In this episode of the RPX Rollup, we're back with Urban Shadows 2nd edition. We're doing some city creation work, building Barrie, Ontario as our supernatural setting. We walk through the process of taking a real place and figuring out what kind of supernatural stuff might be going on there.
Join us as we discuss Barrie's actual history and geography, then start layering in the supernatural elements - where different factions might operate, what kind of politics exist between them, and how the supernatural world intersects with the regular city.
If you're interested in Urban Shadows or just curious about how to develop RPG settings, this gives you a look at how we approach city creation.
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00:00:15 --> 00:00:20 Hello, welcome to the Rolepoint Exchange. This is Adam, and I am a filthy liar,
00:00:21 --> 00:00:25 because two months ago I told you that in the following month we were going
00:00:25 --> 00:00:31 to sit here and do our city creation for Urban Shadows, second edition.
00:00:31 --> 00:00:36 And the scheduling and stuff came out, so we had the previous month of June,
00:00:36 --> 00:00:43 which ironically I posted on July 1st, Roleup was for aliens.
00:00:43 --> 00:00:48 So today, me and my good friend Crazon, Chris, Review Cultist,
00:00:48 --> 00:00:52 a man of many names, Nyla Therotep, are going to sit down here and try to flesh
00:00:52 --> 00:00:55 out Bury, Ontario, Canada.
00:00:56 --> 00:01:00 Has it already been two months? Oh, God.
00:01:02 --> 00:01:07 Yes, hi, I'm Crazon. Or Chris, or Review Cultist. They're calling chaos.
00:01:09 --> 00:01:14 Time is a it'll lose him. Time is a flat circle and I wish I had a beer.
00:01:14 --> 00:01:18 Crush can yeah yeah so
00:01:18 --> 00:01:21 when we were talking about this two months
00:01:21 --> 00:01:24 ago and we created two characters
00:01:24 --> 00:01:28 do you care to refresh our listeners in
00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 case they miss that of of what urban
00:01:31 --> 00:01:34 shadows is since you bought it they gave me a
00:01:34 --> 00:01:37 free copy and about our characters yeah urban
00:01:37 --> 00:01:41 shadows and we're this is because we see a second edition urban shadows but
00:01:41 --> 00:01:46 the original urban shadows was sort of a It's a Powered by the Apocalypse style
00:01:46 --> 00:01:52 RPG about playing as supernatural beings and dealing with supernatural politics
00:01:52 --> 00:01:57 and intrigue and mysteries within a city.
00:01:57 --> 00:02:05 Sort of in the same vein as like a Dresden Files or True Blood or Blood Ties
00:02:05 --> 00:02:08 for you Canadians out there. Yeah.
00:02:08 --> 00:02:11 The kind of thing where like there's like the city there's a
00:02:11 --> 00:02:14 city and it has it has its shadows and it has its like
00:02:14 --> 00:02:17 underworld like kind of like underbelly of of paranormal and
00:02:17 --> 00:02:20 supernatural like entities and factions that kind of
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 like all live among the mortals and among
00:02:23 --> 00:02:26 the uh the general populace and occasionally
00:02:26 --> 00:02:29 have to try and like figure out like find out why like something
00:02:29 --> 00:02:33 has happened that might expose them to the greater
00:02:33 --> 00:02:36 kind of public consciousness and it
00:02:36 --> 00:02:39 seems like kind of a I mean definitely draws heavily from
00:02:39 --> 00:02:42 what to dress and fouls but you can also see really
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 any other urban fantasy style setting it's all
00:02:45 --> 00:02:49 yeah roughly the vampire slayer all that is right here yep and
00:02:49 --> 00:02:51 yeah like it allows for any so your character you make a character
00:02:51 --> 00:02:54 and then you your character is tied to some of
00:02:54 --> 00:02:57 these factions and they all they've categorized the factions into like the
00:02:57 --> 00:03:00 knight which are like your traditional like
00:03:00 --> 00:03:04 knight stalking monsters like vampires werewolves and
00:03:04 --> 00:03:06 and the like then there's the wild which are
00:03:06 --> 00:03:10 like the outsider-y kind of entities like the fey something
00:03:10 --> 00:03:13 alien i think even demons are fall under fey
00:03:13 --> 00:03:16 or under under the the wild and then
00:03:16 --> 00:03:22 there's the the mortalis faction which are humans mortal humans who are aware
00:03:22 --> 00:03:28 of the supernatural but don't necessarily have a lot of power but are aware
00:03:28 --> 00:03:34 of things and can try and do something to help mitigate or to try and help defend the little guy.
00:03:34 --> 00:03:37 And then there's the power faction, which are...
00:03:38 --> 00:03:43 Effectively humans or, or mortals and immortals beings with the juice.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:48 So like mages and, and more, and like, like demigod or immortal beings.
00:03:49 --> 00:03:52 Yeah. That, that run, run things. Like they're basically like if the,
00:03:53 --> 00:03:58 they're, they're to the mortalist that like mayors and police authority are
00:03:58 --> 00:04:01 like, like police chiefs and all that kind of thing are to the,
00:04:01 --> 00:04:05 like the civilians and citizens of, of a, of a city.
00:04:06 --> 00:04:08 Yeah. For better or worse.
00:04:08 --> 00:04:13 That's really cool. Borrowed from, like I said, a lot of other different fantasies
00:04:13 --> 00:04:15 that we kind of dealt with here.
00:04:15 --> 00:04:22 And I guess one of the things that really attracts me to this is that we can
00:04:22 --> 00:04:26 really decide like certain aspects, like say if we were going to borrow from
00:04:26 --> 00:04:29 the dressing files, then people who are mages,
00:04:30 --> 00:04:35 wizards, magicians, witches, et cetera, et cetera, they have a much more prolonged lifespan.
00:04:36 --> 00:04:41 Once they start kind of, juicing up if we wanted to. We could even make sparkly
00:04:41 --> 00:04:43 vampires, but we're not going to.
00:04:44 --> 00:04:46 I mean, they're really just fey, so... Yeah.
00:04:47 --> 00:04:51 We're not making sparkly vampires, Chris. Are you sure?
00:04:51 --> 00:04:57 Maybe. I have, like, had some ideas before for, like, an urban fantasy thing
00:04:57 --> 00:04:58 similar to this, but where, like, I pull, like,
00:04:59 --> 00:05:03 the Dresden thing where there's, like, several different types of vampires,
00:05:03 --> 00:05:08 and one of them was, like, kind of a glamour-y, like, fey vampire.
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 Like the snake pyres actually that's where the snake pyres actually stemmed
00:05:11 --> 00:05:15 from from some of our other games.
00:05:18 --> 00:05:23 So we've kind of got all this world that we've been working on in that and Chris
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 what was the character that you created,
00:05:26 --> 00:05:30 Well, look who the cat drug in. We were getting ready to start this row up without
00:05:30 --> 00:05:32 you. How are you doing, Jeremy?
00:05:32 --> 00:05:36 I'm doing good. My dance card freed up, and I decided I was going to jump in
00:05:36 --> 00:05:41 and help flesh out this here soul and soulless, considering I am the soulless.
00:05:43 --> 00:05:46 We were actually getting ready to get into character creation,
00:05:46 --> 00:05:49 and we realized we forgot what the characters were, so we had to pause the recording
00:05:49 --> 00:05:54 to go in to dig through where the character sheets lie dormant.
00:05:54 --> 00:05:57 But can you tell me, guys, why
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 don't you all go ahead and introduce your characters that you remember?
00:06:00 --> 00:06:04 Oh yeah, I'm playing. Everybody jump at once. This is Krazon,
00:06:04 --> 00:06:10 and I'm playing Bobby Bramwell Dawson, the Ghost, or the Spectre.
00:06:11 --> 00:06:17 He's got sort of a pyrokinetic sort of bend to him because of his family lineage.
00:06:17 --> 00:06:23 And he was stabbed by a man in the, in, in one of the lakeside parks,
00:06:23 --> 00:06:26 uh, in, in, uh, by the shore. Wow.
00:06:28 --> 00:06:33 Words was stabbed by, uh, by, by a man, uh, in Heritage Park where he,
00:06:34 --> 00:06:37 uh, during the summer of stabs or the summer of stabbings, which was an actual,
00:06:37 --> 00:06:41 or it's a, it's, we're, it's a fictionalized version of an actual event in Barry
00:06:41 --> 00:06:47 where you couldn't go a weekend in Barry during like a certain summer and,
00:06:47 --> 00:06:50 When there wasn't somebody getting stabbed in the lakeside parks.
00:06:50 --> 00:06:52 Real good film, good story. Yeah.
00:06:54 --> 00:06:58 And now I haunt one of the, I haunt my former, my former employee,
00:06:59 --> 00:07:03 the, the old, uh, the, the, the food court of the dead mall of, of the Kozlov center.
00:07:04 --> 00:07:09 And what about your tenuous relationship with your stabber? Oh yeah.
00:07:09 --> 00:07:15 Yeah. I have, yeah, I do know my, my killer, Jared, and he owes me a debt. Yeah.
00:07:15 --> 00:07:18 Jarrett Trombley, because it wasn't technically his fault.
00:07:18 --> 00:07:22 He was under the influence of some kind of wild power or some kind of wild force,
00:07:23 --> 00:07:25 perhaps Faye, perhaps something else.
00:07:25 --> 00:07:29 But yeah, he showed up and stabbed me and killed me.
00:07:30 --> 00:07:34 And I think I think the knife, I know where the knife is.
00:07:34 --> 00:07:38 Like, I always know where the knife is because it's something in like it's in
00:07:38 --> 00:07:42 it's I know it's I know it's in that direction in lockup. Yeah.
00:07:44 --> 00:07:47 And jeremy you're i really thank you
00:07:47 --> 00:07:50 above and beyond with the creation of this
00:07:50 --> 00:07:53 so tell us about your guy my guy's name
00:07:53 --> 00:07:56 is baron johnson he is a descendant of
00:07:56 --> 00:08:01 robert johnson going off of the robert johnson myth where robert johnson for
00:08:01 --> 00:08:06 anybody who doesn't know it was a man that was so was said to have sold the
00:08:06 --> 00:08:12 soul to the devil learn how to play the guitar so i thought that I just looked
00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 at the Dougal talk, and I thought that it wasn't Sworn. It was tainted.
00:08:15 --> 00:08:19 Yeah, I thought Sworn was the same as... Yeah, sorry, I fixed it.
00:08:19 --> 00:08:21 Oh, you're good. I appreciate that.
00:08:21 --> 00:08:28 But he went soul to soul to the devil in exchange to learn how to play the guitar.
00:08:29 --> 00:08:33 So my thought was, ever since then, his bloodline was cursed.
00:08:35 --> 00:08:39 So Baron was born without a soul. Every once in a while, there's a child that's
00:08:39 --> 00:08:41 born without a soul, and he was that one.
00:08:41 --> 00:08:48 So he really doesn't know how to interact with humans because he doesn't understand human emotions.
00:08:48 --> 00:08:56 He just kind of does, and he'll either work up contracts and sell people either
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 a good or bad bill of goods, mostly bad bill of goods,
00:08:59 --> 00:09:06 for exchange for their souls, or he will do the soul repo and go collect souls for his overseer.
00:09:06 --> 00:09:10 Sounds pretty cool. And then I'm going to play just a vanilla,
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12 normal, aware character.
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15 I am playing Hans Jimenez.
00:09:15 --> 00:09:17 He is of mixed descent.
00:09:17 --> 00:09:22 His, I would say his maternal family was married.
00:09:23 --> 00:09:31 German immigrants to Canada, and his father's family were from Mexico, who went up to Canada.
00:09:32 --> 00:09:37 So, you know, Hans Jimenez, and he's kind of my child-type character.
00:09:38 --> 00:09:44 His grandmother was involved in sorcery and magic to a certain degree,
00:09:44 --> 00:09:50 so he became aware of her, of the supernatural world through,
00:09:51 --> 00:09:53 well, as he got to a certain age with her.
00:09:54 --> 00:10:01 And he is working as a curator at the local community arts center,
00:10:01 --> 00:10:04 which has been a repurposed church.
00:10:04 --> 00:10:09 I would like to think that kind of playing off of Dresden, the fact that it
00:10:09 --> 00:10:11 was hallowed ground and he's there.
00:10:12 --> 00:10:15 It keeps it kind of more of a safe haven.
00:10:15 --> 00:10:20 And it's not just a safe haven for people who are fleeing from the supernatural,
00:10:20 --> 00:10:23 but it's also for supernatural entities as well.
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 And yeah, I mean, nothing as cool as being stabbed to death.
00:10:28 --> 00:10:32 Nothing as cool as my papa, her great-grandfather, so to the devil.
00:10:32 --> 00:10:34 But hey, everybody needs a Giles.
00:10:37 --> 00:10:43 I should have just said Whistler. He was much cooler. from Boyd. Potato, potato.
00:10:45 --> 00:10:50 I will not have you spurs the name of Chris Christopherson on my podcast.
00:10:50 --> 00:10:52 That's true. That's true.
00:10:53 --> 00:10:58 Anyway, I'm just joking with that. So that's kind of where we left off, folks.
00:10:58 --> 00:11:04 Now, beforehand, we kind of decided that we were going to be working with Barry Ontario.
00:11:05 --> 00:11:08 And I'm trying to think of what else
00:11:08 --> 00:11:11 there is to say about this we're gonna already go into
00:11:11 --> 00:11:14 creation oh go ahead yeah yeah because well
00:11:14 --> 00:11:18 it's my home one of my one of my my local towns at
00:11:18 --> 00:11:24 any chance i get to promote canadianisms i will or place at least places i'm
00:11:24 --> 00:11:29 familiar with but yeah we we did mention a couple of things last session or
00:11:29 --> 00:11:33 like during the the character creation session i believe of barry Like there's
00:11:33 --> 00:11:35 the, uh, spirit catcher statue in the,
00:11:35 --> 00:11:37 again, one of the lake, lakeside parks.
00:11:38 --> 00:11:41 Actually, it might just be the, just the waterfront basically on the waterfront.
00:11:41 --> 00:11:46 There's this giant metal statue of a, uh, of a dream catcher or a spirit catcher.
00:11:47 --> 00:11:48 That's, uh, that was commissioned.
00:11:49 --> 00:11:53 And, uh, it, in our, in our version of Barry, it's a font of souls and spirit energy.
00:11:54 --> 00:11:58 There's the Oldbury Fairgrounds and racetrack, like horse racetrack,
00:11:58 --> 00:12:02 which is neutral ground for the various factions of the paranormal,
00:12:02 --> 00:12:05 and also effectively a paranormal swap meet.
00:12:05 --> 00:12:11 And I think we also have it run by a Dullahan, because horses.
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 And just to interrupt you and i do apologize for this
00:12:15 --> 00:12:18 here the book by default gives
00:12:18 --> 00:12:21 us two cities to work with but they are definitely encouraging
00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 and telling you to you know
00:12:24 --> 00:12:30 pick one make it your own so the book has chicago and santiago but you know
00:12:30 --> 00:12:34 like i said the book encourages real cities rather than fictional ones and real
00:12:34 --> 00:12:39 cities have just this built-in history as Chris has illustrated a couple of
00:12:39 --> 00:12:41 times already with the city of Barrie.
00:12:42 --> 00:12:47 And, you know, as far as the book actually goes, there's not.
00:12:48 --> 00:12:53 And I mean, for some people, this may be an issue that holds them up.
00:12:53 --> 00:12:56 There's not a formula like, all right, name this, name this,
00:12:57 --> 00:12:58 name this, et cetera, et cetera.
00:12:58 --> 00:13:02 It's kind of more of a loosey goosey conversation. it
00:13:02 --> 00:13:05 looks like you're going to have with your players before you know
00:13:05 --> 00:13:10 you get started tack it on at the end of the session zero i don't know if there's
00:13:10 --> 00:13:15 anything else to say and i apologize for that chris go ahead and jump in that's
00:13:15 --> 00:13:18 okay uh the only other thing that we kind of established last time the city
00:13:18 --> 00:13:23 was uh the bayfield mall circuit which so bayfield street is sort of a,
00:13:23 --> 00:13:28 lane of commerce that stretches from downtown to the outer stretch of a berry
00:13:28 --> 00:13:33 and is just full of franchise properties and restaurants and stuff like that,
00:13:33 --> 00:13:39 and also houses three malls that are slowly dying, some more than others.
00:13:39 --> 00:13:43 And we've kind of established that there's some kind of a dying mall capitalist
00:13:43 --> 00:13:46 engine that's being run.
00:13:47 --> 00:13:52 It's almost like a circuit that's giving some kind of power or some kind of entity power.
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 Between the Kozlov Center, the Bayfield Mall, and the Georgian Mall,
00:13:56 --> 00:13:59 there's just this kind of cycle.
00:14:00 --> 00:14:04 Engine of capitalist decay that's running through them.
00:14:05 --> 00:14:10 Yeah, I think that's the previously established locations.
00:14:10 --> 00:14:14 Also, when you were mentioning about the church, like the former church turned
00:14:14 --> 00:14:19 art gallery, I actually looked up some former churches in Barrie.
00:14:20 --> 00:14:24 And I did find that there might be one like there's the Central United Church,
00:14:24 --> 00:14:27 which was originally located on Dunlop Street, but later moved to Ross Street.
00:14:28 --> 00:14:33 And there's a couple of other ones that look like they just like got repurposed
00:14:33 --> 00:14:35 into other things. Yeah.
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38 That's awesome. So there's a precedence. Yeah.
00:14:39 --> 00:14:44 Now, we're going to start right here at the very beginning here from as loose
00:14:44 --> 00:14:46 as the book picks here. So we've got our city.
00:14:47 --> 00:14:52 So now we're going to have to kind of pick a city hub, which is one of the most important parts here.
00:14:52 --> 00:14:59 And this really, I guess, is where we're going to kind of set the tone of play,
00:14:59 --> 00:15:03 at least for a session or a couple of sessions, kind of stuff like that.
00:15:04 --> 00:15:08 So hub-wise, we have, let's see, there's four of them.
00:15:09 --> 00:15:13 It looks like there is the, hold on, I'm just going to the top.
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 There's the art district in the city hub.
00:15:16 --> 00:15:22 And looks like the art district you know it's street corners nothing but aspirations
00:15:22 --> 00:15:26 beat up guitar cases while wealthy rub shoulders with overworked gallery owners,
00:15:27 --> 00:15:32 that's that one I'm trying to see what the type of play is I may have misspoke
00:15:32 --> 00:15:38 here on that the city hall that's another one so bureaucracy red tape kind of
00:15:38 --> 00:15:44 deal depends if that's kind of games you're wanting to play there is the downtown,
00:15:44 --> 00:15:50 which kind of what I'm leaning toward firsthand, but this is where the night kind of pops in.
00:15:51 --> 00:15:53 The affairs of night can truly be addressed, so if you're wanting to,
00:15:53 --> 00:15:59 you know, do a bug hunt, creatures, things like that, it may be a good one for you.
00:15:59 --> 00:16:05 And then finally, there is the university, which political discourse,
00:16:05 --> 00:16:09 supernatural research, strange magical phenomena, you know.
00:16:09 --> 00:16:14 Yeah, that's going to be Georgian College, honestly, right there in the north end of Barrie.
00:16:15 --> 00:16:18 Which is, sorry, not to cut you off. No, you're fine.
00:16:18 --> 00:16:22 But yeah, Georgian College is, yeah, it's got a number of, it's expanded quite
00:16:22 --> 00:16:24 a lot, especially in the last couple of years.
00:16:24 --> 00:16:30 So it's, it's got a fair amount of, of space and, uh, and influence in the North End. So.
00:16:31 --> 00:16:34 Offhand it looks like we've as a four hubs we got
00:16:34 --> 00:16:37 two potentials here the night circle and the wild
00:16:37 --> 00:16:40 circle so the downtown's the night circle yeah it
00:16:40 --> 00:16:43 could be where the five points intersection area i honestly
00:16:43 --> 00:16:46 think the five points yeah like that's that right there like the five points
00:16:46 --> 00:16:54 is there's got like like pentagram like darkness come on yeah it works and you
00:16:54 --> 00:16:59 know uh other notes that we had was like the arts district you know we do have
00:16:59 --> 00:17:03 that maybe where hans's church is but it It doesn't necessarily mean that,
00:17:03 --> 00:17:06 or maybe not.
00:17:06 --> 00:17:10 It may be, since it's actually maybe more closer to residential areas too.
00:17:10 --> 00:17:15 But are we all cool with just saying we're going to go for the downtown hub
00:17:15 --> 00:17:17 so we can pull up that document?
00:17:17 --> 00:17:19 Yeah, I'm fine with it.
00:17:19 --> 00:17:24 Okay. So let me give the official readout of the downtown.
00:17:24 --> 00:17:27 I kind of briefly spoke about it here, and we'll kind of go through this here.
00:17:28 --> 00:17:32 But downtown only reveals its true nature at Sunset. The moment at which the
00:17:32 --> 00:17:38 business as usual comes to a halt and the affairs of the night can truly be addressed.
00:17:38 --> 00:17:43 It doesn't matter if you've lived here for your whole life or wandered in last week.
00:17:44 --> 00:17:47 The hustle and bustle of downtown guarantees you'll find nearly anything you seek.
00:17:48 --> 00:17:53 That is, if dangers and back alleys and deep shadows of downtown don't find you first.
00:17:54 --> 00:17:58 So, looks like, yeah, we've got our hub.
00:17:59 --> 00:18:06 I guess we just need to flesh it out. Now, there is an addition here in the
00:18:06 --> 00:18:12 actual city hub document here where residents will pick somebody who kind of
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 we owe a debt to. Yeah. I think.
00:18:16 --> 00:18:20 And there's relationships that we can kind of go through. But before we get
00:18:20 --> 00:18:22 any of that, let's just flesh out our hub.
00:18:23 --> 00:18:26 So, Chris, you're the local resident.
00:18:27 --> 00:18:31 Key locations? What circle do you think? Wait, thank you.
00:18:32 --> 00:18:39 So, like, sorry, what exactly are we looking for? Oh, so how about we look at key locations?
00:18:40 --> 00:18:43 So in the downtown hub, what does everybody think is there?
00:18:44 --> 00:18:48 So the key locations in that neighborhood. Like a Molson plant?
00:18:49 --> 00:18:54 A Molson plant is far away. It's down in the south end. It's not near downtown.
00:18:55 --> 00:18:59 That would be funny though. Also, I don't know if the Molson exists in real
00:18:59 --> 00:19:01 life, but we could also just like fudge some things.
00:19:01 --> 00:19:09 So what was that beer that we had in that made up beer? She made a logo for, for a dead dog.
00:19:10 --> 00:19:14 Yeah. What the heck was that? Hang on. Pull that up.
00:19:15 --> 00:19:20 Actually, while you're looking into that, so Barry was a perfect kind of setting for this.
00:19:20 --> 00:19:24 Yeah. As it turned out, You've got this built-in history.
00:19:25 --> 00:19:31 Didn't it begin as a supply depot during the War of 1812? Did I keep hearing
00:19:31 --> 00:19:33 about from you guys over and over and over again?
00:19:33 --> 00:19:36 Yeah, yeah. It's always the War of 1812, yeah.
00:19:37 --> 00:19:39 Hey, do you hear we burned down that White House of yours now?
00:19:41 --> 00:19:44 We got a new one. A bunch of upper-league colonials just came over. Yeah.
00:19:46 --> 00:19:50 Um yeah so according to a document
00:19:50 --> 00:19:53 that uh that adam used in ai to basically like get us
00:19:53 --> 00:19:56 information about the uh about barry in regards to like
00:19:56 --> 00:19:58 using for urban shadows apparently it said it's like oh it's like a perfect
00:19:58 --> 00:20:02 location for urban shadows because you've got like it sits on the shores of
00:20:02 --> 00:20:08 keppenfeldt bay and lake simcoe it began as a war of 1812 supply depot and military
00:20:08 --> 00:20:14 portage route with a population now over 147 000 people,
00:20:14 --> 00:20:19 The city has a perfect mix of rapid growth and deep history that urban shadow thrives on.
00:20:19 --> 00:20:24 There's indigenous history. The area was originally inhabited by the Huron-Wendat
00:20:24 --> 00:20:32 people who used the western shore as a rest stop on the portage between Lake Simcoe and Lick-Huron.
00:20:32 --> 00:20:34 Are you two familiar with what a portage is?
00:20:35 --> 00:20:39 No. That's like something that a bear would eat if I left it in my house.
00:20:39 --> 00:20:47 So portaging is essentially just like you're right across a lake with a canoe,
00:20:47 --> 00:20:52 get to one shore, pick up your canoe, put it on your back or like over your
00:20:52 --> 00:20:55 head and stuff like that, and carry it down a trail to the next lake.
00:20:55 --> 00:20:58 And that trail down from one lake to the other is a portage.
00:20:59 --> 00:21:02 It's basically like it comes from the French-Canadian word, a French word.
00:21:03 --> 00:21:08 I'm guessing it means like transporting or something along those lines.
00:21:08 --> 00:21:12 But yeah, that's essentially, it's very common here when you're talking about like going to Algona.
00:21:13 --> 00:21:18 Which is the big national provincial park up here, you're going portaging because
00:21:18 --> 00:21:20 there's so many goddamn lakes in this, in this province.
00:21:22 --> 00:21:26 And so when you're, when you're traveling by canoe, there's going to be trails
00:21:26 --> 00:21:30 that connect to the next, next lake, because like sometimes there aren't rivers
00:21:30 --> 00:21:34 or creeks deep enough for a canoe. So you got to pick it up and port it around.
00:21:35 --> 00:21:37 Yep. Essentially. Yeah. Yeah. You just got to like grab all your,
00:21:37 --> 00:21:40 like, like get all your stuff out of it, like put your backpack on,
00:21:40 --> 00:21:44 just lift the portage over your head and onto your back and just carry it across,
00:21:44 --> 00:21:46 just balance it while carrying them down a trail.
00:21:48 --> 00:21:51 I've done it a couple times. It's fun, but a little stringent sometimes.
00:21:52 --> 00:21:54 I've done the same canoeing in Kentucky.
00:21:54 --> 00:22:04 I think that we need to address this right off bat as all of us are very waspy in our heritage here.
00:22:06 --> 00:22:13 Even with the built-in indigenous history here, offhand, we're we're not going
00:22:13 --> 00:22:16 to do like certain hack writers may have done.
00:22:16 --> 00:22:23 And, you know, obviously all of the native people are werewolves and that's
00:22:23 --> 00:22:25 like very, in very poor taste.
00:22:26 --> 00:22:29 Do not, do not, do not incite her name.
00:22:30 --> 00:22:33 Yeah, we will not incite her name. And, you know, quite frankly,
00:22:34 --> 00:22:36 that this is, these are not our stories to tell.
00:22:36 --> 00:22:41 I think it's great to acknowledge them, but we're not going to have the trope
00:22:41 --> 00:22:47 of the, mystical, you know, indigenous, indigenous person.
00:22:47 --> 00:22:50 Yeah, like the medicine man or the medicine woman guy stuff.
00:22:50 --> 00:22:54 Like, or a certain W, a certain creature that starts with a W.
00:22:55 --> 00:22:56 Yeah, Winnebago's. Yeah.
00:22:58 --> 00:23:03 So, it's great, but we're really, we'll acknowledge it by all means.
00:23:03 --> 00:23:05 It's great, but yeah, we're going to kind of go past it.
00:23:06 --> 00:23:09 Now, it did have a little bit of a dark history and I find this hilarious.
00:23:10 --> 00:23:14 The dark history It can is its largest marijuana grow up.
00:23:14 --> 00:23:19 Yeah, so Barry used to have a Molson bottling plant, like Molson beer.
00:23:20 --> 00:23:23 And then it went out of business. And so the Molson plant just kind of stayed
00:23:23 --> 00:23:27 there. And it became a fixture of just like an abandoned place for a number of years.
00:23:27 --> 00:23:36 And then in 2004, the RCMP cracked down on the largest marijuana grow up bust at the time.
00:23:36 --> 00:23:41 There were 30 plants worth $30 million. Thanks, Barry.
00:23:43 --> 00:23:46 So that's we have to include that at
00:23:46 --> 00:23:50 some point in some game yeah oh yeah like definitely like maybe like beneath
00:23:50 --> 00:23:54 the grounds of of the muslim plant there's still like an operation going on
00:23:54 --> 00:24:00 but with like dry ads or something or maybe they're maybe they're now a legal
00:24:00 --> 00:24:04 grow up i mean you guys have oh we got oh god they the the the,
00:24:05 --> 00:24:08 Marijuana dispensaries have just exploded.
00:24:08 --> 00:24:13 Oh, actually, something interesting that came out in the last two months since
00:24:13 --> 00:24:14 our last character creation.
00:24:15 --> 00:24:20 There appears to have been a drug war going on in Barrie because all of the
00:24:20 --> 00:24:25 mushroom dispensaries have been either shot at or a car run through them,
00:24:25 --> 00:24:27 closing them down effectively.
00:24:28 --> 00:24:32 I'm not joking. and
00:24:32 --> 00:24:35 there's been suspect that like it was it's some kind of like gang war
00:24:35 --> 00:24:38 or like or like gang conflict or drug conflict between
00:24:38 --> 00:24:41 the folks uh the the establishments in barry
00:24:41 --> 00:24:43 and like the this northern area and the foot
00:24:43 --> 00:24:47 and the and the uh the groups down in toronto yeah so
00:24:47 --> 00:24:50 that was fun to like found i found out about that
00:24:50 --> 00:24:54 uh last in like the last month yeah and
00:24:54 --> 00:24:58 apparently during world war one canadian expeditionary forces
00:24:58 --> 00:25:01 has established a training base in southeast or southwest
00:25:01 --> 00:25:04 barry yeah in uh the one of the satellite towns
00:25:04 --> 00:25:07 angus there's an actually between angus and between and barry
00:25:07 --> 00:25:13 there's a yeah the base uh base board so that was and as chris mentioned i just
00:25:13 --> 00:25:18 basically hopped into an ai i was like hey tell me i told him or what we were
00:25:18 --> 00:25:21 working i was like tell me some stuff about barry and then it provides links
00:25:21 --> 00:25:26 to like wikipedia articles and whatnot and there There is quite a bit, you know,
00:25:27 --> 00:25:31 if you said it's a good starting point, I wouldn't have the AI write your entire
00:25:31 --> 00:25:33 episode or anything like that.
00:25:34 --> 00:25:40 So I think moving on, like we were kind of doing a moment ago before I got completely
00:25:40 --> 00:25:42 sidetracked. I do apologize here.
00:25:43 --> 00:25:47 We've already got our downtown. We're doing the night circle.
00:25:48 --> 00:25:52 At the five points. What do you guys want to add to this?
00:25:53 --> 00:25:56 Possibly? uh i definitely want to have so there's
00:25:56 --> 00:25:59 also a new building in downtown that is
00:25:59 --> 00:26:02 just horrendous and i i feel like
00:26:02 --> 00:26:05 it needs to be brought it needs to be made something
00:26:05 --> 00:26:10 like oppressive and like or just like weird maybe not oppressive but just like
00:26:10 --> 00:26:12 something weird i can't remember what it's called but it's like effectively
00:26:12 --> 00:26:19 it looks it's it's a condo building and it looks like it had It looks like three
00:26:19 --> 00:26:22 children's building blocks stacked onto each other irregularly.
00:26:24 --> 00:26:27 Like I took a photo of it when I saw it, I was like, the hell is that?
00:26:27 --> 00:26:29 Cause I, I hadn't been to bury for a while, I guess.
00:26:30 --> 00:26:33 And it just popped up. Let me just send you guys an image of this thing.
00:26:33 --> 00:26:36 And just send this on discord general.
00:26:38 --> 00:26:41 It does look like a bunch of megablocks put on top of each other. Yeah.
00:26:42 --> 00:26:46 Yeah. When you get closer to it, like they're like knots, they're not aligned. Like they're uneven.
00:26:48 --> 00:26:51 Trying to remember what that place is called. Driving down.
00:26:52 --> 00:26:57 Do you think that honestly looks like the base of operations for the,
00:26:57 --> 00:27:01 where the overseer that I work for? Yeah.
00:27:01 --> 00:27:07 It's just weird enough. Yeah. The other thing about like Barry and Lake and Aurelia farther north,
00:27:07 --> 00:27:13 And such is like a lot of the waterfront area is starting to get eaten up by
00:27:13 --> 00:27:17 condominiums, which is a lot
00:27:17 --> 00:27:19 of people are kind of griping about because it's becoming like Toronto,
00:27:20 --> 00:27:24 where Toronto is just one giant network of condominiums in certain areas that
00:27:24 --> 00:27:27 where they used to be like nicer, nicer,
00:27:27 --> 00:27:29 like buildings and homes. and so that you can actually see the lake.
00:27:32 --> 00:27:35 So, yeah. So I just wanted to, I feel like we should, that building definitely
00:27:35 --> 00:27:40 needs to be added as some kind of a headquarters or nexus for something.
00:27:40 --> 00:27:43 All right, well, add that note in there.
00:27:44 --> 00:27:47 Jeremy, do you think of, is there anything, you've already kind of set dibs
00:27:47 --> 00:27:52 on this being kind of the building block looking building and Barry being more
00:27:52 --> 00:27:54 of the demon where all that is.
00:27:55 --> 00:27:57 Can you think of anything else you would like to see in your downtown?
00:27:57 --> 00:28:05 Town uh well you got to have some type of bar or nightclub oh yeah so you're
00:28:05 --> 00:28:09 you you've got choices you've got choices and barry there is buffalo while we
00:28:09 --> 00:28:14 yeah uh there's the divine dine there's the uh the.
00:28:15 --> 00:28:21 The ranch 2.0 that's on the Bayfield street going down to the five points.
00:28:21 --> 00:28:26 There's a good, uh, there's the Kensington.
00:28:27 --> 00:28:30 There's the liars. Interesting.
00:28:31 --> 00:28:34 I'm just going to go with a name like divine dime. I don't define dime.
00:28:35 --> 00:28:36 I don't understand why you're saying it.
00:28:36 --> 00:28:39 Yeah. I was going to say, say less. Yeah, exactly.
00:28:40 --> 00:28:44 Yeah. There's, there's Donnelly's Irish public house. There's McReilly's.
00:28:44 --> 00:28:47 Riley's. There's McFinn's. A lot of Irish pubs.
00:28:48 --> 00:28:52 Well, why don't we don't have to stick married to these particular concepts.
00:28:53 --> 00:29:02 How about we say that it is a, the Divine Dine is ran by a Catholic vampire
00:29:02 --> 00:29:05 who is a vegetarian of sorts.
00:29:05 --> 00:29:09 So he's our Dresden Mack kind of character.
00:29:09 --> 00:29:12 Oh, hang on. So I just looked up what the Divine Dine is. So it is a restaurant
00:29:12 --> 00:29:18 it's not so much a pub or a bar nightclub it's also it's also an indian restaurant.
00:29:19 --> 00:29:23 Like eat like a east asian or
00:29:23 --> 00:29:28 like a southeast asian indian okay i feel like that's that's a nightclub now
00:29:28 --> 00:29:33 it could stop digging you've hit golden also mcfin's traditional irish pub is
00:29:33 --> 00:29:38 right on the corner of the five points so i feel like that's got to be like
00:29:38 --> 00:29:41 or max yeah it's basically Yeah, Max, yeah.
00:29:42 --> 00:29:46 I think McFenn should be Max, and then Divine Dine should be the meeting place
00:29:46 --> 00:29:50 for the supernatural as far as if they just want to get away. Yeah.
00:29:52 --> 00:29:57 We'll say that they have closed off. They can partition their dining establishment. Yeah, exactly.
00:29:58 --> 00:30:02 Or it could be like the underground nightclub from Blade.
00:30:03 --> 00:30:07 Not like the blood one, but the... Well, actually, kind of the blood one. The one that was hidden.
00:30:07 --> 00:30:10 Yeah. You had to know a guy to get in. Yeah.
00:30:11 --> 00:30:15 There's also the Ranch 2.0, which is... The Ranch is also one of those really
00:30:15 --> 00:30:18 popular among the kids, or the college kids.
00:30:19 --> 00:30:26 It's basically a big old country music bar and music venue.
00:30:26 --> 00:30:32 So and that's right across from the Divine Dine stop digging you've hit gold
00:30:32 --> 00:30:37 oh here's another one hang on sorry I don't mean to we need five there's one
00:30:37 --> 00:30:40 on each one of the corner so on,
00:30:40 --> 00:30:46 Dunlop Street West which is again like on like one of the roads going into the five corners,
00:30:47 --> 00:30:49 there's the Night King bar and grill.
00:30:50 --> 00:30:57 Alright and we got four it looks exactly wow they even use like a horror zombie text for it.
00:30:57 --> 00:31:00 This is new to me. I didn't even realize this existed down there.
00:31:01 --> 00:31:04 Well, we need to create one more to make the five points of the star.
00:31:04 --> 00:31:08 Well, we've got... What else is down here? There's the British Arms Hub.
00:31:09 --> 00:31:10 Unfortunately, there's not
00:31:10 --> 00:31:14 a lot on the... Well, we can make something up. What are we guys making?
00:31:15 --> 00:31:19 So we've got McFins. We've got the Night King.
00:31:19 --> 00:31:21 There's the ranch.
00:31:22 --> 00:31:27 Yeah, the ranch. Kensington. There's Kens... I know there's one down in the,
00:31:27 --> 00:31:30 my buddies and my sisters used to like mention all the time.
00:31:31 --> 00:31:36 Cause I, I spoiled guys. I didn't, I wasn't a pub crawler or like a bar goer.
00:31:36 --> 00:31:40 So there's the Queens, which is a hotel, but also a live venue,
00:31:41 --> 00:31:42 like music venue and, and place.
00:31:43 --> 00:31:46 And that's on Dunlop street East. So that sounds good.
00:31:46 --> 00:31:52 Yeah. I think the divine dine, like the divine dine should be on one side.
00:31:52 --> 00:31:57 The, the night King should be on another point and then directly across should be the queens. Yeah.
00:31:58 --> 00:32:03 Like, have them opposing sides on the points. Mm-hmm. For sure.
00:32:04 --> 00:32:08 All right. So, are you documenting that, or do I? I am going to start,
00:32:09 --> 00:32:11 yeah. Yeah. Okay. You're cool. Fine.
00:32:13 --> 00:32:19 So, it looks like we've got our key locations. I think that now that we've got
00:32:19 --> 00:32:21 four, we just need to have four factions.
00:32:21 --> 00:32:24 You need to just pair four factions with each establishment. Yep.
00:32:25 --> 00:32:29 I'm done. The ranch. Should it be like Ranch 2.5?
00:32:30 --> 00:32:34 I think the ranch should be the mortallis. Okay, yeah, yeah,
00:32:34 --> 00:32:37 definitely, yeah, for like either hunters or like, yeah.
00:32:37 --> 00:32:42 And it's also kind of a- It's a very cowboy ranch. It's a very cowboy mountain bar, so.
00:32:42 --> 00:32:46 And, you know, the college kids that come in, there's kind of an unspoken thing
00:32:46 --> 00:32:52 that they're kind of shepherded a bit in there because they don't realize that
00:32:52 --> 00:32:55 they're in a viper pit in that four corners.
00:32:56 --> 00:32:59 Yeah. Oh, and then, yeah, the Night King. The Night King kind of speaks for
00:32:59 --> 00:33:01 itself. That's definitely knight territory.
00:33:02 --> 00:33:06 A little on the nose, guys. A little on the nose for a knight faction.
00:33:07 --> 00:33:11 Sometimes it's easier to hide in plain sight. Yeah. Does the Divine Dine,
00:33:12 --> 00:33:13 what was that one going to be?
00:33:13 --> 00:33:18 Well, it's a real vampire thing. But honestly, I mean, that sounds like that
00:33:18 --> 00:33:20 could be fae. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:33:21 --> 00:33:25 Or the wild, I guess. Mm-hmm. The wild. The ranch is Mortellus.
00:33:26 --> 00:33:28 McFinn's Irish pub and,
00:33:28 --> 00:33:32 Could be knight. Or no, we have knight. What are our five factions again?
00:33:32 --> 00:33:36 It could be. If McFins is going to be our max, that could be the power one because
00:33:36 --> 00:33:42 that's where the old powers go, where the wizards and mages and stuff go to or check out.
00:33:43 --> 00:33:49 Although I think the queens might also be a powers. We got four factions. We got four factions.
00:33:50 --> 00:33:54 There's the wild, the mortalis, the knight, and the power. Yeah.
00:33:55 --> 00:33:58 Were we going to have that McFins was actually, since McPhins is like right
00:33:58 --> 00:34:03 on the point, like on the five point, isn't that going to be like neutral ground? I think so.
00:34:03 --> 00:34:05 Yeah, I mean, well, technically all of them are.
00:34:06 --> 00:34:10 They're almost embassies, I guess you could say too.
00:34:10 --> 00:34:14 So what's, you know... Or like a haven, basically. Or the queens,
00:34:14 --> 00:34:19 the mortalis could be the queens, and wait, no, mortalis is humans who's crossover.
00:34:19 --> 00:34:23 Yeah, queens is, or the power is like mages and immortals, basically.
00:34:24 --> 00:34:25 Yeah, so I'd be the queen. So, yeah.
00:34:26 --> 00:34:29 And then the Night King is obviously the, so yeah, we've got a,
00:34:30 --> 00:34:32 we've got our established downtown sort of set up.
00:34:32 --> 00:34:36 All right. So we've kind of got that all going here.
00:34:36 --> 00:34:42 Now we probably need to discuss with, you know, the creation of this hub here.
00:34:42 --> 00:34:48 What kind of tensions possibly are, do we got going here? Hmm.
00:34:51 --> 00:34:55 Maybe, or how about maybe important, let's, let's go before it.
00:34:55 --> 00:34:59 Yeah. So let's go, let's just say, why don't you guys give me,
00:34:59 --> 00:35:03 we'll come up with an important NPC who live and work at each location.
00:35:04 --> 00:35:07 So Jeremy, why don't you do the Night King one? Because that sounds like,
00:35:07 --> 00:35:09 I think you sound interested in that.
00:35:10 --> 00:35:15 Or you can pick which one, really. Hmm. We can just call him the Sovereign.
00:35:15 --> 00:35:19 Like, he is the Night King. Like, that's what he is.
00:35:20 --> 00:35:23 And he's old. And nobody knows what he is, but he's old. Yeah.
00:35:24 --> 00:35:26 Yeah. They just know not to mess with him.
00:35:26 --> 00:35:30 The Sovereign. Oh, God. I know. I got one for the Queens.
00:35:31 --> 00:35:37 Mm-hmm. Oh, fuck. I just realized it's Fae, not Power. Or it's Power, not Fae. So it's Power.
00:35:37 --> 00:35:41 You can name him, whatever. yeah i'm sure that it's powerful somebody's going
00:35:41 --> 00:35:43 to be named after a god or whatever,
00:35:43 --> 00:35:46 well because i was thinking like well like what if it's like like a
00:35:46 --> 00:35:49 because i think i think with powers like
00:35:49 --> 00:35:53 they can be like basically like divine or like divinity or they have like access
00:35:53 --> 00:35:59 to like certain things right certain again higher powers or like the what have
00:35:59 --> 00:36:06 you wizards and oracles immortals and loyalists so wielding few if any magical
00:36:06 --> 00:36:09 abilities some members of power are simply immortal.
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11 Perhaps Miss Gray.
00:36:12 --> 00:36:16 As in like, you know, Dorian Gray. Well, I'm good with it.
00:36:16 --> 00:36:23 Or it could just be Dorian Gray. Yeah. You know, Edward Kelly was an Elizabethan chemist.
00:36:23 --> 00:36:26 It could be descended of Edward Kelly.
00:36:26 --> 00:36:28 Or John Dee, for that matter.
00:36:29 --> 00:36:31 Yeah. It's just whatever you want to do.
00:36:33 --> 00:36:38 Or, you know, the guy who wrote The Hammer of Witches, his name was Heinrich Kramer.
00:36:38 --> 00:36:43 It could be a descendant the author of Malice and Maleficorum,
00:36:44 --> 00:36:48 Do you pick, it's your decision. I was just throwing out some historical names.
00:36:50 --> 00:36:54 I personally like Dorian Gray. He doesn't got a lot of power.
00:36:54 --> 00:37:00 He doesn't have a lot of supernatural, magical abilities, but he's immortal
00:37:00 --> 00:37:01 and he's been around a lot.
00:37:02 --> 00:37:06 And he just stays in the Queens. Okay, that sounds good.
00:37:06 --> 00:37:09 Which I'm also kind of almost getting a feel from the Queens,
00:37:09 --> 00:37:10 like it being a Continental.
00:37:10 --> 00:37:13 Yeah like hang
00:37:13 --> 00:37:16 on let's see if i can find a picture of the queen so we
00:37:16 --> 00:37:20 got what we got the ranch next yeah uh
00:37:20 --> 00:37:23 the ranch i almost feel like that
00:37:23 --> 00:37:26 one's oh what's what was my what was my
00:37:26 --> 00:37:29 character's name in the in the uncle's game the the
00:37:29 --> 00:37:32 the brother uh with the mustache that looks exactly
00:37:32 --> 00:37:36 like like the one character who's like he's just um he's
00:37:36 --> 00:37:40 just got a mustache that was his name oh god
00:37:40 --> 00:37:42 where's my hell game he's going back to
00:37:42 --> 00:37:45 it guys he's going back to an rpg we
00:37:45 --> 00:37:48 played five years ago going back to
00:37:48 --> 00:37:52 the olden times but i mean that sounds good no
00:37:52 --> 00:37:56 that'd be great uncle's penny dreadmill because like maybe he's just like the
00:37:56 --> 00:38:05 newest like the the newest elect oh john jacob jingleheimer buttress jj jj buttress
00:38:05 --> 00:38:10 jj buttress is like after after dealing with Penny and all that stuff.
00:38:11 --> 00:38:15 He ended up being elected the leader of the ranch.
00:38:16 --> 00:38:20 How about we do this, too? In the bar, in the ranch.
00:38:21 --> 00:38:27 We'll make it like the Winchester and Shaun of the Dead, but hanging above the
00:38:27 --> 00:38:32 bar, which people wonder if it's loaded or not, is a blunderbuss.
00:38:32 --> 00:38:35 Yes. Like the old, you know...
00:38:35 --> 00:38:40 Scattershot kind of rifle from puritan times kind of deal looks like a phonograph
00:38:40 --> 00:38:46 horn on the end of a gun and there's a mechanical bull of course i mean i'm
00:38:46 --> 00:38:49 pretty actually there might aussie be one already if they're not they're not
00:38:49 --> 00:38:53 they're demographic yeah if there's one there's two now.
00:38:55 --> 00:38:59 Dueling dueling bull riders that's right so
00:38:59 --> 00:39:02 sorry got the ranch these are
00:39:02 --> 00:39:05 the leaders right like these are like the yeah who kind of
00:39:05 --> 00:39:08 runs the show there yeah jj buttress
00:39:08 --> 00:39:11 or their mouthpieces to
00:39:11 --> 00:39:15 other things so but yeah emissary so we've
00:39:15 --> 00:39:23 got ranch night king did we really address divine or is that i think we didn't
00:39:23 --> 00:39:28 address the vine or divine i think the vine is the wild so i think it's i mean
00:39:28 --> 00:39:33 if it's an indian restaurant it should be an indian name probably yeah and like
00:39:33 --> 00:39:38 Maybe a little bit from Hindi folklore, perhaps.
00:39:38 --> 00:39:42 Yeah. It could be like Parvati, because I think that was one of the wives.
00:39:43 --> 00:39:49 Wife of Shiva? No, let's see. There's Aravat, the white elephant that carries
00:39:49 --> 00:39:51 Indra, the king of the gods. That would be fun.
00:39:52 --> 00:39:55 That could be whoever's running it.
00:39:56 --> 00:40:02 Right-hand man. Hanuman, a monkey god known for his devotion to Rama and his
00:40:02 --> 00:40:03 immense strength. Maybe.
00:40:05 --> 00:40:10 There's also a Rakshasa, which is... Rakshasa, yeah. Like D&D. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:11 --> 00:40:18 Darker spirits and forces. He's just known as the Rakshasa. It's like the Baba Yaga.
00:40:19 --> 00:40:23 He's a... Ooh, I kind of like that. It's like the Baba Yaga, like John Wick.
00:40:24 --> 00:40:28 He's the boogeyman of... He's the thing that the boogeyman fears.
00:40:28 --> 00:40:31 He's the thing that the others fear. Yeah.
00:40:32 --> 00:40:35 And I know there's a large immigrant population. in
00:40:35 --> 00:40:38 toronto oh yeah so he's kind of tied in with that
00:40:38 --> 00:40:42 like yeah there's there's a lot of like indian emigration up into into barry
00:40:42 --> 00:40:46 your your thing with you uh with your character humanez and so that there's
00:40:46 --> 00:40:49 actually like there is a or at least in the last few decades there's been like
00:40:49 --> 00:40:51 a seasonal population or like
00:40:51 --> 00:40:56 seasonal like residents from mexico as farmers have brought in and like,
00:40:57 --> 00:41:01 hand like farm hands from mexico so that's good
00:41:01 --> 00:41:04 i mean i think we kind of got a lot here i'll give
00:41:04 --> 00:41:07 you time to get caught up on it how about
00:41:07 --> 00:41:10 we just do add two more things of flavor that i
00:41:10 --> 00:41:13 like for the hub and then we i guess we can
00:41:13 --> 00:41:16 look at the actual document that it's got here and see if
00:41:16 --> 00:41:22 we can kind of tie some stuff in and uh work with that so what's what's some
00:41:22 --> 00:41:27 conflicts or tensions that we could say is in barry in general not just a hub
00:41:27 --> 00:41:33 but i mean it would spill over into this area but what's some tensions that we could, we could put.
00:41:33 --> 00:41:39 Maybe there is another, do we, I don't know if we mentioned like what my.
00:41:39 --> 00:41:43 Like what the outer, what, what the, what the wild force that was like propelling,
00:41:44 --> 00:41:46 what's his name, Jarrett Trombley, just having me and stuff.
00:41:46 --> 00:41:49 But we did kind of mention that there was like, like perhaps some,
00:41:49 --> 00:41:55 some kind of like festering, like influence of like anger or violence in the,
00:41:55 --> 00:41:57 in the downtown area. Yeah.
00:41:58 --> 00:41:59 So perhaps like there, it's actually
00:41:59 --> 00:42:03 not just like an isolated incident or even like a series of events.
00:42:03 --> 00:42:06 It's actually like something that's getting worse because we don't know why,
00:42:07 --> 00:42:13 But there's some kind of like unknown, some unknown wild element that is around
00:42:13 --> 00:42:19 the lakeshore that is spiking or like taking over people and like kind of making them violent.
00:42:19 --> 00:42:25 Bobby only remembers the person's eyes. They weren't humanized when they came at him. Yeah.
00:42:26 --> 00:42:29 Cure might have been under the influence of the wild faction.
00:42:29 --> 00:42:33 I'm just kind of looking through the transcription of what, because Jeremy transcribed
00:42:33 --> 00:42:36 our first episode just so we had reference points.
00:42:37 --> 00:42:40 Yeah you you seem to kind of lean toward a
00:42:40 --> 00:42:42 wild faction and a fey creature yeah i
00:42:42 --> 00:42:46 thought that would make the most sense oh also we did mention we did uh have
00:42:46 --> 00:42:52 a another entity from the wild that we brought up so we had the doula hand from
00:42:52 --> 00:42:55 the old that runs the old berry fairgrounds which is just like like the swap
00:42:55 --> 00:43:02 meet area outside of the our current city hub but there's keppen felt kelly which I suggested was a,
00:43:02 --> 00:43:09 a selkie that lives in the bay because there is a local lake monster of a report, uh, apparently,
00:43:10 --> 00:43:14 and it goes by various names, but most of the time it's something Kelly like
00:43:14 --> 00:43:15 Kepenfelt Kelly or Keswick Kelly,
00:43:16 --> 00:43:19 depending on the bay it's in, uh, or it's been spotted.
00:43:19 --> 00:43:23 And it's usually seen as a dog faced serpent.
00:43:23 --> 00:43:28 So people have, uh, in, in the cryptid circles and stuff online that I've,
00:43:28 --> 00:43:31 I actually remember from like high school, like looking up on in high school and college.
00:43:32 --> 00:43:38 There was like a theory that it was like perhaps some kind of like large lake
00:43:38 --> 00:43:40 based seal or like sea lion.
00:43:41 --> 00:43:47 Because that would match sort of a more serpentine body, but also having a dog-like face. Mm-hmm.
00:43:48 --> 00:43:52 And with the seal thing, like, oh, well, Selkies. And then we finally have Selkies
00:43:52 --> 00:43:54 in one of our games. Yeah.
00:43:57 --> 00:44:01 Not just a crazy man saying he's killing Selkies. Yeah.
00:44:02 --> 00:44:06 So let's just keep it going right now with one tension.
00:44:06 --> 00:44:11 Like, it's bubbling over. Just violence is erupting when violence shouldn't be erupting.
00:44:11 --> 00:44:15 And it's affecting the mundane population, but at the same time,
00:44:16 --> 00:44:20 it's also affecting, it's spilling over into the supernatural,
00:44:21 --> 00:44:22 it's not immune to its influence.
00:44:22 --> 00:44:29 It seems like, you know, make it one directional right now, if we can add more
00:44:29 --> 00:44:30 later on if we keep doing this stuff.
00:44:30 --> 00:44:33 Yeah i think the i think that like a it's an
00:44:33 --> 00:44:38 unnatural spread of possessing violence like it's almost like a spirit of violence
00:44:38 --> 00:44:43 or a spirit of of rage or anger or or some kind of entity embodying that kind
00:44:43 --> 00:44:47 of thing is is somewhere in the city and causing this stirring up this sort
00:44:47 --> 00:44:53 of issue and that is starting to be noticed by the by the yeah i was gonna say the normies,
00:44:54 --> 00:44:59 by the day walkers, by the regular population.
00:45:00 --> 00:45:05 So it needs to be... There was an old black and white film that I really enjoyed.
00:45:07 --> 00:45:10 They're kind of a little difficult for modern audiences, but there was this
00:45:10 --> 00:45:14 one about a serial killer called M.
00:45:14 --> 00:45:20 And it was basically in the movie, there's somebody killing people in this old black and white film.
00:45:20 --> 00:45:25 And it's bringing a lot of police presence into this area.
00:45:25 --> 00:45:31 And this is one of these ones where the organized crime becomes the heroes because
00:45:31 --> 00:45:33 they're like, we got to get these cops out of here.
00:45:33 --> 00:45:38 So I think it's, that's kind of what I'm kind of visualizing here.
00:45:39 --> 00:45:44 I think my last order in this is just like a wish list.
00:45:44 --> 00:45:47 Because not to ruin this,
00:45:48 --> 00:45:51 I did intend on running a game immediately after doing this here,
00:45:51 --> 00:45:57 but you've given me so much that I really feel like I can elaborate on it with
00:45:57 --> 00:46:04 this and make my, I was trying to, you know, test drive Urban Shadow Second Ed some legs here.
00:46:04 --> 00:46:07 What kind of supernatural elements do you want to see in this area?
00:46:07 --> 00:46:13 I can go ahead and start if you're okay. Yeah, go for it.
00:46:13 --> 00:46:22 All right. I really like the idea that, and it's not always at the same bar,
00:46:23 --> 00:46:27 but, you know, most bars kind of close down around 1 or 12, at least they do
00:46:27 --> 00:46:28 in the States and all that.
00:46:28 --> 00:46:35 There's an extra hour in one of the bars that, I mean, you leave and you're
00:46:35 --> 00:46:39 thinking it's, you know, midnight and you step outside and get into your car
00:46:39 --> 00:46:42 and it's just, it's 10 p.m.
00:46:42 --> 00:46:46 Or something like that. like time flows differently in certain places and it's
00:46:46 --> 00:46:53 not it's not always the same place just time is weird adam wants to add time
00:46:53 --> 00:46:56 temporal and eyes that's right.
00:47:00 --> 00:47:03 Are the drinks stronger there too are you
00:47:03 --> 00:47:07 guys cool with that idea just time anomalies okay
00:47:07 --> 00:47:10 does the does the time is it
00:47:10 --> 00:47:15 always random or is it slowly working its way around the five points i think
00:47:15 --> 00:47:21 it's random it's just something that yeah you can't you can't nobody can benefit
00:47:21 --> 00:47:28 from it because nobody can count on it and it does i would say it even it's even there's like,
00:47:29 --> 00:47:32 it's one of these things where people get reported loss like it's not even just
00:47:32 --> 00:47:33 the bars So it's not limited there.
00:47:34 --> 00:47:37 It's just in that area, time flows differently.
00:47:37 --> 00:47:42 So there's been a lot of missing persons cases, but they never really went to
00:47:42 --> 00:47:47 the point of like police going out and looking for someone because it's been
00:47:47 --> 00:47:48 like 24 hours or something like that.
00:47:48 --> 00:47:55 It's more like, you know, you go into a store and then, you know,
00:47:55 --> 00:47:59 your family's like looking for you and they find your car there and they go
00:47:59 --> 00:48:02 in the store and you're not there. And then you walk out.
00:48:03 --> 00:48:06 Like, hours later, unaware. You know, things like that.
00:48:07 --> 00:48:09 And it can have more serious implications. I'm thinking, like,
00:48:10 --> 00:48:12 heavy rain, like, your child disappearing. Jason, Jason.
00:48:12 --> 00:48:17 But I would never handle that in my game. But I just want time anomalies.
00:48:17 --> 00:48:19 And it wouldn't be a basis.
00:48:19 --> 00:48:24 Maybe it could be something that we could figure out later on as we look through the city of Barrie.
00:48:24 --> 00:48:28 When you could also, depending on what happened, you could have at random time,
00:48:28 --> 00:48:34 like somebody walk in and show up a year later or like a year older or an hour
00:48:34 --> 00:48:35 past, but they're a year older.
00:48:37 --> 00:48:42 Ever since those damn ramp, those Van Winkles moved up here. Yeah.
00:48:44 --> 00:48:48 Or the, the, what is it? The first Percy Jackson movie when they went to the,
00:48:48 --> 00:48:51 went to the casino and they started eating the flowers and then they started
00:48:51 --> 00:48:52 getting under the spell.
00:48:52 --> 00:48:57 People were like i've been here for 70 years yeah that
00:48:57 --> 00:48:59 would be cool so what's that let's let's
00:48:59 --> 00:49:03 go for one for everybody else now what's everybody else thinking so i literally
00:49:03 --> 00:49:08 just like saw like noticed this on like in the businesses there's a ghost retail
00:49:08 --> 00:49:14 inc it's a it's an e-commerce service apparently service in in downtown barry
00:49:14 --> 00:49:17 actually that would be funny it's like ghost,
00:49:18 --> 00:49:20 retail, like a ghost market.
00:49:23 --> 00:49:29 Maybe like a traveling ghost market that's maybe scamming people, like scamming mortals.
00:49:29 --> 00:49:34 Or what if ghost writers were literally ghost writers? Yeah.
00:49:35 --> 00:49:40 Let's call it the typing tool. So like ghost writing as in like,
00:49:41 --> 00:49:45 having somebody else write your story for you or write a document for you,
00:49:46 --> 00:49:47 but like under your name or something
00:49:47 --> 00:49:52 like that Shakespeare's now writing bodice ripping romance. Yeah.
00:49:52 --> 00:49:57 And, and it's, and, and, uh, whatever the, the company or the business is on that.
00:49:57 --> 00:50:02 It's, it's under the preface that like, Oh, it's AI, but it's actually just,
00:50:02 --> 00:50:04 but it's actually just ghosts.
00:50:05 --> 00:50:07 Yeah. Call it, call it, call it dictation ink.
00:50:08 --> 00:50:13 Yeah. Why don't we just pull on a Buffy trope? What was that magic shop that
00:50:13 --> 00:50:15 they ran for a couple of seasons? Yeah.
00:50:16 --> 00:50:21 I don't remember. I think we should have a subsidiary of the Bell Book and Candle
00:50:21 --> 00:50:23 so we can keep it canonical in our RPX universe.
00:50:24 --> 00:50:27 Spoilers, the Bell Book and Candle is in downtown Barrie. Well,
00:50:27 --> 00:50:31 there you go. That's where I got the image for the one in Kentucky.
00:50:32 --> 00:50:38 There you go. Yeah, where's that sucker? It's actually right down from the five points, too, I think.
00:50:38 --> 00:50:42 It might be Cush City, really. Okay.
00:50:43 --> 00:50:46 And it's in a place named after weed i
00:50:46 --> 00:50:49 love it no no it's it's no that no that's a
00:50:49 --> 00:50:56 dispensary yeah no push city yeah oh wow the queens got really lively okay yeah
00:50:56 --> 00:51:01 where the hell is that i feel like that was along this road i'm on street street
00:51:01 --> 00:51:09 view at this point guys so bear with me we're going hard yeah i found it yep bell book and candle,
00:51:10 --> 00:51:16 It's down just past the Queens and right next to the works, which is a gourmet burger bistro.
00:51:17 --> 00:51:21 I love all of this. Yeah. It writes itself.
00:51:21 --> 00:51:23 Yep. The bell, book, and candle north.
00:51:24 --> 00:51:28 And you can have all this stuff in there, Chris. The owner of it could also
00:51:28 --> 00:51:32 be using ghosts or write novels that he's self-publishing on Amazon.
00:51:33 --> 00:51:36 And, you know, everything to say, yeah, because it's written too much.
00:51:37 --> 00:51:42 Like, you know, a famous author, name one. But I feel like that needs to be
00:51:42 --> 00:51:43 in there because that's a beautiful idea.
00:51:43 --> 00:51:48 We just need a catchy name for it, like Dictation or Typing Pool.
00:51:49 --> 00:51:54 Something that's a little punny or a little wordplay-y. Dictation.
00:51:56 --> 00:51:57 Conjunction. Conjunction.
00:51:59 --> 00:52:04 Maybe Evermore? No, I don't know. I was trying to go with an Edgar Allan Poe kind of thing.
00:52:05 --> 00:52:10 Because Poe could be one of them. Yeah. you could have the ghost of poe like
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13 shakespeare shakespeare lovecraft,
00:52:14 --> 00:52:17 okay if we get lovecraft yeah we're beating that guy dude
00:52:17 --> 00:52:20 seriously he just puts in
00:52:20 --> 00:52:25 a he just gets put in a corner every day yeah what isn't
00:52:25 --> 00:52:28 it like a dead writers club or something like that there's like a dead authors
00:52:28 --> 00:52:30 the actual dead poet society yeah it's like yeah
00:52:30 --> 00:52:33 it's called yeah it's like something like that like oh yeah
00:52:33 --> 00:52:36 we'll just call it ghost writers like just
00:52:36 --> 00:52:39 put it right on the nose yeah what is
00:52:39 --> 00:52:42 that automatic writing like is there like a word for that like
00:52:42 --> 00:52:45 a like a fancier word for that i think
00:52:45 --> 00:52:49 it's just called automatic writing yeah yeah that's what i'm seeing right yeah
00:52:49 --> 00:52:53 it's maybe it's just kind of like a hodgepodge shop like they've got a little
00:52:53 --> 00:52:57 bit of yeah no it's it is like yeah no like the bell book and candle is basically
00:52:57 --> 00:53:01 just like a new age shop awesome so it's a i don't know i think we got a good
00:53:01 --> 00:53:03 one there we can kind of tone out.
00:53:05 --> 00:53:09 Jeremy, did you think of anything? Oh, I threw out the bell,
00:53:09 --> 00:53:14 book, and candle just because I was in our in our RPX universe. All right.
00:53:15 --> 00:53:19 Have we got... Is that all the supernatural stuff you guys think we want?
00:53:19 --> 00:53:22 I think supernatural... Yeah, we don't want to go too big. Like, we want to do too much.
00:53:23 --> 00:53:25 And, like, leave some room for other things that we can throw,
00:53:26 --> 00:53:28 like, as we get more inspired during the games and such.
00:53:28 --> 00:53:31 But yeah, I like the, like, having, like, just, like, yeah, the unnatural spread
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34 of a possessing violence and then temporal anomaly,
00:53:35 --> 00:53:40 bouncing around barry just like just a case it's like a like some kind of like
00:53:40 --> 00:53:43 again i keep going to spirits though like a spirit of time or some kind of like
00:53:43 --> 00:53:47 or some kind of like just maybe because of all like the the power that's in
00:53:47 --> 00:53:48 there like there's just something of like a,
00:53:49 --> 00:53:55 an anomaly as a result we could have a a defunct roller coaster amusement park
00:53:55 --> 00:54:00 for that and be like he just decided he wanted to go to an amusement park and
00:54:00 --> 00:54:03 surprise now it's old and decrepit yeah Yep.
00:54:03 --> 00:54:08 And that's how the D&D cartoon started. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like a wormhole.
00:54:09 --> 00:54:17 Now, there is a relationship thing in the city hubs I want to kind of talk about.
00:54:17 --> 00:54:22 But after we do that, there's something about locations, but there's not really
00:54:22 --> 00:54:23 anything that we're picking.
00:54:23 --> 00:54:30 But the way that the document works here is if you're looking for a location
00:54:30 --> 00:54:32 and a type of NPC you'd see there,
00:54:33 --> 00:54:39 there's each of the groups are kind of referenced there.
00:54:39 --> 00:54:44 And there's also factions that you got random row tables for and NPCs and whatnot.
00:54:45 --> 00:54:49 So there's a lot to work with here. But I think the only thing that really requires
00:54:49 --> 00:54:56 us filling it out again is the relationship. So we pick one and assign another PC to.
00:54:57 --> 00:54:59 To the blank all right so
00:54:59 --> 00:55:02 this is kind of establishing uh i really want
00:55:02 --> 00:55:05 you guys to be the two doing this since i'll probably
00:55:05 --> 00:55:09 be the one running the game so like we need
00:55:09 --> 00:55:12 to kind of work with you guys on like your relationship and
00:55:12 --> 00:55:16 your relationship to the other person so jeremy
00:55:16 --> 00:55:19 i know you can't see these so i'm going to kind of read these
00:55:19 --> 00:55:22 off real quick here and just tell me which one kind of strikes your
00:55:22 --> 00:55:25 interest here our first option you've recently
00:55:25 --> 00:55:28 fallen for a successful shop owner downtown
00:55:28 --> 00:55:33 well but you haven't ended your relationship with blank well that doesn't sound
00:55:33 --> 00:55:40 like we're doing romance no pass while doing some delivery work for a few more
00:55:40 --> 00:55:46 of the popular demonic eateries downtown you caught blank in a scandalous situation
00:55:46 --> 00:55:48 you know what some of these are,
00:55:48 --> 00:55:51 it just sounds like the relationship stuff in the rest of the games here.
00:55:52 --> 00:55:56 Blank Bruce, I may honestly, if you guys are cool with it, I talked about doing
00:55:56 --> 00:56:01 relationships, but I'd rather these, you guys tell me if you don't want to use these.
00:56:01 --> 00:56:04 Yeah, so I'd rather them be organic as opposed to, yeah.
00:56:06 --> 00:56:10 So what's your, what brings, what has tied you two together? How about that?
00:56:11 --> 00:56:16 What would you say? What did you say that the guy that murdered you was under some type of influence?
00:56:16 --> 00:56:19 Yeah yeah it was under some i could i knew that
00:56:19 --> 00:56:23 it like his eyes weren't human eyes they were like some kind of like bitty davis
00:56:23 --> 00:56:26 out some kind of other kind of like some kind of other eyes or like i think
00:56:26 --> 00:56:31 i even had them as like mirrored or like or just like like like almost obsidian
00:56:31 --> 00:56:37 eyes and then after he killed me like he stopped being possessed by whatever it was and and friend,
00:56:38 --> 00:56:42 maybe he made a deal with my guy's
00:56:42 --> 00:56:45 former partner and that was how he was extending his
00:56:45 --> 00:56:49 the years that he has on his contract no maybe
00:56:49 --> 00:56:52 maybe you weren't sent to kill the
00:56:52 --> 00:56:57 guy that killed chris and chris intervened he's
00:56:57 --> 00:57:03 not to blame i mean just don't add out there yeah no mom it's my dog no mom
00:57:03 --> 00:57:07 it's my dog because yeah i had i can't like i said i don't have my control but
00:57:07 --> 00:57:13 yeah i'm looking at your shirt out though i have to say my antagonist was his
00:57:13 --> 00:57:16 former partner i I think his name, I think I named him Papa Legba.
00:57:16 --> 00:57:18 You did. St. Peter was former partner.
00:57:20 --> 00:57:24 Papa Legba is just another guy who works in the same circles that you do. Mm-hmm.
00:57:26 --> 00:57:30 I went through the transcript real quick. Oh, good. Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:30 --> 00:57:33 Because I'm looking at you. I'm looking at your. Also, do you have.
00:57:33 --> 00:57:37 You're under the mortalis. I guess that's. Oh, that's the circle you're influenced under. So.
00:57:38 --> 00:57:42 I would say that you were probably. You're probably the one who's trying to do things ethically.
00:57:42 --> 00:57:49 And he's the one who's trying to do things for money and getting things done.
00:57:49 --> 00:57:51 It doesn't matter how many eggs he cracks.
00:57:51 --> 00:57:56 Yeah. He's mostly just like, he doesn't understand why, if someone sells their
00:57:56 --> 00:57:59 soul, he's like, yeah, they chose to do it. I'm just going to go do my job.
00:57:59 --> 00:58:04 He's not trying to get anything more out of it than what he already knows.
00:58:05 --> 00:58:08 He's not looking to rise the ranks. He doesn't understand it.
00:58:08 --> 00:58:11 He's just like, okay, cool. I get to get, this guy sold his soul.
00:58:11 --> 00:58:13 I'm going to go get that now.
00:58:14 --> 00:58:20 Yeah, that makes sense. yeah maybe this guy was maybe maybe the guy that killed
00:58:20 --> 00:58:25 you was like hey I'll go murder x y and z if you extend my contract by a year
00:58:25 --> 00:58:29 or two or something and he was like done alright,
00:58:30 --> 00:58:35 you got control over that NPC level of Chris too if you'd rather him be just
00:58:35 --> 00:58:41 innocent as well I mean just yeah I do I actually I do kind of like that like
00:58:41 --> 00:58:45 yeah like he like maybe he didn't realize what he was doing,
00:58:45 --> 00:58:49 because like I like the idea of like him just getting like again like it kind
00:58:49 --> 00:58:52 of ties into like the kind of that over that kind of overall tension of like
00:58:52 --> 00:58:53 there's some kind of like,
00:58:54 --> 00:58:58 power a possessing a possessing violence or probably like some kind of like
00:58:58 --> 00:59:02 a power that's seeping in taking advantage or even if it was.
00:59:04 --> 00:59:07 Yeah if you if you want to make it not his fault and be like hey if you,
00:59:08 --> 00:59:11 know if you want to extend this out something's going
00:59:11 --> 00:59:14 to happen you're not going to know about it but like maybe
00:59:14 --> 00:59:17 he just got possessed like saw you got possessed
00:59:17 --> 00:59:20 in the thing and then next thing you know he was himself again yeah
00:59:20 --> 00:59:24 like somebody he was like if you want to extend your contract you're going to
00:59:24 --> 00:59:28 basically be written your skin's going to be ridden for a little while yeah
00:59:28 --> 00:59:35 like yeah that works maybe it's a bank doing it like you signed a home loan
00:59:35 --> 00:59:39 and you didn't realize you were doing that too because you can't read them.
00:59:40 --> 00:59:45 That's good. You got to read them hidden contract. You got to read that contract.
00:59:46 --> 00:59:50 What's this part asked for my signature and blood? That's weird. Okay. Yeah.
00:59:51 --> 00:59:55 Why did my finger pricked when I was signing my thing? Anyway.
00:59:56 --> 01:00:01 Chris, what about you? What's your connection with Jeremy? With Jeremy's character?
01:00:02 --> 01:00:07 I know I had to go through it because my stuff like also looks like it's incomplete
01:00:07 --> 01:00:10 in terms of like the oh my gosh but yeah,
01:00:12 --> 01:00:16 But we did have to kind of establish like the, like the, the capitalist engine
01:00:16 --> 01:00:21 in the dying malls is demonic. I think in nature or like perhaps even Eldritch,
01:00:21 --> 01:00:25 but so like maybe, I don't know.
01:00:26 --> 01:00:29 Fuck. I am drawing a blank guys. I'm sorry. Oh, you're fine.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:34 Yeah. And we can also flesh some of this out as gameplay happens. Yeah.
01:00:34 --> 01:00:38 These are just, these are just things that I feel like we've got enough to work off of.
01:00:39 --> 01:00:44 So, I mean, honestly, I'm pretty, pleased with how everything went ideally like
01:00:44 --> 01:00:46 i said i do want to run this because,
01:00:47 --> 01:00:50 in the future with roll ups i would love to have like
01:00:50 --> 01:00:53 a little sample encounter and that would be it so
01:00:53 --> 01:00:56 you roll up a character and then boom
01:00:56 --> 01:00:59 like we did aliens last week and all
01:00:59 --> 01:01:02 that like boom i'm gonna put two characters in
01:01:02 --> 01:01:05 a situation and there's a xenomorph that they gotta try to
01:01:05 --> 01:01:08 you know take care of kind of thing like
01:01:08 --> 01:01:11 that you know in this when i initially thought of
01:01:11 --> 01:01:14 it i thought well and i still want to do like a very small like
01:01:14 --> 01:01:17 little game with this in the beginning just to
01:01:17 --> 01:01:22 see what happens but you guys for those of you don't know i was kind of thinking
01:01:22 --> 01:01:29 i was wanting to do a murder mystery at a neutral ground kind of swap meet a
01:01:29 --> 01:01:34 bizarre kind of deal like that that were all the four it it,
01:01:35 --> 01:01:39 moves from location to location. It's not in one single thing.
01:01:40 --> 01:01:43 And everybody's supposed to be on their best behavior when they go in there.
01:01:43 --> 01:01:45 And then something happens and
01:01:45 --> 01:01:50 you guys need to figure out for whatever reasons, what really went down.
01:01:52 --> 01:01:56 And, you know, I was really thinking
01:01:56 --> 01:01:59 of running it in Foundry because
01:01:59 --> 01:02:02 they do have the character sheets are in Foundry
01:02:02 --> 01:02:06 and they got the city hubs and things like that so really oh
01:02:06 --> 01:02:09 yeah i just it's it's unofficial it's
01:02:09 --> 01:02:12 not an official but i mean magpie says it's okay kind of
01:02:12 --> 01:02:15 thing like that but that's how they get the the green light
01:02:15 --> 01:02:18 but it's not endorsed by the company so we'll we'll
01:02:18 --> 01:02:23 go ahead and take this information and then off cam off mic i don't think this
01:02:23 --> 01:02:29 is necessarily good stuff for a roll-up we'll sit down and take our notes here
01:02:29 --> 01:02:33 of this and do like a big finalization and then we'll transfer the characters
01:02:33 --> 01:02:38 over and then you guys can solve the murder at the flea market,
01:02:38 --> 01:02:43 or murder at the dispensary or murder at the because apparently there was a
01:02:43 --> 01:02:47 shootout between the mushrooms and the weeds yeah.
01:02:49 --> 01:02:53 I might have to brainstorm more I thought I was ready but with all the stuff
01:02:53 --> 01:02:56 you give me about Barry today I would be,
01:02:57 --> 01:03:00 yeah this is great then I just totally bypass everything you said so i think
01:03:00 --> 01:03:03 it's to be good so we could call we could have two different factions we could
01:03:03 --> 01:03:09 call them the the mycelium and the and the roots yeah they're not nice the,
01:03:10 --> 01:03:15 micelles the micelles and then we could have the the alternate factions called the spores.
01:03:16 --> 01:03:20 Also i just saw that apparently there's a couple of hidden rivers or creeks
01:03:20 --> 01:03:25 under a barrier right near the marinas area there's a kids creek like k-i-d-d-s
01:03:25 --> 01:03:29 and it just van it just goes under the road, like, there's a
01:03:29 --> 01:03:36 it funnels in from the lake, goes under, into a tunnel, and there's no there's
01:03:36 --> 01:03:39 no, like, river or creek afterward, it just disappears under the streets,
01:03:40 --> 01:03:42 Well, we all flew down here craze on.
01:03:42 --> 01:03:46 Yeah and there's another, there was another one I saw that, like,
01:03:46 --> 01:03:49 also, like, the river just, like just banishes into,
01:03:49 --> 01:03:55 underneath the actual, like city streets of Toronto of, uh, Barry, similar to,
01:03:55 --> 01:03:58 like, how toronto just has like a shit ton of
01:03:58 --> 01:04:01 of rivers that are just subterranean rivers
01:04:01 --> 01:04:04 now because they built over over them but they still
01:04:04 --> 01:04:07 exist so we could have our own morlocks is
01:04:07 --> 01:04:13 what you're saying yep that's just your typical barry morlock yeah your your
01:04:13 --> 01:04:18 typical barry aquatic morlock and then our selkie friend could be the the liaison
01:04:18 --> 01:04:22 between the morlocks and the she's the leader she's actually the secret leader
01:04:22 --> 01:04:26 of the morlocks of the uh of the murlocks The Murlocs.
01:04:28 --> 01:04:33 Yeah, it's just a bunch of aquatic goblins living underneath Barry. Yeah.
01:04:33 --> 01:04:36 Looks like we pretty much got everything lined out. Is there anything you all
01:04:36 --> 01:04:38 would like to say about city creation?
01:04:39 --> 01:04:42 It's a little more freeform than I thought it was. I thought there would be
01:04:42 --> 01:04:43 a little bit more structure, but
01:04:43 --> 01:04:48 I like, again, I like what we've come up with. So what we've done here.
01:04:48 --> 01:04:51 I never have a bad time doing city creation with you guys.
01:04:52 --> 01:04:56 For the upcoming game of Moorhead Mysteries that will be released at some point in time.
01:04:57 --> 01:05:01 That was super fun and this one was also super fun. Just being able to flesh
01:05:01 --> 01:05:03 it out and see what we can come up with.
01:05:04 --> 01:05:08 I just forgot. You haven't even posted the Moorhead Mysteries games.
01:05:08 --> 01:05:13 It's coming out this year, but I got a couple of older things I need to whittle out there.
01:05:15 --> 01:05:19 Awesome. Be prepared, kids. You're going to be listening to Moorhead Mysteries for about a year.
01:05:20 --> 01:05:24 It's going to be a while well gentlemen
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01:08:10 --> 01:08:12 And goodbye. I said good day.
01:08:13 --> 01:08:46 Music.