welcome to The game master Monday, the podcast that play is
a new one shot in a new system with a new cast every episode
today we are playing may you fish in interesting times by WH
Arthur and my players are. Hand them over.
Yeah, those ones. Yeah.
Thank you. And today I will be playing Jet
Nightline the Night Heron. What a sick name.
Who uses Thank you? Who uses he they pronouns?
Hello, my name is Blue. My pronouns, are they them?
I'm playing Creed today. The rebel Fisher.
Cute little blurbo. Hi everyone.
I'm Rachel. I am playing Pip the Cormorant.
My pronouns, by the way, are she her?
But Pip, is he him? And I'm Grant, normally I'm your
game master, but today, today I am playing a piston Fisher who
is a Pelican. Let me tell you about may you
fish in interesting times. This is AGM list game about
former members of a failed rebellion getting together one
more time to fish and reminisce. We're also all birds.
Anthropomorphic fingered birds. Everyone's going to be a really
disappointing look for that description.
To play this game, all you need is a deck of cards and your
imagination. We're going to be pulling cards
at the course of this game. Each of our birds has a favorite
suit in that deck of cards. Our objective here is to draw or
obtain 3 cards at least within our favorite suit, which will
then allow us to fish in these interesting times.
Every time we pull a card, we will then answer a prompt on our
character types playbook page. We will do this until something
happens. It's going to be fine, I'm sure.
Yeah, everything. Is up.
I just want to note it, I have been a burb this entire time.
Yeah, generous opt, that's true. With all of that out of the way,
are you all excited? Yeah, let's.
Fucking go. Let's fucking go.
Indeed. Let's begin the adventure.
The five of us, as we mentioned earlier, are members of a
previously failed rebellion in our bird world.
We tried to rise against Emperor Tyrannis and our efforts were in
vain. We have managed to escape the
ever watchful eye of our tyrannical government, but we
are meeting here together at one of our favorite watering holes
of our favorite fishing spots in order to try and catch ourselves
a meal and reflect on rebellions past.
During the course of this game, of course, you can reminisce
inner monologue style, or you can also invite other people
into your scene with you. The choice is up to you.
So without further ado, Jen, will you do with the honors of
pulling the first card of the game?
It is the three of hearts. The three of hearts.
So as the Osprey, what is your favorite suit?
My favorite suit is the spade, so this is not my favorite suit.
In your character sheet, your your your guide, if you will, on
your first turn, answer the top question on the left column.
After this one, you can choose any question from either column
going forward, but your first one will be your first prompt in
the leftmost column. Which for me is how did you
discover your ability as a fighter?
Examples given Are you fought back against bullies or you were
trained in martial arts First off, it's more avian arts but
yes. And I think my training was
largely on the job, quote UN quote job as a as an osprey, as
a Raptor, I was always naturally strong.
I just need to learn how to direct that strength.
And over the course of the kind of early days of of our
rebellion, I was picked up by, we'll say a hawk that saw the
potential, saw the raw power without much direction, without
much finesse and thought. This can be refined.
This can be honed. So I was inducted into the
rebellion and pretty much given training on the job to rely less
on just brute force, brute strength, and learned that I
actually do have a mind for strategy.
Beautiful. Perfect.
And that's how we see your character as they stare
longingly out into the lake and think about how they got started
on this whole thing. We'll go to you next, Kendo.
I've got the 10 of spades which is not my favorite suit which
for the night Heron are diamonds.
So this spade not what I'm looking for.
But my first question is how did you discover your skills at
engineering and some examples being you sought out broken
machines and fixed them. You were an honor student at the
engineering school. I think for me, as I'm sitting
on this lake, like kind of, you know, I think we're probably
very early, you know, in the, in the setting up for fishing here.
I think I'm, I'm thinking about when I was a kid working on my
dad's, like in my dad's workshop, who I think like
helped fix things for people, help fix cars, engines, even
like small like appliances or whatever.
And it started out with me just, you know, fetching him tools,
asking lots and lots and lots of questions to until eventually he
let me start like helping, helping and like replacing
parts. And I didn't just have like a
skill at it. I loved it.
I like, I couldn't get enough of it.
I was breaking things to put them back together.
And like, I just, I don't know, I always really, really liked
working with my hands. And so it was just, it really
worked out. And I think I'm thinking about
that right now while I'm struggling to unspool wire from
the from from my rod that's just gotten tangled from, you know,
so much use, but it's my hands don't necessarily work the same
way that they used to. Perfect.
And that's how we meet your Fisher.
Which brings us to Blue. You can go ahead and draw your
card now. Oh hey, I got an ace of clubs
which is not my favorite suit. Face cards are my pride and joy.
But my first question is what makes you a good career?
Some examples are you can outmaneuver other birds.
You have a good sense of direction.
I kind of like the idea of Cree having a really bad sense of
direction despite like being a very skilled career.
I like the idea of them more so creating their own landmarks to
find their way to different places.
Maybe that means like splattering paint like on the
top of a tree somewhere or I don't know, like say like no
way. Like oh that branch only had
like 3 leaves the last time I was here so I remember, you know
what I mean? Some like very neural divergent
in such a way. And I think that's kind of what
helped them honestly, like become a Courier.
You can tell E Northwest from whichever the fuck, but can
absolutely tell you what side of the road that rock that looks
kind of looks like a Crescent moon is I think maybe like
getting a little seating area set up.
You know, they know that we're going to be eating later.
So he's kind of like setting up a little fire pit, getting like
some nice comfy like Moss covered rocks around like
gathering in like a little semicircle and is just trying to
trying to make themselves busy. Perfect, three birds at the lake
and here comes the 4th. We'll meet yours next.
Rachel, go ahead and pull your card.
Who is that? A queen of diamonds in mine
hand. Incredible.
Whoa, not my favorite suit as the Cormorant.
My favorite suit is the clubs. What makes you well adapted to
avian society? But let me tell you me, Pip, I
was a spy back in the rebellion and it was really good with
people. I actually, I used to work in a
in a hotel. So I do, I did a lot of people
people managing, you know, putting them in the rooms,
giving them good customer service, you know, just just
giving them a good time. But I learned a lot about
people. I learned a lot about the way
people tick and a lot about the way you know, people, people
are. So when it came to the
rebellion, I was, I was pretty good at kind of figuring out
what, what, what the, the, the tops wanted.
I was pretty good at getting that information to the right
place. But yeah, I mean, what makes me
me so adapted is that I was able to take those skills working
with people and really turn it on them, show them that we're
not just the little guys we're watching.
We got our eyes everywhere and we got our ears even closer.
Got to know where your little guys are.
Got to know where they are. And where they are now is
fishing, which I guess brings us to me, to the Pelican piston
Fisher. And I've drawn the nine of
spades, not my favorite suit. I'm more of a heart guy.
And the question I have to answer is, how did you discover
your talent as an organizer? For example, every birdie was
drawn by your charisma or you were a great public speaker.
And for Piston, definitely a good public speaker, a good
orator, able to communicate a plan and get people to rally
around what they're saying. But that probably led to me
becoming an accidental organizer, an accidental leader
in this resistance, While I was able to make people believe and
inspire them and recruit people to the cause and get people on
the the teams that they were being asked of me to create, I
wasn't a great strategist. And I have my own demons to
fight off when it comes to the actual execution of some of
those missions and teams that were put together.
Also, I'm chronically late. Hence why despite being one of
the leaders of the rebellion, I scuttle up with a bucket of
minnows and other bait type things my the deep beak hanging
kind of low as I hold up a single hand to just acknowledge
everyone saying hello. I, I, I, I thought we could use
more bait. That's why I'm late.
Now they've established our birds and the five of us are at
the fishing hole, we can now have our conversations in two
parts. We will answer the prompt in our
playbook and you now have the option to have a chat with your
fellow fishers. That can be all of us, one of
us, some of us your preference based on answer.
Some playbooks prompts feature mechanics to change, trade or
remove cards, and you can use this to your advantage in order
to get more fish. So GN we come back to you in the
initiative order. You may now pull your card and
select any prompt from either column all.
Right. Well, I went ahead.
I pulled the six of hearts. Amusingly enough, still not my
favorite suit. And I think as as I pull this
metaphorical card, Mel's sharp, beady little eyes scoot to focus
on Piston Fisher, and they remember the I'm going to
answer. What treasured moment do you
recall between you and one of the other Birds?
The mechanic being swap one of your cards with one of theirs
since we have exclusively each other's favorite suit.
Our favorite suit? True.
True then. So as as I'm kind of looking at
Piston Fisher just kind of rocking up with with their bait
and I'm just kind of thinking about we have a very long and
sometimes complicated history between my initial hot
headedness and Pistons general need to kind of think about the
big picture. We clashed a little bit at
first, of course, as as birds with authority problems and
birds of authority sometimes do. But then there was the mission
that we had LED that I had been very, very set on a certain
course of action. Of course it was hot headed.
Of course, Kristen Fisher shut it down, said no, that that's
not that's not the best way to approach it.
Very reluctantly, I kind of agreed to do things their way.
And when it worked, I was so mad about it.
But watching the plan go off the way that it did, it helped me
understand why good old Piston was in the position that he was
in. And I always think of that
moment as the day that I learned to be a part of the rebellion
and not just a sword for it or a claw for it.
And I will always treasure that moment when I got to come back
and say we didn't lose anybody. That's probably why Piston
remembers it too. Not losing anybody.
Let's swap. Yeah, you're reminiscing about
this with with Piston and just this thing kind of has like 1000
yard stare these days just looking out into the lake and
you're recalling this memory with him and he's he kind of
turns to and goes. That was probably when I had the
most hope about everything, honestly.
And it all turned out great, didn't it?
Well, no, but that mission did. I'm still mad about it.
I know, me too. Sometimes you get a win and
you'll think they'll start compounding.
It was a good start. Not a bad middle either.
Not so good and I must. Admit not not agreed.
No, I think maybe the end could have been less terrible.
Maybe a future when I'll figure it out.
Maybe one day you. Want a worm?
Oh worm, yes. Yes, you're kind of throwing an
empty rod into the lake, and so I just figured I'd give you a
worm. I look, sometimes wormless
fishing works. Now if you'd let me just jump
in, I would catch many more fish.
I'm trying to help you avoid making a lot of noise.
Fine, give me. The.
Word. Here you go.
Kendo, you're up. All right, seven of hearts once
more. A card I do not need.
Let's see. Oh, OK, I'm going to go with
what secret did you keep from one of the other birds for their
own good? And I'm going to say this is a
secret that I kept from. I think that this is a secret
that I kept from Cree. I think with you being a Courier
and but also having like bad, a bad sense of direction, I feel
like there was maybe like a lot of wear and tear on like the
vehicle or whatever vehicle that is in this world.
I think that you had a personal airship that was like, I'm
thinking like the size of any of like the personal vehicles from
like Cowboy Bebop, like any of like those kind of ships, right?
And I think there was just like a lot of wear and tear of like,
you just flying around aimlessly or like just getting lost or
like getting like, like almost caught in like some kind of like
trap just because you move too far into like enemy territory.
And I was always having to fix it.
And I think I never truly told you how much work it was.
I think every time you came and I played it off as like, oh,
this is not a big deal. You know, I can get this fixed
up in like, like a hot 2nd And like, you were like, OK, cool.
And leave the room. And then I'd sit there and I'd
just go fuck. And I'm, I think Jed is thinking
of that as I come over to you. And I like kind of I'm, my head
is down and I'm kind of holding the rod in such a way that it's
like partially obscured from you.
And I just kind of come up and I go, hey, I'm sorry.
I asked could you and I hold up the rod and the wires are it's
just like so it's so fucked it, but like I it's it's so tangled.
I can't it's and just like would you mind?
I can't quite. Of course buddy can be here and
create immediately, like takes it off of your hands of plops
down and like crisscross apple style and starts to untangle it.
And Kree has no idea what the fuck they're doing, probably
making it worse by several times.
There are definitely like a couple of new knots in it that
weren't there before, but Kree is like determined because I
feel like Kree doesn't know like how hard it was to actually fix
up the airship. But I I think Cree still deeply
appreciates like the effort that went that goes into fixing it
up. That's not their back at all
Engineering. They're like, what you got that
I'm going to leave. But it's the fact that you were
so willing and you know, to them almost like happy and, you know,
to do it. And I think that means a lot to
Cree. So when they have the
opportunity to show up for Jet, they are eager to leap at that
opportunity, even if it's not exactly helpful.
Yeah, and I think every new knot you're putting into it as you're
just kind of going for it. Jet notices every single one but
doesn't say a word and is. Just it's like it's almost
there. Just a couple more minutes.
Hold on. Oh, this one.
OK, Let's start over. It it is.
It's just. Yeah.
And I think doesn't sit down next to you, but does just
awkwardly stand by and like and like goes from like looking down
at you to just like kind of looking around towards the
horizon. So he doesn't just feel like
he's staring at you. But it's just like, I think that
with however long we've all been together, the fact that he
didn't just give this to you and walk away, The fact that he is
just standing here next to you as it's happening is like he's
deeply appreciative of this and doesn't quite know how to
vocalize that other than standing here next to you as you
do it. I love that I, I think Cree
finds the awkwardness endearing. Honestly, Cree, after maybe like
15 minutes of doing this, finally, like realizes like
you're still standing. Do you wanna, it's, I mean, it's
a rock right here. Do you wanna sit down?
I'm good. I like standing is good.
OK, that that's totally fine. Here, you hold this end and I'm
gonna pull and we'll see what happens.
So yes, I get to draw another card, then decide whether to
keep keep it or give it to you. Oh.
Nice. It is the queen of clubs.
I don't know how you feel about clubs.
I like Queens. Oh yes, you're all the face
cards. Yeah, I'll give that to to
Curry. Oh, yeah, and I just pulled a
Jack. One of the other birds saved
your cloaca in the revolution. What happened?
That's so funny. I.
Love this game. I love it so much.
OK, I like the idea of Tip being the bird for this.
I feel like pip may have definitely been like what?
What are the individuals called? Like get the lay of the land
before like groups go in. Scout.
Like scout Recon? Yeah.
Yeah, definitely the line, Emily.
'S any lines? Yeah, 100.
Percent. I think maybe Pip was like
engaging in some of that and Cree was going in the complete
wrong direction, as Cree often is.
And Pip called them over the comms on their airship and was
very much like, where the hell are you going?
Because Cree was going somewhere that was incredibly dangerous.
Completely alone. They would have been yoked up
immediately. And I think Cree often thinks
about that because what happened after in that area, I don't
know, Maybe the enemy team ended up moving into the area faster
than we expected, like Kree thought they would be like
moving, you know, over the next couple of days.
But they moved in the next hour. And I think Kree is sort of
having finished finally untangling this rod for Jet.
And I think they've already set up the area where they, you
know, everybody's going to sit at and they just recall that
moment for a second. Look over at Pimp.
What do you think people be doing right now?
Yeah, I think Pip I, I feel like for as much as Pip is kind of
like a people person talker, they kind of like are keeping to
themselves a little bit. So maybe they're off to the side
like fixing their own fly. I think they're a little bit
more meticulous. So like the flies are like a
little bit more like detailed and you kind of have to like get
your fingers involved with that. So I think they're just kind of
off to the side time they're flying, putting them on the on
their on their fishing rod. I think Kree walks over, kind of
looks over Pip's shoulders and see like the intricate work that
Pip is doing just as how do you how do you do that?
You're so I don't know, you're just and they like kind of
motion with their fingers various like hand movement.
And if they don't really mean anything, they just don't have
the language to explain how capable PIP is.
I think they have always seen PIP as very capable.
Yeah, well, you know, I've always been good with the puzzle
and I think that's why why I was doing what I was doing because I
really like the the puzzles of working with people.
But yeah, no, I mean, it's a little bit more intricate, but
you know, I think, I think, I think it's fun to figure out.
Really cool, can you show me? How?
Oh, absolutely, yeah, No, if you, if you want to for sure,
I'd absolutely love to. And I think Pip pulls out their
fishing box or tackle box and pulls out another one and if you
offer your rod will begin to apply it to your rod as well and
kind of give you the rundown. Rachel does not know the
intricacies, but Hip sure does and is very detailed in
explaining how it all works. I think it goes through one near
out the other for cream, but they are still very much present
in the moment and is listening intently.
And even though they don't fully like get it, it's not sitting
with them. They are just taking the moment
for what it is and it's enjoying this moment of kind of sitting
back, not always on a go, and truly like just being grounded
and living in the present. Yeah, I think Pip is also
definitely like, not quite getting that you're not catching
on and just explaining it like really fast, but not like super
fast, but like, you know, isn't quite giving like the full
breakdown, but giving like, yeah.
And then you do this and this and like and just not quite
getting that you're not following.
But it's just really exciting to have someone to share this with.
Yeah, Pips is very much like Odd Tizzy going on about your
favorite topic, and your friend is just listening very
pleasantly, like they're just happy to be here.
I'm gonna give you the my club. Thank you kindly, I will draw my
card. Did he?
Oh, I got a joker. The Joker in this came Jokers
are wild, so that can count for whatever you wanted to count as.
Oh, that's exciting. I love that.
So I think actually, I know we were kind of like, oh, like, you
know, questions on top of questions, the same question,
but I'm going to do exactly that.
One of the other birds saved your cloaca in the revolution.
What happened? And I think it's actually kind
of perfect because as we're sitting there and as I have
finished tying the tying up your rod, Pip looks up at you Cree
and says, you know, there was one time that you really saved
my cloaca out there. And I really appreciated you
being there. It was that time when I was
behind enemy lines and I was properly undercover, and you
came in on on a scene. We were having some pretty
intense discussions where they were basically going to call me
out and they were about to kill me.
But you and your team busted in. And I remember you looked me
dead in the eyes and I can see that little twinkle of
recognition. And as the conversation
persisted, you came in and you punched me right across the beak
as if as if I was the most evil person in that room.
And that made them second guess what they were thinking.
And then, you know, of course we did our little tussle and my
quote UN quote side got out of it.
But if you hadn't done that, well, I would have been.
I would have been done for. I think Creed is a little
shocked to hear that. I think Creed views everybody on
the team is extremely capable, but themself very much like I
might be the the comedic relief, the group kind of vibe.
I think that's how they view themselves.
So hearing that, you see like this look of surprise on Cree's
face. They're Violet, like blue,
purple feathers kind of pop up a little bit.
And Cree, Cree blinks and they're like, seriously.
Oh yeah, I think. Absolutely.
I mean, again, it, it's hard to tell when you're on the outside
coming in knowing what the conversations were about.
But yeah, I was, I was a goner within minutes.
And I know, I, I know you're not usually on the front lines like
that, but that was, that was well timed.
And I, I've always been thankful to you about that.
Hey, no problem. I mean, you've saved my tail so
many times I genuinely can't even count.
I'm happy to have been able to to show up somehow.
Oh, for sure. I mean, I, I know the revolution
didn't exactly go the way that we wanted it to, but you know.
Bad ending for sure. We we made a good team and I
think I think that's the most important thing to come out of
that is that we all work together and we made out the
other side. That we did a little a little
bumped and bruised and crew like flips up their eye patch and
winks, but better than anything, right?
Better than anything. And yeah, with that, I do have
my Queen of Diamonds here that I would.
Love to pass on to you 90s. Perfect.
It'll it'll loop back around. It's a old piston Fisher.
I'm going to pull my card here. I got a heart card and a nine of
hearts. Beautiful, my favorite kind.
In light of that, I think I'm going to go a different
direction than the rest of the crew here and continue down on
the left column, which you have to answer in the order they're
presented. So I'll just answer question #2
which is what incited you to use your skill for the revolution.
And I think for Piston. I think I was an armchair rebel
for a long time. Someone who is more than happy
to write an article, do a speech, share a a dissenting
opinion, but wasn't at the protests, wasn't in the front
lines, wasn't fighting, was very comfortable to use their ability
of communication and oration to inspire others, but maybe not so
much themselves. And I think what would have
happened is Piston would have had an opportunity to attend a
rally or do a speech somewhere where Pip signed up for the
rebellion. And seeing the, the, the
eagerness, the excitement, the this natural inclination to want
to throw themselves into this, this fight, that this whole
thing. And maybe there was something in
the air that day. Maybe the Falcon who gave a
speech was this extra inspiring. Maybe it was the huge turn out
in the, in the feeling that maybe things will actually turn
in favor of the people for a change.
Or maybe this is 1 little bird who was so excited to do
everything they could to make a positive result.
I think is the moment they decided I'm going to sign up for
this and listen. This could be a false memory.
Maybe he's remembering that whole day wrong.
And. He's just putting on, you know,
maybe he's feeling sentimental, but in spite of it all, I think
he just makes a decision to walk over the tip and kind of like in
the way only he can. Like this might be jarring for
other people, but he has a tendency to just walk up to you
and say something like heavy and profound out of nowhere to to
spark a conversation. It just kind of walks up the pip
and says, did I ever tell you you're the reason that I joined
the rebellion? Move away you.
Yeah, yeah, way before we met, probably.
But do you remember the the rally at Crest City?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, a lot of a lot of speakers
that day. I believe it's where you signed
up. Oh, oh, yeah.
No, absolutely. That was that was the day.
Absolutely. I, I thought so too, Felt
important, right? Felt like we could actually do
this thing if enough people were behind us, right?
But a lot of people is one thing, Pip.
Seeing someone with your fervor is what makes it feel real.
I thought so, knowing that you were going to do whatever you
could to make the rebellion work.
I don't know, Sometimes that's the straw, right?
And that's what makes you want to do it.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you don't.
You don't know the answer unless you try.
You know, if, if, if you don't try, the answer will always be
no. But if you try, there's at least
a chance it'll be yes. I try to hang on to that as much
as I can these days, I'll be honest.
Because it was either try or die, right?
Yeah, something like that. I'm passing bait around.
Do you need anything? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
I'll take some. Absolutely.
Sure, I just do like a handful of worms and minnows just like
plop it on on like next to you. Like I got plenty.
Don't worry about it. Thank you.
That's why you bring the buckets, whatever that means.
It means you got the buckets. That's what that means.
You got the buckets. Got the boys.
Going around saying that's where you bring the buckets, but.
That's why you. He's the only one bringing the
buckets. The flashback scene, it's me
giving a speech in a war room trying to like point at
different areas on a map and that's why you bring the
buckets. That was always your phrase, as
always your phrase, piston. Well, listen, when you're right,
you're right. Gotta have the buckets.
Gotta have them. You're right, you know.
You know, I carry that that saying with me sometimes too.
No, you don't. Oh, absolutely.
You know what it? Hardly means anything.
That's, that's what made it so funny because, you know, I was
on the, I was behind the enemy lines there.
So sometimes I'd just like throw it around just to make them say
some crazy stuff. They didn't know what they were
saying, but I said it and I was really confident about it and I
knew they were saying nothing. That's half the game honestly,
Pip and you picked up on it pretty quick.
Yeah, absolutely. Because Piston is worming his
way into everyone's hearts. Get it?
Worming because you're giving up worms?
The guy's gonna kill me. All right?
I'm going to go ahead and draw a card.
That'll be a 7 of clubs Jet. Yes.
Do you remember time that I had gotten into a scrap with an
Empire battalion and essentially had to be dragged off the
battlefield half dead and all I needed was to wake up and know
that my. My weapon, battered and broken
as it had been, was still in one piece and still as I had left
it. And when I woke up it was even
fixed it. And in the process you could
remade it. You knew there had you knew
there were no resources to spare, you knew we couldn't try
and repair something that was beyond repair.
But you would essentially destroyed my first weapon, my
first memory of my first fight, and as one of the questions
says, caused me great distress. And I didn't talk to you for a
week over it. Why did you let me hate you it?
Was better if you hated me than yourself.
Even if it was my fault, you still let me hate you and you
still carried that blame. I miss that weapon.
Yeah, I know you do. But not as much as I missed your
friendship. And I don't think I ever told
you. But I forgive you.
I know we started talking again. I know we we just rushed past
it. We didn't talk about it, but I
forgive you and I am sorry for for that week.
I'm sorry too. Would you like one of my worms?
Thanks. And can I please have your
tennis beads? Yeah, take it.
It's not one of it's not my favorite card, so go ahead and
take it. And I think I'll just kind of
like scoot a little bit closer and we'll just fish for a while
in silent companionship and I will help untangle the rest of
your line. Thank you.
That's why I have no cards, just I haven't been able to start
fishing yet. Sitting here untangling the
wire. Wait one second.
One second. Don't worry, don't worry guys,
I'll be right out there. The king of spades.
Another card that isn't my favorite.
Damn right. This damn right.
Let's see, let's see, let's see. So I'm going to answer the
question, what made you realize the society is broken and that a
revolution was the only way to fix it?
My dad was a rebel. He didn't tell me that at first.
Or really, he never had to tell me.
I found out he was doing jobs on the low for the rebellion.
He was their engineer. Things got broken, Weapons,
equipment, vehicles. They would take it to him and
you know, they would pay him under the table so that it
didn't get documented. I found out when Tyrannis's men
came to pick up my dad. I was home, we were having
dinner and they did not. And my mom and I watched as my
dad was taken away and there was a trial.
Of course, evidence was brought up.
Somehow they had gotten access to his records, found out that
there was a lot more materials that he was ordering and then
things he was supposedly fixing and he was executed publicly.
And that was the day I decided that I wanted to be like my dad.
And the shame of it is, or I guess some would say a blessing.
But I think it's what I am lingering on here as I've
struggled to get my line prepared and I'm only now
starting to cast and watching as everybody else's talking,
reminiscing about old times, is that at least he had the dignity
to die during the war. His death probably meant
something, at least. That's why you are always such a
hard ass about resources, isn't it?
Well, you have to be careful of what we had.
We don't have the same kind of resources that he knows.
We got to use what we've got, you know?
That's why we got the buckets. Always within the damn buckets.
That's why we got the buckets. Did someone mention buckets?
Do you need something? No.
OK, I have the buckets. I know we cannot keep saying
buckets aloud. The B word is off.
No B word is off limit. We can't say it anymore.
At least you can say when I'm not here, but.
Pales it is. God I hate that word more
somehow. Doesn't doesn't make buckets
pale in comparison. Boo.
Jet just pushes Mel into the water, Yeah.
Blue Since your character has three face cards, you will still
continue to draw as you would normally and have your
conversation, at the end of which you'll be able to cash in
your cards if you like and roll on the fishing table.
OK, cool. OK, got the seven of diamonds.
Diamonds. Did somebody say diamonds?
We struck diamonds. I like the question A Message
from the stars LED you to join the revolution.
What was it? I think Cree was debating on
joining the revolution for a while.
I think it took them a while to find that that nerve, that sort
of backbone to take that dive to open that door.
And the night that they were, I think they maybe had gotten in
some sort of argument with their partner at the time.
And it was something like the partner being like, you aren't
doing enough. You can just sit here and sit by
and let it all pass by. You act like it's not happening
and Cree was just sort of like, I'm not acting like it isn't it
isn't happening. I just I don't I don't know what
to do. I don't have any skills are
useful in this. And the partner kind of like
pins Cree with narrowed eyes. And it's like, if that's what
you think about yourself, then I can't help you.
And they walk out and I think that night, Cree pulls out like
a mat, gathers some coins and some seashells and various bones
of like animals that they may have found on during their
travels. And they put them in like a
little cylinder container, shake it up and tosses it out onto the
mat and uses these are like their divination tools.
And so they read the coins, they read the bones and read the
shells. And I think it was just an
overwhelming, yes, this is the route you should take, this is
the route that you should go down.
Is it hard, Short. But it's also deeply necessary.
The work is mysterious and important.
And I think Green just takes that as their sign that push for
them to sign up the next day. I really think Green just
genuinely didn't know where they would fit in being of assistance
in the rebellion, and they signed up.
They answered a few questions and maybe talked with some like
a round table of folks to kind of see where they might fit.
And they were given the keys to their ship and started those
training classes and they found that they were a damn good
flyer. So to fish, you'll roll AD 6 and
you'll refer to the fishing table.
I rolled A4. A4 You get a big fish which
gives our team three food for the the fishing trip so far.
I think Cree was sitting next to Pip.
They honestly probably weren't even paying that much attention
to their line. They probably set it up and some
little quick like contraption to like be angled on like against a
rock while they were sitting next to it and then just keeping
an eye on the line. And it's absolutely talking like
the group's ears off about probably nothing, honestly.
And we see the line begin to tighten and kind of swerve in
the water. And Creed's like, oh, what does
that mean? Does this mean I should pull?
Do I start, reel it in? Do I reel?
It in pull pull OK. All right, all right, do the
thing, do the thing and they start reeling it in as fast as
they can. I I like the idea and let me
know if anybody would want to jump in on this, but I like the
idea of Cree trying to pull this in.
But Cree is a purple Martin bird and they're quite small and so
they are getting pulled by the catfish I think.
I love that Mel and Cree begin to reel this big ass blue
catfish and. Mel's going to hold the rod
steady while while Cree reels. I love that, Yes, teamwork makes
the dream work, y'all. Yeah, friendship is magic.
Yeah. They pull this giant catfish out
of the water and it has these beautiful blue scales that are
like, shining in the light. And Cree's eyes turn to straight
up sparkles at how they caught. I think maybe like their first
fish ever. I don't think Cree has ever gone
fishing before, honestly, not a survival babe at all.
And so they're very ecstatic. And they pull out the water with
Mel and immediately goes to the end of the line to like, heft it
up with two hands. And it's like, all right, who
can beat this? Let's see.
Come on. Let's let's, let's, let's, let's
make it happen. Now.
The game is beginning. Oh.
It's a challenge. Right, there we go.
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Let's return to our fishing spot in May.
You fish in interesting times. Pips tend to rise to the
occasion. All right, yeah, let's pull a
card and see what we get. All right, I pulled A5 of
diamonds and I am also going to jump over to the left column.
What caused you to see through the facade of society and become
a spy for the rebellion? I think the the conversation
with Piston really had Pip thinking and I think it goes
back to when I said, I said Pip used to work in a hotel.
I think Pip still like Pip's family still owns the hotel, but
they don't work in it so much anymore because back during
before the revolution, again, he was listening to all the
conversations of the people and and the thing that made him see
through the facade of society was that people kind of became
complacent around him. Just kind of the the normies,
the on goers kind of slowly became OK with the problems of
society and kind of laid down to things.
And Pip Pip didn't like that. Pip thought that the beauty of
society is that it's conversational that when there's
problems, you know, people have their opinions and they rise up
to speak to them. And when the people, the people
who would normally have opinions came through his business and
we're kind of laying down to what was going on, I think, I
think he knew that he kind of had to do something about that.
And he stepped up, went to the rallies, met Piston at that last
one. And it was kind of a passing
face in the crowd, too. It wasn't a proper meeting, but
I think Pip remembers catching an eye and seeing Pistons like
hesitation at first and that empowered him more to get
involved because if not them, then me.
And that's that's what really got him involved, especially as
a spy, especially with the people knowledge that he had.
OK, I have drawn the king of clubs and I'm going to come up
to decree actually. So Piston typically pretty
charismatic, typically very confident and share of himself.
You know, the revolution kind of changed him a little bit there.
So he's, you know, been kind of wearing a piston mask, if you
will, during this fishing trip, pretending at his usual
confidence. And, you know, I've, I've been
walking around passing out the bait.
And I, I come up to Cree and I just tell them there are birds
that seemed like they were made to be part of the rebellion.
And then there are birds where the rebellion made them part of
it. I always felt you were kind of
the former and I was kind of the latter.
What? No way.
I felt like that was reversed. You took to what we did so
effortlessly and quickly. I know that it was hard for you
to always know where you were going, but you always got there.
Some of us who knew where we were going couldn't even get
there. Wow, Cree hearing that.
I think they're very much like a smiley person, but hearing that
shocks them and their smile sort of falls.
Not in being upset, but just like in genuine surprise.
And they kind of they, they like gently elbow piston and aside,
very friendly. I'm just like, Nah, I don't, I
don't know about all that. I mean, you just took to it so
naturally. Umm And I, I think honestly,
that's what inspired me to get more serious about what I was
doing, my role in all this, the role that I played.
I appreciate you saying so. My talents are natural.
It was the I don't know how else to put this grapes, so I'm just
going to say it. I don't think you realize how
much of A linchpin you were for the rebellion.
I don't think you realize how often you saved our Chloe,
because I don't think you have clued into how important your
work was and how you were among the best at it.
And I don't think you ever got the proper thank you that you
deserved during it. And that's a failure of
leadership. You should have been faint and
you should have been celebrated and you should have been lifted
up. And I wish you would have done
that more for you, for the other couriers, for the ones we kept,
the ones we lost. But for what it's worth, I'm
glad you're the one of the ones who made it, and there was never
any doubt you would be. So things didn't end the way I
would have liked, but they would have been a hell of a lot worse
if it wasn't for you. Create smile is fully falls
absolutely and they are kind of just standing there still
holding the catfish in their hands and I think like opens
their beak like several times to say something, but can only just
say thank you for saying that. Thank you for saying that.
I I didn't, yeah. I mean, it didn't end well.
And I don't think there's any time like the present to still
give that thanks and that appreciation, especially for the
ones we lost. I'm glad to have the opportunity
to do it. I know fishing is not your
thing, so thanks for coming out anyway.
I will admit it was a harebrained idea.
Hey look at you, your first fish ever and you effortlessly
effortless. See a natural.
Got to trust yourself more. I I do, you're right about that
and I recognize that. I think, I mean, I was only able
to do this because Hip helped me and Mel assisted me and I didn't
even understand how the lines worked until I take a look at
Jets. And I mean, here you are pouring
into me this way. I'm really happy I came.
I'm going to give you the king of clubs.
Yeah. He kind of gives like an
approving pat on the back in the way that only a middle manager
can. That's all right.
Let's get the next one. We have to.
There's there's five of us and we got to eat right.
Hey, I'm going to need you for pick it up.
OK, all right, all right. You're knocking.
Talking big game, big game. You're scaring the fish with all
your talking. Chet has been very silent.
All right, I'm going to draw this card.
Oh my God, There's seven of spades.
I think I'm going to be a kind Osprey today.
And Piston, I'm going to tell you about how you saved my
cloaca. And honestly, I know you think
I'm going to say something like the time you saved my life for
the time you saved me from walking head first into an
ambush, because those are the obvious answers.
And those are the answers that you know a lot of a lot of your
your average fighters would give you.
But the honest answer is that you, you gave me a purpose.
And without that, without something to fight for, without
a reason to get up and fight another day at every, every
single morning, your stupid motivational speeches, every
damn day before every damn mission coming out of that big
ass speak of yours. I grumbled about them and I
complained about them. I told you shut the hell up,
they worked. And again, I'm still mad about
it. But without those stupid
speeches I would still be in the same dead end job bouncing the
bird clubs. Piston has like old man watching
sports face very like kind of nodding his head, staring at
what looks like nothing, kind of sitting with his knees up in the
rod, kind of like clasp near his waist.
And you can't tell if he's listening or not.
But eventually he does turn around and this goes, I'm sorry,
I I didn't mean to make a failed rebellion in your purpose, but
I'm glad you were here for it. It wasn't about whether we,
well, it was about whether we succeeded or failed a little
bit. But what I mean is that the
impact that you had wasn't just the impact on the rebellion or
the impact of the rebellion on the world, it was also the
impact on us as people. And I think failed rebellion or
not, that counts for something. I I hope so.
Saying you're welcome feels weird, I won't lie to you just
because of how everything turned out and but.
Just give me a worm. I can give you a worm.
Did you enter a worm for a? I don't worry about.
It Are you eating the worm? No.
And as you hear that, you, you just see just kind of like their
head kind of like jerk up a little bit and like the corner
of a worm just like disappears into that.
I see. I need my protein.
If I got nothing else from this rebellion, I'm glad that we have
our friendship. Here's a handful of worms.
Thank you. I proceed to gulp down half of
them. Oh my God.
It's OK, you got the bucket. Anything yet, and as as I'm kind
of like gulping down the handful of worms, I almost miss my line
start to pull because I actually have three cards of a suit.
You sure do. Go ahead and roll AD 6.
That's a three. A small fry.
I catch a small fry. Wow.
And we gain 1 food bringing us to four.
So yeah, you don't notice that you were rod was being pulled on
and now you have a fish on your line.
How do you reel or in? I think it takes me a second
because you have to actually point out like, dude, Mel, you
got oh shit. And I just like grab it and it's
a, it's a small fish. I, I get a little bit too
excited. I actually yank up very hard on
my rod and this poor little bluegill just goes flying over
the boat and I have to reel it in again.
Eventually I am left with just holding up in one hand just this
rather disappointing fish. I kind of look at mine.
I look at Crees. Hey, hey, look at me.
All victories are good victories.
Size does matter here. Maybe a little bit.
Size only matters in how much we are able to enjoy here today,
but wouldn't you rather have something smaller than nothing
at all? That's the attitude we're
talking about. Yeah, that's fair.
All right. And I will dump this little
bluegill into our. Fish bucket, Bucket.
And that's why you have the bucket.
Which brings us the Kendo. All right, let's see.
Can I draw a card that I need the three of spades?
The answer, Oh no, is no. I'm going to go with one of the
other birds caused you great distress in the past.
What happened? And do you still hold a grudge?
Pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pip.
You were supposed to be test driving a brand new vehicle
we've gotten. It was supposed to be a stealth
ship that would allow you to go in and out of enemy lines
without being detected. And the very first flight,
you're right. I worked so hard to put that
together. All of the there we had to
steal. We had to steal blueprints.
We had to like, we had to, to, to extract like specialists to
put this together. And the very first flight
erected. Do I still hold a grudge over
this? How could I not?
Just kind of a petty guy, I think.
But of course, these aren't things that are sad.
They're quiet, rumblings, frustrated, stirring as Jet sits
quietly, his line hopelessly, hopelessly still as he turns to
look at everybody else having a good time. 2 fishes caught.
And well, just like our captain said, better something small
than nothing at all going to take your five of diamonds.
Oh gosh, I think 2 like at the time, because at up until this
point, Pip has had a very, you know, chipper, you know, silver
lining kind of perspective on everything, right?
So I think at the time, like it got crashed, it got destroyed
and Pip is like, oh, that's fine, Jay, you'll just make
another one, right? I, I think, I think in that
moment, if we're like the cameras looking at that scene,
it's like my hand slowly reaching for a, like having to
second guess. No, I cannot beat him over that.
Like just like there's just so much rage and anger but none of
it gets let out. Jet is not one for processing.
Yeah, flash forward now, I think I think hip you know is kind of
assessing everything again people person and pretty aware
of people notices your little quiet and hops on over is like I
jet you still struggling with that line there.
No. No, I was.
Well, I was going to suggest cutting the knot out and just
pulling pulling it through. I have some extra flies that
could tie on to the end for you. I think I'm good, but I
appreciate it. Of course, Of course.
Yeah. You know, we're all team here.
We're all helping each other out.
But if you if you need something, you you let me know.
All right. Yeah, Thanks, Pam.
Anytime, buddy. We have 5 of clubs.
I like the question. One of the other birds caused
you breed distress in the past, Jet.
I like the idea of Cree maybe having spent like 2 weeks
straight, like at base, they weren't ready to have any odd
like jobs of like flying around and delivering things.
So they got to kind of see everybody in their natural
element, so to speak. And they'd often come by to sit
up in the workshop that the engineers worked in.
And they saw they would come in in the morning, see Jet working,
come in super duper late at night, still see Jet working.
And they even asked the other engineers like, did you see
Jelly take a break? And they're like, no, that is
always here. And they create is like huh, and
kept like kind of peeking in and checking on Jet very quietly,
like through the windows or I maybe even Jet was like so into
their work at the time that they didn't even he didn't even see
like Cree kind of by the doorway or just, you know, quietly
taking in what Jet was doing. But they what what distressed
them was saying that Jet wasn't taking care of himself.
And I think at this moment, pre kind of clock, the sort of
silent storm, really quiet storm within Jet, umm, and we'll plop
down next to Jet, uh, put their elbows on their knees and cradle
their face. And we'll say isn't that isn't
that difficult? Fishing.
Holding things in. I.
Think there is just like like a long like Jet doesn't know how
to respond to this. Not necessarily because he
doesn't know the answer, but like knows that the answer means
that he who knows that he has to acknowledge that he should
change what he's doing and who he is in this particular moment.
But it's like having a hard time.
Like that's an amount of vulnerability that Jet isn't
sure that he's ready. Yeah, right.
Is like and he goes. Some things are best held on to.
Yeah, some, some, right. That's the important word there.
Is this like a? Is there a specific thing I
should be letting go of? Is it?
I mean, there's not a specific thing.
I mean, unless something comes to mind, then hey, by all means.
But you can be, you can be open with us.
I'd like to think, I hope we've made a space in which you could
be, you feel comfortable to be. And then they kind of like tilt
their head and internally just like, well, clearly not
comfortable to be. So maybe we're not quite
succeeding at that. But we'll say outwardly, I don't
know, Jet, I just remember you working those long nights and I
swear it, I, it felt like I'd never saw you sleep.
And I went through so many ships and I know the care and love you
put into them. And I'm sorry for that.
I know it's hard, but I mean, it's OK to, to, to be frustrated
about it and, and tell me that or even happy about whatever and
tell me that I just, I, I just like you to know that I'm here
for you. Thanks.
Thank you of. Course, and I like kind of
letting them sit with that, honestly, fishing near each
other. Oh, I got to take one of your
chords. Yeah, so I have pulled a Jack of
diamonds. The cards are all pushing us to
kendo. I'm going to do something
interesting, I think. What secret did you keep from
one of the other birds for their own good?
Which in turn will allow me to draw another card and then
decide whether to keep it or give it to them now.
So when I was behind enemy lines, I, I saw a lot and that
was where I, you know, got the information for our side.
But I did know that you had a very close relationship to
someone. You can kind of decide that the
relationship what it was, but it was someone who was very close
to you that you often talk to about when we were on our base
together. And at one point while I was
doing Recon, I, I saw your friend.
Well, you had believed that they hadn't joined the Rebellion.
In fact, you didn't think that they were part of the war at
all. But what you didn't know is that
they were actually working for the Empire.
And the letters that you wrote to each other, they were
collecting information from you for the Empire.
And when I found that out, I had to be the guy to stop that.
And what you thought was a casualty and an inconvenient
casualty of, of war, it was by mine hand because they were too
deep. They were too, too involved with
the Empire and they weren't going to change their heart
based on words. And when I did it, I thought
about our friendship and I knew I could never tell you.
And as you pull in that last fish and you kind of egg
everybody else on, look at me. Bring an X back into it.
I, I think about that and I think about how much you cared
for that person and how I was there to support you when when
you mourned their loss. And I kind of laugh at you.
Well, I'm going to catch the next big one.
You'll all see. You'll all see, you know, it's
been, it's been hard times for everyone, but I just want to say
that I'm, I'm glad that we're all here together.
I think, I think we've all been always been a great team and I,
I hope you know that I, I do appreciate you all.
And what you didn't know that Mel never told you because they
didn't want to, Ironically, they didn't want any harm to come to
this person by connection, was that that person was their
sister. Oh, it's terrible.
Yeah, yeah. Go try your card.
Goodness. All right, I'm going to pull
this card. Mel, you like spades, huh?
I kept my secret, so in turn I will give you the spade. 6 of
diamonds beautiful piston is still making the rounds, making
sure everyone has what they need to fist successfully.
Some things don't leave you I guess.
And he comes up to jet. And I wanted to tell you that
there have been moments where everything felt impossible and
you were the one who made them feel possible.
I know we broke a lot of stuff, I know I get it.
But knowing that you were able to fabricate and give things to
us that gave us a fighting shot meant everything.
It would be impossible to rally the troops if we didn't show
them the cool shit you were building, man.
Thanks, that means a lot I guess.
Can I tell you something? Do you remember there?
There was a moment on the beach and I then when I say the beach,
I think you know what beach I mean, where wings just kept
falling out of the sky for us. We couldn't seem to get a leg up
or wing up, a beak up, any part of us up.
And it was easy for me to lose hope in that moment because I
mean, we were fucking losing and losing badly.
A lot of good birds fell out of that sky.
And you're not exactly sunshine all the time, but I remember
this one because you weren't concerned or worried about the
loss. I mean, of course you weren't.
We were all sad to see it happen.
But you had this moment where you turned to me and it felt
almost absent mindedly, but with full presence of minds.
I know you, you just sort of rattling off the improvements
you could make to the aircraft next time.
And to have that during that moment meant everything to me as
a leader, knowing that in spite of that, we weren't going to
give up and that there was still a pathway forward.
And I keep, I keep having this thought with this crew that no
matter what happened, you all knew how to find your way.
Even when I wasn't sure where we were trying to, where we were
trying to get to. Sometimes I just open my mouth
and hope the right words come out.
I'm kind of doing it now. But you you should know that the
only reason the revolution lasted as long as it did was
because we had a person of your prowess giving us tools we never
would have had otherwise. You know, Piston, I don't think
I ever told you, but you're a pretty damn good leader.
And yeah, you broke shit. I'm trying.
You all broke a lot of shit, but it was my job to put it back
together, so that's what I did. I kept the team together a lot,
you know that, you know? I kept us moving.
You kept us together. I guess machines need pilots.
And pilots need mechanics. And mechanics need buckets.
Do you need any bait? I I couldn't help but notice
that you have your rod untangled a little here.
Maybe we can start to be reeling something in.
You see, he reels in what he has and he did not put bait onto his
rod. Yeah, see there's your problem.
And he like kind of, you know, once, once he like, pulls it in,
reels it in and says, yeah, I could probably use something.
Do you think you would mind putting it on?
Anything for you, my friend spikes a worm onto your rod and
kind of just makes a show of casting out into the lake with
you. And, and then I give you the six
of diamonds that I have and I'll take your seven of hearts.
And then I'm going to cash in three of my hearts.
I roll the six straight up. I roll the six.
Hey, huge. Huge fish.
Hell yeah. I, I try to like this, sling it
over my back and plop it down on there, feeling very proud of
myself that I was able to pull in a heaping fish to help with
tonight. But I, I look up and I think the
sun's starting to set and I see our 3M fish and I kind of turn
to the group and I, and I, I resume a stance that I would
have had during the rebellion. I've been wearing like an old
captain's coat this whole time as I'm very tattered and, and
blown out from the war. And I go, all right, everybody,
I don't need to let you know the urgency of our situation, but if
we're going to eat well tonight, we must pull in more fish.
It's not a competition. It is now a we are all in this
together situation. We are pulling fish in for the
greater good. Do we understand?
Sir, Yes, Sir. All right, love to see it.
Sir. Yes, we need like 20 more fish.
Hey, hey. We will.
We will do our damnedest. Do our best.
Well, I guess it's my turn to pull a card.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
It's nightclubs. I'm going to simply answer the
second question in my left column, which is what incited
you to offer the revolution your strength.
And I think it wasn't so much a well thought out decision.
It was a situation where I witnessed a a protest, A protest
that turned a little bit ugly, where this, this young Sparrow,
so small, so, so tiny in comparison to Tyrannis's
soldiers stand up to them. And that little bird got smacked
down, of course, as little birds tend to do when they face up
against those particular forces. And then that little bird got up
and kept fighting. And that was the first day I
raised a hand against against the Empire.
Luckily it was only one soldier I had to deal with, but I saved
that Sparrow and I decided to keep on doing it.
And there was A and a lot of people day there was a hawk that
noticed what I did. And I think that brings us to a
nice little close circle. All right, that leaves me.
Come on. The queen of spades.
You know, I'm going to assure that we're getting at least
maybe one other fish if I roll well.
So what treasured moment do you recall between you and one of
the other birds? So I think this is going to be
with cream. I think I know what it is.
I think there was a day that I was really, it was another all
nighter and buy an all nighter for an all nighter for jet means
that they've been working 6 shifts non-stop, which is like 3
days. And I think that it is just, it
was after a mission that didn't go particularly well.
So there were a bunch of ships and a bunch of equipment that
needed repairs right before another mission that was
supposed to be basically like coming on the tail end of that.
And so it was like all hands on deck.
I needed to be in the workshop fixing things.
And in the heat of all that, in the chaos of all that, I think
Cree was delivering a package and shows up like here in the
middle of like everything. And I was like, I was so
frustrated. I was so upset.
I'm like, what are you doing? Like I'm working here and you
tried to give me this package. And I look at the package and
it's the wrong address. And I laughed the hardest I
think anyone has ever seen me laugh.
Like it's like it's just like one of those like it's just one
of those absurd moments where it's like, of all of the things
that could happen, you've interrupted me during the most
important like every second matters here.
And I was just so upset. And it becomes just like
hilarity. So like this is ridiculous.
Of course, Kareem brought this to me during all of this and it
be the wrong place. And I just like like I laughed
so hard that like I had to sit on the ground because I just
like couldn't stand body just convulsing and I just like
tossed the package on the ground in front of you.
And I remember that as like just even through all the stress, all
the frustration and all of the like the me being so hard on
myself to try to meet my own expectations or the expectations
of a father who wasn't alive to actually put any on me.
And even in all of that, like to find the ridiculousness and like
the the just like we're all just trying our best.
And maybe I need to take a second and breathe and just be
in the moment rather than in my own head about all of these
things that I'm the only person who cares about them.
And I think like this manifest in this moment is just like a
deep. Like breath and like the
loosening of shoulders and just being like.
If I catch a fish, I catch a fish.
If I don't, whatever, it'll be fine.
That's the spirit. No pressure either way, taking
it easy. Yeah, it's a beautiful day.
Good day to fish. If they hearing Jet say that,
especially after we just had that moment of like tired of
being nice, you know, kind of vibe, I think Cree sees like
your shoulders finally intense and you just kind of slump a
little bit and you say it's a beautiful day to fish.
And they look out over the horizon and the water is
sparkling and they look at everybody, all their friends
here, and they wholeheartedly agree.
And with that I will swap my year 7 for my spades. 2 for one
special. Exactly.
Both of us get some fish. That's a sick.
Let's go, let's go. I think it's a swordfish.
I think it's like all of a sudden, like the line just gets
caught and it gets dragged and like just I'm having to tug
against it and it's like I think it's against my bad arm.
And I'm like struggling there for a moment.
And then I turn to look to to you Cree, who's like right
there. And I'm like.
Hello. You allow Cree to help you
because fuck yeah just pulls as Jet is kind of reeling it in.
Yeah yeah. And then just like old man in
the sea style like. Flying out of the water just
swordfish comes and I think it like sticks nose first into into
the the coast here. I love that.
That is the sickest thing I've ever seen.
That's. Incredible.
But yeah, that puts us at 14, which is still not enough.
We're working on it, We're working on It's not over yet.
OK, cool, I pulled another face card.
King of Hearts. OK, fuck yeah.
Let's do a treasure moment. Min Max in the game right now.
Let's see. That's what we that's where
we're at. That is absolutely where we're
at. I think.
Pit has. Like Loki, maybe always.
Kind of been in that? Not exactly.
Like caretaker position but. In a in a, in a spot where like
Pip would show create a skill, you know what I mean?
And they like that's how they've learned that.
And I think they had never flown a shit before they joined the
rebellion. And during like, you know, the
training arc, they were having a very hard time, like
understanding the various mechanisms of actually like
piloting a ship. And I like to think that maybe
one night they were up really late.
They were studying like the manual, It's full of sticky
notes and written from front to end of like various notes that
Korea's taken. And Pip kind of comes in and
it's like, you know, to be easy if you try, you know, try to
remember it X ways. I don't like Z way, you know,
and I think trying that out, it is completely clicked for Cree
in that moment. And it was smooth sailing since
then. And I, I think they're kind of
like in between Pip and jet right now.
And Cree looks at Pip with a soft smile and says, you know,
do you remember that? That one night I was in the
lounge, I was I was studying my ass off.
Oh my God. And you just came around that
corner. You took one glance at my book,
pointed out that error, said hey, try it this way.
I I don't think I. Would have been half the pilot I
was if it. Wasn't for that moment.
Oh shucks, that now. That's really special.
I I mean, you know, I kind of just have this brain that just
see things that works out. So I'm glad that I was able to
help you in that way. Yeah, it it genuinely helped me.
A great deal it's. I mean, I still use that exact
same method to remember things now, you know, my memory has
always been really shitty. It's been always been really
spotty. But that tip you gave me, it
just, I, I applied it to, you know, remembering landmarks and
knowing where to go. And I I use.
It all the time, even now still, that's incredible.
That's incredible. Yeah.
You know, it's it's all. A matter of perspective
sometimes. And having a good teammate to
show you the right perspective can really do wonders.
So I'm I'm glad I was able to do that for you.
Thanks babe. Thank you.
Shoulder nudges. Pippa, I think Free is leaving
this this fishing feeling a lot. More sure of themselves.
Honestly, like I really thought it was a shit, but my friends
believe in me, you know, they've given me like you know, you like
logically know a thing is true, but until someone else and kind
of shine a light on it and give you like tangible evidence of
it, it's still not doesn't still quite like click for you.
I think that has what occurred for Cree.
Like clearly I'm a good pilot, right?
I had a number of successful missions, but I never really
felt that until. This moment and it sucks.
That like I'm feeling it now. I want this all over.
But you know, better late than never.
I wrote a five. Hey, we'll take a 5.
Hey. We'll take a 5.
Take a 5. Big fish I.
Think Free has a better handle on.
Fishing now and. When they pull this.
Trout out of the water, they yellow, holy fucking trout.
And it's just they, they grab it.
It's very like, it's not as dramatic as a catfish, I will
say, but they just reel it in nice and easy, looks at it,
smiles and tosses it in our fish bucket.
That's why you have a bucket. And that's why you have the
bucket. Folks.
All right, Rachel, let's see if we can get some fish.
Yeah, I currently. Have I have the three clubs I
need? To do the fishing.
But we got to pull one card. See what we got?
Diamonds. I have been pulling nothing but
diamonds, Bobby's diamonds finally showing up.
So we're just going. To look at our left column.
Describe a triumphant moment you had in the Revolution I.
Think the most triumphant moment.
That I had came in the late stages of the revolution.
I, I think the needle was rocking back and forth the
entire time and it really was anybody's game, even up until
the end when it finally came down, not in our favor, but for
Pip, I think it was when they found themselves at the right
place at the right time. It was another undercover
mission they'd kind of worm their way up to, to to being in
the talks with this, to being in the talks with some of the more
top tier levels of of the Empire.
And we were really looking for some information.
About. What their next move was, I
wanted to get something that would give Cree the right
information about where to be. I wanted to get information that
would give Jet the right knowledge on, on how to how to
prep our, our, our weapons and our planes.
I wanted to give, I wanted to give Mel the insider on what
their weak points are. And, and I wanted to give Piston
the right words to say to kind of fire everyone up and then and
get us going in the right direction.
And it was in that moment that the conversation got heated and
they just let something slip that was a little bigger than
anything else I'd ever heard before.
And I don't think it was too long.
After. After.
Cree saved me from from basically from my awake again,
wiped off the map, so to speak. And I was able to return home
and I was able to give us a a big win with the with that
little bit of information. And even though, even though in
the end it didn't quite work out, it was still my my proudest
moment that because of everyone else around me getting me into
that right place, I was able to give back to everyone else on on
the team and and get us that win.
Well, that was my most triumphant moment.
Piston holds up a worm from his bucket and says here.
Here, here, here here. Here's.
You can fish and we fish, baby. Here we go.
That's a six baby. Let's rock.
It. Because it's a 22.
Oh. We're so close to being able to
eat so you. You catch a huge.
Fish Pip, I think, I think yeah, as as that story.
Kind of winds. Down the line, poles and and and
yeah, pip, pip starts to reel it in.
I think this is another one of those moments where it's clear
that we need a little bit more arm power in pulling this fish
in. So I'm kind of seeing a scene
similar to the end of, I think, the first season of Sailor Moon,
where everyone puts their hands on the rod at the same time and
we pull together and, yeah, this giant fish, this this holy trout
pulls out of the water and flies over the ground, landing on the
pile of fish majestically water, sparkling off its scales as the
sunset, kind of kind of the rays of the sunset land on the fish
as it. Lands on the pile.
And that, my friends, is how you catch a good one.
All right, gang, prayers up I. Believe in.
You got this, Jack of. Spades.
Not. A lot I can do.
To fish here. Today there's only one other
heart on the board. I only have one.
I need 3. So while everyone's celebrating
the the huge catch that Pip got, I'm pissed in as it's looking up
and watching the sun go down, looks at his rod and it pulls it
out, checks nothing in it hasn't felt a tug in a while.
Kind of solidly nods his head and sets his rod down on the
ground. And I'm also going to stay in
the left hand column. And I will also be describing A
triumphant moment we had during the rebellion.
And he kind of stands up. He's standing by the the meager
pile of fish and he says. This is a group that is not
unaccustomed to coming so. Close and just missing out.
Pretty good beginning, pretty good middle.
And I hate to be the one to tell you, but the end is we're going
to have to really ration these fish here.
Tonight after a day of. Work and it reminds me of.
The other ending of this. Rebellion, which I know doesn't
feel triumphant or successful. I know that ultimately the
rebellion was. Squashed.
And we lost a lot of our friends, our families, but we
didn't lose each other after everything that we went through.
In the skies, the. Beaches, the mountains, the
front door of the emperor. We are still here, we are still
fishing. And there is a triumph.
In simply living your. Life in spite of opposition, we
keep talking. About how important even the
little victories are. A victory can be as small as
simply fishing with your friends.
Today can be as little as getting to tomorrow.
Watching the sunset. These are the things the Empire
will never be able to take from us.
And because we are still here, the revolution, the things that
inspire it, will still be here and will go on.
And there will be other birds who are bigger, smarter, faster,
more advanced than us, who will figure it out and beat tyrannis.
But for today, the times are interesting.
And we have fish to eat. And I can't.
Fish, but bring us right to. The dinner portion of the
evening I am going to kind of take the lead on this one here,
if you'll allow me and say that as the quote UN quote leader of
this this dynamic, this group here Piston passes out five fish
each to each of you and takes two of the of the smaller ones
for himself. Not complaining, not saying a
word about it, just going. About it as if it were.
Routine In this scene we are able to enjoy a meal together.
And. We will go from there.
I'm mostly going to eat my meal in silence, but at the.
The first moment that you turn away Piston, I'm going to.
Swap out one. Of my fish for yours and I'm
going to gulp down the small fish before.
You have a chance to protest. I think he turns around to see
it and then sees what you did. And this kind of nods.
And says I didn't think I was a good enough leader until.
Today, so I'll. Take the compliment.
Thank you, I also ate like half the worms so you did.
You did. I dropped the fish.
You gave me I'm a Pelican, so this was right down.
My throat. I think Curry is absolutely.
Yapping about what? Who knows?
Probably the stars. Any.
And everything right now, but is happy to fill up the space, this
warm area and amazing company. I think they're just part more
chatting than normal, chatting with a smile on their face.
Just truly happy, happy to be here.
And have eased. Some of the internal fears that
they've had but have not like, given a voice to.
I think Jet is again. Silent as they always are, and I
think a little bit removed from where everybody else is kind of
eating and sitting like, kind of like by the sand has gotten a
stick and is drawing for the first time in a while.
Schematics for how they would improve these fishing rods so
they don't get tangled as much as his does.
Yeah, you know, I think. I think the entire time that
you've. Known pip.
Pip has always. Kind of put on this.
Face of knowing and confidence and there's never really never
really taken like accountability for things, just always.
Kind of believed in the best possible.
Case, even if the best possible case wasn't always so great.
And I think this. Time that we spent together.
Is the first time we've like spent together like this for a
while and something kind of dawns on them.
As as we're eating. And meanders over to Jet.
This is hey, you know, you know this, this trip down.
Memory lane has. Got me thinking and I I just got
to take some accountability for something.
I I was way too confident. With that stealth plane.
And I know how much it meant to you to work on it.
And to get it done and. At the time I, I was really
embarrassed and I, I, I don't really do good with
embarrassment and I didn't really account for your feelings
and I'm sorry and you don't have to forgive me.
I just want you to know. That, that, that it's eaten at
me for all this time and I know I'm never going to be able to
pay you back for it, but I did. Appreciate your work.
And when I said that you could build.
Another one. It was because I knew you were
that good. Thanks babe, I appreciate it.
I do hope you understand that. Parts don't grow on trees, so
while I could physically rebuild parts of it, there were some
parts that were irreplaceable and a lot had to happen for us
to get them in the first place. But that's neither here nor
there. Oh yeah.
Oh. That makes sense.
I Yeah. I wasn't.
Part of the part of the
resourcing. So I just, I never really
understood that. Oh, man, that's usually the
thing. Yeah, there was.
Oh no. It's a bad time to tell you, but
there are. People who did die to get some
of the. Parts.
Oh God, I'm a Jackass. Oh, no, it's hey.
Is that did? You tell a pip of the.
People who die for parts. Look, I just.
Kept that. From him for years.
I mean, we're I. Think I think.
That those people's memories should probably.
Be a little bit more respected than Pip's comfortable ability,
like in this particular moment. I mean, you're right, but God,
look, I look better now. Than ever I that's I.
Figured you know. We're letting it.
All hang out, yeah, and look and puts.
Puts. Puts.
Puts a hand on your shoulder. Look, you wouldn't be the first
pilot who didn't give. The ship.
You were flying the proper respect or the.
Resources. That went into it, the proper
respect. One of the few that apologized.
Oh God. I.
Oh my. God, I, I, I'm a Jackass.
But you know what? I'm a Jackass.
And you're 1 hell of a mechanic and.
Yeah, yeah, and you are a good pilot when you aren't crashing
shit. Yeah, I was better on the.
Ground, you could say it is that right?
You were better on the ground. I was.
I was much better on the ground. I was much.
You know what? Enjoy your meal.
And I'm I'm going to go eat my fish over here.
Just yeah. And then wanders off.
Can I? Why?
God, I'm, I'm, I'm going to, I'm going to go Pat.
His back for a few minutes, yeah, sounds good.
The. Five of.
Us reminisce about old times, heal some old wounds, reopen
some other ones, and heal them all over again.
And we enjoy our. Meal together a.
Moment of solace in a white hot climate.
But if nothing else, we can say that we have lived in and are
living in interesting times and we still found some time to
fish, and that is may you fish in interesting times, yes.
How have I fallen in? Love with all of your characters
I. Love these birds.
Thank you all for playing. As you mentioned earlier, made
you. Fish in Interesting Times was
created by WH Arthur. It rules.
A link to the game is in the episode description.
Go buy it for crying out loud, Why don't you?
Thank you everyone here for playing today.
I am sad to see the birds go, but I'm glad they got there and
they're either. Arcs concluded.
Jen, where can we find more of you?
Well hello friends. I have been Jen your friendly.
Local berb. But you know that for this game
that that's not all that special.
I can be found in various places on the Internet at Jenberb that
is J i.e. NBIRB.
If you cannot find me on a social media under that, then I
am not on that social media. I am most active on Discord and
Blue Sky. If you need me, I am.
I do performance, production, project management, a little bit
of overlay design. Mostly.
I hang out with Grant over here at Game Master Monday and I do
things. For some reason, Grant puts up
with me. Oh, I do more than put up with
you. Kendo or can we find more of
you? Hey, I've been Kendrick.
Or Kendo, whichever you prefer. And you can find me anywhere on
the Internet that. Matters at Kendo Makes Films and
you can also find my actual play podcast where we tell stories at
the intersection of queerness and horror using in the TTRPGS
and that's Tales Get Told. And guess what?
You can find us anywhere on the Internet that matters at Tales
Get Told. If you're looking for us and you
can't find us there, I'm sorry you're somewhere that doesn't
matter that much. And I'm, you know, maybe go
somewhere better, I guess all of now interesting times.
Look, I'm just saying if there's a.
Reason you can't find us on Twitter.
Anymore if you're looking there. Go somewhere else.
Big tales yet told fan have been for years.
Super stoked to have you on the show today my friend.
Thank you so much for having me. Similarly been watching
Yearningly. From across the Internet.
So yeah, that's holding hands right across the table.
Thank you so much for holding hands across the Internet with.
Me Grant. Blue, where can we find more of
you? Y'all can find me in the
Internet streets as king, the under score and as King.
With AY and anywhere Batty Bars is, we're an actual play podcast
of an all black queer trans group and we're pretty fucking
funny if I do say so myself. So yeah, seconded.
I love Batty bards so damn much. Birded.
Literally started listening this year that I have to.
Get these. People on my show.
I have a mighty need to play with them, Rachel.
Where can we find more of you? Hi everyone.
I've been Rachel Kordell or Pip. You can find me all over the
Internet at Rachel Kordell. For the audio listeners, it's
KORDELL on that last name. But yeah, I'm all over the
place, Threads and Instagram mostly, but I'm trying to get
over more to Blue Sky. It's just so many social medias
these days it's crazy. But if you want to find me and
other actual play stuff, you can specifically find me over on RP
Gestures. That is my actual play that I
produce. We're doing a bunch of stuff.
I'm just gonna shut out. The last two shows we did, we
did Hench, which was a show using the system called Icons,
where we're all hench men doing crazy things, investigating our
own villains lair. That's crazy.
And the newest series we have coming out right now is Blood on
the Reeds, which is a spooky little old Gods of Appalachia
game. Trigger warning on that.
It's crazy over there, but it's spooky fun.
Good times. And we would love to have you
listen if you'd come listen to us.
But yeah, you can find us anywhere at RP Jesters and you
know, all that good stuff. But yeah, that's that's all for
me right now. Thanks.
Thanks for having me. This oh, oh, this group, this
store so good. I'm obsessed.
The food and leave the best for Game Master Monday, baby.
That's right, baby. I, I I've said it.
Before I'll say it again, I'm a big.
RP Jesters. Fan have been circled in this
group like one of the moons of Mars for a while, so it's a
treat to have Rachel on the show.
Happy to be here and and that that's it for this week.
We'll be back in 2. Weeks, another one shot.
Our pride month is coming up. Not that we are ever not doing
gay shit, but we're going to be doing turbo gay shit in June.
So stick around with me announcing some cool one shots
and a mini series for you here soon.
But for the rest of you, we'll see you in two weeks.
Bye, bye, bye. Where'd you get that hand?
We have them. Oh, you mean this hand That's.
What I'm saying? Now, we've always had fingers.
It was established in the. Beginning.
It was established back in the. Evolution times.
You know when. We became birds with.
Pants, yes, but you forgot I am bird brain.
How many dollars? Gets.
Me every time to the end credits of you.
Let's do. It let me roll.
Hold on. I had AD six round.
Here, there it is big. Money big.
Fish, big fish. Come on.
As Grant would say. Daddy needs a big fish.
Daddy needs a big bucket. Say something else though.
It's just my legacy. Now.