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About Us
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 after party where our skin will neither poison you nor shed off in a frightening sort of image. Hi, everybody, welcome.
Brandon: I mean, I forgot to put on moisturizer today, so we'll see where it gets us.
Julia: Yes. At least it's not poisonous. We're like pretty sure your skin's not poisonous, Brandon but-
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: As far as I'm aware, but, meh.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: And everyone knows that I'm used in biology labs where you can just kind of like look in my organs like that one cow with the hole in it, then you can like put your whole face in.
Brandon: Eric, hey Eric what?
Julia: Hey Eric what?
Eric: Oh, do you not know about this?
Brandon: Hey, Eric, huh?
Eric: Oh, there's like a cow. This is like so nasty for the beginning of the episode.
Amanda: Oh, why is this happening?
Julia: Do we want to go that path?
Eric: There's a basically, there's a medically induced hole in a cow. And the cow is fine, but you mean you can like look into its body.
Julia: The cow is fine.
Brandon: So, it's like a glass bottom boat of cows?
Eric: Brandon you don't, yeah, it's like a glass. Yes, I can provide more details I'm choosing not to-
Julia: Thank you.
Amanda: Thank you.
Eric: Because we’re a minute into this episode.
Julia: People can Google it if they need to know.
Amanda: That's true.
Eric: Yes, I know. There's an official word for it. I'm not going to use it. But I'll tell you after the podcast
Julia: It’s glass bottom boat cow?
Eric: Glass bottom cow is they make the rockin world go round?
Brandon: My fucking favorite queen song Glass Bottom Cows. Thank you.
Amanda: Me too, I actually really appreciate the energy Adam Lambert brings to the role-
Eric: Oh, my god.
Amanda: -because you know who's gonna be Freddie Mercury-
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: - I think about Adam Lambert gets it like the spirit of the original.
Julia: Yeah, it's the vibe.
Amanda: I think it's I think it's really it says something it's like it's a real stake in the ground.
Eric (singing): Oh, that's stomach's over there.
Julia: Shit.
Eric (singing): There's three more that's how cows work.
Amanda: Actually, we have some some late breaking Afterparty content Eric could you, a parody song came to a Discord user in a dream-
Eric: Oh, that's right.
Amanda: -last night.
Julia: That's wild.
Amanda: I think it's worth bringing up.
Brandon: Can we sing it in a round?
Julia: No.
Eric: No, yeah.
Julia: That will be a nightmare for me to edit, we won't do that.
Eric: Alright. So this is this is to the tune of Let It Be this is from the Vidalia Rose on the Join the Party Discord. When I find myself in bones of rubble, Dr. Bones she comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, pistons.
Amanda: And this came fully baked to Vidalia in a dream.
Brandon: I was wondering what how to pronounce the pistons part because I was like-
Julia: Pistons.
Amanda: Pistons.
Eric: Pistons. I'm sure it is but I liked the idea that they cut it out of Join the Party.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah. Sampled.
Eric: Listen, man. This is the 21st century it's all samples. Amanda didn't get any royalties.
Amanda: No.
Eric: It's unfortunate.
Julia: Sorry, Amanda.
Amanda: Me and Paul McCartney are both deep fakes in that parody.
Eric: You know, if you play that song backwards, it says Amanda's dead and doing okay.
Julia: Oh, no.
Brandon: Dead.
Julia: Dead and doing okay.
Amanda: Yeah. Well, folks, we have three action-packed episodes of my favorite Monster of the Week show Join the Party Camp Paign to talk about here today, starting with the Stolen 1 and 2, Episodes 4 and 5.
Brandon: Can we just talk real quick about how Eric is doing some the best work of his career on these titles and descriptions, episode descriptions.
Julia: Yes. Oh my gosh. Yes.
Amanda: So good.
Brandon: I love it.
Amanda: So good.
Julia: So good.
Eric: I appreciate it. I really like doing the stuff the whole thing here. And to get immediately heady about game design immediately in the Afterparty shout out to the evil hat in the sky that like Dungeons and Dragons is supposed to be like an epic fantasy story. You know, it's like I swing my axe and I kill the thing and I cast magic. While Monster of the Week and other Powered by the Apocalypse games really are aping other types of media to give you exactly the thing that you are supposed to do. Like every single thing that you do in a Powered by the Apocalypse game is supposed to, like lead you towards being a part of the type of media that this game is inspired by, right? So Monster of the Week is a Monster of the Week television show. It is X Files. It is Gravity Falls. It is Supernatural. So like the titling is fucking stupid and I can't do it. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna put a thumb on the beginning of every one. My favorite titling structure is definitely the one for Scrubs where every single episode is My Blank. And it changes over time. Like when they do an episode that focuses on Turk. It's like His Story, or something else. And of course, I love the one from Community where it's all supposed to be classes until it all deeply falls apart. Well, it's like giving yourself a structure like that. It's fun. So it's like, oh, I need to make use of titles that you only learn by like, reading them off a DVD you bought from Best Buy, you know?
Brandon: Yes, Eric, get out of my fucking 17-year-old self with Scrubs.
Eric: Exactly. Yeah, it's exactly, because you wouldn't have written the titles until it got put on streaming and someone like put that metadata in there. It was like a secret between the showrunner and the network, I guess? It's like-
Brandon: The writers and yeah.
Eric: Yeah. Or if you were like that weirdo that was reading the TV Guide every week.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Exactly.
Brandon: Julia, was that you?
Julia: No.
Brandon: Okay.
Amanda: In the middle and high school Julia and I would kind of trade-off either box sets of House.
Julia: That's true.
Amanda: I think we started getting from the Blockbuster. And then like one of us got season one and one of season two.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Something like that. And I definitely that memory as well. Just reading the back and be like, "Oh, that's what the episode is called. Like, that's why."
Julia: "Yeah, that makes sense."
Brandon: That is the funniest and cutest like.
Julia: Friendship!
Brandon: Just exchanging DVDs.
Amanda: That's us.
Julia: I think I still have some of them. Like there's still in my-
Amanda: I think I have Seasons 4, 5, and 6, I think is what I have.
Julia: Okay.
Amanda: And I think you had 1 to 3.
Julia: I have to check but I think that's right.
Eric: I also want to say Amanda gave me the idea for doing the episode descriptions say that we should do the rules, which is fun.
Julia: That's the most Carrie-Ann bullshit I've ever heard.
Amanda: Yeah, baby. By the end of the season, we'll have you know 15 - 20 rules and.
Eric: Love honey rules.
Amanda: That's the rules you need to live your life by.
Julia: That's true.
Eric: I also like I've been grouping the rules together. When the split episodes, which has been fun, like the ones for the swimming, it was like 14 and 14 B.
Eric: So grouping those together has been fun as well. So I'm in I've been enjoying my time.
Amanda: Incredible.
Julia: Love that.
Amanda: Speaking of another kind of procedural some of the questions we got around Episodes 4 and 5 are to do with courtroom kids. TJ would like to know, "What's going on with all these kids watching Law and Order?" and Maureen, Bookie from the night of mirrors, betting pool and Campaign 2 said, "I was definitely watching JAG with my family as early as like first or second grade. So I would 100% would be running a courtroom like these kids did."
Julia: I mean, when you're stuck inside because it's too hot out during the summer, and they play Law and Order during the day at like 12 o'clock. Don't pretend like you guys didn't watch episodes of that when you were like 12.
Brandon: I did not because-
Julia: Brandon, why?
Brandon: Well, I don't know actually why I didn't. I was gonna say I didn't that cable, but I don't know if it was on cable. Was it on cable?
Julia: I feel like the reruns were definitely on like TNT.
Brandon: Yeah. So, which was cable.
Julia: Yeah, that was cable.
Brandon: Yeah, so maybe that's why.
Eric: Brandon wasn't allowed in the house. Brandon was responsible for keeping the fan going for the entire house. So that's why he wasn't allowed in.
Amanda: There great to get the idea to have these kids run a little courtroom scene. It was adorable.
Eric: It was I don't know. I like playing the campers, man. I
Amanda: We like it when you play the campers.
Julia: That's true.
Eric: Do you ever remember when you were a kid and like you had to try to adjudicate some sort of like, quote-unquote, crime when it was more like instead of like fighting, it was like when someone stole something from someone else. Or maybe there was a fight and you were trying to figure it out. And then somehow it shook out to being like a quasi courtroom, like someone representing someone else and being like objection and having like testimony. I did. There's like, there's a thing where it's like, oh, the law system of the United States is the way you deal with things. And that's how we're going to deal with it. So I liked the idea of all of them being like doing a kangaroo court to accuse Zev immediately because obviously, that's the only thing that could be so they have to use like their Law and Order that small amount of Law and Order experience to like throw it at him.
Julia: I was an only child who avoided conflict so that's not a universal experience for me, but I get it. I saw people do that.
Amanda: Well, much like Carrie-Ann, I was a child saying obviously Bailey did this and not Austin are obviously Austin incited this incident and Bailey just responded my parents were like, just stop.
Eric: Right, exactly.
Amanda: I was a court of one and I thought my judgment was the thing that was right. And now I am playing all that out for all of you in Camp Paign.
Eric: Now, I might just be a southern lawyer but I do declare that Bailey was the one who pushed Austin.
Amanda: Exactly, the poor, sweet Zev is being scapegoated for the crimes that are happening against this cabin. Oh, I love him so much.
Brandon: Scape wolf? Scape werewolves?
Julia: Okay, yeah, yeah, that works.
Amanda: What?
Eric: Keep going can we get to can we get a few more?
Amanda: Wolfgoat?
Brandon: That was the only 2 options, I'm sorry.
Julia: Yeah, that makes sense.
Eric: I do like wolfgoat, wolfgoat was good.
Julia: Just saying.
Eric: There's a thing called Monster of the Week where you try to split up your party intentionally to like have the there be tension between them of like things they find out things that aren't happening. Was that fun for you too? Was that fun for all three of you have like the you had to deal with the other CITs while Julia, you were getting revealed a big secret to you in the woods.
Amanda: I felt really good about actually felt guilty listening back to these episodes being like oh my God, I hope Eric's okay to be split the party like I thought it was really fun and I love seeing Phoebe really take the lead with Zev here and I thought your role-playing in those scenes was so good, Julia and seeing Phoebe really take charge and use her powers without, you know, Les or Carrie-Ann getting in the way. I thought it was awesome.
Julia: Yeah, I think that my decision to separate Zev didn't have anything to do with like in character like, stuff like that where I was like, oh, I want to reveal powers or use my powers without anyone watching. It was more I could tell by the conversation we were having already that having Zev there would not be productive when these children were trying to have a court case against him. So like by splitting the party in that sense, I thought we would get more information out of both Zev where he wasn't like necessarily defending himself and people yelling at him. And also those kids would have less of a target for them. You know what I mean?
Eric: Sure. And you fell right into my trap for having feelings.
Julia: Haha. I love feelings.
Eric: I made you feel feelings in this game!
Julia: I always appreciate when you make me feel feelings.
Amanda: TJ wanted to know, Eric, can Zev transform at will or they just time it really well, when he showed Phoebe his werewolfness?
Eric: Oh, good question. That is a fun thing about Monster of the Week, in that when you use monsters that people know, it is up to you as the Keeper to decide like what's, quote unquote real and what is hearsay. So, I touched on this when Les was looking into the research about the werewolf, where it's like, okay, pure silver does hurt werewolves. But like that shit about wolfsbane is something that the Catholic church made up in the 13th century. So I think that's fun, because a big thing about Monster of the Week is that you can't really defeat the big monsters that are a part of your mystery until they figure out what the actual weaknesses are. Which is always like a really fun thing for you to figure out. I think the main thing that I was trying to deal with was also like balancing. Well, a lot of different things can be happening right now. And the only reason we're thinking about werewolf is because there was werewolf here. And like, is that true? What are we looking at? Because, you know, this is a mystery, and we're trying to put these clues together. So like in my head, werewolves can turn whenever they want to, and the moon maybe makes it happen intentionally. So I thought that he was just the for dramatic effect. I thought that werewolves can just kind of do that. Yeah, all of a sudden Phoebe was standing there and-
Julia: The moon came out.
Eric: -Zev stepped backwards into a moonbeam and turn into a werewolf
Amanda: And listen, if you were a teenage werewolf, wouldn't you have a lot of fun with the moon and pranking people and you know-
Eric: Yeah, that's true.
Amanda: -joshing them like I totally would.
Eric: Yep.
Brandon: Constantly.
Eric: I mean, like they can do that in Teen Wolf, right? How Michael J. Fox can just turn into a werewolf at all time and play basketball?
Julia: Sure, that makes sense to me and definitely on the MTVs Teen Wolf show which I am more familiar with.
Brandon: That's right.
Eric: That's- Julia, that is truly the equivalent of Amanda's Star Trek being the movie version with Karl Urban in it.
Amanda: That was 2009 JJ Abrams.
Julia: Hey, there's more content.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: That's true.
Brandon: That's so offensive to every fiber of my being.
Eric: And to Michael J Fox it's fine. Also has anyone considered [sings] because I'm just a teenage werewolf baby.
Brandon: [sings] Because I'm just anti welfare life is a nightmare.
Eric: Oh, that's a good one, too, Brandon, nice.
Julia: This isn't a total aside, does anyone remember the ABC Family Show before it was Freeform-
Eric: Yes.
Julia: -ABC Family show called Big Wolf on Campus?
Eric: I fucking do-
Amanda: No.
Eric: -Julia.
Eric: I remember the title, yeah.
Julia: Thank you, Eric.
Amanda: What?
Julia: Yeah, it was just like a boy in college becomes a werewolf and also has to deal with like, frat life. It's-
Amanda: I know.
Julia: Fascinating
Amanda: Oh, my god.
Brandon: Remember when things got greenlit that were just utterly ridiculous.
Julia: Nonsense. Yeah
Eric: Oh, you mean Greek that had like five seasons of absolutely nothing? God that show was also great.
Amanda: Oh, boy. Toruno824 would like to know, does Tater Tot know about Zev? If so do they play together? I have to know.
Julia: No.
Brandon: Oh, that's cute.
Julia: Tell us it's real.
Eric: Great question.
Julia: [whisper] Tell us it's real.
Eric: Great question.
Julia: [whisper] Tell us it's real.
Eric: I'm pretty sure Tater Tot knows but Zev does not like Tater Tot knowing. So a lot of like Tater Tot sniffing Zev's butt when Zev does not want that, and be like-
Eric (as Camper): Hey, hey, dude, that fucking dog likes your ass.
Eric: And he's like-
Amanda: Oh, no!
Eric (as Zev): Oh okay. I get it. I mean, that's not you can bully me about that. I guess that's fine, but it's covering a secret.
Eric: So I think that that works out to hilarious. Like if I had more time, and if I was on Fox, and they needed me to have a lighthearted episode, I would have put it in that scene of Tater Tot sniffing Zev's butt.
Amanda: Like at breakfast when he's in human form.
Eric: Yeah, exactly.
Amanda: Yeah. Aww.
Eric: So that's the best I can do.
Amanda: So good.
Julia: Nothing's gonna stop you from doing that in the future. That's all I'm saying.
Amanda: True.
Eric: I mean, it's totally fine. Just keep saying things here that I'm going to use in the future. I mean, that's literally what happened to make a bunch of girls have a crush on Les. So, you keep saying stuff and I'm gonna make it a, make it real
Brandon: Well, when we get our million-dollar Kickstarter to start an animated series on Fox, that will be the opening scene.
Amanda: Exactly.
Julia: Excellent. Or a post-credits like on Gravity Falls.
Brandon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Eric: Wait, so we need to kickstart it because Fox won't give us any money but we have to air it on Fox?
Amanda: No, no, we show them that we have the demand to raise a million dollars, and then Amazon Prime video says do you want 10 million and we say I guess.
Eric: Right.
Amanda: And-
Brandon: So then we have 11 million and we do a Kickstarter for no reason.
Amanda: And then our lives are worse.
Brandon: Yes.
Amanda: And the cost series is canceled after it was fully produced and shelved because it'll be more expensive to market it.
Brandon: A weird situation we're describing, Amanda.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Brandon: But I feel like it probably could happen to us specifically and no one else. So-
Amanda: Batgirl movie reference which by the way, Eric explained to me last night for the first time
Julia: We're recording this the day that the Batgirl news came out by the way.
Amanda: Yeah. Yeah.
Eric: And then we just stopped making Join the Party as a tax write-off. Oh, geez, but no, I thought I- I gotta You're right. That's my fault for not putting Tater Tot in that scene. That one's on me.
Amanda: So cute.
Brandon: No, don't put Tater Tot near danger ever.
Amanda: No, no, no, never near danger.
Julia: Zev's not a danger. He's just a teen werewolf, Brandon.
Brandon: No, but Zev was also in danger a lot of the time.
Julia: Oh, yeah.
Amanda: That was very in danger as Phoebe single-handedly like the statue of the young girl outside the New York Stock Exchange faced down three men in a pickup truck and kind of electrified a fence. It was badass.
Eric: So good.
Amanda: Eric, everybody, including Babypuddle13 and Tattooed-N-Tall and Janneke wants to know what the hell is up with these triplets, and are they Triplicate?
Eric: Hey, let's just all come sit around the fire.
Amanda: Oh sure.
Eric: Triplets are hilarious.
Amanda: Yeah, they are.
Eric: Come on!
Amanda: They are
Eric: Identical twins, triplets, and more are very funny.
Brandon: You say that as a twin. So like-
Amanda: Yeah, but like, I don't-
Brandon: -three is funnier than two inherently?
Julia: Yes.
Eric: I think three is funnier than two.
Brandon: That's the rule of comedy, baby.
Eric: I also-
Brandon: You're not identical too.
Eric: Yeah, identical twins and siblings are very funny to me. Because my brother and I look absolutely nothing alike. And we act nothing alike our personalities are so different. They're like the fact that two people are the same is really funny to me. Like, have you seen those Reddit posts that are like these two bro, identical twin brothers married these two identical twin sisters.
Julia: Yes, and now their-
Eric: And they all-
Julia: -children are like, siblings technically.
Eric: Right.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: They all live in the same house and their cousins and siblings at the same time. I'm like, that's fucking hilarious, you weirdos, you perverts.
Amanda: Okay, okay. By which by which Eric means nature is bizarre.
Eric: Oh, I'm talking to Mother Nature.
Amanda: Okay, okay. Good.
Eric: You fucking pervert.
Brandon: It's true. I've always said that
Amanda: Right?
Julia: Can confirm.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: It's true. Like who-
Amanda: It's always mashing stuff together and being like, what happens next? And we're like, stop!
Eric: And everything's a fucking helix, you fucking perv, Mother Nature. Come on.
Amanda: Come on. So Eric, who are these Boudreaux? Where do they come from? And Tattooed-N-Tall specifically wants to know can we please get an ‘it's truck o'clock’ shirt in the merch store?
Eric: Oh my god. Fuck. The barbecue. The barbecue joint was so funny. Because I remember I when I said it, I was like, oh, Julia, what? What? What are their shirts say? And you thought I really thought I was pranking you. And I'm like, no,
Julia: I'm like, no, Eric, what do they say?
Eric: Is I know what is it? I know. Julia, tell me what it is. And you coming up with the was that a Smokey Bones reference?
Julia: Yes.
Brandon: Oh, god.
Julia: So do you guys want to tell the story because I wasn't there for it. I'm only tangentially related to the story.
Eric: Right. Right.
Amanda: You're the occasion for the story, Julia.
Julia: Thank you.
Eric: That's right.
Amanda: So we attended Julia's lovely wedding at a historic Maritime Museum in Eastern Long Island. And we stayed at a you know, suburban-like Hilton Garden Inn or something near the wedding venue. And much like, you know, many suburbs, you can't really walk anywhere. But luckily there were a couple of restaurants right near the hotel like sharing a parking lot with the hotels. We all got there the day before the wedding where they're at, you know, like 4 PM for check-in. And then we think Great, okay, let's grab dinner somewhere before we all hang out later tonight. Eric, you can take it from here.
Eric: It's true. There was a Red Lobster, which we saved for lunch to the next day. The next to it was a place called Smokey Bones. And the thing about Smokey Bones the theme of the restaurant it was like a barbecue Smokehouse sort of place. It was a chain. The theme was that they had rules that you had to follow to be a man to properly eat meat or something.
Amanda: The rule was the heteropatriarchy
Eric: What? It was like Smokey Bones Rule 110: Always get extra bacon on whatever.
Amanda: Yeah, like Rule 12: If you're gonna get a martini, make it a double like stuff like that. It was very odd.
Eric: It's like only real people eat meat only
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Carnivores only.
Amanda: Like sides vegetables if you must like that was really the vibe.
Eric: It was the theme of the restaurant.
Amanda: It was like a Cheesecake Factory if instead of like a chaotic Eye of Sauron, the theme was like your, you know, uncle who doesn't really believe in feminism like that, that really was the vibe. The food was good.
Eric: It was good.
Amanda: And it was, you know, it was a good like it took a party of you know, eight with no problem like all valuable things for us in that moment. But we walked in and we're like, uh, uh.
Julia: What's happening?
Amanda: What's happening.
Brandon: You just see a “dicks out for Harambe” sign out on--
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Rule number 32: If your dick's not out while you're eating this Porterhouse, you're doing it wrong. We're taking it away.
Amanda: I don't love this energy. But I know this is the Smokey Bones energy really just coming through us in this moment. So what this was your inspiration, Eric, for this barbecue joint?
Eric: No, that was what Julia's. That was what Julia said.
Julia: That is true. I said that. And then Eric created the horrifying image of Steven as a barbecue pitmaster.
Brandon: That is genuinely a great idea. And I would love to put an apron up in our merch store with Steven on it.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: That just says Smokey Bones.
Julia: Pretty cool.
Brandon: Right?
Eric: It's a Smokey Bones: One of you is going to forsake the other.
Julia: Try the ribs!
Brandon: Try the ribs!
Amanda: Amazing.
Julia: One of you is going to forsake the other, try the ribs.
Eric: One of you is gonna take the other ones, try the ribs. It's very, it's very funny.
Amanda: Amazing.
Eric: I just really love the idea because like a skeleton is not that weird of a barbecue.
Julia: No.
Amanda: No.
Eric: Barbecue mascot, right? So that's why I went there immediately. And I thought I wanted to start putting Steven in more places that like the whole area is kind of just like infected with him in whatever way or whatever reason. So I thought though, that was funny that it was he was on their T-shirts, which I wasn't planning on because Julia just said that and I'm like, oh, that's great. There is nothing scarier at summer camp, though, when adults from not inside the summer camp show up. And like those guys would have freaked me out when I was a kid.
Brandon: It would freak me out as an adult right now.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Like you were somewhere. And then a bunch of guys in a truck with baseball bats pulled up like that would have freaked me out 100%.
Amanda: I stick to what I'm saying. If you are not in a baseball uniform, going to a baseball game do not carry a baseball bat.
Julia: That's true. True Facts.
Eric: That's definitely true.
Brandon: I was gonna just real quickly say that Steven is an STI, a skeletal transmitted infection to this town.
Eric: Great.
Brandon: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Eric: Good job.
Brandon: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Amanda: Brandon. You joke but it's really true that like the camp is mired in weirdness like the weirdness is not isolated to camp and the camp and the weirdness are both impacting the world around it and I think that was a really really like I hear you, Eric and it was shocking for us to to be like What do you mean something from outside of Camp is breaching camp. Like that's not a thing we are used to even now in Episode 5 like and you know, or Episode 4 It was shocking and like you know, really made me feel like the stakes were heightening.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: Thank you for validating my pun, Amanda. I really appreciate it.
Julia: That's what teammates are here for man.
Amanda: Best friends.
Julia: Best friends.
Eric: I would love to know from Brandon and Amanda. What were you like, so like Phoebe was off running is like oh, I have to go deal with Zev and make sure-
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: -he doesn't get killed by adults. You can, then you too are just like, well, we got to figure out the mystery like what were you thinking while we while it was happening? And what did you you had set up this entire like trap which was so funny. What were you two thinking when you were you're trying to figure out what was going on with the metal and then with Conway's, using Conway's bracelet as bait?
Brandon: Well, I was just having sort of like Vietnam War flashbacks to my adolescence in Texas where people would consistently drive pickup trucks and come at me quickly.
Eric: Yeah, so you're like I'm not going over there.
Brandon: No. Yeah, Julia can handle it.
Julia: Thanks. Thanks, bud.
Amanda: Yeah, and I I think it's almost like Carrie-Ann wasn't even worried about the truck because like, camp's impenetrable like nothing could happen to camp you know, the director would take care of it like it's it's fine. And this mystery felt like the kind of thing where you know, like she says at the end of Episode Five, you know, I want to be able to say to the director don't worry we took care of it and-
Eric: You were in bad standing with the director.
Amanda: Exactly yeah, and she it's gonna get worse because I used the luck point and we'll see what you know consequences come down on my sect because of it. No, I was just focused on, yeah, like let's there's something causing mischief damaging camp property, you know, and harming campers. And if you know, Phoebe has Zev in hand then like, let's stop that from happening. So Carrie-Ann confidently moves in the direction she thinks as best as usual.
Eric: Brandon for Les, were you like, oh, fuck, yeah, dude. I'm going to set up a monster trap and it's going to be tight and good. Cuz I remember you. You talked about what to do for a little while.
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: And I'm just sitting there and I'm like, hihihi, this is good.
Brandon: I just thought of another vocal warmup. It's Carrie-Ann confidently complies to camp's Oh, what's the what's a seat word for rules?
Amanda: Conditions.
Brandon: Conditions.
Julia: There we go.
Amanda: It's pretty good.
Brandon: Yeah, no, I, because we yeah, we talked a lot about how we wanted to do the thing. And I was like, Yeah, let's let's just sacrifice Conway.
Amanda: Yeah. They could lose a hand, that's fine.
Brandon: But yeah, no. Les was very excited. And I was very excited to do a monster a monster trap.
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: I was just singularly focused on catching a monster, I guess.
Amanda: It wasn't very fun to collaborate with Jennii and Conway in that moment like we've been a little bit you know, at odds with our fellow CITs and I loved that I loved building out the mythos of our cabin and the judo hut. We did, it's episode 6, it was so much fun. But specifically, you know, I thought that we would just beat whatever chaotic creature was doing this. Nowhere in my brain did I expect that Conway would be a Kelpie.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: So damn, I love that everybody should buy the cool cryptic Compendium. Eric, I can't believe you put both the alicanto and kelpie into the same episode. How dare/thank you.
Brandon: I knew something was up with Conway obviously like be just because of the way that they were-
Amanda: Greenish tinge, doesn't talk, you know?
Eric: Jennii made eye contact with both you and said-
Eric (as Jennii): Do not let the bracelet come off.
Julia: Classic.
Eric: Here's just a writer tip for all of you. That's called foreshadowing.
Amanda: It's fun though and we got to see Les, you know, breakout of the sort of bounds of his body it was that was awesome. And I am very shocked that the Re-bracelet ting of Conway went off fairly successfully at the end.
Julia: No limits.
Amanda: Michelle Spurgeon asked for you and me Julia if we are having a problem not metagaming with our knowledge of cryptids I did not want to coming when Conway was revealed I was like, okay, that's gonna be a sticky Horse, you know, but it had to happen. I rolled badly and that's the consequence.
Eric: Well, first, let's start by just doing a quick pivot into Spirits.
Everyone: [sings] Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop bop bop.
Brandon: That is not the Spirits song.
Eric: What are you talking about? That is the Spirits theme song.
Brandon: Did you go, [sings]
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Brandon: That is not Spirits.
Julia: Yes, it is.
Amanda: Yes, it is. Brandon.
Eric: Brandon, are you gonna tell the two hosts of Spirits what the theme song of Spirits is?
Julia: I listen to that song every week, Brandon. I know.
Brandon: I literally just wrote the like remixed it that's not the same thing. That's Aladdin, my dudes.
Eric: It's late. That's the melody.
Brandon: [sings Aladdin] One jump ahead of the breadline. One jump a-da-da-da-da
Julia: I don't disagree with you, Brandon but that's also the theme for Spirits.
Eric: Brandon, just because you've been Disney pilled doesn't mean that that's not the theme. That's like the transition music of from Spirits.
Brandon: No.
Eric: When they go from like the early thing to the episode.
Amanda: Okay.
Eric: Or from the episode to the midroll.
Julia: Oh, boy.
Amanda: Julia, it's the shazam situation. Let's let Brandon live in his fantasy, it's kay.
Julia: No. The problem is now that Brandon has said that I can't unhear that the through line is basically the same.
[Brandon hums the Aladdin (Spirits, probably) theme]
Julia: Right but then it transitions further and then it goes-
[Brandon and Julia hum the Alladin (Spirits, probably) theme]
Brandon: You guys are like combining it with Aladdin.
Julia: Maybe, who can say?
Amanda: I haven't watched Aladdin since I was five. So I don't think that's happening. But it's a good thing you've spoiled my other shows theme song for me because it's being replaced very soon.
Julia: Brandon what are we going to do when we don't have the [sing ALMOST NOT SPIRITS THEME ANYMORE].
Brandon: THAT'S ALADDIN!
Eric: Brandon, are you well actually-ing the two hosts of the show about what their theme song?
Brandon: Yes, I am.
Amanda: Alright.
Eric: Dang.
Julia: Bold move.
Eric: Alright. So what now that we did that whatever I blacked out and I guess I'm on the ground and you guys are looking at me? What, can you explain what is an alicanto and what is the Kelpie please?
Julia: Sure. So a kelpie is basically a water spirit horse that is from a Scottish mythology. They are typically malevolent. They can sometimes transform into human form as well. Usually, the horse form is the form they constantly take. And they will try to get usually children to ride them, but their skin is magically sticky. So if you go to pet it or get on its back, you can't get off and that brings you into the water and drowns you.
Amanda: Drowns you to your death!
Brandon: Sticky crocodile.
Amanda: That's right.
Eric: Brandon, is there another animal that you could compare to-
Brandon: Like a like a, no, it's just crocodile.
Julia: Sticky hippo.
Brandon: Like a sticky alligator.
Eric: That's true. Yeah, I like the sticky horse and sweet Conway being that.
Amanda: Can they talk? Or do they choose not to?
Eric: I don't think so. I really don't think so.
Amanda: That's fair.
Eric: And I think that they've just kind of gotten away with like, a bunch of animal people being like in tune to what they have to say.
Amanda: Sure.
Eric: Like Jennii, like, come on Jennii's a Horse girl, right?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: With two N's and two I's.
Amanda: Oh, yeah.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Jennii's a horse girl.
Amanda: A 100%
Julia: 100%
Eric: So, and I got these-
Amanda: Hearts over both those eyes.
Eric: Yeah, exactly.
Julia: And then the Alicanto is from Chilean folklore and is basically like, this beautiful bird that it like lights up the sky at night. It has sort of a metallic color to it, either like gold or silver or bronze. And that color is based on the type of metal that they eat. And then basically, like if they are eating a bunch of gold or whatever, they get too heavy, and they can't fly.
Brandon: Oh, no.
Julia: Until they basically either spit up or digest the metal that they've eaten, and they're very funny and very cute.
Brandon: Honestly, relatable, really. Alicanto is the most relatable cryptid.
Amanda: So cute.
Eric: Nothing is funnier than like a bird that ate too much and now it can fly.
Julia: Truly a delight.
Eric: I was attracted to that. Which is why I wanted to put it in and those were like the little clues I was dropping that like all the metal stuff and the candy with the gold wrappers on it.
Julia: That's why the candy. Okay. I didn't put two and two together.
Eric: That's okay. They, yes. Well, you guys rolled y'all only rolled like middling on your. So that's why I was like, yeah, the locks are gone. Candy is gone. Jewelry and coins and money are gone. So anything that looked metallic and of course like the alicanto was running around and still eating stuff because it didn't get a ton of food until it ate the solid, what should I say? The solid gold head of the-
Amanda: The bust, yeah.
Eric: -their grandpappy I wanted to put as many monsters as possible into one mystery. Just so you none of you would necessarily know what it was-
Julia: Right.
Eric: -unless you rolled super well. And I think of that reveal of like a little bird coming out and eating some stuff was really fun. And then the chaos and they kind of like exploded from it.
Brandon: And then we got the reveal of my favorite NPC voice of all time. You as a bird.
Amanda: So good.
Brandon: It was very good.
Amanda: It was very good.
Eric: I know Brandon just wants me to just do birds all the time now.
Julia: Let's just do more bird sounds, Eric, please?
Eric: Well, well, if it's alicanto was pretty much just like a chicken that eats metal.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah, give me a hungry alicanto.
Eric: So it's just like
Eric (as Alicanto): Bop bop bop bop bop- bop
Eric: Then it's like-
Eric (as Alicanto): Bok!
Julia: Incredible.
Eric: I'll just keep doing birds. It's fine.
Brandon: You should play it. You should play a chicken in a cartoon or something.
Eric: I will. Listen, I'll just keep doing this, man.
Julia: You can come for Allan Tudyk's career and just play chickens and a bunch of different cartoons.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: That's fine. I don't- Listen, don't make me move to LA. I'm just gonna do it here.
Julia: Alright.
Eric: That's fine.
Amanda: In the pie chart of our Kickstarter for the Join the Party: The Animated Series: brought to you by Kickstarter. At least $200,000-
Eric: We got sponsored by Kickstarter?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Oh, no.
Amanda: So at least a fifth of it is earmarked for chicken foley. So-
Eric: Oh, thank you.
Julia: Makes sense.
Eric: Yeah. I'm getting the money it's in my contract.
Amanda: Exactly. Well, let me run into the kitchen for some imitation chicken wings, school rice, it would be you know, kind of rude.
Eric: Then the Alicanto would be upset.
Amanda: Yeah. And I'll be right back.
Brandon: Thanks, Amanda!
Julia: Thanks, Amanda.
Amanda: K, bye!
[alicanto foley]
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[theme]
Amanda: We are back to talk all about-
[alicanto boks!]
Amanda: Oh, it was a long con!
Eric: You scared me, I was afraid I got scared.
Eric: Oh, are you okay? Shh. Shh.
[alicanto calm boks]
Julia: As we know we've never seen a scared horse and Amanda in the same room together.
[horse foley]
Eric: Clip clop clip clop clip clop
Amanda: Speaking of scared creatures, the fuck is this frog, Eric. That's my main question for Episode 6: The New Cabin 1.
Eric: Listen, man, I don't know though I do have some I do have a fun game that we can play really quickly.
Amanda: Oh, really?
Eric: It's called Tell Me These Facts!
Brandon: Oh, god.
Eric: I have more frogs facts for you and you need to tell me if this is a fact about a frog or actor David Boreanaz.
Amanda: Oh, boy. Oh, baby.
Julia: I think I'm gonna do very well at this game.
Amanda: This is a real Eric Silver joint. Okay, let's go
Eric: The liver of a ______ contains three lobes which helps secrete its digestive juices called bile.
Brandon: That's David Boreanaz, baby.
Julia: Yeah, I also think that might be David Boreanaz.
Amanda: I'm gonna go with a frog on this one.
Eric: No, that one is a frog, Amanda, I'm gonna give Amanda a point.
Julia: Humans produce bile, too. I don't know about this.
Amanda: I don't know if there's three nodes though.
Eric: Was it a frog or David Boreanaz who is ranked number 21 in TV guides list of TV's 25 greatest teen idols from January 2005.
Brandon: That's a frog.
Julia: Okay.
Amanda: Gotta be a frog.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Gotta be a frog.
Eric: Yeah, it was Sarah Michelle Gellar who's actually 50% frog.
Julia: Makes sense.
Eric: So that was frog, no, that was for David Boreanaz. If David Boreanaz or a frog wasn't an actor, he would be an architect.
Julia: Oh, my god. That's so great for that frog's career.
Brandon: I know that's a talented frog.
Amanda: You can really jump high to reach a scaffolding. Right? That's what architects do?
Eric: Yeah, that's true. I'm sorry. That one was David Boreanaz. Is it David Boreanaz or the waxy monkey frog can secrete wax from its neck to moisturize itself.
Julia: Now I think this one's a trick because you did say wax twice. And I think that David Boreanaz in order to style his hair does need a lot of like hair wax. So, I'm going with David Boreanaz.
Amanda: That's good, Julia. See, I was thinking while the prosthesis that he had wear during Buffy the Vampire Slayer that proudly he had a he had to like stay pretty moisturized to like keep those looking fresh. So-
Brandon: Guys, it's a frog. What are you doing? Come on.
Eric: That's true. Unfortunately, the facts.net where I'm getting these frog facts from is not written very well. So they do use the word waxy twice. So it was the waxy monkey frog, unfortunately.
Julia: Oh, okay. I don't know about that but alright.
Brandon: I only knew that one because I think you use half of it in the episode or something and then changed fact so otherwise, I would have thought it was David Boreanaz.
Julia: That makes sense.
Eric: Yeah, that's right. I pivoted really hard. And finally was a frog or David Boreanaz discovered while walking his dog.
Amanda: No.
Brandon: A frog.
Amanda: I just I have I need the image of like a frog and toad-style frog walking a dog.
Julia: Oh, so cute.
Brandon: Well, I mean like what did was the frog not walking the dog but someone was walking their dog and then discovered the frog?
Eric: And then discovered a frog?
Amanda: I like that.
Eric: I'm gonna say both it was actually both the people have discovered frogs while walking their dog. But this is of course IMDB's trivia about David bar data. So this was not a very good sentence. So that's just a sentence. The sentence on this is was discovered while walking his dog.
Julia: Incredible. Amanda, in your imagery of like a toad or frog walking a dog. I'm picturing instead of a dog, one of those fuzzy caterpillars.
Amanda: Oh, so cute.
Julia: I want to live in that world.
Amanda: I love that.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: I want to live in this new cabin. This sounds tight as fuck. Eric, was there like an earmarked, you know, someone had a rich parent who bought them a new cabin when he went to camp?
Eric: Yeah, I have no idea why this happened. But like, I think it was the 11th that either the 10 or the 11-year-old girls' cabin was this super nice new cabin that had two cabins inside of it. And it was huge. And they had remade it. They had knocked down these two other cabins and then just remade it and it was beautiful and new. And I remember when I was in camp, the girls who were in my age group lived in that cabin. And I was like, why am I why? And I still I'm not sure why that is but I pulled this from my own experience. It was so strange.
Brandon: Surreal NYU dorm situation.
Eric: Yeah. 100% It's like only one dorm like one half of one dorm is nice because David Geffen live there in 2004.
Amanda: Yeah, you try to get a hook up at Gramercy because you lived in Brittany and you had no air conditioning.
Eric: Yeah, exactly.
Amanda: I loved this episode so much. I just loved Eric, you role-playing these kids playing poker. I just whenever I have a bad day, I'm going to sink back into that scene. This is just I don't know, it's it's so good.
Eric: I will say that this I didn't get to give 100% inspiration to Brandon because either on an Afterparty or during a stream Brandon said no one ever liked Milo. He never had anyone who ever had a crush on him. So then I said, okay, well then everyone will have a crush on Les. And he said okay, and then promptly forgot that we talked about it.
Amanda: Yay.
Julia: I think Brandon also said if Eric wont give any of our characters love interest will have to love interest ourselves. And I thought that's the funniest thing I've ever heard my entire life.
Brandon: That's just you should that's just a good motto for life, Julia, you should cross stitch that.
Julia: Yeah, yeah.
Amanda: That's pretty good.
Julia: I'll think about it.
Brandon: If you don't have a love interest, you must love interest yourself.
Amanda: Speaking of these charismatic and like ahead of their age young women, Katiemaeamber would like to know was Brenda the deep voice Flycatcher camper a Gravity Falls reference to Grenda?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: 100%
[cheering]
Amanda: I love that. Brenda,
Eric: a five foot eight, tall, young woman who's 12 years old, who's has a deep voice is the funniest thing ever. I'm sorry.
Julia: I feel bad for her.
Eric: It was really funny. I loved Brenda.
Amanda: I loved them so much.
Eric: But yeah, so it was 100% Grenda reference.
Amanda: That's amazing. And back in the CIT cabin, which I love. Like in my mind, the CIT cabin has been such a part of our lore for months because we're a few episodes ahead as you know, just in playing time that it was so special. It was like it was like watching people come up with a nickname for the first time or something like yeah, he listening to us come up with the CIT cabin, Dougie Juice though really representing our that for people who grew too fast and who's joints hurt.
Julia: Can't relate. But alright.
Eric: Someone asked if Dougie Juice was a monster I'm like, yeah, being a rich kid just makes you a fucking monster.
Julia: It does.
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: But wasn't Dougie, Dougie Juice was the one that we in the world playing episode that said grew like six inches overnight or something, right?
Amanda: Yes.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Yes. I still like that. He was yelling, he was yelling at you the whole time. This is like, you know, there's always someone who's just like somehow sleeping at all times, even when they have stuff to do. And you're like, hey, Dougie, we gotta do this. And it's like, oh, no, it's fine. No, I actually don't have to do this. And then just like goes to sleep. And no one ever asked about it.
Julia: You're like, Dougie, come on, man. come on, man.
Eric: He's on the exact opposite end of the spectrum from Carrie-Ann. Hello, Carrie-Ann needs, always needs to be do someone is going to know the carry and isn't doing something at all times? Well, Dougie is just like tall and sleeping.
Amanda: Why? I thought it was so adorable. When Phoebe suggested he might have a crush on Carrie-Ann, who's feeling very left out of this whole crushing phenomenon? Because I can totally see her, like intensifying their rivalry in the cabin. I'd be like, This is how you express affection, right?
Julia: Yep, yep. As they say.
Eric: Dominate others at being a counselor training. Yes
Amanda: Yes. Show excellence in your profession and all of the people will come running to your yard.
Eric: Yeah, I read that book. It was called, Not the Pickup Artist by Not a Mystery.
Brandon: My favorite thing of this episode was at the very end in the recording session, we were sort of like wrapping up. We're trying to find a fun button. And Eric gave a good one. And Amanda was like whoa, wait, everyone shut up, I got one. And then delivered that now infamous, famous about last line. And it was It killed me It killed us. It was very good.
Julia: That frog better have a crush on me.
Brandon: That was this episode, right or was that.
Julia: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is this one.
Amanda: There is so much unsolved, why is there an under the cabin? What the fuck is this frog? What's going to happen? I love this cliffhanger Afterparty placement. Hell yeah. We're obviously going to see how this mystery resolves in next week's episode. But Eric, is there anything that you want to share about your inspiration or the questions or the you know, stuff you had in mind when putting together this mystery?
Eric: No, I just thought it was really fun. I don't know. I was watching a lot of the Owl House and this was Frederick the frog was like an extension of Hooty the owl who was like I like the idea of there being a house demon or like a award of the new cabin itself and or whatever was underneath this new cabin. So I thought that was funny but I thought that having like a more like upstanding butler kind of thing with Frederick the frog instead of the chaos agent that is Hooty, the stupid owl and having like a real frog too instead of like a tube demon as Hooty is.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: I just thought that was funny. And I like the idea of like, Fredrick being able to manipulate the cabinet itself by just like kind of stepping out of a hole that he kind of just like, generated.
Brandon: I thought originally impression that you would make the WB frog a demon in light of the HBO Max news with Warner. God that was like I'd walk 20 miles to get there.
Amanda: Every word, every word jumped forward 2 spaces.
Eric: Yeah, we went from being this frog started out by being the WB, and then it was the CW then HBO.
Julia: Yup, yup.
Amanda: Briefly, it was Freeform Minus. That was a real swing.
Eric: It was Freeform?
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: It was Frederick and Fred, then F+.
Amanda: Yeah. That's just F and like, nobody thought about how that would seem in the press releases. Alright, much more information to come about the new cabin in Episode 7, of course. But in the meantime, let's get to some questions about the game and our characters and the podcast, shall we?
Amanda: Yeah.
Brandon: Let's do it.
Amanda: From AWildSquirtle, is there a fact you can share with us about your characters that will not be revealed during playtime, like their favorite slushy flavor or something like that?
Julia: This is a great question that I feel like I don't have the answer to because I feel like a lot of the things that I know about any of my characters is like revealed through gameplay. Like, Eric asks me a question and then all of a sudden, like, yeah, well, you know, Phoebe's favorite flavor is raspberry. So-
Eric: Yeah, I agree with Julia that like I don't expect all of you to know all this stuff. But we can definitely answer this when we're doing the full wrap up of everything. We're calling our shot. AWildSquirtle we're gonna answer this question in 6 months.
Amanda: Yeah, let's say like 3 and a 1/2 to 4 months.
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: Shoot your shot. Alright.
Julia: Shoot it.
Amanda: From @mell118, how tall are you to the best friends? We know Les is about 6'10, right?Brandon: I think he's like 6'1, 6'2?
Julia: Yeah, I think fluctuated a couple of times with how tall I said Phoebe was I think she's somewhere between 5'6 and 5'8 which is very tall for like a young girl. I picked her like very gangly, you know what I mean?
Amanda: Yeah. And I think Carrie-Ann is a pretty you know, pretty average like 5'3, 5'4 and will grow maybe like a couple more inches in high school. But she is she's sturdy. She's squat and sturdy.
Brandon: You gotta be if you're gonna lead camp, you gotta be sturdy.
Amanda: How about NPCs, Eric? Any, any canons for their heights?
Eric: Yeah. Dougie Juice is canonically 1 inch shorter or 1/2 an inch shorter than Les. ADZ is definitely like 6'8.
Julia: Incredible.
Eric: Boo is a gentleman's 3 feet tall.
Julia: A short king.
Amanda: A short king.
Eric: Possibly going to get taller.
Julia: A short prince, let's be honest.
Eric: Short Prince. Frederick is two feet is like two feet tall if I remember correctly?
Amanda: Yeah, like the size of the cats in the in the terrible animated musical Cats.
Eric: Yes. Right. The the single thing that happened to bring the pandemic onto-
Julia: I can't believe you really remind me that that movie exist.
Amanda: Uncanny. An the uncanny is tight.
Brandon: The top hat though, adds another foot.
Eric: No, Frederick doesn't have. Brandon I'm not having one of my NPCs go, "Hello, my baby. Hello, my daughter." No, that's not what it is. That is-
Amanda: Ex card! Ex card! @Presidentnethra wants to know, what level of roasted to the gang like their marshmallows, and are they fans of s'mores?
Brandon: What a good question.
Amanda: Great question. I think Carrie-Ann has a smore ritualistically every night at camp-
Eric: Oh, for sure.
Amanda: -and she likes it gooey, but not toasted looking. So like even before it gets like a golden hue, but just heat it up enough to squish.
Brandon: Mm-hmm. I don't know if any people that don't like s'mores personally. But if you don't like s'mores, that's totally fine. But of course Les love s'mores. He just jumps the hot marshmallow in the blue part of the flame it just like-
Amanda: Oh yeah.
Brandon: It's almost carbon at the point he takes out.
Eric: Yeah, yeah. There's Les holes and then take it out and somehow like pulled out like, chisel and he gets all the carbon off. So then it's like, it's like unshocked and then that's the perfect that's the perfect thing to put on his s'more.
Brandon: Yes, I love that.
Julia: Okay, so Phoebe's is the same as mine, which is very slowly toasting to golden brown. And then rather than removing the whole marshmallow off of the stick, removing just the like golden skin off of it, and then repeating the process until you're down to like the last nub of the marshmallow.
Brandon: How do you do that? I love that.
Amanda: I have a sense memory of watching Julia eat marshmallows this way that I had totally forgotten.
Brandon: I can't put How you do it?
Amanda: You just like all whomp.
Julia: Well so when you do it enough the inside of the marshmallow gets super melty, right?
Brandon: Right.
Julia: So when you if you very gently just-
Amanda: You just schuck it.
Julia: -pinch that and then slowly pull it off, the remainder of the marshmallow is still there and you just have the skin and then you just keep cooking the outside until it's cooked all the way through.
Brandon: You're blowing my mind, Julia.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Alright, when we got 1000 patrons we're gonna get a video of Julia doing this.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: You're doing a mukbang of s'mores?
Julia: I just got a fire pit we can make this happen.
Brandon: Yeah!
Julia: Hell, yeah, dude.
Amanda: @bgriff1986 wants to know is Carrie-Ann and actually short for Carrie-Anne’ada.
Julia: Right, because we were calling you Canada for Camp?
Brandon: Okay, I realized that like, as I was editing that we had already been calling Phoebe Pheebs and so it was like a silly thing that I was gonna cut because it was didn't make any sense. But then I realized that I panicked with trying to Carrie-Ann a nickname. It was like, uhhh, Canada?
Eric: When I was reading this I thought it was Carrie-Aman, like carry Amanda.
Julia: Yes, same.
Eric: I'm confused. So that makes more sense.
Julia: Love it.
Amanda: I was growing up at just the wrong time to be named Amanda. People would scream the theme song to The Amanda Show.
[Julia sings Amanda Show theme]
Eric: No, Julia goes [hums]
[Brandon sings]
Eric: [sings] It's time for the Spirits Podcast. Do to do do.
Amanda: Paul would like to know players, do you or your characters have any thoughts on Stephen saying one of the cits will betray the others-
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: -on your first day?
Brandon: Yeah. I have a few thoughts about that.
Amanda: Yeah. Paul, that hasn't left my mind for the four months even playing this game.
Julia: Can confirm.
Amanda: Alright. onto some podcast questions.
Everyone: Uh-oh!
Amanda: This this one is sweet, LopsidedHalfling_, Danny wants to know, is there anything that you've learned as a player or a DM that you would bring over into a long-form or traditional D&D campaign?
Brandon: Hmm. I learned how to roll better. Does that count?
Julia: Hey, man, that rocks.
Amanda: I learned the wisdom and rolling less good. I actually I'm really going to miss the mark experience mechanic in Powered by the Apocalypse.
Brandon: Yeah.
Amanda: I think it is so liberating. It's like a philosophy I fully tried to like, bring into my life. I really love it. And I love that it gives some upside and that I can in some cases, choose the consequence. So that I think is really good. And I think I'll be a little more open to kind of suggesting or sort of even leaning into the ways that you know, it's interesting for plot and character development when rolls go bad sometimes.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah, there's something about like, not rolling against something, but rolling the same all the time. And then it's like, well, it's like 6 or less, 7 to 9, 10+, no matter what, right? Like in D&D, you're always trying to come up with a new number you're rolling against. And then it's always success or failure against that number, which kind of takes out all of the nuance that you can give with a middling success, or the real success that you get from getting a 10+ or even a 12. If you super crit that like you really, it's not just like I do this really well. It's like I get a lot.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: So I've been really trying to figure that out and how to apply that more if we return to D&D. The other thing, which I've been doing before, but I think just feels even more reinforced for me, when someone does a perception, or investigation checks, having them ask questions of what they want. And maybe I'm going to do that even before being like, what are you looking for here? Tell me what you're looking for. And then you roll.
Julia: Yeah
Eric: In the way that like the sharp rolls have a set list of questions, which are like you can ask these questions, so I would really love to get to questions instead of one. I think that the asking what are you looking for before you roll a D20? I think should help flesh out perception investigation rolls?
Julia: Yeah. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Brandon: Yeah, I had the same thoughts about the dice roll. So-
Eric: There's also the thing about like, I'm thinking more about monsters too. And like, when I build them and giving them powers giving them like moves instead of like things that are a little more tangible. I think it's something that we touched on in the Cryptid Compendium is like you give them abilities. Not necessarily like Ice Beam, you know what I mean? You give them behaviors, which I think is really important and something that I've been learning as I've been putting monsters together.
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Abilities not moves. I think that's what we talked about when we were putting it together.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Exactly. Your strengths, weaknesses, and then like behaviors and tendencies.
Amanda: It makes so much sense and it you know, we are truly kind of intersecting with the lives of other creatures and not sort of main characters you know, that are are being acted against by an outside force like it just it feels so much truer to life and so much more natural to be like, yeah, we're all in an ecosystem. And this is the behavior of the Alicanto and like this is how it intersects with the camp. And I'm loving it.
Julia: So good. We have a great camp.
Brandon: Carrie'Ann's Camp, Cool Cryptid Compendium.
Amanda: TM.
Brandon: Compliance, conduct something like that
Julia: Copyright.
Eric: You got copyrighted.
Amanda: Okay, so when I was 13, come on this journey with me. When I was 13, I had a hot pink marble notebook, where I had just finished my first year in middle school in art in our school, we had two years to do in the moment high school. And my, my little cousin was about to start middle school the next year. And so I wrote the Amanda's Declassified Middle School Survival Guide, which was 30 handwritten pages and like different colors of pen with like a hand done Table of Contents all about, like, how to open your locker and like best routes to different classes, and like, what meals in them in the cafeteria were the best. I've always been my own personality.
Julia: True. Can confirm.
Amanda: So I am just imagining, you know, Carrie-Ann kind of alphabetic goal notebook of sort of Camp notes, including, by the way, haven't forgot about the teeth of the field. Well, see.
Julia: People were really freaked out by the teeth in the field.
Eric: I just thought it was a weird thing to do. Like, come on!
Amanda: Eric, you succeeded.
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: It is so weird and disturbing and I would love to publish that. That'd be so fun.
Brandon: That is so sweet. Amanda, that is the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for anyone ever including donating a kidney.
Amanda: Well, Brandon, I was too shy to give it to him.
Julia: Wow.
Amanda: So it more just lived in my, and I think I still have it somewhere. I was like this is the thing where it savings an artifact worth saving.
Julia: Incredible.
Eric: We're gonna have to have an auction for someone to bid on that.
Amanda: I saw my Neopet zine hanging up on the bulletin board. We could auction that off.
Eric: Yeah, we should auction that off too. There's something that I have also learned from Monster of the Week, which I think I'm learning from Les' playbook. He's like, there's a lot of gaps in between about things you can't like that aren't moves, and then you just gotta like fucking do it. Like when Les is researching something like, there's no move for that necessarily. You just gotta like figure that out. And I wonder that's something that like, you got to learn us what mechanics you have to give the people what they're trying to do. You know, it's like, like, should I give you a research move? Or is it just like, vibes at this point?
Julia: Vibes, man. Just vibes.
Brandon: Okay. Now from now on canonically less. This book is no longer the book of the Damned. It's Carrie-Ann's complete Compendium to camp.
Julia: Copyright.
Brandon: And it's just what Amanda said.
Eric: I'm glad I've been prompting you so many times that you can say stuff and you're like, here's the C’s that I’ve come up with.
Amanda: This a real Brandon question. And he can't You can't pun your hand in this one. But Thirza.terdu wants to know, how do you feel about playing the cool sexy character for once? Remember, this is the words of a listener not of me.
Brandon: I feel cool, calm, collected.
Amanda: Oh, boy.
Julia: Fuck you.
Amanda: Julia! TJ would like to know, Julia, why do I feel like this episode wasn't the first time you blackmailed 11 year olds into telling you something.
Julia: So fun fact, it probably is because I am one, and only child and two, all of my cousins like are the same age as me, basically. So I did not spend a lot of time around children. There was one summer that actually I don't think we ever talked about this. There was one summer where I was a counselor for a like aerospace camp.
Brandon: Oh, fun.
Eric: What?
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: No!
Julia: I completely forgot about it in the context of this show until just now. And I was not very good at making those children listen to me.
Eric: Sure.
Julia: Because I had just graduated high school and I didn't have an air of authority yet. So I guess this is me going back to my 18-year-old self grabbing her by the face and being like, you can convince children to listen to you.
Brandon: That's pretty good.
Eric: Yeah. Michelle Spurgeon, the question surgeon would like to know, Eric, how difficult is it to come up with the premonitions for Phoebe?
Julia: How difficult is it Eric?
Eric: No. Well, let me ask you first. How's that gonna? Do you like having premonitions?
Julia: Me as a player? I love it. It stresses Phoebe the fuck out.
Eric: Julia, can you read the move-
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: -again? Because like I think we've only hit on certain successes or certain types of rolls that you've done. So I want you to read it out again?
Julia: So, at the start of each mystery roll + weird on a 10+, you get a detailed vision of something bad that is yet to happen you take +1 forward to prevent it from coming true. And Mark experience if you stop it. On a 7 to 9 you get clouded images of something bad that has yet to happen. Mark experience if you stop it on a miss you get a vision of something bad happening to you and the keeper holds through Free to be spent one for one as penalties to the roles you make.
Eric: It so it's funny even. I'm glad you read this out because I'm like, man, maybe I'm fucking with Phoebe too much. But no, the entire move is be fucking with you-
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: -regardless of how you roll. You know, I really wasn't ready for two of my characters having beginning of mystery stuff.
Julia: Yeah.
Eric: But I think I'm still finally figuring it out a lot of months of running a Monster of the Week game is like, have a good idea right now. So, so it's hard a little bit. But as long as you take some time to come up with something interesting, it always pays off.
Julia: Hell yeah.
Brandon: Eric, what is D&D for you? Because it's all just good ideas that you come up with.
Eric: You need a lot more prep, right? It's like the the mechanics and the way that things work is like Monster of the Week is a lot more improv. It's like, yeah, come up with some ideas, but you're just gonna have to play on the spot. So I'm like, Oh, I gotta come up with something significant that is storytelling worthy, and also fits within the cosmology or in the threads that I've started doing. And that's hard. So with D&D, I can prep a lot more stuff, and being like, hey, I'm gonna fight this guy. It's like, alright, well, this guy probably has 10 HP. And he probably has a +2 attack and he has a sword, blah, blah, blah, right. So that's, like, I have more established numbers to pull from, but that also makes it a lot more grindy as D&D is, and then when you don't use it, you really are out on you're out on a limb. For Monster of the Week is like, yeah, man, just vibes, like whatever you want. They just do it.
Julia: I love that this is the summer of vibes, right?
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: It's, uh, yeah, well, like do something fun, say something interesting. It's like, Okay, I guess I have to say something interesting. And it's, I also think that a lot of these games were not made with them being recorded in mind. It's just like, yeah, say to your friends, something funny that would freak them out. And I'm like, oh, okay. I'm sure no one's gonna call me out it later. Or no, it doesn't have to be significant later. Monster of the Week is 95% have a good idea of 5% Prep.
Julia: Yeah.
Amanda: Well, I can assure everybody out there. We've recorded what 10 or 12 episodes so far, and it's all hot fire people. It's all it's all up from here.
Eric: Yeah, it's really weird seeing these like, I feel like they're jumping in quality as I'm getting more experience like the stolen was my third session of Monster of the Week I've ever ran. So I'm like, hope that was good. And hope it's good. And then now I feel like I'm getting more. I'm feeling like I'm having more experience, which is nice.
Amanda: Alright, folks, a final question before we get into Spoilie Corner from Rikjanne, if you could be an inconspicuous monster pretending to be human, what kind of monster would you be?
Brandon: Nessie.
Julia: So immediate. Wow.
Amanda: How would you pretend to be human and stay inconspicuous?
Brandon: Trench coat.
Julia: Okay. Okay. No further questions, Your Honor.
Eric: Hey, everyone, come hang out in my house. It's a lake also. I can't leave.
Brandon: It's a loch, you asshole.
Julia: Wow.
Eric: Wow. Oh, hey, I don't know any Scottish people. You're fucking Nessie. This was a trap. I'm NYPD creepy edition. I'd be Bigfoot because I'm just a hairy guy.
Julia: You like the woods?
Amanda: Get some slimming shoes?
Eric: Yeah, I get, yeah, get shoes that make me look like my feet are five sizes smaller. Yeah.
Amanda: Julia?
Julia: I would be a biblically accurate Angel.
Amanda: Very good.
Brandon: Dear, god. How do you cover that up?
Amanda: Trench coat.
Julia: People look at me and then they forget what I look like because I'm a biblically accurate Angel.
Eric (as Julia as Biblically Accurate Angel): Be not afraid, dudes.
Julia (as Biblically Accurate Angel): Be not afraid, my guys. My fellow kids.
Brandon (as Julia as Biblically Accurate Angel): It's a cloud.
Amanda (as Julia as Biblically Accurate Angel): The vibe is doom.
Julia (as Biblically Accurate Angel): Scary.
Amanda (as Julia as Biblically Accurate Angel): Everyone's like that vessels, right?
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric (as Julia as Biblically Accurate Angel): T My father, my son, and my Holy Spirit are all there. They're making a pizza roll.
Julia (as Biblically Accurate Angel): They're all at a town which is why we can party. Whooooo! They're on a work trip.
Eric: You're saying, you're saying-
Julia (as Biblically Accurate Angel): I'm home by myself.
Eric: You're saying that the three men you admire most, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost took a trip up the coast?
Julia: You know what, uh, there's no more music now. Weird.
Eric: Yeah, then the big bopper died. It was fucking bummer, dude.
[Julia sings American Pie]
Amanda: I want you guys to picture me as an eight-year-old who knew every word to that song and would ask my dad things like what's Vietnam?
Eric: Yeah. I still know all the words to that.
Amanda: We do.
Eric: We sang that a lot on camping trips.
Amanda: Oh, really?
Eric: When we were canoeing singing was a way to pass the time.
Julia: Can we just confirm that that's going to be played at your wedding? Real quick, actually?
Amanda: Julia, it's like, 9 minutes long.
Eric: American Pie? No!
Amanda: No way. No way.
Julia: Yeah, why not?
Eric: No!
Amanda: It's not a bop. It's not a bop
Brandon: I always thought that Weird Al version was the original.
Eric: Oh my god. That's the fucking Star Wars big fucking nerd thing I've ever heard.
Brandon: I know. I don't think I realized it wasn't until the Friends episode where they sing it
Eric: Oh my god. I mean if you don't hear it you're like why is there a nine, nine minutes song about one moment in the 70s?
Brandon: Exactly.
Amanda: Amazing I think I would be a sort of literal bookworm and anytime my friends turned their backs on me, I would just be like shoving paper in my mouth, and then it turned around I'm like-
Amanda (as Book Worm): What?
Eric: We need to play Monster Hearts, guys. Literally Monster Hearts.
Julia: Can we do a One-Shot of Monster Hearts, maybe after this campaign or something?
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: Sounds fun.
Eric: We could do all of the school that all of you guys go to and you're playing different monsters and the PCs are our NPCs then.
Amanda: Yeah!
Brandon: I know this isn't this is only Christian culture but Christmas Cryptids.
Julia: Christmas Cryptids.
Eric: Then why are you in school?
Brandon: That's good point.
Julia: It's like the equivalent summer school but I don't know. Fuck.
Brandon: [in a British accent] Maybe they're British.
Julia: Maybe they're in Australia, innit?
Brandon: Innit?
Julia: Just about anything.
Amanda: Alright, folks, for our sakes and everyone else's, let's move into Spoilie Corner, shall we?
Julia: Alright.
Eric: Before we go, I do want to say I have the urge to play the wrestling RPG again. I really want to play it I don't know if Brandon, Amanda if you're in on doing that. But like it seems really interesting and fun.
Brandon: I mean, I'm almost down to play I just have nothing, I know nothing about wrestling.
Julia: No context at all.
Eric: Yeah, I feel like you-
Amanda: That seems fun.
Eric: I feel like you need the context though. Like for everyone like for people to enjoy it too.
Amanda: I don't know, we grew up in the 90s, I feel like we know a lot about WWE.
Eric: Yeah. I don't know I get the urge to play it once in a while but then I'm like, you got to know why it's happening a little bit to enjoy it at all. So I don't know I just I just thought of that I thought about the other day and wanted to share
Julia: Nice.
Amanda: Alright folks, let's move into Spoilie Corner.
Julia: Here we go.
Amanda: Paul says, so this monster is totally a brownie or some other cleaning spirit, right?
Julia: Who can say?
Amanda: Who can say, Paul?
Brandon: Who can say?
Amanda: Kazy, 3 kobolds in a trenchcoat wants to know, guys this is the return of Chad, the human?
Julia: Who can say?
Amanda: @dominique_wiki, gym underneath the cabin, and mechanical sea monster are part of an underground training academy?
Julia: Ooh, who can say?
Brandon: Who can say?
Amanda: Lyle, Tinkerbell of Computers, very good. Lyle. Hey, Eric. What's at the top of nature, and why is it mushrooms?
Julia: Didn't we answer that? It's a moose!
Eric: Guys, do we answer that already?
Brandon: Yeah.
Eric: The Spirit literally says-
Julia (as Mystery Spirit): Yeah, Phoebe it's a moose.
Brandon: Yeah, at least the spirit has confirmed whether you believe it is another thing that's true.
Eric: A lot of people asked if it was mushrooms and like yeah, here's what I'm gonna do do the same shit I did in the last campaign.
Julia: Surprise bitches.
Eric: Surprise, it's all the same. I hate mushrooms and that's why I keep putting it in my stories.
Brandon: We're an LCC but right before the the invention of diaphragm.
Julia: We are in a timeless period that could be the case, Brandon.
Amanda: That's true. That's true. And the last episode of the Join the Party ever we see it was all a dream.
Brandon: The camp is bought by one Doctor Morrow?
Eric: And then we zoom out even farther and Brandon shaking a snow globe at a summer camp.
Amanda: Yeah, yeah.
Brandon: I'm shaking a laptop with Pro Tools.
Eric (as Brandon): Editing the first episode of Join the Party is so hard, my computer keeps breaking!
Amanda: Michelle Spurgeon asked why is the director who has protocols for spooky stuff not doing more to protect camp in the first place? An excellent question.
Julia: Who can say?
Amanda: And then a number of great ones from @BernieMPl, is Dougie Juice a natural monster? Is Conway the swimming hole monster?
Eric: First of all, no Dougie Juice is just rich.
Julia: Yes.
Eric: And Conway is not the actual swimming hole monster.
Amanda: Okay, fine, fine. And will somebody please take the watermelon from Boo? Probably nothing will happen but if there was ever a secret magic item to be had someone please take it.
Brandon: No.
Julia: No.
Brandon: Unfortunately, no that will never happen.
Julia: You can't take things from children, they're children.
Brandon: Yeah, that's mean and also it's apparently impossible according to the idiom so, oh wait, that's easy, taking candy from a baby is easy, right?
Amanda: Yeah.
Julia: Yeah, that's the easy thing to do, Brandon.
Brandon: Hey, Julia cut that. Julia, cut that.
Julia: No, I'm leaving your mistakes in.
Brandon: Hey.
Eric (as Boo): Guys, I'm done with this fruit. Can someone take it from me?
Julia (as Phoebe): Are you a baby?
Eric (as Boo): Help me. No, I can take it and do it myself. Okay, bye!
Brandon (as Les): Bye
Eric (as Boo): I go hang out with my friends which are you not you. Bye.
Julia: Oh, I hate that.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Okay, bye Boo!
Eric (as Boo): I'm just kidding. We're still friends.
Julia (as Phoebe): Thanks, Boo.
Eric (as Boo): I like all of you. I like the tall one and the medium one and the small one. But I'm not telling you which one you are.
Julia: That’s literally what we are.
Eric (as Boo): But I'm not gonna tell you which one.
Amanda (as Carrie-Ann): Thanks, Boo. Go run off and play now, don't get into any scrapes or your mom will kill me.
Eric (as Boo): My elbows are scraped. Bye!
Everyone: No!
Eric (as Boo): I jumped into a job to do a pile of wood chips and there was a cat in it.
Julia: Why?
Amanda: Eric, where do you get these things? I love it!
Eric (as Boo): They're from my brain!
Julia: Incredible.
Amanda: Alright, we better save this juice up for the next episode so folks, we will see you next time.
Brandon: Bye guys!
Amanda: Later.
Eric (as Boo): Bye!
Amanda: May your rolls turn ever upward.
Transcriptionist: KM