00:00.00 sidekqpodcast Hello and welcome to another episode of sidekicks and side quests the best unofficial dungeons and dragons podcast in my humbly biased opinion I've got an awesome returning guest for you this week but before we get to our guest. You know I got to do it. The ad read. From our first sponsor plus one Eexp you had an opportunity to hear you had an opportunity to hear Tony Vicinda himself on a recent episode talk about his entire brand and platform so you know to echo those same sentiments. He's got all the basic beard bombs named after all of the basic stats from dungeons and dragons and he's also expanding into soaps and lip balms and all these other sorts of things to help enhance your abilities whether it be strength dexterity charisma or more. Ah, beards and beyond is the indie rpg that helped to foment and launch this entire brand but you should know that tony's worked on other really cool games including repugnant eye toaster down. 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At no extra cost you and it also helps to support this show so again that code is randolph on the website plus one eexp.com well it has been a while since we have spoken. But. Ah, for those not in the know would you care to reintroduce yourself tell us who it is that you are and what is it that you do. 02:23.84 Nolar Ah, my name's Nolan page. Um I work for a water company down here in San Antone um and ah yeah work at a water treatment plant. 02:37.22 sidekqpodcast So that's awesome. Yeah I remember you educating me that on the first goaround and ah, certainly with the population of Texas growing making sure that we have good water is also a very good thing. 02:47.58 Nolar You have. 02:51.68 sidekqpodcast Yeah, well I mean like I said it's been a couple years since we've officially talked as far as the podcast is concerned um keen viewers may remember that you were 1 of my first episodes that I collected. 02:57.82 Nolar Um, yeah. 03:05.75 sidekqpodcast Ah, in that span of time when everyone was stuck indoors and I was like well I guess I'll just keep interviewing people so you were very gracious ah to be 1 of my first guests and I certainly appreciate that. So yeah, yeah, um so ah. 03:10.36 Nolar Big hip. 03:16.30 Nolar Oh yeah, it was fun and I'm glad to be back. 03:23.93 sidekqpodcast Kind of going along with ah that same spirit of just you know in general being like how's life Ben have you had an opportunity to play any dungeons and dragons or other ttrpgs in the meantime. 03:35.74 Nolar Ah, yes I've I've been in a couple campaigns over the last couple years I still haven't dmed myself. Ah sorry I still haven't been a dungeon master myself I just haven't quite had the time to prepare but I have been in a few games. 03:44.79 sidekqpodcast And. 03:51.83 sidekqpodcast You Oh that's awesome. Ah, any any chance you've played that warhammer Forty K ttrpg that I hear is out. 03:53.40 Nolar Yeah. 03:57.54 Nolar Um, no I haven't I've heard. It's good. But I just I haven't had a chance that. 04:04.67 sidekqpodcast I Know there's There's only so many hours in a day in order to play all the games that we want to play right? that? Awesome! Yeah, so you know with this being sidekicks and side Quest and we seem to be you know, doing pretty well breezing through these ah questions. 04:10.17 Nolar It's been right. 04:21.62 sidekqpodcast Have you come across any new or interesting Npcs or sidekicks and whatever media you've consumed since the last time we spoke. 04:26.77 Nolar Um, ah, um, see um. 04:38.86 Nolar Not in particular I was I was kind of brainstorming the other day and ah kind of be might be well I mean it's definitely more in like ah B B E G territory. Um, but ah. 04:42.44 sidekqpodcast And. 04:52.27 sidekqpodcast Oh sure. 04:56.41 Nolar You know, working in water. Ah you hear all the time you know a lot of people think that fluoride is bad and it's like used for like mind control and stuff and I'm like you know, Obviously it's not but in a D and D setting or whatever what if it was. 05:07.00 sidekqpodcast Ah. 05:13.41 sidekqpodcast M. 05:15.16 Nolar You know and I was just kind of you know, thought that that might could make a really neat you know plot device of some sort. But ah, you know, ah sorry's that dog Bart coming through the mike. 05:22.72 sidekqpodcast So okay. 05:32.71 sidekqpodcast Oh a little bit and I mean I know you said you had to go let them in. So if you need to go do that. That's fine if you need to ah take care of that I can just chill and wait all right. 05:40.28 Nolar Okay, it'll be 2 seconds so we're up it. 05:58.78 Nolar All right? sorry about that. 06:02.21 sidekqpodcast That's cool. Yeah I mean yeah, the fluoride I suppose is brought up a lot in these ah conspiracy circles in the real world but certainly would be an interesting element to include in a ttrpg campaign. 06:09.90 Nolar Yeah. 06:18.38 sidekqpodcast Or you know a plot device or of that nature. Yeah um, and then ah to go along with the the theme of the show as well have you come across any new or interesting side quests in any various games ah in the interim. 06:19.49 Nolar Yeah, yeah. 06:34.94 Nolar Let's see. Um. 06:40.34 Nolar Trying to say ah. 06:46.86 Nolar ah well okay um ah a couple months ago ah we did a one shot and ah we did. We didn't really know what was going on e he was kind of playing it close to the chest. Well in. 06:49.92 sidekqpodcast And. 07:01.29 sidekqpodcast You? okay. 07:04.35 Nolar When we get there. We've got our characters all prepped and you know they're all like you know, kited out for you know battle or whatever. Well we get there and ah turns out our characters are in an iron Chef competition. So. 07:09.94 sidekqpodcast And. 07:18.70 sidekqpodcast Oh. 07:23.70 Nolar We're we're sitting there. We're like we're like teamed up against and helping out helping out at ah Npc ah, and on the other team. The the character was basically his version of Loki you know, kind of a trickster god so you know we were. 07:38.24 sidekqpodcast Okay. 07:42.60 Nolar Lots of shenanigans it was. It was a lot of fun. 07:46.38 sidekqpodcast Okay, yeah I was gonna say yeah you don't ah get that many opportunities to do I Guess a series of skill challenge in a cooking competition. But yeah, it sounds like you had a lot of fun. 07:54.81 Nolar Yeah, ah I was sitting there with yeah I was sitting there with my poisoner feet and I'm like oh this is not good for cooking right? that. 08:03.62 sidekqpodcast Not unless you're trying to take out the competition without them knowing all right?? Um, and then ah yeah I mean have you come across any new passions or hobbies in the. Couple years since we spoke officially on the podcast. 08:20.84 Nolar Well I've been ah trying to teach myself clarinet and trombone and and it's absolutely horrible on both ends. But it's a lot of fun. Good. 08:24.74 sidekqpodcast And oh. 08:32.46 sidekqpodcast And I was going to say remind me again in school. Um, what was your instrument that you played. 08:38.87 Nolar Ah, my main instrument was like bass guitar playing bass in Jazz band. But also I played tuba and I wasn't a great student but you know I I played had fun. 08:41.82 sidekqpodcast Write ahha. I yeah no I remember your your solid chops on the on the base and you know being in the tuba ensemble and such in the in the marching band. So. Yeah, no, that's cool clarinet and trombone. Yeah, you're just you're going to become like Dr Steve Trinkle and you're going to become a savant of all these instruments before you know it awesome and ah there. 09:10.19 Nolar Ah, yeah, well I'm working on it. 09:19.66 sidekqpodcast Yeah I just wanted to I just feel like we went through the question so fast I just wanted to you know before we moved on to the next section just you know give you an opportunity to be like ah you know has has life. You know how has life been for you these past few years you know, whatever you feel like sharing and. 09:37.80 Nolar But things been going good ah, the last time we talked I was on night shift and I'd been on night shift for well all all total. It was four and a half years and you know that's that's a little rough and I've been on date. 09:47.43 sidekqpodcast Sure. Okay I. 09:54.36 Nolar I've been on day shift for a year and it's been a pretty good year you know. 09:59.21 sidekqpodcast Yeah I mean you get to function in like normal society and stuff like that and get to see your friends and family during the normal you know hours that you would. 10:07.22 Nolar Yeah, yeah, be a be awake during the day like a normal person. 10:11.16 sidekqpodcast You Yeah well that's cool I'm glad to hear that everything's been going well and your family's been great since you know the pandemic lockdowns and and all that and you know animals are doing Well I know I've. 10:24.68 Nolar Um, will know. 10:27.83 sidekqpodcast Picked up some new animals in my life. So it's just it's just good to hear that. Ah you know the page household. Ah, you know triumphs. 10:36.47 Nolar Yeah, yeah, we ah talk about animals. We got a new kitten in December ah and she was like they they said she was three months old but I don't think she was she was a little younger that. 10:40.86 sidekqpodcast Oh. 10:51.16 Nolar So but she's she's doing pretty good and getting along well with our our ah like our hundred and forty pound new fee mix and you know everybody's doing good. 10:53.70 sidekqpodcast Awesome. 11:01.32 sidekqpodcast So yeah, well we have ah we have a dog named bishop now and he is a King Charles cavalier spaniel so he just turned a year old. So. 11:10.92 Nolar Oh man oh man I I used to have a ah cavalier King Charles His name was Charlie. 11:16.94 sidekqpodcast And that was an option but we decided you know that oh bishop you know we like that name we'll we'll call him bishop. So. 11:26.00 Nolar Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's a good excellent name and yeah Charlie passed away I think it was about a year and a half ago um ah he was such a great dog and. 11:29.43 sidekqpodcast Yep. 11:32.81 sidekqpodcast I. 11:41.60 Nolar And I'm sure bishop is you know, just the sweetest you know because they're just such good boys. 11:47.76 sidekqpodcast Ah, yeah, he's He's a good lap dog but he can be a stinker at times chewing on toys that don't belong to him so all right? Well we had a wonderful time catching up going down memory lane a little bit. 11:52.73 Nolar Oh yeah, oh yeah. 12:02.30 sidekqpodcast And that I think it's time we head into the Npc creation all right? Yeah, an Npc creation is brought to you by you? Ah, the podcast audience and our patrons for Patreon So now is the time of the show where we give a shout out to our comfortable patrons and above with a loud hurrah. 12:05.84 Nolar Sounds good. 12:21.70 sidekqpodcast So do you Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie Anson jablinsky my parents we say cheers um, all of these fine patrons. Ah are you know, wealthy level. But most recently our own queen of the patreon Katie Downey Aka Goblin Katie has just. Ah, upgraded her membership to the aristocratic tier. So we definitely say a big who's off for that. So you know all these people get to submit random suggestions for our or I should say so that means that all of these awesome people get to submit. And element of chance to our random tables which we are going to use here right now. So if you want to learn more details and join our Patreon you can either go ah to the show notes below. You can go to my pop. You can go to my podcast website or just go directly to Google. 13:15.91 sidekqpodcast Patreon.com/sidekicks and side quest to find out more about our accommodations help us expand our operations at the levitating platter in this demiplane and Worlds Beyond. So as you will recall I know last time you came in with like. Part of an idea formed and then we rolled some dice but this time you just want to go full random is that correct. Awesome! Awesome! That is the way we like to do things on this podcast. So if you have your dice at the ready whether physical or virtual we begin our creation process. 13:35.66 Nolar Um, yes, that is correct. Yes, it. 13:51.50 sidekqpodcast With rolling a D twenty to figure out the name of our character. 13:55.33 Nolar Rats I Good forgot to grab my dice which made me sound dumb. Let me ah let me pull up an app. 14:01.62 sidekqpodcast Sure we don't discriminate whether you have physical dice or you use an app or you just use Google dice roller. 14:09.24 Nolar Back. Okay, see. 14:24.37 sidekqpodcast Yeah, yeah. 14:24.50 Nolar Um, all right now we're talking. Okay I can't believe I didn't pull my eyes out all right? ah. 14:42.76 Nolar Sorry trying to. 14:45.87 sidekqpodcast Oh is it asking you to update the app or something like that. 14:51.33 Nolar Though. Um, okay got it. Um all right? ah on a d twenty I rolled a 14 14:59.11 sidekqpodcast 14 all right, your answer was suggested by previous guest Kevin no ah prosperina so that's spelled proserp I n a ah prosper. Cross proerpona proerpoena pro subpoena I know that this name is from mythology I believe so um, while I just take a quick second here. Um don't mind me here in the background. Just. 15:26.70 Nolar He. 15:35.29 sidekqpodcast Being like hey how do I pronounce this name. 15:37.11 Nolar Um. 15:43.00 sidekqpodcast Proerpana is what ah Google says Proserpana. Okay, yeah, it comes from a yeah from I believe from like ah Greek mythology if I'm not mistaken proerpana. Okay. 15:45.10 Nolar Um, for serp that cool. 15:59.69 Nolar Um, who. 16:00.18 sidekqpodcast We'll go with that up all right? The next question we have to ask ourselves is what is the ancestry of our character and we determine this with a d 100 or a 2 d 10 effect. 16:13.79 Nolar Okay, let me. 16:22.63 Nolar Alright. 16:33.24 Nolar All right? that is a 90 16:37.90 sidekqpodcast It ninety as I scroll down the list aho well very fitting with the mythology theme because we got the answer of Arch Fay so ah Proserpina is some kind of arch fay. 16:39.10 Nolar This. 16:47.21 Nolar Cool. 16:53.28 sidekqpodcast Comes from the fay wild very powerful figure indeed all right? and now we need to determine what is the job or role in society that this arch fay proserpana ah has you can determine this with a singular d 10 roll. 17:10.12 Nolar All right? Okay, that is a 5 17:14.90 sidekqpodcast Number 5 okay, your answer provided by previous guest Lauren Walsh market barker so this particular arch fay seems to be masquerading I was. Masquerading around as some kind of market barker or maybe as a market barker in the fay wild who knows and then the final piece of the puzzle for now with the dice rolling. We need to just we need to determine the age range of the character and we do this with the d 8 right. 17:38.51 Nolar Um, Vietnam. 17:47.96 Nolar 8 all right? Oh okay are 2 17:51.58 sidekqpodcast A 2 Okay well a two would make a teenager. So are you okay with a teenage Arch Fay named Proserpina that's a market barker or or or. 18:03.60 Nolar Ah, yeah, that sounds pretty good I can I can take some that. 18:08.46 sidekqpodcast You could picture that or maybe this is a disguise possibly is adopting the guys of a teenager that's being a market Barker or something like that. Maybe okay, well since we're getting into this question or alluding to it. How would you describe the physical appearance of ah. 18:14.98 Nolar Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. 18:27.60 sidekqpodcast Pererping a the Market Barker teenager. 18:31.56 Nolar Well um, I'm a I'm picturing. Ah you you know, like in the old shows the the kids that stand there with the papers you know? Ah yeah, yeah, exactly. 18:40.63 sidekqpodcast Extra extra read all about it. 18:48.17 Nolar Ah, you know, especially if for're going with ah the the skies you know? Yeah, a little little kid standing there next to stack of papers going it correct to and ah yeah, that's what that's what I'm picking. 19:03.15 sidekqpodcast Oh so does this market have kind of papers that it delivers is it like ah um oh like some of these grocery stores that give you like the coupon book or something at the door to encourage you to spend your money and on certain goods or services or something like that and. 19:19.65 Nolar Yeah, yeah, that's yeah, that sounds good. Ah yeah, yeah, and ah, ah. 19:22.98 sidekqpodcast Look ah just standing at the front being like hey sail on tomatoes get them right here. 19:34.36 Nolar Yeah, you know like I you know 13 eggs today instead of 12 You know you know. 19:38.58 sidekqpodcast And O Okay, all right? and so how do you imagine this teenager form is appearing. 19:51.81 Nolar Who. 19:55.59 sidekqpodcast Like Proerpoena ah proerpana sorry I'm gonna have to like look at this pronunciation guide in order to get it right? every single time but proerpana um I know it's maybe that's like a feminine name. 20:06.40 Nolar Um, right presser. 20:11.33 sidekqpodcast So is that like a like a feminine appearance you're thinking maybe or is it different I don't know. 20:16.57 Nolar Like that. Um I I was picturing a ah yeah, a female. Ah you know pointy years. But in the you know the um. 20:30.99 Nolar Kind of that old extra extra garb like with like um, ah what a black overalls like or or maybe suspenders. Yeah, yeah, that's the word newsy but you know maybe maybe more like a brightly colored shirt. 20:36.16 sidekqpodcast Okay, so like looking looking like a newsy. 20:46.82 sidekqpodcast Ok, okay, so this is the teenage guys and so we're assuming some sort of like elven form then I suppose. Okay. 20:49.00 Nolar Instead of Bolt Feather The black and white. 20:59.80 Nolar Yeah, that ah I in since it's kind of skiise you know, maybe maybe some pointy years but not a whole, not a whole lot of ah much to draw attention to appearance I guess. 21:06.35 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 21:13.54 sidekqpodcast Okay, so just trying to blend in and look the part up. Okay, and and we're imagining that a press Subpina Presser Percepina a serpna. Ah. 21:17.40 Nolar Yeah. 21:27.73 Nolar Prosper be for 7 enough. Yeah. 21:33.45 sidekqpodcast So we're imagining that Persuppiana is existing in the mundane world instead of like the natural fay wild. 21:42.85 Nolar Maybe like maybe kind of like an ever on setting or like a yeah like ah. 21:48.90 sidekqpodcast And oh like a desert climate and. 21:52.88 Nolar Well like um, what am I trying to say um like it's it's ah, not not like the mundane world but kind of they're going through like an industrial revolution type a thing you know they got like. 22:06.50 sidekqpodcast So okay, Okay, so it's kind of like a steam so it may be like the material plane but it's not just like generic Medieval Fantasy Land This is like a steampunk ah area that's undergoing some kind of. 22:08.40 Nolar And funkery going on. 22:22.13 sidekqpodcast Magical Industrial revolution or something like that or okay and certainly we can explore it more in some of the other questions as well. But I'm just curious if you've already got ideas forming as to. 22:23.90 Nolar Yeah, yeah, that that's what I'm seeing. 22:36.96 sidekqpodcast Why this particular archphay is in this place and adopting this particular disguise does the Archphay have some sort of interest in this steampunk industrial magical society or something like that. 22:42.70 Nolar Who. 22:53.82 Nolar Um, maybe ah, just kind of a ah when we translate um, kind of like a spy. 23:02.33 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, so acting as a spy and they and rather than sending some underling. They just themselves or there in all their arch fay power and glory. 23:16.37 Nolar That's kind of what I was pictu. Yeah, you know that you know ah arch fay you know if they get into trouble they they can get out. You know. 23:16.91 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 23:24.38 sidekqpodcast Sure, Yeah, yeah, rather than sending one of their underlings who could easily get captured and studied or experimented on or something Okay, all right? Well certainly you know we don't have to answer every question here and now I was just trying to ah. 23:30.10 Nolar Yeah. 23:40.86 sidekqpodcast Get some ideas ah helping to focus and perhaps lead us into the next question which is can you describe Proserpina with 3 adjectives. 23:45.71 Nolar Um, yeah. 23:53.43 Nolar Oh okay, um. 23:56.96 sidekqpodcast And is this their true archphay name I Keep I know we I keep I personally am having a stumbling block saying it is that the archphay's real name or is that like the disguise name of the teenager. And so oh it sounds like very elven and so that's why it's hard to say or something like that sorry I didn't mean to interrupt I Just thought maybe that would clue into me. Oh with the adjectives question as well. 24:18.42 Nolar Ah. 24:24.90 Nolar Yeah, but I hadn't really thought of it. So um, ah I was kind of thinking maybe first ah per perception as their real name and ah maybe. 24:34.97 sidekqpodcast Okay. 24:40.29 Nolar In the the world. She's spying on. maybe yeah maybe Percy 24:46.37 sidekqpodcast Ooh Percy okay interesting so she so she goes by Percy and her market barker form but then proserpana is the archphas real name. Yeah. 24:59.70 Nolar Yeah I Ah ah seems like decent decent cover. 25:02.64 sidekqpodcast Okay, sure. Yeah no I dig it I just I just wanted to understand so and maybe also get an idea of like an easier name to say so you know hrsey proserpana what 3 adjectives best describe her. 25:12.70 Nolar Yet. 25:19.96 Nolar Um, let's see ah well I mean definitely observant. Um, ah inquisitive I suppose. 25:26.00 sidekqpodcast Okay. 25:33.00 sidekqpodcast Okay. 25:36.21 Nolar And ah hi. 25:44.21 Nolar Um, trying to think like friendly but like too friendly like phony. 25:54.52 sidekqpodcast Phony. Interesting. Okay, and so by being overly friendly as a market barker you think that throws people off the trail as to like? Oh. Percy couldn't be something more than she appears. She's just like a market barker she's trying to get you to buy stuff in the market. You know she's not anything more than that. She's just super annoying teenager kind of a thing. Mm. 26:14.97 Nolar Yeah, yeah, big exactly a little bit annoying so people are like. Ah yeah. 26:23.40 sidekqpodcast Like it's like no I don't want your coupons leave me alone. No I don't want to drawing your rewards membership program I'll get a ding on my credit I don't need to give you my social security number. Okay, all right I'm starting to like Percy perserpana. 26:31.54 Nolar Know you can't have my poium. 26:42.73 sidekqpodcast Um, okay, and then let's see the next question we have here and we get to go back to some dice rolling what is going to be a valuable item a piece of lore a secret or an ideal or concept that Percy Perserpana would ascribe to. This is the combo d 4 d 6 roll. 27:00.10 Nolar Okay, let me bring that up ready to go Alright, all right a D four and. 27:12.55 sidekqpodcast M. 27:19.15 Nolar D 6 all right? ah on the d four I got a one and on a d six you got a 3 27:26.64 sidekqpodcast So okay, 3 okay well your answer was provided by previous guest Kevin Shinard ah Percy Perserpna has an ivory statuet of an owl that once per day animates and can be used to deliver a long distance message. So does this have to be involved with the ah the spy network that Percy Perserp is running. 27:46.89 Nolar Awesome. 27:56.39 Nolar That'd be ah that'd be pretty handy to you know, get Intel back to back to home. 28:02.51 sidekqpodcast Sure so is this owl able to ah trans not ah is this owl able to travel back to the fay wild or are there other ah agents or spies that Percy Perserpina is in control of in this. Town in this area or a neighboring community within this particular setting that. 28:30.97 Nolar Um, I'm I'm kind of picturing that it it goes to it can travel to like a maybe like a a nearby hideout or maybe like a village and go go and Relay info there and then they can you know. 28:41.35 sidekqpodcast Okay. 28:48.50 Nolar Do what they do with the info you know, whatever they're in whatever their ends are. 28:48.59 sidekqpodcast Okay, so. 28:55.94 sidekqpodcast Okay, so yeah, so maybe just as we're discovering this item and and kind of like the the idea behind this character. You know this arch fay herself that's willing to put herself in harm's way to figure out all this Intel. Um. Do you have like come some kind. Do. You have some sort of idea as to why? the Faye are spying on this particular civilization for back for lack of a better term. 29:26.63 Nolar Fum. Well. 29:26.70 sidekqpodcast Does it have to do with them making intrusions into the Faye wild are they stealing resources from the Faye wild is it like a fern goalie situation and. 29:37.10 Nolar Um, that's kind of what I was thinking like since you know it's kind of a industrial ah Revolution Era going on. They're they're just kind of making sure they're not trying to steer him away from like. 29:43.57 sidekqpodcast And. 29:52.79 Nolar You know, like dark magic or you know stuff they stuff that they shouldn't get into you know. 29:53.65 sidekqpodcast Oh Oh Okay, so then so there's a natural environment that this civilization is trying to make usage of and them being natural protectors. Um, say of like the forest or the swamps or what have you? that's nearby the civilization that's rich in resources and the archfay and their network are just trying to steer them in a direction that's going to help them. Avoid. The more dangerous elements of that environment or discovering natural portals to the fay wild or the shadow fell or whatever else or sure sure. Okay, so an arch fay that. Ah. 30:30.21 Nolar Yeah, yeah. 30:36.75 Nolar Um, yeah, you know we don't want none of that either. 30:46.80 sidekqpodcast That does seem to have noble intentions. It seems not not one of these greedy self-interested sort of arch phase that wants to like sow chaos or anything like that. This is like a a protector sort of Archphay maybe like some sort of. Maybe lawful neutral or lawful good sort of a character you think. 31:03.65 Nolar Yeah I feel like her her loyalty would be to you know the the Faye Wilds like like goal 1 is protect the fay wilds and then as a secondary like hey let's try to keep these folks. 31:09.64 sidekqpodcast E.E. 31:20.54 Nolar From destroying themselves. 31:22.69 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right, very cool and then let's see um now that we've discovered all these elements. Um, what is going to be a particular quest that Percy per serpina. Is willing to recruit or hire player characters to go and do on her behalf if you want to roll for this randomly. This can be the final dice which is a d 12 or if you're inspired. Um, you can just kind of generate your own side. Quest. 31:52.21 Nolar Um, you know what? let's let's roll 8 31:52.28 sidekqpodcast Sure go for it this 8 o okay, your answer provided by previous guest Elizabeth Vischer Alyssa Viser cleanse a contaminated pool which seems to go great. With our industrial revolution sort of a theme. So can we elaborate more on the nature of this contaminated pool. 32:19.46 Nolar Yeah, let's see Okay I'm thinking there was a natural spring and as the town ah built up they they took that spring. 32:32.17 sidekqpodcast And. 32:36.42 Nolar And turn it into like a fountain or you know like a yeah you know something like that and ah oh you? yeah. 32:37.13 sidekqpodcast Oh okay. Okay I was I was saying we're like right in your wheelhouse of like expertise now like the stars could not have aligned better for this. Okay, so a natural spring a natural pool. 32:54.86 Nolar And yeah. 32:59.00 sidekqpodcast As the civilization grew encompassed it and then they decided let's turn it into a fountain like okay and then it's become contaminated over time because of like I'm just trying to think of ah the things people have done in burgeoning industrial societies. Are they using it to like. 33:04.56 Nolar Yeah, ah. 33:16.43 sidekqpodcast Ba in are they washing their clothes in it are they throwing their waste in it or what sort of problems is ah is the spacing right. 33:26.67 Nolar Let's see. Um. 33:30.89 sidekqpodcast Are the industrial companies dumping you know toxic waste into the the pool and the people like this fountain and they can't stop. You know the big powerful ah Mage guild from dumping their magic toxic. Barrels into the fountain or something. Oh no, the fluoride is back. It's going to make all our teeth clean and mind control us. 33:49.40 Nolar Or maybe they're dumping fluoride in. 34:01.70 Nolar Yeah, exactly. Ah, but yeah, um I think definitely probably some sort of of chemical waste is making its way into there. 34:12.96 sidekqpodcast Okay. 34:17.24 Nolar And making the fountain nasty but also the spring making the spring nasty. 34:23.11 sidekqpodcast Okay, and so maybe and obviously with your expertise in this field. Um, you know so it's ah it's already a natural occurring spring that's been converted into a fountain for the purposes of the town but even beneath a spring are there still Like. Um, you know branches of the spring that go out and feed into like other natural like water sources like Springs and Creeks and Rivers and all this stuff and obviously water's going to come from somewhere else in order to feed into the spring kind of a situation. 34:55.21 Nolar Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. Ah, and yeah, um I mean see well we don't got to get too realistic but you know ah it could be like an aquifer. 35:10.79 sidekqpodcast Oh. 35:12.81 Nolar And ah, you know like the the spring is the bottom part of an aquifer and the ah uphill like a long ways. Maybe that's where the contamination's coming from. Yeah. 35:16.14 sidekqpodcast Okay. 35:23.72 sidekqpodcast That's where the source of the contamination is because they think oh you know we dump it up here. It's not going to be a problem but it's trickled its way down into this fountain that the public uses and so people are like. Ah. Now I'm just imagining like ah what was it. There was an episode of the simpsons where the the fish start eating each other and they have different colored eyes as they go on or different numbers of eyes as they go on so people people in the town are like drinking this water. They're washing their clothes. They're they're bathing. They're doing whatever they need to do. 35:43.63 Nolar Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, blinking. 35:56.13 sidekqpodcast But slowly you see someone has like an extra thumb growing on their hand or someone's got the burgeoning beginning of a third eye or an extra you know set of gills growing on their neck and they're just like we don't understand what's going on and the the local government's like oh don't worry about it. It's just you know this is. 36:00.44 Nolar Um, yeah, it's yeah. 36:14.81 sidekqpodcast It's all part of the revolution of the industry that we're doing like don't you see that this is all just part of the process or whatever. Okay, interesting. Okay, this definitely does sound like a very good side. Quest Okay so it forces you to go out of the civilization and find. 36:22.51 Nolar Um, yeah. 36:32.94 sidekqpodcast Source of the of the of the aquifer of the spring. Um, which obviously an arch fay would know where that would be um, okay so the players are tasked. They do the mission of cleaning it up but whatever, a dungeon master decide that means and it entails. Um, and they return to ah Percy per Serpana and they report that hey the contaminated pool is now clean. What's going to be the reward. Okay. 37:03.94 Nolar Um, well see I mean Percy was hanging handing out coupon books. Are you know flyers or whatever. Maybe it takes the players to realize that when they tear a coupon out. 37:12.11 sidekqpodcast M. 37:21.46 Nolar Another 1 ne's magically there and they never run out of Coupons. Yeah, you know would be it'd be subtle but extremely useful. You know. 37:25.19 sidekqpodcast Um o an unlimited coupon book for this town o that yeah yeah, permanent discounts on healing potions and grappling hooks and. Ah, whatever supplies you need from this market. Okay, and is that about the extent of the reward does Percy let slip that maybe perhaps they're a little more powerful than they let on maybe does this provide like future missions or something. 37:40.59 Nolar Yeah. 37:57.26 sidekqpodcast Ah, reoccurring Npc if you will. 38:00.11 Nolar Yeah, yeah I think I think that could be ah that could be reoccurring. You know that could come up again? Well ah. 38:06.24 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? So okay so we got the magical unlimited coupon book for this specific market in town very niche but also very useful and then we've got the ability to get future quests and probably build that relationship and find out the network. 38:17.20 Nolar Well well. 38:22.37 Nolar Well or well or or or well well blue. Well. 38:25.30 sidekqpodcast Ah, that this arch fay commands in and in doing her her bidding her will okay and then we have to consider the opposite. What's going to be the consequence of failure or refusing the call to the adventure. How is Percy Pererpina going to react to that. 38:42.15 Nolar Ah. 38:42.42 sidekqpodcast What if the players side with the industrial mage complex and they're like we don't care about the environment in the water we're just in fact, we're going to do even more polluting. 38:53.56 Nolar Ah, oh man I don't know let's see. 39:09.78 sidekqpodcast Keeping in mind that this is an archphae in disguise is this particular archpha character going to unleash some sort of ah curses or disadvantages or penalties towards the players in some fashion or form or. 39:24.72 Nolar I I think it would be maybe a disadvantage when bartering. 39:33.38 sidekqpodcast Mm Okay, just like permanent. Oh I don't know until until it's resolved somehow but a permanent disadvantage whenever you're trying to make ah bargaining or economic you know Diplomacy persuasion checks kind of a thing. 39:47.87 Nolar Yeah, yeah. 39:51.30 sidekqpodcast Okay, interesting and so then if they don't realize like why am I always having a role ah with disadvantage and stuff like that. Okay, that's like ah it's a it's definitely an inconvenience but not something that's ah debilitating towards the players. 40:03.71 Nolar Yeah, yeah. 40:05.91 sidekqpodcast Do you think that would be the extent of it or or anything more serious. Do they get on some sort of like watch list or something as far as the archphay is concerned and. 40:14.13 Nolar I I think she would pre keep it pretty innocuous to maintainer concealment maintainer cover here. 40:19.96 sidekqpodcast Okay, right? But her network at least would be aware of like these player characters that you know she asked them to do something and they said no and refused her and so she's like okay we got to keep tabs on these people to know what they're doing is there a difference if it comes to like failing. Like they actually go out there to try and stop it. But for whatever reason like this the archmage is or whatever overwhelm them and they're not able to ah stop the contamination or something is there going to be like a different reaction to that. 40:59.96 Nolar I know I feel like if they tried she would at least you know, throw him a bone or or at very least not punish them. You know if if they if they really you know gave it an honest try. 41:03.22 sidekqpodcast E. 41:09.53 sidekqpodcast Okay, is but refusal or like not even really attempting to do a good job. She's going to put that perma disadvantage on the economic persuasion checks. Until you either come back to her to like apologize and make up for it or that I don't know they get some sort of like wish spell or or something that would do away with it but then they never learn the truth as to why that disadvantage was there in the first place and. 41:41.90 Nolar Yeah, yeah, again, you know nothing crazy because she wants to also conceal her maintain her cover. 41:50.49 sidekqpodcast Sure sure of course. Um now we have the optional questions. Do you feel like you want to explore Percy Perserpana a little more or do you feel like this is pretty good. 42:00.41 Nolar I Feel like we could do a little bit more. 42:02.87 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? So I'll work my way through the questions then so what are the goals and motivations of Percy per serpna as a character. Yeah. 42:14.17 Nolar Um, primary goal protect the faywils and the the nat the nature nature. 42:20.36 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right? So just protect the fay while protect nature. Good Okay, and then how do these goals affect perserp as personality. 42:25.77 Nolar Yeah. 42:37.40 Nolar Him? um. 42:40.65 Nolar I Feel like she'd be very persuasive. 42:46.24 sidekqpodcast Um, okay with the lawful and just her power level as an arch Bayy just is able to like get at the heart of the matter with with people and things. 42:49.44 Nolar Um, um. 42:57.71 Nolar Yeah, and and really good at at knowing what to say to get what she wants. 43:09.00 sidekqpodcast Um, okay, and then how does pererpna normally interact with other people is she the same across the board or she pretty nuanced depending on who she's talking to. 43:21.61 Nolar I Feel like she would be nuanced like have a good feel for reading people and seeing how to talk to that person. You know. 43:34.64 sidekqpodcast Okay, is there a difference in like her actual arch fay mode that she addresses like other fay creatures who are ah you know subservient to her. 43:48.35 sidekqpodcast Or is she like the same she knows exactly what she needs to say to this servitor of hers in order to get them to do their best job with whatever she's done. So. 43:58.80 Nolar I Feel like it would ah she wouldn't address them differently. She just you know each individual basis. She knows what to say to him. 44:04.13 sidekqpodcast She's okay so she's a she's a good archfay in that regard. She's not like Draconian or mean or anything like that She knows exactly what she needs to say in order to get the person to do what they need to do. 44:17.22 Nolar Yeah, you know you you kill more flies with honey than vinegar. You know that kind of. 44:22.10 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, is there a particular accent or language that Pererpnna uses are there any idiosyncrasies in how she acts or speaks is there an accent or something that she adopts while she's Percy. Ah, and is it different than how she would normally talk if she was in her natural arch fay form. 44:47.10 Nolar He. 44:49.33 sidekqpodcast And I don't know if we address that as well. Do you envision that her arch fay form looks any different than how she you know obviously appears in disguise. 45:01.54 Nolar Um, I think her disguise form is basically just what she looked like when she was young you know and then maybe when she's not in her disguise. You know, Maybe she's kind of. 45:04.76 sidekqpodcast Oh okay, interesting. 45:18.78 Nolar You know more along the lines of like galadriel. You know you know. 45:19.65 sidekqpodcast Okay, all right and then is there like ah ah, an idiosyncrasy and and how she acts or speaks is there a particular accent that she deploys you know we had this idea of like a Newsies Market Barker of like you know teenager. Extra extra kind of a thing is that how is that how she talks and she's an archfay or is that only is part of her disguise. Okay, okay I. 45:38.87 Nolar Yeah, yeah, ah I think that's only part of where your skies. Ah you know, kind of nasally. Ah and then you know when she's not disguised. You know, just more I don't know. 45:57.85 sidekqpodcast Yeah, refined. Okay, okay, all right? and then what impact has she made on the world. How has she shaped the local area I know she's having to combat this whole burgeoning society that's growing. 45:58.92 Nolar Refined I guess more? Yeah noble I don't know. 46:16.69 sidekqpodcast Um, but how successful to this point has she been with at least steering them. Ah subtly or not so subtly and. 46:25.48 Nolar Um, I feel like to this point she's been pretty successful. You know the the the ah the spring the the fountain you know that was kind of like oh that's ah, that's a new problem but most of the older problems. 46:28.93 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay. 46:43.23 Nolar She's managed pretty well. 46:45.31 sidekqpodcast Um, yeah, and probably because she's you know, been there herself you know she's had the most effect rather than just kind of taking the more passive role. You know in the Command Center telling everyone else what to do? She's like no no, no I'm going to go there and do it myself kind of a thing. 46:57.38 Nolar Yeah, yeah, she she's not a delegateator. She gets her hands dirty. 47:00.71 sidekqpodcast Okay, so okay and then um does Pererpana have any current problems that prevent her from being an even bigger player on the stage is it. The fact that she's having to keep this disguise. She can't just burst out in her true form. And then you know, tell all these majors or industrial people what for and what they're doing is wrong or misguided. 47:25.31 Nolar He. 47:30.61 Nolar I Don't know. 47:36.95 Nolar Yeah, yeah. 47:37.61 sidekqpodcast Okay, I mean it's okay to not know some things you know, ah maybe can be openended and left to mystery. Um, So yeah I mean it is possible to think you know you know, maybe this immediate problem that she's asking the player characters to take care of. Maybe this is the biggest problem. She's trying to deal with right now or maybe they're just a multitude of other problems that she can more easily handle on her own. But this one would involve. Oh you have to travel outside of town. It's going to take a while to get there and you know this is a real big hassle for me to try and take on while I'm also trying to juggle like 5 other things that are going on. 48:07.94 Nolar Um, yeah. 48:11.26 Nolar Yeah, yeah, yeah, like she's like I could do these 5 things or I could do that 1 thing and ignore these five things. So so y'all Don go do the 1 thing. 48:13.99 sidekqpodcast But I can easily address or something. So. 48:20.68 sidekqpodcast I m I see okay well I think we've learned a lot about Perserpna Slash Percy that I think it's time we head into a random encounter all right? And of course this segment of the show does not have a sponsor ship. 48:32.28 Nolar All right. 48:40.00 sidekqpodcast But if you would like to change that feel free to send me an email at sidekicksandsyquest.com I'm happy to read your proposals and read it out on the air and have you be a permanent sponsor of this episode in this particular segment that will live in perpetuity don't you know? so. Um I hope to hear from some rich noble woman or Ec Centric Lord soon all right as you remember this is the random encounter section where we get to do a little roleplay a little vignette with the character. So I think you've done a great job of giving life to perserpana that I'm curious. How. I should approach the scene am I going to be 1 of my podcast characters that's going to come and get the side quest um am I some sort of ah person of power within the city. Ah, that's coming into the market and maybe having um you know, maybe some sort of mundane conversation about um. Business or things going on at the aquifer or something like that that then gives perserprena the idea or the clue of like oh that's a problem I need to go deal with or what kind of scene our view interested in showcasing her off it right. 49:49.28 Nolar Ah, you know I think the the um the the second one the ah where she finds out like like oh that's where the problem is it. 49:54.55 sidekqpodcast O. 50:02.48 sidekqpodcast So okay, interesting. Okay, so all right? So we're going to improvise a scene in which um, some people of power from the civilization the town the community are coming to the market and Percy is in her. Form you know doing her market barker job but she's gonna have the opportunity to hear kind of a conversation maybe even interact with them a little bit and then get this clue and stuff like that. But I mean we could sprinkle in other characters as need be as well. 50:30.20 Nolar Who. 50:37.96 sidekqpodcast Um, as we're improvising and making it up I just wanted to make sure you were cool with it before we just dove into it. 50:44.61 Nolar Well I'll be honest with you I'm not real good at improvising like characters. You know what? I mean. 50:53.80 sidekqpodcast And like a whole bunch of things would you rather? Um, so are you thinking then that perhaps we should ah pick one of the podcast npc characters and then ah Pererppana Percy has the opportunity to explain the side quest opportunity that's present and. 51:07.78 Nolar Yeah, that'd probably be that I could probably handle that a little bit. 51:13.88 sidekqpodcast Okay, so then we've got a cast of characters to choose from. Um, we have Duncan the recklessly brave adventurer for hire happy. Go lucky that kind of guy we've got Sonia the warrior woman who started off as a barbeing multiclassed into a paladin. 51:33.40 Nolar Nice. 51:33.43 sidekqpodcast Who serves to redeem the undead we have Koak the lawful evil arcane trickster roguish dwarf. We've got Chris Lee the shy well we have Chris Lee the herbalist botanist wood elve druid who multiclassed into a cleric that serves living memory. Have o'ri who is the astral elf allusionist wizard and then we have a gape who is the ah teaflling wild magic fay wild inspired sorcerer which would that character would definitely go well. Especially if it ended up being that. Um you know. 52:04.10 Nolar Um I I think. 52:10.70 sidekqpodcast Ah, the sorcer meeting of archfay but don't let that influence your total decision making process if you think one of the other characters might work better. 52:16.91 Nolar Um, well I think Percy would try to butter up the the the druid. 52:31.33 sidekqpodcast Oh you think? ah that ah Chris Lee would be the better character to meet. 52:33.96 Nolar I from from Percy's perspective but they like say the the the other one would probably be pretty freaking happy to meet at archfay. 52:49.69 sidekqpodcast Oh true. Yeah, um, well let's see do you want to flip a coin or roll a dice and you know if it's ah if it's evens. We'll do chrisly and if it's odds. We'll do a gape. Okay, so. 53:02.69 Nolar Yeah, that sounds good see Yeah ah one so on. 53:12.84 sidekqpodcast So odds would be a gappe. Okay, all right? So let me get my details here to figure out where is the last place we left her. Um and then I will go ahead and set the scene so where we last left our hero agape. Ah, she had returned to the ah mortal realm and she had ended up inside of a grave yard where she met the young sunny panborn and helped this gift gravedigger across town in order to get some medicine to bring it back to his pa who is sick. Um. And so ah, sunny was very appreciative and so was sunny's mom and after that ah adventure. Um, we'll say maybe it's even this same town because this graveyard is just kind of sequestered into one part of the town and as um. Ah, Gotpe is exploring further. She's beginning to see more of the industrial complex starting to take over. Perhaps she was an old town and now she's starting to head into the new or more industrialized part. Um, and so she's walking around and she can see this market coming up into view and she you know she's being kind of. Ah, flowing with the crowds as they're as they're going and so as she's starting to approach this ah market. Ah and where she could conceivably see Percy um, what is a Gotpe scene. 54:40.92 Nolar Um, so yeah, at the kind of towards the the entrance of the market just the little ah little newsy little girl with the kind of pointed ears. 54:47.71 sidekqpodcast I. 54:57.17 Nolar You know, just Holler and you know hey ah Coupons come get your coupons. 55:03.78 sidekqpodcast And agape is kind of like you know again, she's a fish out of water in this place. Ah, but she kind of gets bumped out of line and so she ends up right in front of ah Percy who can um, you know, naturally detect as an archfay that this. Lilac purple colored tiflling who's just wearing very simple leathers and other sorcer type garb ah is imbued with a wild magic and in that it is Fay Wilde ah linked. Um, so it's almost kind of like a natural sort of um. Attraction. Ah you know between the 2 not like in a romantic way or anything like that. But just naturally it's like it's like in ah ah into the spider verse when the 1 Peter Parker recognizes Miles Morales as another spider man. So. It's kind of like that you know you get the the spider man wiggle spider sense lines. 55:43.32 Nolar Why. 55:52.37 Nolar Um, yeah, yeah. 55:58.59 sidekqpodcast And then they just kind of like connect and so she can't place immediately like why she's vibing with this ah teenager in front of her but a gotpe will just stop and be like oh oh sorry um I just got pushed pushed by the crowd a little bit but ah hello nice to make your acquaintance and she'll hold out her hand. And she'll say ah my name's a gotpe night nice to meet you and Percy. Wow wow and then you see that she kind of perks up and smiles. Um, you know like she's feeling like you know she's made like a new friend and she's just kind of like. 56:20.62 Nolar Well hi I'm Percy nice to meet you through. 56:36.41 sidekqpodcast Looking around and she's like Wow this this is this is new and different I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. What's this you have coupons. What are these. 56:49.10 Nolar Oh yeah, keep on she can use them throughout the market and get you get you some? Oh yes, please take it I got wholes that. Um oh. 56:51.23 sidekqpodcast And oh interesting. So she'll may may I see one oh sure. So she so what? what kind of Coupons are in this book. 57:05.83 Nolar Ah, not that not like mind blowing coupons is like by 9 healing potions get a tith one tenth one free. You know nothing. 57:18.47 sidekqpodcast And. 57:23.55 Nolar Like they're ah. 57:27.23 sidekqpodcast They're marketed in such a way that it's going to encourage you to have to spend a lot of money in order to get any benefit from these. Okay so she's kind of like oh Wow like they they I Guess they're really proud of what they're. 57:33.27 Nolar Um, ah basically yes, yeah. 57:41.27 sidekqpodcast Selling here. Oh man I don't even know if I have this much. 57:43.35 Nolar Oh sure you do sure you do. 57:48.25 sidekqpodcast And she kind of looks ah quizzically at at Percy but she'll smile and she says thanks. Um, well I mean I guess I have been I've been hopping between the planes a little bit as it lates with some of the magics I've been casting so it might not necessarily be a bad idea to stock up on some supplies. And then just naturally she kind of looks over the way is the fountain in question sort of nearby this markets and okay so she looks over to the towards the fountain and what is she seeing when she sees this fountain. 58:14.80 Nolar Um, yeah, yes Indian they kind of in the. 58:23.29 Nolar Um, um, ah so I'm kind of picturing like the multiiered like bowls and it comes out comes over the edges and ah. 58:33.82 sidekqpodcast Okay, okay, okay, so. 58:40.70 Nolar Through through like little grooves and ah the water is just the color just ain't ripe. It's got a little like it. It doesn't look horrible but it's just not quite the it's. 58:47.15 sidekqpodcast M. 58:58.66 Nolar It's got high turbidity. Um, and it's It's not very clear. 58:58.80 sidekqpodcast And and are there like people sitting by it children playing in it or or doing other kinds of things that we might imagine people in the past of like Victorian England or like. Ah, you know turn of the century New York City or some of these other big population kind of environments or is it not that kind of fountain. 59:24.30 Nolar Um, ah I was thinking more like a like a a wish fountain. You know people like yeah like flicking some coins in there and you know making some wishes. 59:32.98 sidekqpodcast Okay, like a wishing fountain. 59:40.65 sidekqpodcast Okay, and so she just ah so a Gotpe's attention is kind of turned to that fountain maybe because she's ah matching the energy of Percy and she'll just look like oh well that that looks odd shouldn't that water. Be. Better than that. 01:00:00.44 Nolar Um, yeah, yes, yes, it should. 01:00:03.53 sidekqpodcast You and then you know maybe just without thinking you know maybe sensing you know, innately the archway presence here. Um, she'll just kind of be like I mean is there I don't know what. There something that can be done to fix that and. 01:00:23.94 Nolar In ah yeah, ah, Percy kind of lowers her voice a little bit and kind of changes her tone and she's like do you really want to know how to fix it. 01:00:33.53 sidekqpodcast Um. 01:00:38.20 Nolar Or you just making conversation. 01:00:42.80 sidekqpodcast Ah, does she speak that um like in a like elvish or Sylvan or something like that. Maybe. 01:00:50.58 Nolar Oh yeah, that's good idea. Yeah um, ah, let's go sylvan. Yeah. 01:00:54.23 sidekqpodcast Okay, oh her agape's eyes perk up and she like looks at Percy as kind of like like kind of like who are you like and so she'll kind of like respond back and Sylvan almost surprised and she'll be like. You know how to speak Sylvan like and not many people know how to and. 01:01:18.98 Nolar Well I got to make sure I can so keep ons to everybody with a little with a little bit of a slide grin. 01:01:23.32 sidekqpodcast Okay, and she looks even more okay and so then she'll say so then I'm to take it that you're not what you necessarily appear to be. 01:01:39.10 Nolar Oh is anybody. 01:01:42.81 sidekqpodcast She Nods affirmatively and she goes and she'll switch back to common and she'll say Yeah I mean if there's something that can be done to fix this fountain if it's important to you. Ah. And yeah, I'm happy to help. Yeah. 01:02:02.73 Nolar Okay, well um, ah see how would she say this like how would she get into that. But. 01:02:20.26 Nolar Describing where it's from. 01:02:25.85 sidekqpodcast Would she begin with the fact that maybe you know that this fountain has a source somewhere outside of town. 01:02:35.52 Nolar Yeah, yeah, yeah, she should say Yeah, the the source from this water. It starts uphill quite a ways and and kind of points in you know the direction. Yeah outside of town. 01:02:51.39 sidekqpodcast The. 01:02:55.37 Nolar Quite a way is that way and I think something is contaminating the waters from that area but I haven't had a chance to go check it out myself. 01:03:07.20 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and maybe kind of like as ah like a framing device like in a movie or something like that some of these like ah rich ah mages or captains of industry kind of walk by. Um and you know they toss like a copper or something in the fountain kind of like. In a way like showing their disdain and kind of chuckling themselves about like oh how great and powerful we are and so maybe even as Percy's finishing delivering that line. It's kind of like a look of of sneering or disgust at them and so agape is noticing that and kind of like trying to. Piece some things together and so then agape will will respond and say okay so find the source of the water and then that's where I need to clean it up and then the water here and then she kind of gestures broadly to like the market and the rest of this part of town and then then everyone will benefit. 01:04:02.14 Nolar Absolutely. 01:04:03.00 sidekqpodcast Yes, okay, and so then she'll finish out the scene just by leaning in a little closer to Percy and then in Sylvan um, maybe she recites. Beginning of some kind of a common riddle in the fay wild and she's just trying to see maybe depending on how Percy answers if it gives her an idea of like maybe who exactly she's dealing with and. 01:04:34.88 Nolar If. 01:04:37.34 sidekqpodcast So how would Percy respond given this Sylvan question riddle thing. 01:04:43.88 Nolar I think I don't think she would give the typical answer. But I think she would give an answer that eludes that she knows the answer. She just doesn't want to say it. 01:04:47.95 sidekqpodcast So. 01:04:59.00 sidekqpodcast Okay, she nods impressively and without much haste. She kind of gives like a little bow a little salute and then ah she says Okay, well let me I guess she looks gestures to the market. Well I Guess let me stock up on some supplies and. Looks like I'm ah I'm doing some waterwork. 01:05:22.42 Nolar Well I would sure appreciate your help and I'll ah oh I'll make it worth your time if you ah come back and see me when you're done. 01:05:31.90 sidekqpodcast I yes, ma'am and seen so there we go. What'd you think getting to be Percy Perserpna 01:05:42.55 Nolar Um, ah that that was what. 01:05:45.35 sidekqpodcast So do you think that? ah I know you said you've been waiting for the opportune moment to be a Dm but do you think that this would be a character that if you were running a game you would want to deploy in a setting. Yeah. 01:05:57.90 Nolar Yeah I think so ah, this could be yeah that ah I think so I think she could be ah, be a real good. Ah, real good recurring character. 01:06:12.46 sidekqpodcast Yeah, and you know yeah I think it's cool that a gotpi got to meet at Arch Faye you know because since her power set is just kind of like natural wild magic from the fay wild I think it would be cool to further that story along certainly um, ah maybe even allowing. Um. 01:06:26.94 Nolar Um, yeah. 01:06:30.36 sidekqpodcast Your player characters like if you out there listening in podcast land are looking for an idea of like who your archfey is it might not be a bad idea to make Percy or perserpna. Um, your particular archphay and that this is their cause that they care about. Wanting to steer this civilization in a particular way that's going to avoid the worser ah parts of ah you know of decay and spreading further destruction across the land or something like that. That's cool. Yeah, so you know we're here in the final. 01:06:59.18 Nolar Yeah. 01:07:05.80 sidekqpodcast Bots section of the show. So I always like to check in with everybody. Um and just see how their time was on the show and you know was it worth the weight the multiheat your weight I guess to get back on the show. So. 01:07:16.88 Nolar Oh yeah, yeah, that was a lot of fun and it's good talking to you too. You know it's been a while. 01:07:21.58 sidekqpodcast Yeah, you know time time flies and life happens and you know we gotta do all, We can to make sure we stay in touch even if it means being on a podcast episode. Yeah, all right? Well, of course. 01:07:33.78 Nolar They're right there. 01:07:38.66 sidekqpodcast You know before we end the episode I Always like to leave the microphone stage soapbox platform to the guests. So if you want to be found online where can we do that if there's any passions or causes or anything of that nature that we need to be made aware of I Remember last time you were telling us to. Support our local zoos and animal foundations and the like so has any of that changed or is there something new that we need to be made aware of so. 01:08:07.84 Nolar Um, honestly, that's that's still where I would where my passions lie you know, ah go support your local zoos and not local. You know they all of them because you know, ah. 01:08:20.57 sidekqpodcast Sure. 01:08:25.60 Nolar Some of them. You know their assurance colonies because some animals are you know they're they're gone in the wild and all that's left is you know the ones that are in Zoos and such and you know it's a neat way to see new Critters a couple months ago we went. 01:08:34.57 sidekqpodcast Yes. 01:08:45.14 Nolar We went to ah a zoo ah a little bit outside of town and they had a biter wrong and I was like oh I've I've never seen one in real life I've got it blew me away I Yeah, ah. 01:08:50.19 sidekqpodcast Well. 01:08:56.41 sidekqpodcast So oh man I'm gonna have to figure out how that's spelled so I can put it in the show notes. 01:09:04.54 Nolar B I N T L Cat I don't know but I know that's the first part. They're funny looking things bear cats. That's ah. 01:09:10.99 sidekqpodcast There We go. Oh. 01:09:19.87 Nolar When people say bearcat That's what they're talking about usually. 01:09:22.50 sidekqpodcast Oh okay and you know by going to the zoo you might get inspired ah for a new animal companion or D and D monster that you might want to throw in your game as well. 01:09:30.55 Nolar Yeah. 01:09:35.34 sidekqpodcast That's awesome. Well Mr. Nolan thank you so much for your time for being a returning guest on the show. Can't wait to have you back on yet again sometime in the future. Hopefully it won't be too many years but we'll have you back on making even more npcs all right. 01:09:48.69 Nolar Absolutely, It's gonna be great. 01:09:54.80 sidekqpodcast So we'll end the recording.