 Hello everybody and welcome to RTX 2020 panel from home work from home Ruby from home The first panel of RTX, right? Yeah. Yeah. No pressure Don't mess it up. Let's put a counter in the bottom of how many times we're gonna say sorry to interrupt you go ahead Yep. Mm-hmm. I can only hope that this panel goes Kind of like how work from home is going which is a preview for later Hey, let's introduce ourselves in the least awkward fashion. I will start Hello, my name is Kerry Chakras, and I'm the showrunner for Ruby And that's all I'd like to say about myself Today beautiful. Hi. What's up? I'm Miles Luna. I'm a writer on Ruby and I voice Jean Arc Hey, how's it going? I'm Eddie Rivas. I'm a writer on Ruby and the writing supervisor for RT animation I'm Lori Yates. I'm the lead producer of Ruby and the supervising producer for RT studio Hello, I'm Lindsay Jones, and I play the voice of Ruby Rose Hi, I'm Cara Everly and I voice White Schnee. Hi, I'm Erin Zack and I voice Blake Belladonna Oh, I'm the clapper I'm Barbara Dogelman. I'm the voice of Yang Xiaolong The second I heard clapping I knew is Barbara If you could if you could scream something in the middle of it and we'll go wait what and every calm down what Can you speak into the mic, please I would like to thank HBO Max for being the presenting sponsor of Rush teeth animation festival They've made all this very possible if you're searching for what to watch next introducing the an amazing world of HBO Max At HBO Max animation isn't just for kids. We've got the goods for the grown-ups Which is also what's gonna be on my tombstone We've got the goods for the grown-ups carry on my tombstone We're gonna say thank you very much first members for making this possible without you Ruby would not exist So, you know you guys were amazing. Thank you much appreciated It's only because of your continued membership that we can continue bringing you new volumes of Ruby So, please don't stop watching because I'd like to continue showing you stories about all your favorite huntsmen and huntresses So your support is amazing. You're the best never stop. Never stop. Please never stop stopping never It's also brought to you by Justin Bieber Hey, so we're gonna try and make this as much like a normal Ruby panel as possible, which means a lot of mess ups But that's gonna be more on my part than anybody else's no So in keeping it like a normal Ruby panel, we've got some cool merch stuff to talk to you about Laura do you want to do you want to start off with a very cool first announcement sure thing? Yeah, so the volume 7 blu-ray and home video is now complete. It'll be available September 22nd I need to give a huge shout out to our animation post-production teams for the work that goes into this. I'm really excited about it I hope you guys are too We're also excited to be partnering with Warner Brothers home entertainment for this release We've you know worked with them on a few previous releases, but this is our first time specifically for Ruby It'll be available online and at your local big box stores Walmart Target Best Buy. It's so pretty But not circuit city You know we've been done with it for so long but to have like a physical thing just makes it feel like more real so We would love it if you checked it out Yeah, we did a bunch of commentary for it all from home and there's some real. Oh, yeah real chaotic energy on some of those tracks There's a lot of chaotic tired energy In figuring out how to record commentary from home But it was good Carrie you have some stuff you want to share with us. Maybe yes The Ruby fall merch line Least earlier today, and it's available at roosterteeth.com Okay, I do this all the time Yang flannel which features chain stitched embroidery and the fleece set features Chanel letters And I did them jacket that features art from amity arena and also includes a set of team ruby emblem pens It's so cool. It's so cool. I know I know how Eddie has some more stuff to share with us, too Yeah, well, it wouldn't be RTX without some RTX exclusive merch, right? So we have a team ruby reimagined as kind of a retro anime figures for these RTX exclusive t-shirts These things are super cool. They'll be available through the end of RTX So make sure to get them before they're gone RTX merch always sells out super fast And then as a gift for first members the team ruby shirt the one that features all four of them is going to be a first exclusive Yeah, it's a cool color too. Yeah, that's a lot of it. It's like very game boy. Yes Yeah, yeah, all the all that's really cool. Yeah, it even though it's still even though it's a digital RTX I think stuff is gonna sell up pretty quickly still Could I have one? I'm a first-member We'll see you one for each I think right? Yeah, everyone in the team. Yeah. Yeah, you will get a different girl But you can't have your own character. So you should yank. That's fine. Yeah, I'll take place I think we've already decided it's been done speaking of merch again I Actually have a very special surprise So my announcement comes in the form of a video that we will play for you right now Got myself one It is amazing. So we got a bunch of cosplay jackets and pin sets coming out As you saw the Yang aviator jacket, which is reimagined version of her current jacket It's a unisex fit and it's full length new cosplay hoodies for penny and neo that are zip-up hoodies with custom zipper pulls Neo has an ice cream accessory and pennies has a choker charm And we also have a limited edition pin set to the team ruby and crow reimagined as action figures crow Is exclusive to the set as well and team ruby will be sold individually later this year and I believe Miss laura is wearing the penny one right now I think yes. I am. Yes. She is looking good. I got the exclusive And that's when we got the pin set My uncle's in there. Yeah, I'm going to put them on my denim jacket. It'll be great. Oh heck, yeah Barb is how uh, what's it like? It looks cool. I'm just looking my best life right now carry I love that question Yeah Just looks super comfortable too. It's also perfect today because it's it's like the coldest day of I think the summer right now and so I'm like perfect time to bust out my bomber jacket Yeah, very nice. Very nice. I do kind of want you to like go on a conan's wild desk ride though Like have you fly away on your desk right now? I'm gonna see you I was hoping you were gonna keep the aviators on the rest of the panel I could there you go Yeah, very nice. You see everybody if I can ask too. Will you show off the hoodie real quick? I kind of want to see it in real form. Yeah. Yeah, I love pennies like look here. Let me show you the back It's very achievement hunter So, oh, yes. Yes. Yes, cute. That's awesome. I love it. Look at those suspenders Yeah I love it That's really cool. Is it uh, it looks it looks maybe like a little bit lighter like me too. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah It is it's there. Lighter if you need just that that little bit maybe like a running jacket High visibility. It's perfect You always bring up the high visibility of this stuff. Yeah, that's all I can see in my safety Yeah, it's good though. My jacket will fight your jacket. I'm just kidding. I'll be friends. Yeah Oh, thank goodness. Um, I was gonna say I have something to announce too. Yeah, I think you've got a cool thing to talk about. Yeah Um, the collaboration with bad star and ruby. Oh, hello Um, I'm so excited about this. I have been begging for one of these shirts. Um, I think it's gorgeous I think it's so cool. Um, everyone just looks Like they're living their best life and uh, it's on sale october 30th. So happy halloween y'all You can get the shirt and then and then go out. Oh, yeah, and wear it with a mask except. Yeah, we're probably going out No, yeah stay in And you know what helps uh, you know what helps staying inside Have a little content to watch presented by HBO max with the edgier reverent late night laughs of south park rick and morty and max originals like close enough and boondocks That one's really good. Uh, the action packed animated adventures from the dc universe like harley quinn Plus the magical animated storytelling of studio jibbly and the best of anime from crunchy roll Animation has a new home on hbo max all in one place Genuinely though, I've been watching a lot of stuff gendi tartikovsky's got some good things on there talking about that samurai jack Um, it's good. It's good. You should use it. Um, but yeah, you can uh, um Start streaming it today. If you just download the app or visit hbo max.com and start your free trial Um, you can just start watching, you know right now. You don't have to just get the trial first just leave the panel Second screen put it on over here. Oh, yeah Oh Yeah, that's what i'm doing Yeah, i'm just i'm in the middle of the spirit in a way over on the right It's getting into the some of the best parts. Uh, okay, cool. We talked about some merch stuff a little bit How's everybody doing it's weird to do this and not actually be seeing all of you and hugging everybody And talking backstage I will say what is nice is usually at the panel. We're all like on a long table So trying to like see and hear each other you have to kind of do like the bend But now I could see everyone and talk to you about at the same time It is my dog. Yeah This is a uh, uh behind the scenes look or listen, uh, yeah, so at those panels I don't know what it is, but the acoustics of that room. I've never heard anything Lindsey cara erin or barb have ever said on that panel. Yeah, unless we have good playback So Marlon and I just whispered to each other hat like throughout the entire panel and now we can't do that So that's kind of a bummer Yeah, just chat. Oh, yeah, we'll text each other ever. Barbara. I almost called you erin Or you can do it right now. We'll just all like peer in and listen Yeah, we'll pretend to not hate. Okay. We're gonna not listen. Okay. Go ahead. Okay, brother. That t-shirt's really cool I want one. Okay. You still told Cara something, but that's fine Yeah, and uh, I just want to call it too. Yeah, we've got some some new faces on the the root panel. We've got eddie and laura Um doing more and more for for ruby every year. So we wanted to get y'all in front of everybody and say thank you um You know for those of you don't know, uh, you know eddie is you know, basically What's your actual like official role you said it earlier camera writing supervisor? Yeah, so you're you you do a lot for the entire department, but you know You and kyrsie, you know last couple years have been helping with with writing with with miles and I've been a big team unit Um, and you know laura is now, you know running all over the day to day of ruby and and ahead days as well, uh future planning stuff, but uh Uh, most of my days are going to laura and being like Can we can we do this? And laura figuring out how to make it work because she's great. Yeah for everyone that laura is like Laura's like the real hero of ruby. So that She's the real huntress. Yes. Yes. That's why she's wearing the penny jacket makes sense. And she's in the grim campaign Can we talk about how awesome that's been? Yeah, eddie. Do you want to talk about that because you're doing a great job? Oh, thanks Yeah, uh the grim campaign is our ruby themed dungeons and dragons Show that that we've been running carries a part of it laura is a part of it. I'm the head master slash gm of the campaign and Chad james and chris kakinos are also in it and we're telling uh original story Set in the world of remnant and uh the goal is for it to be canonical, right? All the world building stuff is going to be canon to the series Um, you know if they go like too far off the rails at some point We might have to issue a correction, but right now we're having a lot of fun with it And we're trying something pretty ambitious and like these guys are a blast to play with That's been airing every every week for first members. The first episode is free to watch We're gonna have a grim campaign panel also on september 18th, I should know the state by now I brought my dice It's okay. I don't know It might be the 17th. I think I'd said the 18th, but barbara had to tell me what it was 17th at one If I can ask because I've seen some posts about them, but I I feel like it'd be better coming from y'all Um, can you tell me a little bit about your characters? Like if you had one tagline laura? Oh, okay. Arash no sky she Oh tagline is tough. She is not great with people, but she is great with everything else Oh You have been you have been good with people In comparison to how bad some of us have been with people I've been good at tolerating the rest of you. Yes I'm playing a pike right, uh, who is uh, basically an anime protagonist Uh, uh, I was trying to be he's doing his best impression Uh, it's just the most annoying version of myself basically Eddie nobody's figured out my name yet And I'm trying to figure out if I should say it or not because it's dumb and people come up with better explanations for my name Then what it actually is I like the idea of you never having a name like that you go the whole campaign with just no name That's that's it's it's it's the the reasoning behind it. I'll save her for the show I'll save her for the show Yeah, yeah Tune into that exclusive Uh 17th 1 p.m. Central that'll be like I will reveal what why it's pike right and Be ready to be disappointed because it's dumb Because it's really dumb Um, but yeah, uh, so we're all we're all working from home. We know how this year has been We don't have to talk about that part of it as much about the the bummer part, but there's been some some good things It's been a lot of everybody coming together um You know mixed bag of emotions for sure. Yeah, I would say yeah It's uh, uh, yeah huge shout out to to cruby and our tech team um Or I mean tech team is part of cruby but cruby and then especially the tech team Uh for for actually making this work. I mean we basically went from And this is true across the world we went from One day was like, okay, maybe some people might need to work Out of the office or if like if they travel they might need to quarantine and then two days later It's like everybody go home and don't come back until we get a vaccine or something like they also thought it was going to be like You know a couple weeks or like a month or two and then it's like, oh no, this is the rest of the year Yeah, this is through the end of 2020. Yeah It's just strap on those pajamas folks I think it's gonna go through at least like half of 2010 like a minimum 20 I'm okay Please don't let time start like regressing backwards because it's already No, I played the ocarina song backwards Start over we're starting over But we've been uh, see us since Was it late? March early march late march. Yeah I looked I took two weeks off rise. This was starting. So I just came back. Yeah That's right. No, but that was my experience You just started your time off and then I got the news that like so we have to go remote starting monday. Can you figure that out? Yeah, okay. Hey, we're scary. You did And and the team we figured it out. It was uh, I would not say that we're at peak efficiency No, it's I it sounds like everything's going really well But it's yeah, yeah, it's been amazing what the team's been able to do. I mean really it. Yeah, it's really impressive You know why it's like we've got a few of us I've gone in for some volumet recording too and I feel like When I go in they have everything so locked down and we have like, of course Total protocol got to make sure you sign up properly. Everything is sanitized and you're the only person in the booth When I open the door, it feels like I'm you don't like doing like an air pressure lock like It also smells so clean going to record. Okay Yeah, we have like we figured out basically ways that we can have like very minimal vo sessions and then like mo cap sessions to um Where you know normally we you know our mo cap was up to like, you know, we can have six to eight people And and we have a technician and we have somebody taking notes and and all this and now it's one person goes in everybody else remotes in And it's just it's usually uh joel man our animation director just like doing everything now So it's kind of gone back to the way it used to be So like are all the animators remote that as well? I assume So so yeah, we like pretty yeah every yeah every department now like nobody has to go in And most people are encouraged Are basically not allowed to but uh, yeah, everybody's working from home through through various means Um, and we're We're getting there. Laura. Laura. Do you want to do you want to talk about kind of where we're at? Yeah, uh before I do that, I do want to mention we found a loophole to the mo cap situation though Oh, yeah, if we happen to have performers that live together in our roommates and already in quarantine Then they can go in together. So we've had some sessions with two performers and it's been really helpful But yeah, uh spoiler alert. There's some hugs this season and uh, that was good To be able to do with two people instead of Joel hugging himself twice Now I want that that mo cap like I mean he does that is how he starts and ends every session is with a hug with himself But uh, you know, yeah Yeah, but um production wise we are about a third of the way through animation at this point for volume eight Um post production is starting up for vis post. We've got a couple chapters under our belt And pre production is wrapping up volume eight and moving on to volume nine already, which has been Pretty exciting. So we're um so far thankfully on track because everyone's really been doing an amazing job Of keeping this knock on all the wood. Yep, everybody Yeah, we've actually as voice actresses also have taken up animation and yeah helping actually with ruby volume eight this season Yeah, we're actually you'll be able to tell which one's my scene Yeah I just rotoscoped myself into it Yeah, hello, it is I like Yeah, we're one third of the way through animation. The other third is going to be done by erin Yeah, yeah, the deadline's coming up though. So uh, yeah, we do need to help on that as soon as you're off this call Yeah But yeah, so I mean we talked about this before but like we're kind of Production wise we're kind of treating volume eight and volume nine is kind of like one Big season just to kind of like help things flow together. Um, which Has been good, uh, it is good because it means we can kind of like keep things moving And we always have this like, you know, the first couple episodes It's like a ramp up of like everybody like getting back into it and now we won't have that as much Um, definitely was not expecting, uh, working from home kind of throwing a wrench into that when we came up with that plan but, uh Overall things are going really well Uh, I I couldn't imagine them going better Unless it was us back in the office. So, uh, you know, I will take that. Yeah. Yeah um speak I mean and speaking of like You know, uh, the volume is going to each other. We're we're getting we're getting close with writing on volume nine Yeah, it's wild is probably a few weeks away from being totally done. Uh, which is lores hoping it's a few weeks away. Yeah I'm so excited you guys have been killing it. I'm excited. Thanks. Oh Yeah, it's been fun. It's uh, well, I mean like so like seven through volume seven through nine We're kind of all green lit together, right? So we've been I mean me and kirstie We're talking about it the other day like we're a few weeks away from rapping volume nine We started writing volume seven in january of last year. So it's been this almost two year like Just process of like one volume to the next. We've got like a little bit of time to like regroup in between each one But I mean we knew that from the outset that we were going to be hitting all three of these volumes in a row Um, so it's it's exciting and and scary and but it's been a lot of fun Yeah, most think the most good things are yeah. Yeah Speaking of exciting and scary, uh We uh, it wouldn't be an rtx without showing y'all something new and cool um, so how about uh A little a little teaser sneak peek of what's to come Dude reaction cameras ready Yes, please Atlas is only selam's current target. She's not hiding anymore and once she's done here She'll move on to the rest of remnant. We need to warn them There are people here who need us right now But this isn't about just atlas. It's about all of remnant. You're still worried about mantle Selam will destroy atlas and with it any hope humanity has left I have questions for you But first I need the one who can show me how Yeah Yeah, it's a little tease a little tease but uh, um Man, so I just I try thinking things to say besides I'm excited because I'm just like that's how Exciting I am. Holy It's a big mess of all of it. Yeah, the performance is animation. You know It is uh, here's got some fluth to it now. Yeah. Yeah. We made some updates. Oh, yeah updates here and there We cute. Yeah, he's wearing the same jacket that I am Oh Barb get back in there. We gotta we're gonna put you we gotta finish up a shot Um, so I did want to say, uh, you know, yeah, one thing at the end of that clip was uh, we uh, we have officially announced a release date It is November 7th Astric astric astric Astric astric astric Um, that is what we're what it's looking like. We're feeling we're feeling good Uh I think uh, this has been true for uh, about every month uh this year so far Don't know what next month holds for the month after that or anything. So those murder hornets could come back at any time We never know. Yeah, no Yeah, I'm just expecting to like come out of the toilet or something like just like who knows Now while I'm on it. No, no, yeah, but uh, so that that's what it is right now We will keep you updated. Uh, please bear with us if we need to to maybe slide it back a little bit We, you know, we want to do the best balance of you know, giving you a really good show and also not Overworking people. Um, so we just you know, we we we need to be a little flexible if that um But another cool thing though, I do want to say is uh, and we talked to us at another panel before but uh So yeah, volume eight is officially going to have 14 episodes. We're going back up to 14 for eight It's a big one to big see it's a big one. It's a huge one He needed it. We've been we've been we've been so excited and so nervous for this volume for years Uh, but I think it's coming together really really well. Um, the team is is Just knocked it out of the park I'm very excited. Well, um I think that's uh, that's a pretty good update and we're right with ruby and before we get to partner stuff Barbara, I think you have something that you would like to talk to us about I do before we get to partner stuff. I would like to say thank you to AT&T AT&T presents rtx this year Thanks to them. We're able to bring an awesome rtx to you guys. It would not be possible without them Uh, AT&T's 5g network is fast reliable secure and now available nationwide Whether you're at home or on the go you'll enjoy coverages in more places plus AT&T doesn't make it complicated 5g access is included in all consumer unlimited plans at no extra cost for more information on AT&T 5g Visit ATT.com slash 5g seriously. Thank you so much AT&T Rtx at home doing what we do here would not be possible without their support. So thank you very much Uh, and now I would like to pass it to eddie to talk about some awesome partner stuff Mr. Eddie revus. Yeah, so um, yeah first up kind of our partner stuff is our partnership with scholastic You know before the dawn came out Earlier this year and out now we have the fairy tales of remnant It's not out while we were recording this but it's gonna be out by the time this panel's up Yeah, so that's gonna be you can get wherever books are sold collection of really awesome fairy tales Kind of plucked straight from the world of remnant There's some cool little like forwards from ospin in there So you get all kinds of cool little context huge shout out to uh, violet tobacco the awesome illustrator on this book Because it's gorgeous like there's some really phenomenal art And there and then also shout out to ec mires who has been kind of the rider that we've partnered with for all of these books He's just killing it. He he comes to us with so many cool ideas and we work really well with him So yeah, he like totally crushed these fairy tales and uh, yeah You can see more from him and more about kind of our partnership with scholastic on our scholastic panel That's going to be on september 18th We'll have some more behind the scenes info and some other sneak peeks I gotta get one of those It's oh, it's it's very beautiful. Yeah Well speaking of books, uh, we have some new manga updates for you guys as well So our uh vis ruby the official manga beacon arc volumes two and three are in print for the first time And those will be available q1 of 2021 Also from vis we have the juniper anthology manga, uh, which is comprised of fan art and stories That one's really july 2021. Oh, it's so it looks so cool. Okay. I love it. Um, and then lastly we have Uh, at suko a new manga art collection, which is available now on at suko.com Um, it's an exciting new take on the manga art by miwa son Um and rtx discount code huntress for 15 off through the end of september. So go check it out Oh my god. I love that art style so much Yeah, miwa son's art is uh has always been great. I mean all of the all of this art looks amazing, but uh Yeah, it's uh, it's a cool cool new way to get some more miwa son art Absolutely. Um taking it from awesome 2d art to awesome three dimensional art The good smell ruby pop-up parade. Um pre-order is open now The month and uh, we are shipping february in 2021. That's the estimated shipping date Obviously things are a little crazy, but we're we're looking forward to february It's approximately 6.69 inches in height and the stand is included. I got one right here Do you want to pop me in if you're free next get a little scythe? Yeah It's a working scythe. Don't worry. Yeah Uh, uh, these figurines are non-posable, but they are affordable and very very detailed Um, I can absolutely test for this her skirt and hair looks incredible You can see all of the ridges on her bullets her bandolier It's cool. Yeah for sure and she actually comes off the base, too If you want to just like free form like have ruby hangout, that's fine It's actually how we're doing a volume nine And we have uh, I think one more, uh We do have one more favorite show. I was waiting for maybe someone else to talk about it Kara, do you know anything about this figurine? I don't know. What's going up? Is it It's fun Best girl I love it. Uh, this is awesome. Y'all can pre-order it now actually and through october 14th And the estimated shipping date is also February 20 21. So go check it out and pre-order now That's pretty There's so cool I love her pose, too. She's all like, oh, yeah, like the dynamic of the pose. Yeah, very wise Uh, hey, if I could take if I could uh, if I could take it over for a second. Uh, hi, uh, my name is uh excuse me I have an indoor addiction And The good news is, uh, you all can now too Yay Yeah They finally happened That's awesome. I am super excited of this. If you know me, I have a lot of them, uh, and I'm about to have four more Um, we yeah, working with Good Smile with these the the pop-up parades. Uh, some other stuff Has been really awesome. Uh But yeah, you can, uh, uh, you can Let's actually let's go ahead and show the next image because we can see something that you can pre-order Right now the ruby one is up there. Uh, it just like most enduroids. We got some accessories You got two face plates. You got four interchangeable hands. You got split cape for posing You got crescent rose. You got crescent rose and rifle form You can choose which ones you could change it every day. You could leave some of them in the box Uh for a safe, you know, sometimes sometimes I'm having a bad day I go through and I switch up all my enduroids. It's great. Um, they're gonna be if you're not familiar with enduroids They're about 3.94 inches in height. Um, they're a little little chibi little cute figures for your desk, uh for your shelves Uh, you know, whatever whatever you're feeling Um, but yeah, we're super excited about those and yeah, you can pre-order ruby right now Whoo Uh Yep seamless seamless this transition The team are being geeky teakies by beeline creative releasing this year and they're exclusive for the uh rt store I these are are they cups? They're cups. Yeah, right. Yeah Good. Jeff yetter all of your your virgin daiquiris and and tequila sunrises Jeff yetter who is uh the head of like our our merchandising like, uh partner stuff is, uh Very excited about this. We all are but he is a He's a he's a teakie Yeah, we get to drink out of our heads That sounds horrible This this whole thing should have been an intervention for kerry's nendroit addiction and for jeff yetters teakie Yeah, now. We just need to get a teakie nendroit and we'll be set. Yeah A coffee addiction eddie. Oh, yeah, that's true. I do have a coffee addiction, which I guess is why I'm talking about this next thing Yeah, so We have uh the interventioner. Let's do it Yeah, you think I have a problem you live a problem. Yeah, that's true Issues that we're gonna pack right now This is my gallon of like cold brew right here. Uh, no, so we have a partnership Coming up with uh king's coast coffee We've got a huntress blend coming out for ruby The whole thing is packaged to to look like an in-world coffee company the mistral mountains roastery And in the spirit of like women being awesome and women heroes The beans are being produced by an all-woman owned and operated bean grower In the real world, you know in the real world Place keep an eye out for the coffee in volumete. It actually makes a cameo appearance in one of the episodes And uh, you will you know keep an eye out for that. I don't think it's hard to miss cannon I don't think it's hard to miss. Uh, yeah available exclusively on the king's coast website. Yeah Oh I gotta get my hands on some Yeah, I'll drink it. We're all coffee drinkers like 12 sugars and a gallon of milk. If you look into your chair, there's a bag right now How did you get into my house? I do have a bag. I have a bag down in my kitchen right now actually I have a bag sitting on my desk at the office that I haven't been to in four months I keep remembering random things I left at the office and I'm like, oh man. I really need to go get that I have a treasure trove of like nerdy garbage I think I have like 50 amiobos. Just like is he coming back? I don't know if I cleaned out the fridge Eddie. Yeah, I was like into the office twice to pick up things and I haven't Yeah, we have a fridge in our office and I Don't even I have no idea what's in there We've we've left all sorts of things at the office a bunch of toys and also some games, but here's a game That you might have heard of You're playing it. It's pretty fun. Guess what? There's a juniper expansion pack. That's right. Everybody's favorite b team is here to do this spotlight I love Nora Here's a fun, uh, you know, here's a fun idea to take a screenshot right now Print it out. Just trim out that picture of volume one or volume two, whichever Team juniper and just slap that bad boy over the cover of your ruby combat ready box You're gonna find it looks at least 10% better Exclusive Thank you Thank you as always to arcane wonders. They're amazing And you can stay tuned for more information Yeah, we're super excited, uh If I could, um I'm excited for this one. This is a very exciting one. My name is kerry schock ross and uh, I have a video game addiction You know, I mean that that's true, but I have a very very special announcement We are officially working on our next big ruby video game and it is with Two partners that we love a lot It's with way forward and arc systems works I'm not I'm not I don't want to make it sound like there's some things that we talk about that We aren't excited about like we're we don't do it unless we're excited about it. Yeah We are very excited about this one. Um way forward is producing the game. They're making the game And then way forward and arc systems are co-publishing it You know, we've worked with arc systems in the past with blaze blue And uh, this is our, you know, first chance getting to actually work with way forward to make a game We are all huge fans of their games as well. Uh, you know, big shantae fans river city girls Um river city girls, man We've and we've been working with them, you know, like we do with all these games You know, we've been working with them super closely It's gonna be really cool y'all. I'm yeah, I'm I'm gonna play this I like I keep I keep waiting for like Can I I know? Seeing is so cool front. So yeah, the story too is really exciting. Yeah, it's gonna be an original story Uh, and uh, it might just take place during uh during volume seven Maybe there's like a little little perfect window for a story to take place Um, but more more on that at another date. Um, but uh, we're really excited to work with them It's gonna come to consoles and pc in 2021 Uh, you know, I'm assuming they'd probably want us to put an asterisk too, but well, let's just get excited about 2021 It's happening Yeah We gotta go back Uh, cool and with that that is all of the like cool announcement steps we wanted to bring to y'all. So, uh Continue with the theme of I know we're not in person, but it would not be an rtx panel without this Uh, we want to answer some questions and uh instead of uh, you know, having everybody run up even though we say don't run and get to the mic everyone Uh, we had some people sending questions and a couple of them in video forms So they ran up to their own video recording. They ran up to their own phone Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming they probably ran at some point. Uh, yeah Let's uh, let's go ahead with our our first question from from the audience Happy rtx So we know ruby's birthday is october 31st But my question was what are some other characters birthdays? Thank you. Love y'all. Bye Love you. So obviously We love you too. Thanks. Yeah, thanks to everybody for the question Yeah, yeah, so obviously the one that everybody really wants to know is uh, neptune's birthday is uh, Is is may first which is also my birthday. That's not related I like the idea. Neptune's my favorite character I like the idea of like either neptune or john just one of the goober's their birthday is is february 29th Just because it's It would be john Yeah, for sure. It's the unfortunate birthday would be john's for sure. Well, his to be april fools, right? That's good April fools could be suns That's also good. That's a prankster. Okay, so we're getting into fanfiction girls. Yeah, we are That's just what the little people do. Yeah, my what what is it? Watt pad? What pad? Oh, I thought you were saying something else for a second. I thought you were joking Yeah, tumblr. No the People write their fan fictions. Yeah, okay No, you're talking about a song for something else Oh, no Yeah, that that was gonna be my answer to Uh, hey, hey eddie lormaster. Do you want to do you want to drop some knowledge on everybody? Yeah, sure, uh, we we get asked this all the time to confirm birthdays and we figured we might as well do it for Rtx so everyone knows uh that rubies birthday is uh, October 31st But we also have the rest of the girls birthdays. This is us learning it for the first time by the way So first up is weiss is may 15th She's got that big torus energy going. Yeah It makes sense. I feel like I could get really disappointed with this answer It's gonna be a day in a month. Yeah, people really seem to care about that. So here we go Yeah, I mean, it's mostly based on like astrological sign type stuff, right? So yeah, it has that kind of like stubborn porous energy, right? Uh, blake is january 19th I like that Yeah, capricorn. I'm gonna write that down. I like that. It's an odd number Yeah, and then uh yang that feels right. Yeah yang I feel it to me. This is the most obvious one But yang is uh, july 28th coming in with that big leo big leo energy They call me big leo I'm gonna write that down january 19th I want to speak like that now January 19th big leo energy. All right I uh, the john was a joke. Yeah, those are those are the main ones we want to talk about because those are the ones Everybody actually cares about the rest of you. I like how it's close to being a cancer because cancers are supposed to be very motherly And I feel like Yeah, and I want to say those yeah, and so are you kara? That wasn't just something we just like Completely made up those came from some notes that you guys had From years and years ago. So Yeah, yeah, basically. Yeah, we we basically like we're going through some like old text documents and we found these dates and we're like I mean, there's no reason they couldn't be this You know like like we thought that they were these a long time ago. Why not just go ahead and stick with that? So we did um You know, I think before I was like, we didn't really have a reason to To like just like put it out there, but we're like, hey, let's just do it We weren't even sure people were going to care about the show. We came up with it that We were worried about other stuff at the time Uh, and that that was a little bit backburned for us if I'm being honest Um, cool. Let's uh, let's go to our next question. I love that Now we know. Hello. So moving forward with ruby Would it be possible to have kind of a visual retcon? Where uh, the girls of ruby, maybe their character models are shown to have more appropriate muscle tone for their martial styles I love I love the eyebrow rays of like and now to you And now your answer. Yeah, uh, yeah, I want I want to answer this one because we get this a lot and uh The the global answer is That would be really cool. So Hopefully probably we would like to do that. Yeah, I mean really what it came down to was like when we were first making the show we Uh, you know, we we needed to get the show done Uh, and so, you know, a lot of a lot of assets like reused parts and stuff like that So it was a little bit harder to make the models more custom per character Um, obviously as we've gone on, you know, we've gotten a bigger budget and more support from y'all So, you know, like I want to bring up like elm as example was like, you know, definitely one of the first characters we designed where we're like Yes, please please big big muscles Like let's let's get everything. So, um, I think it's been, you know, it's been a little bit more of like, how do we How do we do some stuff like that while also not, you know, changing the characters in a way that makes them like Feel like unrecognizable or weird. So I I want to bring it up because you know, it's not something that we have like, you know I definitely think it'll be probably more aligned with like a A new outfit change. Um, this is me hinting at anything. I'm just they're gonna change outfits again at some point I can tell you all now But uh, that's definitely what we have in mind, especially for newer characters Uh, and then uh, something we want to like look at the next time we kind of, uh, get to to kind of touch the main girls, but uh Well, we should have like a rocky sequence Like I have a rocky sequence and then everybody suddenly buff there and yeah, yeah Yeah, well about it. If yang doesn't have a 16 pack At some point in the future my heart. I think it makes perfect sense. I'm I am awful I want her to have like more pronounced abs than sun like just They have abs. Yeah, the sun's like showing to their abs. They didn't have faux flex in vacuo I'd like the idea of also white just weiss's left arm the one she holds the swords with is the one that's like super Must you Yeah, basically you're just describing my dnd character pike just like has like one giant arm And there's been no other jokes made I'm thinking about that too. My rubies As someone says speed so would you have like runners legs because those aren't defined at all I definitely have the skinniest legs in the world Interesting we we actually we did do that with harry. Yeah harry. Yeah harry. It's got harry's got those those runner legs Yeah, harry's whole idea was like we wanted her big bionic arms to kind of be like, hey look up here This is what's dangerous. Just kidding. It's these thighs. I'm gonna kill you Yeah, yeah, the the ace ops in general were like when it like just the way that like budget and schedule and everything worked out That we were really able to be like cool. Let's make like a really like physically diverse muscular looking team um, so that is uh Basically my way of answering that question is I don't I don't want to commit to any like plans about like the girls themselves Or like characters already have I do want to say that like That is the direction we're trying to move with stuff and we're super supportive of it. So um, I'm I'm hoping everything will work out Yeah, I'm hoping that was for sure. Yes. Yes. That's like a big thing for us Also, I want to give a shout out to lilyanna who that we we've met her at a couple different cons. So thank you for the question lilyanna That's really cool. Your lipstick looks nice today Oh, I rerecorded that we always have that conversation Oh, we we when we picked that question. We did not know that so that just worked out super well. Yeah um Uh, let's uh, we let's go ahead and roll the video for the the next question Hi, i'm james owens And my question is what would you do if you met your character in real life? Thanks Thanks james Super nice. Yeah Thanks james. Uh, sorry. I was I was answering a message about this thing. Uh, yeah I mean, I think this could apply to to okay eddie. I'm sorry. That's fine Whatever, but you can you can you can talk about how what it would be like to me uh You talk about neptune and I'll talk about pike Do you want to start with the ruby girls? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do that. Oh boy. Uh, I don't know earlier lindsay like 20 year old lindsay would have been like cool because I was more hyperactive now. I feel like I'd be like, I already have two kids I need to calm the hell down Oh, yeah, we would bake together for sure. Yeah, that'd be fun Bake and work out I would ask wise to take me shopping Because I am not a great shopper or fashionista and wise has way more buddy than I do so She could Use her. She should be your sugar mama. Basically. You gotta get that volume one through I gave her a place. She could she owes me something, right? Yeah That's right. Get it. You'll be one of those parents. That's like I brought you into this world. I could take you out Yes, now give me a credit card I feel like Blake and I would be really awkward and we probably wouldn't talk to each other. We just like Have tea and read a book or something and just kind of sit in the same room and Not say anything to each other. Just kind of vibe Yeah, just sort of just yeah, put on throw on some enya Like read a book. No need for words Who needs words when you have enya? Yeah, exactly That's what enya is. Yeah, thank you I think I think if I meant yang it would be a mixture of emotion But I think at first we would both be trying to like outpun one another And then awful like yeah, and at one point it would just get competitive and I think it might we might start budding heads, but Uh, I would like to think that we would be good friends and I would be very intimidated by her And uh go cry To the fact that I can't ride a motorcycle She could teach you. Oh, I could ride a motorcycle with her. Yeah Yeah, I'll just hold on to her waist like this. That's cute like a koala We got some handles to hold on to up there. Yeah Yeah, the The straps of the jacket. Yeah, uh, laura, what about you? um Honestly, I think that I would be trying to win a rastra's approval um because I feel like she is I want to say a meaner version of me But really she just has like really strong boundaries and knows who she is And I feel like I would just respect her very much and want to talk to her. I don't know I like that. Yeah. Do you want to do okay? No, that's fine I mean, that's basically how I would be too. That's how I would act if I met a rastra. Yeah I would too Um, I think we would do Saturday morning wake up gym sesh I need to learn how to get the strong boy like the once noodle man because I am a noodle with a bit of chubb right now And I want to be like a strong boy Um, and then order some pizza and watch movies that guy's always wanting to go to the movies and inviting people to movies So I'm like, hey, let's just put in the dark night or something and just geek out And he'll be like this reminds me of a guy called the huntsman And uh, and we just chill have a have a pizza and movie day That sounds about right. I can see y'all being really good friends We would we would earn that pizza with the morning workout sesh and then we move edge Yeah, you got to get those you got to get those those jawn legs in right he's got his own way He's got those nice fitting jeans. Let's see how I'd none of those jeans I was gonna say I'd want to go for a hike or something with a rastra Because I feel like we would both want to be out in nature But I can't go hiking with her with her serval legs like she she's got cat legs. I could never give up. Yeah Yeah, so you you have to get the like a weighted ankle bracelets for her Or you could just be ever yoda just hop on her back and she'll carry you Oh, I would do that. Yeah, great carry Uh, I think if I met neptune, we would just play video games and be awkward and if I met pike We would just play video games and be awkward Uh And and again trying to figure out how to make a rastra like us Because pike's not doing a great job of that Uh neither and neither is caring because he's pike Yeah, you know, there's uh, there might be a goof him up in one of the episodes coming up We're we're piked to some stupid things. Uh, but that's that's pretty normal for him now Uh, okay. I think we've got time for one more question um, and uh This one, uh, the the video did not work for some reason. We apologize, but this is from nick Uh in a universe where the grim can only be defeated by the power of music And every huntsman and huntress is a musician. What real life songs do you think ruby we team ruby would perform? I just want to answer for you There you go. Oh, wow Or wife, wife, baby Yeah, there you go. I love that. It's not wife's style at all, but I'm kind of all about that You're like wasting vanilla ice. Of course I do. I kind of want flake to just go Off the deep end like completely different from what she looks like and I want her to play like rob zombies American witch or something nice nice. Yeah um, I would say Uh, I feel like we should all play the song that goes Of the ass born That is a good song by Led Zeppelin Oh, yeah, Led Zeppelin Yeah, see for you Barbara the second they said it. I was like, oh through the fire and the flames by dragon force Oh, damn, of course, duh. That's a good one too. The extended version, please. I want the five minute drum solo Yes, of course Let's actually I I want to I want to sneak in one more question. So that was the ruby girl's answers Uh, all of the top part of the call is collective answer is uh thunderstruck Wap. Yes, uh, that's that's that's what we're going with And then cool. We're gonna stick in one more question. Uh, this is from, uh Uh, atashna derp Um, I'm assuming legal christian name Uh, does ironwood and or wats have a semblance if so, what is it? Uh, so quick answer Yes, I know we're short on time So wats does not have a semblance He was a guy that learned like basic self defense martial arts But has always been someone who has relied on his intellect and ability to manipulate technology Um, and just found that like spending time focusing on unlocking and developing a semblance He thought that was a waste of time compared to what he could do with his mind He's there Um, any do we talk about the next one? Yeah, uh, so ironwood does have a semblance. Um, we it's it's like in the show It's in um in like little bits. You can kind of see it. Um, it's more of like a passive semblance that runs in the background I believe we called it metal Yeah, and yeah, and so the whole thing is just this kind of like iron resolve slash will that like kind of uh powers him to to like almost like a very stubbornly narrow set focus like mindset on things Um to kind of like push himself to to do what what he's uh, I decided he's gonna do And kind of helps him like hyper focus. Yeah Or like push through something like searing the flesh off your arm if like this is the goal He needs to accomplish everything else goes by the way side Yeah, you see in my head Canon. He has iron sides. So you just can't hit him in the midsection Ding yeah, it was yeah Go ahead. Oh, yeah So that's kind of running in the background of seven and eight a little bit We really wanted to put it on screen and either one of those volumes But at both the opportunities that we had to put it on screen It was not the most important thing that needed to be said And so it felt a little weird and then we just never really got it on the page But you can actually see it happening. Um, yeah, it's definitely something that we're like constantly thinking about when we're writing and started boarding animating it was just, you know Uh, there was there were more important things to cover in the season every second of volume seven and eight is so precious Like so precious, but maybe we can maybe we can slip it in somewhere in the way forward game or something like that All of volume nine our character is going. Yo, what's your semblance? Yes, we've been friends for years now. What do you do exactly? Just like a quick yeah 30 seconds Yeah, we yeah, we we we could possibly get it out later But we thought it might be more fun for you to be able to watch flame eight and go back and watch flame seven knowing that What wise is just like guys They've been contacts the whole time I'm not even blonde. Oh my god Takes your wig off Oh, this is fun. These are extensions. I just say with that. I think I think that is uh, that's our first official panel from home for ruby Thank you all for joining us There's a lot of a lot of really cool content, uh over the next two weeks. It's like nine days. It's crazy. Wow But uh, yeah, please please, uh, thank you for being first members. Please keep checking stuff out Uh, and hopefully we will see you all again in person in uh, 2021 We miss not we'll see you in remnant Be safe be nice to each other. Thank you guys