Bringing Finale’s fiance home, making friends with your kidnapper, and watching yourself eat. This is the Afterparty, where we sit down after every episode to break down our game and answer your questions about how to play at home.
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- Dungeon Master: Eric Silver
- TR8c (Tracey): Brandon Grugle
- Inara Harthorn: Amanda McLoughlin
- Finale: Sarah Hopkins
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Join the Party is a collaborative storytelling and roleplaying podcast. That means friends creating a story together, chapter by chapter, that everyone from seasoned players to true beginners can enjoy. Where else can you get adventure, intrigue, magic, drama, and lots of high fives all in one place? Right here.
After each episode we sit down for the Afterparty, where we break down our game and answer your questions about how to play Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games at home. We also have the Punchbowl, an interview series with people pushing D&D forward creatively, communally and socially. It’s a party, and you’re invited! Find out more at jointhepartypod.com.
Transcript
Amanda: Hey, hi hello! Welcome to the Afterparty where all that matters is lesbian love stories.
[Eric laughing]
Uh, Sarah welcome back to our table! Please tell us everything about Finale and her happy future.
Sarah: Absolutely!
Brandon: Yeah, I need you to write everything from like now till the end of your time…
Amanda: Which is like 400 years from now.
Brandon: On a fantasy planet.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes!
Sarah: Well, I don’t know what is going to happen to them in the future, who can say? Uh...
Brandon: You, uh you.
[Brandon chuckling]
Amanda: You are the architect of not just this story, but all stories.
Sarah: Uh, but Ellie is a human girl who Finale y’know…
Amanda: CUTE.
Sarah: They sorta grew up together…
Amanda: YES.
[Sarah laughing]
Amanda: This is how I feel.
Sarah: She comes from a much wealthier family than Finale does. Finale has-her dads are, I think they are dwarves? Yeah.
[Amanda gasps]
She was adopted by uh, two dwarves, and…
Brandon: So cute.
Amanda: Love it.
Sarah: And that’s why she grew up in the mountains, with them. And y’know, she asked Ellie’s parents for permission to marry her, and they just straight up like said no, you have no assets.
Amanda: No...
Sarah: And That’s why Finale went to the city, to try and like find her fortune.
Amanda: Aww…
Brandon: Aww, that’s so sweet.
Eric: [chuckling] And apparently that fortune was bounty hunting.
Amanda: Okay, so we know that the first house was the Baba Yaga house, we all listen to Spirits here.
[Eric & Sarah chuckling]
Um, which is wonderful, and I love how that we had to haggle her…
[Sarah laughing]
Into a non-cursed home.
Sarah: [still laughing] Did you really want me to take that house?!
Eric: [chuckling] No, It wasn’t even that! It was like she was trying to do a nice thing, but like the only way she knows how to do nice things is to give people cursed shit.
Sarah: Uh huh…
Eric: So, she was just like, this is what I have, I promise! But it turns out that was not the case.
Amanda: Poor communication means that we went from take care of the rock in the basement, uh okay? To the rock is a bird, what?
[Sarah laughing]
To, the house might move on you, don’t worry.
Eric: Listen Roc is literally a very large bird that is in the Monster Manual I realize now that now after some investigating.
Amanda: Aww.
Brandon: Oh, you didn’t just make that up on the top of your head?
[Sarah laughing]
Eric: No literally, a Roc is….
Amanda: An R. O. C.?
Eric: R. O. C., yes.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Ohhh…
Eric: Is like a mythical eagle-like massive bird.
Brandon: Ohhh…
Amanda: Now it all clicks.
Eric: But like It wasn’t going to be like a bad thing, I just like thought it was going to be funny.
[Sarah laughing]
All those things, and then I made it a Baba Yaga house yes.
Amanda: It sounds like this is working! So, it sounds like this is the Deus ex machina that’s solving all of your problems!
Eric: It was- In one way it is ex machina to get Sarah out of the game.
Sarah: [laughing] To get her to leave!
Brandon: Finally!
Amanda: Here’s the largest carrot.
[Amanda & Sarah laughing]
Eric: But I also wanted to demonstrate the fact that you’re dealing with someone who probably knows just as much as you, and had good reasons to want to talk to you guys but is not...
Brandon: Good at it.
Sarah: Hmm…
Eric: And also, like, not even socially awkward but like, I guess…
Brandon: Just a little kidnappy.
Eric: Just doesn’t associate with society at all.
Amanda: Which makes complete sense, if her role, like we can talk about the office of Hag, and what that means, and how- is it an elected position, is it appointed?
Eric: It’s like a dog catcher.
Sarah: Does every city-state have a Hag?
Amanda: I love this though, it’s like a Seer? Or like, what are those in the Matrix, like what is her title?
Brandon: The Oracle?
Amanda: The Oracle, yeah.
Eric: Um, probably. I mean Hags know each other in that way.
[Sarah & Amanda cackling]
There is a lot, I will say I got a lot of this from Volo’s Guide to Monsters. Which- so, when I first got into 5th edition of Dungeon and Dragons, I got a bunch of the original books. And then they released Volo’s, which is like the first exploration into like, a lot cool shit. So, the beginning of Volo’s is literally talking about societies of different monsters...
Amanda: Oh...
So you have like Goblins, and Bugbears. And then there’s a whole thing about Giants, and like their whole structure and which class of Giant is more powerful and their whole mythology. And there is a whole thing about Hags, and I’ve been sitting on that since 2, 2 ½ years.
Amanda: Volo’s came out right after the show started, yeah.
Eric: Or right before because I was trying to um…
Amanda: Oh, that’s right.
Brandon: There was a Hag in one of the pilots that we did.
Amanda: Yes! but we talked in one of Julia’s episodes, just a couple episodes ago in the Afterparty, about Kuo-toa, and the campaign that we played where Eric was DMing for the first time with me, Julia, Jake and Schneider, but there was, you said there was a Hag planned for that?
Eric: Yeah, the last thing that we played, we-I did an entire game that was based around Betrayal at House On The Hill which is one of my favorite…
Amanda: It was very fun.
Eric: which is one of my favorite board games, so it was me like revealing different rooms in this haunted mansion . And it used to be lived in by a Hag, and the Hag was going to be like the one who controlled everything that was going on. I don’t really know what I was going to do next.
But the mansion was kinda like Howl’s Moving Castle but also like cursed in this sort of way. The name of the game was going to be like Seasons of the Witch. Which I was very excited about that.
Sarah: I love that!
Eric: Yeah, but we never actually got to play. That was the last episode before we were done.
Brandon: [sing-song] Maybe we play it for, live show!
Eric: Yeah let’s just…
Amanda: That’d be awesome
Eric: We’ll just start in the middle of a different campaign.
Sarah: What if people came to a live show and you just were like, [laughing] we’re rolling different characters!
Brandon: Surprise.
Eric: I would boo me.
[Sarah still laughing]
Sarah: Also, now we’re playing Pathfinder, So, get used to that.
[quiet laughing continuing]
Amanda: But a Haunted Mansion bottle episode sounds amazing. And I want it very much. I feel like I can DM that. The structure of having rooms and like knowing how the general plot unfolds, I can deviate from that. Like that’s enough structure that I think I could do it.
Sarah: Oh my god a murder mystery haunted house
Amanda: [excitedly] Oh yeah yeah yeah.
Sarah: Yes!!!
Brandon: I love it. Uh, hey Eric, what’s a Hag?
[Sarah laughing]
Eric: So, a Hag is the monster in the Monster Manual that is usually associated with like, monstrous witches. The storybook witch, like the witch in Hansel and Gretel for example. They are usually monstrous, they have a lot of monstrous features and they can turn in to grandmothers in this way and they have this really defined structure. Which is why her name was is what it is. That was why her name was like adjective, and then like grandma name and then weird thing at the end.
[Amanda chuckles]
And they always have like these places that you wouldn’t expect them to live and they like love doing weird shit. I feel like Hags are- gravitate towards like magical barriers, which is always the thing, like their house is like the barriers between Reality Plane and maybe the Astral Plane, or the Feywild or whatever. So, I thought it would be interesting if she found a rip, 999 years ago, she found a rip in reality and then like built her house around it. And her house…
Sarah: She’s just been suckin on the juice.
Eric: Suckin on that juice!!!
[Sarah laughing]
Pretty much! She’s like nom nom nom nom nom. And as the city grew around her she had to turn into a business to fit in. And like she doesn’t want to. And that’s the entire reason why Infropolis is a fucking metropolis. And is like New Donk City. Instead of like everywhere else. Like, Fidapolis is pretty much like a classic fantasy city.
Amanda: Right…
Eric: Like it has a castle in it.
Amanda: Like a medieval court, castle, all that stuff.
Sarah: But Infropolis is like a Steampunk town.
[Sarah chuckles]
Eric: Exactly, yes. So I was trying to justify that for a while. And I’ve always been toying with the reason, like why do people have better technology than other people? Like we had motorcycles, and they glowed.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: And We had these wild machine things, like remember that big grappling hook…
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: That pulled you out of the Bachelorette mansion?
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: That was powered by the same glowing thing. And then I’m like everything glows because everything has a battery pack of the Undying Light.
Amanda: That’s like a huge reveal. I can see too how Fidapolis is the seat of old power so of course it would be more hesitant to adopt new technology from this scrappy upstart city.
I like that because in D&D and in real life, it sounds like older women are like maligned and ignored by society. And so, in this case, I mean the Hag is an interesting stereotype in fiction and in like gender studies, and so to have this sort of, this role be like okay well I’m ignored from society so good, I can live on the outskirts. Maybe I didn’t choose to be there, but I can use this as a form of power and live in a livable space. And just make my kinda living as some kind of like ambassador between worlds, or a conduit.
Brandon: I love that. And I really like this idea that in our fantasy world, like because there is magic you know? Like just because you have a technological advantage doesn’t mean you actually have an actual advantage.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Like people living alongside each other.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Just because they have those motorcycles doesn’t mean that they are any better than a carriage and a horse, you know what I mean?
Eric: There were motorcycles in…the chase in the original chase, one of the things I had was a motorcycle gang gets in your way.
Brandon: Mhm.
Eric: I mean, we never did it. But I justified that even all the way back there, I’m like some things are mechanical, and I wanna have a reason why
Amanda: So Brandon, how much of this is news to you? This is shocking to me, it was shocking to Sarah. But how, we know some things about Tracey’s backstory you don’t remember as Tracey. And some of them you do have a sense of. So like how much of this was new to you?
Brandon: Yeah, so I love this, because this is my favorite thing about Eric as a DM, aside from you know his wonderful story, is that like, Eric will take things that we say, he’ll ask us a question, like what we want to do? And take that input and then twist it and mangle it in his brain and make it even better and wonderful.
Amanda: Maul it, bruise it.
Eric: I hate how you guys talk about my brain!!
Sarah: Twists it! Mangles it!
Amanda: Adds umami. Weird!
Eric: Uuumami!
Amanda: No!
Sarah: Oh. Ew!
Brandon: And then it comes out…
Eric: I’m editing this, so I get to keep it.
[Eric, Amanda & Sarah laughing]
Amanda: That’s how it works.
Brandon: And then it comes out even better than how I can possibly imagined it or how we could have imagined it.
Amanda: So it was Umami!
Brandon: It was Umami!
Amanda: Wow, miso paste! Makes your eggs taste so much better!
Eric: The 5th flavor!
Brandon: The 5th flavor.
Brandon: But I don’t know Eric, how much you use from this or how much you remember us talking about it. But there, I did a deep dive on Warforged like actual written lore from I think 3.5 it is?
Eric: Mhm, I feel like it got updated for Ravnica? I haven’t touched it because we have already made up all of this stuff about Warforged...
Brandon: Right.
Eric: So I haven’t even read it.
Brandon: So, yeah, I wanted to figure out what Tracey’s backstory was myself. So, I sort of read a bunch of stuff as much as I could, picked out things I liked I think I have them on my computer somewhere. It’s like a 30-page document at this point. It just like…
Amanda: Wow.
Brandon: Backstory but also like…
Amanda: I have not done that much preparation.
[Brandon & Amanda chuckling]
Brandon: There’s backstory but also like literal scripts for some starting points.
Eric: I’ll try to say the things that I remember that are not included and I’ll try to remember the things that are included.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: You have like a whole backstory about Tracey was made by like the son of a governor in a governorship and she was like super terrible. And...
Brandon: In canon, there is like a family that made Warforged right? Like there were.
Amanda: In D&D canon, right?
Brandon: In D&D canon. There’s like a family that is responsible for...
Amanda: Right.
Brandon: Making like a factory people kinda thing. But in my story, like they had stopped making Warforged but there was one son who knew the method of how to make them kind of thing.
Eric: I mean, this is kinda like all in my head, so like...
Brandon: This is all thought-canon, everything I’m saying by the way.
Eric: I’ve been trying to think about like, what was Tracey doing pre-Centering? And I guess we haven’t really touched that yet. But like we’re creeping slowly closer.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: But this was also tied into the original Episode zero, which was that Johnny put his hand on Tracey and booted him up again,
Brandon: Right.
Eric: So tada! The reason why...
Amanda: The Undying Light?
Eric: Is that Johnny literally put Undying Light energy into Tracey’s battery pack.
Sarah: Ohhh, 10.4.
Eric: Exactly yeah. So this is pretty much, everything though is tied together. I’ve been thinking about this for a really long time.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Regardless of where the world is and like what has happened to Johnny throughout this entire story. I mean, I’ve always wanted this to happen. I think the machinations of the arc of this world will still move forward regardless of how our original three main characters are living their life.
Amanda: We’re living in the same world regardless of who the main characters are in our story. You know...
Eric: Right, yeah
Amanda: There are still consequences to things that used to happen and stuff we encounter now can still help explain things that happened in the past.
Eric: Exactly.
Brandon: Yeah. You asked me at one point, how are Warforged made? And so, I took a little bit of stuff from the canon but it’s not really well described in the canon. I bullshitted some stuff. It was, basically it was like you can put all of these ingredients together like you need some wood from a special tree, and you need like some sap, and some various metal parts and blah blah blah. But like the thing that puts it together is this energy coming from another Planar Dimension.
Eric: Yeah, I mean pulling everything together, we’ve learned a lot about Warforged. We learned that you can make like, exoskeletons from the Bachelorette Tournament. So, there is a way to build them. And someone has. It’s not Salmon, but someone did. And now we know how they’re powered. So, I guess like we finally to some extent have answered the question, what’s the difference between Tracey and Alabaster?
Brandon: Yeah. Sort of. I don’t think Tracey still knows exactly. Like, cause on the face of it, Alabaster is still sentient, you know what I mean?
Sarah: I don’t know. I don’t think Alabaster has [chuckling] a soul.
Brandon: [laughing] Wow!
[Brandon & Eric chuckling]
Eric: I mean, kinda. What constitutes a soul? Alabaster follows what Kohl says. And Tracey has his own force of will. This isn’t The Good Place, I’m not trying to get into what constitutes free will.
Amanda: But it’s…
Eric: But there’s a difference between an NPC and a PC.
Sarah: [laughing] Oh!!
Amanda: But it’s also a person/construct made a 1000 years ago versus one made today. We don’t always recover the full, like it took us centuries to rediscover like algebra you know what I mean? There could have been things done in the past that are part of the process that are missing now, I guess we’ll figure out what that is as time goes on hopefully.
Brandon: Yeah, it seems like this Hag has some knowledge of the past. Apparently Warforged are very murderous!
Amanda: I know! We don’t know what that’s about! An uprising and like murder spree during the Centering. This is new!
Brandon: [laughing] Which I feel like you’re just attacking me, Eric!
[Sarah laughing]
Eric: No! Again, this is connected to stuff that we talked about in the Bachelorette party. I mean
we saw the video of Warforged doing stuff, Warforged escaping the coliseum. Tracey did also say a bunch that he was going to chop off all her limbs. [laughing] So again, I just want to say…it’s...
Brandon: Well, he was posturing because he was trying to figure out what the best method of getting out of these chains would be. It clearly was not posturing being murderous.
[Amanda chuckles]
Eric: I was waiting for you to say I want to roll an Intimidation check, but you just keep like, [intimidating voice] I want to chop off your limbs!
[Sarah laughing heartily]
Amanda: That is one thing that I was very aware of during this session is like Brandon and I are so suspicious of everyone because so many people are out to get us or to make our lives harder.
Eric: I realize that and I’m trying to put like a person who doesn’t know how to live their lives in front of you who genuinely, I want to say genuinely figure out what you guys are figuring out.
Brandon: But she did literally kidnap me!
Sarah: Yeah, that was a big thing!
Eric: No, for sure. You never asked me how you got shut down.
Brandon: Oh yeah, how did I get shut down?
Eric: Since I’m telling you this now it will never come up again. But Casey had like a taser that shuts off mechanical things.
Sarah: Yeah, he zapped! He got zapped!
Eric: So, I thought you were going to shake down Casey, and be like what did you do to me? And he would have given you the taser that turns off mechanical things.
Amanda: Casey just rolled over, he is not being paid enough for this.
[Amanda chuckling]
Brandon: I regret my actions, I need that taser.
Eric:I just told you it exists, [chuckling] so I can’t give it to you now.
Sarah: It’s like in Jeopardy, when Alex sort of starts shaking his head. And they try to change their answer...
[Everyone laughs]
And he’s like no, once I’ve given you [laughing] a negative response, you can’t change your answer.
Amanda: But I, I get it. I sensed from Eric you growing more and more desperate like I’m a good person!
Sarah: [laughing] Yeah, you were really struggling!
Eric: I thought, and I was putting myself in it because I was basically Franny this entire time, I thought that if I made your life very good Tracey, I know I kidnapped you. But like, I’m trying to, it’s because I don’t trust you and your whole steez I figure when she said…
Amanda: You just made him more pissed because you’re defaming Warforgeds.
Brandon: It’s such a gaslit situation.
Eric: No!! But if she’s truly a thousand years old, maybe she’s seen some shit. So it’s like...
Amanda: Yeah, but Tracey’s never going to think someone else is more right about him than him!
Eric: That’s a good point about Tracey.
Brandon: You cannot kidnap someone and say...
Sarah: [chuckling] You kidnapped him and chained him to a bed!
Eric: I’m putting myself in the character’s shoes, I…
Brandon: We get it, we know.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I was trying to give you guys a fun ally…
[Sarah laughing]
And I also realized you guys need to get over all of your trust issues and try to trust this person who sucks.
Amanda: Listen, for us, the fact that we didn’t kill anyone or burn a house down or start a-a combat situation is pretty good. So all in all, I think we got outta here in like a pretty short amount of time from an enemy that Inara is about to stab. To like okay, we don’t have to trust each other yet but we are strategically aligned enough that I can promise to her that we can do a thing that she wants us to do that we were doing already in exchange for hopefully shutting down this match before it has a chance to take my Oatcake away.
Brandon: Yes.
Eric: I keep waiting for you to pop out and like stab [chuckling] Gordon Lighthammer. Be like hey, oh guys, I gotta go walk Oatcake. Like, see ya later. And you just go over to his hotel and stab him.
Amanda: Don’t think I haven’t thought about it. But like, wouldn’t Creative then spin that as like murderous? You know Kohl sold me as a potential recruit. So like wouldn’t they try to conscript me into their fantasy?
Eric: No, I guess I’m…
Amanda: There’s more consequences than rewards.
Sarah: Gordon Lighthammer isn’t a bad person. Don’t just murder him.
Eric: He kinda just leaned into it, and...
Amanda: No, I know, I know.
Eric: I’m just like, there is a way, and I thought of this when I was kidnapping and shutting down one of my players. There is a still a way where this breaks that people don’t know that Tracey got kidnapped.
If you guys didn’t go with the original plan that you were going to do, Tracey going back and being an artifact again, if you guys had been like we have to sneak away, and we’ll meet up at Finale’s house. I thought that if you did that, Oh man, Tracey got into shenanigans, but I’m sure we’ll see him in the morning. And then you are like, oh beans.
And then you go over to Electroshack during working hours, and that’s a totally different interaction probably. So I don’t know, there is still a way that if you didn’t want to break off and bother Gordo, then you probably could’ve.
Amanda: Yeah, but there’s just no way I’m going to do anything if Tracey’s not, like we wouldn’t split up willingly and knowing that he’s gone, of course we’re going to run after him.
Eric: Oh, for sure, for sure.
Brandon: I want to be extremely clear Eric.
[Eric cackles]
I’m in no way trusting or am friends with this Hag.
[Sarah laughing]
Eric: Fine totally fine.
Brandon: I am using her strategically and literally using her.
Eric: I mean, she’s a being of unlimited power, but what do you do?
Brandon: There is no world where somebody kidnaps me, and I trust them. Ever.
Eric: Eh.
Sarah: Yeah, I feel like that’s a fair line to draw.
Eric: I will say that in Furious 7, Jason Statham is the guy who is killing everybody and then in Furious 8 Jason Statham becomes part of the crew.
Sarah: He becomes party of the family.
Eric: Yeah, he goes to the family barbecue.
Brandon: And when I’m saying is that they are personal lines, personal boundaries I have other than this kidnapping...
[Sarah laughing]
Eric: What if I did a Jason Statham voice instead of like old Jewish grandmother who smokes cigarettes?
Sarah: [laughing] And Eric is like, But think about Fast and the Furious!!!
Brandon: Franny is like, have you seen this film series?
Amanda: We have come around on Greg, so we are capable of changing our minds. Uh...
Brandon: Greg has never kidnapped me!
Amanda: Greg though, as I was about to say, never kidnapped anybody.
Sarah: He’s just been mildly unpleasant.
Brandon: There are things I can forgive, and kidnapping is not one of them.
Eric: That’s fine. I just, um, yeah. We’ve talked a lot about like who peoples’ friends are and like trust in this show. So I was like, trying to give it different...
Brandon: I love what you did...
Eric: She wants, truly wants, to be everyone’s friend here. She’s like, I smell it on you. You guys know what’s going on. And like I have some questions because like you two, no one actually knows what’s happening in the world.
Brandon: Yes.
Eric: Like in the larger arc of the story.
Amanda: Yeah, but it’s good to have an ally. I’m glad that we have this Ripcord, literally…
[Sarah chuckles]
Where we can call on somebody for knowledge. No one is telling us anything about the past. The only thing they like more than referencing the Centering is stopping at the word, the Centering before saying anything more.
Eric: He-ha!
Amanda: I’m looking forward to the opportunity to learn from her! I’m just sorry that Finale can’t come with us, because she’s fulfilling her dream.
Sarah: Yeah.
Brandon: I think it’s going to be, uh, super useful to have her when we confront Alonzo again, because I don’t think we can tackle him.
Amanda: Yep. Nope. We can’t.
Sarah: That was like you go to the final boss in a video game and he like beats the hell out of you. [laughing] And then you’re just like, well I’ll go somewhere else and make a lot of potions!
Eric: I feel like, I feel like I have to grind.
Sarah: [laughing heartily] Let’s-let’s take a step back here.
Eric: Uh, I want to talk about Sarah for a little bit.
Everyone: Yeah!
Eric: Sarah, you’re my favorite role-player of all time.
Sarah: No!!
Amanda: You’re very good though.
Eric: There is a joke right before we set up the recording, one of Sarah’s friends tweeted like, no one is good at Dungeons and Dragons. And Sarah was like, [laughing] actually I’m good with Dungeon and Dragons.
[Brandon laughing]
And like, it was a total joke. But like the thing that I wanted to reply, but I did not know her, [laughing] but actually Sarah is very good at Dungeons and Dragons. And It has been awesome having you for the last three episodes. You’re such a good role-player. And now I get to give you like a good, happy ending.
Sarah: [enthusiastically] Yes!! I really appreciate it. I had a lot of fun. This was really nice. I like playing game... I like playing game.
Eric: Game is good.
Brandon: Game good.
Eric: I like game.
Sarah: [laughing heartily] I’m-You can call me a gamer girl.
[Eric & Brandon join in laughing hysterically]
Amanda: Oh noo!!!
Eric: God, If there’s a time, I’m going to plug the Patreon early. There are so many jokes that we could not fit into any of these episodes. If I can tell you, please subscribe to the Patreon at the blooper level so you can [trying not to laugh] listen to our great jokes that we could not feasibly put into the real world.
Sarah: Yeah, we had a good time this whole time I was here.
Amanda: I really want to talk about the most horrifying foods to watch yourself eat, but I don’t know if that made it into the final cut yet!
Brandon: Let’s just do it! [laughing]
Amanda: Alright, so...
Sarah: Soup and mirrors!
Amanda: So what are the most horrifying foods to watch yourself eat? Sarah, you told us a haunting anecdote about ramen.
Sarah: Yes! I was chatting with my friend who lives in England on the Skype.
Amanda: Yes, as you do.
Sarah:And I was in college at the time so I was eating Ramen.
Amanda: Aww.
Sarah: And I was looking at myself in the little corner, just like slurping up these noodles…
[Everyone gasps oh nooo]
And I was like, this girl should hate me…
[Brandon laughing]
[chuckling] I am disgusting!
Brandon: It’s just like flecks of broth on your screen.
Sarah: I’m about to tell her, I gotta turn the camera off.
Eric: I would think anything that’s like a sandwich that overflows?
Amanda: Oh yes.
Brandon: Yeah..
Eric: Watching yourself drop food.
Amanda: Like a pastrami sandwich or something?
Eric: Maybe something that’s a little more viscous, like maybe a chili burger…
Amanda: Tuna melt?
Eric: Yeah, yeah. Definitely tuna.
Sarah: Too much tuna, you could say.
Amanda: I feel like an ice cream sandwich, oh sorry, I mean an ice cream cone cause like your tongue leaves your mouth. Not the greatest shot.
Brandon: It’s just out there!
Amanda: It’s just out there. And then you have to have your head at weird angles and I just feel like I would look like one giant neck.
[Brandon laughing]
Like a worm.
Sarah: Eating right in front of a mirror or a camera that you can see, that’s just like, hard.
Brandon: I’ve heard they do that in the CIA or FBI. That’s their torture technique.
[Sarah laughing heartily]
Sarah: You can eat, but you have to eat in front of a mirror!
Brandon: Watch yourself motherfucker!
Amanda: Well Sarah, you are forever part of the JTP family.
Sarah: Aww.
Amanda: And can you let people know where they can follow your excellent work online and tell you how great you are?
Sarah: Sure, I’m most active on Twitter. Where you can find me at...
Amanda: Huh?
Sarah: At...
Amanda: Shift-2, huh?
Sarah: @sarahmhop . Cause my last is Hopkins.
Eric: Nice.
Sarah: It makes sense.
Amanda: Tell us about Principles of Magic!
Sarah: Oh, it’s my comic! Uh it’s my webcomic that I draw about three teenage girls who go to a school where they have to learn to suppress their magic. And it’s about friendship and growing up. And it’s available at principlesofmagic.com for free. I update 2 times a week.
Eric: My favorite part of that is that magic is definitely not a symbolism for something else because if it was, that’d be bad.
Sarah: [laughing] I mean…
[Everyone joins in laughing]
It’s symbolism for a lot of things, like Zootopia!
[Everyone laughs heartily, some clapping as well]
Eric: Aw, shit.
Brandon: Alright that’s it! We’re done!
Amanda: That’s a wrap on Sarah, thank you, we love you and now we’ll let you go create four times more frequently than we do, which is terrifying.
Sarah: Wait, I gotta open the door, creeaak.
Brandon: Bye Sarah!
Sarah: [speaking] Walk, walk, walk. Nom, nom, nom.
Eric: Oh, Sarah’s eating cookies!
Brandon: Where’d you get the cookies? Hey!
[Sarah squeals and imitates siren]
[Everyone laughing heartily]
Eric: Oh no, Sarah hit a tree!!!
[Sarah laughing heartily]
Sarah: Okay, bye!
Amanda: Thank you again for joining us in this episode and this Afterparty. We are so stoked to see what happens next, and to bring it to you two weeks from now! Please, like Eric said, the bloopers for this episode are off the chain, so go over to patreon.com/jointhepartypod and join at any level, we will give you access to or discord but bloops in particular are very good for this episode. We are also on Twitter and Instagram @jointhepartypod where we share photos from behind the scenes of recordings like this with fun guests and on our Twitter Eric posts fascinating and [short pause] baffling memes and tweets.
[Eric laughing]
Like every other day, [chuckles] and the ones on the in between days I can understand but suddenly, I’m like how-where did that come from, what?! And it’s like, you’re a Hag! Reaching through into the Luminal space, into the humor-zone.
Eric: Into the meme zone!
Sarah: [laughing] We’ve been cruel to Eric today!
Eric: [announcing] The meme zone!
[Sarah still laughing]
Amanda: What I’m trying to say is…
Eric: Meme space [laughs].
Amanda: It’s like you can reach through to the essence of humor and like lap it up, and nom nom, and
you just have more access to it than the rest of us. Anyway, Twitter is great @jointhepartypod. And finally, you can mail us cookies, I don’t know, maybe, that’d be great. I would just love for you to do that. I’m just saying, maybe? At jointhepartypod.com you can find our PO Box address, you can find transcripts of every dang episode, and you can find our start page! We made a little landing page for anybody who wants to start the show, catch up on the old arcs, learn about us. That’s at jointhepartypod.com.
Brandon: And they’re not repeat clip shows, they’re original content.
Amanda: Oh yeah!
Brandon: Go listen to them! They’re very good.
Amanda: Eric and Brandon collaborate on scripts and sound design for these beautiful recaps of our past arcs, and it may or may not be playing toward the end game, it may or may not have a meta narrative. They’re very good, so if you haven’t listened to the catch-up episodes, you can go to jointhepartypod.com/start. So that’s it for us. Thanks for listening.
Brandon: Bye guys!
Eric: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.