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Ah I'm moving into Youtube and pretty much I'm just a I guess I'm a professional dungeon master. 03:54.81 sidekqpodcast Very cool. Yeah I mean all you have to do is just basically dm 1 game and you're like yep, professional got it locked in. 04:00.96 Scxrlet I mean it pays the bills is that is that not the definition. 04:06.49 sidekqpodcast I suppose. Yeah yeah, sorry I had a big sip of Burp I had a big sip of beer and did not expect that burp So I'll cut around that. 04:16.24 Scxrlet I Had a big sip of Burp and did not expect that fear. 04:21.66 sidekqpodcast Yeah, well cool. Yeah how I first came across you is as I've been growing my ah podcast on platforms such as like Instagram and threads. Um I started seeing you pop up in the the reels and recommendations and stuff like that. So I was like oh okay, that's cool. And then I pulled up Twitch one day and then I saw you were recommended there and then I just kind you you saw me like pop in real quick and you were like hey how's it going I was like oh hey I follow you on Instagram and I do this podcast you were like oh cool tell me about it and then I gave you like the quick elevator pitch and you were like. 04:55.99 Scxrlet Yeah, well I when I hear people find me on Instagram it makes me so like happy because I almost gave up on that platform I was moving into Tiktok. Ah just because it's. 04:58.55 sidekqpodcast Sold. 05:11.10 Scxrlet Short form videos are so easy to make and becoming a new mom has like limited the time that I have to make content. So I tiktok really started like keeping me afloat from a content creator ah perspective and people were. Encouraging me to post on Instagram too and my Instagram at that point was kind of dead. Ah but I was like okay, fine I'll start doing it and so I just started double posting and pretty soon Instagram kind of re kindled its love of me I guess because I started getting more. 05:47.21 Scxrlet Follows and and more traffic on that platform than I was even on Tiktok. So now I am pretty good at posting to both I try to remember to post to Youtube shorts. But I haven't put in the effort there yet. So I don't see much and so it's hard to like. Be motivated to post over theirs but well that'll change. Oh eventually. 06:08.62 sidekqpodcast We'll see I feel like my elder millennial is showing because it's like yeah shorts that's something that I know exists but and and you encourage me to like really go forward with the Youtube thing because the headliner app program that I use is really good. 06:14.12 Scxrlet I mean. 06:24.64 sidekqpodcast At ah, converting the the podcast rss feed into actual Youtube videos where it doesn't have any video it just has like a little waveform that moves and it's got ah, it's got a logo up. 06:33.40 Scxrlet Oh I actually was I the will because I don't but I didn't even know that was a thing are you sure that was me. Ah. 06:39.48 sidekqpodcast Ah, well I think I may have just mentioned of like oh I think I'm going to start trying to do this and you were like yeah I think I'm going to be doing that too. 06:44.70 Scxrlet Oh I was like post it to Youtube yeah, yeah, um and I am also an elder millennial but I only know about Youtube shorts because it's my job to know about Youtube sure yeah. 06:55.89 sidekqpodcast Sure I know it ah of it as well. Ah, coincidentally as well. But yeah, that's still something that like it took me this long until like spring of 2023 to be like maybe it's time for the podcast to be on Instagram because it's. 07:03.22 Scxrlet Um, yeah. 07:10.56 sidekqpodcast For this all the longest time I just didn't think that podcasts were a thing on Instagram because it's all about beautiful pictures of beautiful people doing like ah ah scantily whatevers in workouts and and you know th first traps or whatever the kid. The kids say nowadays again. Elder millennial. 07:20.91 Scxrlet Exercises. 07:26.79 Scxrlet That's that's why I wasn't posting to Instagram is because I just don't have the energy to be thirsty. But I ah, it turns out that there is actually a pretty big ah reels community there. And I've grown pretty significantly. In fact I think the majority of my new traffic to Twitch which is where I make my money is from Instagram even more so than Tiktok which I find very surprising I have more followers on Tiktok but just keep yeah keep posting. 07:51.20 sidekqpodcast Um, mm. 07:57.27 sidekqpodcast Um. 08:00.16 Scxrlet Every look every every new viewer is so valuable and you are so welcome and awesome. We're so happy to have you. Thank you for giving us your time. 08:11.23 sidekqpodcast There you go? Yeah so that that that was certainly the encouragement that I needed for this evening. So thank you? Ah, all coincidentally at the time of this recording I just checked it earlier were 8 downloads away from hitting 9400 total downloads for the podcast. So. 08:24.86 Scxrlet Wow. 08:26.25 sidekqpodcast We're we're chugging along you know in our fourth season here. So um I think I feel like you've already alluded to it beautifully. But do you currently or have you ever played dungeons and dragons before. 08:38.34 Scxrlet Ah, okay, this answer is going to kind of surprise you I played my first game of d and d at the end of 2019 ah I was talking about I've I've known about d and d forever my brother when he was when we were little little kids has. 08:46.31 sidekqpodcast Mmm, okay. 08:54.53 Scxrlet Best friend and his best friend's dads were like total d and d nerds never invited me to play with them because I'm a girl and ah yeah, but I would sit and I would like kind of hear second hand through my brother how it kind of worked like he would show me to the best of his he was like 8 I was like tep. 09:00.16 sidekqpodcast No. 09:13.58 Scxrlet Ah, so I started like making maps and creating characters I ended up coming up with my own like race class system based on my imagination and then would rope my other siblings in to make characters with me so I was always like on board I Just didn't have anyone to play with. 09:13.75 sidekqpodcast Um. 09:31.10 Scxrlet Until I was streaming one day on Twitch talking about how I never have played d and d but I've always wanted to and a handful of my viewers who were pretty regular to my channel were like let's play. Let's just make a game of play. What if it was like I'll be the dungeon master and we set it up. We picked Sunday to play. And we have played d and d every single Sunday on my channel ever since. 09:52.78 sidekqpodcast Wow that that is a miracle to have a consistent D and D group that's amazing. 09:58.18 Scxrlet So I was the only one that was consistent I just kept swapping people out as needed because I was like well I can count on me I'm streaming every Sunday anyway. So obviously I say every single there's obviously been days that we've missed due to like real life instances. But. 10:12.70 sidekqpodcast Sure real life happens. Yeah. 10:16.70 Scxrlet That was always like the shtick like I went from being a player. The dm ended up not being very consistent. So I was like fuck it all Dm and ah so I learned how to Dm after just like maybe 8 or 9 sessions of being a player. And I've been stuck as the Dm ever since. 10:38.48 sidekqpodcast Well there you go? Um, yeah, and so the name of this podcast is called sidekicks and side quest so we always like to ask the question of who happens to be your favorite Npc or sidekick character whether they be from 1 of your games another rpg or if not maybe. Ah, ah, piece of literature history, film television, etc. And why is this character your favorite Npc or sidekick character. 11:05.60 Scxrlet I Thought about this question pretty hard I wanted to come I wanted to have a great answer and I think I have one but it was a hard one because when you think about what someone asks you even like what's your favorite game of all time. That's a hard question to answer because different games have been important to you at different points in your life. Ah so I thought about it. Thought about which character I was cared about the most the one I wanted to see succeed the one that like really captivated me that wasn't a main character and I have settled on ah the game legend of Zelda Twilight Princess midna. 11:30.50 sidekqpodcast Me. 11:40.76 Scxrlet Your I don't know if you've played that game midnight is oh no, ok so midnight is like your main links main sidekick and she is this little imp. 11:41.53 sidekqpodcast I am a Zelda newb I know nothing other than the music like the the theme and stuff. 11:59.72 Scxrlet That in the beginning of your relationship with her. She's very much a tease. She is kind of rude but playful but you need her so you have to tolerate her and as you go through the game you end up really caring about her and she starts warming up to you. And there's even a moment when her life is in mortal danger and you think you're going to lose her and a very like famous zelda song is bort. There's this one piano piece that plays on loop as you're like desperately carrying her to the only person who can save her life. Ah, it's a very you'll all send you. The link later. It's a beautiful song. It's called Midna's lament and you save her and then you finish throughout the rest of the game and I'm not going to I mean it's an old game but I won't spoil it at the very end there is this massive twist and she ends up being so important and. 12:41.31 sidekqpodcast Um. 12:54.61 Scxrlet So amazing and just it's it's I'm getting chills just thinking about it is beautiful. You care about her a lot. 13:02.36 sidekqpodcast So mm. Okay, yeah, and then ah same side of other side of the equation Now what happens to be your favorite side. Quest whether it's from an Rpg Ah, whether it's from a video game movie film. Television B Plot et cetera and why does this side quest happen to be your favorite. 13:21.50 Scxrlet shoot shoot I forgot to think of that version. Ah hm well let me first narrow down on a. 13:36.91 Scxrlet On a game that would have side quests that are really good. 13:40.70 sidekqpodcast If it helps as well I know we've had previous guests talk about like B Plot moments in movies or television shows and stuff like that. It could just be bad. Yeah splice it in. 13:47.38 Scxrlet Right? Like side side stories is it possible. We could like come back to that and you could like yeah because I want to I want to give a good answer I Just need a. 13:58.95 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, we can do that. 14:01.82 Scxrlet Just need to think about it I don't know why I was so focused on the side character that I forgot about this and I know there are games I have like amazing side. Some games have the side quests are better than the main Quest I would just have to like think about what I've played maybe more recently. 14:17.20 sidekqpodcast Okay, um, okay, and then the final question we have here in the personal interview section. What are you passionate about and why. 14:18.21 Scxrlet So we'll think about that one and we'll come back to it. 14:29.40 Scxrlet Ah. 14:33.47 Scxrlet Um, well I can't say D and D because I think that's kind of the whole reason I'm here. Ah I think I'm passionate about creation I am an artist a musician and D and D and T T R piece in general really kind of they empower that. And so I think as long as I'm creating something that other people can enjoy and get emotion out of it that makes me very very happy. 15:00.21 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then ah, let's see did you want to just take a second ah beat to think about the the side quest thing or do you want to like come back to it like after we've done everything else. 15:14.61 Scxrlet Let's let's do it at the end that way I have plenty of time to mull over because I'm not going to sit here and force you to wait for me to so that question. 15:23.33 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right I'm going to type a note here in the in the little chat window here. So it'll I'll see it in my face So I won't forget because I've done this before where I forgot a question or something like that for someone. 15:29.87 Scxrlet Um, okay I Just it's again. 15:42.97 sidekqpodcast Um, okay. 15:43.70 Scxrlet I'm writing it down as a note to myself favorite side quezed. Yeah I have to I have to think about it I could probably pick something from zelda again. But I just think that I would be missing out on one that I was like oh gosh. And again like I said earlier baby brain today is Evy. 16:03.74 sidekqpodcast All right? Well we've had the wonderful opportunity to learn more about scarlet that I think it's time we head into our Npc creation segment all right and Npc creation is brought to you by you. 16:17.80 Scxrlet Um, yay. 16:22.67 sidekqpodcast The podcast audience and our patrons from patreon so now is the time in the show where we give a shout out to our comfortable patrons and above with a loud hurrah. So do you ah are queen of the patreon Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie as well as my compadres Ana Jablinsky and Nicholas carterelli and then my parents we say? Cheers. So again, all these fine folks donate at least $2 or more a month um all of these fine folks belong to the wealthy level tier which means they get to introduce an element of chance. To our random tables that we use here in npc creation and you might and you might get to hear some of their responses here today and again as I alluded to earlier Katie Downey gobly Kav she is the queen of our patreon because she's of the aristocratic tier and if you'd like to learn more about all these awesome rewards we have. I would invite you to check the show notes below go to my podcast website or just go directly to patreon.com/sidecakes and side quest to learn more about our tiers of membership in the Patreon community help us expand our operations in the levitating platter in this demiplane. And worlds beyond. Okay so this segment of the show is where we get to make up an npc the idea being that this is gonna be someone awesome that we're going to stick in our games that other people are gonna take and stick into their games and so ah, we. 17:52.28 sidekqpodcast Begin The creation process by trying to determine. Are we going to randomly generate a character. Do you have an idea you're bringing to the table are we doing a little bit of mix and matchch. So. 17:59.38 Scxrlet I think mix and matches a really fun idea that way we can put our own personalities into the creation but we can let the die decide some of the elements to kind of give us some prompts. 18:13.86 sidekqpodcast Okay, so as far as the items or criteria that you've already got determined for this character. What is already kind of set in stone. 18:25.46 Scxrlet So when I design Npcs I typically design them as like quest givers that's kind of like the role that they play in my games. They ah are the ones that kind of kick off. 18:32.47 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 18:42.60 Scxrlet Reason to go on an adventure and because I'm usually like my big thing on social media is I am a total Dragon nerd. 18:53.13 sidekqpodcast And. 18:55.21 Scxrlet I Think Dragons are my favorite part of ah dungons and dragons and I have made so many dragon and Pcs They just make such good quest givers because they've got power. They've got money. They've got ambitions and they need minions. So and. 19:00.30 sidekqpodcast I. 19:14.22 Scxrlet Canonically they can exist across multiple worlds. They have ah this aspect of Dragons and D and D is that they have echoes so the soul or personality of a dragon can exist in um faroon. But also in the world of Dragon lands. It's. 19:34.19 sidekqpodcast And. 19:34.22 Scxrlet Technically the same dragon but tech, it's like the the what you know it's like a multiverse. It's really where it's essentially you can make a dragon at Pc and they can be a reoccurring. 19:39.96 sidekqpodcast So it's like a variant situation with like Loki. It's like you have faasradoom and in this one what realm and then this is thsrodoom variant in this other realm and the variant in another realm and. 19:50.21 Scxrlet Yeah, so it's like a reoccurring character that you can drop into any game and it doesn't break the contingency and so I do this a lot with my games I have a different various dragon and pcs that have established lore. 19:59.55 sidekqpodcast Interesting. 20:10.19 Scxrlet But they appear in games that have nothing to do with each other. 20:13.44 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, so you so you've already kind of got the ancestry of our character today kind of locked in as far as like a dragon. Okay, okay, and then that's the only thing that's the only like ah guardrails we're working with the bumpers and the bowling lane. 20:19.96 Scxrlet Yeah, let's do it. 20:27.70 Scxrlet Yeah, because from there we can decide is it a benevolent Dragon is it a malevolent dragon. Is it neutral. Is it Young is it like yeah, there's so many so many choices. 20:41.27 sidekqpodcast Okay, excellent, all right? So then we will start there. We go? Yeah, yeah, we we love to nerd out on this podcast. So we begin our character creation process with a character name. 20:44.83 Scxrlet And I get to flex some of my D and D Dragon knowledge. 20:58.91 sidekqpodcast And if you would like to roll a D twenty that will ah start us off at the races. 21:02.57 Scxrlet Um, okay 16 oh no. 21:06.99 sidekqpodcast 16 oh wonderful. So your name was provided by our previous guest and my niece lexixi daisy okay, and then the next question would be. 21:18.96 Scxrlet Daisy Ok we can work with this. 21:24.88 sidekqpodcast Ancestry. But if you kind of need a little more time to percolate as far as what kind of dragon. Um, so. 21:28.72 Scxrlet Well here's the thing Dragons can polymorph So the ancestry that we're rolling for could be their preferred mortal guys. 21:37.64 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting, good point. Yeah, so if you want to roll for that randomly that would be a d one hundred or two D Ten s 21:42.44 Scxrlet Yeah, okay I've got my let me grab my percentileles I've been playing call of catulus so I have my percentile dice ready to go. Okay here we go 60 5 22:02.90 sidekqpodcast 65 as I scroll down the list. Oh okay, interesting. Um, okay so this is something that I've actually homebrewed and this may be 1 of the few times that a homerewing of mine is coming into play. Um. 22:14.74 Scxrlet How exciting. 22:17.45 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so what this is because you know there's cambians that exist in the game like a half fiend half mortal and so I was like well it has to make sense from a manichean you know, power balancing perspective that there probably has to be some sort of equivalent half celestial. 22:19.36 Scxrlet If row. 22:33.57 sidekqpodcast And so I've named those Aldatus a L D a T U but essentially I think of this as like a half celestial kind of creature. Um, so like. 22:40.67 Scxrlet Okay, so like even more celestial than an asimar the way a Cambian is more fiendish than a teaflling. Ok ok, cool. So I think so far that is going to push our dragon. 22:48.70 sidekqpodcast Yeah, exactly? Yeah yeah. 23:00.12 Scxrlet Into one of the metallics but it depends on other traits too because it doesn't automatically go gold or silver you know there could be but I think we're going to go with a metallic dragon if they're taking the if they're going to take the form of vanal da to you know that sounds like. 23:11.90 sidekqpodcast Okay, very cool. 23:19.71 Scxrlet They're probably going to be pretty benevolent. 23:20.14 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right I like that and then let's see the next thing we get to roll for is what is the job or role in society that Daisy's gonna have in her guys form I suppose and this would just be a regular d 10 23:31.56 Scxrlet Um, okay, okay, we've got 8 23:37.66 sidekqpodcast 8 Okay, your answer was provided by previous guest Katie Demateus trust fund baby. 23:47.12 Scxrlet But that makes so much So it's a truck. It's her hoard was given to her from her progenitor. Ok ah sure as I'm writing this down on my cute little Notebook I. 23:58.75 sidekqpodcast So yeah, okay, and then the next thing we roll for is the age range of Daisy and this is done by rolling a d eight. 24:09.12 Scxrlet Okay, where is my there. It is to okay this is a young dragon. 24:16.13 sidekqpodcast 2 would be teenager. 3 yeah yep, sounds about right monster block stat-wise right. 24:25.43 Scxrlet Not a wormling not an adult. Yeah Daisy also sounds kind of like a a young nickname doesn't it like her real is Dazzy Ferrati stock salon but she goes by daisy. 24:34.41 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 24:40.90 sidekqpodcast Yeah, cause it's easier for her minions to say. 24:43.69 Scxrlet Exactly she's still trying to get some minions. She's young. She's an experience. Her lair isn't she has a little bit of a layer but her horde isn't quite established yet. She's got a couple more like decades to go. 24:53.93 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and so then with these key pieces of information already determined when we think of Daisy we think of aldatu disguise form with some kind of metallic dragon that's a teenager trust fund baby. What is the physical description that comes to mind so we're painting a picture of this npc what are we going to see. Okay. 25:17.64 Scxrlet Ok I think that we would take her Metallic Forum We haven't decided silver and gold are kind of like the most cliche. But if we think of her personality and depth we could maybe branch off from that. 25:32.93 sidekqpodcast So. 25:35.14 Scxrlet But I think those elements could appear in her um all da to form I Think what I think of celestials I think of them having those metallic shiny they're they're very shiny right? So I think that she would look humanoid. 25:45.36 sidekqpodcast Um. 25:50.83 Scxrlet Possibly bigger than a typical humanoid human but have like marblely skin with metallic runes carved into her arms and her hair being having a metallic sheen but she's young so it's like in a a high ponytail you know Cheerletter ask. 25:55.27 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 26:09.58 sidekqpodcast Um, sorry the image I just got in my mind just because I'm thinking of my niece lexixi who who suggested this name. Ah I remember years ago now you know because she's obviously older. But years ago her being obsessed with the trolls movie and I know there's that one. 26:10.86 Scxrlet Um, she is a president. 26:26.35 sidekqpodcast Shiny Metallic troll that I Just for some reason I just got a picture of that image. But I obviously not like a a cherubic baby ah sort of all dot to but a teenager one. That's like I'm not like a troll doll I'm like a real authoritative kind of person. 26:28.75 Scxrlet Ah, have. 26:38.37 Scxrlet Oh ok, she's a trust fund baby and she's a dragon dragons are very they and they loved money and they love showing their wealth. She dresses immaculately way more than any teenager should she looks like daddy pays for her stuff and she's probably still in contact with her. Like most dragons do become pretty independent once they reach a specific age but it seems like she's still under the wing of her parents. Ah who are kind of teaching her they you know she still has access to their hoard. She dresses really nicely and even. 27:04.14 sidekqpodcast I. 27:11.91 sidekqpodcast Um. 27:13.98 Scxrlet Benevolent dragons are they're still vain like it's still part of the thing. So yeah, she's she's got Gucci. She's got versace. 27:21.72 sidekqpodcast Okay, um, yeah, I'm just trying to think I'm just I'm trying to imagine like the places I would drop daisy my game. It's like yeah, there's like 2 different locations that are supposed to be like the best. Schooling in the world and so I imagine like kind of like a um, what is it like a private school or like a boarding school sort of vibe or it's like oh I have the uniform but I have like the most exclusive version of the uniform. 27:37.00 Scxrlet Yeah I think though she I think she attends a boarding school but she has her own flat in the City. So if she's like living in water deep. She lives in the. Uppity part of town and has a private chauffeur take her to her schooling where the finest wizards are her tutors and ah I don't know if she would keep it a secret that she's a dragon or not ah Metallic Dragons. Don't have to keep it on the Dl unless they want to because people are pretty like they're like oh they're a nice Dragon. You know they're they're They're nice. Um. 28:16.93 sidekqpodcast M. 28:22.24 Scxrlet Now if we made her like a silver dragon She would be attending the school so she can learn how to better empathize with mortals because Silver Dragons Really really really like hanging out with mortals. Um, yeah I Yeah I think let's make. 28:32.13 sidekqpodcast Yeah, party girl. 28:39.33 Scxrlet Chris silver so she has like silver hair ah marbleized skin almost like granite because again she looks does your al datu have wings. 28:50.50 sidekqpodcast Um I guess it depends like if ah if they inherited more of the celestial traits or not as opposed to the mortal traits I For example I know like in a story that I made with a one of my player characters I think. I said they came across an al datu character who had marble sort of colored skin because they worked in a place called the Marble arches. It was kind of like a yeah um and I described her kind of sort of looking like a dava but not but not fully. Um, so. 29:12.31 Scxrlet Oh this is like so perfect. 29:24.90 sidekqpodcast That's kind of like the at least the baseline that I got but I'm kind of loving this idea of like the silver hair the marble skin and maybe some of the Silver Runes or markings or ah birthmark striations or something that happens in in marble and stuff like that. Maybe. 29:35.44 Scxrlet Yeah, maybe if she does have wings. Maybe they look feathered but they look like they're made of Silver feathers like almost like statuesque. Um because she could be a little flashy. Maybe she has a learned to be discreet yet like she doesn't see why she has to. 29:47.75 sidekqpodcast Ok, um. 29:54.38 Scxrlet Pretend. She's not what she is. She just takes a mortal form so she could fit inside the elevator better. Um, ah. 30:00.83 sidekqpodcast Um, hanging out with a popular click and everyone's like gravitating to her to be your friend. 30:09.80 Scxrlet Yeah, but she is still going to be ah dragons at that age are trying to establish their own hoard. Ah Dragon Magic is tied to their hoard. Um, it was actually talked about it's from. Previous editions. Ah but canonically in fisbon's treasury of Dragons. It specifies that a dragon's power is physically linked to their hoard and you can actually like delevel dragons by stealing their hoard. Um. 30:30.88 sidekqpodcast Um. 30:42.24 Scxrlet In previous editions. They would actually lose levels but in um, this edition they essentially if their hoard drops beneath a specific ah value like gold value. They no longer get access to their lair actions. So it actually Weakens them so dragons are intrinsically linked to their. 30:51.21 sidekqpodcast Yes, m. 31:02.22 Scxrlet Wealth and every dragon even the benevolent ones want to amass a hoard so that would be definitely a reason for her to employ adventurers. 31:07.53 sidekqpodcast Interesting, interesting. 31:16.53 sidekqpodcast Well, that just goes to show what a bad D and D player I am because I have the book and I haven't read that to know that maybe it wouldn't necessarily personally for my home game necessarily work. But I think that's a very interesting fun idea and certainly ah enforces the idea of why people. Go on these seriously dangerous missions to steal from Dragon hordes because it's like well we got to de-level the dragon if we want to have one day of saving the village from being perpetually plundered. 31:46.34 Scxrlet Here's the thing. Um, while your players might think that's a nice idea. Dragons are not stupid and they will usually set their ah hordes up in a way that it is totally unlikely that someone is going to make off with enough treasure. 31:51.49 sidekqpodcast Oh sure. 32:04.18 Scxrlet 2 d level their ah layer like they would be like oh the vat. It's it's not coins. They don't have to have like I think it was some weird I don't remember off the top of my head. So let's just use the the made up number of 20000 gold just for the sake of this conversation. They would have the majority of that 20 they would have. 32:18.90 sidekqpodcast Um, sure. 32:23.63 Scxrlet 50000 gold in their layer with 30000 of it is the value of the pillars that are holding the ceiling up like they know how to set this up in a way that it's virtually impossible to just take their lair away from them. It's possible, but it's very unlikely. 32:38.10 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 32:42.59 Scxrlet It's more of a the point of that in phbanes is to emphasize dragons innate need to build a hoard and how precious they are about it when you steal it. You're stealing their power and they do not like that and they will not suffer that so I think the point wasn't to suggest you should go and. Try this technique in order to get rid of lair actions. It's like way more complicated than it needs to be I think it was just to really hammer home. The idea that dragons and their treasure are are 1. 33:14.35 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Although that did set up a very cool sort of like you know if you're looking for some sort of absurd ah sort of 1 shot or just miniseries or something like that of like. You have to ally the least likely allies you get you know mind flayers. You get all these different groups who wouldn't normally team up and it's like okay we need the zorn to chew through the rocks and then we need them to come up from underground and start draining the ultimate heist. Yeah, it's like an ancient dragon and it's like. 33:37.51 Scxrlet The ultimate heist. 33:44.50 sidekqpodcast This ancient dragon is making life awful for everyone in this area. So we we teamed up with the bad guys and the neutral guys and the good guys to pull off the ultimate heist. 33:55.59 Scxrlet Now to remind you taking their hoard just removes your layer actions that's still an h track. But yeah, that could be that would. 34:04.52 sidekqpodcast Sure sure sure. Yeah, so. 34:09.29 Scxrlet If you wanted to build like a one shot around that that would be very fascinating. You know, be like Oceans eleven. 34:12.17 sidekqpodcast Yeah, exactly yeah cause you were describing about like oh most of the values in the pillars and so yeah I'm imagining all the intricacies like with Brad Pitt and George Colonone are talking to each other and then it's like well what do you mean is in the gold there. It's like no no, no, it's the pillars you see and it's like and then that's why we this guy sneak in. 34:16.61 Scxrlet Yeah. 34:29.25 Scxrlet Ah, the the forty foot tall Twenty foot round call. We got to remove them and then. 34:30.94 sidekqpodcast The the portable hole on the roof and then start to undo the the columns. 34:42.37 sidekqpodcast We open the arcane gate underneath the column. So then it just goes into the astral sea. 34:44.56 Scxrlet We can? Yeah yeah, all that to say treasure is really important to a dragon including Daisy and she definitely would be hiring um players to help her acquire. 34:54.64 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes. 35:02.94 Scxrlet Ah, important pieces for her collection and dragons do have treasure preference. They all love coinage obviously but they often their personalities dictate what types of treasure they like and since Daisy is and I'll takes the form of an al dot to. 35:10.76 sidekqpodcast Um. 35:20.94 Scxrlet I think she would have a particular interest in religious artifacts. 35:25.20 sidekqpodcast Ooh. Okay, interesting. Yeah and is that like a family thing or is that like a like a her. She's formed it on her own or what. 35:34.17 Scxrlet I suppose. Well so silver dragons are again benevolent they're more likely to dragons don't typically worship gods. Um, they're not from pal. Ah although Bahama. Is and tomorrow are platinum dragons that did achieve godhood ah though ah dragons themselves are typically not the worshipers. But ah ah maybe she' is interested in becoming a god herself she is inspired by bahammet. 36:05.87 Scxrlet And thinks that if she can acquire enough power divine power that she can if she surrounds herself with religious artifacts maybe people cobolds at first but then later other people will come around and. 36:16.39 sidekqpodcast Oh. 36:21.16 Scxrlet Start deifying her. So maybe her goal her hope is to become a benevolent demigod or even like a lesser god. 36:26.98 sidekqpodcast Oh My gosh? Sorry no just I'm thinking of this if she if you know she's a teenager and if she gets swayed by the wrong people. You know it's not a.. It's not a like a benevolent thing of like oh I'm learning about. You know, ah religion and all these ah artifacts and stuff like that because I really want to aspire to this thing in a positive way. Someone bends her ear the wrong way and and with a teenager brain and suddenly it's like Prosperity Gospel sort of nonsense. 36:50.82 Scxrlet Mean I mean it's she in her heart. She's like if I get the power of a God She's a teenager right? then I can help mortals more because then I could answer their prayers. They're so lucky to have me. 37:00.48 sidekqpodcast Right? so. 37:10.44 Scxrlet Um, but yeah, you're right, she would be very impressionable like and a devil could potentially manipulate her disguise themselves if they can outlet her because she is only a teen ah which in dragon years is like between the ages of five and a hundred or something like that but still. 37:20.98 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. Right? The corporate back in the high school boarding schools like hey I think it'd be really cool if you did these like mean things. Oh sure. Yeah I'll do that and. 37:29.36 Scxrlet In the Grand scope of dragonhood. Ah. 37:40.50 Scxrlet Or trick her into acquiring artifacts that are dangerous. 37:42.50 sidekqpodcast Yeah, built behind of these bad ideas. But. 37:47.62 sidekqpodcast Yes, the book of vile darkness. Yeah. 37:55.10 Scxrlet But this so this actually makes her a potential Npc for good players and evil players too because it could be the evil players are attempting to corrupt this dragon by helping her ah air quote air quotes helping her. 38:07.38 sidekqpodcast So. 38:12.27 Scxrlet Ah, implanting ideas of grandeur and pushing her along I don't I don't know how corruptible D and D alignment is kind of interesting like the good dragons are good and the bad dragons are bad I kind of like it to be a little bit more ah flexible than that. 38:29.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 38:30.93 Scxrlet Like the metallic Dragons have personality traits but they're still like unique their individuals and you could have a ah ah Jackass Silver Dragon You know. 38:34.32 sidekqpodcast Sure. 38:43.75 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah and a teen you know? So ah teens are still learning. You know they're still not fully actualized ah adults in in society. So as we're as we're thinking on ah these ideas you know I think it ah is always helpful for Npcs if we can kind of summarize them. 38:46.87 Scxrlet Reason o. 39:01.61 Scxrlet Okay. 39:01.65 sidekqpodcast And 3 adjectives so what 3 adjectives would you choose to describe daisy. 39:08.28 Scxrlet I would choose glamorous like you know GLAM ah ah so she. 39:22.60 sidekqpodcast Vogue Vogue yeah that's about the yeah. 39:24.56 Scxrlet Oh you as yeah, she is definitely about the Flossie Flossie ah so glamorous. Ah ambitious and what is the word to describe somebody who. Is doesn't think that they could fall what is that word? How would you describe them like cocky like they think they're a but like they're incorruptible but mistakenly so they're not bad, but you know they're like like not cocky. 39:50.23 sidekqpodcast Um, so someone who doesn't think that they're in. 39:58.20 sidekqpodcast And write. 40:04.20 Scxrlet The wrong word. Ah, it's not like she's not self righteous but she is like a teenager. You know how teenagers think they're invincible Ray. Yeah. 40:04.53 sidekqpodcast Yeah I was gonna say it's not hubris and just right right? They also think that they're infallible as Well. So Fallible I mean the the regular form of fallible meaning that you. Have the full that you fully have the ability to be wrong in things and not correct on things. Yeah. 40:26.70 Scxrlet Right? right? So when she gives quests to the Adventurers. She'll speak with Authority like she knows what's up but you could ah have her accidentally give wrong information like she wants an artifact. She thinks it's better in her. It's used better in her hoard. It's for the good of everything but she's like missing so much context and information that she's a bit misguided. 40:49.94 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah, like this artifact is here for a specific reason because it's meant to plug this portal to 1 of the 9 realms of hell and if you remove it then suddenly. 40:56.65 Scxrlet Right? And she doesn't have the foresight to to realize that because she didn't bother doing the research because she's a teenager. 41:06.10 sidekqpodcast Um, I'm sorry I just had to text boys all night long and then listen to the bards and. 41:11.34 Scxrlet She's she's she's got a Bronze dragon on in her ah text messages. 41:16.21 sidekqpodcast Oh boy and then mom and dad have to come down and be like why are your grades failing. Why? Why are you doing poorly in school. 41:27.69 Scxrlet It's just a human wizard. It's not like he knows anything I'm going to be so much smarter than him in like 200 years but look I roll this is what the dice decided I did not decide that you. 41:34.50 sidekqpodcast Oh boy, Oh boy, this is what the dice decided. It's just getting a little too real. It's just getting a little too real Trust fun baby. 41:45.26 Scxrlet You told me it was a trust fund baby. Okay, this is not my fault. 41:51.32 sidekqpodcast And listeners that this is getting a little too real for you in your life. You can just leave us a comment on social media and just let us know how well the dice did this episode. So. 42:03.19 Scxrlet Ah, but what I really like about this concept is that the dungeon master now has the tools to have a straightforward good dragon sent you to get artifact bring Back. You get rewarded cool. But if they want to add Nuance if they want to. Like make it miss like you know more intense she makes mistakes there is a twist she was raw you know or you're evil and you're trying to trick. You know there's just a lot of options. You can force you can make her be what you need her to be. 42:26.19 sidekqpodcast Mm. 42:31.51 sidekqpodcast I see. So okay, and now we get to go back to some dice ruling which I know everyone likes to do in this section. So we always like our Npcs to have something cool on them. So what's goingnna be a valuable item piece of lore a secret. 42:38.40 Scxrlet In your campaign. 42:43.91 Scxrlet Put are. 42:54.20 sidekqpodcast Or an ideal or concept that Daisy would ascribe to and this is a combination so we're going to do a d four for the category and then a d six for the particular Thingumabbob. So. 42:54.18 Scxrlet Ah. 43:02.84 Scxrlet Okay, before I roll I just wanted to grace the audience with some dice asmr. Are you ready? Are you ready. 43:09.94 sidekqpodcast Okay, sure. 43:15.88 Scxrlet Is my is my microphone picking it up. Okay, all right, You're welcome all right I'm going to roll the D four I got it to. 43:17.90 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, yeah. 43:26.99 sidekqpodcast Okay, so this is going to be a piece of lore and now you get to roll a d 6 another 2 Okay, interesting. So I think this will definitely feed into what we've already built up but your answer was provided by previous guest Brian Rose 43:33.91 Scxrlet Another 2 43:46.32 sidekqpodcast Ah, Daisy knows the location of a well-renowned weapon. So maybe perhaps like some kind of holy avenger-esque sort of a thing. 43:48.43 Scxrlet He. 43:54.91 Scxrlet Would she yeah that's like perfect because she'd be like hey I know where this Holy Avenger weapon is go get it for me. It would look perfect next to my Chanel bag. Do we do you want to? do you want to like? ah just. 44:00.53 sidekqpodcast Exactly? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, cool. 44:11.99 Scxrlet Vaguely say a weapon or do you want to like actually describe what this weapon is we could describe it. Ok Daisy knows the location of the holy moon scythe of the goddess saloona. 44:14.00 sidekqpodcast Your choice your choice. Yeah, if you want. 44:28.24 sidekqpodcast Okay. 44:30.15 Scxrlet Used by her a warrior a famed a very famous warrior who met their unfortunate end due to a love triangle thing and in her final resting place her famed scythe was laid to rest. Entombed for the last two thousand years and that's like so romantic and I would love to have that in my bedroom. It'll bring me good luck when it comes to love. 44:53.56 sidekqpodcast Mm. 45:02.87 sidekqpodcast So this is like the 1 obscure thing she picked up from one of her history classes and she's like this this is the thing that I need. Yeah. 45:10.78 Scxrlet Yeah, yeah, she heard about it. She heard about this like warrior of Saloona who fell in love with um I almost said like a jar. Ah, dark justice herer of sha. But I've been playing too much balder's gate. So I'm not trying to like let that bleed it. But maybe yeah, maybe maybe there was a a love affair between a follower of a saloona and a follower of shar and it caused it led to the death of this warrior for. Unimportant reasons and so when she was laid to rest. They laid her famous ah scythe bathed in the moonlight of the goddess and it's silvery and Daisy loves silveriness because she's silver dragon. 46:01.14 sidekqpodcast Um. 46:02.48 Scxrlet Yeah, so she'll like talk about this lord too. Maybe if you ask her about it. She like knows all the details she like read about it and writes fanfic about it all the time. Yeah, she has written a song about it. 46:06.81 sidekqpodcast And I write Epic poems about it in my spare time and. I Got a bard play it up in the you know one of the fancy pubs in water deep. It's all the rager. 46:19.36 Scxrlet Um, it's melody. 46:23.36 Scxrlet Yeah, it's It's suspiciously sounds like my imortal from evanesence. But we're not going to talk about. But. 46:30.40 sidekqpodcast Oh my gosh Daisy sounds like someone who would totally listen to evanescence. Yep. 46:34.90 Scxrlet I mean if yeah to the younger viewers in in Amy Lee was so pretty I wanted to be her. 46:40.79 sidekqpodcast Back in our days. There was a band called evanescence. 46:52.39 sidekqpodcast Girls wanted to be her men wanted to be her boyfriend. Yep Okay, fair enough. Yeah, so this is cool. Yeah, so get get the holy scythe ah from the tomb. Okay, yeah, that's right. 46:57.65 Scxrlet Um, yeah. 47:07.28 Scxrlet Now What would what would it be called. What's like a that the the silvery side so cheesy. Ah this yeah sure. 47:18.56 sidekqpodcast The holy scythe. 47:19.40 Scxrlet The holyythe I was going to like come up with an amazing name for it. You know what I do as a Dm when I need to come up with a name of something on the fly because I I roll a die and then I use that die to determine which of my players and then I put them on the spot and I just say yo. What's its name and then I write and that's the same fate. That's the name for the rest of the campaign. Ah. 47:39.00 sidekqpodcast Oh boy? Well if you don't want to put that much pressure on your players on the spot. Certainly you know, a dungeon master or a player character who's going to use this npc daisy in their backstory can maybe perhaps come up with a name see I was thinking of like Luna something or you know I would usually take. Concept and maybe translate it in a different language manipulate it a little bit in that way. So it has like some sort of tangible realness to it. Crescent blade. Yeah because people are like oh crescent blade that's going to be like a cool axe or sword or something like that. 47:59.87 Scxrlet Ah. 48:04.79 Scxrlet Oh what about like the crescent blade because it's a scythe in the crescent Moon Crescent Blade or the crescent's edge. 48:16.20 sidekqpodcast And they get there on the crescent's edge I like it. Yeah because people are gonna be like oh that sounds like a heavy metal. Ah like ah you know Hammer or or maybe not a hammer but aythe or a sword or something like that and if they get there and she hasn't told them they're like a side like really this. 48:33.52 Scxrlet Do do you think it'd be like a 2 handed side like grim reaper bit like or do you think it would be like ah like a handythe with a shield. 48:41.77 sidekqpodcast Maybe like a handythe but you know because it's kind of like maybe kind of like moonlight in that way. Ah you know, just like handheld and and personal up close sure. 48:45.96 Scxrlet Ok, yeah, and it would be like a magical weapon to to have like features like depending on like the waning or waxing of the moon. It has different phases like when it's. 48:59.96 sidekqpodcast Um. 49:02.81 Scxrlet Yeah, that would be me. It has like different properties based on whether it's waxing waiting. 49:06.42 sidekqpodcast And does it do a moon night or a sailor moonesque sort of transformation when you ah when you possess the weapon and you're properly attuned to it. 49:11.90 Scxrlet Oh my gosh one it went so it starts at the new Moon phase and then it's like the the space between the Blade starts to fill up with light and once it becomes a full moon. 49:21.99 sidekqpodcast I. 49:26.91 Scxrlet You use an action and it transforms your outfit into something super slinky and then you just have moonbeams pop it out of all your ah spaces and for like a few rounds. You're super saying This is a so very legendary weapon guys. This is not for. 49:45.70 sidekqpodcast Sure of course yeah of course this is why she needs you to go do it because it's been like resting for 2000 years in some sort of monster trap-infested. Ah tomb. Yeah. 49:47.60 Scxrlet Levels. Yeah. 49:54.38 Scxrlet Yeah, like the dungeon the dungeon of the Sailor man. Ah yeah, oh my gosh How where has this evolved I Love it. She is getting fan art. 50:00.31 sidekqpodcast Ah, the Moon sailor. 50:07.14 sidekqpodcast Yep, then that's what you can get with a few dice rolls. Yep and and the in the banter between 2 people. 50:11.72 Scxrlet I know I did not expect to be making a lunar celestial and Pc when I thought dragon when I thought Dragon I was like ok, we're going to get like black dragon who's like really into the mud and the swap it poison and shit. Um. 50:30.10 Scxrlet But here we are daisier. 50:31.23 sidekqpodcast Here? Yeah, and you may have already alluded to it earlier of what you're thinking that. Ah, this particular quest is going to be and if you want to stick with that. That's fine, but we also have the ability to randomly generate a side quest if you want to roll the last dice. 50:45.46 Scxrlet Absolutely I'd like rolling dice so we're gonna do that. Okay I have to do 12 That's 6 50:47.29 sidekqpodcast Which is going to be a d 12 50:57.80 sidekqpodcast Okay, interesting and you can tell me if you like this or not but this response was was provided by previous guest Legal Kimchi assassinate a government official and blame someone else for it. So do you want to just leave you. 51:12.74 Scxrlet Ok hold on we could work with this. We could work with this Absolutely Ah, ok, repeat that assassinate a government official and then blame who on it. 51:15.99 sidekqpodcast Oh you do want to work with this. Oh Boy. And someone else blame someone else for it So like frame them the assassination on someone else. 51:28.19 Scxrlet Yeah, ok so obviously the government official has to be corrupt is this like is this a quest to get the weapon or is this something its own thing. 51:37.36 sidekqpodcast Sure. It could be its own thing or if you want to make the 2 together. 51:48.29 Scxrlet Let's let's address it as its own thing and if we can tie it in the end we will. But maybe she finds that. Ah she found out that her boarding school had master who is like on the board of education for. 51:50.68 sidekqpodcast Sure. So. 52:00.50 sidekqpodcast Um. 52:03.78 Scxrlet The city of water deep or wherever she's going to school bowlers gate he is actually in league with some devils from the third layer of hell and he needs to go. 52:04.45 sidekqpodcast Sure. 52:19.11 sidekqpodcast Sure Yeah, she's a silver dragon. So naturally naturally she's gonna take it upon herself to get this done and. 52:22.23 Scxrlet Yeah, yeah, and she's going to have you pin it on another corrupt official who they famously buttheads they're like rivals with each other but they're both like 1 deals with devils the other one. 52:33.44 sidekqpodcast I. 52:42.42 Scxrlet Deals with maybe like Ginny or mine flares like they're they're against each other so she could get you to assassinate one and pin it on the other so he has to go to jail clean up the city. Just. 52:47.70 sidekqpodcast Well, Ah, yeah, yeah, sure. 52:54.96 sidekqpodcast So interesting. Okay, yeah, and then okay and then the only way that I could think to tie them in as as aside from knowing about the location of this well-renowned weapon would be like if they're hoarding. Are hiding information on the magic item of. 53:11.77 Scxrlet I Actually have an idea the official who has made a deal with the devil is unkillable except if the blow is made with a weapon. 53:20.20 sidekqpodcast I. 53:30.52 Scxrlet That is fits the description of the crescent's edge so you have to get the crescent's edge in order to commit the assassination. 53:36.39 sidekqpodcast Mm. 53:41.74 sidekqpodcast This interesting. 53:44.82 Scxrlet He's like immune to everything except for divine power that has slumbered for 1000 years and that's the only one she knows about. 53:50.20 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Okay, oh man. Yeah, so obviously being a headmaster of this boarding school and probably not trying to do anything to arouse suspicion. Yeah, it's like why would anyone. Know that this guy can't be killed unless he's like doing really shady things working in this secret society or whatever trying to undermine undermined water deep or whatnot. 54:15.78 Scxrlet Yeah I think you'd have to like so get the information like first you'd have to discover that they're immortal like maybe you're given the information they're immortal. We don't know why do some reconnaissance. To figure out what his weakness is and then you can send them on a quest to discover the weakness whether it's like eavesdropping on a conversation with him and his devil patron or finding the documentate like something you'd have to figure out or maybe you actually contact the devil. And are able to like figure out how to get information like what are the bounds of this contract I can offer you something in exchange for information on the the terms and service of your little thing. Ah yeah, it could be all this sounds like a whole campaign. Holy crap. It's not a one shot anymore. It's a it's a whole psyquest. 55:08.58 sidekqpodcast Yeah, for sure and ah yeah, and with this side quest in mind of the assassinating a government official. Um, who's on the board. That's what it was. It's a government official who's on the board for the. Ah. 55:20.42 Scxrlet The edge board of education. That's. 55:23.84 sidekqpodcast Sort of education that oversees this boarding school that Daisy attends. Um, yeah, so with that in mind what's going to be the reward for success in this side. Quest. 55:26.28 Scxrlet Is a perfect. 55:35.18 Scxrlet Ah I mean obviously she has a whole hoard for you to choose from. But if you roll high enough on your persuasion. You can persuade her to lend you The crescent's edge because you're going to die before. She even hits adulthood so she doesn't need her right now you can just borrow. It. 55:53.21 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Yeah and she has you like write up a contract or something like that. You know, not well. She'll just come get it like oh you're on your deathbed of natural causes and she's there like yeah I'm gonna take this back now like really. 55:59.35 Scxrlet Oh she'll come get it from you when you die. 56:07.98 Scxrlet Yeah, she just shows up and she's like. Thanks. 56:15.41 sidekqpodcast It's like I'm in my dying moments here. Could you just? ah afford a little bit of respect for me in my final moments. Please. 56:21.73 Scxrlet Right? And even if like if you really, you could just hand wave it and say she puts a spell on it that the moment you die it disappears and reappears back in her hoard I'm sure there's magic like that. Ah yeah, she could lend you yes so she could lend it to you. 56:28.80 sidekqpodcast Sure Yeah, she puts a little like tracking thing on it. Yeah, so it's like. 56:38.29 Scxrlet This wonderful magic item that turns you into it. Yeah Sailor Moon 56:41.32 sidekqpodcast Legendary magic item. Yeah, or moon night if you I mean you could be okay I saw the cost play where they did Sailor Moon night which is pretty cool but. 56:50.30 Scxrlet Is that when she's like in full plate. 56:52.97 sidekqpodcast Um I think it was someone at a comic con somewhere and they combined Sailor Moon with moonnight and so it was a sailor moon outfit that looked like moonlight so Sailular Moon Night yeah 57:01.67 Scxrlet Um, all that's so cute. That's cute, perfect. 57:09.80 sidekqpodcast If you wanted to do that if you want or if you just want to go straight Sailor Moon or if you just want to go straight moon night either or you can't go wrong. Okay. 57:12.95 Scxrlet So I would phrase it in the magic items description that when the moon whatever stipulations you put on pushing the phases of the moons. Whether it's every turn it changes or every time you do damage with it. It changes once it hits full Moon you enter And. Avatar Mode the appearance of the avatar mode is up to the person wielding it but there is a transformation they look more celestial their clothing changes and then they get access to certain actions for like a minute. 57:39.95 sidekqpodcast Um. 57:47.30 sidekqpodcast There you go. 57:49.80 Scxrlet And yeah, it'd be like a really fun like building building up the power so that they can unleash it. 57:52.69 sidekqpodcast Yeah, they go full super saying or yeah I'm not I'm not super well versed to my dragon Ball Z lore. But apparently there's even levels above super saying. So yeah, so. 58:03.75 Scxrlet I Don't know anything about Dragon balls. He. 58:09.16 sidekqpodcast Ah, okay, so we know the reward but we also have to consider what's going to be the consequence of refusing the call to the adventure or refuse or or failure in the quest. 58:21.72 Scxrlet Um, I would say the reason she wants to take out this board of the board of education or this member of the board of education is he is doing something shady in the school like. 58:32.70 sidekqpodcast Um. 58:33.11 Scxrlet Affecting the students this then that's how this whole thing starts like students are being transformed or being sacrificed or being ah. 58:40.96 sidekqpodcast Mm Oh yeah, well I mean if he made a deal with the devil for invulnerability to pretty much everything he probably has to like cough up ah a student. So there's a rise in student mortality and it's like oh we're very sorry here at water deep boarding school. 58:49.82 Scxrlet Um, yeah, students are being like sacrificed. So ah yeah, yeah, so if you do nothing then a bunch of students die. 58:57.74 sidekqpodcast A Horror movie. Ask? yeah. And then that yeah that blood is on your hands I suppose they're inaction. Yeah, Okay, so that's refusing. But then as far as failure is concerned so is there is there a different set of circumstances if they. 59:07.38 Scxrlet Yeah, you could You could have done something about it. 59:17.18 Scxrlet Um, well. 59:20.20 sidekqpodcast Through the course of everything somehow manage to fail assassinating and or they fail in their attempts at switching the blame on the other corrupt person. 59:26.46 Scxrlet Oh that then they would be blamed and then they would probably face the executioner's block or go to Jail I don't know I don't know how intense your game is you killed somebody I don't know if water deep has the death penalty. 59:32.61 sidekqpodcast Or just you know Jail sure. Yeah, yeah. 59:43.37 sidekqpodcast Yeah I don't know you know we might have to call Ed Greenwood and see if he wrote that into the lore or not. 59:53.40 Scxrlet Or ah, maybe the devil that had owned the soul of the one you assassinated is like ah there's a clause in my contract that if anybody should terminate the plain wait not the plaintiff if so much terminate the original signer of the contract before the. Contract has been fulfilled that you the contract is now on you and now you are bound to me and I am your warlock Patriot. Um. 01:00:16.55 sidekqpodcast Oh so someone now inadvertently becomes a warlock. 01:00:22.97 Scxrlet Yeah, you just multiclassed into warlock and now you have to fulfill this warlocks will or this devil's will ah else he be turned into a limure in and put on the front line of the blood war in the nine hells. 01:00:36.55 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:00:39.96 sidekqpodcast That's interesting. Okay, yeah, put so put a ticking clock on it and then the players have to you know if they want to go devil hunting devil smiting if you will or anything like that do a whole Diablo thing and we're just going to storm into the 9 circles of hell do the. 01:00:48.90 Scxrlet Okay. 01:00:56.40 Scxrlet And you got to fight? Yeah, now you got to fight demons. 01:00:58.10 sidekqpodcast Descent in a verness thing. Yeah yep, the the doomslayer. Yeah, that whole thing. 01:01:07.70 Scxrlet do do do do do do do do do do wait oh so sorry. Ah, Mc Gordon is a favorite of mine. 01:01:10.89 sidekqpodcast Nice and then let's see we do have some optional questions as well. If you feel like daisy needs to be fleshed out further or if you're good then we can move on to the next section and okay, all right? so. 01:01:18.97 Scxrlet Um, yeah as I'm my time is your time. 01:01:29.70 sidekqpodcast What are the goals and motivations of daisy as a character. 01:01:32.63 Scxrlet I Think that's pretty Self-explanatory She is a Dragon. She's a young Dragon Her goal would be to establish her hoard and establish and eventually establish a lair that usually doesn't happen until they're an adult dragon but they get start building a horde early and it would just. That would be it be pretty straightforward, really just get a hoard. Oh yeah, What's so funny is a swanky pad in water deep is. 01:01:51.40 sidekqpodcast And you were imagining the swankkiiest of swanky pads in the deep town downtown of water deep. 01:02:05.97 Scxrlet Still probably nothing compared to the potential of ah an adult or an ancient dragon when it comes to how fabulously wealthy they are. But yeah, she would be she would have ah a pad in downtown. Ah pretty spacious windows that look over the city. She's ah. 01:02:12.36 sidekqpodcast And. 01:02:24.19 Scxrlet Remember she's a trust fund baby. So even though she hasn't established her hoard fully. She's still living off of mommy and Daddy's ah silver. So. 01:02:24.40 sidekqpodcast So. 01:02:31.96 sidekqpodcast Sorry, just because we we talked about it earlier I'm just imagining like some of these accounts on Instagram where it's like look look at my luxurious apartment with all this modern architecture. 01:02:41.13 Scxrlet She absolutely has an Instagram account. 01:02:46.93 sidekqpodcast She has the d and d equivalent of an Instagram account. She does paid sponsorships. Um, oh my gosh Daisy's my favorite on Fa Instagram 01:02:50.60 Scxrlet Yeah, she is a socialite I think she'd be pretty popular in like mm now as a silver dragon I feel like she would engage in a bit of philanthropy. But it's mommy and Daddy's money so she has to like she hasn't gotten her own wealth in order shell. She'll do like charity but more it's more about like convincing other people to donate to certain causes but she is still a silver dragon silver dragons are um, altruistic despite being. Fairly vain and still think they're better than everyone else. So I think she's she wants to be good. She wants to be seen. But again, she's young. So if she's bedazzled by the adoration so she makes appearances soup kitchens and ah like. 01:03:31.70 sidekqpodcast She just hasn't gotten that life experience. But. 01:03:44.41 Scxrlet Ah, homeless shelters and orphanages. 01:03:46.17 sidekqpodcast Well maybe she goes to the temples and stuff like that. She's so interested in religious artifacts and stuff like that. So she goes to bahamit's temple you know, ah you know, being from the Catholic world and you know you know we we try and be authentic and real. But sometimes there are those accounts that are like. Quote Unquote radtrats and they're like look at me in my my veils and it's the Ultra-orthodox. Ah super ah old school version of mass and stuff like that and it's like oh I aspire to that And yeah. 01:04:11.80 Scxrlet I think she would be she bes too proud of her cleavage though to like be that trapped like she's not dressed like a nun. She's like. 01:04:21.73 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:04:24.44 Scxrlet Wearing a little mini skirt and like the white top with her nails done and like the glittery highlighter and her hair has silver highlights. But she does donate she does go to hang out Again. Dragons are not religious. Ah, even though Bahamma is a Dragon God the. Thelo is really wild the the dragons and the gods. Ah apparently did far a lot and the world was split into two and then yeah, it's It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing. Most dragons are not religious. They're too individual. They're too. Ah. 01:04:51.97 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:05:01.30 Scxrlet Vain They don't really worship gods they know gods exist but they would rather be worshipped as a God that's what cobalts worship dragons a lot but she would appreciate the art that religion and I think she aspires to be venerated and that's why she does show up and do. 01:05:09.50 sidekqpodcast Mm Yeah, so. 01:05:20.34 Scxrlet You know the land the be because she wants to get the cred. 01:05:22.95 sidekqpodcast Yeah now I'm just imagining these poor clerics and acolytes that are like please you need to that. There's a dress code that we enforce here you you can't make it all about you. We are actually here. In fact. To have religious services. Can you please not make it all about you please. 01:05:41.21 Scxrlet Personally I like so I see ah the religion in D and D is not being so much purity culture and all of that. Ah, only because I I like to design cute outfits my characters even my religious. Um. 01:05:47.30 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah. 01:05:54.60 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah. 01:05:58.88 Scxrlet But yeah I think maybe her definitely like ostentatiousness and trying to get like all the cred would be distracting for sure. 01:06:09.28 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah, yeah, but then again you may have those ah you know and maybe it's not bahammet and she's visiting other temples and stuff and so they're like look we know it's daisy. 01:06:15.93 Scxrlet And yeah. 01:06:21.14 sidekqpodcast She's going to do it. Maybe not necessarily for the right reasons but you know she's bringing people into the service they're helping out I guess in the and the local communities. 01:06:26.86 Scxrlet Right? She goes to the temple of tomorrow. She goes to all the more. Yeah I think that she's on good ah terms with most of the upper planes gods as far as a dragon is concerned but she is young. She. 01:06:37.40 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 01:06:42.67 sidekqpodcast Sure Yep, okay. 01:06:42.74 Scxrlet Thinks she knows more than she knows No, she's a teenager she thinks she's avinc and she thinks I think another personality Quirk she believes with her whole heart that everybody loves her. 01:06:56.45 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so even those acolytes and nuns and brothers and friars and whatnot. You know, maybe like you know, no this is too distracting. You're not getting the point of this and then she's like well you know they're they're just great in all this stuff and she just yeah. 01:07:12.39 Scxrlet They all love me I feel like they would be a little afraid to tell her anything because she has a drag she has more hip points than they do sick and she has a breath What? Ah so I don't know if they would say it to her face. But um. 01:07:16.10 sidekqpodcast Sure Sure sure. Sure. They might take that into prayer or something like that and they'll just be like you know this is something that I struggle with and I just need to you know mm That's oh that's how much of a teenager. Okay. 01:07:28.59 Scxrlet Yeah, yeah I think other dragons think she's obnoxious other yeah I think other direct because I don't think I don't think mortals understand. Dragonness like maybe wizards you know the learned the scholars they understand how dragons work your average person has no idea a dragon is like Dragon. So I think. 01:07:56.25 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:07:59.31 sidekqpodcast Yeah, especially she's if she's in this half celestial form. Probably most people are going to be like startled and like oh there's an actual angel here like you know, maybe like afraid to approach her in the in the temples or whatever because they're like just give her a wide berth. Let her have her space. 01:08:10.14 Scxrlet Um, yeah. 01:08:16.91 Scxrlet Yeah, she maybe she do you think maybe she goes from like church to church to give like little talks on how to say positive and ah. 01:08:18.10 sidekqpodcast Don't disturb her focus on what's going on. 01:08:28.50 sidekqpodcast Maybe maybe yeah I don't know how it would ah how would work in a game. 01:08:31.97 Scxrlet Get a lot. Yeah, she yeah she goes around she gives motivational speeches in her um all dot to form. Maybe that's why she has an all dot you form. It's for like the the ah the theatrics of it. 01:08:37.44 sidekqpodcast M. 01:08:43.63 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, certainly people are more likely to pay attention to you If you're like this half celestial sort of creature that isn't witnessed every day. Yeah. 01:08:51.68 Scxrlet Yeah, yeah, and I think that people when they don't know who she is really, they're like totally starstruck by her but like an adventuring party around fifth or sixth level would be like oh it's like a half celestial interesting. Oh. It's a a. A young dragon interesting. So they might not be as bedazzled but they would be willing to like like who doesn't want to work with a dragon. 01:09:19.16 sidekqpodcast Yeah, sure sure yeah and then ah how do these goals and motivations of Daisy affect her general personality. 01:09:26.60 Scxrlet How do her goals affect her personality I think that while she tries to maintain a veneer of Righteousness. She would probably be impatient with anyone wasting her time. Ah, she doesn't feel the need to convince anybody of anything because she's pretty Confident. Ah and if some if so like if players are trying to negotiate with her or you know how? okay we all know those players who you present to them The Npc with a quest and the players like to get snarky. 01:09:52.54 sidekqpodcast M. 01:10:01.48 Scxrlet And like to try and talk circles around your npcs and you as the Dm are like just just take the fucking quest Jesus Christ um I think that if she were to be like if people were trying to leverage additional pay or question her or try to walk circles around her. She would be impatient with that and just hand wave it and be like okay you're obviously not the group that I thought you were ah have a good day have an ice water on your way out. She doesn't have time for. 01:10:31.38 sidekqpodcast Mm Okay, okay. 01:10:36.10 Scxrlet Whatever, she's willing to pay handsomely who will help her because she has that ability. Um and she will accept any of your compliments. But if you act like you're not impressed or if you try and like gain leverage. She won't like that. And she probably would just disengage. 01:10:59.45 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then how do you see her normally interacting with different kinds of people is she going to be the same across the board or does she have nuance depending on who exactly she's talking to like friends and family versus peers versus her parents. Ah you know versus you know. 01:11:12.76 Scxrlet I mean. 01:11:16.66 sidekqpodcast And rivals if she has those at school and stuff like that. 01:11:19.62 Scxrlet I think nuance is obvious is definitely the best way to go um with common people she is going to try and be look as fabulous as possible but also come off as generous as possible. Ah because she's trying to build that like personda. Ah, with her peers. Maybe she would just have kind of like a little bit of ah rivalry like well I volunteered at the orphanage this many hours ah with her betters I think it depends. Um. With her parents. She's definitely like mommy Daddy. Ah she loves her parents I need more money. Well they're paying for her tuition but I need more money to go shopping I want to go to the. 01:11:56.78 sidekqpodcast I Need more money for tuition. It's gotten really expensive. 01:12:14.92 Scxrlet Villailla on the weekend. You know like she definitely is like that. Um it would take an entire podcast to flesh out her parents' personality. So we're not going to do that. We'll just assume they're there to give her what she needs. So she's very sweet but at a s not like like. 01:12:15.37 sidekqpodcast M. 01:12:32.58 Scxrlet Icky cut away with her parents. Um, ah, let's see yeah again with rivals I Don't think she is. She's not malicious. She does think she's better than everyone Maybe she pities people like what she just kind of if if someone is just. 01:12:35.16 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:12:50.97 Scxrlet Not getting along with her. She'll just kind of like flippantly be like I feel so sorry for them, you know they don't They're not in the light. They don't understand. Ah so I think she frustrates others more than they frustrate her. 01:12:57.36 sidekqpodcast Mm. 01:13:05.22 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, it sounds like does. Oh. 01:13:10.38 Scxrlet Um, I wonder though I think there is an important thing I don't know who her hero would be I think I think everyone needs a hero right? Everyone has somebody that they aspire to be like and that might be tricky. 01:13:18.72 sidekqpodcast Mm Interesting sharp. 01:13:26.65 sidekqpodcast I Know we said earlier maybe bahomet if she was inspired by that. 01:13:27.98 Scxrlet Um, maybe maybe she is inspired by bahammet like maybe she actually does feel a connection like I know I keep saying that dragons are not religious I mean well isn't bahammet the father of like all metallic dragons I don't. 01:13:38.39 sidekqpodcast He's my great Great greatre. Great Great grandfather. 01:13:47.14 Scxrlet Know my bahamut law very well. 01:13:47.34 sidekqpodcast I Think so there's like a uber dragon and then like bomb it and team ad and then maybe another one are supposed to be siblings which. 01:13:55.67 Scxrlet Your comments are you? You know what? okay your commenter or your viewers are going to correct me on this so ah viewers I apologize if I'm getting this wrong I've only a volume pla d d since 2019 um I'm 01:14:08.10 sidekqpodcast A secret is we make it all up as we go along anyway. 01:14:13.38 Scxrlet I love Laura though I love getting la right? Okay I'm pretty sure that bahamma and tma are the parents of all dragons and their first child was see a. It's a name I can't pronounce because I don't have in front of me is the ruby dragon. The the creator of the jeb dragons who is currently destroyed. Ah so I think all dragons are literally from Bahama and tma. Ah, but I think. 01:14:33.43 sidekqpodcast M. 01:14:40.84 sidekqpodcast M. 01:14:44.85 Scxrlet Back to like looking up like I think that Daisy would look up to bahammet because he is Celeste Joly is divine. He has a realm in mountce less. Yeah, he walks among the mortals and you know all this stuff. Maybe she's met him a few times. 01:15:02.95 sidekqpodcast Oh there, you go well being a trust fund baby. He's shown up at like ah all the events. You know when she was growing up or whatever. 01:15:10.23 Scxrlet Or so the thing about Bahama I don't think he does that he's like he hangs out with like common folk. Ah a famous bit of lore about Bahama is he often takes the form of a mortal an unseeming mortal whether it's an old man or a young person like and he's always accompanied. By 10 canaries little birdies who are gold dragons in disguise. A lot of people love that little bit of lore. So maybe she like bumped into him she like obviously recognized him and it was just really inspiring how he inspired the people around him. They all looked. 01:15:31.22 sidekqpodcast M. 01:15:44.90 sidekqpodcast Mm. 01:15:45.10 Scxrlet Up to him even though he was kind of humble and she just yeah, so maybe she does Even though she has this haughty teenagey thing She is all about bahammet thinks he's super dope. Not in a God like not in a worshipper God sort of dynamic because again. 01:15:49.33 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 01:16:04.35 Scxrlet Dragon but that's like her hero like she is so definitely influenced by him. 01:16:11.48 sidekqpodcast Although I like to imagine a party that works really hard with her and you know maybe not the more self-interested aspect and maybe they do convince her like. You know you got to serve someone and if you're not you know, picking a god to serve. You're basically only going to serve yourself and you know live a hollow sort of existence. So maybe actually turning to Bob Bob it as your lord and savior may not be a bad thing after all. 01:16:37.61 Scxrlet Yeah, actually I Love the idea that um and I like to do this with my mpcs. Their end story is not written the players affect the direction they go so that by keeping that open ended. Ah that could be You could. 01:16:49.50 sidekqpodcast Um, sure. 01:16:55.20 Scxrlet Make her more diligent in her following of bahammet. Um, or you could just help her steal. The crescent's edge and murder her headmaster. 01:17:00.59 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 01:17:09.90 sidekqpodcast That too does Daisy have a particular accent or language that ah she speaks with are there any idiosyncrasies in how she acts. 01:17:19.44 Scxrlet Um, do you think dragons. 01:17:21.31 sidekqpodcast I mean I know we're doing like affectations of like a typical teenager but is that how we're imagining her talking or is there like yeah. 01:17:28.57 Scxrlet Yeah, that's a good point. Um I guess so she's living in water deep I the only character canonically that I know is from water deep is Gail from folders gate three and he just has a very british accent. 01:17:43.35 sidekqpodcast Okay. 01:17:46.10 Scxrlet But she's also a dragon. So I wonder if ah using an exotic accent ah or a different accent rather would be ah help differentiate her I'd have to think about that I think she would. 01:17:52.89 sidekqpodcast So. 01:18:04.89 Scxrlet 2 01:18:07.84 sidekqpodcast What's more exotic than the U K It's like Siberian or ah, you know, ah or like Cajun French or what you know something like that. 01:18:17.89 Scxrlet Honestly, my advice when it comes to using accents and voices. Ah for Dms is use what you know? ah you don't have to use an accent if you don't know how to do accents and be respectful. 01:18:32.28 sidekqpodcast Sure. 01:18:33.72 Scxrlet If you do choose to use an accent. Um, so I feel like that's really just up to the Dm I think though that beats you would like checks. You would be would sound very posh and sound rich I think. 01:18:45.47 sidekqpodcast Yeah M yep sure depending on which culture you know that you you associate with posh and rich. You know? yeah. 01:18:53.14 Scxrlet Whatever because that could translate to so many different things right? It could be yeah, exactly just yeah, so you can just push on posh. 01:19:05.79 sidekqpodcast M. 01:19:08.73 Scxrlet I Think that would be like the wisest way to tackle that. 01:19:11.48 sidekqpodcast Okay, what impact has daisy made on the world. How has she shaped the local area. 01:19:20.77 Scxrlet Oh so I think that she does tons of philanthropy full full philanthropy. Um, so she probably has made a small impact. You know she reads to orphans. She probably. Meets with wealthy individuals in the city to convince them to um, invest in different charities. Maybe she works with charities like she's ah at actual liaison with charities because she has so much charisma dragons have so much charisma. 01:19:43.40 sidekqpodcast M. 01:19:54.13 Scxrlet So she goes on behalf of certain charities. You know like orphans of water deep or education for orphans of water I don't know you know what the widows. But yeah, so she works with them. 01:19:54.46 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:19:57.16 sidekqpodcast Move. The widows fund or something like that. 01:20:09.24 Scxrlet And goes to Gallas and events and ah convinces the patrons of the city to um, donate to different charitable causes and she is given lots of lavish gifts for her work and effort. Ah, so. 01:20:24.66 sidekqpodcast Which adds to her hoard and. 01:20:28.67 Scxrlet Exactly like they like she wants this for her hoard right? like she gets she gets product all the time but that's like her pretty much most of what she does I think is not only does she attend a school of magic. Um, but she ah goes to events that are. Charitable like nonprofits and charity are like her main thing and that might be actually where the players would meet her would be at like a charity ball or a gala. Ah, she's like. 01:20:53.20 sidekqpodcast A gala. Yeah. 01:20:59.63 Scxrlet They're introducing people and meeting with people and and I think that eventually as she grows in her own wealth. She would then become a patron of different charities like or maybe if she already has a wealth. The charities are coming to her and she is donating to these different charities. It depends on where she is in her journey. 01:21:16.10 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah, and then does Daisy have any current problems that prevent her from being a bigger player on the stage is it. Her age is it what she's doing with her schooling and or is it something else. 01:21:29.26 Scxrlet I Think yeah, her age and just lack of resources mommy and Daddy only pay for so much she needs to make her mark as a dragon. She needs her own hoard. She needs her own lair and until she gets those things she can only influence others she can't. Do her thing. 01:21:50.60 sidekqpodcast Okay, well it sounds like we've learned a lot about Miss Daisy here that I think it's time we throw her into a random encounter. So this segment of the show doesn't have a sponsorship. But if you would like to change that you have ah you are more than welcome to send me an email. Sidekicks and sidequest at Gmail.com and I'd be happy to promote your kickstarters your your your your d and d products your e etcs or whatever and we can you know use your patronage of this podcast to in turn. Ah throw it back your way just recently spoke with 5 sighted fates. And I know they're going to be having their first ever convention d and d convention that they're putting together themselves here in Arlington Texas in March of 2024. So if you're interested in that I would advise you to go check out their Instagram page. That's where you're going to find most of all their information together. Ah, maybe hopefully you'll get to see me there that would be super cool. Maybe I'll get to do a live show there and and run some d and d games or something I don't know but we're we're we're trying to talk about that and see if we can make that happen. Ah so yeah, you know, be sure to support them. And again happy to support any other ah would be benefactors of the show. So this is the point of the podcast where we do a little role play a little vignette a scene in the slice of life with Daisy but the question becomes what kind of scene? are you interested in portraying her in. 01:23:21.13 sidekqpodcast Because we've got a number of ah different podcast characters that we could introduce her to um if you wanted to do like a flashback scene or just like some other small vignette in her life. What are what are you interested in. 01:23:33.92 Scxrlet Is is it possible. We have a co quick two second break or I guess 2 minute break just refresh water use the bathroom all that stuff. Okay, okay because I want to get into this I don't want to be distracted I don't want to be like ah. 01:23:38.76 sidekqpodcast Sure. Yeah, sure. Sure Okay, alrighty. 01:23:51.14 Scxrlet Okay, very right back. 01:26:55.87 Scxrlet Okay, I'm back. 01:27:00.18 sidekqpodcast And all, right. Okay, so let's see I'll I'll help to ah to bring us back in. So So the random encounter is a point in the show where we like to do a little bit of a role play a vignette a scene a slice in the life of Daisy. The Silver Dragon all dot to trust fun baby Teen I think I said all that right? So The yeah so the question becomes what kind of scene? are you interested in showcasing her often is this going to be her meeting one of the podcast Npc characters is it. Her having a. 01:27:22.89 Scxrlet I Think you got it right. 01:27:37.47 sidekqpodcast You know a flashback scene with her parents before she goes off to school is it like you know a slice in the life a day in the life rather of daisy in class or whatever kind of scene. You're interested in what you think would showcase Daisy the best. 01:27:47.84 Scxrlet Soon. 01:27:53.14 sidekqpodcast You would be able to Channel Daisy The best I should say so. 01:27:55.89 Scxrlet Um, oh my I think perhaps the meeting the players potentially. 01:28:04.37 sidekqpodcast Okay, so she so she can meet a player character or quote unquote a a podcast adventure or character and and then be able to give the side quest that way you think that. 01:28:15.37 Scxrlet Yeah I think she would well here. Let's see I think that it would be at said Gala she's socializing and she'll approach the character and offer. 01:28:24.28 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then that's where she'll meet the character and. 01:28:34.44 Scxrlet A quest. 01:28:36.85 sidekqpodcast Mmm, okay, and based on what we've learned I mean I'm happy to give you the entire selection of characters that have been made on this show but I actually have a strong feeling of maybe who might actually be able to to do the best with this. Um. I'll go through the whole list and then I'll tell you who I think is the best so of the characters that have been made on this podcast. We have Duncan who's the recklessly. Ah, the recklessly brave adventurer for hire happy. Go lucky no task to small, no feet to daring we have Sonia the warrior woman who ah. Multiclassed into a paladdin who serves to redeem the undead we have core act the lawful evil arcane trickster roguish dwarf. We have krisly the herbalist botanist woodef druid who then multiclassed into a cleric to become ah a. Priestess of the living memory. We have oion who's the astrol elf allusionist wizard and then we have a gotpe who is the lilac colored tiflling ah wild magic sorcer. That's like faiwild inspired who just multiclassed into a. arch faye warlock pacted so it arch fay pact of a warlock and so those are the wow I guess 7 characters that have been created on the podcast listeners. Ah. 01:29:53.18 Scxrlet Who oh I was going to say who just multiclass it to an arch fay Holy crap. Ah got I got it. 01:30:08.84 sidekqpodcast Ah, keen listeners super duper awesome listeners which ah which I know is everyone. But if if people remember our episode that we did um with Moose ah, who was the ah dressmaker of the fay wild. Ah, her reward was that um she made you a special dress that could just transform magically into this cool ballroom thing and since you were talking about like oh they should meet at the gala I was like well Sonia has like an amazing dress. Ah that she made because she successfully helped out in that random encounter. Ah, for that particular character and so I thought maybe Sonia might be a good choice but maybe 1 of the other characters speaks to you and you think it would be better if one of those other characters showed up. 01:30:47.91 Scxrlet I funnily enough the one that caught my attention for this the one that Daisy would hone in on sounds like Duncan as you said, no task to so too small or too great. 01:30:56.41 sidekqpodcast Oh really Duncan. Oh. 01:31:07.80 Scxrlet And our dear daisy is looking for someone she can send on a very dangerous task. 01:31:15.55 sidekqpodcast So okay, all right? So you you would you would like to meet Duncan instead of ah instead of Sonia today. 01:31:18.56 Scxrlet Yeah I think I don't know how Duncan arrived at this gala. But I think she would he would stick out like a sore thumb which is why she would notice him as she's trying to like finesse. A. Ah, older couple over some. She's like standing by the order d'oeres chit chatting ah potential patrons to a charity that she's representing um, kind of sloshing around her little martini glass. Um like you know sitting. 01:31:36.45 sidekqpodcast And. 01:31:50.27 sidekqpodcast She old enough to drink. Ah. 01:31:52.80 Scxrlet She's a dragon teenager but she's probably like fifty seven fifty Eight you know she takes the form of a younger girl. Yeah, she's like I'm a goddamn dragon. Ah she's going to be like. 01:31:58.31 sidekqpodcast She had to get carded at the door. They're like okay 5 01:32:10.57 Scxrlet Holding her glass talking laughing loudly at their jokes. She's like and then she'll kind of like glance to this side and make eye contact with Duncan but what does she see. 01:32:24.47 sidekqpodcast Sure. Yeah, so where we last left our hero Duncan he was finishing up in the in the mines in the underground in the in the dungeon complex because he met ah roseal day brace and Finn Wheatley and a really who were the goblin siblings who had opened up. Ah, their little ah safe zone in the dungeons and so after Duncan um had completed that adventure found himself. Ah back in. Ah I think it was the royal city nearby will say is where this ah gala event is being held and where this prestigious. Ah, magic academy is and such. Um yeah, Duncan found because of his success on his recent adventures was politely given this invitation to attend so he had to have very hastily get some nice clothes put together. So um, he he kind of looks he definitely looks out of place because the 1 thing. Ah, that gives him away is the loafers. He's wearing deer skin loafers with these magic coins in the loafers and for just some reason he just can't quite find the will to actually take them off so he's wearing like a very formal like fitted. Ah, you know proper gala attire but the shoes are what make him stick out like a sore thumb and he's being polite and he's regaling people with these tales of adventures. He's had and stuff like that and he's just like oh I'm just so happy to be here and well this is really polite and nice that the city. 01:33:55.63 sidekqpodcast Ah, you know that I got this invitation from soandso so to be able to attend this event and so then I guess he looks over and he sees this. Ah ah, half celestial kind of stared him down. Ah you know whether that ah is just purely being a teenager and doing her thing. Maybe he you know at first interprets it wrong as like. She's trying to be flirtatious with him and he doesn't know how to react to that or something but I guess he'll just kind of like be like ah hello nice to make your acquaintance my my. 01:34:21.41 Scxrlet She would She would kind of saunter over and she would notice his loafers she would have overheard his boasting of adventurous tales and she would smell the dungeon still. Left in his scent as a dragon. She is very perceptive and she would just kind of like grab one of the Barteni glasses off of someone walking by on the tray and and hand it quite the adventurer you are. 01:34:42.84 sidekqpodcast So. 01:34:57.40 sidekqpodcast oh oh yeah yes I am and he like very hastily reaches in ah in a pocket of his and he pulls out 1 of his little business cards that he has and he presents it to her and it's like Duncan adventure for hire. No task too small no feet too daring proud patron. Of the ah the ah creatures. Basically it notates that he is a patron of the arts of this particular stone cast that has come to some prominence in the local area. So. 01:35:26.30 Scxrlet Would she know about this. 01:35:31.28 sidekqpodcast Oh about the stone cast. Absolutely yeah, it's this endeavor of these 2 hexblood sibling Fantasy game designer ah siblings who run like magic mouth podcasts. And so they plant these magic mouths like kind of all over the city and the the kids really love it and they're exploring like game design. But then they're also doing like these thrilling tale actual play type adventures of several characters. You know that's. Part of their Meta narrative as they're developing this game and stuff like that and so the kids love it. The adults are kind of confused as to what it is but the kids love it. 01:36:01.99 Scxrlet Right? right? So she'll she'll regard this ah business card and then look back at Duncan kind of drinking him in. 01:36:18.68 Scxrlet Tell me what is the most dangerous thing you've ever done. 01:36:26.30 sidekqpodcast Oh the most dangerous thing I've ever done and he has to sit and think and ah you know, maybe you know he so he starts going off on some of his adventures. Um, you know he he talks about um oh what was. Ah, as Kurt quickly tries to look through the notes and just very quickly look through some of his ah um, well I mean there was the one time I had to go into the fay wild to go help. Ah lilly the narwaleorn find her mate. So like the fay wild is no um. 01:36:53.38 Scxrlet Extra dimensional I see and she's going to be like regarded like commenting on everything. Excellent. 01:37:01.42 sidekqpodcast I've been to the forgotten realms and I met jar laxel and I met Taen Urin and you know and I met. That's where I met Jack splash the manticor and so he starts going off on all these sorts of adventures and I even met professor Hank. At the university yes, the the poetry professor who is definitely more than he appears to be for sure and you would know that professor Hank of this university is actually a retired assassin who is actually a M O Emerald Dragon um 01:37:33.61 Scxrlet Of. 01:37:35.55 sidekqpodcast At the university. So yeah, you you were definitely familiar with ah professor Hank whether or not it's the same university or not maybe an adjoining university somewhere else. But you know. 01:37:44.45 Scxrlet I Love me some Emerald dragons. Um, ah him ah him. Yes, so she would kind of listen to this after he rattles off her a bit too long. She kind of cut will cut in yes, are you um available for the next. 01:37:56.97 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:38:00.89 Scxrlet I don't know month or so for work of course paid very very well. 01:38:05.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah, oh ah, oh ah, we'll be ah well yes of course I mean I'm ah yeah I know I've only just got ah just back from my latest adventure. So ah, yeah, yeah. 01:38:16.39 Scxrlet Excellent. Well I happen to have a job for an adventurer who could take on a most mighty of tasks it involves Dungeon delving intrigue. Betrayal Romance artifacts and fabulous. Fabulous wealth. 01:38:41.79 sidekqpodcast You see like his eyes would become like dinner plates. He's just like whoa this this sounds too good to be true. 01:38:50.59 Scxrlet It is not too good to be true I Assure you. 01:38:57.98 sidekqpodcast Well, Ah, well certainly yes I can ah he's flabberg acid. He's just kind of like well can you tell me more. 01:39:03.76 Scxrlet She'll she'll pull out her own business card which is like very fancy and shiny and perfect font and um. 01:39:09.10 sidekqpodcast Oh he may be more impressed at the business card. He's just like where did you get these made mine look like utter rubbish. 01:39:18.70 Scxrlet Secret Secrets Now if you would love to meet me at my office I would love to indulge you in the details of this mission. It is of utmost importance. It is. Religiously significant and I know of all of the adventurers in this gala you were the one who stood out to me and caught my eye. 01:39:51.80 sidekqpodcast Duncan is just beaming with pride at this point he's just like you know like so over the moon. He's over the moon with like the compliments that are being paid paid to him. 01:40:01.66 Scxrlet She Then she would know that her ah she's doing a good job here. She's very practiced at the flattery. Um, excellent I can expect you in the morning at my place and if you were to ever taken to question my character or my. 01:40:06.68 sidekqpodcast You. 01:40:19.21 Scxrlet Background Please ask any of these fine patrons. They will tell you all about the work I do for this city and the work that you will be participating in as a true hero. 01:40:35.12 sidekqpodcast And maybe as a formal custom and just being polite in this kind of society whether or not, you know it? whatever it may be um, but you know I'm thinking like the equivalent of Like. He goes to like thank her by like kissing her hand and asking her name. Whatever that ends up translating into an actual game but basically he wants to be polite and stuff like that and like get her name but he also wants to show her like respect and kind of stuff like that. 01:40:53.55 Scxrlet Like. So yeah, she'll kind of like musically giggle or whatever and be like you may call me daisy. 01:41:13.26 sidekqpodcast Ah, miss Daisy yes, a fine, a fine name for a fine fine woman. Yes. 01:41:18.75 Scxrlet And then as like people are kind of watching because she is known in the circles. She'll kind of like put her arm around him and face force like face him towards the crowd and just kind of like wave a little bit like a photo op kind of thing like yes, yes, this is my new champion. Everyone. And like oh. 01:41:39.42 sidekqpodcast Well Duncan is yeah Duncan's even more like like wow the the the fates the gods blessed me today with ah where where chaos led me as it were because he is kind of like this chaotic good adventurer and he just kind of he just kind of rolls with the flow about like where. 01:41:51.60 Scxrlet Perfect. Yeah, this is why I picked Duncan this is the perfect adventure to send into a death trap of a temple to acquire. 01:41:55.88 sidekqpodcast Where the story takes him. So yeah. 01:42:06.67 Scxrlet The crescent's edge in order to assassinate my headmaster. 01:42:12.34 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and so then we'll say that scene fades out ah with ah you know Duncan being swept up into the the party and the gala you know. And yeah and he's just like elated to kind of have some randr for a while and then maybe a little groggily the next morning. Ah, he'll wake up and make his way to Daisy's office to learn more about what's in store for him. So. 01:42:33.55 Scxrlet Her office is just her flat. She has a little cobold like who are you here for name. 01:42:42.37 sidekqpodcast Perfect and seem so there we go. We made it through the random encounter. So what did you? What did you think of getting to be daisy. 01:42:44.85 Scxrlet Um, yeah, yeah du I think she is going to be in 1 of my future games. 01:42:53.70 sidekqpodcast So I hope so and then people can listen to this episode and find out her origin story. 01:43:00.42 Scxrlet That's right I Love the creation of characters is such a fun little journey. 01:43:09.30 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so um, yeah, so I know we're gonna start getting into final thoughts but I have my note here staring at me. So. 01:43:14.38 Scxrlet I'm looking at it too and I thought about it I favorite side quest so I was not able to pinpoint one side quest but I have to say the video game. Ah the witcher 3 01:43:16.81 sidekqpodcast You Yes, what happens to be your favorite cyclist. Yeah. 01:43:31.88 Scxrlet Has a lot of side quests that are all fantastic. They all have a lot of depth. They all have a lot of importance. They have emotional. They all have a twist. They're very emotional. They really draw you in and um, they really take. Great care and they're not just like oh go collect 5 bugs and come back. They are they lead you down a story path. So while I couldn't identify a single quest I would say in general. The side quests and the witcher 3 are a fantastic um example of how a side quest can be. 01:44:10.52 sidekqpodcast So awesome and then note to Kurt that's where I'll chop and then stick it back in the past so here. 01:44:15.70 Scxrlet Yeah. 01:44:19.58 sidekqpodcast So yeah, now we're here in the final thoughts section of the show. So we always like to check in with the guests and you know how did you feel your time was spent on this podcast. 01:44:27.24 Scxrlet I feel it's been freaking amazing I feel like I should also mention that I have to put my son down in the next ten minutes because I thought he was going to be in bed by now. But he's not so I don't want to. 01:44:38.64 sidekqpodcast Just like eternal D and D struggles eternal parent struggles and. 01:44:44.51 Scxrlet Yeah, so I want to get to your most important final thoughts questions. Ah so that you have everything you need um before I before I disappear back into the Mom verse. Ah. 01:44:49.50 sidekqpodcast Sure. Yeah, so yeah, no, really of final thoughts. You know it is just kind of your place to like reflect on your time on the episode. What you think you know if is this endeavor worthwhile. You know, not that I'm looking for. Ah you know, ah like Daisy I'm not looking for people to fawn over me or anything like that. But. 01:45:08.41 Scxrlet Um, no I No I Actually so one of my favorite like I obviously love creating when you have someone else to bounce ideas back and forth off of I think that you get like a better creation like I feel like daisy. How she ended up is much better. Having got to brainstorm with you than if I just sat here by myself and started doing it because when you're with someone else you get to ask each other questions and and trigger a brainstorm and I'm just like really happy how this turned out to the fact that like I. 01:45:37.17 sidekqpodcast I. 01:45:43.66 Scxrlet I Want to make fan art of this character now. Ah yeah, and um, yeah, this was a lot of fun. Ah this was I didn't just so the audience knows I did not have this character in my mind. 01:45:44.20 sidekqpodcast I Would love the fan art I would love to share that all over the socials. Yeah. 01:45:59.78 Scxrlet Before we started the we did start with one parameter and I do think sometimes having a parameter at the beginning is helpful because that way you can kind of like keep being like you're not too spread out but with that one parameter Dragon M Pc Dragon Quest giver. Ah. 01:46:09.72 sidekqpodcast I. 01:46:16.77 Scxrlet The diral. The dice rolls were able to create such a really interesting and nuanced character. 01:46:23.59 sidekqpodcast So Yeah and and and definitely ah, we'll make sure then to keep this short because I know one of the benefits of having used the random tables is now you get to add something into the table for the next time someone else needs to roll the dice. So. So here in the very final moments of final thoughts I Always like to leave the stage the microphone the the soapbox the platform the whatso who's it's over to the guests so where can people find you online. What are the projects you're working on where can we support you and are there. Any. Passions or causes that we need to be made aware of. 01:46:59.41 Scxrlet Ah, okay, you could find me at Scarlett 64 across the board. Um I live stream my d and d and pathfinder games on Twitch every Sunday I do out of the abyss. It's been a 2 year long campaign that I've been the dm of I also run one shots throughout the week I make content on Tiktok and Instagram and all of that and right now I am working on something called the dessert dragons. It's like a little art project that I'm doing ah, it'll be like sticker isnt stationary and I'm making stat blocks and an adventure and I don't know what it's it's chaos right now. But if it went viral on Tiktok. So i'm. Very excited to get it going. 01:47:36.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and since I mentioned it earlier I think maybe before we started recording but this whole Dragons Love Tacos. So If you're needing another food group to go off of in the future I might suggest Like. Taco Dragons or something like that might be kind of fun in the future and. 01:47:52.64 Scxrlet Is it tacos made out of Dragon or tacos that dragons. Love. 01:47:59.41 sidekqpodcast Ah, well in the book in the children's book which I hope everyone out here in the podcast audience will buy and support them and there's a sequel book too I think it's like Dragons Love Tacos too as well. So get both books but I think the premise is it's a kid who's inviting dragons over to his house. 01:48:04.16 Scxrlet Um. 01:48:15.58 sidekqpodcast Taco parties where they eat a lot of tacos and so it's all kinds of dragons. But they're all eating tacos so it could be dragons made of tacos. But maybe it's just dragons who love to eat tacos. Well for you. It could be dragons made of tacos but in the books it's just. 01:48:25.23 Scxrlet You mean wait Dragons made of tacos or tacos made right? got it. Ah. 01:48:33.22 sidekqpodcast Different kinds of dragons who love to eat tacos but they hate. But so spicy salsa don't give them spicy salsa or else. It makes smoke come out of their nose or no sorry smoke come out of their ears and sparks come out of their nose and if they eat spicy salsa they vomit fire and burn your house down and but then they help and they rebuild it. 01:48:46.21 Scxrlet Um, gotcha Oh they're so wholesome. Dude tacos are great Scarlet Love Stacos I might be a dragon. 01:48:52.25 sidekqpodcast Because they're maybe also in it for the taco parties or the taco breaks. Yeah. 01:49:01.96 sidekqpodcast All right? and then Miss Scarlett thank you so much. Ah, for guesting on the podcast. Can't wait to have you back on to make even more npcs. 01:49:08.82 Scxrlet Yeah, thank you so much I had so much fun. Thank you for inviting me.