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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.

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Speaker 2: I'm welcome to stuff I've never told you production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And for today I thought we would go ahead and

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Speaker 2: bring back our classic we did on a book one

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Speaker 2: of the way Haven Chronicles, which will probably help you

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Speaker 2: understand our recent book club we did on two and

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Speaker 2: three of the way Haven Chronicles. Maybe not, but I

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Speaker 2: feel like our listener Amanda, had a great rundown of it,

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Speaker 2: a great explanation, and it was really fun.

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Speaker 3: I enjoyed. I enjoyed coming back to it.

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Speaker 2: I'm playing again, So yes, please enjoy this classic episode.

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Speaker 3: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to step never told any production of iHeartRadio,

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Speaker 2: and today we are doing a revisit that we're very

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Speaker 2: excited about. Yes, because recently on a Monday Mini you

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Speaker 2: Samantha were talking about how you'd really gotten into these

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Speaker 2: Choose your Own Adventure phone games.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yes, kind of like it's called Choices AH by Pixelberry,

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Speaker 1: and yes, you determine like the characters and what you do.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the problematic things, but how much I'm

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Speaker 1: enjoying it, and I am still on it and I'm

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Speaker 1: still a bit obsessed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and we in that episode you were talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of the binary problems that might arise

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Speaker 2: and some of these more misogynistic are things like that

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Speaker 2: that might arise. But when you were talking about it,

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Speaker 2: I remembered that we had a listener who wrote in

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Speaker 2: I think a year ago, named Amanda, who was like,

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Speaker 2: you've got to play Way Haven Way Haven Chronicles because it's,

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Speaker 2: you know, got vampires, it's got supernatural elements, it's got romance,

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Speaker 2: all of this stuff.

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Speaker 3: And I had downloaded it then.

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Speaker 2: Because I was like, yes, I would love to do this,

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Speaker 2: and then I never played it because I got distracted.

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Speaker 2: But this restarted the memory and we Samantha and I

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Speaker 2: have now played the first book.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I got through it much faster than you.

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Speaker 1: Why can make because you are two weeks ahead of me?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, how did I get faster than you?

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Speaker 1: To be fair, when I get caught up something in something,

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Speaker 1: But I was like, wait, you've been on that one

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Speaker 3: What I can't wait to talk about that? It was

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Speaker 2: I was just deliberating back, I was like sending people

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Speaker 2: was like, here are the plus and minuses of going

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Speaker 2: with those persons. What it took me forever to make

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Speaker 2: the decision. And I like that you had a prediction.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back and talk about it about like who

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Speaker 2: I should have done.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, I assumed that it would be a specific person.

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Speaker 1: And then I was like, oh, you didn't not at all.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yes, Oh we're going to talk about it.

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Speaker 2: So this is going to be sort of a lighter,

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Speaker 2: more fun episode where we talk about our experiences. But

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Speaker 2: we just asked, like, what was your experience, what did

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Speaker 2: your experience with the game, And Amanda delivered and sent

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Speaker 2: you're amazing. If you're listening to you, you are essentially

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Speaker 2: interviewing us. In this episode, you were the interviewer because

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Speaker 3: The questions that you wrote out. Yeah, yes, you're a hero.

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Speaker 1: I mean to our attention. We enjoyed this very much.

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Speaker 1: Your answers were amazing. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think this is going to be fun and

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to compare our statistics because essentially, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you choose, you get a lot of options, and you

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Speaker 2: and your statistics based on the choices that you made.

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Speaker 2: So at the end, Samantha and I are going to

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Speaker 2: and it's like, what are you talking about? The way

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Speaker 2: Even Chronicles are a choose your own adventure game that

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Speaker 2: you can play on multiple platforms including Steam by Mishka Jenkins.

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Speaker 2: And here's the description from the Choice of Games website.

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Speaker 2: Your first case as a detective is forcing you to

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Speaker 2: Book one is a thrilling four hundred and forty thousand

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Speaker 2: word interactive fantasy novel by Mishka Jenkins where your choices

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Speaker 2: sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unsuppable power of

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Speaker 2: your imagination. I did have very specific images in mind.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about this, like what did you think?

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Speaker 1: What did you see versus what I saw? We saw

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Speaker 3: If we did, we did. Indeed.

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Speaker 2: The description continues experience the big and small moments with

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Speaker 2: Play as female, male, or non binary, with options to

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Speaker 2: be straight, gay, or bisexual. Discover the start of distinct

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Speaker 2: and lasting romances with the vampires of Unit Bravo spoiler,

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Speaker 2: Define and refine relationships with a variety of characters from friends, family, exes,

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Speaker 3: And fun fun. I love it so yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if I had to describe it, I would

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Speaker 2: say it is a shifting POV. But primarily you are

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Speaker 3: I named mine Kira Kingston.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we both chose Kira, so it was like four

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Speaker 2: who is started as detective in this small town of

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Speaker 2: And you're not sure what's going on. And then your mother,

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Speaker 3: And yes they're all vampires. Yeah, well, this group is

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Speaker 1: I just say it.

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Speaker 3: And I did have a lot of fun playing it.

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Speaker 2: I was funny how much I got so caught up

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Speaker 1: And I contemplated a decision for days.

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Speaker 2: For days, and I would also I would I wonder

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Speaker 1: Part of the fun. It's like doing what you think

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're gonna blame it on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is because those affect those choices affect you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, clearly, I guess we should have said not a

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Speaker 1: Right now, Yeah, game sponsors best fiends and yes, I

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to talk about that again.

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Speaker 2: Samantha gets real real, come.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I love it.

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Speaker 2: And Amanda was kind enough to answer these questions in

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Speaker 3: So we thought we'd play that.

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Speaker 4: What can I say about the way Haven Chronicles, Well,

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Speaker 4: Do you love slow burns with yearning? Av Adam is

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Speaker 4: Each of these interactions is so unique and varies depending

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Speaker 4: This is in part due to the choices helping you

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Speaker 4: With no spoilers, I've never had two runs to be

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Speaker 3: Oh no, not me. I was like, just leave me

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Speaker 2: but I am such a I guess there is a

440
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 2: slightly different It's hard for me to be snarky.

441
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: Oh I was so snarky.

442
00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 2: I know, I'm one hundred percent. I was like, Samantha's

443
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 2: gonna choose this one. Every time I would see a choice,

444
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,400
Speaker 2: I like, Samantha, She's gonna.

445
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: Be forgiving it, loving, and I'll be like, no, thank you.

446
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 3: It's kind of I'm kind of notoriously.

447
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 2: I cannot like in Mass Effect, I can't be the renegade.

448
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 3: I have to be the parent. I can't do it.

449
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 2: And in like BioShock, I cannot do like take the

450
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 2: the energy from the tool.

451
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 3: I can't do it.

452
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 2: Even if I'd get like a different ending or a

453
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 2: slightly different thing, I just can't do it, so it

454
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 2: would be interesting for me. There were certainly a lot

455
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: of choices. I was like this one or this one,

456
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 2: and so I'm sure I could have a play through.

457
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how different it would be.

458
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: So I was more snocky with the new new Bravo

459
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: team and the mom than I was with my coworkers.

460
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 3: I will say, mm hmm, yeah, I want I'm curious.

461
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 2: I think the thing I'm most curious about is the

462
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 2: last like the finale, I guess because there was a

463
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,360
Speaker 2: lot in the kind of combat section at the end

464
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 2: where I was like I was, I got really in

465
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 2: my head about what would I actually do? So this

466
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 2: this one was very much me, a reflection of me,

467
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 2: of what I would do.

468
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 1: This is me being the Yeah, absolutely I'm a badass and.

469
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 3: I'm not Mine was very much like can't we all

470
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 3: get along?

471
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:39,720
Speaker 1: Nope?

472
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 2: That's interesting though, So yours wasn't necessarily you like, reflection

473
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 2: of you.

474
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: No, it is what I want to be. Okay, okay,

475
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: except the but I mean it's an interspersed you know,

476
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: you can't really because I couldn't absolutely be a jerk

477
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: the entire time. Like so like with a mortician, I

478
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: was very nice and like the CSI person was like

479
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: he and I are very close, the friend, the ex

480
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: partner very close. Even the dude who was the governor's whatever.

481
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,640
Speaker 1: I was still like, eh, nothing to push those buttons.

482
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: But with like the team, if they pushed up gets me,

483
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: I pushed back like that's kind of that level. The

484
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: mom that was not as forgiving understanding, but not.

485
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 2: Uh huh okay, I mean, yeah, you can't totally separate

486
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 2: it out, but mine was certainly me trying to figure

487
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 2: out what I would actually do, so it could be

488
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 2: fun to do one where I'm just like I wish,

489
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 2: like this is the thing, seeing the differences.

490
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: That's the next run.

491
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay. So Amanda continues first book, Rundown. Note.

492
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 2: I chose my romantic partner preference to be only women,

493
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,960
Speaker 2: so the names below will reflect the female variations for

494
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 2: reference Ava Adam, Natalie nat slash Nate, Morgan slash Mason

495
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:00,879
Speaker 2: slash Felix.

496
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,919
Speaker 1: Okay, so if I say I'm heterosexual, it would all

497
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: be men.

498
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.

499
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: So, oh that's interesting Okay, that's not as much fun.

500
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, never do that version.

501
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna but that stills not so fun.

502
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 2: My first playthrough back when the first book released back

503
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. Shout out to the recap feature in

504
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: the second book for reminding me how it went, and

505
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 2: apparently I loved it so much I made an immediate

506
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 2: second run. So yes, when you start the second one,

507
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: it's like, do you want to recap?

508
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 3: How much details do you want?

509
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: Right?

510
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 2: You can also import your game from the first one,

511
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 2: which is what we did. Amanda continues. My detective personality

512
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 2: the first time pretty much reflected my own at the time,

513
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: so a bit serious, a little snarky, and all about

514
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: getting the job done. I followed the rules, including throwing

515
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:50,680
Speaker 2: away my precious coffee and pastry, and got along most

516
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: with Tina. I didn't let Douglas, who's the mayor's son

517
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 2: who's also an intern, do whatever he wanted, and tried

518
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 2: to make him actually work to no avail. I had

519
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 2: a good but reserved relationship with my mother, respecting her

520
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 2: but slightly resenting her for being away much of the time.

521
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: And of course I had Bobby be an ex lover

522
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,640
Speaker 2: from college because a snoopy reporter X and a vampire

523
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 2: love story is perfect for drama, agreed, and then Amanda

524
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 2: runs through major choices, one of them Okay, so yes,

525
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 2: I know we've already spoiled it, but at this point

526
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 2: get out now. If you were like I really don't

527
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: want any more spoilers.

528
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: Well, yours is also going to be different, So reminder

529
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: of that and your choices. You don't know what your

530
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: choices are.

531
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 3: Make that's true.

532
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: But to be fair, So for me, as we said Douglas,

533
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 1: him and my relationship was I ignored him essentially, let

534
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 1: him do what he wanted to and did my own thing,

535
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: not worrying about him. For me, Tina and I were close,

536
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: very close. Bobby and I were just acquaintances because I

537
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: wanted nothing to do with him. He just sounded like

538
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: a douche from the joms, I was like, nope. And

539
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: for Rebecca the mother, we weren't very close in relationship,

540
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: but I understood her absence, but she's still in arm's

541
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: length away.

542
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, Douglas, I tried to get him to do work

543
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: as well, but I also was kind of like I

544
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 2: felt like my hands were tired because he was the mareson,

545
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 2: but I did try to get him to do work.

546
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: Tina and I were really close and there's a scene

547
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,719
Speaker 2: where you like go out to the bar together and

548
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 2: we had a grand old time.

549
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 3: Not too much of a grand old time, but a

550
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 3: grand old time.

551
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 2: Uh. For Bobby, it says past relationship, acquaintance, a reporter

552
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 2: with bad morals. For Rebecca the mom, past relationship, very

553
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: close relationship even.

554
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 3: With the absences.

555
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: I knew it.

556
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

557
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 2: It was always like do you reach out or and

558
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: every other choice was like ignore her or like acknowledged

559
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 2: but don't.

560
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 3: I was always like, who reach out?

561
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 2: We could do this, but okay, it makes fun. I

562
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: knew that was going to be a bit. I was like,

563
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: so I can choose how this relationship is gonna look. Okay, yeah,

564
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 2: ok uh. So major choices that Amanda runs through shoot

565
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: ava first play through, I Pepper sprayed and that has

566
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 2: been a theme throughout unless I decide to let them go.

567
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: I so this is early in the on in the

568
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 2: game where you kind of you run into the vampires.

569
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 2: You don't realize their vampires. I did not shoot. I

570
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: think I was trying to be like, we're gonna talk

571
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 2: this out.

572
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: Oh, I pepper sprayed Adam, Oh really real hard.

573
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: I think I was like talking to them.

574
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: Nope, immediately, no question.

575
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 2: And then Amanda writes reason for joining Wa Haven PD,

576
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: best job to use scientific skills, want to help people,

577
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 2: pretty consistent throughout. I'm a cybersecurity professional in real life

578
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: and even consider joining the FBI early in my career,

579
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 2: so this choice has always been fairly easy. Skills wise,

580
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: I tended to focus on technical and people skills, basic

581
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: detective things.

582
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: The three of us have something uncommon. You wanted to be.

583
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 3: I wanted to be a diplomat slash CIA agent.

584
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and then she does this, and I was

585
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: a state agency, worked with the facts, with the Department

586
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: Juvenial Justice. I wanted to help people a little different

587
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: than zobersecurity. But for a while I was looking to

588
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: do a job with GBI, specifically working with children. But yeah,

589
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: absolutely on that same route. But mine was there was

590
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: no technological stuff. It was all like people.

591
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: I believe because they asked you kind of early on,

592
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 2: how did you become detective? And I think because there

593
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: was one choice that was like, essentially you just had

594
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 2: to do it because the last person retired. I think

595
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: I said something along the lines of like I wanted

596
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: to do it, but I don't feel great about how.

597
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: I remember mind was because I wanted to help you.

598
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 2: I yeah, I And that was pretty much throughout when

599
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 2: it would be like why are you doing this, I

600
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: consistently would say, we need to help people of this town.

601
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 2: We have to prevent something like this happening, always kind

602
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: of focusing in on the town's people. My professional information,

603
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: my people skills is the highest seventy seven percent, combat

604
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: is zero percent, science technology fifty four percent, deductions last

605
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 2: knowledge thirty seven percent, and then buy the book sixty

606
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: three percent, been the rules thirty seven percent.

607
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, because my people's skills was sixty eight percent,

608
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: my combat skills were forty percent, my science technology was

609
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: nineteen percent, deduction fifty two percent, and by the book

610
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: was fifty eight percent, been the rules forty two percent.

611
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: I was pretty even on that.

612
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 2: I feel like you had a you were overall better.

613
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 2: I feel like skills I was black.

614
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: You know, because my science and technology went, We're all

615
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: the way down. I thought I got challenged too.

616
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 3: By the way.

617
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: I'm like I needed to up.

618
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: It right right right right.

619
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see, we'll see what happens, and then Amanda

620
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,719
Speaker 2: continues went out or stayed in, stayed in the office

621
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 2: as a chronic overworker. This made so much sense for

622
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 2: me to do, especially the first playthrough. Though I'm not

623
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 2: going to lie, the going out scene is so much fun.

624
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 2: I've worked on getting a better work life balance, so

625
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 2: later games I tend to go out, especially with romancing

626
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: Morgan for the fun interactions.

627
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: Now I'm curious.

628
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of both. I think I

629
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: definitely went out with Tina a few times. Nate and

630
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: I went out and did out of Thay a couple

631
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: of times. That's all I got.

632
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 2: I don't think I ever went out with Nate other

633
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 2: than a work thing, but I went out with Tina

634
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: and then they all showed up right. And I know

635
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 2: there's that part with Tina asked you out. You have

636
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 2: to like pretty much directly asking you are you going

637
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: to be somebody who stays in or do you go out?

638
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 2: Sometimes you say oh, yeah, yeah, And Tina even asks

639
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 2: like you know about romance, and you can say I

640
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 2: have no time for.

641
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Romance, which I did. I think I said the same thing.

642
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 2: I think I said, like it's not a essentially it's

643
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 2: not a priority for me right now.

644
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: So I need to know. Because they described the home,

645
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: what kind of home did you pick?

646
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 3: I think I did. It was like.

647
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: Cozy, clutter, hozy clutter me too, end. I was like,

648
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: well damn it.

649
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then like the whole team Bravo unit Bravo

650
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 2: comes over and.

651
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 3: They're looking at your apartment.

652
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 2: I remember feeling kind of like embarrassed even though it's

653
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 2: not real.

654
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: It's not real, but yet I was also embarrassed because

655
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: the options are like chic or minimal or industrial or cozy,

656
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: and I was like, of course I'm want to do cozy.

657
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I didn't mean grandma cozy.

658
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: What does cozy mean to you?

659
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: Having enough blank is around so that everyone can have

660
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 1: one if they desire.

661
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 3: Yes, it's in a comfortable place to sit.

662
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I agree, I agree, but that is certainly

663
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 2: my apartment is what I chose the closest thing to

664
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 2: my apartment. And then Amanda writes reaction to vampire revelation,

665
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 2: accepting pretty much always choose this, especially after everything that

666
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: goes down the story. So this is like, when you

667
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 2: find out all these supernatural things they're vampires, how do

668
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 2: you react? I think I did the like what but

669
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 2: okay with it? Eventually, Yeah, me too.

670
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: I think I did the okay and then moved on.

671
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna need time to process.

672
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

673
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 2: I don't think I was ever like oh I hate

674
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 2: this or I hate all of you, or I was

675
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: just sort of like, this is a lot.

676
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 3: All right, well let's keep working.

677
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: Then we got things to.

678
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 2: Do exactly, and then Amanda Wrights agreed to agency blood test. Yes,

679
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 2: this one changes all the time as the story goes on.

680
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:12,879
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a right answer, but I'm sure

681
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 2: it will come back down the road.

682
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 3: I agreed to do it too.

683
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: Me too.

684
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 2: But I was very like I that one I got

685
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 2: stuck on for a long time. But I thought like

686
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 2: story wise, oh, it would.

687
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: Be in real life. I would want to know what's

688
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: wrong with me or what is happening immediately I would

689
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: be yes, mm hmmm, that's a real life decision.

690
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 3: I was very very torn, which is also me in

691
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: real life.

692
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 2: I was like, but now they'll have my blood like

693
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: I was back and forth, back and forth, but I

694
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 2: did eventually it was like, Okay, I want to I

695
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: want to know and see what happens in the story,

696
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 2: and then Amanda writes romance Ava, this was such a

697
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 2: difficult one, and I debated between her and Natalie for

698
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 2: way too long. My second game, I actually ended up

699
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 2: romancing Natalie, and I found that I rarely romance Eva

700
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 2: now because the slow burn and hot and cold of

701
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: her personality has been not my cup of tea as

702
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 2: I have grown older. So Ava being Adam in our case,

703
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's the thing, is, like, I want

704
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,479
Speaker 2: to go back in romance everybody, this is what's gonna

705
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 2: happen to me.

706
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: But I know that we were having real time revelation.

707
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about, my future, my future Ada. No, Yeah,

708
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,919
Speaker 1: I absolutely felt the same way, and like, I think

709
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 1: I would stick to Adam when it comes to like

710
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: romance novels. I like the build up of the fighting

711
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: through also because I'm just a stubborn in real life,

712
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: but also it makes me there's something too just goating

713
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: a little bit in a good way, not mean mean,

714
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, Nate was my character. I try to flirt

715
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: with him, but in the being we're just friends.

716
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean he was a nice guy in

717
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: a non like internet mean way. He was actually a

718
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: nice guy, at least it seems. Who knows what happens later,

719
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 2: I do. I do love a good slow Burn. I

720
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: think part of that is because I often catch myself

721
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: reading Slowburn fan fiction, and I'm not in it for

722
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 2: the romance, but there's something kind of funny.

723
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 3: About it to me where they neither of them realize that.

724
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you fools, So that could be fun,

725
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: and you know, I'll see how this triangle plays out.

726
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: Maybe it will be really interesting. But I did, you

727
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 2: were right, you had it. You hit it on the head.

728
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 2: I wanted to be with Farah, so I guess I'll

729
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 2: have to go back. But I wanted to be with

730
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 2: Morgan too.

731
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: Yeah you did. You try to tell me both, and

732
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, but fair I seemed to be

733
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: the one that would have gotten new Yeah.

734
00:37:48,640 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed, agreed, and then Amanda continues Murphy bite the detective,

735
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 2: so the detective being you yes on the neck first

736
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 2: play through.

737
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 3: I was livid about this.

738
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,239
Speaker 2: I thought I had done everything right, but it was

739
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: one mistake in not trusting my skills. I've had a

740
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 2: few variations to this, and some where there is no bite.

741
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: I definitely got bits, so.

742
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 3: I got it. I was mad too.

743
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I just assumed it was an overall

744
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: like it has to happen so we can play through it.

745
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 2: But okay, apparently not. Oh gosh, now I want to

746
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 2: know what choice? Where did I go wrong?

747
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: Definitely happened to play back. Thanks a lot of money.

748
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 3: Gosh, thanks a lot, Amanda.

749
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: And then finally Murphy's fate, Amanda writes, captured. Not gonna lie,

750
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: Not entirely sure how I managed this on my first

751
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 2: play through, but must have been ecstatic, especially after suffering

752
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,280
Speaker 2: a bite. I feel like most of the other games

753
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 2: I have done wind up with him running away.

754
00:38:57,960 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know he could. I assumed it will

755
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: automatic because yeah, I captured him too, I did too.

756
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: Did you sacrifice yourself to distract him?

757
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

758
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well?

759
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 2: And the thing, the choice I think I did incorrectly,

760
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 2: but I'm I don't regret it because it's totally true.

761
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 2: Was there was like one where she the detective had

762
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 2: the option of like healing herself and then because she

763
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 2: was pretty injured in my case, and then going in

764
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 2: and I ignored the healing and I was like, no,

765
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 2: we're going.

766
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 3: In like a thing.

767
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure I should have taken that moment,

768
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 2: but yeah, I captured him. Uh. And then it sounds

769
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 2: like we're going to be working together U the Detective

770
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 2: and Unit Bramo and future projects because now you're the

771
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: detective is like a supernatural beacon and everybody wants a

772
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 2: piece of.

773
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's the thing. So yeah, because you know,

774
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: as the future. I'm like, oh, it just abruptly ended.

775
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: What happened, realizing it is a three parter, But I

776
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: was like, I assumed it would still like wrap up

777
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: a little bit, and it kind of really didn't. So

778
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, what do I do with this?

779
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: But before we go there, I do want to know

780
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: because there's a part where you can get your personal information.

781
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: So I needed to know what your personality was because

782
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting for Kira Kingston.

783
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 2: For Kia Kingston, all right, personality sixty six percent charming

784
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 2: thirty four percent, intimidating fifty four percent, impulsive forty six percent,

785
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 2: cautious forty three percent, sarcastic fifty seven percent, genuine, friendly

786
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: sixty two percent, stoic thirty eight percent, easygoing sixty two percent,

787
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 2: stubborn thirty eight percent, heart, seventy eight percent mind twenty

788
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 2: two percent, optimist sixty seven percent pessimist thirty three percent,

789
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,240
Speaker 2: team players seventy five percent independent twenty five percent.

790
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that sarcastic one through me. So my personality

791
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 1: chap for kra Lynn was charming fifty three percent, intimidating

792
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: forty seven percent because I'm not going back down, impulsive

793
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: fifty eight percent, while being cautious at forty two percent,

794
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: sarcastic thirty nine percent, while being genuine sixty one percent.

795
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: That's why I was like, what friendly? I was forty

796
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: eight percent friendly, fifty two percent stoic, and then I

797
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: was forty eight percent easygoing, about fifty two percent stubborn,

798
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: which feels about right. And the traits. I'm eighty two

799
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: percent heart, eighteen percent mind, So okay, thanks, I'm fifty

800
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: five percent optimist, the forty five being the pessimist, and

801
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: then a fifty eight percent team player forty two percent independent.

802
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: Wow, there were some surprises in there.

803
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, your sarcastic was a little surprising. I'm not

804
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: gonna lie. It was fun. I was like building it up.

805
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: I was trying to be stoic because I am an observer.

806
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: That is something about always has been told like, I

807
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: will not react until I see what the environment is doing.

808
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,439
Speaker 1: So therefore I probably would be seen as stoic because

809
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 1: I'm not going to especially in new situations, I'm not

810
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: going to react. I'm going to try to figure out

811
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: what's happening before I react and then go for it.

812
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: And I'm going to be reading as many people as possible,

813
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: So that could be a little more personality. But I'm

814
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: sarcastic as hell, so that's quite funny.

815
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 3: I think for me, I'm also an observer, but I

816
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 3: also very uh.

817
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 2: Once I get to know somebody, then my personality really

818
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 2: adapts to what they do. So I think I was

819
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 2: not sarcastic at all at the beginning, but then I

820
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: was like, oh, Morgan seems like she appreciates sarcasm. Maybe

821
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 2: Adam does, so I sort of adapted based on their

822
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 2: personality such as something I.

823
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 3: Do I don't. I think I might.

824
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I was sarcastic with her, but I was

825
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 2: much more like balanced with sarcasm and genuineness with her.

826
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 2: But I mean that is accurate. I think I kind

827
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: of adapted. Since you have multiple characters in there that

828
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: I appreciate sor gas. That's where that came from. I

829
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 2: think overall you were more balanced than me, but that

830
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: you're yeah, definitely balanced heart versus mind was a bit shocking.

831
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 1: Because I was like, would be mean to these people?

832
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: I would be mean to the victim's mother. That's so ridiculous, Like, yeah,

833
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: it didn't make sense. What would I be mean to

834
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: Tina who fills a connection to this family? No, I'm

835
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,439
Speaker 1: not going to be mean to these people. What's wrong

836
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: with you?

837
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 3: What is wrong with you?

838
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 2: And then I feel like looking through my because you

839
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 2: can also look at your relationship stats with the team. Yeah,

840
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 2: I actually like was way more friendly with everybody and

841
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 2: flirting wise.

842
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 3: Much less.

843
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so who are you? Who are you

844
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: most friendly with?

845
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 3: Nate? But Pharah was very close. Nate and Farah very close.

846
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: So they gave you points. Who was the flirt one?

847
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 2: The biggest flirt I had was Nate. I had six

848
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 2: flirting points with him and ten friend points with him.

849
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: Okay, oh wow, so yeah, for Adam I had six

850
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: flirting points, four friends. Nate I had one flirting point

851
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: seven friends. For Faarah, I had zero flirting points and

852
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: three friends, and for Morgan, I had zero flirting points

853
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: and two friends. Oh man, Morgan and I had the

854
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: least good relationship.

855
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 3: I was flirting all about, I was friend friending all about.

856
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 3: All of mine are like higher than that.

857
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, oh, I need to do more, which

858
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: is actually fair? Nah?

859
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 3: No, well, next playthrough, we'll revisit. I am curious about

860
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 3: the future.

861
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,720
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen in the next book, And it's Amanda

862
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 2: fun for you because you already know.

863
00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: But she knows, right. What are your predictions.

864
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be some other stronger supernatural force

865
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 2: and maybe another opposing government force, and they're gonna find out.

866
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 2: I think the secret's gonna get out of the bag

867
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 2: about your very special detective blood.

868
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: I feel like they're gonna synthesize our blood for the team.

869
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 3: Mmm mm hmm. I could see that. I could see that. Well,

870
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 3: I guess we'll see.

871
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see.

872
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:28,439
Speaker 3: Yes.

873
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much, Amanda for this. It was

874
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 2: so fun, and you were a hero and wrote these

875
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: questions and went way above and beyond what we asked.

876
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you for doing this, for sending

877
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: this to us. This is right up my alley as

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Speaker 1: I'm discovering all these new phone games because yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: downloading so many more right now. I think I told

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Speaker 1: any that I'm doing like Find Your Object, Murder Mystery.

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Speaker 1: So come on, I need more suggestions because I'm loving

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Speaker 1: these and after I hit a certain point and I

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Speaker 1: can't win, I'm like, all right, I quit. So I

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Speaker 1: need new suggestions.

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Speaker 2: Noted, new suggestions where she won't quit because she can't wait. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: please send those are away because we do love them

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Speaker 2: and this was really fun and we hope that you

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Speaker 2: enjoyed it as well. You can email us at stephaniea

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Speaker 2: Mom steph atiheartmeia dot com. You can find us on

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Speaker 2: Twitter at Mom' stuff podcast or on Instagram at Stuff

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Speaker 2: I've Never Told You. Thanks as always to our super

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Speaker 2: producer Christina.

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Speaker 1: Christina, have you done this because we need you to

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Speaker 1: do this?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Oh, I would love a comparison of stats, Christina,

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Speaker 2: And thanks to you for listening stuff One told you

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Speaker 2: the prodection of iHeart Radio. For more podcasts from my

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Speaker 2: heart Radio, you can visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts,

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Speaker 2: or where you listen to your favorite shows.