00:01.58 Chef Mike Haracz And that's how I won the lotto see. It's really easy to just oh ah, G are you gonna let the people we're gonna get through this but we've got a little bit of tactical difficulties little late but we're gonna figure what we're making it happen. 00:15.37 sidekqpodcast Yep yep yeah editors note yeah 2024 is already off to a ah wild start as far as this podcast season 5 is concerned. Yep yes, so ah, yeah, so you were. 00:23.36 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, nice. 00:30.47 sidekqpodcast Had this opportunity to interview on the red carpet in a Chef's outfit so you know not only just the the the gimmick of it but like you you brought the genuine spirit and and nerd presence and you're like no I've been steeped in this culture all my life and I. And I just happen to have a passion for cooking and and food and what goes into it and all this stuff right. 00:49.34 Chef Mike Haracz Um, ever. 00:52.52 Chef Mike Haracz Yes, I've always had like kind of like a main gig so being a research chef and things like that I've always had side thing I always do ridiculous things on the side. So whether it's talk about my love for gaming. Play guitar and a bunch of hard rock metal bands got into running a marathon got into playing darts golf competition barbecue like I always do just goofy things on the side for fun. Um. And you know trying to build a social media presence as well. I early on kind of felt that it's important to have influence. Unfortunately, that's kind of how the world works which when the pandemic hit I actually lost my role in a different job. And had to figure out what to do so I was able to not only be a consultant for the research chef stuff but I became content creator chef mike as well started a Youtube page and got some brand deals to kind of help support my family at that time early covid days were not great for the finances. 02:01.61 sidekqpodcast Me but. 02:03.54 Chef Mike Haracz Um, but being able to like do a little bit of everything I was able to ah yeah, pay some bills and ah still talk about all the things that I love. 02:13.57 sidekqpodcast That's wonderful. Ah, excellent and ah yeah, listeners can't see but I'm I'm holding up a prayer Jester. Thank the lord symbol in my hand because we've made it past our our barrier where where we've been having issues. So I feel like now. The fates. Ah the deed 20 rolls are on our favor now. So as we keep on this theme of ah you know this being a dungeons and dragons podcast maybe not a conventional one. Not an actual play but an interview show I do have to ask? Do you currently or have you overplay dungeons and dragons before. 02:30.59 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 02:45.40 Chef Mike Haracz But I have a dungeons and dragons tattoo on my body right there. So yes, we have met I currently play in a three five edition and Dm a five eight they are both. 02:51.72 sidekqpodcast But wow. 03:03.65 Chef Mike Haracz Super homebrew. So I am not an expert in specific d and d lore in both games like the Dm for the other game and what I do in my game. It is almost exclusively homebrew campaign storyline settings and all that. Ah. You know when I decided to Dm my 5 v game I was like how do should I start so I was on Devon Rue's ah, web website and she makes the you know, amazing cartographer and there was just this poster of like that looks like a cool setting. It felt like Euphoros Peninsula it had town names I'm like. This is where I'm goingnna start so I bought that and I'm like start writing let's create a world. What are my players gonna do? What's what's the shtick and all that. So again I I love me some dungeons and dragons. But. Super d and d nerds are upset that I don't have the lower knowledge. Ah you know, backing settings and pantheon of gods and and all that stuff. But that's ok I I love it my own way. 04:08.83 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, no for sure if you listen to season 1 episodes you know again talking about the thick of the pandemic I was like oh I need to like boost up my content I'll do in between week episodes and I'll just start sharing like home brew. Notes and a lot of it covers like a lot of pantheons of my world and stuff like that and ah, you know the aim with this podcast is to help other dungeon masters and other players out there that it's like hey if you need just an npc but there's like a whole world flush around the npc you can figure out a way to like. 04:43.18 Chef Mike Haracz Sir. 04:44.60 sidekqpodcast Plug in that Npc into your game and suddenly now your players are interested in. Ah you know undead Wizard Lich beekeepers in the world when maybe they didn't exist before So ah yeah, so with this podcast being called sidekicks and side quests. 04:55.98 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah. 05:03.87 sidekqpodcast Like to ask the question who is your favorite Npc ah, whether they be from a ah rpg a video game. Maybe 1 of your games that you run or play in or if not maybe they're from a piece of literature movie, film, television, etc. And why again, why is this character. Your favorite sideca or your favorite npc. 05:23.57 Chef Mike Haracz So I'm going to slightly break the rules because you can play as this character in the game but they are not efficient and they're a background character. So some of my favorite Jr video games of all times are the jrpgs which are I believe I'm saying it right. Sukoin and Suko in 2 or su oin s su I k o d e n and those were one of the first games where you can be a chef character so I was like oh I got to play the chef character again. They're not the most efficient. 05:47.65 sidekqpodcast Okay. 05:53.58 sidekqpodcast Oh. 06:01.11 Chef Mike Haracz Um, the the shtick of the game is you could choose 108 different characters once you have a full roster. Ah so you have a party of 6 and you can mix and match whoever you want to play outfit them. However, you want strategically strategically. They're not the strongest you know character. 06:08.58 sidekqpodcast And. 06:14.00 sidekqpodcast Wow right now I'm oh no I was just saying you said that and now I'm reminded I think 1 time on a post you were you said something about like oh where's a. 06:20.71 Chef Mike Haracz But in sweeter than oh yeah. 06:30.42 sidekqpodcast Whereas is Marvel comics or where Dc comics with the the chef superhero and I think I did end up sharing a link to you from from the podcast account I was like oh yeah Marvel did end up making a chef superhero character that you could that you could read about. Maybe it was a smaller print run. 06:35.76 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 06:44.91 Chef Mike Haracz Um, ah. 06:48.40 sidekqpodcast Ah, but yeah so I was like that's cool. So you found a video game 2 like a series, 2 video games that would allow you to play as a chef character integrate them into your party. 06:56.11 Chef Mike Haracz Absolutely like you know food and cooking was already in other video games and stuff like that. But this is the first time I felt like his role in the game is chef and you could play as him so in Suko and 2 hi yo is the name of the character. And also what I like about him so he steals this secret family recipe and has these like techniques that he uses so the rest of the chef clan are like trying to iron chef battle him to get the recipe back and. What he learned you know what he tries to bestow on other people and teach them is f your technique. It's about making other people. Happy. It's about putting Tlc into what you do I don't need a recipe for that. We're create and I was like yeah, that's exactly how I feel as you know a person as well. Ah, so there was a lot to relate to with that with that character. So and then he was you know he ran the restaurant in this castle feeding the armies feeding the other characters and. Ah, so yeah, he's a I'm a big fan of his so you can't play as him but he is a background character I'm still going to go with him. 08:09.85 sidekqpodcast Awesome And then same thing what has been one of your favorite side quests whether it's been an Rpg video game movie, film, television, etc and why has this side quest this B Plot element stuck with you. 08:27.80 Chef Mike Haracz I mean I it's I unfortunately kind of answered that in my last shtick was it's the journey of finding out that like hey I'm going to battle. Ah, you know this highly technical well trained. Every metric that other person should win but they might have that chip on their shoulder cocky attitude of like this is how it should taste. This is how I want to make it and ah Hao's character was like no I'm going to cook for other people. What they want. And cook with passion and and heart and things like that so that was a pretty big. Um you know influence and kind of little little quest of the game that I liked um, what would be another good one I also play and this is. A little more modern but still an older game. It's called kingdoms of amalor re reckoning and they're the ah it's a game where in the media. The studio went bankrupt they were based in Rhode Island there was like all this hype for the game and then the studio went under and and all that stuff. 09:22.73 sidekqpodcast M. 09:40.27 Chef Mike Haracz Um, but there are all these little side quests of I need you to find these reagents to make these potions to heal the town so you have to go and explore and find these ingredients to mix together to make a thing to solve the problems. And that was always a fun little adventure because I will exploit everything that is allowed to level up my character as fast as possible if it's in the game and you did not stop me from the I will exploit it 100% of the time. 10:08.72 sidekqpodcast So. 10:16.99 Chef Mike Haracz To level up to the best of my ability and that was one of those things like I could just do these little side Quest and just become a beast of a character doing all of these side Quest and and that's always my shtick even when I try not to do it I Just continually do it. 10:35.33 sidekqpodcast Right? So if it's like ah rats in the basement Just there's always rats in the basement or a fallout four where you just went into the building I'm just gonna put a bunch of fence posts all around here and just get the experience points for it because all I'm doing is just putting. 10:38.37 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah. 10:49.99 sidekqpodcast Ah, you know I'm just building things in settlements and stuff like that now suddenly I can like 1 ne-shot anyone that comes along in the game and I have. 10:51.87 Chef Mike Haracz Um. 10:55.78 Chef Mike Haracz Love fallout for I crushed fallout for every city I took over every place walls over everything like the most efficient there is. There's a in cyberp punk. You know, Twenty seventy s and the newest one. There's an area where you have to like go through a minefield of like. Ah, hundreds of minds and you get experience points for deactivating or activating and do it and I'm like I'll go through every single one of these I'll take as much time as I need get the experience points for deactivating these minds with you know you put it in the game. 11:32.98 sidekqpodcast So right? Well yeah, same thing with the the fallout 3 and there was the minefield one you just sent you just saying that and I know it's not the same developer. But you know the same idea kind of a thing. But yeah, ah. 11:33.97 Chef Mike Haracz Um, going to do it. 11:40.57 Chef Mike Haracz Um, and. 11:47.46 sidekqpodcast Well I'm I'm also a 76 player I've I've taken a break from it because I'm finally getting around to plane doom 2016 so that's been fun to to be the doom sur and all that. So ah, yeah, and then the final question we ask in the personal interview section of the show. 11:53.60 Chef Mike Haracz Um, nice. Yes. 12:06.23 sidekqpodcast What are you passionate about and why why. 12:11.31 Chef Mike Haracz I'm passionate about a lot of things. What I'm most passionate about is like helping other people live in my best dad life. So I you know raising my 2 little girls to be badasses. Um. Helping those that maybe are underrepresented underprivileged if there's things I could do so I I work currently work for a big old corporation. No one's ever heard of in a building with a lot of shared Kitchens and I'm next to mom and pop caterers that are like. This is their life and they might be struggling so anything I can do to help support and provide and you know, kind of put smile on people's faces. That's ah, that's what I like doing and I always like having something fun on the side to either learn about. Or you know, get my stresses out doing it or hit that done and krueger level of I know enough about this subject to realize I don't know or I'm bad at the thing but I know I'm bad I'm not I don't have unrealistic like I love golf I am so bad I am. I lose dozens of balls playing but I love it. But I learned enough about it to know like the ins and outs how I should be getting better. You know things like that. So. It's kind of ah I just love learning about a lot of different things. 13:38.75 sidekqpodcast Yeah I think the bards set at best ah operation Ivy All I know is that I don't know all I know is that I don't know nothing? Yeah, ah all right? Well ah technical difficulties aside and all that we made it through the personal interview section. 13:45.50 Chef Mike Haracz Um, fact, fact. 13:53.86 Chef Mike Haracz Um, boom. 13:56.40 sidekqpodcast But now I think it's time to head into some Npc creation. 13:57.68 Chef Mike Haracz Yes I have paper notes I got my dice ready? yes. 14:05.39 sidekqpodcast All right? Yes, the enthusiasm and we should carry that through with the ah the thank you of course to our patrons on Patreon they're the ones who bring us and sponsor npc creation. So now is the time of the show where we give our shoutouts. 14:12.00 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 14:20.60 sidekqpodcast To everyone who supports us so the queen of the Patreon of course is Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie and of course our other wealthy level patrons as well including ah Anson Jablinsky and Nicholas carterelli and good old mom and dad we say cheers and thank you so much again if you want to learn more. About the Patreon and all the rewards that come with all the different expense levels. You know they model what's represented in danddfivev. So ah, comfortable, wealthy and ah and aristocratic accommodations await for you so learn more by going to the the show notes below. Go to my podcast website or just go directly to patreon.com/sidekicks and sidequest and help us expand our operations in the levitating platter in this demiplane and worlds beyond and that's the pitch. 15:08.31 Chef Mike Haracz Shout Shout shout out to mom and dad my mom and dad were the son you're playing a medal show at one in the morning at some diebar fine will be there and they're always there so they're though they were the old people who were the.. Thank you Mom and dad for sporting. 15:27.68 sidekqpodcast Yeah, no we we we are big proponents of ah of of of that familial love and ah, you know, parents supporting their children for sure. So yeah, so now is the part of the show we get to do the the sidekick part we get to make up a character. So. I Know we talked a little bit beforehand. But ah, you have an idea and then I've got random tables. We can go through to roll Dice. So It's up to you. Are we going to do a combo both pick one or the other or how should we begin. 15:56.62 Chef Mike Haracz Maybe a combo of both because I got notes so I was playing around with an idea um couple things I want to make maybe not the most efficient Npc So we might ah you know making sure the. 16:00.13 sidekqpodcast So. 16:11.92 Chef Mike Haracz Min Max is appropriate does no concern to me whatsoever. Ah I had the idea of somebody who has the fighting ability of a monk while being a very savvy. 16:14.41 sidekqpodcast Excellent, excellent. 16:30.87 Chef Mike Haracz Business person who was a um antiquities kind of store owner that got so popular and they had multiple locations and then sold it off to somebody So Now they live roaming around. Consulting with locals on how to run their antiquity businesses and things of that nature. Um, So there's a lot of intelligent and wisdom and Monk related shenanigans with this type of character. 17:06.54 sidekqpodcast Mm I know it's in the news recently because you know Dwayne the rock johnson just got to be named on the board of directors for the company that owns the Ww which I speculated on vacation I was like. 17:12.82 Chef Mike Haracz Are yeah. 17:21.42 sidekqpodcast Oh there there was some like big thing that happened with the rock on on social media I wonder if that means like is he just going to buy like the Wwe W or something like that. But I guess getting on the board of directors. Ah. 17:27.87 Chef Mike Haracz I think he could yeah or at least have that influence. Yeah to be an executive level individual makes sense. Ok. 17:38.56 sidekqpodcast Right? So I'm getting the major I'm getting major the rock vibes. But it's like you know I was a monk and it's like I'm so successful and stuff like that and I've got all these businesses now I'm just gonna be on the road and ah doing my thing and consulting and just like you know where's the sharp suits or whatever. 17:45.74 Chef Mike Haracz F. 17:56.70 sidekqpodcast And you don't you you? Yeah, you don't suspect. Yeah. 17:56.70 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, yeah, ah I want to look yes I agree with that a thoughtss were a little less conspicuous than somebody who looks like the rock showing up but that makes but absolutely understand what you're what you're going with so like even if a little. Slenders but like you know Bruce Lee under his clothes is just absolute ripped. But if it's somebody in a nice you know vest with maybe ah like a leathery trench coat that also has a lot of pockets to hide some things. Um, ah maybe like a pocket watch. And not over the top. Not full of themself not dressing to impress per se but understanding like not plain clothes. But you know I'm well put together I savvy um, kind of individual. 18:39.69 sidekqpodcast Um. 18:48.10 sidekqpodcast Perfect. So yeah, the unsuspecting level twenty monk when your players are being a little uppity and they're being mean to this guy and then suddenly you know he does ah a three inch punch and the there's like a just a a giant crater of a hole in the chest of the perfect. 18:57.88 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was not logic. It was not logical of you to act in this manner, especially when we have. 19:07.20 sidekqpodcast Um, so. 19:13.42 Chef Mike Haracz These yeah X Y Z reasons why I want this person to be very savvy very witty like ah yeah, you know what? you know what? I don't recommend you talk to me like that right now just because now you're in disrespectful territory like we'll we'll let it go. 19:16.60 sidekqpodcast M. 19:22.61 sidekqpodcast Who. 19:29.15 Chef Mike Haracz No I Really recommend you. Do not do that. It is not going to end well for you So you're going to need to calm down and then if it's game time he can just end it real quick and listen I told you what was going to Happen. We talked it Out. You're now on the floor I'll get you some ice. I Told you exactly what was going to happen so that kind of and someone who you know this is not the person who wants to go out and fight Dragons. This is a person who can organize a team understanding strength and weaknesses plan accordingly. 19:58.41 sidekqpodcast Um. 20:06.21 Chef Mike Haracz Do research So I guess maybe a little that I'm trying to make someone good. Do I Guess a little bit of everything I guess um but is not the most like dealing damage in a mass you know mass level kind of thing but can influence. 20:12.77 sidekqpodcast Um. 20:14.94 sidekqpodcast Right. 20:21.66 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, understands influence. So I even have a little notes once we get to it about the side Quest What it can be so. 20:24.48 sidekqpodcast Perfect. Okay, yeah, so it sounds like we've got a wild ambition So we'll we'll we'll take those in and then maybe we'll throw a little chaos in with some dice rolls and see how it changes the character. So. 20:37.20 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yes. 20:41.12 sidekqpodcast The first question we have is what is the name of our character. So if you got that or if you want to roll the dice we have that too. 20:48.33 Chef Mike Haracz Got got it I have a because again as a Dm I forget where I it's right here it is called ah Kismates Fantasy name Compendium and there are ah let's see. 21:00.86 sidekqpodcast Mmm. 21:04.77 Chef Mike Haracz Seven thousand seven hundred and twenty five names in alphabetical order that you you can combine. However, you want so I came up with Lugo Aberggast and that's 2 a's at the end so that way if they're listed in any kind of. 21:07.92 sidekqpodcast Ok, ok. 21:21.73 Chef Mike Haracz Something or other it's 2 a's which puts them first on a list in alphabetical order which is strategic so you see his name first from app. Yes, strategic. Yep. 21:29.72 sidekqpodcast Ok L L U Yes strategic for sure. So L U G O Lugo and then Aberggast a B E R G A a S t. 21:42.21 Chef Mike Haracz a a b e r g a ST you got to have the 2 a's at the beginning so that way in alphabet and this is the person who started aberggast antiquities who then sold sold it off so his name his brand is out there. 21:49.27 sidekqpodcast Ah, that yeah okay. 22:01.48 Chef Mike Haracz But he actually has no association with Aberggast antiquities anymore. 22:04.43 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, all right I like it. Okay and then let's see. Okay, so the next question here. What is the ancestry of our character. 22:14.66 Chef Mike Haracz This is where we could either roll or discuss because I want some monk but I want high wisdom and intelligence. 22:20.71 sidekqpodcast M. 22:27.55 Chef Mike Haracz So it could be as inefficient. You know whichever it could be any race that does not help in any of those scenarios. Ah I think like I once played like a goliath monk which does not its strength you know Goliath you get a bunch of the stat boost in strength. 22:32.75 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah. 22:43.99 sidekqpodcast M. 22:46.10 Chef Mike Haracz But monks is dexterity based so that does not help at all whatsoever. Um, so I'm trying to think of what would be a good like wisdom intelligent boosted race. 22:57.34 sidekqpodcast Do you want to try and do some d 100 roles and maybe see what we populate maybe get a pool and then see what you like from there. 23:01.43 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, yes, yes, love it. 23:11.12 Chef Mike Haracz Let me get now get my doors cool and I have percentile and my D tens ready to go. 23:22.95 sidekqpodcast Excellent. So yeah, if you want to give us a d 100 role let's see what a possibility is. 23:31.83 Chef Mike Haracz 85 23:35.58 sidekqpodcast 85 scrolling down the list. Okay, interesting. Ah, do you think that a Lugo Abergast is possibly a modron. 23:45.99 Chef Mike Haracz Ok, let's make it that that the dice decided this for us I'm fine with that. 23:53.91 sidekqpodcast Okay, ah well I know with Modrons I think the higher your number it's like the the bigger you are in the pecking order because like if you're just a one then like you're just like a drone. But if you're like up to 5 then you're like pretty important or something. So do you think. Lugo is like 1 of these ah the 5 version of a ah of a modron as I very quickly hear try my phone and figure out hey what are all the different modrons called. 24:21.48 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah I would say because this is somebody who built a business somebody who again smart savvy can live in the world of. Big business and corporate executive controls. So you know that that relates to running a town or you know, understanding how to like schmooze a king or Queen or whatever it might be so I would say and ah someone who was. 24:51.23 sidekqpodcast Mm. 24:55.50 Chef Mike Haracz Upper Echelon but is not you know, full of themselves understands in that manner. 25:02.47 sidekqpodcast I see So yeah, so just for our audience out there again if you haven't flipped that far into the monster manual to figure out what a modron is they've been ah or around since the earliest editions of D and D but you have monod drones duo Drones Trid Drones Quad drones and pentadrons. 25:19.89 sidekqpodcast And if we're imagining that like maybe Lugo is like a pentadrone that means he's like a category large size creature ah going around challenge rating to so you know ah of course a Dm can monkey with the stats like sure if I want to make a pentadrone just walking around the world. Who started this antiquities business empire and now all of a sudden. Ah you know is just being a monk on the road and just ah, consulting and stuff or if you want to roll again on the d one hundreds you're you know you're more than welcome to as well. Okay. 25:50.84 Chef Mike Haracz Um, like no the dice. The dice give us and the dice take us. 25:58.95 sidekqpodcast All right? So the pentar known as Lugo Abergga okay and of course you know and this podcast were also you were mentioning. You do a lot of ah Homerew stuff I certainly do a lot of Homerew stuff I don't have the forgotten realms downloaded in my brain. So. If we go off script and it's not what it says that a modron can do well then this particular unique modron. This is how he do so we'll we'll say that to our naysayers and the angry I don't ever get angry or mean comments. But maybe this will be the one that does it who knows. 26:24.77 Chef Mike Haracz Is above it. 26:36.50 sidekqpodcast It just will feed into the algorithm or or whatnot. So um, so it sounds like we got the job or role in society already figured out that you know he was that he's this Merchant Merchant Prince or Merchant King. However, you wish to envision that correct the started the business and then left sold it. 26:50.96 Chef Mike Haracz Love it. 26:55.89 sidekqpodcast And now is just traveling the world seeing the world right. 26:56.42 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah I Yeah I I did I succeeded what what I thought might have taken a lifetime I quickly figured everything out. It got to a size where it's like you know what? I'm happy with what's going on here I'm going to get unload. This. For others to continue On. So now I have the ability like I have no ties I can go do. It's almost like a ah you know Cowboy movie or a roaming Samurai Kung food type like I'm going to go town to town and help like the little guy. 27:34.66 Chef Mike Haracz Out and and help those in need and you know even though I Grew a business appropriately Maybe he's looking for those that wish Ill will on others or those that are um, ah you know not doing things in appropriate just manner. And that will that'll tie into a little side. Quest idea that I have a little later. 27:54.20 sidekqpodcast Um. 27:57.56 sidekqpodcast Perfect there we go and how old do you imagine this character is if he's a modron and he's a pentoron what I don't even know the concept of age. So. 28:04.86 Chef Mike Haracz Um, how I don't know yeah is there a range for that. Um. 28:13.17 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, let me see if I can very quickly find Abilities society. No it all open do I Still have you. 28:29.90 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yes I am still held hello hello who okay sorry sorry. 28:31.61 sidekqpodcast Okay, good all right I'll I'll make sure I chop out that part. Um, no, you're good. Um, yeah I don't know physiological. It doesn't really say anything about age is on this wiki page I'm looking at unless more. Um. 28:50.51 sidekqpodcast Oh Well I mean I Guess if the if the idea of a modron is that they're kind of they're and know the law. The law says like oh they're from the plane of like pure law. You know they're these extra dimensional type of beans. So does. Does Lugo view himself as having an age or is that a concept to him. 29:11.70 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, yeah, maybe it's not an age.. It's just I have um, certain benchmarks that I want to hit in my existence and once I reach those I can. Walk off into the sunset and just end existing or something of that nature where like when I feel like I've helped enough people or the world is in a place that I'm happy with I'm gone. 29:29.39 sidekqpodcast M. 29:38.64 sidekqpodcast M. Okay, perfect all right and and age there We go of perfect. So then yeah now we get to take a pause from our dice rolling if ah I always have fun saying that. 29:45.90 Chef Mike Haracz Age unknown age unknown Question mark. 29:58.24 sidekqpodcast Because now it's just a purely you know thought exploration sort of a question of describe the physical appearance if we know that you know he's a pentaron so he doesn't maybe necessarily have an age but he is this merchant ah, a genius. Ah, with with the antiquities business who's now sold it and is this trained monk fighter um, and is named Lugo Abergas when you have all those details in mind and kind of some of the inspiration we were drawing on. Can you describe the physical appearance of this character. 30:32.19 Chef Mike Haracz This is going to be hold on. Let me give me 2 seconds I'm gonna put this phone right here I got to do this one second. Let me look up 1 thing real quick because I have idea. 31:01.50 Chef Mike Haracz Um, okay, um, right? um I would say. 31:16.26 Chef Mike Haracz Remember how we were talking about I Want him to have a vest I want him or them they to have almost like an overcoat trench coat if the appendages of his body actually. 31:28.66 sidekqpodcast Mmm. 31:35.92 Chef Mike Haracz Form The vest and the trench coat. It knows it wants to look a little more human presenting or at least you know more you know standard let's say human-ish type form but a lot of the appendage is. 31:52.51 sidekqpodcast Mm. 31:55.80 Chef Mike Haracz Held on his body in a way that makes it look like appropriate trench coat vest clothing while having I still obviously having an interesting face as ah as they do, um. 32:07.71 sidekqpodcast Next. 32:11.59 Chef Mike Haracz I Think that could be ah interesting like it's so it's self-aware of its own look that it's trying to present in an appropriate like yeah I know I'm a pendrone but you know I can still act somewhat like a normal society. 32:13.86 sidekqpodcast So we. 32:31.35 Chef Mike Haracz Type entity I guess. 32:33.79 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah I was going to say you were describing that and I was totally getting ah original 1980 s early nineteen ninety s animated ninja turtle vibes because they you know they wear they wear the trench coats and they have the hat they still have their bandanaas with their coloration. 32:43.50 Chef Mike Haracz Who said. 32:50.79 sidekqpodcast And they still obviously look like a giant Humanoid turtle. But it's like oh because I'm wearing the trench coat and the hat it's like I'm not as conspicuous I Guess okay. 32:51.73 Chef Mike Haracz Ah. 32:59.47 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, yeah I like that idea. So yeah, even like um man that is a hard one but I I don't want it to be like intimidating big bulky either. You know, not the Rock. Or not a menacing big machine thing I want it to still like it understands emotion I mean because which is kind of goes against ah this still I Guess not really. 33:33.19 sidekqpodcast So well there they exist higher up and you know in the in the in the Mac in the pyramid, the hierarchy or whatever like that so they have more access to you know information and and being able to process things and stuff versus like. 33:35.00 Chef Mike Haracz Maybe. 33:49.78 sidekqpodcast A little monodron. Maybe you can just only talk in like bits and like yes or no and like just garbled garber garbled sort of speak whereas you know? Yeah, our 2 beeps whereas like you know this is more of like ah you know, ah kind of like a. 33:52.30 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yeah, art are 2 beeps poop up poop poop. 34:07.00 sidekqpodcast Bigger more exaggerated version of C three P or something like that and maybe he's a unique pen to drone I mean as long as he has like I guess five sides or something like that to represent you know, maybe the the limbs you know because maybe he's an experimental. 34:08.96 Chef Mike Haracz Okay, yeah I like that idea. Yeah interesting. 34:24.66 sidekqpodcast Ah, penta drone. You know to be made more like actual passing on Humanoid so. 34:28.51 Chef Mike Haracz Um, I'm yeah yeah I'm I'm thinking of like if it's more of Star shaped entity where one appendage is almost face like. 34:38.55 sidekqpodcast And. 34:41.19 Chef Mike Haracz the the 2 lower appendages go across. He holds himself across his body like a vest the other 2 might be a jacket looking thing or that could be more standard. Not really standard arm looking. But. 34:47.59 sidekqpodcast Mm. 34:57.39 Chef Mike Haracz You know he tries to present in a professional ish type manner real with self-ware that he's a penta drone and that's might be a little awkward looking. 35:02.24 sidekqpodcast Um. 35:06.27 sidekqpodcast So there we go yeah and then of course with his ah mind he's able to have all these fantastic business insights which is how he's been able to succeed as a consultant. It seems. 35:18.26 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, Probability and statistics understanding Trends understanding marketing and how to market to ah yes it Yeah, it is its own algorithm that then I know how and like this antiquity. 35:23.90 sidekqpodcast I am plugged into the algorithm I hear the algorithm speak to me and. 35:35.35 Chef Mike Haracz I Know that this thing this precious jewel actually has no worth but people want to spend a lot of money on this Diamond or this whatever so business Savvy I'm going to sell it for the appropriate price. The fair market value based on what other people want. Even though in my heart of heart I Know precious gem is basically worthless. It's Shiny. There's just not a lot of it that is why it is worth a lot. Okay, other people I'm going to make a business out of that. So That's interesting I like that. 36:00.32 sidekqpodcast Um. 36:07.26 sidekqpodcast Awesome! Yeah, and then as we're as we're exploring and figuring out who Lugo Aberggast is if you had to describe him with 3 them with 3 adjectives what 3 adjectives would you use. 36:24.19 Chef Mike Haracz Um, Savvy was one empathetic I don't know how it learned or understands or. 36:25.59 sidekqpodcast Okay. 36:37.80 Chef Mike Haracz Being man that's hard that that dice through a wrench in in the plan for sure and I was going to say witty but the out it's almost like a I wittiness that it just no it figured out. It knows what to say. And you believe it even though it might have just been programmed to say that. 36:54.28 sidekqpodcast Yeah, um, right? yeah like he spent so long of his life just observing and then just like building these models and figuring out like. 37:01.45 Chef Mike Haracz Yes. 37:06.25 sidekqpodcast Oh when someone says this this is the most appropriate thing that I should say that will yield the sale or whatever. Okay. 37:11.82 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yeah, and and you know you could even go as far as and I consider this a positive appropriately woke based on who they are talking to I can't say that In. You know in an Elvish territory. But maybe if I'm talking to dwarfs that would be appropriate to say or this set so it is very aware of who they're talking to how to appropriately get points across understanding hierarchy like you said they um you know. A a single drone um just beeps and whatnot so it understands hierarchy and how all that works So would it can appropriately make quick witted comments and and things like that while also being empathetic where oh that's. 37:50.92 sidekqpodcast Um. 38:02.26 Chef Mike Haracz That's not logical to be mean and this group is not getting what it needs while these other people have excess of the thing that does not compute and that is not right? so that should be fixed correct. Yeah, that does not compute. So ah, that makes some sense. 38:14.14 sidekqpodcast It's not lawful. Yeah there we good there. We go. Okay, so yeah, so yeah, we're we're trucking along and we're now we're getting into some interesting territory here because we like our Npcs to have something valuable on their person. So what is going to be a valuable item a piece of lore. 38:20.81 Chef Mike Haracz That makes some sense. 38:37.97 sidekqpodcast Ah, secret or an ideal or concept that the character would ascribe to so you know you have some that we've shared and we can totally go with those and use those. But if you're interested. You can roll a D four and a D six and then maybe we can see Maybe what's something else that they have. 38:55.89 Chef Mike Haracz Love it I like the idea of rolling. Let's do it. Ah one on the d four and a six on the d 6 excellent. 39:02.52 sidekqpodcast Okay, item. Okay and interesting. Okay, ah your answer was provided by previous guest Dr. Paul Guestwickki ah Lugo Abergast oh and this probably fits in great with the the antiquities business has a dolphins shapeped ivory comb. Yeah. 39:27.40 Chef Mike Haracz Interesting. So it he I guess we'll say he I Lugo Well well we'll say Lugo is a heap ah because it is ah you know somewhat mechanical. 39:44.59 Chef Mike Haracz Ish type. You know it thinks that sea creatures and whatnot are so majestic and free like it is a complete opposite of what Lugo is that it like cherishes this item. Um and it is intrinsic of. 39:56.20 sidekqpodcast Um. 40:03.27 Chef Mike Haracz Maybe it's not valuable to other people. But what it makes Lugo feel. It's valuable to him so this is not a valuable item necessarily it's you know it's not a precious gem which in an antiquities you know that type of. 40:11.51 sidekqpodcast Mm. 40:21.37 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, scenario. Maybe it could even be something common or or something like that. But ah maybe he this was the first step in him understanding like beauty of some kind or like uniqueness. 40:34.60 sidekqpodcast Me. 40:40.17 Chef Mike Haracz And that is something that kind of converted it to being just logical algorithm numbers and sense. So that's where empathy comes in like okay now I understand to me this means something where to other people. It might not. 40:52.14 sidekqpodcast Um. 40:57.50 Chef Mike Haracz So precious heirloom family heirlooms that maybe he's like that's not logical to it's useless. It's not you know it's whatever it might be like it's not even well-made or it's a. But if it brings emotional connection is ok now I understand what that means so it almost taught him. 40:57.69 sidekqpodcast Um. 41:16.91 Chef Mike Haracz How to have empathy by for whatever reason he's infatuated with this thing. Ah I like it I like it. 41:24.97 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, um, and then ah now now we get to the point which I know you've alluded to with the side quest. So what is. A side quest that Lugo Aberggast would be willing to recruit or hire player characters to go and do. 41:40.64 Chef Mike Haracz Ok, so Lugo has been traveling around doing doing his thing goes to random city large city random city. You know it. would would lugo ingest beer or alcohol and that he doesn't need to eat I'm that is. 42:04.17 sidekqpodcast If You want this particular unit to have to consume ah organic materials for sustenance. Ah, you can go for it I think you know when you kill a mode drawn. They kind of explode in like some kind of ah some sort of organic goop. But then also just like. Dust and stuff so there has to be like some some component in them that requires nourishment but you know the Lord may say it may have to be something else, but you know if if our dude if our dude needs beer if he's a beer robot then he needs beer right. 42:29.99 Chef Mike Haracz Um, ok sure, that's that is that is what at least the understanding of a recreational like. Beverage or some sustenance. That's like I'm only ingesting this for pleasure. It makes us happy so goes into major City Um, finds out that there is a mega ah Brew house. 42:49.67 sidekqpodcast M. 43:00.65 Chef Mike Haracz That his either both watering down their beverage but also inhibiting the small folk to not prosper in this area by unjust unlawful means. So maybe it's ruining promotional material. Um. 43:15.59 sidekqpodcast Mm. 43:20.31 Chef Mike Haracz Creating ah smear campaigns with false information that are talking bad about the people who run the business or their product or whatever it might be um, greasing Palms of pub owners to only sell are you know their alcohol and not. The craft people who are doing it for love and for um, you know for the right and doing it appropriate business sense wise he is so logical he would look at the small guys and be like you're doing everything right I don't understand why you're not succeeding in this Market. It does not make any sense to me because you are marketing Appropriately your product based on what everyone says is far Superior. It's at a perfect price. Yada Yada All of those things like you should be winning and you're not why is that. So this side Quest is to understand. Okay, maybe there's some shenanigans going on and we want to bring down big beer or big ale in this city to create a co-op the big ale to create a a co yeah. 44:24.62 sidekqpodcast Big Ale It's a conspiracy. 44:32.76 Chef Mike Haracz To create a co-op of the smaller guys to prosper in an appropriate manner. 44:38.76 sidekqpodcast But and I know it's gonna be on. Everyone's ah tip of their tongue is big Aol run by the dwarfs is that is that is that what's happening. 44:46.90 Chef Mike Haracz I would ah I would imagine so and I will use. Um, ah a beer brand or an ale brand that I named in one of my games. They are the big bad ale come. They're called Bell End brewery where if you're. 45:00.20 sidekqpodcast M. 45:03.40 Chef Mike Haracz If you're in the U K or Europe Bell end is a very inappropriate comment for a thing so they're dicks. Let's put it that way literally and figure it I don't know if this is a pg show. 45:13.33 sidekqpodcast Ah, okay, okay. 45:20.21 Chef Mike Haracz You could bleep that out but belland is a ah term that I learned when I lived in the UK a very phallic end of a item that looks like a bell so bell and brewery. They're the bad guys. 45:33.39 sidekqpodcast Okay, got it. They're the bad guys. Yeah, and you know, big big a o big these dwarfs that are like ah cornering the market and ah and ah yeah, using every dirty trick ah to try and ah you know upend. 45:44.30 Chef Mike Haracz Um. 45:49.57 sidekqpodcast Ah, the good honest ah you know beer craft makers in in the in the community in the in the in the town. Okay, and so then this modron notices and you know because he's logical and cares about ah you know success for these little Guys. He wants to take it upon himself even though. You know, maybe his expertise is like antiquities business but because he has this mechanical logical Mind. He knows what the problem is. But maybe you know for whatever reason he's not fit or capable or necessarily wanting to involve himself personally. 46:13.80 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, her. 46:24.10 sidekqpodcast But he has the means to be able to hire people to go and take care of it. 46:28.27 Chef Mike Haracz Right? If Even though you know his especially is antiquity so he is more knowledgeable in that world of this is valuable. This is how it market Once you are business savvy enough to know how things work like it's ah he shows up and he's but all of the data says. You small folk are far superior in every way to big big Ale It does not make sense. It does not Compute. That's wrong I I you know I need to fix this because I this is not right? and um. 47:00.63 sidekqpodcast O. 47:04.79 Chef Mike Haracz Maybe in his past he's had to deal with other antiquity owners or antiquity ah peddlers lying about their items or inflating value or all of these things like I'm very knowledgeable I've had to deal with that in my antiquities business. 47:21.36 sidekqpodcast M. 47:23.38 Chef Mike Haracz Um, before so just no matter what you're selling same principles apply here. So he wants to Intervene and um, you know, maybe he even being logical the a smear campaign like guess what we. 47:28.31 sidekqpodcast Sure yes. 47:39.19 Chef Mike Haracz I determined who in the city are the big influential people. We don't need the king and queen to yell this is the greatest 1 you need the um the person who runs the dock who's you know party animal everybody loves. That's the person we need to influence. So let's start there with a little smear campaign action. Let's go get some samples of big ale and compare it and have numbers and data supporting like look at this beer is watered down. Ours is so much more flavor and you know. 48:00.53 sidekqpodcast Um. 48:15.36 Chef Mike Haracz Even though he may not comprehend the ambiance of a you know the the head of this ale just the aromatics and he may not drink it and be like that's whatever but he knows. That's what the customer wants. And he could talk in a manner that makes the people happy based on who they are so maybe it's a high elves that like listen this this is not just average ale. Okay, this is an upper class experience where you get the notes of Whatever, whatever. And then maybe he's talking to other doors of like dwarves and he's like yo this will get you want a party this is the party drink okay this is going to get you smashed with minimal hangover. It's affordable. It's great for bashing big flagons together. So he knows how to talk to all these different groups and make the influence happen there and then if anybody crosses them and hes the fisticuffs if somebody goes that far. He'll ah he'll take care of that business as well. So like it a not not a big Dr He's not going to fight a huge entity. But if somnia we hear your' ah, you're trying to get in on our turriff and he says no I'm doing everything appropriate because you're lying. You're doing this that. 49:39.84 Chef Mike Haracz I Tell you what we're going to. You know we'll take care of you and like no yeah I don't recommend you do that. This is not going to end well for you. Everything I said is True. You're being a piece of trash and you should be lawful and do it the right way and if they step on his toes. He's going to respond. Dust himself off all right Now. Let's go do the next thing I've got my itinerary lined up. 50:01.63 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, so um, so then as far as the player characters are concerned when Lugo Aberggast is recruiting them. What is he going to send them to do is he going to pick one of these things for them to do like. Hey I need you to go talk to this person because they're the influential person and then that starts the domino to slowly take down big a big ale or he's Lugo's gonna be like I've determined that the most ah you know the the way to cut the legs out from under this thing is you need to go. Ah, you need to go confront ah, the owners of the of big ale that like get into a ah tussle with them and then that's the way to solve this or is he going to. 50:42.78 Chef Mike Haracz It might it might be everything he'll know that if you just get into straight fististic cuffs that is not going to convince the populists that our stuff is better so we need to do that. We know we need to get. Um. 50:59.42 Chef Mike Haracz Physically attractive individuals to start, you know maybe he is finding people who can increase their status in the town like oh you need to schmooze this and now you're becoming more influential. Maybe they have a certain look to them that. Male female Whoever folk are attracted to but listen no, you are part of this group because people are going to find you aesthetically pleasing use that to your advantage if anyone goes too Far. You let me know and I will Intervene So Only do it to an appropriate level that will entice people to buy our beverage. Ah, got you. This person is um, influences the town crier or meet you know,? Whatever not media. But you know what I mean whoever's however, they get their information from and be like listen. 51:46.52 sidekqpodcast Me. 51:52.55 Chef Mike Haracz Can you? We did some tests here and it shows our beers better. Can you let people know that ours is obviously better. So he's he's he's playing chess while everyone's playing checkers. He's 5 He's 5 moves ahead of everybody else has a contingency plan because algorithm. 52:01.95 sidekqpodcast I see. Okay so. 52:11.59 Chef Mike Haracz He he knows what to do if that goes wrong? Ok well then we're going to have to do this instead. So he's very logical in that manner. So it's not one directive. It's we have. We're we're we're moving pieces and we're going to make it happen. 52:24.13 sidekqpodcast So this is a whole side quest that you could definitely drop into a civilization point in your game and then it's up to the dungeon master to maybe have like a couple of different variables that you could run through to be able to successfully tackle this side quest as far as like okay it's like putting up. 52:35.20 Chef Mike Haracz For her. 52:44.13 sidekqpodcast Ah, advertising posters here. You ah you you convince a town crier there. Um you go and you know do a drinking contest at 1 of the pubs and then prove that the big ale is worse tasting. So there's a couple of different like mini games or something you do as part of this side. Quest. 52:47.50 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yeah. 52:55.20 Chef Mike Haracz Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is split and this is unfortunately splitting the party but it's a little. It's a little light splitting the party. You don't have to go. 53:03.56 sidekqpodcast And then that's ah okay, so. 53:11.30 Chef Mike Haracz You know it's not like major quest lines you might just have to set it up in a manner where quick things here and there how did you do how many posters did you put up I Love the drinking contest thing of like here I'll tell you what you drink as many of big Ale's ah drinks as you can I'm going to drink this one. Look at these Belchian bururpen feels like crap I'm feeling great. This is so much better like you know, different little things that like so then they start the whole next time I do a chugging contest I'm going to totally use the better beer because that's so you know all these little things that are all going to add up. 53:41.12 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 53:48.39 Chef Mike Haracz Eventually, It's like guess what we found out that big a is watering their beer down. Do you want you want to buy water down beer or do you want your local townsfolk who have been here for generations. Do you want to support the small business. We're creating a co-op. 53:59.95 sidekqpodcast I. 54:05.10 Chef Mike Haracz Where all of these other small businesses are working together. So if you are an entrepreneur you can totally buy into this as well and like yes, yes, that's a great idea. 54:12.59 sidekqpodcast So the formation of the brewers guild in the community. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, no I like it. Yeah, so we're bringing in some of the four E skill challenge mechanics. So everyone's like quick what ills can I use in our little mini game. 54:28.20 Chef Mike Haracz Um. 54:31.98 sidekqpodcast Around the town side Quest to figure out how we're going to prove that ah the local a's are better than big ale. Okay, so yeah, so it sounds like we've got like a pretty rough idea of how that's all you know, figuring out and then the players are doing that and they're succeeding So the what's going to be their reward so they do all these things. 54:39.36 Chef Mike Haracz Ah. 54:50.27 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 54:50.62 sidekqpodcast Convince the town that hey big Ale is not worth it. Big Ale like leaves or makes a huff and or whatever everyone rallies around and you know this brewers Guild is formed. What's going to be the reward for the players. 55:04.47 Chef Mike Haracz Who so one funny thing I did in my home brew campaign where well I was talking about Bell and brewery is they burn it to the ground and my brother's character was named. Hondo lone star so you can absolutely know exactly what kind of character that is and you being from Texas what ale started showing up at all the sp guess what we got that new lone star beer at our ah at it. 55:37.55 sidekqpodcast Ah, and I don't drink Lone Star I'm a shiner bok guy I say. 55:42.17 Chef Mike Haracz There you go in in game. It's the Better. It's the better beer but like now now they're brand they got it named after them so wherever they now go but guess what you know they walk into a pub or a restaurant or ah, you know,? whatever food or whatever they're at. Guys We Just got the new Lone Star beer All Wow and every time they hear it they look at each other. They're like that's right, we did that So their their reward is seeing that they helped the little guy now succeed and then it's spreading so they see that success. That they helped the co of you know the ah the guild make and now they're seeing that the guild is becoming so popular that Brand is now popping up in other areas and maybe like if there's a secret not or handshake to get they get that they get that on the house. You know what? I mean they they earned. 56:30.63 sidekqpodcast M. 56:33.71 Chef Mike Haracz They earn getting the a o on the house if it's a you know from the co-op so they can just party and get drunk for free. Absolutely. 56:43.15 sidekqpodcast Hey players always like an excuse for that. Okay, ah, but now we have to consider the other side of the coin. What's going to be the consequence of failure or refusing the call to the adventure. 56:56.54 Chef Mike Haracz Um, um, man. 56:58.40 sidekqpodcast Is it gonna be like a total Starduw valley thing and now the town is like we're all we're all, we're all hooked on big ale and like it's It's not great. But I. 57:07.92 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, big big Mega Corp like super branded like um, did you ever? Ah wally did you ever see that Disney movie where big and large big and large takes over everywhere. There is no uniqueness. Everything is. 57:14.93 sidekqpodcast So yeah, big and large. 57:26.12 Chef Mike Haracz You're getting hosed out of money. Everyone is just it's all fluff. It's all Bs. There's no heart in anything and you go in this town. It's just this place sucks like nobody's unique, no, nothing is so it it destroys the small business and big megacorp. Takes over. So now we're going. We're getting in cyber to punk territory now as well. Um, but that could certainly be in a manner that's more appropriate for the setting. So you know this whole town revolves around big ale now and this company has so much power. 57:54.36 sidekqpodcast Right. 58:04.87 Chef Mike Haracz That they are influencing the local politics they are influencing local laws and jurisdiction they have influence over the town's military might like we've got. We've got the town's military protecting our brewery because we don't want any outsiders to come in but then they can use that military for. Nefarious reasons and so like that influence can be felt in a lot of different areas almost like a dune and the ah what are what are their names the women that have like to Speak. Um. 58:23.45 sidekqpodcast Oh. 58:39.24 sidekqpodcast Oh the Benny Jeserit and 58:42.90 Chef Mike Haracz Benny Jesuit yeah we're like there's the Kings and queens are still doing their thing but in the background there's some influence going on. It's big Ale Big big ale those jerks. 58:53.67 sidekqpodcast Big A yeah, you don't have to worry about litches. You don't have to worry about ah vecna. It's big ale. 59:02.22 Chef Mike Haracz Yes, because I mean in Lugo like I said not the most efficient fighter. That's not the kind of battle he needs he needs to fight for the small guy so that mass populace of average everyday folk get better. Which in turn in the long one may spawn your heroes your much stronger heroes to prosper in that area. Get the support they need and those are the folks that are going to be slaying the dragons. 59:32.77 sidekqpodcast There we go And yeah I mean unless you feel like there's any other territory to explore for the character I think we've got a pretty well-rounded Npc. So. 59:44.89 Chef Mike Haracz Um, I think so the only other note that I put is like insight up the rear end so like can logically determine if somebody's trying to Bs him or what their you know intent is with what they're doing how they speak just because that's the algorithm at work. Um I like the idea of the the co-op the guild creating. Yeah. 01:00:00.99 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:00:07.54 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:00:14.39 sidekqpodcast So excellent, all right? Well now we get to take this character that we've made and we get to throw them into a random encounter. 01:00:19.16 Chef Mike Haracz I Like that. 01:00:26.81 Chef Mike Haracz Didn to. 01:00:29.64 sidekqpodcast Yes, and there will be another ad break there that I'll put in. But yes, this is the part where we get to do a small a very small vignette with the character that we've made today so we get to do is as a little scene a little bit of roleplay a little bit of d and d so I think you've done a great job of making Lugo and now we've. 01:00:43.63 Chef Mike Haracz Plus. 01:00:49.41 sidekqpodcast Fully discovered who this character is but the question becomes what kind of scene? are you interested in showcasing Lugo often. Is it going to be Lugo Encountering 1 of our podcast adventurer characters to give them the side quest is it Lugo talking with this small merchant. Who's like forlorn and depressed and can't figure out. You know oh I'm doing everything right? But why can't I I succeed is it. Ah you know, ah a flashback in Lugo's back in the antiquities business or what kind of scene? are you interested in showcasing him often. 01:01:21.71 Chef Mike Haracz What about some representative does not have to be highest ranking big Ale individual. But someone from the ranks is realizing that lugo. 01:01:33.10 sidekqpodcast I. 01:01:41.47 Chef Mike Haracz Has consulted with local small business small ale little ale um, and Lugo has been caught asking questions trying to figure out some things and big ale is now confronting Lugo about that. 01:01:45.12 sidekqpodcast And. 01:02:00.54 Chef Mike Haracz I Guess with that. 01:02:01.87 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, we could do a scene with that. so okay so ah the scene will be that Lugo is being confronted by some some person within the organization of big ale. And then ah and then and then we'll we'll have the scene play out from there now have to roll any dice for combat or anything like that but an interesting maybe tense interlude. So would you care to set the scene or would you like for me to set the scene. So. 01:02:29.31 Chef Mike Haracz Um, I'll I'll give it a shot I'll give it a shot. Ah so after Lugo has consulted which with what he hopes to be the new brewery guild ah in this fine city. He's been asking about um big ale's involvement in suppressing the joy that comes from enjoying the small craft breweries in the area. He's went to local pubs and restaurants. Determine why do they constantly sell big ales and not you know their neighbor who they could be supporting. Um, they understand you know he's he's looking at volumes. He's been caught holding up ale to the light to see its clarity and its. Um, you know flavor and determining that by all accounts our little little ah folk here should be winning this battle people. Love it. Why is this happening and he was asking too many questions and somebody from big ale. 01:03:40.00 sidekqpodcast So yeah, so we've got ah we'll probably say kind of like a bruiser looking sort of dwarf maybe used to be like a pit fighter or something like that. But you know his cousin worked for big ale and. 01:03:48.41 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 01:03:55.50 sidekqpodcast He got out of he got out of a dwarven jail and now he's now he's cleaned up and so now he's like in a he's in a very nice suit but you know he's obviously got like very menacing tattoos and some old scars and stuff like that. And so maybe he's come to this pub. Ah where Lugo is doing his investigative work and asking questions and so then this dwarf yeah and then this dwarf will be like we'll say something in dwarfish to like try and get his attention and then and switch over to comment and say. 01:04:14.54 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, holding it up to the light. 01:04:28.61 sidekqpodcast I Think you've been asking ah quite a number of questions about our products. Are you interested in. Ah perhaps an investment opportunity with us. 01:04:42.60 Chef Mike Haracz Um, no, Actually how come your alcohol content is far less than um, you know Lone Star beer on the side here. So I've been noticing that it is not nearly as clear and quality and craft. As Lone Star You're based on your Appearance. You're obviously not the Brew Master. Do you do you have somebody. Ah you know more important or higher up that I could speak to about this. 01:05:07.45 sidekqpodcast Oh that? Yeah, that starts to set off some nerves for him so he kind of like Er he kind of like Groans cracks his neck a little bit and he's like I'm here on behalf of the brew master and you know what our product is good. It is great. 01:05:13.75 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 01:05:25.95 sidekqpodcast Everyone in this town loves it and he kind of does like a big gesture to the room and gets them all to cheer and stuff like that and then you know even to maybe push it further. He like raises an eyebrow to be like oh I'll show you and he like he sets down a fat sack of cash on the bar and he's like you know what. Around for everyone of the best ale in this town. The only ale that matters and so then the bar crew are just pouring them because they're like well we gotta do it I mean you just paid us and so and everyone's like yeah they're cheering and they're all this stuff but meanwhile like you know. 01:05:46.49 Chef Mike Haracz Are. 01:05:59.75 sidekqpodcast I could he tell he can he he can tell that Lugo's not buying it but he's trying to you know pass it off at like hey you know I you know it is what it is man and you know this is this is what it is so. 01:06:04.82 Chef Mike Haracz Um, so. 01:06:10.20 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, so he looks around at you know all the individuals and you know being as insightful as he is he very much can determine like you. You do know they're cheering for free. They're not cheering for quality. Ah, excuse me and he sees somebody in the establishment that looks like there's a crowd around you know that the life of the party kind of sees who the influential people are in the room in any given time and that's like the party animal who's got a big group excuse me. If I Give you 50 gold. Will you do a taste test and let me know which ah beer you prefer like I will absolutely buy you as many beers as it takes but would you be willing to do a run. Ah ah, a quick little survey for me any kind of. 01:06:58.40 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, I'll do it. Yeah. 01:07:02.24 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, so all here's ah so here's their beer here. Give it a swig and you know he watches that person drink it. 01:07:06.88 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and she's oh yeah, it's pretty very good and then the other guy's kind of like m. 01:07:12.96 Chef Mike Haracz Yeah, yeah, um, can you tell me what what is that? No I noticed that as you swallowed you know you had a little bit like a oh like what is that taste that you you get in the back of your throat there because it looks like you winced just slightly what is that what is that. 01:07:30.55 sidekqpodcast Hey you know like the the kind of got a bit of a bie on it like you know it's like drinking rocks a little bit. Yeah. 01:07:30.64 Chef Mike Haracz Taste Can you describe that. 01:07:40.80 Chef Mike Haracz Oo ooh that doesn't sound like it's the but hey I got something for you. My buddy over here. You might know them. They're at lone star brewery. There are a couple you know couple streets down there. Ah Sam over here has actually his grandfather opened this. He's very local. You might know. 01:07:55.71 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, yeah yeah. 01:07:56.84 Chef Mike Haracz The family they've been here. Yeah, you remember say here, let me give you those Sam actually makes them let me give you ah let me give you a try of this and let me know what you think and the whole time. He's also looking he's more focusing on the but the ah big ale guy like yeah here you know he's pouring it to the other guy but look at yeah. 01:08:10.15 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 01:08:16.19 Chef Mike Haracz Here. Give this a try. Let me know what you think oh so you actually prefer this beer than the other one. Not. 01:08:18.67 sidekqpodcast Ah, yeah, this is like butter man This is awesome. Yeah I don't know why hyp into here guys look this stuff and he like gets his group to like cheer and he's like Cover. Try this. This. 01:08:36.80 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, interesting. Yeah, hey just to let you know that this is always available. So if you ever want to you know? ah you know, step up your game. You know you seem like ah a well put together individual who knows a good drink. Um I'm assuming you know a good drinking. You know. 01:08:48.71 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 01:08:52.70 Chef Mike Haracz Lugo knows like is part of you. He doesn't really care. But like oh you hyping them up like you are smart. You are very smart individual knowing how to say the right thing to the person to get them to say was like yeah you should. You should totally I tell you what I'll get you another round on the house for you guys here you go ah because. Lugo is incredibly wealthy because he's sold off his business. He has so many res but he's not like showing it off. Let me get you guys another round for the hey everyone how about you? Ah, you could choose whatever you want you know I'll pay for anyone who wants a loan star. 01:09:13.83 sidekqpodcast Bright. 01:09:29.58 Chef Mike Haracz Or if you want big Ales I mean you could totally have that too but feel free drink up. 01:09:32.37 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and now this guy definitely kind of looks like taken aback. But there's like a fire in him now that he's just kind of like you know, did you I don't think I caught your name. Do you minds. If I might know that and. 01:09:49.80 Chef Mike Haracz oh oh oh yeah I'm ah Lugo Aberggas and that's with 2 a so that way it is first on any drink list from aberggass antiquities. Well I guess that's not the name of the. He would still be like yeah my name is ah Lugo Aberggast and you know I'm here consulting with lone star here. So if you have any questions or concerns. You know you could address them to me directly and I will take care of that for for them. 01:10:15.83 sidekqpodcast And yeah, and so him like you know he just put paid for all these drinks and then you're doing the the taste tests and showing him up to his face. He's just kind of like and he takes the you know the card or whatever he's like Lugo Aberggast yeah okay well we might see if we have need of consulting and without much further. Ah you know, further ah opportunity for him to end himself. Ah back up in the slammer. He's just going to go ahead and ah you know take the card and he's just going to very abruptly. Leave muttering under his breath and dwarvish about what is what he witnessed and what he was a part of. 01:10:58.39 Chef Mike Haracz And I would say that to end right before he was oh oh could you hold out one second and he grabs the gold that put on the bar top to get you could take this back and gives the gold back that he paid because nobody wants to drink say here you you take this with you there you go. 01:11:11.43 sidekqpodcast Oh oh he catches it. Oh yeah I know he catches it and there's like his you know he's like gripping the money very hard. You know veins and. 01:11:17.67 Chef Mike Haracz Throws it at him like I have a good one. 01:11:28.51 sidekqpodcast Ah, and and blood vessels like but just bulging in his neck as he's trying to hold back the rage and so yeah, then like the cinematic thing is like it cuts to his his face and he pulls out like a speaking stone as he's walking away from the the pub and he's like hey we got a problem. And then it's like cut to black and seen so we did it? Yeah so what did you think getting to be Lugo Aberggast 01:11:51.40 Chef Mike Haracz Ah, awesome. 01:11:57.44 Chef Mike Haracz The the rolling ah for the race totally threw me off but I had to figure out how to bring it back because I had the idea for the gist the character like vibe the story. And I tried to wedge in that to it which you know some people try to do it the opposite way. Um, but it would be interesting I'd have to do a little more research on like the background of the race How they act. Obviously you said they're lawful. Um, how. But Mannerisms maybe or or things like that. But no, it was fun to fun to be somebody who knows right from wrong can just knows how to say the right thing has knows how to play the game Again. We're playing chess while other people are playing Checkers. I Kind of like that vibe of of the character. 01:12:49.50 sidekqpodcast And I awesome yeah, and and certainly thank you for bearing with me as ah, you know we we had ah our you know? Well hopefully I've done a good job in the the postproduction process and. Ah, listeners are confused when I when I said oh we had technical difficulties because then that means that zencastrs' tools and my own knowhow after now beginning 5 seasons of the podcast I have somewhat of an idea of how to handle and and take care of. So. So certainly thank you for that. But yeah, ah, this is now our. What we call our final thoughts section of the show. So basically I'm just trying to you know, get a vibe vibe. Check I know and just and just see how how your experience was on the podcast and you know just overall you know what do you think of this endeavor. 01:13:36.97 Chef Mike Haracz I love it because I'm my games are at the point we only can play once a month so I get antsy wanting to just create characters again. Everything that in the 2 games that I'm in are incredibly homebrewed so we do like just making things up I I should incorporate using tables more because that drastically changed. You know some of the stuff I doing is relatively cookie cutter like oh I make some of the guys coming in saving thislo. Knowledgeable can do everything and but using some tables to really change things up even little details can drastically change the character. What they do how they act and I need to incorporate that more into my games as well to switch things up. So I think that part is a lot of fun to be like oh the dice said this is how it's got to be ah and trying to work through that is a lot of fun for me I like the creating side of things quite a bit so I had a lot of fun. 01:14:44.40 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and and we've got a whole backlog of at this point like 120 episodes or so and all kinds of characters that have been made. So if you're you know you've got a month or weeks or however long till your next game you can just kind of browse through the backlog and be like. Yeah, you know what? I think I do need a death night chimney sweep that works. Ah, you know for a lich you know in my game or I need I need an adorable gift child grave digger in in my game you know, whatever it may be. 01:15:09.74 Chef Mike Haracz Is. 01:15:17.40 Chef Mike Haracz Is there a ridiculous character that stands out that you like I can't believe this is what happened on an episode. 01:15:25.60 sidekqpodcast So oh well, you might be interested because I'm looking at our list here of episodes you might be quite interested ah in an episode that we did with the founder. Well co-found cto co-founder of a demi plane Mr. Travis frederick biwick death tyrant chef and that for my home brew has been the invention of this fabled interdimensional chefs guild that they have these magic books that give them recipes to be able to cook. Whatever they need but you have to like once you start making a recipe like you have to follow it to the letter like you can't deviate from it and that's how they're able to maintain these like high levels of prestige and they have members of this guild that range from all different ancestries. And ah realms and planes of existence that all belong to them and that's how they're able to curate such a wide ah base of recipes and stuff that they can use. So yeah, that was a death tyrant beholder who was part of this chef's guild who needed you to go to this dungeon. Funhouse dungeon in order to acquire just 1 tiny ingredient that they needed but they couldn't leave the kitchen or else like it would cause problems. They'd have to forfeit their guild membership and ah you know and then they would ah you know you know fail the code of the ah the chef's guild which is. 01:16:56.11 sidekqpodcast And my homerewd game I've now been running I'm still trying to think of a fancy name for it. But I do think of ah a nickname that at least the fay wild community gave them is oh they call them the iron chefs or something like that like that's the colloquial. Name of the common people. But there's like a bigger fancier title that they ah that they go by. 01:17:15.69 Chef Mike Haracz That is awesome I Love it I Ah I made with crackn dice I helped design like my own set of dice called the gastronam like I think it's still available. 01:17:26.20 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:17:29.92 Chef Mike Haracz And the shtick was There's also a card in there that um has a picture of me so it's a chef Mike that if you bring it to your Dm, you can add chef mike to your home game. So my players decided to have chef Mike like hey we see chef Mike over there and now. He's like a npc in their adventuring party. He's on the boat cooking food for everybody but it's literally I have to play me as me like a what's up in the game which is pretty funny. So maybe I'll have him have to interact with this chef so in some manner. 01:17:54.32 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:18:06.94 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 01:18:09.35 Chef Mike Haracz Um, for either ah just or nefarious reasons. So I'll I'll use that for sure. 01:18:16.58 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so that's episode number 66 with Travis Frederick which I hope if ah new listeners haven't ah been that far back in the catalog that they will so certainly as we're you were here in the closing moments and I always love to leave it. I always love to leave the stage the platform the microphone the soapbox the what's a who's it over to the guests. So you know? Thank you so much. Chef Mike for being here and I want to give you that opportunity to plug your projects where we can find you online and then just any passions or causes that you care about that. We the community should know about. 01:18:54.20 Chef Mike Haracz Sure so I mean you could find me on all the socials and my last name is spelled just like it sounds HarrisHARACZHarris um you catch me on heroes feast which new episodes are mondays. 01:19:05.48 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:19:11.57 Chef Mike Haracz I think we're halfway through the season. Maybe a little more on the Amazon Freevie channel or on plex it's part of that. Ah, wizards of the coast dungeons and Dragons Adventure channel along with ah. Faster purple worm kill kill and encounter party. Ah, and I guess my final comment is don't be scared to get in the kitchen give it a try if it's not your place I highly recommend if you are trying to learn and experience and practice in a kitchen. Order your pizza first so you do not have to worry about the food thing turning out, you will have pizza ready to go but hopefully what you're making turns out great as well. You could have it tomorrow. That's fine. But ah, give it a shot I think more people need to just hang out in the kitchen and have some fun. 01:20:06.23 sidekqpodcast Awesome! Well Chef Mike Yes Chef Sorry just thinking of all the the things you're supposed to say to chefs and all that. But ah, but thank you so much for being on the podcast and I can't wait to have you back on making even more interesting and pcs. 01:20:18.93 Chef Mike Haracz Yes, love it. I'll be back very soon. 01:20:22.40 sidekqpodcast All right? So we'll stop.