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Join the Party is an actual play podcast with tangible worlds, genre-pushing storytelling, and collaborators who make each other laugh each week. We welcome everyone to the table, from longtime players to folks who’ve never touched a roleplaying game before. Hop into the Camp-Paign, our Monster of the Week story set in a weird and wild summer camp, or marathon our D&D games with Campaign 2 for a modern, sci-fi superhero game and Campaign 1 for a high fantasy story. And once a month we release the Afterparty, where we answer your questions about the show and how we play the game. New episodes every Tuesday.
Transcript
Amanda: Hey, hi, hello and welcome to the Afterparty here for Monster of the Week campaign Episodes 10 to 12. We are covering The Puzzle 1 and 2 and The Woods Part 1. How's everyone doing today?
Julia: I'm just thinking about Wiggle It now because Brandon talks about Wiggle It. That's all I can think about just those white little guys.
Amanda: You know what I thought about when listening to the episodes is Carrie-Ann is me doing Brandon as a PC? Carrie-Ann is–
Julia: Can you elaborate further on that?
Amanda: Amanda is Carrie-Ann is Brandon as Tracy and Milo being like, I know what we're supposed to do on the plot, but I'm gonna do this sideline. And I'm just like fully committing to the bit and its a thing I've admired about you for years, Brandon, and I'm channeling it now.
Eric: That's really interesting because Brandon doing stuff that preserver and Multitool would do by Les just running full speed at you.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Now, is Les the most responsible member of our party? Because that's wild. That's a real change in the Brandon Grugle character arc.
Brandon: I don't know that's a good question. I think we're all equally pretty responsible. We're all just kids you know, so–
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: I think we all just have different traits.
Amanda: I think Les is the most responsible one. I think I mean is evidence we're gonna get to it in today's episode, but all about Phoebe wanting to kill Frederick and Les being like, I mean, I wish I won't have to kill someone. But if you want to say you know, like, followed down a loose end, then I'm down. That's a real Aggie move in my opinion.
Brandon: I mean, to be clear, I said I won't kill a cryptid I never said I wouldn't kill a person.
Amanda: It's true.
Eric: I draw the hard line at manslaughter, crypto-slaughter, no, thank you.
Brandon: No, thank you.
Amanda: No, no, my line is over manslaughter. It’s manslaughter then my line and then murder.
Eric: I'm fine with manslaughter but crypto-slaughter? No, thank you.
Julia: Yeah
Eric: I want to look at like the data of this looking at different data sets of like how responsible every character is. But of course, you're it's grouped by like the different colors. This is the axis or something else for campaign. So yeah, Les might be the most responsible, but all of you are the least responsible characters probably we've ever had on the show.
Amanda: True.
Brandon: Are you telling me that Les is graded on a curve this season?
Eric: Exactly.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: He's the most responsible out of a group of 15-year-olds. Yes.
Julia: Someone chart this for us, please. I know someone did Amanda's character choices but–
Eric: Oh, yes.
Julia: –do all of us, please.
Eric: I need to share that but Jaya made a– an incredible chart at one point on our Discord and I forgot to share it. But it's like there's a scale of– oh, God, let me look at it because it's from so long ago.
Brandon: While Eric’s looking that up, I do want anyone who is bored and wants to do an entire re-listen to go and chart every decision that every PC has made throughout all the campaigns. And then we can class them by like chaotic, responsible–
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: –or whatever. And then we'll see, you know–
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: And while you're doing that–
Amanda: And maybe–
Brandon: –can you go ahead and just like track down every role I've ever made and show them that it’s statistically–
Julia: No, it’s super low, statistically super low.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Or maybe we'll find out specifically not random and therefore my dice are fucked.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Are you reverse Travis McElroy-ing us by you intentionally rolling badly. Like you have a 16, and you're like ugh, I rolled a 4. Oh, no.
Julia: That sounds like something you’d do, Brandon.
Brandon: No.
Julia: I think we've accused you of doing this before, actually.
Amanda: I actually, that is a topic that I wanted to address. In today's Afterparty and relisting to these episodes, I realized that as a player I am much less devastated when my roles are bad and Monster of the Week. In sometimes in D&D, you know, I'll get the bad roll and it'll just feel like an obstacle to the thing I want to achieve. Or I'll be like, oh, God, I wish I could fudge this roll like, oh, God, I wish– I wish one better. And it Monster of the Week, I just think, well, that's gonna be interesting no matter what happens partly because of the experience mechanic. And partly because like, all outcomes are interesting. And I just wonder, players, if anything like that has crossed your mind, and Eric, how you're handling kind of dealing with our roles. I'm thinking about the dice as a sort of, you know, other player in this narrative in Monster of the Week.
Julia: I think I prefer the dice rolls in Monster of the Week, because statistically, you have a higher likelihood of getting middling successes–
Amanda: That’s right.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: –than like higher or lower, whereas D&D, you know, you have the same likelihood of rolling a 1 as you do at 20, you know what I mean? So, I like the idea that the more we roll, the more both we will succeed, but also the likelihood of like having consequences is higher. You know what I mean?
Brandon: Yeah, I was I was just thinking about this for that same reason. Maybe we'll incorporate some, some fancy dice rolling into our next campaign, who could say? Eric's touching his nose like, either he needs some cocaine or he knows a thing. One of the of the two.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Eric, do you need some cocaine? Amanda can get you some.
Eric: Yeah, Brandon, your roll when you roll you mean cocaine.
Julia: When you roll the devil's titties, you get to do some cocaine off the dice. That’s how it works.
Amanda: Oh, damn.
Eric: That's true that's why I call my dice nose candy.
Amanda: Uh-oh.
Eric: Also doesn't nose candy sound like a website that you buy dice from as well?
Amanda: Yeah, it does.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah, it does.
Eric: Use code JOINTHEPARTY at nosecandy.com for a discount.
Amanda: Eric, this is not– #NotSpon– #NotSpon
Julia: We can't say a website that almost definitely exists.
Eric: I know, I know, I know.
Brandon: Everyone tell your dealer next time you get to drop off to use code JOINTHEPARTY and you will get 10% off your drug deal.
Julia: Alright, your girl is going to go on incognito mode and see what that looks like.
Amanda: You gotta incognito, Julia.
Julia: Hold on one second.
Eric: This is wonderful because I can come back to Jaya’s graph. It is a Graph of Lawfulness by unhingedness. So as Amanda has gone forward, you have become more lawful but also more unhinged.
Amanda: That's straight.
Eric: I would say that Inara is very chaotic, but chill. As Jaya has outlined it the x axis is chaos to is the law unhingedness, this is chill to the least hinged MF you will ever see ever
Amanda: Jaya’s handwriting is also gorgeous so like, Jaya’s just winning all over the place.
Eric: So Inara is very chill and chaotic and then Preserver is a little bit more, there's like this wonderful slope then Agent Agent Smith from Comic Book One shots is a little less chill at a little more of the law then Multitool is like firmly in the middle and then Dr Bertha Bones is starting this exponential growth going of course to CAMP.
Julia: Incredible.
Brandon: Love it.
Amanda: Fully unhinged.
Julia: I’m sharing the screenshot of nosecandy.com with you guys in the Slack right now.
Amanda: Oh, great.
Eric: Oh hell yeah.
[Brandon and Eric laughing]
Eric: It's just a blank screen with the text contact us. A 1-800 number and then an email.
Brandon: That's 100% of cocaine dealer, right?
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: I mean, it has to be.
Amanda: It has to be.
Eric: Yeah. Julia, Julia, depending on how fragile you feel at the time of editing, Julia, charge your phone.
Julia: Rude. Highly rude. My charger’s right here. Eric, Eric, it's rude because my charger is right here. But because my neck is so fucked up right now. I can't reach down to get it.
Amanda: Awww… Julia.
Brandon: I just want, because the audience–
Julia: Oh, laughing hurts now. Oh, no.
Eric: Oh, no!
Brandon: Just for the audience because they weren't here for the context. Julia was not in some sort of car wreck or anything like that. She just turned 30 or is about to.
Julia: And I carried laundry downstairs and now my neck hurts. Aging is great.
Eric: I'm glad that we decided to bury the fact that skeletons punched Julia repeatedly.
Julia: Well, there's a reason I had to move both of the skeletons that were currently in my office, though, you can see the cool skull mask that I bought myself from Spirit of Halloween.
Brandon: Oh, that is cool.
Amanda: I noticed yesterday. And I was like Julia has just has an animal skeleton on her couch. That's normal.
Eric: I love the idea of Julia walking around with like, the 10 foot skeletons being like, look, I can carry it from my back
Amanda: King of cocaine and people who definitely did it in the 80s.
Eric: Oh, wait, I need to say the thing dice rolls.
Amanda: Oh, that’s right. Yeah, go ahead. Alright.
Eric: I mean, I think you're hitting it 100%. It's very funny in a way that I don't think gets expressed as well, with a D20 system, that the variance of the dice matters so much more, you know, you're gonna have a bonus to quite a number of things. I know, you're gonna have like up to +12 bonus to stealth if you're a Rogue. But like, honestly, you're really just hanging around 3, 4, and 5. Like 1, 2, 3 and 4 bonuses, unless you're super, super good at something in particular. So you're really relying on the variance of the dice, it's really hard to fail in Monster of the Week. You need to roll really badly, and I think that there's something about a two D6 system, which kind of like as Amanda said, you're very, very likely to get the middling result. And like your bonuses are only going to be 1 and 2. But I think that that reflects the things that you want to do and your ability to do so like when y'all roll +0 rolls. I'm like, uh-oh, bad things are gonna happen. Like, I feel like in my head, even if the variance doesn't work like that, statistically, in my head is like, if you're not good at something, I think you're going to do badly in it. If you're good at something, I think you're going to do at least okay. But I think is interesting. But then again, the middling rolls are always you do something for them with a cost. That's what it shakes out to. And I think I'm really trying to figure out what that variance is for a D20 system. So we can have more ifs because, you know, D&D is so black and white. It's either you pass or you fail. But then again, it's like you're going against the number I have in my head, and do you hit it or not hit it, as opposed to the numbers we've all agreed, or what we roll when we roll, you know what I mean?
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: So it's just like it's a different system, but trying to figure out like, well, did you fail by some amount? Do I have a number in my head? Are you just rolling? Like it's difficult to kind of wrap my head around because they don't lie on top of each other, which is why we play different games. And why we rolled D20 or we roll a two D6. Like, there's a reason why these games are different because they tell different types of stories.
Brandon: You could like, just say, you know, say your DC was 15, then like if you roll within + or -2 of 15, then it's a middling success. And if you roll 18 or over then it's like a straight up killer success.
Eric: Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, I think that's definitely where you start. But then it becomes more complicated is like, are you invalidating the existence of DCs, which is the building blocks of you rolling and hitting a number is literally the building blocks of Dungeons and Dragons, right? Like, AC is the entire thing. You beating saving throws, that's the whole game.
Amanda: Sounds like strike lands or not, the armor is pierced or not.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Like, it really does come down to those.
Eric: Then it's like, if you're within 2 negatively, you are so close and have an opportunity to do something else if you give something up. Like I don't even know what the thing is that you would give up. And then would you be satisfied if you rolled a 15? And the DC was 15? If I was like you doing okay. I don't know if that would be dissatisfied players necessarily. So it's like, I'd have to have a lot of different tiers. And then I don't know if we're pulling away from what makes the game the game.
Brandon: You just have like two different kinds of rolls, right? Like, you're gonna have a black or white like, does the armor get pierced or not roll versus like, this is a more exploratory roll and so therefore–
Amanda: Almost like an initiative and not.
Eric: Yeah, there's something if you're rolling against a number, you're rolling against someone else that needs to be a contest, I think. Because you know, an AC is like a contest with a number. Either you beat the armor you don't or you're beating your roll, you're literally rolling against someone but I think with checks we've gotten closer with–
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: –is like, you fail, you don't know anything, or you get a false piece of information. But I think that that's interesting what I that's what I like about Monster of the Week is like, for some of the sharp rolls, it's like, tell the monster something about you, or I get to tell you whatever you want, and you don't know if it's real or not.
Brandon and Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And I wonder if I can incorporate that more into stuff or it's like, I give you because, you know, sometimes when someone rolls like an 11 on Perception, I'm like, it's kind of hazy.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: I wish, I wish there was something I was like, I'm gonna give you two pieces of information, and one of them I'm going to tell you right now, one of them is false. And–
Amanda: They're twins one can only lie, only tell the truth. But we got to see kind of both of these things you referring to in action we get to see, of course, Phoebe's premonitions, which are you know, sometimes helpful, sometimes misleading, and we get to see Les add a new move to his playbook all about, you know, seeing things before and I thought they were both really interesting and added a lot of flavor to all these episodes.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Well, let's refresh ourselves on what exactly happened in these three episodes. I feel like they're very eventful. It was great.
Julia: Oh, yeah.
Amanda: So in of course, The Puzzle !, we meet Crudo Anaconda, we see Phoebe get a vision of Les riding a moose. Carrie-Ann gets the memo that she must win this contest as the best friends playtest the Puzzle Cleric’s which again, I forgot that it was called PC until the end of the episode where me was like, why are we calling him the PC? and then I remembered in the future from the past.
Eric: And these adults don't have any history with each other, they’re totally fine.
Amanda: No, none at all.None at all.
Julia: Eric, did we run in to you too much in character? Were you okay?
Amanda: Julia, that's actually something that Paul wanted to know as well. Eric, are you expecting the Puzzle Cleric to get dunked on so consistently by the best friends?
Eric: I was not. However, that's what happens when adults walk into some teens, man.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: I am– I’m unsurprised, especially when you sniffed out because again, this, I had this experience, I was a high school teacher. And of course, I was a camp counselor for a very long time. And all they want to know is stuff about you that they shouldn’t know, right? So when they sniff it when they sniff it out, they know there's a big. So you all sniffed out that they had a weird relationship with each other. And then you had 100% hit it as hard as possible. So I'm just like, that's fine.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: You can keep doing it. And the fact that you had to pull the keys off the Puzzle Cleric, I think, only that only reinforced the fact that you had to continue to interact with him, which I thought was very funny.
Brandon: When you are an adult and you go into a group of teens dressed like Kurt, was it Kurt Russell?
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: Yeah, I mean, like, you're just putting a target on your back really. So like it's whose fault is it at that point, really, you know?
Eric: They're like, What the fuck is Escape from New York. No one likes your duster.
Amanda: Let's get into Crudo. TJ wanted to know, is he based off of Hoss Delgado from the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy?
Eric: Yes, that is very perceptive for those of you don't remember who that is or watch that show. You know, the meme that like no one is good except for one, and then this guy flips down his like, what is the what do you call it? The thing in your car.
Amanda: The visor?
Eric: The visor.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: He like flips it and there's like a picture and it's just you that's a meme that goes around. Yeah, Hoss Delgado is a cartoon version of Kurt Russell from Escape from New York who is Snake Plissken, and he has an eyepatch, he has the hair like I described. He has he has the leather jacket. He was very, very cool in the 80s.
Julia: Let's talk about the name Crudo Anaconda, Eric.
Amanda: Yes.
Julia: When you said it on the recording, I said to you fuck you.
Amanda: Yup.
Julia: Do we want to explain why?
Eric: I do. I had this, I screenshotted this I think.
Julia: Great.
Brandon: Totally unrelated to anything but in the vein of making Julia feel better about her aging, I am about to take a Pepcid, an acid reducer pill. So–
Amanda: Your morning coffee.
Brandon: In order to do that now that I'm 30 I must take that pill.
Amanda: Yeah, yep. Yep.
Julia: Yay. Coffee ghost.
Amanda: I feel so advanced that I've had tummy problems my entire life. I'm just like delicious we’re settling in our like, our you know, peak-era.
Julia: Incredible.
Eric: Okay, so this is what happened. We were preparing characters for our highest level Patreon tier. When we play get to play an individual game with you. We were playing a game we were going to and also we've done two so far. The two we've done it with so far, you are incredible.
Amanda: So fun
Julia: So great.
Amanda: You guys are amazing.
Eric: We played a Victorian game of us be like Little Women Children with Garrett, which was so much fun. And we were preparing for this game with Cat, we were playing Mothman, which we played on mic before.
Amanda: Mothman won't go home.
Eric: He won't go home. So we're coming up with characters. And then Julia said, I'm gonna play a sous chef at a fancy restaurant but the restaurant is closed down for renovations. So I have no idea what to do with myself being home for this long. And then we all were like, wow, Julia, what a great character. And then I kept throwing character names at her. And I said, can their name be Fromage Crudo or Crudo Fromage? Or Crudo Bouillabaisse. Or Crudo Escabeche.
Julia: Just really like, Crudo, and I was like, no, I don't think so.
Amanda: Well, I dragged Eric along on my journey to watch every food competition show ever made people love to make a Crudo.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Because you don't have to cook, you just prepare a raw food.
Julia: Yeah, with like an acid over it.
Eric: I just thought it was such a funny word for a name, and I thought it was like vaguely fantastical. And then I realized I forgot to come up with a name for the Puzzle Cleric. I’ve just been calling it the Puzzle Cleric in my notes. So I'm just like, alright, there's a lot of references. For those of you who play Metal Gear Solid, this is a reference. Anytime anyone uses call someone snake. It's a reference to Snake Plissken from this movie.
Amanda: Oh.
Brandon: Oh, I didn’t realize that.
Amanda: I didn’t know
Eric: He is now it's very much a tradition of calling your badass hero snake or some sort of snake. So I'm just like, boom, his name's Crudo Anaconda. And Julia, Julia was very mad.
Amanda: So good.
Eric: I want to make a point that you that's where you keep all of your business savvy and your ability to do Finance. That's what I have references in my brain.
Julia: Yeah, it makes sense.
Amanda: Well, dominique_wiki also wanted to know why you chose a Spanish word for raw to name your character, but that's why.
[Everyone agreeing]
Amanda: Inspired by sous chefs.
Eric: Dominique followed up and said that there's an expression that you can use Crudo as tough, like, oh, I just did something so tough. Or like that test was so tough. You would say call it crudo.
Amanda: Fucking raw.
Eric: Which I think is really great as well.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So I'm just like, yeah, he's an action hero. He has first name means tough and his second name is the snake. That's why.
Amanda: And Eric, why don't you tell us about the Tefillin that the Crudo Anaconda puzzled cleric is wearing.
Eric: Oh, that's right. I had seen this oil painting a really long time ago, I can't remember. It just kind of came across my Twitter feed and I saw it and I put it in a, I put it in a tab for a really long time, because I wanted to make a bounty hunter, who, you know, the bounty hunter trope who's like super religious, you know, there's or like–
Amanda: Crusading like.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Like demon slaying.
Eric: Yeah, like Constantine what Brandon saying, or like someone who has like a big cross, while they're also killing vampires or something.
Julia: Sure.
Eric: Or like just a bounty hunter that he's also like, deeply spiritual or religious in their fantasy setting.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Felt like a trope to me. And also, I'd been watching a lot of anime at the time. And a lot of animes love to use crosses.
Julia: But just for aesthetic, not for any religious reasons.
Amanda: Just for aesthetic. Yeah.
Eric: They're just like, Oh, look at this. This religion we don't know anything about, it's so funny. So I wanted to do something like that. And I saw this painting and I'm like this, I really want there to be a bounty hunter who has like these Jewish iconography Tefillin. And the last time I'd been talking about Tefillin in for those who don't remember, it's like a little box that you tie around your arm and put on your head with tied with black leather. And I just thought it was tight as fuck. And the last time we talked about it was when this is the only place that the lich keeps their souls.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So I was like, oh, this would be cool. So I really wanted to have this thing that was referential. I wanted to come up with this like quasi crypto religion cult thing that had to do with puzzles, and if you didn't end up using it because you all decided to kick this adult man's ass instead.
Julia: Sure did.
Eric: But he was going to crack them open and give you clues.
Amanda: I know.
Eric: Which was kept within these puzzle boxes.
Amanda: I wish we’d seen that.
Eric: Which he would, he has tied to his body.
Amanda: Yeah
Julia: Gotcha.
Brandon: Well, yeah, I didn't realize what the Tefillin was. I never heard of that, but I looked it up afterwards, and that's the coolest fucking thing ever. And I don't know why everyone doesn't just wear those things ever because it's cool as fuck.
Eric: It really does. I mean, people don't see it outside of like incredibly religious people who do it publicly or like do it at the Wailing Wall in Israel, or when you see like someone in the airport praying, you know. You do it for your morning prayers, usually, because it's like you keep there's like a, the whole point of it is that in the box is a prayer that you keep so it's on your head and you're in your arm, which is a reference to a story in the Torah. The point is, it looks tight as follows.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: And that's why I wanted to bring that aesthetic in and I thought there was something about Crudo that I needed to say he is cool if you looked at him when he was a young bounty hunter are young Monster Hunter, but now he's the same guy he was for 20 years. And I think you all hit on that by the teens bullying him. Because he's just like it all he says a guy with the same aesthetic as he had when he was like 20/25.
Brandon: Yeah, right. Yeah.
Eric: Which was really fun.
Julia: That's hilarious. I want to make fun of this man all the time.
Eric: That's fine. You Julia, you did enough for a lifetime.
Julia: Good. Good.
Eric: I thought it was so funny when you call him a colonizer.
Julia: Yeah. It was also made so fantastic by Brandon putting in that music.
Amanda: It’s so good.
Julia: And he was cutting it off when Phoebe interrupted with that. Brandon the timing, beautiful.
Brandon: Thank you because I did work on that for a good 10 minutes to figure–
Julia: Yeah, yeah. I know.
Amanda: Brandon, we’ll get to it. But your voice filter work on Eric's PCs in The Puzzle 2 made me laugh and laugh. But first, we have to kind of take in the fact of the bouncy castle. So Zoe and Eva both wanted to know where did the idea for everything being a bouncy castle come from?
Brandon (as Wall-E): Eva!
Brandon: Sorry.
Amanda: Don't worry, Brandon, we're going to talk about the aliens next.
Brandon: It was a Wall-E reference.
Amanda: I thought it was like Claw!
Eric (as Alien): It's a leg– it’s a legally distinct claw. Legally, it's a different thing. It's the grabber. It's a hand.
Eric: I– this was a reference to a One-Shot we did back in Campaign 1. I don't even remember when we recorded this. This went into like someone else's Humble Bundle thing. I got really fascinated with those really, really big, bouncy castles or like the obstacle courses that are inflatable. You know, you can kind of pair this with like American Ninja Warrior stuff, where it's like a whole setup that's an obstacle course that's also parkour. But like he there was a story that like a 200-foot inflatable obstacle course got stolen. And I'd done that in a One-Shot all the way back in Campaign 1 years ago, I thought it was really funny. And I've included this in all of our campaigns so far of doing an obstacle course because I find them deeply funny. So this one, I just thought it was funny if you went inside. I was actually inspired by Infinity Train which have been back in the news because it got fucked by HBO Max. And Infinity Train is one of my favorite cartoons. I've been finding a lot of inspiration for cartoons for the campaign. I've already said a lot from Gravity Falls a lot from Adventure Time of like pushing the horror angle, but you can body horror as much as you want, but it's still for children, you know what I mean? Which I've been finding really funny. So from Infinity Train you’re going into each room, I thought much like Infinity Train, we have to go and find the golden doors at the end. And I thought it would just be really funny if everything was made out of inflatables because that's what he would have. That's what this thing would be even if it's magical. It's how it needs to be made out of the material to be inflatable.
Brandon: Hey, Eric, you were right. It was very funny.
Amanda: Hey, it was.
Julia: It was great.
Eric: There was a moment in the first one when I said there's an inflatable bird flew by. And I'm like, yeah, that's pretty funny.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: I also was trying to give you all something to bounce off of no pun intended.
Amanda: Hey! Sorry, it happened anyway.
Eric: Because I really did not– I did not have secret versions of rooms that I was going to come up with. I needed you like the move was very clear, you come up with the move. And either it's easy, it's hard, or even harder as I fuck you up.
Julia: Right.
Eric: So like I didn't even I know I wanted to give you all parameters to be able to come up with silly things. What, as you came up with your next room, but remember, they're all it's all made out of inflatables and stitched together.
Amanda: Well, let's get into that because Julia and Brandon had some absolutely fantastic ideas. I love the director’s office as well.
Brandon: And Amanda!
Amanda: But just to remind us the first room was the one we did not come up with. It was a climbing wall where Les got laid up by the Chinese finger trap and briefly, Les saved Phoebe and their faces were close together but they did not almost kiss because Les was too scared of Phoebe's power, and then in Episode 11, we saw–
Eric: Both of them in the face like they did not–
Amanda: I know.
Eric: That never would have happened.
Brandon: It was a good, it was a good like two feet, you know?
Julia: Uh-huh. Sure.
Amanda: We saw a magical forest.
Eric: I don't know. Wait, sorry. Let me look at this fan art I'm looking at, they're definitely inches away from each other.
Amanda: Centimeters. Yeah.
Julia: Interesting.
Brandon: Centimeters.
As you can see the energy between the–
Amanda: Julia brought us the magical forest with the inflatable unicorn whose voice is my favorite voice of all.
Julia: Eric, you sound exactly like Alex Hirsch–
Amanda: Yes!
Julia: –with the filter that Brandon put on your voice.
Amanda: It was incredible.
Julia: It sounded like him.
Amanda: Yeah. You sounded just like Bill Cipher.
Julia: Yes.
Amanda: It was so good.
Eric: That's wonderful. I'm very happy to hear that.
Julia: It was very good.
Amanda: We then saw the director's office, incredibly funny that Crudo would just have prepared that and have it in the pyramid.
Eric: That was so funny. That you were just like, yeah, it's a director's office. And I'm like, ueah, Crudo would know every inch of that, you’re right. They don't have any weird relationship.
Amanda: Brandon brought us space camp. But Julia was also it’s enthusiastic cosigner. And then we also have that final two rooms, the pyramid with the sarcophagus that Phoebe got trapped in and then the Victorian room. So I mean, God, what a carousel of delights here.
Julia: Truly
Brandon: I do have a question, Eric, when you were considering Amanda’s choice of the camp director's office like did that just like cement the relationship? Or did you have that relationship with Crudo and the camp director already, like on your notes? Like this is the case– or you like–
Julia: You know how they’re exes.
Brandon: –we’re leaning into this now?
Eric: Good. Good question. Yes, they were. Well, this was the part I think that's what you all sniffed out and why you bullied him so much.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: You knew there was a secret?
Julia: Yeah, I know how to do laundry. Makes direct eye contact with the director.
Amanda: So funny.
Brandon: Well, Julia doesn't? So–
Amanda: Oh, no!
Julia: No, I just don't know how to carry it properly without hurting back, Brandon.
Eric: Julia doesn't know how to Dark Souls roll her way while she's getting attacked by skeletons to do her laundry.
Amanda: Julia, here's the thing, Jake could make a dumbwaiter to the basement. So I just want you to consider that.
Julia: Hmm... Hmm...
Amanda: In your pantry. I'm just putting the thought out there you can do with it what you will.
Brandon: And then when we come visit, we can be we can go in the dumbwaiter up and down. Amanda: Weeee!
Julia: Weeeee.
Eric: The point is yes, they were. I always had written down that they were divorced and Boo is his child. So and I thought–
Amanda: Damn.
Eric: –that was part of it. I wanted to again, the thing that I tried to do a lot as a teacher was keep my personal life away from my students. But they kept pushing me and sniffing me out and trying to like get little pie– break little pieces off, and I think you all did the same thing. So I was really trying to keep it close to the chest. Because you have this choice, which I had to do with Phoebe a lot, where I'm just like, am I going to tell her the truth so she shuts up but it won't work? Or am I going to hide it and she's gonna keep being fucking annoying?
Julia and Amanda: Yes.
Julia: Hey–
Amanda: I had to tell you speaking it will get to our Jewish NPCs of all Join the Party campaigns. But this happened in my conversion class with a rabbi who was teaching us all about Judaism.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Where every like little morsel he would say about his personal life. Everyone was like, ooh, tell us more like, who's your boyfriend? What do you mean you're an atheist? Like, oh, your parents don't like that you're a rabbi like, tell us more. And he and he was finally like, I will tell you my story on our last class. You can ask me questions about me, this is what you and your spiritual journey. No, this is not happening.
Brandon: That's incredible. I love that.
Eric: Very relatable.
Amanda: Lena, connector of dots did want to know specifically how are these aliens legally distinct? Do they have more eyes? Fewer eyes, more fingers? Fewer fingers?
Eric: Honestly, I've never thought of a better question for Julia and Brandon. Julia and Brandon, how are these? How do I not get sued by the Disney-Pixar company?
Julia: They have two antennas instead of one.
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: Is that right, Brandon?
Brandon: Yep, and their green is a different shade of green.
Julia: It’s like an army green
Brandon: Army green yeah.
Julia: Instead of like a neon green. Yeah.
Amanda: Nice.
Brandon: Their voice is different. Their pattern of speech is different. Their clothes like what are they wearing? Like kind of spacesuit jumpsuits?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah like spacesuit things.
Julia: Let's find out.
Brandon: Now they're overalls.
Amanda: The purple belt maybe? Oh, nice.
Eric: Space overalls
Amanda: They’re wearing Wario’s outfit.
Julia: Right.
Eric: They go, weeee.
Julia: They have like the, you know that like crinkly silver material that people use for like Halloween spacesuits?
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: They have overalls in that color on.
Brandon: Like a space blanket.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Very good. Yeah.
Eric: It’s so funny. Because they're all in shock that their toys.
Julia: Yes, precisely.
Eric: Oh, no, I'm back in the IP, no!
Everyone: Noooooo!
Julia: Cut it, cut it, cut it.
Amanda: I would also love to know players, how do we feel about our greatest fears being a big part of this exercise, both lying about them, and then Julia specifically, Abby said how are you doing up to Eric made your character admit that she fears not being special.
Julia: Terrible. I feel awful. Extremely bad. It was a bad time. I was like, I know what Eric is doing, and I know that as a character choice, I should reveal this thing. But man, it sucked.
Amanda: Eric's making a dove with his hands.
Eric: I’m just dancing.
Julia: Big mood, big mood.
Eric: Julia, wrenching emotion out of you as a foundational text of my DM-ing.
Julia: I know, and it hurts every time, Eric. As bad as my neck hurts.
Eric: Oh, no.
Julia: But emotionally.
Brandon: Eric, I just want you to recognize and be proud of me for being the only one to just dive in and say it right as when you asked it. I have grown, Eric.
Julia: Except then you told Phoebe that your fear was puppies.
Brandon: Yeah, Phoebe but not Eric in the DM.
Eric: No, that was, that was 100% true. I also asked all of you, I made you message me.
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: Whatever you said if I knew, or I think there was a roll attached to this if you failed it or something I needed you to send it to me and Brandon and I know Brandon specifically did but I think a lot of you did send it to me, too, so that it worked out really well.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: Are you proud of me, Papa?
Eric: I am proud of you. Thank you for complying with a meaningful journey I set up for you. I think there was something here I– it's like, you know, this was a teaching tool. This was the equivalent of an education of an edutainment class, you know what I mean? So I think there was something about something that Crudo Anaconda set up being very ham-fisted, especially at the end with like, Phoebe being trapped in a bad situation. And the only way to get out of it was to admit your feelings., and then reinforcing that by making all of you say it in front of each other in front of an inflatable Steven, like I knew was ham-fisted. But I feel like that's what Crudo would have done. Because you have to admit to each other if you were supposed to be working together in this way. Like we don't talk about the I think that even more than the adventuring party in a fantasy in a fantasy game. Like the monster hunting team is very much a unit in Monster of the Week. And I think they're reinforcing that in an expansion that's going to come out from evil hat later, but like the monster hunting team is very important. And I think that Crudo was really trying to really try to hammer that home.
Julia: Alright, so now you know as individuals and as people who work together everyone please tell me your greatest fear.
Eric: Oh, ever– that I'm not as funny. I'm actually not that funny, and that's why I'm not as popular as I hoped I would be.
Julia: Damn.
Amanda: Yeah, that the thing I've devoted my life to is doesn't love me back and ultimately will leave me you know, kind of penniless and alone and unfulfilled so, mostly that and death.
Brandon: Hey, I was gonna say death.
Julia: Yours is just death, Brandon?
Brandon: Uh-huh. A 100% death is the worst thing I've ever imagined
Julia: Mine is that I won't leave an impact on the world.
Brandon: Yeah!
Eric: That’s a good one. That’s a good one.
Amanda: Yay!
Eric: Or how about that something that you can't control is really the thing that's pushing and pulling the levers of you being successful and having a good life.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: That's I think is intertwined with the big guys.
Julia: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: In general, yeah.
Julia: I get that.
Brandon: Wow. This got dark.
Amanda: [sighs] That’s fun. Let's, let's all refill–
Eric: We did all just say our fears.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Wow. I can't believe that got dark. Weird.
Brandon: No, no. Amanda, let’s go.
Julia: Snacks.
Amanda: Let’s self soothe with some autumnal snacks as summer is drawing to a close and we'll be right back.
Brandon: I’ll head to TJ’s and get some pumpkin spice thing.
Julia: I was– Brandon, I was about to say. Let's just list a bunch of Trader Joe's pumpkin snack.
Amanda: Okay, but there's like a ginger snappy pumpkin cookie–
Julia: Oh, yeah.
Amanda: –that's out of this world.
Julia: Yeah.
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Eric: Wow! Thank you for coming back from the Williamsburg Trader Joe's which just unionized so we can shop there and it's fine. I love the hold the cone pumpkin ginger ice cream things that you've gotten me, Amanda. Thank you!
Julia: Apple cider donuts.
Everyone: Yeah!
Amanda: God, so good.
Eric: Those hold the column things are tight as hell.
Eric: Hell yeah.
Amanda: All the flavors. There's a chocolate, there's a coffee in the seasonal is this ginger pumpkin.
Amanda: Yeah, and there's vegan ones.
Eric: Oh yeah?
Amanda: They're a little tiny ice cream cones.
Eric: Imagine like a drumstick, but they cut but there's not a lot of ice cream coming off the top. But it's sealed in and it's mostly just the bottom of the cone there. It's so so good.
Eric: And they, it comes in like 12 in a pack so they're little guys
Julia: Gotcha.
Amanda: You know I’m going to be near Trader Joe's later today, so maybe–
Eric: Only go to the unionized one.
Amanda: That's true.
Julia: Amanda.
Eric: We don't support scabs.
Amanda: You know how much I hate unions.
Julia: Amanda McLoughlin, famous union hater.
Eric: Amanda McLoughlin, CEO of a company that's attached to a collective that hates unions.
Amanda: Yep. Alright folks, let's talk about the woods. Where I gotta tell you here, we didn't have a lot of spoilee corner questions. Everyone's like, oh, I can't wait to see how this ends. We haven't even seen the wildest shit that lives in the woods yet, that's all I gotta say.
Julia: Yes.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: I don't want to say too much because a lot of this was table setting.
Amanda: Exactly.
Eric: But it was really fun. I'm really glad that we got to do something, we're returning to old mysteries, which is something that I had been really excited about since the first episode when the waterhole mystery never really resolved itself.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah, Julia, tell me about your motivation to kind of direct our action at the beginning of this mystery.
Julia: So one, I had been given the task of getting something from someone that I defeated in combat, and I knew that if Phoebe wanted to defeat anyone in combat at this point, it was that fucking frog. And so I think that like Phoebe was like, oh, well, you know, the best part about having best friends is they can help me maybe defeat this frog and especially since the last time we tried to beat the frog, there was really only two of us in that fight. Maybe having all three of us there would make it a little bit easier.
Brandon: I just want to say that I– well, this is sorry, this is sorry, I just watched an episode of Drawfee where they talked about this and I learned that the frog's name that I was referencing in this in the episode is Michigan J. Frog.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: And he just gaslights a guy into starting a frog cabaret type thing and doesn't perform.
Julia: Yeah, he's a real bastard.
Brandon: Ugh. so good.
Julia: Much like Frederick the frog, also a bastard.
Eric: Brandon, were you thinking about dropping instead of Julia fucking ripping you for your player involved in the fight.
Julia: That’s fair. That’s fair. Hey, Brandon, totally fair.
Brandon: Also because Julia's correct.
Amanda: Also gave us a chance to check out the scary sluggish sort of silt filled blood red water that is taking over camp.
Julia: Yeah, didn't like that, didn't like being in that. It was a bad time for Phoebe.
Eric: Oops.
Amanda: No, Carrie-Ann really want to drink it.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Who is in a lot of trouble with Phoebe right now?
Amanda: Yes.
Eric: I think that there's something I was really trying to see like the important stuff about Monster of the Week because we're all still learning here. This was only like our 5th/6th game session that we've played is that like, you know, you can't defeat monsters until you know their weakness.
Julia: Right.
Eric: And you literally went into Frederick's house. And Frederick's like, deuces. I can move through the walls in here. Go away.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: So I really wanted to reinforce it like you weren't going to just be able to do this. If you charged in just with your big old fists.
Julia: He got me good. He got me good.
Amanda: Totally.
Brandon (singing): Hello, my baby! Hello, my darling!
Julia: Bradon is just like, I'm just still thinking about that frog.
Brandon: It’s the best character ever invented.
Amanda: And there'll be a lot to talk about in the next Afterparty about Mavis Beacon about Boo and what the hell he's doing there.
Julia: Can we talk about Mavis Beacon and how before today, I had never heard of Mavis Beacon–
Brandon: Same.
Julia: –Teaches Typing. So you're like really stressing like, this is Mavis Beacon. She teaches typing. I'm like, that's great, Eric. Okay. Is that supposed to be like–
Amanda: A public servant? Yes.
Julia: Yeah, it was like, okay, so she's good at typing. That's awesome.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: I think the only thing I would say is like, the fact that Julia and Brandon did not know who Mavis Beacon was. I think honestly, it's fair. If you ran into the woods, and someone said that their name is this and you maybe you did or did not know that there was a reference to something happening. I think it's fair and honestly a word. That's fine. I think it was supposed to feel weird. I emphasized it so there was a sense of unease would felt like maybe if you didn't know the reference, you were missing something. If Les thought this was a mystery to investigate it, maybe he would have but he didn’t. And like I'm not saying that Brandon, you foot should have rolled? Are your senses attuned that this is a bad situation or not? If you're not living with someone who's literally not pulling a knife on you, that's like–
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: –Oh, I think about all that's the thing about you know, that's the thing in true crime stories. That's thing and adventure stories. That's called dramatic irony, folks. Do we know do the people who's participating know that they're in danger or that something weird is happening? So I think I think it's fine either way.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: I also think that kids like especially teenagers are interesting, you know, like they're not going to if they see an adult who seems nice they can be like yeah, you seem chill, you know?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: A 100%. And also because you were lost in the woods and found a person.
Julia: Yeah, I’d be very excited about that.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: And cool person to like a person who can make stuff, you know?
Eric: Who makes stuff. Yeah, who were living in there and I include intentionally included her fucking tight-ass tree house.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: So I'm not saying that Brandon nor Les did anything wrong, I'm saying that these were just choices, and the unease or whether or not you knew it is the way that how story go.
Julia: Right.
Amanda: Well, we'll see what lies in the woods in the next episode next week. But in the meantime, lots to say about all including, by the way, what what all Phoebe's running to and if Chuck's there, can't wait to see how that figures out.
Julia: [singing] Who can say doo-roo-doo-doo.
Amanda: But we've lots of fun questions here about About our characters about the game and about the podcast, which I am always really excited people ask about the podcast. So here we go. This is from TJ as well. Now that we know the CITs are being trained in the art of monster hunting. If that's the case, why don't we see more interactions with other CITs? Wouldn't be who've everyone to team up against the monsters and what does that mean for the counselors that are still at camp? Did they decide to forego a more lucrative path? To help raise the next troop of hunters or me, Amanda, I'll add or has the camp decided not to actually make monster hunting part of the curriculum and has that fallen away? What's the deal?
Brandon: Someone has not watched Supernatural because clearly monster hunting is not a lucrative path.
Amanda: Brandon, talked about this, you are our supernatural correspondent.
Julia: Brandon, how lucrative is it? Scale of 1 to 10?
Brandon: Well, in the show they have an elaborate credit card fraud scheme.
Julia: Of course, they do, naturally.
Brandon: Overtime just kind of hand waved away but yeah, they don't make any money. They just use credit cards that are frauds
Julia: Big mood.
Amanda: So Eric, does this volunteer who can say territory's anything you want to tell us about monster hunting or re the CIT and counselor curriculum?
Eric: No, I think we'll see, who could say?
Julia: I think it's also and this is just like, from the stuff that we've experienced so far in the show. I think that there is a stress on these like three person teams like at the beginning of the year, they put us into the like different CIT groups that are all three people. Crudo mentions that he and Friday both had a third person that was part of their monster hunting party. So I'm curious if it's like, in the way that like numerology stresses that three is a very strong important number, maybe that like there is a magical reason that monster hunting teams are teams of three.
Amanda: It's true
Eric: sounds tight whoever laid those breadcrumbs. I don't know who.
Julia: Who can say?
Eric: Hey, these breadcrumbs it's from a really good piece of bread.
Brandon: It’s babka.
Amanda: It’s chocolate babka.
Eric: Sorry, Brandon, I dropped a babka.
Amanda: Is that bad? It's in the studio. Is that bad?
Julia: What a big crumb the full babka.
Eric: That's what I lure dropped on you. I dropped a babka.
Amanda: Maureen, Out of Work Bookie would like to know, why did Les and Phoebe apply to be CITs this summer? I think the answer is obvious for Carrie-Ann.
Julia (as Phoebe): Phoebe doesn't have a lot of friends. And so sometimes it's just easier to be like, forced into friendship by being forced into a group by picking a job that makes you be forced into a group.
Brandon: Greek life is what you're describing.
Julia: Yeah, Phoebe’s gonna join a sorority.
Amanda: High school theater.
Brandon: Yeah, I mean, I think for Les it's just kind of like what you do, right? Like, you know, he likes it. He loves the camp. He likes going back. So it's like, that's just the next step of stuff, you know?
Amanda: His parents were like, oh, get the job. And he's like, cool.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: You're only, oh, I forgot about Les’ fucking hippie ask parents. You're only allowed to get a job if it's meaningful to you.
Brandon: Well, he doesn't need a job because he wins rock climbing competition. So who brings home the money?
Julia: Naturally.
Brandon: You know?
Julia: What does Maureen do during the summers? Do you know?
Amanda: Well, I think Maureen is out of work because there is no more betting on the night of mirrors. betting pool
Julia: I meant I meant Les’ sister, Maureen.
Amanda: Oh.
Brandon: But also Maureen. Maureen, do you know that you're Les’ sister canonically?
Amanda: Yeah, congratulations.
Eric: You can, oh, you can only do betting as long as the Greyhounds are treated really nicely.
Brandon: I think Maureen is like the black sheep that like the parents are mad at but it's because like she's like a fucking like nuclear physicist who works at NASA or some shit.
Julia: I was gonna say she wants to be an accountant.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Incredible. Kazy, 3 kobolds in a trenchcoat would like to know, hey, Eric, I think you've said a few times that in your Head all your NPCs are Jewish. Does that mean the villains are as well and how does that make you feel?
Eric: All the villains are explicitly Christian. No, I'm just kidding. No, I'm I don't know I really I really don't know. I think this was more of a joke of Laketown City Hall. I thought it was just funny to do a whole city that like all complied to you know, Jewish holidays. Like, everywhere in America complains that Christian holidays. I just thought that was funny.
Amanda: And by funny, you mean would be nice.
Eric: Yeah, I mean, we can have a conversation about like, what NPCs I feel like are extensions of myself. Are there villains where I feel like you're extension of myself, because I really don't feel like anyone is like a Mary Sue of myself. I really, I think I might have said before, like, I don't feel like I self insert really as much.
Brandon: The closest one is definitely Crudo Anaconda but–
Julia: Yeah, that’s just you as a person.
Eric: Yeah, I'm Crudo Anaconda. So I don't know. I like do I consider villains and NPCs are same? No, like, I don't think you're gonna fight an NPC. You know, it's like, I feel like you crossing the villain territory when I give you an HP bar. You know what I mean?
Julia: Right.
Eric: Like I very much feel like I have villains and I have NPCs and regardless of whether or not they’re friends or foes good example from Campaign 2, whether we're talking about Dez or January, or we're talking about someone who's more gray like Dr. Morrow or is talking about someone who you hate, like–
Julia: Sour Anthony.
Eric: Like Sour Anthony? Like they are NPCs because they feel like they have they're not the antagonists of the story. I know it was a little more cut and dry and Campaign 2 but it's like, get pretty clear Monster of the Week is like you fight the monsters and maybe some people are bad or annoying or you don't like them but I feel like it's I feel like it's different.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I don't know. It's a– it's complicated. There's a lot of stuff happening in here. This is what I think about instead of finance instead of knowing what my 401K is.
Julia: That’s fair.
Brandon: You’re saying, villains are the heroes of their own stories.
Eric: This is a perfect time for us to say that in Campaign 3, we're doing the Joker.
Julia: I don't even want to put that energy out.
Amanda: I know. Sure to be well received by all.
Eric: We're doing Todd Phillips’ Joker.
Amanda: Oh, boy.
Julia: No…
Amanda: theweirdwind wants to know, hey, on a special winter episode, what is everyone wearing? And how are everyone's parents?
Julia: Oh, I really liked the idea of the best friends visiting each other in the wintertime.
Amanda: Yeah!
Julia: And Phoebe has one of those denim jackets that is also fleece lined.
Eric: Oh, yeah.
Julia: And like a little tiny like one of those blue and green flannel shirts, and then also jeans like is really rockin’ the jean suit style look.
Amanda: Oh, yeah.
Eric: Ever since we said that young Maisie Williams was Phoebe.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I can't get that on my head right now, it’s really perfect.
Amanda: I know. What about Les, what is his winter apparel?
Brandon: Les wear shorts and t shirt because quote unquote–
Brandon (as Les): I run hot.
Amanda: Shorts in the winter guy shorts in the snow at the bus stop.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: This is the exact opposite of Milo.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Are all of your characters just wearing the same outfit the entire time?
Amanda: Okay, here's another graph opportunity. Brandon's characters lawfulness versus shorts adherence to shorts.
Julia: Two axes–
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Julia: Lawfulness and shorts.
Brandon: Length of fabric on legs.
Amanda: Yes, exactly.
Eric: That’s so funny. Tracy, no fabric on legs.
Amanda: Yeah, that's true.
Julia: Amanda, how about Carrie-Ann?
Amanda: I think Carrie-Ann has, yeah, some like maybe flannel lined jeans like one Eric Silver has from Land's End and will break out soon enough, I'm sure. I think a camp crew neck or hoodie under like a big kind of Carhartt style like work jacket.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: And a beanie. Probably she rotates between a couple of different beanies.
Brandon: What's her favorite?
Amanda: I think her favorite is probably orange for visibility.
Julia: That makes sense. Checks out and matches her hair.
Eric: I need to ask, much like all of your characters that have red hair. Do all of your characters also were Carhartt?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And therefore does Dr. Bertha Bones have space, Carhartt? And does Inara have a fantasy Carhart, which feels like something we should have come up with?
Amanda: We should have covered that in Campaign 1. No, I think just Aggie and I think Carrie-Ann maybe it's like a knockoff army jacket or something. But like, you know, all my characters are plus-sized. And all my characters have the kind of hair I wish I had, which is red and curly. So I think that like any kids shopping at like an Army Navy store, like if thrift stores don't have plus sizes, you kind of buy men's clothes, because they come in larger sizes. I think there are more options for kids now but they're sure weren't when I was shopping at thrift stores. And so I definitely see Carrie-Ann wearing like yeah, men's finals, you know, men's work jackets, cargo pants, and you know, keeping all her stuff in her pockets, because you never know when you're gonna need a zip tie or some twine or pocket knife.
Julia: The space version of Carhartt is Rockethartt.
Amanda: Oooh!
Brandon: Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. I was gonna say Space Carhartt, Space Car Heart.
Julia: Okay
Amanda: Yeah,
Julia: Okay.
Amanda: You know Bertha. Bertha Bones has like a kind of plague doctor-ish like apron, you know, sort of like many many pocketed cargo pants. I think that's her version of the Carhartt. I just imagine lots of pockets.
Brandon: Imagine Dr. Bertha Bones with the plague doctor mask on. It's the worst thing I've ever thought of.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: I feel like we have fan art of that. And it was very good.
Amanda: It is
Eric: Now I’m imagining fantasy-style plague doctors wearing cargo pants where they keep their shit.
Amanda: Good. Good. It's good.
Brandon: I just wanted to say canonically there was times when you know that you're when you're growing up and your parents say like go play with your cousins–
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: You know like one time every 13 years and there's times where Carrie would definitely just like steal Les’ clothes and Les would be like–
Brandon (as Les): No, stop it!
Amanda: Yeah, Carrie-Ann you be like–
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): You're not using these pockets? I'm gonna use the pockets, you don't deserve the pockets.
Brandon: But then as they got older Les would go with the caravans closet and steal her clothes.
Amanda: Yeah, she's like–
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): That's a 60s vintage flannel, come on!
Brandon (as Carrie-Ann): No, no!
Julia (as Carrie-Ann): No!
Amanda: Alright, Fear The Moose wants to know are the best friends aware they’re characters on a podcast? God, Carrie-Ann only wish.
Julia: I think this is a reference to the fact that in-character, Brandon went–
Julia (as Les): I'm gonna like Carrie-Ann do that because she has higher–
Brandon: Yeah.
Julia: So no, I think that was just a fun joke we made.
Brandon: Julia, the answer is yes. And Les is Deadpool. So–
Julia: Okay, sure. That makes sense. That checks out.
Eric: Brandon, if you told me you were gonna have a Deadpool character, I would kill you and then say you quit the show.
Julia: Do to it. Do to it. Do to it. I feel like there are some fun playbooks that allow you to be like, I know I'm a character in a–
Brandon: There are, yeah.
Julia: RPG or etcetera.
Eric: I'm sure there's like a fourth wall breaking playbook that someone's put together.
Julia: I know in Valda’s, you can do the DM is your patron.
Eric: Oh, god. Yeah. I mean, we pushed on that a little bit with the time traveling subclass from NO CAPES.
Julia: That’s true.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I wonder. The thing is, though, that like, that was no different than I think a lot of Monster of the Week allows you the ability to tell a story, unlike in Dungeons and Dragons.
Julia: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Eric: So that would be really interesting.
Brandon: Unrelated to anything, I just want to say that no one everyone forgets about Arnold Palmer and he's my favorite character.
Julia: He's great, Brandon. He's great. Moxie is one of my favorite characters. So, I feel yah.
Amanda: I know. The Moxie voice I think is a close second to your Phoebe voice Julia, but it was a front runner for a long time.
Julia: Hey, thank you.
Eric: Brandon, what level shorts does Arnold Palmer wear?
Julia: Oh, yeah.
Eric: I feel like capris?
Brandon: Yes, either capris. Or let me hit you with one leg pants one leg shorts.
Julia: I was gonna say jumpers.
Brandon: Oh, jumpers is really good actually.
Eric: Jumpers, yeah.
Julia: Like it came back into style later on.
Eric: Well, we did hit on that because he was like trying to fit into 20-like 2000s fashion. And he was like, This is what I read the history book.
Julia: Yup.
Amanda: Yeah. Or they're like floor length. Sort of like, you know those bell bottoms in the early 2000s. Or not bell bottoms.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: But like wide-leg pants that got really dirty on the street.
Eric: Oh, yeah. Jingle jeans.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: The answer is all of those and he has all of those.
Eric: For sure.
Julia: Good.
Amanda: Jayellemo_ wants to know if you to change one room of your home into a bouncy castle, which would it be?
Julia: My bathroom.
Brandon: I was gonna say bathroom!
Amanda: WHY?!
Eric: Wrong answer.
Julia: So if I slip in the tub, I don't hurt myself. I just bounce off of it
Brandon: Slip and slide, baby!
Julia: Yeah!
Amanda: I would say the stairs.
Eric: I was gonna say the stairs.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: That’s not a room in your house.
Eric: Not a, not a, hey, you haven't seen our apartment.
Amanda: My apartment only has three rooms, buddy. But yeah, I think the stairs and if I needed to like send a package out, I just kind of like smoosh it down the stairs.
Eric: Maybe our couch would have fit up the stairs.
Amanda: Oh, my god.
Eric: We’d be able to bounce its way up.
Amanda: Don't get me started. Maureen would like to know what is everyone's favorite Legends of the Hidden Temple challenge?
Julia: I like when they have to answer trivia questions.
Brandon: You're kidding.
Julia: That’s my favorite.
Eric: Julia likes the steps of knowledge.
Julia: Yeah, that’s what it’s called.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah. I like when they run around and like find the pieces. Or like swing from the vines. That was fun.
Eric: That's good.
Julia: I always got really stressed out during the final challenge when they're like in the temple finally.
Amanda: Yeah, now it was stressful.
Brandon: I like when they get gooed? I don't know. Slimed?
Julia: Brandon’s like, I never watched it.
Eric: I really like just, I don't think I have one in particular. I really like the Shrine of the Silver Monkey that people get it wrong and that it's like a Styrofoam thing is so funny to me. But my real favorite thing is when the adults jump out and scared children.
Julia: That is the best part. It was always scary. Everytime.
Eric: It was always scary. It was the sound effect too it was like wahh!
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Waaah!
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Waaah!
Brandon: Just a second here to quickly pitch that if you aren't part of the Multitude Discord and didn't attend the trivia event, you should It was super fun. Julia beat me by 39 to 19. So–
Julia: That simply cannot be true.
Brandon: It is it was true.
Amanda: It was true.
Eric: It was true.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Oh, god.
Amanda: Julia, next time it's we're gonna, we're gonna figure out how to deal with this but you you cannot be stopped.
Julia: It will just be everyone against me next time.
Eric: I pitched that I pitched that.
Amanda: Alright, folks Sebolicious wants to know when did we start consciously planning the camp themed campaign? They are asking because they've been binging blooper and Party Planning episodes and camp is a recurring topic. Also the name Steven appears a lot and I don't know if that's a coincidence.
Julia: I think Eric just likes the name.
Brandon: The name Steven. Yeah, it's just like a common thing that everyone says like Steven–
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: And like a lot of podcasts. It's just a funny name, you know?
Eric: Yeah, there are some like white guy names that people you're 100% right. Jeremy is one that people use a lot.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And try to stay away from from those. But there are some there are just some really fun ones. The answer is sometime in Campaign 2, right?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Like when it was going because we were trying to figure out what to do after it. And we decided we were going to have a mini campaign and then Campaign 3. And then we wanted to decide what game we're going to play it on his monster, and it wasn't going to be D&D when we did the mini campaign. So I think we can look back on what if we want to look back we can probably find like, if we have a meeting on the books for like–
Brandon: Sure we did.
Eric: –with something like this.
Julia: I can just search Camp Paign and see when I took a screenshot have me saying it should be the Camp Paign.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: Oh, yeah. Oh, you guys, you guys want to feel like time is slipping away from us? It was November of 2021.
Brandon: Wow!
Eric: Wow! Oh, yes, that must have been our that was our first meeting.
Amanda: Yep.
Eric: Yeah. Oh yeah, I– 100% started talking about camp a lot more on other shit.
Amanda: Because we were planning it. Yeah. Amazing. Sab also noticed that we did the thing we threatened in an early Campaign 2 Afterparty and with this was the Camp Paign.
Julia: Yeah, we did do that.
Amanda: We did do that.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: Yeah, what are you gonna do? I mean, don't tell anyone but what are you gonna do for the next one, Eric?
Eric: I'm not sure. I wonder if the structure of how he play might be a little bit different. So I don't, I don't know, the way that are arcs fit might fit a little different. So I wonder if there's something else. I think I might just throw out like, I'm gonna I really love titling structures. So I might just throw out the thing that we've doing, but there will be a titling structure of some sort.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: avi wanted to ask me, What's it like living with my DM? Do I ever get spoilers for the campaign or walk in on Eric cackling with villainous glee while prepping? And then they put in parentheses. (That last one's hypothetical because we know Eric doesn't prepare at all). Avi, that’s not true. Eric puts in many, many, many late nights at the king of games, researching and preparing and thinking about the campaign. That is true for sure. Yeah, mostly, it's me sitting on the couch and Eric being in the other room with the king of games, laughing to himself. And I go do you see a TikTok, honey? Are you planning and he goes, I’m planning.
Eric: Sometimes it's both.
Amanda: Sometimes it's both.
Brandon: We should play a game on Party Planning called Tiktok or Planning.
Eric: Amanda records by giggles.
Amanda: Yeah, that's the sound of it. Eric is very good at keeping his secret secret for me so I can be you know, pleasantly surprised and react in the moment just like the other players. In fact, he'll sometimes tell like he'll, you know, shut the door and be like, I'm gonna call you know, one of our creative collaborators to kind of like talk through a point. And I just, you know, put in put in my pods and see if– because like, I only works for me if I knew I don't want to know I want to be surprised here in the moment. So it's, it's how it's always been.
Brandon: Now, as the man who lives in your closet, it is very fun and easy way for me to get spoilee ahead of time so I can plan.
Julia: That’s fair.
Amanda: That's good.
Eric: Have you been calling my closet Seattle this entire time?
Amanda: That's pretty funny. I think we should start doing that.
Brandon: Eric, have you seen me in your closet the same room at the same time?
Amanda: You know, not since he moved?
Eric: I feel like I should if I open the closet and you're just in there with a microphone.
Amanda: And Yael, had a really fun thought for me. Honestly, I would love a Stephen King's It style fast forwarding to see the best friends as adults getting back together to save Camp Die.
Brandon: Maybe, maybe.
Julia: [singing] Maybe Season 2. That's more for you guys.
Brandon: [singing] Season 2!
Amanda: Love it. I know. Nothing's off the table, folks. Alright, people. And then our final question here is from Laylasgold, who says what the players do if they experienced what their characters did IRL? Or I'd say just experienced your characters IRL. I can imagine us coming across Phoebe, and being like, oh, sweet child, or coming across Les than being like, oh, you must be popular. I was coming across Carrie-Ann and being like, wow, I don't want to cross your path.
Julia: Like I would just grab Phoebe's face and be like, you're so special. You're so special. You deserve the world.
Brandon: I think if I encountered any of the things that we encountered, I it would change my entire worldview and I would be lost completely.
Amanda: Yeah. Oh, actually, you know that. That reminds me I'm going to have a final final question this from Catowl_dolls. They asked, is there a mythical creature that definitely isn't real? Or that cryptids see as a cryptid which I thought was so cool.
Brandon: That’s funny.
Julia: Oh, interesting.
Brandon: The one that I mean, this isn't a good answer. But the one that comes to my head is the Jackalope because that one's just like I can imagine a Bigfoot being like–
Brandon (as Bigfoot): A rabbit with horns how's it gonna hold it’s neck up? Come on!”
Julia: There hollow like bird bone.
Amanda: I'm trying to think what what human invention would seem totally like a crypto. Like maybe a robot you know, but but like animal see–
Julia: Airplanes.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Big metal birds.
Amanda: That's true.
Eric (as Cryptid): So you all get in a metal tube, and then shoot off a ton of fire behind it so that you can go in the air for an extended period of time, so you can– why?
Amanda: Like eat tacos in LA?
Eric (as Cryptid): For what reason?
Brandon: Not only that, bro, we also do the same thing go into fucking space.
Eric (as Cryptid): That sounds dope.
Amanda: Yeah, great question.
Eric: Unfortunately Amanda, I do have one more thing that I have a bunch of John Bonez Bones mail that I have to read.
Everyone: Yay!
Amanda: Yay! That's right, because we you know, Spoilee Corner is you'll see next episode, but in the meantime, Eric Yeah. What's what's been cluttering up our mailbox recently?
Eric: Alright. This one is from basically a lot of people resonated for me to be for me to be John Bonez Bones read their mail.
Brandon: I like– iin my head, someone just sent you their actual mail and you're like reading a letter.
Julia: Alright, well, you owe the IRS $300!
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Verizon says Pay Now.
Eric: Alright. This one's from Elizabeth Hunter.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Whoever wrote “fun never dies at Camp Die” in shredded cheese on the grass will need to clean that up before noon so we can use that space for tag.
Brandon: Yummy. I'll clean it up with my mouth.
Julia: Yeah, I was gonna say there's definitely an eight year old who's out there with their mouth against the ground eating that cheese.
Eric: Okay, this one's from--
Julia: Also Tatertot.
Eric: Brandon’s face down eating the cheese.
Brandon: That's what we call fajitas in Texas.
Julia: It gets so hot the cheese melts then you eat it off the ground.
Eric: That’s so funny. Shit. This is from Diyansh.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] If anyone is interested in getting their future read contact me. My aunt is a psychic and considered a witch. We call her the bone-witch.
Amanda and Phoebe: Ooooh!
Eric: It's a pretty good one.
Amanda: Stitching the lore together.
Eric: True. True. This is the first one I really need to shout out Isaac for sending this–
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Gavin’s Garbage Grabbin’. I’ll cover your trash duty! $2 or it’s candy equivalent. Find me at Cicada Cabin.
Amanda: Yeah
Brandon: That's a pretty good little camp side hustle. I like it.
Amanda: Yeah, I got in trouble in second grade for charging all my classmates a nickel to carry their lunchboxes to the playground.
Julia: It's true. I recall that.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Amanda, stop doing that.
Amanda: Okay.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Make friends instead.
Amanda: No.
Julia: No, I want my friends to pay me to do things for them.
Eric: This one from Beanie who told me that I need to read this word because in their words, “My brother hates this word for inexplicable reasons.” And that word is–
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Adequate.
Brandon: That's a good word.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: I don't know why anyone wouldn’t like that.
Amanda: An incredible troll
Julia: That attic has an ass that don't quit, adequate.
Brandon: Just Amanda reminded me the fact that this whole the name of the thing came from my third grade novel which I sold to my classmates during school and I realized that Eric I need to go back in all the descriptions and give me like a inspired by credit, you know?
Eric: That’s actually, Brandon, this is all fair use so you’re fucked.
Amanda: You, you sent us the Image via Slack so it belongs to Slack now.
Eric: I gotta do two from the Discord This one's from Mage Silverleaf.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Good morning campers! In light of the teeth in the field and the blood in the water. We’re getting a visit from some forensic scientists! They’ve offered to show us how teeth are dated. Space is limited so speak to your counselors if you want to go to the demonstration.
Brandon (as John Bonez Bones): In light of the kids dying, we're getting visited by the police.
Amanda: Yeah
Julia (as John Bonez Bones): A mortician!
Amanda: Yeah, I'm pretty sure all waffles is not a balanced diet for children.
Julia: No, no. Probably not.
Brandon: It’s just the fillings that matter, Amanda.
Julia: That’s true.
Amanda: That’s true.
Brandon: You can put vegetables you can put like fucking broccoli rabe in waffle and that's that's nutrients.
Amanda: It's true.
Julia: Oooh, like broccoli rabe and sausage waffle fuck me up.
Eric: That sounds so good. Amanda, what they do wild shit and waffles. There's the bar that we really love to go to has an incredible restaurant inside of it called I like food and they're my favorite place in the entire world.
Amanda: Yeah, if you come to New York City come to Ridgewood to go to I like food. It's so worth it.
Eric: Yeah. So they they took a bunch of stuff off their menu including our favorite wings which are elote wings where it's like covered in elote stuff. It's so good, but it's off the menu but they have all the stuff so you can just ask for it off the menu which is somehow better which I love but the point of why you said it now they have a pernil and broccoli rabe sandwich and I want to get it so bad.
Amanda: It’s like equal parts pernil and broccoli rabe. It looks so good and like an Italian sub roll.
Eric: Alright Fear the Moose asked me to read as much Bee Movie as possible. So it shows I chose a fairly here's the plot of Bee Movie where a Bee goes to the human world falls in love with a human and then–
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: –sues humanity for taking all their honey.
Brandon: I did not know that until this moment.
Julia: Brandon, why haven't you existed on the internet for 10 years?
Eric: So this is from the Jerry Seinfeld Bees speech to ever won as part of the defense the prosecution Bee? I don't know.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Ladies and gentlemen, there's no trickery here. I'm just an ordinary bee. Honey is pretty important to me. It's important to all beings we invest in it. We make it and we protect it with our lives. Unfortunately, there are some people in this room who think that they can take from us because we're just the little guys. I'm hoping that after all this is over you'll see how by taking our honey you will not only take everything we have but everything we are.
Brandon: I do remember from the commercial for Bee movie where the Bee goes up and he goes, [clears throat] Bzzz, Bzzzapp!
Amanda: Wait guys Bee movie came out exactly 15 years and four weeks ago today.
Julia: Oh no
Brandon: I hate that, a lot.
Eric: Amanda, time is truly slipping
Amanda: Coincidence?
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: I think not.
Eric: That’s true. Okay I’m gonna do these last ones quick. Wise Girl have been wanting to bean wanted me honk like a goose as–
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Honk. I’m a goose. Honk honk honk.
Eric: Okay. That's the best I could do unfortunately. This is from this is from Kym, who wanted to give a shout out to someone who they love. Their best friend who says–
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Keely Anne Bishop is the most amazing human and friend that Kym has ever had and he appreciates everything that she does so much.
Brandon: Cute.
Eric: And finally, this one is from Fraser who really wanted me to say this about them and there they are doing a self-insert into this stuff.
Julia: Incredible
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] Camper Fraser has found a nest of squirrels int he rafters of the flycatcher cabin. On a complete unrelated note, if you see any aggravated squirrels with hands in their hands, please report to a member of the camp’s staff.
Julia: Leave the squirrels alone!
Amanda: Well done. An incredible service Eric you're doing for our community? Thank you.
Brandon: This reminds me I'm pretty sure at some point in my grade school career there was like a Valentine's Day thing where you could like pay $2 to have a Valentine read to somebody.
Julia: Oh no.
Amanda: Oh, yeah.
Julia: That sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
Amanda: Nightmare.
Eric: Do you want like that though– are we saying that like give us a create inter kid drama or someone would say something lewd because the secretary, Janice didn't read it before she said it out loud?
Julia: Both!
Brandon: I think it was like elementary school, so I'm sure they've read them but also like, you know, it was all like anonymous, like, you know, Jayden likes you, you know?
Eric: Oh, I have one more here.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] I have a crush on Brandon Grugle. From anonymous
Amanda: Damn, I didn't know the coffee ghost could pay you via Venmo.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): Lauren, you owe me $5.
Amanda: Amazing. Well, folks, this is another Afterparty in the books. I can't wait to see how The Woods shakes out and what mystery awaits us after that. But as always, you'll see us next week with a brand new episode so, say goodbye players.
Brandon: Bye guys!
Julia: Later.
Eric (as John Bonez Bones): [over the PA] You don't have to go home and you can't stay here.
Amanda: And my your rolls trend ever upward or middling, it depends on what you want.
Eric: It's fine in the middle.
Amanda: It’s fine, it’s fine. It’s all good.
Eric: You just need to demonstrate you really mean it?
Amanda: Okay, we'll see you next week.
[theme]
Julia: We have to do a real intro this time.
Amanda: Yes, we will.
Julia: We can't just start talking about Pokemon for five minutes and then Amanda says, hey, hi, hello.
Amanda: Yes. I'm gonna do the count now.
Brandon: But did you see the wiggle guy or whatever though?
Amanda: No, Brandon.
Julia: Oh, my God, yes, I saw Wigglet!
Amanda: Brandon wakes up every day and chooses chaos. It's not gonna happen today. Alright, let’s sync.
Eric: Every day, every day Brandon wakes up and chooses Wigglet.
Brandon: Alright. I’m ready.
Transcriptionist: KM