00:01.47 BDW _ Audio Turn off. 00:06.21 Kurt Crenwelge There we go. i got I got us rolling again. 00:09.52 BDW _ Audio Yeah, something something went kind of wonky, though. Hang on. 00:11.73 BDW - Video Thank 00:11.84 BDW _ Audio Can you hear me all right? 00:13.14 Kurt Crenwelge i can, yes, sir. 00:15.43 BDW _ Audio Just got sort of hold on one second. It just got weird and staticky for me. Hold on. 00:21.16 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:26.81 BDW _ Audio I'm going to try and refresh. I'll be right back. 00:30.16 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:51.75 BDW _ Audio All right, check it, check one, two, one, two. 00:54.03 Kurt Crenwelge And there we go. 00:55.39 BDW _ Audio All right, okay, my body's ready. 00:57.81 Kurt Crenwelge OK, wow. The first of ah of a guest asking me to no, hit the record button again. This is good stuff you're missing out on. 01:06.43 BDW _ Audio Yeah, 100%. We're leaving content on the floor. Yeah. 01:10.56 Kurt Crenwelge OK, all right. 01:11.84 BDW _ Audio open 01:11.94 Kurt Crenwelge OK, so. 01:12.98 BDW _ Audio I guess give the question we already answered here. 01:15.82 Kurt Crenwelge OK, so what's going to be the name the the name of this episode? 01:19.47 BDW _ Audio The Harper of the Depths. 01:21.79 Kurt Crenwelge The Harper of the depths brilliance. 01:23.95 BDW _ Audio So I'm 01:25.21 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, and then let's see here. Okay, so now we get to work our way back through the questions of anything that used a random dice roll we get to fill back in So what's going to be an NPC character name ah that you'd like to leave behind for someone else to be able to pick up? 01:42.08 BDW _ Audio so i'm going to tell you, dear listener, one of my secret techniques here. Um, there is uh, ah it originally was a Tumblr. I think it has its own website now that was called a word stuck, a word dash stuck, which is interesting words from all over the world and in different languages, especially for concepts and sentiments that don't quite translate into English, things like deja vu. 02:09.21 BDW _ Audio So ah the way you use it is you can search, you go into Google, pull up the images and in parentheses, right? Word dash stuck. And then write the emotion that you want to get across. 02:27.00 BDW _ Audio um So give me an emotion, any emotion. 02:31.44 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. Uh, optimistic. 02:39.88 BDW _ Audio Let's see. Obviously it works for some, some words better than others, but let's see if it's going to give us anything. 02:48.32 Kurt Crenwelge As someone who took German for seven years off and on between high school and early college, it's like, yeah, I know there's the, the compound, uh, German, uh, words that you can get up with like, oh yeah, schadenfreude or, 03:00.30 Kurt Crenwelge or stuff like that, yeah. 03:02.74 BDW _ Audio well i'm gonna tell you two things one i also took german for seven years and was an exchange student over there uh Second, ironically enough, the top result was a German word. 03:14.54 BDW _ Audio um Although I couldn't find anything directly for optimism without digging around more on the site, but I did get cheerful, ah which is gemütlichkeit. Gemütlichkeit is a word in German that says a situation that induces a cheerful mood, peace of mind with the connotation of belonging and social acceptance, coziness and unhurry. 03:25.33 Kurt Crenwelge Ah, yes, I remember i remember that word. 03:35.69 BDW _ Audio Uh, So what I would do is I would split that half. I would have the person's name would be Gemut, G-E-M-U-T. 03:46.72 BDW _ Audio And then their last name would be L-I-C-H-K-E-I-T. Gemut L-I-C-H-K-E-I-T. Mm-hmm. like 03:55.36 Kurt Crenwelge David Price- Perfect wunderbar okay and then let's see ancestry we get to leave alone because that's a pretty well said, unless I need to randomize it one of these days, but a job or role in society um so yeah what's going to be an occupation that a that a D&D character would have. 03:59.38 BDW _ Audio hey 04:19.52 BDW _ Audio So I believe all kinds of weird stuff in life. And one of the arguments that I've always heard against reincarnation is everybody is always King Tut, Cleopatra, you know, the King of England, um ah or some, you know, Genghis Khan or some important person. 04:41.36 BDW _ Audio Nobody is ever the stable boy. You know, no but nobody is ever the... 04:44.41 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 04:47.57 BDW _ Audio the 04:50.52 BDW _ Audio You know, the person that has to ah slop the king's privy, right? So um their occupation is um they dig and maintain the outhouses. 05:04.89 BDW _ Audio They dig outhouses, and when they're when they're full, they they fill them in, just to remind people that, you know, even in a vaguely medieval world, people still poop. 05:15.65 Kurt Crenwelge Yes, it's like ah the yeah the the classic children's book, Everybody Poops. 05:20.58 BDW _ Audio Everybody poops. Yeah. 05:22.22 Kurt Crenwelge yeah 05:22.52 BDW _ Audio ah Which there's actually quite a lot you could do with that because especially you get into the spread of disease. You can get into some particularly gnarly undead. ah They probably should have prestidigitation. In fact, this person would be meticulously clean. 05:34.35 BDW _ Audio They wouldn't be dirty. There wouldn't be a spot on them. um Yeah. 05:37.04 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, yeah. 05:40.20 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah, probably making bank with their Prestidigitation-based outhouse services that they render. 05:46.72 BDW _ Audio Indeed. 05:47.77 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. 05:48.17 BDW _ Audio indeed yeah And they would ah they would probably be ah warlock of ah the ancients mixed with a fire sorcerer. 05:50.00 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 06:00.64 BDW _ Audio I forget the exact word for like the fire sorcerer. Or they could even be a wildfire druid. Actually, no, they'd be a wildfire druid. Be a wildfire druid. Because they would take very, very seriously, um you know, maintaining everything. And in the quite frankly, sometimes you got to burn some shit, literally in this case. 06:21.79 Kurt Crenwelge And there we go. Perfect. And then let's see. Age range categories we get to leave alone. But now we come to the valuables. Okay. And so you rolled for a a valuable item ah that a person would have. So now you get to leave a valuable item ah for an NPC character to have on their person. 06:47.81 BDW _ Audio I'm looking around at all the stuff that is here in front of me. Um, 06:57.77 BDW _ Audio so you can't see this dear listener, but it just so happens right here next to me. I have, um, my, I was, I was able to go Hobbiton in New Zealand and I have a film authentic one ring. 07:11.77 BDW _ Audio Uh, and it's really heavy cause they all have tungsten in the middle. 07:12.87 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 07:15.36 BDW _ Audio So it's, um, They're they're all the same weight, even when they're different sizes. um They would have a ring of memory. 07:26.73 BDW _ Audio It can store one memory, but if it does, you're going to pull it out of your mind. Like you won't have So maybe you'll remember like the last time you heard your mother laugh, ah but it won't be in your head anymore. You'll be able to play it like a recording, but it's like you take it out and you put it in there. 07:43.09 BDW _ Audio So it's great for things like passing along secrets and things, but also for beloved keepsakes is just your memory starting to go. A ring that can store one memory. A ring of remembrance. 07:54.11 Kurt Crenwelge Ah, a ring of remembrance. Okay. 07:58.39 Kurt Crenwelge Let's Okay. Remembrance. Okay. And it can store one memory, but if it does, you have to take it out of your head in order to put it in the ring. 08:06.56 BDW _ Audio Correct. 08:07.42 Kurt Crenwelge Perfect. 08:07.71 BDW _ Audio Correct. 08:08.71 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. And then the last field we get to fill back in is for the side quest. So what's a particular side quest that an NPC character would send a bunch of heroes to go and do? 08:28.31 BDW _ Audio If this person, well, this isn't necessarily connected. This could this could be anything an NPC would ask for, right? 08:35.05 Kurt Crenwelge Precisely, yeah. It could be anything from like, oh, I need you to go pick 10 flowers to, oh, I need you to go, you know, slay a dragon or, oh, I need you to go help me talk to the girl at the bar because I'm nervous. 08:47.58 BDW _ Audio Roll a D4 for me 08:49.65 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, rolling a d four and I got 3. ah three 08:57.78 BDW _ Audio um 09:00.97 BDW _ Audio this person was an adventurer in their younger days and they missed a lot of their children's formative years and they don't really have a relationship with them. 09:13.88 BDW _ Audio And now they are ah near the end of the road. they're They're not going to live too much longer either due to age, illness, or something, their time is nigh, and they have three children that they want you to track down and find and try and convince to come home and see them one more time. 09:36.97 Kurt Crenwelge Ooh, okay. So this person was an adventurer in their younger days. Don't have relationship with their three kids near the end. 09:41.29 BDW _ Audio Yep. 09:43.52 BDW _ Audio Yep. Yep. 09:44.53 Kurt Crenwelge They need you to go find the kids to have them come home one last time. 09:54.03 BDW _ Audio Yep. 09:55.05 Kurt Crenwelge Boom. That's how you do it. 09:57.88 BDW _ Audio the 09:58.65 Kurt Crenwelge All right. 09:58.72 BDW _ Audio And what I will tell you for the sake of ah how the sausage is made, the tone and level of the adventure, and quite frankly, how dark you want to make it can affect, I mean, all things being equal, I think this is intended to be a more heartwarming subplot. I don't think this person should be too much of a monster, but it is one of those things where it's, um there's a lot of reasons why you grow apart, especially in a world without cell phones. 10:23.25 BDW _ Audio Um, and I think you you should lean more towards the warmth or it anything, whatever mistakes this NPC made should be atonable. 10:23.65 Kurt Crenwelge True. 10:33.64 BDW _ Audio Um, 10:33.76 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 10:35.28 BDW _ Audio Because if it's a horror campaign, it can go a lot worse than that, you know what i mean? Where you're like, hey, so blood for the blood god type thing, you know what I mean? Like, I needed you. 10:43.99 Kurt Crenwelge Right. 10:45.41 BDW _ Audio um But, and then you go full Finding Nemo, you know good feelings gone. But at least ah in my in my heart, my thought ah was this would actually be a sweet thing. 10:50.97 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 10:57.49 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah, no, I think it could be a very sweet thing. Yeah. and And very interesting, you know, depending on how the roles have gone before this, you know, could be like, oh, maybe they're just a regular adult. 11:09.34 Kurt Crenwelge Maybe they're an old person. it It'd be weird if they were like a teenager or something like that, unless it was like ah ah time travel story or like a ah Benjamin Button where it's like, oh, i'm actually an old person in a teenager's body sort of a thing. 11:22.68 BDW _ Audio I mean, there there's there's a lot of reasons, again, not to get too dark on our family show, but there's a lot of reasons why a young person can be near the end of the line, too. You know, it's just for whatever reason, they don't have a lot of time left. 11:31.42 Kurt Crenwelge That's true, yeah. 11:34.03 BDW _ Audio And if you don't want it to be because they die, it's like, well, maybe they're about to ship off. You know, they're about to head west and they don't know when or ever if they'll be back. 11:39.84 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. 11:43.62 Kurt Crenwelge True, true, yeah. 11:44.61 BDW _ Audio You know? 11:44.63 Kurt Crenwelge you Yeah, that's the beauty of this is that ah you know these are prompts ah that anyone who rolls the dice can figure out a way how to make it work with the character that they've got. So perfect. 11:55.19 BDW _ Audio Absolutely. 11:57.15 Kurt Crenwelge All right, well, this is the the first one of these that I've ever done where the where the guest was like, no, hit record again. We're missing we're missing good content here. So, you know. 12:05.08 BDW _ Audio Look, uh, when I do, um, when I do podcasts and things, everyone who works with me consistently already know that if they start being too interesting, I will say, stop being interesting. You're leaving content on the floor. 12:21.07 BDW _ Audio Like made save it until we're recording, you know? 12:23.67 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 12:24.17 BDW _ Audio ah So I I'll do it in a heartbeat. I'll do in a heartbeat. That's why I don't like playing home games for the record. I'm like, we we got so much dopeness that we could have recorded and we didn't, you know? So yeah. 12:34.67 BDW _ Audio Yeah. 12:35.64 Kurt Crenwelge There we go. Well, ah well, thank you so much for being a guest on Sidekicks and SideQuests. 12:37.04 BDW _ Audio Mm-hmm. 12:42.03 Kurt Crenwelge I can't wait to, you know, have you back on contributing and, you know, interacting on social media and just, you know, building good community. 12:50.68 BDW _ Audio Absolutely. Pleasure's all mine. This time for real, to stop talking.