 Welcome to Church of the Chair. We celebrate all the things we do while seated. I'm your host E here today with my co-host Chad Lutsky and we are working on a collaborative novel called Planet Caravan. Sorry we're late today. We got to chatting in the background like we normally do. But the point of this, if you're new to the series, the point of this is just to kind of demystify the process. We are working together for the first time. For the most part, we did try something at another time, but it didn't work out. We both went our separate ways. And we ended up coming back to something completely new. In fact, if that first one hadn't have failed, you all probably wouldn't have south of here. So that's a lot of interesting stuff. But yeah, definitely read south of here the beginning of that to see what happened with all that. Because my intro, I dedicated to Chad, all that stuff. But also, we're here just to motivate and encourage you. So if you want to come work on your own artwork, your own writing, whatever you want to do, or just put us on the background and chill, that's completely fine. That's what we're here for. Anyways, today I have to rewrite an entire chapter. I have to get rid of it completely because I forgot where I was going. And my brain said, OK, well, let's fill in the blanks with this other scene that really had no purpose. So that's what I'm going to be working on today. Hey, Pedro, how you doing? It doesn't look like you worked on this at all? OK, that's fine. I'm just making sure I didn't miss something. I wanted to, but between a wrap I had to do and then the cover I just showed you and then World of Warcraft, dude. I've been into Liza P. That's all I've been doing. I watched for a little bit. Wow, a Pinocchio game. That's pretty dark for Ilik School. Well, Pinocchio is dark. Have you ever read the original story? No. OK, so do you plan on reading the original story? I don't know. You don't know? I don't know. Because the original Pinocchio is about 10 times darker than the cartoon ever gets. So in fact, with all that body horror? There's a lot of stuff, but also Pinocchio is hung from a tree at the end, and that's how they kill him. Because Pinocchio is a mischievous entity in the original book. And they hang him from the tree that he was created out of. So the branch that he was made out of, they end up hanging him in that tree at the end. So spoilers for that. Wow, I didn't know that. It is hella. Just go over to Wikipedia, dude, and look up the original one by Khalid Colado. C-O-L-L-O-D-A, I think it is. And I was so taken aback by the original story that I actually added it to the mythos of my War on Christmas series that I did. Every year for three years running, I published a free short story. It was The Naughty List, Deck the Halls, and Beyond the Gates of Toyland. And then I put those three together and it goes, I kind of fuck with the lore of Krampus, Santa Claus. Santa's an actual hero. I was so tired of Santa in horror being the villain that I don't know. That's one of those things that's kind of sacred to me, the idea of Santa Claus. So I don't like killer Santa stories. The closest I'll ever get is bad Santa, but that's not someone as Santa that's a Santa impersonator, acting an ass. But yeah, I've always thought if you're gonna write about Santa Claus, need to be a hero. So I made him a fucking barbarian badass, and he ends up teaming up with Krampus to try and fix whatever is happening in Toyland because everything has gone wacky after The Naughties, which are basically bad elves have kind of overrun Toyland and it's like murdering and rampaging and everything. And they even show up in the real world. But anyways, so I wrote this long thing and it's somehow Pinocchio just naturally fit into the storyline because he's a toy, he's a doll and whatnot. So yeah, there's a twist at the end about Pinocchio and all that stuff. But I actually use the lore from the original story and I've gotten messages from people going, how could you do Pinocchio like that? And I'm like, that's the original Pinocchio. That's how the fucking thing ends. It's the only way to end him is to hang him in the tree that he was born of. I have to untangle my OCDs getting to me. Give me a second. I won't be able to hear you. But anyways, the rest of the story is, so for those three years, I used to do a free Halloween, not Halloween, but a free Christmas story every single year. And then have last year's free, like a week before Christmas. And then the next year I had two weeks, each week would be a different story since you can go free for five days on Amazon. So I did that and then I did an omnibus and then I have a couple other ones like, oh, holy shit, which is probably something you don't wanna read, but it's about literal holy shit, like Jesus's poop that anyways, it's ripping off of that. Someone finds it and shenanigans happen. It's more of a comedy than a horror. And then it's beginning to feel a lot like fuck this, which was live for one day before I took it down. But yeah, I did that free every year. But anyways, the whole Pinocchio thing, that story much pretty much ended with that. But it's funny because if you watch the Disney cartoon, like it gets really fucking dark, like most cartoons back then. But of course the darkest is when he goes to the town with all the kids smoking and drinking and everything and then gets swallowed by a whale, all that stuff. That is the darkest that gets. Easily the story itself is not a children's story. It's definitely, well, I guess it would be, it's more like one of those, it's kind of like urban legend kind of thing. If you don't do the right thing, you're gonna get killed. And that's pretty much what the original one was, but I definitely wouldn't let a child read it, especially not with that ending. It's far more upsetting than something like Old Yeller. I don't know, man. It's like you got this little boy who ends up, because throughout it's still the question of whether or not he's a real boy. But the Disney movie is more about humanity, like what makes you human, your emotions, all that stuff. And that's what the game goes more along the lines of, what is it to be human? Whereas the original story is kind of like, you shouldn't lie because, death is the wages of sin or whatever the, I can't remember the Bible quote, but the wages of sin is death. And that was more the point of the original story. Don't lie, don't break the commandments, that kind of thing, or else we'll hang you from a fucking tree kind of deal. It's like, God damn, that's dark as hell. But anyways, yeah, the game is amazing. I'm hoping, it's funny because there's been allusions to this thing called the radiant tree, and that's what gave the puppets life. So I'm wondering how close they're going to get to the original story, if it ends up being the, maybe the tree is the final boss or something. Because up until this point, I've just been fighting puppets and machines and shit, but I got to this archbishop the other night on Saturday and it was a whole ass monster. Like now we have like clickers from the last of us, all them kinds of weird shit, and this huge boss, that monster that this archbishop has turned into. I'm very surprised, very pleasantly surprised with the game because I thought it was all going to be puppets and no real, nothing blood-borne-ish, which is all monsters and shifting creatures and whatnot. But this one is getting really fucking cool. And of course, I don't believe, I'm pretty sure there's no monsters in the original short story. But anyways, other than that, it seems to be the same, it seems to be another, what makes us human kind of storyline. And I love storylines like that. So yeah, I said all that, just to say I'm having a lot of fun. That's cool, man. I don't know. I don't think I need to save any of this since it's very situational. I think I'm just going to delete it, but we'll see. I don't know, I'll move it down. I'll keep it highlighted. All right. Okay, so I already have to use the restroom and I wanna get in here and really start working. So I'm gonna go ahead and hit the restroom, take my break. When I get back, I'm jumping right into the writing. So what are your plans for today? Just going over, reworking my stuff again? Yeah. Okay. All right, I will be back, y'all. Oh, I got enough data about my guitar. So $950 guitar in the instruction manual, they say do not use any other power brick than the one that comes with it. So I noticed yesterday that the guitar was at 76% while I was playing it and it had been plugged in. I'm like, okay, is the battery already fucked? What's going on? I put it back on the stand, the light doesn't come on. I try every single outlet I possibly can, light doesn't come on, it's not charging. So go inside, Shell's like, let's try another one. I'm like, it specifically says only use this power brick. It's like, well, let's just try another one. I'm like, okay, but if something happens, it's gonna void my warranty. We try it anyways, it works. So $950 guitar, piece of shit power brick, the actual plug that hooks into the USB-C. So now it's working fine, but the original one doesn't work. So I will do a full review of the thing. I also can't figure out how to get to the distortion to work. I got the gain all the way out. I got everything on the virtual pedals, right, all of the stuff, and it's still clean. So I don't know. But once I get it fully up and running, I'm gonna do another video and do an actual full review of it. I'm just gonna read today. Hope you all have a good stream and get a lot of good stuff written. I plan to, man, I plan to. Hope you have a good day, Viking. Anyways, jumping in. Also, I'm probably getting rid of all the strongman stuff, or strongwoman stuff down here. I don't know. We haven't mentioned that at all, and I'm not sure I even want it. I don't think they have a show within the show kind of thing, like a freak show, side show, any of that stuff. They just have your normal. Damn, stomach sounds like Jurassic Park. Dude, you sound like the exorcist over there. Yeah, I know, right? Any century? You should die, Justin. You changed the name of your channel? Yeah, I changed it back to Edward Lorne. I got full rights back, so I can use that name again without any repercussions. Oh, I didn't even notice. Yeah. The fuck was that? It went judge, judge, judge, and then utter silence. What'd you do, Lutsky, what'd you do? You broke something. Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, I accidentally unplugged it for a second, but then I plug back in. Now you sound far away. For real? What the... Now you sound like you're over here. All right. It sounds like you're, it's not you're yeti, It's like your uh, it's what sounds like when you're on your uh laptop mic, right? Well, there you go Okay, yeah, you're good. Yeah, it unplugged for a second. I'm not sure why See how it is. What's that called? Okay Six pages. All right then That seems done. I'm gonna go ahead and take my break. I want to get back. I'm gonna read what everything you've done Okay Oh, by the way, I don't think this is gonna be an issue But I have to go pick up my Darth Vader cosplay stuff tomorrow my CPAP So I have to be done by noon because I have to be there at one. It's about 15 minutes away Um, so it shouldn't be an issue just let you know I got if I have to be out of here by noon tomorrow about to lose a whole chunk Of word count. I don't think there's anything there I can save I didn't get as much done as I'd hoped today because uh Got a screenshot I had to deal with Oh, no Yeah, like kind of made me lose my focus for a while there Okay, um to uh reply to your thing, uh worrying about the sounds It's just that's all just his character development like saying he has you know sensitivities and all that stuff Plus, yeah the rotating theme of uh, you know good sounds versus bad sounds versus the best sounds versus the worst sounds all that stuff Um, and we talked about you know, the last one being the good sounds when sam dies, you know Remembering the good sounds of her Or laughs that kind of thing. Oh, I know all that. I just wonder I mean it might even turn into something by the end. I don't know I have no idea I think I think that just comes down to character though How much How how he sees the world? And sees it more more through the sounds the sounds mean more to him than anything else Nothing. I was just reading something I wrote Laughing at something I wrote in Europe. No, I'm uh I'm laughing at uh I uh I don't know if I should I'll I'll wait until after the stream's over to share it with you It's uh something on twitter and uh, okay, I just came across it Anyways, you'll see Uh I might need a nap before my stream My game stream I have got my uh I think I already told you um doing Uh bleeding and for those listening doing uh Recording an episode of bleeding page podcast if anybody wants to Look for that on youtube he's got an episode on there And um There's a lot of fun too. We are interviewing Travis Baldry who wrote legends and lattes uh the self-published debut book that Went crazy and now is a new york times bestselling, but After being picked up by trap. All right. Thank you link for tomorrow's Uh Tomorrow's uh brain All right Anyway, I'm all caught up with what I think With what you wrote I gotta Get your review done Still gotta get that done and then I gotta Uh All that type you must have been talking to somebody I keep hearing all this typing But you haven't really done much of anything that's a shot really got you fucked up Jesus Christ. I can't wait to hear about that. Anyways, I'm done. I'm also, uh Nosey as shit. So I think I want to wrap this up so I can find out all the tea All right. Anyways, because I'm not I'm not writing anything else. I don't know where I'm going I don't know what I'm doing. So uh, we'll go ahead and wrap it up here. Um I thought it was gonna be a much longer chapter, but I kind of blanked Um after a certain point. I still like the chat. I like I love the chapter actually, but um, yeah anyways Okay, so, uh For anybody in here, we're gonna wrap it up now. Um, we'll be back tomorrow at 9 a.m Going from 9 to noon tomorrow also And then Wednesday off Thursday and Friday if you've been watching this at this point, you know the schedule And anyways, uh, is there anything you want to say before we go chat? Yeah, go check out bleeding page podcast. Yeah, definitely. I've been on there some other people have been on there It's a good show a lot of fun, but until next time enjoy your spaghetti dreams and all hail the chair Bye