Hi, hi Wanna slap anxiety in the face, kick depression to the curb, galavant through a magical sparkle rainbow world where friendship saves the day. Quick, take my hand. Well, hello darlings, welcome to Squee Hi. Squee is a tabletop role-playing game, or TTRPG, about the emotional world of being in community, and we are playtesting for you live. My name is Kitch and I will be your chronicler today. Wow, that was a switch.
Kitsch (Chronicler):A whiplash that means I'm in charge of hurting these weirdos. I'm not one of them. Let's meet our players today. First up, we have Greg.
Greg (Repot):Hello, I'm Greg and I'm playing Repot, who is a robot who is usually falling apart in some important way that hasn't bothered to fix, but does love building stuff and making it easier for people to get to places.
Doug (Trinket):Lovely. And then we have doug. Hi, I'm doug. Uh, I'm playing trinket. Uh, trinket is a cute little guy who is made up of a bunch of like knickknacks and little things that have some sentimental meaning to them. Um, that he's found and just gathered into his form. Uh, yeah, he's looking to you know. Have a great time today beautiful, totally gonna happen, absolutely.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, then we have dan hi, I'm dan.
Dan (Zipper):I am playing everyone's favorite jellyfish roller derby girl, uh zipper, who is currently in all terrain mode.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So all terrain mode, okay, cool.
Ray (Dazzle):And lastly but not, we have ray hello, I'm ray and I play dazzle bright. That's b-r-i-t-e and dazzle bright is whoa. What is this sass coming from?
Kitsch (Chronicler):doug in the studio you better make sure you spell it right. That's all I'm saying.
Ray (Dazzle):Spell it right dazzle bright is a malabar giant squirrel. Who is the best coffee shop owner in town best best, absolutely no competition.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Fuck veronica she doesn't exist and not veronica by the way, no Veronica other.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So grab a snack and maybe some tissues, and come be our neighbor as we find joy in the journey and celebrate our authentic selves, Because life could be hard but we can have fun in the meantime. All right, so you've?
Kitsch (Chronicler):just broken into Charles' garage and interrupted band practice. What the fuck is this about? You see Nico pull the cord out of his guitar. The feedback on the speakers blares in everybody's ears as he drops the cord on the ground with a clink, he swiftly makes his way over Dudes. What are you doing? You're interrupting band practice.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm standing in the back, just to be clear.
Doug (Trinket):I really like your music.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nothing to say.
Doug (Trinket):No, I really like your music. Nothing to say no, I really like your music. Well, mind if I jam with you and he starts playing the harmonica.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, no, okay, I actually. I found a sound effect for you. Let's hear it. If I can find it I can't wait If it's a harmonica. There's a harmonica, yeah, harmonica, yeah, there you go. Oh my gosh, I'm fumbling this so hard um it's gonna be so worth it so, so, so, so worth it, um, so worth it, why I wish there was a searching here um is there a harmonica?
Doug (Trinket):the coughing. Yeah, what is?
Kitsch (Chronicler):yeah, anyways, anyways, yeah, they're just talking coughing, don't worry about it don't worry about it, people cough yeah, regularly. Oh my gosh, there it is all right, so you start playing your harmonica in nico's face. That was weird. Is that a harmonica?
Greg (Repot):that sounds more like applause after the harmonica is done.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you start playing the harmonica in nico's face after giving him a compliment, and he just is like he takes a step back, takes a deep breath, straightens his shoulders and this harmonica is totally playing. There we go, tinker. That's a bit long. All right, beautiful, that was a lot uh, uh uh, thank you, but no, absolutely not. Oh uh, I guess it doesn't really fit your jam.
Doug (Trinket):That's fine, it's okay you're cute.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh oh, thank you. Thank you, but yeah, that's not really our vibe here. But yeah, back to my first question what are you doing? What the fuck is going on?
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, Chill out. We need to talk.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, I'm talking.
Ray (Dazzle):Is now a good time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean we could come back after.
Ray (Dazzle):You want us to wait outside? We could do that, but we do need to talk. You can't just run away after.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean, yeah, if you want to wait until band practice is over, we're going to be going for like another three hours probably.
Doug (Trinket):Do you mind if I listen uh?
Kitsch (Chronicler):take a sample we haven't ever really had an audience. Uh me, yeah. Yeah, he like looks over to the rest of his band members and they're all kind of like given, like some side eye, a little bit of a hesitancy.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You know what? Fuck it yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, yeah, go sit down over there on the couches. Come on guys, we, we. It is about time that we performed in front of people right. Am I right? Yeah, you guys got this yeah you got it.
Ray (Dazzle):Uh sorry, Does anyone have a lint roller?
Ray (Dazzle):Alright, Wait, wait, wait Repot. Uh, Does anyone have a lint?
Greg (Repot):roller. Alright, repot turns on a recording system that it has, just so it can save whatever happens later. That's what Repot does. It's not going to be the best audio quality Repot is not a walking sound stage but Repot does want to record this for later. Just in case you never know, when you want to repeat back somebody's lyrics to them in a dramatic moment.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, okay, can I? Plug.
Dan (Zipper):Repot into my boombox to record on, so I could use your microphone to record onto a tape. Sure.
Greg (Repot):Do you have an audio for it?
Dan (Zipper):I figured Repot has whatever cables you need for converting from one from analog to put in a blank tape or cassette into my um boombox to record.
Greg (Repot):Two boxes can record right, sure like I don't fucking know yours, I know repot and repot will figure out some way to transfer it to a tape that can play on your boombox.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Gorgeous, this is some ultimate bullshit. I love it. Um, all right. So, uh, they all like recompose themselves and they like get back to where they like were performing earlier or practicing earlier. Uh, nico plugs his guitar back in. You hear the feedback in the speakers again. Um, and as you all settle in on the couch, which is quite low, quite lumpy, quite dusty, I'm standing um um dazzle takes all look at each other and they're like 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8. And they begin to play. Yeah, yeah.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, just not impressed from Dazzle Funky Trigger's just having a great time.
Nikko (Music Interlude):You're the shit and then you're shit and they go on for a little while.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We're not going to sit here and listen to everything, but they go on for a little while. I could Honestly, I could too, but, um, yeah, anyways, uh, as they finish their number, the like last note strum uh hangs in the air for a while. Um, and you can tell like from all of this that like they're a bit awkward. This is like the first time they're performing in front of anybody, um, so they try to do a bunch of like really stupid shit to like seem cool. Um, they do a bunch of like really stupid shit to like seem cool. Um, they do a bunch of like weird stances, but you can tell like they're really not practiced at it. Um, and they finish and they stand there in silence and they look at you all.
Greg (Repot):I think Reapod, the first thing that Reapod does is plays a sample of applause, uh, from from its speaker.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh my gosh, wow, trinket is just clapping and jumping up and down and going that was great, oh my god, you guys are amazing.
Doug (Trinket):That was intense. Oh, sorry, they're done. Pulls cotton out of ears.
Greg (Repot):I think Repot probably finds a clip of their favorite. Or Repot probably like, finds a clip of their favorite, or like Repot's favorite part of it of, and like, plays it back like a really quick snippet of it, just like, and then it's just like, you know, it doesn't know exactly how to like, but it's like affirmative, and then it just plays back that particular thing of the thing that I like the most. I think that's how Repot is going to express its like for this music.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Really you thought so. Well, thank you guys Wow.
Dan (Zipper):What's the inspiration?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean like fuck the man, dude. Fuck the man. Which man?
Dan (Zipper):You know the man? No, I don't. I mean, I know, I know a handful of men. It's like a saying in the punk world like it's like the big head person dude in charge of everything fucking
Kitsch (Chronicler):shit up okay making everything shitty and crappy making life hard for a lot of people.
Ray (Dazzle):Dazzle's the head of a cafe, kind of like Dazzle yeah, you like an owner or something a business owner like corporate you're like a big wig well, yeah, I am kind of a big wig you wear wigs.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Y'all brought a big wig. You wear wigs. Ugh, y'all brought a big wig in here. What a fucking square.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, listen, put down your guitar. Come here, oh boy. So give me a personality. Okay, what about Can I use? The truth hurts mulchitty Sure.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Because I have a feeling, I know where this is going.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, that's seven plus two nine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nine is a sacrifice right. Okay, yeah, so he does. He puts down the guitar and he like comes on over and he does like a little bit of a size up, puffs out his chest a bit yeah, chill out, dude.
Ray (Dazzle):You think you're all this, but listen, you're honestly just some kid trying to run away from home and leaving your problems behind as if they never existed. Just doing all of whatever this is could be better, by the way. You, I don't know. There's a lot going on. Listen, we ran into a lot of problems today and I'm sick of it. We have gone out. We spent hours trying to get through three different clouds of miasma.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, what of it?
Ray (Dazzle):It all came from you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So Every single one of it. I'm pissed off, dude, yeah okay, I'm pissed off too.
Ray (Dazzle):You're going to go what? Traveling with this little band of yours? How are you going to get out of here? You're going to go what travel in with this little band of yours? How are you going to get out of here? You're going to get stuck in some cobwebs. You're going to get stuck in a swamp with quicksand. You're going to get to an impassable wall filled with fog. How?
Kitsch (Chronicler):are you going to get anywhere? Fuck you. Who do you think you are?
Ray (Dazzle):Listen. Is everyone else listening? I need you all to look at your friend here. We're going to air this out now Turn around tell them what's happening. What do you mean? Nothing's happening. We're just due to fuck you to the man, that's all. This is Just the man, no one else.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, yeah.
Ray (Dazzle):Now, why are you so mad about the man?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Aren't, you Aren't you, aren't you fucked up, angry about the direction that everything's going?
Ray (Dazzle):Listen, I'm doing okay. I'm always dazzling bright.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, just you wait, just you wait, they'll come for you too what has the man done specifically to you? The man's always doing something.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, you know but what has he done to you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):fucking over families. Nico fucking over to small businesses.
Doug (Trinket):Nico, what has the man done to you?
Ray (Dazzle):stop avoiding the questions um, all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So would you all like to give me an emotion roll of some sort?
Ray (Dazzle):yeah are these abilities or?
Kitsch (Chronicler):attributes. So the uh um heart, voice or mind I'll do attributes, attributes attributes attributes the heart, voice or mind, ooh, I'll do heart.
Dan (Zipper):Attributes, attributes, attributes. Can I use Listen?
Ray (Dazzle):I know what I'm about. It's a bond, yeah, go for it.
Doug (Trinket):Could I use? There's a beauty in sadness, because this is kind of making them a bit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't know if this is necessarily sadness. I will allow that for this.
Ray (Dazzle):I have an 11.
Kitsch (Chronicler):An 11, and which attribute Voice Voice okay. I'm going to do mind.
Greg (Repot):I got an 8 in mind 9.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay 8 is a sacrifice, eight is a sacrifice, nine is a sacrifice. And then Trinket. What was that attribute?
Doug (Trinket):Heart, heart.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, okay, so I'll go down the line.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, trinket, you tapped into it. Actually, there is a sadness beneath this, like rugged exterior, there always is, there, always is exterior, there always is, there, always is, there, always is. Um, so there is a sadness behind this rugged in exterior, um, and you can tell that like he is putting up a strong front, um, because there is something that he is trying to avoid that being angry is a great way for him to avoid what is actually bothering him Voice dazzle. So you're going to get through to him a little bit with your words and so you see that, as like as you all are, like talking him down, what you're saying starts to resonate a little bit, and so you see that his composure starts to like soften. You are starting to piece it together, that like, yes, there is like this, there's this catalyst of the man, and you already know who the man is in his life it's Big Grocer. That's the catalyst here. That's like creating this, like flurry of emotions, but it is not necessarily the source of emotions, it's just the trigger.
Greg (Repot):I mean, I think Repod is probably going to play back one of the clips where they were talking about the man and play it over an image that brings up the logo of Big Grocer, just to see if it gets a reaction from Nico. It brings up the logo of Big Grocer just to see if it gets a reaction from Nico, like the man you know plays, has that image of Big.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Grocer yeah, you see that, like as he sees it, he gets like, his face gets angry. He's like fuck them, fuck Big Grocer.
Greg (Repot):Affirmative.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Is that what you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):all came here to talk about.
Doug (Trinket):I mean affirmative we just came because we had gone to the orchard and we were kind of trying to help your family out, because it seems like you guys are having some trouble right now. We just wanted to help.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Dudes, I'm sorry. I was so mean to you at the beginning. I mean you did interrupt my band practice, kind of fucking rude, but your heart's in the right place.
Doug (Trinket):That's fucking rude, but your heart's in the right place and, honestly, we're honored to be your first audience.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, it was really cool, I liked it.
Doug (Trinket):You should play at your orchard. Maybe you would drum up some business getting the locals to come by once in a while.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh really.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, look, you already did the hardest part. You had your first show.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You're right, but I don't want this getting out. You know we're not quite ready.
Doug (Trinket):Okay, well, whenever you guys are, take it into consideration.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Mishka doesn't even know, and neither does Cleffa. I don't want them to know, I'm pretty sure they do.
Dan (Zipper):I mean, you're pretty loud.
Ray (Dazzle):And we were just there. They know you've been sneaking off.
Greg (Repot):What Really?
Ray (Dazzle):It's kind of obvious.
Kitsch (Chronicler):They ain't said shit.
Ray (Dazzle):Well, I mean, you probably come back looking like this too, and it's not like Cleffa misses everything.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Damn.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You sure?
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, she's probably just letting you, like, spread your wings and do what you want.
Ray (Dazzle):She's just being nice about it, but they miss you and they really could use the help and you saying f this and f the man, I mean, what about your family?
Dan (Zipper):f them too well, I mean, it could be both. You could f the man and not after your family that's preferred.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I think yeah yeah, truly preferred um uh.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as you all, like you all have like really like gotten under his skin in this and like really like hit the nail on the head. Um. So you see, like as you keep like interjecting with all these little points, his composure is like really, really breaking down and really softening and then he begins to cry. Um, he starts to like respond kind of like muffled, um under the like sobs and he's just like I don't think they knew, I thought they were gonna be pissed about it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I.
Doug (Trinket):Trinket takes out a handkerchief and hands it to him.
Dan (Zipper):I don't wanna hurt them, you know oh, I don't think they think that't want to hurt them, you know? Oh, I don't think they think that you want to hurt them. Yeah, they just miss you because you're not around as much as you used to be and they could probably use your help on the farm.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah.
Dan (Zipper):Cleffa's like she carries a lot of heavy things and you look like you could carry a lot of more heavy things.
Ray (Dazzle):Looks like she's aching too. The last time we saw her, she's doing a lot of bending over and holding her hand to her back um, and that's when he begins to fully cry.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, oh yeah, do you need a hug?
Doug (Trinket):um, he will yeah he will accept your hug um cool going at full in yeah, so you radiating sentimental completely surrounded by a bunch of objects frying pants in his back well, I imagine like some kind of teddy bear or something like takes the scarf around his neck and wraps it around his and it's like it's okay so, yeah, um, it's.
Kitsch (Chronicler):it definitely seems like this is a sore spot for him, that like his family is working really, really hard and he's he, he wants them, he wants the best for them. But yeah, um, in that moment though, he wants the best for them, but yeah, in that moment though, the ground begins to rumble. That's not good.
Greg (Repot):You start to hear the shaking of objects in the room, I think Reapot reflexively like clamps down to the ground, because anytime there's like weird shaking, it's usually because Reapot's on a building, somewhere that's, like you know, undergoing. So it's first reaction is to just like into the ground basically yeah, stabilizers, so it can stay fixed.
Ray (Dazzle):I don't like this, nico, snap out of it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So the ground begins to shake and everything in the room starts to shake and you see that his attention is pulled to the south east and he wipes away the tears because oh fuck, that must be the orchard um. And he pushes away from you trinket and he bolts out the door, starting to run down through time towards the orchard question.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, you're raising your hand yes, I just wanted in case you'd. Have we experienced a thing like this before? Is this like a not necessarily a common happening, but like a?
Kitsch (Chronicler):This is a pretty intense one. Okay, you probably haven't experienced something as dramatic as this.
Dan (Zipper):But we could probably recognize it as a miasmic event of some kind yes. Cool.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Cool Shall, we, yeah, we can't let him go on his own.
Greg (Repot):Affirmative, and Reapot, I guess, unclamps. I think it's trying to. If the ground is shaking as much as it is, I think it's going to have some trouble actually getting after Nico, but I think Reapot's going to try.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, have some trouble actually getting after after nico, but I think robot's gonna try, okay. And as I dash out the door I point at the pianist and say you work on your voicings a little bit better. And I point at the bass player and say, uh, those bass lines could also use a little bit of work. Try working the ones and fives and having them a little bit more on the beat. You know what I'm saying.
Kitsch (Chronicler):They're a little bit muddy anyways, catch you later all right, um, and you run off after nico, chasing him towards the orchard. Um, and he is frantic, he is. You can see the panic on his face, um, as you catch up with him. Oh no, uh, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, um, and he's running off like at breakneck speed towards the orchard and as you are approaching you, like that rumbling is getting louder and stronger.
Kitsch (Chronicler):The ground is shaking harder, um, as you hear in the distance, um, coughing um is you hear in the distance, as you're approaching the orchard, Cleffa and Mishka yelling at something and, as you like, what's your?
Dan (Zipper):question. Can I dash ahead? Sure Of everybody I expect you would get there first.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, I would.
Dan (Zipper):Well, the minute I got up to Nico, I would have and he said his bit I would have just kept going, because if they're in danger, I'd like to get there first, as soon as I can.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, okay. So you zip off ahead, and so you are the first to see what appears as a giant amalgam of produce. Uh, you recognize the face as the logo for big grocer. Oh, my god. Um, so this big giant tomato head wearing a straw farmer's hat and a monocle. His body is made out of carrots, potatoes, celery. Uh, leaks all sorts of produce.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, and he is swinging on the orchard. You hear the crash and crack of wood, as he has these giant potato hands that smash through one of the apple trees. And you see, cleffa and Mishka are just like they're getting on top of one of the sheds and trying to, like, call the attention of this monstrosity. Um, all right, so we're gonna. We're gonna do combat system it's him the man.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's him the man um, so we are gonna. We're gonna do some playtesting of the combat system today, with the big grocer as our first monster, and how that is going to work is that there's not really initiative. The monsters don't have a turn, like in other systems. You all are going to act based on what's happening in the world, roleplay and initiate rolls. Successful rolls are going to do damage, failed rolls are going to incur some sort of effect. So I have six cards here. There are three physical cards, six cards here. There are three physical cards, three body cards and three affect cards, and your goal is basically to get rid of these six cards, thus taking out the affect.
Kitsch (Chronicler):If you do take out just the physical cards, the affect will demanifest for a short period of time, but that will never resolve the affect. You have to address an affect through emotions and get to the heart of the problem at hand in order to fully resolve the affect and de-manifest it for good. So, to kind of paint the scene, it is smashing trees, cleffa and Mishka are on top of a shed and it spots you Zipper and it spots you zipper. So you all can go in whatever order you want. You can coordinate attacks or other actions you basically choose to act or resolve. Resolving is what's going to take out those emotion cards which will require you to spend harmony and rapport as indicated on your character compass and incorporate one of your characteristic aspects. So those are your bonds, values, masks and habits in order to move around the character compass. So any questions before we get started?
Dan (Zipper):I mean, I don't know quite understand what resolve means, but I'm sure we'll get there.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, so you are all thrown into chaos, as you can feel the anger and the sadness and the fear of the affect beginning to overwhelm your senses, and so resolving is how you're going to move up into eclipse, but it's also how you take out the affect cards. Right, but how do we resolve?
Kitsch (Chronicler):You just declare that you're going to resolve, so you incorporate one of those characteristic uh aspects into your role play. Oh and on a success, you will resolve in the direction that you um chose to do so. So so, starting in Chaos, you can either choose to resolve by spending a Harmony and incorporating your Mask in order to move into Moon, or you can spend a Rapport and incorporate your Habit to move into the Sun, can spend a rapport and incorporate your habit to move into the sun. Does that make sense?
Dan (Zipper):Kind of yes, we'll try it. We'll see how it goes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so you all can go in whatever order. You're all kind of trailing behind a little bit, but as you role play it out, um, you can coordinate anything that you want. It's your. You are the ones that are deciding all the action. I'm just responding to failure I I have a question.
Greg (Repot):So, like kleffa and and uh and mishka, they're trying to get the attention, because the big grocer is just focusing entirely on the orchard itself and not on them in any way um, I mean, you're just arriving we just okay, it's yeah, it's just smashed into a tree, okay, and you see that Mishka and Cleffa are on top of the shed, okay. I mean. I feel like Zipper should go first.
Dan (Zipper):I mean, yeah, I was going to say Zipper's going to rewind and press play on what she just recorded. So rewind and press play on what she just recorded. So the emo music we just got the screamo and play that and be like hey, hey, tomato brains over here and I'm going to try and lead it over to the festival field out in the open rather than in a bunch of trees.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Gorgeous Like across the river.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, it's big, so would you like to?
Kitsch (Chronicler):give me a personality roll.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, can I use? Catch Me If you Can. That's like the whole bit. That's like literally my whole bit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):To draw it out. I'm gonna say no.
Greg (Repot):It's focused entirely on the trees and destroying the orchard. It's not chasing you yet, yeah because you're doing a personality roll. You're trying to goad it.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, that is a nine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):A nine. So that is going to be a sacrifice. So you notice that as you start to draw its attention, it is going to tromp through the orchard and charge at you, oh boy. Yeah, it's like you almost overshot. And now?
Dan (Zipper):you have a ton of attention all drawn on you. Um, what is everyone else doing? Sorry, what was your goal?
Ray (Dazzle):again, just to bring it out away from the orchard, essentially towards the river.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, okay, sure, towards the river into the field, if I can got it?
Greg (Repot):um, well, it's towards the river.
Greg (Repot):I think repot's first instinct is to try and figure out a way to turn the river into like an actual maybe not like like, I mean, I think it's something not necessarily like a barrier, because I do think that make moving it away from the orchard is a good idea, but at least if it can get stuck somehow in the river, that would be convenient.
Greg (Repot):Um, so I think repot is probably like trying to make its way towards the, in the direction of where this big grocer giant would cross the river to see if it can start like putting up some kind of maybe defenses on the other side or something. If that's what kind of the direction we're trying to grab it, I think it would be cool, for if, if it's stuck in the river, it's kind of more convenient, honestly, for us because it doesn't have as much movement, freedom of movement, just kind of repot's whole thing. So I think repot tries to, I don't know, build some go, tries to get to the edge of the river and tries to like build some kind of pokey sticks or something, just like coming coming out of the banks on the other side yeah, um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So give me an intellect roll, sure um I don't think I can use any.
Greg (Repot):I'm just gonna do intellect Plus two. Oh okay, I didn't even have to Okay, cool, so 13.
Kitsch (Chronicler):13's successful. Okay, um, so what you have done is built some sort of trap that is now going to incur, uh, some sort of benefit to the um effects that are happening on this battle scene. Dazzle Trinket. What are you doing?
Doug (Trinket):Well, Trinket is obviously seeing that it is going away from the orchard now and is like, okay, I guess we're going this way and just changes direction and starts going towards the big produce monster.
Doug (Trinket):It's just like oh, what do we do? What zipper, what are you doing? I don't know. Okay, well, I guess we'll figure it out and, um, I, I will, uh, kind of just make my way up, I will kind of just make my way up alongside it and just, I guess, try and ask it what it thinks it's doing destroying the orchard. Why are you doing?
Dan (Zipper):this Hi, friend, what are you doing?
Doug (Trinket):Why are you attacking those poor people?
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, give me a personality roll.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, does it even have a mouth? I mean it says big grocer, right, so it should be able to speak in theory we'll find out, okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean it has a mouth. Yes, a 10, a 10 um. A 10 is a um. All right, so how does it respond to you?
Greg (Repot):I want to know what it says can it even make complete sentences, or is it just a ball of pure greed gorgeous?
Kitsch (Chronicler):um. So as it's like making its way, like all attention is on zipper um, but as it's making its way, all attention is on Zipper. But as it's rushing towards Zipper Repot has this trap laid for it. It kind of just cranes its tomato head towards you Trinket and it just goes Opulence, I own everything. That doesn't really answer my question, but thank you. And it's going to continue charging towards Zipper Dazzle. What are you doing, tinker?
Ray (Dazzle):it's just my asthma. It doesn't have a brain.
Doug (Trinket):I don't know, I thought maybe it would have some sort of emotions or something.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, how about you work with us, so Sorry. So here's what I'm thinking, tending towards the river. We've got a super fast person. We've got two people with lots of junk handy super fast person. We've got two people with lots of junk handy. Um, we could tie its legs, have it fall forth and maybe land on, uh, the traps that rust bucket is laying down oh, I like that idea.
Doug (Trinket):Are you? Are you a strategist?
Ray (Dazzle):my intelligence is plus three um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):would you like to give me an intellect Sure?
Doug (Trinket):Can I use beginner's luck Is this the first time you're fighting a mob.
Greg (Repot):I wasn't in.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Star Wars fighting at-ats before this We'll give you this one that's really high.
Ray (Dazzle):It's over 11.
Kitsch (Chronicler):14, cool, neat, um, so that's gonna be a success. So we got one success for the um, the trap. We got one success for the coordinating of the plan. Uh, we've got the attention drawn by zipper, which was a sacrifice, and then drink it just kind of got some conversation. You were successful having it talk to you. So, yeah, that is what is happening in this round. So yeah, that is what is happening in this round, and so that all has been put into motion which will carry on to the next round. So, like, all of the things that you just basically initiated and put into the story are now the setting for the next round of activity. So we kind of just repeat that process again and, like, as you're, like failing or succeeding, that's just going to determine how, like what happens to you as well as the monsters.
Kitsch (Chronicler):But, yeah, so what do you continue doing with all of this information?
Greg (Repot):So it is on course to collide with. The trap, basically, is what the scene is, what's happening with the scene. So I'm trying to think of a way for us to like keep it there. Once it's there, like I feel like it's going to fall over, I'm just going to pick itself back up again. I feel like we need some kind of plan for what happens when it actually falls?
Ray (Dazzle):we do have rope if we rope its legs together and then it falls, it'll have a hard time getting back up, especially if it's falling into the river, and if it falls face first, it have a hard time getting back up, especially if it's falling into the river, and if it falls face first, it'll fall onto your spikes that you're laying there.
Greg (Repot):True, can we keep it there?
Doug (Trinket):It's made of vegetables. Could we stake it to the ground with more spiky things?
Ray (Dazzle):It's made of miasma.
Doug (Trinket):Okay, but it looks like vegetables dazzle.
Greg (Repot):Where are the horses?
Kitsch (Chronicler):they can just eat some of the apple sherry veronica quick, so as it's like charging towards zipper it's just gonna shout I'll crush you with my big bulbous potato hands. I'm gonna raise as a fist to kind of slam down on zipper. What do you all do? Go faster, all right. So you give me a body roll to evade its attack.
Dan (Zipper):Now can I use. Catch me, if you can.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, you can there we go.
Dan (Zipper):It's an 11.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, all right, gorgeous.
Greg (Repot):That is a success I think uh repot sees the ability to like bait it to attack things and and thinks what?
Greg (Repot):if we put a spike there, like what if we actually like like have zipper kind of like, just generally around, like I think Repot was like well, I'm already making traps I think Repot just starts making more of them but like not necessarily in one place like we previously had. I think it's now like just like a whole bunch of different locations where it could go Specifically with the intention of like having zipper kind, zipper kind of like, I think, especially with them being spikes. I think because we've already previously established that like just having a pole in the ground is like a really convenient thing for zipper to be able to like like circle around and spin around off of. I think as, uh, as as repot kind of sees this like the, the fist smashed down into ground just where zipper Zipper just was. I think Repaw has this idea, which is what if we just have like a bunch of spikes in the ground that are like really tempting to smash, if we just kind of bait the monster into smashing them and they also conveniently also serve as a really easy way for Zipper to redirect the momentum. So it's like a like.
Greg (Repot):I think Repaw has this vision of like of zipper, just kind of ping-ponging, ping, ping, pinballing between these little spikes in the ground on the around this field as much as possible. Um, I guess, uh, is this something where I could use my habit to resolve? Um, because my resolve habit is never stop moving. I think Repot has identified a task that it wants to just keep doing over and over and over again, because it's a robot. It's like oh, this is a thing I can do a lot of, and the task is put a bunch of spikes into the ground all over this field and the habit is just going to keep going and doing this, because I think this is going to be really useful.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so I am going to also, on top of that, compel you to do it till it's done.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Fair, fair.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Because you just committed yourself to something that is a repetitive task that you are just going to hyperfixate.
Greg (Repot):I'm really enjoying this.
Greg (Repot):I'm like repot is like like oh, this is a great idea, um, and and and just starts finding a bunch of spikes and just kind of like affixing them into the ground and then making its way over a little bit further down, and I think it's it's sort of like trying to spread out a bunch of these convenient little poles, kind of in the general area where the monster is heading towards, probably on the other side of the river, while we still have time to actually set things up in this way. But that, I think, is what Reapod is going to do.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, so give me that roll. So what you basically did is you added an advantage and I compelled something that gave you disadvantage, so they basically cancel each other out. So it's just a straight 2d6.
Greg (Repot):Does this move me from chaos into sun?
Kitsch (Chronicler):How do I so you are using your habit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So that would be moving towards sun and you will be spending a rapport on a success, on a success. Okay, if you fail, be spending a rapport on a success.
Greg (Repot):On a success.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So if you fail, you do not need to spend your rapport.
Greg (Repot):All right, Then I shall put this back in the meantime. And this was a Just 2d6. 2d6. Oh God, that was a three Plus what was it? What kind of roll was this? Even I think it was just a straight roll.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You were. I'm going to give you an intellect roll.
Greg (Repot):Intellect roll Plus two, so it was a five, all right, a five.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then I think, because you are invoking your habit, your habit falls into mind. So you are going to take one damage.
Doug (Trinket):Okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And you can spread that between intellect and mind. Oh, interesting. So because you're doing an action that is intellect, but you're incorporating mind into it, you can take the damage however you would like.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So which would you choose?
Greg (Repot):I think intellect, because the bottom of intellect is unfocused and I think that Repot is a little distracted with this really cool idea that it has. Gorgeous so it's going to be a little bit more focused on this particular task and maybe not as focused on other things.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right. So, as you start to do this task and you said you had a nine- I got five, oh, five, five, so just a straight failure okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as you do this, you see that its attention um is drawn towards your traps and it sees this thing that you're making and it doesn't understand it, and so it is going to slam a fist down on your work my work, I control you. You'll never escape, and you are going to become dazed. Oh no, so it smashes down on your project. You become dazed, which will give you disadvantage on your next round, as little birdies fly in circles around your head. Oh no, my work, my beautiful trap Processing.
Ray (Dazzle):No no.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Damage report. Basically, the monsters. I said I have these cards. They flip over as these things are triggered, and so that's the back side of the smash card which you triggered by your failure okay um I am now dazed, dazed, cool, all right, who else and what else are y'all doing?
Kitsch (Chronicler):So? Are there no more spikes? There's the original trap that was successfully laid, okay, and it is still charging towards zipper. Okay, and it is still charging towards Zipper. Okay, it just kind of did this side swipe at the new trap that Reapot was trying to lay, okay.
Ray (Dazzle):But the original traps were laid in the river. Is that?
Greg (Repot):true, yeah, like on the other side of the riverbank, from the monster, as it's kind of approaching. So as it comes out of the river, it's going to, in theory, have to come through it.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, I would like to goad it towards the original traps. All right, and at least put some of these traps to good use before they're all destroyed. Okay, and as it attempts to bring a fist or a foot down, I would like to dive out of the way at the last second, and I'm going to shake off my boots and my gloves and say didn't want to have to do this, because they're definitely going to be destroyed. But having squirrely appendages is going to work better against a monster like this, and so I'm going to use pretty and squirrely Gorgeous so you'll have advantage from pretty and squirrely.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Gorgeous, um, so you'll have advantage from pretty and squirrely. You're also going to have advantage from zipper having drawn its attention on the previous round so that is how that came into play cool um that's double advantage oh, okay, nice, and that will be a body roll.
Ray (Dazzle):Woohoo Good, because I'm bad at bodies hey.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's an 11. Gorgeous, so that is a regular success. So as it goes to stomp, you feel the crushing weight of capitalism. It slams down its potato foot onto the trap that Repot had previously laid. You see the spikes jut up through the potato and it grabs its foot. You have taken out Stomp, ooh. So I guess I'll just hand you the card so that I don't have access to it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Neat.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So it has lost its ability to stomp, and that's that. Who else has stuff?
Doug (Trinket):they can do this round Drink it Kind of wants to try and resolve with a habit and use repetitive instincts and just ask it another question, because Trinket, being a curious little creature, just wants to know more about what this thing is and why it's here, all right, and Trinket's going to ask, and Trinket's gonna ask what makes you think that you can come to someone else's property?
Kitsch (Chronicler):and just try and destroy it all, alright, um, I will let you do a heart roll, okay, cool. That's a five all right, so we're gonna try and guilt capitalism to stopping you are doesn't know these things um, so I'm actually I'm gonna say that you are triggering the misdirected card.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, because you are actually role playing this really really well. Um so, yeah, that's the problem. This is that's the problem, uh-huh. Um, so that's gonna be how you are gonna take that damage to heart, is you? You're just like really struggling to empathize with what's going on and you're feeling this anger well up in you, directed at Big Grocer.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm starting to really wish Tinker was there when we were in the caves so he could understand what's going on. Looking at the memory crystals oh, that's right.
Doug (Trinket):Trinket it to Trinket in the game, so Trinket just was outside playing with a Hot Wheels car on the grass gorgeous this one's my favorite Veronica.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, I think that was the second round, so reset round three and like. That's why, like y'all keep doing all of these actions in like whatever order you want. You can, um coordinate things as much as you would like, um, that is really how the system works I wish to climbed the beast before I have rope yeah
Greg (Repot):we did mention rope as a possibility of trying to tie the beast down. I think repot might like hand you rope so that you could climb over the beast onto the other side. See if we could like try and tie it down on either side of the river, if possible, something like that, I think. So repot says, take, uh, and then hands dazzle bright, a piece of rope and then does its best to try and like I think it has spikes. It's been using spice. It's gonna try and use the one of the spikes on and like nail into the ground as much as possible, uh, to try and keep it fixed, um, and enhance the the other end of the rope to dazzle bright uh, the last couple times we used rope from uh rust bucket, was it being a spool that was attached to your?
Kitsch (Chronicler):inside, it's true it's true and so would you?
Ray (Dazzle):still want to be attached to this.
Greg (Repot):Well, I think repot has stuff like it doesn't always give me yeah give me an intellect roll.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, and that will determine how well Reapot's plan is put together. You know what? Because I think there are ways we can all collectively come to a conclusion. I think it doesn't have to.
Greg (Repot):Like Reapot can get more rope. Like it doesn't have to always be attached to one end of the rope.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I rolled a 10, I think.
Greg (Repot):Will it.
Greg (Repot):Will it? Will it remember this? It turns out just an inkling. It's like oh yeah, I should probably cut this off, and that's what it does, I think. So that can kind of go someplace away from the spike, because the spikes are already a target, like the last spike that it tried to put down got smashed right. So it already knows that hanging around a spike is probably not a good idea. So it is going to nail the spike and then try to get away as fast as possible and then hand the other end of the rope to Dazzle Bright.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, and then Dazzle. What are you doing in this coordinated effort?
Greg (Repot):Repot, give me an intellectual roll in the meantime, I got the 10, I believe 10?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay.
Ray (Dazzle):Alright, is Zipper nearby? Uh, kinda Zipper. All right, uh, is zipper nearby? Uh, kind of uh zipper. Do you have a plan? Because if not, you could run this to the other leg.
Dan (Zipper):I was planning on going up. Oh yeah, I could do that sweet okay, zipper just plunges into the water and swims.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, yeah, oh yeah water is no obstacle yeah, so zipper is taking the rope. Is that what just was decided? Yeah, and you're going to try to trip it with it.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, I'm just going to weave it around its legs.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, give me a body and then Dazzle. You're climbing it and doing what I want to get to the head. You want to get to the head. Are you doing anything at the head?
Ray (Dazzle):If I make it there, yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You can anything at the head. Uh, if I make it there, yeah, you can. Like what is your? The action that you are attempting to do like, give, give me the full, like I intend to climb up and do xyz to stab it. You're gonna stab it, okay. So this is gonna be a body roll to them, okay I rolled a nine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):A nine? Okay, that is a sacrifice. So you are going to become exhausted as you are doing this or hurt yourself in some way. So I'll let you decide narratively how that happens. And then, trinket, what are you doing?
Doug (Trinket):Trinket is going to frantically start searching on his person and be like, okay, I have to have something that can help here. And he finds a slingshot Nice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):A slingshot.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, just one of those little kid ones that you just pull back.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Goliath times. Yeah, I am going to compel you with Junkenstein. Absolutely Junkenstein so give me that body roll with disadvantage, as you are now, all of these thoughts going through your head telling you that so much of what is here is just junk. It's broken junk, it's crap. None of it's going to work. Yeah, it was a seven. Okay, so that will be a failure. No, that's sacrifice, Sacrifice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you do you find? What were you looking for? A slingshot, you find a slingshot. It just kind of breaks you down a little bit mentally. You're feeling and then you feel as you take it out of your body. It just exhausts you with that sentimental energy. Hey, doug Give me a memory.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then Ray, what ray? What was your memory? From the slingshot yeah, I want a memory yeah, uh, it's little little little.
Doug (Trinket):Sophia loved her slingshot. She would aim it at cans. Her grandfather taught her how to use it and she always carried it with her growing up into adolescence, in case any bullies came after her.
Ray (Dazzle):A little bit of violence helps against bullies uh, can I use pretty and squirrely, because I'm climbing vertically with my claws? Yay, uh, that's an eight.
Kitsch (Chronicler):An eight? Yeah, all right, so also a sacrifice. So you're going to stab it.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, I reach my hand up towards the sky and I say gleam, and a pretty silver rapier appears in my hand out of the sparkles that are surrounding Dazzle, and I plunge it down into the head of the tomato. Okay, so as you plunge it down into the head of the tomato, okay, um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as you plunge your sword into the head of the tomato, um, you are going to um slam into it, um, but in retribution, it is going to grab you off its face and drop you into its mouth. You have become devoured. No, while simultaneously removing this card from the rest of play. So you are trapped for the next round oh, dazzle's gonna get covered.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, in some manly dust, mr Squirrel.
Greg (Repot):Oh no, you're going to hate being as dirty as you are right now?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so you are just. You all hear as Dazzle disappears into the belly of the beast. I think RuPaul's like alert. Okay, what have we not resolved this?
Dan (Zipper):round. Feel like zipper, you had a roll. Yeah, I, I got. I was a sacrifice for wrapping up the legs of the gotcha okay, so it is going to fall over.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, and that will be the last body card. So, as that happens, it is tripped by your rope, it smashes into the ground, the whole ground rumbles, and then poof, it disappears. And I'm covered in ketchup and yeah, dazzle like pops up on the ground and is like covered in gross like saliva-y ketchup and the monster has been temporarily quelled.
Doug (Trinket):Yuck, yuck, yuck. The river's right there. You could go clean off real quick.
Dan (Zipper):Navigate river. It has dirty water that's pretty clean.
Doug (Trinket):Oh, okay, yeah, and compared to what you're coated in.
Ray (Dazzle):Sure, and I will attempt to clean myself off. I did get an injury, btw. My ankle hurts a bit.
Doug (Trinket):Ow oh no, I hand you a bandage to wrap it here a sentimental bandage it was a med kit from a, a little boy who wanted to be a doctor oh, okay, okay, that's sweet, I appreciate it.
Greg (Repot):Uh, repot says Query Objective complete Uh yes, yeah, did we win?
Doug (Trinket):Well, we should go check on the family, I think, and see how they're doing.
Greg (Repot):True Navigate family.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, so Cleffa and Mishka are on the uh shed. Um, you see, nico is down on the ground next to the shed and he climbs up on top of the shed and he like jumps towards mishka and cleffa and they all are like hugging, like they. I'm not gonna voice all of them having a conversation, but they are relieved, they're like thank you, thank you, thank you, congratulate you on defeating the monster.
Ray (Dazzle):For now, For now, for now.
Dan (Zipper):Did I say that?
Kitsch (Chronicler):No they don't say for now, short stream today yeah.
Doug (Trinket):Are you guys doing okay?
Greg (Repot):That was really intense. I mean, repot definitely needs to focus up a little bit. Well, I mean I think we're assuming that it's done at least Repot thinks it's done does that mean we can do camp, or will something prevent us from doing that?
Ray (Dazzle):anybody have a blow dryer?
Kitsch (Chronicler):you can, you can have your camp. Yay, what a nice chronicler. I know I'm so nice we think we're done.
Greg (Repot):I mean like hey, let's all, let's we need it.
Ray (Dazzle):Let's rest up. Do we want to talk to them before or after? During, can't we talk to them? Can they camp with us?
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, can we just hang out on their front porch. So mechanically no.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, okay.
Dan (Zipper):Camp is your recovery mechanic.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Maybe we rename that so it's a little less deceiving. But it's really like you are now taking time to yourself, you're reincorporating, you're internalizing, you're recovering, taking care of yourself mentally, emotionally, et cetera. It's me time and each other it's me time, etc. Um, and each other you're not like actively problem solving and like subjecting yourself to new things yeah, also I forgot.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm not injured.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I forgot that you go past zero, zero it's plus zero, and then you become injured, right yeah?
Ray (Dazzle):so maybe we talk to them. Yeah, let's talk to them before we do anything.
Doug (Trinket):So we can see if there's anything we can work out in terms of, like, the emotions going on.
Greg (Repot):Yeah yeah I mean I don't think any of them are particularly big, big grocer fans what yeah, but.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, but there's also you know, Nico was thinking that they were going to be upset about the choices they were making, so obviously they need to have a conversation about that.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, and he's for sure in full band makeup.
Dan (Zipper):He absolutely is Right Nice guitar, nico Wink, and then I like, urge him. I do like the little like, and then I like, urge him. I do like the little like hand thing Be like okay, go, go, go go.
Greg (Repot):Repot has like one finger above the button to play the music at any time, Like just ready.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So the first thing that happens is like Mishka comes over and he's like well, thank you, we are forever inde. Well, thank you, we are forever indebted to you.
Dan (Zipper):No problem, just another day's work. I've never done that before.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then he turns to his brother and he goes Ah, nico, it's probably time we have a talk. We know about the band" and Niko's response is like oh no, a gasp. And so I'm gonna just say that they go off and they have a little bit of a conversation and I can summarize it for you all yeah, um, since like they're not trying to keep anything secret, they're not like going too far away, but they end up having a conversation where basically nico finally comes clean about being in the band, admits it, um, and cleffa and mishka are obviously like well, duh, we knew, we knew, yeah I told you um why didn't you want to tell us?
Kitsch (Chronicler):and like they go back and forth for a little while and nico is really beating around the bush for a bit, um, but then ultimately, um, he reveals to them that he was worried that the farm or the orchard wasn't doing well and that this was something that would take away from the orchard, that him going off was going to leave them high and dry. So that's basically what narratively happens, neat dope. That's basically what narratively happens neat.
Doug (Trinket):Is everyone feeling a little better now having a talk? Are we all doing good? Ready for some of that fresh lemonade?
Kitsch (Chronicler):uh, yeah, lemonade sounds great. Um, daniel, why don't you come help me out, like last time?
Ray (Dazzle):Are you sure about that? I shock you. Stop. I mean, I don't know if the conversation we had last time was so lovely. Are you sure everything's better? What do you mean by that?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I thought that you were so, so sweet.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, okay then, yeah, let's go make some money, did you not?
Kitsch (Chronicler):like talking to me.
Ray (Dazzle):I thought we had a great time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh no, I quite liked you Dazzle. I thought you were quite interesting. I mean, you have a funky way of talking, but that's just the way I speak. Yeah, that's kind of how I chalked it up to be.
Ray (Dazzle):What was that? That was Dazzle making fun of him.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't think I quite understand. You're quite a peculiar person, aren't you Dazzle, I suppose.
Ray (Dazzle):I am.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Anyways, come on inside. We'll make some lemonade, Okay, and he will take you inside and make some lemonade. Anything that you'd like to talk about? Will you have Mishka one-on-one, I don't know? Can we table talk? I mean, you're going to be in different rooms, oh.
Ray (Dazzle):Trinca will go.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I meant as humans.
Dan (Zipper):As players.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, oh yeah if y'all can have table talk um did you, yeah, when you asked mishka, did you think that he was still avoiding something? I just wanted them to make sure they were all on the same page at this point yeah, but you see, this is like how he reacted last time, but now this time, I guess what we think things are good. Last time we thought things weren't good and he still reacted. The same way, so it's like do we think something's still going on? Should I push?
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, I almost wonder if he's maybe someone that's avoiding something too in terms of like, maybe feeling like he got abandoned by nico yeah, that might be something good to ask okay, anything else any other ideas, thoughts okay no want to know the family recipe for the lemonade. Like Any other ideas, thoughts, okay, no, want to know the family recipe for the lemonade.
Ray (Dazzle):It's lemon's water.
Greg (Repot):I mean, Repot isn't really a lemonade drinker. Repot prefers oil 5W30,.
Doug (Trinket):if possible, a nice vintage.
Greg (Repot):A good year for oil.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, okay, jump cut back to the scene.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, um, so is everything okay now um, okay, so because we're playtesting and, um, I partially intended this to be part of combat, but I'm thinking that naturally, it is feeling like it is working out here as well. Why don't you give me a mind and Maybe we should have camped, is there? A way that you think you could incorporate um your mask or your habit those are really hard.
Ray (Dazzle):Uh, I don't. I'll be honest. I had a really hard time creating a mask and figuring out how it would work in the world, and so I don't really think my mask does much of anything, but maybe my habit okay actually I don't know about that either. My habit is brash delicacy and it just says I have a bad habit of correcting people yeah, I think there's like a brashness that you can incorporate and you can.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I think we can like interpret that a little bit more broadly, sure? Um, and then your mask was butterfly mask.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, and it just says that dazzle doesn't care much about fitting in, because he wants to stand out and be different, so masking isn't something that comes up often.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, cool so, yeah, I think you could probably um justify incorporating the brash delicacy into this conversation. Sure that, like you're really pressing him and and he's been um avoiding a lot, yeah, in a lot of conversations you're really pressing, so I think you can try to resolve this.
Ray (Dazzle):Probably not.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Because I just rolled four. A four. Okay, all right, so you're? That is going to be a failure, so he's actually going to close up and keep pulling his attention back towards the lemons. Do you mind passing me that knife over there? Sure, and the pitcher too. And why don't you go grab the sugar off the top shelf? And? And there's ice in the freezer if you want to grab that too. I'm sorry, what are you doing? Lemons are on the bottom.
Ray (Dazzle):Right and you're just standing there.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh sorry, yeah, I'll go fill up the water at the well and he's going to grab the pitcher out of your hand after you grabbed it.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, and then he's going to rush out to the back of the house.
Ray (Dazzle):Zipper, zipper, are you there? Yeah, what's up you?
Dan (Zipper):might want to go after him. Him, he doesn't want to talk to me. Oh okay, yeah, I got it. Hey, what you talking about, that's actually my habit is what? You're talking about and it's like I butt into conversations. I'm like really nosy, nice all right, so I'm just like slowly skidding next to him that's how I know how you're feeling all right um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Would you like to try to resolve using your habit?
Dan (Zipper):I would sure cool, cool.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What do I roll? Um, give me a mind.
Dan (Zipper):And do I? Can I use voice instead?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, for what you're trying to do, I'm going to say no.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, and do I get advantage of any kind? Do I get?
Kitsch (Chronicler):advantage for using my habit. Yeah, you get advantage for using your habit.
Dan (Zipper):Gotcha okay, that's a perfect score, oh man critical success, a critical success indeed yeah, because I am so charming, all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So he had like rushed out the well to go fill the pitcher with water. Um, after like basically closing up on dazzle, and then you pop up over by his side and you push him again, I said hey, buddy, it's a.
Dan (Zipper):You look kind of down there. You want to talk about it. Come on, tell me about it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You know you want to you'll feel better oh, you are all so pester and pesky badgers.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Persistence is my middle name.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Anyways, zipper Persistence.
Greg (Repot):Zipper Persistence.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Zipper, persistence, oh my goodness. Nice. Oh my goodness, can y'all just leave me alone?
Dan (Zipper):No, you caused a potentially town-destructive event To no fault of your own. To be fair, we blame you know. Capitalism, I think, is what people were saying, but it's still a problem Finger guns Well, which means I do this Advancement well, advancement.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It really hurt that Nico didn't want to tell us I thought we were closer than that. We're brothers, for Christ's sake, and I love him, and for him to tell me, or not tell me, that he's planning on leaving that fucking sucks.
Dan (Zipper):I mean yeah, but I mean like he was afraid to um hurt you, I think, by telling you that he was planning on leaving. That's scary.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Shucks, I know you're right. It doesn't make it feel better, though I know I'm going to give you the misdirected card Yay, which you've resolved it and it has turned to guided.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I can see the problem now, so it is a buff, so what you basically have revealed in this conversation, that is kind of something we've been circling around for a while. Big Grocer is just the catalyst. It triggered all of these big emotions. But what's really going on here is a family that's not talking to each other about how they feel. But what's really going on here is a family that's not talking to each other about how they feel. Mishka doesn't want to lose his brother. He feels that Niko's been pulling away. Niko is afraid of leaving the family, but knows that he needs to. Kleffa is just worried that everything's falling apart, like it's just like a bunch of people having a lot of emotions that they're not discussing, and at the heart of it, they all care about each other.
Dan (Zipper):I mean, have you told them that?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't think I mean, have you told them that I think I needed to? I thought he knew.
Dan (Zipper):But Listen, buddy. I'm listening buddy Bro-tato chip. I'm not a bro-tato chip what?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm a bro-tato chip, but you're not.
Dan (Zipper):I'm not. No, you're the bro-tato chip.
Dan (Zipper):I am not the bro-tato chip All right, I'm sure we're clear on what we're allowed to call each other, but, yeah, just tell them. It's common in jellyfish culture just to like speak your mind about each other, which can sometimes get you in trouble, cause I had this sister once who just like, well, I mean she's still alive, I still have her. But so once she would just just one sister specifically. She was just kind of mean to everybody for no reason, but that was her truth. So we were like you can swim over there, um, but anyways, you should just tell them that you feel that way and maybe then they'll tell you what they're feeling, which is kind of what the problem was all along is y'all just holding all this in, making giant vegetable monsters in your stomachs?
Kitsch (Chronicler):It seems oddly specific.
Dan (Zipper):There was literally a giant vegetable monster just now. What do you mean? Of course it's specific.
Greg (Repot):Didn't you see it you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):were here right, Of course it's specific. Didn't you see it you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):were here, right, fine, fine, fine, I'll go tell him.
Dan (Zipper):You got it buddy Bro-tato chip.
Greg (Repot):Oh yeah, I feel like bro-tato chip has a different connotation when we were just attacked by a big potato monster.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so he's going to slump off, hand-dazzle the pitcher of water and then go off to have a conversation with Nico.
Dan (Zipper):Don't worry about it. I got him. You make the lemon and it will be good.
Ray (Dazzle):And I leave. I'm going to make all of it. I leave, I'm already gone.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh wow, what is Trinket and Repot doing?
Doug (Trinket):um what is trinket and repot doing? Uh, trinket wants to talk to uh nico a little bit more, okay, um so so, nico, now that you're kind of, are you still thinking about going off with your band, or do you want to maybe try practicing a little more around home nowadays?
Kitsch (Chronicler):um, okay, so we're gonna try. We're gonna try a similar thing. Would you like to try to incorporate your mask, or?
Doug (Trinket):your habit. I'm gonna use my mask, and it's. I'm human too, because I'm trying to connect in a very human way to this person.
Dan (Zipper):I'm a human boy. I'm a real boy.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's really cute, okay, so yeah, give me a heart.
Ray (Dazzle):Ain't no strings on me.
Doug (Trinket):Do I have advantage or disadvantage Anything.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you'll have advantage from your mask, and I don't find a reason to compel your compulsion. Seven. Wait seven.
Doug (Trinket):That's a sacrifice, it is a sacrifice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, I'll do it.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, it's fine you don't have a choice. Yeah, I know, but like it's fine, don't worry. I'll take it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you are like putting yourself on a limb, you like you're you're really struggling to empathize with nico, like he's been pretty brash with you, not kind of standoffish, and so you're kind of having a hard time like empathizing and and feeling where he's coming from. But it does start to come into place, um, and so I'm gonna say that you are going to receive the overwhelmed card um, which is going to be resolved into collected um, so this will be a buff that you have as well. Cool, if you want to just pass that over.
Doug (Trinket):Thank you um let's see.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Honestly, it's so much there's just I gotta get out of here, but they're not doing all right. How is one person supposed to hold all of this?
Doug (Trinket):Well, one person doesn't need to. You do always have family, no matter how far away you are from them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):He just kind of looks at you and blinks a couple times.
Doug (Trinket):And that said, your family's right here right now. You can always talk to them, you can always just make sure that they're doing okay, because if they're doing okay you can feel like you can do okay without worrying too much about them, I guess. But ultimately you guys have to rely on each other a little bit more, I think, in terms of how you're feeling but who's gonna help out at the farm? I'm sure that they can get some help, but I mean, Repot even was helping build some stuff earlier.
Greg (Repot):Cut to Repot talking with Cleffa.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh my god, this is beautiful. Yes, I'm like gonna kind of beat you to the punch can you give? Me a voice sure, and would you like to try to incorporate habit or mask?
Greg (Repot):well, I think repot currently is. I will say, if I had to choose one, repot has taken like quite a few bits of damage here. We haven't actually camped. I think if I was gonna do any kind of mask it'd be. I swear I'm fine.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, um, I'll, and I think it it might be in the form of like repot is like pretty much already volunteering to help repair some of the damage that the, that the big grocer like uh, miasma thing, because I assume it disappeared, but the like orchard still has a bunch of trees like ripped up and stuff yeah, the damage is I think that um, rather, we didn't do camp, so, rather than resting and recuperating or whatever, what repot did is immediately start going to where the trees were kind of like falling over and started, like you know, helping with moving them out of the way and clearing a path so that the tractor can go through the road, because there's a couple of places where things. So I think Reapod has basically immediately started trying to help Cleffa fix whatever damage happened because of the big grocer demon, and that's what I think Reapod is going to do. And it's not. The intellect has taken two hits right, mind has taken a hit, voice has taken a hit.
Greg (Repot):I think Re repot is not exactly working. You know perfectly, um, and I think there's definitely some things. I mean, like it did, I think, when, when it got smashed by the thing, when I was trying to set up like the, the set of spikes or whatever, like I think it, at that point it did get hit I think, I think it it has not.
Greg (Repot):It is not up to 100, so I think it's, but it is basically ignoring that and said I swear I'm fine and has already begun helping Cleffa try and figure things out and is trying to move things around that way.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So that's the mask I'm using, I think, Okay, and so give me that voice roll.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, let's see, let's see, let's see. Do you still have a plus two in voice?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, okay, 11.
Greg (Repot):11.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Nice, that's gonna be a success. Yay, and so we're gonna do this in a really weird backwards way. Okay, repop buddy.
Dan (Zipper):Hey, she.
Ray (Dazzle):Acknowledge.
Dan (Zipper):She.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Listening. I'm gonna say this because I see something in you that I see in myself and you need to take care of yourself. Let's have a seat. Let's have a seat.
Greg (Repot):Sit down. Repot doesn't do that. I think Repot is not. Repot just says listening and continues working around, because the Repot's kind of is this is also a habit thing repot never stops moving. It's literally one of the habits that I have written down here. Repot doesn't sit down, repot continues working, but it says listening, as it kind of listens to whatever it is that that cleffa has to say, but I don't think it stops.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Damn, that's hard to watch. You know, when you see something a bit of yourself in someone else and it bothers, you Acknowledge that's what I'm experiencing right now. And damn.
Greg (Repot):Query Hazard identified. I'm experiencing right now and damn query, uh, hazard identified. Well, I guess that's kind of what his response is. I think it's just trying to say it's like what, what?
Kitsch (Chronicler):do you?
Greg (Repot):see, like what, what is it that you're?
Kitsch (Chronicler):you're seeing you work yourself so damn hard repot and I appreciate it, don't get me wrong. Uh, I appreciate, I appreciate you and knowledge. It's seeing that type of energy from somebody, some, some new neighbor in the community that does give me hope we're gonna be okay. Big grocer, they fucking suck Affirmative, but you know we come together. I think we can make a difference or at least get by. You know, take assistance, you too, bud, and you are going to resolve the enfeebled and it becomes empowered. Yay, yay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So those were all of the affect cards. So I know that originally it was supposed to happen comment, but like we're playtesting, we're figuring things out. Yeah, um, I do love how that that worked out, and so with that I'm actually going to move us over to intermission. Um, as you all have a lovely time hanging out with the Mechams they're now all talking you start to hear laughter in the Mecham household for the first time since you've known them. You all sit down for some lemonade and our friends and new friends by our side. The scene drifts off into an afternoon of new friends, good drinks and calming emotions, and we too will drift off for a brief intermission. We will be gone for 15 minutes and a timer will count us down.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We'll see you in a bit. All right, we're back.
Dan (Zipper):Finger guns.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Finger guns. All right. So to kind of bring all of this beautiful family stuff to a point, there's going to be one last little scene that I have for you all. So the Mechams are all hanging out with you and they're going to have a little aside. So, as you enjoy your lemonade, nico's going to pull Mishka and Cleffa over to the side a little bit and you just overhear this conversation. What you talking?
Dan (Zipper):about.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You're not involved, but I'm nosy. Yeah, you're nosy, you overhear it. Okay, I'm going to voice three characters right now and I don't want your interjections because I don't think I can have a conversation as three people with y'all involved. Okay, yeah, sounds good, perfect. I just wanted to say I'm sorry, but I think you know I need to. I need to at least try.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I need to go find my voice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Time just isn't the place for me anymore, and I've been avoiding telling you that because I was afraid that, well, you'd feel like I was abandoning you. But that's not the case. I love you both very much and, uh, I love you too, bro. I I know that times are tough right now, but we're gonna get by. Besides, it's not like I'm never gonna see you again. I'll come see your shows, visit you in the big city. I know that you're gonna be successful, nico, it's been so lovely to see you open up to us. It hurts my heart when I see you pull away. I remember when you didn't feel like yourself. You didn't feel like you were living in your own skin. But this is just a continuation of that journey and I love you dearly. Now don't ever do that again. Alright, deal, and let people help you. Auntie, deal.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And with that you hear a sparkle, glitter, magic beam burst out of the forest to the west of Tyne. As you see, the forest begins to glow a bright pink. Oh, wowzers, that must be the well of prosperity, a thing we all know about in this world. It's a thing that exists and it happens all the time. We must have resolved this tension, and prosperity is falling upon us. All right, y'all go on, get it and you feel yourself magically drawn to the west of time. We're in a little cove, there is a well sitting in a clearing in the woods, crystals embedded in the trees and the earth, and everything glows this light pink hue.
Kitsch (Chronicler):As you approach, you start to see a figure stepping out of the shadows. They are an ancient being, one of a strange presence ethereal, tall, lanky, their skin glass-like and translucent moss growing upon their arms.
Kitsch (Chronicler):everything long and slender and fae-like as you approach, they make their way over to the well and they begin to reach inside. Ah, beautiful, lovely, lovely, hello, younglings, this must be your doing.
Ray (Dazzle):Well, mine, but yeah.
Doug (Trinket):Well, we all pitch in a little.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, a little.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm sorry I've yet to introduce myself. The name is Stuart and they give a little bow.
Doug (Trinket):Can I call you Stu?
Kitsch (Chronicler):You may. Okay, the name was lost to time and I have taken Stuart from someone else who thought it was quite silly, as I am the steward of the well oh, okay, that makes sense, got it. I hope to see more of you, but for now, here is the prosperity that you have gathered.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes and they begin to lift out this shiny crystalline material from the well, and so we're going to introduce the prosperity system. Um so, for gaining prosperity at the end of adventure, there are five questions, and for each of those questions, an answer of yes will grant you one prosperity point. So the first one is did you go on an adventure? Yeah, yes so you always get one prosperity point neat yeah and then did you achieve the goal of your ambition, and so that was the call to action no, no.
Dan (Zipper):That was the delivery.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, the delivery was the call to action, so no.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Did you find valuable resources along the way that can be provided to the community? No, did you make a new connection with an important figure outside your community? Yeah, outside.
Dan (Zipper):Stew, stew.
Ray (Dazzle):Also the mushroom lady. Oh, yeah, true, shelby, shelby. Shelby says they. Well, they were going to time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't know if they were fun. Instead it was on the past time. Ah, so yeah, they are not from time how important are they, though? That's not up to us yeah, no no'm going to give you one point, for this being our first adventure and Shelby is totally a cool character that we love, right? We?
Ray (Dazzle):love Shelby we do.
Greg (Repot):That is important, everyone remembers exactly what they sound like and what they said, uh-huh.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, they're Southern, I know that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Surprise, surprise, 50% chance 50% chance, and did your party grow closer to one another?
Greg (Repot):Yes or learn about each other.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, yes, yes.
Greg (Repot):I mean, this was our first time meeting, so yes, yes.
Ray (Dazzle):Yes, nowhere to go but up from there Then I guess anything yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Greg (Repot):I mean, I literally moved in next to Trinket, so I feel, like you know in next to trinket.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So that's like you know. So stewart reaches into the well and they pull out three crystalline orbs and they hold them out to be four of you and greg, since you're closest to me, can you take these and put them in our bank, our bank? So behind you, we have a bank of prosperity, prosperity bank yes, it's falling. It's fine, don't worry, everyone Run on the bank Two, three prosperity tokens Woohoo.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yay, woo Woo.
Dan (Zipper):Woo Woo, fun prosperity Yay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So prosperity is the magic of the miasma condensed into a building resource Sure.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I wish miasma gave me building resources, all right, and so, mechanically, this is how you expand the town. You help develop it using the prosperity from the well. That is a culmination of all the emotions of everybody and yeah, it's, that's it. That's how prosperity works. It's super wonderful and magical and everybody loves it and awesome. The other thing that you gain at the end of the adventure is unity, which has three questions that you um answer yes or no, um to get unity as well, um so did you face an affect? Yes um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Did you help the source find clarity on the cause of their emotional dysregulation?
Dan (Zipper):Yes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then did you discover regulation techniques that address the affect abilities.
Doug (Trinket):Did we?
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, oh, basically, every of those cards that you removed, you get a unity point for, and that will be five unity, which I'm going to convert into a bigger token and give you the five point token, greg, if you want to put that in our unity bank, unity bank.
Greg (Repot):Look at this glorious five point token. Very cute, my beautiful, don't we get?
Ray (Dazzle):one as well from wait two from the first two questions, or is that not how?
Kitsch (Chronicler):that works.
Dan (Zipper):It was three plus two, it was total five, total five ah three these guys, I think the personality side of them, not the physical side. Yes not the physical side.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, yeah, okay. So that is prosperity and unity. So unity is basically the leveling system and prosperity is the development system. So prosperity is kind of spent to build out the town, get extra resources for the people of Tyne. Unity is basically how we determine when we move on to the next threshold of gameplay, where your influence grows, the threats get bigger and all of that jabs. So yeah, that's the prosperity and the unity system.
Kitsch (Chronicler):The only other things left to do in the coda is really just to for me, as the chronicler, to epilogue out what happens as a result of your adventure and the way that you resolved it. As a result of your adventure and the way that you resolved it, and so this is kind of like a. There's usually a passage of time. Things can be taking place over a period of months or even years. However, everything kind of culminates, and so what you do find throughout the passing days in time, the Mechams do start to have a little bit more openness in their conversations and Nico does prepare to go on tour with his band.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So over the course of weeks, you can check in on Nico and find him preparing for the tour, practicing with the band, planning out the tour dates and tour venues and all of that planning out the tour dates and tour venues, and all of that the Mishka and Cleffa are actually going to put up a job posting for somebody to get hired at the orchard. There's definitely going to be some repair that has to happen. And you also notice that they do start asking for help from other people in town to try to figure out how best to address the issues that they're having. We're not going to solve capitalism in a day, not with that attitude.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We're not going to solve capitalism in a day, but they do start asking for help a little bit more openly and you find that they have a little bit more integration to the community, which is ultimately what we're attempting to do here, and yeah, that's really the adventure. I don't know what else to just say than that and that's kind of it. So, yay, you did it First adventure of.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Squee ever. We are cutting a figurative ribbon on this first installation of this game ever to exist. This was a play test of Squee, a tabletop role-playing game, and we did it Yay.
Ray (Dazzle):Yay.
Greg (Repot):Yay, how anticlimactic that was, could do a scene per person if we wanted as epilogue. Yeah, so, I would like that. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, oh, yeah, yeah there's.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Actually, that was thank you for reminding me um, because I know that you had flagged a couple things that you had kind of resolved throughout the adventure to do once you got back to time.
Ray (Dazzle):So um also um at the beginning of the adventure, you had, each of us, set out a goal for ourselves. Oh my gosh, is that something?
Kitsch (Chronicler):that we yes, thank you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We did. Wow, I'm doing such a good job doing the wrap-up of Coda. I totally planned to end things and not just wrote a bunch of stuff for doing things. So, yes, those are the aspirations. So I did, at the beginning, ask you all to come up with an aspiration. This is a goal that you had for yourself, to play through your character. I hope you all remember them, because I don't have them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I do, but basically it's did you achieve your goal, um? And if you achieved your goal, you get an aspiration token. Huh, what the heck is an aspiration token, might you ask? I do ask that, yeah, yeah. So an aspiration token is something that you receive, um, and you can use it in the next adventure. Your character is present in for any of these beautiful, useful things. One, you can replenish a depleted attribute to full Ability or attribute. You can replenish two points of harmony, or you can replenish two points of rapport, so they're really powerful, but it is a one-time use token that you can only ever have one of, um, and it's yeah. So, uh, why don't we start with that?
Greg (Repot):uh, so remind me what your aspiration was and tell me if you think you achieved it well, repots aspiration, if I'm aspiration, if I'm not mistaken, if I'm not misremembering, I think was to get resources, and I think this is what it was.
Greg (Repot):I think it was get the resources necessary to actually like figure out what the supply chain situation would be like. Yeah, strongly suspect that we did that on on the first day, which was, uh, repot finding his way to the, the junkyard and setting up shop with right next to trinket and and really starting to take an inventory of the stuff that was there. So I think I believe that repot did do that gorgeous.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, so I am figuratively handling you one aspiration token so shiny what does it look?
Kitsch (Chronicler):like.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Beautiful Trinket. What was your aspiration?
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, trinket's aspiration worked out pretty well. It was to be able to help someone in time and make a difference for them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Beautiful, Very achievable in this system so you are going to receive one Aspiration token Sweet.
Doug (Trinket):It tastes so good it does Wow Like a green Skittle.
Dan (Zipper):Like a green.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Skittle.
Dan (Zipper):All right, Zipper Mine was to make a friend and I think I made like eight.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Also very achievable in this system, right, but yes, you win an aspiration, you win, win, winner, winner. Chicken dinner, you receive one aspiration token. Hell yeah, and dazzle bright. B-r-i-t-e.
Ray (Dazzle):It was to meet five slash three people, and then I did that, you did meet five.
Greg (Repot):You did the five, you got the five, uncrossed it out.
Kitsch (Chronicler):How many was that in total? We met Repot, trinket, zipper, the Mecums, shelby, the Two Horses. Do those count, zipper?
Kitsch (Chronicler):The Mecums Six Shelby.
Greg (Repot):The two horses? Do those count?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh yeah, you got Veronica and Cherry. You did have an, honestly, you had a conversation with them that resulted in becoming socially drained.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So let's count it.
Ray (Dazzle):There's Dahlia and then dahlia and then we walked by chris does that count?
Greg (Repot):by chris 11 however many people was in the band. Oh yeah, we didn't really talk and gave him advice to the and to the.
Kitsch (Chronicler):To the keyboard person the unnamed people in the band unnamed undescribed, totally existing people in the band. Shelby was one of them surprise, surprise, um exactly an important person. You recruited her for the band there we go, place the triangle.
Greg (Repot):Really well, add it to the wiki rocks, the triangle, like just to be clear, like the percussion section wouldn't be the same without the triangle um, all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, that being said, you all received aspiration tokens, woohoo, um, so, uh, just keep that in mind. In the next adventure that your character is in, um, you'll be able to spend it for all those fun things.
Greg (Repot):Then, if you would like to epilogue out anything that happens with your characters as a result of these adventures, let's go around again repot well, I think the thing that at some point I do remember I believe it was a harmony that was acquired because of so many people hurting themselves trying to interact with Repot's body. I think somebody cut themselves trying to open one of the slots, somebody scratched their nail trying to rescue Repot or broke their nail trying to rescue Repot from something that happened because the solar panel was gone, and I believe that Repot resolved to finally get a diagnostic checkup from Dahlia, dahlia, yeah.
Greg (Repot):The person in charge of the technology and workshop stuff happening here. I think Repot is perhaps, with the hesitance of somebody going to therapy for the first time, going to try and get a diagnostic with the full expectation of receiving a massive list of bad news.
Greg (Repot):um, in the way that, like, sometimes you go to the doctor and like, or like you go to the dentist and you like really hope and pray that you don't have a cavity, but you kind of know, uh, that that things are going to hurt, I think Repot, with great hesitancy, like drags its feet you know feet quote into Dahlia's workshop and says Request diagnostic assistance.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Wonderful. I thought you'd never ask. Dahlia is so excited and yeah, I mean, she's the perfect person to ask this of. She has so much excitement around it. She is so kind and loving and nothing is from judgment. Like you've met her, she has an eclectic and so for her these are just challenges. They're not any. They're not negative traits or anything. So Beautiful Trinket.
Doug (Trinket):Yeah, so Trinket is going to send.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Remember the letter that Dazzle got yeah, it was from your cousin right.
Doug (Trinket):Uh-huh. So Trinket, knowing that Trinket is not allowed out front of the cafe, nope, sends the letter.
Ray (Dazzle):Right underneath the no children sign is a no robots sign.
Doug (Trinket):Has the letter sent to you by zipper? Hi With another little note that says be sure to keep in touch with family we all know that's important Attached to it, and sends it off and is just like make sure that you keep in touch with them. Like don't just ignore this letter. And then that's about all that trinket really does for the writer of the session nice dazzle kind of size and just puts it in their boot for later gorgeous
Dan (Zipper):zipper um zipper. For the most part just completes the deliveries that she was tasked, so she finishes the job yeah, okay, you can finish the job here.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Wait, wasn't there?
Dan (Zipper):a possibility associated wait, but this is epilogue yeah it doesn't count.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, everything's resolved and you can complete it hey, ray, if you could pick up that. Well, yeah, don't pass it to me, it's the bank's over here, the bank's over there, everybody touch the prosperity hold on your hand. Enjoy.
Doug (Trinket):Feel it's warm. Here you go, Stuart.
Ray (Dazzle):Feel it's warm.
Doug (Trinket):My hands are really clammy there we go, we complete the task.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What I don't know what you're talking about, now that the binasma, is clear, you can.
Dan (Zipper):Be real quick about it too.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It was a fucking fetch quest.
Ray (Dazzle):Anyways, dazzle Bright, exactly, it was a fucking fetch quest. Um, anyways, uh, dazzle bright. Uh, dazzle is back in the cafe with their henchlings butteroy called drill and groke, and he just kind of checks in with Groke and says, so, how was everything while I was gone?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, um, butteroy tried to do an experiment, but we stopped, and so good to report on that An experiment, yeah, something with a new drink that he had an idea of.
Ray (Dazzle):And I dart eyes at daggers at Butteroy.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Don't worry, we cleaned it up.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh right. Oh, speaking of cleaning up, Dahlia said that she was going to ship in one of those automatic floor cleaning bots. Yep arrived yesterday Awesome, that's great, works perfectly. And the new tea dehydrator, yep, arrived yesterday. Awesome, that's great, works perfectly. And the new tea dehydrator.
Dan (Zipper):Yep, that too.
Ray (Dazzle):Incredible. Okay well, it looks like you kept everything in tip-top shape. I'm glad that you're the second in command. Me too. Uh whoa Goofy. What are you doing here? I don't know. Goofy walks in and orders a drink. I don't remember what was going on.
Dan (Zipper):There are a lot of memories in this game.
Ray (Dazzle):And then after summer passes, we make it into fall and you start to see just different billboards set up along the ground outside of Supernova and we're having a lot of different apple-themed drinks and little pastries and Dazzle is working together with the people at the orchards to make that happen. But Dazzle doesn't want to know that they are the ones like helping out. So they're kind of having like Butteroy, having Butteroy and Groke go pick up the orders and talk to the Mechams and things like that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Boss, what do you think about Apple of my Eye for one of the drink names? Sounds terrible, oh. Oh, that's so beautiful. That's such a good way to reincorporate the Mechams and really keep things within the community.
Dan (Zipper):Zipper continues her investigation about the chains.
Ray (Dazzle):And what has.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Zipper found out absolutely nothing. Oh, okay, they keep them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm surprised, yeah, yeah, they're really well hidden, um, but yeah, uh, anything else, uh, that you'd like to establish as part of the world's this town? Um, before we log off for today, nope, gorgeous Congratulations and thank you everyone. Woo, alright, cool. So, with our hearts full and our friends by our side, we completed our first adventure. So congratulations, and with that we're gonna drift off for today. Um, we are actually going to take a short hiatus, uh, so we're gonna be uh off for august, but we will be back in september with our next arc and a whole new cast of wonderful characters.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We didn't make the cut Our performance unfortunately justifies this decision Don't even put that into the audience's heads.
Kitsch (Chronicler):This is the plan, the whole time To have a rotating cast of characters. Anyways, I also want to thank our writers and cut who have kept me going and have made this possible. So I want to thank Jacqueline Lewis, a writer and a parent, who you can find on social media at Wrangler of Chaos all one word. They are the writer of Rolling with the Youth, which is a wonderful book about playing TTRPGs with the youngins and how to adapt them for varying age groups, and you can buy that on itchio. I also want to thank John Pax Crum, who is a writer, crisis intervention trained and medically retired police veteran, game designer and historical fencer. And this week, oh my gosh, they're going to be in Gettysburg, pennsylvania, talking about GMing, swords and runes at Key City Steampunk. So I think you have to have tickets for that. So hopefully they're still there if you want to go see them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Then I also want to thank our composers, who helped me realize my vision and immerse us in the story. So, ray, thank you. You can find Ray on all streaming platforms, at RayD99 and that is D-E-E, and listen to all of their really fun, cool music. My brother also, stephen, is the producer of Lusk, which is a chill electronic vapor soul art group and I also want to thank our artists. You've gotten a sneak peek from that so far Leanne at Chai Studio, that's at Chai underscore Studios, and then Kaz at Kaz the DM.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Or also on Twitch at twitchtv slash Kaz the DM, all one word, that's K-A-Z. I also want to thank our Patreon subscribers, who literally keep the lights on. I also want to thank our Patreon subscribers who literally keep the lights on.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We have JCH Chris.
Kitsch (Chronicler):B, maggie Z, russell B, missy G and Dan S, and, lastly, I would like to thank our players who get to have fun and invite us into their worlds.
Ray (Dazzle):Ray, anything else you want to plug? Hello, if you go to itchio, you can find a handful of TTRPGs that I've created and put out. They're all one-page one-shots, really easy to pick up, really easy to play. That's all I've got.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Gorgeous and Ray is a fantastic DM. So, yeah, go check those out, Doug. Anything else you'd like to plug?
Doug (Trinket):Go check out Ray's stuff and also all the other stuff that Tim already mentioned, because they're great Beautiful. Thank you guys so much for putting this all together. It's been so much fun.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Aw, thank you. Thank you, listeners, dan, no, no.
Dan (Zipper):No, I got nothing, greg.
Greg (Repot):I like plugging my dance. Interactive virtual reality album called Rave Gazebo, available on Steam and the Metastore yes, I need to check it out.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It sounds really fun like what you saw and or heard. Follow us on Twitch Hit that button or on Instagram at goblin underscore forge, underscore TTRPG. You can also subscribe to our Patreon if you're feeling extra generous. Patreoncom slash goblin underscore forge are generous. Patreoncom slash goblin underscore forge, where you can get early access to playtest material and exclusive bonus content, and I do mean there's a lot of that. There's a lot actually Keep an eye out for our Kickstarter so that we can actually publish this game. So, thank you all out there. Your support and excitement fuels us. Give us more and I'm going to do it again. So hungry, bye, bye.
Ray (Dazzle):See you later, see you in a month. Bye, I am Thank you.