00:00.00 sidekqpodcast Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting episode of sidekicks and side quests the best unofficial dungeons and dragons podcast in my humbly biased opinion I've got a wonderful guest for you this week but before we get to my guest you know I got to do my ad read. From plus one e xp insert thing here and about Rpg Z Club and how it's all awesome and cool all right and without further ado I'd like to go ahead and allow my guests to introduce themselves so hello mystery contestant would you care to. 00:26.59 April Hill Um. 00:36.70 sidekqpodcast Tell us who it is that you are and what is it that you do. 00:39.52 April Hill Hi ah, yeah, sure my name's April hill I am the community manager for Medifffius Entertainment I am also a professional voice actor and professional game master um, all kinds of stuff I do I do a lot of Thingsdens wear a lot of hats. But. That that's the main stuff I guess yeah. 00:56.88 sidekqpodcast Okay I know you've had an opportunity to run a few fallout rpg games on Twitch for my my friend and colleague Laroy tut. 01:05.19 April Hill Yeah, yeah, he la royals so such It was so funny we were talking about la royal the other day to right? after 1 of the fallout streams. Um I don't remember why his name came up but ah, we were telling one of our new friends that just started playing with us about ah him and we were like hey. Ah, yeah, like you need to go check out his tick talks because um. The friend we were telling is like big in a tickok and content creation. So we're like you have to go check him out. He's like hilarious real cool dude and all that. So yeah, love that guy. 01:41.95 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and you know the official stunt double for Kevin Hart so you know pretty cool stuff. Awesome yeah well, um. 01:46.59 April Hill Yeah, yeah, totally. 01:53.66 sidekqpodcast Yeah, that's great and ah super excited to get to talk to you today as we lead into the next question here of do you currently or have you ever played dungeons and dragons before. Thanks. 01:58.76 April Hill Um. 02:03.60 April Hill Yeah I'm a professional people pay me to play sometimes but I also just like to play with my friends and have fun and and stuff like that. So yeah I've been playing D and D for a while now. 02:14.82 sidekqpodcast So cool. So how did you get your start. 02:19.91 April Hill Well ah my I've got a group a core group of home homes I Guess home group friends ah that my local friends I guess you would say like I've got friends all over but my local friends and we've been playing games for a long time and ah. 02:28.28 sidekqpodcast I. 02:37.20 April Hill Gosh like for over a decade now and um I've always wanted to play but I grew up in a super small town in Texas and it wasn't a thing. Ah it would I like one of my I think when my high school boyfriends his family played. 02:45.50 sidekqpodcast M. 02:52.18 April Hill And I was always like oh I want to play I want to play but then we broke up and then you know it was a Taylor Swift song yeah um so ah, so never got the opportunity to play. But then my friend group um because we were playing weekly. We played board games card games weekly. 02:54.77 sidekqpodcast Classic. 03:08.35 April Hill Have weekly get togethers. But then ah my friend group was like hey we should start a d and d campaign you know if fifth edition's about to come out. Ah, it'd be the perfect time to jump in on this and so we decided we were going to start playing and um, several the guys in my group had played before. And so it was really great. You know having people mentors which I I joke all the time that um that my 2 my two friends that are Dms like we all we take we all 3 of us take turns down dming for the rest of the group and we've got a group of like 8 people. So this is like Joe Maginelo sized 03:41.57 sidekqpodcast Um. 03:43.26 April Hill D and D stuff going on when we play. Um, so yeah, like I joke all the pride they're they're my mentors and they taught me everything. Um, so yeah, that's ah we started playing and then I loved it so much that I was like I want to run this I have to be the storyteller and I did storyteller a Uil storytelling in school. 03:45.47 sidekqpodcast Awesome. 04:02.86 April Hill I've always liked storytelling and writing ah writing and stuff like that. So it was just something that I was naturally drawn to. 04:03.34 sidekqpodcast Um. 04:07.32 sidekqpodcast Awesome! And then my curiosity you know, having mentioned the royal and some of these fallout games and Mediphius who is the publisher for the tabletop game version and board game. Well for the fallout world. So what made the leap over thataways. 04:14.30 April Hill Yeah. 04:26.58 April Hill Um, ah well I Um I was with the I had just been introduced to the streaming group. Ah by another friend and who is like hey have you ever thought about playing um on stream before and I was like yeah you know sure I'd love to so I started. Um. Playing dungeons and dragons on stream with them and they were like hey would you want to run a stream and I was like are you kidding me of course but I was noticing that they're this and it's very much the same still now. Ah the the market at the time I Guess if you want to call it market Or. Um, it was very saturated with just dungeons and Dragons dungeons and dragons which we loved D and D right? like D and D is great but it was saturated with D and D games and I was like you know what I love fallout and it'd be really cool if I did a post apocalyptic style D and D game. 05:08.98 sidekqpodcast Um. 05:21.69 April Hill Ah, like but make it fall out and then I googled it and there was somebody that had put out a non-licensed um, ah d and d adaptation for fallout and so I was like hey I found this great system ah like it'd be really fun to use and. Let's do that so we got a group together. Amazing people. Ah, and we started playing fallout but 5 v rules with this non-lifer you know adaptation and it was a lot of fun. But then all of a sudden. Um I start hearing about Mediphius and. 05:51.72 sidekqpodcast Um. 06:01.60 April Hill That they were coming out with a licensed ah tabletop game for this with a system that I I had played fallout wasteland warfare. So I knew who Mady was and that's how I found out that they were putting up ah putting out a tabletop game for it because I've been a fallop fan for a long time so when I found out they made ah a um. 06:15.69 sidekqpodcast Me. 06:19.45 April Hill A skirmish game for it I was like with miniatures I wanted it so we got and then when I found that they were actually putting out an official game. We halfway through the season jumped over and started using. You know we started using their system so we had to change everything and. Love the system and that's that's kind of how I got in with Manddius too and now I'm marking for them because I was all about I'm I'm I'm I'm a big cheerleader for for products that I like and people that I like and and stuff like that. So I I wasn't a cheerleader but like like in the social. Media world I guess as a community manager I am a I am the cheerleader for brands and people and friends and stuff. So yeah. 07:02.77 sidekqpodcast So is it a really good ah cross-pollination between the 2 games because I figured yeah because you were explaining that the skirmish you know tabletop like miniature war game itself came out first before the actual licensed ttrpg. 07:08.90 April Hill You. 07:16.10 April Hill Yes, yes. 07:17.72 sidekqpodcast So it it sounds like there's pretty good cross-pollination the idea of like oh if you play this and collect more pieces and that means you have more miniatures that you can use in your game. 07:26.86 April Hill Yeah, and so for the 2 d twenty system. It's meant to be for the most part. It's designed to play theater of the mind style but I being a miniatures lover and tabletop lover and somebody that loves physical sets. Um. 07:41.33 sidekqpodcast M. 07:44.22 April Hill I was like no no, no, we are using ands what I did we are using miniatures for the tabletop game because they make miniatures for the skirmish game but we're going to use them for tabletop and it was fine and people yeah and and that's the thing like you decided there's a lot of crosspollination between fandoms of the skirmish game and the tabletop game. But we are now coming out with um, another game that we just recently ah, recently announced a couple months ago now at modcon. Ah so we're having new kacola world Nuka World world so that's coming out and it's going to be another miniatures game but not, it's. 08:14.87 sidekqpodcast Ooh. 08:21.29 April Hill It's ah it's different than the skirmish game. It's more not board game style. Um, it's it's it's different, but lots of new miniatures. Lots of new cool cards and and things like that and adventures. 08:25.76 sidekqpodcast M. 08:31.63 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and so now if you're running like a fallout 4 style ttrpg campaign now it's like great now we can go to nukewor now we can go fight the raiders of nukew world or whatever. So. 08:42.13 April Hill Yeah, and we've got some really cool stls coming out for and we've we've already put out several stls like for Kay and bottle and scenery for new could call the world so nuclear world here. 08:56.39 sidekqpodcast Yeah, listeners of this podcast will know that I'm a big of 76 player so I enjoy you know when I have free time ah to to play that game and to be all things ah ah fallout and all that and I I know I have my book on my bookshelf, but it's just I can't find any friends. 09:00.63 April Hill Name. 09:13.59 sidekqpodcast Ah, to sit and play the game I have you know even to sit down long enough to like read it all and absorb it all. Ah because I admittedly myself did make my own 5 v hack version of fallout as well that I was like I wonder if this is good I tried to. You know, go through wikis and cobble numbers together and I'm sure it was all kinds of wonky. But that's awesome. Yeah, and hopefully like ah like I was able to do through Twitter x at 1 point in time letting ah our previous guest of the show. Kenneth Vig you who runs the Chad. 09:45.56 April Hill Yeah. 09:47.36 sidekqpodcast Fallout 76 podcasts being like hey you know fallout for hope. Maybe you should try and get April to run some ah ttrpg campaigns with ah like a 1 shot or something like that with maybe some of the Chad characters or something like that that be kind of fun. So. 10:03.54 April Hill Yeah, we've we've talked before last year I um took went to my Ceo and I was like hey there's this really cool fundraising group that they're all about fallout all about love like you know sharing the love and raising money for. For good causes and and things like that. He's like yeah absolutely get us involved with that. So I hit them up and yeah, we've we've done. We've done some things but not on the scale that I would like to so who knows maybe that maybe. 10:28.11 sidekqpodcast Well we will. We will say our prayers and our hopes and our petitions and then eventually we can make something like that happen. So awesome. Well I mean I could sit here for hours and just talk fallout and all that. But ah, let's go ahead and we'll continue with. 10:34.10 April Hill Yeah, so. 10:40.55 April Hill Same. 10:45.64 sidekqpodcast The questions of the show and we'll ask. Ah, do you happen to have a favorite Npc whether they're from a a video game Rpg maybe movie film, television, etc. And why is this character your favorite Npc or psyki character. So. 10:49.23 April Hill And. 11:02.30 April Hill Garriss Mass effect Garris favorite. 11:05.65 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, just just classic gears and that's all period. 11:08.86 April Hill There's there's there no elaboration needed a freaking garrets. Um, yeah, no just I love the mass effect um series which ah yeah, it's it's it's the great. So I've played mass effects. Um. 11:27.68 April Hill Probably I think the same amount of times I've played skyram I've gone through Skyrem I think 4 times to completion like I'm a completionist. So think I've done skyrem to completion 4 times and um with all dlc and stuff and mass effect. All 4 of them. No the fourth one I think I only played through one only got a chance to play through it once but the the one two and 3 I've played through like ah at least 3 times or yeah, so yeah, let all. 11:56.36 sidekqpodcast Very awesome. Yes, sorry I'll cut this out of the edit. But yes, he wanted to say goodnight to me before he had to go to beed So this. 12:03.30 April Hill Same my my kids are getting their teeth. Yeah, Dad's dead Dad's getting the kids teethbrushed and stuff. 12:09.90 sidekqpodcast Oh really? yeah oh only thoughts. Yeah, these are my headphones I'm doing a podcast interview I'm talking to miss April you say hi miss April please. 12:23.40 April Hill Hi You can't hear me ah hi. 12:27.90 sidekqpodcast Always, but he said hi to you So that's and all right I got I got to give you back to mamo. Okay, um, buddy I'm in middle of the call I'm sorry and now I've got all the animals in here too. Yeah. 12:37.82 April Hill Um. 12:45.56 April Hill My my kids were doing the same thing when I was trying to connect I was like I'm trying to connect I'm sorry honey. 12:46.66 sidekqpodcast Lush lush. 12:57.69 sidekqpodcast Okay, there we go ah all right, excellent and so and then it was just garres no notes garres just happens to be the favorite and I'll be all. 13:04.90 April Hill It's just yeah, but but the thing is also I've been playing balderskate lately. So ah, Balder's gate man. It is slow man I think it might because I'm in act 3 I'm making my way through it because like I said I'm a completionist and. 13:22.65 April Hill So I am slowly making my way through the game and he um I've got yeah like car lack and a Starian man. They are just like really good like ah I just I just ruco I don't want to give any spoilers. Well, it's been out long enough. 13:28.86 sidekqpodcast And. 13:39.12 sidekqpodcast People can Google things and there's all sorts of clips on Youtube of and videos of like this is the path. You should take if you want to get the best ending for this character kind of a thing but mm. 13:40.61 April Hill Now I won't go be spoililer sp about who else? Yeah, yeah, but I just got to really get ah mink in Boo which is obviously like big in D and D and so it was really cool. Like getting to interact with them on Vulter Skate three. 14:02.19 sidekqpodcast Yeah, voice by Matthew Mercer who also voiced. Um, ah what's his what's his face mccreedy in a fallout four the connections that we're all making. Ah. 14:10.28 April Hill Um, yup, yep yeah yeah. 14:16.22 sidekqpodcast That's cool I'm sadly an Xbox player. So I'm going to have to wait until Balder's gate 3 becomes available on Xbox one. So oh well that that point aside um, the next question that we'll ask here is do you happen to have a favorite side quest either from. 14:21.16 April Hill Are. 14:35.99 sidekqpodcast Rpg Video game movie television show piece of literature etc and why is this side Quest or B Plot element your favorite. 14:48.27 April Hill Oh well, once you've said like when you expanded that into um ah tv and books I've been getting really into listening audio bookwise and to Sarah J Mass and 14:54.67 sidekqpodcast M. 15:05.88 April Hill I started with akatar then went to crescent study and now I'm in sort of glass and ah the akatar nesta book which it's been out for a while. So spoilers. There's a Nesta book that book who. Which is kind of like it's a it's basically a side quest because this the the story the whole time with Akaar was about this main character and her story and then all of a sudden you get her. Sister's story in um, in 1 of the later books and oh man. 15:33.37 sidekqpodcast Mm. 15:36.26 April Hill Because everybody hates the sister the whole the whole time. The whole series you hate the sister. Why is she the way she is freaking hate her and then you get her book and it's like she's my favorite fucking character. Sorry can I curse and. 15:50.14 sidekqpodcast I'll bleep things out or I'll just remove it. So then you know yeah we do try and keep this that we do try and keep this clean. Yeah. 15:56.50 April Hill sorry sorry yeah but she's my she's my favorite character and um, yeah, that would that would be it when you can turn and that's with any game to any game or any show or anything like that when you can turn a character that you have. Led me into hating I mean you know game of Thrones has done this right? Um, if you can take this character that I am so that you led me into hating and then all of a sudden you make that my favorite character that I love so much and if you do anything wrong to them I will be very angry at you and. 16:18.20 sidekqpodcast Um. 16:32.28 April Hill Ah, yeah that I love that I Love when people do that. That's brilliant to me brilliant writing. So yeah. 16:37.37 sidekqpodcast Awesome! And then the way that we end the personal interview section is we ask the question of what are you passionate about and why. 16:50.81 April Hill Um, oh in the in the tabletop Realm Hoy is ah so storytelling I Love storytelling I've always loved storytelling my entire life I think that storytelling is something that bring at storytelling and gaming. 16:52.39 sidekqpodcast Just in general. What are you passionate about and why. 17:09.32 April Hill Um, is something that brings people together across you know all over the world because I mean that's right now I make frontends with people I've got friends all over the world through gaming and it's just something so pure and wholesome and that. I It. It just makes my heart So sad when I see people Gosh Um I Saw this ticktock the other day of somebody in Office. We will not talk about their name but they are like are these people like doing these things These things are so childish like you don't do. Secret handshakes and stuff like that. That's so that's so childish and I'm like but why why do you have to grow up. Why do? why do you have to stop playing I Think when you stop playing. That's when you get old and sad and depressed and I don't want to do that I want to play forever like why? Why do we have to stop playing I don't think anybody should ever stop playing because it brings people together and it it. Keeps your brain young. So very passionate about that. 18:06.62 sidekqpodcast Awesome! All right? and so now having had the opportunity to get to learn more about my guest I think it's time we head into a segment called Npc Creation and Npc creation is brought to you by you. 18:22.76 April Hill Um. 18:24.55 sidekqpodcast Ah, the podcast audience and our patrons from patreon most importantly, so at this point in the show. We'd like to give a shout out a toast to our comfortable, comfortable patrons and above with loud hurrah. So do you are queen of the Patreon Goblin Katie Aka Katie Downey as well as our wealthy patrons including Anson Jablinsky Nicholas Carterelli and my mom and dad we say cheers again. All these folks are awesome. They donate at least $2 or more a month to get that shout out and for reaching the $4 level a month ah they get to add an element of chance to our random tables which we might get to use here today. Ah so if you want to learn more information about this awesome Patreon community get plugged in and get early listens to our parlays at the platter episodes before they go public. 19:08.48 April Hill Um. 19:16.27 sidekqpodcast Ah, if you want to get ah world building notes for some new interesting d and d ah sub raceces and stuff like that. All of that is on the Patreon and where can you go to find that you ask? Well you just go to the show notes below. You go to the podcast website or you just go directly to patreon.com/sidekicks and side quest to learn more about our tears and help us expand our operations at levitating platter in this demiplane and worlds beyond. Okay, so in this point of the show kind of like a twist on a Bethesda game or. Any other t trpg a bg balders gate 3 of course where everyone has to spend required minimum 2 hours in character creation. We're just we're going to truncate that a little bit and now just do that for an npc that conceivably wed be able to stick in any dungeons and dragons game. So. The question I have for you is are we making a character from scratch using random tables. Do you have an idea that you wanted to bring to us or are we doing a combination of both. 20:17.14 April Hill Um, um, um, yeah yeah I mean either way, it's cool I so is this? Ah so it's npc so are you going to use this Nbc. 20:34.60 sidekqpodcast The conceivably conceivably. 20:35.86 April Hill Ah, like you? Oh okay, you um yeah, no I got I've got an um. 20:45.25 sidekqpodcast If you don't want to worry about a personal character of yours that you have much affection for you could totally just use our random tables. We'll walk through the questions and we'll roll dice for most of them and then we'll have a completely randomized Npc. Oh. 21:01.31 April Hill Oh yeah, no I've got I've got an idea I've got an idea. Um. 21:04.18 sidekqpodcast Okay, you have an idea. Okay, okay, well then I will I will just remind you that the the tables are there. So if you're stuck and you can't think of something then we could roll a dice but otherwise I guess we'll work off of this framework that you have in mind and so we will we will begin then and ask the first question. 21:14.23 April Hill Um. 21:23.82 sidekqpodcast What is the name of the character. 21:26.52 April Hill Kiss K Y T H Kiss which is yeah yeah because ah, that's every character that I ever make has KY has kai in the name. 21:27.63 sidekqpodcast KKYTH interesting 21:41.69 sidekqpodcast Ah, okay. 21:42.55 April Hill Every single character I've ever ever played has that in their name and I've I've made like over 30 characters. Yeah yeahp yep yep yeah 21:50.44 sidekqpodcast Okay, so just Keith we're just gonna stick with Keith for now perfect. Okay, what is the ancestry of this character o okay ki the night hag. 22:01.34 April Hill Um, it's a hag. She's night hag. Yeah yeah. 22:07.74 sidekqpodcast First I thought you were going to say night writer and I was like that is a completely different direction for this podcast but I wouldn't say no to it but ah Keith the night hag. Okay, and then let's see ah, what is the job or role in society that kiss the night hag. 22:12.77 April Hill But me. 22:25.48 sidekqpodcast As. 22:25.56 April Hill Oh chaos she she has her own shop but where she will she will sell you things that you really really really want for a price. 22:39.16 sidekqpodcast Interesting So kind of so a shopkeeper that we're finding like in a civilized area or like in a wildland scenario or I don't know where do you envision her being and ah. 22:51.42 April Hill On an island on an island by the sea. Ah where there are sailors and people coming to trade and a lot of trade going on and stuff like that where people are looking for good deals and ah just you know like at ah, a port of call. 23:04.28 sidekqpodcast Mm. 23:06.69 April Hill And that's where she does her deals. She just loves corrupting people and and making that they're like oh she's like oh you really want this. It's going to cost you and it's going to cost something very dear to to them that's going to just like it's going to change that that players. 23:06.76 sidekqpodcast Okay, so we're imagining your. 23:23.53 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, so we could definitely Okay, so then we're imagining okay that she's a shopkeeper or she runs her own shop on a adjacent Island to like some sort of port in in wood whenever area we're at. 23:23.81 April Hill Character in some way for not for the good though. Not for the good. But. 23:39.94 April Hill Um, um, yes. 23:43.34 sidekqpodcast Okay, cool. All right I can dig and then let's see ah how old is the character so like ancient elder. 23:49.88 April Hill Um, she's very old. She is very and I wouldn't say I wouldn't say ancient and but yeah, yeah, she's very well established and very well set in her ways. Um. 23:58.88 sidekqpodcast Okay, so an elder ranged character. Okay. Okay, so she's well known to the community like there's like fables about her like oh don't if you if you're desperate. That's when you go to the island and get something but like it's going to cost you to do it kind of a thing. 24:09.20 April Hill Who. 24:18.29 April Hill Um, and and she's she's good enough to wear some people her reputation Um, people usually think that that they're not being corrupted that but they think they they got a good deal but but she changes them and they don't see often. Often They often don't see that something's changed in them with what the deal was and so they're like yeah this is awesome. This is great I would definitely work with this person again. Little did they know. 24:46.38 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then let's see. Okay so now is a point where we you know if you had been rolling dice I would get to say now we get to take a pause from the dice because now the question is describe the physical appearance of kit the night Hag shopkeeper. 24:53.87 April Hill The. 25:01.88 April Hill Um, she has got very oily dark purple skin with strings of Green Hair. Ah just hanging down from her face but and she she she doesn't really care. About her appearance. She um, that's not what you know? Um, That's not what makes her tick She doesn't really care much about her physical appearance as she does you know her her her goals her goals are what gives her life and stuff and so. 25:33.24 sidekqpodcast Mm. 25:39.15 April Hill Um, so she does look very just menacing and old and ragged and um, she's got very long crack finger heils. Absolutely Nope she is who she is and she's she's good with that. 25:42.48 sidekqpodcast So no efforts into illusionary magics to make her look more attractive or ah, you know likable to people. 25:55.77 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, okay so got the oily. Yeah, okay so she looks very much like ah when I envision a night hag like she looks the part. Ah okay and is there anything else like descriptive as far as like you know like her shop or her or. 25:58.85 April Hill You know. 26:04.72 April Hill Absolutely yeah. 26:14.71 sidekqpodcast Or anything else. Maybe interesting. So it's a very ah. 26:16.46 April Hill Um, the shop is beautiful. It's the it's the polar opposite of of her so where she looks because that is where that's what her her goals revolve around her shop and her dealings and so that. Looks Impeccable. She looks very out of place in here. But this is her establishment and which is kind of jarring when you first meet her you're like wait, you're the owner of this place you like I thought you were gonna be need to be kicked out. But no, this is hers and so it's very. 26:35.35 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 26:47.77 sidekqpodcast Interesting So kind of like a venus fly trap of like oh look at the sweet smelling honey ah of the shop of like Wow I'm going to find a great deal then it's like that like a night hag is just behind the counter like welcome to my shop and you're like oh well. 26:58.75 April Hill Um, yeah, and so it's got you. It's got you confused in your head where you're like this is a really nice place I Want to do business with this. But then you see this decrepit old um like ancient looking. 27:05.57 sidekqpodcast Okay. 27:16.18 April Hill You know hag and you're like wait wait. Maybe I'm doing them a favor by doing a deal I don't know like it's got. It's got mind tricks and that's that's her That's her and Mo is the mind tricks. 27:26.59 sidekqpodcast I see and then if we had to describe kith the night hag shopkeeper with 3 adjectives. What 3 adjectives would you use. 27:38.76 April Hill Persuasive conniving and evil very beautiful. 27:43.19 sidekqpodcast Okay, there we go so pretty much a normal shopkeeper anywhere in the world just kidding. Okay, well now is the part in the script where I'm like and now we get to go back to dice rolling if that's what you're wanting to do so. 27:58.82 April Hill Are. 28:00.76 sidekqpodcast We like our Npcs to have cool things on them. So What is a valuable item piece of Lore secret or ideal or concept that the character would ascribe to if you want to randomize it. It's a D four for the category and then a D six for the particular thing or. If. You've got a couple since you've kind of been on a roll. It's whatever. Yeah. 28:24.83 April Hill Ah know you know I'll take out some dice a d four and a d six. Well we'll we'll play with some dice. We'll do a mix all right I've got a 3 into 6 28:28.84 sidekqpodcast Yeah, 3 into 6 so three is a category of a secrets and then number 6 was suggested by previous guests Alyssa vischer and the secret that kith. The night hag shopkeeper has is thus they have a they have a fay wild shard that causes random magical effects and then conceivably you would use like a wild magic table so thoughts on this. 29:00.97 April Hill Um, that sounds appropriate for her sounds so appropriate so appropriate for her. 29:07.65 sidekqpodcast Is this an item that's just sitting in her shop or she just has on her person all the time. 29:14.48 April Hill Um, oh yeah, no, she just has it. But that's hers that's hers. She doesn't far with that. She's like this is mine. 29:18.37 sidekqpodcast Is it because it's like a because forgive me if I'm wrong I've you know, maybe the written down law says like oh Hags come from the fay wild and stuff like that is it like a oh this is my momenta Momentmento from home kind of a thing that. 29:28.20 April Hill And. 29:33.40 April Hill U. 29:36.29 sidekqpodcast Or she just happened to trade for it and she knows how valuable it is because you know she's a hag and it's a fay wild and kind of a thing. 29:41.53 April Hill yeah yeah yeah I would think they hold some personal significance to her. So maybe she did a deal with somebody one of her first deals. Yeah, 1 of her first deals ever and this was um. 29:53.94 sidekqpodcast Mm. 29:58.12 April Hill This is something that somebody wanted really really bad and ah the the way she corrupted their soul and got them to do something? Um, maybe that that maybe that like it was too much for them and it it ended up overcoming. You know, taking them over and overcoming them and. She was able to get this item back and now she carries it like a souvenir as a half this my first big deal where I've truly just really messed someone up to loves it. 30:19.58 sidekqpodcast Um, and. 30:24.71 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, and then what does this object look like like is it something large or is it like something like that can easily fit like in the palm of a hand or a pocket or something like that. 30:36.73 April Hill Yeah I would think I'd be like kind of like dog whistle size. So. 30:40.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, and is it like literally a whistle or is it like a piece of stone or or something else I'm just curious. Are you just going to leave it open. 30:47.00 April Hill Um I like that idea I know I like the idea of it being like a a dog whistle but not maybe not necessarily a dog whistle. She's by the ocean. So maybe it's some kind of a um yeah, ah. 30:58.90 sidekqpodcast Oh like a sailor whistle like the we we we the one they do. Okay so it it literally is that and it happens to be a ah a shard of literal fay wild um or made man. It met made manifest into it or like. 31:05.00 April Hill Yeah. 31:13.77 April Hill Um. 31:17.20 sidekqpodcast Changed into it or whatever. But okay so like every time she plays it the Dm gets to roll on ah on a random wild magic table and then some effect happens. 31:19.53 April Hill Smells. 31:26.83 April Hill Yeah, that that's cool I think so but it um, but it um, safe while um. 31:31.30 sidekqpodcast Okay, so she just has it around her neck of all their bobbles and like teeth and skeletal fingers and whatever else and then the someone's getting up at it. She just pulls the whistle up and blows it and then like some wild magic effect happens suddenly a bunch of. 31:40.58 April Hill New application. 31:46.66 April Hill Okay. 31:49.55 sidekqpodcast Ah, toadstools sprout out everywhere on the on the people and then they freak out because they're like ah or whatever. 31:53.64 April Hill Yeah, they they didn't want to do a deal with her so you know there are consequences. 31:58.71 sidekqpodcast Okay, very cool. Um, yeah, so then so then people assume that it's like her just being magical. They don't realize that it's like this item that she has because it's a secret Obviously she wouldn't want to like go around advertising it Perhaps Um, but yeah. 32:13.15 April Hill Um, yeah. 32:18.16 sidekqpodcast Okay, very cool and then let's see now we come to the p to resistance. Ah, we need to figure out what's going to be a side quest that kith the night Hag Shopkeeper would be willing to recruit or hire player characters to go and do on her behalf. Have an idea you can let us know or if you want to again, try rolling a dice you can roll a d 12 and see what we get. 32:42.98 April Hill Um, let me see yeah a D twelve you know what we'll do that for some inspiration and maybe just like with this it'll we'll give it some um thoughts. 32:55.27 sidekqpodcast Okay, 8 okay, interesting all right? So your and this answer was provided by previous guest super geek Mike Christiansen of of the youtubes it says. 32:59.85 April Hill That's an 8 Um. 33:13.10 sidekqpodcast Prevent the visiting bard from being kidnapped by cultus in the middle of a performance thoughts. 33:20.47 April Hill Yeah I did some those those cultists are actually they've they've done some deals with me and this is my way of um and they have not made good on those on some of those deals and this is my way of messing with them. Ah. By getting this bard out of trouble so that hopefully that bard will then come to me and I'll be like yes I got you out of that tremo and um and not knowing that it was because of of a previous deal but now I'm going to get this bard in a deal with me. 33:47.34 sidekqpodcast Um. 33:51.19 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, very cool. Okay, so this is so this is happening like in the in the port town proper and so when you go to visitor. She just happens to know like hey this this visiting Bart is coming into town and going to play at the tavern and I happen to know because of my. 33:54.48 April Hill 2 birds 1 stone. 34:02.16 April Hill Um. 34:06.55 April Hill So. 34:10.88 sidekqpodcast Being a night hack or my deals or whatever that like these cultists are going to try and go interrupt the performance and I need you to protect that bard. So maybe the players are suspicious about that. But maybe also they're good and they're like oh well we can't let something bad happen to the bard. So. 34:26.44 April Hill Yeah. 34:27.88 sidekqpodcast Yeah, that's pretty cool that there's layers to this potential side quest there. Okay, right, right? exactly? So we have two sides so we have to consider what's going to be the reward. 34:32.86 April Hill Ah, always looking for the best deal got to get everybody. 34:47.83 sidekqpodcast For success in the side quest the players go to this bard's performance. The cultus crash it and the party successfully fights them Back. You know makes them flee or whatever they report back with kith that like hey the bards performance went great. All all good. Ah, what's going to be the reward. Ah for the party. 35:08.38 April Hill A discount deal for them. 35:11.50 sidekqpodcast Okay, so a discount deal letter shop. But then again it's still a shop that's gonna have some pretty heavy strings attached. 35:16.49 April Hill Um. 35:19.24 April Hill Yeah, instead of losing like 1 of your core memories. 1 of your core happy memories that's instead of that being a price that you pay. Maybe you just give me a happy memory that's happened to you in the past five years instead of 1 of your core memories that makes you you maybe maybe I'll just instead of doing that. Ah for you know, a cool item in my shop I'm going to be like no you know it just a really happy memory that you've had in the past five years and I'll take that as payment. 35:47.58 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, and then also conceivably with the reward of this or the the doing in the doing of the side quest the ideas that the players are supposed to let the bard that they're protecting know that like hey kit. The shopkeeper sent us to come protect. You kind of the thing as well. Yeah. 36:10.46 April Hill And they should be. They should be very grateful I heard you know, maybe maybe I spin it that you know I heard that they were um, you know one of the they were one of the up and coming artists of. 36:20.36 sidekqpodcast M. 36:22.92 April Hill The Island and I wanted to show my appreciation for the arts and for music by by you know, just looking out for them and then heard that somebody was going to be attacking them so I was trying to help get them out of harm's way. 36:37.42 sidekqpodcast I see okay, okay, and then that's where the bait is set for that Np that other npc character to then get in debt with kith then it seems. 36:41.46 April Hill I mean. 36:49.99 April Hill Yeah, because I'm a good agent and if they really really want to go far with their bard skills and really be well known I can help with that We can make a deal I Love I Love doing stuff like that. Ah. 37:00.54 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, this I can I can hear the mental wheel spinning you're like okay where am I gonna stick this Nighthag in my game now the next time we play So I can. 37:15.37 April Hill Oh yeah, Hags are one of my favorite Hags are one of my all time favorite um creatures or you know people to to put into lore. 37:23.39 sidekqpodcast Awesome. But we also have to consider the opposite What is going to be the consequence of failure. The bard gets killed the bard gets kidnapped whatever failure in that regard means or they refuse to do the side quest put before them. 37:34.34 April Hill So. 37:43.36 sidekqpodcast What's going to be the consequence in either of those kinds of situations. 37:50.21 April Hill Ah, if the Nbc's out with the bard get killed. It gets killed. Let's see. 37:52.69 sidekqpodcast Sure. 38:00.42 April Hill I've got I've got I've got many I've got many people coming into my shop somebody's going to somebody I'm going to be able to send somebody out after them somebody out after them to make sure that they know that they can't double cross me. And that they need to cut. They need to yeah that I hired them for this job and if they can't deliver on it then it's going to be a bad day for them. 38:27.54 sidekqpodcast Oh so now the so now the shopkeeper becomes a reoccurring villain if the players like let the bard get killed. They skip town or they just refuse they're like whatever we don't care about a bard. Um. 38:36.10 April Hill Um, yeah. 38:39.76 sidekqpodcast But then because in her mind it's like well no, you agreed to do this and now I'm a reoccurring villain sending minions after you and until maybe she just has to come deal with them herself or something like that. 38:43.40 April Hill Um. 38:52.36 April Hill Yeah, if you make a deal with me that it's been a deal. You make a deal with me. Um, so yeah, or or maybe you know in the fine print if they agree to do this contract for me maybe because you know Hags like you know deals. So um, maybe there's like a big long fine print. Yeah, contracted that they have to sign and in the fine print. Maybe she gets their soul or something I don't know um or there are they are possession of like their entire identity and they become. 39:15.50 sidekqpodcast What whattle. What. 39:24.60 April Hill I don't know faceless or something I it'd be. It'd be interesting to put that in a contract if they don't make good on um, something that they've been hired for. 39:32.81 sidekqpodcast Okay, So then it's so obviously so obviously like big you know failure conditions if the bard gets killed or you know the the hag goes out of her way to explain this situation. The side quest to the party and then they refuse she. Goes into well now I'm a reoccurring villain until the players come back to deal with her somehow and either get out of the contract or or do something of that fashion. But I it so it sounds like you just kind of lead into another adventure If like you know as the side Quest said you know the cultists are trying to. 39:52.51 April Hill Yeah. 40:10.31 sidekqpodcast Kidnap the bard. So if they you know if they're not able to stop them at the performance then it becomes another adventure of like okay well now we have to go chase after the cultus and like try and go rescue this bard and then I guess you get the same success conditions from that but I don't know if. 40:12.60 April Hill Um. 40:18.85 April Hill Yeah. 40:27.40 sidekqpodcast The colt is kidnapped the bard and then they disappear to regions unknown they plane shift away or do something that makes it really inaccessible to get the bard is that a different sort of failure or is it the same like oh now I'm a reoccurring villain because of your quote unquote incompetence. 40:31.97 April Hill A first. 40:43.88 April Hill You It would depend on what deals had been made with them and and stuff like that. So if they just come in and I try to give them the quest and they're like no but they don't take any of my deal. They don't take any of my items and don't make any deals with me I mean like may okay bye onto the next Npc Or next you know shop. 40:56.14 sidekqpodcast M. 41:02.98 sidekqpodcast Sure. So. 41:03.60 April Hill Ah, Patron But yeah, but if they if they take full advantage of ah discounts and deals and stuff like that then um, she would be Yeah, she'd be hunting them down and making sure that they pay. 41:18.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then um I know I have a list of optional questions. But do you feel like Kith is pretty well figured out or do you feel like exploring optional questions. 41:31.38 April Hill Um, yeah, no I Yeah she sounds fun. Yeah, she. 41:33.60 sidekqpodcast But so good as is okay, all right? Well now that we've had the opportunity to learn more about kith the night hag shopkeeper I think it's time we throw her into a random encounter. And then that's the part where I had put in the ad for Zencaster and this is now the segment where we get to do a little bit of a role play a little bit of a vignette a scene if you will with Keith the night hag shopkeeper and the question becomes. 42:06.30 April Hill Okay. 42:10.39 sidekqpodcast Who should I be in the scene. Obviously I think you're going to do a fabulous job of portraying Kith but the question becomes who am I going to be am I going to be 1 of my adventurer characters that steps into the scene to get the side. Quest is it Kith just. Ah, making a deal with the cultus and then that sets up the impetus for this side. Quest is it going to be ah, you know we were mentioning the secret item that she has is it going to be ah, some sort of like final. Seen between the original owner of that faywild shard. Ah before she gets it back or or what kind of scene? are you interested in portraying her in. 42:50.69 April Hill Um, who I don't know maybe the initial meeting um or or or the and or going out to. 42:58.80 sidekqpodcast The initial meeting with the cultists. 43:07.65 April Hill The bard like hiring the people hiring you maybe I don't know. 43:08.99 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, so you want to you want to meet a n piece a podcast character and give them the side quest to go basically do the the bodyguard with this bard. 43:23.13 April Hill Guess So I don't know I don't know what do you think? what do you think would be I'm not sure I've never done a little mini mini little thing like this. 43:31.94 sidekqpodcast It's whatever you feel like you're gonna do the best justice in in a little short vignette of giving a voice a life of presence to Keith so when people listen to this, they'll know like oh yeah. 43:41.50 April Hill 2 Okay. 43:46.00 sidekqpodcast I got it now now I know how Kith is supposed to work. 43:49.37 April Hill Um, okay damn. 43:58.85 sidekqpodcast Certainly the easiest could be you know, meaning one of the pre-established podcast characters. But if you you know if you're up for it with ah figuring out why the cultists have reneged on some sort of deal and are getting desperate to Kidnap bards or whatever. So. 44:14.73 April Hill Um, yeah, sir. 44:15.97 sidekqpodcast Okay, so you want to do the one with the cultus then okay would you like to set the scene or shall I. 44:17.64 April Hill Um, sure. Yeah. 44:24.93 April Hill Um, go for it. Let you do. 44:29.84 sidekqpodcast Okay, ah all right? So we open up on the port town and then the adjacent little tiny Island It's still like walkable to there like there maybe is like some shallow shoals. 44:36.23 April Hill Um. 44:45.80 sidekqpodcast Or something like that. You know maybe a dirt path through the sand or something like that to really get to this little shop that's kind of nestled away from the the hustle and bustle of the life of the port town. Um, but there is it's night. Obviously it's a good time for a night hag. Um, and. 45:01.32 April Hill So. 45:04.13 sidekqpodcast We we zoom in ah to the interior of the beautiful the decorated and well-kept shop and you can see there are these sinister figures in ah, we'll say burnt orange robes and ah. 45:11.24 April Hill From. 45:18.35 April Hill And. 45:21.22 sidekqpodcast You know their their hoods are up and stuff like that they're trying to be all mysterious and stuff like that and so there there's like some sort of argument or back and forth going on ah with Kith and so the cult fanatic I guess who's the leader of this little band. Just be like you promised us that this thing would bring us success and it's done nothing but hinder our progress I say the deal is forfeit. 45:51.43 April Hill You cannot turn back on a deal with me. You signed a contract your name is written in blood right? there. 46:05.30 sidekqpodcast But if I were to summon a devil lawyer I'm sure I could find some sort of loophole in this contract. 46:15.91 April Hill No Absolutely not. There is no lawyer that I think could touch one of my contracts. This is a sole contract and if you go back on it. There are clear terms. And the fine print if you would have read it but you are so eager to make the deal with me on this that I believe you forgot to read it. 46:46.76 sidekqpodcast Ah, the Cult Fanatic leader gets a little bristled at that and ah, maybe even now takes the ah the Bravado ah to kind of put his hood back and so we'll say you see like a half elf or something like that and he'll just kind of like. Well I technically wasn't even the one to sign it no sticks his tongue out and then then points one of his lackeys or something like That. He's the one that signed it not me and then the other one looks like but but you just you just said I had to look at something and you wanted me to point to something the. So was me signing something shut up. 47:25.93 April Hill Is he your superior then is that why he was the one that signed it and was fun supposed to be the one that read the contract but didn't. 47:39.20 sidekqpodcast No, he's my lackey I make him sign all my documents for me. It's just it's a cult formality. 47:46.10 April Hill What a pity that the your underlings then do not respect you Maybe if you were a bit more charismatic or maybe you had a more commanding presence they would listen to you and maybe you would get promotion. But no, no then instead you have this snivelling so piece of flesh that doesn't even respect you enough to read things before they sign contracts in your name. What a shame you could be so much more. 48:25.55 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah I think his ego is like getting the best of Him. He's like you know this is the the unhinging of him and he'll just be like no I think we will move forward with the dissolution of this agreements. Ah. And then he looks over at the the his lackey that he called Out. He'll be like that is all for you you you may go and then ah he he like looks at the rest of his underlings and says yes I think yes that bared that nobody that is not anyone important in this Town. We're going to make plans. Yes, we're going to make Plans. We're going to kidnap Him. He will be our blood sacrifice for the devil lawyer and we you will see us in hell courts and then does like a flip of his hand and then like a let's go and then they all begin to ah file out of the shop and so if she's going to say any last things. Ah, while they're like trying to make like some sort of dramatic exit like. 49:24.47 April Hill Oh absolutely I will begin to like start um like um using oh gosh now the term just like slipped out of my mind I use it all the time. Um, ah, speaking into their mind and not into the. The the leader's mind but into the other ones minds that await if she like I'll start whispering into their minds that he isn't a great leader that look how he treats you and just like she said maybe if I was a bit more charismatic. Like she's read. She's like saying these things into their head like not as she's speaking them into their head but as she's making them hear these thoughts in their own voices in their heads like maybe I could be the captain. Maybe I could be the leader here. Maybe I if I was just a little bit so spreading doubt in their minds. Think that maybe if they come back and they make a deal. Maybe they can be his boss one day and do a way better job than he ever could so trying to sow that doubt that seed and and and stuff in there. So. 50:26.20 sidekqpodcast All right? And yeah, so then the cultists are going to proceed forward and yes, the the lackeys and the the underlings all begin to like look at each other ah, but then ah you know the the camera will see outside as they exited the shop. You know. He makes a show of like maybe slapping one around and says like you fools don't you see? she's a night hag she will just play tricks on us. She does not know what it is to be a devil. No no, no, our lord was very clear and he told us that we would not go wrong. But. Clearly something has gone wrong and by golly we're going to get out of this so a blood fresh blood sacrifice is what we'll need yes indeed and and seen yeah. 51:12.68 April Hill Um, 50 51:19.73 April Hill They're not going to. They're not going to survive this. They've got 2 They've got 2 very powerful entities that they are like they owe some devil obviously ah some kind of blood sacrifice and if they don't make good on it. 51:22.15 sidekqpodcast Probably not probably not. 51:35.38 April Hill They're on his bad side and then they're also on my bad side if they don't like do what I'm telling them to do So they're just in a pickle they're going to die either way. So for them. 51:42.23 sidekqpodcast yeah yeah I don't I don't know what they thought was a good idea to go to kith in the first place but for whatever reason the cult is needed something from there. So yeah. 51:53.42 April Hill I. 51:56.38 sidekqpodcast Yeah I don't know it's a mystery and dungeon masters out there. You can fill in ah the blanks. Maybe even better than I did and and then you can write us on our subreddit or social media or wherever else and tell us what was it that the the colt has had to go and see kit the night hag for in the first place. So yeah. 51:59.30 April Hill So. 52:14.39 sidekqpodcast We did the random encounter. So what did you? What did you think of getting to be Ki and bringing a voice and a life tour I know you said you were quite fond of had characters. But how does this one stack up. Yeah. 52:25.65 April Hill Oh I Love them. I Love I Love Hags They're just so much Fun. There's so much fun to roleplay I Love I Love doing I Love them and I like her. She's she's fun I feel like she could be um, ah the. Antagonist I guess for like another like one of my my characters she she sounds like somebody that I would come up against that I've had dealings with yeah. 52:52.43 sidekqpodcast Um, definitely sounds like an early purveyor of maybe some like too good to be true magic items and then that's when you tantalize the players with and then it's like oh but it's going to cost you. So if you. Don't do like the critical role Lord Esther Hos sort of like be my I'll be your benefactor and you can have access to my arsenal of magic items and stuff like that because I'm old and retired and don't have use for them. This is the more sinister of like oh you're a level one character and you want a 9 live stealer. 53:09.40 April Hill Um. 53:17.54 April Hill Not not. 53:27.54 sidekqpodcast Sure I'll let you have that but it's going to cost me your first born or something like that. Yeah yeah, very cool. Yeah, and then if the players are just like they don't know any better than the like oh well, you've you've ah yeah. 53:30.21 April Hill Um, yeah, very reple stilt skin. 53:40.77 April Hill I didn't even want kids. It's fine I will never this deal will never come back to haunt me. 53:50.75 sidekqpodcast Well I guess as you said Keith will always find a way to make good on her deals. So she'll just start throwing. Ah partners their way and just be like well yeah I was gonna get my firstborn child one way or another all right. 53:55.49 April Hill Um, sirens. 54:02.65 April Hill Um, yep. 54:07.81 sidekqpodcast But yeah, so now we're starting to get into what I call the final thoughts section of the show. So yeah, overall technical issues aside. How do you think your time on the podcast was. 54:17.17 April Hill Good. This is fun I usually I just get asked questions and it's usually a lot of the same questions but this was something fun and different. So I really I really enjoyed that. 54:28.55 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and I again like I said I dig seeing all the fallout stuff that you do and being a community manager and champion for Meifius Ah, which I know they do other stuff besides fallout. It's just I know that's a thing that we could talk about I feel like I see ads all the time for like. 54:36.17 April Hill Um. 54:44.53 April Hill Um. 54:46.76 sidekqpodcast Isn't there something like Octoon Cthulu or something like that or the Roman Empire cthulu monsters or something like that. 54:53.20 April Hill Yeah, yeah, we just ah wrapped up our kickstarter for cohort cthulu which is a roman inspired culu game. It's set in early roman times where you're yeah, you're fighting. Against tentacle monsters and stuff and then acts on culu is our world war two ah set in world war 2 times. Um cthulu game and another original ips dreams some machines which just came out the corporate books are go to be um, ah shipping soon for that. But it's up on pre-order. But yeah, we we do stuff like. For dune we make the dune roleplaying game. Um star trek adventures. We've got skyrem. We've got the board game and a skirmish game for Skyrem and we've just got. We've got a lot We're really good at holding ips but also really good at making um, original original I piece and content. So. 55:27.97 sidekqpodcast M. 55:44.86 sidekqpodcast There we go? Yeah so ah, yeah, so as we're here in the the final final seconds Final minutes of the show I Always like to leave the platform the stage the soapbox over to the guests. So You know any other thoughts you have where can people find you online. Where do we need to be plugged in to know about all that's going on with Modifius and anything else that you care about are are passionate about. 56:10.38 April Hill Ah, yeah, so you can find me personally at stiletto underscore assassin on Instagram and StilettoDM on x Twitter whatever you want to call it. Um, those were the 2 main places I guess. 56:24.34 sidekqpodcast Um. 56:24.85 April Hill I'm also on like Facebook and Blue Sky so under you can look up the the same the same names there and um, yeah, and of course ah on all the social medias ah for maddiuss including Tiktok and I'm I'm personally on Tiktok as well and but yeah. Yeah, and do all those things we and I am currently running a campaign. Um, this is what it's November first so yeah as of right now I am running a campaign that's live every Monday on the mediious Twitch channel where we are playing fallout. We are going through the winter of Adam Campaign book which is a full campaign book that we. Um, released not too long ago and ah my my group as of right now is about halfway through it and things are getting interesting. Yeah. 57:11.21 sidekqpodcast Mm very cool. Well Miss April. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for being a guest on the show. Can't wait to have you back on making even more Npcs all right. 57:21.25 April Hill Um, thank you. 57:28.26 sidekqpodcast So as I stop the record.