point at her eyes. Okay, okay. I think that works out great for you, but I think that there is the drawback of now,
Starting point is 00:45:40 they're kind of united against you. Samantha looks at you like she can't even believe you right now. What? Samantha does that. So you're gonna take some emotional damage from this? No. That is gonna be six emotional damage. That is.
Starting point is 00:45:56 No. Yeah. Now that I see that Breeze Head has been severed from her body, may I try to acquire that head and use it as a second head for myself? Waste not, want not. It is a good idea. Trying to get head in the office is frowned upon. Yes, but if you're handsome, you're allowed to do it, correct?
Starting point is 00:46:16 Well, makes sense for you. In older editions of the game? Well, what version is this? These days it's very frowned upon. You're right, yes, yes, I wouldn't even want to try that. Totally obsidian, of course, about his business. Ham is that some emails, it's dead. All right, I'm getting to do the role
Starting point is 00:46:32 to see what your opinions about Star Wars are. I think we should check in on that. Okay, but I don't want to use Creative because I don't have any creative opinions about Star Wars. What I do have is, I want to use my productive aid because I'm just really hammering out this email. Mm-hmm, yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:46:49 That is a 12. Okay, so you hammer out that email, there are some very borderline opinions about Star Wars in that email. That's gonna come back to Bicelator for sure. Boba Fett, more like Boba Fett, he served in the military. I told a lot of people in the food
Starting point is 00:47:07 about what you told me about Star Wars. So it's starting to really spread. It's a real thing. My impression is a rough translation of what I heard from Chant. It get a P.J. success. It's like that old game, tin can. Like you tell someone's one thing
Starting point is 00:47:22 and they tell someone else another thing and it slowly dilutes it Tin can why is that like a tin can? It's like a tin can with string. Yeah. You're talking to a tin can Talk to a tin can have you ever talked to do a tin can with your friends? Well, why would you do that here in food? That's how you you know spread gossiping talk to people through a tin can on the string Sometimes yeah, why not is that meant to be a stand-in for anything? No, I think so. Why would you stand in? It works just fine. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:47 On its own. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It works fine. PJ, you got a deadline coming up. Okay. I just... Can I put my ass on the deadline? You can put your ass on the deadline, for sure.
Starting point is 00:47:57 I'll hold off to here more about it. Okay, so you've got a deadline coming up. It's going to be a lot of work. At this point, you might need to try and displace it onto someone else. Ooh, yes. All right, I will do that. Because PJ's success is trying to climb the social ladder,
Starting point is 00:48:14 you know, so I will try and do that. What do I need to roll for? So this is gonna be control. You're gonna be rolling off of your brand. And I want you to target one of your coworkers. The one you feel that is weakest, most vulnerable. Let's go to be that severed hit. For sure, yes.
Starting point is 00:48:28 Oh yeah. Is it still alive or dead? Uh, I don't know. Arnie, this is actually a thing that I don't know. When humans get their heads cut off, what usually happens then? They die. Okay, well they die.
Starting point is 00:48:42 So here's what I'll do. I'm gonna, I kind of, I don't look at anyone specifically, but I kind of generally say like, hey Josh, and I see if anyone perks their head up. Oh yeah, yeah, that's good. Just to see if there's a Josh. Hey Josh. Yeah, just roll your brand on that. That's good. That's going to be a six. Okay, Josh stands up. Josh is a crossfit guy. Damn it. Okay. He's already changed into his workout clothes. He's got his shaker bottle.
Starting point is 00:49:13 So, you know, he's gonna come over. You can probably get him to do what you want. You are, you do have seniority. Okay. But you're gonna hear about Crossfit. Gotcha. Okay, so yeah, I go ahead and I jump on that explosive potion and take one for the team, so I say, hey Josh.
Starting point is 00:49:31 And I try and really butter them up, try and really, how are you so big? Oh, well, let me tell you about the logs that I carry. Okay, details. So sometimes I carry a log back and forth across a room. Great. I can't do it. I can't walk away. Okay. I do the part. That's tough. That's tough. Yeah. So I thought I could do it. I couldn't. Didn't even roll. Now did you put your ass on the line on that one? No. I don't think I did. Okay. I'm being honest. I didn't. If you had succeeded
Starting point is 00:50:00 in retrospect, would you put your ass on the line? Absolutely, 100%. That's one of the technical flaws of this game. Is it really decide whether or not things are bad for you? There's two things PJ's success puts on a line. His name on the dotted, or his ass? Oh, on the dotted. Great, great. So you've killed the boss's personal assistant. Oh, yeah, I did do that.
Starting point is 00:50:22 Yeah, so you kind of have to get out of here. Oh, yes. I think, yeah, you might want to make yourself scarce. Okay, well, did anyone see me go into this office? Let's see, I did. Yeah, so I'm going to have to kill John Sebastian. Who? Right, go for it.
Starting point is 00:50:42 You're going to kill John Sebastian? Yeah, I'm going to find John Sebastian and kill him. All right, I'm gonna need you to roll that attack. Okay, and I'm gonna use my staple remover. All right, that'll give you advantage on that. I rolled a 17. Ooh, okay, okay. So John Sebastian, I believe was unemployed
Starting point is 00:51:03 but bought a big television. So uh you no no no no. John Sebastian did not do that. John Bastion did. Wow wait! Shit. Hold on. Mine games. Houston or did you fucking trick me by using the wrong name. I think you tricked yourself. Hold on. That makes me. That makes you trick me by using the wrong name. Hold on. Let me check my employee manifest to see
Starting point is 00:51:33 who John Sebastian is. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. That's one of the bosses. Oh. That's a CFO. A CFO? Yeah, Chief Financial Officer.
Starting point is 00:51:45 Oh, yeah, this is... Well, I said I, but I, you know what? Yeah, I'm a man of my word. Dude, you've committed to it now. You attack him. Uh, oh. Wait, is he a Chief Financial Officer? And a gentleman?
Starting point is 00:51:58 I mean, I can roll for it. Because if so, he might let it slide, right? Uh, no, it looks like he made some bad tweets. He's not a gentleman whatsoever. Well, I did still roll 17. You did roll a 17, but this is, all right, I'm gonna... He recently got weight loss surgery, too, so you're trying to remove his stomach staples?
Starting point is 00:52:19 Oh, all right. That's gotta be what it is. That's gotta be what it is. Yeah, you're not a trained surgeon. You're going to make a massive fix. Yeah, you're right. I'm going to roll damage for it. With no anesthesia. All right, you do three damage. Okay.
Starting point is 00:52:33 So, you know, you see John Sebastian enter the office. He's got, he's extremely tall, got very big hair. He walks in. Big big hair. Oh, big hair. Huge walks saying big hair. Oh, big hair. Huge hair. Tall hair? Yeah. So, such tall hair, very impressive hair.
Starting point is 00:52:51 I sure have attacked with my long spear. Full head of it. Yeah, you go up, you go up to him, you snap at him with a Snape Overmover, you do get a staple, you pull it right out, but you know, you've aroused his eye, he's upset for sure. Okay, just had a curiosity.
Starting point is 00:53:08 So I've taken three hit points. You've taken three hit points away from me. How many hit points is a boss on average hand? About 25. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. I wouldn't have attacked the boss, but you wanted to go after John Sebastian.
Starting point is 00:53:25 Seeing this happen and seeing my good friend attacking the masked BTO attacking John Sebastian, might I be able to assist him? Absolutely. If you want to roll and improve on that, you can add to that. I would also like to attack. But your name will be attached to this project. I'm totally fine with that because I see an opportunity to advance by killing a boss. And so I would like to also attack John Sebastian.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Okay. All right. Now, I took a couple of items from the book in terms of what I would be fighting with. So I can either use my business attire iron or I can use it. I don't know what this is. I just wrote it down my pack of Trident gun What does that mean? So the Trident gun sounds more powerful. Yeah, you have a whole pack. So pack it's I I think it's extra ammo. I've only sort of so lightly glazed over like like some of the weapons of the book
Starting point is 00:54:22 But I think a Trident is you know one of those three pointed spears Yes, so you must have just a bunch of guns of disposable trident. Yes, it says my trident gun is to spearmen Let me see I'm gonna I'm gonna look at this up Looks like Four to five dentist recommended So I'm gonna say that it's probably a pretty good one if you want to give me a Tack roll there. I'll give you a advantage on that for sure Goodie-goodie. I rolled a 19 so I have a 23
Starting point is 00:54:53 23 Could go to the bed. Um, I'll roll your damage for that That's gonna be 15 damage Very big hit very to see this melee occurring decide to jump in and help my friends So Claire runs over to where the masked BTO is and swings her co-pesh with all her strength All right, all right roll roll that attack for me That's a 15 plus. 21.17? 17? Ah, that gets you.
Starting point is 00:55:26 All right, this is a 16 plus. That's as bad as good as these things can go. You're wonderful. Yeah, without getting critical. So, you know, it's the same thing. You can avoid taking damage. You can resolve some stress, which nobody's taking any stress yet.
Starting point is 00:55:41 That's great. That's the dream here. Yes. You can deal additional damage or put your co-workers in advantageous positions. You get to choose two of those. Oh, I would like to deal additional damage and put the masked BTO into an advantageous position, please.
Starting point is 00:55:57 Oh, thank you so much. Well, if you kill Jon Sebastian, there's a promotion path most likely. Yeah, you'd be the BTO killer. I know. a promotion path most likely. Yeah, you'd be the BTO killer. Pfft. Oh. Pfft. I mean, then the only person that could stop me is a mind hunter. Oh. That's gonna be 11 damage.
Starting point is 00:56:14 That is. Wildly impressive. This boss is almost down. Oh, and I see all this commotion, and I run over and I say, at my forehead, and I try and ram. I've done away with my spike club. I leave that somewhere else, and I just try and I say, at my forehead, and I try and ram, I've done away with my spike club, I leave that somewhere else, and I just try and use my forehead. Sure, sure, sure.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Yeah. If you want to use my business, it's tired iron. You're more than welcome. I think maybe I take the spikes out of the club and put them to, I fix them to my forehead. Okay, before you run in there, this boss does get to respond to these attacks. Of course.
Starting point is 00:56:44 He takes out the supply chain, which is made out of paper clips and office supplies and anything that might be down system. And he swings it at you. Oh, can I, I'm going to point at, your man. So I'm going to sort of point at Tony Obsidian like, maybe a trick here.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Okay, okay, so you're going to try and move some blame onto Tony Obsidian. Yeah. All right, so for that, you're gonna have to roll control. Oh boy. Yeah. All right. Sorry, come on.
Starting point is 00:57:18 Let's see here, I rolled a 14. 14. Can Tony Obsidian roll a brand check to um oh counteract That's yeah, yeah, I would like to immediately pretend like I'm still writing emails. Oh Yeah, I mean Tony Obsidian oh Tony Obsidian rolls a 13 off by one. Oh, yeah, yeah, Tony. I think this is going to you Con with my tried and gum. you know what would have been better 14
Starting point is 00:57:49 There's a pie chain hits you for five damage five damage. Yeah, oh that's half of my hit points Nine Wow I'm a do you have I've got three yikes?. Yikes, that would have killed you out. I know, right? Good thing I pointed. I'm gonna use that trick again. I didn't make it complicated. I have one hip one.
Starting point is 00:58:12 So I probably, you're gonna run the boss right now. Yeah, I probably got stressed and died. In some ways it's smart because you don't have to keep track of anything. It's like if you get attacked, you dead. They say the sickest people, or the smartest people. Mm-hmm people I love that
Starting point is 00:58:26 same yeah yeah alright let's see if pj can finish off this boss so pj success again yells his famous catch line I make eye contact with pj and I point it let's see let's roll it out I got my famous catch line. What's that now? What do you think? What's a catch line? A catch line. Yes. A catch line in Sinka.
Starting point is 00:58:50 Yeah, it's like a catch phrase, but it's more of a line. It's not a full phrase, it's just like a line. It's like when you can't remember your catch phrase. Yeah, it's like catch line. Catch line? A point of order. Does a chun ever have to roll since his last name is success. Oh good call Once per day. I mean if you want to invoke that
Starting point is 00:59:11 One hit point better not waste it no roll for it Yeah, yeah roll for it. So PJ success you want me to hit Ernie you want me to hit Tony Obsidian? Yeah, I thought we drank at the Boston hit him not not sabotage Yeah, no, but I'm just, I don't know. It's just like we're already on a roll getting in her. I don't want to turn him on. I turn him on him. Claire and Colate mug is just happy to be here.
Starting point is 00:59:34 Is that a tongue-duster? Yep. Tony, what do you, oh, yes, Claire. Not Tony. Not Tony. I feel like I'm incapable of saying any of the names. Claire and Colate mug, what's wrong with that? Claire and present danger. So I'm going to roll to, to head, Colate mug, what's wrong with that? Clarem present danger, so I'm gonna roll to head,
Starting point is 00:59:47 but aren't you sure, Tony Obsidian? Let's ask, I mean, we could pull the room. I mean, this is a valid strategy, if you wanna. Pull the room, do you have a pole? I do have a very long spear. You're gonna spear the room, yeah. Here, I'm just gonna try and head, but the boss. Okay, and do I add anything?
Starting point is 01:00:06 Uh, that's gonna be your productive aid. Okay, so it's a 14 plus a productive 8 is 20. That's not, so this is a partial success. Okay. Which means you're definitely gonna do your forehead damage, which, and that's gonna be enough to take down the boss. We did it. The problem is, I think there's some crossfire here. You're also going to hit the masked BTO at the same time and I think your mask comes off
Starting point is 01:00:37 and it goes on PJ. Now it's kind of a PJ mask. Ooh, I know. It's so sleepy. But the boss does fall as you know, the mask is knocked off your face. I think the watch spills out of your pocket as it mixes with the CFO's blood. Jeez, I'm a fucking mess.
Starting point is 01:00:55 Yeah, it'll mix with John's investments blood. Quick, slap your hot dog at that. Is that your catch line? Yes, that's my catch line. It'll come up more. As the mask touches the blood, they mix together, it glows with corporate energies. Oh, yes.
Starting point is 01:01:16 And you can see that it is now attuned. Oh. So there's like a mummy in there? Yeah, it's got synergy with you. Oh, a tune. Because you bathed it in the blood like a mummy in there. Yeah, it's got synergy with you. It's a true. Oh, a tune. Because you bathed it in the blood of a boss. Wow.
Starting point is 01:01:28 Yeah, you've activated it's synergy. Okay. So now once per day, you're gonna be able to activate the power of a boss. Okay. And a part of a boss's power. Does the rest of the office look cowed as what we've done?
Starting point is 01:01:41 The rest of the office, I think, is most, I can roll for them. That's a 20. Yeah, I will say, they have turned into cows. Oh, they are completely cowed. Very nice. Yeah, wow. That's how you want your employees to be.
Starting point is 01:01:57 So, should I use the power of the boss? I mean, it's once per day. If you want to do it now, I mean, there's a whole lot of them. You're gonna have to feed it the blood of another boss. If you want to recharge that energy, it's a strategy thing for sure. There's a lot.
Starting point is 01:02:13 You know what? Tony Orlando approaches Tony Orlando. Tony Orlando. I want to get the sound of that guy. Speaking of, Tony Orlando, hold on, speaking of, thank you Orlando let up, but speak real. Hold on. Speaking of. Thank you Orlando. That was also on my list.
Starting point is 01:02:27 Good. Uh, Todea Obsidian approaches the group. Mm-hmm. Hey boys! Wait, look at what we just did. Excuse me? Hey, I use a colloquially. All right.
Starting point is 01:02:39 We just killed the boss, baby! That means we're in charge now. I think. It seems like the masked BTO has the boss, baby! That means we're in charge now, I think. It seems like the masked BTO has the watch, so I guess you're in charge of the party for the time being. Oh. For the time being. Yeah, you are the team lead right now. Okay. Right now.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Huh. Do you have your mask on, or is it still on the floor? It's on you, PJ. On you, PJ. Oh, the PJ mask. I was just looking for my mask, and I found it. Well, I have my hand. Somebody stop you Please stop me. I'm on fire. I'm smoking slow down cowboy. I put my hand over my face So no one can still covers my face smack and I've hit it and
Starting point is 01:03:21 You have cancer And you have cancer Terrible way to find out yeah, okay, you're the boss now for all your intensive businesses What are we gonna do tomorrow boss? We're gonna do tomorrow? We're gonna Order in for lunch We did that today That's one of the things we did to. That's the one thing we did today. Besides kill the assistant of us.
Starting point is 01:03:47 Wow. What a button. A button. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You've been listening to Chief Executive offices and bosses because a talk show hosted out of a tavern in a magical land wasn't enough of a stretch. Use it or the wizard was played by Matt Young. Chant the shapeshifter was played by Adel Ruffy. Special guest Horneelius the Finn tour was played by John Patrick Cohen.
Starting point is 01:04:20 Listen to John's other podcast, Hey Riddle Riddle, and find him on Twitter at JP So Fly. The Office Manager trashed the co-bold was played by James DeMotto. Find his podcasts where he plays different role-playing games, campaign in one shot at oneshotpodcast.com, or your favorite podcast app. James's book series, The Ultimate RPG Guides, including his newest work, The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide, can be found wherever books are sold, or at Bitly, Slash, RPG Gameplay. Chief Executive Offices and Bosses is produced by Adolfie, post-production coordination by Garacheltz.
Starting point is 01:04:59 This episode edited by Stefan Dranger, Special Assistance by Ryan DeGeorgie, Offices and Bosses logo by Allard LeBam, Thee Music by Andy Poland. In the game of life where delts so many victories and losses, Unless it's a friendly, Loast-X game of Chief Executive, Offices in in buses.

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