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Checkout on the website plus 1 eexp.com all right, take 2 give it another try hello mystery contestant would you care to introduce yourself tell us who it is that you are and what is it that you do. 01:59.63 Steve Trinkl Sure thing my name's Steve Trinkle and you may or may not know me as the player of the elven bard gldrian on the average adventuring party podcast I am also known or not known has Kurt's roommate at one point. Ah. 02:12.50 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes. 02:15.76 Steve Trinkl We went to college together and we're also in a music fraternity together. Um outside of tabletop I'm a musician and I'm also involved with a classic doom modding community I make levels and things like that I write a lot of. 02:19.70 sidekqpodcast Indeed we are but. 02:31.84 sidekqpodcast Pretty cool. 02:35.90 Steve Trinkl Yeah, it's really cool. It's really fun. You know working with those limited tools of the of the 90 s which I have to remind myself was thirty years ago so but ah. 02:44.43 sidekqpodcast Yeah, ah. 02:48.60 Steve Trinkl Write a lot of music for school bands like marching bands and such and I've also been a gigging musician in an indie funk scab band called kabamba which was really active in the Austin and San Marcus areas of Texas. Ah, these days though. I'm mostly just a cat dad and a warham or forty k player. 03:02.70 sidekqpodcast Um. 03:05.80 sidekqpodcast And if I'm not mistaken a card carrying fan club member of the mighty Moneyy boss stones i. 03:13.81 Steve Trinkl Oh yeah, sad sad that they broke up but you know they you and I got to see them live in concert and they're one of my ah one of my inspirations for getting into music. But I've also know. 03:19.75 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 03:28.72 Steve Trinkl Gotten into a lot of other bands as well mostly through rosmosis and ah yeah, it's all why I picked up the trombone in middle school was because I wanted to learn how to play the impression that I get which turns out I Not a very hard song. Yeah. 03:41.44 sidekqpodcast Mm Awesome! Um I know this will be an easy lead in which I think will give us more fodder to ah elaborate more on the question but do you currently or have you ever played D and D before I think listeners of interviews that I've been In. And other podcasts episodes have probably have a clue that. 04:02.38 Steve Trinkl Yeah, um, with spoiler. But yes I've I've played D and D before. In fact, you and I got into it together while we were roommates um has I'm sure you've no doubt shared the stories of harin. 04:11.19 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes. 04:20.40 Steve Trinkl My dwarven cleric and your human wizard whose name escapes me at the moment but I remember yes I That's right, it was Auto I Remember there was a lot of ah, a lot of fun had during those games but on top of. 04:26.58 sidekqpodcast Otto Von Krieg 04:38.93 Steve Trinkl And top of that I've been playing pretty steadily for a few years now I'm in 3 games right now there's the podcast game which uses the thirteenth age system which ah I I know Gary has talked about before with the escalation dia mechanic. 04:49.38 sidekqpodcast Mm. 04:53.10 sidekqpodcast Yes. 04:57.33 Steve Trinkl I'm also in an ongoing pathfinder two e game and I'm also in a 5 e game and I recommend all those systems each of them has something that they do really well and lots of fun. 05:09.78 sidekqpodcast And you've also had the opportunity as well to be behind the screen as well because ah, you did in fact Dm a one shot for me for my bachelor party which was which was really fun and some lessons learned from that as well. 05:18.99 Steve Trinkl But here. 05:24.34 sidekqpodcast And then during the pandemic you know like everyone else we attempted to make a go at an online game and it basically was a 1 shot but it was still a very fun one shot as well. So. 05:32.38 Steve Trinkl Yeah, it was a lot of fun and that one shot was pretty Fun. We said it I said it in the romance of the 3 Kingdoms Era of Ancient China which is one of my favorite settings especially when you allow for things like magic and that and I remember that. I had given your character a free reroll an inspiration I think this may have might have been even before inspiration was really a thing because I think it was a 4 year game and you didn't use it or maybe it was fifth edition. But yeah, so. 06:01.40 sidekqpodcast I'm pretty sure we did it in fifth edition because we had to and I think it was the the lesson that we learned from that was maybe we should have just gone with pre-generated characters instead of having everyone roll up characters because that I think the character creation ended up taking most of the night 06:17.48 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah, we got through everything but we were pretty tired at the end and your character almost died I remember you failed your your last death saving throw and I was like reroll reroll trying to remind you that you still hadn't used your reroll and ah and. 06:22.49 sidekqpodcast Yep. 06:30.39 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, ah. 06:33.61 Steve Trinkl You managed to actually make that last death saving throw as a result but but yeah, it's ah it's challenging sometimes being on both sides of the screen because ah when you're a player your instinct is sometimes depending on your relationship with the Dm. Um, trying to stymie them or trying to cooperate with them noticing when they're trying to lead you on a story hook and and going with that and it can be hard to ah to find a balance there because you don't want to be too frustrating for your dm um, but yeah, ah, lots of. 06:52.94 sidekqpodcast Um. 07:05.55 sidekqpodcast Yeah, sure. Yeah. 07:11.57 Steve Trinkl Lots of fun being on both sides of the screen recently got a 3 d printer. So I've started making my own mininies for when I dm too or as well as printing stuff out for parties that meet in person. It's ah. 07:19.67 sidekqpodcast Ooh. 07:27.13 sidekqpodcast And that's awesome and ah you know you said oh you're an avid ah 40 k player right now and that just takes me back to my junior high days of trying to attempt to get into the hobby and I did. 07:28.55 Steve Trinkl Yeah, it's It's pretty fun and getting pretty good at it. Yeah. 07:42.64 sidekqpodcast You know I got a few units and stuff like that and I spent a lot of effort and work. You know super gluing them together and painting them and then bringing them over to my friend's house and ah, you know it would the the comedy I see in that time. Period Of course we're all middle school age boys. But. You know three of my friends would be over on one side of the room arguing before we've even played or done anything they would be too involved with arguing about like which characters couldn't and couldn't be used and meanwhile my other friend and I would just be on the other side of the room being like Wow look at this look at this. Basilisk artillery thing I just paint oh and these soldiers look really cool and so yeah I remember I had a few imperial guard dudes and that and that was it and then I ended up selling my stuff to another kid in the neighborhood. But yeah, that was my short for a to 40 k. 08:18.87 Steve Trinkl Um, oh yeah. 08:28.73 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah, That's ah guard is my primary army and ah you know it's pretty fun just being you know fighting the horrors of the universe has the common human not the ah. Not the plot device in power armor and just kind of seeing the horrors of the Galaxy I like that perspective of them. It's also very rich for using it has a roleplay setting too because ah so. 08:46.58 sidekqpodcast Sure. 08:56.78 sidekqpodcast Sure Well War Hammer I think like the fantasy ah war gaming setting War Hammer I think they have their own ah ttrpg now right. 09:07.46 Steve Trinkl They do yeah and and so does 40 k forty k has had a few actually there have been. There's been a dark heresy. There's been ah gosh I can't remember them all. So ah, the. 09:10.11 sidekqpodcast Oh wow. 09:16.23 sidekqpodcast That that are that you like super intense to try out. 09:22.25 Steve Trinkl I think the one that came out most recently it's called ah rathing glory and it's by I want to say cubicle 7 is their name and it's a a d 6 pool system. So your character gets like a pool of d six is based on what ability they're using and I think I haven't. 09:27.69 sidekqpodcast Okay, o. 09:41.62 Steve Trinkl Played it in a long time because I haven't had a chance to. But I think you do like ah like a 5 is a success and a 6 is a critical success and you try to get like a target number and they have like a tier system so that you can play anything from like a superpowered space marine to a. 09:50.80 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 10:00.46 Steve Trinkl Lowly you know scavenger on some backwater planet and anything in between so it's ah it's pretty pretty ah interesting. Um I haven't had a chance to really engage with it much. But it's it's had some really cool promo material and I'm looking forward to. 10:05.97 sidekqpodcast Um. 10:19.51 Steve Trinkl Ah, trying it out sometime. Okay. 10:21.39 sidekqpodcast Yeah, well, it's the same thing with me I finally got my hands on a modifious ah fallout roleplaying game book. Ah, but of course my wife sees that and she regrets every time now having bought a copy of fallout 76 for me because that is my game of choice lately when I'm not. 10:25.29 Steve Trinkl Oh yeah. 10:39.20 sidekqpodcast Playing d and d I'm usually playing fallout 76 and so she's like I am so burned out fallout but eventually I'd like to get an opportunity to sit down with some friends and play considering I went through the whole exercise. 10:44.45 Steve Trinkl I. 10:52.71 sidekqpodcast Of Basically trying to reskin five V with fallout on top of it I feel like I did an okay job. But yeah, it's It's good that there's like its own independent. Um, you know tabletop role-playing game with you know, mechanics developed specifically for that style and universe of play versus just me trying to. You know, put a round circle into a square peg kind of a thing that. 11:16.65 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah, it can be fun to try a resk in a system to get it to fit like I did with romance of the 3 kingdoms like we were talking about but ah sometimes it's nice just to have a system that was built for your setting or at least a set of. 11:24.35 sidekqpodcast Um. 11:31.97 Steve Trinkl Rules that can be adapted to it very easily. Um I think ah I think there was a season of dimension 20 where they they set it in like the starstruck universe which is like a sci-fi kind of like ah kind of hard to describe but like a. A dystopian satire sci-fi setting and there were some rules that the it was like a rule set that they had that just layers neatly on top of 5 e that someone had designed. 11:53.10 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 12:03.77 sidekqpodcast Oh. 12:07.41 Steve Trinkl For sci-fi stuff and it had things like spaceship combat and stuff like that I think it was ah I think it might have been originally designed for Star Wars I I still need to look into that but it was a it was a group designed ah or was like a home brew. 12:11.52 sidekqpodcast Mm. 12:15.11 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah. 12:23.54 Steve Trinkl Set of rules that layered on top of 5 V and it worked really well for what they were using it for and made it kind of feel like like it made it feel like a game based on 5 v but not necessarily five v if that makes sense. Okay. 12:27.50 sidekqpodcast Interesting. 12:37.44 sidekqpodcast Sure sure and um, yeah I'm just ah, you know delighted to be talking tabletop with you. You know, brings us back to the old days of Horin and Autotto Von Krieg the winter contingent trip the winter contingency trading company buddy buddy days. 12:45.79 Steve Trinkl So. 12:54.29 Steve Trinkl Yeah. 12:56.30 sidekqpodcast Um, that I think it's a perfect momentum to carry us into the questions of the namesake of this show. So um, who has been one of your favorite Npcs or sidekick characters. Whether it's been. Ah, from an rpg of video game movie film, television, etc. And why is this character your favorite npc or sidecake. 13:15.35 Steve Trinkl So as soon as I started thinking about this question. There is only one answer I could have and that is Tali Zora from mass effect I don't know how familiar you are with with mass effect in general. It sounds like you have some familiarity but ah. 13:22.48 sidekqpodcast oh yeah, yeah oh yeah at least the first 2 games I've never actually gotten around to playing the third one but I did get the legendary edition for Xbox one. But of course you know. 13:32.99 Steve Trinkl Yeah. 13:40.60 sidekqpodcast All at 76 is what's preupying my time. 13:41.40 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah, yeah I have I went through the legendary edition recently and you know it's kind of funny. The only way that I can make myself not romance tally in a playthrough of mass effect is by playing female commander shepherd. Otherwise it's just I just. 13:53.15 sidekqpodcast Oh. 14:00.18 Steve Trinkl I Can't do it I can't romance anyone but tally. But yeah, she's quirky and personable and she's got some real you know character traits that you can nail down but she's also someone who tries to do right? not just by her own people. The quarians. 14:02.39 sidekqpodcast Ah, she is sweet and wholesome. 14:11.64 sidekqpodcast So. 14:17.53 sidekqpodcast And. 14:19.57 Steve Trinkl But also like everyone else around her. Ah, she's kind of she's not necessarily what we like to call the lawful stupid character but she she is often the voice of reason and compassion and a lot of the squad dialogues and ah but at the same time. She's not a pushover. 14:26.13 sidekqpodcast M. 14:32.87 sidekqpodcast I. 14:39.66 Steve Trinkl She's never pigeonholed into any particular role by her character traits by being you know, obsessed with technology or anything like that. They're all just part of what makes her who she is and ah and I think ah it's nice to see. 14:44.89 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 14:57.98 Steve Trinkl Ah character like that who is willing to be kind but also isn't just a complete pushover or anything like that. You know she stands up for what she believes in she ah you know she'll if you get into an argument with her or 1 of the squad maids gets into an argument with her. She'll. You know stand up for herself and and just ah, really like her as a character I think she's one of the best written characters in the entirety of that series I also really like gers. So no, don't want to don't want to. 15:27.20 sidekqpodcast There we go. Oh. 15:34.67 Steve Trinkl Gotta have a shout out for Garris because gars is an awesome character. It's just that it's just that I gotta give it to my girl tally. 15:34.75 sidekqpodcast So. 15:41.76 sidekqpodcast Sure so it sounds like with most squads that you're rolling out with probably like Garis and and tally are probably the the 2 that you're bringing with you most often. 15:54.51 Steve Trinkl Yeah, and ah, you know I usually play a character that has both firearms and biotics experience. So that's usually a very well-rounded squat Anyway, the rest of the squad just kind of sits on the sidelines aside from their missions. 16:00.77 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 16:12.18 Steve Trinkl but um but yeah it's it's ah, always been one of my favorite series and even the ending of mass effect 3 was not enough to dissuade me from that. So. 16:22.22 sidekqpodcast Na all right and then a other side of the equation as well. What's been one of your favorite side quests from Rpg tabletop games ah video games, movie film etc and why has this been one of your favorite side. 16:40.46 Steve Trinkl So we were talking about fallout earlier and that's perfect because this is a side quest from fallout four I don't remember the exact name I don't remember the location in it all I remember is how it made me feel. It's It's a dig site. 16:41.34 sidekqpodcast Quests. So okay. 16:54.84 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 16:59.10 Steve Trinkl Ah, controlled by bandits and I don't think there's anything necessarily that directs you there. It's just while you're exploring. You can find this dig site populated by bandits or maybe there's some note or some terminnal that says there, there are something but um, but as you're going through this dig site. The bandits are. 17:10.84 sidekqpodcast So. 17:19.29 Steve Trinkl Acting more and more erratic and of course you're just clearing them out. But when you uncover the secrets of the dig site it. It has some some sort of occult significance that goes back before the war. Yes, the done which boers. That's the one That's what it is. 17:30.76 sidekqpodcast Oh the done witch. Yeah. 17:37.91 Steve Trinkl Ah, that one is just so unsettling. Ah and you know it doesn't have any larger story significance but it it points to such a bigger part of that world that doesn't even get to be explored unless you know that this is more than just a world where. 17:51.33 sidekqpodcast So. 17:56.84 Steve Trinkl You know and there's nuclear power to everything and then there was a war it ah it really does a lot of world building that doesn't really have impact on the story but it's still really enjoyable and just that unsettling feeling of not really knowing what exactly just happened. 17:58.44 sidekqpodcast Right? right. 18:09.20 sidekqpodcast Um. 18:14.37 sidekqpodcast Right here. 18:16.60 Steve Trinkl Ah, the unanswered questions about that place really really? ah unsettled me. Yeah. 18:20.24 sidekqpodcast And which they ah they definitely had the first but as the had the first opportunity to kind of start laying that on us in the in fallout three because there's a dunwich building in like the south west corner of the map that you can go to that's kind of like. 18:32.66 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah. 18:39.48 sidekqpodcast Spooky in that way and then even in the point lookout Dlc I think there's more to do with the the love craftian sorta elements that they get to play with and even in fallout 76 yeah you know obviously you have you know kryptids are a big thing with some of the flavorings of some of the. 18:46.97 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah. 18:58.67 sidekqpodcast Nuclear ah mutated creatures you fight, but there is a very strong, um, heavy ah presence of Mothman Cultus as well as ah, the you know the interloper and so these weird cthullu-esque sort of monsters that you can find in 1 location called the lucky whole mine. And then the other place is in the it's called the deep which is right next to the white springs. But anyway yeah, so yeah, bethesis had an opportunity to kind of play with the spooky a little bit alongside the you know irradiated ghouls and you know. Tactical miniature nuclear catapult launchers on your shoulders and stuff very cool, awesome and then the way we round out the personal interview section is we ask the question. What are you passionate about and why. 19:37.64 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah. 19:49.58 Steve Trinkl Well, you kind of touched on this a little bit earlier but I been passionate about Sca music for about as long as I can remember really I'm not the sort of guy that wears checkerboard patterns on everything and I don't own any pork pie hats or stuff like that. 20:02.46 sidekqpodcast Oh. But you very well could if you wanted to. 20:08.42 Steve Trinkl But it's it's fun music to play and listen to yeah I could but ah but I don't and I prefer to just listen to it and play it when I whenever I get the chance and you know for those of you who don't like sky music. That's that's okay, that's perfectly valid. You know. But also I think you just don't like fun. So. 20:29.90 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah, and just you know with us being roommates and you know living with a composer as it was ah as it were ah you know being ah crafted and ah being crafted and tested in the fires. Ofkaab maybe as as it were um, you've written some really cool pieces and like you were saying earlier how you were part of kabamba and even then when you were at like grad school and stuff like that I think you were you had tried to start other scab bands and you were still writing music which. Like to have my my say in ah you know there's the 1 song Standup guy was yeah yeah, that one was ah i' really do like listening to that song I think you titled it under airlock empire. 21:10.38 Steve Trinkl Yeah, you helped me with a melody for that one. 21:22.50 sidekqpodcast For um. 21:22.60 Steve Trinkl And that was like kind of ah a gimmicky band name and ah and never really got off the ground but um I now and I've I recorded a one man band version of that song. It's on my soundcloud. Not gonna. 21:27.83 sidekqpodcast That song was really good though. 21:37.88 Steve Trinkl Plug it here because my Soundcloud's not like I'm not one of those guys trying to get cloud on the soundcloud. It's just a bunch of ah just a bunch of stuff. Um, so ah, but I also know. 21:49.86 sidekqpodcast But you should go listen to that song because it's it's good and then you wrote another one that had a variation on the jingle for the ah the old spice. 21:56.97 Steve Trinkl Yeah I ended up changing it up a little bit to avoid the copyright. But even though I Never really published it or anything to avoid the copyright pitfalls there changed the melody up a bit but ah, it made it instead of do do do do do do do do I ah. 22:04.95 sidekqpodcast M. 22:15.00 Steve Trinkl Do do do do do do do just same rhythm just different different little ah melody there and and you know it's a lot of fun writing stuff like that I haven't haven't had a chance to sit down and write or record anything lately. You know being being in a. 22:19.56 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 22:33.80 Steve Trinkl Full time working adult really does that to you? No one ever told me that adulthood was just going to be working forty plus hours a week and having back pain all the time but here we are yeah. 22:36.17 sidekqpodcast I. 22:45.40 sidekqpodcast Ah, yeah, maybe you just need to combine some of your hobbies and just start writing scam music about 40 k or something like that there you go all right? Well we've had a wonderful opportunity to learn some. 22:51.52 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah, yeah. 23:01.90 sidekqpodcast Awesome stuff about my guest that I think it's time we head into a segment called Npc Creation. Do do do do and yes Npc Creation's brought to you by you The podcast. 23:07.15 Steve Trinkl All right? Let's do it. 23:15.45 sidekqpodcast Audience and our patrons from patreons and now's the time where we give a shout out to our comfortable patrons and above with a loud horrah. So do you Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie Anson Jablinsky and my parents we say cheers of course this is for patrons who donate $2 or more a month all these folks are among my highest tier at. As of this recording whatley level. So that means that they also get to introduce an element of chance to our random tables which we are most likely going to use here today. So if you want to learn more and join my podcast patreon community check out the show notes below go to my ah post. Podcast website or just go directly to patreon.com/sidekicks and side quest to find out more about our 3 tiers as of this recording and help us expand our operations at the levitating platter in this demiplane and world's beyond. So yeah, we get to make up an npc now at this point and I believe you said that you wanted to take a chance and roll the dice is that correct all right? So you've got them all at the ready and we like to begin with a name of our character. So if you want to roll a d twenty. 24:13.13 Steve Trinkl So absolutely let's roll them dice. 24:25.40 sidekqpodcast Let's see what you get first. 24:25.18 Steve Trinkl All right rolling a d 20 right here all right? My result is a 5 not very promising for a tabletop session. But. 24:36.22 sidekqpodcast Well, the good news is is that your name was suggested by previous guest Andrew Strather of the role for persuasion podcast mi quo which is spelled m I r q u o so mi quo all right? okay. 24:46.44 Steve Trinkl Miracle. 24:53.77 Steve Trinkl Mirror quote. That's ah, that's cool name. 24:56.40 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and now here is where we can get some wild dice rolls going. We need to figure out the ancestry of our character and we do that by rolling a d one hundred or two D ten s for that same effect. 25:02.55 Steve Trinkl You. 25:09.14 Steve Trinkl Yeah I've got that let's see all right. We're looking at an 87 25:16.86 sidekqpodcast So 87 scrolling down the list. Ah okay so you have a choice here. You can either do leonin which is the the lion humanoids that were introduced in the the theos setting or a tobaxy. Okay, so mio. 25:23.36 Steve Trinkl And here. Okay. 25:28.88 Steve Trinkl Okay I think I'll go with the backy. Okay. 25:34.45 sidekqpodcast The tobaxy. Okay, and then we need to figure out what is the job or role in society for this character. You can just roll a regular d 10 for this. 25:44.58 Steve Trinkl But 8 25:45.97 sidekqpodcast 8 Okay, your answer was provided by our fraternity brother Patrick Cob Falconer so mi quo is a falconer to axy falconer. Okay, and let's see we need to figure out the age range of the character and this is determined with a d. 25:52.42 Steve Trinkl Yeah, at the backsy falcon there. 26:05.78 sidekqpodcast 8 26:07.46 Steve Trinkl And roll the 3 26:08.83 sidekqpodcast Young adults. So we have a young adult to vaccine named Miro that's a falconer. So with these things and mind in your mind's eye describe the physical appearance of miero. 26:21.95 Steve Trinkl So mio being a young adult to backsy has a very broad and friendly but not necessarily trustworthy grin mere Quo Fur Pattern probably I'd say probably mostly black with some patches of gray particularly around his around his snout and maybe on his chest. Ah probably a a fairly tall and stocky to backsy. 26:50.83 sidekqpodcast Ok, ok. 26:58.34 sidekqpodcast So. 27:00.53 Steve Trinkl Ah, very yeah, a very well-built Young young man I would say and he ah has kind of has to be because you know falcons are pretty pretty mean not that someone who's small can't handle a falcon but ah, but. 27:18.17 sidekqpodcast Um. 27:19.50 Steve Trinkl Like to imagine that he's just a very solid unit and he's you know, always wearing his thick leather leather glove on 1 hand so that his falcon can rest on his hand. Probably some very bright and wide yellow eyes. 27:28.54 sidekqpodcast So. 27:36.79 sidekqpodcast O Okay so I'm I'm I'm agining like a main coon as a ah as ah as a toaxy right. 27:38.29 Steve Trinkl And like to think that he's a oh yeah, main Main Ku is a to backy. That's there you go. He's got big fluffy main. No, he's. Like like we said solid Unit. He is ah but he you know, still very youthful. No signs of wear and tear no scars or anything like that. Just ah in the prime of his life. Really yeah. 27:55.22 sidekqpodcast Yes. 28:04.58 sidekqpodcast Um. 28:10.89 sidekqpodcast It's interesting. Yeah, and also seems like an interesting juxtaposition because you know the ah you know it'd be easy ah stereotype to be like oh a cat training a bird. You know that he's just going to eat later. But. Ah, fact that ah mere quo is ah is like a falconer by trade. It's ah it's interesting kind of speaks to the maybe the world building is he from a group that ah you know exclusively? Um, you know, uses birds of prey to kind of help them out. Um, or is it like I'm thinking of ah wren fairs that I've been to where they do like a birds of prey show and they talk about like oh and like these fuudile societies. You know like Falconry was like the thing you did and it like you know was you know helped you hunt and stuff like that. But it was also just ah. Cool thing of a prestige and stuff so I'm just kind of curious if you've already got ideas turning of like Mirko's story 29:01.92 Steve Trinkl Oh yeah, I've got ideas I think that you know, ah by day Miiro uses his falconing skills to to you know, hunt and provide for his his people or his village or wherever he comes from. 29:17.60 sidekqpodcast So. 29:19.76 Steve Trinkl But I also like to think that Mio might have some less than reputable connections some shady connections. Maybe maybe say a thieves guild or something like that where his falcon is used as a messenger and. 29:26.29 sidekqpodcast M. Okay, okay. 29:38.19 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting. Okay and is ah you know mi quo in a fairly urban environment like a pastoral sort of environment or or I don't know where were you imagining him? yeah. 29:50.10 Steve Trinkl So you know how in Skyrim you have like those big cities. The big keeps and then outside you have like the the smaller farms that are you know a walk a short walk away from the city like to think that that's where he kind of lives quote unquote. 29:58.66 sidekqpodcast Yes, sure. M. 30:08.65 Steve Trinkl Because that's a good way to keep track of the comings and goings and then you know, no one will think anything of Mirko heading into town and you know doing business and selling selling his catches or anything like that and gathering information. 30:11.96 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 30:25.21 sidekqpodcast Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm just I Just don't know enough about falconers to be like is it is it exclusively. A thing of the nobility or is it just like hey you have the wherewithal and you take the time and the patients to train with a bird of prey. 30:26.10 Steve Trinkl Things like that and. 30:42.24 sidekqpodcast And now you're just a falconer. 30:42.36 Steve Trinkl Oh I'd say it's definitely a thing where where anyone with the and anyone with the discipline and the opportunity could really do it. Probably not even a noble. Thing I imagine there were probably a few falconers out there who are just you know hunters. Ah, and then you probably got the kindly kindly old man who rescued his falcon as a little little baby bird raised it himself. 31:05.50 sidekqpodcast Sure. 31:15.82 sidekqpodcast Look. 31:18.83 Steve Trinkl Fed it puked in in its mouth and everything and ah, but with Mio I think it's more a matter of formally studied I found another trainer and took the opportunity to take lessons and ah. 31:38.25 Steve Trinkl And has stuck with it because probably foreign but strong bond with his bird with his falcon I I don't know if we we want to roll for our name there if we just want to make one up but ah I'll call the call the falcon. Ah. 31:44.52 sidekqpodcast Um. 31:48.73 sidekqpodcast You can make one up or do whatever. Yeah. 31:57.60 Steve Trinkl Graybell. Yeah, yeah, strong name for a strip. 31:58.35 sidekqpodcast Gray billll ooh that's a strong name. Okay, so mere quo and then ah and and gray billll. Okay, all right? So if you had to come up with 3 adjectives for mere quo what 3 adjectives would you use. 32:13.54 Steve Trinkl Sly and friendly. 32:19.16 sidekqpodcast M. 32:22.77 Steve Trinkl Yet honorable. But. 32:26.91 sidekqpodcast Interesting. So if he has shady dealings I'm I'm just wondering with the ah with the adjectives that we have here. What's the story. There is it like like ah like a oh you have to work for us. Kind of a thing. Or like he sought out this work specifically to kind of take advantage of ah of a situation that was like oh this could you know improve the life of my family and my community if I do work for this group of people or something. 32:55.40 Steve Trinkl I Yeah like I'm thinking something morekin to the harpers than necessarily a thieve skill that steals for you know, but probably still something that does some illegal stuff just not. 33:01.44 sidekqpodcast Oh okay. 33:10.56 Steve Trinkl Necessarily to line in their own pockets. Maybe they take a little bit off the top but they mostly you know steal from you know people that deserve to be stolen from people that have Ill gotten ill-gotten gains I don't think they ever punch down and they don't You know they don't steal from the kindly old widow who. 33:18.34 sidekqpodcast Interesting. 33:29.62 Steve Trinkl Who you know just gives all of her money to charity. Anyway, they don't um I Figure. Ah I figure you know he's got a sense of loyalty to his friends and to people that do him. Ah, Solid. So. 33:50.94 sidekqpodcast That interesting. Okay, so yeah, so like the harpers. Okay, so kind of like a robinhood ask sort of ah ah outfit it sounds like he's with and maybe he lives and you know if he's living in the outskirt. Farming communities outside the big major walled city. Maybe perhaps it's not a um, a just society. It's more of a ah a despot on the throne if you will kind of a thing and so he's like okay so I deal with like the Robin hood guy. 34:16.39 Steve Trinkl Um, yeah, yeah. 34:19.56 sidekqpodcast And give him Intel of like what's going on in the city and I still do my falcon thing that keeps me out and about and I can still easily associate with the rest of the ah of the group you know trying to you know Rob from the rich to give to the poor kind of a thing and. 34:31.76 Steve Trinkl Exactly he doesn't necessarily get his hands dirty but he knows where you can get your hands dirty and. 34:39.86 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, and ah yeah, carrying On. We now get to do some more dice rolling and figure out what is a valuable item a piece of lore a secret or an ideal or concept that mereo would ascribe to. And this is a combo where you get to roll a D four for the category and then a D six for the particular thing. So. 34:58.49 Steve Trinkl So for the d four I've got a 2 and then for the d six I got a 6 35:01.00 sidekqpodcast Okay, so this is a piece of lore. 6 okay well your answer was provided by your game master Gary Barker apparently with mi quo he knows that somewhere in the north. The sea predators are hunting people on land. So. Sounds like this is something that's ah, maybe going on in the local area that he's aware of. 35:27.66 Steve Trinkl Yeah I think maybe some of his cohorts were you know trying to steal from some pirates up there and they had to turn back because of the danger there and. 35:42.82 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting. So you're taking the sea predators thing maybe more pirate direction see I'm thinking Gary was kind of ah angling this as like oh like the creatures from the sea are like coming up onto the land. 35:51.61 Steve Trinkl Oh no, no definitely creatures from the sea definitely still creatures from the sea is just that when they tried to Rob from the pirates the creatures from the sea rose up attacked everybody. They had to leave the loop behind and. 36:05.98 sidekqpodcast Oh Oh interesting. Okay so Wow. Okay, so they okay so they okay I'm just trying to get the timeline Down. So The people from the group were trying to get some pirates. Ah you know to get their loop but inadvertently this caused. The creatures of the sea to rise up and start attacking not only pirates but people on the land and stuff like that ooh. Okay, yeah, that that is definitely a juicy piece of Lore which will probably send Adventurers going. Ah you know. 36:25.47 Steve Trinkl Exactly. Okay. 36:38.77 sidekqpodcast Head first and headlong into danger trying to fight off ah sharks and killer whales or whatever else that's coming up on the land land sharks. Yeah true, very true and then ah okay, and then we need to determine. 36:45.62 Steve Trinkl Especially if the land sharks especially if the treasure is good enough. 36:58.00 sidekqpodcast A particular side quest that mirkel would be willing to recruit or hire player characters to go and do so if you want to roll for this randomly. It's going to be a d 12 or if you're inspired you could just kind of like lay it on us of what you think a side quest mio would be interested in a. 37:17.13 Steve Trinkl So I've got some ideas but I really want to roll the die. So got a 3 37:17.70 sidekqpodcast Giving out. 37:23.92 sidekqpodcast Um, three okay well you're if you go with this answer. It's from our patreon supporter an Jablinsky it says to return a book to a neighboring towns library and pay the exorbitant late fees. 37:38.46 Steve Trinkl Ah, that that is a good one I'm going to go with that one because that is ah it kind of plays into some of the some of the adjectives that we described. He's sly he managed to leave with the book. 37:54.14 sidekqpodcast He right? Well is he going to pay the late fees or is he going to let the player characters play the late fee pay the late fees. 37:56.14 Steve Trinkl And Honorable he wants to pay the light fees. Um, so. 38:06.62 Steve Trinkl So I think I think kind of going back. Let's combine this with the previous answer we had where we were talking about the lore from the pirates booty make this kind of like a 2 part 2 wo-part test he's he's got this. 38:18.15 sidekqpodcast Mm. 38:23.17 Steve Trinkl Book that he borrowed from library because he maybe was trying to investigate some some ah magical item or something like that and and had it out for too long. Um. 38:31.62 sidekqpodcast 5 38:40.37 Steve Trinkl Was intending to bring it back but knew that he couldn't bring it back without paying the light fee um his his group goes tries to get that pirate treasure. Ah then the sea predators phrase from the sea and everything just goes really really really south and him being a Falconer. He's he can handle himself in a fight but not against you know nasty sea beasts that outnumber them and. 39:05.31 sidekqpodcast Yeah, not when a giant squid emerges from the deep and decides to ah you know, ah you know, go all Davy Jones on on a poor coastal town. 39:14.96 Steve Trinkl So exactly and so maybe mi quo needs tells the party hey look I need you to pay off this book I know where you can get the money for it and I'll let you. Ah, it has a show of good faith I'll let you keep whatever ah whatever doesn't whatever that doesn't get covered by the treasure or whatever The whatever I don't owe from the treasure and. 39:44.25 sidekqpodcast Um, sure. Okay, yeah, oh well being associated. 39:50.10 Steve Trinkl And maybe he's wanted in this town or something like that and that's why. 39:55.71 sidekqpodcast Being associated with the the gang of outlaws as it were with ah robbing from the rich to give to the poor and. 39:57.57 Steve Trinkl Exactly Yeah, he's missed his chance to sneak back in there because he didn't have the money to pay off the library can't give can't get back in there on his own too distinctive looking and you know disguises don't really work. Maybe the. Town Guards are just got really high passive perception or something like that. But that. 40:22.23 sidekqpodcast Sure and depending on how rare tobasy are in this part part of the world too depending on your setting like it could be maybe tobaxy or commonplace and he's just a distinctive main kun-esque looking ah Tobay individual that they would easily recognize him or. 40:27.20 Steve Trinkl Exactly. Okay. 40:40.80 sidekqpodcast The fact that he's very rare. It's like that cat man walking around sure looks like this wanted poster. 40:46.26 Steve Trinkl Yeah, it's like ah in that d and d party where you get like a village that's full of mostly humans and elves and maybe some have elves dwarf or halfling or 2 and then you ah go in there and it's ah party you that's like ah, a dragonborn and a tobaxi and. 41:03.61 Steve Trinkl And ah yeah, and how what's the ner. What's the word I looks it on and you're like okay spot the main party. But yeah, he for exactly? Yeah, so. 41:07.30 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah, yep, you don't look like you're from around here. Are you new in town. 41:20.27 Steve Trinkl Stands out. Can't get into the town needs the party to do it for him agrees to let them just keep whatever of the pirates booty that they could take all he asks is that they return the book for him because it's the right thing to do so. 41:28.24 sidekqpodcast I. 41:34.79 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, and so then I'm imagining. So yeah, part of the side. Quest of ah you know returning the book and then going forward with the the plot hook of like okay well then here's the location of this treasure you can get you just have to tackle all of the. Ah, you know critters rising up from the oceans and attacking the area. But once that's dealt with it sounds like that's that's part of the reward then for the quest or are there further rewards offered you know from the gang from Mirquo himself. 42:04.40 Steve Trinkl So here's what I'm thinking any party could just say oh yeah, sure we'll take that book go run grab the treasure and forget all about the book. So to counter that what I'm thinking is. 42:12.81 sidekqpodcast I. 42:20.76 Steve Trinkl Reason Mir Quo needs this book back at the library. Besides it just being the right thing to do It has a note hidden in it to a member of his society and he needs to get that note to them. But maybe it's like inside the front cover or something like that. 42:26.90 sidekqpodcast Um. 42:28.32 sidekqpodcast Oh ok. 42:38.50 sidekqpodcast Okay. 42:40.40 Steve Trinkl But ah and maybe the party won't notice this but when they return the book. Maybe maybe they have a chance to spot the person next person who checks out the book and sees them open up that note and maybe it can. 42:50.00 sidekqpodcast And. 42:56.80 Steve Trinkl Lead to a hook. Maybe they can get involved with this outlaw group and and prove themselves worthy of joining it. 43:04.95 sidekqpodcast Okay, interesting. Okay, so it's a way to ah to get initiated into the into the outlaw gang. Okay. 43:14.10 Steve Trinkl Yeah, it can be their introduction or at least ah they can meet an Npc That's a part of that group asides from Mio and at that point it's up to the party what they decide to do Maybe they're inclined to join this group. Maybe they just. 43:21.56 sidekqpodcast I. 43:30.74 Steve Trinkl Keep them as allies or maybe they just ignore them entirely. 43:35.12 sidekqpodcast Sure of course. Okay and so then okay so that's the reward or those are are what we are thinking are the positive aspects of ah accomplishing the side quest you know the promise of treasure and you know maybe getting to gain a. Maybe getting to join up with an organization but we also have to consider what's going to be the consequence of failure or refusing the call to the adventure and. 44:01.23 Steve Trinkl So as far as refusing goes I think the players would really just miss out on it I don't I think Miirrko is a resourceful enough guy that he would be able to find some way to get the book back just might take more stealing than he would like um. 44:15.37 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 44:19.30 Steve Trinkl As far as the party failing I would say that really depends on how they fail do they fail to get the book back. Well maybe that leads to some complications with the with the outlaw group not necessarily against the party but they have a breakdown in communication and. 44:23.81 sidekqpodcast Sure. 44:34.84 sidekqpodcast Um. 44:37.49 Steve Trinkl Some of them get captured during a job or something like that. But. 44:38.31 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, yeah, yeah, because that note that was hidden in the book was supposed to be maybe like a warning for the you know the town or yeah, okay so for the next town over I Guess the next farming community over aside from the the main. 44:48.31 Steve Trinkl Exactly yes. 44:57.78 sidekqpodcast Royal City or whatever and then we're imagining that this um in the north where the ah where the sea creature attacks are happening. That's probably like you know a good couple days away from this place I'm guessing. If we're trying to imagine like the rough geography in our heads hypothetically but of course a dungeon master can change this all around to fit their setting but you know. 45:12.90 Steve Trinkl Um, yeah. 45:17.40 Steve Trinkl Exactly and if the party just fails to get the treasure to pay off the late fee then they just have to find some other way to pay off the late fee either from their own pocket or some other side. Quest might be able to get the money. Or something. Um, you know it doesn't really matter where they get the money from it's just that having that ah that bit of Lore is a good way to give the players somewhere to go. So. 45:48.55 sidekqpodcast That interesting. Okay, yeah, and I'm just trying to think um, you know other interesting devices. Maybe not necessarily to railroad too bad but when you were talking about like oh there's a note hidden inside the book I thought you were going to say like oh there's like a magic record of knowing who checked out the book. 46:03.15 Steve Trinkl Oh yeah, that that could be a yeah that could be it too and maybe the book itself got lost with the pirates and so that might be another reason why the party has to go up there and. 46:05.88 sidekqpodcast And then like. 46:11.48 sidekqpodcast M. 46:20.60 Steve Trinkl Retrieve it from the sea predators because you know the buck was there and yeah, yeah. 46:24.94 sidekqpodcast Oh and he wrote it in his name and so he knows that this thing is looming over him that he needs to get you know he needs to get the book returned and it's like ah you know like some sort of ledger sheet of paper something that he's looking at and every day that it goes. 46:36.60 Steve Trinkl Exactly. Okay. 46:40.47 sidekqpodcast It's another.. It's another amount of gold added to it and it's just like he's like there's nothing I can do I know these you know I was on the job or whatever these these pirates came in and they took the trip they took the book you know because they didn't know any better or they just thought it was something nice and I'm just stuck with this exorbitant fee and I can't. You know like I'm stuck in debt and there's no way for me to ah to get it paid or something like that because he's just a falconer you know I mean the gang can do enough to help him out but I don't know if the does the gang you know because they're robbing for the rich to give to the poor and they're only keeping barely what they need for themselves to keep. 47:05.29 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah. 47:17.96 sidekqpodcast Um, the group thriving It doesn't sound like the organization has the coffers um to be able to pay this amount or something like that and oh okay, so yeah, there's like a couple of different ways that you could go about this? Okay, ah. 47:24.19 Steve Trinkl Exactly. 47:33.67 sidekqpodcast Were you interested in answering any of the optional questions about Mi Quo or do you feel like this is pretty good. Yeah. 47:40.27 Steve Trinkl So looking at the optional questions I think I think those would be pretty easy to answer I can probably keep it a little brief but ah, but as far as they go I think think we can get into them. Okay. 47:53.27 sidekqpodcast Okay, so what are the goals and motivations of Mirko as a character. 47:58.45 Steve Trinkl So Mio mostly just wants to wants to kind of just get by live a comfortable life. He's not overly Ambitious. He's he likes being outdoors doesn't really necessarily. Want to make it rich, but he's good at what he does So it. It helps him ah helps him make some coin and I probably long term just wants to settle down and to have a nice cushy retirement in some nice remote Village. Or a cottage or something like that it doesn't necessarily have lofty ambitions about helping his gang get up to the top or anything like that. They just do good where they can and steal from steal from bad people when they can. Yeah. 48:47.85 sidekqpodcast 3 ok. All right? and then how do these goals and motivations affect Miero's general personality. 49:00.57 Steve Trinkl So He's very late back Very ah, very easy going slow to Anger just kind of roll goes with a flow on most things very very much So a. Ah, matter of he doesn't ah if he doesn't get what he wants from someone that's okay, he can just move on to the next person and. 49:26.82 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then how does mirquo interact with other individuals is he nuanced between different groups of people or is he pretty much the same across the board. 49:37.92 Steve Trinkl And probably speaks in a lot of code to his group make that cause them to come off as just acquaintances if they were to run into each other on the street but when they're in private. It's probably very warm and and friendly and. 49:52.98 sidekqpodcast Um. 49:56.94 Steve Trinkl And you know keeps up with all their kids' birthdays things like that and as far as ah, as far as family goes I Like to think that he doesn't have any family besides his falcon probably an only child. Ah. 50:11.86 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting. 50:16.35 Steve Trinkl Parents not in the picture anymore. No mate or or offspring so kind of by himself the Simmon a bird. 50:21.33 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, and then him and a bird does Miraclerk have a particular accent or language that he uses are there any idiosyncrasies and how he acts or speaks. 50:40.50 Steve Trinkl I'm trying to give an answer that's not just myique the liar from from elder scrolls. But ah I think ah very just think like marmy. You know what. And along those lines of Smarmmi. Let's give him a slight cajun accent. Ah, but let's let's just shift this entire thing to the swamp to the bayou and give them a little bit of cajun accent that that'll make sense with like the sea predators. 50:59.35 sidekqpodcast No okay occasionn accent. 51:08.40 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting. So a cajun farming town. Okay, ah, the crawfish are rising up. We've had 1 too many boils. 51:13.95 Steve Trinkl It can be like giant crawfish or something like that. 51:20.17 Steve Trinkl Yes, but that that would that's the kind of accent. No offense any any Cajun people of descent I'm thinking gambit from the x-men and that and and how that voice for me is forever associated with. 51:31.63 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 51:39.10 Steve Trinkl So sly charming on orpal. 51:39.85 sidekqpodcast That interesting. Okay, so okay so imagine gambit from x-men but he's like a main coon Humanoid That's a falconer. 51:49.56 Steve Trinkl And yeah and he's also you know probably being in to backy probably ah hisses a little bit on his zes and. 51:53.98 sidekqpodcast Interesting. Okay, and then what impact has mere quo made on the world. How has he shaped his local area. 52:04.88 Steve Trinkl As far as the world goes. He's a bit Player. He's not.. He's not a big you know change the world kind of guy as far as the local scene goes I Like to think that he's helped ah helped bring down. The occasional corrupt sheriff Slash Mayor or equivalent. Um like to think that he's embarrassed not maybe not personally but he's he's helped embarrass some. You know, rich nobles who you know took their money from other people. Um probably has even gotten some people arrested for. Ah for being you know villainous, but but he. 52:45.15 sidekqpodcast Um. 52:57.53 Steve Trinkl Likes to say in the shadows he likes to do that sort of thing from the shadows because that's that's you know that stuff's all nice and good. But really, it's just about making sure that he gets by and doesn't have to do anything he finds distasteful to do it right. 53:14.59 sidekqpodcast All right? and then okay and then ah and then the final optional question here. Do you have any current problems that prevent you for being a bigger player on the stage. 53:26.81 Steve Trinkl So I'd say that for um, your quote It's mostly just a lack of ambition. He doesn't really see a reason for himself to get involved in all these crazy world ending things. You know why is why has he got to be the. 53:32.39 sidekqpodcast M. 53:42.63 Steve Trinkl Why does why would he want to worry about things like you know the the dragon cult trying to summon the dragons or or you know some some other world ending threat. That's not what he's about. He's about you know he's about the little guy and. 53:52.35 sidekqpodcast Um. 53:59.44 sidekqpodcast M. 54:01.88 Steve Trinkl Ah, taking care of his own. Um, you know he'll he'll help out the party if they if they need it if there's something he can do to help and they've gotten themselves into his good graces but he's not going to go out there. He's not going to be like an Npc who who rolls initiative in the big fight against. 54:07.64 sidekqpodcast And. 54:14.89 sidekqpodcast Um. 54:20.99 Steve Trinkl The world ending threat or anything like that. Yeah. 54:22.30 sidekqpodcast But really graybell was the secret weapon all along of the campaign. 54:27.19 Steve Trinkl But you know the party rolls in Nat twenty on their luck roll Gray Bill swoops in takes out the last five H B of the dragon and when everyone's failing the death saves and there you go? Yeah yes. 54:34.75 sidekqpodcast There you go Gray Bill is King is crowned King and everyone has to listen to a hawk now from now on. 54:46.77 Steve Trinkl All Hail graybill. 54:48.76 sidekqpodcast All Hail Gray bill all right? So now that we've made it through npc creation I think it's time we go into a random encounter all right? So the random encounter is ah. 54:56.19 Steve Trinkl 10 done. 55:02.56 sidekqpodcast Does not currently have a sponsor segment at this time I know if you ah would do me a solid and if you find ah my podcast on Zencastr I know I linked it and stuff like that. But I think if you help to listen to my show on Zencastr which is the platform I'm using to do my recordings nowadays. That might help put me on some more radars of advertisers and sponsors and affiliates and all that sort of kind of stuff. Um, you know to to get that kind of going but otherwise I am more than happy to work with you out there in the community. So if you got something cool. You want me to promote if you got an affiliate program, etc, etc. Um, feel free to drop me an email sidekicks and sidequest at Gmail.com let me know the details there in my email inbox. You can kind of like mention stuff on my other social medias but primarily I would love to hash out details over email. And then we can see about ah having you sponsor the random encounter segment or any other segment on this show. So I hope to hear from some ah eccentric lord or rich lady soon. So all right now we are in the roleplay vignette segment of the show. So the question is with Steve. Taking the helm with mio and I guess grayville by extension the question becomes who should I be in the scene am I going to be another member of the faction am I going to be 1 of my podcast adventure characters meeting ah miero and getting the. 56:35.90 sidekqpodcast Return The library book assignment or what do you think would be an interesting scene to showcase miero often. Yeah. 56:43.85 Steve Trinkl I think ah I think maybe something where meero's relationship with Gray Bill can be shown would be a neat idea. So maybe ah maybe the party is is is asked. 56:54.65 sidekqpodcast Ooh ok. 57:00.52 Steve Trinkl By someone else to hey, can you go fetch some ah you know, um, there's a hunter who's supposed to be selling me some furs that he got can you go pick them up for me and so the party comes and meets meero and he's got his you know wagon of furs and maybe. Maybe some you know, bandit or something shows up and or and makes a run for it with some of his goods and so of course the party is probably going to be inclined to chase down the bandit. But I think having miiro sick his. Ah, sick graybell on the bandit would be a neat idea as well. Um, you know Falcon is. 57:44.99 sidekqpodcast Okay, so a podcast adventurer character meets Mirko because they have the assignment to go talk to him and then we get to see the showcase of the bandit taking the stuff and then gray will gets to take the bandit down and then um. Supposedly after that point of interaction. Maybe they decide to give the the the adventure character the the book assignment. 58:06.24 Steve Trinkl Yeah I Like to think maybe there's multiple band. It's something where where gray bill has the chance to help out the party and there they get a chance to see the bond between Mio and graybell. So ah. 58:19.50 sidekqpodcast And okay, so if that is the scene that we're going to do okay so then the question becomes which podcast character. Are you interested in having interact with Miro Koke because we got a couple of choose from. We have. 58:23.45 Steve Trinkl Yeah, and maybe the party impresses them. Yeah. 58:35.67 sidekqpodcast Um, Duncan who's the recklessly brave adventurer for hire we have Sonja the warrior woman who multiclassed into a paladin. We have coact the lawful evil arcane trickster roguish dwarf. We have krisly the herbalist. Botanist wood elf druid who multiclassed into a cleric. Um, we've got oion who's the astral Elf Allusionist wizard and then the newest one we have is a gote who is a tiflling wild magic sorcerer and her wild magic is like very fay wild inspired. So. Or if none of those sound interesting. We can just invent a whole new adventure character from hulk cloth and ah Duncan okay, all right? So then as I just check my notes very quickly to see where is the last time I left. 59:17.10 Steve Trinkl I let was the first one's name again. Ah Duncan that's why I thought yeah, let's go with Duncan. 59:30.22 sidekqpodcast Duncan off. Do do do do do um I feel. Okay so I feel like it was there. Okay, all right? So yeah, um, do you want me to set the scene or would you like to set the scene. So. 59:46.25 Steve Trinkl So but go ahead and set the scene please. 59:49.14 sidekqpodcast All right? So where we last left our hero Duncan he had just finished up the mission for Del Roan and katni the hex bloodo stonecasters. Ah ah, who were the fantasy game designers. Um, and after taking some time to sit and reflect you know Duncan's learned a lot about himself and and what it means to his character um to undertake these missions and so he's grown a little bit in maturity gotten some perspective and so um, you know he's taken his time and he's finished updating all of his little. Adventuring business cards. So now it reads that he is a patron of the arts of the ah stone cast that those siblings produce which the podcast is called as I just very quickly hear try and check my notes. Um. 01:00:42.69 sidekqpodcast The wonders of editing in which I will get to fix this? um. 01:00:51.27 sidekqpodcast Ah, so now Duncan has added a a particular addition to each of his adventuring business cards. It now reads that he's a patron of the arts of the crypts and creatures stonecast. Um, and so it's not that long. Duncan is walking and he's finding himself in another area. Another region of the world in which there is a a small farming community on the outskirts of ah of a bio swamp sort of environment and you know a royal city is awful ways. Um, and so ah Duncan is making his way through town and someone just kind of happens to stop him and says oh hey, can you go find this mirror quo. Um, you know oh I got a bad back and I can't go chasing down he he needs to just get me something real quick and so. Duncan is like oh of course yeah, not a problem. Not a way let me go find this individual and so um, where is duncan going to find mir quo as he goes to try to look for him. 01:01:53.56 Steve Trinkl So I think a mere quo at this point would probably be. He's he's on his rounds. He's got his wagon with his goods mostly just furs at this point probably doesn't want the furs mingling with the meat and probably. 01:02:08.52 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:02:12.66 Steve Trinkl Probably going on the outskirts of the city with his cart. Ah maybe it's pulled by some sort of pack Animal Beast Burden if you will and I'd say the party probably finds him by the main road. 01:02:22.59 sidekqpodcast 3 01:02:31.44 Steve Trinkl Not not too close to the city because we got to give the bandits an opportunity to strike. But yeah, so. 01:02:36.56 sidekqpodcast Yeah, sure. Yeah, so in between the farming community and I guess this royal city Duncan's pointed in the direction. So there's like a you know there's like a little bit of a stretch of a road where it starts to you know, open up to some wilderness not not too much but but just enough and so Duncan. Ah, you know, ah he he he runs solo um and and sees this card and sees the individual match the description he was given and he'll kind of call out and be like hello hello are you are you mere quote. Hello I was I was told that I needed to find you hello. Yeah. 01:03:12.20 Steve Trinkl Oh yes, ah you you have found Mio and he he hops down from his cart. Ah pleasure to make your acquaintance. Ah. 01:03:26.12 Steve Trinkl Might I ask what business you have with me and. 01:03:29.56 sidekqpodcast Ah, oh of course yes and then Duncan will produce his ah his card and and show it to him and then begin to explain that. Ah you know someone in the in the town that he had just left. Um, you know someone was saying like oh he wasn't able to move fast enough and get his ah his things that he had ordered and. About mid-conversation. There's a rustling and the both of them look behind and they can see that there is like a trio of bandits who are starting to rifle through his ah his cart and his stuff and they're going to try and break for it. 01:04:03.17 Steve Trinkl He hears that his ears perk up and then fold back and he turns around and hisses. He says yo feel get away from there. That's not your office and and he points ah his gloved hand at them and gray bill. Ah well. Puffs up and wings spread out and launches himself forward and and ah at at the first of the thieves the other 2 grab what they can and start running off and ah man can you stop them from me my friend. 01:04:37.71 sidekqpodcast Yes, and ah Duncan will spring in action. He's ah been ah the podcast audience has been waiting for this to happen. But you can see on his wrist. He has like a crossbow contraption that was developed by an artifice certain has like a grappling hook thing on the end and so. Ah, like in slomo he like Colin moves to the side. He extends his arm and he activates the device it. It shoots off a grappling hook which goes to shoot towards the furthest one away to then kind of like wrap him around and then with us with a deft yank of his arm Duncan gets the. Gentleman kind of like in a clothes line and like who like link like pulls him back as the as the device starts to retract and like and bring the gentleman prone but also starts to drag him back and then Duncan will also ah pull out a I guess like a. Like a throwing knife I guess and he'll try and throw that at the at the second one but the the knife goes a little wide and so as he's waiting for his ah device to retract so he can like get it ready again for another shot. He'll wait and see if Miero will spring an action on the on the. Third and final guy. 01:05:53.22 Steve Trinkl Mark Mio will grab a stick that he's been using to ah to kind of pile the pile these furs onto one another so that he doesn't have to touch them by hand when he's pulling them apart and will kind of throw it like a. 01:06:05.80 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:06:10.21 Steve Trinkl Beer even though it's blunt and it will ah and he'll manage to trip up the the one who's running and getting away and ah and has the other that great bill had attacked is starting to run and doesn't have anything to get away with. 01:06:12.85 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:06:27.17 sidekqpodcast So. 01:06:29.50 Steve Trinkl Ah, he let's out of command like to gray billll maybe like a whistle of some sort and points to the one who just tripped and Gray Billll swoops down and starts clawing and pecking at that one as well. And. 01:06:38.48 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:06:46.41 sidekqpodcast Oh Wow and then ah oh yeah, you go for it. Okay. 01:06:48.97 Steve Trinkl And and of course the yeah, the falcon falcons are scary. No one wants to be packed at and scratched by a falcon. So the the thief probably ah gives up the goods and and starts scrambling trying to get away trying to swat away at this bird of Prey that. 01:07:07.25 Steve Trinkl Much more graceful than the thief is ah they. 01:07:08.97 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and then so with the with the final ah one that Duncan had ah caught with his grappling hook device. He pulls out this magic ah cane and so he he brandishes it at the at the guy that he managed to tangle up. And he says there will be none of this activity while I'm around you best be getting out of here and he like you know goes to move it up to like as if he's going to hit him but he doesn't actually hit him. It's just an intimidation thing which does pretty well for this low level bandit and so he just like he drops his. Ah. the the furs he's like all right all right I give up and then he just kind of like take turns tail and and runs he go. He starts to make his way for his buddy is being clawed at by the bird but he thinks twice about that is like ah I'm out of here and so he just leaves his friend who's like. 01:07:53.90 Steve Trinkl 3 01:08:02.32 sidekqpodcast I'm probably scrambling at this point through mud and muck and stuff like that to like get up on his feet and out of the way and deeper into the recesses of the wilderness. So. 01:08:12.34 Steve Trinkl Ah, that's quite a contraption you have there? Thank you very much my friend sorry I don't I I assume that you were sent here by. 01:08:17.50 sidekqpodcast Oh yeah. 01:08:26.34 Steve Trinkl Murphy that he he was going to buy some some furs but he never showed up I must be ah his joints giving him problem again. How yeah. 01:08:35.90 sidekqpodcast Yes, and ah Duncan is like reloading the ah the arcane ah contraption on his wrist and ah so has a yes yes Murphy was the name of the individual. Yes, his back was bothering him this morning. So. 01:08:45.64 Steve Trinkl ISIS. 01:08:52.40 sidekqpodcast So Duncan will produce a small pouch of ah of coinage that Murphy had meant to ah to to give ah for for his ah furs and so he says I think this is what Murphy said would would cover his order. So. 01:09:05.59 Steve Trinkl Oh yes yes I appreciate his flexibility. He he knows I'm not allowed in the in the city. So so here. Ah and mio goes to the pile and of course he's catches a gray bill on his. Hand and and ah, let's grab. We'll just sit on his wrist while he ah uses that stick that he picks up from the ground to poke through the furs and say oh yes, these ones here. Yeah, he wanted. Ah, he wanted this one and this one and he carefully pulls them from the pile and. And 1 point has to use both hands. So so kind of hold his hand onto the railing and without a word gray Bill just kind of hops and perches on the railing and ah and he pulls out the 2 furs and hands them over and says ah yes, ah, ah as I said I'm not allowed. Ah. 01:09:51.77 sidekqpodcast So. 01:10:03.45 Steve Trinkl Into the city. Ah, not not necessarily on a first name basis with the guards right now. So ah so but Murphy is a good man. Good customer and glad that I can still give him what he needs. Yeah. 01:10:12.56 sidekqpodcast Mean. 01:10:22.50 sidekqpodcast Yes, of course. Um, and so then Duncan will um I guess roll an insight check and ah, you know we'll we'll say he does like you know he does like better than normal so is there anything that Duncan might be able to detect. Ah, from from that ah bit of information that Meero has shared so. 01:10:40.72 Steve Trinkl No no signs of deceit or anything like that. Um, probably just the way he makes it sound is that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ah and probably does pick up that. Ah. 01:10:50.64 sidekqpodcast A. 01:10:58.92 Steve Trinkl Yeah, he appreciates Murphy giving him a chance to continue to do business with him despite the complications and. 01:11:06.88 sidekqpodcast And then Duncan will respond. Ah yes, yes well I'm certainly more than happy to bring these back to Mr Murphy but it sounds like ah maybe you have other business to do in the in the city but maybe perhaps are unable. To do so and. 01:11:25.54 Steve Trinkl Ah, yes, well Ah, they take the library fees very seriously in the city and well I have a bit of a problem in that regard. Are you? You seem like a capable ah capable adventure. Perhaps you can. Ah. Give me some assistance. Ah, okay. 01:11:41.87 sidekqpodcast Oh yes, of course you'll see on my card. It says no feet too Small no adventure too. Dairy. 01:11:50.58 Steve Trinkl Well you see I ah I was suppose I was borrowing a book from the library. He was a book on the arcane sigils. Not really something that I have much knowledge with but I was hoping to learn. But ah, you know as it turns out I do not have the talent for it whatsoever just completely incompetent. Yeah, but I was traveling with this book and I was up in at the Northern Coast you know where the bayou opens up into ah into the sea and and ah. 01:12:20.29 sidekqpodcast I. 01:12:24.10 Steve Trinkl Ah, long story short I ran into some pirates and there was a bit of a kerffael you know the the ah the pirates they wanted to ah stick merko with a sword or 2 and and you know I do not like to be stuck with a sword. But before anything could happen and perhaps because I was eyeing their treasure. Ah but before anything could happen all of a sudden these men-eating beasts came from the sea and I i. Not too proud to say that I ah ran with my tails between my legs and I think even graybell here had his tail between his legs that I do not back away from a fight with a man who. 01:13:06.54 sidekqpodcast E. 01:13:14.23 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 01:13:20.39 Steve Trinkl Starts trouble with me but when it comes to a giant squid rising from the sea that can bring a ship underwater with with just one swipe of its tentacle that is not what I am good at and I am ashamed to say that I left the book there. 01:13:37.50 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, and oh on the ship. Oh it got taken on the ship. Oh Wow. Okay Wow Okay, pretty tall order. Okay, so you need this book returns so certainly paying the return fees would be. 01:13:38.15 Steve Trinkl Ah, on the ship and yeah, yes, quite the taller right. 01:13:56.44 sidekqpodcast Would be 1 thing and and and Duncan Pats a coin purse on his side and he's like I I'm I I don't think there would be any problem on that front but but getting the book on the other hand. 01:14:04.41 Steve Trinkl I but with with my I do know that the ship last I saw the the ship that I left the book on was moored to ah was moored. So you should still be able to find it. It has ah 2 giant sales on it one with a one has the green dot green masked with fabric or how do you say? The. The the sigil looks like a kraken with an eye patch and that is I also know that that ship belongs to some dangerous men with lots of ill-gotten goods. So. 01:14:39.68 sidekqpodcast Oh. 01:14:53.62 Steve Trinkl I was trying to perhaps swipe the goods myself. But I think if you get my book back I would not complain at all if you just kept everything for yourself I would rather you have it than those nasty pirates. Okay. 01:15:09.13 sidekqpodcast Okay, interesting. So Duncan is trying to do the mental calculations of just the timeline of events of how this all came to be but you know he he he does not have the wherewithal ah to sit here and grill this you know this young individual. 01:15:23.59 Steve Trinkl Yeah, that's what mere quo is going for. He's he's counting on that. 01:15:26.49 sidekqpodcast And so he's just going to yeah and so Duncan's just kind of like well I can't I can't refuse a quest but put before me and you've you've certainly made it ah an interesting one to say the least, but okay, all right I can I can help you out and so. Indicates back I guess to the royal city where he'll say let me go get these. Let me go get these skins these furs returned I'll go check in with the library and see what this tab is up to maybe perhaps they'll let me cover that part and then I'll go get the book or. Or just try and get an idea of what the bill is but rest assured I will then travel northward I'll go recover this book and well maybe hopefully deal with some c issues as well. 01:16:18.14 Steve Trinkl I Yes, yes, that would be ah that would be a good start and I would be very much in your debt and would repay a favor with a favor so to speak. So. 01:16:31.81 sidekqpodcast M Okay, and so then um, all right? So then without further ado I suppose ah Duncan will say is catch his signature catchphrase onward and he'll about face and. Start making his way back to the city to begin his laundry list of tasks all right and seen. Yeah, so what you think of getting to be rear quote and and show off gray bill as well. 01:16:48.51 Steve Trinkl And there we go. It's that scene. Okay. 01:17:00.96 Steve Trinkl Aside from the fact that I just realized I have no idea how to do cajun accent I think ah, it's pretty fun I think I think ah you know, just a Gm could definitely find some ways for mio to show up. Even prior to that. Maybe he but he's selling some stuff that the party needs. Um, when you know I think he's I think just the sheer like the things that we've lined out today. Give give him a lot of potential as an npc just as you know, kind of one of those not one of those major npcs but 1 of those recurring ones that. 01:17:20.30 sidekqpodcast True. 01:17:34.63 sidekqpodcast So especially if he is a point of contact for this organization as well and definitely sounds like based on all that we've discovered about the character you could easily drop him if you're running like a salt marsh. 01:17:36.47 Steve Trinkl Ah, that shows up every now and then. 01:17:42.49 Steve Trinkl Exactly and you. 01:17:54.55 sidekqpodcast Kind of a D and D campaign you could probably stick miero in there somewhere. Yeah. 01:17:57.64 Steve Trinkl Yeah, probably and you know you could even bill him as a traveler as a traveling hunter if you wanted to put him anywhere else. 01:18:10.80 sidekqpodcast Sure Yeah, and yeah, so we're starting get and we're starting to get into the final thoughts segment of the show. So I Always like to check in with the guests and just ask them. You know what they thought of their experience on the podcast I know it took yeah ah took. It took me long enough to get you on the show. So I'm glad I was finally able to get you on. 01:18:32.64 Steve Trinkl Yeah, yeah, timing has always been a bit of an issue just make sure I have the time and under tree. But there's a lot of fun. Ah lot of fun, just kind of spitballing going back and forth on things and and Ah. Of course I've listened to the podcast before so it's not like I It took me by Surprise or anything like that. But ah yeah, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. 01:18:53.27 sidekqpodcast Ah, yeah, since we've had the opportunity to speak with both gary and your castmate Michael as well. It's been ah, ah wait sorry Michael Mark why am I blanking now in this moment Michael okay, since ah yeah, you know on this podcast. Ah we've had the opportunity to talk with both gary and with Michael yeah, it was only inevitable to eventually get another member of the average adventuring party. Ah. 01:19:08.40 Steve Trinkl Ah, Michael Michael got it. You had it right? yeah. 01:19:24.65 sidekqpodcast Podcast on the show. Yes. 01:19:27.24 Steve Trinkl It? Yeah, so yeah, it's lot of fun and ah, no, it's ah it's always fun. All 3 of us that you've had on the show have stretched our Gm muscles at 1 point or the other at. So ah, kind of have to think like a gm a little bit to be on this podcast but it's also a great way to get you into that mindset. Especially when you're having to improvise a character like that because I'll I'll let. 01:19:50.57 sidekqpodcast I. Yeah, definitely. 01:19:58.10 Steve Trinkl Listeners and those of you that haven't ever gmed before depending on your gm anywhere from 10 to 90% of it can be improvisation. 01:20:08.30 sidekqpodcast That's very true. So this podcast tries to do its humble community service and at least providing some fully fleshed Npcs that could easily be dropped into your game maybe tweaked here or there but someone that's already ready to go. 01:20:24.10 Steve Trinkl So yes, exactly okay. 01:20:26.60 sidekqpodcast All right? and so for the very final moments of the show I Always like to leave it for the guest. So anything you want to plug where can people find you online if you want to be found. Are there any passions or causes that we need to know about let us know. 01:20:45.60 Steve Trinkl So Kind of give you I again I am part of the averageentur at um I have been on a few different interview sites I think. Geek Girl Authority is one that had an interview with me lately as well as some other members of the podcast my soundcloud which I mentioned earlier it mostly just has some little Scara songs that I record myself as well as ah, some game music that I'm writing um. 01:21:20.80 Steve Trinkl Stuff that I use in my doom level stuff like that. Ah, but that's soundcloud.com/drbof you Dr Beaufu old ah old nickname there. Um. 01:21:21.10 sidekqpodcast M. 01:21:33.86 Steve Trinkl And doctor coming from the fact that I spent way too long in school long enough that they stuck a doctor at the front of my name and but yeah, that's all I've really got as far as ah causes and stuff I'd say the biggest cause is just you know those of you that are playing in a tabletop group just you know. Always treat your fellow players with respect and courtesy and that goes for your Dm as well. You know, ah remember this is this is a social hobby and even if you don't talk with the people that you're playing with outside of the game. You know, just be be. A good person. Be a good friend to them. Um, you know we all we all have more fun when we all get along and ah and just be considerate of your fellow players. So. 01:22:23.30 sidekqpodcast All right, very good words indeed. So Steve I want to thank you brother for being on the podcast and looking forward to having you back on to make even more random npcs all right? So I'll stop the recording there. 01:22:36.17 Steve Trinkl Sounds great.