Hello everybody, welcome back to DND 44.
Today we're doing Kylie's peer review.
We're in video today, Kylie, we're doing a your annual peer
review. This will determine your quality
of life raises and we will get rate you rank you maybe we're
going to rank you on a scale of one to five.
Oh no. How?
How do you do it? Pour.
The scale of 1 to 20. What are you talking about?
The D20 system. Satisfactory.
Oh no, what? What is the?
Exceeded expectations. Oh.
I couldn't get the view. Or performance falls before
expected expectation, meets expectations or exceeds
expectations. We will each have our own
personal scale that we're grading on.
Mine is going to be on colors so.
I don't get your favorite color. Unplug in chopped liver.
Great, Jared, what's yours? You know, I really am kind of AI
really like the color black. It looks good on me.
You know what I mean? It's it's good.
Yes, you're all black and tire on your black chair on your
black background, so. That's a good color.
It's. A good color.
I'm wearing it too. All right, taking my socks off
of this. Let's start off though, let's go
through the history. So when we went into campaign
two, we want, we realized we want a, we knew we need a new
voice actress or actor in general.
So we we went online and we did some postings for voice acting.
And Kylie is one of those people that obviously got the part but
responded to one of. Thousands.
Yeah, thousands. It was 55 to to 60 I think,
auditions. And I thought it would be very
fun if we could live react to Kylie's audition.
So we're going to play that now. Yeah, are you fucking kidding?
Hello my name is Kylie Galt. I am 29 years old.
I have been a voice actor for. Let me pause this for a second.
I just want to preface this. I never listened to the last
line of this audition. And when every time I listened
to this, I listened to her last character piece and then turned
it off, I was like, oh cool, love this.
This is a good audition. Let's let's get her in here.
The last line killed me. I have been playing D&D on and
off in multiple different campaigns, multiple versions for
many years, but I have not been very consistent with it.
I have played a little bit of Monster of the Week, I play a
little bit of Half Binder, a bit of AD and D 5th edition, but a
lot of people kick me out of their campaigns because I'm not
very good with the caliber they need.
So if you're willing to take a chance, I would love to work
with you. I love.
What a cell. Voice acting, and I think it'd
be really good for me to expand my horizons and work with people
outside of people I know, because for some reason I get
all clammy when I try to have role play with people I know.
Whereas people I don't know, I'm more open to get on with it.
I prepare you, Jibber Jabber, who I played in a Pathfinder
game that my friends set up for me.
Do you love jibber jabber jabber?
This one, Jared over this one. Jibber dabber like you.
Do you like me? No, Kaboom.
And I'm also going to portray one of my favorite characters
I've played of all time, Sabrina Graham, who is a very angsty
teenager. This was set in Monsters Week,
so it's like a 90s setting. So I'm going to set her in like
a crazy situation so it's not just a generic teenage girl
voice. Why'd you guys fake me?
Are we gonna get moving and beat something or what?
I'm not gonna sit here forever and just wait for you.
I got shit to do, blah, blah blah.
I could swear all I want. I've been an orphan most of my
life, and now you're coming here and tell me what I can and can't
do. What do you think you are, my
father? Yeah, you may have the adoption
paper on you, but that is a matter.
God, why can't I ever be left alone?
Thank you. Have a good project.
I never heard her say have a good project.
Oh. My goodness, have a good Is that
a Canadian? Goodbye, I ruined this.
They're not picking me. Have a good project.
How? Do I pick me I?
Think this is one of those that Dan was like, listen, some great
just came across my desk. We're going to try her out.
I'm like, all right, sure, whatever it does.
So good did. You all hear that before.
Of course, yeah. I can't remember if I did.
You absolutely did, I posted in our discord.
I don't remember. I don't remember having a good
project. I don't remember that.
Yeah, right. I don't remember that either
'cause I always got to the end of it and she was like, thank
you. And I pressed pause.
It was like, oh nice. I did that in one take.
I did that improv. I was so nervous.
I was like, well, that's it all right, send it in.
Hey, it's a good, good lesson. I don't know how to put it Like
some people think they gotta just like make they don't
audition for things or they don't do something unless it's
absolutely pitch perfect at every single angle.
That doesn't matter. When you want to go do
something, just do it. All the pieces will start to fit
together, you know. Normally I never listen to other
people's auditions, but I went and immediately listened to
everyone else's and went oh Jesus I'm not getting this.
Really, Jim? But just never and.
Sabrina Grimm. Sprocket should hang out.
Yeah, she hasn't even seen Sprocket yet.
She don't know. She don't know what's.
Sprocket sound like Mylan. You know, it's a little bit kind
of, yeah, but he's more jibber, jabber like personality.
Fantastic. All Jibber Jabber does is shoot
fireball. Fireball.
There it is. I don't think I have anything
else to say about it. It was, it was one of the best.
That's why we call you back. You can tell that there was
genuine emotion, there's genuine curiosity and fun in the
audition, which a lot of the others lacked.
So yeah. Suck, suck.
Not all of them though, if you were auditioning and you could
see them. It was really tough, honestly.
Like they tell. Me all the time.
It was tough. It was, it was really hard, like
we. We had five callbacks.
I was going to say I expected not very good.
Like I, I don't know what I expected going into this.
I've never done this process. This was all new to me anyways.
I was just like, oh, you know, random people are going to try
and it's going to be, you know, whatever.
And no, it was like every single one was just like, Oh my gosh,
what are we? What are we?
What do we get ourselves into? I was like, Dan, this is you.
I can't do this. I was like, there's no way.
I'm just mad that we never got to call in bathroom girl.
We're gonna bring. That up, I definitely I need to
tell the story on podcast. So we we got an audition and
there was a there's a girl that did a good, really good job and
we were like, the audio is not good, but she's clearly
recording in like a hotel bathroom or something.
So maybe she just wanted to get it in.
So I messaged her. I was like, hey.
Explain the video. The video is I think she meant
to do just audio and then remove the video later.
But she recorded the video of the bathroom from the front
facing phone so that it's not so you.
See the top of a toilet and you see like the hotel shower
curtain used used when it was used.
Yeah, we're. Like I opened up because on
casting call Club, which was the one that this one was on, you
could Click to play it, but it would open it up in another tab.
When you oh, when you downloaded it, it would open it up in
another tab. And when I did that for this
one, it opened up a video and that's that's what we found.
Like the video was screaming at hostage, but the the actual
voice was great. You know what I mean type of
thing, but you're just like. But they never responded, so
yeah, well, maybe. They were a hostage.
Oh, how are they embarrassed? By the they actually went back
and looked at it and they were like Oh no, Oh no, can't show my
face now. Here's my voice acting audition
for someone who's being held hostage and desperately needs
help without being it's too obvious.
Definitely not in a hostage situation.
What did? What went through your mind when
you got the call back, when you officially got called back?
Oh, I was hyped. I was, what was I doing?
I think I just got home from something and then I, I was just
happening to open my e-mail at the time 'cause I don't have my
notifications on. And I saw the message, I think
it was from you actually. And I was like, oh, what's this
like bulls thing, OK, cool, whatever.
And then you invited me to call back.
I was like, Oh my God, what the fuck?
And then I ran around to my roommate.
So I was like, I got my call back.
Guess what? I'm gonna do it.
And then the panic said it and I was like, what if they don't
want me? What if they hate me?
What if everything's awful? Oh my God, I'm not gonna get
this, but I was hyped. I hadn't voice acted in like a
year since then. I just happened to do it on a
whim so it's nice. I have the DM open from cast and
call club. It's very boring though, I was
hoping it was something fun but it's just.
Hello Dan, that sounds awesome. My discord is this.
Yeah, it sounds pretty rad. Yeah, I was very, very polite at
first. I told you all.
Once I get to know you. This is game over.
The 1st when when we did my call back, I was super nervous 'cause
I was like, Oh my gosh, these guys are professional.
I don't know what I'm doing. Professional.
The whole. Thing now I know you're.
Not hear that we're professional.
Take that chat. GPT.
Yeah. Oh yeah, this video.
We'll know this thing. We looked it up before this
episode. Inside joke.
Speaking of callbacks, we should, we should take a look at
that. Oh.
While we're here. I thought we could live react to
Kylie's callback. Kylie's.
I can walk you through every moment.
I was like and they hate me and they hate.
Me, Tony, Tony's probably going to give us the most commentary
at first 'cause this is like the character introductions, and
then we're going to do a snippet video after this.
Hi Jared, this video's for you but not OK.
So like I said, 40 minute role play session, little combat,
some rolls, some checks out of character.
Why don't we all go through what we're playing and who we're
playing? I'm playing Flay Laverne.
Flay Laverne. Flay Laverne.
Of course he's got a fucking He is an Aladron.
Autumn Aladron. I am playing Tippy the wizard
gnome. Tippy is 475 years old.
He Yep. No, he's almost dead.
Kylie, who are you playing? Those 3 character?
What'd he do? Well, thankfully I have my
friends help me prep a little bit so I'm less thrown off than
I expected, but I am a tea fling.
Her name is Vivian Sharmal. Do you do not pronounce that T?
She's very. Clearly aren't the shamal.
Shamal. The soft ones, Vivi.
Would be a close to her, but she is.
A. But she's a tea fling because
her parents made some pretty shady deals in order to get up
further in the throne. So she's the oldest of five
siblings and she's the only chiefling.
So she had a hard, rough life growing up and trying to prove
to her family that she is worthwhile.
She really learned. Everything but has no rights to
become an heir eventually. So she wants to prove herself by
being a super cool adventurer to get her parents affection in any
way shape or form. But she doesn't let them know
that she's fully because why would they talk about that?
And her favorite thing to do? To talk to.
People is to pickpocket them, get something to drop it on the
ground and pretend to give it back.
I'm assuming she would try that on.
Yo, if Alec just had a mustache, like just a mustache.
Shave the beard. You look like Jason Sudeikis.
I'm just saying. I'm just I I see it every day.
Yeah, right. Very French.
Very French scam by the way. Pitts and she.
Loves it. She never steals, she just
genuinely, she's a rogue by the way, so that makes it easier.
And she just really wants her family to accept her and she
doesn't really care about who anyone is where they're from.
They're lesser more than her because to her she's used to
that. She she just wants to make a
name for herself and have a good time.
Is this the character that you've watched in a 20 level
campaign? Yeah.
I think so. I really like how we how we set
it up. I got a lot of help to set up
the prep, but and I got a long lure of tieflings.
So I yes. I normally.
Don't play one, but I thought it'd be fun.
So so you guys know because she said her parents were humans?
There's a variant rule I think was born from Critical Role.
I'm not sure, but if you are, if your parents meet shady dealings
with demons. Your first born was a tiefling.
That was another wave. T flings were in the world,
yeah. There you go.
Well, I gave all of Vivian's back story in my call back so
that I didn't remember because it kind of blacked out
afterwards. I.
Was going to say what changed from Vivian .9 to Vivian one
point O. She doesn't steal at all.
Yeah, no, she's. Rich goodness.
Tony, do you want to give a little bit of insight on the
like the process of the call back and how you formulated the
one shot? Yes, it was.
I really liked it. Heavily planned and well thought
out and meticulous to the things I wanted to see come from a
player and definitely not a map that I threw away that I was
going to use for the campaign. Decided not to use and then just
put a 40 minute spin on it yeah. So what I wanted to see was just
to see how you vibed. I'm going to be honest, I didn't
I like I was like, all right, quick combat, a quick puzzle,
couple of roles. See how you how people addressed
those roles. So like, all right, everyone
give me a saving throw. Like how quickly you would look
at the character sheet, you know, and I know like first time
players, they like, don't know where to look, but like
understanding, like, oh, OK, like I guess like what I'm
trying to say, I'm I'm at a loss of words.
I'm so tired. Problem solving, like in action,
I guess is what I want to see or like critical thinking in
action. Like, you know, like if I asked
you what a saving throw was, like you knew where to look.
You may not know of how to how to done it, do it exactly, but
you're, you were in the game and that's what I was looking for.
Like how involved and like you were while we were playing and
you really figure that out over a stretch of 40 minutes.
Like anybody can be locked in for like 1520 minutes.
But over 40 minutes, you know, you can really see if like
people like begin to lose focus and you just see if like you're
interested or not, you know, And all of the, I had the one shot I
designed for, for all of the callbacks, we, we play the same
one over and over again. It was to see how far everyone
can get. And I wasn't judging anybody on
how far they can get. But I did judge on like how much
time you like addressed each thing that came up.
Was anything dragging? Would it be a, a reoccurring
thing that everything is dragged on?
Would it, can you jump from point A to point B like fluidly
and things like that? Like like in conversations, you
know, like, is this worth value? Like, you know, expanding on or
whatever? Yeah.
So nobody completed that one shot?
No, this one got kind of close and we actually do have snippets
from it, so we're going to watch that now.
It's a. Harsh sludge like mud.
Thanks for bringing me along. I suppose you can lead the way
since you want me to join you best you lead the way, right?
But, well, I don't think that's a very good idea.
I think it's better off if somebody else leads the way all.
Right, get out of the way. You better suffer so good or so
down there. Oh, get us down there first.
I'm going to take a look in first.
Before Tippy, your name was. Oh yeah, yeah, Tippy tippy the
gnome. Tippy the Gnome.
We just we before this, we just recorded a whole thing what
ChatGPT thinks about each and every one of us.
It nailed Alec right on the head.
I'm just saying that one clip just 88 every point.
OK, go. Look at the DBTB.
Yeah. I don't have a last name so.
That's that's OK, the old. Let's call you the old.
That's that's a just, I don't, I'm very young.
I'm sorry, Sir, how dare I say
so of. Course, of course.
Well, I. Just pull in your arm, huh?
Vivian is a gas. She doesn't know how to respond.
She doesn't talk to people often.
Put my hand on Tippy's shoulder, Tippy.
I'm all right. You didn't see it because you're
distracted. I've never seen this.
Vivian did not run away. She's invisible, all right.
Who's Vivian? Oh shit.
Oh no. Oh hey everyone, I found a door.
Good. All right, we'll be there in a
second. Is anything coming towards us?
No, not yet. Then there, there we go.
We're OK. Deep breaths, everybody.
No heart attacks today. We don't have that kind of
liability. Did you see what was down the
eastern hallway, Vivi? I only heard the thumping of
Tippy's boots. You guys look this way.
I'm going to go that way so I can decompress that way.
Take a walk. I will be on tippy duty.
Oh, yeah. So you want to know the story
about my grandson Timmy? OK, so I.
Thought I could. Timmy Timmy was exempted to
gamble. I think I need to join you.
Come here. By the dorms and the dorms are
as he. Rambles on about his life story
and his troubled grandson. I think I'm trapped.
I would like to. So this statue's huge, like it's
towering. Yeah, like.
An obelisk. Absolutely massive.
This is her first fight. Yeah, you know what?
Vivian would like to just touch the statue.
That's all she wants to do away from stealth.
OK, perfect. You're going to do that with
advantage because you're invisible.
With a 12 you get close. No, this is.
Although you are invisible, the sounds of your boots are not
some pebbles you get to. That is your hand.
Even the callback Tony's being cinematic.
It'll elude the creature. You see a snack?
Of its tendril go towards one of the stones as a reactor to the
sound and not you as you are now touching the statue as you pass.
OK, good to know. Stay very.
Quiet, Vivian still can't see you, so uh, uh, go check it out,
will you? OK.
Yes, of course. I thought, we're going down
these stairs. Play.
I can't. He doesn't see me.
You have to hold on to. Him jump into.
Her as I'm going up and like falling.
This still feels like campaign too right now.
You tumble down the stairs for a solid 30.
Seconds. And you feel like you've hit 100
individual steps. For a black sock and go.
Handle good. Goes out in the mist starting at
the top of the round. We're going to start off with
Vivian on Initiative 16 with Flay on deck on Initiative 14.
Vivian, what would you like to do as you now this massive eyes
revealed to you? Vivian is a bit focused and not
realizing she can hear the sounds behind, but she's so
focused on getting this jewelry box and just hitting this quest,
she wants to pull that jewelry box out of the mouth go.
Ahead and make me a slide of handshake as you try to
carefully remove it, as if you were trying to swap a bag of
sand with a golden egg from Indiana Jones and Temple of
Doom. I got it 8.
I got 1 + 7. As you pull the jewelry box out,
you stumble on the sheer panic of this massive eldritch like I
staring at you. You look back and as you move
the jewelry box from its mandibles, it's slam shut and
you're going to take. You were going to take.
I rolled really low on 2D eights, Vivian.
Yeah, you're going to take 4 points of bludgeoning damage and
one point of piercing damage. Oh God, I tried really hard over
here. You guys OK over there?
I'm snapping my fingers in front of Tippy's face.
What are you looking at? Fuck Run Fly is going to go 30
feet to the South and then see this giant demon stuff.
What's happening? Oh shit.
Oh no, watch out. I am definitely going to heal so
I am less useless. You chug this potion as a bonus
action and you still have your action and your movement and a
free action. Vivian, where are you?
We need help. Over here.
Where hucks I would love to take after tippy and I want to use my
fire bolt. Nice.
Wow, this. Yeah, giant weird gooey thing.
So we'll talk about whatever's never.
To play. Since you're invisible, you get
advantage on that role, right? But once you do an attack, you
go out of invisibility. OK, that's worth it though.
But it's time. It is done.
I got an. So just roll one more time.
One more time. OK, OK, we're going.
To go away. That is going to miss.
Unfortunately, as you shoot this fire bolt, you appear back on
the material plane. Everyone can see you as that
fire bolt whiffs. Is there anything else in your
turn you would like to do? Vivian would love to roll away
from the glowing eyes at least a little bit this way.
And then? We're going to go to Initiative
13, which is the ooze. As it begins to slowly crawl,
slap its way towards Tippi and you see two of these tendril
pods that's. Not.
Good with a 19 hit. Hit.
Take 15 points of acid damage. OK, I realized I may have chose
too strong of a stat block for this fight with an additional 3
points of bludgeoning. Oh yeah.
Oh, don't worry. Tippy falls over.
I feel great. The ooze, as Tippy goes down,
the ooze begins to go over Tippy as it's try using the rest of
its movement trying to entomb him.
And as it attunes him, you see that the acid from the ooze
begins to dissolve some of his cloak.
And that is where we're going to end.
Yeah. So you.
Tippy. Tippy.
No, poor Tippy. I love that.
Was so much fun. I've had some really bad
experiences with D&D in the past, so this has been really
nice to like see how you guys run your campaigns.
This is one of my favorite role play kind of scenarios I've done
because most people, they give up on it over a little bit of
time. So I was, yeah, I really like
that. So it helped I if you were to
choose to go with me, I would pick a more flamboyant, bouncy
character. My friend gave you the idea
talking about like how people enjoy listening to DND campaigns
online. And some people get the same
character. Over the top girl all the time.
But it doesn't. I tried.
Out something a little more subdued, but considering how you
guys work with Tiffy and Flay, I really enjoyed that dynamic.
It was so funny. I was trying to keep it down
with the laughing of it so I wouldn't ruin that the audio.
But no, I really enjoyed that. Normally I get distracted in
campaigns, but I was like fully engaged and immersed and my
brother was locked in. I liked that I could put pieces
together. Yeah, you did great.
This. Is very condensed fan.
This. Is a thank you.
There you go. Wow.
That was her first ever one shot she ever did with us.
I want to hear Jared first though, because you haven't seen
that. No, I haven't.
So what's this character that you're going to play for
campaign one? Just kind of curious because you
said you're going to create someone new, that you'd play
someone different. Well, she was going to.
Be a bar and she's going to be hype as fuck.
But then I was. Like.
Vivian was kind of fun. I just got to change your voice.
Yeah, that's cool. Vivian was, too.
Free run dub. It was a little free run dub at
first. Never seen the shows.
I wouldn't. Know it's.
OK, no, but that's super cool. Good times on that.
What is so from that person to what was more scary?
Was it that or was it the first day we recorded campaign one?
That's a good question. You know what I think?
I think that one was more scary going in and recording campaign
One was scary in the minute because I was like, Oh my God,
we got I got to make this good. They could fire me.
I I'm on the line. They could fire me at any
moment. But yeah, once we were playing,
I was like, oh, this is great. Now I'm going to be devastated
if I'm not picked. Fuck.
But in the moment I was like, no, we got to make sure it's
good. I got to lock in.
I got ADHD, I'm a medicated. It's so fucking hard to lock in.
But I do really good with this so it's fine.
We're good. Awesome.
Yeah, So good. Man, it's, it's good to have
you. I'm glad we got you in here and
we we brought you into at least one arc.
So that's good. At least one.
Arc too and Tadji BG said that I'm a great breath of fresh air.
That's right, a great breath of fresh air, good change of pace.
But we did obviously pick Kylie in the end.
I think something that shines in this one shot is obviously, you
know, you can tell there's nerves there as far as like the
acting is concerned and like maintaining the voice and things
like that. But I remember Alec and I, right
after we got off the call, we were talking about how like, Oh
no, that was super fun. You know, like it didn't feel
like it was a struggle to like get her laughing and get her
doing stuff. So that's a big thing for us and
moving into like Campaign 2 and we actually started working with
you on your character and stuff. I think, I think it just came
out really well. So, but I did want to pass it
over to you and Tony because obviously there's a lot, once
you audition, there was a lot that went into preparing your
character. I don't know if you guys want to
talk a little bit about that. I don't.
Thanks for asking. That's OK.
Next question, Jerry, I like. The words with DMS too because
I've barely DM Tony. I'd be like I had this great
idea and then my roommate would go then fucking tell Tony.
Don't tell me what is wrong with you.
Oh yeah I should tell him. There is.
There is something though that I wanted to incorporate and Tony
gave me a persona adjacent GIF and never responded.
Wait, what? There's this thing I wanted to
do for Vivian because I couldn't figure out which way I wanted to
go for her wedding route now that we know, and I didn't know
if I could incorporate it because I never got a straight
answer and I never checked in. But I just remember that now.
Somewhat talk to you about after this, huh?
Yeah. Yeah, maybe I'll be a little
because it could still come up. So don't spoil it, OK?
OK. We'll talk about it later then
or. It's dead.
I'm looking at it now. I'm looking at it now.
Yes, of course, of course. Also pretty bad in retrospect,
but it was the only I was thinking of.
OK, Tony, how was it working with?
Terrible. It was the most gut wrenching
thing ever. It was just non-stop.
It was just like all dude like you thought you were bad then.
Itchy is way worse dude. OK, fine.
I see how it. No, it was good.
She gave me, I gave everyone homework.
She did it to the tee. She gave me enough to work with.
It was honestly just a smooth, pretty smooth process, you know?
Oh. My gosh, when Jared was doing
the art for our characters, I remember Kylie sent her PDF and
I was like, she's got she's got color profiles and everything.
This is. This is the.
Shit. Yes.
They got really excited about color profiles.
Yeah, it's at the tone for the rest of them because it made it
so easy because we're like, oh, OK, we just copy off of this
work. OK.
Yeah, we were going to do that in the 1st.
Place right, right guys right it's.
The best way to do it It's a YouTube profile.
I just. Use it I.
Stole it from someone too. I ain't a fucking genius on that
one. We got to talk about the
campaign. That's what we're here for,
right? Now we talk about the good stuff
and why she's falling behind. Let's.
Just dive into that, OK? Don't get mad at me about the
notes. I promise I do.
I do process what you're. Saying we have a real note
keeping problem here, I'm sorry. I do.
I do remember. I do remember with the recap I'm
taking notes by hand. By hand.
By hand, it's better for. Me on paper.
The reason she doesn't have them in hand though is because Milan
ate them so. My dog ate my homework.
Yeah. Why has everyone called me a
dog? I don't understand.
It was good as one though. Where?
Where do we even want to begin with this?
So like what after like after the 1st 4 episodes?
How were you feeling? Because obviously you were
nervous at first, we know that and how that went.
But once you actually got like four or five episodes under the
belt, then how did you feel? Pretty good.
I think at that point we were really connecting a lot more.
I don't think I was really hanging out with you guys
outside of that at that point. I think once we all started
hanging out more, it like it really clicked for me a lot
more. But leading up, I felt good.
I was just always worried that I wasn't performing like as well
as I could each time and that like I was worried that maybe I
was going off too much on the direction and like derailing
what Tony had in mind or if I wasn't exploring something
enough when he'd like planned something.
So I was just always overly analyzing that afterwards.
And also dog barking. Oh, we know about dog barking in
the right, Jared. Oh yeah, I'm lucky.
So far I've only had to mute a few times.
Because episode 4 was just before the Tavern episode.
Or was it the Tavern episode? That was the Tavern episode.
That's that's one of my favorites still looking back
because that's it's similar. I think I've said this before.
It's similar to the episode in Campaign 1, episode 10, maybe
earlier than episode 10, later than episode 10 where we start
riding away from the first town finally and Drell starts rolling
to manage this horse. Yes.
I. Love that episode and.
Like nothing specifically happened story wise, but it was
the moment you could tell we were starting to lock in his
characters and those those role play moments were starting to
shine. The humor was clicking.
All of that kind of stuff was coming through.
That's how I felt with our Tavern episode at the Four Eyed
Owl and campaign too. I.
See, the second Vivian got to Long Cat Mylan, I was like, all
right, here we go. I know it wasn't the best and
for like moving story along and stuff, but it really helped me
feel like I actually fit in to the group as well 'cause I, I
wasn't like I was worried about that, but it just made it clear
to me that I did fit in and it wasn't just like, here's a
random girl we're throwing in. Oh, that's awesome.
That's good to hear too, 'cause we, you know, we're, we're
definitely worried about that from our side too.
Like is she like, you know, is, is are we going to like be cool,
you know, is she going to like us?
Is she even going to want to be part of our podcast after she
experiences our role play? Yeah, I think, I think it went
well though. And once once she got locked in,
I don't know, I, I think it, it felt pretty much like it felt in
campaign one when we all clicked as well.
So. Anyone else want to judge me
like ChatGPT did? Yeah, I got a question for you.
Where do you get off where? Do I get up on what?
How dare you? How dare you?
Not not going to lie. I actually had a pretty good
question. I don't.
Even know we got to get that. Goodness, kind of a question.
For you got a question, an early reflection.
Is there anything you wish you did differently in the earlier
episode? Yes.
That's a great one. Many things I I wish I watched
more YouTube videos on understanding character sheets
for one, because I would have understood rogues a bit more and
done a little bit more homework on that.
Secondly, no, I don't regret that.
I I think it's good that I'm a little more blind about everyone
else and like their characters. I wish at the beginning I wasn't
so like trying to compare it all the time to Baldur's Gate
because like the visual helps a lot.
But I was like, OK, how do I picture this?
How do I picture that? I do wish I took better notes
and it's. Good thing we have a communal
note section. Thank you for that.
Appreciate it. Big fan, big fan.
And lastly, I think I wish I let go a bit earlier and and was
just more comfortable with role-playing.
I'm still working on it, but that's my own personal thing I'm
working on too. So it's like a, I've talked to
you guys a bit about it, but like.
That's interesting. What do you feel like you
struggle with as far as like letting go?
I was. Gonna say you're pretty pretty
jump right into it and I would say more than the rest of us.
Oh yeah. Oh, I feel like I don't ever ask
the right questions or like yeah I guess I I get worried
sometimes cause Castle and Vivian have had so many moments
and I could have like maybe pride a bit more or asked an
extra question here and there. I see what you're saying,
character. Or.
Made more poignant questions instead of just like, I don't
know, random shit Vivian would say interacting with them.
This is more that kind of thing. Gotcha.
What? Would you guys say I should
improve on? Oh, your voice acting OK, I
don't. Know if it's going to make it in
this video so right before this we asked that GBT and it gave us
some terrible. Feedback.
Go watch that on YouTube, yeah. But the.
Only thing I got that was negative.
Yeah, I wish you were less of a weeb.
Unfortunately I can't get right back.
I wish you weren't so girl. Literally.
Ask for a. Girl in the casting.
Call. I can't, I'm just a bro A.
Dude bro. A dude.
Yeah, a dude. Bro.
I get Internet, OK? Kylie knew better.
Yeah, I was going to say the things that you could do better
are so easy to fix, like, like when it comes to like combat,
just remembering like little things like when we got to the.
But even when we started doing like, there was a moment when we
were fighting like, OK, this has already been out by the time we
finished arc. Should be.
OK, OK. Arc was done when we were
fighting the beholder thing and you were behind the pillar and
you were shooting the arrow and then getting back behind the
pillar. I was like, she's Pickering it
out, she's getting it. I'm like yes, do this.
I was. Like oh I gotta hide more.
I was, but it's, it's not that like it's, it's OK, like, you
know what I mean? That's what we want.
We want you to be able to make mistakes and be us to be able to
help you and stuff like that's the whole point.
That's the whole premise of our entire podcast was not knowing.
But that was just a really cool moment that is so easily
teached. The other stuff that you do
that's fantastic is so hard to teach.
So it's so easy. I'll take it.
I'll take the. Blazing I can get.
It's good, good to see you easy growing.
What your roommate said. DM us if you have questions.
Don't be afraid to DM us. Mine's always about story.
Things now, Vivian. Story.
If you could crit more that'd be great.
I don't know if you crit. Wait, what does that say on the
on right behind Tony? How many times you've been down
I'm. Going to use my OK.
OK, that's a little hot. I thought he was the 1st to go
down. That's Alec.
I got him up. That's true.
That is true. I love how, Yeah, I love how
Alex first go down and then every time afterwards.
Kylie. Kylie.
I you know what's going to be funny?
I think that now that like she's kind of like getting the the
hang of the rogue, I think she's going to be like, we're going to
blow past her in no time. It's going to be great.
I hope so. I see it I.
Hope for sure, all right. Stay at 3.
So of course. So we'll each say our own
separate thing, but Kylie can start.
What is your your personal favorite thing from arc one now
that you've played a full arc that you experienced, you know?
Or what do you expect in future ones or?
That too. That's that's our next question.
Yeah, no, I got a different question.
Oh. OK.
Probably the synergy of all of us, including Glass, even though
he's not in the videos. But I love all the parts of the
story. I love everything going on.
But I do love the fact that we all love hanging out and we're
we're actually friends 'cause it makes it a lot easier to play
the game. Also, once we know each other
and trust each other, it's easier to do things that like,
normally I'd be like, maybe I shouldn't do that some person's
character, but I know you guys personally or I know Tony's way
of how he likes to do things. And then I can kind of be a
little more open to experimenting as that character.
That's nice. On the same topic of Arc one,
what was the best 4 of that you liked?
That's a funny 1. Anime World's Best 4.
Of that was a good one. Yeah, I should have.
I should have guessed. Shocked it.
Was about to be carnival foods until Jared ruined my life.
He was talking about this yesterday, he said.
Yeah, I still can't believe you took corn dog from me.
One thing in this life it was corn dog, although.
Even though I didn't I know it, the Wrestling 1 was also really
good because everyone else was really fucking hyped.
Oh yeah, I. Liked that one?
I did like the Nope horror moments that Bjorn gave us.
That was a fun one. Which one was that?
What was it? No, it was Nope.
Horror moments. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was
good. Yeah, of course you did.
Yeah, a big horror nut. Tony, what do you got?
Favorite moment with Vivian Orc 10.
Yeah, I do want to hear that. Favorite moment it's got to be
when she when she cursed out Mylan in when he was hiding.
He's like, I want to make sure you say it, but fuck you like.
Yeah, that's a good one. And she comes, she's like walks
back and Bohem sees her and she's like sulking and crying.
He's like the fuck? I I think I bleeped it in the
sound effects portion which made it be funnier because we don't
bleep out sound effects. It's funny because we bleep it
but we didn't cut out the fuck so you can still hear the fuck.
I feel like it makes it land. Harder.
It's like, I don't know why I do that.
Like we curse all the time or you guys curse.
I try not to curse. You guys curse all the time.
And it's like whatever. And then only when it's like
meant to be, like an insult, is when I bleep it out.
Yeah. It's like animes when they have
like exclamation points over their head is you know what I
mean type of thing, right? The bleep does.
Oh my God. How about you Jared?
Favorite Vivian Kylie moment from Arc 1?
I think I hit on it already when like the combat 1 was really
cool. Like I think that was my
favorite like combat moment where I was like yes, this is
awesome. But as far as like story, I
really enjoyed her and Kassel role-playing with, you know,
with her dad quite a bit. Like I think those were so good
so. Fun.
I think those were some really cool moments that I don't think
so when we in campaign one, we didn't really get these kinds of
moments where 2 characters could go off and do something where 1
character wasn't around. It was pretty rare unless it was
like, you know, for a specific 11 type of reason.
But it was interesting to be like, oh, OK, we get to listen
in on this. And you know what I mean?
Now it's like, OK, they know all that.
Now my character doesn't. It's like, oh, there's a secret
in the in the air, kind of not like it's a big thing, but it's
like Milan doesn't know anything that happened there.
So it. Is a secret.
Yep. But no, it's cool.
I like that stuff. The RP.
Yeah. What about you, Dan?
The very first time ever she went in the podcast.
Something like that. No, there are a few the I do
like. I like seeing the turmoil when
Boram's talking to her in the carriage and her kind of like
having this kind of, you know, back and forth in her own head
as she's trying to figure out her own character that I always
find very interesting to play out.
And I think you played that very well.
Obviously, the moment where Vivian approaches Beau Ram and
like sneaks after him when they're at the Rock Head
homestead. That's a pretty great moment for
the podcast because it's a moment where you can see you as
a player getting out of your shell and realizing what the
game can be and that you can go do what you want to do.
And that literally affects the story the way you want to affect
it. Maybe not always the way you
want to cause of the dice, but having her intimidate bow Ram
and approach bow Ram like that was really cool.
I think that might be one of my favorites.
I like. That one too.
Thank you, Alex. I was going to say that, but I
didn't want to take it away from Dan if that was be the coin.
Dog against an hour. Again, it's so good.
Right. Yeah, I don't know.
There are a lot, there are a lot of good ones to pick from where
you can kind of see either Vivian, you know, being more
involved or Kylie as a player being more involved, so.
It's really cool. Like I wish we could do we could
start the podcast like start now because we're so like in the in
the groove, you know what I mean?
Like as one thing about doing these is, is this really tough
is like just like we talked about before is like campaign 1
episode one through whatever is a little hard because it's us
trying to figure out how to play, how to role play, how to
edit and how to do all this stuff.
And then once we find our groove, we're like on fire.
And I feel like episode one, we were like all still trying to
figure out our groove. Episode 2 we were trying to, you
know, trying to get it. And then all of a sudden, like 3
and 4, we've kind of started taking off, which is cool.
So I just I want everything to be perfect but super fun.
What? Was the biggest lesson you
learned Kylie after arc one? Whether it's mechanically,
through role play, any of that. Do 1 mechanic, one role play
mechanic, dodging and hiding. Disengage.
Doing what my class does. Doing that, yeah.
Yeah, that's, that was #1 role play.
The more the risk, sometimes the better the reward.
Not necessarily for the character, but for the role
play. I learned that through Bo Ram's
being tied up situation that I was like.
Oh shit, actually. Go kind of interesting.
So Vivian's not gonna do that, but she might do something
interesting. Not that.
Yeah, 'cause Bo Ram. Yeah, obviously Bo Ram doesn't
want that to happen. Me.
The player doesn't want to lose gold in my stuff, but it makes
him much more. It's more fun and immersive when
you start leaning into your character's vices.
And that, to me, is what makes D&D one of the most fascinating,
fun storytelling devices possible.
I. Agree that's we had a moment
with Mylan there. There's so many moments with him
that I'm like, he just would do this.
I I can't like it when I remember we were fighting the
troll and I was. Like he didn't come at first.
He yeah, I stayed in his. Cart and swing my feet.
You guys literally told him that you had this under control.
He's going to believe you without a doubt until you get
his attention. So I sat there and Alex was
like, what are you doing? Help us.
It's like, I have to play my character.
I have to. I was like, it's exactly what
he's going to do. So, but no, those moments when
you start figuring out what your character would do as opposed to
what the best choice is, I think is is pretty perfect.
There's so many times in campaign one where I was like,
Armos would do this and I was like, I was dude, let's see how
this goes. Blast.
Fire in my boats start blasting. I will say we have, I don't know
if we've talked about this before, but we did.
What was the thing about Armos and Vivian that we talked about
like? A little them talking about like
being the money bag. Or it would they be friends or
like there's been so many like things where we've talked about
it like off podcast and we just kind of laugh about them because
pay the man type of situation. Oh, you have a little friend as
well. Oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, yes, that's what we
were talking about because. Originally it was we were trying
to figure out commercials and stuff and and so I was checking
with everybody to see like who they would want to be.
So it'd be Vivian and Beau Ram coming in from the new campaign,
maybe Milan. And then we'd have Armos,
Reginald and Drell so that all of us would be in it.
And then, yeah, just doing that whole role play, which I think
would be a cute little short commercial thing.
Obviously we can't bring that into the main campaign, but I
think, I mean, I'm not a pose. I think that's kind of.
Fun. You can figure it out, Tony, and
we can do it. What?
Bring the man. Down here, yeah, but I'll.
Think what? I do have some something else.
Without giving too much away, is there like something you're
really excited about without being like too descriptive for
like maybe short term in the next arc and then maybe long
term with your character this next?
Week is going to be crazy. Once.
We get going. I think it's good that we're
taking a break because there's a lot coming up and a lot for Tony
to manage with that. But I'm excited for Vivian's
wedding because I'm excited to see how we all.
Set up you got, you got time, you got time.
We got so. Much time for long term.
One you. Got that, but.
I want something cool to happen. And to kind of piggyback off of
Jared, something I wrote down is do you have either a new one or
the same one? Do you have a goal moving into
Arc 2? Well, I.
Still want to be God, but. Well, of course.
I my goal. OK, what's your second thing on
the list? It's to not get down this entire
arc just. The entire arc number.
Two don't get down. This is just this arc that's
good. This arc, it's not a very good.
Projection. So I'm going to be honest with.
You I did very good with the beholder, no damage, nothing. 0.
Yeah, me too. I don't think I got hit.
Oh, I took some damage for show. Oh.
Man, Oh yeah, Castle definitely did.
He was. He was.
I have a goal. I have a goal for Kylie, a
suggested goal. You need, you need an Armos
staff moment. You need a real prident moment.
I know, but I'm saying this for the people.
OK, so she doesn't. Know the Boris Ladder moment?
There you go. Yeah.
I dude. We need a Vivian Game of the
game moment like Kylie Game of the game moment.
That's what we need. That would prove you're AD and D
God. We got we got some years to
figure it out. Yeah, we got time.
Yeah, but yeah, that would be cool.
I when, oh man, when Dan did that thing, I was, I was my
brain couldn't be happier that. Whole fight felt really good,
like everybody just felt like. There was a fun one.
It felt dangerous, you know, there was a lot going on in the
fight. I.
Was scared that we were going. To That's what I live for.
I was. Going to live for.
I like Mylan's little delivery as we're walking through the
tunnel that line. Looks crazy.
That one got me pretty good. We in the episode.
No, that's, that's Arc Ender is that episode.
And we go through the tunnel up into the tower, the top of the
tower. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got to do that piece so funny.
All right? I don't.
Have anything else, Tony? You got something?
Weeble wobble woo Boo wobble BB Boo Boo.
I can see that I can. See that?
Thanks for sticking around, Kylie.
I'm glad to have you. Glad to be man through one arm.
Come. On contract.
Woo contract. I won't be here anyway.
This is great. Oh good, we like that.
Just three years. Just know that your termination
notice will be delivered in the form of three fell death saving.
Gross. Yeah.
Make a new character we played Twilight Imperium.
That's how you know it's real. That's how you know it's.
Real the sentences together is oh.
That's so good. Well, thank you for joining us
on this video podcast, everybody.
This is on Spotify, but maybe we'll delete it off YouTube and
put the video form on YouTube as well.
Maybe that's something we should do.
We'll delete it off YouTube and put it on YouTube.
Got it Dad, you got it. Yeah, yeah, 'cause Spotify
doesn't upload the video, which is annoying.
It's so frustrating, but everybody give your most Vivian,
goodbye. I don't.
Even know how I do that. I well, I'm not going to top
that one. I.
Don't even think I can. Fuck God, fuck you.
I got another.