1 00:00:15,550 --> 00:00:17,750 Hello and welcome to the Weekly Scroll Podcast. 2 00:00:17,750 --> 00:00:21,870 My name is Ryan and with me I have a special guest today that 3 00:00:21,870 --> 00:00:23,630 is Matt Morris. How's it going, Matt? 4 00:00:23,630 --> 00:00:25,590 It's. Going good Ryan, thanks for 5 00:00:25,590 --> 00:00:27,710 having me on. It's a I'm expecting to talk 6 00:00:27,710 --> 00:00:30,870 Mouse Raider. Yeah, it has been too long. 7 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,840 When is like was the Lilliputian AP the last time you were on 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,280 the? Show I think it was yeah, yeah, 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,320 yeah, yeah. We ran that we ran that little 10 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,880 adventure and y'all decided to firebomb a bat cave That's 11 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:46,800 right. Yep. 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:48,520 Sounds. About right sounds, I guess. 13 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,160 Yeah. And and yeah, as as anyone that 14 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:55,840 knows you knows, you're kind of the mouth sort of guy. 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,600 And I know you already mentioned it, Mouse Rider Month is kicking 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,480 off, I think you said tomorrow, right? 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,640 Yeah, tomorrow, 10 AM Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific Standard. 18 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,360 But yeah, Mouse Rider Month 16 projects from amazing creators 19 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,280 across the globe. And yeah, we're all going to try 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,640 and fund our projects and we've got all sorts of cool 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,360 crossovers, so should be good. Yeah, I'm, I'm really excited 22 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,800 for it. For those that you kind of said 23 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,600 it's a, it's a bunch of people doing stuff for those that 24 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,520 aren't aware. I know backer kit has been 25 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:40,200 getting a lot more, you know, viable I want to say over the 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,840 past bunch of years versus Kickstarter. 27 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,000 And one of the things they've been doing is he's like themed 28 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,640 weeks or months or whatever. And last year that I think the 29 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,880 biggest one they've done so far was Mothership Month, which just 30 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,640 ended for the second year. But now you guys are doing mouse 31 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,000 Router month, which I can only assume is probably going to be 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,760 like the second or third biggest one that backer kids going to do 33 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,040 Because mouse router is potentially, in my opinion, 34 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,280 maybe not my favorite, although it is one of my favorites, the 35 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:12,840 best DGRBG ever written. You know, that is up for a 36 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,520 debate, but I think it's in the conversation at very least. 37 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,280 So it's going to be a pretty big deal. 38 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,880 Like you said, there's 16 projects. 39 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,040 Are they all kicking off tomorrow? 40 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,560 Yeah, so that's one of the cool things with the with on backer 41 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,040 kits back end. When they do these collaborative 42 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,600 months or events, they kind of control the switch. 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,160 And so we were all able to put our own like launch times in. 44 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,520 But then their team was like, OK, it really actually doesn't 45 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,120 matter because we're going to flip the switch when the 46 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,280 official games, omnivorous exalted funeral, losing games, 47 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,640 when they go live, everyone goes live with them. 48 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:52,000 So we have a a unified launch, which will be fun. 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,680 It's going to be really hard to try and be the number one backer 50 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,400 for all of them because they all go live simultaneously. 51 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,960 So I made a joke that I was going to try and have like 15 52 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,440 different screens, but we'll see. 53 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,840 Well, hey, you know you can dock screens. 54 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,160 You can put 4 windows per per screen. 55 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,120 So as long as you have 4 monitors, you can have 16 56 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,480 windows open at a time. That's. 57 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,640 That's too technologically advanced for me, yeah. 58 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,840 So, so we'll, we'll talk a little bit more about some of 59 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,960 the other stuff going on in Mouse Writer Month kind of as a 60 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,880 whole. But you, you have a project in 61 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,000 Mouse Writer Month and that's kind of what we're talking about 62 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:28,240 today. So. 63 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,360 So what is that? Yeah, So my, myself and Hugh 64 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:39,040 Lashbrook of 10 Acre Games from Australia, he and I about two 65 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,440 years ago, he's the one who who did all the back end work to 66 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,440 build the Mouse Rider library, which is our living curated 67 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:50,880 catalog of almost 1200 third party Mouse Rider things. 68 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,840 He and I have been working on that. 69 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,200 We became really good friends in that process and we decided we 70 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,800 were going to launch a Patreon together. 71 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,400 And so two years ago we launched A Patreon where each month we 72 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,200 were putting out just like a Mouse Rider adventure or a 73 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,480 supplement where it was like either MPCS, magic items, all 74 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,360 that kind of thing. And we were slowly building a 75 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,399 setting. Because both the way he and I 76 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,600 write and the way that we run games is like, we don't want a 77 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,240 story. We don't want you to tell us 78 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,560 what the adventure is. We just want a location. 79 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,760 And I think that's in in in line with the way you guys think over 80 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,200 here at the weekly Scroll and. Emergent narrative, yes, just 81 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,920 give me, just give me NPCS with motivations and give me 82 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,720 locations and stories. What the players do you know? 83 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,600 Yeah, exactly. And so we we put together, we 84 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,880 had nine different like locations within a wider 85 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,320 setting. And the setting that we've been 86 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,440 building is called Rolling Coast and it is a amusement park and 87 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,600 water park kind of the the Six Flags combo where you got the 88 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,200 water slides on one side of the roller coasters on the other. 89 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,560 And one of the things that I did differently just in the way I've 90 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,440 been writing this, all the mouse reader content I've written is 91 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,600 kind of like in a post human world. 92 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,760 And I had my own head cannon on as to how that happened. 93 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:19,760 But we wanted to shift and make it more, more just like our 94 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:24,960 world and humans are an element that that you have to avoid or, 95 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,720 or or run into. And so this is a fully 96 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:34,040 functional amusement park by day and a post apocalyptic scavenged 97 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,200 wasteland by night. And so if you're going to go try 98 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,760 and avoid getting stepped on by a toddler, you should go out at 99 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,480 night. But with with night time comes 100 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,560 all sorts of other super interesting encounters to be 101 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,400 had. So we have like on the overall 102 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,440 setting, there's a daytime encounters and a nighttime 103 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,640 encounters table. So you can do that kind of play. 104 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,920 But yeah, so, so, so he and I had been working on that, 105 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,560 putting that out for the last two years. 106 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,800 And then Andre Naboa from Games Omnivorous reached out to us and 107 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,880 was like, hey, we're going to be doing this Mouse Runner month on 108 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,400 backer kit and we would love to have you guys be a part. 109 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,560 And so we presented all of our stuff and said hey, what if we 110 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,000 put it together as a hardcover book? 111 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,360 And so we got greenlit for that. And so we've just been working 112 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,840 on re reformatting and doing the layout for that. 113 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:30,640 But it's a full 9 different adventure locations. 114 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:36,280 There's like, I don't know, 30 some odd new creatures to add to 115 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:38,720 mouse Rider campaigns. We've got all sorts of MPCS, all 116 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,960 sorts of magic items. But yeah, pretty excited about 117 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,120 it. Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's a 118 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,880 lot going on. And you know, my one thing you 119 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,240 said about mouse writer, I I really like mouse writer 120 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,640 projects that do different stuff. 121 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,520 Like you said, a lot of your stuff is written like a post 122 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,800 human world or whatever. One of the things I love about 123 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,080 mouse writer the most though is that it is in like the human 124 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,200 world and you're using human stuff and like you're battling 125 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,560 cats and all the rest of the stuff. 126 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,560 You know, like one of the ways that I describe mouse writer a 127 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,640 lot to people, and one of the things that kind of got my head 128 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,640 wrapped around it feeling really good was in fantasy saying like, 129 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,280 Hey, go fight a dragon. Doesn't really feel you're just 130 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:18,840 like, OK, we'll go fight a dragon, right? 131 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:22,600 It's been done so much. It's been, you know, such a 132 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,440 trope that that people think that you could actually go kill 133 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,160 a dragon, whatever, right. But then when you say, OK, like 134 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,480 you're a mouse and you're going to have to like pick up a, you 135 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:33,400 know, a sewing needle and a button shield and go fight a 136 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:38,000 cat, people go Oh, shit, like because that's and and that's my 137 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,640 favorite is that it's the same kind of trope. 138 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:46,040 But the danger feels super real is putting yourself in into the 139 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,960 body of a mouse or into the the thought space of something so 140 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,720 like small and, you know, maybe less powerful than obviously we 141 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:55,680 are feel make makes it all feel. I don't know real to me. 142 00:07:56,320 --> 00:08:00,920 Yeah, I think I think Clayton Oatstein wrote a article about 143 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,880 his house rules for Mouse Ritter and, and put it out earlier this 144 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,480 year. And it was more of like, I love 145 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,360 the fantasy. I love magic. 146 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,200 I love this these great quests of noble mice. 147 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,080 But like when I run mouse reader at my table, it's super grounded 148 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,680 low magic and it's just imagine the mouse trying to scavenge 149 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:23,320 your garage. And I was like, that's so 150 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:24,840 brilliant. And it kind of like reframed 151 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,560 even the way I thought about it. And so a lot of even that is 152 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,360 inputted into this just hey, what happens when the toddler 153 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,480 grabs you by your tail? And that's like, I mean, that's, 154 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:40,880 that's a entire, I mean, there's no way a mouse is gonna take on 155 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,280 a toddler. So you just die or you have to 156 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,360 like try and talk with them. So it just it adds these levels 157 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,600 of play that are often missed in the more just like mythical 158 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,240 fantasy Red Wall style mouse writer campaign. 159 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,440 Yeah, because I mean, even in base mouse writer like in the 160 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,080 back that talks about like building up an army to be able 161 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,000 to actually fight a cat and stuff because they're like, if 162 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,800 you fight a cat, you'll die. Like that's bottom line is 163 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:04,680 you're just going to fucking die. 164 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:09,600 So like here's a way to like build an army or whatever, but 165 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,480 both rolling coast. I know you sent me a bunch of 166 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,760 stuff. What, what did you want to did 167 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,720 you want to go over some of that for for the listeners, for the 168 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,360 viewers, give people a preview of of what to expect to back 169 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:25,280 tomorrow. Yeah, for sure, for sure. 170 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,720 Well, let me just tell you First off what what folks are going to 171 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:29,520 receive. Because you have the PDF of the 172 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,200 book and the book is roughly 112 pages. 173 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,600 We've got some stretch goals to push it even further. 174 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,720 It's going to be a hardcover book A5, so it'll fit right 175 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:42,480 along with all your Mouse Ritter content. 176 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,280 It's going to be produced alongside all the official stuff 177 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:51,000 we've partnered up with, with Games Omnivorous and Exalted 178 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,440 Funeral to have our stuff. Just kind of in production in 179 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:55,840 the same location. So it's going to be same 180 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,280 quality, which is really cool. But you don't only get the book. 181 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:05,160 We've got a 68 page Zine, which I'm pretty sure when Chris 182 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,160 McDowell reviewed Lilliputian, which was one of my things, I 183 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,160 called it a Zine, but it was 70 pages and he made fun of me. 184 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,280 And so I don't know if it can be considered a Zine anymore, but 185 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:20,680 it's expanding the park. It's it's the hexes around the 186 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,280 outside of of the hex crawl that's included in the in the 187 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,840 book. We've just got like 6 more 188 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:31,720 adventures to be had outside the park, so that's included. 189 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:33,800 We've got all sorts of item sheets. 190 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,480 We've got a big A3 map of the hex crawl, which we hired 191 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:44,040 Fernando Salvatera, who's done some amazing maps in all sorts 192 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,240 of great CTRP GS. He's he's redoing the map that I 193 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,600 drew for the interior of the book, but then he's taking his 194 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,840 black and white, adding all sorts of color to it. 195 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:59,360 So it'll be a beautiful fold out full A3 size color map. 196 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,120 We've got a fun like mini game in there where it's like a ever 197 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,800 changing dungeon. So you have these dungeon tiles. 198 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,800 So you actually like build out the dungeon on your table and it 199 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:10,400 can change each time you dive into it. 200 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,880 So that's fun because you use the the dungeon tiles as like a 201 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,360 a deck and you're just like drawing the like random next 202 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,040 room, which is fun. We've got paper standees for 203 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:24,400 anyone who likes to do more, less theater of mine, more 204 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,680 actual stuff at the table, which could be used for like paper 205 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,080 standing skirmish games as well. And then we've got character 206 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:36,040 sheets. And I can't tell you who the 207 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,000 name of the person is, but we have hired an artist as a 208 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,080 stretch goal to do custom character sheets. 209 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,880 But if you have seen Tomb of 1000 Doors, that's all I can 210 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:52,240 say. There may be some partnerships 211 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,640 that have been done in the past. And then all of that comes in a 212 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,400 premium box that's going to be produced right alongside the 213 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,480 folks who made the official mouse reader box set, the estate 214 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,400 box set and the upcoming Junk City official mouse reader 215 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,480 campaign. So all of that is there together 216 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:13,400 in in the box set. So I mean, I'm doing a lot of a 217 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,800 lot of talking, but we've got the the hex crawl. 218 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:23,000 So we've got a full, full hex crawl, 19 hexes, all are 219 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,440 identified with like, hey, this is what's in the hex. 220 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,600 Here's a potential adventure that could be ran in the hex, 221 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,440 but it's not telling you. Like this is how you have to 222 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,720 think about the hex. It's just many of us have been 223 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,520 to an amusement park. So let your own creativity fly. 224 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:41,440 And so, and it's really make the park your own. 225 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,920 So some people will lean heavy into one faction because we've 226 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:50,000 got, I think we've got 5 different factions within the 227 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,080 book itself. And then we have, like I said, 9 228 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,120 adventures. So we've got the bubbling Tower 229 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:00,440 of the Fountain Mage, which is a large fountain in the middle of 230 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,640 the park. So it's like this vertical 231 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,440 dungeon where that involves swimming because you're a mouse 232 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,160 and you have to try and figure out how to get to the top 233 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,920 because it's hollow and there's an ancient wizard who lived 234 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,000 within there. But then there's also a koi fish 235 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,840 that's magical and he wants to kill you. 236 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,920 There's a, an adventure on the inside of like the medic 237 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,440 station. And so it's a, it's a, an 238 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,520 ambulance and you got to try and go in and there's a alchemist 239 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,400 mouse who, who lives within the walls of the, the ambulance. 240 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,400 There's a, a brawl at a waste dump. 241 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,800 And so Hugh developed actual like, it's pretty much like 1V1. 242 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,600 And you can also do like like PvP. 243 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,640 So like player characters can battle each other in a 244 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,320 one-on-one skirmish, which is really cool. 245 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,360 There's a adventure where you got to go through the walls of a 246 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,640 rundown, a snack shack to a location, all those known as Old 247 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:59,160 Pantry Ville, and it's covered in poison and all sorts of 248 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,080 stuff. They're just outside the the 249 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,400 park is the forest and there's a coven of crows that are evil and 250 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,120 there's a magpie wizard and all sorts of cool thing. 251 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:14,680 There's an abandoned zoo next to the park that has a porcupine 252 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:22,000 who escaped and kind of runs a 1920s nineteen 30s style mafia 253 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,600 gangs kind of thing going. And so yeah, all sorts of fun 254 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:27,360 stuff there. Oh, and there's Mex. 255 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,880 There's. 00 and Max too. Yeah, exactly. 256 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,960 There's a a group of mice, one of the factions live under the 257 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,000 roller coaster and they pick up just stuff that's dropped from 258 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,640 those who are riding the roller coaster. 259 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,320 They also will take apart bits of the roller coaster during the 260 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,320 day and pull pieces from it. And they're called the the gear 261 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,920 heads and they build Max. And we actually have this like, 262 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,800 fun system that he put together where there's a separate 263 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,840 character sheet and you take pieces and you add them and they 264 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,240 boost stats. And so that you can even do you 265 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,920 can use the brawl mechanics to do mech battles. 266 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,120 But then there was also mechanics to take your mech and 267 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,000 just play as a mech wandering the park. 268 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,800 So if you're going to fight that cat, you don't need your needle 269 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,960 anymore. Now you've got a mech where 270 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,920 you're like a mouse sitting on the inside of like a old soda 271 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:22,080 can and you've got a a baseball on the end of a chain for an arm 272 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,520 and all sorts of fun stuff. So yeah, it it's packed 112 273 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,680 page. That's a lot, yeah. 274 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:31,760 It's not just an amusement park. Like that's crazy. 275 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:32,960 You got a, you got a lot going on. 276 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,920 Especially still, even just for 112 pages, that's a, that's a 277 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,600 that's quite a bit there. I know that's not the only mech 278 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:40,880 project. I mean, we'll, we'll talk a 279 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,800 little bit more about some of the other projects here in a 280 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,000 little bit. But I know Mech Ritter from 281 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:49,360 Kayla Dyson and Laurie O'Connell is a is another mech thing 282 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,960 that's got cooking. One thing I saw before we get 283 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,200 into this a little bit more, did you have a post or an e-mail or 284 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:01,600 something about like backing or maybe it was Exalted funeral 285 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,360 backing a bunch of the projects and like the shipping is way 286 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,600 cheaper and stuff. Is it, are they, is everything 287 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,200 getting distributed through Exalted? 288 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:09,920 Like how is that? How's that? 289 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,280 How's all that working? So super cool. 290 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:16,200 One of the things that that I think the data came out from 291 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,960 Backer Kit and the folks over at Tuesday to Tuesday night games 292 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,680 for last year's Mothership month, One of the things that 293 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:26,880 came out was like the number one thing that caused people not to 294 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,520 back multiple projects was shipping costs. 295 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,480 And because if you're going to back 17 different things, 296 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,560 there's shipping costs for all of them and that just becomes a 297 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,760 barrier. So one of the things that 298 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:42,720 Exalted Funeral did was they put together Matt and Kristen over 299 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,240 at his ultimate funeral. They, they put together this 300 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,840 this super awesome bundle package for any of the creators 301 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,680 who wanted to be a part of it. They could join the bundle 302 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,320 package. So everything will be shipped at 303 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,000 once together for one shipping cost. 304 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,599 And so I mean, if you're in the United States and you back all 305 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,160 of them, so, so there's there's 16 total projects, 13 of them 306 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,319 are a part of the exalted funeral bundle. 307 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,640 If you back all thirteen of those, you're going to save 308 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,400 almost $150 on shipping just that. 309 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,040 And so that's, I mean, that and of itself is worth it. 310 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:26,079 So that's super cool. One of the things it did mean 311 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:30,480 was the amount of like pledge tears and different physical 312 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,960 items. We we weren't able to do that. 313 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:39,120 And so it was just like you can do 11 physical item that way. 314 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:43,040 It just, it makes the bringing everything together way, way 315 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,800 easier for the folks at Exalted Funeral. 316 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,640 But yeah, so so that's been super cool. 317 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,520 And what it's also done is, is some of the projects they've 318 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,840 partnered up for the cross collab, you can do cross collabs 319 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:57,320 on backer kit where like if you back this one. 320 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,600 Of the coolest things about these months is across collabs 321 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:00,960 and stuff. Yeah. 322 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,080 And so those can cross collab to add even potentially like a 323 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:08,880 physical thing because they're going to be together which is 324 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,080 which is really cool. So yeah. 325 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,000 And that's not the only incentive from the folks at 326 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,840 Exalted Funeral. If you back, if you back at 327 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:25,800 least seven projects, you get a pack of 16 beautifully painted 328 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,040 wooden meeples with a mouse that represents each of the 16 329 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,520 projects. So that's, that's something 330 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:33,560 super cool. And that's an incentive. 331 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,200 And that's, that's not just for folks who back the physical. 332 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:39,960 You can back one physical and then six digital and you're 333 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,560 still a backer of seven. So you'll still get that 334 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:49,080 included, which is super cool. Yeah, there's a whole here. 335 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:50,600 Let me kick over this real quick. 336 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,320 I had brought up a browser page for a second. 337 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,720 Yeah, the whole Masterymon pages. 338 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,720 I mean, it all kicks off tomorrow, but the page is open 339 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,520 right now and it's got the those meatballs are pretty nice. 340 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:11,160 Those are nice little meatballs there. 341 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,120 If you go to the backer kit, just Google back or get Bowser a 342 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,440 month and you'll find what I'm looking for. 343 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:19,080 That's that's a really cool thing to have. 344 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:25,640 I know that games omnivorous is kind of adjusted what they do as 345 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:29,360 far as moving forward and they're going to be working a 346 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:32,200 lot more with exalted funeral and exalted fuel has been 347 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,520 carrying the the mash order boxes for a while now and their 348 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,280 big project being junk city. But this is what you're talking 349 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,320 about here is the discounted group shipping is kind of crazy. 350 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:47,760 It's kind of, I mean, if you're, you can save up to what $275 if 351 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,560 you're in the rest of the world, like that's really cool for, for 352 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,440 them to do that and have all those incentives and what not. 353 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,960 But you know, I think that's one of the cool things that backer 354 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:04,280 kit does and allows for. In these kind of like month 355 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,120 things, is these cross collabs this much more collaborative 356 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:12,240 effort than say like Zemo or Zine month or whatever, which is 357 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,800 kind of just like people doing their own thing just kind of all 358 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,440 around the same time. So it's been really cool. 359 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,160 But yeah, why don't we talk a little bit more about rolling 360 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,960 Coast and then maybe we'll go over some of the maybe some of 361 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,880 the projects that you're you're, I mean, you're going to back all 362 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,200 of them obviously. I am, yeah. 363 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,760 I'm going to I don't know if I am, but I'm going to. 364 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,640 We'll we'll see. There's a good chance, but 365 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,880 we'll, we'll see. But I know you sent me the, the 366 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:47,440 PDF here. Let me actually pull that up. 367 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,880 So, so so to tell me, tell me stuff what what already got 368 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,120 going on here? Yeah, so, so in the PDF, if you 369 00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:59,000 Scroll down to the park map, we've got that. 370 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,280 I, I mentioned earlier that we had 19 hexes with, with daytime 371 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,440 encounters and nighttime encounters. 372 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:10,680 So one of the things that Mouse reader does really well, 373 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,800 especially in like the core rules, is they provide you with 374 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:18,560 like an example hex and like a potential starting location. 375 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,000 And so the thing with rolling coast, you can either be a mouse 376 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,960 that it was like raised within the amusement park and now 377 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,400 you're ready to go adventure on your own. 378 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,000 You've heard tales of the mice who did before you, or you could 379 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,720 scurry in from the forest that's off to the east. 380 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,600 Either way, most mouses are going to start in the pavilion 381 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,680 at a place called Snacksburg, which Snacksburg is this 382 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:49,160 settlement with Inside the walls of the snack shack in the. 383 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,720 It was like the first thing that we even produced like 2 years 384 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,920 ago for this setting and it has just imagined. 385 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,480 I did some remodeling at a property that our our church 386 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,960 owns and we pulled a bunch of sheetrock off and we found 387 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,400 within the walls there was like hundreds upon hundreds upon 388 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,320 hundreds of candy bars and candy bar wrappers. 389 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:12,560 And we're like, how did this happen? 390 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,520 Well, mice had been stealing from like the harvest carnival 391 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,800 thing and just building their community out of candy bars. 392 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,080 And so I was like, that's cool. And so like I actually think I 393 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,960 said, if you, if you scroll one or two more pages down in the 394 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:33,800 PDF, we drew this isometric map of like all these random like 395 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:40,760 food items within the walls and how, how they get all of that in 396 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,840 there, I have no clue. But it is a hustling and 397 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,560 bustling town full of MPCS that you can meet. 398 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,920 There's a, there's the traditional Tavern that's called 399 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,200 the Oily Olive, and it exists within a metal canister of olive 400 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,320 oil that has all sorts of fun denizens in there. 401 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,200 They can give you adventure hooks to, to, to go out. 402 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,600 But yeah, so there's, there's the hamlet of Snacksburg, but 403 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,400 then there's all sorts of adventures. 404 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,800 And what was cool was one of the adventures that we wrote, I was 405 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,320 running a Dungeons and Dragons club at the local high school. 406 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,920 So I invited all of the high school kids that were a part of 407 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:28,520 it, these freshmen and sophomores to help me kind of 408 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,040 just build it. And so they even get credit in 409 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,920 the book, which is cool. So it was like super practical. 410 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,640 It's it's what makes Mouse Ritter, I think one of the 411 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,960 greatest games. It's so accessible for anyone, 412 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,040 whether they have a background in tabletop role-playing or they 413 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,960 don't, but everyone has, I mean, everyone lives in the real 414 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,600 world. So you can add elements to the 415 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,000 mice. And so that adventure is super 416 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,560 fun. It's it's high stakes, but it 417 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,360 also has a really cool magic item that you can have. 418 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,200 They can then be used to augment even more of the adventures 419 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,040 throughout. So yeah, the book, the book is 420 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,760 is sprawling with, with all sorts of information. 421 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,360 And then I mentioned on on that hex map, just to the outside, 422 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:20,200 there's a, a neighborhood and a strip mall. 423 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:25,520 The strip mall is actually a link to an adventure collection 424 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:37,360 I wrote with my two brother in And then the, the housing 425 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:42,200 complex, which is really cool is it's a, it's a old neighborhood 426 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,600 that's about to be destroyed so that they can build a new 427 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,000 complex of apartments or whatever. 428 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,880 But there's legend of some campaign level Mcguffin in one 429 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,440 of the houses. And so there's like a, a random 430 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,160 table where you'll roll the dice to even determine what it is. 431 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:02,960 That's the way I like running my games. 432 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,840 I as the GM want to be just as surprised as the players. 433 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:13,520 But then it's, it's kind of like, oh, I, I forget who, who 434 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,720 wrote it. That's terrible. 435 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,080 But the the gardens of yen, where it's like you keep going 436 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,280 deeper and things are ever changing. 437 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:25,360 Amy Allen. Yeah, Amy Allen and and so this 438 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:31,280 is like a gardens of yen kind of delve into a forgotten 439 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,400 neighborhood trying to find this Mac Guffin. 440 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,360 But as you go, we kind of poured it in some of the stuff from 441 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,120 Mark Borg with the the Doomsday Clock. 442 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:46,440 And so you roll a doomsday die, like each new house that you go 443 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:52,800 into and like slowly you'll see the steam rollers and the, the, 444 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,160 the tractor start showing up and you can feel the ground 445 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,520 vibrating. And like, there's, there's this 446 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,880 reality. If you stay in the housing 447 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,320 complex too long, you're going to get squashed by the by the 448 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,400 human construction crew. So grab what you can and get 449 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,360 back to the park. So yeah, all sorts of stuff. 450 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:07,000 I could talk. I could talk for way too long. 451 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,160 About Give Me Fern Gully vibes with with some of that stuff. 452 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,400 Exactly. For sure, sure. 453 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,480 I don't know if you said this already, maybe I I didn't hear 454 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,200 it. What was the impetus all the way 455 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,120 back at the start for an amusement park to begin with? 456 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:27,760 Yeah, so man, Hugh and I were thrown around the idea of what? 457 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,840 What are places that are super populated but have the potential 458 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,240 for endless adventure if you're a mouse. 459 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:40,520 So we were originally going to do like a shopping mall, which 460 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,360 was a fun idea, but it just, it felt like, how many different 461 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,160 department stores can you go to before? 462 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,960 It just feels like, oh, another department store. 463 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,480 We like the idea of like the, the, the food hall and so 464 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,280 amusement parks have that. Another idea that we floated 465 00:26:55,280 --> 00:27:00,360 around was like a, a college or a high school. 466 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:06,120 So, so there was those ideas, but the idea of an amusement 467 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:11,000 park, I think he was the one who who had the idea initially, he 468 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,560 had this idea of like there was a Ferris wheel that had once 469 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,840 worked at an amusement park, but was it was retired and it just 470 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,720 became like the icon of the park. 471 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,680 But there was a group of mice that had a prophecy that one day 472 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:28,240 the the Ferris wheel would start to turn again. 473 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,880 And when that happens, things would change. 474 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,640 And so that actually just like was a spark that then led to one 475 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,600 thing after another. And we have a whole settlement 476 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,840 that's up on the top of this derelict Ferris wheel. 477 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,000 But there's a doomsday prophecy that one of these days it will 478 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,320 start going again, which will destroy the settlement that's at 479 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,200 the top of it, but it'll do all sorts of other things. 480 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,120 So yeah, that was it. It, it kind of just birthed out 481 00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,000 of one of those harebrained ideas. 482 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:59,200 And then in pretty short order, probably probably two or three 483 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:05,480 months after we had started working on it, Emmanuel Meno, 484 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:12,720 who does the, the Cyberpunk game, he put out a image that 485 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,520 they were working on a back on, on, on a mouse rider setting in 486 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:22,480 an abandoned and derelict carnival or amusement park. 487 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,240 But then he put that out and then nothing happened for like 2 488 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,480 years. And I'm really excited. 489 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,520 I reached out to him was like, hey, mouse for the month doing 490 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,240 this thing. You should be a part like 491 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,920 resurrected. And he's like, we actually are. 492 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,040 We got some stuff coming. So there's a game jam though 493 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,960 that we can talk about later if you want to as well. 494 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,120 And so I know they're going to be releasing some stuff for that 495 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,320 as well. But like it just gave reading 496 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:51,560 the description of this is a derelict amusement park that 497 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,040 mice are going to be scavenging, it kind of we retrofitted that 498 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,720 back end wise to be like, what if it's not derelict? 499 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,640 What if it's not abandoned and it's functioning? 500 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:02,560 So there's even the potential for crossover between both of 501 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,400 our products down the road, which would be cool. 502 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,720 That's awesome. Yeah. 503 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,840 What's I know we talked pre stream about maybe chat in a bit 504 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,880 about one of these adventures. Did you want me to jump to any 505 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,000 of that? Sure. 506 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,240 Yeah, yeah, there's there's one that that I mentioned the high 507 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,160 schoolers help make. It's called the the Bubbling 508 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:29,640 Tower of the Fountain Mage. I think it's on page 48. 509 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,720 I don't know that it would actually be in the double 510 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,960 spread. We got a hyperlink. 511 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:36,800 We got a hyperlink. This PDF in the future, don't 512 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:37,120 we? I. 513 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,040 Listen to. One of the first things I did is 514 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,440 pull up and and and scroll over the numbers and they're not 515 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:49,080 hyperlinked so you know better. Yeah, so this this adventure is 516 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:55,760 it's pretty fine. There's koi fish that mouse rid 517 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,920 of the way they do their their spells is it's these Obsidian 518 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,000 tablets that have these rooms etched into them that like 519 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,760 summon the spirit to do the spell. 520 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,600 Well, I just was thinking to myself, what if this koi fish 521 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,400 just had those rooms like etched into all of its scales? 522 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,800 And so he's just like the wizard who knows all the spells. 523 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:20,040 But so there's that wizard and it's a vertical dungeon with 524 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,160 which is one thing that I think is really cool that you can do 525 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:27,160 with mouse Ritter that it just makes more sense than like I 526 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,840 think there was the OSE adventure book that came out 527 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,080 with, with with the old school essentials box set where it was 528 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,160 the the vertical dungeon that went down. 529 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,880 It was like a tower that went, it was like an inverse tower, 530 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,280 which which I thought was super cool. 531 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:44,400 And I liked having more than just like one or two levels with 532 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,760 five rooms on each was like, what if we could just keep going 533 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:51,720 down or up? And so this one has a secret 534 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,880 room in it, spoiler alert, that has a pretty cool magic item. 535 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:01,280 In essence, it's it's a wish spell and it's it's so on theme 536 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,600 because what, what would you find in a koi pond or a 537 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,720 fountain? But like wishing coins. 538 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,720 And so like it's a wishing spell coin. 539 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:09,680 That's the fun thing with mouse order. 540 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,280 You can be like really on the nose and get away with it. 541 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,240 But that can affect like things down the down the way. 542 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,600 But we we created like swimming rules for mice. 543 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,960 And there's like the impellers because it's a fountain. 544 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,000 And so like there there's ways to avoid getting sucked into an 545 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:34,240 impeller and getting chomped up. But we have some fun preachers 546 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,600 in this. One of them is called a snack 547 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,680 Gollum. And in essence it's just a bunch 548 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:44,000 of like rappers and like all the things from the the food court 549 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,280 come together to form this Gollum and you got to try and 550 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,120 fight that. And so yeah, just all sorts of 551 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,480 goofy stuff in here. But this is super fun adventure 552 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,360 to run because the beauty with Mouseford in these settings is 553 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,960 each of the adventures. They're not telling a pre 554 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,360 written story. They can all be one shots. 555 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:07,440 And so I I've run this this adventure specifically just 556 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,920 reskins. I run it for Isle of X, I've run 557 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,720 it for Karen, I've run it for into the odd electric bastion 558 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,480 land. And I tried to run it in 559 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,280 bastards, but my characters just avoided the location all 560 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,600 together. And so I was like, whatever. 561 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:26,960 But but that's the beauty with with all the adventures in this 562 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,640 book is they're so especially for games that are in the into 563 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,840 the odd family. You just reskin it and you can 564 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,080 run it. So this book not only provides 565 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,240 you Mouse Rider content, but it provides you content for all 566 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,400 your favorite NSR games. That's awesome. 567 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,400 Yeah. I mean, I recently got two more 568 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,360 1000 doors, so we know you can do we know you can do Mouse 569 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,560 Rider and this one, this one will be, I think maybe just a a 570 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,960 little bit. I mean, 113 pages is still a 571 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,240 decent book. I don't know how you're going to 572 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,760 pack everything that you're talking about into 113 pages, 573 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,320 but what we're going to find out, right? 574 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,680 What were you, what were you mentioning right before we 575 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,160 talked about this something we said, oh, the jam, the jam. 576 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,560 What did you want to? What's going on with the jam? 577 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,000 Yeah, so one of the things that that I've had the pleasure of 578 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,880 doing over the last five years because because I'm like a 579 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:24,080 completionist in in all things and I'm like I like to just see 580 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,120 what people create. Like Mouse Rider for me became 581 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,840 the gateway for me to be able to start creating because the 582 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:36,040 barrier to entry is so low. So I've hosted like 7 or 8 583 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,760 different Mouse Rider game jams on itch and so talked to Isaac 584 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,680 and Andre because they had mentioned that there was going 585 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,400 to be a game jam for folks who submitted to Mouse Reader month 586 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,120 but didn't get chosen just because of volume and there was 587 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,760 going to be a game jam. So I reached out to them and 588 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,600 said, hey, would you like any help with that? 589 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,360 And they both were like, you've run all these game jams before, 590 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,480 would you just run it? And I said absolutely. 591 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,760 And so we got it set up and it's going to run. 592 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,920 It's going to start on November 11th. 593 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,320 So it'll start a week after the actual backer kit campaign go 594 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,840 live, and then we'll run a week longer. 595 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:18,440 And so it'll be for creators to throw anything up to just as an 596 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,000 opportunity for even more Mouse Rider during Mouse Rider month. 597 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,320 So it's just this giant collaborative game jam. 598 00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:28,440 So that'll be super exciting. Nice. 599 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,960 Yeah, I was going to bring the jam up, but it looks like itches 600 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,480 down so. I know I just want to pull it up 601 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,400 to it's like. Yeah, but the story here like 602 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:44,560 you said November 11th, so so it's starting what like a a week 603 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:49,280 after the they kicked off. Yeah, we wanted to give it a 604 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,199 week to breathe just just that way folks who wanted to back 605 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,880 back her kit campaigns could do that. 606 00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:01,040 And then if, if people still had resource leftover for folks who 607 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,800 were creating the jam, they, they, they could do that or see 608 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,160 it all at once and spread it out however they want to. 609 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,640 But that's the beauty with Itch, most of the stuff is, is super 610 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,040 accessible and Itch has that pay what you want capability. 611 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,000 And so I think that helps people in the community copies is, is 612 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,520 another super cool thing that Itch does because we think 613 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,360 creators and writers should be paid. 614 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:29,520 And if there's a lot of content, we don't want folks feeling like 615 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,240 they're they're missing out. So so the community copies 616 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:37,400 option is is is there as well. Yeah, I mean, and I I mentioned 617 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,240 that already, but you, you have run jams before, one of which 618 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:42,800 turned into a book, which turned into a project or turned into a 619 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,000 box which turned into everything. 620 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,320 So mine is is up all on the top there. 621 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,160 I'm not going to get up and go grab it, but but so we know you 622 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:52,560 know how to run a Mouse Rider jam. 623 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,440 Are you going to turn this into a book or what's the plan? 624 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,440 Well, so with this one, so so in the past we've had themes for 625 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:04,480 the jams, but when I talked with Isaac and Andre, we all kind of 626 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:09,280 just agreed like, let's have no theme, no, no rules, just like 627 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,520 anything and everything. Mouse rider as more of a 628 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,760 celebration. So it even says like on the itch 629 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:18,760 page, like you can, if you do like stuffed animals, like make 630 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,360 mouse Rider theme stuffed animals and put a link to your 631 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,280 Etsy store in there. Like we, we just want anything 632 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,320 and everything Mouse Rider. So like dungeon synth albums, we 633 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:34,800 want virtual tabletop assets. Like it can be anything to just 634 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,880 further the the joy of Mouse Rider. 635 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,920 Yeah, it's man, I love my it's such a good game. 636 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,960 Like I'm so excited that this is going to be a month. 637 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:51,200 Did you want to, I don't know, I I meant to talk about this 638 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,840 before it started. Did you want to take a peek at 639 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,840 like the list of projects maybe maybe you know, if you have any 640 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,520 like behind the scenes on some of them. 641 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,880 I don't want to do too much about some other, you know, 642 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,880 other people don't want to step on their toes, but I know that 643 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:09,160 you're kind of. No rising tides lifts all ships. 644 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,840 So let's yeah, no, no, I'm totally down before you do that, 645 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,320 just talking about rising tides and and boats. 646 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,120 So one of the cool things that backer kid we mentioned earlier, 647 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,840 you're able to do the cross collab thing. 648 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:26,440 And I actually got a cross collab invitation to something 649 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,280 outside of Mouse Ritter that's going to be running 650 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,360 simultaneous. And so the fine folks over at 651 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,440 Copy and Paste who who did eco mofos. 652 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,520 Eco mofos, yeah. Air launching Eco Mofos, Islands 653 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,840 of Weird Hope, which is this like water world idea. 654 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,320 And so David and I, we talked back and forth and we're doing a 655 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,480 cross collab for folks who back both of our projects. 656 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,840 We're going to include a pamphlet that's a crossover 657 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,760 because they're both into the odd base games, Mouse reader and 658 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,840 Eco Mofos. And so we've got we've got some 659 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,560 cool things that we're working on to to bring our two systems 660 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,440 together. And one of the folks who's who's 661 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,240 done some stuff both for mouse runner third party and eco Mofos 662 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:22,920 third party Dodo Cahedron games will pervs any award winner is 663 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,120 writing all the content for it. And so if you back both of 664 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,880 those, which they both go live the same day, you'll get some 665 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,640 free content there as well, which is pretty cool. 666 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,120 There you go. Wasn't there another? 667 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,760 Was it? Was it exalted funeral? 668 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:40,440 Was it the Prospero and and junk city has like a mother shit 669 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,880 mouse writer collab? As well yeah yeah, so. 670 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:48,000 So I don't, I don't have all the details, but Isaac said that 671 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,400 they and Sean from Tuesday Night Games have been cooking 672 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,360 something up. And so I have fingers crossed 673 00:38:54,720 --> 00:39:00,080 that we're going to get like Lab Rats escaping from a science lab 674 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:06,320 on a space station and like Mouse Rider in Epsilon 4 or 675 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:07,720 whatever that be. It would be awesome. 676 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,400 Be sick. Let me sick. 677 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,000 One thing I love that Bagger Kid does too, and this is a small 678 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,960 thing, is, is the icons. You know when Mothership Months 679 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,760 does it, every program gets a little icon, and I like that 680 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,360 they're all the meeples for this one. 681 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,800 Yeah, that was one of the things that Andre, Andre was like, it 682 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,480 took a lot of work to make that happen. 683 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,840 And so we we had so many back and forths because we wanted 684 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,320 everyone's icon. Because Exalted Funeral doesn't 685 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:34,840 control that, Backer Kit doesn't control that. 686 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,240 We all have to upload them and make them like the exact same 687 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:38,640 size. And we had to go through all 688 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,960 sorts of hoops to make it work. But it looks visually stunning. 689 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,720 Yeah, and it's cool that the the if you back seven or more, the 690 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:50,040 meeples you get are the meeple logos for all the projects, 691 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,120 which is which is really dope. Like that's a this is again, 692 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,080 this is one thing that backer kit is doing that. 693 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,600 I mean, a million things you're doing that are better than 694 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,400 Kickstarter. But but I the the months and the 695 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,880 weeks and all that kind of stuff that they do are are really, 696 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:12,680 really cool. So project wise man, I mean junk 697 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,440 city. You know, they don't, I mean, 698 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,880 they got like 4000 followers. They don't, they don't need, 699 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:19,120 they don't need all the kind of stuff. 700 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:22,360 But is there any obviously we're we're we're probably all backing 701 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,400 all of them. But is there any that kind of 702 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:29,440 stuck out to you or that that you know what I mean? 703 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,080 Like again, not saying anything not or about anybody's project, 704 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,160 but anything you're like, this is one that like I can't wait to 705 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:42,040 get to the table. Yeah, So Rin by Owen Magali Ren 706 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:46,680 has been a project that Owen has been working on for about four 707 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,680 years. He he had sent me he he posted 708 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,720 something in the mouse word of Discord like in 2021 of like, 709 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:57,000 hey, I'm working on this posted some pictures had started 710 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,960 getting the art. And Owen and I have actually 711 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,560 built a just just a friendship on Discord and on socials, just 712 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,200 going back and forth because it always was taking like a, a 713 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,880 backseat put on the shelf. And like every three months or 714 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,120 so, I was like, Owen, when's it coming? 715 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,280 When's it coming? And two years ago he sent me 716 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,480 like a working PDF that was like 16 pages. 717 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:18,800 He's like, I really want to do it. 718 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,920 I just, I have so many other projects, so many other things 719 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:26,720 that are going. So he, he had hired Fernando 720 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,680 Salvatera to do some maps. He's shipment like, like sent me 721 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,160 the maps. I was like, this is amazing. 722 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,400 But then it just like was put on indefinite pause. 723 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,560 And I was like, the world needs this. 724 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,200 I've been wanting it for so long. 725 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:44,160 So when Mouse Runner Month got announced, I reached out to Owen 726 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,240 and was like, Owen, you have to submit this and this is going to 727 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:50,600 be the impetus for you to to get it done. 728 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:54,000 And so we went back and forth and he was like, for sure. 729 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,560 And Isaac had already seen some of the prototype stuff too, from 730 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,840 from months early or years earlier. 731 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,560 So this one is super cool. It's a whole realm. 732 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:09,040 It's it's more medieval, but it's it's on the coast and 733 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,880 there's like a lighthouse and the lighthouse has like a church 734 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:16,400 that the mice of illumination or something like that. 735 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,240 But it's just so freaking cool. The artwork is some of the most 736 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:26,360 gorgeous artwork I've ever seen. Mouse is that mouse and for 737 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,880 sure. Yeah, yeah, he released a video, 738 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:34,200 like a one minute promo video I think yesterday on YouTube that 739 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,480 has even more artwork in it. And it's just, it's so cool. 740 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,720 It's got a whole like system in it where you can like Curry 741 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:43,320 favor or, or, or sorts of things. 742 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,080 So there's like a, you can work up within like the, the, the 743 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,600 court of the of the royal mouse family there, which is which is 744 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:54,800 super cool. And then by way of like the more 745 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,280 medieval and whimsical kind of things. 746 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:02,840 Tales for from Will by Josiah Moore is another one I'm super 747 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,120 excited about. It's kind of like the spiritual 748 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:10,720 successor to Tiny Fables, which is a super beautiful Zine that 749 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:13,360 he released for Zine Month a couple years back. 750 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:17,320 So this is going to be a couple adventure pamphlets in that same 751 00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,720 awesome artwork style that Josiah does. 752 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:22,120 I know Josiah is doing a bunch of the artwork for Junk City as 753 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,680 well. And Josiah has been super cool 754 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,600 to to work with. He did stuff for one of the game 755 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,600 jams that we did years back, Mayfield. 756 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,880 He did some custom art for that. He's done some custom art for 757 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,440 for two of 1000 doors and his artworks just perfect. 758 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,520 Hell in a Hog Waller is another one that I'm like super excited 759 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:47,240 about because it's like Mouse Rider meets World War One and 760 00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:49,880 it's like trench warfare. There's a whole mini game for 761 00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,480 doing like mass scale combat, trench warfare kind of stuff. 762 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:59,320 And it's got these super like intuitive firearm mechanics to 763 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,320 make it really have that like World War One vibe where like 764 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:06,080 you can attach like a spellstone to a slingshot kind of thing. 765 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:11,240 Like it's it's super cool that one is multiple scenes is a 766 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:13,720 whole like setting campaign. They've got some really cool 767 00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:17,080 stretch goals and they're doing a cross collab with the Baron's 768 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:21,480 grip by M Allen Hall. So there's some cool things to 769 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,520 actually bring those two together. 770 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,360 Shoot me. And there's so many good ones. 771 00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:33,800 My friend Antonio, he is doing one called Mouse Olympics. 772 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:41,320 And it's it's super cool. It's it's all these mini games 773 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:43,960 where you can like have your mice compete against each other. 774 00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,120 And it's so it's less adventure, more mini game at the table, 775 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,040 which would be a really fun break for a long campaign. 776 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:52,840 This one I'm super excited about. 777 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:58,760 My brain just had like a nostalgia moment bubble up. 778 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:03,280 What was the cartoon? When we're roughly the same age, 779 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,080 ish. I think within probably half a 780 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,440 decade, yeah, there was a, wasn't there like an animal 781 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,440 Olympics or something where there was like animals doing 782 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,840 Olympic sports? Because I remember the one where 783 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,520 there was like, I think there were two lions or something like 784 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,240 that running on like competing. But then they by the end they 785 00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:20,600 like, fell in love with each other or whatever. 786 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,880 But it was like an animal like, am I making that up? 787 00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,040 Is anyone in China? Oh, that sounds super familiar. 788 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,720 That sounds super. Familiar animal Olympics. 789 00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,640 Was it that like a? It might have been like a short 790 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,040 on like it was. Definitely like some Oh yeah, 791 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,800 there's definitely some Saturday. 792 00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:41,520 Ha ha, yes, I'm not crazy. This is this is what reminded me 793 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:46,040 of that is this boom animal Olympics and that's that's the 794 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,920 Oh yeah, it's the the goat and and the the lioness or 795 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,520 something. Yeah, definitely giving me 796 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:59,440 definitely giving me those vibes for for the mouse Olympics. 797 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:00,360 That's cool. Let's go. 798 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,360 Well, I mean, you already need to expand it for the good 799 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,000 Saturday morning cartoon kind of game. 800 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,240 Our friends who gave a splits with their critters. 801 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,520 I mean, there's a way to happen there too. 802 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,200 But yeah, there's also good stuff. 803 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,560 There's a there's a one that's a pop up dungeon where it's 804 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,960 literally like arts and crafts. You'll you'll get the whole 805 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,880 thing, cut it out, build your your book. 806 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,600 And then as you open it, it's the full dungeon for like the 807 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,840 tabletop, which is super cool. And then there's MEC Writer, 808 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:32,280 which you mentioned, which is like a, a peel and stick sticker 809 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,760 character sheet, one where you can build your Max out of 810 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,800 stickers. I don't know if they're reusable 811 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,760 stickers, which would be super cool. 812 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:44,200 I I don't know the production side of that, but yeah, this one 813 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,440 is. Super cool wax paper, parchment 814 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:47,840 paper. Oh, there you go. 815 00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,800 Yeah, yeah, man, I, I, I, I could probably say something 816 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,640 about all of these. Flights of Fancy is the follow 817 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:59,000 up to Feather Tail Falls, which was nominated for in any of this 818 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,720 last year. I forget what any it was 819 00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:04,600 nominated for. It was like setting, I think. 820 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,120 But yeah, that one, that one's going to be sweet. 821 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,760 It expands and gives more adventures and Flights of Fancy. 822 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,280 Super cool because they they've just released that they're going 823 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,360 to have three guest artists and and authors the depending on 824 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,560 stretch goals hit. So like one of them is an 825 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,520 adventure that's written and illustrated by ML Boven who did 826 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,600 Derf, which just funded up. Expanded. 827 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,520 Just funded, yeah. Yeah, and then Bode H, who's 828 00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:38,160 done some super good stuff. He did the the Decagog for 829 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,680 mothership and he did one of the adventures in the in the Mouse 830 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:46,160 Reader estate. But yeah, so there's some, 831 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:48,600 there's some super, some super cool stuff that's coming. 832 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,400 Yeah, what I was looking at was the Tales from the Night market 833 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,920 that is from Get Haunted Industries. 834 00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:01,400 We recently did a review. We're here the public access. 835 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:06,400 So Joy Ray Allen, Tiger Wizard are are doing that. 836 00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:11,480 So I'm I'm excited to see what weird shit they come up with. 837 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,000 Oh yeah. But, but like you said, I mean, 838 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,160 we've touched on what maybe like 1/4 of the projects and they all 839 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:22,120 look amazing. So I'm very excited to, to get 840 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,400 going with these. Question I have with the 841 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:30,440 shipping thing and everything. If you're one of those 13, have 842 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,880 they been like, hey, keep your stretch goals reasonable because 843 00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,520 we're shipping all at the same time? 844 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,320 Like what happens if someone is is is caught slacking? 845 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:42,680 Yeah, so, so that's one of the things that I don't envy Andre 846 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,920 at all. I mean, Andre is Andre is an 847 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,480 amazing guy. And we've gone back and forth a 848 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:52,840 whole bunch because Hugh and I, we're both ambitious. 849 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,560 And so like we had all these ideas for all sorts of stretch 850 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,360 goals. It's like we do this, can we do 851 00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,000 that? And Andre was like, I'm, I'm 852 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,160 sorry, but I don't know that that's going to be able to work. 853 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,720 You can opt out of the the the mass shipping thing. 854 00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:06,880 We're like, no, we don't want to upset the Apple Car. 855 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,560 We want to be a part of this because like the community 856 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,280 building aspect of us all being together is more important than 857 00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:13,800 us being like, look, we make cool stuff. 858 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:19,920 And so I think when it comes to everything shipping together, 859 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,160 the nice thing, one of the requirements was that like you 860 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,320 only have one physical item that's going out and now that 861 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,720 physical item could be like a, a collection of three zenes, but 862 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,480 everybody who backs physical gets the exact same thing. 863 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,080 I think it's the, it's the same kind of philosophy that Chris 864 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,040 McDowell used when he did Mythic Bastion Land. 865 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:43,320 It was just like digital. And so that that really helps 866 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,680 out. I think most of these creators, 867 00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:51,120 a lot of their content is already done or at least in like 868 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,960 over the 50% completion kind of thing. 869 00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:00,200 And so I don't know the exact timelines, but I'm pretty sure 870 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:06,600 we want to get everything to exalted funeral by late spring 871 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,680 because then it'll start shipping like summer of of 26. 872 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:15,120 Don't quote me on that. I, I think that's the, I think 873 00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:17,480 that's the, the timeline we're looking for. 874 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,800 But yeah, I, I, I think if anyone's slacking, the beauty 875 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,280 about the community is we all rally together to help each 876 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,160 other out. And so that's that. 877 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:28,560 That's been something that's been really fun. 878 00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,720 Yeah, yeah, I, I'm, I'm, I'm so excited for master month. 879 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:40,680 I mean, my wallet is pissed. I had I, I, you know, especially 880 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:44,160 following mothership month, I definitely took that a little 881 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:45,920 bit light this year. I mean, we're still waiting for 882 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,000 some of the mothership stuff from last year, so took that a 883 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,440 little bit light. But as soon as I heard about 884 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,280 Mothership month, I was like, man, who you gotta start picking 885 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,200 up some extra shifts during November. 886 00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:57,800 Exactly. Exactly. 887 00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,920 There's it's gonna be hard not to back all of these projects 888 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,200 That's about, I mean, that's about what we have to say about 889 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,280 this. Is there anything else you want 890 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,520 to say about master in a month to kind of wrap this up? 891 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,960 I mean, it's this episode. I'm going to try to get out 892 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,240 tomorrow morning by 7:00 AM when this launches. 893 00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:19,880 I love it. I love it so so people might be 894 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,000 able to see this and then talk about the thing, but is there 895 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:23,160 anything else you wanted to say about it? 896 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,040 Yeah, I would just say I, I think I think by way of like 897 00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,720 follow up, I know Andre and Isaac are going to be doing a 898 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:32,080 live stream as soon as it goes live tomorrow. 899 00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,320 And some of the different content creators are going to 900 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,880 come on, do like a little 5 minute spiel like this is our 901 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,480 thing. And then I'm going to I'm going 902 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,200 to do a live stream on my YouTube once everything's live 903 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,640 and we can actually see the full page, I'm going to do like a 5 904 00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:48,280 minute rundown of every project. And like, this is what I'm super 905 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,040 excited about. But yeah, I think it's super 906 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,520 cool and and. But real quick, real quick 907 00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,480 timeout. Where can we find those streams? 908 00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:58,040 Where? What? 909 00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,280 Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think, I think the the one 910 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,800 that Andre and Isaac are doing is going to be live on Exalted 911 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,360 Funerals YouTube. And I think I think that goes 912 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:13,200 live tomorrow at 7:00 AM. One of the other cool things 913 00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,080 that I didn't mention, but I'll throw it in here. 914 00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,280 It's on it's on the the landing page for Mouse Runner Month. 915 00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:25,600 If you back all 16 projects, you get to be in a game that's ran 916 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:29,600 by either Andre or Isaac as kind of less like an incentive of 917 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:31,160 saying thank you. So that's super cool. 918 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:35,400 So if you don't know who Andre and Isaac are and you want to to 919 00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,960 see how cool they are, go just watch them on the live stream 920 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,360 tomorrow and then back all 16 projects so you can play with 921 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:41,720 them. I think that's cool. 922 00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,840 And and we've had Andre on the show before and so you can go 923 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,280 back, you can go watch whatever episode that was. 924 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:49,640 Couldn't even be good to tell you that. 925 00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,680 But I've never met or spoke with Isaac, but I love Mastrator. 926 00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:56,800 But I, I've met Andre in person, talked to them numerous times 927 00:52:56,800 --> 00:53:00,280 and just one of the nicest, coolest, just generally most 928 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,240 creative and genuine people I've ever met. 929 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:06,240 So really excited to, to, to see all of that. 930 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,960 I'll just try to like hit them up on the side though, and, and 931 00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:10,760 see if they're running games. So I don't know if they're back 932 00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:16,600 all 16, but we'll see. Yeah, but but yeah. 933 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:21,720 Yeah, and then my my stream tomorrow will be on my my 934 00:53:21,720 --> 00:53:28,560 YouTube channel, which is just mana Don TTG and I'll post the 935 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:32,360 link to the video even on the backer kit page so folks could 936 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,400 could grab it there. So yeah, and we'll probably do 937 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:42,320 some, some actual plays of some of the adventures as as as the 938 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,160 month goes on. But yeah, just overall super 939 00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,120 excited and super appreciative to you for having me on the 940 00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,440 show. Like it's a it's always, it's 941 00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:52,280 always a joy to hang out with the weekly squirrel. 942 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,160 Got to come on more. Are you? 943 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:55,200 Are you going to packs this year? 944 00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:58,120 Packs you. I am not, sadly. 945 00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:59,720 This was going to be the year where I was like, I'm going to 946 00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:03,360 go to cons and I haven't, but we're going to we're going to 947 00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,920 try to make it happen. If if you are at PAX EU, pop 948 00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,320 over to the to to the plus one Exp table because 2 of 1000 949 00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:14,200 doors, they're they're pushing it super strong and then they're 950 00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,520 carrying a lot of my previous mouse rider stuff and and 951 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,000 that'll be physical there as well. 952 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:25,640 Got it. So, yeah, come on, mower, I know 953 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:30,760 you've had a 2025 has been rough year for for for everybody in 954 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:32,520 the world, but I know you've been pretty busy. 955 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,640 Definitely get back into to to tabletop. 956 00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,240 You know, it's always good when you're putting out like it feels 957 00:54:40,240 --> 00:54:43,640 like AZ in a day sometimes what you're doing come the show more. 958 00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:47,800 It's been great to to talk with you and and good luck getting 959 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,360 number one on all 16 projects tomorrow. 960 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,400 Here's open. All right. 961 00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,120 Again, thank you so much for being here. 962 00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:58,120 Thank you everyone for being here as well and back on the 963 00:54:58,120 --> 00:54:59,720 projects and we'll see you later. 964 00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:00,920 Bye. Thanks y'all.