00:00:06.38 Kurt Crenwelge Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of Sidekicks and Sidequests, the best unofficial Dungeons & Dragons podcast in my humbly biased opinion. I've got an awesome guest for you this week, but before I reveal who we are speaking with today, I gotta leave you in suspense with the ad read. 00:00:26.70 Kurt Crenwelge And insert here all you fancy transcription readers for Plus One EXP and their new subscription zine club, RPG zine club. So if you're not on that, you should get on it. Get cool new indie games every month and all that good stuff. And hey, when you're on the website plusoneexp.com, use the code Randolph at checkout and save some coin on your purchase. And now back to the episode. 00:00:52.70 Kurt Crenwelge All right and without further ado I turn the microphone over to my guest and I ask hello mystery contestant would you care to introduce yourself tell us who it is that you are and what is it that you do. 00:01:05.75 eva terra um Hi, thank you for having me. I'm Eva, Eva Teja. I work on designing tabletop RPGs, mainly PBTA. It's just the thing I like the most. 00:01:24.51 Kurt Crenwelge Wonderful, yes, powered by the apocalypse, if I understand that correctly, yes? 00:01:29.19 eva terra Yeah, it is it is a very cool name if you stop to think about it. 00:01:35.16 Kurt Crenwelge Yes, it it sounds very metal. It sounds um very cool for sure. And yeah, how we first connected is um ah we follow each other on X and you have like a new game. You messaged me and were like, hey, I've got this new game out and you know would you like help help you know showcase it off? So yeah, can you tell us more about what it is that you just launched ah successfully for you? 00:02:02.89 eva terra Yes, released three days ago. Spine of Eternity, everybody wants to be a star. It's a powered by the apocalypse. on It is a modern fantasy game about adventures in this original setting that I made called the Spine of Eternity. 00:02:26.80 eva terra about which is this world where fame is power and and the most famous gets to um live forever among the stars after they pass on. It's very based on like this idea where like there's a lot of settings where Divinity gains power from the belief of the the faithful and basically just asks, what if this applied to everything and everyone? 00:03:00.28 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm Okay, interesting um Yeah, and so then ah Yeah, and and i can I can see it here on on your x-page, you know It's the pin thing and as you said three days ago at of the time of this recording ah Yeah, you've launched it and it looks super cool um 00:03:22.13 eva terra Yeah. 00:03:23.28 Kurt Crenwelge and And if I understand powered by the apocalypse, you you don't have as many stats to keep track of. it's like pretty ah how like how does it How does it work if we're go to like you know if you make a character and you you sit down to play with your group? 00:03:38.63 eva terra Yeah, the the original part of the Apocalypse, Apocalypse World has five stats actually. Most games do range from um four to five, sometimes three or even six, like D and&D. 00:03:56.99 eva terra My game actually does also has six. But they they generally range have a very small range between like minus 2 and plus 3. 00:04:08.61 Kurt Crenwelge Mm hmm. 00:04:13.33 eva terra and so yeah there's no Generally, there are no score modifiers, so they're more straightforward. 00:04:21.63 Kurt Crenwelge And OK, OK, so yes, straight straight modifiers um and OK, so yeah we're not getting too noodley like we do in in Dungeons and Dragons. ah And then um so your quest then in this particular ah adventure in this game um is you're trying to seek ah divinity by the end of it, ah essentially, if you work your way from low level to ah high level. 00:04:48.67 eva terra Yeah, in the sense that um you're you're trying to earn fame. I think um One Piece is somewhat... I think it helps to have an idea, you know? 00:05:02.50 eva terra as the story goes on, they start getting higher and higher bounties on their heads. 00:05:10.51 Kurt Crenwelge Mhmm. 00:05:10.75 eva terra And it's sort of this the same thing, your play as travelers who go from place to place and your your main goal really is just, you've got to make a name for yourself, you've got to have but and have everyone thinking about you and And then, like yeah, and eventually, you know, anyone who's just cared about a lot after their death just ascends to the stars, which is somewhat metaphorical and somewhat literal. 00:05:42.61 eva terra The stars are are basically like divinity. 00:05:46.43 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 00:05:46.89 eva terra And then the things they do is so somewhat similar to divinity in D and&D, in fact. like They offer power to the living and with hopes that, you know, basically is an investment in hopes that this will in turn give them fame back. 00:06:10.18 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. And since you know we did make the mention of Dungeons and Dragons, I feel like it's a pretty good segue into the next question, but do you currently, or have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons before? 00:06:23.17 eva terra um I played it a couple times. It's very, very few. like I think a lot of people have played it way more than I have. 00:06:32.75 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 00:06:33.27 eva terra um I guess I have a bit of a curious story with Tabletop RPG. I was just... I was a bit indifferent about playing it. but And then I got really into the Adventure Zone when I was a teenager, which is an actual play podcast of D and&D. 00:06:43.60 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 00:06:48.12 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 00:06:52.39 eva terra And then they started breach exploring each other's systems. 00:06:52.37 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. 00:06:56.28 eva terra And one of this was urban shadows and like other PBTAs. And that just made me curious. And I looked it up and I was just ah was fascinated by how the systems worked. 00:07:08.29 eva terra And it was just like, I had this huge craving, like I have to make something like this. 00:07:19.20 Kurt Crenwelge Very cool. Yeah. So you got inspired by listening to the adventure zone and the adventure zone. And that's what then led you into your, uh, your design, uh, career as it is within the, within the hobby. 00:07:32.85 eva terra yeah Yeah, I feel like I always just felt very interested in designing. And then when I just saw the engine of the part by the apocalypse and how like how it could be used to make things, I just, I really just, I had to make stuff. I just had this, I really wanted to make stuff with it. 00:07:59.93 Kurt Crenwelge awesome. Well, here on this podcast, that's called sidekicks and side quests, we like to ask, ah you know, the important questions. ah So this first of those, do you happen to have a favorite NPC or sidekick character, whether they be from an RPG, a video game, movie, film, television, literature, etc. And why is this character your favorite sidekick or your favorite NPC? 00:08:29.83 eva terra um I thought about that question. I came up with a couple of answers. i think I think one of my, probably what I would say is Penny from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. i don't think I don't know if she counts as an NPC because she's basically a main character. But I just really like her side quests, this whole, like I guess, spoilers for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. 00:08:58.92 eva terra How she effectively founded this group with good intentions, but now it's out of her control, so she you know um she doesn't hire, but you know she requests from the player character to take down her own group. I just thought it was so cool. 00:09:23.43 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, yeah, yeah. ah Yeah, the classic thing of like I started this thing for good and noble intentions, and then it quickly spiraled out of my control because, you know, someone came in and took over, or just like things got more and more intense and I got left behind in the dust kind of a thing and We gotta take it down cuz it's too corrupt or whatever yeah that's cool I haven't I haven't I haven't ventured beyond pokemon blue I rocked pokemon blue back in the day and that's that's about as far as I got ah so that's nice that's nice to hear that you know this is the pokemon thing is ah still hanging around let's that's nice to know ah 00:09:46.15 eva terra Yeah. 00:10:03.70 Kurt Crenwelge and then And then sort of same question, ah happens to be your fight what happens to be your favorite side quest? ah Again, same sort of criteria or B-plot element, whether it's from RPG, movie, film, television, ah literature, et cetera. And why is this ah B-plot element or side quest your favorite? 00:10:25.27 eva terra um see I thought about this a bunch. and One thing that came to mind was two different quests in Final Fantasy XIV. They have one thing that connects them. The first one is like a Weaver crafting quest where basically there is this noble lady who wants to don't quite remember but basically like she is in love with this night and her mother doesn't support her like her her dating then the later revealed that like her dad was also a knight and and that's part of why her mother doesn't support that because she doesn't want her daughter to lose her boyfriend the same way 00:11:13.09 eva terra and the other one is a blacksmith quest where basically this woman has to like I guess properly learn how to make swords to earn the respect of her father to be able to date the ones she wants. And so like, I realized like, oh yeah, I really like quests that have romance involved. Not really, not even like what the players, but just like, I, you know, I in love with this person, you adventure, I need you to help me with something. 00:11:49.84 eva terra If you can do this to me or that, then I will be able to be with my beloved. 00:11:53.92 Kurt Crenwelge You like matchmaker sidequests. 00:11:58.31 eva terra Yeah, kinda. It is a way to put it. 00:12:01.18 Kurt Crenwelge It's like, yeah, yeah, it's like, yeah you're cute and you're cute. There's some, you know, some issue that you're stuck on. Well, if there's something that I can do to help get that sorted, then sure, I'll do the side quest to get you 10 flowers or ah help you learn how to, you know, forge a weapon or, uh, uh, yeah, or like give a rousing speech, uh, to convince the, the begrudging parent or whatever. Yeah. Okay. 00:12:29.21 Kurt Crenwelge And then the way that we round out ah the personal interview section of the podcast episode, Eva, what are you passionate about and why? 00:12:40.56 eva terra um What am I passionate about? um Partially, game design. I like you know playing games, and like I said, I really like systems. I like thinking about, like I play the game, and I already like thinking how each piece connects. Sometimes there's going to be an upcoming game, and I watch the trailer, and I really want to no understand how the gameplay works just from those little bits that we saw from the trailer. 00:13:11.25 eva terra I guess, yeah, these gameplay systems is something that I am very invested about. 00:13:20.30 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. ah Well, I'm glad to hear that, ah you know, you you're, you know, you're creative and you're also, uh, you know, logical and thinking. And, you know, you see this, uh, you know, this awesome game in front of you and you're excited to play it. And yet you're also like, you know, you got your thinking cap on, you're like, man, how does this work? How can I, how can I know how it works? But then also, you know, what can I do creatively to then, you know, do my own variation on it or, or how would I do this better or do this different? So. 00:13:51.00 Kurt Crenwelge you You feel like you do that ah in in and what you do. 00:13:55.98 eva terra yeah Yeah, very much. you know just I want to be able to see the full picture and like see each piece and how they connect so that yeah I can use it as a reference in the future or think like, yeah oh, I don't quite agree with how to do this. I would do this differently or that. Like, oh, this is very interesting. I never thought of that. 00:14:19.04 Kurt Crenwelge Is there something that ah you you watched or you played ah that maybe factored into this ah this project that you just you know recently unveiled, the Spine of Eternity? 00:14:30.42 Kurt Crenwelge is you know I know it's powered by the apocalypse, and so it has its own structure with how you make a game. But I'm just curious, you know is there something that you saw that you were like, oh, that's cool. That's interesting. 00:14:40.84 Kurt Crenwelge But how would I do it my way? And then that you know became Spine of Eternity. 00:14:46.12 eva terra um Um, there, there is something, it was a, um, it was a book. In fact, that it was like, first it started with the setting and then this, um, this, uh, book called this web novel called omniscient readers viewpoint. 00:14:55.81 Kurt Crenwelge Mm. 00:15:04.43 eva terra That is also has a lot of similar things with like metanarrative in the like. metanarrative in a way that exists in the world and characters have to deal with it. 00:15:19.07 eva terra And this is very interesting thing, like, yeah, in there, they also have the constellations that sponsor the main characters and give them power, which is very much where I got the idea of the stars. 00:15:31.61 eva terra And you can see that because, like, there I sort of disagree, like, wow, I disagree that there would be constellations. 00:15:31.59 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 00:15:38.46 eva terra I believe there would be stars. 00:15:39.71 Kurt Crenwelge Mm. Interesting. So individual stars, not necessarily like a collection of stars. Is it, is, well, I mean, maybe this is more to find out in the game, but is there, is there a benefit if like a collective of stars got together and decided to empower someone that way? Or is that like, Oh, that's like some big, uh, you know, evil plot, like, Oh, a bunch of stars are getting together to give one person power or something. 00:16:09.00 eva terra That is actually something I didn't quite explore. um because I guess they talk a lot about the stars, but in a way, they're not that present in the game because the game is about the struggles of the living above everything. 00:16:23.55 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 00:16:26.11 Kurt Crenwelge Ah, okay. 00:16:28.51 eva terra and so There definitely would be you know groups of stars. 00:16:32.59 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 00:16:33.35 eva terra It's just not quite something I explored. 00:16:35.09 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. See, now my my brain's thinking of like, oh, what would I do if I were running a game of of Spine of Eternity is maybe I'd have like some bad guy that's like, oh, I get power from one star. That's great. But what if I got power from like 10 stars or 12 stars or however many make up a constellation and he's like picking them out and he's like trying to like siphon power or something like that. And again, that would factor in into you know, some sort of commentary of whatever's going on among the living. um I don't know, that might be kind of an interesting thing, maybe an expansion, some sort of ah like expansion thing you decide to add to the game or something. 00:17:18.18 eva terra Yeah, yeah, that would be interesting. I think a lot about this setting in general. other games I could make in this setting, like smaller games that are more focused in different things. And it it is ah seeing it is it does come off a little wild to me that I created this setting and it's just so fitting to me that i every idea I have, I can just molded in the way that fits it. 00:17:51.28 Kurt Crenwelge Right. And I feel like that's kind of how I am as a DM is like, you know, I'll have my players, uh, you know, contribute something cool. And I'm like, wow, that's amazing. Like that totally changes my thinking. And now I have to figure out how to like mold this whole interesting thing in, into the, the story of my world to make it all work. And so yeah, I don't, I think that's, I think that's a strength of us as a creators is being able to. 00:18:17.42 Kurt Crenwelge Collaborate and get those ideas and inspirations then you know, you know because we're passionate about our our babies and we're like What more can we do to like make this thing even cooler? 00:18:24.54 eva terra you 00:18:28.55 eva terra Yeah. Yeah. and then And then, yeah, I have just a lot of like different ideas. I mean, everybody has ideas. It's just very, only a fraction of them, you know, get to actually come out and just find like, oh, what if I did think, what if I use these aspects like this or like that? 00:18:50.67 Kurt Crenwelge Exactly. Yeah. ah And so ah we have ah gotten through ah the first part of the show, the personal interview section, and I think it's time to head into some NPC creation. 00:19:07.32 eva terra Yeah. 00:19:13.04 Kurt Crenwelge And NPC Creation is brought to you by you, our podcast audience, and our patrons from Patreon. I would have a drink with me, but I... uh, neglected to glad grab one and that's okay. Uh, but I will raise a toast regardless, uh, to our queen of the Patreon, Ms. Goblin Katie, AKA Katie Downie, uh, RIP Stella, best dog, as well as our other wealthy tier patrons, including Anson Jablinski and good old mom and dad, we say cheers. 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So All right, now that that little spiel is out of the way, now comes the part where we get to make up a character, the sidekick portion of the podcast, if you will. So before we started hitting all the record buttons and checking to make sure everything was good, you said that you wanted to randomize a character today, is that correct? 00:20:57.95 eva terra ah Yes, it is. 00:20:59.54 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, perfect. So we've got all our tables here at the ready. You've got your dice, and and we can begin. And so the first question we have to ask ourselves is, what is the name of our character? And if you'd like to roll a d20, we'll figure out who we get. 00:21:17.19 eva terra I wrote, and it is A6. 00:21:22.69 Kurt Crenwelge a six okay your answer was provided by previous guest uh the vtuber mandy quinn goobles goob horse radish so we have a character that's named goobles goob for a nickname or short and then last name horse radish uh so we're off to a winning start thus far ah 00:21:45.22 eva terra um 00:21:47.05 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, and then the next question we get to ask ourselves is what is the ancestry of our character of of fair goobles? Let's roll a d 100 or 2d 10s to figure out what we get and you know, I do allow reroll So if it gets something and you're like, I can't there's no way I can conceptualize this then we can we can always try again 00:22:11.99 eva terra OK. I did quickly record this here. I got a total of 87. 00:22:20.52 Kurt Crenwelge Eighty seven. OK, so this would be ooh interesting. OK, you have a choice. So a Leonin or Tabaxi. So, of course, the Leonin being like the lion anthropomorphic ah peoples or Tabaxi, which are like the cat people. So if you're cool with that choice, you could choose between a Leonin or a Tabaxi for our fair goobles or goob. 00:22:48.09 eva terra i do I do like cat people, actually. that That's a lovely one. 00:22:53.29 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, so you want to go to backseat. 00:22:54.78 eva terra Yeah, Tabaxi. 00:22:56.61 Kurt Crenwelge Perfect, okay. All right, and then let's see what is, ah, what is the job or occupation, the role in society that a goob would have. 00:23:07.19 Kurt Crenwelge Let's roll just a regular detent. 00:23:09.78 eva terra Okay. 00:23:16.60 eva terra It is a nine. 00:23:18.75 Kurt Crenwelge Nine. Ooh, okay. All right, excellent. So this is a response that was submitted by our Patreon supporter, my mom, my lovely mom, Pam Krenwoege. 00:23:25.81 eva terra Oh. 00:23:27.85 Kurt Crenwelge Thank you, mom. ah So goob is a cobbler of lifting shoes. Apparently they're shoes that make you float. So makes enchanted magical shoes that lets you moonwalk in the air, I guess, ah but cobbler of lifting shoes. 00:23:44.36 eva terra um 00:23:45.71 Kurt Crenwelge uh was the response uh and then let's see the next thing we get to roll for before we get to take a small pause on the dice rolling pause cat uh age range random roll will be a okay so goob is kind of like further along in life uh 00:24:01.17 eva terra Okay, it is a 6. 00:24:11.37 Kurt Crenwelge Okay alright so now that we've got at least these first ah four clarifying details so when you hear. Googles goob horse radish to backseat cobbler of lifting shoes that's an elder ah can you describe the physical appearance of this to backseat of this character. 00:24:31.93 eva terra Um, first thing that came to mind was actually I do have an older cat. So I imagine like. almost like a lion's mane like not quite just yeah like uh the fur is just you know oh it's a bit and just very much like it doesn't look quite healthy there's like uh there's definitely a couple um scratches on the ears and yeah just 00:25:01.54 Kurt Crenwelge Mm. 00:25:06.73 eva terra just uh yeah a couple just they have very much an old cat so like yeah a with a mane just most cats don't have one so having one is already a noteworthy thing and i imagine like 00:25:22.91 Kurt Crenwelge who Okay. 00:25:27.89 eva terra more necessarily really a robe but more more like comfortable clothes. ah I am just sort of imagining the retired mentor idea almost like yeah martial artist mentor in the the mountains but right now yeah just wearing comfortable robe 00:25:45.53 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:25:55.55 Kurt Crenwelge Is there a coloration to this Tabaxi's fur? like you know you I know you just said that you have an old cat yourself. 00:25:59.40 eva terra um 00:26:02.13 Kurt Crenwelge I have two old cats, but ah is there like a particular ah fur pattern or coloration that you imagine for goob? 00:26:12.85 eva terra um i would I would go with the Tabby Cat's patterns and and the colors. 00:26:18.10 Kurt Crenwelge Ooh. 00:26:19.98 eva terra Yeah, like slightly gray, a little bit yellow. 00:26:25.85 Kurt Crenwelge OK. 00:26:26.11 eva terra its yellow eyes with the very like but I think much more to the gray side like cats don't quite gray but you know when you want to problemize something you always add human 00:26:27.95 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, yellow eyes. 00:26:35.61 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. That's true. Right. Right they start like thinning out because I know one of my cats she like right behind like her eyes but in front of her ears it's like she has her fur is like very thin there so I imagine like that's like her way of going bald ah in a way. 00:26:57.18 eva terra yeah yeah yeah my my cat has that a little bit too a bit uh 10 10 fur spots 00:27:08.36 Kurt Crenwelge OK, thin fur spots, tabby coloration, yellow eyes. um Is goob goobles? It's just so funny to say. Is goob ah like an old man ah to backseat, old lady to backseat? 00:27:23.86 Kurt Crenwelge Just, you know, i'm and I'm wondering the hands, too, like a cobbler of lifting shoes. 00:27:26.81 eva terra ah Yeah, yeah. 00:27:28.20 Kurt Crenwelge Like I wonder what goes into that operation. 00:27:31.86 eva terra Yeah, I think, yeah, I think Goobs is an old man. And yeah, the hands are probably very, I mean, they have like very calloused, a lot of manual working for many, many years. 00:27:43.36 Kurt Crenwelge Mmm. 00:27:49.13 Kurt Crenwelge Mmm. 00:27:50.88 eva terra I don't know, I guess they also they have beings, foul beings, I don't know. 00:27:57.97 Kurt Crenwelge oh like in their toes you mean or like they like okay is is he a polydacty maybe i know some cats are you know managed to have like extra fingers and stuff like that and i don't know any of the 00:28:00.68 eva terra Yeah, I'm sure. 00:28:16.33 eva terra I am sure. i I don't know how the average tabaxi hands is imagined, but yeah. 00:28:22.25 Kurt Crenwelge I feel like they're pretty humanoid anthropomorphic. So, you know, I feel like five, you know, football well so four fingers and a thumb. 00:28:30.94 eva terra Yeah, 00:28:31.14 Kurt Crenwelge OK, it's five fingers, people. But yeah, four, four fingers and a thumb, I feel like is pretty normal for most, ah you know, humanoid creatures in D and&D. 00:28:40.98 eva terra yeah yeah I'll probably go with that. 00:28:43.23 Kurt Crenwelge OK. 00:28:45.09 eva terra um 00:28:48.60 eva terra and yeah 00:28:48.75 Kurt Crenwelge OK, OK, fair, fair enough. 00:28:49.08 eva terra that 00:28:51.28 Kurt Crenwelge um Now, you know, we got a little bit, you know, a little bit of, ah you know, lee waves and stuff like that to to play with the character, certainly. But just kind of curious your thoughts, um you know, because obviously it's D and&D. You can do what you want. Your lore can be different than what's written in the books. um But obviously a name like Google's goop horseradish is not a typical Tabaxi name. So is there a story ah behind why old goop I decided to go with that name is that like their given name or did you know. ah Or is that a name that they came up with when they moved to this community decided to be a cobbler of these magical shoes. 00:29:38.27 eva terra moon i I'm thinking right now, i I have a bit of a, I already like the kind of row this character plays in my mind. 00:29:53.69 eva terra So I do think that Coops would be a nickname. 00:29:53.60 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:29:58.56 Kurt Crenwelge okay Okay. 00:30:00.19 eva terra Yeah, like this. 00:30:03.60 eva terra The kind of nickname that you come up with, like your friends when you're young, and like everybody has a nickname, and then you ah you you drift away from each other, but you still used still keep that dear nickname with you. 00:30:23.72 Kurt Crenwelge That's true I feel like that's a well. um I understand from the UK that that is very much a thing of like when you're in school your classmates will give you some sort of nickname and it's just a nickname that follows you your entire life and it's like. 00:30:38.89 Kurt Crenwelge you know, look, I'm not, you know, Google's horse radish was like, you know, some sort of like, uh, like joke character or something that I made up one day in class. And it's like, I haven't been that wild and crazy guy, you know, since I was like a little kitten. Uh, and now I'm like this, you know, this, uh, cobbler, I make these shoes, but it's yet people still just call me old Google's horse radish. And it's like, they won't let, they won't leave that alone. Uh, He has like a proper name but it's like nope only people want to call him Google's horse radish or goob. 00:31:15.37 eva terra Yeah. 00:31:17.45 Kurt Crenwelge Okay is there a story behind of what you think of Google's horse radishes is it like a particular kind of horse radish. Maybe. 00:31:26.69 eva terra um i maybe yeah Maybe they just really liked horseradish. Actually, idea idea of yeah, it is a kind of horseradish, and Google just really liked it. 00:31:42.31 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:31:44.89 eva terra So that's their nickname. 00:31:44.74 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. Okay. So he was just eating a bunch of it one day. And so then they just started calling him that. And he's like, you know, I like it. All right. Uh, but it's, it's not like my favorite thing in the world. 00:31:54.69 eva terra Yeah. Yeah, it's actually funny. Yeah, it's not even their his favorite or anything. He's just, he likes it. And he was eating a bunch of it one day and just like, okay, now this is your identity. 00:32:11.10 Kurt Crenwelge ah Oh, kids, they're so silly. um ok and Okay, so that's that's good to kind of understand like the canon, the backstory of our Tabaxi. But now my question is, the trait of cobbler of making lifting shoes, what' what's the story behind that? 00:32:38.28 eva terra Maybe it's necessary in the place where they live. Maybe having lifting shoes is just is a necessity in that region because it's like call it a lot of floating islands. 00:32:45.05 Kurt Crenwelge OK. 00:32:53.69 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, floating islands. OK, so then because you're just kind of like elevated up in the air, it's like you're just walking on air um and it's easy enough to be able to walk from island to island or um like like I'm imagining someplace like. 00:33:07.64 eva terra Yeah. 00:33:09.85 Kurt Crenwelge Like Venice like the ghetto the ghetto's islands of Venice of like all these canals and stuff everywhere and so people are just. Having these lifting shoes and they can just ease when they can't catch a gondola a boat or get on the bridge or whatever it's like okay I'll just use my lifting shoes and I'll just walk where I need to go and not worry about a you know dunking in the water or whatever. 00:33:31.53 eva terra Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess, yeah, a place like Venice is better. I guess I was imagining more like a floating shoe, but yeah, lifting makes more sense as in like you get to be a couple feet above the ground. 00:33:47.42 eva terra Yeah, it's like places like this, maybe like hard terrain, and maybe this isn't even where groups lives anymore, but they just kept the practice of making lifting shoes. 00:33:47.34 Kurt Crenwelge Right. 00:34:00.75 Kurt Crenwelge Oh okay so he came from somewhere that where that was more necessary but since that's his trade and he knows what he knows how to do that then he just still makes those shoes so you could be somewhere mundane like you know if you're using forgotten realms it's like oh i'm in balder's gate but it's like he's this weird tabaxi cobbler that makes lifting shoes but like You know all the place where i needed that i don't necessarily need that here in balder's gate but i do look pretty cool i can do some pretty sick dance moves while i'm wearing the shoes ah kind of a thing. 00:34:34.96 eva terra yeah Yeah, exactly like that. 00:34:37.77 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, I like that a lot. I definitely know you, you know, ah well, not that you know, i'm I'm telling you now of a place in my game where I could definitely ah stick a character like this ah in my in my spell jammer Astral Sea. 00:34:44.34 eva terra listen 00:34:53.39 Kurt Crenwelge Setting um i exactly had a place that has a reason why people don't walk on the ground several i call the moon shoes ah because it's in the astral sea but literally they were like. Shoes that lifted you up off the ground so you didn't make vibrations on the ground and everyone had to speak using common sign you could like make noise. 00:35:14.73 Kurt Crenwelge um Like at least that couldn't be managed by magic of like ah you know dampening devices and stuff like that so that was a real fun challenge to invent that place and so i'm like oh. Google's horseradish is just another guy who makes ah you know moon shoes or lifting ah shoes or whatever so that's maybe where he came from and now he's moved to he's retired um you know to the mundane world. 00:35:39.42 Kurt Crenwelge And he's settled in a in a hamlet or a seaside town. And he's making these weird shoes and people are like, we don't know what to do with these, but they seem cool and they they look nice. And, you know, oh, I feel taller now. I'm I all the ladies are wearing them giving the impression that they're taller. But when they lift up their skirts, it's like, oh, they're actually up off the ground by like a foot or something like that. 00:36:03.04 eva terra Yeah, i I think that is a ah very interesting thing. And I guess there's a lot more things that I think about, like, oh, maybe maybe they moved because the their past memories with their friend group is just too much and they need to go from a place where they don't have memories, where he doesn't have memories off. 00:36:17.05 Kurt Crenwelge Mmm. 00:36:25.27 Kurt Crenwelge Right. So, OK, so yeah I feel like the goop, you know, might be kind of like fair enough for he might be OK with that, since that's part of the name, like a goobles horse radish um is like, I don't like hearing that like goop is fine enough ah or goob is fine enough. Or maybe he finally does go by like his proper tobacco name. But people are like, oh, there's a story behind that goob name. 00:36:51.69 Kurt Crenwelge ah But OK, OK, so we've got an idea of like who how he looks physically and, you know, kind of a little bit more of a story. So with kind of all these considerations in mind, if you had to narrow down goob with three adjectives, what three adjectives would you choose? 00:37:11.08 eva terra Hmm. 00:37:15.42 eva terra I imagine, um, reluctance. 00:37:19.64 Kurt Crenwelge Ooh. 00:37:20.67 eva terra Um, because one, I imagine there's like somebody who really wants to be taken in as a PFO and he's just like, no, I won't teach you the process, the techniques and whether he can sustain, uh, reluctance. 00:37:33.84 Kurt Crenwelge oh 00:37:39.42 eva terra Um, 00:37:43.42 eva terra i It is hard to think of adjectives. 00:37:48.39 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. 00:37:53.02 Kurt Crenwelge Talented, uh, you know, fastidious. 00:37:55.80 eva terra Yeah. 00:37:57.53 Kurt Crenwelge I don't know. 00:37:58.21 eva terra you ah For one, I think patient. 00:37:58.17 Kurt Crenwelge I'm just thinking, I'm just. 00:38:00.87 eva terra I think this is a job that demands a lot of patience. I think he also likes fishing and he just stays there. 00:38:09.29 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, fishing. Yeah, probably moved somewhere so we could actually fish too. 00:38:14.00 eva terra Yeah, yeah. And I think, um, content-plative, just, you often, you know, looks at the distance and thinks maybe, or more like, yeah, maybe more like solitary, you know, doesn't quite like company that much. 00:38:23.25 Kurt Crenwelge ah 00:38:29.32 Kurt Crenwelge Why did I get stuck with this dumb name? Oh, okay. 00:38:40.34 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, okay, so we've got reluctant, um but we've got ah patient, and then we have um what you were saying, um Oh, why am I blanking on the third? 00:38:52.62 Kurt Crenwelge You just told me and I had i had the solitary or contemplative. 00:38:53.77 eva terra um solitary or... 00:38:57.84 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, very good. ah It's fine. I could leave my brain fart in there or maybe I'll edit it and I'll make myself sound real good and no one will ever know the difference. ah That's the beauty of being your own editor of your own podcast is that you can do that movie magic behind the scenes. 00:39:13.11 Kurt Crenwelge ah 00:39:13.48 eva terra Yeah. 00:39:14.73 Kurt Crenwelge All right, so now we've got the three adjectives. So we've got an idea more of who goob is as as a character. And we get to go back to some dice rolling because I did promise that we would get to use the whole standard array of dice. So we like our NPCs to be able to have something cool on their person. 00:39:32.59 Kurt Crenwelge So ah what is going to be the valuable item that goob has with him? This could be an item. It could be a piece of lore. It could be a secret or it could be an ideal or concept. So this is a combination role where you roll a D four first for the category and then a D six for the particular thing. 00:39:54.42 eva terra Okay. 00:39:57.83 eva terra um The d4 is a 4 and the d6 is a 3. 00:40:00.65 Kurt Crenwelge Ooh. 00:40:03.23 Kurt Crenwelge Ooh, okay. All right. So this is an ideal or concept. And this answer was suggested by previous guest, Kevin Knoll. Hospitality. 00:40:14.34 Kurt Crenwelge So how does that factor in? 00:40:15.16 eva terra um 00:40:16.88 Kurt Crenwelge You know, we so we talked about how he was reluctant and solitary and patient, but yet he really cares about being a hospitable sort of person or at least the idea of hospitality. 00:40:29.21 Kurt Crenwelge So how does that kind of factor into his character or you know really really makes him stand out. 00:40:36.07 eva terra um I ah kind of imagine that he values like business practice a lot. Like when doing deals in business, he very, you know, focuses on, you know, the proper processes, the proper, you know, the, you know, the hospitality, the, the patterns, I'm forgetting the words, it's just all the proper etiquette, 00:41:03.27 Kurt Crenwelge Etiquette. ok Okay. 00:41:04.59 eva terra like He makes good products and you know holds himself to a high standard of quality. 00:41:07.59 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:41:14.59 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. Is his shop a very inviting place for customers to come and go? 00:41:15.91 eva terra and 00:41:22.39 eva terra yeah Yeah, I think so. that Very inviting and comfortable place. 00:41:24.67 Kurt Crenwelge okay 00:41:28.76 eva terra guess he even like there's any trouble going on he makes sure to to solve it but i guess in a way to still fit in the solitary part it's like this is you know professionalism proof yeah it's just like okay i you know you are welcome here and i will treat you well but he There's a lack of, um, not personality, but like of intimacy, you know, like this is all professional, like somebody can, could work there, could like go there every week, but like, wouldn't quite know Goops as a person, just as a worker. 00:42:07.46 Kurt Crenwelge Mm hmm. 00:42:17.32 Kurt Crenwelge Right. Right. So, um yeah, okay. So, in my head, you know, the the the concept ah sounds very much kind of like um like like sort of Eastern maybe in the concept of doing business. So, could be somewhere like South Korea or Japan or maybe even Taiwan of like you know there is a there's a protocol and there is like a form there's like a ritual if you will when it comes to to doing business or coming into my place of business you know so he cares very much for the form of it but as you were saying like because he's reluctant because he wants to be contemplative and he wants to be solitary because he's in his elder years it's kind of just like going through the motions um and not having like you were saying that degree of intimacy like he's not gonna open up to you and be like well let me tell you about how i got this silly name he's just gonna be no you know like hey did this to the shoes fit well okay let me make sure i give him a good shine ah you know that i do the laces right ah you know the the magic is instilled in the shoes and no give them a spin around and see how they they go. 00:43:34.17 Kurt Crenwelge and then like oh thank you very much and then okay then he's you know the business transactions concluded you leave and now he's like oh great now i don't have to i don't have to be around people until the next person comes into my shop or whatever. 00:43:44.68 eva terra Yeah. 00:43:49.70 eva terra Yeah, exactly like that. I mean, I was even saying, like, I was picturing, like, you know, old martial arts master, I guess, partially because I've been watching a lot of... 00:43:59.09 Kurt Crenwelge e 00:44:02.12 eva terra I've been watching a lot of Gundam and particularly this one. It is a Gundam retelling of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. and 00:44:12.62 Kurt Crenwelge Oh. 00:44:13.12 eva terra Not to derail too much, so I had this these tropes in my head. 00:44:20.04 Kurt Crenwelge OK, so ah so a Japanese retelling of like ancient Chinese history. 00:44:28.46 eva terra Yeah, yeah. 00:44:29.86 Kurt Crenwelge Ah, OK. all right okay so hospitality okay so uh so goob is a very hospitable at least when it comes to business um well we'll see maybe you have to go visit him a few more times and get him to open up the old man like ah you know we love you old guy like we want to be your friend and then maybe he can be like okay all right ah But we like all of our NPCs to be able to offer up side quests. So what is a quest that Goob would be willing to offer ah to player characters or you know to hire them or task them with doing something? If you want to roll for this, The Last Dice, a D12. 00:45:14.77 eva terra Yep. 00:45:19.74 eva terra It is a 1. 00:45:21.62 Kurt Crenwelge It is a one. Okay. Interestingly, another response from previous guest of VTuber Mandy Quinn. There is an interesting shadowy dog that is prowling the streets of the nearby town. What is this dog? So old man, you know, being contemplative and he's noticed this dog. What what do you, what do you think there? Do you think this is interesting? Kind of now it's kind of more of like a, 00:45:48.41 Kurt Crenwelge Jimmy Stewart rear window, sort of a thing where he's like, not not necessarily that, um, you know, goob is broken his leg and he can't, he's like, rap you know, he's not forced to say in his house, but because he's a bit reluctant or he's contemplative, you know, maybe, maybe going into that hospitality thing, he's like, you know, I'm, I'm spending a lot of time making sure that my place of business looks good. Um, but he's just noticing this shadowy dog. I don't know. What do you think? 00:46:16.92 eva terra If I'm allowed to expend on the definition of dog, I do have a neat idea, which is that though the shadowy dog is a 00:46:27.25 Kurt Crenwelge Oh. 00:46:33.51 eva terra pair of shoes he made that went awfully wrong. 00:46:37.96 Kurt Crenwelge Oh. 00:46:39.17 eva terra And this is like, you know, I made this creature by accident, maybe, you know, maybe I was really angry in that day, you know, and I wasn't doing things properly. 00:46:47.40 Kurt Crenwelge Um. 00:46:53.47 eva terra And this creature was created. And I, you know, and he requests the player party to put it down. 00:47:02.88 Kurt Crenwelge oh interesting okay taking it a little more uh kind of like frankenstein sort of a thing of like oh these shoes are like ah do now do they like project an aura that makes it look like a shadowy dog or is it a shadowy figure like oh there's a shadow walking around uh in in this pair of shoes or whatever 00:47:22.71 eva terra Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I imagine like the shoes just in some way took a dog-like shape. Yeah, I really like this idea of like he made these shoes but he didn't put the love in the process and now the shoes are just filled with hate. 00:47:40.28 Kurt Crenwelge Mm. He didn't adhere to hospitality. 00:47:44.79 eva terra Yeah, this is what happens when you don't adhere to the hospitality. 00:47:46.26 Kurt Crenwelge Mm. 00:47:49.03 eva terra This is why he's so insistent on it. 00:47:51.54 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah, okay. 00:47:52.60 eva terra And now he created this prowling creature. 00:47:56.44 Kurt Crenwelge Is it stalking him in the shop or is it just stalking the town and like being menacing and ah spooky? 00:48:04.11 eva terra i I think it's just stalking the town in general. I like the idea that if he could, he could ignore this problem. 00:48:14.73 Kurt Crenwelge Mm hmm. 00:48:15.17 eva terra this isn't He doesn't want to solve this because it's bothering him in specific, but because it's his responsibility. He caused this. He has to fix it. 00:48:28.18 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, okay. Yeah, so it sounds like we're starting to get into the the sub questions of this side quest. So um so, you know, this shadowy dog, this shadowy figure is like skulking around town and he wants you to go stop this, put it down because he explains what it really is. 00:48:40.95 eva terra but 00:48:47.59 Kurt Crenwelge So what's going to be the reward for success in the side quest? 00:48:53.77 eva terra um 00:48:56.50 eva terra Well, I feel like the most most clear answer is he gives a pair of levitating shoes to everyone in the party. 00:49:04.94 Kurt Crenwelge Okay, so everyone gets a pair of moon shoes basically. 00:49:08.44 eva terra Yeah, that that would be my my first ah first thought. 00:49:12.12 Kurt Crenwelge OK, OK, so he ah are you imagining that? ah Well, let's see, because I know when I figured it out for my homebrew setting, I I determined that something like a pair of lifting shoes, you know, to keep you up off the ground, and especially if you needed to be in a place where these were commonplace, so like a common magic item. So they're not. 00:49:37.44 Kurt Crenwelge The most expensive shoes in the world, but they certainly don't come cheap to like a common peasant or something, if you will. So, I mean, not a, not an in so inconsequential sort of reward. And, you know, these are like. 00:49:51.46 Kurt Crenwelge well-crafted i don't i don't know i don't know my shoe brands too much i don't know is there like some sort of comparable fancy shoe that you could be like the oh this is like a getting a pair of like air jordans or like crisp premium converse all-star sneakers or something like that 00:49:57.13 eva terra just 00:50:11.58 eva terra um yeah Yeah, that could be another another left or right. isnt They're not just the the regular levitating shoes, these are just you know masterfully crafted and they can, I don't know, give you some, like a charisma bonus in some sort, in some way, like, oh. 00:50:34.42 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, advantage on charisma persuasion checks or something like that. 00:50:36.44 eva terra ah the Yeah, like if you can, if somebody's impressed by your shoes, you could have a bonus like that. 00:50:47.29 Kurt Crenwelge OK, that's I mean, that's that's cool. You know, having like a like a neat ah item of clothing that just, you know, gives you an advantage on on something like that doesn't necessarily have to be magical. um If if the party isn't interested in the lifting shoes, then he could just he could make them a killer pair of shoes and there'll be the talking talking boots of the town or or whatever it is. 00:51:14.21 eva terra Yeah, I've thought like you know it could be both. like If just a pair of lifting shoes is really not that much, it could be like, oh, but these are masterfully crafted, and people will be impressed by the their work, or it could be another bonus. 00:51:25.74 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 00:51:32.36 Kurt Crenwelge There you go. 00:51:33.07 eva terra I don't quite know like the the base level we're working here for rewards. 00:51:39.66 Kurt Crenwelge It's whatever whatever an old man tabaxi would feel is appropriate for dealing with you know the shadowy shoes. Which depending on you know how nefarious you want them to be it could be something easy that a low level party could take care of if you just sort of reskin like. 00:51:57.78 Kurt Crenwelge You know some sort of animated object or you know other low challenge rating sort of a thing or. You know if you use a different game system that it could be you know something entirely different with how you have to ah tackle the the evil shoes if you will. 00:52:14.27 Kurt Crenwelge ah So yeah, uh, whatever you feel is appropriate for goob to be able to hand out as a reward. I think either way is good. Like everyone gets a pair of moon shoes or like, like, Oh, we don't really need moon shoes. Okay. Well, I do happen to be like an expert cobbler. Uh, you got some sort of, um, you know, fancy ball you have to go to, or you're about to go appear in court, uh, Royal court for someone and you need to impress with your shoes. Well, I'm the cat for you. 00:52:44.69 Kurt Crenwelge ah You'll be the cat's pajamas when you get shoes made by me or something like that I don't know if he speaks in 50s lingo um But the cats pajamas I just couldn't resist Okay, there's something else we learned about his character so he's old old man who's reluctant and solitary But he can't resist a good cat pun. 00:52:55.68 eva terra Yeah, of course he he has to do cat puns, right? 00:53:07.75 Kurt Crenwelge That's that's good to know 00:53:09.76 eva terra the yeah I would probably you know include both. Just pick whichever you want you need the most. 00:53:17.89 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 00:53:19.00 eva terra like Very you know impressive and elegant shoes or moong shoes. 00:53:19.07 Kurt Crenwelge Okay Yeah Okay, and then we also have to consider the opposite what's gonna be the consequence of failure or Refusing the call to the adventure 00:53:36.24 eva terra and 00:53:39.48 eva terra Yeah, well, refusing it my first thought is the town continues to be haunted by this creature. Actually, here's a more funny thing. If you refuse it, 00:53:56.37 eva terra an enemy will do this quest and they will have the moon shoes because they completed this quest that you didn't want it to do. 00:54:05.21 Kurt Crenwelge Ah, the rival party. 00:54:05.69 eva terra I don't know like, yeah the rival party, the rival party does it. 00:54:07.09 Kurt Crenwelge The rival party does it. 00:54:11.59 Kurt Crenwelge So they get the cool shoes and then you're ah like you're all like, man, I wanted cool shoes. It's like, well, the dude offered it to you and you said no. So no cool shoes for you. 00:54:22.61 eva terra yeah Yeah, that is, I think, just a fun way to do it. is Okay, if if you're not going to do this, I will find someone else, but it's like it's the person you the person, the party you like the least. 00:54:37.63 Kurt Crenwelge right it's like gary oak like gary oak shows up and does it and you're like gosh i hate i hate that guy he's so annoying he's always having to like one up me and like prove himself and i'm just like trying to live my life over here and do my thing but gary's always rubbing it in my face gosh gary okay 00:54:39.61 eva terra Yeah, exactly. 00:54:59.71 Kurt Crenwelge So that that's if you refuse, but what is there a difference if there's failure? I don't know how you would fail to stop a pair of shoes, evil shoes, menacing shoes, shadowy shoes ah from menacing the town, like whatever, however failure looks like. I don't know. Is there a difference there of how goob will react to that? 00:55:22.73 eva terra Yeah, maybe maybe the pair of shoes is like on a quest, on a hunt for all the pairs of shoes in the town. 00:55:37.01 Kurt Crenwelge Okay. 00:55:38.67 eva terra And if you fail, then yeah, then everyone's shoes in this town get devoured. 00:55:46.38 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, is this shoe like these evil pair of shoes like cannibalizing the other shoes in town? 00:55:52.94 eva terra yeah i think so and just they're they're yeah 00:55:56.16 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, and now everyone's going to start blaming the weird cobbler. Hey, he moved here. He has magic shoes. All of our shoes are going missing. And now they're going to turn on poor old horseradish. ah Hey man, I'm just trying to make shoes. I'm not trying to make trouble. And I don't know. Does it, does it turn violent or just do the people run him out of town or he doesn't get any more business. They're inhospitable and his place of business where he values hospitality. 00:56:27.82 eva terra Yeah, you know, play play to find out like if the party can somehow clear groups his name ah or take the blame for it, but depending on how things go. But yeah, I i like this idea of just if you if you ignore it, then even if you just leave this town, it will still come back to you. 00:56:55.65 Kurt Crenwelge Mmm. 00:56:56.77 eva terra in the form of a benefit you like arrive or an enemy but if you try and fail then like this is just like okay now a new challenge right this town is angry at the 00:57:07.00 Kurt Crenwelge Right. 00:57:10.57 Kurt Crenwelge Oh and the shoes come back stronger because of the magic that's in them because these are weird these are weird shoes man they're not like the normal moon shoes these are like weird shoes and the fact that they're cannibalizing other shoes what if the shoes are like getting What if they're getting bigger maybe not necessarily like clown shoes but like they're just they're growing more powerful and they're getting like mean and ugly and like now these are like getting like scary like maybe they're transforming somehow like into some sort of. 00:57:41.71 Kurt Crenwelge Like I said, Frankenstein monster, what if it's like, like, a like the shift of the, you know, it's like the leather and the stitching and it they actually do take the form of the the the dog or the humanoid or whatever it is that then you could like introduce the stats for like a flesh golem or something like that. 00:57:44.81 eva terra Yeah. 00:58:00.11 Kurt Crenwelge And it's like, oh, these evil pair of shoes that you never dealt with. Now it's a flesh golem terrorizing the town. It's eaten all the shoes and now it's gotten a hankering for like, for flesh. Uh, like i'm I'm done with all the tanned leather and stuff like that. Now I, wrote now I, now I need the the stuff straight from the stores. 00:58:19.18 eva terra Yeah, when you talk when you said that, the first thing that came to mind was this very old Yu-Gi-Oh! card that's like a burger, but it's evil, and it has thief, and it's what if that exact same you know idea but your pair of shoes? 00:58:31.02 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. 00:58:36.97 eva terra Shoes, evil, thief, and stuff, and yeah, now it's even you know more powerful and more dangerous. 00:58:36.90 Kurt Crenwelge Mmm. 00:58:44.64 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. Yeah, poor goob is like, like trying to barricade a shop and, you know, this flesh golems pounding on the door trying to get in and he's like, Oh, what have I done? ah You know, to make this thing. Yeah, I know that's terrifying. ah Very well, I don't know if Lovecraftian is the right sort of word, but it's certainly absurdist sort of horror or something like that. I don't know. But Okay yeah i think i think those are pretty good consequences ah for ah for this particular side quest do you feel like we need to explore any of the other side ah optional. ah Questions ah for this character or do you feel like old goob is good to go. 00:59:30.64 eva terra Oh, let me check the questions here. 00:59:39.73 eva terra I see. 00:59:55.58 eva terra There is a question here. What impact have you made on the world? How have you shaped the local area? The question is simple. 01:00:01.79 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. 01:00:03.37 eva terra Everyone in the local area has moon shoes. 01:00:05.64 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, OK. Yeah. So he he helped make them in the previous area that he was. And now this town, ah like we alluded to, if it's somewhere like a Venice or or some other like regular town, but like everyone walks around a little bit taller and they wear their dresses longer to give the illusion of everyone being taller in town. But then it's like, oh, it's because everyone's like lifting off the ground like by a foot or something like that. So. 01:00:31.64 eva terra Yeah. 01:00:31.61 Kurt Crenwelge um Everyone's having a duck in their doorways because they keep hitting their heads on the top of the doors like, oh, excuse me. Oh, I have to bend down here. ah but People are able to wear their shoes indoors and not worry about tracking mud or or dirt or something and into the into the helm, which is nice. You can step over the threshold much easier because you're already lifted up off the ground. 01:00:58.23 eva terra yeah 01:01:00.07 Kurt Crenwelge OK. 01:01:00.43 eva terra And I do think it's a fun introduction, right? Oh, the party arrives in this place and and and and people just have this. ah Yeah, like there's a lot of people with moon shoes. 01:01:16.69 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Well, it sounds like we've got ourselves a pretty awesome little guy. And I think it's time we stick him into a random encounter. 01:01:37.40 Kurt Crenwelge And final ad read for you Transcriber readers, Zencaster. It's the podcast service I use. It's what helps to get these episodes ah produced and made and all that good stuff. So if you want to start your own podcast, ah go to zencaster.com slash pricing and then use my code sidekqpodcast to get a discount on your subscription for your own Zencaster and start making your podcast today. 01:02:06.69 Kurt Crenwelge All right so now we're in the section of the show where we get to do a role play a vignette a scene with the character that we made so Ava I think will do a fantastic job she doesn't have to do an old man voice but I think she'll do an awesome job ah bringing a life to Google's goop horse radish the elder tabaxi cobbler of lifting shoes uh but the question becomes for me who am i going to be in this scene am i going to be uh you know someone from goob's childhood giving him this name uh am i going to be one of my adventuring characters getting this side quest about you know these shadowy shoes lurking around town 01:02:46.98 Kurt Crenwelge Or is it just gonna be like a slice of life where someone from the town comes in to like get a nice pair of shoes? ah Made and we get to see goob using ah and and and working towards this Hospitality that he so much values or I don't know. What are you interested in? 01:03:07.22 eva terra o I guess, I guess the the regular citizen would like do a good job of just presenting the normal life of groups. 01:03:15.88 Kurt Crenwelge Okay 01:03:24.29 Kurt Crenwelge OK. OK, perfect. So would you like to set the scene, or or would would you care for me to set the scene? 01:03:32.02 eva terra um I can. 01:03:34.30 Kurt Crenwelge Perfect. 01:03:36.99 eva terra welcome to Welcome to my humble shoe... I keep calling them levitating, but it's it's ah a different word. 01:03:48.26 Kurt Crenwelge Lifting. 01:03:49.07 eva terra Yeah. Welcome to of my humble lifting shoe store. Are you here to pick and a new pair? 01:03:58.86 Kurt Crenwelge Oh, hello. Yes. Good to see you, master. Horseradish, it was. Yes. 01:04:07.64 eva terra you You can just call me Goops. 01:04:12.46 Kurt Crenwelge Ah, master goob. 01:04:13.17 eva terra It's a long story, but that's what everyone calls me. 01:04:16.92 Kurt Crenwelge ah very good sir and you see that it is like a you know a rather nice ah you know well-to-do merchant sort of man and he's here ah with his wife um so it's the two of them together um so he's like yes yes okay very good master goob yes yeah I see all the the people around town are walking proud and tall tall yes my wife She's very fine dresses to go on to show them and she laughs and ah she does a twirl about in her dress and it's like see how long it is but it it just drapes it just kind of you know it's and not unlike your lovely wedding train you had on your gown my dear and he does like a gomez sort of kiss upper arm to like a morticia. 01:05:00.86 Kurt Crenwelge And he's like, yes, well, she must, she must, uh, you know, be lifted up. And so I am told that, uh, you are the man to do it. You're the reason why all the well to do of this town walk around so bold and proud. 01:05:14.79 eva terra Yes, yes, of course. that That is a very common request. oh if you i If I could just take your measurements and then, yeah, just like know very very professionally imagine like he has a the measuring tape in a specific place, but then yeah and then he returns the measuring tape to that specific place and he gets like ah Not just like different measures of the feet, but also know, is there a particular distance from the ground you would like to be? ah There is a ah a level of wiggle room that I can adjust the shoes from so but about a half to one and a half feet. 01:06:02.68 Kurt Crenwelge Ooh! Ooh! And so they they start like talking and then she's like, well, you know, as Mirelle does, always shoving into my face about how high and lofty and mighty she is. It's like, I know, dear, she's just such a pain, isn't she? Oh, yeah, she just has to rub it in everyone's face. 01:06:19.46 Kurt Crenwelge and you've my little man and they get like they get a little flirty and and stuff like that and so maybe again and now I have this idea of mortician Gomez so he's like I want my wife to be the statuesque goddess that I know her to be yes a foot and a half two feet three it's a and then she like has to calm him down and she's like okay dear okay oh dear okay he's like I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm just so in love with you and You know, I just can't stand that Esmeralda has to be, you know, making you feel less of yourself when I know you to be the shining, radiant jewel of my eye. And she's like, oh, you speak such sweet poetry to me. ah And yeah so they're, you know, they're talking and and being a cute couple and all that stuff. um But yeah, then he'll the gentleman will turn to you and say, yes, a foot and a half ought to do it. Show her what for. Ha ha. 01:07:12.02 eva terra if Yeah, and then then I imagine there's ah you know a lot of, um you know, first comes, you know, measuring and all the technical stuff and also, you know, asking about styles and like, oh, is this going to be a pair of heels or so and such? 01:07:25.07 Kurt Crenwelge Mm-hmm. 01:07:32.28 eva terra It's just... 01:07:32.41 Kurt Crenwelge Oh Yeah, no, she definitely is like oh, you know She tells you exactly everything that she wants and she's like, you know to the level of detail where it's like I you know, oh miss so-and-so had like, you know jewels on hers while I want like twice as many jewels or like, you know, I she went for you know this kind of a heel well i want this kind of a slit because i'm not a fool ah you know i want my feet to be comfortable not aching in the metal naturally allow me. ah You know to be taller rather than having to cheat and rely on like the heel ah part of it to to goose me or something. 01:08:10.17 eva terra Yeah, i I did say Hiyo, and then I stopped for a second there thinking like, lifting shoes with Hiyo's help. Does that work? 01:08:21.05 eva terra but And yeah, and there's like, 01:08:21.82 Kurt Crenwelge Right unless it just kind of like resets the ground you know of like you know the heel then kind of like sort of cheats you up or something like that or you know is meant to accentuate the derriere or something like that and um you know so this woman is just like you know no you know I don't need to be superfluous like that I'm going to be taller because I'm already going to be like a foot and a half off the ground versus her because she's like you know maybe like a foot off the ground or something like that and you know 01:08:51.25 eva terra Yeah. And and and then i i there's also a whole process where like, oh, do you want the colors and the materials? Do you want it to match with a specific dress or jewelry? 01:08:58.78 Kurt Crenwelge Mmm. 01:09:03.65 Kurt Crenwelge o Yeah, yeah, she tells you she tells you the whole nine yards of of what she wants um Yeah, and then he's he's just delighted and um you know, he he's so he's letting his wife, you know ah Express what she wants and you know, he's happy to pay for it. 01:09:04.13 eva terra You know, it's like, it's like, 01:09:20.43 Kurt Crenwelge No problem ah But then he's looking around for himself and then he begins to ask questions about like, you know, well ah You know what? What can you do for me? And so he starts seeing like maybe some of these like really rich Accords you know like social gathering ball To do sort of shoes and so he'll ask about those and like oh those should be red You know because those are fancy um And then yeah, this is gonna carry on for a while. How long do you think like the transaction? ah Would take to get the measurements and then probably like you know and set them up for them to come back and stuff like that 01:09:58.21 eva terra Oh, i I think that Goops is like, you know, there's some clients that are like this that like, very, they want a very specific thing. So bits like this would take much longer, but then there's also like, 01:10:13.91 eva terra More common folks, it's just, I just want a pair of lifting shoes, no normal. 01:10:18.20 Kurt Crenwelge Mhm. 01:10:19.49 eva terra And these are often like, come, are quicker. And also they probably have very different price ranges, you know, right? 01:10:28.80 Kurt Crenwelge Mhm. 01:10:30.36 eva terra If the, you know, the the The rich folk who wants very fancy shoes, like he he will make them, but they will be much more expensive than the shoes made for like the common folk. 01:10:44.59 eva terra They just want a regular pair of lifting shoes, and then and then yeah requests like this would probably take 01:10:47.74 Kurt Crenwelge Sure. 01:10:52.75 eva terra a little longer but then but also if there is haste he will you'll find a way to like okay I can get this I can get this done in two days yes it it won't be easy but I've I've I've done harder tasks before 01:11:12.16 Kurt Crenwelge Hmm. Yes master group. They say that you are the finest cobbler in this town, you know And and he he pays you this long compliment um But he he pays the money up front to get this job done expedited And then of course very much in a Gomez sort of a fashion ah he's just doting upon his wife he loves her so much and she just you know he He just wants her to be presented and shown ah for the goddess that he believes that she is. And before the scene closes out, like now that this hospitality has been conducted and and you know the ritual complete, as it were, how is Goob reacting now that they've left the shop? 01:12:00.00 eva terra um i I imagine a little bit of... See, I imagine that goop still keeps sort of like a posture and you know a tidiness even when there aren't. 01:12:15.38 eva terra clients, but tom but like if somebody is present in the store that makes it clear that they're not interested in buying shoes, I think Goops will be much more stern and that's like that kind of that kind of like behavior. 01:12:46.03 Kurt Crenwelge And seen uh, so there we go. We made it through the random encounter section of the podcast So what was it like getting to be a voice? Uh to google's 01:12:58.25 eva terra it was It was fun. I don't often do voices, but it and I did what felt correct. 01:13:09.90 Kurt Crenwelge Yeah, no, I think you were ah good and honest and and gave a good, honest ah portrayal of the character. Yeah, so now is the part of the show where we enter into the final thoughts section of the show. um So what is ah Yeah, so ah any final closing thoughts that you want to share and then um any any last things that you want to plug and and share with us in the podcast audience? 01:13:42.77 eva terra um I definitely like the the random tables. I think that making something like from a blank paper is harder but like having these starting points makes it much easier to go with the flow and that's part of why I like Role-playing, I love rolling dice. 01:14:08.57 eva terra I think it's fun. I like it when games come up with you know new, original, fun ways of rolling dice. 01:14:10.69 Kurt Crenwelge Indeed. 01:14:19.46 eva terra um and And it was a ah fun experience, like, like okay, I've rolled a bunch of dice, I have this idea, and they're like, oh, okay, but now there's this new idea how oh to adapt. 01:14:19.40 Kurt Crenwelge Excellent. 01:14:31.51 eva terra And and that's so that's really what I like about role-playing is just like... What happens next? I don't know. The dice will decide. Oh, yes, yes. And my URL is worstgirlava, no spaces. It is on X and Blue Sky and Tumblr, too, on all these websites. And thank you for having me. It's been a great episode. 01:14:59.01 Kurt Crenwelge Yes, thank you. Thank you for being a guest. And we will make sure to get all those socials out for you. And I can't wait to have you back on the podcast, making even more interesting NPCs. 01:15:13.13 eva terra Yeah, it's been a great time. Thank you.