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Hey everybody, welcome to the Dungeon Cast. I'm Brian.

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And I'm William. This is the podcast where we

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talk about everything tabletop role-playing games. And today we

1:56

are venturing forward into the plane of smoke. Let's

2:08

get the weed jokes out of the way now. Hey,

2:11

Brian. Will, this episode is late. Is

2:14

it late? Yeah. Why

2:16

is it late? Oh! What is this,

2:19

airing in May? God. We're like

2:21

a month off. My apologies. I

2:23

don't know why we did the plane of ooze before we

2:26

did the plane of smoke. We could have also waited for

2:28

episode 420. We

2:30

could have. But that's far away. Yeah.

2:34

That's like months and months off. Will that be this

2:36

year? That won't be this year. Will it? I

2:39

think it might. It might be. Yeah,

2:41

we have 30 episodes to go. Oh, it'll be close. It'll

2:43

be close. I know. It'll be

2:45

next year. I think it'll be next year. It wouldn't

2:47

have worked out. It wouldn't have worked out. It's okay.

2:50

We're here now. Yeah, we are. Let's

2:52

enjoy it. Yeah, we can do weed on

2:54

Not That Day. So we have ventured through

2:56

the pretrescence of the swamp of oblivion and

2:58

braved the depths of the frost fell. But

3:01

today we endeavor to endure the blistering

3:03

heat and choking fumes of the great

3:06

conflagrate conflagration otherwise known as the para

3:08

elemental plane of smoke. Yeah. It's

3:11

hard to breathe here. It's almost impossible to

3:13

see and there isn't much worth seeing here even

3:15

if we could. That being said,

3:17

we are here so you don't have to be.

3:19

Let us be your canaries in the mine shaft

3:21

so you can decide if you want to subject

3:24

your players to such hazardous habitats. Yeah, our lungs

3:26

are primed for this. Let us get

3:28

the lung cancer study. You don't have to. It's

3:30

true. It doesn't matter. Smoke

3:32

is bad for your lungs, kids. Period. It doesn't

3:34

matter what you're smoking. Smoke is bad for you. Indeed. So

3:37

let's get into it. Okay. I

3:39

think that's it for weed jokes. You think

3:41

that's it for weed jokes? I wish it

3:43

was, Brian. But I have written the notes

3:45

for this and I just know they're semi-built

3:48

in. Okay. All done avoidable. I'll

3:50

try to not lean on them so much.

3:53

We're going to walk right into them. You're going to see. All right.

3:56

So the great conflagration, also known as

3:58

parallel... The Para-Elemental Plane

4:00

of Smoke is the inner plane

4:02

at the intersection of the planes of air and

4:04

fire. It is the place of

4:06

hot and noxious vapors and gases. It

4:09

is also said by some to be the

4:11

most mysterious of the Para-Elemental Planes. This is

4:13

likely because few ever come here, so little

4:15

is known of the plane outside of its

4:18

bounds. But it is

4:20

also likely made more mysterious due to its

4:22

opaqueness in comparison to some other planes. What

4:25

resides in the dark ominous clouds so

4:27

detrimental to life? The foul creatures lurk

4:30

therein. The

4:32

Planky. The plane of smoke is

4:34

an endless firestorm of hot smoke and ash, fueled by

4:36

the winds of the plane of air mixed with the

4:39

fires and magma of the plane of fire. In

4:41

some locations, the ashes coalesce into

4:43

floating solid regions that can be

4:46

used as shelters for fugitives and

4:48

outlaws. There is no gravity here

4:50

and any and all creatures can will themselves in

4:52

any given direction. But the atmosphere

4:54

is notably foul spelling and quite toxic to

4:56

most living creatures. I see. This

4:58

is terrible already. Most of these

5:00

places are. Most of these elemental planes are very bad. You

5:03

don't want to be there. Like

5:06

the Para-Elemental Plane of Ooz, the plane of

5:09

smoke can roughly be divided into seven regions

5:11

in the Great Wheel Cosmology. The

5:13

heart or center of the plane and its

5:15

six border regions. The plane of smoke, of

5:18

course, borders the planes of fire and air,

5:20

but also touches the planes of ash, vacuum,

5:22

radiance and lightning. There's a plane of vacuum?

5:24

There's a plane of vacuum. There's a big

5:27

fucking Dyson Sphere. I

5:29

mean, it's just a big empty void. It's

5:31

just like it's outer space enough stars. It's

5:34

the plane that do the suck. Yeah, it

5:36

does suck there. So

5:39

moving toward the elemental plane of fire,

5:41

the temperature grows greater and greater. In

5:43

time, it eventually becomes a region known

5:46

simply as the scald. This

5:48

region is as hot as the hellish plane of

5:50

fire itself, but without the actual flames and thus

5:52

no light. An explorer here

5:54

suffers 1d10 points of damage

5:56

per round with no chance of saving

5:59

grow per second. In addition role switch

6:01

like all of these barrel him onto

6:03

planes because neither will for he. They

6:05

didn't exist so it gets a pass

6:07

for that of Fyvie. I basically have

6:09

nothing written about any the stuff that

6:11

almost all this lore. All this information

6:13

is coming from. Mostly planes hit second

6:15

edition. Know. That. Not.

6:17

All but mostly okay. Ah,

6:19

other like explosions here. When.

6:21

In the skulls in the smoke Yeah yes

6:24

there are like we're going to get by

6:26

Unions combustion. Yes there's lots of that. There's

6:28

lots of them were to get to the

6:30

nearer to deplane of air the temperature drops

6:32

off just as markedly for traveler actually comes

6:34

into the clean obscure plane of air them

6:36

as path through a region of thick offensive

6:39

gloom known as the Eternal Hayes Holly out

6:41

I know that is. Wildly,

6:43

he presents no threat here. The vapors

6:45

are utterly poisonous and more than a

6:47

little caustic. the somewhat diffuse from earth

6:50

with apparently. Here one must

6:52

make us a movers the poison each round

6:54

with success indicating when the ten points of

6:56

damage of failure meaning that the target begins

6:58

to suffocate from the unhealthy vapors. Per second

7:00

edition rule of. That make

7:03

sense indeed. Ah, Heading in the direction

7:05

of the cause, a plane of ash,

7:07

one enters an area of swirling flakes

7:09

known as the embers. These flakes grow

7:11

hot, blow hotly just like the particles

7:13

carried into the nice guy from blaze

7:15

and campfire. Although it is possible to

7:18

survive here without being consumed by the

7:20

heat, flesh sears, and blisters if grazed

7:22

by one of the falling pinpoint. The

7:24

fire. This is a really fucking annoying

7:26

place to be. Yeah, there's like just

7:28

a bunch of little pinpoint. The pain

7:30

everywhere this collies have like us on

7:33

an airplane, like a. Like.

7:35

At all. What's the haidar of qualities hit?

7:37

Maybe maybe ask if you can. We get

7:39

that. you've got to flying Dragon. Remember he's

7:41

got the the dragon either Added he does.

7:44

Yes, Oh think so. Yeah yeah yeah. Brad's

7:46

Remember the Mr. Crabb Summer and yes that

7:48

that's the that means water. The first apparatus,

7:50

the second one where the flying dragon. Okay

7:53

with a nap though. thing you need

7:55

theft to bring here. And yes, I'm

7:57

ok. cool. Say hello at her crisis

8:00

attraction. I do think that the regular

8:02

operated color would work here since you

8:04

can will yourself in a given direction.

8:06

Okay, I'll yep to Angling toward the

8:09

Plaza Elemental Plane, a vacuum, an area

8:11

of thin tainted air known as the

8:13

Gray Way Press presents a similar faith

8:15

to that of the Eternal. He's However,

8:18

the air here is not actually toxic.

8:20

neither though, is it safe to breathe.

8:22

The vapors of the Great Way prey

8:24

upon the minds of those who draw

8:26

them in. Gradually, they consume the beings'

8:29

intelligence bringing about hallucinations. And finally

8:31

ushering in absolute violent madness home

8:33

gray mind. Is

8:36

a terrible condition as a victim no

8:38

longer recognizes the difference between living in

8:40

non living good and evil, kindness and

8:42

brutality or only restoration or somewhere spoken

8:44

relieve the ailment? What does that mean

8:46

How my supposed to act in a

8:48

role play scenario under these conditions? I

8:50

think I mean I did. It's up

8:52

to you as a player. I think

8:54

he can give you free rein. Oh

8:57

I think the idea here is

8:59

that like, no, no thing represents

9:01

itself in that type of madness

9:03

Rape. So like if something

9:06

is cold or something is solid or

9:08

something, it's like just trying go a

9:10

different direction if you're if you're really

9:12

general played out. Yeah okay

9:14

I can be very difficult I grab my my that

9:16

he adds a difficult one for sure. Are

9:19

closer to the choir The plane of

9:21

Radiance, a vast expanse of darkness in

9:23

which flakes of light in energy drift

9:25

about like firefly stretches out as far

9:27

as the ice can see. this place

9:29

where darkness and light mingle. so closely

9:31

called the Sea of Stairs pretty is

9:33

a pretty. An even more impressive region

9:35

V Aurora lies in the direction of

9:37

the Cause I elemental plane of Lightning.

9:39

Here the world darkens as it does

9:41

in the sea. Stars are before long,

9:43

however waves of brilliant colors break across

9:45

the sky. This site is one of

9:47

the most beautiful. And all the multiverse the

9:50

something know traveler of this realm should miss.

9:52

Okay so you're saying all the stuff as.

9:55

To. a bay dry of this this information

9:57

little lower so this is not can five

9:59

is stripped it A lot of the down, right? Yeah, in

10:01

a lot of ways. They just omit it

10:03

a lot. They just like don't

10:05

say anything at all. You know, like it's up

10:07

to you in that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I

10:09

just wanted to make that like crystal clear because

10:11

I was getting lost in the weeds a little

10:13

bit. Where is all the stuff in the 5E

10:15

lore? It just isn't. It just

10:17

not, yeah, it's not. So, okay, so now

10:19

that we have the regions mapped out, let's

10:21

get into the general characteristics of the plane

10:24

itself, starting with the physical conditions. On

10:26

the whole, the paraplane of smoke is not

10:28

the most dangerous in the interplanes, but it's

10:30

still not exactly non-hostile either. While

10:33

the atmosphere is not fit to breathe, most visitors

10:35

will not be burned to a cinder or entombed

10:37

alive the moment they arrive. Still,

10:39

the plane is full of hazards. Okay. First

10:42

hazard, breathing. The air

10:44

of the paraplane of smoke is uncomfortably hot

10:47

and thick, but the real hazard lies in

10:49

the fact that it's so highly toxic. An

10:51

unprotected visitor can die immediately should they inhale

10:53

the terrible fumes. Yeah, that sounds about right.

10:55

I don't know if people listening have ever

10:57

been like, you know, near a

10:59

fire or anything like that, or like gotten

11:01

a, if you take a lung full of

11:03

smoke in, like that, that's bad.

11:05

Yeah, it's not good. It's really bad. Very

11:07

unpleasant. Vision. The

11:10

thick, curly vapors of smoke are not only toxic,

11:12

but also difficult to see through. Most creatures cannot

11:14

see more than 30 feet, even

11:17

under the best conditions. This assumes,

11:19

of course, either darkvision or the possession of

11:21

a light source. Natives of

11:23

the plane, due to adaptation and training,

11:25

can see twice that distance, if

11:27

not three times in the case of parallel mentals

11:29

and method. Remove your goggles

11:31

for your training, boy. What

11:34

burns? My eyes. I can

11:36

see. Most

11:39

of the plane is as dark as

11:41

the abyss, making combat difficult and underscoring

11:44

the importance of surprise in battle. InfraVision,

11:46

which is not really a thing that exists in

11:48

5E, but it was

11:50

a thing that existed previous to 4E. Like

11:53

heat goggles? Just heat vision, basically. For

11:56

instance, if you play a lot of

11:58

The Old-school Renaissance, Games like Dungeon

12:00

Crawl classic for example, elves and dwarves and

12:03

have flings had. don't have door for your

12:05

name in for vision and that's a holdover

12:07

from first Edition Needy. That's a weird choice.

12:09

I think it would be like the lizard

12:12

evokes yeah you daily. Oh yeah I mean

12:14

obviously changed over time buyer but that was

12:16

that was how they they went about. It's

12:18

else can do everything losing track your heat

12:21

signature. That's efforts to do sonos. Oh yeah

12:23

yeah. pacific ah were was either i'm still

12:25

alive and five he today. I'm sure they

12:27

are a hundred years old. Information

12:30

does not function well here though For

12:32

the background he watches are all lesser

12:34

sources, only the hottest objects are visible

12:36

to those. depending on information on explosive

12:38

pocket snare out about this earlier. Yes,

12:41

I want the air of the bearably

12:43

may not be breathe of all but

12:45

a can support fire. Thus it is

12:47

possible to illuminate your way through the

12:49

smoke with torch and lantern. that this

12:51

is often a necessity is also quite

12:53

dangerous is some places the nature of

12:55

the plane of smoke causes the accumulation

12:58

of gases that are not only toxic.

13:00

But also highly explosive. When an open flame

13:02

enter such a reason it triggers an explosion

13:04

the generally consumes the gases and everything within

13:06

that everyone concert last month. make a saving

13:08

over says breath weapon or suffered to to

13:11

points of damage second edition rules of course

13:13

I'd think what would you would probably make

13:15

everyone needs to either a corner decks saved

13:17

money and how you interpret it and then

13:19

I don't know if I were dude to

13:22

need twenty so much as I would probably

13:24

do forty ten. Then. A yeah

13:26

a growing D twenties verb, H P

13:28

or damages weird is weird by or

13:30

something I had to integrate into the

13:33

store seekers guide rejects there with starches.

13:35

oh cool I have an Nd one

13:37

hundred for them. Super size Dreadnought that's

13:39

wills custom home setting that bookies tix

13:41

started and yes indeed kicking ass it's

13:44

a yeah it's it's get their ah

13:46

but yeah same it isn't rules. a

13:48

successful save throw cuts the savage and

13:50

Half which you know that tracks ah

13:53

I'm hot spots here in their one

13:55

may. Come upon an area smoke that

13:57

has only just manifested. These areas are

13:59

marked by their extreme heat. Anyone who

14:01

enters one of these infernal clouds as

14:03

instantly subjected to the searing heat of

14:05

the element of fire. Ah, travel in

14:08

the barrel. Multiple bogeys virtually identical to

14:10

that, the elemental plein air. there's no

14:12

gravity and a traveler who decides of

14:14

Sanders and his down follows that way

14:16

endlessly so it's a little bit different

14:18

from I know we've talked about other

14:20

planes of existence where I think of

14:23

specifically limbo. throw the one where he

14:25

just as users will your waiter direction

14:27

you will move that way. This is

14:29

different. Him. Like you just have to decide which

14:31

way down and then you start falling that way.

14:34

Which. Is a lot different way. It's a

14:36

lot of ride gravity. Yeah, you decide Gabi.

14:38

but then you have to like you and

14:40

you can change your mind any time you

14:43

can master this. but it's very dangerous. Yeah,

14:45

M and M's mastered it. But.

14:48

Absolutely. Cyclops. there goes, and is

14:50

that falling? Absolute.

14:52

A citizen can adeptly use a stricter

14:54

travel around the pair plane just as

14:57

a my in the plane of air.

14:59

This comes with his dangers those most

15:01

cannot see very well. Here it is

15:03

frighteningly easy to begin moving up a

15:05

good speed only have something materialize out

15:07

of the smoke free cross directly into

15:09

said object. Like.

15:12

It's. A great way to move around

15:14

if you can see which you probably

15:16

guessed don't do it Yeah that some

15:19

he suffered. Lose yourself in the music

15:21

and the moment. Arcade

15:24

sure as time accept. That

15:28

shouldn't be. Okay,

15:30

about. Secret. process look

15:32

i'll push the stone and

15:34

the wall opened up our

15:36

local forces oh god oh

15:38

wow as a lot of

15:40

smoke pot smells awful oh

15:42

yeah greats drinking cloud us

15:44

discussing oh well off enough

15:47

this normal dungeon stuff i

15:49

guess he or she has

15:51

a right to their go

15:53

in there like traps are

15:55

just gonna run into one

15:57

era wave i have this

15:59

town I'll wave it around.

16:01

Oh, yes. Okay, let's...

16:03

Okay. I guess venture forth

16:05

down this hallway to whatever this dungeon holds.

16:07

It stings my eyes, but I can't... I

16:09

think I see... Ah. It

16:12

looks like the plane of... the power elemental

16:14

plane of smoke in here. Yeah, I don't

16:16

know what that is, but there's a little

16:19

dude floating around in there. Where? Little

16:21

winged thing. I don't know how you can see it all

16:23

in here, man. I can hear it mostly, but I think

16:25

it's flapping around. Who goes there? It's

16:28

I. I'm just... don't

16:31

worry about it all.

16:33

What are you? I'm a method. Ah,

16:36

a smoke method, Ben. Yeah. Be

16:38

careful, these are cunning creatures. These are methods.

16:41

I don't think I've ever seen a method before. I

16:43

still haven't. Ah, I guess that's fair. Let

16:46

me wave the towel in front of you. Oh, oh, there

16:48

it is. I see a little... Oh, God, he's like... He

16:50

got his balls out. He's got his

16:52

smokey balls out. Heh

16:55

heh. Don't

16:57

shame the thing. It doesn't know any better.

16:59

Ah, I gotta do. Dammit. Don't

17:02

kill yourself. You saw my balls, right? Ha ha. Anyway,

17:06

I'm not gonna let you guys pass, but

17:08

you gotta go down this hallway over here.

17:10

Oh, it seems the hallway takes a turn.

17:12

Oh, God, there's just more smoke. How can

17:14

we venture down this? That smoke looks like

17:17

it's got tiny explosions going off inside of

17:19

it. Yes, I did. I

17:21

had some hot pockets in there. Yes. Yeah,

17:24

well, the only way through is... This

17:27

is the smoke of a cack. You gotta

17:29

suck down the smoke of a cack and then

17:31

it'll clear out and you can get through. Excuse

17:33

me? That sounds incredibly

17:35

dangerous. It also sounds semi-sexual.

17:38

Heh heh. No. Don't

17:40

be weird. I'm not the one

17:42

being weird here. Oh, yeah. You just asked me to

17:45

do something I'm not comfortable with. You know, that's the

17:47

only way through. It's not what I can do about

17:49

it. You gotta suck the smoke. I'm a cack. Ben,

17:52

I'm gonna need you to take water from the team. I will let

17:55

me... What's a cack? It almost

17:57

sounds like... You know... Is he talking about... You

18:00

talking about a penis? No,

18:02

I believe he's talking about the smoldering Duke

18:04

of the plane of smoke. The

18:06

Mephist, uh... Mephist, smoke Mephist

18:08

in particular, kind of wish of him like a

18:10

deity. He gave me a cool bottle of his

18:12

best stuff and I dropped it down the hallway.

18:15

Sir, that bottle is in fact penis shaped. What

18:17

the fuck? Ugh, come on.

18:19

Don't be like that. Just give me a

18:21

little... ...baaahh. I

18:24

hate this. Ugh... Ugh... Ha

18:27

ha ha. Finn?

18:29

I don't have time for this at all. I don't have time for

18:31

this. Shwee shwee shwee

18:34

shwee shwee. The smoke's

18:36

evaporating. Ah, he kept it from the

18:38

balls up. Well

18:40

done, Finn. Let's go down this

18:42

hall. Yeah, I've kind of found out that if

18:44

you just sort of kill these riddlers... Hey,

18:47

you had that password so we didn't

18:49

have to kill a manitar, but I'm

18:51

not sucking no cack smoke or whatever

18:54

you're saying. Ha ha. Yeah. That's cool.

18:56

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you know, they could have had it. I don't

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know man, but let's get back to the plane

24:25

smoke, okay I'm

24:29

terrible. Don't don't inhale So we talked about

24:31

the hazards and we talked about the region

24:33

now It's time to talk about the things

24:35

that I should live here. Okay starting with

24:37

para elementals So para elementals

24:39

those smoke methods are probably the most

24:41

numerous features in the para plane The

24:44

para elementals come close to matching their

24:46

number the methods generally obey

24:48

a being called Oh Jack

24:53

Jack Jack who claims to be

24:55

an elemental prince even though he could not possibly

24:57

hold his own against a real archimental such as

24:59

the Ants he been or Chan Smoke

25:02

para elementals on the other hand ignore the

25:04

self-proclaimed Lord of the methods Instead they form

25:06

their own kingdoms and follow their own nobility

25:09

known as the smoke Dukes. That's kind of

25:11

cool It's a pretty cool name. They they

25:13

do they're like the cigar guys Absolutely

25:18

The answer you better not the swisher guys. That's

25:20

that gak. No. Yeah The

25:22

reason it's so terrible here is cuz there's like black

25:24

clothes people. Oh, no really lighten

25:26

it up Not the clothes

25:29

smokers and the camel crush menthol smokers there, you

25:31

know, they're banning menthol anyway It's been banned in

25:33

California. Yeah, but then I think it's a yeah

25:35

anyway I know that I have a here and

25:38

there are laws of menthol smoker and she was

25:40

upset about it. Oh dear In

25:42

many cases parallel mental rulers and

25:44

method leaders claim the same and

25:47

overlapping regions This does not cause

25:49

too much trouble. However for these

25:51

races seem to coexist with peace and respect Big

25:55

surprise of the smokers are coexisting They're

25:58

all way too chill here Jill

26:00

both carry great enmity for the free

26:03

engine forces that come to the paraplane

26:06

To claim it is around yeah, there's there's people they

26:08

kicked out of here for chewing tobacco They're like no

26:10

that's plain of earth shit get out of here

26:12

absolutely Animals

26:15

so a number of birds and other natural

26:17

flying creatures live on the paraplane of smoke

26:19

somehow either through magic or evolution The beasts

26:21

have adapted to the toxic fumes of the

26:23

paraplane These animals tend to be very large

26:25

or even giant examples of their species One

26:28

might also encounter a great many animals which we learned

26:30

about in the plane of

26:33

ooze episode and things

26:35

known as Fundamentals of smoke okay for

26:37

the most part these creatures are content

26:39

to be left by to themselves

26:41

as they drift through the royal blackness But

26:44

let's talk about fundamentals for a sec because

26:46

this is new to me when I read

26:48

it like capital F UN fundamentals Yep, oh

26:51

no no no well, maybe maybe I could kind of

26:53

see them I mean in the notes I see capital

26:55

S But yeah, but the but I could see them

26:57

being fun because they're kind of cute little critters so

27:00

Fundamentals are tiny creatures composed of

27:02

pure elemental energy. They are

27:05

almost two dimensional as their bodies are

27:07

so thin They also represent

27:09

their element fire fundamentals are covered in flames

27:12

What's what whilst water fundamentals have an

27:14

almost liquid form and glimmer like light

27:16

on water? They are semi

27:18

intelligent, but do not seem to do much else

27:21

than flutter and flap their wings like body Wing

27:24

like bodies someone like that so they

27:26

look like little fluttering like wing wing

27:28

creatures Yeah, a little sprite, but they're

27:30

but they're they're two-dimensional because they're so

27:32

thin okay. They want to be Like

27:36

a gin or something one day. They're

27:38

like the baby. Yeah, maybe one day This

27:40

is the evolutionary cycle like you start down

27:42

here I had a fundamental then you become

27:44

an animator then you become a parallel or

27:46

elemental and then you become Archimental,

27:49

I don't see that being too far

27:51

off especially since that's kind of how

27:53

it works in the tower for demons

27:55

and devil Yeah, exactly yeah, and there's

27:57

a lot of influence of the

28:00

elemental chaos in the abyss

28:02

right? Fourth edition rules yes, nowadays not

28:04

so much. Right, right, right. But I

28:06

still like to play with that so

28:08

yeah. Yeah if we're if we've stripped

28:10

off all of the you know extras

28:13

quote unquote for the elemental planes

28:16

then I don't see

28:18

why that couldn't apply. Yeah absolutely. So

28:21

the most dangerous monsters native to

28:23

this plane of smoke are the

28:25

Belkers, Vapor Rats and

28:27

Sootbeasts. Ooh, Sootbeasts sounds awesome. Vapor

28:29

Rats not awesome. You're gonna be

28:31

very disappointed when we get a

28:33

Sootbeast. So Belkers are creatures

28:35

primarily composed of smoke with large

28:37

black wings, claw tendrils and abiding

28:40

maw. They hate methods, parallel

28:42

mentals and just about everything else in existence.

28:44

They are dangerous predators and a wise traveler

28:46

keeps well away from them. The more

28:48

powerful and important denizens of the airplane

28:50

often keep Vapor Rats pets. Oh

28:53

you know I thought I wrote this down but I didn't. Belkers

28:56

basically look like smoke demons. If you want to

28:58

pull up an image they look like I

29:00

would describe oh that's a smoke demon. I'm

29:04

kind of working on Bob's Burgers joke but I don't think it's

29:06

gonna happen. I love

29:08

Bob's Burgers so I wish you would. While

29:11

you looked that up let's get the Vapor Rats. Okay I got it.

29:14

This doesn't look like Bob Belcher at all. Okay.

29:17

I wish you hadn't. You

29:20

forced my hand. I did. You know what?

29:22

I wasn't gonna do it. You wasn't good enough. This

29:25

one was on me. So

29:28

are you looking at the bokeh though? Yeah I am. How

29:31

would you describe it? It's a little chunky

29:33

thing with like raptor hands and

29:36

wings. Yeah okay yeah you got it.

29:39

It looks like something out of Pink Floyd the Wall.

29:41

Yeah and it looks like it's coming out of a

29:43

genie's lamp. You know how the tail kind of does

29:45

that weird wispy thing? Absolutely.

29:49

Oh it's got like

29:51

a very ghastly face and like

29:53

some lamprey style jaw. Smoke

29:55

demon. Yeah smoke demon. This

29:58

is what you see when you smoke that bad coke. Indeed

30:00

don't smoke the bad guys. No They

30:03

are dangerous predators Okay, the more powerful

30:05

and important denizens of the paraplane often

30:07

keep vapor rats as pets So vapor

30:09

rats are essentially giant rats composed of

30:11

toxic fumes That's really

30:13

all there is to them. They

30:15

just they're big poisonous fume rats.

30:17

It's it's rap. It's regular rats

30:19

But they have like a big

30:22

chunky vaporizer and they're just like

30:24

ripping clouds non-stop absolutely

30:28

Smoke methods in particular prize these creatures

30:30

the way that some other species treasure

30:33

cats. Okay, I see

30:35

and I found Absolutely

30:37

no further information on soot beasts

30:39

just their fucking name, bro. I

30:42

find them anywhere So if

30:44

anyone has anything on soot beasts, they

30:46

were like when I heard the names They were the ones

30:48

I want to know the most about and I couldn't find

30:50

shit. Yeah, they sound awesome I don't think it would be

30:52

any animal Re-flavor all

30:55

the stop blocks to be any animal

30:57

and they explode into like a burst

30:59

of puff. Sure I can that absolutely

31:01

make you cough. Let's talk about the

31:03

people that live here. Okay Some

31:06

renegade groups of Efreet and Jhin have chosen to

31:08

establish some more kingdoms in the paraplane of smoke

31:11

Although they no longer serve the masters of the respective

31:13

people from their home plane They do still make war

31:15

on each other So we haven't really talked about it

31:17

much but the Jhin and the Efreet in

31:19

particular do not like each other

31:22

Yeah constantly a war I think it has come

31:24

up it has to do with their alignment I

31:27

think more than anything is that like the fire

31:29

Efreet tend to be lawful evil while Jhin

31:32

tend to be care of good. Okay, and like

31:34

they just really clash. I've heard people

31:36

say gene You know, like I I'm

31:39

wearing my jeans. I haven't heard that. I'm

31:41

pretty sure it's gin Yeah, I'm

31:43

pretty sure it's gin. You know how we do I

31:45

just like to say it off and then

31:47

somebody get mad and and you know, and correct me

31:49

if I'm wrong I know you

31:51

will and that's okay. That's a good thing. I'll learn

31:54

and grow we like that here unless

31:56

we don't agree with the thing you said I

32:00

think the thing you said was stupid. Where

32:02

was I? Yeah, they make war with each other. Both

32:05

sides spend a great deal of time trying

32:07

to convince the other inhabitants of smoke to

32:09

ally with them, but their efforts tend to

32:11

be ineffective at best. Okay. Like you guys

32:13

shouldn't even be here. So

32:16

rumors abound that a race of drow-like

32:18

avariel lurk amid the endless clouds of

32:20

smoke. We haven't really talked about the

32:22

avariel like ever, but they're like angel

32:24

elves. They're elves with wings. That's what

32:27

they are. They're sky elves,

32:29

yes. But they're bad, smoky ones?

32:32

Well, they're saying that there are rumors that

32:35

in the plane of smoke, there are

32:37

drow-like avariel. Okay. Yeah,

32:39

so. So those followers are like, some

32:41

of our brethren, they breathe the

32:43

hot dust. We do

32:45

not associate with them. Little is known about

32:48

them if they even exist. Okay. Just

32:50

saying rumors say they might be in there, but there's a

32:52

lot of rumors about the plane of smoke because no one

32:54

knows what's going on in there. Can't fucking see anything. I

32:58

saw a drow with wings. It scared me. Like

33:01

pirates, you know, getting scurvy and thinking

33:04

they're seeing a manatee. Yeah, sure. Well,

33:06

no, they saw a manatee, but they thought they saw a

33:08

mermaid. They saw a manatee, they wanted to get in on

33:10

that manatee. You can't do that, dude. They

33:13

die on the rocks. All

33:17

right, let's talk about the powers, the

33:19

major powers. Feuditisms of the pair of

33:21

plane of smoke can be classified as

33:23

individuals of real power, but

33:26

some can. Ekak,

33:29

which I have a real heart. The reason I keep taking

33:32

a moment is I'm trying not to say e-cock,

33:34

but. Now

33:37

you know Ekak, the creature known

33:39

as Ekak, the smoldering duke, is

33:41

a smoke method of considerable intelligence

33:43

and charisma. Although not markedly

33:45

more powerful than his peers, his keen mind

33:48

has enabled him to persuade a great many

33:50

others, including para-elementals, even a few E-free and

33:52

Jhin, to take up his banner. Ekak's

33:55

ultimate goals, if any, are

33:57

unknown. He seems to be interested

33:59

in exp- expanding his influence on the Parabwane, but

34:02

he doesn't appear to be in any real hurry

34:04

to do so. Furthermore, he shows no apparent interest

34:06

in events that do not take place in the

34:08

plane of smoke. Okay, so he

34:10

wouldn't go to the plane of vacuum?

34:13

No, definitely not. Jay

34:16

Burninghand. Okay, that's

34:19

a cool name, I guess. Yeah, it's a pretty

34:21

cool name. Sounds like a Super Quest Saga character.

34:23

It does. But speaking of Super

34:25

Quest Saga, doesn't Ekak remind you of

34:28

Savvy... Oh my

34:30

God, what are you... Savvy Jack Scratch? That's what I

34:33

was thinking about when you said Jay Burninghand, I thought

34:35

of Savvy Jack Scratch, but I guess Ekak

34:37

would be... It's the

34:39

same concept, right? Yeah, it's a

34:41

little weakling, but he's super duper

34:43

clever. Yes, exactly. Exactly. He

34:46

keeps tricking people into saying Ekak. Indeed.

34:49

Jay Burninghand though. Let's get the Jay Burninghand. This

34:53

Fire Genasi is a proxy

34:55

of the Fire God, Hastazini.

34:58

Hastazini? I

35:00

think you... Hastazini. Hastazini.

35:04

He sports the head of a hawk and skin

35:06

as black as coal. His eyes

35:08

burn with a white-hot glow and it's said

35:10

that his gaze can cause any object to

35:12

burst into flames. That's cool. It's pretty dope.

35:14

That's how he's lighting his stogies. Hastazini

35:18

seems to have sent Burninghand to this realm

35:20

to observe the inhabitants of smoke and is

35:22

not known whether the deity has far-reaching plans

35:24

that involve the para-plan of smoke though. Okay,

35:27

they call him that because he'll just keep on smoking

35:29

the roach and his little fingers will get burned and

35:31

he does not care. Also,

35:33

he probably invented the Burninghands though. Absolutely.

35:36

Because he can combust a little filter at the end of

35:39

the smoke. That's

35:42

why it's one of the smoke components is like a

35:44

marble red filter. Really,

35:48

I missed that. I missed that one. Yeah. Actually,

35:51

they added that in Tasha's. Oh, okay.

35:54

That's why I missed it. So let's move

35:56

on to the locations of no in the para-plan of

35:58

smoke. Only a very few... important

36:00

structures are known to exist here. This is

36:03

not to say that rumors do not abound

36:05

of more, but the truth of their existence

36:07

can neither be confirmed nor denied. Okay. Kind

36:09

of like the Drow of Ariel. Gotcha. Just

36:12

so everybody knows, I kind of let the cat out of

36:14

the bag there, but if you want to trick your DM

36:16

to letting you do something stupid, just tell them that they

36:18

added it in Tasha's. They

36:22

will not take the time to stop the game and go

36:24

read it, I promise. They'll just like hand waves. You're probably

36:27

right. The choking

36:29

palace. This is the seat of

36:31

Ekak's power. The diminutive tyrant rules

36:33

from a floating castle constructed of

36:35

gray-black iron. Each room, chamber, and

36:37

hall holds a large brazier

36:39

that fills the already naturally smoky

36:42

palace with semi-magical fumes. The smoke

36:44

from these burners renders the smoke

36:46

inside the palace utterly transparent to

36:48

those who sincerely serve Ekak and

36:50

completely opaque to all others. Further,

36:53

those within the enchanted smoke, no matter where

36:56

they stand in the palace, are always within

36:58

view of the Duke himself. Okay.

37:00

So this dude, I mean

37:02

that's that's hardcore, but also very smart.

37:05

Yeah. Because how many

37:07

people are gonna pretend to serve him, right? Because he's

37:09

a little guy, right? Well, he'll

37:12

know. He'll know if your

37:14

your intentions are ill. Yeah.

37:17

Okay. The choking palace of

37:19

central keep holds a vast library of all

37:21

manner of lore. Ekak values knowledge greatly, and

37:23

he always seeks more books or more information

37:25

for a scribe to record. The

37:29

smoldering Duke rarely leaves his castle, choosing

37:31

to spend most of his time writing

37:33

his own voluminous journal-like works. Only

37:36

the unwise disturb Ekak while he writes.

37:38

Those who bring the Duke gifts and

37:40

flattery quickly gain his favor. He particularly

37:42

values ever-smoky bottles and braziers of sleep

37:44

smoke. It comes as little

37:46

surprise to most that Ekak has perhaps the

37:48

greatest collection of pipe weed and smoking emblems

37:51

in the multiverse. He

37:53

and all his minions continually partake

37:55

in some sort of inhale, inhalant

37:57

incense or smoked substance. Yeah, that

37:59

tracks. I mean he's a smart guy. Yeah.

38:03

He knows what's good. He knows which is

38:05

the best. He's a curator of the best

38:07

smokes in the region. Indeed he is. Next

38:10

up, Cinderwood. Horribly

38:12

misnamed, it resembles no forest and offers

38:15

no wood. This place is more akin

38:17

to an archipelago of islands on a

38:19

terrestrial world. Here, however, the

38:21

islands are cinders ranging in size from

38:23

that of a person's fingernail to that

38:25

of a small mountain. They float through

38:27

the vapors and number in the thousands.

38:29

Many inhabitants of the plain at large,

38:31

including belkers, parallelamentals, and mephits, live in

38:34

and among these cinders. A

38:36

being standing on one of the islands cannot see

38:38

most of the others floating around it, but they

38:40

can often hear the sounds of creatures moving, talking,

38:42

and working on a nearby cinder. So

38:44

it's an ember that's the size

38:46

of a cinder? A

38:49

cinder? Yeah, the difference between a

38:51

cinder and cinders aren't hot. Oh,

38:53

okay. So it's like coal almost? It's

38:56

like coal. Yeah, yeah, like floating coal. That's how

38:58

I interpret it. Maybe I'm wrong, but I figure

39:00

if it was ember, it's like, how the fuck

39:02

are you gonna live there? It's like a piece

39:04

of ash. Well, sort of. It's a pre-ash chunk.

39:07

Exactly. Okay. Yeah,

39:09

I think we got that, right? Well, they're just

39:11

huge? They're very big. Well, some are. Some are

39:14

quite small. It's hundreds of thousands of these things

39:16

kind of floating in like a group, a cluster.

39:19

And some are as big as islands. Maybe wood,

39:21

right? Maybe that's

39:23

probably why it's called cinderwood. Oh, okay. Cool,

39:25

cool, cool. Because it's the cinders of burned

39:27

wood, maybe. Sounds like a Pokemon place, you

39:30

know? Like that's the name of

39:32

a town and like the Pokemon, right? Yeah, welcome

39:34

to cinderwood where we definitely have the fire gym

39:36

here. Yeah, exactly. Definitely, yeah. Occasionally,

39:40

the islands collide as they drift,

39:42

which often pulverizes with small to

39:45

medium-sized specimens. Making a layer

39:47

within a cinder is tricky business. Digging

39:49

into one is nothing like digging into

39:51

earth or stone. Instead, it is flaky,

39:53

brittle, and fairly soft. Only

39:56

a skilled hand or claw can shape the substance

39:58

into a cave, a tunnel, or a cave. or

40:00

a foundation for a more conventional dwelling. The

40:03

Efritt once invaded the Cinderwood, attempting to

40:05

take it all for themselves. The

40:08

inhabitants drove them off, though, using the Efritt's

40:10

lack of vision against them. Hey, good job.

40:12

Get out of here, colonizers. The

40:17

Hidden City. Long

40:19

had rumors and caravan tales told of

40:21

a magnificent city lost within the Para

40:23

Plains' eternal cloud of smoke. A

40:26

group of mortals, mostly human, constructed this

40:28

floating city. Seeking privacy in

40:30

the extreme, they built the magical town in

40:32

the Para Plains of Smoke, where wood remained

40:34

hidden forever in the choking fumes. Enchantments

40:36

keep out the dangerous vapors, but the Para Plains

40:39

still changed everything in the city with soot and

40:41

smoke damage. The Hidden

40:43

City is ruled by a family that has

40:45

produced twin heirs in each of its last

40:47

eight generations. These twins always rule

40:49

together and apparently without any conflict. Their

40:52

blackened palace floats magically above the center of

40:54

the city. The town opens its

40:56

gates to those who seek sanctuary from oppression

40:58

or merely a place to rest. Travelers can

41:00

find food and shelter here for a reasonable

41:02

price, assuming that they can find the city

41:04

at all. Even water is

41:06

available, which is a great accomplishment in the Para

41:08

Plains of Smoke. It's all bottled. As

41:11

strange as it sounds, the Hidden City is said

41:13

to be built upon a natural spring, though this

41:16

is likely a lie, as such a thing should

41:18

not exist within the Plains of Smoke. It is

41:20

more likely a portal to or

41:22

a pocket from the plain of water. According

41:29

to the inhabitants of the Hidden City, Ek'ak's forces

41:31

scour the Para Plains looking for them. The smoldering

41:34

duke is said to want control of the town

41:36

and resents the idea that an entire city can

41:38

be hidden from him. The

41:40

enchantments surrounding the city allow the rulers to decide

41:42

who finds them and who does not. Thus,

41:45

Ek'ak stands a little chance of gaining entry

41:47

unless he dispatches spies and infiltrators to sneak

41:49

in and reveal the city's location to him.

41:51

Contrary to some rumors, the Hidden City does

41:53

not move. Um,

42:01

yeah, I mean I would imagine you could

42:04

move it if you wanted to, but it

42:06

doesn't just move. Okay. Um,

42:09

next up we have Rain Song's Ashen

42:11

Fortress. Cool. So Rain

42:13

Song, a powerful cloud giant, has created a

42:15

huge fortress out of solid ash and smoke.

42:18

Within this vast, strange structure, the giant

42:20

keeps a veritable army of tentacled creatures

42:23

called Grell. Not

42:25

to be confused with Gricks. Grell are

42:27

the floating brain ones with the tendrils. Oh,

42:30

okay. Gricks are the worm ones with like

42:32

tentacles on the ends of their heads. Okay.

42:36

I wasn't... Yeah, uh... Yeah.

42:38

Okay, alright. These beasts are mostly

42:41

unknown in the inner planes, but in truth they are

42:43

quite well adapted to the plane of smoke. They float

42:45

on their own accord and seem to be unhindered by

42:47

the fumes both in respiration and in vision. Rain

42:50

Song maintains a policy of aggression with virtually any

42:52

being that he comes upon. He has ordered his

42:55

Grell servants to attack and kill any who dare

42:57

approach the fortress, and sometimes

42:59

the ill-tempered giant wanders the pair of plants of

43:01

smoke with no apparent purpose other than to attack

43:03

and destroy whatever he finds. Like a giant do.

43:06

Yeah, but unusual for cloud giants. Yeah. Unusual

43:09

for cloud giants. Huh. I wonder why

43:11

he would be doing that here then. Stories say that long

43:13

ago Rain Song was a giant of good, or

43:15

at least fair temper, who dwelled in the quasi-plane

43:17

of steam. He lived in a

43:19

small community of his own kind and fell in love

43:21

with a giantist named Classil. Classil, however,

43:23

was the mate of another, and when her

43:25

husband discovered that Rain Song desired his wife,

43:28

he unleashed a powerful and potent curse. This

43:30

curse not only cast Rain Song into the pair of plants

43:32

of smoke for all eternity, but it placed an evil spirit

43:34

within the giant's own flesh. Oh. And

43:38

so Rain Song struggled, not only with his harsh new environment,

43:40

but also with his own body for control of his actions.

43:43

When he eventually regained absolute mastery of his flesh,

43:46

he can never let his guard down, or the

43:48

spirit within him will use the giant's own body

43:50

against him. I would

43:52

argue it doesn't sound like he's in control at

43:54

all, because now it sounds like he's just a

43:56

murderous monster. Well, and maybe they're, uh, like, he's,

43:58

I'm feeling the control. waiver, I'm gonna take

44:01

a walk and go kill a guy. When

44:03

daddy's back from his walk, he'll be all better again,

44:05

baby. Don't worry, I'll be back. Thus,

44:09

Rainsong is a bitter and nearly insane

44:11

prisoner. Forced to live with this

44:13

horrible curse for the rest of his days, the

44:15

Ashen Fortress is rumored to contain the treasures of

44:17

everyone Rainsong is slain, as well as the tributes

44:20

given to him by natives in a vain attempt

44:22

to persuade the giant to call off his unprovoked

44:24

attacks. Magic and wealth beyond

44:26

reckoning supposedly lie within the magical walls of the

44:29

fortress, waiting for a thief bold enough to challenge

44:31

the Grell and the Faerie's traps. Dang.

44:34

And that's all I got on a

44:36

plane of smoke. Poor Rainsong, there's a

44:38

colorful cast of characters for this. They're

44:40

like fucking smoke. That's a lot of

44:42

smoke plays. Yeah, absolutely. I think so

44:44

too. That's weird. And like we

44:46

didn't really even talk about like places within like

44:49

these sub-regions, right? There just isn't

44:51

any lore there to really talk about, none that I could find.

44:53

But like, you know, if your

44:56

players want to go or you want to take your

44:58

players to like the Sea of Stars or something like

45:00

that, we didn't even mention anything that could be in

45:02

there. Like, you know,

45:04

yeah, you world's your oyster there. You can find

45:07

the good smoke here. That's the that's

45:09

what I'm getting from this. But you really got to dig

45:11

for it. You need a big

45:13

dragon to ride inside of. Absolutely.

45:17

Absolutely. I don't think you can do the submarine. Submarine

45:19

needs liquid, right? Well, what I was

45:21

saying is, you know, you can will your way into

45:23

any direction, right? So you can be in the apparatus.

45:25

I think I think that works. I think the problem

45:28

with the apparatus is it has a limited supply

45:30

of air. Oh, yeah. So like

45:32

it will work, but you need to replenish that

45:34

air somehow. Yeah. You need

45:36

to find the good smoke. You're on a timer. Indeed. What

45:39

if you just like, oh, I'm going to fall this way

45:41

and then you just hit the fucking side of the submarine?

45:45

I could see that being a issue for sure. Damn

45:47

it. What

45:50

kind of suit do you need to get around in here? Otherwise

45:53

you scuba suit. I

45:56

know that in past editions there was like the

45:58

breathe air or. or breathe.

46:01

I forget what the spell was called, but essentially it

46:03

was like you could breathe anything. Yeah, like. But

46:06

I don't know if that exists in 5E. Yeah,

46:08

not Genasi can, Air Genasi can

46:10

not breathe. Yeah, they're fine. Water

46:14

Genasi can just breathe underwater. It's

46:16

like probably a potion of smoke breathing. I feel like

46:18

Fire Genasi should be fine here as well.

46:21

I just feel that way. I think I would

46:23

rule that. They're fine. Yeah. They

46:25

could burn off the toxic parts of the atmosphere

46:27

with the fire. It

46:30

just smells like farts to them. It

46:32

just smells bad here. Yeah, exactly. It's all farts. Ugh.

46:35

It smells. Ugh, fart. Who's been

46:37

farting this entire way? Lowell

46:39

plane itself. It's just one big fart. It's a

46:42

plane of fart. That's the plane of ooze to

46:44

Fire Genasi. Yeah. The plane of farts.

46:46

Yeah, you would think ooze and smoke would be near each

46:48

other because they'd both smell bad, but they're not near each

46:50

other at all. Dang. I

46:53

was just thinking of the plane of ooze caught on fire. That

46:55

would suck. God. Then

46:57

that's how the plane of smoke was born. That would

46:59

make another plane of smoke somewhere else. Yeah. It'd be

47:01

terrible. OK, let's take a long rest. OK.

47:13

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the long rest. This is

47:15

the part of the show where I try to

47:17

keep these damn slippers on my feet, but

47:19

they burn. And now my feet

47:22

are all crusty. Sounds terrible. Yeah,

47:24

I thought they were going to be like warm and nice. They

47:28

weren't. No, they're quite unpleasant. And they smell bad, I'm going

47:30

to be honest. Now my feet have a demon inside of

47:33

them. They need to kill. No. No,

47:35

Rain song. No. The toes wage war amongst

47:37

each other. My

47:39

little piggies. Anyway. Hey,

47:43

let's see. So

47:46

Jack. I think,

47:48

I don't know if I got a last name on

47:50

Jack, but if it comes up in the letter. We

47:52

got a really cool package from Jack. We

47:55

did. Will is super hyped if

47:58

you guys are watching YouTube. And. We're

48:00

noticing a new blue dragon. Oh, yeah,

48:03

there was actual video With

48:05

the biggest face horn it has the biggest face

48:08

horn It's gonna live where

48:10

my treasure dragon turtle once was and

48:12

got destroyed The

48:14

way that thing disintegrated when it so uh,

48:17

yeah disintegrated. I'll read the letter

48:20

So so Jack just so you know the

48:22

big Dima. So Jack also sent us a

48:24

big Dima Gorgon. Oh, it's the same person

48:26

Yeah, oh wow. Yeah, holy crap. So thank

48:28

you It didn't make

48:30

it through shipping It broke the same exact way

48:32

this Dima Gorgon that we had on screen most

48:34

of the time did Which is one of its

48:36

feet came off the base and

48:38

then the tentacles got snapped So now we know where to

48:40

attack Dima Gorgon Yeah, that's two for two The

48:43

good news is it broke so cleanly that I

48:45

will be able to repair it just like this

48:47

one Yes, just like this one. The the bad

48:49

news about that is I've been waiting for it

48:51

to completely dry It wasn't completely dry. Will

48:54

has told me I need to put in direct sunlight. Yeah

48:56

some of it. So We're working

48:58

on that so it'll be up here. It's currently drying. It's

49:00

currently drying It's it's been dry. I'm trying to dry it

49:02

for like a week, but it's been like rainy here in

49:04

a little Yeah, cool and rainy here. Yeah, and there hasn't

49:06

been a lot of sunlight made

49:09

flowers April showers or whatever

49:11

they say Anyway, we

49:14

got a letter from Jack. I'm gonna read

49:16

All right in the fan interaction portion and

49:18

then we got some fan emails that we're

49:20

gonna save for next recording So tank tight

49:22

email yours indeed Will and

49:25

Brian, my name is Jack as I've said I I've

49:27

been listening to your show for about three years now

49:29

and wanted to thank you for all you've done for

49:31

me And the TTRPG community. I'm 27 and

49:33

a delivery driver for a local flower shop So I'm on

49:35

the road for six to eight hours a day and most

49:37

days I'm listening to your show I primarily

49:40

primarily listen to the dungeon cast

49:42

where it's lore and general info about TTRPGs But

49:45

I'm about three quarters of the way through super

49:47

quest saga. Oh, I've listened to every episode multiple

49:49

times and whenever I have a Particular

49:51

subject I need a refresher on I always go back

49:53

to that episode Being

49:55

alone in a delivery van for hours every

49:58

day isn't always the best space I'm

50:00

not feeling great and on the bad days

50:02

I know I can always turn to you

50:04

guys to just escape from the world for

50:06

a little while. I understand that deeply Yeah,

50:08

we met well, and I worked jobs very

50:10

similar to that I'm

50:12

currently running a 5e campaign that I want

50:15

to share With you because

50:17

it was all born out of your year

50:19

of the giant series I designed

50:21

it almost completely off of what I learned

50:23

from the giant and giant pantheon episodes So

50:25

here goes my game is

50:27

set decades after the war between

50:29

Giants and dragons Well Astoria fell

50:32

on anim my everything dad. Oh our everything

50:34

dad It said it our everything dad for

50:36

sook his children and I should just trust

50:39

the letter bro for sook His

50:41

children and swore not to return until

50:43

they restored Astoria and ruled the world

50:46

The giant races were spread across the world

50:48

until the storm Giants had a vision of

50:50

prophecy and anim returning the prophecy was contingent

50:53

that anim would return if the Jotun

50:56

brand Is how you

50:58

say it? Yotan? Yeah, Yotan. That's right. Yotan brand

51:02

Could learn to live among the friar friar

51:04

is my term for the humanoid

51:06

player races Okay, this of course

51:09

was this of course was incredibly

51:11

mogg and unlike on giant life

51:13

But regardless it was the prophecy and

51:15

they desperately wanted the father and God

51:17

back So in a few years all

51:19

Giants journeyed back to the fallen country

51:21

of new Astoria now a massive continent

51:23

floating in the sea The

51:26

Giants beaten Giants kidnapped massive amounts of friar

51:28

and brought them here to live with them

51:31

now the giant will of among us Yeah,

51:33

now the Giants essentially rule over the friar

51:35

as a government This is

51:37

a very brief description of my three-year-long

51:39

campaign theme But it makes

51:42

an interesting environment where the Giants hate

51:44

living alongside the friar But cannot harm

51:46

them as that would be mogg and

51:48

against the prophecy That's

51:50

very interesting at the same time the

51:53

friar can't exactly fight back because they're

51:55

fucking giant The

51:57

underdark is also ruled by the gem

51:59

dragons but the Giants are totally clueless,

52:01

it exists. Interesting, yeah, now I

52:03

think that's a really cool take on all that

52:05

lore, that's really dope. Also, an

52:08

interesting time period too, because most

52:10

of the time when we're using the war

52:12

between the Giants and the Dragons, it's like,

52:14

that shit happened millennia ago. No one actually

52:16

remembers that time, but this takes place fresh

52:19

after it's done. That's pretty cool. That's pretty

52:21

cool, I like it. The main quest of

52:23

the party is to overthrow the rule of

52:25

the Giants and free the country and allow

52:27

the people to leave. The BBEG is a

52:30

cloud giant named D'rha

52:32

Skyhammer, who also polymorphs into

52:34

a suave elf who is the head of

52:36

the Cult of Vecna, oh my god. Whoa,

52:39

this cloud giant is getting a lot done.

52:41

Side, a fucking left

52:43

turn. I won't disclose

52:45

anything else as the game is still going,

52:47

but currently the party is on their way

52:49

to defeat the Kraken, King

52:51

Leviathan, who has

52:54

Hayatia, that's how you

52:56

say that, right? Hayatia, yeah. Yeah, yeah,

52:58

yeah. Imprisoned away who is- That's Anem's

53:00

wife. Right. Yeah. Imprisoned

53:02

away and who is Keith defeating D'rha and

53:05

his plans. Sorry for the

53:07

massive lore dump, I thought you'd enjoy the plot of

53:09

my game as it is directly inspired by your show.

53:12

Cool. I hope you enjoy the miniatures. I

53:14

3D printed and painted them myself. Dude, great,

53:17

great job on painting. Like, holy crap, this

53:19

blue dragon looks phenomenal. I mean, they both

53:21

do. One needs to be

53:23

repaired, but this one I'm looking at, blue dragon

53:25

looks incredible. Yeah, it's got real sand on the

53:27

bottom, I think. Yeah. It looks

53:30

legit and- More accurate sand. Where

53:33

was I? Oh,

53:36

I know you were already given a Demogorgon miniature

53:38

a while ago, but I wanted to give both

53:40

of you something. So Brian, here's another Demogorgon and

53:42

Will, here's a blue dragon. Thank you.

53:44

We appreciate that a lot. Thanks again for all

53:47

you do for the community. Thanks for the years

53:49

of inspiration and

53:52

thanks for the company. Shout out

53:54

to my players, Rachel, Alicia, Dan,

53:57

or Alicia, sorry, Dylan, or Dylon.

54:00

Logan, Sven, and Mary. Or

54:02

Logan. Or Logan and Sivan.

54:05

I don't know. And of course,

54:07

shout out to Dima Gorgon. Shout out to Dima Gorgon.

54:09

I really did just have to trust the letter because

54:11

it even had that at the bottom. Yep, yep. You

54:13

gotta trust, man. Thank you, Jack. Incredibly

54:16

kind words and thanks for letting us know how

54:18

our show helped you come up with a campaign

54:20

idea. That's really cool. Don't let the van get

54:22

you down, brother. Indeed, indeed. Just like we didn't

54:24

let night service get us down. That

54:27

is well. That is well. Yeah.

54:29

Okay, so that's gonna be it for the fan

54:31

interaction portion of the show this time. Next time

54:33

it's gonna be emails because I think we have

54:36

a few of those. And then

54:38

the time after that, we'll get back into

54:40

YouTube comments, etc. And then there

54:42

should be a Patreon episode somewhere down

54:45

the line that will do... We had a

54:47

bunch of patrons come in after our first

54:50

of two Patreon episodes dropped. So there's

54:53

a stack of people to thank. Thank

54:55

you guys. If you

54:57

came in on Patreon, thank you. patreon.com/DungeonCast.

55:00

Jack, thank you. If you guys want to

55:02

send stuff, we've

55:05

gotten a handful of mini-send to us. They're all

55:07

amazing. I will always be enthused about mini-send. Absolutely.

55:09

You have no idea. We will put them on

55:12

display for the YouTube channel. So we'll showcase your work.

55:14

Oh, yeah. That too. We

55:16

will thank you on the show. We have

55:19

a PO box, which I think it's 1784,

55:23

up in California. You

55:25

guys are welcome. That's 91786. You

55:28

guys are welcome to send stuff there. Extra

55:31

cool points if it's thematically appropriate for

55:33

the year, by the way. Oh, yeah,

55:36

for sure. But,

55:39

you know... But whatever you want to

55:41

send, I'm extremely elated. Anyone

55:43

who's ever sent anything... Even if it's

55:46

just a letter. Incredibly thoughtful and kind. We really

55:48

appreciate it. It speaks to me in a way

55:50

that makes

55:55

me want to keep making stuff

55:58

for people to enjoy. I'm

56:00

glad it had such an impact on you and you're

56:02

running an awesome game and Yeah,

56:05

I so with that should we do you

56:07

have anything you'd like to add? Well, no

56:10

No, I think you you said it all

56:12

succinctly. So thank you again Jack amazing

56:14

amazing minis and Awesome

56:17

heartfelt letter super appreciated. Yeah.

56:20

Thank you again. So here's here's

56:23

pre-recorded us again About

56:25

whatever we've recorded when we recorded it. That's

56:27

right Hey everybody,

56:29

welcome to our creators corner. I

56:32

am here with musician Colin of the

56:34

band behold calling you work

56:36

in the audio

56:38

space and in the TTRPG space

56:42

Welcome to the show. I wanted to ask how

56:45

do you find yourself? How'd you find yourself getting into? the

56:49

world of professional audio Uh, I

56:51

think I found myself getting into it the way that

56:53

a lot of people do where I wrote a lot

56:56

of songs in high School, um, you know, my parents

56:58

bought me a guitar and I took guitar lessons and

57:00

I really wanted a way to share those songs and

57:02

so I got like

57:04

GarageBand or audacity and sort of Just

57:08

learned how to record myself as a means

57:10

to show my friends my songs And

57:13

then the recording started becoming more

57:15

of a hobby than the writing And

57:18

over time, it's sort of snowballed to the point where I

57:20

was like writing a lot more Things

57:23

that are only possible if you can record it, you

57:25

know not just like singing with a guitar but like

57:27

writing keys parts and writing drum parts and it's

57:30

sort of snowballed and snowballed till I was

57:32

recording friends and and

57:34

you know doing sound for like

57:38

The theater at my high school and stuff like that

57:40

and it ultimately became like a really big passion of

57:42

mine Oh, it's cool. So you

57:44

have live sound experience to you. That's pretty awesome

57:46

Yeah, a very small amount of live sound experience,

57:48

but primarily I work in the studio Yeah,

57:50

it's something that's that's a because I do

57:52

audio for our show too So that's something

57:55

that's a missing from my repertoire is live

57:57

sound. I've never really done it. Yeah It's

58:00

a little bit of a mystery to me still but but

58:03

you know, it is a different be

58:05

it's cool Yeah, definitely for sure. So how

58:07

did you get into tabletop role-playing you play Dungeons

58:09

and Dragons? Yeah, I play I play Dungeons and

58:12

Dragons I got

58:14

into it. I got

58:16

into tabletop role-playing games from a friend

58:18

of my name Jim and in college random

58:21

roommate my freshman year and

58:25

He was sort of my first friend at college as many of our

58:27

roommates are when you go to college and live with someone random and

58:30

he and And

58:32

some of his friends were like, hey, we're gonna

58:34

try and play some Pathfinder

58:37

first edition I had never

58:39

played any tabletop game before and so they invited

58:41

me to their game and I fell

58:43

in love In the first game

58:45

and then kind of stopped playing Like

58:48

sophomore and junior year of college and then

58:50

we ended up living together again our

58:53

senior year And had

58:55

been friends the entire time but then sort

58:57

of re we re explored playing Tabletop

59:00

games so he played like a

59:03

longer form campaign of a Pathfinder

59:05

first edition And now

59:07

I'm at the point where I think

59:09

I DM like one regular D&D 5e

59:12

campaign I also DM a campaign of blades

59:14

in the dark and I also end up

59:16

playing a ton of indie tt RPGs like

59:19

Nova kids on bikes Etc.

59:22

Yeah, dude blades in the dark

59:24

is awesome. I love that. I love blades in

59:26

the dark. It's so much fun. That one's good

59:28

Well, that's a lot of experience in that in

59:31

that section that you're DMing you're playing Good

59:34

time to experiment with that. Yeah

59:36

role-playing games in college. Yeah. Yeah.

59:38

Yeah, exactly Awesome.

59:42

So now you're you seem to be blending

59:44

the two together, you know, you think your

59:46

music in this fantasy direction How

59:48

is that for you? Is that something you foresaw

59:50

yourself doing from the beginning or is that

59:52

something you sort of leaned into as like

59:55

oh I have these two niche things that I

59:57

can sort of pack together. Yeah, sort of like

59:59

sort of like the second thing, in college

1:00:01

I went to, I studied audio engineering

1:00:03

at school

1:00:06

in college. And I work outside

1:00:08

of the TTRPG space, I work as a

1:00:10

recording engineer and run a couple of recording

1:00:13

studios. But I never

1:00:15

really envisioned myself writing music for

1:00:18

anything but enjoyment, really. When

1:00:21

I was in college, I really wanted to

1:00:23

go down the route of like recording bands

1:00:25

and artists to make records to put on

1:00:27

the internet. A lot of my

1:00:29

friends were into sound tracking,

1:00:32

like I had some friends who were

1:00:34

composing for short films and a friend who was composing for

1:00:36

like video games and stuff. And I always thought it was

1:00:38

interesting, but it was never really something I wanted to get

1:00:40

into. But then

1:00:42

shortly after college, I started getting

1:00:44

into synthesizers as like another hobby,

1:00:46

which is, if you know

1:00:49

any musicians, like any instrument you get into

1:00:51

becomes like sort of like a money pit

1:00:53

that you throw money into and it goes

1:00:55

to die. The synthesizer is one of those

1:00:57

rabbit holes. Yeah, it is definitely one of

1:01:00

those rabbit holes. So I accumulated a lot

1:01:02

of synthesizers. And at the same time, I

1:01:04

was really getting into, I was really getting

1:01:06

into like sort of 80s feeling

1:01:12

movie scores, sort of like the Blade Runner kind

1:01:14

of thing. The one that I always talk about

1:01:16

is the score for that movie It Follows that

1:01:18

was put out in like 2014, I think. I

1:01:21

don't know that one. I think I remember seeing

1:01:23

trailer for it. But yeah, the the score is

1:01:25

by this person who goes by

1:01:27

the name Disasterpiece. And I think

1:01:29

he also did the score for that video

1:01:31

game says that was like a platformer that

1:01:33

was like really popular in the early teens.

1:01:36

I'm well aware of disaster. Yeah.

1:01:38

So Disasterpiece did the score for that

1:01:40

movie. And I I'm like still

1:01:42

enamored by that score. And

1:01:44

I it sort of like opened my eyes

1:01:46

to how I can elicit

1:01:48

emotion from my music. And

1:01:51

I started just writing small pieces

1:01:53

for fun, and sort of

1:01:55

envisioning like what the movie would would

1:01:57

look like if I was to score

1:01:59

movie. And then

1:02:02

around the same time, I

1:02:04

started getting heavily into tabletop

1:02:06

games with my friends.

1:02:08

It was sort of like the beginning of the

1:02:10

pandemic where everyone was home. And so I was

1:02:12

playing in like four different games. I was playing

1:02:14

like at least twice a week every week. My

1:02:17

roommate at

1:02:19

the time, Elliot, was running a ton of

1:02:21

games for me. I was running a ton

1:02:23

of games and we started getting into indie

1:02:25

games. And we were sort of like talking

1:02:27

just generally about like music and tabletop games.

1:02:30

And I can't remember if it was him or me, but

1:02:32

one of us was like, what if I

1:02:35

started writing music, like longer form

1:02:37

pieces to play while

1:02:39

we're playing games together so that

1:02:41

it like enhances the vibe. And

1:02:43

then it sort of like clicked

1:02:45

like it would be really cool to start

1:02:48

writing music for tabletop games

1:02:50

in general. But

1:02:52

then nothing ever really came of that thought as

1:02:54

many, you know, creative thoughts, you know, they go

1:02:56

to die. And then

1:02:58

Elliot, who was my roommate now

1:03:00

runs a podcast called My First

1:03:03

Dungeon with this other

1:03:05

fella named Brian Flaherty, who I've become really close

1:03:08

with. Brian asked me to write

1:03:10

some music for their upcoming season of their

1:03:12

podcast where they were going to play this

1:03:14

game called Die, which

1:03:17

is a, you know, a tabletop role playing game. They

1:03:19

call it like goth jumanji. And I was like, I'm

1:03:21

so sold. They wanted like an 80s

1:03:23

kind of like psychedelic rock feel with

1:03:25

like a lot of synthesizers. I was like,

1:03:28

yeah, I'm totally sold. And

1:03:30

after that happened, after we started working on

1:03:32

the score for that, I

1:03:35

was like, man, this is like, this

1:03:37

is like hitting every, every spot on me,

1:03:39

you know, I get to like write music,

1:03:41

I get to like play a lot of

1:03:44

synthesizer. It's like producing and songwriting. And also

1:03:46

it's like, so

1:03:48

intrinsically steeped in

1:03:50

like fantasy and tabletop role playing games, which

1:03:53

are like such big passions of mine that

1:03:55

sort of blossomed from there and become sort

1:03:57

of what it's become now. badass

1:04:00

man. I'm jealous. That's a really cool

1:04:02

thing to be working on for sure.

1:04:04

Yeah, it's really fun. It's really fun.

1:04:07

Yeah, I've envisioned

1:04:09

to do, if I was ever

1:04:11

to create an album of music, I want to do a

1:04:14

full acoustic thing where I

1:04:16

use all acoustic music just to

1:04:21

carry along with my tabletop

1:04:23

role-playing game, whatever I want to play, I want

1:04:25

to work on. The last one I did was

1:04:27

a lot of spacey

1:04:29

sound. We did a futuristic space campaign,

1:04:31

spacey sounds and all that stuff. A

1:04:34

lot of synth work. Now I want

1:04:36

to go the other way and do

1:04:38

the log stuff. When you're

1:04:40

creating that music, what's

1:04:42

the mindset you get yourself into?

1:04:44

Because now you have a little more,

1:04:47

if you're writing for an upcoming show,

1:04:49

there's obviously going to be some direction that you've

1:04:51

been given. So what kind of headspace do you get

1:04:53

into when you're going to take that on? Yeah,

1:04:57

I'm really

1:05:00

with the podcast stuff.

1:05:04

Everything starts with an open discussion with

1:05:06

the people that are running the podcast

1:05:08

or even with the games that I've

1:05:10

scored. It all

1:05:12

starts with an open conversation with the person

1:05:14

designing the game or running the podcast like,

1:05:16

how do you envision this sounding? Specifically,

1:05:19

what I like to do is work off of

1:05:22

a Spotify playlist.

1:05:25

When I wrote the score for this game called

1:05:27

Project Echo, written by Elliot, I

1:05:30

was like, how do you imagine this

1:05:32

game sounds? He sent me a ton of music,

1:05:36

namely from the film

1:05:38

Arrival, as well as

1:05:41

a few other sci-fi horror films.

1:05:43

That gives me

1:05:50

and the person I'm working with a shared

1:05:52

language, like, oh, I like the

1:05:54

way that this part sounds in This

1:05:57

song. They might not know how to

1:05:59

describe it. I would. those things are,

1:06:01

but we can talk about them as

1:06:03

like specific tangible moments in songs. It

1:06:05

becomes much easier to like, put those

1:06:08

pieces together, sat law, and then from

1:06:10

there it's honestly I'd. Ah,

1:06:12

I don't. I don't know that

1:06:14

I have any one process, but

1:06:16

it's honestly just like me messing

1:06:18

around with instruments or on with

1:06:21

feelings in music to sort of

1:06:23

elicit.seen a motion while making something

1:06:25

entirely unique. Ah for the Orbital

1:06:27

Blues soundtrack, for example, They.

1:06:30

Wanted a really heavy western? Seen

1:06:32

this like a huge. Seem.

1:06:34

For the game is like this sort of like

1:06:36

outlaw western vibe and so I just listened to

1:06:38

a ton of like. Outlaw. Western

1:06:41

songs and old western soundtracks and.

1:06:44

Use those those instruments and use that sort

1:06:46

of like developed like what I call like

1:06:48

a sonic palette. You know, like these are

1:06:50

the sounds that are pretty. Pretty.

1:06:53

Normal in this in this genre And how do

1:06:55

I use those to my advantage? And

1:06:59

you know it just let it grow from there, as

1:07:01

as creativity does. I'm sure you can relate to that.

1:07:04

Yeah. I like Alec the approach like

1:07:06

you're gonna go and really learn what

1:07:08

tools you need to make the sound

1:07:10

carry on and that exactly a very

1:07:12

loud smart way to go about it

1:07:14

I am I was asked you about

1:07:17

your commission work to is that like

1:07:19

I'm just like people hitting you up

1:07:21

on your A, your diaz and stuff

1:07:23

like that you down now that. I'm

1:07:25

seeing it in a the Commission

1:07:27

world. Am I don't do

1:07:30

a ton of on? I don't

1:07:32

do a ton of individual commission's

1:07:34

I've written a couple like single

1:07:37

songs for people, but typically ah

1:07:39

what I do with commissions are

1:07:41

on our like riding a fifteen

1:07:44

to thirty minute soundtrack for their

1:07:46

games on. It

1:07:48

varies like. How much

1:07:50

or little of that I'm doing by you

1:07:52

know what's going on in the world. I'm

1:07:55

in terms of like what. what

1:07:57

campaigns are kickstarting the main it's sort of way

1:07:59

that I've been able to fit into a lot

1:08:01

of projects is as a stretch goal if they're

1:08:03

crowdfunding. A

1:08:06

lot of times that sort of works out best for

1:08:08

the designer because there's no cost up front. And

1:08:11

if their game earns enough money to pay for

1:08:14

additional music, then we can. If

1:08:16

it doesn't earn enough money via Kickstarter, you know,

1:08:18

no hard feelings. That just won't happen. But

1:08:21

that's typically how I find how

1:08:23

I best sort of slot into

1:08:25

projects. With

1:08:27

my first dungeon, it's

1:08:29

more sort of like the relationship I have with

1:08:31

them. And that's how that works. It's

1:08:34

more like a sort of like long term thing

1:08:36

versus like a commission project.

1:08:38

But when I'm doing like one off like

1:08:40

albums, it's primarily via like a Kickstarter goal,

1:08:44

basically. Okay, that makes a lot of sense.

1:08:46

I was wondering, like, who's asking and

1:08:48

how often? That's

1:08:51

an interesting thing. But yeah, starters, we see them

1:08:53

all the time. They come through for, you know,

1:08:55

advertising a lot. We'll

1:08:57

see them pretty much, you know, here

1:09:00

and there throughout the year, you know, the

1:09:02

same people sometimes over and over. Yeah, yeah,

1:09:04

yeah, yeah. I've seen how they they'll put,

1:09:06

you know, stretch goals for music. And I

1:09:08

think that's right. And here you go. You're

1:09:11

working on it. Here I am. Yeah, I'm

1:09:13

working on it, man. Do you have, and I know we talked

1:09:15

a little bit about it, but what's your favorite piece of

1:09:18

like equipment, instrument or software or plugin that

1:09:20

you use in a normal way? If

1:09:23

you asked me like three years

1:09:25

ago, I'd say it's the electric guitar. And

1:09:29

I still really love the electric guitar. I

1:09:31

have a Fender Jazzmaster that was my first

1:09:33

electric guitar. I bought it when I was

1:09:35

14 years old. And

1:09:38

then if you asked me a

1:09:40

year ago, I'd say it's my

1:09:42

profit synthesizer. I

1:09:44

have been I still I was just playing it

1:09:46

before I got on this call. And

1:09:49

it's definitely my go to synthesizer. However,

1:09:53

recently I bought a banjo specifically to

1:09:55

write the score for Orbital Blues. I

1:09:57

saw that on Instagram. Yeah,

1:10:00

that's bad. Yeah, well, I hardly play

1:10:02

the banjo. If a banjo player asked

1:10:05

me to play, I'd be incredibly embarrassed.

1:10:08

But I grew up as a guitar

1:10:10

player. I had never picked up a

1:10:13

banjo before, but I really wanted something

1:10:15

different for this album, for the Orbital

1:10:17

Blues album. There's something really exciting

1:10:19

about a new piece of gear or a new

1:10:22

instrument or a new piece of equipment. And so

1:10:24

I bought a banjo. I at first had borrowed

1:10:26

a banjo from a friend and immediately fell in

1:10:28

love. It's like an incredibly evocative instrument for

1:10:32

the music theory folks out there or even

1:10:35

anyone who has like a basic music theory knowledge,

1:10:37

you tune it to what's called an open tuning.

1:10:39

So you tune it to like the key of

1:10:41

G, I believe is typically how it's tuned. And

1:10:44

what that means is that if you just strum all

1:10:46

the strings, it plays like a chord and it sounds

1:10:49

really pretty. And so what you can

1:10:51

do is just sort of like move your finger

1:10:53

around on one string on a variety of frets

1:10:55

and just get like other really pretty sounds. And

1:10:58

so it has that sort of like twang to it

1:11:00

that's like can be a little goofy. But

1:11:03

I also find like it can be

1:11:05

an incredibly beautiful instrument and has this

1:11:07

really like interesting quality that

1:11:10

I don't think you really get to hear

1:11:12

when you play just like the guitar. You

1:11:14

know, it's sort of like a new thing for me. And

1:11:17

so I'd say like if you ask me today,

1:11:19

the banjo is probably my favorite piece of gear

1:11:21

that I own just like for the fun value.

1:11:23

Yeah, that's really cool, man. I like

1:11:25

to hear stuff like that. So

1:11:28

what out of all the music you do work on,

1:11:30

what's been your favorite stuff to put your energy into?

1:11:34

Well, the

1:11:38

talking to my clients answers that I enjoy

1:11:40

every project I've ever worked on. And

1:11:43

that is largely true. I don't think I have

1:11:45

yet to write a song that I didn't have

1:11:47

like a really, really good time writing. And

1:11:50

I have yet to work on a project that I didn't find

1:11:52

was really exciting. However, I wrote

1:11:56

a score for This

1:11:58

game called Project Echo. They get talked

1:12:01

about before. It's a sigh fi

1:12:03

horror game Where you are it's

1:12:05

a solo Tt rpg, you play

1:12:07

as a an agent for their

1:12:09

secret agency and you're fighting basically

1:12:11

a cosmic horror entity that consuming

1:12:13

space and time on and when

1:12:15

I wrote that score when alien

1:12:17

our talking about it was sending

1:12:19

all these like size i horror

1:12:21

tracks and was like honestly i

1:12:23

just want you to go as

1:12:25

crazy as you can with like

1:12:27

crazy sounding synthesizers that sound like.

1:12:30

On. Unreal. you know, like things the

1:12:32

sound like broken arm and really like.

1:12:34

My goal was I wanted to create

1:12:36

a moment in time in the music

1:12:38

where it felt like you're being consumed

1:12:40

by like a cosmic entity that was

1:12:42

consuming like the time space that you

1:12:44

found yourself in which like a really

1:12:46

heavy sort of like thing to go

1:12:48

after. about what had ended up being

1:12:50

was like really distorted synthesizers and like

1:12:52

you know really distorted electric guitars and

1:12:54

stuff. And so I'd

1:12:56

say that that project I would put

1:12:59

as like my magnum opus right now

1:13:01

I've I really feel like I sent

1:13:03

us. I like took all my favorite

1:13:05

things in played into that. Sick.

1:13:08

As often as let's. Let's

1:13:10

zoom! In on some sort of

1:13:12

your project specific, right? Yeah, Adam good

1:13:15

at the orbital blue stuff a lot

1:13:17

now is sold Mother taught publishing. Ah,

1:13:19

that's correct. right? This allows

1:13:21

call Ghazi to walk me to walk

1:13:23

me through the process on that wasn't

1:13:25

the yeah so that was actually really

1:13:27

cool project because on. One.

1:13:31

Orbital Blues is you haven't for to.

1:13:33

The game is like is such an

1:13:35

evocative. Dame. And like just

1:13:37

a book on. The art for the

1:13:40

original book is incredible and the writing

1:13:42

really elicits like exactly the genre they're

1:13:44

going for. Day their pitchers like you

1:13:47

pet you, play as sad space cowboys

1:13:49

and like this hyper a capitalistic future

1:13:51

were like you. there's you're living in

1:13:54

this gig economy and you're always scraping

1:13:56

by for your next buck. San. Dabbled.

1:13:59

In night. It's It's like it's

1:14:01

effectively cowboy bebop, but like darker I

1:14:03

think. Mom but ah, Zach who is

1:14:05

one of the authors for that game

1:14:07

and I were talking back and forth.

1:14:10

And release in conversations with Zach

1:14:12

as well as in reading the

1:14:14

book. You know it. It really

1:14:17

elicits that sort of like grungy

1:14:19

west aesthetic, but put it in

1:14:21

space. The on and so I.

1:14:25

Had. My. First Dungeon which

1:14:27

is a podcast they were gonna lots

1:14:29

was contracted by some other publishing to

1:14:31

do a season of their podcast where

1:14:33

they would play Orbital Blues as a

1:14:35

way to promote their kickstarter at the

1:14:37

time which was for Orbital Blues after

1:14:39

Burn. Like I'm not a sequel to

1:14:41

the game but an expansion of the

1:14:43

original game for Go On and so

1:14:45

as part of that I was contracted.

1:14:47

read music for the show and then

1:14:49

zachary So and they were like hey,

1:14:51

would you be interested in writing some

1:14:53

more music to fill out a thirty

1:14:55

minute album and. We will release it as

1:14:57

a cassette tapes for people to purchase and

1:14:59

you can also release it on spotify and

1:15:01

so that sort of how it became like

1:15:03

they. They basically added. A

1:15:06

stretch goal today tix starter for me to

1:15:08

write some additional music for the game on.

1:15:11

And was so fun because not only

1:15:13

did I get to write music for

1:15:15

this podcast that I love to work

1:15:17

on but I also got to just

1:15:19

write like other i got sick continue

1:15:21

sort of living in that world and

1:15:23

like right other music I wrote ah

1:15:25

I wrote up and ambient harmonica key

1:15:27

switches sounds like so weird and like

1:15:30

a very Brooklyn thing to say. like

1:15:32

a very annoying hipster thing to say.

1:15:34

But I'm I'm thanks. I'm really proud of

1:15:37

it. I think it came out really interesting

1:15:39

and cool. It's it doesn't Ah, And.

1:15:42

I I just I could never. If you ask me

1:15:44

your ago I could have never fathom that that would

1:15:46

be like a phrase that I would say. But

1:15:49

I was. Recorded. A ton of

1:15:51

banjo and guitar as well as synthesizer to give

1:15:53

it to sort of like size. High ceiling but

1:15:55

also you know. Who? Ah,

1:15:57

Megan. Rooted in that like western in

1:16:00

there sound like. That.

1:16:02

Cool and I want to hear the harmonica

1:16:05

thing for sure. Yeah it is that it's

1:16:07

called The Great So the track is called

1:16:09

I The Great Beyond and know the album

1:16:11

is called All Basically how it ended up

1:16:13

is all the music from Orbital Blues. Ask

1:16:16

dad. My. First Dungeon

1:16:18

Season ended up on ah and

1:16:20

Up on the album Godspeed. So.

1:16:22

If you listen to Godspeed you have everything and then

1:16:25

for Orbital Blue is there was a few songs have

1:16:27

lyrics they aren't. That. Don't appear on gonna. I'll.

1:16:29

Get that makes and. Yeah. Are

1:16:32

I will work in the audience of Find Your

1:16:34

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addicted to the internet as anyone

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else. ah ah You can also

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find it on my music on.

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ah, if you want to mean

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emails, behold.ways an email.com on. We

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got some really interesting stuff coming

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up in the next couple months

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with my first Dungeons. you stuff

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like it without for an. Awesome!

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Oh thanks all I really appreciate you. Come

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on, it was great talking to a man.

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got dry. Concern is what is it?

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Well ah, started a good skyjackings. thirds

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of aggregated. finally closed, no longer taking

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preorders. Thank you everyone for supporting and

1:17:36

we raise just enough money. Get all

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this is done and I'm very proud

1:17:41

of it. can we to

1:17:43

getting your as his hands arms these

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this last week and a half i

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haven't battle testing for hours and hours

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on end between all the starship and

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making tweaks and adjustments we should have

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this thing finished a i am when

1:17:56

because of the writing and editing by

1:17:58

the end of june Hopefully,

1:18:02

we'll be looking at the formatting and

1:18:04

design done by the end of July

1:18:06

and production beginning in August. Very

1:18:09

excited and I thank you

1:18:11

guys again. Can't wait to give you

1:18:13

guys more news as things develop. Yeah,

1:18:15

congratulations Will on getting that closed out

1:18:17

and good luck on the next

1:18:19

upcoming stuff for you. We've got

1:18:22

a new merch shop that is running in

1:18:24

tandem with our old merch shop. The old

1:18:26

merch shop is still around but

1:18:29

you can find the new

1:18:31

merch shop at babayagayardsale.com. Indeed

1:18:33

where our final show Dustin

1:18:36

is the artist and a

1:18:38

curator and owner of the store and

1:18:42

he's been making some really killer

1:18:44

dungeon cast content on there. The

1:18:47

Bahamut's Gym and a couple

1:18:49

of the Demogorgon ones being my favorite. We have more coming

1:18:51

in the works but if you have

1:18:53

not checked out these designs, I highly recommend you

1:18:55

go check them out because they look super cool.

1:18:57

Link is in the description. I've

1:19:00

never been so excited about dungeon cast

1:19:02

merch before. We need an ooze Roomba.

1:19:05

Absolutely, anything ooze related I'm super down. I

1:19:07

need to make some orders. I need to

1:19:09

order some of these shirts and support them

1:19:12

on the show. We need an ooze Roomba

1:19:14

with a claymore poking out of it. So

1:19:16

one that can also is home defense. Absolutely.

1:19:19

Cleans your house, stabs your cat. Well talk

1:19:21

to Dustin man. We

1:19:23

will hear this. It will happen. Anyway,

1:19:27

thank you to everybody who has been

1:19:29

sending letters,

1:19:31

emails. We are going to be reading those at

1:19:34

the end of the show so if you want

1:19:36

to reach out. I believe it's 1784

1:19:39

up in California 91786 for

1:19:41

our PO box but that is down

1:19:43

in the description below. Do

1:19:45

not go off of what I just said and then you

1:19:48

can go off of what I'm going to say

1:19:50

for this. You can email

1:19:52

us at thedungeoncast@gmail.com. With

1:19:54

some fan mail we will read it on the show

1:19:56

if it's appropriate. If it's inappropriate I'll just look at

1:19:59

it and giggle. And

1:20:01

if you guys want to do that,

1:20:03

we're also, as you know, reading YouTube

1:20:05

comments, Apple podcast reviews, all this stuff

1:20:08

is really great. We like interacting with

1:20:10

you guys, but the Apple podcast reviews

1:20:12

in particular help boost the show.

1:20:15

The algorithm notices your love and will peddle

1:20:17

it to others that may want to love

1:20:19

the Dungeon Cast as well, even though

1:20:21

they don't know it yet. Also, feel free

1:20:23

to send questions if you have questions for

1:20:26

us. And if they are on

1:20:28

topic, I don't see any reason why we can't

1:20:30

read and talk about, answer those really quickly. Yeah.

1:20:35

You guys don't know the future of what we're going

1:20:37

to record, but if you had a question about something

1:20:39

we said or blah, blah, blah, YouTube

1:20:41

comment is good, but email or snail mail

1:20:43

is fine too. We'll read it. Anyway,

1:20:48

we got social

1:20:50

media. Social media plugs. What do we got

1:20:52

going on in social media? Well, we got

1:20:54

Instagram, we got X formerly known as Twitter.

1:20:56

We got threads, we got Mastodon. Links

1:20:59

are all in the description. I

1:21:02

have been a little bit more active on

1:21:04

there lately, but whenever

1:21:07

there's something pertinent, you guys will be seeing stuff on

1:21:09

there. Yep, yep, yep. And

1:21:11

we've got Discord. So if you guys would

1:21:13

like to join our Discord, ask

1:21:16

us in real time more or

1:21:18

less. We do get around. That's where the

1:21:20

community for the show in a big way

1:21:22

lives is on Discord. It's

1:21:26

constantly awesome to see all the chatter and

1:21:28

all the sharing and it's

1:21:31

just the bonding and us getting in there

1:21:33

too in the mix is nice. And yeah,

1:21:35

I would say that's the number one social

1:21:37

media platform for the Dungeon Cast is check

1:21:39

out the Discord. Yeah, it's more like a

1:21:41

greater tabletop RPG sort of community. It

1:21:44

kind of extends beyond the Dungeon Cast. It does. It

1:21:46

does. We are on there and

1:21:49

available, including Jake, your special

1:21:51

guest Jake and Josh Freeland, who will answer

1:21:53

questions. A lot of people will tag them

1:21:55

for Super Quest Saga stuff sometimes or F-Bats

1:21:57

stuff. So Yeah, go check that.

1:22:00

Stuff out. Are

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we missing anything as us as at the

1:22:04

end of it know I think that the

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covers it? yeah mans or I would run

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