 Hey, welcome welcome everybody to the grim campaign panel Ruby the grim campaign panel here at RTX I am your host and headmaster Eddie Rivas and I made these guys a role initiative before we started to determine their Their introduction order. Let's see if they remember it. I remember it because it was the first one My name is Kerry Chakras and I play pike right Everybody's hit that you love to hate them. You love to love them That's gonna be your whole description More nope, you're good Minimum requirement checked Hey classic pike, okay This is very much like one of our sessions already Yeah, absolutely next up in the order, who do we got it's me Yeah, hey, I'm Chad James. I play Asher Mora Who's very much a roguish character very monetarily driven with a penchant for stealing stuff But mainly mainly stealing Phoenix's belongings. So okay. Well, we're already starting on that So thanks. I appreciate that That's how we're starting this I also I want to make a mention here that chat obviously did a really good job of explaining things And that's why he is our our weekly recapper Along with being Asher Yes, there will be a take-os. I am I'm Phoenix Nemian your resident take-o master and Beastly Faunus boy. I Yeah, I'm a lion Faunus. That's got a foolhardy sense of I'm gonna eat some take-os and punch them stuff You need to know yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I see yeah, sorry. That's that's me as a person Yeah, I get it and last up in the order I'm Laura Yates. I play a rastra sky a rastra is a strong-willed serval Faunus who hails from Haven Academy and grew up in the minds of Mistral After years of having to hide herself, she's finally reached a place where she simply isn't willing to Nice and also the the single brain cell of the group Okay Yeah, before we get too much further into this a big thank you to HBO Max for being the presenting sponsor of Rooster Teeth Animation Festival Searching for what to watch next introducing the an amazing world of HBO Max and HBO Max animation isn't just for kids We've got the goods for the grown-ups, too So yeah, thank you guys. Thank you. The big thank you to you max for for sponsoring this and making all of this all of this happening Yeah, so um, yeah now that we've got all those introductions and stuff going Yeah, we have kind of a live megaphone poll that we're gonna be doing for you guys So that you can kind of vote During the course of this panel of who your favorite NPC is so far that that we have introduced in the grim campaign and I'm sure the cast here has strong opinions about all I do In this heading to roosterteeth.com slash play so open up another tab Roosterteeth.com slash play and then let us know who you think and if you haven't been watching you can The first episode is free So you should go check it out. It's been a lot of fun Chad, you're good at that. Can I ask for one favor? Please don't vote for team smoke Don't do it. They are the word. I'm just gonna ask Team smoke noted. Yes. This poll does not have a correct answer. It does have a wrong answer though Yeah, big thanks to everyone for tuning in to the panel and for watching the show So far if you're just tuning in or if you're just kind of like jumping in to different panels at RTX at home Ruby the Groom campaign is our Ruby theme D&D show first episode is free as Chad said Everything else is coming out for first and we highly encourage you guys to watch it. The whole thing's been a really Kind of like really insane goofy experiment that we've done We wanted to run kind of a Ruby D&D show and see if we could like tell an improvised story that could live in Canon with so far mixed results Yeah, it's you know, what you know, what is cannon, right? Is it I Know nobody should answer that That's a trap that But you know, it's it's cannon in that you know city names and You know people But if we do something dumb, let's not worry about that part of it We're just having fun. When it when has that happened carry. Do you have an example? What is anyone ever done anything? Yeah? Somebody hasn't watched any of the episodes You know, I think that some of us I won't name any names Are a little boisterous and a little headstrong Wait Chris. I'm not talking about you. Don't worry. Okay. Just making sure I wasn't sure. No, I'm definitely not I'm not Definitely, I'm definitely not talking about you Chris. I'm definitely not talking about you Chris Bill Gates is cannon though. Oh, yeah I still don't think it's on the Ruby wiki Yeah, yeah, we got to get on that y'all. Yeah, yeah, so this this panel We've had people asking if this is kind of like a gonna be a one-shot We didn't feel like at least especially with this crew that an hour would be enough time But no, great, we're very thorough targeted. Yeah. Yeah, very thorough That's one word for it. You make sure to explore every avenue besides the correct one That we do peek behind the curtain. We usually record for what two and a half three hours Yeah, two and a half to three hours. Yeah, and that turns into the 45 to an hour episodes you see so You know, there's it. Can we can we say I'm gonna say it? So I guess we can say it maybe Eddie how many episodes were you originally supposed to do? We were supposed to do we were we were cleared to do six and We we're I think we're gonna land at nine Is where It became pretty obvious pretty quickly especially during the Lancer Encountered that it was like we are we are not gonna get through any of this in the time We would have and honestly that's been awesome because we absolutely love working on the show It's my favorite show that I'm working on currently And after every session, we're always like messing each other be like that's so much fun Like I was like my favorite part of the week and like this is such So it's Go ahead Judd so what I what I've learned from this is that we really just to need to like drag our butts in the next recording Investigate every object. Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to search this tile. Okay, that's cool. Okay now this one Okay, okay now this one that'll be really good content. Don't won't get yeah But you know, we didn't get through in the recording sessions. I guess we gotta do another It's no it is seriously like yeah, I think we've all said this at different times is like the highlight of our weeks Yeah, because it really In these times you all know what I mean It it really is just yep. Yeah Wake me up Eddie wake me up the heat It's It's we just it's fun to just play games with with friends. That's that's what it that's what it has come down to It's so bittersweet because like you know, I was already saying it's like our favorite part of the week But it's we typically record on Mondays, so it's like big old serotonin spike Highlighting of the week and all right. Well, I guess this is the rest of the week now. So here we are I will say though. I look forward to Mondays again like Sunday night. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, true Yeah, so I'm seeing when we find out about that megaphone. Oh Yeah, that'll be later on Man, Opal is leading that yeah, feel free to vote on this guys Opal is leading that but I really I saw a lot of people in chat were team Daph currently I'm Now now I'm gonna keep this PG what the f for 15% of you doing True, I think the answer is trolling carry Let's it's fine. They're just acknowledge. They're acknowledging. It was like I take that there are some really compelling hateful characters Yeah, we're right here Yeah, it's funny like so when well actually before I get to you talking about kind of the some of the origins of things I do want to mention We couldn't like actually play like a one shot But we do have kind of a tailspire camera going right now So we could talk a little bit about tailspire and so we can see some of the antics Who usually gets into while we're playing like rolling 17 dice at the same time Oh, you can do more than that. Hold on. Yeah, that has to be that has to be something. I think you've definitely Yeah, well, I don't even know the believe it or not 80 hits thousand There we go This is usually what I'm having to like wrangle in In the middle of like 25 to 30 times a session. Yeah, they're not in our prison right now They built a tavern prison a time during a play test where I rolled a lot of dice for Chris in order to have him Yeah, I think Specifically for me to do something. Yeah, I was what did you call it nature's handle? So Keep in this already We're already jumping into this. Okay, so Okay, we did a couple of play test Yeah, we did a couple played it We'll talk more about the rules a little bit later in the panel, right? But we did we had to do some play testing right to like test the rules out make sure that everything worked to kind of see how everyone played together and if we needed to adjust anything and One of those play tests had these guys searching for a missing caravan kind of out in the middle of the Mistral Woods and That that should have been my first clue that this is this campaign is generally gonna take longer than I think it's going to take because that one was just like looking for a dead body and then like talking to some people who were pretending to be somebody else but then the second one we did was these guys had to go negotiate like some kind of a little like treaty between some bandits Still on some at Leesie and tech Shad I forgot the whole thing the whole thing turned into chaos Because Chad decided he was going to he was he was gonna start like a mutiny On this on this in this bandit camp and at some point we Carry persuaded Phoenix to rip off an appendage One appendage, you know just single appendage singular appendage and by persuaded I think you mean I rolled the dice for him and said Chris did it Yeah, yep in my defense in all of our defenses and our collective defense The only time we had to do that play test was from 8 to 10 p.m. On Friday night. Yeah, so We were we went to like 11 or didn't we? Oh, no, we went until midnight Yeah, yeah, I think yeah, it uh it was late, but uh We were done like like by this point because like yeah, my thing didn't go as well as I wanted Because like I was like yeah go start a mutiny and then what did he do? He like threw a guy off of a cliff. He shoved a guy. He shoved a guy to his death and then started yelling me Yeah, I'm like setting stuff on fire and then this starts happening so by the time you picture this scene of like the half the camp is burning some guys running around murdering his friends and then What takes place over no, I have to mention meanwhile, so you guys all took that approach I just climbed up the back of the cliff and snuck up behind the enemy You're very efficient you yeah, you like clocked it like no problem, and then all this happens Definitely recognizes Laura as the one the singular brain cell in the group But that's pretty canon at this point I was I was just putting gifts of somebody starting a lawnmower in our discord I do I think that's probably the hardest any of us have left all year Maybe we can put a version of that at some point. Yeah, we we recorded it That was a great start to the campaign and Chad it's funny now that you mentioned it I feel like you tried to incite a riot with the Michael Scott of rogue or bandits in that group Yeah, right, that's that's what happened to you very literally was like the blacksmith a right and like I got a really high Intimidation check so he was like I'm gonna do whatever you say I'm like trying to get information because like they're off like meeting the like dude And so I'm like interrogating this guy because I'm trying to be all sneaky And I want to know what's going on so I can back him up and the information he gives me is that hey a lot Of people aren't happy with this guy's leadership and since I know he's super intimidated I was like great like go go tell your friends like it's time to like we were to start a mutiny like Let's overthrow this guy. And yeah, like I said for some reason In this NPC's mind start a mutiny wasn't like hey guys like it's time like we're gonna rise up like against him Like there's some people here. They're gonna help us. No, you just like freaks out and pushes a dude off of a cliff Look, it was perfect. It worked really well. It did create it a distraction just like that's for sure And that was when you learn to be more clear in your instructions to NPCs Yeah, yeah, well, so a delivery here Oh, yeah, you got your takos. I got my takos. I got a bag full of takos Roll a roll a dexterity check to see if you can unwrap one of those While we're doing that while we're doing that I do want to talk about so what was cool about the playtest Right was kind of seeing right because we spent a little bit of time kind of figuring out Kind of what we wanted this show to be what we wanted the story to be what we wanted the you know Yeah, you're gonna have to you're gonna wait a little bit on that one, but Blame chat I blame Chad for that because you try to you try to You try to unwrap the take-o and you like cut your finger you like paper cut your finger on the thing So now you gotta you gotta deal with that for a second before you can open it Yeah, no, so we spent a lot of time trying to figure out what we wanted this show to be Carrie and I talked really early on about kind of when we should when we should set it where we should set it and Mistral seemed kind of like a natural place for sort of a kind of like a Dnd setting right just because it was a place. We didn't get to explore in the show And just to kind of like give it some more give it some more love kind of off-show But that also just seemed like a really good setting with the criminal underworld Yeah, and then basically after that moment I like stepped away and was like alright any like cuz I didn't want to get spoiled. Yeah, I was gonna happen So I like I stopped Like participating in that part of it so that Eddie could just kind of take it and surprise us and it's been awesome Yeah, I like ran like one or two general ideas by by you because I was like I kind of want to go in this direction with it Is there any concern there and after that point it was exciting but also terrifying because then it was like Well, now I don't have anyone to like ask if this is gonna break everything You told me during like four different times like if we ever need to like stop just like let me know it's fine Yeah, so yeah, and but a big part of all of that and kind of putting it all together was these guys and their characters So I just wanted to give everyone a chance to you talk for just like a couple minutes about Whoever wants to start first right about like because it was a long process figuring out like one just from like a game Mechanic standpoint like how do we round out a party and then to like Finding someone that could like fit in Ruby and still feel like a natural extension of the world and then three just like having someone That would be like cool and engaging and like fun to play So yeah, just how you guys put those together and like how did you start? Like what was the most important thing about about that for each of you guys Yeah, one thing I want to throw out real quick as I did see someone in the chat that says that Bill Gates Now does have an entry in the ruby. Oh good. So if you accomplish nothing else on this panel. That's that so way to go community You did it Thank you also community or chat rather for paying the respects that I'd Ruled poorly and could not eat my take-o. I am so you can go ahead and roll again while someone else talks Yeah, Chad you've brought this this is your fault These are taco saving throws okay, is it 10 good enough headmaster? Yeah, you can take a bite If you fail, do you not have a dex mod Chris? What's your oh, am I rolling with a modifier here? What's up? What's up? I don't know. It's just so fun to mess with Chris slash Phoenix Take a little baby and then especially when it comes to these takas like Ever since I asked if he could hold on to them in the first episode and now it's just a bit That's really fun to run with so when Chris said that he's gonna make sure he had takas for the panel I Jokingly was like Eddie does he have to roll a dex check? He says jokingly but at this point it's a running it's a running gag that every time I have food He asks if I have to roll for something Joke anymore now. It's just torment. Let's just say it definitely comes up again. It's all it does. Yeah, so Laura, how about you talk about? Yeah. Yeah, let's let's have a roster talk about yeah. Yeah, you're character And where do I go? Here's a good take on? It's a roster time now Yeah, now the idea behind a roster was that I wanted a character that was just a Born leader and very good at what she does and someone who's had some Challenges in her past which is why I mentioned, you know growing up in the minds of Mistral and having to hide the fact that she was a Faunus and finally getting to a point in her arc where she's just not interested in hiding anymore and she wants to be a leader so My weapon is called a winless, which is a pickaxe crossbow combination So it works well for ranged and melee attacks My semblance is a manipulation of dust and the semblance name is equilibrium Because it deals as much damage as it does offer the ability to heal So anytime that I heal somebody in our party, I also have to direct an equal amount of damage Elsewhere and sometimes that comes back on me or I'm learning how to direct that to other characters or Grimm I Think my biggest strength is definitely strategy I'm the brain cell of the group Weakness though is definitely connecting with others and working within the group. So I would say a rasha oddly Trusts Asher, which is interesting because he's the least trustworthy. That's been a cool dynamic Actually, it's like kind of come out of this. Yeah, there's just kind of an unspoken mutual respect where I cut I I know he's gonna get what we need to get done done. He'll accomplish it And I'm reluctantly growing to care about pike and phoenix because we're spending time together and they're proving their worth So Yeah, the formation of your semblance was really cool So what so when we were creating the characters right like each of these guys created their characters But then I kind of did little sessions with them to kind of like ask certain questions or kind of pull certain things Or see how we could like make sure and fold it into kind of the Remnant the world even more and with a rasha I think we spent a long time trying to figure out what your semblance would be because we we were kind of circling around with that Idea, but it felt really core and like good for a rasha who doesn't trust people To have a semblance that in order for her to do something for somebody else like it's a vulnerable vulnerable position, right? kind of metaphorically and like in actuality with the semblance right to do something for somebody else to Open herself up in that way. She had to like take some damage on herself and that felt like really fitting for the character Do you want to talk about the formation of Asher and how it came about? Yeah, since I should use it if if The rest is the mom of the group asher is kind of the reluctant dad He's more like he's more like the uncle of the good. They're like step dad Yeah, yeah, there it is step dad Yeah, so like the nosy neighbor I was I was I think the last person to have a meeting to talk about making my character So we already beat you on that one, but Well, at least I think you had an initial meeting because your initial talks. Yeah, Eddie and so like Like basically the information had like I wanted the group to be you know Really diverse in like what we're showing and what we can do and so they're like all right Well, Chris and Laura are already they're Faunas They're like you can be a Faunas if you want to be great if you be human I'm like, yeah, sure. I'll be a human, right? And then I was like trying to get information on like what other people's character types were right and what they were Leading into and so normally traditionally in like games and stuff. I kind of play like warrior, right? But it kind of felt that like that's where Chris was leading with like a barbarian vibe And so I was just like, you know, we don't really have like a deck space character So I was like, I'll do that. I'll let's lean into like the the whole rogue-ish thing and the thing I'm most stoked about is Asher's weapons the fortune's fangs Which are dual sword breakers and yeah, like I mean you can ask Eddie I immediately was just like I want to do sword breaker if we can do that I feel like that was the first idea you had for absolutely. I am so like I'm a huge fantasy nerd And I love the sword breaker weapon and I think it's totally underutilized and fantasy It's so cool because they're basically daggers Or short swords That are not that are intended to catch an opponent's like weapon and then you can twist and snap the blade So I think they're super useful and they're super cool and like just very underrepresented in fantasy And so that was by far the first thing that I wanted to do And then we then we had some likes some talks about how to what's the other function of them And I was like, well, I want to be able to have some sort of ranged ability But I don't just want it to be a gun and so like I remember I brought up crawl If you guys have ever seen that fantasy movie and the glaive from crawl I was like, is there a way that we can attach them and then I can throw it and then we kind of went with this Grappling hook option that then that can still be like used to be thrown and so the grappling hooks attached with hard light and But there's also gravity dust in the weapons, which is why I can throw them and then bring them back to me So that was really cool And then just like when I was designing the character is like I wanted to be like, you know kind of edgy and roggy And actually was a little bit older That's the other thing where everyone else is kind of fresh out of school Ashley's already been out in the world like taking some jobs seeing some stuff We did one question. We did get one question on Twitter about what is the age gap between? Oh, I Don't I don't know. Let's see how We didn't actually put it on paper. Yeah, I don't know if we ever Discussed was actually just a little older and he's been out in the world like He'd probably been out I want to say it's probably like five to ten years. Would you like my guess that feels that feels about right Probably a little bit closer to ten to five. Yeah, that's right I was a senior at Haven when Pike was a freshman. So I'm now I'm closing out my 20s. I'm you know, 30 ish She's gonna look hard like yeah, yeah Awesome. Yeah, we've got some explorations coming up on screen here of some of these early sketches of these characters Which were super awesome to watch as they came in and like really brought it all to life Well, I was blown away like when when I was just like writing down the concept for Asher and like Like just what I could think he could look like and like I Can't tell you how many how many comments that I put that then said like but not like crow And like his character colors based on like at like I love gray But then Eddie very quickly was just like if you're going gray don't lean towards smoke Okay, a long time for a long time. Yeah, and so yeah, so I lean toward like ash and like ash and embers Which is why I asked your eyes are orange And so that it really meant when I think it was Susie Cones, right? Who did the concept? Yeah, sure. Just that was so cool. Like I couldn't believe like I jotted down some stuff I gave some references to like pictures and stuff Like that'd be cool. I'm like the first thing that came in was just like amazing and I just like I love it I also loved her little like grapple concept Yeah, that's fun. That was so awesome Nice Phoenix, why don't you talk for a second about the formation of Phoenix and how all that because I was some of that Was like, you know kind of personal like kind of Like history rooted for you Yeah Yeah, for sure. Yeah Man, where do we begin? So Phoenix as many of you may or may not tell aesthetically in When I talked to Nick Swift about the direction for his character I wanted to lean into my Grecian heritage and my father is from Greece and I you know, I have a deep love for for my country or for that country I should say and You know, I wanted to kind of really really lean into it I was also playing a lot of Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the time and playing as Cassandra and meeting Alexios and like Seeing some of how their characters were made and I just loved everything about it And so when I talked to Nick I was like, hey, I kind of want to lean into a little bit of this aesthetic for a lot of it of this aesthetic from my characters like physical appearance But I was also kind of excited to explore the realm of being Faunus, right? Like I I love a lot of the Faunus characters in Ruby There's just something fun and different unique about them and how we're able to take different aspects and elements of you know Animal or animal like creatures and kind of make it work with the human form or a humanoid form, right? So that was I was kind of the aesthetic overall, but his personality kind of stems from a myriad of different things Everything from originally it was gonna be like Alex Lewis Armstrong from full metal, which he's kind of big brawlery boy very boisterous very ha ha I'm here. I'm very proud of everything But then it was also it started to kind of like lean also into Well, it's funny it leaned into it was from there and then it went to a little bit of oh my god His name is now is giving me from fate zero Iskander Which is very like very again very boisterous? I tried to play the boisterous excitable characters who just likes to fight and drink and Eat a lot of tacos That's probably my kid in any of the stories So I I kind of I wanted to be big and boisterous. I Typically don't play that type of character. Yeah, I'm a beef. I'm a himbo, right? I don't know those types of characters very often For me my characters have always historically been barred like high care high charisma or Monk, you know, kind of just try to be higher decks And so I thought why not be a little bit a little beefier here in terms of his weapons Oh, I did want to correct something. So during the first episode. I made a comment about how Phoenix is you know, half human half honest I think you know, I wanted to clarify like I I misspoke in saying that in a way that Wasn't clear for everyone, you know, if you watch an old world of remnant, you'll see that Kind of the Roots of Faunus you can have a human parent and a Faunus parent and you know, you are still effectively a Faunus, right? You can correct me from wrong on that Eddie, right? Yeah, there's there's not really any such thing as half Faunus You were just more saying it in terms of origin parentage So that's the detail you were trying to give Chris. I actually had a meeting where we like flushed a lot of stuff out Exactly where I'm going with that. Yeah. And so and so we talked about So, yeah, my parents are split Faunus I don't know if I'll specify who is who but I'll just say one Faunus and one human parent. I'll say that and And so that kind of helped inform some of what I wanted to do for my weaponry I wanted to kind of instill this this idea that Pandora's Eugis was kind of From one parent was the aggressive attacking Very physical like I'm gonna fight and beat everything up with these awesome claws But also the shield to protect me from you know, the The big bads in the world Well, and coming up with the weapons was super cool for all of this, right? Because it's like a big part of of ruby, right? So we wanted weapons that could cover multiple classes So while we were coming up with the rules and stuff and just huge shout out to Cody Hawkins and broadcasts who who did most of the legwork on that, right? Like he was doing all like the world translations. Yeah, like I'll put so much All of those have been a lot of so awesome to make sure this show has been what it is And but yeah, like Cody was doing a lot of the legwork and then coming to me And then I was like tweaking things to be like, well Like this maybe wouldn't actually work for the story or or canon wise or like this one is like slightly off from canon But we'll be much easier to play so that's okay as long as we can like let people know Right that the distinction between these two But coming up with weapons was a thing where it's like we're just going to let each of these guys Create their weapons as opposed to just being like here's a d&d sword, right? So we really have to get weapons multiple functions It was awesome. And then on top of that and I don't we've talked about semblance as a whole lot yet But to just say like it was really cool if y'all to let us do that with our semblance as well I mean like it gave us a chance to come up with something that we felt, you know fit our personas or our characters or you know Just something we had fun with and so for me making beast mode was like I mean, yeah, it may not be the most unique, but I'll tell you what it's probably the most fun Uh to play because it that makes the game a little bit more complicated and complex and enjoyable that was a big part of it too is we wanted to you know Obviously, we're gonna stick to canon stuff We also want to have fun and recognize that this is a game and that's why some things work the way they do Um, and maybe some care some people put a little less thought into their characters and we're just kind of rolling with it Do you want to jump to you now carry is that what? Real quick as we transition. Uh, I guess we could yeah, they weren't really related. Uh speaking of chaotic semblances. Uh, yeah, seriously um, so with pike right, uh You know, I I'm very fortunate. I uh, I'm also I also play neptune in the show Uh, and so knowing knowing that we're gonna be playing dnd And that you know, there is uh less like Grander narrative things going on. I basically kind of played it like I would dnd Which is a little bit more self-inserting. Hey carry real quick. I'm gonna pause you Chad, can you just give me a slight a hand check real quick? All right, uh, carry go back to you Am I gonna plus no one saw that no one saw that I wasn't for anything. I was just doing a roll for funds for fun But uh, yeah, so I kind of I I'm gonna be perfectly honest. I went into this just to kind of have fun and uh, so a lot of this I was kind of uh, uh Making up as I went. Uh, I knew that I wanted Uh dope drill, uh for no particular reason at all that I'm sure some of you Uh, who know me well know that I'm lying Uh, but I also I wanted to be like, you know, we needed like kind of damage in the group. Uh, and then yeah my semblance Uh, we want to do something kind of weird where uh You give kody like a migraine when you started talking about wanting to do this I wanted to do something that would be fun in the game Which was let's take out the you know one is super bad and 20 is super good and let's even it out more So now you know when I use it There there's Technically a better chance at something at least a medium to good is going to happen But there's then a greater chance of something bad really bad is going to happen. Um, how's that worked out? You know so far not the best, but I I have a feeling that the next time you use it, it's going to be really good. Um But yeah, my uh, like I said, I've been I think this has been true to to a degree for all of us a little bit And I think just for me a lot a bit is um, I think we we all wanted to have kind of like a base to our characters and then Continue to evolve them as we played. Um, so we could kind of see how we fit in like I'm definitely I did not originally imagine that I would uh be as uh boyish Uh, but it just kind of made sense as we started getting into getting to know which other characters I'll just be I'll just be goofy. Yeah. Yeah. I got you I just am turning into the what's the dumbest thing I can do right now Um, it's fun. 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I've been Full honesty been i've been rewatching through the boondocks Uh kill the kill is on there and it is super good if you haven't seen it And you might it's not directly related to my drill, but it's it's close up there and uh Nazca the valley of the wind is my favorite uh Ghibli movie and if you haven't seen it, I think you should check it out You can start streaming today by downloading the app or visiting hbomax.com and starting your free trial It's that easy. Just you know after this back. Yeah Yeah, so so I had chad roll a slide to hand check earlier that he got an 18 on so, um, I'm sorry chris, but he just stole one of your takeouts Um, just since everyone was wondering what that what that role was for Like it's gone now, buddy Yeah, but uh, yeah before we get to that kind of anything else Before we can say anything else I want to be able to also the delivery driver is now in your scroll chris. Yeah You have a new number added to your Yeah, I want to get to uh, we got some great questions on twitter There's some questions of the chat I'd love to get to kind of in a lightning round way before we get to that I thought maybe everyone would want to see a clip from next week's episode Um, everyone roll for me real fast to see who's going to set it up Who's going to set this clip up? Uh, tell us where we left off on episode five I mean, this is gonna be like 20 Oh, I rolled a 14 I actually don't know what I rolled now. Yeah, I rolled a 12. I nope that happened real fast It was a low number though. Not me. How do you how do you guys know I'm not gonna make the lowest roll do it? Um, I don't know I'm fine. Chad. Chad set us set up this clip. What are what did we end episode five? So there we ended episode five on the biggest cliffhanger ever At first every single one of us in the party Definitely every single one had their most amazing action moment It was great. Everyone was there. Everyone performed like just it was the best Definitely everyone No one else everyone. Yeah, and then team smoke appeared And someone decided to very obviously take their picture Which caused them to say you shouldn't have done that Detonate the mountain because apparently they were like explosives all in there And if that wasn't enough as this whole ravine is about to come cascading down upon us They had daff our wonderful discount crow or diet crow as I saw somebody say Who we love so much they had him prisoner they'd roughed him up and after they detonated they kicked him off the cliff So that is where we were left on the biggest cliffhanger of the series so far Yeah, so so just for right before we play this clip. Uh, this thing it's like kind of still in the post process, right? It's still got a time code on it, right? It's not been sound mixed. I'm sure chris is going to be like, oh my god Why are we playing this? Um, right, so it's a very early clip But wanted to give you guys a little little preview of about a minute from this next week's episode So feel free to roll that at any time now You've got you've got daff in your arms Um, so Depending on what you want to do. You're gonna be encumbered a little bit just fyi and I'm in phoenix's arms Yeah, that's true. You are I like this. I'm gonna we'll do this together I'm just gonna say I'm like sliding down and you hear in this deep gravelly roaring lion-y voice I'm like roaring at you to like make a break for it While that's while this is happening eddie. Can I can I throw pike? Like I'll like onto my back. Can I do that? Sheath me Yeah, go ahead and uh, go ahead and give me a strength check for that You're sliding down. You're getting towards the ledge. Give me a strength check to see how well you do Another that 20. Oh my gosh 20s today, baby, you know, so yeah, yeah I love that little cut of that That's very good. What's what's funny is like that was probably the tamest part of that episode. Yeah, probably Yeah, I wanted to put something in that wasn't too uh, too spoilery of that episode Just note. We did say another 20 That's right. Yeah And you you heard daft there. So I think it's no secret that Well, I think all of us felt like the landslide was supposed to be uh, You know, we were starting to learn eddie as a dm and we're sorry about that We're starting to pick up on his uh, you know, his little subtle cues to push us into the way We're supposed to go but he made he made a mistake And that mistake was he threw daft off of a cliff How dare you? Yeah, yeah, that's true. That was my fault. I forgot a really important thing. I'm sorry. Yep, my name Do it carry my stupid. I was gonna make that part of it. I was gonna make that part of our lightning round of questions Keep going We're gonna have a few minutes for a lightning round answering questions Let's do it. Yeah. Do you want to go ahead and do that? Uh, you can kick us off then kick us off With uh, lightning round twitter questions pike, right? What is the source of your name? It's really stupid. Uh, and a couple people have now actually figured it out and that makes me happy. Uh, it's it's it's It sounds like pie, right fools gold. I'm dumb I like gold as gold is your gold is your kind of like color scheme Yeah, so then I just kind of split up into pike, right, uh, Not not not thinking about there being a phoenix Uh, which works out perfectly if we ever do some attacks together Oh, so speaking of, um, what is your this is another question that came from twitter What is your guy's ideal partner? Like who do you think your character's ideal partner is in the team arastra arastra Everybody's gonna say arastra Oh, I was gonna say pike ash. No, I I Phoenix and I have had some good moments so far especially coming out. I think that works out really well Yeah, that's my that's what it is, man. Yeah. Yeah. So speaking of um, you know this part of the sliding round just, uh Tons of questions about the rules when we're gonna release the rules. Um, so I wanted to be able to talk to that Being able to release like some kind of like official rulebook companion tabletop thing For ruby set in the world of remnant has been like on kind of our brand wishlist for a very very very very long time Right now there's there's it's just kind of like the win and how and what that looks like is something that just requires a lot of discussion To do it, right the more you watch the show and share and ask about it The more better chance we're doing is just the reality and we appreciate it though. Thank you Yes Yeah, so but they they will be out at some point again We are just trying to figure out the best way to do that and again. We are still play testing it But in keeping with that, um, these guys are going to level up sometime in the near future and uh, just so you guys can see like a little glimpse of like the kinds of Stuff we do when we put the rules together, uh, they're going to be able to access team attacks Um, I think we have like a little screenshot that we grabbed from our rules Of kind of how team attacks work once they level up, um, if we want to show that real quick But yeah, so just to keep in mind for your future partners, um, how those team attacks Would work. Yeah, uh, also you should see how strongly we shine once we level up. So yeah Yeah, uh next question from twitter, um Do you guys think that uh When you guys were in school were you the Were you guys the leaders of your respective teams? Obviously Uh, no big no No one I don't people just want to be on the team because I was really good at punching. That's all I got Uh, so I was but pike you changed schools, right? You'd yeah, I did change schools I bounced around enough. I don't I don't want to talk about it now. Nope. Do you want to talk about it? Nope? Okay, I don't want to Mike doesn't want to neptune doesn't even want to and I don't I don't even know how he's up in Mixed up in this but he is and he don't want to Um Asher, no, he wouldn't have wanted the responsibility But he then definitely would have been lending his opinion and probably was a big pain in the ass to the person Who was the the leader? So while we're on this Subject next next lightning round question. Uh, this is in the chat a lot too. It's coming on twitter Do you guys have a team name? Uh, I don't know Eddie. Do we you are you you want to tempt fate? You oh you won't know wait. So here's the Well, no, no, no, so here's the thing. It's uh, this when this happens. It'll be it'll be uh For story reasons, uh, but these guys these guys know what that is I'll say. Yeah, I uh, if there's gonna come up naturally Uh, don't worry, but I mean look, we're just right now. We're just we're just some huntsmen hundreds is working together, you know Yeah, stay tuned for that moment. But soon Yeah, they're gonna kick me out. They're gonna kick me out. It's like no, they just don't even want uh huge relief Yeah, we're done here Another question this one's I guess a little bit for me, but feel free to weigh in kind of on your perception of it Is uh, how much uh, like in terms of npc characters and stuff like that, um are made on the fly versus uh Who has been who has been planned out? Um, it's generally about because of these guys about 50 50 to be honest, um Yeah, I'm not sure what your perception is of it kind of from playing it, but uh, yeah, uh, I I try not to railroad a whole lot like I know where I want the story to kind of go But I've generally been trying to play it more as like we have these characters who are doing these things at these times Um, and then just kind of letting these guys go Wherever they want and they've thrown me a lot of curveballs that I've yeah, he tries to get rid of a character He won't let him Nope, we hang out of them. But also can we take a moment to appreciate eddie as a dm? Yes, absolutely amazing and rolled with everything we've done. It's been an I've I've never I've never felt like we genuinely caught you off guard Like you you just rolled with it. Yeah, that's good because there had been there have been plenty of times where I was like, I have no idea We're about to go. It's so good. I can tell when you're like, this is not the important part guys Like I've got in that sense But you've never stopped us then because of that and I and in some in uh in an episode that's not been released yet You've uh, you found some ways to make that uh interesting and still work for everything you wanted So I think I think you've been doing an amazing job as you are the most accepting dm And like they're like it's so fun because like There are times where one of us will make a choice There's there's a very specific moment that I'm not gonna be coming up Where somebody wanted to go do a thing that you did not plan for or prepare for and did not want to happen So you even tried to throw up like a little block at first but then X person was like no, but I want to anyway So like I want to try and do this and then rolled high So then you were just like Okay, and then you just rolled with it and on the floor you you went to someone else So that then you could do some background thinking and make it you made it work And I was just like that's been like the whole session. You'll you'll make it work. Yeah, that's great Yeah, I try to do that a lot when it's like, uh, let me go to this other person Well, I think about that for a second, but I always want to like honor like what people want to do and how they roll and Uh to make sure that we can keep doing that while still telling like a fun story Yeah, well in man it was so I thought like when we had that session where we're in the tavern um and I you know did the perception check to see if anybody was trying to listen in on our conversation You're like, oh the dj you notice that the dj is like taking an interest to you and I'm like, all right Here we go And so I go and I intimidate the dj like and I get this like coin and like I thought I like solved like the ultimate puzzle Like the dj riddle a secret thing. Yeah, exactly the dj riddle I had zero plans for that dj Tell me that you're like no, you guys were going to get the coin in a totally different way And I was just like, oh Like I will say that like uh while we're on the subject of like NPCs and stuff like team smoke is Is one like or a set of NPCs that I had the two things that the first two ideas I ever had when we started like Knowing that this was going to be a real thing was one I was like in the very first episode I'm throwing them out of a plane Just so it can feel like ruby and see if they can come up with a landing strategy And you guys did even better than I thought because I was like surely there's going to be one of these guys That's like I have no idea what to do and they're just going to keep falling Yeah, that's true, uh And then the other thing was team smoke I was like, I really want to have like a team a rival team of huntsman that is like our team rocket Um that that could be so irritating and show up at the worst moments Um and really really like be a thorn in these guys side I gotta say It's one thing to hate a character because they suck It's another thing that hate characters because you just hate them because they're really well done And I think you did that perfectly like I hate them in the core of my being I hate them you hated them real fast too from their introduction How freaking dare you gotta come into the bar and put a drink on my tab and not be my friend. How dare sir Uh next next lightning round question. What is everyone's favorite type of takeo or you know, like real world taco go Huh Oh, that's easy cheesy gritty to crunch with readus lookless tacos spring styles get out of here I got two of them in the bag that I can't eat until this panel's over now because well you you've only got one one in the bag You are obligated to throw one away Uh, I'm a big fan of uh potato egg and cheese breakfast tacos I'm gonna go chicken mole While I am a big fan of the cheesy gritty to crunch, uh, I will say the tipsy chick taco at torches is insane It's a good one. Nice. I'm I'm a big fan of like anything that's like a like a pork or um or just simple Like chorizo egg and cheese also is kind of like My my super jam. I'm trying to look to see if we have time super jam one more question We're about to sign off here in a second. Uh other people are asking If there's a chance for other guest characters to show up in future episodes and to that I will say Yes, absolutely What a cliffhanger Yeah, um, but yeah, uh, if you guys could uh, we've got you guys voted on our megapone megapone megaphone We were just talking about npcs if you guys want to throw up the results of that while we sign off here Uh, thank you guys so much for watching uh for watching the grim campaign for watching this panel And for all the support it's been really fun getting to play this game. Um, kind of sort of with you guys and In front of all you guys and create this story Uh in in ruby and it's and in canon everything we've done is canon It's been super fun. We look forward to look forward to doing a whole lot more of it. So Yeah, I appreciate all of you Oh my god, where's that pole? Wait, I was waiting for that pole. I think uh, there may be a thing with it But it looks like uh, uh opal one Nice, we need more opals with 50% no to self don't kill opal You must be or if you were deaf forever Team deaf so I could put everybody in danger to really up the stakes. All right. Goodbye everybody. Thanks for joining