00:03.69 sidekqpodcast Hello Welcome to another exciting episode of sidekicks and side quests the best unofficial dungeons and Dragons podcast in my humbly biased opinion I've got an awesome guest for you this week but before we get to my guest I got to do the ad read. And then this is the part where I would stick in the ad read and fix it later all right? Sorry ah all right and without further Ado Hello mystery contestant waiting in the wings would you care to introduce yourself tell us who it is that you are and what is it that you do. 00:23.23 Glaiza So awesome. 00:37.17 Glaiza Hi my name is glyza. My pronounce are they them and I do a lot of things on the internet currently I am the guide for the longest running monster care swat let me repeat that currently I'm the guide for the longest running monster care squad actual play called from the library. Ah, you can find that on Twitch and on Youtube um, but you can find me everywhere on the internet as at classical glaza if you found an at classicalliza anywhere hey you found me. That's who I am. 01:10.70 sidekqpodcast That's awesome. Yeah, and and I feel like this is quite serendipitous at the time of this recording because as as you're probably aware with doing actual plays and and other podcasts and stuff like that depending on it sometimes. You know you record way in the past and you're just like oh man when is this thing ever going to see the light of day and ah ah before we were able to secure this Interview. You just came off a really awesome episode of kill every monster where you got to talk about Dragon Turtles right. 01:27.60 Glaiza Um. 01:40.12 Glaiza That was a fun episode. Um, it's funny because ah feel every monster that that original episode was supposed to come out in season 2 of the podcast. Unfortunately well not unfortunately but more like fortunately um. 01:51.82 sidekqpodcast Ooh. 01:57.86 Glaiza Dylan ah had a kid and then I had a kid and then it just all like so the original plan of it becoming season 2 has just went on until it became season four but it was worth the weight I think for me because I love dragon turtles. And I love Dylan and aream they're they're great to hang out. Yeah. 02:19.70 sidekqpodcast I know I've been Ah Well I've been patiently. You know, ah being like hey do you guys want to come on my show. You know we do. We do the trade back and forth and you know I'm I'm game to talk D and D monsters and stuff like that I don't know if I have any. Controversial Hot take so it may not be the most exciting in that way. But I'm happy to nerd out and and get creative when we think about ah monsters and how to you know, make them more interesting in our games. So yeah, it was. It was lovely to listen to the episode I was like. We you know we've been social media friends for a little bit So I think it's time I think it's time that goliza shows up on sidekicks and side quests and and you know gives gives their take on the spin of this show. So um, you know pretty easy segue into this question Then. Do you currently or have you overplayed dungeons and dragons before. 03:07.55 Glaiza Honestly, a lot of the ah my experience with tabletop ah role playing games is with dungeons and dragons I First played it ah with my partner back when we were both living in Cambodia and when I first started. I hyper fixated and I ended up like starting a ah curse of strade game and ah I have heard that a lot of people struggle finishing curs of strade. But because of my hyper fixation at that time I started and then. Ended it in like three months with the people that were that I were that I was playing with um and then I stopped playing for like 2 3 years because I was burnt out but having said that I love dungeons and dragons I've played it a lot ever since then since I came here to the states. Um, but yeah. 03:47.26 sidekqpodcast Wow. Well. 04:03.20 Glaiza I love I love dungeons and dragons five e is usually is Mike's my first intro to dungeons and dragons. But my partner has been playing it for like since a long time he was the one that grew up with it and um, like the ancient days that we don't talk about anymore. 04:15.37 sidekqpodcast In the ancient days and. 04:21.93 Glaiza Ah, but yeah, 5 So whenever people ask me like which dungeons and dragons of ah edition is your favorite I'm like well fly v because is the only one I've played but. 04:28.40 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and from that as you mentioned in your introduction that you're the you know the longest running game of this monster care squad. So um, you know, maybe a little bit of circling back. But you know take that are you able to take us through that journey of like you know you, you're playing D and d. 04:36.62 Glaiza And. 04:47.53 sidekqpodcast And you mentioned this in the kill every monster podcast episode of talking about. You know you've lived a you grew up and lived abroad and stuff and you've been your you' wealth I'm a military brat so I have a I have a little bit of an inkling of that but not that part of the world. Um, but. 04:52.53 Glaiza I did. 05:00.10 Glaiza Um, oh yeah, Asia is where I spent most of my time a lot of it in Southeast Asia but I spent a lot of time ah as well in East Asia so yeah 05:12.37 sidekqpodcast That's pretty cool. Yeah I was born in Panama and then I lived in West Germany back when it was still divided and not a unified country so that that kind of goes to date me a little bit. Um. 05:19.85 Glaiza Ah I just. 05:23.27 sidekqpodcast Yeah, but you started with D and D and then now you're now you're doing this monster care squad and and you know forgive me and you know anyone else in the audience who's maybe not aware. Ah but what's that ttrpg like what's the what's the goal. What's the the ethos the vibe of that game. Yeah. 05:23.60 Glaiza M. Then. 05:39.62 Glaiza So um, I've played a lot of indie trpgs. Um and Monster Care Squad is an indie trpg that I adore so imagine um imagine Monster Hunter You know that video game I Guess it's called Monster hunter. 05:54.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, okay. 05:56.84 Glaiza Ah, imagine that but instead of hunting them. You're going there to heal them and as a person who who absolutely loves the idea of like um, you know like with D and D It's always ah violent fighting. Whatever as a person who enjoys. 06:14.88 sidekqpodcast Um. 06:16.56 Glaiza Having like a different resolution. The idea of healing monsters going over there to heal them really appealed to me so Monster care Squat is if you are interested in like becoming like adventurers and doctors and your very purpose in life. 06:17.27 sidekqpodcast I. 06:23.31 sidekqpodcast No. 06:34.36 Glaiza Is to heal them and fix them and make sure that they're you know, healthy if you if that's what you want to be like you're You're a you're a monster vet Veterinaryarian Yeah, that's what a monster care Squad is all about and I love that. 06:41.20 sidekqpodcast M. 06:48.55 sidekqpodcast I was go to say you were describing this and the picture I got in my mind is someone just took d and d but they made Steve Irwin and Steve was like croiki might we got it. We got all we got beauty roll. 06:59.38 Glaiza Yeah, yeah, there is actually there's actually a move ah in it called crike ah or and also ah, what do you have in your mouth because everything about this monster here. Scott is just you know aimed. To take care of monsters to love monsters and if you um since you heard the the last ah kill every monster episode I adore monsters that are you know that aren't like they're just living their life. They're not here to attack people. They're not here to you know there's no malicious. Ah. There's no malice in their intent. They're just living their lives and I I like that ah kind of setup. Um, and also those monsters are freakies. Um, sorry can I swear? Okay, ah, okay. 07:36.22 sidekqpodcast I. 07:48.30 sidekqpodcast I Keep it friendly. Friendly. 07:55.00 Glaiza I Love ah you know monsters and they are freaky as all as could be so one of the things that I do is um there there you you love I Love to play with monsters in Monster Care Squad where you're here to heal them. But they're also scary because they're still monsters. Um, one of my monsters is um, this giant eye in space and that is creepy if you think about it if you just like look at us like oh that's a giant eye in space that is creepy. Ah, but you're here to take care of it. Yeah. 08:15.69 sidekqpodcast Um. 08:25.74 sidekqpodcast Yeah, you go the downtown Dallas there's a giant eyeball in downtown Dallas that you can see. It's just there and it yeah it's it would be unsettling if that were alive and blinking. Yeah. 08:36.74 Glaiza Yeah, yeah, and you're you're there to take care of the monsters. So. That's why I um, ah and the people that released it. Ah Sandy Pug Games they're such a lovely group of people and I absolutely you know. When I first heard about monster care squad I made sure that I was like yeah absolutely this will be my whole personality and you know it is it has been my whole personality for a while there. That's all I ever talked about and I just yeah I love monster care squad. So if anybody's listening go ahead and pick up. 09:13.40 sidekqpodcast And then and then watch watch your actual play. 09:13.23 Glaiza You know monsterzer cares Squad You will not regret it. Oh absolutely watch my actual play we are there to just have fun. Um, but yeah I hope you enjoy watching it because we are just really silly group of people. But. 09:27.40 sidekqpodcast And well speaking of silly groups of people. You know this podcast is all about the sidekicks and the side quests that we find in our favorite stories and adventures. So this first question do you happen to have do you happen to have a favorite npc or sidekick character. 09:35.60 Glaiza Yep, um. 09:46.60 sidekqpodcast Whether they be from a ttrpg video game movie, film, television, etc. And why is this character your favorite sidecake your favorite npc. 09:57.85 Glaiza And um, so video game wise. Let's see and I So most of my video games that I play are like visual novels and. They they don't really have Ps sidechkicks. Maybe I'll answer this in a way where it's like ah my brain is blanking suddenly I I had an answer for this So You're just going to cut have to cut this part while I think about it. Ah yeah. 10:22.84 sidekqpodcast So. 10:32.58 Glaiza Let's see Oh no, why is my brain blanking. Ah. 10:37.47 sidekqpodcast Well, it's also wide range too. It could be you know, maybe stage production or it's a piece of ah literature you really love or or you know anything of that nature I've had I've had guests say like oh my favorite sidekick from a movie or there's this novel I Really love and there's a side character in there So or. 10:55.67 Glaiza Um, I actually have one ah have you watched I mean everybody like everybody's watched the princess bright. Um, and my favorite side character from that movie is Enigo Montoya and 10:56.93 sidekqpodcast Television Show I mean it could be could be any number of things. 11:07.30 sidekqpodcast Mm. 11:11.50 sidekqpodcast Yes. 11:14.80 Glaiza Everybody knows that speech. ah you know ah hello my name is an Eagle Montoya you killed my father you know, prepared to die. It is such a wonderful um psychic and ah I love an Eagle Montoya because and I love the princess bride because it speaks to me in a sense that. 11:21.12 sidekqpodcast Oh. 11:34.92 Glaiza There's a lot of revenge stories out there and Inigo Montoya's revenge story is very different from a lot of people's revenge story. Um, his pain is actually acknowledged by the book by the story by the movie and he gets his revenge because a lot of revenge stories are like oh. 11:35.80 sidekqpodcast So. 11:53.39 Glaiza You know? Ah, they're they're always talking people out of their revenge. You know out of like oh there's more to life than revenge, but the story of iniggo mandoya is hey you deserve to have your revenge you deserve to you know, actually get it from the guy that killed your dad. And then you can move on and I actually adore that about revenge stories because there's there's way too much. Um I think with revenge that you know but that you can explore and a lot of people are just oh there's more to life than the revenge and I agree there is more to life the revenge but the demand for the rivet. The demand for revenge for Eagle Montdoya I think is a really good ah story to explore and I I would like more of that actually. Also he's a really happy person. He he's very different from a lot of like very ah, very common people who. 12:38.60 sidekqpodcast There we go? yeah. 12:47.57 Glaiza Ah, very common stories who have um, revenge stories where they're sad and angry and intense enigo monttoya is not intense. Nio Montto is not brooding he is he has he has a plan. He is kind and that whole scene whereigor and um, you know fesik. 12:52.10 sidekqpodcast Or brooding. 13:07.33 Glaiza Are talking on the boat and just you know, exchanging rhymes that is like such a good scene and you don't normally see that from from characters who are obsessed with revenge and I actually just made a character based on that on an ego Montya. For another game that I'm gonna be playing so I base I base that character um on him. Yeah. 13:26.14 sidekqpodcast Mm. 13:31.50 sidekqpodcast I Wonder I wonder you know it's been a while since I've watched the princess bride and I haven't read the book but you describing it and and and sharing. Ah, you know how it makes you feel I Wonder if the reason why it works and why it's different is because it starts off as revenge, but it actually is like an instance of like. 13:34.99 Glaiza O. 13:48.59 sidekqpodcast Ah, Justice like it becomes like an act of Justice like Justice actually being served and it's you know, not like revenge for like selfish sake because I'm hurt and all this stuff. It's like no this this guy clearly wronged you and like so you're you know you in the iniggo montoyo are are serving the purpose. Like you know divine A divine instrument of Justice and to be carried out and stuff like that. So Maybe I wonder if that could be something so. 14:12.85 Glaiza I I ah I agree because there's a thin line between you know justice and just like revenge one of the things that um I don't know if your listeners listen to 1 ah watch 1 piece but there is a very ah. Interesting arc there. It's my favorite arc and ah it's it's the dress Rosa arc and with with that arc there's 2 brothers one that's like the main antagonistic villain and the other who is like. You know he he he basically showed. They basically showed 2 different paths of revenge 1 revenge is I will destroy the world nobles and I will create a world where you know they suffer and because of that he goes on to like you know harming so many people and destroying so many lives. 14:54.28 sidekqpodcast Mm. 15:07.54 Glaiza The other one. The brother who experienced the exact same thing wants to put wants to take revenge but in a different way and serve justice in a different way and I feel like the same way with Inigo Mondoya um you can absolutely. Be after revenge, you can absolutely do everything that you you can to um, get the revenge that you need. But when you're actually harming innocent people on the way there. It's no longer serving justice. You're just sort of like you're you're just destroying everything in your path. 15:32.83 sidekqpodcast Um. 15:38.60 sidekqpodcast Right. 15:44.60 Glaiza And I think that's a really good. That's a really good ah view of it like because Enigo Montoya was able to obtain the justice that he deserved and because the guy was so um, ah you know unliable anyway, it didn't feel bad when he finally got. 15:53.18 sidekqpodcast I. And and ni go and to I didn't hurt anyone else needlessly in in the way to do it. Yeah. 16:03.91 Glaiza No, he did not yeah no, he did it and he was really like the fight on the um on the cliff was actually super interesting because of the way. Ah, you know it the way Enigo Montoya and um the man in black the man with a mask. 16:10.76 sidekqpodcast I. 16:22.99 Glaiza Was able like were able to like just have a conversation together. It just really humanized eniggo montoa that for me I like I want him to get his revenge I want him to win exactly. So yeah I nio mantoa we got there. Ah. 16:32.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, you want to root for it. Yeah exactly yeah there we go a very very strong contender for maybe ah you know one of the best picks on the show. Certainly we'd love them all. But you know like like a pair. 16:45.78 Glaiza Awesome! ah. 16:47.91 sidekqpodcast We we we we can't pick favorites. We love you all equally. But right there you go and then same thing. What's been an interesting or favorite side Quest or B Plot element that you've encountered same thing like ttrpg movie film. 16:50.63 Glaiza We can't be. We can't peek favorites or at least admit to it we will will will bring it to our graves. Ah. 17:07.29 sidekqpodcast Video games, television, etc and why has this B plot this side Quest Been your favorite. 17:13.91 Glaiza Um, so I I don't know if I said this earlier but I enjoy a lot of like visual novel games. But I also enjoy a lot of farming games like star New Valley and Sun Haven um one of the games that I'm playing right now is Sun Haven and it's the side quest is basically the farming part because there's so much to the stories you have to romance people. There's a story that you have to follow the main plot and for me I really like um when it comes to side quest the crafting and the cooking and the farming and. You know when your brain just sort of like shuts down and not really shuts down sort of like you ignore the big big volcano of a dragon coming and whatever because you're focused on your crop having to grow a certain. You know you have to like water your crops. And I and I like that when it when it comes to video games because you can take your time with playing the video game. You can take your time with the farm me with a story and just jump back into the story. So that's I don't know if it's a very fun answer. But for me like my favorite side quests are the ones that are. 18:09.38 sidekqpodcast Um. 18:26.99 Glaiza Completely you know like not related at all to this to the main story because then I can make the story last longer. So that's how I am with video games. Um, my favorite side quests are like you know the cooking and the farming and the. 18:34.10 sidekqpodcast M. 18:44.19 Glaiza The the you know the the watering of the you know that's why I'm a really big fan of Star Do Stardu Valley Sun Havenven those kind of games. Um, it's really fun. 18:55.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah, sometimes you know it's It's like ah you know the facsimile of ah of getting back in in touch with nature an Agrarian type Society. What does that say about? Ah, you know our you know I'm a millennial elder millennial I Guess But. What does that say about all of us gamers are like you know we really like farming and doing crops and all this stuff and I wonder if it's just us being like maybe we should all just become like gentleman gentle lady gentle person farmers Once again. 19:13.77 Glaiza Just I I. 19:19.32 Glaiza You You know the fantasy. You know what? the fantasy is being able to own land in a house that is big that is the fantasy that we all want we want to have a farm. We want to like look oh in the you know outside and. Hey this is my land and I have a horse I Think that's a great fansy that all millennials and and and gens ears and Zoomers and whoever after us is going to have because you know yeah, that's the fantasy you want your own place. 19:39.80 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 19:54.28 Glaiza You want to be able to own your own place. So I think that's why a lot of people would prefer. That's why I think like those kind of games have you know skyrocketed in popularity. 19:54.86 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 20:03.43 sidekqpodcast Right? Yeah, no no I think that's good and just you know being cozy and homey and you know not not too stressful. It's not like a first person shooter like where you're diving out of the way of. 20:13.81 Glaiza I am I am terrible with first person shooters. Um, mostly because I I didn't grow up playing with it like compared to my husband he like like absolutely can like control the game properly I on the other hand I'm like so I prefer prefer I prefer tact. Titian games like you know, um, like ah was that um fire fire emblem those those kind of games. Yeah, where you take your time and in in and in you know, ah deciding how the actions go. 20:40.00 sidekqpodcast Fire emblem and. 20:49.65 sidekqpodcast Yes. 20:51.59 Glaiza Um, and I also am a big believer of the easy mode I'm here for the story tell me the story I don't want to die I don't care about conquering the story. Um I mean sorry conquering the fights I Want to know the story. So. 20:58.56 sidekqpodcast Right? Yeah, it's exactly I finally started playing Jedi fall in order. 21:09.33 Glaiza I'm a big fan of easy mode. Um. 21:13.26 sidekqpodcast And I was like put this on the easiest mode I don't you know I don't need to be like super hardcore jedi if it if it were my right exactly I'm a dad of a young toddler who can only play video games at night. So I need it I want to explore the world I want to find all the. 21:17.77 Glaiza But also you don't have that much time. 21:25.69 Glaiza Yes, yes. 21:31.71 sidekqpodcast All the collectibles and I want to do all the side quests and stuff like that and have fun with the game I don't need to be like competitive like it was like soup ten years ago or whatever it was so yeah. 21:36.85 Glaiza Exactly? Yeah, absolutely sometimes sometimes you just want a chill and I don't want to add that to my um to my to my relaxed time where I'm like. 21:46.82 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 21:54.37 Glaiza Competitive trying to beat this thing and being upset. No no, no no I want to relax when I play my video games. Thank you very much. Yeah. 22:00.22 sidekqpodcast Yes, and then the way we end the personal interview section of the show. What are you passionate about and why. 22:06.16 Glaiza Um I am passionate about stories um telling stories creating stories being a part of stories consuming stories. Um, that's that's. Probably why I do a lot of the things that I do ah you know in ttrpg because I like ah I like being able to provide um stories for my friends and stories that people will remember stories that well they'll listen to over and over like. For example. 1 of my favorite stories that I was able to tell recently was this was during the star wars event. Um last couple weeks ago I don't know when this is going to be airing but it was during the star wars you know may the fifth ah may the fourth and may the fifth. I was able to run a 10 candles game where in 10 candles everybody dies. That's how the story ends everybody dies so I was like what if I combined this game and a rogue one inspired story. 23:02.85 sidekqpodcast So. 23:13.30 sidekqpodcast Oh. 23:15.60 Glaiza Ah, and make it so that it has somewhat of a connection to canon. So what I did um while I was exploring that was I studied ah the different like possibilities of what happened after um Pad may gave birth to the twins. 23:32.36 sidekqpodcast Mm. 23:33.94 Glaiza And what had happened was it basically my story occurred right? after pad may gave birth and ah the the twins got to where they were you know, um, Princess Leah got to alderon and Luke went to tattooing. And I made it so that the story that was happening was then protecting these 2 babies so that they would get to safety even though they died and it was such a wonderful story because everybody in it knew that they were going to die in the end of the game and they gave their best to give themselves a wonderful. 24:06.80 sidekqpodcast I. 24:11.53 Glaiza Ending and I am passionate about storytelling I want to I want people to tell stories I Want to be there to enable them to tell stories I Want to tell my own stories and I think that's such there's like there's so many people. Ah, that I Once you know when I was ah when I was ah when I was a kid or like growing up people tended to look down on fiction. Ah like you know, read a lot more nonfiction but I feel like fiction has such a good way of like exposing. People to certain things that they wouldn't normally be exposed to and they like people who personally for me I think people who read more fictional stories or expose to some themselves to a lot of fictional um stories are a lot more compassionate a lot because they're able to put themselves. In other people's shoes comparing to like people who just don't want to read I'm not saying people who don't want to read fictional stories are bad people but you should Check. So I'm kidding. Ah I kidding but I do think that. Um,, there's you're missing so much Right. You're missing out on so much things that you can learn by avoiding fictional stories. 25:34.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, well I think we've had a grand narrative here in the first ah half of the show with the personal interview section that now I think it's time we head into some Npc creation. 25:46.14 Glaiza Wheat. 25:51.94 sidekqpodcast And npc creation is brought to you by you the podcast audience and our patrons from patreon so now is the time of the show where we give a shout out to our comfortable patrons and above with a lot of hurrah. So do you Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie our queen. 25:56.77 Glaiza Who. 26:10.10 sidekqpodcast Of the Patreon as well as our other wealthy tier patrons including Ans Jablinsky nicholas carterelli and my mom and dad we say cheers. So again, these are patrons who donate at least $2 or more a month all of these folks are at least wealthy tier level and obviously the queen is our aristocratic. Here. But all these folks get to introduce an element of chance to our random tables which we might get to use here today. So if you want to learn more and join the coolest Patreon community out there that there is you know, not not bragging but you know. Think there's some good stuff there so you should go check out the show notes below go to my podcast website or just go directly to patreon.com/sidekicksandcyclquest to find out more about our tearsers and our accommodations that we have waiting for you at the levitating platter help us to expand our operations in this demiplane. And worlds beyond. Okay, so in this part of the show we get to make up an npc so we we kind of were discussing what we what kind of approach we may be taking but do you have a preconceived idea. Are we rolling the dice and randomly generating and a character from. 27:15.33 Glaiza Mm. 27:22.42 Glaiza I am I want to do a randomized character from table and also ah live on air from scratch so like a mixture of the 2 mostly because when I do create characters for games. 27:23.10 sidekqpodcast Or doing a combo both or what are you thinking right. Okay, okay. 27:34.50 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 27:40.11 Glaiza I Usually have an idea in mind and then as soon as I play them. They're completely different I Also like get to know the character as I'm playing them. So I think this is a good idea for us to just sort of like get to know the character. Let's randomize let's create a character from the table. 27:47.92 sidekqpodcast Um. 27:59.88 Glaiza And randomize it up. Let me grab some dice. Maybe. 28:02.87 sidekqpodcast Yes, yes, we will use the standard array of dice. So all of the dice on our podcast. Get love so everything from the tiny d four all the way up to the d 12 and the d twenty all get used so as ah, galliza is getting their dice ready. Ah, the first question we have to ask what is going to be the name of our character and the way we generate that randomly is by rolling a d twenty. 28:30.35 Glaiza Awesome I am glad that we are rolling a d twenty ah and you know creating this character from scratch ah with the name as well because mine. Um my names are usually very filipino either very filipino or they're like Bob. 28:42.50 sidekqpodcast And. 28:47.42 Glaiza Ah, so npc's ah my npc are I've I've tweeted this a lot but like my plot hooks magical. My ah, my character development amazing my characters names. They're usually just a bunch of white guys. That are just Dave and Steve and Jeff and that is my my weakness. 29:07.50 sidekqpodcast Well speaking speaking of the Filipino have you had an opportunity to play the ah Islands Ofcena una. 29:18.90 Glaiza I have it I have not yet played it? Um, but I've read it and um I think it had come out I'm waiting for the second of this the sequel to come out. Um, there is a sequel that came out but I haven't played the actual islands of seen at 1 it I have it though I have the book. It's. 29:27.53 sidekqpodcast Oh. 29:36.29 Glaiza Quite amazing. It looks great. Yeah. 29:37.50 sidekqpodcast Yes I will I want ah you know do my part to to promote it because you know it's a cool book. Ah I managed to get a copy of it and ah, um, it has technically factored into my home game and that a major npc character in one of my settings is technically from there and that's how they. Have their demi goddess status. So you know they could be unique and cool but also be like you know part of existing in my um, existing man. Yeah, exactly so all right? So a 5 ah. 29:56.44 Glaiza Nice. 30:02.93 Glaiza Part of a world. Yeah I rolled a 5 for. Um yes, so. 30:10.50 sidekqpodcast Perfect. Okay, well your answer was provided by previous guests Steve Trinkle Kaltari which is spelled k a l t a r I I and it's pronounced caltari. 30:27.30 Glaiza Altari Hm That's a very nice name all right. 30:27.91 sidekqpodcast Yeah Caltari and indeed and then let's see next question what is going to be the ancestry of our character this is where it can swing wildly and now we will roll two d ten s for a d 100 effect I tried to go through all the d and d books and find every possible. 30:39.89 Glaiza Go back. 30:47.39 sidekqpodcast Ah, ancestry species race that could you know conceivably be an Npc character so we will see what we get and you are allowed to reroll if you feel like no I don't want to I want to deal with that. 30:55.10 Glaiza Before I roll this? Um, how do you? Oh I'm I'm I am absolutely gonna get whatever the dice decides I believe in the dice supremacy. Um I have a question for you Kurt before we continue. 31:07.50 sidekqpodcast Sure. 31:11.27 Glaiza Ah, what is your favorite ancestry when you're playing a game. What do you usually choose. 31:15.20 sidekqpodcast Well I I seem to be like a forever Dm So I just kind of like like them all. Um, but I don't know it's like I don't know if I've actually played enough of ah for myself as ah as a player character to really be like. 31:18.79 Glaiza Oh. 31:26.10 Glaiza Yeah. 31:30.94 sidekqpodcast You know this is the ancestry. This is the player character race that I really enjoy playing the most but I would love to being a dungeon master and kind of having my my fingers and all the pies or dipping my toes in all the pools is kind of like okay I could see like ah where like I'm like mentioning Jedi fall in order or earlier. 31:41.86 Glaiza Yeah. 31:50.83 sidekqpodcast And it keeps flashing back to Cal Kesti's mentor and and and I'm in kashik right now and I'm like you know, maybe like a bugbear beast Ah Beast heart like an Mcdm Beast heart or or something like that or like a bugbear ranger or something like that might be kind of cool because it'd be like. 31:52.89 Glaiza So. 32:06.16 Glaiza Um. 32:08.75 sidekqpodcast I'm just like a whookie with like this huge heavy crossbow just like trudging through the jungles and like all that kind of stuff would be pretty cool. Yeah. 32:09.82 Glaiza Yeah. 32:18.19 Glaiza For me my favorite one. Not really a favorite but somehow I keep laying half elfs I don't want to be a full elf for whatever reason I want to be a half elf Anyway, let me roll my dice here ah to ah. 32:29.54 sidekqpodcast Ah. 32:34.47 Glaiza Two DTens one is a d 100 see so that is ah 9 Wow that's a really low one nine yes okay 32:39.33 sidekqpodcast 9 Okay, well here here we go so you know I like mcdm productions and a couple of their Arcadia issues that they did. They introduced some very custom ancestries and so. 32:57.00 Glaiza See. 32:58.85 sidekqpodcast For this slot. We have their ancestries to choose from. So this is everything that could be ah dreamkins which are um I think Justice Justice Justice made these and then there's scions that. 33:08.38 Glaiza Who I'm already you used you. You had me a dream kids. Ah yeah, dreamkins Absolutely that sounds fantastic. Tell me a more. 33:17.57 sidekqpodcast Oh. 33:23.88 Glaiza About Dream kids. 33:25.76 sidekqpodcast I like sure. Yeah I can I can do that this will probably have to be another part that I'm gonna have to edit around as I work to ah to get everything pulled up and just to make sure I tell the audience at home like all the ones that are possible because maybe you hear something else and you're like. Oh, but maybe that also sounds interesting. So there's dreamkin cyions colder Mouse Quataires Garden gnomes one and 1 and a halfling impmplings and beeflings. 33:55.92 Glaiza Ah, no one and a half like I'm a dreamkin still I'm steam. 33:58.64 sidekqpodcast Ah, one and a halfling is a large category sized halfling like they're basically like a a halfling That's a small creature and they had like a genetic mutation or something and now they're a halfling that's the size of a large character I have a couple of one and a halflings. 34:10.96 Glaiza I Love that. 34:15.19 sidekqpodcast Appear in my game and they've always been quite fun to play. So. 34:18.45 Glaiza I I love that I Ah man you know what? let's go No I already chose dreamkin they are gonna be a dream kid. Ah yes, dreamkin Yeah I Love I Love playing with. 34:26.23 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, dream kids. Okay, so. 34:34.40 Glaiza One and a half links absolutely that sounds like a fla character. 34:36.21 sidekqpodcast So okay, so my quick. Okay so I need to go to Arcadia. Okay so you can find dreamkins in Arcadia Issue number 3 Arcadia available from Mcdm Productions you should go check that out. Okay, so now as I go back to check my notes. Um, do to do to do where is it where is the pdf that I need Arcadia issue number 3 as I work to get this pulled up and not take up too much dead air. Okay yes, again justice ah armon you know as a designer over at. Wizards of the coast d and d now. Ah you know before he before he landed there. Yeah, he developed these guys so they come in ah 3 different flavors 3 different varieties so you have the lucidlings which I like to think of them as like. 35:16.31 Glaiza Oh I love Armin. 35:34.28 sidekqpodcast Um, here we okay here we are the following ancestries are detailed in this article lucid lanes are the strange spontaneous offspring of sleeping aberrations sandspeakers enter the dreams of other creatures acting as emissaries and thought thieves and somnians are imaginative dream architects appearing as starry silhouettes. Somnians craft illusions and assume nightmarish forms so cal caltiri ah or sorry cal calturi is one of these and what what 1 are you thinking? you? the somnians are. 36:05.67 Glaiza I will do the ins. Ah insom is insomn monsters insomnians sorry insomnians I will absolutely Ktari is gonna be an insomnian. 36:13.43 sidekqpodcast Okay, yes I okay so Kultari ah Kaltari okay, and then ah as I work to show my guest the camera this is the art that was done so that's kind of what. 36:25.80 Glaiza Who I love that. 36:30.13 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah, and it's kind of like they have like a humanoid shape but they look like kind of like in this image they look like a swirling galaxy with clouds kind of coming off. So let's see here if there's more flavor text Sos Somnians are the creators of dreams, compassionate artists and philosophers. The star-skinned delusionists find meaning in all things. 36:39.80 Glaiza I Love that. 36:49.29 sidekqpodcast Whether guiding a sleeping creature towards a source of inspiration or warning it when it has gone Astray Somnians are the architects of bedtime's wildest fantasies and worst nightmares and let's see so they have a you know again like so this is developed if like you wanted to be as a player Character. Um. But there is ah you know some tables here to roll as well. Um, that could come into play as far as like um you know a physical appearance kind of a thing it says here Somnian nightmares as stewards of the sleepings Somnians are generally pleasant. However, every Somnian harbors a mode of darkness they can harness. Assuming Nightmarish forms to terrify misguided creatures and foes alike the Somnian nightmares table contains examples of possible forms your character might take when invoking this darkness and if you wanted to roll a D six you could kind of like generate that now and maybe that'll factor In. To when we get to the question of like oh describe the physical appearance kind of a thing. 37:47.59 Glaiza Absolutely we will roll that d six. Um, this actually makes me think about my game ah monster the from the library because insomnians look like they're pleasant. They're nice, they're they're kind. But if you. You know if you piss them off if you anger them they will terrify you and I I have loved the idea of cozy horror as ah as a concept where you're like oh this guy is super sweet and kind and whatever what can. Actually you know terrify you to which you would have nightmares for the rest of your life. So I love that this is the character that we have so let me roll that d six. Oh well let me roll that again with a different one because it fell on the floor I got a 2. 38:29.50 sidekqpodcast Um. 38:38.87 sidekqpodcast Okay, so this says panicked reflection of the target with their teeth falling out. So I guess that is a okay, okay. 38:47.13 Glaiza I Love teeth or that ah the dice is the dice loves me right now because it is doing everything I wanted to do I Love Teeth horror. 39:00.26 sidekqpodcast So that's perfect and then let's see a final note here to share just I mean I'll keep this open in case we need to refer to it but let's see so other important thing to note, they look like ah somnians. Look like humanoid galaxies. They have shadowy forms sorry they have shadowy frames sprinkled with tiny luminescent stars somnians ah will typically derive their names from the constellations on their twinkling frames. But so maybe in this instance Keltari in this world maybe is some. Kind of a constellation pattern or something so that may factor in. 39:33.20 Glaiza It's absolutely we. We live in a lot of multiverses and in wherever Ktari is from ah they existed as a constellation. Absolutely. 39:44.61 sidekqpodcast Perfect. Okay, and then let's see here so Kaltari is a somnian and what is their job or role in society. We determine that with a random d ten just a regular d 10 dice roll. 39:53.00 Glaiza Um. 39:57.91 Glaiza I see just a regular detail all right I am ready to do that now that is a seven first 40:06.33 sidekqpodcast 7 okay, your answer was suggested by my previous guest. My adorable niece lexi town artist. So Kaltari is the town artist. So what does that mean. 40:12.60 Glaiza Oh. 40:20.18 Glaiza Absolutely wonderful. So ah Ktari basically ah is what you would call a graffiti ah of that type. Basically they go to different houses if there's blank stuff and they would just paint. 40:30.75 sidekqpodcast Mm. 40:36.16 Glaiza All over it whether you give permission or not this ah called Tari is this world's a banksy ah it in a yeah, basically like if you get a fancy thing on your house. Ah by Calltari it means you are blessed and you you show it off that. 40:43.71 sidekqpodcast Ah. 40:55.20 sidekqpodcast Mm it interesting. Okay so the the the rich and powerful actually deem it a thing of honor to be able to have like their manners adorned with this, you know. 40:55.53 Glaiza Ah, yeah I've I've decided Kultari is Banksy of this world. 41:05.96 Glaiza Yes, yeah, yes, if they can find it. Um you know Kultari usually just does it anywhere. They feel like doing it but a lot of people are just so enamored with the idea. 41:10.50 sidekqpodcast Strange art. 41:22.82 Glaiza Of getting a calltari you know art piece on their on their ah on their house or whatever that they're just trying to find anywhere that they could do it and nobody really knows Ktari's um actual you know face or whatever because you know. 41:29.11 sidekqpodcast I. 41:39.38 sidekqpodcast Oh. 41:42.78 Glaiza Yeah, so callul tari does all of this call tari is their tag. It's their tag. Ah nobody knows ah their actual real name. But even Calltari doesn't actually know their real name. They've just like decide I like Calltari I'm going to use it as my tag. 41:47.79 sidekqpodcast Oh I see Okay, okay. 42:02.71 Glaiza For all of my artwork. Yeah. 42:04.61 sidekqpodcast That's pretty cool. Yeah, and then so then it is a big deal when the player characters actually come face to face with this character because they're like what you're the you're the guy that's doing this. 42:10.24 Glaiza Yeah, you've been called Ari this entire time. Absolutely yeah. 42:19.76 sidekqpodcast There we go. Yeah and then let's see what is going to be the age range of our character. It tells me here in the notes that um somnians begin life as wispy spirits and reach maturity around the age of 30 and they can live to be about. 500 years old so if you want to randomize kind of the age range. We roll a d eight and it's like rough categories and then we don't necessarily worry about the numbers. You know dungeon masters out there and game masters can actually put a pin in the exact number if they want it or you know, maybe you're inspired then once you figure out the range. 42:51.16 Glaiza Let's do a d eight let's do a d yeah, ah 5 42:53.30 sidekqpodcast Perfect 5 would be midlife so based on what justice you know designed for this ancestry that would be like right around two hundred and fifty years old on average if that's what you're thinking. 43:10.31 Glaiza Altari has been around for a very long time 200 years Kaltari has seen a lot of things and that's where they draw their inspiration on what they've seen from different worlds from different dreams. Um, he. 43:13.10 sidekqpodcast 200 years 43:20.96 sidekqpodcast M. 43:26.66 Glaiza Does he is as somebody who is ah you know just entering middle age he is um, he feels that he is unstoppable. He he feels that nobody can stop I can do whatever I want and he is bold. 43:38.91 sidekqpodcast Um. 43:44.25 Glaiza Ah, he lacks the experience of other um people of his ah you know of his um his his family who are more mature on the more like 400 whatever ah and ah people on that end are a lot more. You know. 43:57.14 sidekqpodcast I. 44:04.26 Glaiza Um, a lot more stable a lot more wi has a lot more wisdom called Tari feels like he knows everything. Ah, but you know he's he's middle he's middle aged he's still just learning. 44:16.66 sidekqpodcast There we go perfect and if you had to distraught and if you had to describe ah Kaltari with ah you know, physical descriptions. What is going to be his physical appearance based on what we've learned kind of from the notes already. Um is there anything that you would change or specify like how exactly kalta you would appear when the player characters meet him for the first time. 44:46.77 Glaiza So um Kultari I believe is absolutely um and I like I like the idea that it's it's more of a silhouette. You know when you first. Ah, when you first see ah when you first see him. 44:55.60 sidekqpodcast So. 45:02.49 Glaiza And if you don't like if you don't focus. It's enough you can actually miss seeing him. Um, but as you you focus closer and closer. He does have like what looks like hair. Ah you know like a side shave hair kind of thing. Um, his eyes are white. Ah and you know and his his he looks like when you first look at him. He looks like a black man. But. 45:36.89 sidekqpodcast M. 45:39.33 Glaiza As you could as you continue to look at him his hair ah changes colors changes hues. It's not just dark black. It's it's the purple light blue it just changes as you look at him. Um and his skin fell. 45:57.70 Glaiza Is shiny like as the light bounces off of him it. It seems that it's so dark but it's also like so bright and that's how I would describe it. 46:02.11 sidekqpodcast Mm. 46:16.85 Glaiza It's really hard to describe him because when you first look at him you're like what and then the more you look at him the more it he just looks like space. 46:24.92 sidekqpodcast Right? I was going to say you know, not non non eulidean as far as like oh this is like an eldritch thing I'm encountering and it's breaking my brain. It's like um. I'm drawing inspiration a little bit from like the Marvel comics and the thor love and thunder movie when he meets eternity and like so you whenever you see eternity depicted. You know it's a humanoid shape but like looking in it's like you're seeing like the cosmos within. 46:42.60 Glaiza Um. 46:52.81 Glaiza Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. 46:54.47 sidekqpodcast You know eternity's form and stuff like that and then is is the constellation. Ah Kaltari ah somewhere in his form like always there that you can see it. 47:03.57 Glaiza Yes, yes, you can always see it. Um, sometimes it's his necklace Sometimes it's an earring So it's it's jewelry. Basically so sometimes you can see the calltari as ah, ring necklace. Ah. 47:12.51 sidekqpodcast Oh okay. 47:22.38 Glaiza Ah, piercing somewhere you know there's always it's always going to be jewelry. 47:26.37 sidekqpodcast That's interesting. That's pretty cool. That's a very cool note you see it's like is it like you look away and then you look back and then it's like a new piece of jewelry or something on him. Oh yeah to fit with kind of like the dream nature sort of a thing. 47:35.40 Glaiza Yeah, it's a new piece of he's always changing his yeah um, yeah, that's the only thing that I want to be like specific about he always has jewelry. 47:44.87 sidekqpodcast Very cool. So. 47:51.39 Glaiza Of the Koltari constellation but it's always changing on what kind of jewelry it is. 47:54.34 sidekqpodcast Um, very cool and if you were to describe Kaltari with 3 adjectives what 3 adjectives would you use. 48:07.39 Glaiza So he is happy. That's an adjective right? Yeah, he is happy. Um and he is also bold it. So that's one happy bold. 48:09.48 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 48:24.28 Glaiza And um. 48:30.44 Glaiza He spiteful he spiteful. Let's make it a little bit. Let's make it a little negative and that said he is happy. 48:35.69 sidekqpodcast What was that last 1 spiteful? Yeah ah I always I always like the I always like the good good weird or like good good curve ball. It's interesting. Yeah, it makes characters interesting that way. 48:46.14 Glaiza Yeah I want I want him to be happy I Want him to be brave. But I also want him to be a spiteful person like he can and it it works with him being also like a nightmare kind of creature where. 48:52.94 sidekqpodcast M. 49:00.54 sidekqpodcast M. 49:03.57 Glaiza He would then like if you wrong him he will hold onto that grudge for a very long time and he will be spiteful against you and I like that. Yeah and all your teeth fall out and that is a warning. 49:09.68 sidekqpodcast Um, and he turns into that nightmarish form where you see yourself and all your teeth falling out. Yeah, that would freak people out. Yeah. 49:21.75 Glaiza Would freak everyone out. Absolutely So yeah, let's let's do that He is happy. He is bold and he is quite full. 49:28.38 sidekqpodcast There we go and then now we get to go back to some dice rolling and we like all of our Npcs to have something cool on their person. So what's going to be a valuable item piece of lore secret or ideal or concept that Kaltari would abide and ascribe to. 49:33.12 Glaiza Yes. 49:38.99 Glaiza And. 49:47.49 sidekqpodcast Ah, we generate this randomly by rolling a D four for the category and then a D six for the particular thing. 49:49.69 Glaiza Right? All right? Let's do a d four I got a 3 49:58.78 sidekqpodcast Ooh secret. Juicy Okay, what's gonna be the secret. Let's figure it out. 50:03.10 Glaiza Let's see that is a 2 for my secret. 50:05.14 sidekqpodcast 2 okay, well your answer was provided by our queen of the Patreon Goblin Katie Aka Katie Downey okay here we go your father is the leader of a mercenary gang known for great feats. You can concealal this because you're tired of being in his shadow is that why he branched off to be the town artist or this graffiti. Ah you know, environmental or environment artist or something like that. So. 50:36.45 Glaiza My father is ah well speaking is called Tari here. My father is a very old ah creature and he is all about order. 50:53.60 Glaiza Like he decides that he wants to provide order in the dream world and order and art and whatever and I do not want to be ascribed as a very orderly person. 51:07.31 sidekqpodcast M. 51:09.17 Glaiza And therefore I never would like to be considered as let's let's say that um this this this father of mine. Well-known God right? Um, and if they find out that I am ah the son of this. Ah, well-known God They won't they they'll be like oh of course, of course they're amazing. They're the son of this I Want to be known for my own name. That's why I don't even use my actual name now I use called tari. 51:29.21 sidekqpodcast Um. 51:38.44 sidekqpodcast M. 51:45.43 Glaiza Because I don't want to be associated I don't want to be you know like I don't want the the nepo baby. Ah you know benefits of being loved I Want to be loved by my own ah by my own care. Ah, you know my own. 51:55.75 sidekqpodcast Um, sure. 52:04.52 Glaiza Characteristics my own. What's the word I'm looking for yes, my own achievements exactly that's why I keep him a secret. 52:07.00 sidekqpodcast Your own achievements. Okay, and that there we go and and I'm just thinking more of okay so you know being the somnian in stuff like you know the somnia and so your your father is this. Leader of a mercenary gang known for great feats. That's that's pretty cool and I'm I'm just what it's relating to is me thinking of like the exact kind of art the banksy style art. Um, you know that Kaltari makes is it like. Influenced by the like the space scape and like the dream like quality. So like oh here's this blank wall on ah on the you know the side of the tavern in an alleyway and all of a sudden. It looks like you know when someone is seeing the pink elephants and drunkenness like all of a sudden this wall looks like. What someone who may be super drunk is envisioning or something like that and. 53:01.34 Glaiza Exactly it's It's definitely so so I want to say like my my dad like as a let's let's make it more of ah a deity of Mercenaries let's make it more of like that. 53:15.40 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 53:18.82 Glaiza Um, you know, ah and instead of and mercenaries like assassins in my head also don't really bring that much joy to people. They are usually serious all business. Kind of terrifying um and Kaltari wants to bring a different kind of message to the world right? Kaltari wants to be hopeful. There's there's more hope to bring there's more you know, ah, there's there's better things. That's why a lot of his spitefulness comes from like. 53:39.99 sidekqpodcast Um. 53:46.73 sidekqpodcast Um. 53:57.44 Glaiza If he finds out that you've harmed somebody or if he finds out that you are like you're you're you know you're not basically if you're not if you're if you're being a hater to somebody and he finds out. He will You know he will be. 54:11.25 sidekqpodcast Um. 54:15.94 Glaiza He will. He will take his revenge. He will be spiteful towards you and I think that's um, you know he just wants happiness because he's he's seen a lot of negative things from his dad. He's seen a lot of bad things happen so he wants he wants this dream. 54:29.41 sidekqpodcast Mm the nightmarish things. 54:35.55 Glaiza Yes, nightmarish things he wants to bring a sort of um dreamlike quality to the world that he lives in now to be a happier dream. So yeah, absolutely maybe you're drunk in the middle of like you know an alleyway and there's a blank wall. 54:44.47 sidekqpodcast Mm. 54:54.48 Glaiza And you're sad and then that's when Kultari comes and there's a new painting there and you look at it and it brings you hope and you stand up again instead of you know, letting yourself be stuck there in the alleyway you give yourself hope you give yourself. Ah, chance to stand up and continue and and walk again kind of situation. 55:15.93 sidekqpodcast So since the the secret is kind of being melded or elevated plus give it a plus effect you know from the the great answer that Goblin Katie already gave to like oh so now the the deity figure does that make Kaltari kind of like this demi god figure. Ah, cause you were like in this scenario you were describing like oh someone drunken alleys thinking seeing this blank wall and being sad and then that's when he appears and like this new art kind of appears. So is that kind of how you're envisioning him as like this ah semi oh he wants to be that. So. 55:47.50 Glaiza He he wants to be that he had He has it really he has this vision of himself of being that he's not that because he's middle aged he's he's trying to be and he's also like spiteful still. He's not. 55:59.15 sidekqpodcast M. 56:06.92 Glaiza Perfect. There's a lot of things that he's lacking in but that is his vision that is his goal that is what he wants to become. That's what he wants his paintings to. 56:08.59 sidekqpodcast M. 56:15.44 sidekqpodcast Okay, very cool and then the last thing that we get to roll for randomly tonight is every npc has to be able to offer a side quest. That's why we stick them in our games to get all the Xps to be overpowered for the final boss fight and to make it fun. So. 56:30.13 Glaiza Exactly. 56:33.87 sidekqpodcast What is going to be the side quest that cal kaltari needs our hero characters to go and do on his behalf and we generate this randomly with a d 12 the final dice. 56:43.89 Glaiza Let me get my d 12 that is a 9 56:50.60 sidekqpodcast 9 ohh interesting. Okay see your answer was provided by previous guest. Dr. Paul Guestwiki Extract A truth 57:02.53 Glaiza Extract of troops. That's a good one. 57:04.82 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so what would Kaltari need the player characters to go extract a truth for. 57:13.41 Glaiza So this would be Kaltari doesn't know his real name anymore. It's been so long. He hasn't used it for so long and he needs his name and the only way to get it. 57:22.43 sidekqpodcast M. 57:31.70 Glaiza Is to extract it from a book somewhere and he needs it badly for whatever reason yes and he lets see. 57:39.42 sidekqpodcast Mm Ok so there's a book that has his name in it. 57:51.29 Glaiza That book is basically guarded in his home world in the dream space. 57:58.14 sidekqpodcast And so where he comes from like Dad's got the book. 58:00.99 Glaiza Yes, yes, that's got the book and he hasn't used his name for so very long time. So He's forgotten his actual name and you need to get his name and that's the only record of it existing because he destroyed. Every record of it when he left the Dream Scape world. Yeah. 58:25.13 sidekqpodcast Oo and then there's the tension with the secret he doesn't want people to know that this guy that has this book is his dad but he's just like I need this name back because this guy has it I ah. 58:30.97 Glaiza Yeah, is his dad he he doesn't even want he He doesn't even want to tell them that it's his name but eventually maybe they'll find out but they're just like oh hi I Would like you to find out this name and it is written in this book. Need you to get it for me and they'll be like how would we know it's your name. Don't worry about it just gave me all the names that it's in the book and I'll know which name is which well he won't tell them. He'll know which name is is but um, he. 58:53.80 sidekqpodcast Mm. Okay. 59:03.57 sidekqpodcast Sure. 59:08.58 Glaiza Or just get me the book just just get me the book and I will figure it out but that is that that is that that is the quest of a library heist. Absolutely. 59:10.84 sidekqpodcast Right? Okay, a library heist. 59:23.43 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then let's see what is ah how how is Kaltari going to reward the players So they you know if we're it's like in my head I would think like the somn would live in the astral sea. But I love the idea if you're doing more source. 59:28.25 Glaiza Is there a reward for getting. 59:38.37 sidekqpodcast Ah, like the quarry I think their name are like the actual dream people that co inhabit Kalashtar bodies or whatever. But if you were to somehow go to their world and that's that's where the zombians live they live in dream land and you have to go into dream land and go get this book and so you go through all that whole riggamarole to get this book and come back. 59:41.31 Glaiza Yeah, yeah, yeah. 59:58.34 sidekqpodcast How is Kaltari awarding the players for their success and. 01:00:03.33 Glaiza He's gonna be at first. Um, he's going to be very ah he's going to be very ridiculous and say I'll paint your wall everybody wants to call tari painting and then the the players are gonna be like no I don't want a painting. Um. And he will give them a potion ah in which they can drink it and have a very special like a dream where they can create something and then when they wake up. They can bring that thing with them from the. 01:00:38.98 sidekqpodcast Oh whoa. Okay, yeah, depending on where you put this side quest in your game, especially if there's like a big looming bad guy. It's like we need a super Evil God Killing Weapon like I want a dream where I have a super God killing Weapon and then I can bring it with me. 01:00:49.44 Glaiza Um, yeah, and then you can bring it out. Yes, so that would be that would be called Tari's gift. Ah, if they did so he'll offer first. The the. 01:00:58.38 sidekqpodcast Ah, oh. 01:01:05.94 sidekqpodcast M. 01:01:05.97 Glaiza Ah'll paint your your house and everybody wants a painting of Calltari and if they're like no right right? right? or right or right all right I will give you this potion where you can dream and in that dream you can create whatever you want and you can bring that one thing back when you wake up. 01:01:23.85 sidekqpodcast Umm, and it's only enough for 1 person to take oh good. Okay, yeah, so that way we don't have like 6 people trying to divvy up between a potion. 01:01:25.46 Glaiza That is my reward. It is only enough for 1 person and 6 people were like yeah no, it's 1 1 drink 1 person 1 time. So. 01:01:38.46 sidekqpodcast Right? Yeah, do if you give it to the wrong player and they're like I woke up and I have a beautiful wife laying in my bed with me and everything is right with the world's like no, you were supposed to get the thing we needed to finish the quest sorry I have different priorities in mind or whatever it is. 01:01:51.24 Glaiza Yeah, this is my current priority I'm sorry I want a girlfriend. 01:02:00.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah I've got the old ball and chain I got answer to you got now I'll see all later by. It's like the and the rest of his party Begrudgingly is like ah we you honestly can't be mad. You cannott be mad. They you know you know? Yeah yeah, so. 01:02:03.62 Glaiza By what. 01:02:17.99 sidekqpodcast Ah, okay, but then we have to consider the opposite. What's going to be the consequence of failure or refusing the call to the adventure. 01:02:25.29 Glaiza And well so here's the thing I don't think Calltari would be super mad if they failed and I like he's not he like if you actually give it your best and you try and you fail. 01:02:32.90 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting. 01:02:41.84 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:02:43.10 Glaiza He's not gonna be mad. He's he's gonna be like you tried your best. It's okay, what's gonna make him mad though is if you go into the dream world. You get this book and then you realized the importance of knowing called Tari's real name because you know names are important. 01:02:47.14 sidekqpodcast M. 01:03:02.75 Glaiza And the importance of knowing Kaltari's real name is that you can control him if you know how and that's why you know and that's why he wants to know it so he can void that you know that. 01:03:08.90 sidekqpodcast M. 01:03:15.37 sidekqpodcast Is that how is dad is able to be so successful because he has this book of names and it literally gives him like some sort of supernatural power to be able to like perfect these excellent mercenary skills and stuff like that. Yeah. 01:03:20.83 Glaiza Yeah. 01:03:31.76 Glaiza Pretty much like it. It depends on how the name is entered into that book and what the father does with it. Whatever Um, but his name is in that book and he wants the book and he wants his name so that he can perform a sort of ritual. To cancel that so he can truly be free now during the game. The players may find that out and if they decide to you know, keep it or use it to control him. Yeah,, they'll be able to control him but they're you're going to have a very angry spiteful right. 01:03:50.80 sidekqpodcast Interesting. 01:04:00.71 sidekqpodcast M. 01:04:09.00 Glaiza Calledtari and he will do anything in his power to break you even if you all like even and the thing is like even if you say you're sorry even if you're like okay, no, no, no, we're not going to do it anymore here here. The fact that you even thought about it. The fact that you were willing to try it out. 01:04:24.65 sidekqpodcast M. 01:04:26.93 Glaiza Will be enough for him to forever mess with your dreams and you will be afraid to go to sleep for the rest of your life. Yes, and then you know you wake up and your teeth are actually gone. Um, yes, that is it. 01:04:34.16 sidekqpodcast You'll see your reflection with your teeth constantly falling out. Yeah oh no, oh. 01:04:46.20 Glaiza He is not going to be mad if he fail if you use it against him though he is absolutely going to tear you apart in your dreams and. 01:04:48.96 sidekqpodcast I. And I think I mean this sounds like it'll also prompt action from the dad too like because maybe Kaltari like finally talks to his dad and it's like oh hey like I needed the book but like I know you need the book in order to do what you do? best. 01:04:58.86 Glaiza Yeah. 01:05:09.90 Glaiza Yeah, yeah. 01:05:12.00 sidekqpodcast I Hired these people to come and take the book and you know they're keeping it. So maybe you let loose the dogs of war. Yeah, and now you've got you've got a mercenary band of of Somnians and whatever else at his disposal. 01:05:17.50 Glaiza Yeah, me should you should do something about that. Actually maybe you should? yeah. 01:05:29.14 sidekqpodcast Hot hounding and harassing the party. So okay, very cool. 01:05:29.93 Glaiza Oh yeah, so that's that's a good consequence I think or like if you refuse the call. He'll be fine. He'll be like all right? Well you know I can't force you to do it. But I think that is the consequence. 01:05:43.42 sidekqpodcast Sure. 01:05:47.77 Glaiza I want that to be the consequence if you decide to you know mess with Kultari then yeah. 01:05:50.63 sidekqpodcast Right? And is it different if because like you were saying or suggesting about like oh you know you wouldn't be mad if he failed but if there was like a fail forward of like you were able to get out of there but like the dad knows the book is stolen. So like you're going to like. You know and this may be something that a Dm would decide in the moment and how they would run it in their game but I'm just curious if you think like is the dad going to react differently knowing that like oh someone stole this very important book which is you know ah you know. 01:06:21.80 Glaiza Hence if he knows it, he it it would depend if he knows it was called Tari that did it or if it's just the players. So if it's just the players The um, the dad is going to do some messed up things you know like absolutely mess up these players because he doesn't know who ordered. 01:06:26.62 sidekqpodcast Mm. 01:06:35.43 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:06:39.31 Glaiza The the the the steel the the heist if the dad knows that it was called Tari that did the heist. He'll be a lot more patient with the players. Ah and he will just reach out to cult tar and be like what are you doing man like why doing this and called tarri's like because you suck dad. Ah. 01:06:40.44 sidekqpodcast M. 01:06:48.26 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:06:59.26 Glaiza And I want my name back. Ah, it's it's you know if it if the father finds out it's because of Ktari and he'll be a lot kinder to because that's still his son. He'll be a lot kinder to ah the players and. 01:07:03.99 sidekqpodcast M. Right? Um, what if that was you know because you were saying like the alternate reward or if like you press the advantage of like oh I don't want a painting I want something good and he offers the potion. What if the reason why his name is in the book. The begin with is this is the. Like his dad in the past took one of these potions and then he dreamed that he could have a book and whoever's name he wrote in it. He would be able to control them perfectly to be like the best that they could be to do the mercenary jobs or whatever like that right. 01:07:41.57 Glaiza Yeah, actually that's a really good idea. 01:07:45.15 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so it's like he's very closely tied to this thing and so maybe it's a thing that all Somnians know how to do They can only do like once or whatever it is. But yeah for some reason Dad went and Dreamt up this book and now he has this book. 01:07:49.31 Glaiza Yeah, yeah. 01:07:55.40 Glaiza Yeah, yeah. 01:08:03.96 sidekqpodcast But now Kultari needs the players to go and get the book back so he can remove his name from the book very cool and ah ah I know we're mining our time and you know respecting that and all I typically have alternate questions that are totally alter. You know, totally optional. You don't have to do them. Um, if you feel like this is a pretty good formed character. We can go ahead and move in to the random encounter section if you're ready. 01:08:28.18 Glaiza I Feel like this is a pretty well-formed character. Do don't you think so sweet I Love Call Tari I. 01:08:33.50 sidekqpodcast Yeah I think this I think Counttari sounds great and what we what do we do when we make characters. Well we got to throw them into a random encounter. 01:08:45.40 Glaiza Whoohoo. 01:08:49.89 sidekqpodcast And insert here where I do the final ad and blah blah blah and blah all right and now this is the random encounter section of the show where we get to do a role play a vignettes a scene we get to play just the tiniest amount of d and d here today with. Our character that we've made so I think ah galliza will do a wonderful job with Kaltari but the question becomes ah who should I be in this scene to play against Kaltari am I going to be 1 of my my Npcs am I going to be 1 of my own podcast adventuring characters that's going to encounter. Ah, Kaltari and get the side. Quest am I going to be um Kaltari's father am I going to be ah some ah you know am I going to be like in the example, we thought of am I the drunk guy in the alley that's going to look away and then all of a sudden see Kaltari start to do some art in front of me and then like he's. You know they're having a bantering back and and forth and that kind of influences the art or something like that or what kind of scene? are you interested in ah in portraying Kaltari in. 01:09:56.28 Glaiza Um, let's do the? Ah, let's do that what the last one where we're yeah that where we're bantering and I feel like it would be a nice vignette that would show the kind of person called Tari is where he would notice. 01:10:00.89 sidekqpodcast The last one. 01:10:11.28 sidekqpodcast Okay. 01:10:14.93 Glaiza Somebody down on their luck and a painting would give them hope. 01:10:18.38 sidekqpodcast Excellent, Okay and using my own dice table just because I like to try and give it Love. So I'm not always picking the same kinds of people all the time but I also want to make it sure that it's plausible that we could Encounter. So. Just giving it a few dice rolls to find something good that I don't just blindly pick. Oh My goodness I'm just sitting here clicking this dice roller and then okay so we're we're getting closer and this may be stuff that I scrub out later. Oh My goodness. 01:10:50.28 Glaiza I say. 01:10:51.70 sidekqpodcast Okay, finally all right I landed on something I landed on something good. Okay, so we are a okay, all right? So I'm going to be a ah female cobalt and I'm going to be named as I look around my room here for some sort of like ah skip. We'll just go with skip. Is. Why not skip the cobol is who I will be in this scene and then you will be a Keltari and would you like to set the scene or would you like for me to set the scene. 01:11:23.20 Glaiza Um I can set the scene of what Kaltari sees ah and then skip can come in. Um, it has been a very long day for Kaltari um, he. 01:11:28.78 sidekqpodcast Perfect, perfect. 01:11:38.36 Glaiza Had already painted a couple of things he wanted to do he. He's basically having a hard time coming up with um inspiration for a new piece of Artwork. So he's staring at he at this blank wall and it is he is facing. What what writers would be would normally know as you know you know a writer's block an empty page and he is his hands are on his head and he's tried to come up with something when somebody walks into the alleyway. 01:12:02.39 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:12:12.92 sidekqpodcast So yeah, this is a lively body tavern it's raucousy you know the faint echo of of Tavern Bard songs of gently drifting on the wind and stuff like that and this door opens up. There's a crash. And there's this like struggling noise as you see this ah copper colored ah cobalt coming out this female cobalt. Um, and you know she you know she's kind of like ah you know she's got like that tiny tina sort of like vibe where she's like a party animal but she's like she's small and she's wild. And she's carrying ah like this metal pressurized mini keg and she's just kind of like like she won it and she's like she's trying to bow guard it to make sure like no one else can get it and she like gets the top and she wrestles it and she's like ah and then she's just. Starts to chug and chug and chug and then she gets to a point where she's satisfied and then she kind of like slumps down against the wall and she lets out a humongous, not what you would expect for her size burp and then she just gives out like a big sigh. And then she just begins to look up at what stars she can see you know through the the vantage point with these tall buildings kind of like obscuring things and stuff like that and she's you know looking down and she sees this blank wall and then she's just kind of like sad and moping. 01:13:42.64 sidekqpodcast And she's just like what am I doing with my life is this all there is ah. 01:13:50.33 Glaiza It doesn't have to be is the voice that ah comes out of nowhere to speak to this cobalt. 01:13:52.13 sidekqpodcast Ah, the. 01:14:02.60 sidekqpodcast And she's like reaching for her stuff and she's like trying to fight like well one arm is trying to like desperately hold onto this Keg thing that she has and then the other thing is like pulling out like ah maybe like a straight razor. Like you know she's kind of like doesn't have like she's not properly armed but she managed to one day swipe like a straight razor that someone would like a single blade that someone would use to shave their face and so she's like brandishing it being like hey no, One's good. You take Skips Beer. No who who said that who said that. 01:14:33.97 Glaiza Oh skip is your name then is it. 01:14:36.85 sidekqpodcast It Yes, why can't I see you where are you. 01:14:40.34 Glaiza Well, you don't want to see me right now. 01:14:47.30 sidekqpodcast Ah I would say like unintentional intimidation check with her being kind of drunk. She's definitely like terrified Now she's like oh these off peace I'm too young to die I'm just four years old I'm I've got so much life to live. 01:15:01.72 Glaiza Oh you are wonderful. Do not worry. 01:15:10.70 sidekqpodcast Ah, and so okay, so then she thinks of like okay well this thing isn't trying to kill me right Now. So She lets a hand off the Keg very gingerly closes the straight razor sticks it back into her belt pouch. But then goes back to hugging the Keg and then kind of like looking around and being like are you my conscience are you the little man in my head that tells me what to do and. 01:15:30.33 Glaiza Oh if I were the little man in your head that tells you what to do? Would you listen to me. 01:15:42.57 sidekqpodcast I Don't know you did never sounded like this before so it gives me pause ah excuse me. 01:15:47.47 Glaiza Oh well I I am somebody's voice in their head. Ah would you like to help me. 01:16:00.17 sidekqpodcast Help No one's asked Skip for help before ah well I mean not not help other than like lots of drinking and doing you know, thievery and mischief and stuff like that. What what do you need. 01:16:04.15 Glaiza There's always a first time for everything. 01:16:11.28 Glaiza Well, there's this empty wall in front of us and I want to paint it. Well. 01:16:14.92 sidekqpodcast Yes, Huh Why would you want to do that beauty. 01:16:21.12 Glaiza Bring Beauty into the world. It's not something nice to look at. 01:16:32.35 sidekqpodcast Oh like shis and like beer. She shakes the little keg as she's like pier um with this. She's like oh Chinese Shis is nice and. 01:16:33.65 Glaiza The Chinese Yes, do you want something shiny on this wall. 01:16:48.94 sidekqpodcast You know, Joies and fancy things and and then that kind of like gets her thinking and so she begins to like she lets out a string of like things that are kind of like not really like what she's thinking at and then really what she kind of lands on is she's like she's really thinking about like home safety community. Ah, you know, basically like a real life where she's not having to be like a street urchin kind of like she wants to be she wants to be an honest cobalt woman. She wants to meet meet a nice cobalt man and you know start a family you know, get religious and get her life right and stuff like that like whatever funk she's in right now she knows. It's not how her life should be going. But. She doesn't know better and so yeah, that's eventually the answer that she arrives on. Okay. 01:17:34.20 Glaiza So there's a motion. Um that stuff like air around her and colors appear on the wall and what skip's favorite flower. 01:17:51.13 sidekqpodcast Woo. Ah well just because it popped in. We'll say um scarlet bagoonias. 01:17:57.14 Glaiza Perfect. It is a meadow filled with Scarlet bogonias This there is a little house that kind of looks like the same house the Skip grew up in but but bigger or and. 01:18:10.48 sidekqpodcast Oh. 01:18:15.52 Glaiza Inside that House. You can see ah like through the window someone that looks like skip but older and she's smiling and on the outside. The sky is. Um, a mix of purples and blues and you know pinks like the sun is about to set kind of thing and it is a beautiful scene sort of yeah and then there's. 01:18:41.85 sidekqpodcast Yeah, is it like Howells moving castle like yeah like that cool. 01:18:51.28 Glaiza There's other cobalts around her current age right now like just playing around this beautiful meadow of ah scarlet begonias. Ah that ah that skip is describing and ah Kultari looks at. 01:19:11.16 Glaiza Skip something like this this. 01:19:13.31 sidekqpodcast Ah, oh this is very shiny indeed as she begins to blubber. 01:19:22.35 Glaiza It's not too late. You're still young like you mentioned you have so much to live for this one moment does not define your entire life. 01:19:32.45 sidekqpodcast Well, she more because I get I guess it seems like a Kaltari's may be hard to perceive in this moment and that may just be due to her level of you know, being saturated with alcohol. Um, but she. 01:19:41.57 Glaiza So. 01:19:50.66 sidekqpodcast You know with that without really seeing she like goes to motion with like the mini keg that she swiped. She's like do you want? Do you want my beer. Do do you want to drink I don't think I can I don't think I should be drinking all of this. 01:20:01.96 Glaiza Altari kaltari takes the keg and puts it aside. Um I do not drink little one and you don't have to drink if you don't want to. 01:20:18.64 sidekqpodcast She She kind of looks perplexed at that statement of like but but cobalt's always drink drink beer drink drink drink m. Like she's like thinking of like other things that she can drink so she begins like water or she's like snow or she's like tea and milk and then honey and so she like goes through like a whole list of things but it's just kind of like in that inebriated sense of like she's just kind of like meandering between a number of different things right. 01:20:55.30 Glaiza And ah Kaltari will look at her and smile and says you can drink whatever you want as long as you are safe and happy and you are proud of what you are. 01:21:12.31 sidekqpodcast Um, and she goes to stand up. But I think what would make this funny is that she goes to stand up so fast that like the blood rush and just the amount of alcohol she has it just kind of like instantly knocks her out and so she just like. Falls asleep right? there in the back of the alley. Ah like um. 01:21:32.87 Glaiza Altari will lift her up and make sure she's comfortable and so that and positions her head in such a way so that the first thing she'll see when she wakes up sober is this beautiful mural and called tari signed at the bottom right of it. And you know and this the drawing of the cobol that is in the house is so very clearly her that everybody will know that she is the muse of this painting and. 01:21:50.80 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 01:22:04.50 sidekqpodcast And then yeah, ah yeah I can so I could definitely see like the following morning when she wakes up sober and like the tavern staff are like working to try and clean up and get ready and she you know there's a small crowd gathering because they're like oh oh look the next the next Kaltari pieces here come and take a look. And so she's like waking up and she's like totally startled and she's like seeing all these people and they're like pointing out like oh that's you you ah you met Kaltari and then is there like a final thing is like Kaltari like somehow blended into the crowd somewhere or like off to the side as he's like. Watching this scene is now like skip is getting excited like re seeing now seeing the the artwork in the light of day and seeing all the scarlet bogonias and all that stuff. 01:22:49.89 Glaiza Um, Kaltari would would come back. Caltari wouldn't stay and watch her sleep. You know, but Kultari will come back when she's ready to wake up and is just watching from afar making sure that you know, um. 01:22:57.91 sidekqpodcast I. 01:23:05.19 Glaiza There would be like hints of like who's the cobalt. Oh that skip there'll be like little you know, making sure that everybody knows that skip is that cobalt so that skip will become famous somebody to look up to because of the great Ktari whatever painted. 01:23:21.35 sidekqpodcast M. 01:23:24.60 Glaiza Skip that means skip is somebody who is great and whether it is whether it is um you know self-fulfilling prophecy because skip looks this I must be great because Kaltari painted me and therefore becomes great. That's something to you know. 01:23:27.68 sidekqpodcast And from there. Yeah. 01:23:43.53 Glaiza But's something for future. Skip to re-elect or. 01:23:46.10 sidekqpodcast Right? Yeah, this begins the arc now where skip ah you know, turns her life around she gets sober she goes to a a she? Ah yeah. 01:23:51.14 Glaiza Yeah, because called Tari because Calledtari believed in me and therefore I believe in myself i. 01:24:03.17 sidekqpodcast And seen so we did it. We made it through the rain of encounters. So what did you think it was like getting to be Kaltari and and breathing a life into him. 01:24:09.47 Glaiza Who I love altari I love calltari and if anybody wants to use Calltari ah you are now. Ah legally ah legally ah required to tag myself. 01:24:18.87 sidekqpodcast So. 01:24:24.65 Glaiza And Kurt here because Kaltari is a wonderful character and I cannot wait to see them played by other people so you should absolutely do that for me please and thank you. 01:24:36.89 sidekqpodcast Yeah, or use them in your game and then ah you know what go ahead and throw a tag Justin Armin's way as well. You know because he's the one who developed these these this ancestry for Mcc And Tag Mcdm Productions because you know they published the Arcadia issue that this was in that we got to use today. So. 01:24:41.37 Glaiza Yeah. 01:24:53.74 sidekqpodcast I do allow for some outside third -party content in this podcast and you know if it's good quality stuff. Why not? So yeah, so we're here in the the final thoughts section now of the show. So this is the part where I always like to you know vibe check with the guest and and see how your experience was on the podcast. 01:24:58.53 Glaiza Exactly. 01:25:08.84 Glaiza Um, it was a lot of fun. Um I love creating this character. Um I I had no idea the kind of character that we will be building. Um, and I love the random tables because. 01:25:18.14 sidekqpodcast I. 01:25:24.30 Glaiza That's basically a lot of how I create my own characters where I would get like little things and then I would build it and I love making fully like fully relatable characters. Hopefully kaltari is relatable. He is a dream being that you know. Is also terrifying I hope that he is still relatable to people. Um, and I can't wait to see like I I genuinely hope that I would get to you know see Kaltari played by by people because it it was just such a joy to make them and. 01:26:02.87 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, and and you know that's my sincere hope is you know, hopefully it's not just a cheap way for me to mine cool npcs for my own games that I run but ah, you know that everyone could take Kaltari and could take any other of the npcs made on this show. And just you know, stick them into their game tonight and be you know doing this side. Quest and in discovering all these implications of of ah potions or the abilities of the somnians to be able to dream a single thing that they really want and have it. You know come into existence or whatever. So. There's all sorts of cool lore implications to be had for sure. So. 01:26:37.34 Glaiza Absolutely this was so much fun and I I cannot wait to share Calltari or the world. 01:26:45.12 sidekqpodcast So there we go and ah you know and before we go and end the show for sure I Always like to leave the microphone the stage the soapbox the platform. The what's a who's it over to the Guest. So if there's anything you want to promote if to plug where can you be found on social media and. If. There's any passions or causes that we need to be made aware of let us know. 01:27:08.52 Glaiza Ah, hey, it'sliza I go by they them like I mentioned earlier you can find me everywhere is at classicalliza I do a lot of things on the internet. But honestly I I would love to call for this time. Ah, you know I would love to. Take this time to call on people to basically learn more about ah the genocide that's happening in Palestine right now. Um I want people to care more about helping people survive the genocide that's happening at Palestine. Um, I would rather people search for operation olive branch than my name if you can take your time to you know, ah learn more to help more and from the river to the sea hostine will be free so that's that's the one I want to bring out. You know the the. The thing that I'm very passionate about right now is the freedom of Palestine itself. 01:28:08.20 sidekqpodcast All right? Well glaza. Thank you so much for being a guest on the podcast I can't wait to have you back on making even more interesting and pcs. Yes. 01:28:17.20 Glaiza I Would love to come back Absolutely because this has been fun and we will make more Npcs together because I absolutely enjoyed this I.