Hello and welcome to Snyder's return a tabletop roleplay Podcast. I'm Adam and today we're all hands on deck. As we set sail on an adventure the ebbs flows and has us casting some reflections. I'm joined by a group of wonderful people from the pop cast community for one shot of the fantastic new game up river downriver by Ella Watts and Max Briar, which is fully funded on Kickstarter as of time of recording. So congratulations. It is my absolute pleasure to introduce Beth Crane. Hello Cai Pritchard. HELLO, Cat Blackard. Hi, Hedley Knights.
Hedley Knights:Hello,
Snyders Return:and the game designer, Ella watts. Hello. Please, starting with yourself Beth, would you like to introduce yourself properly and let us know where we can find
Beth Crane - Oona:Please. Hi, I'm Beth Crane, my pronouns are you. she her? And I write an act in the podcast we fix space junk. Alright, and where can we find you on social media? If at all, you can find me at at noncombustible on Twitter, or Beth Crane art on Instagram or at WWE fix space junk on most media.
Snyders Return:And the role you'll be playing today is I will be
Beth Crane - Oona:playing Oona the engineer his pronouns also she her.
Snyders Return:Thank you. Cai, please.
Cai Colin Pritchard:Hello, my name is Cai Colin Pritchard. You can find me on Twitter at my name is not chi and that's cai with the C and Welsh. And I will be playing the role of the priest whose name is della Ferny Manteo. co author name and He's a dwarf that I miss is such a good name. Thank you.
Hedley Knights:I love Ella's face when you read your name.
Snyders Return:EPIC NAME cat, please.
Cat Blackard:Hi, I'm Cat Blackard. My pronouns are she Bay. And I am the showrunner of the Call of Cthulhu mystery programme and actual play audio drama. And I'm playing the cook who's a dwarf and her name is anthracite marble heart. I'm guessing that means that she comes from a very different Dwarven culture then. I'm whatever Kai's character's name is I lost track.
Cai Colin Pritchard:Yeah, I think I think this is a name taken by like the religious order. I like to think ah, you know, okay, yeah.
Snyders Return:Okay. dilla Poseidon, both doors Headly
Cat Blackard:at least anthracite, anthracite and it's a kind of coal. You can call me Ana for short or and and for and for short, not honour and and as an anthracite.
Snyders Return:Thank you. Hedley, please.
Hedley Knights:My name is Hedley Knights, and I am the CO creator of weave IQ space junk with Beth crane. I'm the producer director. And you can find me on Twitter at our shows Twitter address at Weaver space junk and also at Headley underscore K. And I will be playing the gunner Lucy fan cow. And yeah, she's gonna My pronouns are he him her pronouns? Are she her?
Cai Colin Pritchard:She's got to say my pronouns are he, they sorry. He, they,
Ella Watts:what I dealt with these pronouns
Cai Colin Pritchard:didn't occur to me, I think whatever I think Oh,
Snyders Return:all right, Ella, please.
Ella Watts:Hello, I'm Ella Watts. I'm a Podcast Producer and I'm also the designer of this game. My pronouns are she her you can find me on social media at GE J watts on Instagram, Twitter. And I will be you know, just non stop posting about this game throughout the Kickstarter campaign and you can find information about that. If you search hashtag up revert downriver with a little sailboat emoji because this is also the name of a card game and occasionally drunk people on Twitter just post about their card game using that prefer down river. So I added the emoji. I will be playing Captain Jeremiah Thomas, who is a river folk Captain following the path of justice and their pronouns are heathen.
Snyders Return:Thank you. It is a pleasure to make the crews acquaintance this day. And the crew you find yourselves in a smaller sleepy fishing village on the banks of the river or that our adventure takes place upon the settlement called meadow Brook, the setback a little bit from the river. There's so not to flooding in the heavy rains has a multitude of dwellings and shops, a few small commodities available for for trade, and in taverns and a sleepy but yet touristy life all around you, rolling through the green hills that go back away from the river shore. Nestled down here at the water's edge is this beautiful, small, almost Hamlet, it it draws you in the sound of sort of farm and domestic animals that the sky above you is, is raised. To be clear there are clouds in the sky, there's a slight breeze that sort of ripples across the rivers sort of water surface, the longer grass set back from the settlement, sort of shifts and waves in this breeze. It's warm, but not humid, it's comfortable. It's reassuring, it's it's almost like home and the start of our adventure. Tide, as it were, to the river's edge is appear as a small dock with a single sort of ferry boat to take crews such as your good sells out to their respective vessels moored in the rivers belly. We see them each of the boats tied up, Bobs ebbs and flows as the the current and the breeze shift the water around water birds, Clovers plumbers, some seagulls that have come up from the sea, just bobbing is waves. A few ducks go ducking as they do. And swans flare their wings and paddle across the waters or surface to to lift off and fly to their next sort of feeding site. And nesting grounds potentially. But in this this almost serenity tied into the environment. Where do we find the crew? Where are you?
Ella Watts:Well, I mean, this is a good point. What have we named our ship? Because I think we should name our ship. Yeah. Should I mean if no one, like I'll put forward freedoms called is a classic. Well, maybe a little boring, we could do something more fun.
Cat Blackard:At the start of this game. I asked the cards like how this was going to go and it was a pretty good omen. I got the 10 of pentacles. So we could call the ship the pentacle.
Beth Crane - Oona:Yeah, I like
Ella Watts:yeah. Cool. Um, so I'm gonna wait just before we start as well, I want to check cat what's what are Anne's pronouns? She her. Cool. And Beth, what is your character's name? And pronouns?
Beth Crane - Oona:Una Shia. Oh, yes, of course.
Ella Watts:So I'm guessing that we're all on the pentacle, right.
Beth Crane - Oona:Yeah, I'm in my lair. My engineers are in the kind of the engine room, which no one else is really allowed in. It's not like a written rule. But it is one of those things where I will growl at you and probably brandish a spanner. If I catch anyone there. I possibly sleeps asleep upside down. People haven't figured it out yet.
Hedley Knights:I have a question about the world if that's okay for you, of course, because we're brand new to this as other listeners. This is a fantasy setting with elves and dwarves. But we have goat gunners and engineers, does that mean we have guns and engines? Or are we strictly sales?
Snyders Return:I will let the engineer decide how they would like to pilot this boat or maintain propulsion shall be saved. And gunner. What armaments would you have? With respect to the engineers abilities to create?
Hedley Knights:I tried to narrow spec the game. And the game designer whose face I'm looking at and
Beth Crane - Oona:I think we have a kind of it's a bit paddleboat ish. It's steam driven. Yeah, yeah. So there is a furnace. There's an engine room. It's very hot. I'm one of those people who likes things. Just uncomfortably hot for everyone else. So I wear a massive thick coat, like all the time, even when I'm in this boiling hot engine room, and I sleep next to the store of coal, which no one's ever seen refill, but it does always seem to be full.
Snyders Return:Alright, so knowing we have steam power what would Lucy have? That is potentially of a similar technological vein for armaments on board?
Hedley Knights:Well, I think we definitely have metalwork, but I think it's probably more of a single loaded kind of gunpowder based firing system. Maybe a few different a few different things for different occasions, like a Swiss Army knife of different things for different occasions.
Snyders Return:Maybe a chain shot or
Hedley Knights:exactly a change shop, grapeshot. Oh cares things to was that what was that joke? About? It being kinda?
Beth Crane - Oona:No, I said maybe a cannon as a cannon that fires things.
Snyders Return:However, however, though, yes, it is now cannon. I will just roll roll with that.
Cai Colin Pritchard:When you say a knife, I assumed you meant like, has like a nail file? Like?
Hedley Knights:There's definitely a bottle opener. Yeah, that means
Ella Watts:I have a question. Which also, like, I never thought it from this direction. So if at any point, you're like, LS stop vaccine, just tell me. But as a player, I'm interested to know, for cat and Kai, you're both dwarves in the kind of text of the Quickstart. It says that, like the people, it's widely believed on the river, the the dwarves have disappeared, that they were either sorted by the human empire, or that they left over the mountains and never came back. So have you have your characters told the rest of our crew that you're dwarves? Or are you travelling in disguise in some way?
Cat Blackard:Gosh, is there any way to hide being a dwarf?
Ella Watts:Well, I mean, little people, like humans with dwarfism and halflings. And also, like, if you've got magic, then you could use that too, I
Cat Blackard:guess? Well, let's see. Uh, let me back up a little bit further and ask what the verdict is on how long we've been a crew? Hmm.
Ella Watts:I kind of, I'm imagining in my head that Jeremiah is ever folk who comes from the glass road, so not from the home of the river foreground and the Seven Sisters. And part of the reason that they want to go to the sea is because they really believe in river folk culture, they're kind of like an expat going home. And therefore, in my head, I've been imagining that Jeremiah was essentially doing trade routes up and down the glass Road, which is kind of the longest part of the river just, you know, selling and delivering rice, silver, kind of just generally Cago and got very bored of that, and has now been like, no, now I'm going to have a grand adventure. And I'm going to prove myself and I'm going to connect with the magic of the river and my spiritual ancestors, and everything's gonna be great. Um, so in terms of like, as the captain, I guess, it's like whether or not anyone wants to have been trading with me on the glass. Or if you think you kind of joined more recently, when I made the decision to go down river.
Beth Crane - Oona:I feel like I came with the ship. And possibly was born on the ship.
Cai Colin Pritchard:I love that word. So in terms of like, whether we're pretending not to be dwarves, or whether we're just like laying people know, is, I mean, what would make things harder for us? Well, I don't know. I have an idea for mine. But if you can't feel like you would, if Anthro would just be like open about being a dwarf then maybe I think telephony would be similar, but I don't know. What would you think?
Cat Blackard:Well, I actually had a thought that preceded this this session, which was that perhaps this is one of those cultures where, like, female dwarves, quote, unquote, female dwarves have beards? Like typically, like every dwarf has a beard. However, um, and is going through a period of mourning and culturally has shaved off her beard, which then falls into a weird kind of like passing for a short human I guess.
Cai Colin Pritchard:That's a lot wicked. So So you you are like saying that you're human, basically.
Cat Blackard:Yeah, if it's convenient to do so. That's not a problem. Really. It sounds like it's rather dangerous to not do it.
Cai Colin Pritchard:Yeah, for I think I think Delphine is. Well, are we describing characters because it's kind of relates to the way that they're dressed but Delphine is completely like swept in just like leather coats and various like layers. And the totem which is Totem and massive air quotes is a mask which kind of branches out over their face and it's in the shape of You know, like an album off with it has the two eyes on its wings. But me there's gaps with the, like the eyes are. And basically just all you see is over the top, there's loads of like curly black hair. Under the bottom, there's a big curly black beard but facially there's just the eyes, like peeking through this through this more. So I think not, it probably just wouldn't tell anyone like, oh, like, it hasn't said, Oh, I'm a human, but also hasn't said I'm a dwarf. Like, I think it's just they are, you know. So I think that's, that's probably the approach that if any takes,
Ella Watts:okay, as the captain of the ship, then I really want to know, or have you been like working with me for a long time, and I haven't known for like years or review only joined my crew recently. Because I feel like this is kind of like a relationship that you guys have with Jeremiah, then it's like how long? You've not been telling them?
Cai Colin Pritchard:I mean, I think this is a new, I think I've like this is a recent joining of this crew, I think I mean, I think we deal with any of the going to the seas like this sort of religious pilgrimage kind of thing. And so I think that it's only very recently they've decided that they want to get to the sea. And so I think just sort of found the first boat that would would take them. So I think it's a recent kind of relationship.
Cat Blackard:And I'd say that anthracite has a sort of similar abrupt motive in that regard because the, the loss of her wife has put her into like a pretty terrible spiral. And she's looking for a, like, some kind of clarity that that like going to the sea is sort of a nihilistic vision quest kind of decision that that she's making. Wow.
Snyders Return:Powerful stuff. Okay. So we have established a few bits of the crew there and people a few people's locations. Just to clarify. Our engineer. unit is on board.
Beth Crane - Oona:Yes, yes. Oh, Ghana in our engine room
Snyders Return:in the engine room in big coats stuck in the works. Our Ghana Lucy.
Hedley Knights:Yeah, I think this is probably how, how big is up? How big is a ship? Like it's a schooner? So Ella,
Ella Watts:I think he should be about like 40 feet long.
Hedley Knights:And is that how many how many floors? Is that? So you're on the deck? You're below?
Ella Watts:Probably just one probably just below deck in the deck. Cool.
Beth Crane - Oona:Things now
Hedley Knights:is that okay? are we breaking the game? No, that's no, we're breaking the game.
Ella Watts:Oh, no. I mean, she can have a steam engine. I think that that makes sense. Like a lot of modern sailing boats have engines as well. The wind is not always on your side.
Snyders Return:Indeed. As we may find out and also there are shipwrights and things up and down the river that may be able to have already converted to the captain's festival with the engineers direction shall we say? So that is my boat
Beth Crane - Oona:it's not your boat.
Hedley Knights:You may have bought it but it's not
Beth Crane - Oona:I came
Hedley Knights:so I think yeah, leases below deck probably checking, checking stocks and in the search light but possibly become distracted or maybe playing solitaire or something like that.
Snyders Return:Alright, and counting. Did you say you're on board?
Ella Watts:Yeah, I think that it's it's a beautiful day. So Jeremiah is probably smoking a pipe on Deck, just sort of taking in the sights of Meadowbrook and enjoying this moment of calm and peace before the inevitable storm. Yeah, I think that that probably relaxing on deck. I have another question. And Adam stopped me if I'm distracted too much, but I'm heavily invested. So Beth owner came with the boat. That means the owner has been dragged from our safe, stable trading business into this ridiculous mission to go to arising from which no one has ever returned. How does she feel about that?
Beth Crane - Oona:Well, the Bud's gun.
Snyders Return:I have a count question for now. If If you don't leave the engine very often do you realise you're on this quest to the seat? No. Are you just laying next stop?
Beth Crane - Oona:I listened to the by
Snyders Return:she talks to you.
Cat Blackard:Oh, and the pipes tend to echo conversations down the
Snyders Return:transference of sound like waveguides
Ella Watts:No, no, no. Secrets,
Hedley Knights:plays events that go to each part of the ship.
Beth Crane - Oona:It's like a podcast
Ella Watts:just like audio, and then like Hadley similar question like if i Sir, like delahanty and anthracite joined recently who has always been here longer than me. When did Lucy join on?
Hedley Knights:I think probably a little been been around a little longer, but probably only less than a year. I mean, I guess how long have you two been? How long have you been with a boat captain? How long have I been with about? Yeah,
Ella Watts:coming on 14 years now.
Hedley Knights:14 years. So you need to know to the very well, well,
Ella Watts:as well, if anyone's been in
Beth Crane - Oona:the same location.
Snyders Return:Professional respect, they're,
Ella Watts:you know, they sell these like puzzles that purport to be Dwarven puzzles, and you're never supposed to be able to solve them. And I always say that that's kind of a hack because if you've ever met Oona, she's the real puzzle like it's taken me a decade and I'm still not there yet. So I'm just doing an accent because I never do accents. And I'm like, You know what, it's a fantasy. Well, this is my region.
Hedley Knights:And you resemble any resemblance to those living or dead is purely coincidental.
Snyders Return:disclaimers to be added post.
Hedley Knights:So in that case, I'd say maybe I've been been there a year. So we've gotten we've gotten to know each other a bit. But probably, maybe the decision to go to the sea has come around. Yeah, probably around, I probably joined up with the idea of we might be heading out to sea. And should we say for the listeners, what heading to the sea means?
Snyders Return:Sure. Well, as Captain, you have chosen your OCR path is your destination. So please, in your own words, what does that mean to you? What's that mean? For the pentacle? Oh,
Ella Watts:I mean, for Jeremiah, it's. So no one's ever come back from crossing the horizon of the see. And Jeremiah grew up in the Glassford, which is kind of a cosmopolitan part of the river, mostly human, but a place where magical people are looked on with a friendly eye. So a lot of river folk kind of live up there. But the kind of the ancestral home of like the river focus, the Seven Sisters, which are these marshes that are right next to the sea. And that's where the kind of religion of the river was founded, allegedly. But over the last couple of years, where the marshes were always stable, they've started to sink and the river folksy, that is like the most terrible omen like the location associated with the seventh, this is the tower. And I think for Jeremiah, it's kind of a thing of like, proving that the river folks still have magic and that their magic still means something and that their relationship with the river still means something. So they want to do this impossible thing, this impossible voyage specifically like this journey through water to kind of reclaim kind of a name for their people in their culture and kind of restore some of their pride. And I think like a little bit of that is kind of overcompensating because Jeremiah grew up away from seven sisters. So they feel like they're not really a river folk, but maybe if they sailed across the sea and came back then like the, the real river folk would accept them and would kind of you know, welcome them with open arms. So I think that they kind of want to prove themselves a little bit like he's he's got a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. But he pretends not to. He's like, no, no, I just think it's a good idea this possible trade opportunities, and I don't think that any of you buy it, it's up to you whether or not you buy it, but it's not a good way. He's not a very good liar. I'm not supposed to lie. It's following the path justice.
Beth Crane - Oona:I've heard him talking to himself and it's not pretty. He does both sides of the argument and doesn't do well.
Snyders Return:And still doesn't win.
Hedley Knights:You never do.
Snyders Return:This is true. This is true. So Jeremiah on on the top deck on the deck with your pipe smoke, caught in the wind, moving with the air currents, the water, just lifting the pentacle up and down with the other ships. Looking around. You can see onto the pier there seems to be a lone individual next to a small sort of ferry boat, and a couple of steps there sort of a bright yellow sort of Mac and hat and they're sort of sat down on a wooden stool, just perched at the end. There's an unlit lanten sort of hung on a stanchion. Just next to them as they sit looking back at you but more down just across the water's edge watching the shimmers. Looking up and down the river, there are birds moving around, you see the odd shadow of maybe a fish or something sort of move under the water surface. Bird sort of following the movement around the reeds on the side of the river sort of move the other boats lift and rise and fall as as I've said, you can see Meadowbrook back in and you can see the shore and The sharp and you can see just just shapes of life sort of moving between the buildings that make up the sort of the waterfront. establishments that are here closest to the to the pentacle and the river itself. But we have to crew member on accounted for but at this point in time you haven't seen approach along the dock as yet. Where do we find the two remaining of the crew?
Cat Blackard:Well, I think anthracite is probably out, we are about to we're going to set off sooner or later anthracite is probably out completing a shopping list and getting preparations if she's been given a stipend for getting the food and such then that's what she's doing.
Snyders Return:won't be on your shopping list.
Cat Blackard:Well, culturally speaking, it's probably a pretty, pretty significant bent towards mushroom based dishes. And the essential tubers Daikon, carrots, radishes, potatoes, things that will keep a decent amount of time under the circumstances. potentially some kind of like easy to ration doesn't easily moulded sort of bread of some sort. Lots of dried herbs, anthracite, something of like a, a pretty good field chef, I'm able to make something out of nothing and to do it like with a certain degree of like, flair, like you will not find bland food on your table. If, you know unless things have gone really wrong. So yeah, essential, largely vegetarian meals because it means there's salted meat. Sure, it's an essential like jerky things but but it's you know, we can if we want meat we can we can fish for it.
Snyders Return:For fun, as you go through what is effectively the only convenience shop only sort of the local shop here in Meadowbrook it is staffed by a rather more younger gentleman than than you may have possibly expected from the only shopping in this hamlet. A lot of times you in other places you you may have found elderly couples that run such establishments that tend to the community and are that corner stone that that pillar stone of community. And rumour and gossip has these places tend to be but this is run by sort of a younger gentleman who is available to attend to your needs and anything you're unsure of his swifter point out on the shelf.
Cat Blackard:Well, I I take note of that verbally, like you're awfully young to be running a general store, doing it with such proficiency. What's the score kid?
Snyders Return:Well, you know, I've had my chances. You know, I've been even there came from the smokestacks deny and it was about time that Omar parley retired, so I, I let him Alibaba a bit of time to themselves, you know, let him get get efficiently and before before the days end, as it were so yeah, I know this place like the back of my hand. I might have stolen that hand once, but I know it
Cat Blackard:but from the smokestacks. He said, Oh, well.
Snyders Return:I've been here there and everywhere. But we've all got to start. So wherever we Yeah,
Cat Blackard:sure. Well, hey, no, no shade. Never been there myself. But it's a seems like kind of perhaps a relatable sort of place. A come from a place of a lot of a lot of forgery, a lot of smelting. So let's say do you have any do you have any paprika? Oh,
Snyders Return:hi. Priya done with me, my friend come with me and I will show you the actually, I won't show you what's on the shelf because that's, that's what it is guys by you. I can see you on something a bit more special. I can see it in your eyes you will look quite sharp. Follow me. And He guides you sort of to the counter and sort of nips behind and you hear a couple of rustlings and outcomes this jar quite small and he places upon the table he says You said good stuff well gone gone
Cat Blackard:alright, yeah, we we caught each other's eyes seeing like that I was definitely going to you know, try before I buy a I'll believe this this like spring chickens opinion of the good stuff like when I see it, so I I carefully just dab a little bit on my finger and put on the tongue. And I'm hoping this is going to be some like exceptionally smoky and spicy paprika. What do I get
Snyders Return:compared to what is on the shelf? This is like before reserve from the finest restaurants you've probably possibly never been too
Cat Blackard:good. You weren't lion. Alright? I'll take it.
Snyders Return:Well, you can't just take these things can you you know, get a tray. Shop a Hey already?
Cat Blackard:Sure. Where mind
Snyders Return:pay two ways pulled a lot of stuff off my shelves, I'm gonna have to restock, obviously so that's going to cost you also want to know where are you hidden? Always nice to keep up with the with the travelling folk as it were.
Cat Blackard:Well, it's not particularly my business to know where we're heading per se. I just know we're going down river.
Snyders Return:Ah, nice. Right. All right this up. Get that load in a bag for you. We'll get you on your way down river through all the good people live. Just steer clear the Imperials they bit normally on the on the road on the river, bit naughty,
Cat Blackard:naughty, or I lean in. What does that mean? What are you What are you saying?
Snyders Return:It means? And he also leans in? It means if there's any like magics and stuff. Just watch your step. Alright. That's a friendly, friendly friendly bit of advice of course.
Cat Blackard:Of course. Yeah. Perish the thought. Thank you.
Snyders Return:So let me ring that up for you. Like give me a give me hold till CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK pulls out the drawer because it doesn't have a mechanism
Unknown:clutching
Snyders Return:monetary wise. I don't know what carrot to start with. I'm not going to rob you blind.
Cat Blackard:Well, I've got 230 River silver, which sounds pretty nice, but I don't know that breaks down.
Unknown:Half of that. So
Ella Watts:one one river Solvay. Sorry, for river silver equals one Imperial gold. And generally speaking, like, kind of a good meal would be, you know, one piece of gold for river silver. So that's, that would be like a cooked meal in a restaurant.
Cat Blackard:So, so 230 is quite decent. Yeah.
Snyders Return:I'll see you come prepared. Oh. I will contain my enthusiasm. I apologise.
Cat Blackard:Oh, it's my job to be prepared.
Snyders Return:Aussie, the Aussie to choice in a funky. Good choice sort of funky. Right. That looks to me tighten all this up. Mm hmm. I think I think 1515 Gold. You got a much
Cat Blackard:longer card. Some numbers real quick. I pretty sure I do. But
Snyders Return:I'll tell you what, I'll round it down to 16,000.
Cat Blackard:rounded down Cute, cute. Cute. Um, so in regards to like, this is I assume that on my character sheet. This is anthracite. It's personal money. And, uh, why would I be using my personal money? You can hire ship.
Snyders Return:I'll give you a receipt. You can take it back and claim it. It's the way
Ella Watts:I mean, I'm happy I'm happy to pay for that cat.
Beth Crane - Oona:UNESCO because you can
Ella Watts:have I mean, I think like what I what I thought was I would probably have given you 40 Silver. So, but I'm happy to bump that up for simplicity's sake. I think you have more silver than me though, which I'm enjoying. Like, you're kind of like rinsing me for me. Even though you're gonna be eating a quarter of the food.
Cat Blackard:I mean, a loved one did die let's let's say that you know to get melon Very cool. Well, if you've if you give me 40 And I'm getting like, I'm 16 That's going then. Outstanding. That's great. That means I still have some money to swing by whatever pubs in town and pick up a keg of something. Hell yes. Or a couple
Hedley Knights:so just just because in case I missed it, did you say usually one gold would be for so a meal in a restaurant and he's charging 15 gold for
Ella Watts:I mean for like two months supplies and food for like people. Like that's like a big old grocery shop.
Hedley Knights:Good. Ketchup is not just like one meal. I know it's being rinsed
Snyders Return:but that's still partially true.
Cat Blackard:Paprika good paprika. Little is gonna go a long way. So she got me money then. Yes. klient on the barrel head as it were.
Snyders Return:Is it all silver or do you have gold as well?
Cat Blackard:I'm I'm sporting silver.
Ella Watts:We both have silver because we're from the glass.
Snyders Return:I'll see downriver. You said you were going down right Ever, right? Let me take this. First, he sort of scrapes off and dumps it in the in the register. Now, if you're going down river, you're going to need some gold, or recommend you got to pay for your ferry man. And you got to keep the Imperials off your back. So, recommend a little bit of exchange, my exchange rate is fair. It's fair, of course. But if you are willing, of course to partake, some of you roll to change with my good self, then I can ensure you safe passage down the river.
Cat Blackard:I love this guy. Well, what is this exchange rate of yours?
Snyders Return:Oh, it's very fair. It's very fair. And for once it actually is. You lay for down I'll put one gold down. No funny business for me. No funny business from you.
Cat Blackard:Outstanding. Well, in that case, I'll, I'll do that for as much as they can allow. I'm out of I'll probably keep the remainder of what the captain gave me but off my own personal stash once we get out to open See, I don't really expect. Yeah, I don't really expect any of this to mean anything anymore. So I've got 230 and I'm more than happy to break that down into the
Snyders Return:well, I'm a simple convenience store. Man. I am not a bank vault.
Cat Blackard:Right. Yeah. So as much as is reasonable, I will exchange
Snyders Return:alright. And so you do so a stack of silver appears on one side, the stack of gold appears on your side. And the exchange is fair and counted. He watches your hands as probably as much as you're watching his hands. Mm hmm. I think I think we are we are resolved in our little transaction. I do think
Cat Blackard:I do think and thank you kindly. This has been most helpful, most gracious and most appreciated
Snyders Return:not all would help you carry your items down you're down to the ferry dock but as you can see, I'm a one man operation here a one man operation and it's it's it's the hub of the of Meadowbrook I can't I can't simply can't leave.
Cat Blackard:I I do what I can to stifle his politeness or whatever it was by hoisting this extremely heavy sack of stuff like it's almost nothing with a wink.
Snyders Return:Oh, fuck. Good, good day to you. Good day to you. So with your transaction completed you step out into Meadowbrook proper where's our other crew member? At this time?
Cai Colin Pritchard:On the boat, what is the highest point I could prostrate on?
Snyders Return:Interesting sentence.
Ella Watts:Because I'm not sure you would really have enough space in whatever kind of crow's nest approximation we would have. Especially in such a small bar. So probably like
Cai Colin Pritchard:was there like a cover over the opening into the bottom deck? Or is it just like flat
Snyders Return:or captain? Do you have like a a wheel house with a flat roof? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love that.
Cai Colin Pritchard:Cool. I think on the roof of this wheelhouse. I think Delphine is just sort of on on their knees face to the whatever material the roof is. And is just is praying basically, and has been up there for sure. Think of an uncomfortable amount of time for someone to pray. I think hour and a half and it's not and they've not moved once I think
Ella Watts:I mean, in that case like Jeremiah definitely sort of slowly gets up out of that chair kind of taps out that pipe comes over. say delta ne what exactly is that a good you know, is that a river focus? Should I be doing that?
Cai Colin Pritchard:This is a personal matter. This is a beautiful country find ourselves in. I am
Ella Watts:thanking well that I'll leave you to it
Cai Colin Pritchard:to join me.
Ella Watts:Well, sure. Jeremiah kind of climbs up on top of the wheel house next you kind of awkwardly stands there. So well. What are we doing?
Cai Colin Pritchard:You bring yourself low on the highest point you can find. Okay, press your forehead into the ground. Okay. You consider yourself in the world you find yourself in and then we stay here for as long as is necessary.
Ella Watts:Right I'm probably gonna have to check with them when she gets back with The supplies and at all but
Cai Colin Pritchard:you feel enlightened yet?
Ella Watts:Not in these few. I mean, should I have felt something? I mean, I could have I could have felt something.
Cai Colin Pritchard:All things in time. Alright.
Beth Crane - Oona:I think at this point, you know, comes out, looks at them, then turns around and goes just back in again.
Ella Watts:Oh, now do you want to join us network with Duncan? Something for how beautiful everything is.
Beth Crane - Oona:I'm good.
Snyders Return:I'm good. All right.
Cai Colin Pritchard:It opens your mind.
Beth Crane - Oona:If you open your mind too much your brain will fall out.
Snyders Return:For you fair gun. Are you sorry, Lucy. Are you doing anything while they are partaking in this?
Hedley Knights:Well, I think when it turns around and abruptly walks back down under below deck or below. Where is everyone? What What's everyone doing up there? too?
Beth Crane - Oona:I think they're napping.
Hedley Knights:Well above deck.
Beth Crane - Oona:I mean, I didn't say they were doing it very well.
Hedley Knights:Fair enough. Fair enough. Well, I've got any plans for the evening. Any plans? Yep. Was that? Well, you're gonna
Beth Crane - Oona:read Emma hammock?
Hedley Knights:Classic classic. Oh, no, that is
Beth Crane - Oona:yes.
Hedley Knights:Enjoy anything interesting. Anything
Beth Crane - Oona:I'd like. Mostly manuals.
Hedley Knights:Okay. Well, yeah, not then. But I mean, I can barely read. But you know, I'm just trying to make conversation.
Beth Crane - Oona:I appreciate it. And I just shut the door in her face. Like Well, we're about Bluetooth. I've got a sliding door because of space. So just pull it closed in between. And then I go and go back to reading the manuals
Hedley Knights:Lucy's very unfazed and gotten quite used to this. So it just goes back to playing a bit of solitaire by the by a barrel of gunpowder and Brass Monkey full of cannon balls.
Beth Crane - Oona:Lucy is probably my best friend on the ship.
Snyders Return:There's a real connection. Una You remind me of scruffy. But that's a different cultural reference was the janitor from Futurama.
Beth Crane - Oona:Similar costumes, smaller moustache.
Snyders Return:So with all this faith and interpersonal bonding happening upon the 10, the pentacle, we jumped back to shore with you and you have just left the store you are encumbered, but not way down. Should we say buy the supplies?
Cat Blackard:Yeah, yeah. You know, so my intention of getting a keg or something, I might have to do this in shifts. But I don't want to slow the story down with, you know, food shopping, and you know, whatever, everyone's favourite
Hedley Knights:paw. Yeah.
Cat Blackard:You know, anthracite is more than happy to shuttle things back and forth, doing your job proving your worth, and also doesn't know anybody to really like, you know, someone wants to come along, I'm sure that they'll volunteer themselves. And if they don't, that's fine. She's a hard worker. She's got deep, dark thoughts. And all this is good.
Ella Watts:I think if you if you mentioned that you're going to get a keg. Then Jeremiah would probably join you. If you let us know when you drop off the food. Sure,
Cat Blackard:sure. Yeah. I mean, you can't help but notice this squat woman hauling a massive bundle of like a huge burlap sack filled with thingamabobs. And considering it's your money, it's probably a great interest to you. So she slips on down to the kitchen, Sara ship word for kitchen.
Snyders Return:Well, before you go as before, there's a galley normally,
Cat Blackard:galley, that's the one so
Snyders Return:before you get across, you sort of drag your stuff to the pier and, and the folkman's Like, where you go and
Cat Blackard:where am I going going to the ship? The pinnacle? Oh,
Snyders Return:bluegill. I'll just get the boat on time. Which way you're hidden.
Cat Blackard:Well, hold on I've um, I'm just this the cook. I don't know about untying the boat or nothing. We're just hanging out.
Snyders Return:Oh, you go into the beautiful sounds Ah. Oh, no. It sort of rocks backwards. It doesn't even start to undo the boat yet to sort of ferry you out to the pentacle. He's sort of rocking back.
Cat Blackard:There's kind of a sort of like oceanic kind of wavy sort of wobble to the way this person's move. and advertised kind of like matching that to sort of like continue to meet whatever there is have a semblance of like a gaze to meet
Snyders Return:it's like well this this and lovely ships out on the real this ship called dignity is the ocean princess and there's a riverboat if you just the II sort of breaks into this this weird sort of shanty almost light and as he sort of going is undoing the rope for the boat leaves the lantern where it is and it keeps going should
Cat Blackard:he be registering that the undoing the rope is probably a bad thing I meant to get on that ship and
Snyders Return:he's keeping hold of he's not just let it go down over he's got he's got he's quite stacked for an old man curled over a wooden sort of store. He sort of stands up to probably about a six four foot he stood up captain and
Cat Blackard:tall drink of water Yes.
Snyders Return:Telephony you sort of that that movement registers in your periphery as this this big yellow form just Elan gates into a vertical position and sort of fills the end of the deck behind which you can see your cook with this huge bundle of supplies this route being untied and he continues if if you choose we always lose another softer voice comes through and says this ship would you get on with your job please Sue? Yes yes Coxon. Follow me please.
Cat Blackard:You saw the holding the right do the thing
Snyders Return:is you bring your bag down he is holding the rope and this boat in choppy water one handed and sort of also walking down the steps it's almost physically impossible but the physical strength of this guy steps into the boat and it sinks significantly and then levels out. Karma board
Cat Blackard:I can't argue with that. I do trepidatious Lee with great concern.
Snyders Return:Your concern is registered by the second voice or rather androgynous looking individual who just catches her arm as you've lifted the sack to move it down to the small ferryboat. Don't Don't be caught up in the ocean colour scene. I see trouble up ahead where the riverboat sweeping if the sun that's where the river turns red. That's okay. You'll be alright. Doesn't matter.
Cat Blackard:I'm I'm aghast. I'm agape. I'm like a this whole thing seems very ominous and I'm curious if I smell any kind of spirits on their breath or anything to indicate this peculiar behaviour from these two
Snyders Return:the one moving the rope seems seems I wouldn't say inebriated but definitely loose. Has it sea legs definitely another one
Cat Blackard:clearly
Snyders Return:yeah the androgynous individual has sort of deck shoes three quarter length childhood is sort of a vest type ensemble going on and a nice straw boater just propped so very sort of clean looking middle they sort of drifted out of a potentially a tavern or something it's a bit hard to tell or a business that well turned out just to be stood on the dock singing and speaking with you in this fashion huh?
Cat Blackard:Okay I'm back I can get into it so long as it doesn't seem dangerous. But I guess you know, the seas are gonna run red so our
Snyders Return:shoe will take you across to your vessel you'll be perfectly fine
Cat Blackard:so the seas aren't gonna run red just just yet but downriver then. Then yeah. Oh, yes. troubles. I've had troubles up ahead. And if I say with your with your all seeing eyes if I was to oh, I don't know. Hold off on travel for a couple of weeks. Maybe things would be different.
Snyders Return:Oh, no, it's always like that. Done that way. It's done.
Cat Blackard:Oh, good. Thank Thank you kindly,
Snyders Return:which it's alright. Be sure to pay the phone and we'll meet again real soon. Sue is sat in the boat with you those with the tip is reciprocated. Sue is sat in the boat with AWS oath was in one hand the rope and the other holding it to the dock as you're able to then board with your ship supplies. Thank you for listening to the first part of our two part actual play of our preferred downriver. A tabletop role playing game created by Ella Watts and Max Brian. You can find them both on Twitter at GE J watts. And at max Briar art you've been listening to Snyder's return the tabletop interviews and actual play podcast you can follow us on Twitter at return Snyder. Be sure to listen to the second part of our upriver or downriver, agile play coming soon to see just wear the crew and up a massive thank you to the full crew of the Pentagon. You can find all their social media links down in the description below this podcast until we go to harbour stations and set sail again. Thank you for listening