In this episode of RPX Rollup, we're rolling up characters for Renegade Game Studios' Kids on Bikes: Second Edition. Set in 2007-2008 before smartphones ruled the world, players take on the roles of teenagers navigating a small-town mystery.
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00:00:15 --> 00:00:21 Hello! Welcome to the Roblox Show. Well, hi there! Hi there!
00:00:21 --> 00:00:24 We're pulling a roll-up right out of our hide-ins, because we were supposed
00:00:24 --> 00:00:29 to do a post-mortem, and we can't do it, so we're getting to a game that we
00:00:29 --> 00:00:32 really wanted to get involved in beforehand, and we just haven't had an opportunity yet.
00:00:32 --> 00:00:36 It is called Kids on Bikes, the second edition.
00:00:36 --> 00:00:41 And Chris, tell me, what do you have planned for this roll-up that we just really kind of wing in it?
00:00:41 --> 00:00:45 I had an idea for for a game from one
00:00:45 --> 00:00:49 of our current or previous campaigns and how
00:00:49 --> 00:00:53 about you guys want to play kids on boats i.e a
00:00:53 --> 00:00:57 bunch of kids from like a from a lakeside town
00:00:57 --> 00:01:02 that go to an island and have weird weird misadventures you guys will be going
00:01:02 --> 00:01:07 to uh yeah we're going to be setting it in lagoon city on lake simco literally
00:01:07 --> 00:01:11 right in your backyard all right yeah and for full disclosure because we're
00:01:11 --> 00:01:12 going to be like probably adding
00:01:12 --> 00:01:16 some things to lagoon city this is a fictionalized version of lagoon city,
00:01:17 --> 00:01:22 names and places will may may appear similar but are fabricated for the sake of this game.
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27 Don't sue me lagoon city yeah i have
00:01:27 --> 00:01:30 been there please don't sue me i i
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 don't i think i've like passed by it for those of
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 you that are unfamiliar with this game kids on bikes it's
00:01:36 --> 00:01:39 named after the particular genre of movies so we're talking
00:01:39 --> 00:01:42 like the goonies et's even
00:01:42 --> 00:01:45 you know kind of things stranger things and you
00:01:45 --> 00:01:48 know disney did skeleton crew on who and hulu or not
00:01:48 --> 00:01:51 hulu on disney plus and stuff like that so you
00:01:51 --> 00:01:54 know it's really a would you say kind of like a
00:01:54 --> 00:01:57 coming a coming of age kind of kind of story it's it's
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 that genre of like of like again
00:02:00 --> 00:02:03 group of kids get into a weird
00:02:03 --> 00:02:06 or wacky adventure and maybe learn something
00:02:06 --> 00:02:09 along the way like that's that's sort
00:02:09 --> 00:02:12 of yeah that's sort of this that this whole
00:02:12 --> 00:02:15 genre that this this rpg is trying to like emulate friendship
00:02:15 --> 00:02:20 is magic and magic is hers no we're not gonna do well actually we could do teens
00:02:20 --> 00:02:28 on in teens in space and be 40k oh god sweet jesus well you know there is actually
00:02:28 --> 00:02:32 a young adult novels for 40k Yeah,
00:02:32 --> 00:02:34 there's 400 novels for 40K.
00:02:34 --> 00:02:37 No, no, but I mean, there's specifically like in the last couple of years,
00:02:37 --> 00:02:39 there was actually a couple of novels put out.
00:02:40 --> 00:02:46 Kids or like teens in the 40k universe and also like I think in like the Warhammer
00:02:46 --> 00:02:51 fantasy universe which is just weird I get it you're trying to get new blood
00:02:51 --> 00:02:55 in but young adults typically.
00:02:56 --> 00:03:02 Isn't the area you want to do it no I gotta give him a hug young but.
00:03:03 --> 00:03:05 Speaking of which so kind of just to edge
00:03:05 --> 00:03:08 along to get to our character correction portion of
00:03:08 --> 00:03:11 this there was a first edition of this the second edition came
00:03:11 --> 00:03:15 out in the past like two or three years i think i can't really remember
00:03:15 --> 00:03:17 offhand i did i remember i did bike it back at it
00:03:17 --> 00:03:21 all that but it's a very rules-like system you
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24 just use more narrative play than anything else would
00:03:24 --> 00:03:26 you say chris yeah yeah it's definitely more
00:03:26 --> 00:03:29 narrative play this will also probably if since
00:03:29 --> 00:03:33 i'm pregnant into running this this will probably be the first time i've run this
00:03:33 --> 00:03:36 game though i've played in a couple of games by you at them so
00:03:36 --> 00:03:39 yeah i failed the dames they always
00:03:39 --> 00:03:42 they always crash and burn so don't sell
00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 yourself so short goddamn this one
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 will be no different yeah now it's
00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 the beginning of the book here so we're using the second edition here
00:03:51 --> 00:03:54 it's got a checklist that kind of kind of goes through stuff so
00:03:54 --> 00:03:57 we're going to kind of bypass some of it it's a really good
00:03:57 --> 00:04:00 tools and all that but we know each other you know
00:04:00 --> 00:04:04 tone i think we could address here content consent
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 list where you you know what i'm
00:04:07 --> 00:04:10 comfortable with in the game and not and then you know
00:04:10 --> 00:04:15 the unfortunate thing is our reality is not perfect and if you're wanting to
00:04:15 --> 00:04:21 play mars last group and like and being historically accurate like that's something
00:04:21 --> 00:04:26 you want to do at the table you know given the games character romance there's
00:04:26 --> 00:04:30 just tons of other like little things they want you to take out in the beginning.
00:04:30 --> 00:04:34 So I, you know, usually I would go ahead and put this out here.
00:04:34 --> 00:04:39 I'm not particularly interested in romance and Jeremy's character.
00:04:39 --> 00:04:42 I mean, I appreciate that. I do have a sweet beard, but yeah,
00:04:43 --> 00:04:45 there's some lines we can't cross. Yeah.
00:04:46 --> 00:04:48 No. What's the time?
00:04:50 --> 00:04:54 So tone wise, Chris, like what are you shooting for as a game master?
00:04:54 --> 00:04:58 Honestly, this is going to be just sort of like a... The idea I have for at
00:04:58 --> 00:05:01 least the preliminary adventure is just going to be...
00:05:02 --> 00:05:05 A mystery like that you got and maybe and
00:05:05 --> 00:05:08 like you guys have to like like something is going
00:05:08 --> 00:05:11 to happen on the island and you guys have to deal with
00:05:11 --> 00:05:16 it otherwise things are going to get worse so so the sandlot meets hillraiser
00:05:16 --> 00:05:22 great i'm good yeah like i think think uh i guess yeah that or like like stephen
00:05:22 --> 00:05:28 king's it except without the gross shit yeah there will not be a gross like,
00:05:29 --> 00:05:31 ritual that the children have to perform.
00:05:32 --> 00:05:35 What do you mean by gross? They just had to cut their hands in some glass,
00:05:35 --> 00:05:39 Chris. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah. The movies definitely did that better than the book.
00:05:40 --> 00:05:42 A little bit different. Just slightly.
00:05:43 --> 00:05:47 I'm trying to think, so, they also mention something really handy here.
00:05:48 --> 00:05:55 They use a lot of bike metaphor, like road signals and checking the bike or brakes and all that.
00:05:55 --> 00:05:58 They've got a lot of terminology just to kind of
00:05:58 --> 00:06:02 ongoing checking your table like everything's
00:06:02 --> 00:06:07 going on but since we've went through two campaigns together each one of us
00:06:07 --> 00:06:12 here i think we're pretty good and by the way i think i've introduced myself
00:06:12 --> 00:06:16 and chris you've been introduced but who are these other two guys here uh this
00:06:16 --> 00:06:20 is jerry i'm looking forward to this i've actually been wanting to play kids on bikes,
00:06:21 --> 00:06:26 and last but certainly not least in my heart my emotional support canadian the
00:06:26 --> 00:06:32 man i the wind beneath my wings hi everyone i'm josh and i'm an alcoholic shit
00:06:32 --> 00:06:37 wrong meeting gosh i didn't say it was a strong wind guys it was just a white
00:06:37 --> 00:06:41 breeze it's more like somebody's just blowing at me.
00:06:43 --> 00:06:48 Let's just jump straight into you can go ahead and tell us about your,
00:06:49 --> 00:06:53 idea of like the character's ages and stuff like that and kind of glancing through this here,
00:06:54 --> 00:06:57 so tell us about the age and then we'll jump to page one if that sounds good
00:06:57 --> 00:07:02 about the age oh sorry what yeah but the age of the characters yeah i i for
00:07:02 --> 00:07:05 this i'm i'm shooting for teens,
00:07:05 --> 00:07:09 specifically like just like again like as with especially
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 actually give i would say teens you guys
00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 should probably be around the age of 16 or
00:07:15 --> 00:07:22 older given that i think the ontario boating licenses are 16 and i do want you
00:07:22 --> 00:07:29 guys to actually have the ability to use a motorboat okay boating age in ontario
00:07:29 --> 00:07:34 this is the part we need to get accurate i'm pretty sure it was a 16,
00:07:35 --> 00:07:37 This is the hill we die on, sir.
00:07:37 --> 00:07:42 Oh, cool. It's, uh, it's so 16. Yeah. 16 older, uh, to operate a boat of any horsepower.
00:07:43 --> 00:07:49 That sounds like a good thing. And it's one slight note to mention here that
00:07:49 --> 00:07:56 within the Hunter's book, Kids on Bikes, it is explicit because some people
00:07:56 --> 00:07:58 apparently need to be told this stuff.
00:07:59 --> 00:08:02 They give you the option of playing characters with fall ages from adults to
00:08:02 --> 00:08:05 smaller children to teenagers and all that.
00:08:05 --> 00:08:10 But it mentions that an adult hitting on a child is and will always be child
00:08:10 --> 00:08:14 abuse and like sexualizing teenagers is abuse and pedophilia.
00:08:14 --> 00:08:20 So it's sad that we live in a world where the unspoken thing on this must be spoken out.
00:08:20 --> 00:08:26 But yeah, and, you know, kudos for them for taking hard stance and not it's
00:08:26 --> 00:08:32 not a hard stance, but saying the hard words that otherwise wouldn't some people would just assume.
00:08:33 --> 00:08:37 So for the listeners don't do that yeah
00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 it's weird i'll call you out for it
00:08:40 --> 00:08:43 don't do that we all will yeah so
00:08:43 --> 00:08:47 now that we've got this out of the way with the ages of the characters and what's
00:08:47 --> 00:08:52 acceptable in one of these types of games we're going to go to page 20 and we're
00:08:52 --> 00:08:56 going to talk about the world building so just to read briefly from this i don't
00:08:56 --> 00:08:59 like reading directly from this all the time we're going to it's usually set
00:08:59 --> 00:09:01 in a small town at any point in time in history.
00:09:03 --> 00:09:05 What was redundant when I said that, but we'll keep going.
00:09:06 --> 00:09:09 Before, everyone had cell phones and could record videos and stuff like that.
00:09:10 --> 00:09:14 I'm sure you can do it in another time frame, but this is kind of the,
00:09:14 --> 00:09:15 you know, E.T. didn't have a cell phone.
00:09:16 --> 00:09:20 Or Stranger Things didn't. The 90s is what it is. You want it remote enough,
00:09:20 --> 00:09:25 where it's kind of sheltered from the world, but you know, at the same time,
00:09:26 --> 00:09:31 you know, maybe it's on the radar like, what was the name of the town in Stranger Things?
00:09:31 --> 00:09:34 Uh hawkins the game should happen in town
00:09:34 --> 00:09:37 where you can bike from one side to the other in under
00:09:37 --> 00:09:40 an hour so the town's no more than maybe in
00:09:40 --> 00:09:44 miles across i don't know what that is in kilometers and
00:09:44 --> 00:09:48 it allows you want a town big enough where you're going to have like potentials
00:09:48 --> 00:09:53 for multiple locations and characters and whatnot that's going to come in so
00:09:53 --> 00:09:57 during session zero which is you know pretty much row ups are the session zero
00:09:57 --> 00:10:00 for the game that typically never happens, but hopefully it will in this case.
00:10:01 --> 00:10:04 The GM's going to walk us through crafting our town.
00:10:04 --> 00:10:08 Of course, it's based on a real one, but in name only, and he can insert some
00:10:08 --> 00:10:10 stuff in there obviously from a real one.
00:10:10 --> 00:10:14 And we're going to eventually end up talking about our relationships and,
00:10:16 --> 00:10:17 make it feel lived in.
00:10:20 --> 00:10:23 I hate to contradict you a little bit, but we are going to be setting this in
00:10:23 --> 00:10:26 probably 2007, 2008. But...
00:10:26 --> 00:10:30 When flip phones that's before the iphone really took off so exactly yeah yeah
00:10:30 --> 00:10:35 it's still at a time but yeah and not and i do usually you know i lovingly throw
00:10:35 --> 00:10:39 shit at you for being in another country like i've lived in an epicenter of
00:10:39 --> 00:10:41 like you've been in my house you see where i live but,
00:10:42 --> 00:10:45 cell phone service yeah this area
00:10:45 --> 00:10:48 is also like no different like i i've been to lagoon so
00:10:48 --> 00:10:51 i've been to the area around lagoon city it's it
00:10:51 --> 00:10:54 is the cell cell reception was
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 spotty back in those days they're bad they're bad
00:10:57 --> 00:11:01 now in those areas so yeah at least
00:11:01 --> 00:11:04 as long as we're taking away certain like conveniences like
00:11:04 --> 00:11:11 that totally cool yeah so so we need to actually to create a document here right
00:11:11 --> 00:11:15 yep i've already created one all right so our tell us about our town name and
00:11:15 --> 00:11:19 location you already have that picked out yeah so we're going with lagoon city
00:11:19 --> 00:11:22 uh off of lake simcoe in Ontario, Canada.
00:11:23 --> 00:11:29 It's 2007. And I'm going to make this shareable so you guys can add things as well to it.
00:11:30 --> 00:11:33 But yeah, so we'll set it in 2008, Lagoon City. And actually,
00:11:33 --> 00:11:41 if you guys Google, we'll use the map of the real world location to add places
00:11:41 --> 00:11:44 and stuff like that, just so we have a frame of reference. Yeah.
00:11:45 --> 00:11:49 Which I believe there's a link in our Discord that somewhere. Yeah.
00:11:49 --> 00:11:54 Yeah. All right. So let's have a little fun with this here.
00:11:54 --> 00:11:58 So we got 2007 and we have Lake Simcoe in the region.
00:11:59 --> 00:12:04 We saw a couple of these out here, you know, I mean, it could be wacky smacky and it cannot be.
00:12:04 --> 00:12:08 So realistically, Chris, tell us what, what, what's the industry of that place?
00:12:08 --> 00:12:09 What's their primary thing?
00:12:10 --> 00:12:12 Honestly, I think it is primarily tourism.
00:12:13 --> 00:12:16 Like if you the actual location is
00:12:16 --> 00:12:19 basically just like a bunch of like townhouses condos
00:12:19 --> 00:12:25 kind of older residents cottages and like when i say cottage i mean like fancy
00:12:25 --> 00:12:30 like rich cottages there's a bunch of marina there's like several marinas because
00:12:30 --> 00:12:35 lagoon city gets its name from the fact that it's basically it's it's more it's
00:12:35 --> 00:12:38 it's equal parts canals and roads.
00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 Welcome to canadian venice yeah essentially like
00:12:43 --> 00:12:45 there are canals that uh there are roads and bridges to cross
00:12:45 --> 00:12:48 to like the various little islands and stuff like that within this this this
00:12:48 --> 00:12:52 community in town but there are also like there's
00:12:52 --> 00:12:56 a canal that goes to out to the actual bigger lake behind
00:12:56 --> 00:12:59 everybody's backyard essentially or like at everybody's
00:12:59 --> 00:13:02 on everybody's property okay so everyone has
00:13:02 --> 00:13:05 a boat as much as they have a car in this place
00:13:05 --> 00:13:08 so so gas is this a kind
00:13:08 --> 00:13:11 of place that like is it is there
00:13:11 --> 00:13:13 enough townspeople around or is this one is this
00:13:13 --> 00:13:17 going to be one of these places like when the summer seasons kick in then
00:13:17 --> 00:13:20 you have people from other communities outside the late simco
00:13:20 --> 00:13:24 region there's a lot of people coming there for like summer jobs and college
00:13:24 --> 00:13:30 students and all that well yeah there's this this area probably more for like
00:13:30 --> 00:13:34 summer wise it's more for like they probably have an increase in with summer
00:13:34 --> 00:13:37 but then like during the winter her it's probably it probably peters out a little
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39 bit or like or softens down,
00:13:40 --> 00:13:43 But is there anything else you guys think that it might be?
00:13:44 --> 00:13:46 So we've got the real stuff here. Are you okay with us just,
00:13:46 --> 00:13:50 the fun thing about this, Chris, you throw this out, we throw this out here,
00:13:50 --> 00:13:54 and then you can take what you want. Yeah, no, I know.
00:13:55 --> 00:13:59 Josh, Jeremy, what else could they possibly be famous for?
00:14:00 --> 00:14:05 It's tourism. If it's a lake, maybe something like, and it's probably just because
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 I was watching a thing about Bass Pro Shops, but something along those lines.
00:14:10 --> 00:14:15 Like if we're in tourism and they need bait and tackle and they need something.
00:14:15 --> 00:14:17 Trout fishing. Trout fishing.
00:14:18 --> 00:14:20 Trout fitters. You know.
00:14:21 --> 00:14:26 To tie it into every other game we've got. Trout fitters. The German consulate is there.
00:14:27 --> 00:14:32 It is the German. We have already established there's a trout fitters just north
00:14:32 --> 00:14:35 of this area. In Norland.
00:14:36 --> 00:14:39 There's always got to be a trout fitter and a bell booking candle.
00:14:39 --> 00:14:45 Yeah i honestly i think that uh the town is also kind of famous because there's
00:14:45 --> 00:14:49 there's a huge i'm based everything on america so i could be completely wrong
00:14:49 --> 00:14:50 with how your taxes and work.
00:14:51 --> 00:14:55 But there's a since there's such a large industry and even some of that carries
00:14:55 --> 00:15:00 over to the you know the winter months but not as much or i'm sure it's ice
00:15:00 --> 00:15:06 fishing and things like that but the you know the public school system and public
00:15:06 --> 00:15:10 works within the town are really good because they're very well funded.
00:15:11 --> 00:15:17 So, you know, it's not people for would come maybe for temporary emergency or
00:15:17 --> 00:15:20 something like that, but there are people come there just for,
00:15:20 --> 00:15:28 you know, the, the nice hipster downtown kind of scene or the schools are like top notch.
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 There's a lot going on there for that.
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 If that works, Chris. Yeah, I could, I could definitely see like there being
00:15:34 --> 00:15:35 like, maybe they've established like a,
00:15:35 --> 00:15:38 like a beachside, like kind of downtown sort of
00:15:38 --> 00:15:41 strip like a hipstery kind of thing kind of
00:15:41 --> 00:15:46 kind of combine little lagoon city with the wasega beach which is out by georgian
00:15:46 --> 00:15:50 bay which is very much like that they've just the whole waterfront area is basically
00:15:50 --> 00:15:55 like tourist trap again for like but for like the the hip kind of hipstee the
00:15:55 --> 00:15:59 the hipsters and stuff yeah or the the city folk that come up,
00:15:59 --> 00:16:03 Josh, do you have anything that you think would be kind of a nice little additive?
00:16:04 --> 00:16:08 I got nothing. Okay, that's fine. Well, Josh, let's take the opposite side of this.
00:16:09 --> 00:16:13 What's something they're probably infamous for? Why don't we say that there
00:16:13 --> 00:16:16 was, is it close to the American border? Not at all.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:18 Not at all. Sorry, buddy, not at all.
00:16:19 --> 00:16:24 That's fine. I was going to say bootleggers were coming down from Canada during the Prohibition era.
00:16:25 --> 00:16:30 Maple syrup, smuggling trade. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I know there is a,
00:16:30 --> 00:16:34 in Aurelia anyway, there is a bad drug problem.
00:16:35 --> 00:16:38 Yeah, I'm trying to think of like something that the place is infamous for.
00:16:38 --> 00:16:44 If we've got really good, like a really good school system, they probably got
00:16:44 --> 00:16:47 a really good drug trade. That's true, yeah.
00:16:48 --> 00:16:51 Recreational drugs. Yeah, so. Dr. Adderall, basically.
00:16:52 --> 00:16:55 It's before weed was legalized and all that, I think. I think it was like in
00:16:55 --> 00:16:57 2010s when y'all were legalized, wasn't it?
00:16:58 --> 00:17:02 Nah, it was later than that. The marijuana was legal in... Hang on.
00:17:02 --> 00:17:05 2018, I thought, but... I think it was sooner.
00:17:05 --> 00:17:12 Actually, no, it would have been 2018, 2019, because I had just graduated before it went in.
00:17:13 --> 00:17:18 Yeah, 2018, they made it legal, basically, to have one plant per person in the household.
00:17:18 --> 00:17:22 No, two per person, maximum four. Yeah, two per person.
00:17:22 --> 00:17:26 All right, I'm going to go go wacky smacky. This is my contribution,
00:17:26 --> 00:17:27 and you can take it or leave it.
00:17:28 --> 00:17:31 There used to be a sanitarium there.
00:17:32 --> 00:17:38 Oh, that's... Sir, really, Simcoe County has those in spares,
00:17:39 --> 00:17:41 I assure you, historically.
00:17:41 --> 00:17:46 This one's a particularly bad one. With rumor, you never really know the truth.
00:17:46 --> 00:17:51 There were some people who claimed it was very cruel and unusual treatments
00:17:51 --> 00:17:54 were applied there. But all we know that is in the 19th,
00:17:55 --> 00:17:59 post-war two that everything just kind of shut down and.
00:18:00 --> 00:18:07 Also going back into the prohibitionary stuff Lake Simcoe is not actually terribly far,
00:18:07 --> 00:18:11 and it did have the Trent the Severn,
00:18:11 --> 00:18:16 Trent Severn waterway too right well you head south for what two hours by car
00:18:16 --> 00:18:21 you hit Lake Ontario yeah well even then like by that and then it's just over
00:18:21 --> 00:18:25 Lake Ontario into Buffalo there is also the there is actually a,
00:18:26 --> 00:18:29 a lock system that connects Lake Simcoe all the way to Lake Ontario.
00:18:30 --> 00:18:35 Yeah, that's true. On its way out. So there's a lock system which connects Lake
00:18:35 --> 00:18:39 Ontario to Georgian Bay, and on its way it connects to Lake Simcoe.
00:18:39 --> 00:18:41 So a lock system. Yeah, sorry.
00:18:42 --> 00:18:46 It's a booze highway, so to speak, I guess you could say, too.
00:18:47 --> 00:18:48 You can definitely make it.
00:18:49 --> 00:18:54 I do like the idea of having like a haunted sanitarium or like an abandoned
00:18:54 --> 00:18:55 sanitarium, because this,
00:18:55 --> 00:19:01 I kid you not, there's probably at least three or four closed down or like former
00:19:01 --> 00:19:06 asylums in northern Simcoe County.
00:19:06 --> 00:19:10 Two at least were within Aurelia's city limits.
00:19:12 --> 00:19:18 Can one of them still be, it was retrofitted in a movement and now it's a nursing home?
00:19:19 --> 00:19:26 Yeah, that's also one of the big industries in the area. Old people or nursing homes? Yes.
00:19:27 --> 00:19:32 Sanitary nursing homes. That's right. Old people and nursing homes is basically,
00:19:32 --> 00:19:36 was Aurelia's bread and butter in the 90s and 2000s.
00:19:36 --> 00:19:41 Florida, Canada. The story writes itself. And again, like I say,
00:19:41 --> 00:19:45 Aurelia is like literally like 15 minutes away from Lagoon City. Like...
00:19:46 --> 00:19:51 It's the, I can, you can easily see that they're like easily a few kilometers from each other.
00:19:51 --> 00:19:56 So, oh, oh shit. Hang on. Sorry.
00:19:56 --> 00:19:58 Quick thing I'm looking at. Cause I'm looking at Google maps.
00:19:59 --> 00:20:04 I think it's also connected to a really a via the old dead roads.
00:20:04 --> 00:20:10 The there's, so there is a, sorry, the dead rails. There's a rail system that went through Ontario.
00:20:11 --> 00:20:15 And when they shut it down, the, the province turned it into basically walking trails.
00:20:16 --> 00:20:22 And one of them goes right past, the one that's on the one end of Orillia goes,
00:20:22 --> 00:20:26 I think actually goes down toward like right past Lagoon City.
00:20:27 --> 00:20:29 So that could be something.
00:20:30 --> 00:20:33 And we can, at some of these other questions, we're going to redo into collaborative
00:20:33 --> 00:20:37 creation. We'll circle back to that too. So that's like, yeah, keep the dead roads.
00:20:38 --> 00:20:42 Jeremy, did you have anything infamous that you wanted to throw out for consideration?
00:20:43 --> 00:20:46 Not really. That's all good. so if
00:20:46 --> 00:20:49 the town is is economically the town is
00:20:49 --> 00:20:52 prospering like what do you what do you
00:20:52 --> 00:20:55 think economically like overall the town is i think it's probably prospering
00:20:55 --> 00:21:01 like again it's a lot of like i said it's a lot of like richer or bigger like
00:21:01 --> 00:21:05 probably better than like middle class like higher than middle class people
00:21:05 --> 00:21:11 living in the town damn i need to move there it's probably also a lot of old money, if I had to guess.
00:21:13 --> 00:21:18 And one effect of that, if anyone wants to add to it, so it's very prospering,
00:21:18 --> 00:21:22 but I'm going to say that there is a clear divide between the haves and the have-nots,
00:21:22 --> 00:21:28 so there are still people there that are trying to subsist on farming or other
00:21:28 --> 00:21:30 things that still have like the local...
00:21:31 --> 00:21:36 You know five and dime kind of shops like that there's there's still trailer parks i mean it's,
00:21:37 --> 00:21:40 sorry not to cut you off literally down the road from from
00:21:40 --> 00:21:44 lagoon city is another smaller town called brecon and that's basically a farming
00:21:44 --> 00:21:50 town like it's it's a crosswalk it's a crossroad sort of town so like that could
00:21:50 --> 00:21:55 be like sort of the the the more of the farming type like community that like
00:21:55 --> 00:21:59 they don't have a lot and then like there's lagoon city could be like the more like affluent,
00:21:59 --> 00:22:02 if you wanted to have that kind of tension.
00:22:04 --> 00:22:09 Is there anything else you guys think the effect of it being a prosperous town? Good or bad?
00:22:10 --> 00:22:12 Prosperous towns tend to bring corporations.
00:22:13 --> 00:22:17 Corporations tend to want to buy things that are making money.
00:22:17 --> 00:22:20 Maybe that's a complication.
00:22:20 --> 00:22:24 Locals are kind of being priced out of their land too.
00:22:24 --> 00:22:29 The cost of living is increasing in taxation because it's worth more now. Because of that.
00:22:29 --> 00:22:33 There's a Tim Hortons and a Starbucks across the street, like the Mason Dixon line.
00:22:34 --> 00:22:38 That's actually nothing new in Canadian towns. That really is not, no.
00:22:39 --> 00:22:42 You will actually usually see them within sight of each other.
00:22:43 --> 00:22:48 Hell, you'll have dueling Tim Hortons. Like one on either side of the road.
00:22:48 --> 00:22:50 Do you want to fight about it?
00:22:51 --> 00:22:55 Which is funny, because they're dueling, but they're both run by the same person,
00:22:55 --> 00:22:57 and the staff rotates between them.
00:22:58 --> 00:23:03 Yeah, it's dueling banjos, but Tim Hortons. I like you better.
00:23:03 --> 00:23:05 Didn't I see you at that whole bunch? She's like, yeah, I work here,
00:23:06 --> 00:23:08 but you were at the other one. It's the same owner.
00:23:09 --> 00:23:13 Just slightly different. No, do we have anything else or is that kind of got
00:23:13 --> 00:23:14 it covered, do you think, Chris?
00:23:15 --> 00:23:18 No, I do like, again, like, again, fictionalizing this town.
00:23:18 --> 00:23:26 I do like the addition of, like, a yet another creepy abandoned sanitarium.
00:23:26 --> 00:23:29 Honestly actually i kind of like the idea of it be so
00:23:29 --> 00:23:35 like the the walking path that was formerly a rail system you we could actually
00:23:35 --> 00:23:40 have it just outside of lagoon city on the rail like on the way past the rail
00:23:40 --> 00:23:47 yard or past the rail line like maybe they friggin shipped people to it out in the yeah.
00:23:49 --> 00:23:53 Oh God, I even, a name for it. Uh-huh.
00:23:54 --> 00:23:59 And this might be, because there's the, apparently the trail near Lagoon City
00:23:59 --> 00:24:01 is called End of Lagoon City Trail.
00:24:01 --> 00:24:04 And I was like, end of the line sanatorium.
00:24:05 --> 00:24:12 Like, oof, that might be a little too on the nose for like a creepy abandoned sanatorium.
00:24:12 --> 00:24:18 No, it's about what people would name it. Yeah. Just turn it to a nursing home like I suggested.
00:24:18 --> 00:24:21 Very on the nose or very placeholdery.
00:24:21 --> 00:24:22 Just call it Hope's End.
00:24:23 --> 00:24:30 Oh, God. Yeah. Lines End. We'll call it Lines End for now. We'll rename it later. Never rename it.
00:24:30 --> 00:24:34 Or just call it the station because that's where the train ends. Oh, God.
00:24:35 --> 00:24:41 Location. Lagoon Station. Lagoon Station Sanatorium. Yeah. And the LSS.
00:24:42 --> 00:24:47 Yeah. The old LSS, yeah. so what's any Liberty Space Station what.
00:24:49 --> 00:24:53 Helldiver salute what about is
00:24:53 --> 00:24:56 this like duplicate in a five player game so is
00:24:56 --> 00:24:59 there possibly could be five people in this I don't know four or whatnot
00:24:59 --> 00:25:02 but we need either one or two
00:25:02 --> 00:25:06 notable local organizations yes so
00:25:06 --> 00:25:10 in America you know you would be like it's Masons
00:25:10 --> 00:25:13 the Shriners the Homemakers whatever like
00:25:13 --> 00:25:16 how about the the hoa or like the
00:25:16 --> 00:25:19 uh or oh the the uh the racket club because
00:25:19 --> 00:25:23 there is a uh the old money yeah you basically like the old like that the racket
00:25:23 --> 00:25:28 club's the old money of lagoon city so it's also kind of tied with a country
00:25:28 --> 00:25:32 club yeah but yeah that's what a racket yeah it's the i'm guessing the racket
00:25:32 --> 00:25:36 club is like a country club sort of thing okay yes my polo ponies,
00:25:38 --> 00:25:45 What are those children doing Causing such a wrangor with their motorbugs Move them out of the way.
00:25:47 --> 00:25:50 Why don't we It looks like on step 7
00:25:50 --> 00:25:56 Unless anybody wanted to add another organization On step
00:25:56 --> 00:25:59 7 On 21 it says A notable local
00:25:59 --> 00:26:02 landmark is So I want
00:26:02 --> 00:26:07 to go ahead Well I think that's a given but thanks
00:26:07 --> 00:26:10 josh you are a pinnacle of
00:26:10 --> 00:26:13 creativity it's next to a lake simcoe how
00:26:13 --> 00:26:16 about the privately maintained guys the
00:26:16 --> 00:26:20 privately maintained lagoon city lighthouse perfect lagoon
00:26:20 --> 00:26:23 city lighthouse at the end of the basically at the end of
00:26:23 --> 00:26:29 the the the exit to the the main like the the major waterway out of the canals
00:26:29 --> 00:26:33 okay i don't think i've ever actually seen got one that you may shoot down pretty
00:26:33 --> 00:26:41 quick here when they stopped a rail line there was there was a carnival that was traveling by train,
00:26:42 --> 00:26:47 And there's an old, off of the tracks, that's where they hauled it away.
00:26:48 --> 00:26:53 There is an old train from the carnival. It's just in the woods. Yeah.
00:26:55 --> 00:26:59 Again, just north of Lagoon City, there's just this huge patch of what I'm guessing
00:26:59 --> 00:27:02 is swampy woods, which is where I was going to put the sanatorium,
00:27:02 --> 00:27:06 but it might as well also have that as well.
00:27:06 --> 00:27:12 It's a swamp with the trains in it. And kids, local kids swear up and down that
00:27:12 --> 00:27:16 sometimes while walking the trail at night or in the dusk, they see clowns walking
00:27:16 --> 00:27:18 around in the woods. Oh, God.
00:27:19 --> 00:27:21 That is clown swamp.
00:27:23 --> 00:27:28 Okay. I was going to be, I was actually there. So I was going to have.
00:27:28 --> 00:27:31 So we're talking about like, we're going to do a game where you guys go out
00:27:31 --> 00:27:36 to like Strawberry Island and some like a Strawberry Island for anybody who doesn't know.
00:27:36 --> 00:27:43 In like simcoe it up until 20 2007 was owned by the catholic church it was used as a retreat for,
00:27:43 --> 00:27:47 nuns and priests and the pope even came
00:27:47 --> 00:27:50 over for for a few uh for like a weekend or something like
00:27:50 --> 00:27:52 that which one i think it was pope uh no it
00:27:52 --> 00:27:55 wasn't john paul it was the one before or it
00:27:55 --> 00:27:58 might have been john paul yeah it was he was there forever it
00:27:58 --> 00:28:01 was before benedict so yeah yes john paul yeah it
00:28:01 --> 00:28:04 was john paul yeah he showed yeah his helicopter actually flew over
00:28:04 --> 00:28:07 our heads that summer when when
00:28:07 --> 00:28:11 that happened but um yeah but
00:28:11 --> 00:28:17 then the church sold off the the island to some corporation in 2007 and they've
00:28:17 --> 00:28:22 done nothing with it since so it's just been sitting there rotting basically
00:28:22 --> 00:28:25 all the all the buildings i won't complain about a corporation doing nothing
00:28:25 --> 00:28:29 with land i mean that's true yeah they i know they wanted to put like condos
00:28:29 --> 00:28:30 or something on the island.
00:28:31 --> 00:28:35 And I know the mainlanders like disputed it or fought it.
00:28:35 --> 00:28:39 So, and I think they've received one, but yeah, so I, we, we were going to have
00:28:39 --> 00:28:42 an adventure where we are going to have an adventure where you guys go to strawberry
00:28:42 --> 00:28:47 Island and something definitely the, the church was definitely like protecting
00:28:47 --> 00:28:49 something down or like keeping something down there.
00:28:51 --> 00:28:54 But something that popped in my head when we started talking about like using
00:28:54 --> 00:28:55 lagoon city as like a jumping off point,
00:28:57 --> 00:29:02 Teacher from the Black Lagoon. Because I'm a sucker for wordplay.
00:29:03 --> 00:29:09 Also, Chris, not to cut off, but going back to Strawberry Island. The island's for sale.
00:29:09 --> 00:29:14 Oh, I know. Oh, wait, it is? Yeah, you can buy it for close to $5 million.
00:29:16 --> 00:29:22 Oh, only that much. Yeah. That was started to go find me. 26 acre private island. Yeah.
00:29:23 --> 00:29:26 Yeah. $4.95 million. Damn.
00:29:27 --> 00:29:32 All right start saving up now guys yeah we pool our money together.
00:29:33 --> 00:29:37 We have americans i expect you to do your heavy lifting your money's worth more,
00:29:38 --> 00:29:41 that is true like every dollar we have
00:29:41 --> 00:29:44 an extra quarter oh my god there's even a apparently just
00:29:44 --> 00:29:47 on the other side of the forest from lagoon city there's a a small
00:29:47 --> 00:29:50 airfield i'd imagine that's very local
00:29:50 --> 00:29:54 more uh it's literally like a guy's like farming well
00:29:54 --> 00:29:57 it's a guy's farm and they're they're crop dusters by looks at yeah that's
00:29:57 --> 00:30:00 what i was showing oh actually no they're not crop dusters
00:30:00 --> 00:30:04 they're probably like the the runway's a canal so i'm
00:30:04 --> 00:30:07 guessing their boat they're probably like for tourists they're probably
00:30:07 --> 00:30:10 they're probably water boats or like water planes probably for
00:30:10 --> 00:30:13 tourism or even like for emergencies or
00:30:13 --> 00:30:16 something like on the well i'd also imagine uh
00:30:16 --> 00:30:19 conservation because let's face it they drop salmon lakes yeah
00:30:19 --> 00:30:24 well it's also like a closed off like canal but anyway sorry
00:30:24 --> 00:30:28 i'm getting a we're getting we're getting caught in the weeds we're
00:30:28 --> 00:30:31 always caught in the weeds this is nothing new to anyone listening to
00:30:31 --> 00:30:40 us so i've suggested a a train cars with a lost uh carnival in the forest swamp
00:30:40 --> 00:30:46 does anyone have anything else landmark wise that they like to put on the map
00:30:46 --> 00:30:49 i still maintain lake simcoe.
00:30:51 --> 00:30:55 Okay, let it be known, guys. Except go exist.
00:30:56 --> 00:31:02 I mean, if we want to do that, we could make a new... So there's supposed to
00:31:02 --> 00:31:03 be a lake monster in Lake Simcoe.
00:31:04 --> 00:31:09 And it goes by several names, depending on what part of the lake you're at.
00:31:10 --> 00:31:15 In the south, in Keswick or Kepenfelt Bay, it's called Keswick-Kelly or Kepenfelt-Kelly.
00:31:15 --> 00:31:19 And then in Beaverton, which is a little bit closer to Lagoon City,
00:31:19 --> 00:31:23 it's about halfway between the south end and the north end. It's called Beaverton-Bessie.
00:31:25 --> 00:31:29 So we want our town monster damn it yeah exactly so like we want like if there
00:31:29 --> 00:31:33 starts finding sightings off of like lagoon city what would what would it be called,
00:31:35 --> 00:31:41 lagoon lacy a lot of it's called it should be the town school mascot too oh
00:31:41 --> 00:31:45 for sure yeah maybe that's that's what the teacher of the from the black lagoon
00:31:45 --> 00:31:46 scenario is going to be about.
00:31:47 --> 00:31:50 It's a selkie. Could be.
00:31:51 --> 00:31:55 So we got the lake. We got that. Jeremy, you got anything to add?
00:31:56 --> 00:32:01 I really want to make a twisted reference, but I'm just going to keep it to myself. Oh, yeah.
00:32:04 --> 00:32:08 So let's go back to number eight, though. What is our school's mascot?
00:32:09 --> 00:32:14 I think it should be Averton Bessie. We already got one. The Lagoon City Selkies.
00:32:15 --> 00:32:20 If you're okay with that. Or the Kelpies. Kelpies would probably be better because
00:32:20 --> 00:32:21 the southeast are supposed to be seals.
00:32:22 --> 00:32:26 Yeah, but I was thinking for that, even though it's not alliterative in the
00:32:26 --> 00:32:29 literal sense, but it's alliterative in the sound of Lagoon City.
00:32:32 --> 00:32:35 You're the one who decides. We just throw stuff out there. That's true, yeah. You pick it.
00:32:35 --> 00:32:42 The town closest to us is named what? And our relationship with that town is fill in the blank.
00:32:42 --> 00:32:45 I think brecon and i think it's just
00:32:45 --> 00:32:48 like there's sort of again like the haves and
00:32:48 --> 00:32:51 have nots sort of like tension like there's this
00:32:51 --> 00:33:00 prissy lakeside rich community and then the the town just like down the road
00:33:00 --> 00:33:04 from it like the farming community that like is just trying to make ends meeting
00:33:04 --> 00:33:08 doesn't maybe appreciate all the like the tourists in the summer and so or doesn't
00:33:08 --> 00:33:11 they're not sharing the wealth sort of thing as it were. Yeah.
00:33:12 --> 00:33:15 Okay. So they're resentful.
00:33:16 --> 00:33:22 Okay. Honestly, after constructing a town, the book says each one of you shares
00:33:22 --> 00:33:23 one rumor about the town.
00:33:24 --> 00:33:28 These can be mundane or supernatural, big or small, personal,
00:33:28 --> 00:33:34 or the entire town generally believed or completely fringe and only your character believes it.
00:33:34 --> 00:33:38 I will stick with my clowns in the swamp at night.
00:33:38 --> 00:33:43 Yeah, I was going to say, like, I think that right there is a rumor. That is. Yeah.
00:33:44 --> 00:33:48 Josh, is there anything in Lip Simcoe? I mean, there's the wreck of the J.C. Morrison.
00:33:49 --> 00:33:54 The wreck of the J.C. Morrison? What? J.C. Morrison. It actually is a shipwreck in Lexington.
00:33:55 --> 00:33:57 Oh, it's pretty much a ghost ship.
00:33:58 --> 00:34:01 No, it's a popular dive spot, but we can absolutely make it a ghost ship.
00:34:02 --> 00:34:06 I'm actually... Wait, where is that in Lexington? I don't have...
00:34:06 --> 00:34:10 Oh, it's outside of Barrie. Damn it. That's in the south end.
00:34:10 --> 00:34:14 It don't have to be. also there can
00:34:14 --> 00:34:16 be more than one steamboat that went down there are
00:34:16 --> 00:34:19 there are several steamboats that come through this lake because
00:34:19 --> 00:34:24 of merit of the uh because of the leacock novels like
00:34:24 --> 00:34:27 yeah we can definitely again that's something that the lake and
00:34:27 --> 00:34:31 aurelia is known for is leacock the an author
00:34:31 --> 00:34:36 named leacock wrote a a fictional town
00:34:36 --> 00:34:39 biography about aurelia and changed
00:34:39 --> 00:34:42 the name to mariposa and so like
00:34:42 --> 00:34:45 a really sort of like rolled with that as a like
00:34:45 --> 00:34:47 oh yeah like we have mariposa market down in
00:34:47 --> 00:34:51 downtown and we're the sunshine city which is which
00:34:51 --> 00:34:54 is just butterfly in spanish funny enough but yeah
00:34:54 --> 00:34:56 so like since then or since like the
00:34:56 --> 00:34:59 town the lake this side of the lake definitely has like a lot of like
00:34:59 --> 00:35:02 like steamboats or like or like lake
00:35:02 --> 00:35:06 ferries or island ferries like basically like those two-story boats
00:35:06 --> 00:35:10 with like it's like the steamboats basically or a
00:35:10 --> 00:35:14 riverboat and if you want you can tie that back to either the lighthouse or
00:35:14 --> 00:35:18 the monster yeah yeah there could be a like so we could just come we could just
00:35:18 --> 00:35:25 make up a a wreck yeah or literally just move a pre-existing one i yeah i don't
00:35:25 --> 00:35:27 that one i don't feel too comfortable with but.
00:35:28 --> 00:35:31 I'm fine with like fiction like making it making another fictional version another
00:35:31 --> 00:35:33 fictional one what should be named,
00:35:35 --> 00:35:37 Adam what are your initials.
00:35:38 --> 00:35:45 Steamboat thornsburg the Adam thornsburg memorial steamboat thornsburg or uh,
00:35:46 --> 00:35:50 my initials are a.k.t a.k.a.k.a.
00:35:50 --> 00:35:51 Thornsburg thornsburg,
00:35:52 --> 00:35:55 And we can add this out. What's your last name? If you're not comfortable with
00:35:55 --> 00:35:59 it. Haynes? Damn, okay. I was going to say Thorne Haynes.
00:36:02 --> 00:36:08 The AJ Thorne Haynes. Which is actually really funny because if you... Haynes is a Welsh name.
00:36:08 --> 00:36:13 If you actually Anglicanize it and make it English, it becomes Hawthorne.
00:36:14 --> 00:36:20 That is funny. Thorne Haynes. Are we cool with that? Yeah, I like it.
00:36:20 --> 00:36:22 Steamboat Thorne? The wreck of the theme?
00:36:22 --> 00:36:27 Wreck of the Steamboat Thornhains.
00:36:28 --> 00:36:29 It's a hyphen name.
00:36:31 --> 00:36:36 The AJ Thornhains. Jeremy, did you have anything to add about the Witch's Sabbath
00:36:36 --> 00:36:40 that takes place in a neighboring town where all the farmer's wives go out and
00:36:40 --> 00:36:44 offer a sacrifice for the crops? I think you might have covered it.
00:36:45 --> 00:36:48 Oh, oh. Because of Chris?
00:36:48 --> 00:36:52 By no no nearby in game
00:36:52 --> 00:36:56 bridge which is again just down the highway there is
00:36:56 --> 00:36:59 there were there was or is i'm not exactly sure about
00:36:59 --> 00:37:04 the current status but there was some guy in in game bridge decided to make
00:37:04 --> 00:37:14 cement or concrete statues of dinosaurs uh in the 50s as like a tourist attraction
00:37:14 --> 00:37:18 thing and they've just sort of gone to like ruin since he died,
00:37:19 --> 00:37:23 so there could just be these like weird statues on somebody some farmer's property
00:37:23 --> 00:37:25 like that like overlooks the road.
00:37:26 --> 00:37:31 I swear I saw it move one night yeah exactly yeah sometimes people swear they
00:37:31 --> 00:37:34 move I think that's great,
00:37:35 --> 00:37:39 The GM for the upcoming game, though, you should keep in mind,
00:37:39 --> 00:37:43 there may be sources of the rumor that the group has included the game.
00:37:43 --> 00:37:45 There are no wrong answers. So, yeah, I'll just double-check on that.
00:37:46 --> 00:37:51 So, you know, I think that's, we got quite a bit here. Yeah. Don't you think?
00:37:52 --> 00:37:56 All right. Honestly, I think we're good. There's a dice creation-based town.
00:37:57 --> 00:38:03 But now I think we're getting ready to move on over to the character creation
00:38:03 --> 00:38:06 part of it. And it looks like that's around page 24.
00:38:06 --> 00:38:10 The core of the RPG is a character you've embodied. Duh. Got that.
00:38:11 --> 00:38:15 And we're going to select a trope from playbooks. So we'll probably do this
00:38:15 --> 00:38:18 off mic. We'll kind of review what they got.
00:38:18 --> 00:38:22 Make trope selections for your character. So we're all teenagers,
00:38:22 --> 00:38:25 so it's going to take some of it. We're going to pick out strengths and flaws.
00:38:25 --> 00:38:29 And we're going to introduce a character to the rest of the group and answer
00:38:29 --> 00:38:33 questions about our character's relationship with the other characters.
00:38:34 --> 00:38:38 And finally, and this is with second ed, so some of your off-character sheets,
00:38:38 --> 00:38:40 we may need to add a bit to them here.
00:38:41 --> 00:38:44 We need to select the finishing touches to the characters, such as motivations,
00:38:44 --> 00:38:47 fears, obligations, and knacks.
00:38:48 --> 00:38:52 What's in your backpack, your last name, and trope-specific questions.
00:38:52 --> 00:38:58 And we talk about your bike, but we can honestly, we're talking about boats right now.
00:38:58 --> 00:39:02 So we may forego the bike part of kids and bikes. I don't know.
00:39:02 --> 00:39:03 What do you think, Chris?
00:39:03 --> 00:39:07 Yeah, well, again, like, yeah, we're just going to replace bikes with boats, so...
00:39:08 --> 00:39:16 Do, I was just wondering before we do a break here, should we go ahead and list what the tropes are?
00:39:17 --> 00:39:19 Yeah, we should probably do that. There's quite a few.
00:39:21 --> 00:39:25 So we'll elaborate on some of these as we go through here, but Chris,
00:39:25 --> 00:39:27 what tropes do we have in the book here?
00:39:27 --> 00:39:35 So on page 114, so we've got Adventurous Scout, because that's technically a teen.
00:39:36 --> 00:39:39 The brilliant Mathlete, conspiracy theory
00:39:39 --> 00:39:42 or conspiracy theorist the cunning
00:39:42 --> 00:39:46 detective which i guess is in this would be like the the teen
00:39:46 --> 00:39:50 gumshoe sort of kid sort of character there's
00:39:50 --> 00:39:53 the daring athlete the dedicated farm
00:39:53 --> 00:39:57 boy i guess or farm girl the laid-back
00:39:57 --> 00:40:01 slacker the funny sidekick there's
00:40:01 --> 00:40:04 the over eager enthusiast the popular
00:40:04 --> 00:40:07 kid prom royalty animal lover
00:40:07 --> 00:40:11 the mysterious transfer the unlikely
00:40:11 --> 00:40:15 the unlikely ally aspiring wannabe
00:40:15 --> 00:40:18 freakazoid the goody goody
00:40:18 --> 00:40:21 silver spoon recluse the
00:40:21 --> 00:40:25 seasoned babysitter and the
00:40:25 --> 00:40:28 young provider and there i know
00:40:28 --> 00:40:31 i just basically just like named like just gave the names but
00:40:31 --> 00:40:34 i mean they are kind of self-explanatory tropes from like
00:40:34 --> 00:40:37 this kind of fiction yep so you know
00:40:37 --> 00:40:41 we'll kind of jump into a bit some pieces here before
00:40:41 --> 00:40:47 we go ahead and take a break but i know josh already yeah he dibs i call dibs
00:40:47 --> 00:40:52 i conspiracy theorist fair that sounds totally fine with me anybody else have
00:40:52 --> 00:40:56 anything in mind before we kind of i've been eyeballing silver spoon for some
00:40:56 --> 00:40:59 reason yeah and i can definitely see that being again like the old Like,
00:40:59 --> 00:41:03 like you're like the, the child of old money basically in the town.
00:41:04 --> 00:41:09 I'm, I'm, I'm having a hard time with this one because I'm, I'm obviously just
00:41:09 --> 00:41:13 going to make a character just for the, like as an NPC, maybe the mysterious transfer.
00:41:14 --> 00:41:18 Oh, you're an American. You don't, you have. Well, hi y'all. What's going on?
00:41:20 --> 00:41:22 I just came down. My name's Adam.
00:41:24 --> 00:41:26 It's like, my name's Adam.
00:41:30 --> 00:41:32 I'm an American fighter pilot.
00:41:34 --> 00:41:38 Hamburger. I'm also like, oh, I grew up, I grew up by a lake as well.
00:41:38 --> 00:41:40 Like I grew up by a place called a cave run lake in Kentucky.
00:41:42 --> 00:41:43 Sorry, Adam. I'm sorry.
00:41:45 --> 00:41:50 We don't mean to dox you, but yeah, I talk good, but there's like,
00:41:50 --> 00:41:52 as far as I can tell, there's only one of me on the planet.
00:41:52 --> 00:41:57 So I'm not hard to find, but how about this? I'm kind of offhand and I may change
00:41:57 --> 00:42:00 my mind as we get into this, but so before we go on our break,
00:42:00 --> 00:42:05 I'm going to express an interest in doing the, uh, the funny sidekick. All right.
00:42:06 --> 00:42:10 So, yeah, that sounds great. So I'll tell you what, guys, we're going to go
00:42:10 --> 00:42:13 ahead and put a note in our recording here.
00:42:13 --> 00:42:18 And when we get back, you're going to be introduced to our character and we'll
00:42:18 --> 00:42:21 go ahead and pick it up relationships.
00:42:21 --> 00:42:28 Music.
00:42:30 --> 00:42:35 Wow. We were really long on this note. That took us far too long.
00:42:36 --> 00:42:39 Yeah, it took, we've been gone, folks, for an hour.
00:42:39 --> 00:42:43 Not because it was a very complicated process. It's super streamlined and easy.
00:42:43 --> 00:42:46 It was more of a just ripping off each other. Hurting gas.
00:42:47 --> 00:42:52 Yeah, both in and out about the, both about and not about the characters in
00:42:52 --> 00:42:54 the setting. That was a long six minutes.
00:42:55 --> 00:43:01 Anyway, I digressed. So here's what we get to at this point in the stage.
00:43:01 --> 00:43:03 We sat it out everything.
00:43:03 --> 00:43:08 And what we're going to end up doing is introduce our characters.
00:43:08 --> 00:43:09 I think that's one of the first things.
00:43:09 --> 00:43:14 So we're around page 32 in the book where we've kind of done everything here.
00:43:15 --> 00:43:18 So we're going to make, we're going to introduce our characters and work on
00:43:18 --> 00:43:19 doing some connections.
00:43:19 --> 00:43:24 So each character needs to have a meaningful relationship with most of the other
00:43:24 --> 00:43:26 characters in larger groups.
00:43:26 --> 00:43:29 You know, you can kind of break that up, but we're going to be like maybe three,
00:43:29 --> 00:43:34 four or five people who knows. so we're all going to be kind of closely related
00:43:34 --> 00:43:39 not everyone needs to be best friends but there's you know some type of connection we're related and.
00:43:41 --> 00:43:45 No, we're not doing it. We did that one. We did that kids on bikes character
00:43:45 --> 00:43:47 creation a while back. We're not doing it. They're all cousins.
00:43:48 --> 00:43:51 Yeah. We were all like in the family. Yeah. Which you can be cousins,
00:43:52 --> 00:43:55 step siblings, best friends, neighbors, whatever you want to do.
00:43:56 --> 00:43:57 But here's the way we're going to do this.
00:43:58 --> 00:44:04 I would recommend the person who goes, who doesn't really know what to say about
00:44:04 --> 00:44:06 how they're related to somebody else one way or another.
00:44:06 --> 00:44:09 Characters because the first player introduces their
00:44:09 --> 00:44:13 character and then the next player introduces their character
00:44:13 --> 00:44:16 and explains how they know the first character and then subsequent
00:44:16 --> 00:44:19 players introduce themselves by connecting to previously
00:44:19 --> 00:44:23 introduced characters so the first one there yeah so
00:44:23 --> 00:44:27 it's always just one chain connecting everyone yeah yeah so
00:44:27 --> 00:44:30 if it whoever doesn't want
00:44:30 --> 00:44:32 to thread the needle or loop around here
00:44:32 --> 00:44:35 i'd recommend you go first i mean i've got
00:44:35 --> 00:44:38 one for chris okay well then i
00:44:38 --> 00:44:42 guess you should maybe go buddy okay i'm not
00:44:42 --> 00:44:45 entirely convinced you're a real boy okay well
00:44:45 --> 00:44:50 first we should probably okay so i guess i'll character yeah you should am i
00:44:50 --> 00:44:52 introducing my character okay fine well you're introducing yourself and then
00:44:52 --> 00:44:55 everybody's in a riff you'll be the starting point and then everybody's going
00:44:55 --> 00:44:59 to look back to you eventually somehow so so we're introducing our character
00:44:59 --> 00:45:02 and then we're going to go off yeah like yeah And tell us about it.
00:45:02 --> 00:45:06 And tell us, you know, what trope again, kind of what stats.
00:45:07 --> 00:45:11 Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I have fun stuff. So, okay. Well, yeah, my character is going
00:45:11 --> 00:45:14 to be Noah Thompson. My trope is the mysterious transfer.
00:45:15 --> 00:45:19 Age 16. My boat is a fishing tinny.
00:45:21 --> 00:45:24 My motivation is find my way home.
00:45:25 --> 00:45:32 Fear of clowns. My flaws are gullible, but I'm a strong navigator. with my next,
00:45:34 --> 00:45:39 And heroic, rebellious, unassuming. I guess my trope questions,
00:45:39 --> 00:45:44 the one was, why do I think being a mysterious transfer is cool?
00:45:45 --> 00:45:50 And that was, basically, I feel like there's not that many consequences because I'm new.
00:45:51 --> 00:45:56 And then there's a, what rumor really gets to me that people have been saying
00:45:56 --> 00:45:58 about me? I hate that people think I'm homeless.
00:46:00 --> 00:46:03 And that might have something to do with the fact that like no one's really
00:46:03 --> 00:46:05 seen my folks around the neighborhood, around the neighborhood.
00:46:06 --> 00:46:10 They just see this kid in a fishing tinny occasionally, or like walking the streets.
00:46:11 --> 00:46:15 And with a bandolier. Yeah. Yeah. Walking with his, sorry, not bandolier.
00:46:15 --> 00:46:18 Yeah. His, well, he's got a backpack, but it's like, it's on his,
00:46:18 --> 00:46:20 like on a fishing rod, like, like a, like a bindle.
00:46:22 --> 00:46:25 And he's, he's got a jean jacket, a bandana around his neck.
00:46:25 --> 00:46:29 Oh, maybe a tuxedo? Yeah. Slick back, greasy brown hair, farmer's tan.
00:46:30 --> 00:46:33 And then otherwise just like street wear, like
00:46:33 --> 00:46:36 kind of get up so like i assume like maybe some
00:46:36 --> 00:46:39 like khakis or jeans maybe not khakis but
00:46:39 --> 00:46:43 like yeah maybe not khakis but like some some
00:46:43 --> 00:46:46 jeans or or what have you and then just like a like a white a
00:46:46 --> 00:46:48 whiter black shirt underneath the uh
00:46:48 --> 00:46:51 the jean jacket make it flannel complete the
00:46:51 --> 00:46:55 canadian tuxedo yeah yeah it's just it's just flannel it's all
00:46:55 --> 00:46:58 flannel but no it's a flannel shirt well
00:46:58 --> 00:47:05 it's a flannel shirt under underneath the jean jacket and yeah that's that's
00:47:05 --> 00:47:09 my character definitely nothing like weird or spooky about them they just you
00:47:09 --> 00:47:13 know they just walk around town or they're they're they're moaning around on
00:47:13 --> 00:47:16 their uh fishing tinny around the canals and,
00:47:17 --> 00:47:21 I guess I know Josh's character and you know what?
00:47:21 --> 00:47:25 I bet we met each other when you were, maybe when you were checking out the
00:47:25 --> 00:47:30 old lines end asylum or the lines end sanatorium, you were, you just popped
00:47:30 --> 00:47:32 out of the woods, just like, what's you doing?
00:47:32 --> 00:47:35 Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. We just, we, that's how we met.
00:47:35 --> 00:47:39 And then we just maybe like, I've just, I've just been like hanging around you
00:47:39 --> 00:47:41 or like, I just pop up, I pop up here and there.
00:47:41 --> 00:47:45 Probably popping up just randomly is the better one. Yeah. because it feeds
00:47:45 --> 00:47:49 into me just like I'm not entirely sure you're real.
00:47:51 --> 00:47:55 Like I'm half convinced you're also like a selkie or like helping the lake yeah
00:47:55 --> 00:48:01 like other people have seen you but like in that way that like like the local cryptid.
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06 Yeah I like that actually I like I really like that like you were
00:48:06 --> 00:48:09 you were because I imagine like I kind of envision like the
00:48:09 --> 00:48:13 light at this stage in its in its decomposition the
00:48:13 --> 00:48:16 lines and the sanatorium is like one of those like all like
00:48:16 --> 00:48:19 all those like kind of like abandoned like
00:48:19 --> 00:48:22 hospitals or whatever that you see in the woods like pachyp's or
00:48:22 --> 00:48:25 not was the uh the one in like staten island
00:48:25 --> 00:48:28 or like in slender in
00:48:28 --> 00:48:31 marble hornets like the the old asylum that's just in the woods and
00:48:31 --> 00:48:34 like all the windows are broken and it's just like peeling wallpaper
00:48:34 --> 00:48:38 and all that stuff like the forest has reclaimed it
00:48:38 --> 00:48:40 after decades so you were just you
00:48:40 --> 00:48:44 were there investigating and then i just showed up and
00:48:44 --> 00:48:47 you've not been able to get rid of me god you're
00:48:47 --> 00:48:50 some dogs yeah maybe maybe i maybe
00:48:50 --> 00:48:53 because i'm heroic maybe like you you almost
00:48:53 --> 00:48:56 went through a through a floor in the at the hospital and i
00:48:56 --> 00:48:59 actually helped i like saved you just ran away yeah like i
00:48:59 --> 00:49:02 grabbed i grabbed onto your arm like just like i like just
00:49:02 --> 00:49:05 popped out of nowhere and just grabbed your arm and then like yeah
00:49:05 --> 00:49:11 i've been following you yeah but yeah i i that's that's my character uh it's
00:49:11 --> 00:49:16 gonna be uh noah thompson so well hey josh you said you had something about
00:49:16 --> 00:49:21 chris so why don't that was the thing i'm not sure he's real well go ahead and
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23 introduce yourself doubting thomas.
00:49:25 --> 00:49:34 One second yeah that's in the bibble alex swamps 16 conspiracy theorist my bike
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35 or boat in this case is a dinghy.
00:49:37 --> 00:49:43 My motivation, I guess, is expose the truth. There's things happening here. No one believes it.
00:49:44 --> 00:49:48 Seer, I've gone with, I guess, no one believing him. It's like,
00:49:48 --> 00:49:49 I'm not a crackpot, damn it.
00:49:51 --> 00:49:57 My flaw is I'm also paranoid. Okay. And trope questions, those need to be done.
00:49:57 --> 00:50:01 How far will you go to have others believe you, and what are you sure is happening
00:50:01 --> 00:50:05 in the town that no one else knows about? And then Rebellious prepared treasure hunter.
00:50:06 --> 00:50:11 Okay. Well, we put a bunch of crazy stuff about swamps and lake monsters and stuff like that.
00:50:11 --> 00:50:15 You have a plethora of things that people won't believe you about. Exactly.
00:50:16 --> 00:50:20 You can't see all of this. So what do you look like, buddy? I don't know.
00:50:21 --> 00:50:26 I've just been going with your hair up white guy. You should just go the full
00:50:26 --> 00:50:32 dib from Invader Zim and just have a wife beater and a black leather jacket
00:50:32 --> 00:50:34 or something like that with pins all over it.
00:50:34 --> 00:50:36 God, it's been forever. I need to actually...
00:50:37 --> 00:50:40 A youthful Jesse Vinter. Yeah. Oh, fuck.
00:50:41 --> 00:50:46 Yeah, I probably need to go with him. literally the question from dc comics
00:50:46 --> 00:50:50 wait josh how the fuck would you describe that hairstyle.
00:50:52 --> 00:50:57 Punk that's a hell of a cowlick yeah it's like it's like a punk cowlick basically.
00:51:01 --> 00:51:06 Yeah sorry a hawk lick sorry well
00:51:06 --> 00:51:10 you know if i were going to use uh appalachian back dialect here
00:51:10 --> 00:51:13 like the word would be pillow head but we
00:51:13 --> 00:51:16 don't call it pillow we call it pillar head just where it looks
00:51:16 --> 00:51:19 like you woke up and your hair's just stuck which is either bedhead or
00:51:19 --> 00:51:23 cowlick yeah bedhead but pillar head pillar
00:51:23 --> 00:51:26 head yeah and you
00:51:26 --> 00:51:29 so what by the way i didn't ask this about you like
00:51:29 --> 00:51:32 we got the stats that we just assigned to
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35 die to and all that josh what's
00:51:35 --> 00:51:38 your what's your main stat what's your dump
00:51:38 --> 00:51:41 stat i think that's the most interesting my name is
00:51:41 --> 00:51:44 brains and my dump is
00:51:44 --> 00:51:54 charm that checks out yeah right yeah noah's is my my best is fighting and my
00:51:54 --> 00:52:01 my low my dump stat apparently is grit okay if we have nothing else do we are
00:52:01 --> 00:52:03 you done josh or can I jump in? Yeah, I'm done.
00:52:04 --> 00:52:10 Okay, I am going to play off of you because my stats are the exact opposite.
00:52:10 --> 00:52:17 I am playing the funny sidekick, so my dub stat is brains and my max stat is
00:52:17 --> 00:52:21 charm, so together we can be somewhat competent. Alright.
00:52:21 --> 00:52:26 With our powers in mind, we are a normal person. And I have a totally normal
00:52:26 --> 00:52:29 French-sounding name, Thadde Jinjuro.
00:52:30 --> 00:52:33 Which i'm sure you're approaching the pronunciation of yeah
00:52:33 --> 00:52:40 of course and but i go by tj funny side kick i'm also age 16 and i don't have
00:52:40 --> 00:52:46 a boat i got a sea dude nice so with so you know i am i'm hoping that hey man
00:52:46 --> 00:52:53 summer's on a jet ski that's the that's a canadian that's definitely a canadianism So yeah,
00:52:54 --> 00:52:56 winners. Yeah, sir. I'll stop.
00:52:57 --> 00:53:00 My motivation is ultimately I'd like to be an actor. I mean,
00:53:01 --> 00:53:05 I saw that there's this really, uh, shitty TV series called,
00:53:05 --> 00:53:09 yeah, I call, what's that one with the rapper?
00:53:09 --> 00:53:10 What's it called? Yeah.
00:53:10 --> 00:53:15 With the rapper, you're going to have to narrow it down. That's a little... Yeah. Am I right?
00:53:16 --> 00:53:19 No, no. Anyway. Everybody hates Chris? No.
00:53:19 --> 00:53:24 The Canadian series, like a teen drama, where the rapper... Degrassi?
00:53:24 --> 00:53:29 Oh, yeah. Degrassi. That's not a comedy. That's a... That's a... That's a drama.
00:53:30 --> 00:53:34 No, I didn't really say comedy. I'm sorry. But, like, I saw how horrible those
00:53:34 --> 00:53:37 actors were. I was like, I could... I could do that. I could do that.
00:53:38 --> 00:53:40 Yeah. That means in 20 years...
00:53:41 --> 00:53:46 Yeah drake that's a rapper yeah yeah drake yeah i was in a one to say that you
00:53:46 --> 00:53:51 know the one that uh that guy said was in a minor you know that oh so my fear
00:53:51 --> 00:53:54 is actually fire burning to death,
00:53:55 --> 00:54:00 camping accident as a kid my sleeping bag got caught i caught on fire because i rode over,
00:54:01 --> 00:54:07 into the fire in my sleep and ever since then i have a fear i didn't get scarred
00:54:07 --> 00:54:10 or burned or anything horrible with that, but it was waking up and you're on
00:54:10 --> 00:54:12 fire. It does something to me.
00:54:12 --> 00:54:20 My flaw is I'm rather flippant about stuff, you know, don't care kind of thing.
00:54:21 --> 00:54:26 Obligations, I say that he helps his parents care for their grandparents.
00:54:26 --> 00:54:32 And my knack is, despite being the funny sidekick, when I have to be serious,
00:54:32 --> 00:54:36 I can condense adults with a small matter.
00:54:36 --> 00:54:44 I can convince adults that you know to believe me i see we have the power to character condensed.
00:54:46 --> 00:54:49 Oh god it's like a megamind where
00:54:49 --> 00:54:52 you make them like you dehydrate them honey i shrug the parents
00:54:52 --> 00:54:55 yeah so trope
00:54:55 --> 00:54:58 questions i needed to ask what do i do to make people laugh
00:54:58 --> 00:55:01 or you know lighten the mood and you know
00:55:01 --> 00:55:04 since i can't say helicopter i went ahead and
00:55:04 --> 00:55:07 said that he just makes up horrible song lyrics
00:55:07 --> 00:55:11 you know to popular songs and
00:55:11 --> 00:55:14 oddly enough trope-wise what sucks
00:55:14 --> 00:55:18 about but what sucks about being a sidekick is for
00:55:18 --> 00:55:22 one i'm josh's sidekick and people
00:55:22 --> 00:55:25 don't take me serious because you know i always
00:55:25 --> 00:55:28 kind of playing second fiddle and also probably
00:55:28 --> 00:55:31 because he's batshit crazy and you know
00:55:31 --> 00:55:34 so that kind of goes with it i do
00:55:34 --> 00:55:38 like wearing my character is blonde
00:55:38 --> 00:55:41 i would say cargo shorts you're a golden
00:55:41 --> 00:55:47 retriever i am a golden retriever i am a best boy i have you know shaggy hair
00:55:47 --> 00:55:51 cargo shorts and i was trying to think of a canadian band that was popular back
00:55:51 --> 00:55:57 then metal band so strapping lad is one that i kind of landed on with famous
00:55:57 --> 00:56:00 guitar player and focused Devin Townsend is from that band.
00:56:00 --> 00:56:03 The only other things I have in 90s.
00:56:04 --> 00:56:07 They were metal. I mean, they didn't go super far.
00:56:08 --> 00:56:12 They were Canadian. Of course they wouldn't. Brian Adams, God,
00:56:12 --> 00:56:17 sir, he did the soundtrack for that horse movie. I can't remember the cartoon.
00:56:18 --> 00:56:24 Spirit Stallion of the Silver Rod? Yeah. Really? Yeah, Brian Adams did the whole soundtrack. Oh.
00:56:25 --> 00:56:29 And my good, let's see, you need to pick out strengths.
00:56:29 --> 00:56:33 As a teen, we get rebellious. but
00:56:33 --> 00:56:36 i'm a skilled swimmer i work at a
00:56:36 --> 00:56:39 lifeguard sometimes and i would
00:56:39 --> 00:56:42 say that i'm protective of you know
00:56:42 --> 00:56:44 of my friends and i will say you will figure
00:56:44 --> 00:56:48 out the relationship actual relationship later but i'm definitely
00:56:48 --> 00:56:53 protective of the conspiracy theorist because i mean he makes some really good
00:56:53 --> 00:57:01 points and you know it's picking on somebody who think who believes different
00:57:01 --> 00:57:06 things and thinks different things than other people kind of punching down in my view.
00:57:06 --> 00:57:10 And in my backpack, since we get to pick an item, I'm a lifeguard.
00:57:10 --> 00:57:14 I pack a first aid kit. I think I hit everything.
00:57:14 --> 00:57:21 Yeah, I think so. Also, I like how between the tag-along mysterious transfer and the funny,
00:57:23 --> 00:57:25 sidekick, Josh's character is
00:57:25 --> 00:57:31 basically the white, like the Wonder Bread protagonist of this kid group.
00:57:31 --> 00:57:36 You're our fox motor he's our fox motor you're you're the core you're you're
00:57:36 --> 00:57:42 the you're the you're the glue of this adventuring crew but then again we haven't
00:57:42 --> 00:57:45 met jeremy's character so that might change they call me one.
00:57:47 --> 00:57:53 Jeremy now honestly as far as i feel like we had to tie back to chris's character
00:57:53 --> 00:57:57 too because like the way that we've been structuring this they kind of kind
00:57:57 --> 00:58:01 of left that off for a bit so we can kind of i mean we can add things in after
00:58:01 --> 00:58:04 fact uh jeremy what's your name and what do you do,
00:58:05 --> 00:58:09 who's your daddy and what's he do my character
00:58:09 --> 00:58:12 is the silver spoon playbook or
00:58:12 --> 00:58:16 whatever we're calling him trope his name is jonathan royalty
00:58:16 --> 00:58:19 he's 16 his fear is living
00:58:19 --> 00:58:22 down to his family reputation up to because
00:58:22 --> 00:58:24 he doesn't really care for him his motivation is
00:58:24 --> 00:58:28 thrill-seeking his flaw is that he is blunt his average
00:58:28 --> 00:58:33 height a lanky runner's build dark hair dark eyes jeans t-shirt and running
00:58:33 --> 00:58:41 shoes his high stat is flight and his dump stat is brawn he is prepared rebellious
00:58:41 --> 00:58:48 and wealthy his boat is a pontoon that all him and all of his friends have spray-painted.
00:58:49 --> 00:58:54 The questions that were asked for his is the advantages of his wealth is he
00:58:54 --> 00:58:58 can basically buy things without having to worry about the cost and his,
00:58:59 --> 00:59:02 it, and how does his family exploit the town to make its money?
00:59:02 --> 00:59:07 They're in real estate development and they're buying up the land and putting in condos. Basically.
00:59:07 --> 00:59:12 You're definitely the, the condo monster. You're the condo rep of, of Lagoon city.
00:59:13 --> 00:59:18 100%. Yeah. Yeah. That's one of the reasons he's, he just, he's not a fan of his,
00:59:19 --> 00:59:22 folks he's like okay cool you're giving me money but it's
00:59:22 --> 00:59:25 fine yep you wouldn't understand i'm
00:59:25 --> 00:59:28 sure that's right as for
00:59:28 --> 00:59:31 the relationships for the kids i think that he
00:59:31 --> 00:59:34 he keeps around the conspiracy theorist
00:59:34 --> 00:59:37 and the funny the funny guy to kind of i don't
00:59:37 --> 00:59:40 know somewhat balance him out and amuse himself like he
00:59:40 --> 00:59:43 actually genuinely finds their company uh like
00:59:43 --> 00:59:47 we're not boring yeah and then
00:59:47 --> 00:59:50 the mysterious newcomer he actually
00:59:50 --> 00:59:53 whenever he wanders into
00:59:53 --> 00:59:57 town he lets him crash at one of the abandoned condos that are being built or
00:59:57 --> 01:00:03 like a riddle property or something that no one's using like that yeah i'm just
01:00:03 --> 01:00:07 it's another way of like giving his finger to giving the finger to folks he's
01:00:07 --> 01:00:10 just like moving this kid around going yeah you can crash here building it, it's fine.
01:00:11 --> 01:00:16 Yeah, we got a bunky house just in the corner of this property.
01:00:16 --> 01:00:18 You can just stay in there. Here's the key.
01:00:19 --> 01:00:22 Yeah, basically. Or like, here's the code to the door. Yeah.
01:00:23 --> 01:00:29 Perfect. Wait, did you tell us your stats, like what your big one and your little one was? Yeah.
01:00:31 --> 01:00:35 Big stats flight. Oh, yeah. The stats wrong.
01:00:36 --> 01:00:38 Josh is in it. Leave over here and it's ugly head. I'm sorry.
01:00:39 --> 01:00:40 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
01:00:42 --> 01:00:45 What character do you do? Are you connecting yourself to Chris's character by
01:00:45 --> 01:00:47 getting him a house often? Yeah.
01:00:48 --> 01:00:50 Okay. As you just like let me crash places.
01:00:52 --> 01:00:57 So like inorganically, because the book does mention this one character can
01:00:57 --> 01:01:00 serve as a hub and it really just seems like it's Josh's character.
01:01:00 --> 01:01:05 I, yeah, I, as much like, because like, again, like we're not,
01:01:05 --> 01:01:10 this is not throwing like any shade at you but like from a trope standpoint you like,
01:01:11 --> 01:01:16 there we like it's like yeah it's like it's like every like every like again
01:01:16 --> 01:01:21 one of these like kid group movies like Goonies, Monster Squad again like Stranger
01:01:21 --> 01:01:23 Things there's all these characters that have like.
01:01:24 --> 01:01:27 Interesting tropes around them and you
01:01:27 --> 01:01:31 do have an interesting trope like you are like the conspiracy theorist but like
01:01:31 --> 01:01:33 you are sort of the center and we're
01:01:33 --> 01:01:36 all the orbits around you yeah i'm i'm the driver because
01:01:36 --> 01:01:41 i'm the one pointing you at something yeah and
01:01:41 --> 01:01:44 let's go ahead and kind of elaborate just a bit
01:01:44 --> 01:01:47 more on relationships i think we're pretty much
01:01:47 --> 01:01:51 done and then maybe chris just off the top of your head if you if there's anything
01:01:51 --> 01:01:55 else you would like to kind of say about this game like what we possibly look
01:01:55 --> 01:02:00 forward to but not committing to so we're kind of making like a web of relationships
01:02:00 --> 01:02:06 so for gm to naturally we've suffered so josh can i,
01:02:06 --> 01:02:10 would you be okay if i say that we're step siblings
01:02:10 --> 01:02:18 sure we're step brothers so we're actually boats and hoes well we had boats
01:02:18 --> 01:02:24 we have to do boats and hoes but so i'm gonna say that me and you are step siblings
01:02:24 --> 01:02:28 and if anybody else wants to add stuff in classmates friends cousins,
01:02:29 --> 01:02:33 like whatever what do y'all think i think i think my character is just like
01:02:33 --> 01:02:40 he whenever you guys get together i pop i show up like i'm just like i'm batman
01:02:40 --> 01:02:41 i'm just like hey what's up guys.
01:02:45 --> 01:02:50 Yes no one will ever believe you as i just slink back into the marsh.
01:02:55 --> 01:02:58 But yeah no I like I like I think that's gonna be my characters like because
01:02:58 --> 01:03:02 like I'm gonna set like you I was thinking that these games will probably be
01:03:02 --> 01:03:07 during like a summer of 2008 so like I'm and like I figure I
01:03:07 --> 01:03:12 In terms of like a framework, because it sounds like this is going to be more
01:03:12 --> 01:03:15 than a one-shot, possibly, potentially. Bug.
01:03:16 --> 01:03:21 I say that it always happens, like the weird shit always happens on a weekend.
01:03:21 --> 01:03:24 So it's like always on like a Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
01:03:24 --> 01:03:27 Weird shit weekends. because that is
01:03:27 --> 01:03:31 a very like it's tropey
01:03:31 --> 01:03:35 but it's also a very traditional like meeting
01:03:35 --> 01:03:38 time for people generally in cottage country
01:03:38 --> 01:03:41 which is where we are in this like where lagoon city
01:03:41 --> 01:03:44 and orillia and all the simcoe count like simcoe.
01:03:44 --> 01:03:47 Lake simcoe is all all basically just like the south end of
01:03:47 --> 01:03:50 cottage country so like all the city folk
01:03:50 --> 01:03:53 from toronto come up north to their to their cottages or
01:03:53 --> 01:03:56 their their lakeside summer homes on the
01:03:56 --> 01:03:59 weekends the majority of the time if they don't have like
01:03:59 --> 01:04:02 long weekends yeah like if they don't have weeks off like
01:04:02 --> 01:04:05 during the summer they just go during the weekends so can today
01:04:05 --> 01:04:08 yes labor day
01:04:08 --> 01:04:11 again just like like my my childhood was
01:04:11 --> 01:04:14 basically like we got done we got
01:04:14 --> 01:04:17 done from school like we got out of school on friday we all
01:04:17 --> 01:04:20 hopped in the car like from the school and we
01:04:20 --> 01:04:24 were coming we were driving up north to our cottage like that
01:04:24 --> 01:04:28 was every weekend all year
01:04:28 --> 01:04:31 round uh like we we occasionally missed a
01:04:31 --> 01:04:34 couple you live close to your cottage it's still on lake simco
01:04:34 --> 01:04:37 isn't it yeah but i mean back then i didn't live
01:04:37 --> 01:04:39 like as close as we do now like i lived like an hour and a
01:04:39 --> 01:04:42 half uh so it's still there of the three
01:04:42 --> 01:04:47 hours i had to do muskoka no that's fair yeah and again they're like but yeah
01:04:47 --> 01:04:51 that's also that like you like muskoka cottage country stuff but like that's
01:04:51 --> 01:04:58 the same thing like weekend warrior stuff is sort of a big theme if not true
01:04:58 --> 01:05:02 of this area so i know fancy yeah,
01:05:03 --> 01:05:08 what's not to cut you off here we i don't think we went over his connection to body did we not.
01:05:10 --> 01:05:14 So, no, we, we, like, relationship-wise, like, me and Josh, and Josh,
01:05:14 --> 01:05:16 everybody else can kind of elaborate, too.
01:05:16 --> 01:05:20 But, like, I was wondering how Jeremy's character fits in with everybody else
01:05:20 --> 01:05:22 here, other than what he described.
01:05:22 --> 01:05:24 Like, like, are we related somehow?
01:05:25 --> 01:05:29 Or, like, one of our step-parents worked for your family, maybe?
01:05:29 --> 01:05:34 Neighbors? Like, what do you think for the two, for the group,
01:05:34 --> 01:05:36 Jeremy? Oh, yeah. Just classmates.
01:05:37 --> 01:05:42 Classmates? Yeah, you guys all go to, yeah. You, you guys go to Lagoon City High. Yeah.
01:05:43 --> 01:05:49 That, that, that, uh, Prissy, that Prissy educate, uh, like a hallmark of education.
01:05:50 --> 01:05:54 My family's probably got a wing named after it. Yeah. That institution.
01:05:55 --> 01:05:58 Yeah. That's community center. Like, like it's like they're,
01:05:58 --> 01:06:02 they're donors and stuff like that. So what was your character's last name, Jeremy? Royalty.
01:06:03 --> 01:06:07 Oh, there's a royalty community clay center. I mean, community center.
01:06:07 --> 01:06:11 Yeah. a royal royalty rink for
01:06:11 --> 01:06:15 like winter season yeah it's basically the hockey rink season yeah it's like
01:06:15 --> 01:06:19 the community surprisingly a little used because of lake freezes yeah exactly
01:06:19 --> 01:06:22 and well I mean like it's also used year round because like during the summer
01:06:22 --> 01:06:27 like they they they use it when the lake's not you know yeah so and there's
01:06:27 --> 01:06:29 like there's not dairy queen or dairy royalty yeah.
01:06:31 --> 01:06:37 God damn it the franchise can't make it in because they started their own honestly
01:06:37 --> 01:06:41 there'd be like some kind of like a corporate war between them and Kawartha Dairy.
01:06:43 --> 01:06:49 Royal what would it get yeah royal dairy you gotta watch out for the United
01:06:49 --> 01:06:51 Dairy Farmers they'll come get you,
01:06:52 --> 01:06:56 across the border I tell you what
01:06:56 --> 01:06:59 Chris now I apologize for interrupting you know that so
01:06:59 --> 01:07:02 it sounds like what you're thinking and i
01:07:02 --> 01:07:05 i really like that look and i think i kind of i'm a little
01:07:05 --> 01:07:08 bit envious of just being able to take off from school and
01:07:08 --> 01:07:11 then you're whisked away to this place again and that
01:07:11 --> 01:07:14 was like that's your childhood that's pretty cool is there
01:07:14 --> 01:07:17 anything else you want to add about what you're kind of thinking
01:07:17 --> 01:07:20 or you don't have to tip your hand to the plot we know
01:07:20 --> 01:07:23 again like yeah like so i mean we've already
01:07:23 --> 01:07:25 we came like during our town creation or like the kind
01:07:25 --> 01:07:28 of like filling this town with some things of a
01:07:28 --> 01:07:31 fictitious nature we came up with a bunch of rumors and
01:07:31 --> 01:07:34 so like again like i was saying like my in
01:07:34 --> 01:07:42 my my kind of concept like the kind of inciting concept for this was let's have
01:07:42 --> 01:07:47 a fun let's have like a weird little mystery adventure where you guys go to
01:07:47 --> 01:07:53 strawberry island that's been abandoned for a few years since the pope came across i came visiting.
01:07:54 --> 01:07:57 And what if there was something left behind or
01:07:57 --> 01:08:00 what if there was something like buried beneath the island that
01:08:00 --> 01:08:03 like has been left to kind of rot
01:08:03 --> 01:08:07 or perhaps fester and you
01:08:07 --> 01:08:10 guys encounter that on your nightly oh you
01:08:10 --> 01:08:13 guys decided to do like a like kind of like a an overnight or
01:08:13 --> 01:08:16 a midnight boat ride across to to the
01:08:16 --> 01:08:19 island and perhaps unleash something and
01:08:19 --> 01:08:22 then have to put it back down or who knows
01:08:22 --> 01:08:25 but then between that and like
01:08:25 --> 01:08:29 clowns in the forest at night and a
01:08:29 --> 01:08:32 the wreck of a steamboat off the shores of
01:08:32 --> 01:08:35 uh of uh lagoon city and a phantom
01:08:35 --> 01:08:38 horse that rises from the tide maybe maybe people are
01:08:38 --> 01:08:42 going missing on every full moon i think
01:08:42 --> 01:08:46 we've got like at least like a mini campaign here or like a mini like sort of
01:08:46 --> 01:08:51 of of weekend mysteries in in with this like fictional version of lagoon city
01:08:51 --> 01:08:55 so are we are we getting are you thinking like this is all the summer break
01:08:55 --> 01:09:00 20 2008 yeah yeah this will be all the summer break of 2008 yeah
01:09:01 --> 01:09:04 And it just happened again, like the adventures just happen every weekend or
01:09:04 --> 01:09:05 every other weekend or what have you.
01:09:05 --> 01:09:09 But it's all, I like the thing that is always a weekend because that's when
01:09:09 --> 01:09:13 like, at like the height of like the weird weekends, basically,
01:09:14 --> 01:09:17 or it's when things are most concentrated like in town. So, yeah.
01:09:18 --> 01:09:21 Well, I've never played anything. I haven't loved it.
01:09:22 --> 01:09:25 You've thrown out to us. So I'm looking forward to it, man. All right.
01:09:25 --> 01:09:30 I look forward to running this and perhaps playing in it. If you decided to
01:09:30 --> 01:09:34 co-GM and, you know, run that clown swamp idea. I mean, I have to now.
01:09:36 --> 01:09:40 Well, I don't want my character. I want my character to get freaked out because of my fear of clowns.
01:09:41 --> 01:09:45 I think that's great. Like, yeah. I mean, I think pro quo quid kind of thing.
01:09:46 --> 01:09:48 That ain't too bad. Yeah, we'll do that.
01:09:50 --> 01:09:55 Jeremy, Josh, do you all have anything else you had before we kind of put a pin in this one?
01:09:56 --> 01:09:58 No, not really. I'm looking forward to playing it. Like I said,
01:09:59 --> 01:10:01 I've been looking forward to playing something, kids on bikes,
01:10:01 --> 01:10:05 kids with capes, kids on brooms, anything like that for a while.
01:10:06 --> 01:10:10 So actually get the chance to play it is going to be a really fun game. Sounds great.
01:10:12 --> 01:10:15 Josh, personally, glad to be able to play another game with you.
01:10:15 --> 01:10:19 It's been since our last campaign. It's been a number of months. It has.
01:10:20 --> 01:10:25 But yeah, looking forward to it. So I'd like to go ahead and thank everybody for tuning in.
01:10:25 --> 01:10:29 Thank you so much. If you're listening to this at the very tail end of August
01:10:29 --> 01:10:33 2025, because I'm going to edit this the next day and try to get it up.
01:10:33 --> 01:10:37 Thank you so much for being a patron. I probably do not deserve your greats
01:10:37 --> 01:10:40 with how close I cut these to the tail end here.
01:10:40 --> 01:10:44 Now, if you're listening to this three months after that, then hey,
01:10:44 --> 01:10:46 welcome to the Roll Point Exchange.
01:10:46 --> 01:10:50 We're part of the Critter Night Network, and I'd like to introduce you to my
01:10:50 --> 01:10:55 good friend and co, I guess we're owners of the Critter Night Podcast Network.
01:10:56 --> 01:10:57 Yes. Hi.
01:10:59 --> 01:11:04 Yeah. Chris Crazon review cultist, depending on the podcast, many, many names.
01:11:05 --> 01:11:08 I have other podcasts other than the RPX that I visit.
01:11:08 --> 01:11:13 I have my own podcasts. For example, there's Al Dente Rigamortis,
01:11:13 --> 01:11:19 which is a creepypasta discussion podcast slash book club.
01:11:20 --> 01:11:27 We basically every week review and discuss a creepypasta and just you know try
01:11:27 --> 01:11:30 and see what we can get see what we like what we don't like and what have you.
01:11:32 --> 01:11:37 And when we're not reading and talking about creepypastas we also have our sister
01:11:37 --> 01:11:42 podcast One Less Die similar to RPX in that it is an actual play podcast,
01:11:43 --> 01:11:45 we started with Shadowrun and we've just kind
01:11:45 --> 01:11:48 of been going through a gambit of other RPG books and
01:11:48 --> 01:11:52 rpg campaigns and sessions and one shots that i've been
01:11:52 --> 01:11:55 recording for the last for the better half of uh 10 years
01:11:55 --> 01:12:01 and i'm now getting around to editing and posting so yeah and if you like you
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01:12:11 --> 01:12:12 pay either one of us that's you,
01:12:13 --> 01:12:17 you're basically just helping keep it all afloat here so it goes to the same
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01:12:22 --> 01:12:24 And, you know, I'm going to go ahead and make a judgment call.
01:12:25 --> 01:12:31 If you are interested in this particular game of kids, kids on the bikes,
01:12:31 --> 01:12:38 I can't speak, kids on boats and tune into our sister podcast. One last time.
01:12:39 --> 01:12:42 Yeah. It'll be there eventually. At some point in the future.
01:12:43 --> 01:12:49 Once I've gotten through some backlog. yeah well guys thank you all so much
01:12:49 --> 01:12:55 for joining me and well until next time we'll see everybody later sleep well bye bye.
01:12:56 --> 01:13:49 Music.