00:01.64 sidekqpodcast Hello and 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 a bit of a blast from the past. Ah this week but before I get to my mystery contestant you know I got to do my first ad read. My good buddies over at plus one e xp now you know that Tony Vicinda has developed this brand of beard balms and lip balms and game design and community building and all this stuff but Tony asked me specifically he wanted to let you all know give you the down low on the very new. rpg zine club it officially launched on the fifth of October. So what is this at all. It's a golden age of indian small press rpgs for the last three years plus one has made it our mission to help new indie creators and small press imprints get their products onto tables worldwide. 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Um, and ah. 03:58.41 sidekqpodcast Yeah, good stuff. 04:12.95 Kiki I'm also a speech thinking and swallowing therapist at a local clinic here in Texas and I work with both children and adults. 04:19.43 sidekqpodcast That's awesome and we go back because you were part of my original d and d group that I was running when I first moved to Dallas. 04:28.59 Kiki Um, that's actually how I met my husband good times good times. 04:30.86 sidekqpodcast Yeah, there you go d and d in church you know it brings. Ah it brings all the best people together and yeah, so ah and and savvy listeners of the podcast may remember that you actually have gotten a shout out before back. Early early days of the pandemic when I was like I need more content for the podcast I knew I know I'll do in Betweenen week episodes and I'll share bits of my lore and when I got to the part of like oh how do orcs in my homebrew world work and I was like well kiki's really kind of smart with this sort of kind of stuff. So maybe I should talk to her. And get some pointers on this. So. 05:07.30 Kiki I Remember that conversation. We I think you're doing a really great job cart. So I was really honored that you asked my opinion. 05:13.35 sidekqpodcast And yeah, and and since then ah you know also previous guests to the show and my good friend Katherine ah, she in ah in a game we were playing she got to be 1 of the ah the she got to be a half orc ah cleric character and so it was really cool to get to share all these. Homebrew notes I'm like well this is long and you know she is the ah the the goddess of trickery but she you know she also is like this a goddess for halfworks and like all these other interesting domain features and stuff and she ended up picking a war domain cleric which is really interesting then to discover the the combination and the facets of like. Oh if your god maybe has these main domains they focus on but actually just like ah you know you know, maybe like byzantine versus ah you know Roman Catholicism versus like dominicans and and franciscans and all that stuff. It's like oh you just happen to be the war domain but you served this overall. Goddess but you know you just happen to be the war domain so that was really cool. You know through you and some of our other mutual friends to then my player character Katherine getting to help expand the the world of orcs and all that stuff in my world I feel really good with how orcs have come out in the world of harmony. 06:27.28 Kiki I Love that I Love everything about what you just said I know your listeners can't see you but I'm just like beaming right now this you're doing so awesome cart I'm loving it. 06:28.10 sidekqpodcast As it is. 06:34.97 sidekqpodcast And maybe not too subtle of a drop with the the Patreon I know a little early to be plugging it but I do happen to know that one of the aristocratic levels I've already released my homebrew notes on a special sub Racece or sub ancestry group of Orcs. And I posited a you know based on all this world building of like well if you know the the assumption is like okay, most of the ors left the fay wild and they went to go to the main mundane world to you know, do war and stuff like that while the big Apocap Apocalyptic War was going on. Well what about the orcs that decided to remain Well obviously if there. 06:57.56 Kiki Um. 07:03.47 Kiki The night. 07:13.19 sidekqpodcast Living in a realm That's like the fay wild it it warps and changes and stuff like that I feel like it would make Orcs you know pretty Alien and so I kind of made like these more specifically fay versions of orcs that exist that have like teleport powers and you know and resistance to magic and stuff like that. So you? yeah so who knows maybe maybe when we make a character later you decide that Maybe that's the way you want to go who knows. 07:32.14 Kiki That's so cool. Oh I love that. That's so cool. Excellent. 07:44.45 Kiki Um, we will have to see. 07:46.47 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so that's that's cool. Yeah, so I know ah through time and space. You know we've had a little bit of separation because yeah I know that you you hang your hat in a different part of the state. You know what with the pandemic and everything like that and we got ah a chance to play a d and d game you know early on in the pandemic and then that. Campaign has just kind of been on an indefinite cliffhanger sort of like I guess you all succeeded in getting the castle question Mark even though the army was on its way but we just kind of like sunset of that a little bit I guess unintentionally and. 08:15.70 Kiki I don't know I'm not sure well I absolutely love the arcrk that you wrote for my character and I'm just like like whenever I think about it I'm like oh Barbie is having so much fun right now this. 08:31.58 sidekqpodcast Ah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, she had a ah a half orc fighter that was named Barbie so that was really fun in the grave like oh right right? Yeah and you insisted on wearing dresses underneath all of your armor. Yeah. 08:38.69 Kiki Um, short for a vavara and lots of makeup. She has to put on more makeup very important. 08:47.77 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah, yes you and previous guest of the show. Elizabeth Horsley were like like buddy buddies in that campaign which is fun. So. 08:56.31 Kiki Um, yup yep she I was the gladiator and she basically like did tricks in the background to get us money while I was out doing shiny gladiator stuff. There may or may not have been thiey involved. 09:05.48 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 09:10.15 Kiki Barbie didn't really care as long as she got to hang out with her friends. 09:12.97 sidekqpodcast And you were actually one of the original players as well now that I'm thinking about it. You know, like ah you know our friends Cameron and Laura and Elizabeth and Michael and and my wife Casey you know you all got to actually explore the levitating platter as an in-game location and I know for the podcast. It's like. 09:28.65 Kiki Um, yep. 09:29.91 sidekqpodcast Kind of the theme. The idea is like oh this podcast is like the levitating platter. It's like interdimensional and all this kind of stuff. So yeah I don't know just just kind of thinking on about that like yeah fond fond memories of the levitating platter in that game and stuff. Overall. 09:32.26 Kiki The hits. 09:47.60 Kiki Yup, yep and I also remember the place that the levitating platter was like spooffully based on where I also hung out with you guys very briefly. But I can't stay up too late so I never hung out long. So. 09:50.84 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 09:58.80 sidekqpodcast Right? Yeah, based on the ah the flying saucer. Yeah, my version The yeah with levitating platters and everything. So right? Yeah, so you know, ah yeah, with this podcast. You know it's all about dungeons and dragons and you know as we've been bantering back and forth I. 10:01.44 Kiki And yeah. 10:15.29 sidekqpodcast Think it's pretty easy to say but do you currently or have you ever played duds and dragons before. 10:21.38 Kiki Let me think well it all started a long time ago. Um actually can I give like general Rpg experience which is bigger than D and D for me. Okay, so it actually for me Rpg started in high school. Um I started out with text based rpgs with some friends of mine. We would either. 10:28.28 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah. 10:38.91 Kiki Pass notebooks back and forth or email back and forth actually I'm pretty sure I started that in like fifth grade but I remember doing it a lot in high school and we would each make a character and then we'd write what they did in the story and then I skipped table topping and went straight to larping which is called live action roleplay when I was in college shameless plug for adventurers wanted. 10:43.50 sidekqpodcast Wow. 10:53.90 sidekqpodcast So. 10:57.28 Kiki Um, that's the larp that my friends in college started. Um and so I skipped the whole table topping thing because they would start at like ten or eleven at night when I was in college my friends and that's when I was going to bed because I'm I've always been old so anyway, don't tell anyone I'm not old. Ok I'm actually quite young. Um, I'm going to be young until I'm 96 I decided so anyway so I skipped tabletop went straight to larping and then ah when you when I started attending all saints and you said that you were going to start a d and d campaign I was like oh my gosh. It's the step that I made. 11:19.84 sidekqpodcast Um, ah. 11:33.66 Kiki And so that's how I saw on and with your D and D Main Grin Ah I was like oh this is what I kind. Wanted to do but I was so it's too sleepy and you played in the daytime which worked much better for me. Ah, and then um since you have since your game I haven't actually done much Rpg but I was recently the best man person woman at um at a wedding for my friend. 11:46.80 sidekqpodcast Yep, yeah. 11:58.80 Kiki Alex but the wedding was during the pandemic. So everything was all virtual like I couldn't even attend the wedding and so I had to do the bachelor party virtual and so I made there's no way that I could ever Dm a d and d campaign that is way too much like numbers and math I don't do numbers so I invented my own homebrew. System called rpgz because it's an easy rpg where like it has a completely different like everyone just has a set of dice and then when you do when you roll for anything. You just roll you pick one of the dice and roll against the other person and if you lose then your dice goes on like the other side of your sheet and you've like lost that dice until you get healed. 12:34.33 sidekqpodcast Oh interesting. Okay, so. 12:36.45 Kiki Um, it was like way easier to Dm. But oh my gosh I have such mad respect now for you kurt and all the work that you put into for dming because like that was really hard and I did a one shot with like not even D and D rolls. So mad Mad Mad respect for you. 12:53.54 sidekqpodcast So yeah, you can definitely get get lost down a rabbit hole with world building and creating a world in the story. You know our our most a good recent guest of the show super geek mike from Youtube um you know has a Youtube channel he's running in currently right now he's doing a series of um where he generated some random characters and then he wrote up the random backstories of those characters then I think the third video he just released was like. Okay, now I'm taking the place of the game master the dm and now I have to look at all these backstores and figure out like okay how am I going to shape this campaign. So I think like individuals like him and Matt Colville and you know some of these other gny d and all these other great individuals out on Youtube and elsewhere are doing really great. Job and educating and helping to you know, lower that barrier to entry for people. So if they want a Dm, you know they don't have to feel like you know like oh I have to be perfect or like I have to be this level of caliber to do. It's like no like everyone starts. Ah everyone starts from the bottom like I can go back to my fourth edition days in college where. Even running my first game you know getting the boss fight and my players being like oh well if we hadn't figured out that 1 specific way to beat the villain. There would have been no way for us to beat the villain I was like oh yeah, that's a good call. Yeah no I need to be I need to be more considerate in thinking of these kinds of things and. 14:22.29 sidekqpodcast You know, learning lessons very valuable lessons in our game. Um, ah you know with with how you know how to make sure you manage like inner interparty dynamics and like you know, ah safety tools and all those other kinds of things that are like more prevalent in the conversation. The Hobby now that maybe weren't as much. Um, back when we were starting and trying to like get our footing and and find our groove and stuff like that. So yeah, it's all a learning experience I'd say so. 14:48.78 Kiki That's for sure I think the hardest part for me was I was having them solve a mystery and then they asked questions I hadn't thought of and so I had to quick on the spot think of something that didn't conflict with the later plot and like I was not I definitely like messed something up. But luckily the other groomsman Tim um. When Alex Alex was the the um groom and when Alex asked a question and I was sort of inconsistent about it. Um, the grooms the other grooms when Tim like covered for me and I was like thanks man, but it was great fun and my husband Michael also helped with ah voice acting. So. 15:08.72 sidekqpodcast I. 15:20.24 sidekqpodcast That's awesome. 15:25.30 Kiki Because I was like I can't do all these voices and Michael was like I got you covered so we had a great time. 15:28.83 sidekqpodcast Awesome! Yeah, and let's see as you know the name of this podcast is called sidekicks and side quest so we like to ask the question here who happens to be 1 of your favorite npcs. 15:39.23 Kiki Um, really I didn't know that. Okay. 15:45.29 sidekqpodcast Whether they're from one of our games or just an rpg in general. Maybe they're from a piece of literature film television show, etc and why is this character your favorite Npc or sidekick character right. 16:00.62 Kiki That's such a great question. Um, okay so I think I'm going to have to go with at adventures wanted. Um, there was ah a mod which a mod is like um, it's like a side quest but it can actually be related to the big plot sometimes. But anyway Matas where you like go to us that slightly off camp site location like like away from the main campsite and do a little mini adventure and we had a mod where my character had to escape from a forced wedding. She had been kidnapped um and one of my friends played an absolutely. Hilarious wedding efficient. Um, and he just kept talking about the pink light of love and like we were just like cracking up. Um, and so now whenever any of us. Ah, who were there at that event ah get married someone is going to make reference to the pink light of love. And it was just so funny that that just stuck in my head I believe it was my friend Elliot who played it I think I think my friend Elliot was the one who did the pink light of love I'm pretty positive. 16:58.76 sidekqpodcast Awesome And then ah oh your friend. Okay, so. 17:11.30 sidekqpodcast Positive Yeah, and then ah and then to go on the other side of the equation. What happens to be a favorite side. Quest of yours or a B plot element whether it's from you know tabletop Game Rpg Movie Film television, etc. And why has this side. Quest Been your favorite. 17:32.67 Kiki Another great question. Um I would say ok so typically I prefer side quests that move the plot forward or teach us something important about the characters. Um, or ideally both that would be great but ironically the favorite side quest that I've ever like like a experienced. Ah, did neither of these. Um, this was also at adventures Wanted. Um I had had kind of a bad weekend or like a bad week that week and so my friends decided to give me a good time and I got to be the dish fairy. Um, and. I was unleashed on the unsuspecting adventurers after meals and I made all the players clean up their messes and if they didn't comply or if the tavern was not clean enough I'd throw soap darts and sponge cleaves at them and give them damage until they finished Cleaning. So I basically got to scream and throw a temper tantrum and make my friends do chores and it was awesome. 18:28.98 sidekqpodcast Ah, are you sure you weren't channeling like a small toddler when you were when you were portraying this character. 18:35.56 Kiki I am not sure I cannot comfortfully say I was not doing that I was just throwing soap at everyone and screaming and yelling at them that they had to clean up so like there could have been some toddler in there. It was a great time. It was super awesome. So that's the dish. The dish disagree. 18:38.63 sidekqpodcast MA. 18:46.62 sidekqpodcast Yeah I mean that's the dish for yeah, no I was going to say that accurately. Well not accurately, but it sometimes describes how my son ah acts if when he's told no or. You know he doesn't get something a specific way just like immediately Oscar worthy performance right? there on the spot. You're like ah Daniel day loose I did not know you were going to grace us with your presence today. So. 19:09.60 Kiki Hand him a pair of wings give him some soap to throw around. He's a dish fairy. 19:15.75 sidekqpodcast He's a dish fairy and then the final question that we ask here in the personal interview section is what are you passionate about and why. 19:24.24 Kiki I love that you ask that question Kurt I always like love hearing everyone's responses. Um, so I passionately believe that every single human person has equal dignity and should be treated with respect no matter their age race religion ability status gender pronouns orientation beliefs what they've done or haven't done. How they feel about certain things. Regardless they all have equal dignity. Um, and so like for example, I'm trying really hard to be a neuro divergent affirming speech therapist. It's always a learning curve I'm never going to be perfect at it. Um, but because I want to make sure that I'm Affirming. Everyone's way of communicating and not just trying to make everyone conform to the way that I think they should communicate because I think everyone deserves respect does that make sense and then um, the other thing that I'm passionate about is interfaith dialogue. So I'm catholic and as you mentioned earlier, there's lots of types of catholic and. 20:05.50 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 20:15.98 Kiki Husband is byzantine catholics so I became byzantine catholic when I married him. Um and I'm also trying to learn more about ahmaah islam from some close friends of mine in town I've been to their mosque in Houston and the ahma live by the phrase love for all hatred for none which I think is a really good motto for everyone to live by. 20:33.89 Kiki And I'm also can I have a third one because I'm I like to talk um, sweet love it. Okay, the last thing I'm passionate about probably not the last thing I'm passionate about but the last thing I'll mention here. Um is that um I'm really passionate about reducing elephant human conflict. 20:34.56 sidekqpodcast Yeah, you can have as many passions as you want I'm not gonna stop anyone from being passionate. Yes. 20:51.00 Kiki Um, and conservation efforts that help elephants and the people who live near them. Um, because elephants are a keystone species that can help us slow climate change and save the planet but we also have to take into account that they're not easy to live near their very large neighbors and so we have to protect the people who live near them too. 21:06.37 sidekqpodcast Yeah I think I remember going to the scarborough fair here in the Dallas area and you would always get excited. You'd be like oh the elephants we got to go see the elephants go hang out with them and stuff. Yeah bent big big elephant fan. 21:21.11 Kiki Yes I Love elephants so much and it's always so complex because I also know that a lot of people will be like oh but that means you sport Elephant seck in captivity which is a really complex question. Um, and I believe that people who have elephants in captivity especially places like the renfare. Um, I've never met any of them that didn't really care about their elephants like a lot. Um and I know evidence bases are are changing the way that we think that elephants in captivity should be treated which is why now I try to learn more about like Elephant um sanctuaries and. 21:38.60 sidekqpodcast Mean. 21:50.34 Kiki And I mean real elephant sanctuaries not the ones where like they train the elephants to interact with people but ones where they have like acres and acres of land and they don't have to interact with people except for the vets who come and do treatment with them. Um, so like the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee is a really good one. They're very research based the global elephant sanctuary in Brazil is very research-based they were actually founded by some people who. Worked at the Tennessee one those are the 2 that I know of right now that like the the elephant researchers that I follow um either helps to found them or actively promote them. So I know that they're kosher. 22:14.39 sidekqpodcast Me. 22:21.40 Kiki Um, but again also whenever I see elephants in captivity I also know that the people who care for them are doing the very best that they can so like people at zoos even people who have elephants that still perform I know that they have a really good relationship with their elephants as long as they're using evidence-based practice from like at least from the 80 s onward um there's been like a lot of revolutions in the way that humans interact with elephants. So. It's a big complicated conversation. Um, but yeah, yeah, I'm always learning about it too. So there are some things that I used to support that I'm like oh actually we should probably move towards different practices now just like all things in life right. 22:42.50 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 22:53.22 sidekqpodcast Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, no, it just has me thinking of like you know, hanbal's great March over the alps to invade rome and then you know of of course with Tolkien and the alldi fonts which are like these you know, ah fantastical like gargantuan sized elephants. You know that? ah you know. Everyone remembers in the Peter Jackson movie that like Legelas just gets to like Fred Flyntony you have. But I a do off of a off of one as he like brags to gim me like look at the sweet kill shot I got and gimley's like that still only counts as one. So so. 23:17.44 Kiki What. 23:25.18 Kiki Yeah I actually can't watch any of the scenes where the oifants are harmed. It makes me cry so I have to like skip those scenes. Um, so I'm not actually like I'm sure I saw it in the theaters and was like but um, did you know that in the 2 towers book I'm pretty. It's 2 towers. 23:29.20 sidekqpodcast Ok. 23:34.68 sidekqpodcast Right. 23:40.82 Kiki Ah, Sam wise stands up and makes this like great poem about oafons and he just like does some like improv slam poetry and it's like 1 of my favorite scenes on lord of things because samwise is like the olifons are so amazing and then he like does this poem. 23:45.70 sidekqpodcast Yeah. 23:52.34 sidekqpodcast Yeah I think I do remember reading that way back when when I first encountered like yeah he was just like so awestruck because he was like I've only heard stories about these things and now I'm seeing one in real life. So probably the same sort of experience with you like in your love of elephants of like oh my gosh. This thing is so amazing. 24:02.85 Kiki Um, yeah, and they're super amazing. 24:08.69 Kiki Yes, every time. Well I've never written a good epic poem about elephants because they mostly leave me speechless but I love elephants so much and I just want them all to be happy and healthy and well. 24:10.63 sidekqpodcast Got to write an epic poem. 24:19.55 sidekqpodcast Well there we go I think that's a great way to end our personal interview section here with Kiki and now head into some npc creation and of course npc creation is brought to you by you. Ah, the podcast audience and our patrons from patreon so now is the time in the show where we give a shout out to our comfortable patrons and above with a loud hoorah so do you our queen of the patreon Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie as well as our good wealthy patrons Anson Jablinsky Nicholas Carterelli and good old mom and dad we say cheers again. These folks are donating at least $2 a month. Um, you know the majority of them wealthy levels. So that's $4 and of course our queen miss Goblin Katie is $10 it's a measly bucket. Ah, it's a measly it is but a. Drop in the bucket. Ah you know, just ah, ah, a humble piece of copper in my little top hat on the sidewalk. So if you want to learn more about these ah Patreon membership tiers because all of these people get to introduce an element of chance to our random tables which you might get to hear today. You want to find out more details. You want to get those sweet juicy pieces of aristocratic level worldbuding ah notes for me and all that good stuff. You should go to the show notes below. You should go to the podcast website or just go directly to patreon.com ford slash sidekicks and side quest to learn more details. 25:51.70 sidekqpodcast Help us expand our operations in the levitating platter in this demi plane and worlds beyond. Okay, so in this part of the show as you've already hinted that I'm sure you're an avid listener. You've heard every episode 10 times I certainly can't thank you enough for adding to the download number counts. But. Ah, yeah, and this part we get to make up a character and I believe we've arrived on ah like a skeleton framework of a character we're we're working with and then beyond that we're going to randomize with some of the other values is that correct. 26:23.99 Kiki Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got an idea and I have some of the details but you might ask me questions that I don't know but we'll see maybe I'll know all the answers to your questions and just be um, omniscient. Um, that's right, Yeah, we'll just see. 26:33.18 sidekqpodcast Yeah, okay, all right? Well if we're ready to begin. We always ask the question of what is the character's name. 26:40.67 Kiki Okay, so this character is going to be named but but that was the character's name. Her name is. 26:44.97 sidekqpodcast A dramatic pause as she takes oh is the name. Oh the, it's gurgle. Yes. 26:58.72 Kiki And Run run and my goal is to not choke while doing that on this podcast since I'm a swallowing therapist I should be able to manage it but I can't promise. 26:59.72 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 27:08.88 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? So ah so if in common we had to write that down Well would you just say that would be Gurgle or gargle. 27:16.60 Kiki Um, I would say I would probably write it as how would I write maybe like just a lot of G's and then like a little like funky bracken and say leg gargly noise. 27:26.14 sidekqpodcast So okay, so a bunch of G's so like G G G G G G and then and then some sort of bracket Gargle noises Gargle noise. Okay, all right Interesting you. 27:37.66 Kiki Gargle noise. Yeah Gargle noises. 27:43.95 sidekqpodcast You're definitely setting the bar high on this one. So um, okay I. 27:48.22 Kiki Um, I mean your niece made a character named ok computer. 27:50.76 sidekqpodcast Which was a name submitted by previous guest Beth may which is in turn based off of a phrase from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and also happens to be the name of a radiohead album. So I mean yeah, it's it's random truly on this podcast sometime. Yeah, okay so gargle. 28:04.36 Kiki I Love it I Love it. 28:10.23 sidekqpodcast Okay, gargle Gargles noises. Um and then let's see oh boy. 28:12.72 Kiki Are you really not going to do it. You have beverage go. It's okay if you choke I'm a swallow therapist I can help you. 28:19.91 sidekqpodcast Yeah I know well I'm I'm drinking beer over here while we're recording So I don't know how well it's going to sound as a gargle or if it's gonna like be too bubbly I keep swallowing. It's just too good I keep drinking it. Okay I got a little bit all right. 28:29.56 Kiki Um I don't know we'll just see. 28:37.87 Kiki Excellent every time you refer to her you're going to have to use that sound. She also goes by she her pronouns he can also use those. 28:39.77 sidekqpodcast I'll now now. Okay I Okay all right, excellent. Okay now I'm just thinking in the post edit I'm just gonna have to like copy that segment and then I'm just gonna in in you know, copy paste it some go whenever I mention. This character by her name of and then I would insert the sound so that'll be probably really funny to listen to in the future or maybe I'll just use your audio by that might be Better. So. 29:07.66 Kiki Um. 29:11.67 sidekqpodcast But we'll we'll just go with the assumption that I'm going to be smart about this and I'm going to actually go and take the length of time to actually copy paste that all throughout the episode for us. So We're not having to potentially put ourselves in a harmful situation of ah, choking on. Beer or water or something like that and. 29:28.30 Kiki Well technically if we're going to be really accurate. We're not going to choke because it's liquid. We would just aspirate and since we both perform regular oral hygiene by brushing our teeth every day and we're both fairly active and in good health I Don't think we're going to die from a little aspiration. 29:43.60 sidekqpodcast Okay, then good to know I will trust the medical expert in this situation. Well now we have to figure out what our ancestry is so if you I know you said you were looking for like some kind of Humanoid that maybe isn't like a normal perceived kind of. 29:46.81 Kiki Oops. 30:03.90 sidekqpodcast Ah, adventure type. Um, so we I mean I can help you point you in the right direction of what you're looking for or if you just kind of want to do some random roles on a d 100 chart we can kind of see what we get from there. 30:15.46 Kiki Okay, it's up to you. Um I want a character an npc that typically players would imagine that they're going to have to roll for initiative when they meet her um but can I need her to be able to speak because of the way she's going to communicate with them not because it's. 30:29.33 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 30:33.92 Kiki Not because speech defines anything just because I need this particular character to be able to speak with her mouth. 30:37.56 sidekqpodcast Okay, well I'm just trying to think with sound effects I mean I know people I just made the change with my home brew that I made it depending on you know your level of affinity with a certain. But if you're a kinku. 30:41.52 Kiki Okay. 30:51.98 Kiki Ah skin. 30:53.30 sidekqpodcast And you worship like 1 of the more begotten or like the good or neutral gods. It's like yeah you have like normal speech. It's fine. But if you worship one of like the more evil gods like you do get like that kind of crow mimicy sort of like really like ah sort of sound of your voice that you. 31:08.30 Kiki Um, like animal sound. 31:09.46 sidekqpodcast More animalistic to the point where it is really hard for people to understand you unless maybe you you know you also worship the same god and Youtube can just go to go like to each other and you completely understand each other fine but anyone else who listens to you is just like oh it's just like a bunch of bird sounds. It's like yeah but they can you know weather to. 31:25.76 Kiki Gotcha. 31:29.39 sidekqpodcast Regardless of where you fall on the the Morality spectrum as a kaku you all always have the mimicry ability. So I don't know since we heard the name of insert here. Ah then maybe that no I I. 31:39.61 Kiki No, no, you can do it you. 31:45.87 Kiki There you go. 31:47.57 sidekqpodcast Ah, no, oh boy I Yeah I'm just going to go through later and just copy paste all the sounds in inside I can save myself some time. Um, but every it it sounds like with a name like that you know a K You might be. Easy one because it's like oh like that's a mimicry sound that like a crow could make or something or if you're thinking like a goblin or an orc or a Hob Goblin or something like that you know does that you know. 32:17.76 Kiki I'm almost thinking Kankoo might might be better for this character. Um I I'm going to avoid goblin just because I feel then like I'm copying a little bit much goblins comic um, which is a really great web comic about. Goblins who become adventurers and I don't want to copy that. Um I mean it's awesome. People should read it. But anyway, that's not the point. Um, what was I going to say what does a canka look at gangan help me remember. 32:33.92 sidekqpodcast Okay. 32:45.50 sidekqpodcast And Cancus basically look like their size category small and they look like anthropomorphic crow people. They look like little bird people. 32:53.93 Kiki Um, and 3 Okay. 32:58.98 sidekqpodcast And as you may have mentioned before we started recording that probably was among one of the first encounters you guys had with the games I ran where you went into the sewers and there was like a little nest of like these thaving like maybe not nice canoos that were like oh you found our fort and now we got to attack you. 33:12.84 Kiki Um. 33:17.58 sidekqpodcast You found our nest. You found our gang hideout or whatever. Okay, so gargle. Yeah, they're they're small typically is what I think now the nomenclature would be like they're typically small I mean I guess you could have a canoo that. 33:18.60 Kiki Um, okay, yeah, okay I think that will work wait What size are they what size of they. 33:36.76 sidekqpodcast You know has like some sort of a genetic diversity that makes them like size category medium or something like that. But I think typically canoos are small. Okay, so we got a small Kanoo named gargle ah, and then let's see the next question we have to ask ourselves is. 33:45.86 Kiki Um, from down and small like a bird person. 33:56.10 sidekqpodcast What is the job or role in society for her. 33:57.83 Kiki Okay, so I want her to be like a guru slash mystic and I was thinking. Cleric but then I was actually texting Tim and Alex the guys that I did the rpg z with and they were thinking maybe druid might be better for her. So I think I'm going to go with druid unless I keep going and you're like nana this sounds like cleric does that make sense. 34:16.85 sidekqpodcast Okay. 34:22.53 sidekqpodcast Yeah, no, let's fire a druid. Okay so a druid canoo named Gargle. Okay, and then what is the age range of the character like like elder old. 34:33.20 Kiki Um, she's old like she has adult children who have adult children. Yeah like like. 34:42.50 sidekqpodcast You? Okay, so she's like a grandma. Okay, so she's like Grandma aged. 34:49.62 Kiki Yeah, like like she has adult children who have young adult children. She's not like ancient does that make sense like her children are probably in their like fifty s if we're going by human years and so they have like. 34:53.53 sidekqpodcast Okay, not ancient. Yeah yeah, so not ancient. But. 35:06.88 Kiki Kids who are like graduating from college type age. Obviously they're Kanoos So maybe not you know college. Maybe they're doing other things. But. 35:10.36 sidekqpodcast Yeah, but as but if you get to a certain point with druids you actually age slower and. 35:16.61 Kiki Yeah, so that that's why I'm saying like that's if it's a human life spins like I don't know how old she actually is but she's she's old enough to have grandkids who different. 35:23.81 sidekqpodcast And oh yeah, and then the lifecycls of ku are probably you know like oh yeah, you know you net you hatched from the egg and then a couple of years went by now you're ready to go on life on your own and so yeah, it could be out so elder by Kku Standards is what we're thinking. Okay, yeah, it's like yeah. 35:37.42 Kiki Yes, yes, does that make sense cool. 35:43.80 sidekqpodcast You're you're 30 like oh you got grandkids already. Okay all right? So you yeah, you've you've been doing your canu life right? So okay, um, all right and now we get to take a little break from well had we been doing dice Rolling. We would take a pause from the dice rolling because we asked the question here if of describe. The physical appearance of Gargle is. 36:06.52 Kiki Okay, so oh hold on I don't have enough water to say her name is um, she's old but she has fairly good posture. Um, so if she's a canoo I'm trying to think I guess like she'll wear like. 36:24.48 Kiki Green Robes So you can't really see a whole lot of her physique but but she's she's somewhat slight. Um, what so tell me if I'm like describing a Kanoo wrong. But so she's got like a beak So beak is beak. But then the feathery part of her face. 36:34.95 sidekqpodcast So. 36:41.40 Kiki You can tell like the feathers are like graying and like her face is a little saggy. Um, she uses a wooden cane and all her clothing is made of organic materials but specifically vegan. Okay, no scratch organic. Vegan because she's okay, with metal. She doesn't care about Metal. Um, but no leather because she's vegan. Um, she does allow for a wool but she doesn't wear it herself and if if anyone asks her. Why Ah why she doesn't do leather anything like that. Um, and why she's vegan. She says. 37:04.86 sidekqpodcast Interesting. 37:20.26 Kiki Ah, that intelligence does not define the value of a life and in this world There are many creatures with many ways of being and who is she to say who deserves life and who deserves death she gives kind of like a yoda vibe from like empire strikes back like the like kooky like Ha ha. 37:28.48 sidekqpodcast And. 37:35.90 Kiki Ah, but then also with like some real serious undertones of like oh actually she knows what she's doing and she has important things to say. 37:39.48 sidekqpodcast I I was going to say it sounds like gargle's been listening to my friends over it. The dispell magic podcast because I'm pretty sure they did an episode of speak with animals and they ran through the magic spell implications of like oh if you have it in entire if you know. You you take on the face value of like speak with animals as a spell or awaken and it's like basically now you've made all these like you know sentient you know dogs or cows or wolves or chickens or whatever like that that are now like part of your society. Um, it's a fabulous episode and you know certainly it was like oh thought provoking of that way of like you know? Yeah, because yeah people have different opinions on this stuff like you know, maybe to 1 person you know they don't bat an eye of like leather hide armor. You know, even if it was ethically sourced. You know it was. It was a nice It was a nice um ah ah, steer that lived a life but you know a life full of promise and hope and then got old and passed away and then ok now we make the hide armor. Whatever out of out of the steer. Um. You know something like that and then some people that are like gargle that are like well no I don't want to deal with any of that. But I look pretty cool in metal armor. So I have no qualms about that even though druids are like metal. No I prefer all natural stuff and but she takes it to like the next druid level. She's like no man you can't use like natural stuff. 39:04.11 sidekqpodcast You've got to use like the natural from the Earth Organic ah minerals metals stuff. So. 39:10.80 Kiki Yeah, and like I think for herself she would probably wear wood versus metal. Um, like she'd probably like have like if she was wearing armor. She would probably wear like carved wood armor that she has for herself. Um, but. 39:14.20 sidekqpodcast So. 39:25.40 Kiki You will not find any leather on her because she is vegan. 39:25.90 sidekqpodcast And okay, interesting now I'm just waiting on the people to come into the the comments or the the whatever of the episode to be like but wait a minute trees are living so she doesn't have a problem with wearing tree bark or whatever. So. 39:41.46 Kiki Which is a great question. Um, and she's not going to harm like I mean it's actually really important for a lot of plants to be pruned like if you've ever tried to grow basil and you didn't prune it. It's gonna die you got to remove some of the leaves. 39:47.36 sidekqpodcast And. 39:55.91 Kiki And so she's very in tune with the trees and so she knows what branches she can take without harming the tree. Um and she also obviously will take stuff that's already fallen. She's she's okay, with that as long as it's not like you know, gross and termitey then she probably doesn't want to wear termites. 40:06.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah, okay, she doesn't want to be that kind of druid that utilizes a termites to like attack people and stuff like that. Oh okay, all right? So any other defining physical. 40:17.15 Kiki No, and you'll find out why soon. 40:25.79 sidekqpodcast Descriptions or characteristics. We should be aware about for gargle for. 40:29.52 Kiki Um, so her eyes everyone wants to talk about eyes because the eyes are the window to the soul. We'll just say hers are green. 40:40.50 sidekqpodcast Okay, go goes with the it goes with the drooid theme so very on brand. Um, okay, and if you had to describe gargle with 3 adjectives what 3 adjectives would you choose of course. 40:51.15 Kiki Do I get extra points for alliteration sweet. No one's keeping a score I wanted to win today I'm kidding. Ok um I did think of 3 that um that same first letter. So let's alliterate. 40:57.40 sidekqpodcast No one's keeping school but you get yes you get more points. Sorry. 41:10.58 Kiki I Said she's persistent passionate and peaceful. 41:13.79 sidekqpodcast Okay, the 3 peas of gargle there we go. Okay and let's see what is going to be a valuable item a piece of lore a secret or an ideal or concept that Gargle Ascribes to. I Know we talked about like oh maybe we'll do some dice rolling your randomization. Perhaps we have through the the course of natural human discussion. Um, but you know we do have dice tables that you can roll on if you're if you're in itching to try and and see maybe what you get. 41:46.50 Kiki Um, so I have an idea but I don't know if like I kind of need your help with it. Um, so I want her to have like we're going to have to homebrew it at least. 41:50.58 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 42:02.53 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 42:02.86 Kiki I'm pretty sure we're gonna have tomrew it I want her to have 2 spells that are very important for her character and 1 of them she she does to everyone that she encounters all pcs and and pcs that she encounters and the other one you earn. 42:18.32 sidekqpodcast Okay I. 42:21.54 Kiki So the one that she does to everyone is us a hold on I wrote it down I have to like go to my words because it doesn't make sense if I don't read it out of border. Okay, okay, so every character that she like encounters. 42:38.84 sidekqpodcast I. 42:40.82 Kiki And she has as her guest. She puts a spell on them and here is the effects of the spell you must attempt deescalation before any kind of violence with any creature and you must only fight in self-defense or in defense of someone that you care about or like your friends with. 42:44.28 sidekqpodcast Okay. 43:00.37 Kiki Any attacks that you make outside of those parameters. You will be disadvantaged. Oh wait, Let me let me rephrase. You must only? Okay, sorry so you must attempt de-escalation before any kind of violence. 43:03.95 sidekqpodcast Interesting question. 43:12.98 Kiki Against any creature and you must only fight in self-defense or in defense of someone who needs defending I won't say that you have to be quote friends with them if you just decide to like you know jump in front of a bullet for a passing stranger. That's okay, um, but any attacks you make outside of those parameters. You will be disadvantaged. 43:18.79 sidekqpodcast I. 43:28.27 sidekqpodcast For how long. 43:31.80 Kiki I Don't know I kind of needed your help with that like I wanted to be like forever but like that seems a little overpower. 43:33.13 sidekqpodcast So because I mean she's was going to say like yeah like yeah oh forever, it's like that sounds like a yeah like a you know like a hag level curse or you've met like a demigod or like a God or something like that is like well. 43:49.32 Kiki Um, yeah. 43:51.93 sidekqpodcast I'm going to permanently curse you now because you didn't do my will or whatever. So. 43:56.48 Kiki Well, that's regardless of whether you do her will or not so like I don't know you I guess that can be up to the Dm to decide because she's definitely not a demigod. She's a kinku and like I don't want her to be like a goddess of any kind I want her to be um. 44:13.53 Kiki Want her to be like perceived as a monster like something that you would find in the monster manual. So um I guess we can leave that up to Dms to decide how long that will last does that seem reasonable to you. 44:28.56 sidekqpodcast Sure Yeah I mean initially I was going for like a calm emotions because I know that's like a pretty that's like a low level spell like like oh like just regardless of whoever she meets. She's like calm emotions and like everyone's like just mellowed out whenever they meet her and stuff like that. 44:36.21 Kiki The type. 44:47.64 sidekqpodcast But but this sounds like too. Um, specific of a thing and it's so intrinsically tied to her. Yeah I might yeah yeah I'm just trying to think like Okay, so if I'm gonna deploy this character I might do it for like the day like I think like it like a day is reasonable. 44:50.87 Kiki Yeah, this is like super specific. 45:02.56 Kiki Um, okay, okay, okay. 45:06.65 sidekqpodcast Like unless you're going to stay with her longer. Maybe she upcasts it or whatever like that and depending on how many more levels above you do it. It lasts for like longer longer periods of time. Maybe you know basic level is like a day. Okay, she bumps up the next level. It's going to be a week 45:17.25 Kiki Um, okay, um. 45:23.27 sidekqpodcast Okay, she bumps it up to another level beyond that it's a month and then okay then a quarter then half the year and then the entire year and then I don't know if she could ever get it up to a super high level. But um, you know, maybe multiple years or something beyond that before you have to like meet her again and then she has to like. Charge you know read redo like I have to have to reup your subscription have to reup your annual subscription. Ah, you know for this spell. So. 45:43.60 Kiki Recharge it I hear that? Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, that sounds reasonable I would say my only thing is she's old and she's a druid so she's been at it for a while. So I kind of feel like she can do it for more than a day at the get go. Um, but I hear what you mean? So like we'll say the Dm. Yeah yeah, so that she's not just like totally crazy overpowered. Ok um, wild lu parrate excuse me. That's what I should to say um, ok and then if you accept her quest. 46:00.89 sidekqpodcast For balance purposes And. I. 46:16.86 Kiki Then she will give you an advantage on charisma roles and persuasion roles and things like that hold on my dog is being annoying. Let me really crink open the door I am'm not going to hear you for a second. Okay, you'll have to like cut this part out I'll be back in a second give. Exciting. 46:39.51 Kiki Okay, okay, also and you're gonna cut this part out right? Kurt okay, cool. Um, can you also cut out the part where I said everyone should read goblin's comic because it has some content warnings that I didn't say. 46:43.44 sidekqpodcast I. 46:52.48 sidekqpodcast Okay. 46:54.32 Kiki So you can either add the content warnings or like I can say them now and you can add them or you can. What do you want? What do you want to do I I would probably just say like delete the part where I just said it's awesome. Everyone should read it. 46:58.28 sidekqpodcast So sure. Yeah, whatever you want? whatever you feel comfortable with. 47:12.86 sidekqpodcast I Okay okay I yeah I mean I guess I mean people talk I mean now people mention and talk about things on this podcast all the time that. Ah. 47:13.88 Kiki And I just mentioned it I don't know that seems okay, don't you think. 47:27.36 sidekqpodcast I Mean maybe I don't necessarily do content warnings for but you know maybe if it's if it's something that someone would have a question about maybe I try and put like a thing in the show notes that like provides like ah, a link to it or like a basic understanding of like or I try and write a blurb That's like oh this thing is like. You know a comic or something like that and then people from there can decide of like oh this is something that I should pursue or not or whatever. 47:48.40 Kiki Um. 47:51.13 Kiki Okay, if you if I give you like a little blurb that says content warnings. There's some pitchy 13 material. How easy for you to just take that little thing and then move it right after I say gomlu's comic. Okay, cool then I'm going to do that right now I'll just say. 48:02.35 sidekqpodcast I It's I can and know it's fine I can do it. 48:10.23 Kiki It's a really good comic but there are some content warnings. It has some pg 13 materials some of it is a little triggering for me. So I've skipped a couple of pages on it. 48:17.17 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, all right? So let's see so this is the valuable item or peace of war seeker. Okay, so we were discussing that. Okay, so she does this spell regardless of whoever she's with um, you're of the opinion that it can last longer for a day but I suppose with my. Personal opinion I feel like okay maybe temper it a little bit and like so just for an entire day like the first time you meet her just boom. She's gonna do this spell and like for the next twenty four hours you're under the effect of this particular spell and that's like her whole gamut of what she does regardless of ah the interaction and stuff like that. So. 48:41.47 Kiki Um, okay. 48:47.52 Kiki Um, okay. 48:55.25 Kiki That's the first thing. Well, that's not the very first thing but it's going to be 1 of the first things. Um. 48:57.31 sidekqpodcast Okay, and then you said there was another aspect to the character that was valuable or important to. 49:04.62 Kiki If you accept her quest she will give you for the same amount of time that you're following the de-escalation thing. Um and only attacking in defense like not actually attacking but only defending ah for the duration of that time. 49:10.27 sidekqpodcast And. 49:16.25 sidekqpodcast M. 49:21.76 Kiki If you accept her quest you will have an advantage on all like Charisma and persuasion type checks. 49:28.54 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? Okay, all right? So that's that's a skipping ahead a little bit which is which is fine I mean it's good to clue us and and let us know. Um I just didn't know if there was like another like a valuable object. There was some piece of lore or a secret or something that she had. 49:35.54 Kiki Is. 49:44.62 Kiki Do I mean a roll for. 49:46.16 sidekqpodcast You know? so if players were were no ah sure. Yeah, if you want to roll for it. We well I know my tables have been waiting for this so you would roll you would roll a d 4 first for the category and then a d six for the particular thing. So. 49:52.42 Kiki Ok, cool. 50:00.29 Kiki Cool. Do I have veto power if I'm like now that's gonna mess with her character. Okay, cool, let me give my D four. That's my little finding thing song I have it now all right? Let me roll. 50:04.17 sidekqpodcast Sure, Yeah, sure. 50:16.33 sidekqpodcast Okay. 50:20.66 Kiki Didn't land on a little table there. Okay I got a 3 okay I now a d six oh and just so you know I know your listeners can't see but my d sixes are from my friend Alex and they have an elephant in the place of the one. 50:21.88 sidekqpodcast Okay, so that's a secret and now a d 6 50:36.30 sidekqpodcast Where were those dice that you used when we would play in person back in the Yielden days. Oh yeah I think I thought I recognized those dice. Okay. 50:38.37 Kiki How pretty yup yu yeah, okay so roll my d six. We'll see what I get I got a 4 50:51.31 sidekqpodcast 4 Okay, this answer was provided by previous guest Lauren Walsh a famous critter artist. Ah so gargle would be in debt for an insurmountable amount of gold to a dragon. 51:04.77 Kiki Interesting. 51:06.59 sidekqpodcast Does this conflict with the character as you've envisioned her and. 51:12.54 Kiki Um, um. 51:12.73 sidekqpodcast And a terrible secret. She's in debt for an insurmountable of amount of gold to a dragon. So. 51:18.97 Kiki I mean I think I might be able to make that work I think I might be able to make that work. Yeah. 51:25.30 sidekqpodcast Okay, interesting. Yeah, so let's explore that. What is that? How does that How did this come to be is this Why she's so invested in being vegan and being calming and peaceful because like every time the agents show up coming to collect. She's Like. Call me call me call me and they're like Okay, yeah sure we're cool and sends sends the minions away empty handed and she used the Gold. She used the gold to do something noble like build an orphanage or like revitalize a local economy and the dragons like. 51:48.55 Kiki Um, actually. 51:53.79 Kiki Um, I hear that. 52:02.49 sidekqpodcast What you did? what? Oh no, now you owe me big and she's just like no no, no, it's fine. We don't worry about this. 52:10.61 Kiki Okay, maybe maybe I I think I know how she got it though because like I think I think what you've said is actually will fit really nicely. So that's social like calm whenever the dragon sends someone and the dragons like fine, whatever um, and but then keeps coming back So she got the gold. 52:12.49 sidekqpodcast Sure yeah. 52:28.92 Kiki Or whatever it is the metal because her goal is she's basically like the D and D equivalent of like denuclearize but she takes it very seriously and she her goal is to collect all weapons and turn them into farming tools. 52:48.11 sidekqpodcast Oh Swords in the plow shares. Ah okay so. 52:48.47 Kiki Swords into ploughshas that's her goal. So if the dragon had any weapons in their hoard. She told her and her family totally could have snuck in there grabbed all the valuable weapons. And then taken them and turned them into tools that can be used for good so it doesn't necessarily have to be farming equipment. It can be other things. Um, but just like helpful nonviolent in shields just super cool as Shields Armors fine no problem with that. 53:16.50 sidekqpodcast Okay, I'm just imagining like this was the fabled legendary plus 3 sword and you melted it down and turned it into a bucket. It's like you you you you? ah you you. 53:29.88 Kiki Um, yeah, that sounds exactly right. 53:34.36 sidekqpodcast Broke it down into residuum and then just like plain metal and now it's like oh this used to be like a holy Avenger but now it's like ah it's just ah, a garden hoe is all it is now oh boy. Yeah I could see why players might be annoyed with this character of like you mean to tell me. 53:43.30 Kiki Um, yeah. 53:51.92 sidekqpodcast You found a legendary weapon and you turned it into shears man. Okay, all right? So yeah, the insurmountable goal amount of gold would obviously be all these legendary ah magic items that she is somehow come into possession of and is just. 53:55.66 Kiki Um, yes. 54:10.86 sidekqpodcast Turning it into residuum or melting it down into something else. It's wow this platinum. Ah, you know, but like ah you know like all this platinum. Ah, you know set of ah of barbers tools that I have barbers tools I have is ah, really nice. It's like oh where'd you get these? It's like I don't know that. 54:14.93 Kiki Um. 54:29.20 sidekqpodcast That nice little gargle ah woman just you know gifted me this set. She said it came from something really dangerous. But now I can give everyone great haircuts in town or whatever. 54:35.67 Kiki Movie sounds great and and she's definitely made a golden helmet of Bambino Golden he tough bambi. No, there can be no had like the 20 points a week of the reference. 54:49.90 sidekqpodcast So I'm I'm struggling I'm struggling I can't think of it. Oh man of La Mancha see I don't think that's one. 54:53.25 Kiki Men of la manja. Yeah, it's also a really great episode in the Don Quixote like the actual book which is a lot less serious than the men of lamentia musical if you ever get a chance to read it. Also lots of content warnings on Don Hote the book. There's a lot. 55:05.28 sidekqpodcast Okay I. 55:11.52 Kiki Um, stuff that happens in that book. 55:14.70 sidekqpodcast Sure Yeah, of course Yeah, um, okay, all right interesting see I was thinking you were going like bugs Bunny you know the net. The. 55:15.27 Kiki But the golden helmet of Mebino episode is very funny anyway. 55:25.68 sidekqpodcast You know the the ring cycle the wagner ring cycle like kill the lab at Golden spear and helmet sort of a thing is what I thought you were going with. 55:32.20 Kiki Um, no, no golden helmet of bambino is ah the story is I'll tell the book version because it's hilarious. But I mean that the the musical version's not too far off actually Don Quixote like so he he like finds this dude this barber who has like a. Basin that he uses um and if you have a chance like go listen to the song golden helmet of bambino for man of la mantra because it is so funny. Um, the barber has his own lines and it's awesome. But anyway um, Don Quix Joe is just like deluded into the the the premise of the book is that Don Quixote from reading too many like like. Night adventure novels um, his brain got diluted into thinking that everything is a night adventure which is why he thinks that the ah windmills or giants. That's one that everyone remembers um, but he sees this barber with this like barbers basin that has like and he's like that is the golden helment of bambino and then he like fights the barber. For his barber basin and then wears the barber basin as his helmet for the rest of the book and it's really funny. 56:29.45 sidekqpodcast M. Okay, yeah, well and just yeah and just fun a aside because I do remember from you know as we started wrapping up our campaign I do happen to remember 1 of the towns. You went to around the lake. There is a key There is a a key smith. Ah, lock locksmith there was a locksmith who lived on the lake who lived in ah in a windmill I had like 47 locks on the door and his name was Donald Keyholder yep good times. 56:53.55 Kiki Um, oh yeah, yup I remember him? Yep I appreciated that rest that and had reference a lot. Don't qui what they for me is up there like cervante is up there with Shakespeare. Um I'm much better at reading Shakespeare. Because my spanish is not as good as my ink but because I learned spanish as the second language but cervantes is just as funny as Shakespeare in my opinion also much more about also the second book in the Don Quixote series ah straight up invented larping. There's lots of people who have invented larping but like. Don quiote in the second book cervantes has like like in the first book. Don't you how to keep saying. There's a wizard that's following us around and writing about our adventures and sancho panz is like yeah, whatever can I have a sandwich now and then at the so oh basically yeah. 57:40.32 sidekqpodcast Just like your best friend to be like yeah whatever man I Just want a sandwich. Yeah yeah. 57:47.33 Kiki I kind of laugh when people say that sanjo pana and Don Qui what they had like a real like like genuine friendship because mostly sanro panna just wants a sandwich. Um but and don't give what they just refuses to like comply because he's always dirt poor because he doesn't earn money. But um. Between so this is like a total rant. That's not relevant to your podcast. But I think it's great and I think your listeners should know this important information. So at the end of the like first don quiutta book don quie is on his deathbed if I recall and then this was before copyright. So then some other guy. Wrote a Don Quixote book about what happened afterward and Cervantes was furious so he wrote his own like ten years later he wrote his own and it starts like very shortly after the first one ends and Don Quixote jumps up and he's like or no before he jumps up sanro panza comes to him and is like don't quiote. You know. Said there was a wizard writing about all our adventures. Well I thought you were crazy but it's true. There's a book about our adventures and people have read it and now we're famous and Don Cutti jumps out about and he's like we must have more adventures and at some point they end up with this dude who's read the first Don Quixote book that savantes wrote. Um. 58:59.45 sidekqpodcast Yeah, so. 59:00.23 Kiki And see how me it is so funny. Um, and then he's like let's give them an adventure and they basically like dress up as characters and give them a little larping adventure and they promise on choon an island and then he doesn't even get a sandwich So that's my version of the story people should. 59:11.80 sidekqpodcast But I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger. Ye. 59:19.30 Kiki Yeah, okay so um, back sorry this is probably like the weirdest and most random tangent that you've had on your podcast. So back to the character who has the golden helmet of bambino but I really hope you keep that in there senior listeners see her the the reference for the Golden plmet of bambino that she made from a weapon. 59:27.34 sidekqpodcast Sure. 59:38.68 Kiki Of great import. But that's the kind of thing she makes. 59:39.80 sidekqpodcast Mm Okay, interesting and that's the kind of thing she makes Okay, she's cool with armor. She's cool Shields but anything else. She's gonna she's gonna turn it into a mundane item that can help the common folk. So. 59:51.86 Kiki Yeah, more or less. Yeah, almost almost always there are certain circumstances where she won't. 59:55.50 sidekqpodcast But more or less is she sitting on a pile of residuum I know that was a thing that was introduced in fourth edition that was like hey if your players don't like this magic item you gave them There's basically ah a thing that you can do that just like converts it from. Ah, material object into like this green powder and then you can use that green powder with gold to turn it into the magic item you want was the explanation they gave and some fifth edition has kind of brought it back in so notably in the critical role campaign the very first story that was like. 01:00:23.14 Kiki Um. 01:00:30.28 sidekqpodcast Whitestone was sitting on residuum and stuff like that and I think that's kind of weaved its way through the the other campaigns that they've been doing but yeah, like residuum I'm pretty sure is like an invention maybe from Fourth edition. It could be older I don't know don't quote me on it. But yeah I was goodnna. Yeah I was gonna say do you think that's what it is like you know. 01:00:42.43 Kiki Word that sounds good sure melting it down. Yeah, that's kind of what I imagined but. 01:00:49.19 sidekqpodcast Or do you think like she's just like going through with like like blacksmith tools and smelting and melting it down and like hammering it out into different things and. And sure. Yeah well I mean with a magic item. You know it's got like you know, ah inherent qualities to it that make it pretty you know hard to damage or change even with an artifact or something like that. So does she have like some sort of like you. 01:01:00.23 Kiki I Mean that's up to interpretation. 01:01:17.75 sidekqpodcast Magic blacksmithing tools that allow her to shape items into other items and something that perhaps she took from this dragon hoard when she was stealing all the weapons and. 01:01:21.40 Kiki Sure that sounds great. Let's go with that. 01:01:29.51 Kiki Yeah, that sounds perfect. 01:01:33.21 sidekqpodcast Okay, that that's how we that's how we improv our our way. That's how we yes and our way through through this podcast. Okay, so we have a bit a bit bit of a better understanding of gargle and her motivations and how she's gonna she how she does that? Um, as far as the ah. 01:01:37.57 Kiki Love it. 01:01:52.45 sidekqpodcast The secret is and then how that that plays out so um, now with all this information in mind what is going to be a particular quest that gargle would be willing to recruit or hire player characters to go and do on her behalf. 01:02:09.54 Kiki Okay, so you can find out now or you can find out a game when we eat are our random encounter. 01:02:17.51 sidekqpodcast And oh so you're just going to leave it open. Um as far as. 01:02:19.83 Kiki No no I have a very specific quest for her. Do you want to find out now or do you want to find out in game when we do our random encounter. 01:02:26.17 sidekqpodcast Oh no I want to find out now. So that way we have it for our for our notes and then definitely in the random encounter. We can definitely play it out. Sure. 01:02:34.84 Kiki Ok, ok then I'll give you the brief version. Um, her daughters used to be on the same mission as her to turn swords into P Cloudsharees Um, but then um, her daughters got into a big fight and now. 01:02:43.24 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:02:49.30 Kiki They're not turning swords into Ploughsirs. They're hoarding swords and fighting each other and each other's families and so she wants to recruit the player to um, she wants to recruit the player to reconcile her daughters. And get them back onto the Nonviolence campaign. Um, the trick is no weapons she before like when you first encounter her She removes your weapons from your person and she'll try to remove leather items and like non-vegan items from you as well. Um, but all your weapons are confiscated for the duration of. 01:03:06.80 sidekqpodcast So. 01:03:25.37 Kiki The Kumo Seeia Mom What's it called the thing the quest there we go I Knew that word it's getting late. Um, and so that's why she gives you an advantage on all persuasion and Charisma checks because you will have to use those you cannot use any violence if you use. 01:03:29.10 sidekqpodcast M. 01:03:44.28 Kiki Any violence against any of her family members then like you're probably going to die because they're extremely armed and you are not armed. 01:03:51.25 sidekqpodcast It true. Yeah yeah, okay, okay, so then. Okay, wow. Okay, so we're really going into some you know some I don't know fun house dungeon territory but definitely like you know. Doctor who eque level sorts of a side quest here for like oh I'm just going to strip you of your leather and your weapons and all this stuff and now I'm going to send you out to go basically face the Kenoo Hatfields and Mccoy situation here and you have to be like a like a swat. Ah, Fbi negotiator and get them to stand down and end their feud in order to get all your stuff back. So. 01:04:30.48 Kiki Um, yep, yep! what? what's the Hatfields and Mccoy reference is that is that a deep Harry Potter reference from like fantastic beast and where to find them the book. 01:04:33.62 sidekqpodcast Oh oh. 01:04:40.80 sidekqpodcast Oh no Hatfields and Mccoy is like from real life like ah in the around like think think like ah well I think ah like the Virginia sort of area think. 01:04:43.88 Kiki Um, oh straight up did not mean that. 01:04:52.81 sidekqpodcast Civil war esque area. So yeah Hatfields and Mccoy's is like a very famous family feud between these 2 different families I remember history channel did like a mini series on it and I'm sure loads of people have written books about it and you can go to that part of the country like in Virginia Kentucky and. 01:04:55.28 Kiki Um. 01:05:11.89 sidekqpodcast West virginian some of these other areas and you can find living descendants of said Hatfields and Mccoys to this day I don't know if they keep the rivalry up but like back in history and like the eighteen hundreds like that was a big deal and that caused like a whole lot of problems in that area. So so if we're drawing on history. 01:05:18.85 Kiki Um, wow. 01:05:28.99 Kiki Um, yeah, yep, yep, that sounds exactly right? Also thanks for teaching me about history which I did not know I don't know anything about history. 01:05:30.20 sidekqpodcast Ah, for this side Quest At least that's the kind of angle that I'm coming from is like. 01:05:36.80 sidekqpodcast No meet the the more you know bring the little shooting star. Yeah so okay, all right? So then. Okay, so with this side question in mind you go there and it's it's a interlude. It's not a combat encounter. That's not how it's designed to be. 01:05:43.18 Kiki Gay. Thank you for teaching me. 01:05:56.32 Kiki Um, ah. 01:05:56.64 sidekqpodcast So what is going to be the reward for success. So you successfully convince these sisters to stop their feud to lay down their arms and to return to the the program that that their mom had set forth what is going to be the reward when the players come back and report on their success. So. 01:06:15.45 Kiki She'll give them their weapons back. But only if they promise to do good and not evil and to defend and not fight. 01:06:19.90 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? So so they just get all theirs. Okay, so not any other benefit to the players. It's more of just like a hey you kind of help me out thing and the world's a better place. 01:06:24.36 Kiki She's basically holding their weapons. Her ransom. 01:06:36.55 sidekqpodcast Ah, from her perspective and the players are like well that was we just got sucked into this whole you know, ah divergent ah tangent here and now it's like we ah obviously aside from experience or whatever else, but like no other benefits or material gains to be had for the players from. Gargle herself. 01:06:58.13 Kiki Um I would like for her to be able to offer them that if they continue with the like note if they continue with the pledge of de-escalation first and no attacking only defending um then she would. Continue to bestow upon them the advantage on persuasion and charsma checks. But I don't know if that's like kosher with d and d rules. 01:07:24.25 sidekqpodcast And that sounds like yeah because I was going to say now that sounds like she's getting more into like arch fay warlock packed stuff like she becomes like you know like if so if you pick a warlock character like ah Michael when he first started off was a warlock character. 01:07:40.26 Kiki Um, if. 01:07:40.33 sidekqpodcast Um, so you know he had to make a bargain or a deal or an agreement in order to get his magic powers. So you know in that in one interpretation. It's like oh so now suddenly this kanoo this unassuming Kanoo you know who is an altruistic force of good now has become some sort of like warlock patron and now you can if you wanted to tap into levels of. Warlock patronage um, will now this sounds like a character that you could use for that endeavor. Okay, interesting. So a little sure. Yeah, yeah, it's fine. 01:08:06.64 Kiki No, that's that sounds good to me. Um, can I can I step out for just a second and come right back post the recording or something I'll be right back on me so fast. 01:09:39.20 Kiki Um, okay I'm back Also I Love the warlick idea. 01:09:42.45 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, all right cool. Okay, so ah, okay, so we're going with the warlock idea. Um, so that's that's cool. Okay, and now we have to consider the opposite. So What's going to be the consequence of failures should the players refuse the side Quest or. You know like you you like you stated they decide to use violence. You know they tried all their words and you know darn it. These sisters are just being too stubborn I'm going to go knock some sense into them. What's going to be the the consequence of that option. 01:10:13.89 Kiki When they get back. Their weapons will have been turned into buckets. 01:10:20.20 sidekqpodcast Ah, this is like 1970 s dungeons and dragons where you're just messing with your players like yeah, all that hard work you did to get that magic sword. Well good luck fighting monsters with a bucket now. Oh boy. Wow yeah, and then. 01:10:32.60 Kiki Um, yeah, um, ok, wait. Let me let me rephrase if they refuse she just doesn't give them back and she's like I'm going to turn these into buckets and she's powerful enough that they're not going to be able to get them back and don't know where they are um, if. They choose to use violence. She immediately turns them into buckets. Yeah, so basically never Mindd. She just turns them into buckets either way buckets. That's the that's the good ones. 01:10:56.44 sidekqpodcast So she so she polymorphs she like polymorphs the ah or transforms the players into like inanimmate objects and oh I was gonna go like Wow like yeah, we're definitely definitely. 01:11:03.34 Kiki No, no, no, no, no, not the players their weapons. That's not vegan man turning people into buckets is not vegan. 01:11:14.91 sidekqpodcast Ah, someone out there would probably make that argument that it is vegan but um, ah I was gonna say definitely you know I was like gonna be like oh we just thought like this is like a nice you know, powerful druid. It's like no I think pretty much like she is like an Archfey At this point it seems like I. 01:11:29.79 Kiki Ok I'm down with her being an archray that's fine just as long as she can turn their weapons into buckets if they don't comply with her demands. 01:11:36.10 sidekqpodcast You? Okay, so then yeah, then you know Okay, so then they're out weapons and now they're just yeah, so if they're gonna try well just because I'm I'm just you sometimes you just have to imagine for every contingency. So some party out there being mad at like an arch phasey taking all their you. 01:11:50.59 Kiki Um, yeah. 01:11:54.79 sidekqpodcast High level gear. Whatever and now they're going to fight an Archfey but they're gonna be missing their stuff. Oh which well so she probably does she take but bags of holding I. 01:12:05.74 Kiki Yeah, oh yeah, anything like could have any kind of weapon and if they try to fight her. She takes their armor. 01:12:13.90 sidekqpodcast And so she just goes for the weapons first and bags and then beyond that if it escalates then she takes armor man man. Yeah no I could just imagine probably 9 times out of 10 this is gonna infuriate players. So like. 01:12:16.10 Kiki Um, where. 01:12:20.60 Kiki Um, yep. 01:12:32.75 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah. 01:12:32.99 Kiki But if they do what she wants. They'll get their weapons back and she'll probably give them the the stuff back too with a lecture. 01:12:36.85 sidekqpodcast You? Okay, okay, yeah, no like I said you just have to I guess for me, it's easier to imagine the worst case scenarios happening and just like you know the players getting super angry super agro real fast because they're like you don't understand. What I went through I had to go through 5 levels of a dungeon I nearly died 4 times just to get this thing only for you to pop up and then just steal this thing from me would be like the player's perspective. So. 01:13:05.85 Kiki Yeah, but you're using in her violence she does not tolerate that. 01:13:11.76 sidekqpodcast Mm. Okay, okay, and then with that is there anything are you interested in answering some of the other questions or do you feel like you have a pretty good handle on gargle. 01:13:25.80 Kiki Um, I feel like we have covered everything pretty clearly and I'm looking over your optional questions and I think we've answered them all in our conversation. 01:13:33.91 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? Well I think we've ah well I know a previous guest of mine said oh their canu ah korvis the arbiter of ah ordering chaos as one of ah his player characters described that particular character as more. Terrifying and powerful than an ancient red Dragon I don't know maybe Gargle is going to put corvis another again, another Kku ah run for run for his money. We'll we'll see in the next segment called the random encounter. 01:14:07.12 sidekqpodcast And just because I don't have it pulled up and for the interest of time but this is the spot where I will input the Zencastr ah ad read and so Kurt will have to remember to go and record his own Zencastr ad read. It's pretty great and all that good stuff and now. 01:14:24.31 Kiki Thanks carp. 01:14:24.75 sidekqpodcast Back to the podcast. Okay, so now we're here in the random encounter which means we get to do a little bit of a role play a little bit of a vignette a scene with the Npc that's been made here today. So The question becomes. What kind of scene are you interested in I Believe you're leaning towards gargle meeting one of my podcast adventurer characters is that what you're thinking or oh you think a gotpe on the hot streak should be the one to meet. 01:14:49.53 Kiki Yeah, your tifling they've used a couple times recently sounds interesting. 01:14:59.34 sidekqpodcast Ah, ah, gargle. Okay, all right? Um, so ah sure I guess if it helps you the last adventure she was on. She just confronted the 5 sided fates so she just went through this whole thing and she. 01:15:01.79 Kiki Um, sure, let's do it Can I start the narration. 01:15:14.46 Kiki Okay. 01:15:18.61 sidekqpodcast She just got a hold of ah some warlock arch fay powers from another previous Npc from the podcast. 01:15:24.94 Kiki Um, cool, perfect. Well if she's got warlock stuff and this sounds great. Oh that's right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right? Ok I haven't listened to the one which the one that she just encountered the 5 But i. 01:15:28.75 sidekqpodcast Well, she's a she's a sorelock I Guess they would say a sorcer warlock. She. 01:15:41.48 Kiki I Listen to her encountering spruce and ok computer. So All right? So She wakes up didn't realize that she had fallen asleep but she wakes up. Um and she finds herself in a really comfortable room inside of like. A grove of Trees. It's like a tent with like Cotton Tent Flaps I Guess she's propped up on pillows and any damage that she had is now healed. She feels refreshed like she's just had the best sleep? Um, she notices that all of her weapons are gone. Um, and if she had any leather items or other non-vegan items um does she carry beef jerky around Anyway, that's also gone um Wool is fine if she has woolet time and honey is Fine. There's a pot of warm tea and delicious and a delicious looking vegan meal. On a table in the room probably like some tofu with mushrooms on rice or something and like a delicious smelling sauce and the door of the room is just a cloth tent flap and it isn't closed tightly. 01:16:46.24 sidekqpodcast And okay, so after having encountered the 5 sided fates this ah this legendary group of ah you know the aspects of fate itself. Um, you know creation morality. Ah, chaos love and death. You know she encountered them all and through the journey of it. You know she found a way to kind of find this balance between embracing the wild magic sorcerer that she is along with the Arch Bay pact that she has so she now feels like this huge surge of confidence in her abilities. And perhaps she doesn't have to worry about um the wild magic taking her by surprise instead. It's now more of like she can choose for it to happen and perhaps she can like direct the wild magic to like work in her favor rather than it being so chaotic but I'm sure it'll be chaotic every once in a while. Ah. Because that's how the fates are um so she wakes up as she sees. She's on these ah this bed and these pillows and she looks over her equipment and you know she does wear like basic. You know, like adventuring clothes and robes and stuff like that and she did have leather armor and stuff. But she's like oh my armor's gone. 01:17:38.20 Kiki Are. 01:17:56.94 sidekqpodcast You know she wiggles her toes and like oh she doesn't have boots on anymore and she didn't you know, maybe she had some like basic weapons but I don't think she had really kidded herself out with any like heavy duty weapons but she's looking around for stuff in her bag and she's like kind of panicking as well like hey where's all my stuff. What I just had this. Wild Encounter happened with something otherorldly and now I'm poofed back somewhere else. Um, but she'll see the meal and ah, she'll just kind of call out like ah hello Hello What? what's going On. Where's my Stuff. Just had a whole slug slug out drag down Knockout Encounter trial with the five sides of fate and and I she does she flexes her hand and she sees some of her warlock powers flare up and then maybe she does like another. A bit of sorcery magic on her other hand and so she feels like a good. She's like okay so that that's good all right, but she's calling out and she's like what what is where am I what is going on where is my stop. Oh and then she like sees the food and she's like oh I guess I am pretty hungry and then she'll just start. 01:18:56.79 Kiki I. 01:19:12.26 sidekqpodcast Loudly eating the food forgetting and not realizing like how famish she actually is. 01:19:20.41 Kiki And then I guess she'll hear a voice from outside the tent excuse me. Um and the voice will say. Are you fine. 01:19:33.50 sidekqpodcast But but she'll swallow be yeah, it's yeah, it's really good. Um, she'll finish picking up the bowl and I guess she'll walk over to the tent flap and just kind of like push it aside but you see her. She's still like. Shoveling mouthfuls of food into her mouth and kind of like looking around to see who is talking and then with a mouthful of food. She's like wo almost stuff. 01:19:55.38 Kiki So when she opens the tent flop. Ah she finds herself at a campfire in a larger circle of trees. Um, there's other like tents around the campfire and stoking the fire is a koo in green robes an old lady Kinoo with gray feathers on her face humming to herself. Yoda style and when she sees what's the name of your teaflling I forgot what her name is I got by. Thank you. That's right, the ironic name. Um, ah and the kaoo smiles. 01:20:21.56 sidekqpodcast Agape. 01:20:29.30 Kiki If Kinoos can smile and if not she like makes some kind of gesture that makes someone look like she's happy. Um and she says good morning my welcome guest and are you still hungry. You'll need to be. 01:20:42.93 sidekqpodcast And she looks confused and I mean you you put forward the offer of food and so she'll say to the effect of like well I'm not 1 to refuse a meal but and you'll you know seeing her in the sunlight now you see she's like this lilac colored teethling. Um, and so she's like yeah oh and then she you know she'll just plop down I guess next door at the camp site the campfire and so she'll just keep shoveling food into her mouth and she's just kind of like muttering and she's like but. My stuff that was a crazy fight I had to do vern. 01:21:23.50 Kiki And um, the kingu just keeps serving her more like rice and mushrooms and sauce. Um, and and she's she laughs and she says but to get your weapons back. You will have to do me your. 01:21:34.66 sidekqpodcast So a favor huh and shell wipe her mouth clean with like the back of her sleeve or something like that and she'll be like okay well what? what do I got to do to to get my stuff back. Okay. 01:21:49.21 Kiki Well, that requires a little story. 01:21:51.62 sidekqpodcast O. 01:21:59.50 Kiki Um, it all started long ago. 01:22:13.35 Kiki Worked with me to sworn to turn all sorts and ploughshares. Um, but my my 2 daughters. 01:22:22.54 Kiki And and their families lived in peace on this mountainside each family with their farm on one side of the mountain and they had joined me on my quest and we were finding all the weapons in the world and. 01:22:39.38 Kiki Equipment and useful things. Um stealing weapons from adventurers. But then. 01:22:47.34 Kiki Family was hoarding weapons. So Of course they assumed that because we are Kku we were just monsters hoarding the weapons for ourselves. They never imagined that we were converting them into peaceful tools to help us feed passing travelers then one day a greedy group of Adventurers caught my daughter. So. My surprise and threatened her wife and children. So So this is this is this is helped them to defeat and afraid for the lives of her children and completely Overpowered. Ah. Then so this is is was fighting against her sister. 01:23:28.55 Kiki Were disturbed to find that who didn't have any weapons at all. They just had farm tools but the. 01:23:39.00 Kiki So now so and are furious with each other and refuse to. 01:23:49.67 Kiki Adventure are invited to go and make peace between my daughters but you must not use any kind of violence if you do you will surely be overpowered. You must rely on your skills of persuasion and Charisma to win them over to forgive each other and return to our non-violent way of life. 01:24:09.31 sidekqpodcast She you know listens attentively to the tale and you know she's ah taken aback by the you know she's just speaking but maybe perhaps she interprets it as a bit of a theatrical performance. Um, and she'll taken the story. And she'll be like well I mean that sounds awful that your daughters are are fighting each other that they're feuding. But um I don't know it's like I feel like I could have done a better job if you hadn't taken my stuff but. 01:24:44.30 Kiki And they are heavily armed fighting them at any time is foolish. But if you choose to accept my quest then you will be advantaged every time you seek to Persuade or use logic or even charm or Charisma to help them to see that nonviolent. Is the correct way but be aware regardless of whether or not you accept my quest you must attempt deescalation before you harm any creature you must attempt de-esscalation before any act of violence and you must only fight in defense. 01:25:03.71 sidekqpodcast M. 01:25:21.97 Kiki Of yourself or of some other being any attacks you make outside of those parameters. You will be disadvantaged. 01:25:30.50 sidekqpodcast Um, she she looks at you keenly narrowing her eyes and she asks you a question to basically mean you know or I would I am going out on a limb here and assuming that. You could probably tell that I have a certain patron in prosperina pretty powerful Arch Fay if you don't know her already. Um are you are you are you do you know Prosperina are you? you. Your friends maybe I can just tell prosperina to chat with you. We could just chalk this up to a misunderstanding and then you know I can get my stuff back and I can work you know work out the the smoothing over to the tensions and stuff like that and. 01:26:19.45 Kiki Perrosperina and all the Archfey are very aware of my quest and they are very aware that interfering does not go well for them. 01:26:29.78 sidekqpodcast She definitely looks ah you know, peeved in that she perhaps tried to use her charisma to outwit you but it didn't seem to work and so she'll just kind of like sigh and be like okay well I mean I guess if I could take on the five fates. Then this shouldn't be too hard to do without any she like looks down at her bare feet which are human feet not hooves and she'll you know I guess if I could just do this with my words and not with. She looks at her hands to do Magicky powers and she'll say look at you and then look put her deep power her hands be like do it without powers then is okay, okay, okay, fine fine I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it the art the faith the the arch phase i. I've been surrounded by chaos my whole life I've just now had a taste of being able to manage it or at least control it in a way that it doesn't overwhelm me and I seem to have been given another test now with my new found trials having been recently completed. Okay fine. You know what? I'll do it I'll do it. 01:27:39.92 Kiki Um, yes, thank you if you would like some shoes I can provide you with some moccasins that are made of cotton. 01:27:40.90 sidekqpodcast I Make you happy are f. 01:27:51.33 sidekqpodcast I Yes, she'll say okay. 01:27:54.30 Kiki I could make you wooden shoes but most people don't like them very much. They're not very comfortable so you can have some cotton slippers. 01:27:59.62 sidekqpodcast And she says she'll actually say I'll I'll take my chances with the wooden shoes a little more a little more firm under the feet. 01:28:09.29 Kiki Um, okay, just. 01:28:16.16 sidekqpodcast Okay, so then agape will continue to sit there and shovel food into her mouth drink fresh water after her, you know you know anime level fight that she had against the 5 sided fates and she'll just kind of sit here and as she's sitting and eating. 01:28:16.33 Kiki Eating she. 01:28:35.24 sidekqpodcast She's gonna kind of have this side conversation going on with prosperina and basically getting filled in on the details from prosperina's perspective on this and so as the camera pans out from the campsite as ah, a Gotpe's eating and having this conversation. Ah then ah. Before you know it a gotpi will be on the road to diffuse some tensions and seen there we go. So yeah, what you think of getting to be in that scene. Okay. 01:29:07.54 Kiki Um, she's a fun character I Hope people aren't too annoyed by her voice or her you know affinity for buckets. 01:29:14.53 sidekqpodcast Well I affinity for buckets. Yeah, um, yeah, no I can only imagine like what would happen ah deploying this character into into a game with people and seeing how they would. 01:29:28.69 sidekqpodcast React to a character like this but could probably definitely go a long way to spice up an otherwise ah routine game session. So. 01:29:37.24 Kiki Um, yeah I figured it'll just like be a different direction. Oh also if they can prove to her that they failed in good faith and did not use any violence and they're able to prove it somehow then she might have conveniently not made their weapons into buckets. Maybe. 01:29:46.74 sidekqpodcast I. 01:29:52.17 sidekqpodcast Okay. 01:29:55.57 Kiki But they're going to have to like roll real high on like persuasion and prisma which they should still have advantage on if they have not broken the pact. 01:30:02.60 sidekqpodcast Yeah, okay, very cool and yeah, so we're starting to get here into our final thoughts section of the show. So generally generally I like to just check in with everyone and and see what their experience was like on the podcast I know it's been a while since we've. Ah, had the opportunity to talk you know life has been busy in all this stuff. But it's you know so it's been good to ah obviously catch up and stuff like that. But and in now hearing that like yeah, you've been a listener and you've obviously contributed to the podcast and in great in small ways over over the years but how has it been now behind. Ah, behind the screen in the hot seat if you will as being a guest on the show. Oh there, you go? Oh oh of course not a problem. Yeah, so are you going to get inspired now to. 01:30:44.76 Kiki Um, I've never been on a podcast before it was very exciting. You're a very gracious host. Thank you for having me. 01:30:54.97 sidekqpodcast Do a podcast of your own you caught the bug. Oh no. 01:30:56.43 Kiki Um, no I don't think so I do enough interviewing for Journalism and I like being able to think about it and write about it I don't know if anything changes I'll let you know. 01:31:05.50 sidekqpodcast Ah, okay, fair enough. Um sugar Yes, for sure. Um, yes, it is yes and ah lots lots of learning and. 01:31:10.97 Kiki Yeah, you do a great job I Just know it's a lot of work. 01:31:19.12 sidekqpodcast Allowances that you give yourself along the way of like you know I can maybe let a few more filler words slip through if it means that I can actually get a good night's sleep instead of ah, staying up till ridiculous hours nitpicking every single episode. 01:31:26.78 Kiki Um, yeah, um. 01:31:35.89 sidekqpodcast All right? Yeah, so you know as ah, you know we're we're starting to wind down. You know any other concluding thoughts you have if not you know I always leave the stage the microphone the soapbox the platform over to the guest. So if there's any social media that you want to share be found upon if there's any blogs or. 01:31:53.90 sidekqpodcast Articles that you do any projects you work on or any passions or causes that we need to be made aware of ah, go ahead and let us know laid on us. 01:32:02.47 Kiki Um, okay, um, well I'm not super great at the internet a storm a stormtrooper once asked me if I was from the past and I do think the answer is yes. Um, but I do have an Instagram and it is speaking with Kiki that's speaking with k I k I I'm all in word. 01:32:20.84 Kiki I'm regularly published online for my freelance writing job. But it's not all in 1 place because one of the places I write for is a wire service like Ap News but for catholics it's called Osb News um but I do keep a list of my articles on. 01:32:30.39 sidekqpodcast I. 01:32:37.90 Kiki What was once a blog and is now an archive site which is speaking with kiki.blogger.com I think and then if you click the writing tab. Um, but that's like a really old website. So probably just follow me on Instagram or whatever. Um, oh and if ah if any of your listeners are on nanorimo. Um, please send me a buddy request I am speaking with kiki that's again, speaking with k I k I on nano rymo and I'm super excited for nanoriymo Twenty Twenty three I'm prepping now. So if anybody's on nano rymo and wants to be a buddy send me a buddy request because I'm always looking for more nanoriymo buddies. 01:33:09.29 sidekqpodcast And what is that is that like some sort of like writing thing or what is it. 01:33:14.34 Kiki Um, ah oh I'm so delighted that you are asking what is nanorimo because you're going to love it. It's called national normal writing month and it was started I think in like 2009 but I've only been doing it for a couple of years um but it's like an. It's a nonprofit organization and they do a whole lot of like education for writers they have like a young writers program. They're always supporting. Um, they're always supporting like indie bookstores and um, they're very very good about diversity equity and inclusion. Um, they they frequently have like events for writers of color and lgbtu I plus writers. Um, they've got like talks and free writing materials online. So anyone who is an aspiring fiction writer like nanorimo is a really really great place to start. They have like a podcast. They've got all kinds of things. So anyway. 01:34:01.97 sidekqpodcast And that you have a service. Do they have like a service or a platform or something that they use and okay. 01:34:03.99 Kiki That's not me. It's like nano rymo. But um, if you go to nanorymo.org all of their resources are found there. They're also I think on Instagram at nano rymo. 01:34:17.16 sidekqpodcast Okay, cause I guess I was just trying to understand because you were like oh if anyone else is doing this. You should send me like a buddy request. So I thought oh do they operate like their own like community platform or something like that and. 01:34:21.37 Kiki Um, is it. 01:34:26.45 Kiki Yeah, so if you if you want to do the official nin or imo challenge. Um, you can't you don't have to but you can sign up on the Nanohyma website and you like make an account and then you like put in your word count each day and then it like. Tracks your progress and if your' buddies with someone then they can also see your progress and you can check in with each other and send each other messages like you can do it like write the next chapter and it's it's like a little like social media for writers. But it's like very low key. You don't have to like be a super public or anything which is why because I'm not very good at think super public. 01:34:51.15 sidekqpodcast And. 01:34:59.55 sidekqpodcast So right? you don't have to worry about you know, taking the selfies in the gym or or ah, you know the inspirational quotes while you're hiking across a mountain range or something like that or to. 01:35:02.81 Kiki No nothing like that. 01:35:12.10 Kiki Um, no, no, you literally don't as far as I know you don't post at all, you just like put in like you just you click update and then you type the number of words that you wrote that day so say you wrote 1500 words you'd write one five zero zero 01:35:13.65 sidekqpodcast You know, show people that you were at the club or whatever that was. 01:35:30.54 Kiki You push enter and then it it says Oh how you're like that much closer to your goal but like you don't like post or anything exactly. It's not. 01:35:38.37 sidekqpodcast And so it's not a full fledged like social media platform. It's just like ah you're part of a website and then you can buddy with people on the website and then yeah, okay sure. Okay, well there we go? Yeah so kiki. 01:35:46.80 Kiki You can send them messages. Yeah and like encourage each other to keep writing. 01:35:54.62 sidekqpodcast Ah, well thank you so much for being a guest on the show. Can't wait to have you back on making even more interesting in pcs. 01:36:04.30 Kiki Yay! Thank you so much. You are such a gracious podcast host I Hope you have a great day and hide your family.