Not Another D&D Podcast - Eldermourne - Arc 2 Ep. 0: Oops, All New Characters! (w/ Lou Wilson)

Episode Date: December 31, 2020

Lou Wilson joins the cast to talk about their new characters for Eldermourne's second arc! Jake channels Matthew McConaughey, Emily accidentally runs a poison plant shop, and Lou loves his rusty weapons. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content!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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Elder Morn. Oh, yeah. We've got, it's no longer shout out to the two crew. That's right. It's shout out to the Lou crew. Yes. Oh, wow. The new crew is the Lou crew, baby.

Right. We've got steamed guest, Lou Wilson, our dear friend from D20 and movie star and movie star and movie star. I first movie star. I include all of my accolades when I introduce. Let me follow up his IMDB real quick. Thanks. Thank you. But no, truly such a thrill to be here. You know, every young dimension 20 cast member counts their lucky stars and waits for the day when they'll take the call to be on that spot.

And today's my day, baby. Truly a call to adventure. Happy to make dreams come true. Just in case anyone doesn't know if you're not a patron or you haven't been reading like the Reddit or the Twitter stuff, called those on paternity leave, him and his wife had a baby. Whoa. Yeah.

Whoa. I can grant you, ladies. Yeah, Jake didn't know yet. Yeah, Jake had no idea. Holy shit. What? Yeah, sorry. I, fuck, I realized me and Kaua and Murph have a text thread

without you. And I think that's where we've been sharing pictures. Yeah, I was excited when I saw Lou here instead, but I just didn't, I didn't know what to expect. But they're new growing family, everybody's doing very well. And we're sending our love to Kaua and Susanna and the baby. And yeah, we've got, so we're actually going to do something a little different for this

guest arc rather than... Now walk me through it. Yeah, let me walk you out. Talk me through it. What's going on? So rather than doing something where, you know, Zirk is captured or something like that or we have to come up with some reason that he's not here. We are instead going to do a game of throne style thing

and just cut to another part of the world with all new characters. So not only will lose character be new, but this is Emily's character will be new, Jake's character will be new. And everyone that you play will probably be new, right? Yeah, that's true. So this is going to, we've kind of teased things that are going on around the king of Outer Borough.

That's where that dude, Petty Jack came from at all the nights with the Jackalope sigils on them. They come from a place called Heronford and there's all these kind of happenings going on around the king there. We've had a kind of suspicion, we've heard a lot of rumblings that something was wrong there and now we're going to find out what's wrong by cutting to your guys' characters. So these guys are going to be all, we're all gonna be playing monks. You guys are all gonna be playing. It's all monks, baby.

Oops, all monks. Oops, all monks, we're doing it. And we've discussed it a little bit over text. Right now, we're gonna, nothing is gonna be fully canon until we're in the episode and we'll be able to give you guys like kind of full background into the characters because right now we're just gonna kind of get loose. Okay, thank God. We're gonna talk it out. Uh, except for Jake, who has a tight character is ready to get at the start. Talk about it. Full out backstory for a full minute. I have to tell you, I really like my character I came up with, but before I came on, I did pull some tarot cards to be like,

okay, past, present, future. What do these three tarot cards mean? And I did come up with a good alt character. Ooh, really? You go. That's always good before character creation session to just decide on a different character. Yeah, just a second guess yourself.

I just thought it was in it. I thought it would be like a fun way. I was like, I wonder if you could come up with a character from doing past present, future, three cards, bread. And actually, it was a really, really interesting way. I like it, though. Yeah, you know, I also basically have two characters that I'm deciding between.

So, yeah. Hey, well, great. I only have one. I know what I want, and I'm here to take it. Now, you're going to claim it. Nice. I'm going to claim it. You know, you're better for it. You're honestly better. Hey, I know.

I could appreciate a depth chart. You know, I could appreciate having some subs ready to go if need be. Sweet. Yeah, so this crew, the lore is not completely set in stone yet. And we'll kind of talk it out. But this idea of this crew is gonna be, right now I'm calling them the blood bound,

but I'm going to change it, because that sounds too much like blood-borne. And it also sounds, it sounds a little too much like I'm trying to be got. It sounds like a hot topic band, right? Okay, I do like it, I'm just putting it out there, I do like it. The blood, we could call you guys

the blood bound gang though. And that would be kind of fun. Blood bound gang does, it does. It's got a nice ring to it. Yeah, BBGs. So this idea is that the blood bound, temp name is a dying order of warriors who were once the pride of Outerboro

back before the Empire back when it was its own territory. Outerboro was constantly flanked by enemies to the north and the south and they didn't have as many natural resources as the people to the south like down in the capital. So they couldn't mass produce steel so their warriors had to be the best and the bloodbound was once a massive army who dedicated their lives to training and enhancing their abilities with magical experiments. So it's kinda like the unsullied meets the night's watch,

meets witchers. It's like you don't. Meets Jason Bourne. Yeah. Why Jake? Why? Cause I need to find out who Treadstone was. Yeah, Lou, I don't know if you know this about Jake, but he really loves Matt Damon.

Okay. Hey, that's... And I love John Wick, so I'm... I can figure out someone to love. Tom Cruise is the man. I love Night and Day. I was just gonna say that one. Night and Day is such a great Tom Cruise movie.

It's great. I have to say that. He. Camden. He's a killer and awesome. Yeah, and she's great. Charlie. If you see her in Charlie's Angels, she's a great action actress in my opinion. And come here. She's talented. I think she's just fantastic. And I don't know why. She needs somebody call. Honestly, I want to sub out. Let's put Camden. You know, why don't we do two guests? We're gonna do Lou. Cameron, why don't you pipe up? We've done your intro.

Okay. Cameron, though. That's a cool idea. I'm gonna send her a link to the zoom. One second. One second. Oh, God, she's in the waiting room. I didn't let her in yet.

Can you please admit Cameron? Can you admit Cameron Diaz? Cameron, she's in the waiting room. You're zoom is, your mic is muted waiting room is your Mike is muted Cameron your Mike is muted Yeah, we can see you but we can't hear you camera. No, you have a really nice house. No, that's awesome Okay, you know what we'll bring her on for the next star camera. Yeah Next our circle be camera is fine. Honestly, she was deciding between like five different characters

Which is just far too scatterbrain. We know we don't have the time for that. She's a little too French. She's into like the number side of D&D. I don't think she would have been very performative. No. She was mad we didn't have a battle now. Classic Cameron D.

Yeah, she was like, we're not gonna play in person. We're like, there's a pay limit. She was like, no minis? Yeah. She's like, I don't play unless there's minis. So Cameron, you're being unreasonable. Cameron Diaz, you are being unreasonable. Okay.

Imagine if we just put with Lew Wilson and Cameron Diaz in the episode title. Two movie stars on the podcast. It'd be such a disservice to Lou but I'd be like where's Cameron Diaz? Yeah, Lou was okay but I'm really mad Cameron Diaz wasn't on the pod Yeah, what a weird way to undercut your friends

is to have him on the show and then also put a blue star but also promise like an old school movie star in a way that no movie star will ever get to be again. Yeah featuring Jake Herwitz and Leonardo DiCaprio. What the fuck? Why is Jake was five of the share billing with Leo? So anyway, yes, we've got this group that we're calling the blood bound for now. this group that we're calling the Bloodbound for now. Already, it feels incredibly special hearing you describe us, like knowing that we're coming, that we get to just like plop our butts into this lore. Oh, yes.

Plop our upper-early butts. Yeah, we're like the number one commodity this town has ever had. Like the fucking closest thing to superheroes that were created in other- Well, you guys are- Well, we created in other, well, you guys are, well, we're gonna talk about that because you guys are dwindling a little bit. So right now, so as outer burrow joined the empire, this was still, this was several hundred years ago,

the blood-bound dwindled, but it was still part of kind of the tradition of outer burrow. So young soldiers could elect to either kind of take the path of blood or the path of steel, which is kind of regular burrow. So young soldiers could elect to either kind of take the path of blood or the path of steel, which is kind of regular knighthood. The latter was much more popular. You guys were kind of the last class of blood bound who kind of decided as young people, even when you guys were young, the order was dying, but decided like, I want to do this,

I want to prove this to myself. And rather than, you know, getting all the spoils of knighthood, getting your own land, getting your own glory, getting to do tournaments and things like that, which like most of the other young people were attracted to, you guys instead trained all day and had magic experiments done onto you. So you could become as powerful as possible. I cannot wait to absolutely look down on every night we meet. Oh yeah, truly speeding on anyone else. I gotta say it feels like Bloodbound is sticking already. I imagine you guys right now look like you're extremely fit like 50 or 60 year olds, but you could potentially

be like, you know, between 100 and 150 years old because of the kind of magical mutations that you've undergone. We also talked about this a little bit on text, which I thought might be some fun lore and kind of to give you guys a shared backstory of this idea that the sort of magical enhancements that you guys were given kill most of the blood-bound soldiers when they're young. So they get like super, you know, ripped and powerful and can do all these magic things, but then they end up dying in their 30s. Like basically as soon as you come out of your prime,

you die, but you guys like, for whatever reason, your genetics, you guys go in the opposite direction. Some special about us. Some will special about you guys. So I think like 99% of the blood bound are like a little bit cursed, and then there's this 1% who end up living like into their hundreds hundreds like you guys age

You know one year every two and a half years or something like that awesome I live in just the three of us do you think or we know you guys you guys are the last for the last three So the last three there There's no there's gonna make if any of us go down Stakes so high. Yeah, yeah. So it is a little bit of that, you know, Witcher thing where there is a little bit of that

people are intimidated by you. There's definitely some people who, there's a little bit of a Han Solo thing to it. When like talking about Jedi's, it's just like, ah, give me a breastplate and a sword any day. Like whatever crazy magic you're doing, I don't need to do that. Yeah.

There's some people who still really look up to it and are just like, wow, it's crazy what you guys have accomplished. But there's other people who are like a little bit dismissive of it. And it's almost like folklore at this point where some people probably don't believe that you guys can do what you can do. Oh, can't wait to fucking prove them wrong. Yeah, true. Great seekers.

I'm talking so big and then my first roll will be like a one. Isn't that, that's all I should be doing. I tried to throw off to a four year old girl. I rolled a one. All this build up for Murph is just convincing me that I'm going to like walk into this whisper to my weapons like I'm playing on doing. And then, and they just immediately just eat it for fucking six rounds and feel like yeah I really yeah I want to establish that you guys are like the old class that is

getting like kind of pushed out by the newcomers so you could buy all means go in there like your hot shots but you but you are 80 year olds who look like their six- Little rusty, little rusty here, a bit of a second. Yeah, I was gonna say, whenever things go wrong, we could just be like, oh, just things just aren't like they used to be. Yeah, exactly. Oh, when I was 30 and not 147, oh.

Ah. If I wasn't 147, I'd come over there and kick your ass. 90 years ago, I would have nailed that But anyway, we can kind of decide as we talk about your guys characters kind of where they would fit in like you guys would obviously You know have some kind of connection whether you would be like great friends or not as kind of up to you But you would have this shared history that Would definitely connect you in profound ways.

Being kind of decide if like, oh, this person is kind of the king's advisors getting like pushed aside as these like Reaper worshipers are kind of showing up. This person is retired and is sometimes brought in as an advisor or something like that. Like, you know, we can kind of play around with it, but would anybody like to go first and kind of talking about their character?

Oh, should we roll for it? Oh, let's roll for it. Let's roll for it. Lute, do you have dice nearby? I do. Oh. Does the high number go first or the low? High number goes first.

I got a six. Shout out to the two crew. Wow. I got a six. A six and a half. Let's just start. I got a three. A six and I'll do this just start. I got a three. A three guys terrible star.

This is middle rust real bad. Little rusty. Emily with a big six goes first. What a terrible one. Oh, right. I was thinking because I used the dice that I'm thinking of using for my character and it rolled me a six and I was like, okay, you and I are going to have a talk. So originally when we first talked I was like okay so I'll take like a level of cleric or or something so that I can have some heels right because it's like oh for three

monks and so with that I kind of it kind of informed maybe that's not the right place to start I don't even know how to begin. Okay. I can't believe Cameron Diaz is watching and not saying anything to this camera. Stop looking so judgmental. Just she's chatting. She fucking hates it. Okay. So I basically I the things I'm thinking of doing are I'm going to do mostly ascendant, way of the ascendant dragon monk. The idea of being kind of that like as an angry young youth, I went to this program. They jacked me up with some sort of draconic alterations and turned me into like a cold-blooded killer.

However, as I've gotten older, I'm now starting to regret all of the murder and assassination and I've turned towards cultivating plants because I wish to create life out of all the death I caused. So originally I was thinking, oh, I'll be a send-in dragon and I'll have one level of peace cleric because that feels like a nice thing. But then I started thinking about it because I really want my character to have this like one little plant that she carries around with her that is like struggling, but she's trying to keep alive as like almost an act of penitence for everything that she did. I love that. I love that. I started thinking about it and I was like, oh, maybe I should be because I have like this like fire breath kind of stuff I can do. I started to think that maybe I should take to get the heels for the group.

I think I might actually take two levels of druid and do a circle of wildfire druid so that I'm like learning how to use the ash of my fire to create life and cultivate my plants That's cool. Hell yes. Currently her name is Terragon snake root. Oh, it's Terragon snake root because I'm thinking of taking the Poisoner feet So I can poison people Nice, you're like that's part of her like assassin background right and my plants could be poisonous I haven't decided if she's like exclusively cultivates But I think she's learning how to cultivate plants. So I think that in terms of like retirement

I'm almost seeing her kind of in retirement just trying to learn how to cultivate plants and Maybe in retirement, just trying to learn how to cultivate plants. And maybe reluctant to come back and kill again. So this would almost be like one last job if you were being. Yes. I'm wondering if she's in one last job territory. One last year. So yes, I'm picturing her just being like a silver herred woman with a little plant that she's trying to keep alive mid-battle.

And the climate up here, isn't the climate up here like super cold, right? Yeah, it's definitely cold. So it's really cool to like struggle to keep your plants a little, like you have a lot of green house or something. I'll have to be like breathing little fires. You're gonna have to cry.

I also feel like the, I also feel like the circle of wildfire druid, since I have like a little, since I have a little wildfire spirit, I can conjure. I can essentially drag and breathe it into life, which seems really nice. So that's cool. And we had a really cool idea off mic, which is that this one plant that you're struggling to keep alive is a super, super rare plant

that grows after a dragon fire burns something. Yeah, it grows, it grows from the soil of raised, of villages that have been raised by dragons. But since that doesn't happen anymore, it's like an almost extinct. So this is like one of the last ones, and I'm trying to keep it alive.

But it's like a metaphor for Tarragon that she's like, I have to keep this alive because if I can keep this alive, it will like absolve me of all the death in my past. Right, that's like the life. And it's like a super rare life that you're giving back to the world that hasn't been around for a while. Yes.

But I think her little green hat, this also comes specifically coinciding with the fact that my New Year's resolution for 2021 is to learn how to grow plants. That's my thoughts. Terragon deep root. Terragon snake root because snake root is a poisonous plant. Specifically, it killed Abraham Lincoln's mother. But like a snake feels similar to a dragon and Terragon is an herb that can also be called like I guess sometimes

Terragon is also called dragon. Oh, that's cool. Abraham Lincoln's mom like poisoned by someone or was she just like eating eating roots? Franklin Merp. I don't know the details because I'm not a sick fuck who wants to know about every single death. Wow. Holy shit. Hold the tragedy Lincoln suffered. God damn. Never had it easy. Yeah. So why don't we, um, why don't we talk about everybody's characters and then maybe we can talk about how you all kind of, we know how you all know each other, but we can kind of talk about how you interact or what your relationship is like now, maybe after we talk about everybody's character. So I believe next in the initiative order at a big three. With a three. Oh wow.

Because our guest, Lou Wilson, Lou. With a three. Do you wanna talk about your character? I just realized every time we roll a two on this, we should say shout out to the Lou crew during this hour. That's right. That way people will, and to imagine, people listening, dropping in, they'll hear,

and they'll be like, they say this all the time It'll be like no, it's just it's just when I'm in tap. What a special No, I so yeah, I mean I was thrilled when we went with like all monks and I think I spent I always like every time I make a character I feel like I'm always torn between like do I like go online and get like real crunchy and figure out how I could do unreal amounts of damage for like the four episodes or I'm here or do I go five and like do something that actually sounds like fun.

And I feel like this is a nice like synthesis. I guess it's the way of the kensai. Is that air kensai? I don't know how pronounced it, but I'm so excited you're playing. I looked at it. Yeah, I don't know how pronounced it, but I'm so excited you're playing. I looked at it. Yeah, I don't know. I think I felt, especially like in like the diversity of the monks, it felt like it would be cool to have a monk that was into some weapons.

Yeah. I've never seen somebody play. Are you going to use like a sword? Like what? Yeah. That's what I'm going to use. You're going to be able to use a bunch of weapons, right? Yeah.

I we're going to have like, I think a bow and a sword. So I'll be a monk with a, like, a building a two handed long sword. Or honestly, also thinking about a badlacks. But yeah, wanted to be a way of the Kensei monk. And I think we'll probably go full of full all levels into cancel monk. Monks are, I'm only multi-classing because we needed like a healer.

And then when it like presented itself as like as like a good narrative, I went for it. It's definitely not optimized, I'm sure. Well, I mean, I think I also, I was like thinking about dipping into like rogue for a little bit or dipping But they they're level their level 11 ability essentially allows you to like Guarantee it like let's you add a plus if you like drop three key points into it allows you to add a permanent or not permanent But like a plus three to attack and to damage

And then I want to like pick up, I think as part of like the lore of the character, but also to do to be cool, I think I want to pick up, do magic initiate. One level of lore lock and get hacks. And so I could use hacks to add a D6 to that. I'm doing fake, I'm doing fates Fates, because I kind of built my character already and I took Fates touched so I could get Hunter's mark. Exactly, hey, I see the vision.

We're in the same zone here. But in terms of the character, I think I got really excited when Merff started talking about the kind of elements of like weird magic modification. And, you know, kind of in blending what like the whole Ken Say Warriors thing is, it's just like you move with your weapons, like they're a part of you. And like they're kind of like your paintbrush, your canvas. I think there is something I love the idea of playing a monk who's just like deeply,

like I don't know on a magical level what's going on, but I feel like there's like a deep, deep attachment to my weapons, almost like a Linus and his blanket kind of vibe of like, I will not go anywhere without them if you don't hit my sword away. I'm so upset and uncontrollably. I don't know what the attunement is,

but I think there's just a level of attachment between me and my weapons that is like, oh baby, it's like, I don't think they're my mother. I don't think I also don't want to be like ax hand. I didn't want to be like a dude who was like, my head is an ax. That doesn't sound like that much fun for me. I think that sounds so fun because I as a person will get incredibly emotionally attached to an object in a way that feels, yes, it's a different level of connection.

It's also, it's interesting comparing it to Terragons, kind of way of dealing with the past is like, Terragons, I kind of want to escape this, I want to get away with this and- Or like I want to take what's been given to me and create life with it instead of death. And your character feels more like, I'm going to hang on to these old ways. I'm going to hang on to these.

Yeah. As we're talking, I'm 100% imagining that my weapons are like, crusty and like rusty and kind of nasty. Like the edge of it all right now. Perfect. Because you don't even trust someone to clean them. No, and I honestly am nervous about cleaning them. So I think they're just like kind of nasty.

I think they have like, I think like the, it's mostly going to be like a bow and either a sword or an axe. I think the bow's name is Fang. One is Fang and one is gonna be... Yeah, I think it's one is claw and one is Fang. Oh, I also thought it would be fun. If I don't know what kind of positions we may have as the remaining members of the bloodborne, uh, but I, or blood bound, excuse me, uh, but I, I, I think I would love to be in charge of recruitment, uh, if like, and terrible at it.

I'm generally sign up. There's only three of us left. You're the reason that it's failing. You haven't tied anyone up in years. Yeah. It's mostly me screaming people calling people whoossies for not doing it. You have to put the swords away when you show up at their doorstep. They're too nasty.

Absolutely not. I have to show them what they are, the legacy, the tradition they are becoming a part of. All you do is emphasize the discipline and how much you have to give up. Exactly. There's none of the fun. Sacrifices, the greatest joy of life. What you do is emphasize the discipline and how much you have to give up. Exactly. There's none of the fun that's left.

The greatest joy of life. Most people die by the time they're 30. Imagine having zero attachment to anything, but your brothers and arms. And your weapons and your arms. I mean, well, yeah, I think there's like a probably a captain of the guard who has just like an awesome cape and competes in torneys and stuff and is probably

just those parties. Yeah, it's probably like your nemesis. Oh, 100%. Just like and and now you guys are old, so he's probably like gray hair, but like still like very like well-mannered and court and stuff and I'm also picturing I also picturing a situation. This is me just imagining a situation where Tarragon is compromised and the plant is in danger.

And I'm just picturing whatever your character's name is, like going and trying to pick it up, but not willing to put down his sword. Yeah, for sure. Like doing that thing where you're try and scoot it onto your foot. I'm trying to balance it using the tip of my sword, trying to push it. Because yeah, I'm not putting them down. That's crazy. Don't be crazy.

I'm also big sure you have coach, just being like, what do you mean I can't bring a sword into a restaurant? You know what? You guys go in, I'll wait. I'll wait. You just have dinner, do the whole thing. I'll sword into a restaurant? You know what? You guys go in, I'll wait. I'll wait. You just have dinner, do the whole thing. I'll be outside. Just let me know what you're doing. The whole thing.

I wonder if, too, if a fun thing about these bloodbounds is maybe this was all the project of like a single mage who is almost like a lich or something who lived for like a very long time. And maybe that mage at some point went bad or went crazy or it went. So there's a little bit of a blemish on kind of your honor there. So it's also really hard to recruit

because it's just like, wasn't that made by the bad mage or connius? It's just like, don't fucking talk about him. He's got nothing. We don't know that guy anymore, okay? Don't talk about salt. I'll tell other like that. He exactly check your sources,

because there is some stuff where he's like kind of, he's like fine, like I don't know, depends on an angle. If you're asking me, I think there's an angle where you look at it and it's kind of okay. So you kind of have to like just write off some of his later stuff. Yeah, exactly. I think there was so much good stuff. and then he got into the weird ripping souls at a party

that got music from the time he was coming into the window and I want to go to the turn. I love the idea that we are created by someone who became the madmaj. Yeah, weren't you, yeah, one of the madmajous pupils. No, he just experimented on us. I am one of his experiments, thank you. Yeah, well pupil. There's a different. There's a different.

He's different. He's different. Masu. I see, it would be kind of different because it would be like, if you guys were, you know, given magic, and the experimentable order. And the magical abilities by a wizard,

but then you have your own order. So you have your own captains and you have your own people who are teaching you things. So it's like, you guys don't have an actual connection to, you know, the mages or wizards who made you guys magical. What makes you guys like special is your training and stuff like that. So like, you, there could be like a, you know, sort of a source spot of being like, being like, it's almost like an athlete that's on steroids or something. It's just like, you still have to work out. It's not because of the steroids, you don't get it.

It was the training, not the genetic modification. I earned this, this just helps. I earned this and can I fly? Do I have dragons wings sometimes? Yes, and I earned them. I earned my and can I fly do I have dragons wings sometimes yes and I earned them I earned my dragon wings I earned those at the gym. Do you know how many push-ups you have to do to turn your traps into wings? Is there anything else about your character that you'd like to share do you have a name or anything? I gotta work on the name. I'll try and come up with the end of the session zero I think I might have I'll work I'll start churning on that.

Just completely check out. Just completely check out and think of names. Yeah. Lou, are you teasing, dropping your name at the end of this episode? Yeah, what's up? So the very last thing that's gonna happen, honestly, after Mercer's goodbye,

is gonna be my favorite answer. I'm just Cameron Diaz. Oh my god. We've ruined Cameron Diaz. Yes. Okay, if you're gonna be Cameron Diaz, I'm gonna have to be Cameron or Lizzy. I might be Ben Stiller.

That'd be kind of rad. I'm thinking of Jake's character. So it's not gonna be best-seller? Jake, you want to chat about your character? What about Ren Stiller? Yeah, excellent. So he's had a crush on Lewis character Cameron Diaz,

like forever, since high school, right? Cool, yeah. This is a fast-haul now. And then he jizzes on his ear. And then he just hung his own ear. That's the map and it's only me. The true does. Well, what a flick.

Brett's part was in it at one point. You're Brett's part. So I think I was thinking of modeling my character almost after the crannogmen from Game of Thrones. So it's like a dude from the bog. A little bit like essentially if you look at Matthew McConaughey, McConaughey's character in a true detective, like a Bayou, kind of like a wise Bayou guy. He is a way of mercy monk.

Which is very cool. And I actually, I was literally between way of mercy and way of ascending dragon And when you said that I was like thank you Because I was so conflicted. What you're you do. You have mercy. What is what is cool about those guys? It was way of mercy is like if you with your flurry of blows with your off hand If you want you can heal somebody, but also if you want, you could harm somebody. So it's almost like you make a choice. It's like, yeah. And then, as at higher levels, you can use,

you can do it twice. You could heal and harm with the same attack. Yeah, you basically use one of your flurry of blows to do, you can do it to heal. Right, so I could heal Lou and harm somebody else. I'm hearing the narrative kind of come together. You've got Lou's character who's like sticking with the old ways.

You've got Jake's character that sounds like he's kind of in the middle and then you've got Emily's character who sounds like she's trying to find like peace in her old age. I love him. Ooh. I think there it is. I love him.

Yeah, and I kind of like the idea of him being almost like a, like a motivational speaker or something that like, but that's like not actually wise. You know, like when somebody is just like, it's not about what you do, it's about how you do it. Like if you listen to a Matthew McConaughey interview, he just like has all these like weird like,

like, politics and yeah, weird platitudes that basically mean nothing and that's what I want my gotta be like spouting all the time. Just like finding positive in life as a warrior who gave up his whole life. It's not about how you live. It's about how you die. Are you gonna go for the plague doctor mask that's in the uh. Oh yeah. So then that was the other thing like when I fight I want to wear the plague doctor mask? That's in the uh oh yeah So then that was the other thing like when I fight when I fight

I want to wear a plague doctor mask which is like a giant black bird beak looking mask It looks fucking awesome and I'm using I want to use cancou stats and kind of like flavor him almost like a like a crow So cool Yeah, that very much fits this aesthetic too because we're doing kind of that like so you're like crow inspired I'm dragon inspired and then Lewis weapon inspired Yes weapon inspired no and no animals animal connection there laws no claws and I did I came up with the names claw and fang when we in another we were also in the text off Mike we were discussing possibly having animalistic influences

in that. I was like, oh, yes, my character would be, those would be my claws and my fangs. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, I also want to have a dog. That was the other thing that I've been toying with. I don't know if I'm ready for the responsibility of having a familiar, because I fucked up so hard in my first track. You know, Jake, I'm gonna, I someone who often likes to have a familiar, and I know people go play about it, but I think that my DMs give me familiar, because they know I use them and make use of them,

and bring them into play a lot. You just can't forget about them. Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a little dog mini. I want it to be a dog, I'm gonna put it right, but I think I was gonna make the dog really lazy. So that way, if I forget about the dog, it's a dog, I'm gonna put it right, but I think I was gonna make the dog really lazy. So that way if I forget about the dog, it's just like, they're asleep.

Oh, that's good. Yeah, maybe it's almost like, because when you have a familiar, you have like kind of a connection to them. So maybe the idea is that like, the dog is old and has lived an unnaturally long life, but it's just an old dog, so he's just sleeping all the time. That'll be good, because I'll have my potted plant.

Lou will have his weapons and you'll have your dog and we'll all have a, we'll have, we'll have an equally rational attachment to something. Um, well, Jake, do you have anything else you want to share about your character? Oh, I think that his name is going to be Bobabino. Oh, Bobabino be Bobabino. Oh, Bobabino. Oh, Bobabino. These are some, guys, I'm honestly very intimidated to even suggest a name at this point with everything going on.

Bobabino, Tarragon, it's the naked root, I keep forgetting my last name, Tarragon's the naked root and Cameron Diaz. And Cameron Diaz. I mean, that's a squad if I've ever heard that. Technically, we're not lying then, if we say with Lew Wilson and Cameron Diaz. And Cameron Diaz, I mean, that's a squad if I've ever. Yeah, technically we're not lying then if we say with Lou Wilson and Cameron Diaz, because Cameron Diaz is a show that just won't be really good. That would be really good.

Guys, it sounds like I have to name my character Cameron Diaz. I gotta be honest. I gotta be honest. So our SEO is fun. Is this wise? It would be amazing. We would get so many downloads if we could say featuring Cameron Diaz. That's interesting. So if you could just go ahead and call it.

Our completion rate would be really bad. That is a lot of people cooking for Cameron. It's definitely something that a corporation would do. Like think was a good idea. It's just like get celebrities at all costs. And don't think of the fact that you would just make your audience would be like, okay, why? Change our cover art to Cameron Diaz with a sword.

Yeah. I love this. This is a great idea. We'll get a ton of clips. Yeah, can that just be for this campaign, the art is just always Cameron Diaz with a sword? And I'm fine with my character looking like Cameron Diaz if that's how we want to skin it.

Oh, okay, maybe mine should too. Yeah, three all of us be three cameras. What do you like? A silver hair and camera, Dia. That's interesting. And I'll just, and I'll be full on Ben Stiller. I think that works. Two cameras and a stiller.

I think I'll actually look like Ben, Ben Stiller and camera Diaz is child. Nice. I love that. Okay, great. This is all really good, everyone. Really getting usable. The bloodbounds.

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go team pants, and enjoy the show. So why don't we talk about a little bit the context of this adventure. So we've talked about kind of what the background is of these warriors, but let's talk about kind of the scene in this area called Heronford. So Heronford is where the castle of the king Thirsten Brightleap is.

And as we've heard in the campaign so far, the king is very sick and is possibly going to die soon. So the situation you guys find yourself in is there are some kind of claims to the throne coming up and there may be some people coming into town. We will describe it at the top of the official episode to kind of set the lore into stone. But there's this kind of tenuous period of kind of trying to do a smooth transition while certain powers that be want to keep the king alive and others, you know, kind of want him to die and want the throne for themselves.

So you guys are gonna be kind of in a position where your loyalties will kind of be questioned because I think- Would we like the king? Would we be like happy with our experiments done on us or do we resent it? Cause like Matt, like, yeah, Jason Boren thought he didn't like the experiments.

Interesting. So I was trying to. Whereas like John Wick had traded a cool assassin currency. Yeah. So you guys kind of have to decide where you stand on the Wickverse Boren scale. Well, okay, is there any chance it's kind of an IMF situation where for the most part they're good,

but then they're in roganation, it's kind of overtaken from within and things change. Is it like that? I don't know as much about it. That's kind of like a Diaz in a way, because like if you think about a Cameron Diaz's character and there's something about Mary was very trusting until people violated her trust. She's also a really good dancer, she's a really bad dancer in Charlie's Angels, but she starts out with her having a good sequence that she's also a really good dancer. She's a really bad dancer in Charlie St. Charles, but it starts out with her having a good consequence that she's doing a really good job. Oh nice. Interesting.

Yeah, so we'll say, as a camera, Dias, if you're kind of in the middle, John Wick, if you're like very pro, mutant warrior, and of course, we've got Jason Bourne, if you're mad about it. Yeah, I was. It is actually a really good question though. What would the King's thought of our existence be?

So we will establish this in the episode, but kind of what I've been toying around with, it's kind of a happy accident that the last name of the King was Bright Leap and the reason I did that is because their house sigil was the jackalope, which I thought was like a cool mythical animal. But I think since this is this tradition, I think Brightleap will be like a very, very old family.

And I think there was a Brightleap who was kind of the first hero of the bloodbound. So I think you guys do feel a commitment to this family. The official sort of stance is that you are the warriors of this family. So going with tradition, you would be like, I want to defend this king. Question, are we the warriors of this family? Are we the warriors of the office of king? That is an interesting tension. Up for debate. It's kind of so far you haven't had to deal with that because there have been just bright

leaps throughout the generations. Yeah. Yeah, it's like King's Guard in Game of Thrones almost where like they just have, it's like loyal to the office, not necessarily the family. Right. So since there has, since the office of this particular territory has always been- Has never had the bright leaps, you guys haven't had to like make that distinction. So it is kind of like, if there was a new king who wasn't a bright leaper said that you would kind of have to decide, are we loyal to the, to the, you know, crown, or are we loyal to this family?

Interesting. Do you think that we took oaths and some sort of initiation? Yes, you definitely took initiations too. So you should definitely decide, even it can be amongst the three of us or all four of us can decide if at some point before we play,

if what those oaths were worded as, right? Because that should have been really informed. That is true, you would actually, right? Because that's sort of a really informed. That is true. You would actually, right now, we're kind of just like, we should write our oath like the Knights watch. Oh, that's awesome. That would just be rad. I would love that, because I would love for Terragon

to be a bit oath-bound, even though she's trying to, she's trying to atone for what a fucking killer she was most of her life. Yeah, yeah. Both kind of looking for an out, like just pouring over the oath, like it could be interpreted like this. I'm looking for an out.

I think maybe if you guys were to take an oath, my guess would be that it would probably be to the crown, it would probably be to like outer burrow. It would be this idea of this like territory as like the strength of the territory. So protecting it. So I think it might be a little up for interpretation. That is kind of cool because then that almost puts it,

then you really do have to analyze the situation to know how to best protect the territory. Yeah, yeah. And so you guys are in this position too, right? Where you know that when you guys are playing as Fias or Ken Henry, you've heard that there's kind of this worm tongue situation going on, where there are, there's a sorceress apparently.

There's like these Reaper, you know, there's these Reaper influencers that are in the castle advising the king right now. So you guys are in this tough spot where you might be like, uh, either great. Uh, these people might bring more power to out of a row or you might be like, I don't trust these people. They might kill the king or something like that or they might try to take the crown for themselves and like, um, so would we have seen a time, um,

in, in the history of this place that would be more trickster? Like would we have seen this sort of kingdom ask like a trickster kingdom at some point? Or. So as far as like trickster versus Reaper in your guys everyday life is not as much of a thing. Like I would think that your guys kind of part of the world

is a little bit more agnostic. We don't know much about Trickster and we're becoming aware of the Reaper sort of religious sect because they're starting to influence the cool. Generally across elder mourn, it's because you've got the sprites who are kind of like, you know, these fairies that are of the Trickster, you're aware

of the trickster's existence. But it might even be seen as kind of like a nuisance. Yeah. And there's kind of no purpose. And like if you follow the trickster, you're doing that because you really believe in those ideals. You don't really gain any, the trickster's not

like the type of God that, you know, demands worship or something like that. And then on the other side, the Reaper is that, you know, demands worship or something like that. And then on the other side, the Reaper is so, you know, for lack of a better word, like Grim, that if you're super religious with the Reaper, there's kind of, it's kind of a red flag. And so you probably wouldn't be that either. Okay, so I'm going to use, I'm going to flavor like the sort of druidic stuff if I go with that. It's tough because the one level of clear piece clerk is like such a good ability that would give us all,

and I really wanna do it, but I just feel like the flavor of going for the wildfire makes more sense. But if I do that, I think like the sort of, at powers or magic that would come to Tehrigon would be more coming from this original experiment and having nothing to do with the trip, trickster, which is good. That's how I would prefer it. What kind of, what kind of battles were we fighting in our prime?

So when you guys were in your prime, so you guys are probably like, um, younger ones of you would be like around a 100 and the oldest you would be would probably be like around like 150 or something like that. So probably like 80, 90 years ago, you guys were up north fighting like giants and stuff in the valley as they were trying to attack the Empire. So by the time you guys were born, by the time you guys were in the bloodbound, it was already dying. You guys were the small crew who had teachers who

talked about the old days back when it was more popular, but it wasn't even popular then. There's like six or seven generations before it was really a thing. You guys did this kind of to be special when you were young. You kind of made that decision. I am definitely going to have lots of cool scars from the giant wars. Yeah. Hell, you know, covered in tattoos. You're putting it out there.

Covered in tattoos. I, my character will probably be shirtless and wear enough tattoos that it looks like I'm wearing something. Yeah, awesome. I think that's another thing about it too, right? Is that these warriors would be able to like really brave the elements and the idea would be that they be able to use whatever weapons, whether that be their own body, like they are never stuck in a corner,

and that's kind of the idea. I do love this, especially because it makes me feel like if we ever encounter a weapon, it could enter your like litter of weapons. Easily. I feel like I have a bunch of empty holsters on me at all times, Justin. I wear cargo pants, because you never know.

Cargo pants, no shirt. Exactly. I want to point out that since I did roll my character, I want to warn everyone I have a minus two to strength. Sick. Just like, emotionally, I'm just fully living that dexterity life. He got to. So, I'm hearty, but not in a strong way.

So I think that, as we had kind of set up in our session zero for elder mourn, sort of the idea of this world is that there is this one continent, like the South half, is the under-mountain empire that Outerboro is a part of. And above it is sort of this wild, frosty north where there are giants and stuff, almost kind of think like wildlings from Game of Thrones. So perhaps in the past, were we more dealing with threats to Outerboro from up north? You guys were never, so you guys were always part of the Empire when you guys were even young. So you guys were kind of like the pride of Outerboro. Like yeah, we're fighting for the Empire. The pride of Outerboro.

Yeah, so yeah. So you guys, you guys were like, we are the ones in there doing the real fighting. Like you guys would get sent in deep where it would be, you know, soldiers and stuff from the Empire would get sent up into these mountain ranges to sort of do like a pincer effect to catch these north folk as they're coming down and trying to attack. And you guys would be sent in almost to like flank them, like coming from behind.

And it's almost like a Spartan thing where, you know, like one of you guys could take out like a hundred Other soldiers again This is so sick all of our first roles are gonna be like one before I already rolled it to I rolled it to you to even talk about my character. I would lie exactly The single digits. I do have a question. Is there an element of secrecy to what we do? Because we have been dispatched in this elite military sense.

Are there things that we've seen that we're not allowed for to dissipate to the common folk. Ooh, yeah, we could probably talk about that at some point. Yeah, I would think that there were probably like uglier parts of the war and stuff that probably you would be expected not to disclose. Like, you guys, I think we're very, you know, it's not like the unsullied or something where you were like kidnapped and like brought up

and forced to do this. This was something that you elected to do, but it's still like once you join, you're almost in a cult. You know what I mean? You have joined to be like, I'm gonna prove to myself that I can do this. And now it's been a hundred years and your character can kind of deal with that in whatever way you see fit. Did the mage go mad like on during our tenure there? Like, are we the last people that watch the mage go mad? Ooh, that's so heartbreaking.

If like this was a person who like basically set up our lives, set our lives into motion and then like became cruel. Yeah, they didn't stop. We have to watch them. Yeah, did I should live to see the last days of my life? Maybe that was dude, maybe that was even your guys' adventure, because we are doing, so these characters, I don't know if we've mentioned this,

this is crazy we haven't mentioned this, you guys are gonna be level 11. So these guys are pretty far along. So we can say that at one point, these characters in their prime were probably like level 15 or 16, So they've lost a little bit of a step, you know, and so cool that we've been able to do something and now, and it's like the power's gone away. So maybe, maybe it is a situation that the mage who gave you guys your powers, that was sort of the big bad in your campaign that you guys did when you were like

younger. And you guys, we had to like basically kill our almost our dad in a way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think that's pretty rad. Oh, yeah. And then after yeah, maybe and then it kind of gets dissolved. And everybody else has kind of died off. And, and lose characters trying to keep it alive my characters responding to it by like trying to start over and then Bow became a motivational speaker Just trying to just make a piece of it out Can I ask how on that kind of note how old did we have to be to join like is this something where we like were like we have to be to join. Is this something where we were like six or was it like eight, like 18, 18, this would be like 16, 18. This would be when you decided when recruiters came around and we're like, you know, chance for power and glory, a hundred gold to every person

who signs up for the out of barrel army, that type of thing, and electing to kind of take the harder route for glory. And I think it's something like the Night's Watch a little bit to where there are probably some people who think they're going to be able to do it and then end up not taking their oath and not going through with it. Right. I'm still thinking about this freaking mad mage and like what I you have to come up with this person's name and The giant wars just knowing that like in our in the biography of our life there's giant wars and a mad mage. Oh my goodness. I mean to play a

142-year-old character, but actually like I don't know I feel like I've played like, I'm not sure I've played 150, like older characters before, like seemingly lived as much as our characters are. I have. This is exciting. Are we roommates? Yeah, are we roommates? I don't know that.

I could definitely be roommates. I mean, I could be living in like the, I would probably be turning mine. I could also like not be retired and be just like moving towards like a more peaceful. The order is disbanded essentially. So I think there is something nice though that I'm still that I'm still engaged in the, um, in the actions of the order, but I just like for every life I take, I like plant a tree. But it also is cool that we're like all separated maybe. Like if the order is disbanded, we're like the last three and we're coming together for that one last job.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, can I live in whatever our guild hall used to be with nobody else? Oh my God. Oh my God. Nothing but the back in the ceiling. You don't have to be able to change any of the posters

that it's all the same. You're just cl of the posters out there. It's all the same. You're just clicking onto the glory days. It's a storage facility. Yeah, it's basically like a barracks and they just let you stay in the back room. All cops. And I'm constantly trying to get you guys to come and just spend the night. Come on down. It's, remember, it's just like, oh, the old times, you know, it'll be, it'll be us.

Yeah, you know, that's why I don't want to go. I've got all, I set up the bunk beds. We got the cots out. You remember the cots? Like, hey, get that little thing. Are you trying to lure me with cots, man? I got all of our bindles from when we were up north. I dug them out.

I got all the blood off of them. Come on down. You cleaned the bindles. I think I'm squatting in a broken windowed greenhouse. Yeah. Or I could run a plant shop. Yeah, if you've become like an herbalist, that's kind of fun of like if you're kind of on the, not on the edge of town, but if you're just, you know, away from the castle a little

bit like in the town square. I think I run a plant shop and it's not very successful and I'm in a lot of debt because I'm not very good at growing them yet. Cool, I think I want to live in a family's cellar, like a place that's too damp for anybody to rent, but I'm from the bog, so I'm fine with it. And I sometimes babysit.

What? I would not trust you to make a babysit sit my kids. I'm teaching the kids. I'm a 30 year old man, baby sitting children. I think I'm going to be 99 so that my triple digits right around the corner. Oh, that'll be cool to celebrate your 100th birthday. Yeah. I like the idea of being 135, just 100 years older than I am now. Yeah, can one of them still just be a party? So I think from what it sounds like, it's maybe lose characters, the only one who's there,

who's like dealing with the day to day in the castle. So maybe that'll kind of be like the opening of the game. Yeah, lose like the one that wants to get the game back together, right? Yeah. Trying to lose their windows and cups. So I think maybe, maybe Lou has kind of like an honored position

amongst the King's advisors, but his influence is kind of like dwindling. And then I think. I sit all the way at the end of the furthest end of the day. And it has nothing to do with never wearing a shirt, right? You like never get the invites always arrive too late. You get invites that are like, there's a meeting yesterday.

Yes, right. A lot of showing up to empty rooms being like a three thing got lost. Really sorry. Yes, Lord Diaz, we should get more rusty swords anyway. Let's talk about the coin. But yeah, and then I almost imagine M's characters and Jake's characters.

You guys are probably almost eking out a meager existence based on a little bit of the good will of your folklore. I would imagine while a lot of people would be like, most of that stuff's fake, most of that stuff's not real. There would be some people that would be like, she fought in the fights against the North folk and everything, we should go easy on rent this month with her and things like that. Not a victor from the abandoned plant shop. Yeah. I think one of the reasons my plant shop

isn't doing well is because I also grow a lot of poisonous plants and I keep accidentally mixing them up and sending people home with poison. So you're a murderer. You're an actual murderer. Hey, so my cat ate one of the plants and spit up. The kids that I babysit, I'm really bad at keeping them from eating the plants too.

You guys see this is the thing, you gotta stop babysitting and you gotta stop running a plant shop and you gotta come back and sleep on a cot, all right? Now tell you, no way to run a kid sleeping on a cot. In my bones. Sweet, guys, this right? Now, I'll tell you, no way to hurt a kids sleeping on a cot. In my bones. Sweet, guys, this all sounds super, super fun. I'm super excited to get into this.

We'll hop right into this next week, and of course, I think we're gonna wrap this one up to end the episode, Louis. I will be dropping my name. He's got that name on. He's got a name on. He's got a name on. He's got a name on.

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the giants for a short time because of some... To learn their ways. Or to learn their ways, or maybe there was some weather event that we were up there to fight, but then there was this huge weather event. We got stuck there, and then we just kind of co-habitated with that. Yeah, I think you guys would have more experience

than most with things like that. Like I think that as the Empire, there's this feeling of these North folk, like they are the enemy. But as somebody, as people who are like behind enemy lines, you're like, oh, there's all these barbarian tribes and everything. But there's like this coalition of North folk who want to conquer the entire continent. Just like the Empire wants to conquer the continent.

But then there are other people who are just like, I just want my land, I just want to live out here. We are trying to eke out an existence in this tough area. And then there's people who maybe joined the war because it's too fucking cold up here. We can't grow anything, we can't do anything. So there's like sympathetic people who are kind you know, kind of for the war to defeat the Empire, there's, you know, people who just kind of want to conquer the Empire and get all their riches. And then you guys probably also met people who were like, whoa, we're a different kind of crew,

a giants. We got nothing to do with this situation. I don't know what you're talking about. So I may pivot so that the plants that Terragon grows are all like giant plants that got like fucked up by the giant forest. Whoa. And she's like trying to help repopulate them. And they would be big as cool. That's cool. Yeah, they would be giant.

And they would be giant. And they would be plants are all massive. Yeah. Yeah, crazy cold be fun. It's all massive. Yeah. Yeah, it even like crazy cold conditions. Yeah. This is the biggest cucumber I've ever seen. Don't eat it. It's very poisonous.

Sweet. That all sounds super fun, everybody. Why don't we go ahead and wrap this one up. We're going to be doing an after show. We're not an after show for this necessarily. I think we're going to be doing something some bonus content for Patreon after this. Maybe we'll do another D&D court, I think. If you'd like to listen to that, head on over to patreon.com slash nad pod that's NADD POD.

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Does anybody else have anything to plug? Yes, I'd like to shout out the PO box. We've got some lovely, lovely holiday notes from Annie M. who is a chaplain resident in Texas, in Texas, aka real life cleric. So thank you for that lovely holiday note. Margin Charge and Alex the Sarge also sent a lovely holiday letter. Thank you guys very much for your service in the hospital. You are the true heroes.

Thank you. DeAngelo sent us a very nice note as well and a photo collage of their trip to Manchester. Oh, man, shout out to Manchester. That is just truly, it's beautiful and painful to think about Manchester. We'll be back. We will be back. We will be back. And Mitchell W sent us a box of cigars. Hell, yes.

Thank you, much. And Michelle sent us a lovely postcard. Thank you, Michelle. John also sent a postcard, and you might know John better as the creator of the every Nat 20 in NAD pod video. So thank you very much for chronicling our crits. Oh my goodness. Thank you. Please

don't chronicle on the other way. We'd like to forget those ones. Yeah. Yeah. Just the 20s, please. Lopiera sent us a cord of sheet, sent us cord sheet music for all of Tread Nevers music. Oh my god. They also included a letter of fun marine biology facts. So thank you very much. And we'll continue shouting these out next week. You guys honor us. Yes. Thank you all so much. Have a happy new year everybody. We're recording this a little bit ahead of time, but it's about to be the new year. Hopefully 2021's better. Let's hope. It is really funny. All the people who talked about listening to our first episode of 2020 and us being like the year of the double crit. We were so hopeful. No, I think we were right though.

We just got crit on. We didn't do the critting. We got crit on. Right. Let's do the opposite of this year. 2021 is gonna suck ass. Some of us fucking grace it. Brace for it.

Let's make that prediction. 2021 is gonna roll like shit all day long. Yeah. We just got it in door. Sweet everybody. You can follow us all on, well, you're not on Twitter, you're on Instagram though. Lou, what's your Instagram again?

Plug in one more time. At Sweet Lou Zinho, that's at Sweet Lou ZINHO. So follow Lou on Instagram. You can follow the rest of us on Twitter at CHRIVASME, at Call These Called Well, at ASTRO Demole, and atJay Curvitz, Jake, and you can tweet about the show using hashtag, nadpot, that's n-a-d-d-p-o-d. We are the youth of the nation of the nation. We are the youth of the nation.

It's really tough over here. It's always end of the show everybody and that means we need to shout out our benevolent council of elders. Oh wow, what a nice Southern lady. Starting with Julia Walsh, Brad D, Jeffries, Haldor Frostback, Steelbreaker, and Matt M, the giant council who ruled in favor of leniency and peace with the Lou Crew, even though all of them kept insisting they were bred in a lab to be the ultimate weapons and breathing fire and whispering to their weapons. And of course we got Jordan DJ, Cutter W, Gybe G, Zolo Dolo, and Dylan B, the Mad Mages.

Technically, though they never went mad because they had the love and support of each other. Wow. Super the mushroom, Danielle the Dasterdly Dame, Andrew M, Beard Man Dan, and Scott D, the owners of a seed shop. They always look at pity with Te tarragon when she comes in, knowing how few seedlings will clear the charge dirt she plants them in. Danny P, Elena C, Mixologist Michael McD, and Balnor's boy, a group of giants that found the lucroup during the giant wars. After playing chess with their bodies, they were delighted to learn that their new chess pieces could speak.

Andrew B, just an eye, TjM The Noenbar Barbarian. Alaina M. Traile the Krayfe and Jared E. Knights that follow a specific code in Heronford. One, protect the King. Two, hold open the door for strangers. And three, absolutely razz those loser bloodbound freaks. Christopher B. Austin Bonesaw, MR. Damien R. Cyborg version of Josh the Cobalt, and Octo-Lick.

The Blacksmith Union who have been desperately trying to forge a weapon that will talk back to Jafarri. They just feel bad for him. Gay Jam, Skokilla, Richard X Machina, Michael L, and Kelvin Noodles, Thurston, Bright Leap's Leapers. They are the Petty King's dance troop whose moves consist entirely of soaring leaps. Serge of Salazar, Salomon Salaman Sakurai Stasekwani Tressed the traveler, Jory S, Dana G,

Kalem L, and Ryan. KOTMAKERS, who have said that overall, the Elder Morn campaign has been amazing for the small and humble bed business. The KOT industry is booming! Jack L. Flullis Whale, Temporal, Sam L. Nicholas C. and Resen S. The marketing team that came up with the name, The Pride of Outerboro, for Heronford. Sam L. really pushed for the Bane of Outerboro. Flullis Whale fought hot for the gem of Outerboro, and Resen S. championed the Any of Outerboro, which actually almost won. Samuel B. Mike H. Matthew E. Colton B. and Adam G. A group of concerned elder morgians, I guess

that's who we're calling them, who felt the need to point out that monk, sounds a lot like Fonk, Bunk, and Zonk, and that this bit will likely not die with this arc. Oh no! Mateo C. Nabajar! Panama James and Adrian the Halfling Bard, the Play Doctor Mask, Boteek, where both shops for his vast and expensive collection. Dan, Nicki W. Grace G. Drew Nasty, C.C. Lulu, the lobbyists for Elder Morn's four biggest cigar companies who are desperately trying to establish Bo as a cigar smoker in Fia's absence. JAY! Barnes and Ador, Douglas A and Michelle O. the giant gardener who taught Tehragon everything she knows.

It should be specified that knowing something doesn't mean you can necessarily do it. Timmy R. Lucas B. Aaron S. and Kevin M. The hard-hitting journalist who covered the giant wars and eventually turned the people of Elmermorn against the war. Austin C. Hogfish is above average hog. New York. Steven C. K. J. and Michael M, Javari's roommates were forced to deal with rusty weapons mounted all over the walls and even worse, rusty dishes in the sink.

Raul and Mike K, Maxwell C, and Nick L, the newest employees at Tehrigon's plant shop. There is a lot of turnaround because the staff is constantly being accidentally poisoned. Be careful everybody! Karen T. Eccathor 666, Justin Raccoon, Nick W. and Michael C. The test subjects who were given a placebo while the rest of the blood bound were given superpowers. The placebo gave them a ton of confidence, which unfortunately led to them being slammed into oblivion by a bunch of giants. Yikes. Asmi Am.

Spartagnus. Nathan. Casimir, they all knowing.ing, Big Bad, Beard of the Mad, the kids' bow baby sits. They're not intimidated by their super-soldier guardian, mostly because he spends most of the time talking about the born identity. Eric McD, Jack Meehaw, Burley T, Axel A, Nero-Claudeus Caesar Augustus Germannicus, and Christian A, nasty teens who sneak into Terragons

Plant Shop and smoke up all her sweet giant herb. Little do they know it's essentially giant oregano and has no actual effect, but they're still the coolest kids at our outer burrow high school. J. Dragonborn, the San Drayan, Ben A. and Felddannis, conspiracy theorist radio host to believe that the madmate was actually an alien controlled by the government. BookVar is a frequent listener and it honestly explains why he's so scared all the time. Dave H. Catherine S. David K. Christian S. Keith Kay and Brittany B. The owners of the

sword shop at Adderbrough's failing mall. If it weren't for all of Jafarri's purchases, this ill-conceived store surely would be out of business by now. Kyle H. Emileo D. Frankie Koala. Big Bad John. Aston S. and Blair, the Bug Blair Barbar Blarion. Cameron Diaz's agents who lobbied hard for her F, Pat L, and Acquitha A, previous monks of the order who saw the madmage slowly losing their mind, luckily they all decided to pivot and open up a deli and it's going great since they make sandwiches so fast. Lauren H, Josh D, Janina E, Maddie Y. The eldest Barry. And Ryan S. Owners of a rival plant shop that prides itself on selling non-dead-looking plants, but little to they know. That's

the whole charm of Tehrigon shop. The Bone Duster, Joshua H. Robert, CRSP, Idrisil, Brent Lee C. Weapon salespeople who can spot Jafarri coming a mile away, sometimes they just listen for the pillowing of his cargo pants, when he approaches they know to raise all the prices on their cool swords since he simply can't resist. Micah B, Carly Ann, Clarke of the Thunder Fucks, Jorge C, and Connor Savage. Sprites who live in the mountainous regions of Outerboro and all wear really tiny little puffer vests to keep warm.

Their light is a little diffused, but it's too abort adorable to do things any other way. Russell H, Christopher J.O. Cole, the goldfish, Gremlin, Logan S, and Dread, pirate, Jacobi Roberts, captain of the Enchantress, Knights who make fun of the bloodbound because they do things by way of steel. Little do they know, steel is also used to make spoons, so bloodbound is still way cooler when considered theoretically.

Leviathan, Demi-A, Bioquart 7, Remington CD, Mike R, and Everett P, dog trainers who trained BABNO's old dog. But that was over a decade ago, so the training is fully worn off. Thankfully, the dog simply is just too old to misbehave. Carson E. Sean K. Julia W. Lindsey W. and Adam C. Chefs who are trying to recreate the wildly popular dish of shrimp's scampi up north, but all the lakes are frozen

and so far the scampi has had to go, Shrimpless, keep trying, folks. That's it for this week. Thank you all so much for listening. Thank you to all of our listeners, all of our benevolent council of elders, and of course, all of our Patreon subscribers. And Happy New Year's! Happy New Year! New Year!

Beautiful, beautiful ears that we're talking to. Happy New Year's to everybody. You can head on over to our Patreon. If you want to listen to our after-show, we did a D&D court this week, so check that out. In the meantime, we'll see y'all next year. Bye, Sui. That was a Hate Yum podcast.