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Bloodbeam Badlands, a game of

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gunslinging vampires in the unsetting

0:56

apocalypse. It's vampires in

0:58

a world plagued by toxic,

1:00

never-setting sun and I'm obsessed

1:03

with its vibe. Vidica

1:05

Valetti, the game designer and my friend,

1:07

joined us for this series and we

1:09

had just playtested some of the rules

1:11

that were still being finalized for the upcoming

1:14

final version of this game. So you'll

1:16

notice that we do a few rule

1:18

check-ins while playing and there will be a

1:20

final version of this game coming out

1:22

soon. I will keep you posted on that.

1:25

When Vidica first described this game to me, he

1:28

mentioned Mad Max Fury Road and

1:30

the Night Market from Hellboy. So

1:33

that is the vibe that I ran with

1:35

for this series. Now I'm

1:37

very excited to say let's get into

1:39

the shadows and meet some

1:41

vampires. Oh

1:58

goodness! Hi, welcome

2:01

to One Shot, the podcast

2:03

that studio that you've all

2:05

been driven to a very

2:07

real place in space and

2:09

time, where I have invited

2:11

you to come play some

2:13

games. I

2:16

am Dylan and I am your host and

2:18

game master. The people listening to this show

2:20

already know who I am because I killed

2:23

James DeMato several

2:26

months ago and took his job.

2:30

I'm being joined by

2:32

some absolutely amazing people

2:36

this month on One Shot

2:39

to play a brand new game as the

2:41

show goes. I would like them to introduce

2:43

themselves to you so that you know who

2:45

they are and how absolutely amazing they are.

2:48

I would like Laura, would you go first

2:50

and tell everybody where they could

2:52

find you, what kind of things you do

2:54

and just brag about yourself,

2:56

please? Absolutely. Hi, you can

2:59

call me Laura or Tutu or Laura Tutu, my

3:01

pronouns are she, they. I'm all

3:03

over the Internet, usually in some iteration of

3:05

Laura underscore Tutu. You might just have to

3:07

throw an underscore at the beginning and the

3:09

end of that, depending on where you're looking

3:11

for me, because well, somebody else took the

3:14

damn handle. That was the easiest. There

3:16

they are. I

3:20

aggressively play

3:23

TTRPGs in vampire

3:25

form a lot. So like

3:27

Vampire the Masquerade and basically

3:31

anything else that has a bloodsucker

3:33

archetype handed to me, I will

3:35

roll dice and I'll be happy. Usually

3:38

with the fine folks over at Queens Court Games, when

3:40

I'm not at Queens Court Games, you can find me

3:42

with Obsidian Brews, the all black tabletop collective. Amazing,

3:45

thank you so much. And

3:47

Laura, I have an icebreaker question for

3:50

you that is related to the game

3:52

that we're about to play. Shoot. And

3:54

that question is, if you had to

3:56

choose between day forever and night forever,

3:59

which would you? choose and why. Night

4:01

forever. Without question, I

4:03

hate being sweaty and it is sweaty

4:05

and hot in the sun. Screw that. Yeah.

4:08

Wait, do you want to swear? Yes,

4:12

yes, yes. Fuck that. Then fuck

4:14

that. I have not. Fuck

4:16

that. Very

4:19

good. But

4:22

do you, my love, would you

4:24

please introduce yourself? How amazing and

4:26

cool you are and answer that

4:29

same very question. Of course. Hey,

4:31

everyone. I'm Vaditya Valetti. I

4:33

am my pronouns are he him. I'm

4:36

an interactive artist, game designer

4:38

and educator. I

4:41

make games. That's all I do. That's all

4:43

I love doing. You

4:47

can find me online at Vaditya

4:49

Valetti because I have very

4:51

good SEO. And

4:56

and you can find my games at

4:58

Vaditya Valetti.h.io like

5:02

the one that we're playing today

5:04

and other ones like Long Sword,

5:07

Space Goblins, Space Between

5:09

Stars. I don't know. I got

5:11

a I got a wide range of them. Absolutely.

5:14

And day forever or

5:16

night forever. So I. You

5:20

know, it's like one of those things where you're like for

5:23

several years, like so many years in my life,

5:25

I'm like, oh, I'm like a night person. I'm

5:27

like a late night. I stay up late. I

5:29

sleep in. I don't like the morning. Yeah,

5:32

I realize that that's probably

5:35

because of depression. Mornings

5:38

are actually pretty great.

5:42

I was like, I was like, what the

5:44

fuck if I wake up in the morning,

5:46

like and the first first thing I get

5:48

is like beautiful morning sunshine in my face,

5:50

like things are good

5:52

and nice. Are you going to

5:54

tell me that walking actually is good for

5:57

my mental health? Because I really don't want to

5:59

hear. I know. who's

10:02

with us here today and is

10:04

a game about vampires a

10:07

little bit different than a lot of the vampire

10:09

games that we are more

10:11

well known in the tabletop

10:13

space. But right here,

10:15

Laura is someone I

10:18

just instantly think of any time that

10:20

I think of vampires. And

10:23

just because I

10:25

love your portrayal of

10:27

vampires and also one of your

10:29

biggest projects that I am enamored

10:32

with is your project on

10:34

Queensport Gaming. And Josephine,

10:36

you also are someone that I

10:39

think of when I think vampires.

10:42

I am so happy. I

10:44

have so many gifts of you about to bite someone. There

10:51

are so many. Good,

10:56

good, good, good. Yeah, that's great. Working

11:00

as intended, actually. Yeah,

11:02

and Vidalia is actually

11:04

a vampire. There,

11:08

I don't know if you, the audience

11:10

of this podcast can't see him, but

11:12

he is the most vampire looking dude

11:14

I've ever seen. You

11:16

do look like you were frozen

11:18

in time. I'm giving

11:20

Armand. Yeah,

11:23

he's giving Armand. I'm like, am I

11:25

going to be a weirdo? Josephine,

11:29

I'll do it for you. Thank you. Thank

11:32

you. I

11:35

will. That is an incredible government, yeah. You

11:39

did just text me the other day

11:41

a picture of like some old, old

11:43

painting in a museum that looked exactly

11:46

like you. If

11:48

you go to the Metropolitan Museum of

11:50

Art in New York City, right, and

11:52

you go to the Egyptian section, like

11:55

you walk into the entrance of the

11:57

Egyptian section, you make a left. There

11:59

is a series of few. Funeral portraits,

12:01

this is like a quest I'm giving

12:03

somebody. Do this. If you're listening to

12:06

this and you go to the Met,

12:08

take a selfie with my funeral portrait,

12:10

Jeff Stormer. There's

12:14

Roman era Egyptian funeral portraits

12:17

and one of them looks exactly like me.

12:19

It's uncanny, it's ridiculous. It's proof that

12:21

I think- Are you going to get in

12:23

trouble for outing yourself like this? I think that's a

12:26

mass grade, Rachel, I did. I

12:30

don't think anybody's going to listen to this.

12:35

That's fine. No

12:39

worries. I

12:43

spot it. When

12:49

this comes out, if I've mysteriously disappeared, this

12:51

is what- Well, no. Yeah.

12:54

We're going to blame it on Jeff Stormer. It's fine. So

12:57

we had started to

12:59

build our characters. This game,

13:01

Bloodbeam Badlands, is a game

13:03

about vampires in a apocalypse

13:06

wherein the sun is both

13:08

toxic and never setting. So

13:11

the vampires that exist in this world are

13:14

a little bit wrong and

13:17

have these very special and unique

13:20

types of abilities that they have.

13:23

Vidya, can you tell me the type

13:25

of vampire you are and just a

13:27

couple of little facts about you and

13:29

your vampire? Yeah.

13:33

So my vampire is a phantom

13:36

blood. That means that they

13:39

kind of house ghosts in their

13:41

heart and they have a cool

13:43

thing called a phantasm, which is

13:46

like a ghost that

13:48

they can summon and kind

13:50

of does cool things

13:55

for them. And

13:57

I think like my vampire- only

14:00

knows the apocalypse. I think

14:03

they turned afterwards.

14:06

I'm leaning into a gunslingery

14:08

vampire thing. They look

14:11

like a cool outlaw cowboy. Sick.

14:18

You said that they

14:20

are like a gunslingery

14:22

vibe. I'm picturing a

14:24

pretty standard cowboy. How

14:26

does your cowboy vampire

14:28

protect himself from the

14:30

sun? I

14:32

want to go just

14:34

classic big brimmed hat.

14:38

Oh, hell yeah. Really big.

14:40

Really big. Really big.

14:43

Really big hat. I

14:46

think there's bullet holes in it. Which

14:50

is kind of like some like

14:52

kind of goes through, but it's

14:54

cool. It's aesthetically cool. Yeah, it's

14:56

placed just so that the

14:58

light that comes in just

15:01

misses me. Just misses me. Yeah,

15:03

perfect. I don't think there's also a

15:05

big star on the side of it.

15:08

Oh, I don't know if he was the sheriff at some point.

15:12

Like self-appointed. Yeah. Yeah.

15:17

That's it. I'm picturing

15:19

like stars as like

15:22

an aesthetic. I got,

15:24

you know, Spurs that jingle

15:26

jangle jingle. Nice. I'm

15:29

imagining like glitter stars at this point,

15:31

but this is great. We could

15:33

do glitter stars, you know? Love

15:35

glitter stars. I'm not opposed to a glitter

15:37

star or two. Laura,

15:41

can you tell me what kind of

15:43

vampire you are? A little bit about

15:45

this vampire. Some of the things that

15:47

they can do. What

15:51

they look like. So I

15:53

have taken the Umbral shift

15:56

vampire, which means that

15:58

they are attuned to the demiplane of. which

16:00

is also known as the Deep Umbra,

16:02

which is just too

16:05

cool to not go

16:07

with. Oh

16:09

my God, oh my God. I didn't

16:11

read the entire titling on this. So

16:14

connected to the Deep Umbra, your soul

16:17

is an unstable void connecting you to

16:19

it. Because of this

16:21

attachment, you do not cast a shadow.

16:25

Yeah, yeah. So that's baller.

16:28

But yeah, I'm thinking like we're going

16:31

for the vibe of

16:37

Mily Jovovich and I think it

16:39

was like the third, oh

16:43

God, what's the damn movie? The

16:46

zombie movies that never die. There's

16:48

on like number eight right now. Resident Evil, that's

16:50

it. Resident Evil, yay.

16:53

With the like cowl

16:55

and hood and like fully,

16:58

clothed to survive the wasted

17:00

desert of Las Vegas. Amazing,

17:06

beautiful. Love that, love that.

17:09

Do you have a name

17:11

in mind? I

17:13

do, I'm thinking of

17:15

Jude Wyatt. Love

17:18

Jude Wyatt, oh that's a great

17:20

name. Pronouns? Pronouns

17:22

would be they them. And

17:25

as far as their age, don't worry about it. Great,

17:30

love that. Don't

17:32

worry about it, it's fine, I'm sure it's fine. Yeah,

17:34

no, apparently I can throw things in and out of

17:36

the shadow realm. So that's gonna be fun to screw

17:38

with. I'm sure that won't have

17:40

any consequences down the line. No, not

17:43

at all. I'm sure this is the same

17:45

thing. And then how are you protecting yourself

17:47

from the sun, the ever present toxic sun?

17:52

Yeah, I think like I said, it's very much like

17:55

someone who is used to wandering

17:57

more of a desert climate. me

17:59

a lot of linen and cotton

18:03

and a cowl and

18:05

a hood combo that basically keeps

18:07

everything but the eyes covered. Yeah.

18:10

Mm-hmm. Cool. Yeah,

18:12

yeah, yeah. Awesome. Love

18:14

that. Josephine, can you tell us a little bit

18:17

about your vampire? Yes.

18:20

I'm playing a haemoturge. I'm just

18:23

going to read the little blurb that's under it. It

18:26

was for you, everything changed when you

18:28

were inflicted with the vampiric curse. Your

18:30

blood became a potent arcane

18:33

conduit allowing you greater magical

18:35

heights unheard of before. I

18:37

just want to like anyone that is over here

18:39

because of LA by night, I know that I've

18:41

played a blood witch for

18:44

a long time. This is nothing

18:46

like her. It's different. It's different.

18:48

It's totally different. It's different blood magic. That

18:51

is not why I chose it. So

18:54

I have a spell book that contains

18:56

arcane secrets. My grimoire

18:58

has the Aegis spell domain,

19:01

which is a domain of

19:03

protection. My

19:05

incantations are shield, mend,

19:07

and inspire. My

19:10

name is just

19:14

Doc. Doc

19:17

and the she they pronouns. They're

19:20

going to be 224. I've

19:23

amended this. 294 years old. Basically,

19:26

they just got through medical school. The

19:29

apocalypse. The apocalypse happened.

19:34

That's even worse. At

19:39

least you don't have to pay off the student loan

19:41

debt. Yeah, exactly. Oh, there

19:43

you go. Loan forgiveness. There

19:45

you go. Yeah, the apocalypse is loan

19:47

forgiveness. You heard it here. They

19:52

look like a Celine bartender, a white.

20:00

button up that's rolled up over

20:03

rippling muscles and suspenders

20:06

and has tattoos and

20:08

scars all over their

20:10

arms. Just very worn

20:12

and gruff. The

20:14

same with the shirt has old

20:17

blood stains and dirt and nothing is

20:19

clean. Skin is grayish

20:21

in pallor. I don't know why. It's

20:24

just that's just what it is.

20:28

And let's say red

20:31

eyes, I don't know, blood magic. And

20:34

some very, we're

20:36

going to say like pale

20:38

long hair, but it's never down. It's always

20:40

like braided up and out of the way. But

20:44

yeah, strong and very tall, like burly.

20:49

Yeah. Hell yeah. How

20:52

is she protecting herself

20:54

from the sun? I

20:57

think this is so not

20:59

cool. You guys are very cool. I

21:02

think that she has this really

21:04

large bag that she travels with

21:06

and it has a big awning

21:08

that protrudes above

21:10

and over. I

21:13

love that. Just kind of always this

21:15

little. And I feel like it can almost

21:17

extend into a little tent situation to

21:19

do a little triage and treatment of people

21:22

on the go. Oh,

21:24

cool. That's fun. I like that.

21:27

Vadiea Valedi, tell me your

21:30

vampire's name. I can't. Violence

21:36

immediately. This

21:39

is an audio medium. I pointed my fingers

21:41

at him like a gun. Yes, it was

21:44

terrifying. Very

21:46

apt, actually. I'm going to name my vampire.

21:49

Gun. Bang. Bang.

21:53

Bang. OK. So

21:55

not much different. Not much different at all.

21:57

I don't think I'm doing like she. She

22:00

pronouns. He, yeah.

22:02

Love that so much. Do

22:05

you have an age or age

22:07

range in mind? Younger.

22:10

So like. Young ish. Yeah. Yeah.

22:12

Okay. Perfect. Love

22:15

that. So big. So big.

22:18

I think it's like. I love it. Younger.

22:21

We have exactly 224 years old. We

22:24

have age, don't worry about it and

22:27

young kind of. Those

22:29

are where we are at in the

22:31

time spectrum. Like

22:36

younger than what? Exactly.

22:41

I just younger than you. I'll be like I'm younger than you.

22:44

That's what the adventure is going to be

22:46

is figure out how. I'm age. Is

22:49

the youngest. Do

22:52

you, I would like

22:54

to imagine that you all at least

22:57

know each other. Somehow you

22:59

don't have to be best friends. You don't have to

23:01

be super super close, but I would

23:03

like everybody to know of at least each other

23:05

or know each other in some way. So

23:09

if anybody has any ideas that

23:12

are sparking forward, otherwise, I'll try

23:14

to try to tie

23:16

some lines. I'm like

23:18

99.9% sure

23:21

that Jude would have tried to pick someone's pocket at

23:23

some point. They've got

23:25

sticky sticky fingers. Yeah.

23:28

What's our society status of this wasteland?

23:36

Are there little pockets of societies?

23:38

Oh. Sorry.

23:41

That was the weirdest way for me

23:44

to ask. No, no, no. That's a

23:46

good question. So there is society. It

23:49

is it's very much

23:51

like outlaws

23:54

and I think

23:56

there is like the wasteland where things

23:58

are a little more. times

26:00

dude stop

26:02

doing it you know like or

26:05

be better stop letting me like

26:07

when you get away with it

26:09

i'll be happy but you keep

26:11

getting caught and that's what

26:13

pisses me off do you think i like stepped

26:15

into like mediate for

26:18

sure yeah yeah 100 i think you know we can even just

26:20

i think i shot jude

26:25

and you picture up

26:28

yeah yeah there

26:32

it is there it is

26:34

okay so jude pickpocketed bang

26:37

bang shot jude and then

26:39

they both hobbled over to

26:41

duck who patched

26:44

up jude yeah

26:46

we we gotta work together to

26:48

survive in this place you know it's like can't

26:51

be doing this shit i

26:53

know what do you keep trying

26:55

to steal i feel like

26:58

you've stolen something from you've attempted

27:00

to steal from bang twice at

27:03

least what is the thing you're

27:05

trying to steal i don't know if

27:07

it's anything in particular is the thing

27:09

it's definitely like a compulsion like

27:11

just because i can like

27:14

most of the time stealing for profit

27:16

and or because i'm getting like kind

27:19

of a treasure hunter vibe like wants

27:21

to find the greatest treasure that is

27:23

left in these horrid wastes and sometimes

27:26

i get bored and take

27:28

shit they're trying to steal a sense

27:30

of purpose that's

27:34

that's that's the character there it is

27:37

there it is that's it

27:39

stealing a sense of purpose

27:42

is amazing um

27:46

okay so we all we all know each

27:48

other we've got a little bit of a

27:50

backstory oh i think

27:52

that my costs for my services are usually

27:55

like these sort of like moral

27:57

challenges where i'm like you all have to

28:00

You all need to work together. I

28:02

won't treat you unless you show

28:04

me that you can work together

28:06

and help us survive because we

28:08

are already limited in our. Have

28:11

we already had a small adventure together?

28:14

Where it's like, you have to work together. It's like

28:16

a bar fight kind of broke

28:18

out and

28:20

you're like, I won't patch you up until

28:22

you help these poor folks or something, right?

28:25

That just happened to have a job for

28:27

me. Yeah. Yeah.

28:31

Awesome. Awesome. All

28:34

right. I think.

28:38

I think we're ready to go to the wasteland.

28:41

Let's do it. Let's

28:43

do it. Let's do it. You

28:45

have survived the apocalypse and

28:48

your worst nightmare has come true. The

28:51

sun burns redder, brighter and

28:53

hotter, never setting the forever

28:56

dawn. The land

28:58

has been irradiated and kissed by

29:00

its strange sanguine rays, warping the

29:02

world into a carnival for the

29:05

strange and the supernatural. Today

29:08

is the

29:11

day of a more literal carnival.

29:14

Usually that is a

29:17

convenient terminology we use

29:19

to describe this hell

29:21

we now reside within.

29:25

But we do find some

29:27

moments for fun and

29:30

in our own new way tonight,

29:33

today, as it is always day,

29:36

is the dark carnival. You

29:39

would be there because who wouldn't be? It

29:44

is a spectacular

29:47

and sensational event where all

29:50

of the supernatural creatures from

29:52

near and far

29:55

travel to see old

29:58

friends to play a weird. games

30:00

and to find

30:03

out new news,

30:06

gossip, things that

30:08

may benefit us

30:10

here in the wasteland once

30:12

the carnival itself is over.

30:16

Inside, or actually I should say

30:18

from just outside of where the

30:20

dark carnival is propped

30:22

up, there are

30:26

these sort of tattered

30:30

sheets that are levitating

30:32

magically in the sky

30:35

above where the carnival takes

30:38

place and from the outside

30:40

where it is glaringly, horrifically

30:42

day. Once

30:46

you peer inside,

30:48

there is inexplicable

30:50

darkness. You

30:53

would know that this darkness is

30:55

simply a magical illusion meant

30:57

to mimic the night. It

30:59

will not protect you. So

31:02

you must not let your guard

31:04

down and forget that the sun's

31:06

rays really are still here. But

31:10

for the sake of pretend, you

31:12

get to have one

31:14

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31:45

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32:52

Stepping inside the dark carnival,

32:55

some of the things that

32:57

you see, you see a

32:59

big display, a big metal

33:01

case. It's like one of

33:03

those old world fortune

33:05

telling machines where you would put a

33:07

quarter in and get like a pre-written

33:09

piece of paper, except

33:12

inside of it, there

33:14

is a slightly humanoid

33:16

bat that is slamming

33:18

on the inside of the glass

33:22

angrily until someone comes along

33:25

and puts in a quarter

33:27

and you see the bat

33:29

grab a piece of paper

33:31

and angrily scribble something down

33:33

and then flies up out

33:35

of the cage and throws

33:38

it at them. It goes

33:40

back inside and continues to

33:42

slip them on the glass,

33:44

beckoning more customers over to

33:46

get their fortune read. I

33:49

was like, did you say humanoid looking

33:52

bat? Yeah, it's got

33:54

bat wings, but tiny human

33:56

body, like an angry old.

34:00

It's a very angry pixie is

34:02

what I'm picturing. It's a very

34:04

angry pixie for sure. Incredible.

34:08

Thank you so much. I

34:10

love it. I

34:12

love it. I love

34:14

it. I love it. I

34:18

love it. I love it. I

34:22

love it. I

34:24

love it. I love

34:26

it. I love it. I

34:30

would like everyone to just say

34:34

something that you see at this market. Could

34:37

be something about the decor in here.

34:39

Could be something about a

34:41

person walking around or a display or

34:43

something. Anything that comes to your

34:45

mind. There's like a, how

34:47

about, this is so stupid.

34:50

There's like a stall that's

34:52

like, it just says

34:54

like, remember your roots. And

34:57

inside there's like little

35:00

footholds where you can just hang

35:02

upside down from and

35:05

just spend time in

35:09

like a sort of cave

35:11

like setting. And there's like little

35:14

fruits as well, like for you to

35:17

nibble on. This

35:20

makes zero sense. I can't explain it. This

35:23

is for bat people. This

35:25

is for not just vampires,

35:28

but anybody who is a

35:30

bat descended monster. Yeah.

35:34

I mean, we clearly know some of them already work here. So

35:37

clearly. I want

35:39

there to be a family essentially that runs this carnival.

35:42

This is a family run joint. Yeah.

35:45

And so everyone can feel what it's like to

35:47

be a little more bat like for a bit.

35:51

Yeah. I like that. It's

35:53

called remember your roots. I think that

35:55

the bat folk that run

35:58

the dark carnival have forgotten. that

36:00

some people aren't bats. And

36:03

they're just like, this is what everyone needs.

36:06

Is they need to hang upside down and chew

36:08

on some fruit. Yeah. I

36:12

know what bats do clearly. We

36:17

all do. This

36:20

podcast is scientific for

36:22

sure. It is completely.

36:24

Some reputable stars. I

36:27

love that. I wish I could

36:29

see videos of bats hanging upside down eating fruit,

36:31

but they definitely don't do that, do they? We're

36:35

in real world. They do. They

36:37

for sure at least do both of those things. And

36:42

I think, you know, we're

36:44

on limited time here. Yeah, there

36:46

we go. You got

36:49

to do it at the same time in this world.

36:55

I'm picturing like there's definitely

36:57

a section of this carnival

36:59

that's just like Barker's Row.

37:02

So just like stall after stall after

37:04

stall after stall. And some people

37:06

are like hawking whatever

37:08

food they can ground together in these arid wastes.

37:12

And then people are like selling

37:14

crap that obviously doesn't belong to

37:16

them. Oh, for sure. And then like

37:19

everything from like defunct car

37:21

parts to like weird

37:24

scraps together clothing, just like

37:26

everything you could possibly want in the middle of

37:28

this God's forsaken irradiated place.

37:30

Yeah. Yeah,

37:34

absolutely. I

37:37

want a roller coaster. Yeah,

37:39

I think there's I want like

37:42

carnival games. We're

37:45

not like not just the boots, but like

37:48

there's a like a tilt a whirl or

37:50

something. Yeah, a roller

37:53

coaster. And a tilt a

37:55

whirl and a roller coaster for sure. I

37:57

think I think it would be really funny in. in

38:00

the in the post

38:03

apocalypse that we've created here for there to

38:05

be one of those centrifugal

38:07

force rides where you just

38:10

like because I feel like

38:13

all the people in those as you're

38:15

spinning around always make the worst facial

38:17

expressions. And I'm just picturing like like

38:19

a werewolf with like his like cheeks

38:22

laughing in the wind and like.

38:27

Yeah. And then the roller

38:29

coaster in particular, I

38:32

want to I want to say that we got to

38:34

it can't just be a regular roller coaster. It can't

38:36

just be a regular coaster. Yeah, something's got to

38:39

be weird about it. Oh, yeah.

38:41

Oh, for sure. So what

38:43

if it is a roller coaster that's

38:46

called like heaven and hell

38:48

and it just goes like

38:50

up into the stratosphere and

38:52

then all the way down below the crust of the

38:54

earth and like it's

38:57

into like and like just skirts over

38:59

like a little bit of lava. And

39:01

yeah, like just on the edge of

39:04

where you would die. Yeah,

39:06

actually there. Yeah. Yeah, it

39:09

only runs once this whole

39:11

evening because it takes so

39:13

long. Yeah, right. It's

39:17

got to be really difficult to get a ticket

39:19

to it's like yeah, yeah,

39:22

highly coveted. It's like getting on

39:24

the Titanic. It's so are

39:27

you maybe invited? Oh,

39:29

I like that. Yeah, it's like really

39:31

it's it's special to be on

39:33

that roller coaster. When you win a ride, you

39:39

get invited. You know,

39:41

yeah, I will

39:43

say none of you were

39:46

privileged enough to get a

39:48

ticket to the heaven and

39:51

hell roller coaster. That's funny.

39:53

Yeah, I'm unhappy about it. But

39:55

yeah, yeah, of course. I

39:57

did put my name on watery, but it's funny. Oh,

40:00

with the lottery. Well, that could be like seven years

40:02

from now. Who knows? You

40:07

do, however, know

40:09

that there are probably people here who have

40:12

tickets who are just walking around or

40:15

could be swindled out of them somehow.

40:19

That's definitely true. What? One

40:25

other booth that you know is always

40:27

here is

40:30

that the person responsible for

40:32

this delightful, nighttime

40:34

illusion, a very powerful

40:37

witch called She. And

40:40

she has a booth here

40:43

somewhere in the center of

40:46

the carnival itself. You

40:49

would know of her. Her attention

40:51

is very coveted because she often

40:53

has, what

40:56

a lot of people come here for is news

40:59

that might make this life on the

41:01

apocalypse a little bit better or more

41:03

fun or easier. You

41:06

can find out things here like

41:08

about trains with coveted items

41:11

coming through town or gangs

41:14

that are supposed to be rolling

41:17

through that might be intercepted. Things

41:19

like that that you can always hear

41:21

rumors about here at the

41:24

dark carnival. Can I

41:26

ask? So we've got

41:28

other supernatural beings here. What's

41:31

the human situation? There

41:36

are very few humans here

41:38

who are not human plus. And

41:45

I think that if you do see them,

41:48

like you might watch

41:50

out because they're sort of like angler fish.

41:52

Like if there's a human that is not

41:54

like a... supernatural

42:00

thing like it's either

42:03

not yet and it's about to

42:05

be or

42:09

or it's a trap. So I would say

42:11

there's not much. Yeah. Are they antagonistic towards

42:13

the supernatural? Like, is it is it not

42:15

a no, I think

42:17

they're pretty exclusively prey in

42:20

this. The supernatural are are

42:22

the dominant thing here in

42:24

the wasteland. Mm hmm. It's

42:27

not fun for anybody, but they

42:29

they will. We're not for

42:32

them. Yeah, definitely not. Yeah. For

42:34

humans, at least. No,

42:36

for sure. But

42:38

they are the tastiest, presumably. For

42:40

sure. I think so. Yeah,

42:42

because definitely the test is. I guess

42:45

the humans that are not humans plus means

42:48

they don't have like irradiated blood. So

42:51

they everything alive here

42:53

has irradiated blood. OK.

42:57

Yeah, sadly, it's pretty much

42:59

all spoiled. It's still, you

43:01

know, sometimes you got to drink it, but

43:04

yeah, it's pretty poison. Yeah.

43:07

There is a kerfuffle

43:10

that starts to erupt

43:12

over by the fortune

43:14

telling bat baby, who

43:17

has just thrown a fortune

43:20

at a bi-pedal

43:23

shark man. Who

43:27

whose gills are just

43:29

like spraying water

43:32

everywhere as he screams

43:35

and bangs back on the glass at this

43:37

bat baby, presumably that he

43:40

didn't like his fortune. But they are going

43:42

at it and a couple of his

43:44

friends who are who

43:46

are also, of course, sharks, yeah, yeah,

43:49

are pulling him back. And the bat

43:51

baby does not seem worried, but it is

43:53

causing a bit of a commotion over there.

43:56

This commotion could be considered

43:58

a good distraction. if

44:01

you were looking for one, but it

44:03

could also be, but

44:07

it could also be a fun

44:09

thing to watch play out. What would you

44:11

like to do? I definitely like to

44:13

approach. I think I'm nosy. Obviously I can't

44:15

keep my business out of kerfaffles.

44:19

Sure, sure, sure. You have a good heart. Does that

44:21

mean you see a problem? You

44:24

mean well? Yeah, for

44:26

sure. I will

44:28

sidle up on the

44:31

side of the baby bat. Like

44:33

I kind of want to get close to

44:36

that container. And maybe if we're all together,

44:38

I will say like y'all

44:40

want to get your fortunes read. There's

44:44

a baby bat over there. I hear they're real

44:47

good at that. The one that's

44:49

currently being harangued.

44:51

Accosted in some way, yeah. I mean, we

44:53

could probably sort that out. And then we

44:56

might get one on the house. As

44:58

entire with the hospital. See

45:00

what the issue is. Let's

45:04

do a little cowboy walkover. We

45:07

got a cowboy walkover. Yeah, of

45:10

course, in unison I imagine. And

45:13

you saddle up next to the glass

45:15

cage and you see this shark

45:18

man just. I'm telling

45:20

you, you got to give me a different

45:22

fortune. I want a different one. I want

45:24

a better one. Or you're going to be

45:27

on the roller coaster over there. And

45:29

it's never going to stop. How

45:34

is the bat taking this, right? You said that

45:36

the bat's not worried. I cannot wait

45:38

to hear. It's just like, and

45:41

like sticking its bat tongue

45:43

out and like, taunting this

45:47

man. So

45:50

the bat does not look like it's in

45:52

a lot of danger. Excuse

45:56

me, sir. I mean, what was so

45:59

bad about the fortune? that you got. Well,

46:02

first things first, the

46:04

fortune said that I'm ugly. And

46:09

I am ugly. I

46:11

am a very handsome

46:13

shark. Yeah,

46:17

right. Well,

46:20

you know, beauty is in the eye of

46:22

the beholder and you can't expect baby,

46:26

well, I'm sorry. What is your

46:28

name? And it asked lean

46:30

towards the baby that baby

46:33

that takes out a fully lit cigar

46:35

from behind his back and takes

46:38

a big puff of it and says the

46:41

name's Frank and this

46:45

is my booth. And

46:47

I just give the fortunes as I see them.

46:54

Yeah, yeah. I mean, see

46:57

what Frank said, Frank, maybe

47:00

doesn't find you attractive. And that wasn't a very

47:02

nice thing for Frank to say to you, but

47:04

do you think that if you get another fortune

47:06

from Frank that it was gonna get any better

47:08

for you, sir? Yeah, I

47:11

mean, I saw a

47:13

fellow got a fortune that said that they

47:15

were gonna be rich. I

47:17

want a fortune like that one. I

47:19

want a fortune that says I'm gonna

47:21

be rich now that I am ugly.

47:23

That's not even a fortune. Yes, honey.

47:26

Bang something glass again. That

47:28

is not a fortune. All right. Josephine,

47:33

would you like to try the

47:35

first role of this game? I

47:38

think if you're trying to calm

47:41

the energies here between

47:45

these two, I think

47:47

depending on what you're going with,

47:49

we could argue for either Guile

47:51

or guys. If you're

47:53

just trying to kind of outsmart

47:56

them, or

47:59

if you're trying. to sort of

48:01

charm your way into calming things

48:03

down. What do you think is

48:05

more your speed

48:07

here? Actually,

48:09

could I can I use a

48:11

spell? You sure can. What spell

48:13

would you like to use? Well, I yeah,

48:17

I don't know if these are defined somewhere, but

48:19

I was just going to interpret what I thought they

48:22

might be. But

48:24

there is an inspire spell. And

48:28

I feel like I just want to like, hmm.

48:30

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you

48:32

want me to explain the way

48:35

it works is like it is it is

48:37

very loose. So you're OK. You

48:39

basically like pick like an

48:41

anchor. So it's like one

48:43

or two words that can either be a target,

48:45

a modifier range or a new aspect of the

48:47

scene. And then like

48:50

you speak the so it's like it's

48:52

almost like power words. So you're like

48:54

inspire, like inspire

48:57

friendship. Right. And then

48:59

friendship would be your like anchor to

49:01

the crowd of people or something. OK.

49:05

And then we're like shield. Jude,

49:07

and then that would be like the spell

49:10

that you cast. Right. Yeah.

49:12

OK. So it's like powerful.

49:15

You got to keep things kind of tight. Yeah.

49:17

So can I do like I think

49:19

I got to spend a blood point, I think.

49:23

And I want to put put

49:26

my hand on this shark man's

49:28

shoulder. I shoulder. Yeah,

49:30

they have shoulders. It's a

49:32

shoulder fin. It's like sort of, you know,

49:35

where does one shark on top? Legs

49:38

on the bottom. No, full

49:41

shark. The fins are just sort

49:44

of wiggling. Oh, my. As

49:46

he walks. His tail. Yeah,

49:49

his tail is like his feet

49:52

like a like a cartoon. Like a Hanna

49:54

Barbera shark. Yeah.

49:57

Yeah. It's like he's

49:59

wearing a pair. of shorts that still

50:01

do have two legs, but his

50:03

tail is just through one of them and the

50:05

other is just sort of hanging

50:08

loose at the side. Yeah, okay.

50:10

So I touched

50:13

this shark man's shoulder and

50:16

I'll say inspire

50:18

perspective. I

50:21

was saying, look man, I

50:23

don't know you, but you

50:25

can make your own fortune. You don't

50:27

need Frank to tell you what you

50:29

can or can't do or what awaits

50:32

you in these lands. You gotta claim

50:34

that for yourself. You gotta believe, you

50:36

gotta see that within yourself. Look around

50:38

you and look at all your, look

50:40

at your shark friends here with you.

50:44

You're not alone. Like sure, this

50:46

may be, you may be the

50:48

worst off as

50:50

a water-dwelling creature that got

50:52

into an endless sun, invested

50:56

wasteland in the desert, but

50:58

not a drip of water

51:00

inside, but you

51:03

are still here. You're still

51:05

surviving. Look at

51:07

you. You got so much to be proud

51:09

of and you got so much to

51:11

look forward to. Keep that

51:13

chin up. That's right. Keep that.

51:16

Frank, I'm gonna make my own fortune. Fang

51:19

up that fin up, you know what I

51:21

mean. Mm-hmm. You're

51:24

a good, you're a good person. That's

51:27

really cool. That's really

51:29

cool. Yeah. All right.

51:31

Well, I'm just gonna take this fortune

51:34

and I'm gonna give it right back

51:36

to you, Frank. And he throws it

51:38

at the cave. And

51:41

he says, I'm gonna go make my own

51:43

fortune and I'm gonna make it so that

51:45

I'm handsome. And then he

51:47

starts to wiggle away and

51:50

his shark buddies, they all

51:52

wiggle away on their tails

51:54

toward. You know what I think? I think it's

51:56

like one of those little

51:59

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52:01

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52:03

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here. I've never mentioned this before

54:59

too, but we can see the

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path ofsnscest. We long to

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in the universe of Starwall Odyssey

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space is made out of the

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collective imaginations of all the thinking

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beings who live on various planets.

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These worlds are connected to each

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other through imagination. Common themes and

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ideas are strings between universes and

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to get between them people fly

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wooden ships that look like animals,

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which are powered by emotions. Also,

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people communicate with each other by contemplating orbs.

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The only way you can take pictures is getting stared at

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by a big psychic bug and people

55:55

have already declared victory in a war over the very

55:57

concept of evil. But I'm getting

55:59

ahead of myself. Starwall Odyssey follows

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the adventures of the hapless inhabitants

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of the Lucky Finn Tenement Building,

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who suddenly find that their apartment

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is actually a spaceship, and that

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they're lost in a sea of

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boundless imagination. It's an actual play

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starring me, James D'Amato, Mel D'Amato,

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Ali Grower, and Drew Merzieski as

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we playtest the No Kings system,

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which will hopefully one day be

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the Skyjacks role-playing system. It toes

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the line between weird and wonderful

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slice of life and high-flying space

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fantasy. You can sample the first

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five episodes by searching for Starwall

56:33

Odyssey on your favorite podcast app,

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or get the whole thing by

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heading to patreon.com/one-shot podcast and signing

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up for $5 a month or

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more.