Greetings, scum, and welcome to Flail to the Face.
I am not going to be your host. I just wanted to say hello right
off the top. I am Nate.
I've missed all of you guys very much.
I know. I have been in and out.
Like something we were just talking about here before we got
on. Yeah.
I'm sorry. Like that?
Kevin, please take over. Hello, I'm Kevin and I'm here
for now. I really expected you to be more
put together than me today. No, not today.
Fuck, who's next? It's Levi.
Oh, hello. Hello.
It's Levi. I'm present.
Bringing, bringing the real energy today, yeah.
Yeah. Hello, it's Jacob.
No. Then it was supposed to be me.
And then Jacob. Yeah, it's me.
It's Thomas. I'm.
I'm here. We're out of practice, okay?
Give us some bread. Some shit doesn't change.
I love it. All right, I come here.
Last but definitely not least. I I'm Walt bottom billing.
Woof. Oh fucking drop that beat.
Guys, it has been far too long since I've seen all of your
beautiful faces. How are we doing?
This is how we know that he's dealing with an audio podcast
And yeah, Beautiful Faces being. Y'all handsome, fuck off All
right, so we finished season 1. We did our holiday episode.
We're also here just to kind of talk about season 1, how we felt
about it talk about you know, which arcs we like the most,
which characters spoke to us. You know, just kind of reflect
on on season 1. First and foremost, characters.
I mean well, do we want to start with arcs?
Do we want to start with characters?
What do we want to somebody jump in here?
I don't know. I have the list of questions
that Mister Phillip Jensen posted in the discord.
I yeah, I do have those as well, but.
I have pulled up. Let's hold up on those for the
time unless they're relevant to what you're saying, because I
think I mean. It's all question, yeah.
It's all questions about season one, yeah.
For sure, let's let's. I don't remember any of these
characters I played. Yeah, OK.
It's like, I mean, I'll, I'll kick it off.
The first question is, is your favorite moment from Season 1
and. The one I can remember.
Which one is? Which one do you remember?
Bad cum. Bad cum jokes.
That you are definitely reaching back into the Wayback Machine.
I know that. Looks we all know how bad my
memory is. I'm, I mean, I, I'm looking at
this paper. Oh, hi, Levi.
Was this was this paper, this campaign or a different?
Let me see it. What does it say?
Prospector, Mobius, Richard. That was the New York we did
with Daniel. Oh, yes.
OK, OK. Yeah.
That was a crab, dude. Moby Dick.
There was a weemit. There was a Todd word.
Ingrid screech. Oh.
Fuck Todd was in this. Tommy Yeah.
I don't know what that one is. I scribbled it out.
Because the dad I probably died. One of my favorite memories that
just kind of throws it in is with Jake, with Brian Cranston.
Because this no Brian, Brian was the goblin.
You were playing this screeching voice that we all absolutely
disguised. Brian was the goblin he killed.
His name was Brussels. Oh yeah, that's what it was.
OK. But like, what got me like,
still sticks in my head with that.
Oh God, it's but like. How eager he was to die for you
while you choked him to death. Exactly that was the thing I got
me is like he he spent an omen to befriend this goblin only
till like 5 minutes later spend another omen to kill him.
Yeah. Like he did it in the I want to
watch the life leave his eyes way and it only gave him more of
a hard on to know that he was enjoying it while it happened.
Fuck. And then I was like, so glad to
see Brussels die so unceremoniously later.
Like, that's one of my favorite things.
How did this guy fuck man? He got, was he?
The one who got. The ball that the.
Ball that was watching. Yeah, Nope.
The big the ball was Paul that. Was that's right, should have
kept a track record of all of the fucking characters and.
I know you had it. You were averaging a new
character every other episode. Yeah, you, yeah, your stats were
were unbelievable. The world really had it out for
me. Dude, I have never met somebody
so ready to like, as a dude that's played TTRBGS for a
while. You go into a dungeon or
whatever and a more traditional thing and you're like, OK,
there's a hallway here and you're going here and you know
that you have a fucking objective.
And somebody's like, OK, I'm going to do an investigation
check or something similar to like make sure I want to check
for traps. I want to make sure that I'm not
going to get stabbed in the side of the head by something or
whatever. I've never seen somebody so
absolutely fucking oblivious to that concept at all.
Like I was thinking specifically the moment where he pulled the
fucking daggers out of the skull when it was the the bone family
reunion bullshit. And it's like, it's my favorite
thing in the world because everybody gets to play the meta
bit of how Jake just fucking like he's either going to die or
get somebody else killed. But then also it leads to those
types of moments where like, everything's chill until he
pulls that out and then you guys are fighting about family
reunions and why you're not invited to the fucking picnics
anymore. And fuck, your Aunt Kathy thinks
that she's psychic and all this or whatever like.
That's a real thing. Yeah, I know it's a real thing.
So when I listened back to it, I was like, how did I not catch
this? In the moment?
It's because it just felt so organic and real, that kind of
shit. And then it's immediately
followed up by the the behind the door bit, which is one of my
favorite, favorite moments because everybody is involved in
it at a certain point. And the best part is that
everybody was on board without it being like behind the scenes,
like, hey, guys, OK, we're going to, we're going to play this
like, you guys are fucking behind the door, right?
You know, like, it just, it was seamless.
It was organic, and it made it even funnier.
The longer it went on, the more I forgot that Fisk Baskins knew
completely that that wasn't what was happening back there.
And he was just playing into it. And I just totally forgot.
I was just like, yeah, this is fucking weird.
And what's going on back there? And he's like, yeah, man,
they're fucking yeah, like that. It's weird.
And he knows completely that they're getting fucked, killed
by, by worms. I forgot all about it until I
realist listen to that recently and I was just like Jesus
Christ. I think my favorite part of the
whole season has been pairing up with random people throughout
the season. Like I've got favorite moments
with as Todd Word, with Screech. Like those are my favorite.
That was my favorite pairing up with Nate throughout the whole
season was Todd Word and Screech with Levi.
It was. Dude, Phil and Phil and
syphilis, dude. Like, yeah, as as a listener, as
somebody who wasn't on the show at the time, Dude, listen to him
go back and forth. Like, I know for a fact neither
of these two talk to each other about the characters that they
were bringing into this portion of the show, period.
So the idea that they just got on Mike and essentially, like,
exposed these new characters to each other and were just back
and forth 1234, it fucked me up, man.
I'm just like, dude, holy shit, the whole the whole thing, the
whole arc with Daniel, I everybody, I was just like, God
damn, dude, you guys are on fire.
Like it just it's one of those moments where like as sitting in
this chair specifically for me, I get the very unique blessing
of actually just watching my friends be fucking absolutely
talented and I and I have no quarter to just take up a bunch
of time saying shit like Dick whistle so.
What about you, Walt? As a listener or as a
participant? I've forgotten the question.
It's been favorite moment in the in Season 1.
Not really a moment so much as just a scene, but the end of
Black Antlers. And it's purely subjective as a
player, but that was tense. That was a race against the
clock. Can we've solved this puzzle
before Calma and the reindeer kill us?
Like, I remember, like my heart was going a mile a minute for
about an hour and a half as we did that fight.
It was a black all right, which is a really, really intense
moment. That was that was a really good,
really good story to play through.
That was a fun arc and I I can't wait to get that fucker in my
hand. If I had to pick a moment very
soon, yeah, I've already sent Daniel the money just to give me
the shit. Now I'd have to pick either
between Rundle killing Lefty for Lefty just to come fucking back.
It's like Lefty was giving Rundle shit the whole fucking
time, the moment he walked in. And it's like it was just
brewing. And it's like, oh man, if I get
the fucking opportunity I'm going to stomp a mud hole in his
ass and walk it dry and then end up fucking killing him.
And then he just comes back as that fucking Candelabra thinks
Rue goes. And then and then Rundle ends up
fucking dying right there. It's like, fucking hell.
I mean, but that was a fun moment.
And then the fucking playride and black antlers with fucking
Jake's character and fucking Yotna and fuck.
What was it? What was your character's name
there I. Don't remember which character.
Was he on at that point? True fuck, I think I think I use
it as one of the episode names, but just going he lit, he lit
Yotna on fire and then Yotna is fucking grabbing on to him to
fucking take him with because she's not dying alone.
It was just just that time was fucking chaos.
And it was, I loved it. But I mean, there's probably
countless other scenes that could be classified as a
favorite. It was the this whole season, as
chaotic as it was, was just absolute blast.
Yeah, what I think one of my other moments that I was like
proud of myself personally, it wasn't even recorded and that
was showing your my ass tattoo in the same.
Hall That was a pretty good season.
One part, yeah. No, Yeah, yeah, that definitely
checks even even though it is like.
I didn't know he bleached it. That's the weird thing.
Yeah. So it was the lighting.
It was the lighting. It's for contrast, so that the
tattoo looks like it stands out more.
Oh, so the perfectly placed ring light wasn't a weird thing?
No. No that.
Just. Flow from his ass.
That was just yeah. It wasn't premeditated.
It was a pageantry, OK? Standing on a chair facing a
studio. You didn't have to spread.
OK, I'm done. I'm done.
Sorry.
Getting back into that holiday special energy.
OK, you got to give me. A little, right?
All right, what else do we got? Who?
Who else is asking questions and why?
What do you what? Do you want from me?
Phil's got a bunch of questions that he asked.
I'll jump in here outside of Flail and World Standard and you
know now Whispers to the Dying Lands, my other show.
What other podcasts you guys listen to and do they help draw
inspiration for the characters that you play on the on the
shows that you were in? A trillion percent.
I'm sure that that's not hard to believe on my part, but I've
said it before. Hello from the Magic Tavern
inspired me a lot when it came to the, the environment of the
shows and stuff. And I would, I would assume it
inspired you as well as along with how TRS did their stuff.
I I think that's what you had said previously anyway.
They, I can't even remember what it was.
I think it was like maybe like when it really hit me, it might
have been like the first time Usador fell off a chair or
something like that. It's just like, oh man, man, I
am here in this place. I was like, I want to give
people this feeling as much as I can while also holding on to the
integrity of playing the game itself.
So that inspired me a lot there. Nad Pod, I listen to that a lot.
It's super good. It's always been good.
Dungeons and daddies. I fell off Critical Role after
like season or campaign 2 or whatever.
But I mean, easy to do when they're 5 hour episodes for
three years. Yeah, yeah, there's a few other
things that, but those ones are like really mainstays for me.
Other than our shows of course as as as soon as they drop I'm
on them. I don't listen any.
I'm not. Surprised at that either.
I listened to an arc of Monster of the Week to get into being a
podcaster, whatever the fuck we are, and that was about it.
I enjoyed that. That was fun it.
Makes it even more interesting though from like that
perspective because the way that you play is very unique, very
unique to you both in the way that you play characters and
improvise with them and also. I never read the.
Rules use the mechanics. Yeah, exactly.
You don't. You don't.
You don't sully yourself with somebody else's influence.
You just come in and pull away big out of people's ass, you
know? Yeah, world is what you make of
it. I haven't listened to a podcast
in over a year and a half. Oh geez.
But. Man, it was adventure, Adventure
Time, Adventure zone. Adventure Zone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I listen to their monster
of the week thing. Yeah.
Super, super good, I cried. Yeah, me too.
Yeah. I cried.
I was a really good one. And I watched a lot of improv
comedy. I'll tell, I'll tell you right
now specifically if we're going into that realm, like when it
comes to Dungeon Masters that you can tell care about their,
the people that play the games they care about, like the
characters that they're playing and want to make them feel seen.
Griffin McElroy is an amazing, amazing Dungeon master for that.
And so is and so is Brian Murphy from Nadpod.
He is an amazing Dungeon master. A lot of NANADDPOD.
Yeah, yeah, don't sing it, don't sing it.
But at least those were like the main ones.
Well, and then I listened to all of Magic.
I can't even remember. Hello from magic hello from up
until like season 3 or so, I. Drop off 'cause I.
You don't like how rough? I I get annoyed with him, he
gets annoying. The the character that he plays,
I understand why you would, yeah.
Other than that, Pink Pink faux hawk was really good.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You know.
Except for that time you hated them, I also.
No, I hated because they're inconsistency.
Yeah, boom. Go through my job.
Yeah, because you listen to the whole first season.
It's like damn, it was really good.
And then just ghosts. Yeah, I get it.
Yeah, I enjoyed that stuff too. They, I, I really felt like we
would have jived with them if we sat down and played some games
so that. Game wise, I listened to Monster
Hour quite a bit. They're fantastic Monster of the
Week podcast. And then other than that, like
the two main ones I really listened to are like Welcome to
Night Vale and Old Gods of Appalachia.
Yeah, yeah. Which is fantastic horror
storytelling. Yeah, I hadn't thought of
outside of tabletop game stuff. I have a lot of different things
I listened to there but like really it is kind of my my go to
is the tabletop stuff anyway so. Well, oh, and Mission to Zix.
Phenomenal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Highly edited, yes. But it's all improv and I, I
love that about it. Yeah, from beginning to end it
is super solid. I just have not.
I pick and choose on that a lot and I need to just go through it
and do it again. What about you, Walt?
What have you been picking up on the 1940s radio stations?
Oh, it's a joke about my headphones, so it's clever.
They're. Silent.
They're really good. Outside the TRS family and
whispers, which I guess is like the redheaded cousin of the TRS
family. I thought you're going redhead
stepchild, no? It's because you got red hair.
Well, and I'm also a redhead stepchild, but that's neither
here nor there, so. The only podcast I really listen
to outside of like, oh, I'm doing research for this.
So I'm going to go listen to this interview on whatever
podcast, the Maniculum podcast. And we started that because I
interviewed the host Zoe on a Kickstarter project that they
did last year. But they look at every episode's
devoted to a medieval manuscript or book and you'll learn a lot
about medieval literature as well as society and culture in
the Middle Ages, which can be incredibly helpful when you're
running fantasy RPGs, but really, really in depth
research. Very entertaining to listen to
you. They use a lot of fuck words,
but they have some really incredible episodes, like about
stuff that you never even fucking do exist, like
contraception and birth control in the Middle Ages.
It was a thing. It's really interesting.
And the episode on sexuality and gender where Matt goes into
detail about a literal transgender St. from the Middle
Ages. Like they get into some stuff
that you never knew this was going on in medieval text or in
medieval times. So that's what I listen to.
I think it's really interesting and I think it could be helpful
to anyone who's especially if you're interested in like a
really realistic rendition of medieval ages or that kind of
setting has lots of really interesting stuff to get into.
Sweet, nice, you have to send me that name again because I won't
be Maniculum. Maniculum.
I guess I'll just write it down. Scott.
Bakulam, I'll have Kevin. I'll put a gun to Kevin's head
and make him put a link in the show description.
I will. OK, perfect.
Possibly shit. As far as the shit, I listen to
pretty much everything that everyone said.
You know, Nap Pod hello from the Magic Tavern monster hour.
I initially started listening to nerd poker, Brian Posain's D&D
podcast. It's it's a decent 1.
Brian does he's, he's usually stoned out of his mind
throughout the whole fucking thing, so he's not paying
attention, but everyone else is really invested in it.
I've also started getting into more of like the interview
shows, but for the for the genre, for the TTRPG, like
between two Cairns with Yochai Gall and Brad.
I can't remember his last name. He'll never listen to me.
So it doesn't matter. I I kind of like what they do.
They take modules and they break them down explaining what's
going on, what they think is good, what they think is bad,
all that sort of shit. Limit Thrones, Ship of the Dead,
He has a bunch of fucking cool people on there and been pretty
informative and let me know what's going on out there and
the other expansive TTRPG gaming universe.
But yeah, I mean, just listening you guys, I've got like at least
another half dozen. They need to start because
that's what I do at work all day is just listen to podcasts and.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm making dream babies
all day long. You.
Beat off all those bad employees that wait wanted to work
properly. I'm no, no, no, I'm making dream
babes anyways. But yeah, that's, that's pretty
much it. There's been a lot of them that
aren't necessarily in the D&D universe that have been pretty
influential for me, like Pink Faux Hawk as far as like their
production and you know, the way they do like the the sound
effects and everything has been phenomenal.
Monster Hour, the way that their GM did the first season with
Monster of the Week and the second one with oh gosh, what
was the name of the game? The one that the GM came up
with. Absurdia.
Absurdia that they went off the fucking charts with that.
They just went, they took Obscure to a whole new level
with that one. There's a bunch of them out
there. You can't listen to them all,
but I'm sure as hell gonna try. So Thomas, you wanna hit him
with that? Next question from our good
friend Full Frontal Fill. Sure.
What is your favorite TTRPG? And like for a lot of people,
it's probably a given, but so like initially for me, Mork Borg
always will have a top spot for me.
It's had much more of an impact on my life than I honestly
expected it to. close second at the moment right now is Shadow
Dark, partly because I'm I'm involved in several different
projects that will be coming down the pipeline.
So I've been investing a lot of time into that game and it's
it's been a blast so far. Oh, I'll, I will go then.
Viking Death Squad. Death, obviously.
Obviously. I mean, the last time I heard
him go on a game was Fiasco, so oh.
Man, oh man. Fiasco.
Man, absolute fucking insanity. We never got to really finish
it, unfortunately. No, we finished.
It yeah, we finished it. It was.
It's not. Finished.
Did everyone else get to listen? Is it out on air?
No. I lost the first 3 steams so
it's. Never.
I dream that you wake up in the middle of it and your hose gets
crimped. You got.
Fucking cocked. You're just still bitter that
you didn't get to get laid as Abraham.
Looked yes, my one goal. I was you.
Deserved. It.
Yeah, like I still could not think of a way to release the
episodes we had without those first scenes because they were
so funny and like. Calm the lost episodes, just
like Super Mario. You can just.
Record them, I know it's not going to have the same fucking
chemistry as when we improv. It's true.
OK, Fiasco's up there, but since I'm a little temperamental with
that one, but I think my 3 tops right now would be monster of
the week because that's kind of what really opened me up to all
of this. And then obviously Merck bore
because it's what has brought a community to what what I got
involved into and it's made me really want to stick around.
And then Lycoma, not to rub waltz nutsack or anything,
powder them or whatever. Lycoma is pretty fucking good.
I I really enjoy it because you're giving, you're basically
giving tools for your imagination to work with and
that's how you play the game. Well, you're the one who
remembers the Jake quote. What I have a quote.
Oh God yeah, it was on the Kickstarter.
It's like the game just gives you permissions to go fucking
insane. Or.
Something like that you. Don't remember it verbatim.
Yeah, no, I, I like in video games and shit.
I, I, I do really random weird stuff all the time.
I, I tend to break games before I finish them, so it's kind of
fun. Like Merk Borg.
Even other GMs, guest GMs have mentioned to me, I really like
that you go out of your way to just look at and do things even
though you know you might die and like, I don't know.
That's what I say all. The time, because fucking half
the time when I'm fucking around with something, especially as
Curl or Arthur, I was finding like some pretty dope ass shit.
So I I think Merk Borg has that like tendency to look scary, but
sometimes it's not as bad. But then again, you look at Levi
in his first role and he opens a bag of Moss and almost dies.
So yeah, in the game, you're meant to die.
But you're, it's also open to interpretation.
Like the the community's so, so loving and caring.
It's nice to have a group of people that are like, yeah, fuck
the rules. If you want to change things up,
go ahead. That's why I like deathlessness
so much. Yeah, I should have went before
you because I don't have answers.
I don't have like a a list between them necessarily.
But specifically of like for Monster of the Week and like
Homa, both of them have different ways of facilitating
or like essentially they're have mechanics built into the games
that are like, it's your turn to figure out what this is because
like months of the week, what I loved about that when we were
getting into it was the all right, which which one of these
things do you want to deal with right now?
You know, like, are you going to deal with like an unexpected
fucking something or a consequence to your actions or
something like that? And it's like a lot of those
weird things, even in the smallest way shape how stories
go when we were playing that. And again, like for anybody who
doesn't know TRS stuff like that, it was the very first game
where we really started to be characters while we were on a
show. And I, it holds a really special
place for me for that reason, like Oma I, I have to put up
there because it was just so weird for me to I, I liked
jumping into something where like firstly, I, I, it's like,
of course, I have no idea what I'm looking at because it, it
doesn't exist yet at this point. You know what we're playing it.
It's nobody has it and whatever else.
So I, I have no idea how I could know anything.
And when we first started and I'm looking at my, the cards
that I have and stuff, I'm like, oh man, how am I supposed?
How am I supposed to do this? Like, that's not that's not how
I do characters like I but you know, over the course of that
time, like so much of the again, for people who don't know TRS
stuff, I apologize. Like a lot of the things that
exist in our weird little community exist because because
of a very short time frame of like 11 or 12 episodes of TRS
that happened all of the, you know, back-to-back, like the
fucking I approached the bench line.
It, it persists through everything.
I'm sure we've heard it here. It it started in like coma.
Everything. Necessary in beaten crawl
classics. What?
I was a lawyer back then too. Well, like coma is where it
flourished for me then, apparently.
It was, it was, it was. It became viable in the game
instead of just a meta joke. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then after that, again, going back to Merck Borg and the
things that fucking influence who we are and what we do now,
as much as cold and deathless was huge for us on TRS.
And the reason why like Flayer was here in a certain to a
certain extent, of course, the reason why we're all together
right now doing this kind of I don't want to.
I don't want to overlook our little arc of something rotten
and Guth fig because like that's where bro hub came from and it
was a meta joke that somebody just brought in the first like 2
seconds of the of that little arc and it's got a fucking
T-shirt. The whole fucking Discord stuff
is that everybody says good morning bro hubs and like it is
that is the group of people that we are.
I like how when I did a good thing, Levi offered me the
bottom of the pile for the night and that was like the best that
you could do as a bro hub. You're getting the bottom of the
pile tonight, buddy. Jesus, did I say?
That, yes, yeah, that was, that was.
Still a lot of words. Yeah, apparently if you want to
enjoy all of our Merk Board content, you have to pick
through our old show too. But yes, monster of the week,
Merk Borg, Lycoma, they're they're all big to me.
There's some that I haven't played yet that I love like
conceptually and things that I've read through about them.
Heart Inspire. I mean, obviously they're not
like the most separate of entities, so I'll put them kind
of together. But like going through the
mechanics of that game, it was just like, man, this seems like
really, really interesting to play.
And the the setting was really interesting to look at too.
So but I don't branch out a lot through all the stuff.
You guys are far more versed than I am in those things, so.
That's just mainly because I back almost everything on
Kickstarter that comes up and I, I, I make bad financial
decisions. Yeah, you guys have problems.
I do. I'm sure my wife's listening to
me right now. Hi, Kevin's wife.
I think her name is Misses Kevin, Yeah.
She's a lady. My wife's name is.
Your wife's name is Misses Kevin.
See if you wanna jump and what what you like.
I, I can't really say that I've liked a certain game more than
others. I can really tell you that what
campaigns or, you know, stories we've told from those games I
can enjoy more, you know, like. The hunt for approval was really
good. You know, Murkborg, fantastic.
You know, that's up there like coma super.
It's kind of slutty, but I loved it.
You were. Kind of.
You were the face of like coma. I love using the word but I
won't say it. I'm like, you know?
Yeah, sure. Bleep that out.
That's. No, honestly, I'll find myself
just for no reason during the day, just being like, I'll trade
you these bullets for that briefcase.
I I fucking all the time. Gosh, like.
I'm not even talking to anyone fucking.
I got to get a life. You know, and then I don't know,
we were doing this like really fun mouse rider hack with Tessa
and I would love to finish that because I was having a fun time
doing that. Oh yeah, that was going to end
forever. Yeah, I was just going to say
that would have eventually been a a lasting bit as well.
The Batman Forever. Thing, finish that campaign
because that was super enjoyable.
Yeah, yeah, that those are a lot of fun characters.
Yeah, yeah, actually. Unfortunately, Tessa's back on
Ireland time. Oh.
Wow. OK, I see.
Yeah. OK, Well, it in case you're
listening, we had a fucking blast with that and it is it.
If you want to wake up early, early.
In the morning, it's a higher. It's it's a game higher on my
list for that experience. Yeah, I I totally agree with
you. Thanks for bringing it up.
Suppose that's this table. About you, Walt.
And I see you over there doing the same thing I'm doing,
looking at my bookshelf, trying to decide.
Yeah, I was flipping through my notebook with all the games we.
Played. I was looking, I for some reason
I have Levi's binder here in front of me.
So I was looking at his like because it has a bunch of his
names like Huey and Faroon and Guy Fault Foe and all that
stuff. And I was like, damn.
So I can't, like, I'm not going to put these in a bucket of my
favorite. I certainly can't pick a
favorite RPG. Different games do different
things well, and I like a lot of those different things, so I
don't feel like it's fair to, like, stack them up against each
other. Yeah.
Obviously Marc Bori holds a very special place in my heart.
And I mean that in the sense of not just the system, like in the
abstract, but like the book and the way it facilitates you
playing in that system. You know, it's.
It was lightning in a bottle. I don't know when we'll ever see
anything quite like that again. Yeah.
Frontier scum.
I also love that. I feel like it's one of those
rare hacks that really keeps that energy of the original.
What turns it into something different?
New and fresh for sure. Obviously I love like Homa, but
I worked on it, so I don't really feel like I, you know,
get to elevate it and it not be biased.
I've never gotten to play it, but Errant is a fucking
fantastic system and the book is an absolute usability
masterpiece. And you know, it should be
everybody's go to. If you're running a medieval
fantasy campaign, takes note. Fuck man, Like I don't know,
Apollo 48 technical manual? It's like over 1000 fucking
pages and there's only like 30. Pages of.
Crunch in it like. So tempted to make up a copy of
that like. Is there a hidden bookshelf in
your fucking office that I'm not looking at?
Oh God, here we go. Oh yeah.
Oh.
Yeah, gotcha. Oh, just so I can get it out
there too, like I really enjoyed Kala Cthulhu.
I wish I could I if I played it more I feel like I'd enjoy it
even more. I'm actually starting a Pulp
Cthulhu game with some my locals here.
Very cool. Yeah, no, I just, I love like
cosmic horror, the Lovecraftian type of been listening to a lot
of audio books like that looking Dick Cutter stuff and whatever
else. So like that stuff always really
speaks to me. Sorry, didn't mean if I just
remembered it. No, yeah, no problem.
I'm sitting here trying to think, I don't know, like I love
Forbidden Lands. Got a Forbidden Lands game that
I've been doing for years that we've run without a GM.
That's fucking fun because everybody, you know, has
democratic saying what happens in the game.
That's been a really good experience.
And you can do it just with the core books and one page from the
Mythic GM emulator. No, that's cool.
I don't know, games are cool. It's hard to explore games and
find things you like. Stop playing just five EI beg
you. I also like.
The alien RPD. Oh God, I said it.
I mean, I'm, I'm I. Mean I'm running.
As long as you're playing, it doesn't matter what you're
playing. Yeah, I'm running a home game of
5E just because it's, it's what everybody locally knows best.
And I didn't want to like feel like I, I was hand holding
everybody through something else, you know, So it was
easiest enough that way. And we're having have a good
time doing it, you know, play what?
Play anything as long as you can sit and play with your friends,
man, That's fucking. That's half the reason why, more
than half the reason why we're here doing this now.
Thomas, do you have got some stuff for or have we been going
on long enough that I forgot that you said a bunch of things?
Yeah, no, I it was my first. I wouldn't I?
Figured I figured that was the case while I was saying yeah.
Did Kevin? I'll add the Alien RPG is
another 1 is really good. Oh yeah, I heard that was good.
Of course. I mean, fuck.
That was the one where I was high in space.
I like that one. That was mothership.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
That's another fun one. Fucking MCC too God damn just
'cause it was just oh had so much options for the wildest
shit man. Oh damn corduroy bean water
alone was like one of the please go.
Literally I can't say those two words together without you
knowing. Please just go listen to some of
MCC arc on the World. Yeah, that was a good one.
Yeah, that dude is fucking wild. What happened to him?
Oh, and on the topic of mothership, Cloud Empress is an
absolutely phenomenal setting and streamlines the Panic engine
in a really, really clean, nice, usable way.
I'm. Always panicking.
What about you, Kevin? All right.
Well, Kevin? Kevin likes all the times that
you and him are at odds. We're not talking about, but
that I do. Actually.
I dream of that. First and foremost, I'm going to
talk about whole human occupied landfill.
I've said it 1000 times. I'll say it 1000 more.
I've had a love affair with this game since I picked it up in 96.
I've had a couple different copies.
Of four years old. You're a fucking child.
I was three years old. I was graduating high school.
What? After being held?
Yeah. After being held back a year.
What? I'm an.
Old man, three years old. I according to Facebook I'm in
my mid 60s. This game is a letter chaos and
damn near unplayable, but it is fucking beautiful.
I love it, I love it. There is a time that I would
look to see if anybody had done anything with it online, and
that's actually how I came across Merck Borg itself.
I was looking up stuff about whole saw an article by our very
own Walt Wood here. Hey, that's me.
That is you and it compared whole to Merk Borg.
I'm like, well, what the fuck is Merk Borg?
And I looked it up. I'm like, Oh my God, splooge all
over wherever and bought the book right there and then.
It's been, I would say, financially depleting my wallet
every second, but it led me into where I am right now with Merk
Borg. I absolutely love Merk Borg.
The system is great. It is we all we all know what
Merk Borg is. That's why you're listening to
this podcast. It's because it's about Merk
Borg. The game is fucking awesome.
And if I had to pick another setting, old school D&D stuff
like Basic Fantasy or BX or like Cairn or Nave, the ones that
just streamline everything down to you're, you're not a hero,
you're just there trying to survive.
And those games just absolutely kill like Nave 2 is the system
that Daniel Aurelia used that did the jam for his Furious
Creeps of Crimson Creek, which I had him send me a couple of
copies from Doctor Seuss Oslo. I know a guy that said was
playing that on a on a show recently.
You are correct. And that guy was me.
That's funny, because I I was like, play this.
Yeah, I'll give you the PDF copy.
Just play this. And then they finally did.
I'm like, yes, I got to play it. Yeah, but it's.
On Wandering Monster. Yes, wandering monster, one of
my other many shows, because I not only am IA TTRBG hoarder,
I'm also a podcast. I am a mic whore and a mic
whore. I am you're a pod horn and Mike
slut and I have no shame. Yeah, just nave to Cairn.
Just those the BX type games where it's just like the old
school feel like when I started playing back in, you know, back
in 1843 when you know. When you were backing.
With Pertius. Before when I was yes.
Before the games were written on paper.
Yeah, when they're at that stone, you know, he came on down
the hill with two tablets and he said roll AD 20.
It just, it brings me back to that when I first started
seconded playing second edition or the hybrid first second
edition of D&D when you know, back in the day.
Back in the day when Vampire the Masquerade core book was still
25 bucks. I mean, how much was the Yeah or
fucking You can get the Palladium Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles without selling a fucking kidney.
So you guys saw? That somewhere.
About your kidney. On the shelf, yeah.
Nice, but I mean, it's just I like we've all said, whatever
you're playing, whether it be, you know, 5 E or some obscure
hack of whatever game, just as long as you're around the table
with people throwing dice and laughing, it's it's literally
the best thing so. As a matter of fact, this might
not, this is just going to be kind of random out of nor, but I
talked, I, I asked Kevin about bringing it up and I and I
talked to them too. So this is not a nowhere for
them either. I just wanted to bring something
up in that same vein because it is, there's a local game there,
a game made locally by a bunch of dudes that used to like TT or
like they used to play TT RPGs together, they used to play
Magic together and all that kind of stuff.
They have a cabin out in the woods, I don't know, a few miles
from here where I live now. And they just eventually they
got tired of all the normal stuff that they were doing.
And I don't really care about the motivation.
I just like the product and how dedicated they are to it.
But it's a card game with dice mechanics called Ward and I
haven't had any any opportunity to play it with anybody or
anything because obviously you guys all look confused about it.
Obviously it makes sense to you guys that you wouldn't know
because right now it's very local.
But you can buy card, you can buy packs of stuff on Amazon and
whatever else. There's places on their their
own website. Yeah, I've seen that at the
local Lucky 7. Yeah, yeah, there anybody knows
about the Lucky 7 gas station chain they linked up with them
or whatever. Essentially, they're just a
bunch of guys that, like us, like to get together with their
friends and play games, and eventually it inspired them to
do their own thing. And I have no stake in this
whatsoever, but I just want to really shout that out.
If anybody's interested in seeing those things, you can
find Ward the Ward TCG stuff online.
WARD yes, not OR Yeah. Word.
But yeah, I just wanted to throw that out there for the same
reason, exactly the same message from those guys, as we're saying
is like, dude, just get together with your friends, play games
and stuff, tell stories. It is.
I have a circle jerk once in a while.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Just make sure that you're doing it like where you're pretending
to be, you know, the paladin. I'm not supposed to be doing
this. Or the cleric can spit on the
paladin shield. Yeah, in quotes shield heal.
Yeah, just get together, friends, do things, play games.
It's very fun. Exactly.
It's. Speaking of Circle Jerks, Kevin,
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We'll skip a few questions, but we'll go to the last one that
actually kind of from Phil that just kind of stuck with me.
His question is, is are there any home brew rules you tend to
play with at your own table? I have one primarily that I use
when I play Mark Borg at home. I don't like the fact that when
you fail using a scroll, you can't use it for like AD 3 hours
or so. So I allow kind of like a
devil's bargain. So like I allow people to
continue to use their scrolls, but I roll AD six behind a
screen and add that to the difficulty.
So there's a floating difficulty when they try to cast a scroll
after the fact. And if they fail with the higher
difficulty, I roll on the Arcane Catastrophe table because I
always loved rolling on that table and I never get enough
chances, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I, I in, in my
personal worse. I've been inspired by the
catastrophe table a lot. I think that those things are I
am like, man, it sucks that it sucks that some of the most
memorable moments for me are in the adjacent show.
Levis character soup turn having his whole everything explode off
his skeleton and that being like an integral part to some of the
meta jokes that we had during that my character Mel and that
character soup switching bodies later on in in that same arc.
Those things are like they especially on a show.
It fucks you up so bad to have to deal with weird shit like
that, especially if you've already had a good idea of who
you're going to be. And then it's like, oh, you're
going to switch bodies with this guy that fucking that, you know,
you know, I don't know, it's hard to explain exactly.
It's just that those are very cool mechanics to me as well.
And I suppose if it came down to it, like if I, if I saw more of
those, like a somebody put out a, a third party thing, like a
list of extra catastrophes of some kind or whatever, I
definitely use them more or find it up opportunities to do so,
because that should just, it makes me so happy to to see what
when it comes to like home games and stuff, though, since I'm
already going off, I really don't, I really can't think of
many things. I, I really do a lot of stuff
off the cuff when I'm running games.
It's just really for me, basic shit.
That's just quality of life stuff, you know, like I wouldn't
like, you know, a 5 E. It's like, you know, just use a
potion on a bonus action or something.
Stop, let's stop making this very sad for everybody and they
give up their whole shit for this very simple stuff like
that. Usually that end.
Of course, credit where credit is due if you go to listen to
the Cold and Deathless arc on TRS, fucking deathlessness made
so much of what we did so much more important and fun, and it
made our characters mean something so much more to us
while we were doing that show. So deathlessness was very cool.
Very Dark Souls Y if you want to use some kind of mechanic to
keep your characters alive past death.
That. That one's like top shit for me,
really. I like spite omens.
Oh shit, damn dog. You're right though.
I. Yeah, I think Murk Borg is so
fucking like insane that having spite omens added to it just
adds a little. Salt to the Peppa.
Yeah, absolutely. I I love how antagonistic that
is. I love how it went from just a
bullshit throwaway sentence to being a a companion piece.
Yeah, well, my, that's fuck, dude.
All the companion pieces we did throughout all of the season,
those those were. I don't know if those apply to
homebrew rules, but. I mean, we were at home and we
brewed them. But yeah, I'm going to agree
that all the companion stuff that we as a group came up with
and and developed was a was a lot of fun to integrate.
I mean, me having a random skull that had powers that either
aided me or fucked me over was, was great.
I mean, the spite omens, you know, were even if you don't
even use them, it's just that fun to just throw in bullshit
just to, you know, throw a wrench in the Gears of shit.
So. Can what AD 20 table of what
happens when you fall down the fucking stairs?
Exactly. Yeah, I mean, and it's it's this
weird kind of like this relationship we have to like
each other and our characters and the weird shit that we do
that that creates such weird. I it just reminded me that like
we did, what is it 3D6 or 3D 66? It was a it was a bunch of
tables for the next terrible name for your character or
something that's on the world standard.
It's too. And it's that comes from the
these dumb ass things that we come up with all the time.
Yeah, that, yeah, the, the, the companion content or the things
that are inspired by what we've created specifically make me
make me very happy to see exist. I think my favorite one like
culture wise is the rule of cool.
So even if you roll really poorly, if you you can talk your
way out of it. I mean, if there was anybody who
should like that fucking rule, it would be you.
Yeah, it's called. It's called.
There's the rule of cool, and then there's.
Jake's rule of cake. It's it's Jake's rule of may I
approach the bench? What about you, Walt?
You got any homebrew rules that you institute?
Not consistently, but, you know, I'll make rulings in the moment
and make decisions and so by homebrew things.
But it's not like I always do this.
It's like we're going to do this in this situation because it
makes sense. Yeah.
Yeah, gotcha. Make it fit the scene and all.
Mm hmm. You're like, you're like, you're
like me when I get home drunk and I wanna cook.
I just. Throw whatever together it's.
Never the same. I don't know what you are, but
I'll. Just gotta microwave everything.
Oh, you of. Course she doesn't have a
microwave. She's fucking 100.
Maybe I just puts a raw steak in there.
You only got to cook the outside.
Fuck you're not wrong, but hate to see what you do with your
chicken. No, I don't want to hear about
it's Chicken anymore. Couple questions from a good
friend of the show and special GM and just fellow brother
husband Tom Gambino. Question one, do you ever have
an ending in mind when you are doing a campaign?
Especially for a game like Merk Borg?
Do we have an ending in mind? Survive other than surviving.
Never as a as a player, I only ever hope that I can like.
To the next. Find find a yeah, yes,
essentially. And that's really just because I
merk Borg is a bad game for it. But like, I build out a bunch of
dumb bullshit for every character that I make.
And then I hope that I can I hope I can touch upon it.
I suppose this episode would be the best for like the two that I
think of. Obviously, 'cause it's Cedric
and Screech. I'd never made it past that
point. Cedric.
Cedric had a whole back story about having crucified a a sun
scorched zealot and that one essentially being Rumba from TRS
and that was his whole thing. Like realistically it started
coming about cause Levi had pre rolled Sasha like early, early
on and he like kept him in the back pocket.
Well, he went through some other characters and stuff, but what I
really hoped for was Cedric and Sasha meeting because I loved
the potential dynamic of like you're no fucking son Lord or
whatever. And then just like that same
energy of like what the fuck you got?
Yeah. It just made me.
I hope to see it. And then of course for Screech,
there was like a lot of background conversation about
how I I was going to try and play this character and like
hoping that it would play out. And I'm very, very glad that we
all sat like it just kind of worked.
But. I think for this season there
was no way to like picture an end unless you were focused on
specifically that one character. 'S that's exactly.
Want because there there was no cohesion between the group.
I mean, there was new people coming and going and it, it was
like one journey that multiple people without any real
connection ended up on. Yeah.
And it, it's it wasn't a bad thing.
It just it, it's hard to answer that question with with this
season because it was more of a story of the world and just
individuals in it. Sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so I guess.
To answer that question would be more about the world itself.
And we didn't even, we didn't even really get there yet.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense as then, like now that you say it,
it doesn't makes sense as to why like it.
My answer would only ever be for the characters that I played,
You know? I mean, you're right.
It's a showcase of the world and how a bunch of assholes try to
survive. It is essentially like, yeah,
those are the endings that you hope for.
Is the ones that, like you create with those characters.
Really, all I wanted, like for Screech, all I wanted was to get
to the point where people found out that Dorian was there
somewhere, you know, like to expound upon why he is this
weird dude, you know? And once we got there, I was
like, sweet, that's cool with me.
Then. Then he got the blood, the blood
farts or whatever. And I'm like, yeah, I can.
I can find a way to get him out of here, so.
Then you became the Turd Knight. For me, there's really no way to
come up to have an ending in mind like like you guys were
saying, because it's basically the world is doing what it's
doing and we're just kind of rolling with the punches.
I think I kind of lucked out with my the arc that I did at
the end because we're already 5 miseries deep or six miseries
deep. And you guys had pretty much
gotten to the end of the adventure by the time the 7th
Misery hit, which was like, OK, well, you guys, you guys did
everything I had written down. So now the world is ending and
you guys are going to have to deal with that now.
But I mean, as far as like trying to figure out an ending
for a game like Mark Board, it's you really just kind of have to
watch what the players do and then just roll with it.
And I mean, if you're going to make into a long term campaign
style, just let let the players do what they're going to do.
And then, you know, basically wait for the 7th misery to
happen. That's exactly it.
Like the premise existentially of the game is what do you do
when nothing that you do matters?
So let the miseries guide the course of the game, and beyond
that, watch the players see what they're doing.
In my home game, one of the characters rolled on the best
list demands tables and gods gems from overflowing pockets.
So that's been his overriding mission throughout the entire
campaign is get a bunch of valuables and go present them to
Verhue. So, you know, like that led them
N they went to Allianz, they did the clam dash, they won, they
got an audience with Anthalia, she gave them a bunch of gems
and now they're on their way to the Valley of the Unfortunate
Undead. And Clam Dash by Carl Druid's.
Plot is the Carl druid. No, like they wrote their own
plot in this game and you know, it's it's been rewarding for
them and it's fun for me and I don't have to do any prep.
I just have to keep like the overland tribal table Andy and
then PC generators and shit like that and pick out some fun
adventures along the way. So I feel like this game
especially really doesn't want you to go in with an end in
mind. Like let the end come to you.
No, it's about escapism, Yeah. It's it's weird.
It's yeah, you're absolutely right.
Maybe it's just weirder for me. And like probably you guys like,
I don't know how much you guys play Merkborg outside of this
specifically, but for me, it's all here essentially, which
means my motivation is always to make sure that when that
Sopranos ending happens, the character that I'm playing at
that time feels well enough fleshed out that somebody's like
somebody's not like, well, whatever.
Like a good example of guess of that.
Like, even though the whole story was great itself, the
something Rotten and Guthwig little mini arc that we did, I
played a character named Daeru and he he he lived 98% of the
story. And then his death was the most
hilariously great thing that happened for me.
But then the next character that I played did you like was there
for Buffalo Wall? I I fell down.
AII fell down and my head. He was, he was a Lantern.
Yeah, yeah. What was that wandering Wick
head? That's right.
So so he fell down off of a rope that they were trying to climb
down and his head smashed on a rock and his light went out and
shit and everybody was just staring at him all but like, it
was fun. And I wanted something like that
to happen for him. But there was still another 40
minutes of that episode, and I had to play a character later.
And I'm like, that's the only regret that I have for that is
that he didn't get to really be a character, you know?
So as a storyteller, when it comes to wanting an ending, I
just hope that no matter where it is that they're cut off in
their story. I hope that people aren't like,
well, who? Well, who the fuck was that?
You know, like, I guess my motivation always like just
hoping to tell a better story with the character.
And my caveat on what I said earlier, my one single exception
was Pruegel and the Black Antlers Dark.
She was going to bang that reindeer goddess and make her a
bruvlub. I knew it.
Oh my God. Jesus Christ.
Man, Pruegel, like that's the other thing too, by the way, is
that like I love the interconnected world without it
ever being like to like really explicitly the same place.
And then it also wraps back around to the the season finale,
where all of it makes sense to exist in the same way because it
is, guess what? The world sucks.
You're back in the world. That sucks like.
What about you, Thomas? Oh, I mean like generally for
like a lot of games I run, I have a general outline of kind
of like a sure, if we can make this in this general direction
work, that's great. But I also leave it a very loose
outline for the simple fact that my players are going to throw
all sorts of wrenches and stuff into it anyway.
Like a prime example is I just recently wrapped up a five year
Vampire the Masquerade campaign. And as I played for that, like I
would go to the session and I would have like 4 bullet points
and that was all I had for prep or that session.
Because it's like my players are going to just like RP most of
the time anyway. And as long as I can, you know,
have these contingencies to keep the story moving, we're good.
Tom Gambino had another question.
How do you handle unexpected situations on role play?
Example when Jake used the grenade to blow up the bell
ringer in Good Scoop. So good.
I mean, first and foremost is the mental scream of God damn it
Jake. I don't know what a fucking
grenade is. I really wanted that too.
That's really the benefit. That's the benefit when you are
Jake's partner for that character, when he, when he,
when the teacher assigns you to him and you got to hold his hand
like you get to be the person. I'm with the autistic kid going
to the zoo and we're going to go see the lions.
You're going. To tell me every fact about
Lions. I'll love it though regardless.
Like you as the player get to sit and be like oh fucking Jake
and then you get don't you fucking dare, like, OK, fucking
any screech, God damn. You get to be like a little.
What is it left from? Like Quaddo?
Is that what it is from Total Recall?
What the fuck is it? Oh yeah, is that what it is?
Quaddo, The little dude in inside that dude's belly.
Sorry, I don't know why I'm the one who remembers the movie from
the fuck from before I was born. Whatever.
Regardless, yeah, you get to be somebody just half attacked
Quaid. Quaid.
Yep, Quaid. Fuck.
All right, I don't know. Then regardless, when you get to
be that character, you, you have a little umbilical cord
attached, attached to Jake's decisions, and it's fun to play
tug of war with him on it, you know?
I give and take. I'm I'm a respectable lover.
I mean, I, I will say game playing games with Jake is a
constant treat, even though my younger brother who listens to
the podcast likes to state how both Jake and Nate are like his
favorites. And I'm like, I'm, I'm your
brother. I'm literally right here.
And. Hey, my dad listened to the show
when he was still around and I would assume I'm not his
favorite character. You just tell your brother you
haven't met Jake in person yet. What?
About you, Walter, I was going to say, by the way, I, I was
just going to say, because he brings up Jake and it's and it's
a, it's a deceptive question because of that.
Because like, to me, playing with Levi is just as unhinged
sometimes, but not because he's the one that's gonna go press
the button all the time. But he will probably second to
Jake. The reason being and it's.
'Cause he's cute. It's the reason I love and hate
being on the opposite side of the table from him sometimes.
And it is that you can see an idea click in his head and he's
like, Oh yeah, Yep, this is what this is what's going on, baby.
And you said it earlier, Kevin, with the fucking killing him and
the Candelabra being bringing him back and stuff.
It was far too late that I recognized that he knew exactly
what was happening during this thing.
He was going through all of these steps of like getting
attacked by these creatures so that he can build up this
fucking death counter attack with a bunch of D sixes or
whatever added on top of it and shit.
And he's going after people. And it was only after he started
coming at people that I like. I'm looking at him always doing.
Doing all this shit and like, you are so much more calculated
than you usually are right now. And it's the most terrifying
shit. I, I love that.
Or like, I mean, I experienced it first with Lefty with Cedric
was, it was just like, we're so antagonistic toward each other
and we're, and he's like, I'm definitely not going to die here
for these people. And they got a point where like
we nearly killed each other over it and shit.
And I'm like, I, I really liked the confrontation.
It doesn't happen all that much in TTRPGS for it to be that
quick to be at with each other, but Merckborg does a great job
of facilitating it already so. Walt Thomas, anybody got
anything they want to chime in about handling unexpected
situations or? I pee on it, Wolf, no.
Add that to the counter. No, congratulations.
The universe just gave you a plot twist.
Roll with it. You know you got a gift from
someone else at the table. If I wanted to do something that
had no surprises in store for me, I'd go write a novel.
Fucking name, Brother? Exactly.
I mean, just like the the first question, you just roll with it
and see how it all turns out. I mean, it's like Walt said,
it's a plot twist to keep everything interesting.
So Thomas, what do you feel? Talk to me.
I mean, I, I kind of led into that with the the goddamnit
Jake. How about you, Levi?
Yeah, Levi, How about you, Levi? I'm just a player, man.
You know I gotta. Roll with everyone's bullshit.
I got to kind of deal with it once when I did Zombie Zombie
World, Zombieland. Zombie World.
Yeah, when you guys were fucking around with the golf cart.
Oh, yeah, yeah, Actually, no, yeah, it's I'll.
I'll let you guys know as as the only.
Person it's all coming back to me now is.
The only person here who has played in the game that Jake
ran, as much as he catches us off guard with his crazy shit,
you can't catch him off guard. It doesn't happen.
He has something to fucking say, something to do.
It's just like, no matter what you hit him with, there's a
point where like, we've got this mythos of this dude who is.
The the fucking warden. Yeah, he's well, it's just like
this big buff guard dude that's there.
I can't really not beefcake. Yeah.
And we're just trying to, we're just trying to breakthrough this
weird barrier of Jake being able to play this dude bro.
And it's just like, oh God, holy shit, what happened to you?
Just got shot in the chest. Like, oh, is that what it was?
And he digs, digs the bullet out and he's like, oh damn, here,
you can take it. It's souvenir.
I'll make a necklace out of it for you or whatever.
I'm like, Jesus, can't do anything that catches this dude
off guard. Then again, then he shows up as
fucking the the worm milker. I'm like, holy shit, how do I
how do I play opposite this dude who's like, let me get in touch
with those worms. They're like, what the fucking
how do I play opposite you? Yeah, I don't know, man.
Fuck I love this show. All right, I got like one piece
of trivia that I want to throw out, and then we got a couple
more questions to end this out. You guys, how many times do you
think Walt said. I pee on it in the holiday
episode. 17 did. You.
I was going to say 16 shit. Did you take count of it?
You're God damn right, absolutely.
Wow, 22 how many times I said it?
17. 43 times. Thomas.
I said 22. Oh, 18.
I was. Damn it.
I was so close. What do I win?
You get to come back to Season 2.
Oh shit, I didn't know that we were on fucking.
Oh no, we have a test now. I didn't study.
I get to come back to season 2 and Walt pees on me.
Great, sounds like a win for everybody.
I was going to say, you have a fucking bonus prize.
Speaking of season 2, I've got a couple different questions that
kind of blend in together. One from Seth from Facebook.
Love the show, can't wait for season 2.
Will you ever dip your toes into other Merkborg systems?
Would love to hear pirate Borg or cork Borg arcs and Noam
Lackey from Reddit and from the the TRS Studios discord jumped
in with when do we get to hear your sexy voices again?
So we were talking about before we got on Mike that we we have a
plan for season 2. We feel like we're probably
going to dip into more of the the Merck Borg hacks with A
twist and. We can't reveal too much of the
genitals here though. You.
Just want to show the shaft, not the head or the balls, yeah?
No it. I think he just showed the base.
You know, you leave. No, you don't even do that.
You show the shadow well on the walls.
On or off? You're you're so you just show
your pupus, you know? Oh.
The Bush. Yeah, you guys keep ripping for
just a second. Let's just say it's going to be
a whole different experience for Season 2.
With that. I think we're going to call it
Nate left. I think we've kicked him out.
Then he's coming back, right? He's coming.
Back, he said. He'd be back.
I think we scared. Him, well, good.
Season 1 has been an absolute play pleasure to put on and
produce and distribute. I've had an absolute blast with
it. Personally.
I'm glad that we had everybody on that we did as far as guest
GM's and guest players and Walt jumping in and helping out when
we needed them and just everybody in the cast.
It's been a pleasure sitting around this virtual table
playing with all of you guys. So I personally want to thank
you guys for giving me Season 1, and I can't wait to get into
Season 2. So yeah.
We're all dads here. We are all moms and dads here.
Just love it on each other. Yep, spooching.
Oh, I got one thing Noor I make. I know you're making that
fucking game. I'm ready to voice act.
Come on. Oh, the the video game, Yeah.
I haven't. I haven't heard from you in a
while, Noor. We may have to hit him up for
it. Speaking of which, we have some
stuff in the works as well beyond just the planning.
Season 2, we've had some artwork submitted and we're
commissioning artwork for logos and stuff, so that's going to be
coming out soon. As soon as that comes out, trust
me, we'll blast it All in all over the socials.
But Season 1 has been an absolute pleasure and I can't
wait to get into Season 2 and see what these absolute maniacs
decide to do. What's past the moms pubis?
That's what we're trying to figure.
Past moms pubis. No skin.
Whatever it is, I hope it's not an infection.
Hey everybody, Kevin, at the end of the episode, on behalf of the
cast of Club to face past and present, I just want to thank
you guys so much for listening and sharing and doing everything
you've done to help this podcast grow.
And without you guys, we wouldn't be where we are today.
So from the bottom of our cold, heartless cadavers, thank you.
And with that, season 2 is right around the corner.
And let's just say you guys are in for a whole new experience.
Thanks for listening. We'll see you guys next season.
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in here too, but what? Yeah, but it's not like.
Just like Bieber. No you're not.
No, you're. Not they can't do that shit.
Just don't watch. Jake Melt over there.
Oh please, let me melt. Don't sniff.
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