1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: Book Club book Club book. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: I totally forgot. I totally forgot. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 2: Club Club book Club. 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: It's been way too long. 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 2: Yeah no, it's fine. Welcome to Cool Zone Media book Club, 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: the only book club where you don't get to read 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: the book ahead of time because of the way that 9 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: the podcast world works. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and 10 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: my guest today is gahar Hi Gary. Hello. Cool Zone 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 2: Media book Club is where every Sunday I read you 12 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: a story that's really kind of the whole of it. 13 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: But this week we have a story by perhaps the 14 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 2: best storyteller of our generation, a once in a millennia talent. 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 2: This woman is a humble woman. She has a podcaster 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 2: and an author by the name of Margaret Kiljoy. 17 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: Okay, all right. I was really wondering who you're going 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: to pull out there and be like, oh, who does 19 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: Margaret thinks the best storyteller this g oh oh, okay, all. 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: Right, yeah No, I don't know who I would actually 21 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: say for this generation. It was last generation. I just 22 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 2: assume I would be talking about Butler or LeGuin. But sure, no, 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 2: I'm going to read you one of my stories because 24 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,759 Speaker 2: I've got a new tabletop role playing game out called 25 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: Number City, and this story is called Confession to a 26 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,960 Speaker 2: Dead Man, and I wrote it because I wanted to 27 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 2: write in that world. The whole world actually of the 28 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: Number City started off me writing fiction before I later 29 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 2: turned it into RPG stuff. Nice, but I can't remember. 30 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: Do you play RPG as much? Yeah? 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I play an RPG now. And then were you 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: we played in South Island? 33 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's what I think. 34 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, I played a really obnoxious wizard. 35 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't even remember what podcast feed that's 36 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: on to send people too. 37 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: It was probably The Strangers Strangers Ones, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah. 38 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 2: If you want to hear me and Gahre and Robert 39 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 2: and someone else to do a. 40 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: James baby Ooh, I don't know. 41 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 2: I don't want to. 42 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: I totally forget. It's been way too long. 43 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: But it could be James. It might have been James. Yeah, 44 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 2: if you want to hear us play Escape from Insul Island, 45 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 2: you can somehow find that on the podcast feed. But 46 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: this game is a different game. It's called p Number City. 47 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 2: But this isn't the game. This is a story. And 48 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 2: if you don't like RPGs, dear listener, don't worry because 49 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: the Kickstarter did really well. So I'm on the I'm 50 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 2: on the hook to write a hole novella in this world, 51 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: but that doesn't come out yet. The story, however, has 52 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: What type. 53 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: Of world is this that we're going to be delevated to? 54 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 2: It is a roughly diesel punk with magic alternate world 55 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 2: where god kings rule over the world and use people 56 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 2: like ponds, and people are running around with swords and 57 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 2: armor as well as bolt action weapons, and there's occultists 58 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 2: and radio coexisting. 59 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: Occultists and radio. Yeah, isn't that just what we're doing 60 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: right now? Well, yeah, podcasting is not really radio. 61 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: But yeah, no, but this isn't the furthest thing from that. Yeah, okay, okay, 62 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 2: that's true. No, see, you've got it all wrong, Alecti said, 63 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: laughing a little, even though rain water dripped down on 64 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: her through the leaky carriage roof, even though she couldn't 65 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,279 Speaker 2: reach the drops to wipe them off because of her handcuffs, 66 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 2: even though the cheap lawman's carriage hit yet another pothole 67 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: and her face cracked against the wood of the door. 68 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 2: I didn't kill that guy. He was dead when I 69 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: got there. No, yeah, I mean I would have killed him. 70 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: It tried to even just missed my chance. The man 71 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 2: sitting on the bench opposite of her just stared, waiting 72 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 2: for her to say more. He was wiry, so was 73 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 2: his beard. He was nearly enveloped by thick wool overcoat, 74 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: but a hint of his pale gold uniform stuck out 75 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: near his collar. ELECTI could just make out. The insignion 76 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 2: is lapel, a sword crossed with a shepherd's crook. It's 77 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: a cute name, ALECTI said, I'll give you that what 78 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 2: the King's Boys and Girls Club. It's a cute name, 79 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 2: like you're just a bunch of bootlicking murderous cops. Was 80 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: the irony intentional when you came up with the name? 81 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 2: I don't know, the man said, it was before my time. 82 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 2: Maybe that's not what matters. What matters, ELECTI asked. Blood 83 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 2: was starting to trickle down from her right nostril. It tickled. 84 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 2: What happened tonight is what matters, The man said, If 85 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: you didn't kill the reverend who did, tell us what 86 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 2: you know, we'll let you walk. Oh honey, ELECTI said, 87 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 2: I don't like when you lie to me. Who says 88 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 2: I'm lying. The man asked, if you didn't kill him, 89 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 2: we'll just hold you at Hazard long enough to get 90 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: everything sorted. Let you go. The only thing we agree on, 91 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 2: Electi said, licking the blood off of her upper lip, 92 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 2: is that you're going to let me go. The road 93 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: sounds changed from mud to gravel to cobble, and Electi 94 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 2: looked out the tiny window. She couldn't make anything out 95 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: through the rain and grime, but she knew they must 96 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 2: have made it to p Number North at this snail's pace. 97 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: It was another thirty or forty minutes before they reached 98 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: Hazard Penitentiary. Electi and her friends didn't spend much time 99 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: in Panumber North, where the streets are made out a 100 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,720 Speaker 2: street and the people are made out a misplaced loyalty. 101 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 2: She said aloud, what nothing, Tell me what happened? The 102 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 2: cop said again, yeah, fine, She said, no reason not to. Besides, 103 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 2: she missed her therapy appointment that week because her therapist, Joan, 104 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: had been on a bender with the squad from the 105 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: South Docks. The dog girl what was his name? Dog 106 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 2: girls all had stupid names like wrench or carburetor or 107 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: Petunia or whatever Petunia that was. It had a nice 108 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 2: bike didn't even explode very often, so he claimed he 109 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 2: was cute. Couldn't blame Joan for missing the session. Yeah fine, 110 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what happened, but only because I'm gonna 111 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: kill you. So it started, like every good evening does, 112 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 2: at a party thrown by the anarchists. It's the fun anarchists, 113 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 2: of course, the Errenian, not the boring anarchists, the Corsaurians 114 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 2: of course. The don't call us anarchist anarchists from the 115 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 2: North Docks where are even more boring. The industrial workers 116 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 2: of Harrow, not them. It started at a party. It 117 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 2: was a good party, mostly on a rooftop one of 118 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: those weird theaters in the shadow of Triumph Tower. So 119 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 2: you've got the sunset coming pretty through the ash haze 120 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 2: over the factories, and you've got the stupid glow from 121 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 2: the stupid Silver Church, which I do not like admitting 122 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: is pretty. Some of the clackers were up for their warrens, 123 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 2: trying out those bulbs you run electric through and they 124 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 2: glow all handsome and light the evening up, and most 125 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 2: of them don't even explode. There was a troop over 126 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 2: from the Dead Quarter doing a pantomime plus half an 127 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 2: orchestra from the Alps with their heirloomcellos and shit. So 128 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: I'm having a good time because I love all that shit. 129 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: I love the shitty mushroom beer that's all we get 130 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 2: to drink because your God's dumble or as all the 131 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 2: farms blown up and a forbid he bother importing some barley. 132 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 2: I love the potluck snacks everyone brings. Who knew you 133 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 2: could fry a rat in so much oil that it 134 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 2: tasted good? Who knew you could grow hot peppers in 135 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: the top of Triumph Tower. We're a little bit more 136 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 2: sun peaks in. You know what I love the most 137 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: about all these parties, though, I love that we fucking 138 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 2: have fun despite how hard you and your immortal bag 139 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 2: of dicks of a boss God try to make us suffer. 140 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 2: I love that we still have music even if we 141 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 2: barely have food. I love when you fail to take 142 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 2: things like that away from us. I know what you're 143 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 2: gonna say to that. You're not trying to make us suffer. 144 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 2: You're trying to, like what, bring us back into his 145 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: grace so we can win the war, rebuild the farms, 146 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 2: and go back to living boring lives of quiet mediocrity 147 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: like we supposedly had seventy years ago, right, get people 148 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 2: trusting that money will feed us instead of us feeding 149 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 2: each other. However, we can return the flock to the fold. Well, 150 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: you got to get a new metaphor, because there's no 151 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 2: more flocks of sheep anywhere anymore because they all got 152 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 2: slaughtered for food ten years ago and all of their 153 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 2: fields have been bombed as shit for half my life. 154 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 2: But anyway, the party, party good, that's not the part 155 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: you want to hear about. I guess who am I 156 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: to deny you your last wishes? You want to hear 157 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 2: about the Reverend Lemon hened the fourteenth. You want to 158 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 2: hear about who it was who decided his ear would 159 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 2: look better with an eighty bity teeny tiny spike stuck 160 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 2: into it until it hit the brain. I mean, let's 161 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 2: be honest, lots of us would have decided that. But 162 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 2: you want to hear about the guy who actually pulled 163 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 2: it off. Who wasn't me? So I'm at the party. 164 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 2: I'm there with my friends. Malice, she was a marine 165 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: before she went a wall kept her armor and her 166 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 2: trauma pretty useful in a fight, which is good because 167 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,200 Speaker 2: she gets us into a lot of them, Sannie the 168 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 2: rat king God. They're weird. Most people who use they 169 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 2: them pronounsi us them singularly. Right, Sanni uses them plural. 170 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 2: See a has the royal we se sees a god king. 171 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 2: He says, we do not approve of you a lot 172 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 2: having fun in the one and only life you have 173 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 2: on this planet. We are not amused by your mockery 174 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 2: and all of that. Right, Sanny uses the vermin. When 175 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 2: you talk about Sannie, you're talking about the human kid 176 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 2: buried under all those rats, But you're talking about the 177 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: rats too. Love Sannie and Losa was there, of course. Honestly, 178 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,439 Speaker 2: I'm not sure about Losa. Are we even friends anymore? 179 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 2: We hang out together, sure, do crimes, but we haven't 180 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: talked in ages, not like really talked. God, you know, 181 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 2: it really feels good to just get to open up 182 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 2: about all this stuff, say, all the stuff that usually 183 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 2: just lives inside my head. I really appreciate that. I 184 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: appreciate you. I just want you to know that you're 185 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 2: gonna be inside kind of a living nightmare soon enough, 186 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 2: which you deserve because you're trying to lock me into 187 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: a cage. But I just want you to know that 188 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 2: you're appreciated as a person, even if not as a cop. 189 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 2: Los is a patchworker. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, back, 190 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,360 Speaker 2: alley surgeon who flays corpses and mixes up fungal paste 191 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 2: and sows the skin of dead people onto living people 192 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 2: in order to heal wounds. You're thinking, A scary bitch 193 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: with a scalpel who doesn't think a thing about ripping 194 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 2: the bones out of living people. You're thinking, right, Losa's 195 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 2: a scary bitch. He does all those things. Also a 196 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 2: hell of a dice player, a good cook, and would 197 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: you believe it, and honest to a the vegetarian. And 198 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 2: we really did used to be close. I was at 199 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 2: all three of her weddings and the four resultant funerals. 200 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 2: But after that time in the basement of the club 201 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 2: fighting all those giant centipedes, it just hasn't been the same. Plus, 202 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: I think she's jealous of how close I've gotten with Malice, 203 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: or maybe it's the other way around. Right, So the 204 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 2: four of us are at this party and I'm just 205 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 2: trying to have a good time, But malice is all 206 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 2: We need a mission. Let's do a mission, and Losa 207 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 2: is kissing up to her about it, so she's like, yes, 208 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 2: look at me, I'm Losa. I will temporarily pretend I 209 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 2: share your ethical framework in worldview in order to get 210 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,559 Speaker 2: closer to you and drive a wedge between you and Electe. 211 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 2: Or at least that's what I assume she said, because 212 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 2: suddenly she wants a mission too. Guys, can't the mission 213 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 2: Sometimes get drunk and maybe high, and maybe just ave forbid, 214 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 2: get late. No, no, no, it's time to do crimes 215 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 2: for the good of humanity or whatever. I look at Sanny, 216 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 2: but they're just feeding bits of mushroom to those rats, 217 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 2: and their eyes start spinning and they whispered. Whatever happens, 218 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 2: we're in, just like you can be in on these sweet, 219 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 2: sweet deals of capitalism that interrupts this podcast. Here we 220 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 2: go and we're back. So that's how I knew I 221 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: wasn't gonna get late at the party, because every single 222 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 2: one of those bitches would have died a thousand times 223 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 2: over if it weren't for my spookyes saving them with 224 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 2: a well timed curse or a jaunt into the ether. 225 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 2: We find a guy with the Ernni knows everyone. I 226 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 2: guess that's repetitive all the ERRENNI know everyone, we find 227 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 2: a guy. He's cute, but I'm not allowed to see 228 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 2: if he's down a fuck because we've got work to 229 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 2: do for some dumb reason. And he says, there's this 230 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: elbow guard. I know you know what I'm talking about. 231 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 2: I know you care more about that fucking thing than 232 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: you do about the life of the poor dear Reverend 233 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 2: Lambin Hend the nine hundred and fiftieth of his name 234 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: or whatever. I know that's why you followed us. Anyway. 235 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 2: The cute guy, he tells us and everyone else at 236 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 2: the party, besides about his elbow guard, holy to the outsiders, 237 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: ancient made out of granite and quarts in the ceremonial style. 238 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 2: Let's see if I get this chain of events right. 239 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 2: Lamban had this tenant, an old outsider lady who got 240 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: entired of sleeping in a crypt in the Dead Quarter. 241 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 2: And I tried to do things proper and get a 242 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 2: room in North Pannumber. Only now there's no money and 243 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 2: everything is favors and reputation and shit. Mister Hend doesn't 244 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 2: really like unprestigious guests, so he got into his head 245 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 2: that she owed him something, so he marches into her 246 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 2: house and picks up the most valuable thing he sees, 247 00:12:56,760 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 2: Like the prick that he is, the elbow guard, he 248 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 2: takes it to the esteem to see what it's worth. 249 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 2: Only I think a skip saw that go down. And 250 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 2: now the whole city knows. They especially know that there's 251 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 2: an inscription in the damn thing, and half of it 252 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 2: is written in the language outside, and half of it 253 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 2: is written in whatever fuck weird language related adult p number, 254 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 2: and that no one can read that scrawled across the 255 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 2: hole under city. So it's valuable to lots of people. 256 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 2: So first, yeah, the ideas that we're going to steal 257 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: the damn thing, get it back to the outsiders where 258 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 2: it belongs. It's just the right thing to do. And 259 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 2: sure none of us would mind that. They'd be grateful 260 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 2: and maybe let us use their gunsmithies sometimes. Then Losa, though, 261 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 2: see she grew up on the streets mostly because her 262 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 2: mom was from Panumber North Like she's fourth generation patchworker. 263 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 2: You see where I'm going with us. You remember when 264 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 2: your little King's Boys and Girls Club rounded up the patchworkers, 265 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 2: called them unholy, drove them out of your territory. What 266 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 2: was that? Ten years ago? When you know Loso was ten. Well, 267 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 2: guess who were mom's landlord had been? Guess who had 268 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 2: told you all Los's mom in the first place. Lemon 269 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: fucking henned the fourteenth. Sorry, Reverend Lemon hand the fucking fourteenth. 270 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 2: He ain't so revered as this title implies, not by 271 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 2: most of the city. Losa says her bit about what 272 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 2: happened to her, and what do you know, half the 273 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 2: party has stories about this guy hired some thugs, not you, 274 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 2: other thugs to blow up a pie shop run by 275 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 2: the lords of the New Order that was competing with 276 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 2: the one he had interest in. Ain't too good to 277 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 2: the people he hires either. He was one of those 278 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 2: thugs he'd hired who was at the party, turns out 279 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 2: Hand and tossed him to the lords as soon as 280 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 2: it was convenient. His friends rescued him. Funny thing about friends. 281 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 2: It's nice to have friends anyway. More and more people 282 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 2: saying this shit. He's a bad landlord, a shitty boss, 283 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: awful of the people he fucks. He's just this is 284 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 2: not a redeeming bone in that man's body. So pretty 285 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 2: quick we go from let's rob the guy, so let's 286 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 2: kill the guy you know how that goes. And a 287 00:14:57,440 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 2: couple of dog girls are around with their bikes, and 288 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: one of them even a a sidecar, and they figure, 289 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 2: what the hell, why not go for a joy ride 290 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 2: or I guess I'll kill Ride up to p number North, 291 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 2: find this guy's house, swap out his insides for his outsides, 292 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 2: grab the stolen elbow guard. Wham bam, thank you, ma'am. 293 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 2: All the good night's work. Nope, you fox her on 294 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: the prowl. Good thing. The dog girls are smarter than you. 295 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: Lot. 296 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 2: The voyager patrols like six times. We stop at an 297 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 2: alley by the canal, hop up onto the second floor balcony. 298 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 2: The door was wide open. How the hell malice climbs 299 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 2: up in all that powered armor dragging a goddamn boiler. 300 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 2: The world will never know, I swear to a I've 301 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 2: never seen her strength fail her. And here's where it 302 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 2: gets good, right, here's where you start to care. The 303 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 2: damn man is already dead, like he's sleeping, and except 304 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 2: there's blood on the pillow. I know a thing or 305 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 2: two about a thing or two, And while everyone else 306 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 2: is just like what the fuck happened here? I can 307 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 2: tell them that, like Okay, bear with me. You know 308 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 2: that the world is made up of three worlds, right. 309 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 2: I know A tries to keep you in the dark 310 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,479 Speaker 2: on basic cosmology. But there's three worlds form a triangle. 311 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 2: We live on the material. Then there's the ether, which 312 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:10,560 Speaker 2: is I guess where you could call the angels. That's 313 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 2: where they live. Then there's the rot with you know, demons. Right, 314 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 2: we touch both other planes, and each of those other 315 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: planes touches ours and the other one. It's a triangle, 316 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 2: not your dumb hell or of heaven linear hierarchy you've 317 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 2: been lied to. So as humans live on the material, right, 318 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 2: But we're made out of stuff that transfers from one 319 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: to the other. What you call your higher soul than 320 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 2: your lower soul, which are dumb words for it, by 321 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 2: the way, I say, it's a gape and thelema, and 322 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: maybe those are dumb words for it too, Who knows. 323 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: When you die, your stuff moves on. A gape goes 324 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 2: in the circle clockwise, heads over to the ether till 325 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 2: it heads over the rot, till it heads on back 326 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 2: to the material. Thelema goes caraclockwise over to the rot, 327 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: then the ether, then back to here. You get the idea, 328 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 2: what has this got to do with ear spikes? See, 329 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 2: back before your fucking god kings ascended, people here knew 330 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 2: a thing or two about the planes, and more people 331 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 2: than just us weirdos could communicate across those borders. And 332 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 2: those people whose name is lost to us, probably forever 333 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: in my society, the hermetic order of nothing, we call them 334 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 2: the forgotten people, which is not super original, but it 335 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 2: is descriptive. Those people, the forgotten people. They used to 336 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 2: kill people by jamming spikes into their ear. That's my point. 337 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 2: It's kind of classy and not much mess. Didn't even 338 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: wake the guy up. You should try it. No, actually, 339 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 2: well not you. You shouldn't try it. You're a cop. 340 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: You actually shouldn't kill people or exist. I'd say quit 341 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 2: your job and find new friends, but it's too late 342 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 2: for that. So there we are, and I'm trying to 343 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 2: explain a Gape and Thelma to everyone, and they're kind 344 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 2: of ignoring me, because everyone does when I talk about 345 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 2: that stuff. And Malice is looking through the guy's bedroom 346 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 2: and there's like it's like a dumb, goddamn museum and 347 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 2: they are complete with stolen artifacts, pine glass and plaques. 348 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 2: There's an old, rusty saber from Kirik and a rovy 349 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 2: and rare book. And wait, get this, there's a human 350 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 2: skull labeled as having belonged to a chieftain of Sore. 351 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 2: Can you believe it? You're just staring at me. You 352 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 2: don't get it. Soor doesn't have chieftains. It never did. 353 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 2: The whole country is built on a plateau no one 354 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 2: was able to reach until the god King Sore lifted 355 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 2: his people up with his mighty magic or whatever. Come on. 356 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 2: Their whole religion is based on that. How do you 357 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 2: not know that Sora is even friends with eighth right now? 358 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 2: You should know that. And there's a glass case where 359 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 2: the elbow guard should be, But of course it's empty 360 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 2: because someone stole it, probably whoever earspiked our good friend. 361 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 2: Because of course the plaque is just a handwritten piece 362 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 2: of paper because there hadn't been enough time to find 363 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 2: an engraver. It says elbow guard probably important. We're all 364 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 2: having to laugh about the chieftain's skull. Unto a rat 365 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 2: runs in, looks up at Sanny, and Sanny looks down 366 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 2: at the rat, and they turn to us and tell 367 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: us that people are on their way a lot of people. 368 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 2: That's the good thing about having a swarm of rats 369 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: at your command. What kind of people, Losa asked, They 370 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 2: don't know their fucking rats, Sanny said, only Sanny probably 371 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 2: doesn't curse when they said it. We should get the 372 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 2: fuck out here again, probably without the fuck. It's hard 373 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 2: not to cuss when I'm in your shitty fucking carriage. 374 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 2: Do you people not know how to fix a roof? 375 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 2: You keep it shitty just so your guests have it worse. 376 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 2: But you have it worse too, you asshole. You're just 377 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 2: making the fucking world worse. God, I can't wait to 378 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 2: get out of here and kill you. My nose is 379 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 2: fucking bleeding and I can't see shit, and my hands 380 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 2: are cramping anyway, so we fuck off right back out 381 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 2: the window. The doggirls who drove us there, they're gone. 382 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 2: I guess they saw which way the wind was blowing. 383 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 2: And those bikers like some of us all right, but 384 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 2: not enough to fight off the cops and risks getting 385 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 2: killed or sent to hazard. That's how we figure whoever's coming, 386 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 2: it's probably you all. Malice wants to stay and shoot 387 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 2: you all with her bolt thrower, which sounds like a 388 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 2: reasonable plan to me, but Sanny and Losa don't like it, 389 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 2: so we break into the empty house next door and 390 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 2: lay low. Sure enough, it's you and your buds who 391 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 2: show up. Probably remember this part. You go in search 392 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 2: the house, find the body. 393 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 3: Me. 394 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 2: What I do is I make sure my friends are 395 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 2: keeping watch, and I pull out the candles and the 396 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 2: incense and the chalk and the charcoal, and I get 397 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: myself a circle drawn up on the wood floor in 398 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:16,919 Speaker 2: the empty house, and I tie a silk rope around 399 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 2: my waist and I project myself into the ether, or 400 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 2: to be more accurate, some portion of my gape crosses 401 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 2: over while my body stays put, and I'm walking around 402 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 2: like a ghost through walls and shit, tethered to my 403 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 2: body by that rope. I pop over next door and 404 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 2: guess whose essence is still lingering, not dissolved yet into 405 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 2: the ether proper, Reverend Lemon Hen the fucking fourteenth, that's 406 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 2: Who's It's funny because that's how I know you were 407 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 2: one of the kingsmen who showed up, because I was 408 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 2: in the room with you while you were investigating good eye, 409 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 2: catching that feather. 410 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: On the ground. 411 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 2: By the way, we'd missed that Lambon is standing there, 412 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 2: looking all angelic and blist out like every other dead prick, 413 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 2: And he seems surprised that I can see him, asks 414 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 2: if I'm an angel sent to help usher him into 415 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 2: heaven for his lifetime of good deeds. So I look 416 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 2: at him, and I never claimed to be an honest girl. Well, 417 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 2: I mean, I've claimed it, but it's never been true. 418 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 2: I look at him and I say, yep, that's me, 419 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 2: sirraphic as hell. Just need to tie up some loose ends, 420 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 2: get everything sort of with your paperwork. Tell me in 421 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 2: your own words, how you died. He tells me his story, 422 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 2: which wasn't too long. He went to bed same as normal, 423 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 2: then woke up feeling something weird. Flicked his eyes open, 424 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 2: saw a man, gaunt and age leaning over him, pale 425 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 2: skin like the lampreman. Then he caught, just a moment's glance, 426 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 2: just like the saw some horror the likes of which 427 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 2: he'd never dreamed. Some kind of taxidermy bird gone wrong, 428 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 2: six feet tall, feathered, beaked eyes everywhere across his body. 429 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 2: What was it? He asked, like I had all the 430 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 2: answers I did this time, though, and I wanted to 431 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: be addict to him and make something up. But I thought, 432 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 2: you know what, this guy's like, soular whatever. He is 433 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 2: about to disintegrate into the ether and he's never going 434 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 2: to experience anything ever again. And it looks like I've 435 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 2: got a soft spot for folks who are already dead 436 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 2: or like in your case, basically already dead. So I 437 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 2: tell him, and this is where I cut to ads. 438 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 2: But I think we're gonna run our don't talk to 439 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 2: cops ad because this is a whole story about someone 440 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: who talks to cops. You shouldn't do this. This is bad. 441 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 2: So here's an ad about not talking to cops. And 442 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 2: then if any other ads run it was a terrible mistake. 443 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: The Washington State Highway Patrol. 444 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, just the all sides of this picture. You know, 445 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,880 Speaker 2: we believe in something over here. 446 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 1: Here's that we believe in something. 447 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, not sure what these things we believe in, these 448 00:22:47,760 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 2: sponsors and we're back. And this is what you want 449 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 2: to know too. You and Lemon have got a lot 450 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 2: in common. Actually, I tell him that he's describing a 451 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: demon sort of. I'm telling him he saw a geddesist 452 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 2: above him. You think, as a cultists are rare and 453 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 2: scary those of us who fuck with the ether. Oh, 454 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 2: you're gonna love the geddesists, so they fuck with the rot. 455 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 2: I tell Lemonhon that this guy built a mannequin out 456 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 2: of dead animals and then ripped open a portal in 457 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 2: the rot and lit a little bit of that weird 458 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 2: shit that lives over there into the material to animate 459 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 2: his little death puppet, which means he likely made some 460 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 2: kind of deal, like you serve me for a week, 461 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 2: then you're free to go do whatever you want and 462 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 2: the material, which means the city is actually in for 463 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 2: some bad luck soon because that fucking thing is still 464 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 2: out there, and that's your fault. You know that people 465 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 2: you claim to protect are gonna die anyway. He tells 466 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 2: me about the Gaddesist, and I tell him, thanks, buddy, 467 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 2: you'll be whissed off soon enough. Don't worry about the 468 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 2: slow disintegration of what's left in your mind, all part 469 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 2: of the process. I don't tell them about the angels 470 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 2: that are going to be eating his soul, same as 471 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 2: Maggote to corpse. I just pop back over to my body. 472 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 2: Low Sun, Malice are playing dice. Sannie is talking to 473 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 2: their rats. I guess you could say, talking to themselves. 474 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 2: I tell them what's up, and Sannie's like, oh weird, 475 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 2: dead bird creature rats can track that. Off we go, 476 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 2: and you know where we went because you tracked us. 477 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 2: Ave only knows how you bastards are good at tracking people. 478 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 2: I'll give you that. All the way through p Number South, 479 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 2: around Triumph Plaza down to the South Docks, the rain 480 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: picked up and didn't help our mood, and it took 481 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 2: us half the night to get where we were going, 482 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 2: to a little run down shack up against a peer 483 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,880 Speaker 2: with someone muttering insighed. So we're all set to kick 484 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 2: in the door. I've got a bomb out and everything, 485 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 2: cigarette lit and the holder in my mouth. When Malice says, you, guys, 486 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 2: I don't think this is how we should approach this situation. 487 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: And if Malice doesn't think direct physical confrontation is the 488 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: best solution, then it means a really not the right solution, 489 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 2: because she solves almost everything with silence. Soon we scoot 490 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 2: on over in the dark under the pier and back 491 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 2: out comes the candles and the chalk and the rope, 492 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 2: and I'm off to the ether for a second time 493 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 2: that night. You know how tiring. That is whatever, hop 494 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 2: on into the shack. There's this guy, there's the demon. 495 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 2: They're talking. Demons talk weird. Imagine like eight people talking 496 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 2: at once, saying almost the same thing but not quite. 497 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 2: But the core of it is pretty banal. The getes 498 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 2: sist's a spy for her, is going to sell them 499 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 2: the elbow guard. That's it. Then the demon says there's 500 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 2: someone outside, and the two rush out the door, and 501 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 2: I turn around to rush back in my body, but 502 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 2: I don't even make it through the wall before I 503 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 2: black out. And guess where I wake up? Here with you? 504 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 2: Alecti was silent for a while after telling her story, 505 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 2: waiting for the lawman to say something or react in 506 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: any way. He didn't. A fear came over her for 507 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,119 Speaker 2: the first time. She was certain that whatever else, her 508 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 2: friends were out there in the city looking for her, 509 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: tracking the carriage. They would call in some favors, and 510 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: any minute now a crew on dog's wheels were going 511 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 2: to roll up, engines roaring, and Malice was going to 512 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,919 Speaker 2: use that big gun of hers to set her free. 513 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,479 Speaker 2: She just thought it would have happened by now. She 514 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 2: hadn't figured she'd reach the end of this story. The 515 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: cop must have been able to see her confidence drain away, 516 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 2: because a smile slowly worked its way across his face. 517 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: She couldn't give up, not on her friends. Yeah, they'd 518 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 2: let her get captured in the first place, but they 519 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 2: must have been busy dealing with the spy and his demon. 520 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 2: Any minute now, she sighed, leaned her head against the 521 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: window as rain dropped down on her cheek. Next time, 522 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 2: she was going to go to the party alone, and 523 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 2: the only call to adventure she was going to answer 524 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 2: was the adventure of getting laid or maybe, And she 525 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,919 Speaker 2: knew she was getting real desperate and sad when her 526 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 2: mind went into this the darkest of corners. Maybe she 527 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 2: should ask Losa back out. Yeah, they hadn't been good 528 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 2: for each other, but whoever was given up? Then the 529 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,479 Speaker 2: lawman finally asked. She sat upright and glared. The carriage 530 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,439 Speaker 2: slowed to a halt. Looks like we're here, he said. 531 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 2: Then blessedly, a foot long steel bolt shot through the 532 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 2: sidewall of the carriage and impaled the man through the chest, 533 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 2: pinning him to the firewall. Blood came to his mouth, 534 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 2: dripping into his gray beard, and he looked down with 535 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 2: surprise and horror. A scream broke through sudden and shocking silence. 536 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: ELECTI had heard that scream before. That was the scream 537 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 2: of a man covered in rats. Then the scream stopped, 538 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 2: replaced with a gurgling. That was the noise of a 539 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 2: throat cut with a scalpel. The driver, you do love me, 540 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,679 Speaker 2: ELECTI said, as the door to the carriage was wrenched 541 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 2: off its hinges. What, Malice asked, tossing the steel door aside. 542 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 2: Los and Sanny peered in from behind her. I said, 543 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 2: what took you so long? ELECTI lied, Oh, Malice said, 544 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 2: looking genuinely Contrite. The demon and the spy slowed us down. 545 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 2: They got away too with the elbow guard. Losa stepped 546 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 2: into the carriage, pulled out a scalpel and picked the 547 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 2: handcuffs open. Thank you, ELECTI whispered into Losa's ear, where 548 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 2: the others couldn't hear it. Fuck I was so scared, 549 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 2: me too, Losa whispered. All I could think was that 550 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 2: what if I never saw you again? I'm sorry we 551 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 2: let them get you. They met eyes for half a moment, 552 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 2: then drifted away. All right, you dumb bitches, ELECTI said, 553 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 2: standing up glancing over quickly at the still dying cop 554 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 2: on the bench across from her. Let's go steal back 555 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 2: in artifact. That's the end of the story. 556 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: That was fun. 557 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 2: Thanks. I picked you because I think you're the only 558 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 2: person I know who will know if I pronounced a 559 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 2: gape orthelima right or wrong. 560 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: You did not pronounce thelima right, But that's okay. 561 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 2: Thelima is that the lima? 562 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, okay, But all the characters do sound like 563 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: people I have noted my life. Yeah, ah, I see, 564 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: I see what Margaret's pulling from here. 565 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 566 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: No, even just the way they talk it like, oh yeah. 567 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 3: You're you're obviously cofeeing someone's very specific speech patterns. Yeah, totally, yeah, absolutely. 568 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: Oh that was fun. The wordflow was very nice to 569 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: listen to. 570 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 2: Thanks. Yeah, it was fun to do the like I 571 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 2: tried writing. It's actually very hard to write D and 572 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 2: D style campaign things like adventures, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, 573 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: and you know it'll never it's always sort of a compromises. 574 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 2: It's just a different way of storytelling, and so I 575 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 2: really like doing it at first person so that I 576 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 2: could be like a little bit more free form. Also, 577 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 2: Sophie has been asking me to do a love story 578 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 2: with this with this show for a while, and I've 579 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 2: been struggling to find a good love story, and so 580 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: that's part of why I chose this one. Okay, okay, Sophie, 581 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 2: this is the this is the love story that you 582 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 2: asked for. 583 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was. 584 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 3: It was. 585 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: It was quite fun. I no it. It really did 586 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: sound like someone's like someone like a very specific person's 587 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: like a conversational flow. Yeah, either either with them just 588 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 1: like talking to themselves or just like going on like 589 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: a mini rant. They just like keep talking. 590 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. 591 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, that's that's kind of how someone sounds. 592 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: But they just like keep just like keep going. 593 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 2: Well, and in this case, it's like she thinks that 594 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 2: she's going to get interrupted any second, and then she's like, yeah, yeah, fuck, 595 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 2: why am I still going? Like yeah, and probably like 596 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 2: slowly becoming aware that talking to the cop might not 597 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 2: have been the right move. 598 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, this was this was perhaps a mistake. Yeah, ah, yeah, 599 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: that was that was quite fun. The uh, the rat 600 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: person kind of terrifies me, but that's fine. 601 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 2: Well, if you want to hear Jamie Loftis play a 602 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 2: rat King character Jamie loftis is on If you search 603 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 2: for number City on YouTube, you'll find an example play 604 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: of an adventure where one of the other co writers 605 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 2: of the game inman runs a game for us. And 606 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 2: I actually don't even remember what my character is, but 607 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 2: I remember that Jamie's character is a rat king. 608 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: I do remember a while ago Jamie getting really into 609 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: the rat king. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a 610 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: that's a solid Jamie character. 611 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 612 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: Malice is interesting to me as well. 613 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 2: I malice is I've used that name for characters before. 614 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 2: I played an Orc labor thug and a Dungeons and 615 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 2: Dragons campaign where I like ran around with a mall 616 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 2: and tried to convince people to join industrial unionism, much 617 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 2: to the rest of no one else who was playing 618 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 2: that campaign with me was trying to make it about 619 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 2: a destroy union. What the fuck are you doing? We're 620 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 2: trying to play a game. Yeah, I'm like, why are 621 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 2: you like this? Yeah, it's more fun this way, but 622 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 2: uh yeah. 623 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: All of all of the dog girl names were way 624 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: way more pretty than most of the dog girls I 625 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: have met, And it's like, what was it was like 626 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: it was like like Petunia or something. What was carburetor 627 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: is the least carburetor makes sense? Yeah, tracks wrench is okay? 628 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 629 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: The third one specifically was was much much Patunia, much 630 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 1: too pretty for yeah, for a dog girl. In my experience, 631 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: that's fine. As a dog girl appreciator, that is that, 632 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: it's fine. 633 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 2: Okay, So, so dog girls are different than you're probably 634 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 2: perceiving dog girls. It's not a fir. 635 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: No no no by your version of dog girls is 636 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: pretty spot on. Actually, okay, okay, in this case, they're 637 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: squad or bikers. Yeah yeah, no, yep, yeah yeah, all right, 638 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: you got it, you got it, all right, all right. 639 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: Most of the anarchist dog girls I have I have met. 640 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 2: Yes, fair enough. I don't even remember where that name 641 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 2: comes from, like, because there was some of these characters 642 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 2: have existed as concepts for like ten years before I 643 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,959 Speaker 2: started writing it as a role playing game, you know, 644 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 2: and I was like writing these like different gangs in 645 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 2: this city, and it was just going to be this 646 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 2: novel I was like plotting out. And so it's funny 647 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 2: because some of the styles of characters I remember where 648 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 2: they came from. Not all of them were by me. 649 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 2: The world soon became a much more open thing with 650 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 2: other designers, but dog Girl was one of the original characters, 651 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 2: and I just like, don't I have no fucking clue 652 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 2: where I came up with that name. 653 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 1: I've never heard of Diesel Pug before, but I like 654 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: the idea. 655 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 2: Well, so I started writing this. My deepest, darkest secret 656 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 2: is that I used to run a magazine called Steampunk Magazine. 657 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 2: Oh oh, And when I first started writing this, it 658 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 2: was kind of my like fuck you to steampunk. It 659 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,919 Speaker 2: was my like, this could have been a beautiful, weird 660 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 2: anti colonial thing, like with fiction set during a really 661 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 2: interesting time period where capitalism and the distrialization were really 662 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 2: doing their thing, you know, to. 663 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 1: The people with top hats and mice inside pulling gears levers. 664 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It was like, instead, one of the most obnoxious. 665 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 2: There's many, many wonderful people that I met through that subculture, 666 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 2: but like it, it didn't go in ways that I 667 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 2: found interesting, and so I actually started writing it as 668 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 2: this kind of like steampunk world. And then this publisher 669 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,800 Speaker 2: reached out to me and was like, hey, do you 670 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 2: want to write a role playing game world that I've 671 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,800 Speaker 2: been writing the mechanics for, And I was like, yeah, totally. 672 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 2: And so he hired me to write this world. And 673 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 2: he was like, I want to write a steampunk world. 674 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 2: And I was like, can it be a fuck you 675 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,279 Speaker 2: to steampunk world? Can it be a this is what 676 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 2: it should have been world? And he was like, yeah, okay, fine, 677 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,520 Speaker 2: And so this was my like fuck you, I quit. 678 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,360 Speaker 2: This is what it should have been that I started 679 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 2: in like twenty twelve or something like that. Okay, And 680 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 2: then and then that publisher just literally disappeared, just like 681 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 2: they had a successful kickstarter for some other game and 682 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,959 Speaker 2: then never finished that game and then. 683 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 1: Disappeared many such cases. 684 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, and so then I was just left with this 685 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 2: orphan world without a role playing game system. And then 686 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 2: eventually I brought on some other people or some of 687 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 2: my friends offered to help me basically, and started making 688 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 2: it this new thing. And then I was like, I 689 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:45,239 Speaker 2: have no allegiance to setting this in the equivalent of 690 00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 2: the early nineteenth century, And so now it has more 691 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 2: of like the diesel punk vibe, is more of like 692 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 2: World War One vibe in a lot of ways. 693 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 1: I think some of it also feels like a world 694 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: that we could slide into. Yeah, Like it's not even 695 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: just a past thing. It's like, what if our world 696 00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: goes through a sort of collapse, but people still use diesel, 697 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 1: but now diesel's like the OA, like most other technology 698 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 1: has now become not like functioning, Yeah, but the diesel 699 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: has remained like that is kind of also what it 700 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 1: reminded me as it's like it's like we're like sliding 701 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:16,919 Speaker 1: back in time. 702 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, although but in this particular world, they actually still 703 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 2: use steam boilers and not diesel engines, but the vibe 704 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,200 Speaker 2: is more diesel punk. Okay, okay, there's like radio and electricity, 705 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 2: but they haven't figured out the diesel engine. Interesting because 706 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,240 Speaker 2: most places actually use magic more than technology anyway, because 707 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 2: you can enslave angels in this world, you. 708 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 1: Know, many many such cases. 709 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. 710 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll send you on a little treasure hunt. Yeah, 711 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's a little John d joke. Well, 712 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,319 Speaker 1: I did like the ether. That was that was fun. 713 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 1: That was fun. The demon I felt was probably appropriately grotesque. 714 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some I can't remember the name of the 715 00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 2: word for that particular demon, a stole us. I think 716 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,320 Speaker 2: that the people who wrote up the demons had a 717 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,840 Speaker 2: lot of fun with them. I bet, I bet well 718 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 2: that does it for book club this week. If you 719 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:21,840 Speaker 2: liked the number City, you can get it. There's a 720 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 2: print book and an ebook, and we finally started mailing 721 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,840 Speaker 2: it out to the backers. It's back from the printer 722 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 2: and it's off in the mail towards people. If you 723 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 2: backed it last summer, thank you very much, and your 724 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 2: book will be in the mail shortly if it is 725 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,320 Speaker 2: not already, and you can order it through Tangled Wilderness. 726 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,399 Speaker 2: Strangers in Entangled Wilderness is a publishing collective that I'm 727 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 2: part of, and eventually it'll be available through other distributors 728 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 2: and stuff. But we are We're used to printing and 729 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 2: distributing books. But every every creative feel has entirely different 730 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 2: distribution systems. And like, if you want to make a 731 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,960 Speaker 2: board game, you're dealing with an entirely different world than 732 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 2: if you make a tabletop role playing game. Then if 733 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 2: you make a legally distinct from chooser and adventure book, 734 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 2: then if you, huh, it's very annoying. 735 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:09,319 Speaker 1: Yeah that sounds that sounds complicated. 736 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, But and if you but once. 737 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:15,359 Speaker 1: There's a novella on the way, there is. 738 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,640 Speaker 2: I have no idea what's going to be about you. 739 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 2: I have some idea of what it's going to be 740 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 2: about yet but not totally. Might might be these characters, 741 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,239 Speaker 2: might be other ones. I might write something that's just 742 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,680 Speaker 2: like weird, sad nineteenth century nihilist literature, but said in 743 00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 2: this world without like much in the way. 744 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,360 Speaker 1: Of an adventure at all. I mean, nineteenth century nihilist 745 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,240 Speaker 1: literature is very different than modern nihlist literature. Yes, okay, 746 00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,879 Speaker 1: So like you mean actually nineteenth century nihlist literacy. Yeah yeah, 747 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,360 Speaker 1: like like Russian, like like Russian nihlist literature. 748 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, like basically social democrats, social democrats, yeah, yes, 749 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 2: a fascinating politics. Yeah. The eighteen sixties when people, when 750 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,120 Speaker 2: boys with log hair, wanted to overthrow society much like 751 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,160 Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties. 752 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:05,879 Speaker 1: Well, I certainly look forward to that. 753 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh shit, now I might be stuck with that. Well, 754 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 2: if you want to hear more of Gear, you can 755 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,840 Speaker 2: hear Gear on It could happen here, which might be 756 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 2: where you're listening to this anyway. And if you want 757 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 2: to hear more of me, you can hear me on whatever. 758 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 2: My cool Zone media show is called Cool People. 759 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 1: With People Stuff Who did Cool Stuff? 760 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, in which I talk about the nihilist from 761 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 2: the eighteen sixties and one of the first episodes. You 762 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,680 Speaker 2: can go back in this spice and we'll see you 763 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 2: all next week. And in the meantime, I don't have 764 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:40,759 Speaker 2: a catchphrase to sign off with. 765 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,799 Speaker 1: Bye, don't talk to cops, Watch out for the Ether. 766 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it could Happen here as a production of cool 767 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:48,760 Speaker 2: Zone Media. 768 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,560 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from cool Zone Media, visit our website 769 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,799 Speaker 1: cool Zonemedia dot com, or check us out on the 770 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 771 00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 1: You can find sources for It Could Happen Here, updated 772 00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,040 Speaker 1: monthly at coolzonmedia dot com slash sources. 773 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.