00:00.60 sidekqpodcast Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting episode of psykis andyquest live at fake con gonna have to project my voice a little bit because ah, you know it's dinner time and so people are you know, getting used to the con and all that so you know it's a live episode so we're just we're taken with what we're. Given and we're running with it. So this of course is the best unofficial dungeons and dragons podcast in my humbly biased opinion. So the way I typically do this show is that I'll invite guests on to the podcast. We do a little personal interview section and we get to making some npcs um. You know I right now presently got a small audience. So I mean I could turn this is being you know special something different for Youtube or I have the camera on right here but you know I have 2 lovely audience members right now and I'm happy and thankful that they're here. And you know what what? what are your names just so I could have it. Ah for posterity m k so temp all right Mk and temp in the audience here and we're doing a live episode. So. Thank you so much for for being here. So. Ah, this podcast started back in ah February of 2020 if you can believe it right before the pandemic hit. So I've now been doing this for 5 seasons over 120 episodes and we just recently celebrated our 11000 total download. 01:34.18 sidekqpodcast Ah, episode Mark or 11000 total downloads I should say so um, so yeah I could just keep this very conversational. Keep this going between the both of us you know up here on the stage and in in my audience below and ah you know, ah you know I can you know. Interview you the audience or you can ask me questions or however, you want to do this and then maybe we can get some dice and come up with a random character or you know that because which is the typical spiel of ah of a given episode is ah after a little personal interview section. We'll roll some dice make up an npc craft a story and give them a side quest and then ah see where we can put them in a world. So what do you think? just you're good with just observing perfectly acceptable and all right? What about you? te. 02:30.65 sidekqpodcast Be a lot more peace didn't jump. But i' gonna do? Yeah yeah, know to be fair. Yeah, we'll ah you know we'll we'll see um, do some behind the scenes editing work see if this is gonna be ah you know something that goes up or maybe it's just a special gem of this. But. I wanted to lend my support to 5 sided fates since ah I was I met them actually last summer at the the Dallas ah fan expo and they were running the d and d tavern experience and ah I thought they were great. They did such a good job. And they talked about wanting to do their own local to the dfw area convention to like help spread spread the word on d and d get people involved or you know other critters and just you know their friends and such for the 5 ive-sided fate. So um, that's why I decided to not only run 2 games tomorrow but to take an opportunity to see about doing a live podcast episode. You know so wanted to take that gamble and a chance and you know I have a background in music actually in undergrad in in music and so. You know you just got to do you got to? you got a soldier on you know the show must go on whether you have an audience of 2 or 200 you know your audience is just as valuable. So so certainly thank you both for for being here. Um, so since I don't have any panelists at the moment. 04:02.89 sidekqpodcast Um I guess I'm just going to treat this kind of like a very ah early on in the podcast I used to do these informal inbetween week episodes I might share some bit of world building or lore I had done in my world or I could just get straight to rolling some dice. We can create a character talk it out figure it out and then ah kind of go from there I guess so all right? No no objections from the audience. If only I had some dice I could use this brand new dice tower that I just won earlier. Ah, this evening from doing d and d trivia here in this room earlier. So thank you Jerry of ah 5 sided fates for helping to put this or make this dice tower rather so. 04:54.43 sidekqpodcast All right? Well then I guess I will go ahead and we will move this into some Npc creation. 05:07.30 sidekqpodcast I have my airpods in so the audience isn't necessarily hearing it but I had just done my musical queue for the npc creation section of the show which of course is brought to you by my awesome patrons on patreon I've got a wonderful little. Tightknit community ah that for at the minimum level of $2 a month. They get a shout out so this is going to be the point for me to shout out all my great ah supporters. So to you our Patreon Queen our queen of the Patreon I should say goblin katie aka Katie Downey as well as our other wealthy level patron supporters an jablinsky nicholas carterelli and mom and dad. Thank you so much. So cheers! We raise a glass to you. Um, and if you want to learn more about the Patreon just go into the show notes below go to my podcast website or just go directly to patreon.comford/. Sidekicks and side quest to learn more about our endeavors and help us to expand our operations in this demi plane and worlds beyond so in this part of the podcast as we said we like to make up npcs on on this show and so since I don't have physical dice here. Unless I had an audience member who was gracious enough to let me borrow some dice I'm happy to use a dice roller on my phone. That's not a problem. Um, but I guess we're going to go ahead and go through the exercise and we're going to create for this convention. A special brand new. 06:41.24 sidekqpodcast Npc that you could hopefully take and use in your game tonight. Um, since ah since my audience is here. Why don't I just take a quick informal poll is this is there anything specific or unique that you would like ah for this npc to have or to do any any. Guidelines or anything you want or just roll the dice and see what we getce just yeah, agree out and the dice to see. Okay so the audience wants me to go ahead and roll the dice so that is what we will do so our very first question here that we have is. What is going to be the name of our character that we are making today we determine that with the role of a d twenty. So I'm using my app here and let's say give that a roll so you you and the Youtube can see it all right? So I got 17 and as I check the list. This answer was provided by d and d jordan lee ah Kiara which is spelled k I a r a so we're working with ah Kara as the name let me make sure I put a note there. So I know that that response has been used very good. 07:56.23 sidekqpodcast Struggles of working with technology live at fatecon all right? So then let's see the next thing we get to roll for an ancestry of the character. The the background the species if you will so this will be a 2 d 10 or a d one hundred roll. So now I click that and. Got a 70 on the first roll. So let's see what a 70 would pull up on my random table. Interesting. Okay so we got a medusa is what we got so we so far we're working with Kara who's a medusa all right and then let's see the next question we have to ask ourselves is. What is the job or role in society. So if we're going to find kr in the world. What's she gonna be doing and the way we determine this is with the role of a just regular d 10 and so pull the dice app and give that a roll whoop. Oh a 10 right on all right? This answer provided by my mom patreon supporter Ah Pamela crenwgie mom I love you ah, a tailor of invisibility. So just normally when I have a guest I can banter back and forth and kind of like get ideas. But. What we're working with so far audience karra the Medusa who's a tailor of invisibility. What does what does that mean? What do you think it means build avisibility cloaks. So so Kar is just making invisibility cloaks all the time. That's what it comes to mind I think. 09:30.23 sidekqpodcast There's no wrong answers literally anything you could think of yeah maybe she's the spellcaster. Okay, a spell caster who's using her abilities to just make all the the clothes invisible or the ability to become invisible. Okay I like that all right we can work with that. And then the next question we get to role 4 is what is the age range of our character I like to do in an age ranges not necessarily a specific number. So I'm going to now roll a d eight and see what we get which is a 2 which in that case we make Kiara a teenager. So we have a teenage Medusa named Kara that's a tailor of invisibility and so with all of these details in mind we now move to the next question which is describe the physical appearance of Kiara. So. There's of obviously you could go standard Medusa ah but a teenage variance but I don't know is there an audience is there anything that comes to your mind when you're trying to picture kr in your mind with these details that we've learned so far. 10:43.87 sidekqpodcast Think she'll be green and she'll be blue. Oh a blue skinned meduso. Okay I like that that's it's a little different. Okay and all right? So yeah, it's obviously young. So not gonna be like a fully grown Medusa. Um. 11:00.73 sidekqpodcast Now interesting question I know there's a podcast that I like to listen to called kill every monster in which they kind of deconstruct and go through each of the monsters in the monster manual and so there's a really good episode they did on Medusas and I know there was a debate of like oh can a medusa like exist in success. Exist in society. But like if they purposely always wear a blindfolds then that way their petrification abilities never activate I know a previous guest of the show. La royal tut rolled randomly for a Medusa. Ah, but he had an interesting idea that because. The Medusa had never falling in love and had her heart broken. She was never able to actually petrify anyone. But once that happens once her heart got broken then she would be like a full on monster manual Medusa like able to petrify. So um. Do. You do you think that a kara is like full fledged medusa like you look at her and you turn to stone or is she different where she like she wears a blindfold or she has some sort of mutation or something like that that prevents her from ah from being able to petrify others. 12:14.75 sidekqpodcast She can Venturerify. You don't think she could petrify. There reason why she's still young. Okay, so she's still young so she hasn't fully grown into her powers. So ah, maybe maybe something like it'd be kind of funny if it was like oh every time you look at her. There's like a maybe like a. Ah, paralyzing effect or like you're just stunned for a second because you're like oh you're so beautiful or like there's just something arresting about you and like that's like the beginnings of what the petrification would be but like without being petrified that could be a possibility maybe um. Okay, all right? So I could dig that So teenager blue skinned any particular snakes in the hair just regular old like addters and asps and stuff like that I'm familiar snakes. Okay, well yeah, like um. But we're not imagining something like cobras on her head or something like that just like regular like you'd see the greek myth and you'd see like the snakes and then that would be the snakes in her hair. Okay, all right? Um, okay, here's a fun one I Always like to help narrow down Npcs by trying to to. To describe them with 3 adjectives so we have Kiaa the tailor of invisibility who's a teenager. So What 3 adjectives are best going to describe her and I am I am going to pull the audience just to see if they can give me like a good descriptive adjective. 13:49.74 sidekqpodcast Almost like Valley Girl buly okay so bubbly okay I like that a valley girl bubbly sort of personality. Okay, nothing comes to mind. Okay I don't know maybe it helps to think of like. So a tailor of invisibility so she has some spell casting to be able to like make these kinds of clothes with the ability to turn invisible is there is there a reason why she became a Taylor is it simply that she was like an apprentice. Who now is so proficient that she's her own tailor or she's still an apprentice or is there something to that effect that would help inform kind of her character her ground she has on her. Yeah, okay so Grandma and Grandma's also Medusa could be okay, interesting. Okay so grand grandmother is getting older and so Kiara stepping up to learn. And so that's how she got into the trade of making these clothes. Okay, so she's bubbly. Um, so it sounds like maybe she's like she's she's a duty bound maybe she has that sense of loyalty with the family of like okay well Grandma's getting old so I need to step up because if I don't do it then? no one else is going to do it kind of a thing. 15:15.90 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then let's see is there a third ones you know sometimes it could be like a zag like you know there's some other adjective that describes her but it's like totally different or you wouldn't necessarily expect it. Perhaps. 15:33.68 sidekqpodcast Bubbly steadfast and well let's see I don't know the tailors are usually pretty like meticulous they're hardworking. Is she just kind of like very like dedicated and focused on doing a good job and making sure that the enchantments take place and hold. Yeah. Um, oh okay, so she okay so she's still learning so she's maybe like ambitious like maybe over ambitious okay, all right? So we've got someone who is bubbly they're they're dedicated and loyal but they're kind of like. You know, overambitious at times they take on greater scopes than they they can handle. Okay, all right. We can work with that. Okay now now and then usually when I have guest I'm like and this is the part we get to go back to some dice rolling. Ah so now we get to determine what is a valuable item piece of lore. Ah, secret or an ideal or concept that the character would ascribe to so that we get to roll for the category first which is going to be a d four and as I pull it up here and do boop. Okay I got it 2 which would mean that this is going to be a piece of lore so something that Kiara would know about the world. 16:49.86 sidekqpodcast And now we're gonna roll a d six boop oh and got another 2 well there we go so this answer was provided by ah legal kimchi who you may know on Youtube does some fantastic video essays on different topics on the hobby and and. Ah, such subjects related to dungeons and dragons the answer that he provided was that Kiara knows the process to become a god but it comes with a terrible cost. What. Audience. Do. We have any thoughts on why that could be that she would know this information. Maybe her mom went to the process. That's why her grandmother tried and our mom. Oh okay, Grandma is busy raising her because mom knew the information. So does that mean that Kar's mom is in fact, like a goddess of the world. That's what I was thinking that she went into the process so curious. What the cost was for her mom. Oh so she's lost her mom like you know all the memory of like. I don't know. Is it something extreme like her memory of her mothers are gone now because her mom ascended to god Debb be too mean. Okay, so we can't do that. So maybe the cost of like well now she's gone. She's in the she's in the realm of the gods now and she can't like be with me and her family that. 18:11.58 sidekqpodcast The high cost that could cost some of my life if she come back. Okay, again, she's forbidden from returning. Yeah oh destroy the world. Okay, so that's the terrible cost. So like now that okay so she's seen her mom go through this whole process and that's the piece of law so she's says this. Unassuming up and coming tailor knows what it takes to become a god but just the terrible bird that comes along with with it. Okay, all right? Yeah we'll see these these are the kinds of ah you know wild throwes you can get on this show when you're randomly generating a character because you're like. I think I have this cookie cutter idea and suddenly it's like oh but this tailor knows how to become a god so if you put this character in your game then suddenly it's like oh well now me need to be paying attention to every little person we meet because what other kinds of secrets can they know? okay. And since we have been going the path of random we are going to also go ahead and randomly generate a side quest because every one of our npcs needs to have a side quest that they have to ask the player characters the heroes to go and do so this final dice roll. We get to use a d 12 which as I showed to the camera here boop a one let's see what that gets us. Um, well, this one is a suggestion from previous guest Brady Effler well I don't know maybe it will actually fit because we've already established that Kara has a grandmother the side quest says. 19:46.32 sidekqpodcast Carry my grandmother to the market. She's in a backpack. Do you think that's a okay side Quest for Kr to be able to ask the heroes to help her with yeah. 19:58.86 sidekqpodcast But maybe they make the the cloak at home when they have to carry him from the market. So you grandma can't make it so Tia had to carry it and be the player to help move all the stuff over there. Okay, um, okay, that could be 1 possibility. If we want sometimes I will allow sometimes for multiple roles just if something doesn't maybe necessarily Driveve. Let's just try it and see so I'm gonna try another d 12 role and get a 4 okay so what does this one say okay, this one's from ah my previous guest Nolan Page deliver a breeding pair of a rare species of animal to a reserve to help them repopulate their numbers. Yeah, between that one and the first one I feel like the first one may be the better bet. So okay, so we're thinking. That's okay, Carrie the Grandma. So the grandmother has to get to the market somehow is the grandmother invalid and then that's why you know like she has like some sort of batpack device that maybe the biggest beefiest character of the party has to like put on their back and then it becomes like a a very. Pleasant sort of escort mission where you're slowly walking through the town and it's like oh I've got grandmother on my back and we have to just get to the market and you know our tailor shop is on the way edge of the town and so now we're having to do like an urban encounter or an urban interlude where we're navigating our way through the city. 21:30.82 sidekqpodcast Um, maybe they're accosted by bandits or maybe Medusas aren't welcome in this town and so they're having to put up with the prejudice of the other villagers or I don't know what do you think anything there is that too wildly far fetched. 21:47.87 sidekqpodcast I was expecting her to have some kind of weird widecres and slight comments as they're walking through. Maybe she's making you know comments about some of the musclebound figures that. 22:06.27 sidekqpodcast Um, okay, so so Grandma's a little Grandma's a little sitting is like silly it is like oh you're a big strong boy and it's like okay I'm just trying to carry you in a backpack I don't I don't need Grandma flirting with me right now. Okay, that could be fun. Okay, so so Grandma's making comments pointing out things in the town. Um, and then okay, so so the simple enough side quest we just got to get grandma out of the market. She's in this batpack contraption because you know for for reasons you know maybe the wheelchairs in the shop and. You know or or you know the or whatever it could be for whatever reason we leave it open to the Dms to be able to invent. We don't necessarily have to spell everything out but I believe in the creativity of the community and maybe if I don't have a good idea someone else will to be able to offer a better explanation for their game. So okay. So we're carrying Grandma tour guide but she's also the one who will also fill you in on rest of the gossip. Oh okay, as you're going through this central part of town. She'll talk about each of the vendors perhaps and gives you a little you know a little bit of gossipy information name. Okay, okay, interesting I like the idea of like the idea of like a tour bus because I know I've studied abroad overseas um I did my study abroad trip back in 2008 and I'm pretty sure we went on like a bus tour of Edinburgh Scotland and so yeah, exactly like that idea of like you're driving around the city and the and the. 23:38.15 sidekqpodcast The the guide is like pointing things out and ah and then when I went to Chicago for a visit we did go on an architectural river boat tour and that's the same thing we're cruising up and down the river and he's on the microphone and pointing out the different things we can see while we're in the river. I was you know you you said the idea about Grandma with ah you know mass shoulder shoulder massaging the muscles and then I remembered oh emperor's new groove when ah easema is on the back of Cronk Cronk has the huge backpack and eismma is in the top of it. So maybe that's what it is. It's not an invalid thing. It's like she wants to ride in style and like a livery but it's a livery that you have to put on your back and shows she's insistent that the player characters ah parade her through town in order to get to the market. Okay, all right? So I can work with that. Um, but now we have to consider what is going to be the reward so the players undergo this mission of parading through the town getting grandma in the backpack and getting her to the market. What's going to be the reward for the players is it going to be something like. Oh I have a spare garments that I'm meaning to sell and I'm going to offer it to you. Ah, the player the heroes the player characters so then that way they could get their hands on like a cloak of invisibility or a tunic of invisibility or. 25:04.18 sidekqpodcast Leather pants of invisibility or something like that You think. 25:11.97 sidekqpodcast Cloak a high level sort of invisibility cloak now is it regular invisibility or is it going to be like greater invisibility because greater invisibility is the one that lets you to be able to like attack and do stuff but you still remain invisible whereas regular invisibility. As soon as you attack or do some sort of action you become immediately immediate immediately visible to the public. So do you think it's like the lower level version of invisibility or the higher level version lower. You think the lower 1. 25:49.58 sidekqpodcast That's a good question. We're trying to figure out the reward. So I mean if you if we successfully help karra with carrying Grandma and this livery through town to get to the market. Um, the batpack livery I agree. 26:06.65 sidekqpodcast Okay, the lower end one. Okay, so yeah, right, right? Yeah cause she's yeah, she's learning from yeah because she's learning from Grandma Grandma could probably make like a greater invissibility one but it probably takes like way longer to get it because the enchantment is takes longer. And stuff like that you think yeah sure. Yeah, yeah, sure fair enough, you know you know, not so hard that players couldn't get it but you know it would it would take some time and resources to actually get something that would hopefully not be too game breaking but you know still. Obey the the context of the spells and stuff like that. So. Okay, so kr rewards the players with a garments like a cloak or a jacket or or something and it allows you to cast invisibility on yourself just once a day. And then once it's used up. You got to wait the next day to be able to cast it again or is it like a number of charges and then you know because that that one's kind of fun like if it lets you do so many number of charges. But then you have to wait till the next dawn for it to recharge and yeah, so let's say it's a. The charges. Okay baby set it on. Okay, all right? Yes, so it's so okay, so like 6 charges so 6 times a day with this cloak or jacket or whatever nice piece of tailoring oh a d 6 bull 6 you know? Okay, okay. 27:38.65 sidekqpodcast Right? fair enough so we'll leave it like a d six. So this garment that you're awarded by Kara gives you a d 6 worth of times to be able to cast invisibility to the wearer specifically and then once they're used up. You got to wait till the next dawn till they come back. Okay, that's. That's balance I like it so we're good with that. But now we have to consider the opposite. So what's going to be the consequence of failure or refusing the call to the adventure. So ka the players stumble upon Kara Kiara ask them hey can you carry my grandmother to the market sheep. Has this whole thing she likes to parade around in styles livery and you know I'm not quite I'm a teenager I'm not quite strong enough to lift my grandmother up but you you barbarian you look like you're strong enough but they say no or you know Lord forbid something tragic happens through town. There's a a mule cart. Pile up and the players trip and fall and grandma falls out of the livey or something like that. What's gonna be the consequence of failure. How is kr gonna react to that is she gonna be like I would imagine pretty upset like oh my gosh you guys drop my grandmother. What's wrong with you sits on her full dutie of about. Oh okay, so now she becomes a full-fledged Medusa and now the party has to deal with a medusa who's not intentionally like stereotypically like oh I'm an evil monster and I'm gonna get you. It's like like suddenly like everyone starts seeing her. Everyone starts going petrified. She freaks out because she doesn't know what's going on. 29:14.40 sidekqpodcast And now it's a mad chase through the city because you're trying to get a hold of her to stop her from turning everyone into stone because she's panicking like I don't know why everyone's turning so it's like an x-men sort of situation of like oh my x-men powers are manifesting and I can't control them. Okay I like that. So if Grandma gets dropped. If any harm comes to grandma from the if through the course of this Medusa x-men powers activate okay is she does she handle it differently if you just refuse like hey can you carry my grandma in this batpack thing and they say no does she react differently. Yeah, right? that doesn't seem like it's triggering enough trying. Okay, and then of course obviously they miss out on the free piece of clothing they have to pay full price now. No discounts. It's gonna be very, you're gonna have to roll a disadvantage on persuasion checks to get her to even consider giving you a discount kind of a thing. Yeah. But if you help Grandma out. Maybe I'm willing to give you a discount or something like that. Okay, all right? Um I also have a series of optional questions that kind of help to round out the character a little more fully are you interested in exploring any of those. 30:35.44 sidekqpodcast Or do you feel like Karra is pretty well figured out as far as the medusa goes. 30:43.94 sidekqpodcast Those questions are yeah I mean I can run run through them real quick. So yeah, sure. Okay, so our questions that we have what are the goals and motivations of Kiara. How do these affect her general personality. Um, how does she interact with people she pretty consistent across the board or she pretty nuanced depending on who she's talking to does she have a particular accent or language that she uses are there any idiosyncrasies in how she speaks what impact has she made on the world. How has she shape shaped the local area and then finally does she have any current problems that prevent her from being a bigger player on the stage. So that's the pool of optional questions that sometimes guest of the podcast I'm I'm gesturing here you and the and the audio version won't see me gesturing to a pair of empty seats but you in the Youtube video will see. Um, gesturing to a pair of empty seats. Um, but yeah, sometimes guests on the show will explore the optional questions because they really get invested in this character that we've made and they kind of want to they want to dig deeper and figure something out. So do any of those questions speak to you. 31:56.51 sidekqpodcast Like I know earlier you you mentioned like the the valley girl bubbly aspect. So does she talk like a valley girl. Okay so kr is totally a valley girl in her impersonate and her speaking. Okay. Does that translate as well for her general demeanor and personality or she speaks like a valley girl but she's like you know like I'm all serious about being a tailor. She's all that serious. Okay, so she's loyal and you know she's over ambittious and so that's where she like oh I pricked my finger again from doing it but she's still totally a hundred percent like a 1980 S Valley girl kind of a thing she still young. She had a quite figured out. Yeah, still young. So she certainly doesn't have much bigger. Yeah, okay, all right? Okay, so all right we got the we got the accent and the the voice down. Um, okay, ah, any other other ones speaking to you or should we go ahead and move into the next section. Random encounter section. 33:06.37 sidekqpodcast Yeah, okay, all right? well without further ado we'll head into the next section. The random encounter. 33:23.65 sidekqpodcast All right? So this is normally the part of the show where I do a role play vignette a little scene a little bit of ah improvisational Dvd on the d and d Dvds goodness I don't have Dvds improvisational d and d on the spot. Um, so usually it's kind of easier to do when you have a guest with you to kind of riff off of it is entirely possible to just do a 1 man show kind of a thing. Um, but yeah, ah, well, um, but far be it for me to force an audience member to come up here and sit next to me and like roleplay a scene now i'm. Again I'm happy to do it all myself. But I'm kind of curious. What scene are you interested in seeing karra presented in is this going to be like kiaa speaking with the grandmother is it Kara speaking with a party of adventurers asking them to take on the side quest mission. Um I don't know what kind of scene are you interested in seeing Kiara kind of come to life. 34:25.39 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah, they kind of go together. You know she has to talk to Grandma first to figure out you know what it is that grandma needs today that happens to be she needs to be carried. Okay, let see I can do you know and then she has kind of start flying and down races will take all my class. Okay, all right? and so the the the podcast does have okay, no sorry. Ah. You're right? Okay, so we're just doing grandma ka I was going to say I could go ahead and roll out the whole list of podcast adventure characters because then that would give me an idea of like possibly who she could meet and then we like leave the question open of oh does this person take the sidequest or not but okay. So. It'll be me a 1 man show basically doing a valley girl teen and then an elderly grandmother figure and they're talking back and forth. Okay, all right? So we're gonna set the scene then so we are at the Tailor Shop um you know this very exclusive one and this ah you know and because they're Medusas. Maybe they weren't quite able to get that downstown real estate next to the market that they wanted that Grandma wanted all those years ago and ever since her daughter had the strange idea of going off to find the the. 35:49.98 sidekqpodcast The path to becoming a deity figure and there is a nice little altar set up in their tailor shop to their to her daughter and to kyar's mom this deity figure. Um, it brings them both joy and sadness to be able to see this and. Slowly burgeoning goddess figure who serves ah tailors and medusas and other domain aspects yet. Ah yet unknown that are you know, still being discovered as this new deity is emerging but Grandma's feeling antsy and she's feeling. Um, she's feeling. You know, kind of sassy today and so she's like Kaa. Ah Kara I want to go to the market today and she's like oh my gosh Grandma. What do you mean We just went to the market yesterday I need to go and get some fresh produce and she's like ah okay, all do. Do I need to get like my my outfit or you want to wear this one or that one and she's like no no, no, no, no, no, no today I'm feeling quite blessed and proud your mother she sees us and she blesses us. Um, yes, but I feeling rather regal than I want to be carried. 37:03.73 sidekqpodcast you know I can't pick you up. Well, that's not my problem. It's yours isn't it and she's like all right, you're right? Yes, okay I guess it is my problem to figure out and so she sees the the batpack livery that she just is in love with she bought it like years ago. Ah, grandpa used to carry her around in it because you know grandpa was a big strong lad and he since passed on. So no one else has really been able to take grandma in the delivery and so she's like measuring. You know she pulls out her tailor's measuring tape and she's getting dimensions. And ah so then she begins to ah she's like okay grandma just wait here. You know here here's your tea sit down relax take a load off and don't worry I promise we'll get to the market. Don't you worry and so she goes outside and I imagine it's a very funny montage scene as she's like. Calling out to people some people give her a wide berth because you know she's still a medusa people unfortunately still have those prejudices and stigmas and they're like oh okay, um, you know so some people like cool down a little bit because they realize they're not being turned to stone. Um, but she's going around. She's not helping her case because she's going around with a measuring tape and she's measuring these gentlemen's backs. She's trying to figure out like who's big enough to be able to lift her grandma up and and then as some sort of unseen adventure characters approach with like paladins and fighters. 38:32.34 sidekqpodcast And barbarians in tow. It's just a rowdy rowdy burly party of men start to come down the road and her eyes open wide and she gets so excited and giddy as they start to approach and she starts to wave and hail them down and ah and we will see. If kyaa is able to successfully convince them to help carry grandma to the market and seen so you know a little quick short and easy scene. But ah thank you Thank you? The golf collapse I appreciate it. You seriously you 2 have been great I appreciate the collaborative. You know this podcast is a very collaborative sort of a thing. It's easy enough to talk into a microphone lots of podcasts out there are just someone talking into a microphone but kind of the ethos and the idea of this podcast is that it's you know d and d is a very communal hobby. And it works best when we're storytelling and working with others and so it just means a lot that ah you know the 2 of you came here and I appreciate that and I don't mind getting emotional about that a little bit. So thank you? So what did you think of ah getting to be at sidekicks and cyclwise live and to get to help be here and. Ah, be a part of the process of making Chiara. 39:52.26 sidekqpodcast Smiles smiles, polite, polite smiles and golf claps come up with have input to a character that would be met by party but you never know what you're running to exactly yeah that's I think that's the real. Hidden gem of this podcast is that you know because every guest that comes on which I haven't I haven't forgot. We're going to. We're going to get your inputs once this stops rolling and you're going to get to add in your own responses to my table. So then that way when you're listening to future episodes. Sidekicks and sidequest and someone rolls on the tables and you hear your name. You'll know that it's you who's contributed to the next great npc that someone else will be able to get to carry into their games. So um, so yeah I think that's the hidden and gem is that truly they can be. You know, actualized and based on real people. So like sometimes what seems like silly odd combinations of things when you really are forced to be creative. You can make like real people like oh a medusa who's a tailor. Oh but she has a grandma and a mom who ascended to godhood. And she's trying to live up to Grandma's expectations but she's still a teenager and she's still trying to find herself in the world and how many well I don't know how many people's moms have ever ascended to godhood but plenty of other young. 41:16.24 sidekqpodcast Teen girls that you know live with Grandma and they're trying to bond with Grandma and make grandma proud but they're also still trying to find themselves so we are able to find these very human relatable empathetic stories in seemingly ah goofy npcs and side quest that are made on this podcast. So that's what I hope that i'm. Ah, delivering and and leaving for the community to be able to have so as we're here I guess in the final closing moments of the podcast. Um I always like to well I always like to leave it to the the guest the you know the. You know the the platform the stage the microphone microphone soapbox and whatnot um to be able to plug whatever they got so you know is there any any cause or passion that you are invested in that you think you know. Maybe it's just the 2 of you here in the audience but I hope that this podcast will this episode will go far and wide and so is there a particular charity or cause or passion or something that you think that our audience needs to know about that you can share here in the final moments. Since we were talking about grandmother granddaughter relationships. You know there's a lot of grandmothers out there who are. 42:36.84 sidekqpodcast Grandmother got it. So that's my big thing is sporting alzheimer's support your grandparents. Okay, they give you information that. Okay I like that. Yeah, so so our our shout out here for alzheimer's awareness and support so anything that we can do to help raise awareness and charitable funds towards research and helping and caregiving of those. Ah, who are suffering from alzheimer's and for support of of grandparents everywhere I know yeah I've I've lost all my grandparents now my my grandmother ah just passed away this past December. Um, so yeah I totally believe and agree and ah you know. Reaching out to your grandparents I know not everyone necessarily gets the best family situation. But if you're able to I would encourage you to you know, reach out to your grandparents. Let them know you love them and if you don't have a grandparents anymore then certainly. Lean on your elderly next door neighbors or go visit a nursing home and they I'm sure they would love to have you there. You should run games of dungeons and dragons for your local nursing home I think you should give grandpa and grandma an adventure I think they would love you. You know. 44:00.56 sidekqpodcast Lots of people go to nursing homes and they play pianos or they do comedy shows or whatever I think I'm gonna up you I'm gonna up the challenge here on the internet now for my audience I want you to go run d and d for Grandma and grandpa whether that your dining room table or your kitchen table or the nursing home. You should do that. Is there any cause or passion or anything that you want to share? No okay, well we are here. We're live at fakecon and so I thank my audience for being gracious with me and and indulging me and getting the journey with me as we got to make kiara today. Um, so I can't wait to be back here tomorrow nine a m and three o'clock p m I'm running games. So I've got some prep work to do tonight to get ready for those so ah without much further ado take care god bless and we'll see you next time on sidekicks and sidewise.