Episode 7 – The Hot Dog Festival

Last session. At the end of the last session, you guys all basically had enough experience to level up. Should we do the quick end of session move? Sure. Yeah. So we'll go through. Does anybody feel like they resolved a bond? Yes. All right. So what bond did you resolve? I feel like my bond of motherly affection for Tuck has been resolved because he chose performance over my safety. Mm-hmm. That's fair. And I was like, a mother would not do this. Do you agree with that resolving? Sure. Yeah.

So, Billy, you mark a point of experience. Either of you two feel like you resolved a bond? I don't think so. No? No. All right. Cool. Nope. Alignment. Billy, what's your alignment? It's chaotic. And the move is? Like appetite before all things. Okay. I didn't do that. Okay. Cool. I'm chaotic. Yep. I issue a convention of the civilized world. Well. I did kill an emperor by ripping his brains out of his chin. Yeah. Instead of diplomacy, you just.

But I mean, they're not really civilized is the only thing. Yeah. Yeah. They're pretty chaotic. Yeah. So maybe, maybe not this time. What about that time that I got a boner? Okay. So maybe not for your alignment. Ving? Mine's good. Help. Something or someone grow, which the boner. That works. Does it? It sure looked like it worked. I guess not this time, but you guys will. There are three questions that you guys get to answer.

And if you do say, if you say yes, you all get to mark an experience for each of them. So did we learn something new and important about the world? Yes. Yes. Yeah. What did you learn? We learned that things are not what they appear to be. The frogs are being controlled. I learned not to trust. All right. Well, I'd say also, I'd say the frogs are being controlled is probably, or is there something going on with the frogs in the box? I thought you meant like general moral life lesson.

Well, either way, let's say, yeah, you guys mark an experience for that because it seems like you learned a few things. There's something going on. Yeah. Did we overcome a notable monster or enemy? I killed an emperor. Yeah. Everybody mark an experience for resolving that. And did we loot a memorable treasure? Yes. Yeah. Mark an experience. So basically to level up, you need an amount of experience equal to seven plus your current level.

So you guys needed eight experience points, which I believe all of you have at least eight. So am I level one or level two? You're now level two. So what happens when you level up, you choose one of your stats to increase by one. So yeah, if you're like at 15 and you raise it to 16, it's now at a plus two instead of a plus one. So you can either increase the stats that you're already good at to get better, or you can increase the stat that you're bad at to even it out.

So if I'm 13, I'm plus one, it says. So I'm going to do that, right? Yeah. Did you rate? So you raised something from 12 to 13? Yeah. What'd you raise? Charisma. So I can be very persuasive and sensual. Sensual? Sure. Yeah. So yeah, going from a 12 to a 13 makes it a plus one instead of a zero. I'm going to up my strength from 15 to 16 to a plus two. All right. Been getting buff? I keep almost dying. Yeah. Abdul, what are you thinking? I was thinking charisma. Okay.

I'm moving towards becoming a musician. Yes. A part-time musician barbarian. I got a lot of songs in my heart. Yeah, that's great. A lot of them are about the things in my apartment. Do you have possessions? I have these leather rugs.

Straps you have leather wrist straps a loincloth an axe yeah an amulet and I think that's it well you don't have the amulet right now yeah I gotta kill that guy yeah dan colonel dan's got it wonderful um I think it's pretty funny that you guys all know that your intelligence is really low as a party and no one chose to increase intelligence just like no tape axes yeah I like that you are just you know like the the traditional uh party composition of a role-playing game you've got the beefy person the sneaky person the intelligent like magic you've none just just beef no just sneak that's it and just dumb dumb assholes stop turning into a frog I love being an owl without any of the positive qualities of what owls are believed to be I was being part of a parliament we're all owls can I turn into a parliament oh owls oh can you turn into like a horde yeah you can't later I don't maybe yeah maybe later not currently you would say swarm and then turn into them all right and another thing that you guys get to do when you level up is you pick an advanced move so you all get a new move so uh let's just guys read over your moves uh I have a couple I like if you have any questions I can answer like but I think a good idea a good thing to think about is what direction you want your character to go in like for example uh abdul wants takoma to become sort of like a traveling troubadour barbarian but a bad one but a bad one but one of the moves that you have allows you to take a move from either the fighter or the bard oh yeah okay let me see I think it's like the top left one when right anything jumping out for anybody jessica what are you thinking for fat below um there's one called connections when I put out word uh to the criminal underbelly about something I want or need it's like on a 10 plus someone has it just for me or on like a seven to nine I have to settle for something close to it or it comes with strings attached okay yeah that's a cool one yeah um so what would what would the connections be in that case is it thieves or is it halflings or is it like oh I don't orphans that's hard because family's a loner so he has no friends but is there like is there any like um inherent connection between like halflings like if a halfling saw another halfling would they be like oh hey I'll help you out oh no because we were talking about how that's not the case yeah halflings are very insular they're like my family is most important but like also the community but like family's not their community anymore so he's like an outsider okay so yeah that wouldn't maybe there's other orphans who also roam the woods and the trails yeah like a big like yeah like a hobo network yeah oh like um the symbols that like old hobo culture like they would carve in a fence post like a little circle with a whatever and it would be like this person gives good meals or something like that it could be like a thing like that where like oh I need something so you carve a little thing in a post and come back later okay can I do that that's pretty cool I like that yeah yeah yeah sure so you're gonna take connections yeah I'm gonna take connections awesome and they're yeah little ragamuffins yeah the ragamuffin network yeah that's cool I like that a lot abdul anything jumping out um yeah I was thinking it would be cool if he could like distract people with a shitty song distract people with a shitty song it's like hey you look over here I'm waving my dick around that guy's waving his dick around I believe the um I think the bard has a move called bamboozle yeah bamboozle basically if you parlay with somebody and you succeed the next move that you do that involves them you'll have a plus one do I have to decide which one is the most şu şu şu there is a move called metal hurlant that they get which is a similar thing but it's when you shout with great force or play a shattering note uh you choose a target roll constitution and on a 10 plus they take 1d10 damage and are deafened for a few minutes whoa and on a seven to nine you still damage them but it's out of control uh so you're just like that you wanting to be a bard but your powers and you just yeah but all but all you're saying can my song still be I know you're trying to make it a good song but it ends up just doing that you still you like the the the background of tacoma is that he was a musician and he's you still sing whenever you want you're still a singer you're still a bard kind of but you also if you shout really really loud you can kill people I sing to the trees and the wind yeah his song is so full of passion yeah if it's so passionate like people are deaf and you sing a song when I do this yeah okay you can do whatever you want what's it called metal hurl metal hurl they get a a boner so stiff that they faint all the blood flows to their penis they just pass it can it yeah can the effect of it be like whatever theme the song is so it's like a sexy song that that happens follow the theme yeah but if it's yeah if it's a song about like the wind and the trees they fall asleep sure so hard that they die so long that they're dead the point the the the main the main thrust is that they're taking 1d 10 damage cool is there a move called main thrust so yeah that is also a bard move it's whenever you just give somebody the main thrust this is great because I can uh I can end I can end every song with a scream uh what are you thinking paul I'm thinking I'm gonna go for this thing talker thing talker what is thing talker you see the spirits in the sand the sea the stone you may now apply your spirit tongue to the earth and you may now apply your spirit tongue to the earth and you may now apply your spirit tongue to the earth and you may now apply your spirit tongue to the earth and you may to inanimate natural objects, plants and rocks, or creatures made thereof, as well as animals.

Thing talker forms can be exact copies or can be mobile, vaguely humanoid-shaped entities. It's pretty dope. It means that Ving would be able to turn into plants and sand. And tree people. Or like a person that is also a tree or just a tree. And you can also talk to trees and you can talk to rocks. And you can talk to animals. You know that, right? Yeah. That's why I got along with the frog people. As much as anybody could.

And that's on the way to world talker, which is when you can turn into farts and fire and stuff. Did you say farts? And water. Yeah, with world talker, after you're like level six or whatever, you can just turn into a fire. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. Yeah, I guess it's fine. It doesn't really do much. No, you are fire. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That's a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. You were a person and now you're a fire. Like a campfire? Or like a humanoid torch? Like a person made of flame?

Or like a rock man? Or like now you're a tornado? Like, you know. A tornado with tiny tornado arms? Yeah, little tiny tornado arms. Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Like that one Titan from Hercules. The one that sucks up all the stuff with his tornado arms? Oh, yeah. You guys remember Disney's Hercules? Yeah, I remember that. It's a great movie. Great movie. Thing talker. Cool. Everybody's good. We got it? We good? Yes. I brought a glue gun, but no glue sticks. Oh, man. See, that's where they get you.

You always forget the sticks. I just ran out on the way down from the ferry. I used a lot. Used all my glue sticks. I was making a little figurine on my dashboard. You're like, I think this is one of those 3D pens that you use to make a little figurine. I was like, I'm going to make a little figurine. I'm going to make a little figurine. I'm going to make a little figurine. I kept trying to hot glue my zipper closed. Oh, God! Fuck! Don't look at my dick, because that's fucking gross.

My dick looks like Harvey Dent. It's that one right there. Oh, no! It's like, . That's a lot better than mine. That's better than mine. That's better than mine. That's better than mine. That's better than mine. That's better than mine. That's better than mine. That's better than mine.