[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, party people!

[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome once again to the party of one podcast, the actual play RPG podcast where the gaming table is always set for two.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host's always Jeff Stormer.

[SPEAKER_01]: This week on the show, I'm joined by Sabrina Hawthon for a Game of Clash.

[SPEAKER_01]: Clash, shown in a battle world plays a tabletop role playing game about dramatic fights and the dramatic emotions those fights represent.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's inspired by classic anime and manga like One Piece, Bleach and Naruto.

[SPEAKER_01]: You play as big bomb basket characters with all sorts of cool powers, facing off against pirates, monsters, and other powerful people just like you.

[SPEAKER_01]: This game was great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I really love playing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: True to its name, it's got a really fun and engaging and interesting back and forth combat system that was really like enjoyable to sit back and kind of like dissect through play.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we really got to just lean into our bullshit in a lot of different ways and it was a blast.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can find more information about clash at Sabrina Hawthorne.its.io or checklist show notes for more information.

[SPEAKER_01]: And with all that said, let's go ahead and throw it over to me in the past.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's let he get started with the show.

[SPEAKER_01]: Take a pass me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, future me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am, uh, I was already excited, but now we've been talking for five minutes off mic and we're gonna get into some very serious things before we play this game.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sending out Sabrina Hawthorne, Sabrina.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much for coming up part of one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks so much, President Jeff.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, future Jeff, could you actually get me a coffee?

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, you're the coolest Jeff, by the way.

[SPEAKER_02]: Did I mention you're my favorite Jeff?

[SPEAKER_01]: What the fuck?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe this.

[SPEAKER_01]: I show up and do the work.

[SPEAKER_01]: Future Jeff sits there, you know, shows up five minutes to do a little bit of a bit.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then like shout out some licks and I and he gets that we're not getting into this.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're not getting into this.

[SPEAKER_01]: We got this way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Can we cut this?

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for coming on the show.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited about the game we're playing today.

[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get into that, before we get into the very serious matters that we were discussing, why don't you take a moment, let our lovely listeners at home, know about what we are playing this week as well as anything else that you've got going on, you want them to know about.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, Jeff's audience.

[SPEAKER_02]: My name is Sabrina Hawthorn.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am a collector player and author of Table Top RPGs.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am currently in development on the game we are playing today.

[SPEAKER_02]: Clash, shown in battle role play.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm beyond excited to be here.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have been nervous about this because [SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, professionals are gonna see the thing I'm making.

[SPEAKER_02]: What if it's terrible?

[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm very excited.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very proud of the system as it exists so far.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've also written a few other things.

[SPEAKER_02]: You might know my work, broke wizards, got recently played on the Tiny Table Podcast.

[SPEAKER_02]: Those folks are great.

[SPEAKER_02]: You should listen.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I wrote, bring the stars home to me, which is a game that I love a lot, and I want more people to play.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a journaling game about being far away from the people you love.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's my sort of, that's my intro, I think.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's about all right.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so let's make combat.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's crucial, it's crucial to know that before we got out Mike, the conversation was so important that I was like, we need to start recording immediately so that we capture this for all my cross-starity.

[SPEAKER_01]: We were talking about card games and we were talking about my intensely beloved [SPEAKER_01]: uh...

collection of weird largely unplayable nineties collectible car games perfectly embodied by the uh...

master work game ultimate combat the official card game of the united stage judo tech window and wrestling team circa nineteen ninety six [SPEAKER_01]: this game is everything to me and also like the thing to me that is so we're saying like is so kind of I think at times frustrating to me as somebody that particularly collects this this weird art is like it is very difficult for collectable car games to for lack of a better way to put it and I want to emphasize that I say the following words with all of the affection and love in the world is somebody that's exclusively traded them [SPEAKER_01]: It is much harder to like get create and celebrate the freak shit.

[SPEAKER_01]: because the realities of printing at scale make making freak shit that much more difficult.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: And yet the TCG fans, the TCG producers, they pull it out.

[SPEAKER_01]: They manage it somehow.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that like that inspires me so much is like the swagger and the confidence and the fury to go like, [SPEAKER_01]: we're making, we are making, you would set it right before we got on Mike that it does kind, it is kind of upsetting that magic the gathering nailed it on the first try.

[SPEAKER_01]: And like just like first, first one, best one, and is the one that held the test of time.

[SPEAKER_01]: But the confidence in going like, what we really need is another magic the gathering, but that really needs to be hyper specific on my kind of bullshit.

[SPEAKER_01]: is everything to me that is that is that is my central view of the world.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love it so much.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm I'm looking at one of the cards you sent me the psychic freeze because you did take pains to point out to me that there are psychic powers.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, in this market, officially endorsed by, like the US, Juno Taekwondo, that's like demon, then they went, but we should probably have magic powers, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: We got like, like, like, powers.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm looking at this Chuck Norris looking dude with his, like, Joe Kritt.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's so pretty.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like the photography, because it's all, like, photos of people and outfits, it's so important to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they're all floating in a void.

[SPEAKER_01]: They're all floating in like a nineties uh...

like uh...

wall greens target uh...

uh...

that's exactly what it is isn't it oh my god it's the offloading they all look like they are floating like either in you know uh...

either in [SPEAKER_01]: a fucking sears photo center or like a hooves line is it anyway like it was green screen video news segment yeah it's really and just one more note [SPEAKER_02]: The psychic powers that Chuck Norris is emanating towards his opponent are coming from his hands.

[SPEAKER_02]: The psychic of it is not from his brain or his head or his face.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's from his half-clenched martial arts pose hands.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's great.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is, I really thank you so much Jeff.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is really amazing.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I listen.

[SPEAKER_01]: Anytime I get to share the joy that Ultimate Combat has brought me in my life and like the inspiration for me like every time I go to you know a flea market and arts market like a swap meet anything of the sort.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, if there is like, I will, I will walk and I will go to every like baseball card table because the off-hand, the off-hand chance that they have collected starter packs or booster packs of some unplayable, convoluted [SPEAKER_01]: massive a card game that is licensed after the weirdest thing in the world singularly drives my creative passion in every one of my projects because I'm like I can do I can't do this I can't make a card game certainly not something this likes odd and bizarre [SPEAKER_01]: but like I could make we like I could make weird you know up my up my bullshit energy and art that is that is everything to me and that exists in a space of fuck you yeah it's so no it's so critical it's it's it's yet one more way to tap into the [SPEAKER_02]: like the real purpose of art, which is for people to be like, look at the mess I've made.

[SPEAKER_02]: Please understand that I'm proud of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and it's a call for like art at its core is a call for is a way for us to understand each other.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is a language and like it is, you know, written with a goal of expressing of like an expression of myself past my own boundaries and that necessarily includes [SPEAKER_01]: When I have become so wrapped up in some real weird bullshit that I need to make it your problem.

[SPEAKER_01]: And like that to me, like [SPEAKER_01]: you know obviously given the last few years especially like I have thought a lot about like what what why art is important to me and like why like human made art is important to me and like part of that is like I need to feel that sense of oh you really oh you're deep your deep in this huh okay cool like to feel the person on the other end of it including when that person is like [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so obviously like obviously martial arts is gonna have psychic powers.

[SPEAKER_01]: We all see that, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm like sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I see this person across decades of time and thousands of miles and that to me is the most powerful thing in the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: you're absolutely you have picked such a great opening conversation to like it fits so neatly so talk to us about like the game at a high level and also what you are most excited about like bringing to the table today [SPEAKER_02]: So, today we are playing Clash.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is, so at the high level, Clash was an accident.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay, a bit of a glimpse into Little Sabrina's childhood.

[SPEAKER_02]: I was absolutely a Legos kid.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I grew up right in the sweet spot to be enchanted and obsessed with the Lego Line Bionicle.

[SPEAKER_02]: sure yeah and if you know you know it's it's one of those like there are those of us who get it and those of us who simply were not there for it and I was there for it and for it if you were there for it at that moment like if you were there with that first image of biological hit [SPEAKER_01]: You get it.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's such a historical perspective that cannot be put into words of what it means to see that when those first fucking bionical images popped out and you're like, what am I looking at?

[SPEAKER_02]: No, there's a quality to it that I have never been able to fully communicate to people who were not there for it.

[SPEAKER_02]: But for years, I have had it in mind to [SPEAKER_02]: Adapt what I love about that franchise and make a game about it.

[SPEAKER_02]: And every time I come back to that project, which may at this point never see the light of day.

[SPEAKER_02]: a new system spins off of it, where I'm like, well, this is an interesting idea, but it simply does not work for what I'm trying to make, so I build it up into its own thing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Clash is the third or fourth time that happened, where I was trying to figure out what would action and combat look like systematically in, like, how do I translate the end of the second movie fight between Vakama and Makuta, [SPEAKER_02]: Like, what does that look like mechanically?

[SPEAKER_02]: And I came up with this rock paper scissors system.

[SPEAKER_02]: And after writing it, I thought, well, number one, this is not that fight.

[SPEAKER_02]: And number two, it is Garov vs.

Rockley.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what this is now is I realized I had built a Naruto simulator and I have been obsessed ever since I it's really fun to translate shown and storytelling into clash.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very excited about [SPEAKER_02]: throwing my hat in the ring of how do we handle RPG combat away from the war game model.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think is the thing that interests me most about clash.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really excited that you've instantly hooked me with a single sense.

[SPEAKER_01]: because I am I am a guy that likes a fight scene and you know it is uh...

sentences that should surprise no one given two of my great loves are superhero stories in professional wrestling but like fight scenes are cool and fun and like but uh...

fight scenes in role playing games are often taxes and uh...

accounting and uh...

i don't love that part [SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: I do love the Wargames model.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's a lot of merit to it.

[SPEAKER_02]: For me, the big thing is like, well, not everybody has the minis.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: Totally.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's simply not everyone has the vinyl mat and what are race markers.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I love combat.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love the tactics of it.

[SPEAKER_02]: but there are simply some genres and some styles of emulating combat that don't fit with those tools and that we might be able to work with less of a financial overhead to be able to get to certain.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to get into it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think the first thing that we got to do is really decide like what style of shown an anime, what world we're inhabiting and what what our anime is going to be about.

[SPEAKER_02]: big like the one that got me as a kid because I saw some Naruto I saw a little bit of bleach I saw like half an episode of four kids one piece but the thing that got me as a kid was full metal alchemist to this baby brotherhood is maybe my favorite television show ever produced I love it to death and I love the sort of [SPEAKER_02]: Goff vibes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I thought that nobody else really was doing at the time.

[SPEAKER_02]: So my pitch for you is something along those lines of, like, I could get into that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Goff kids with superpowers fighting matches.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Totally.

[SPEAKER_01]: I can get into that for sure.

[SPEAKER_01]: Trying to think what the last, like, shown an anime that I, like, really deep-dived into, uh, I mean, [SPEAKER_01]: I was just read admittedly it's probably because we so what happens is probably if we're talking about specifically shown in anime and and discounting like american super here animation which is especially at this moment undoubtedly indebted to so in an anime I it's probably uh...

are once a year rewatch of about four episodes of dragon ball super [SPEAKER_01]: Prompted by the fact that whenever the Philadelphia Phillies do particularly are they're either when the in the baseball season kicks off or when the Phillies make the postseason We inevitably go and watch our boy Yamcha in the baseball episode and very well super and then [SPEAKER_01]: And we remember how much we like Dragon Ball Super, and we watch an additional like four episodes in part because the baseball episode of Dragon Ball Super falls in what I might be my favorite four episode run of any Dragon Ball series period.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit.

[SPEAKER_01]: because it's in rapid succession because it's immediately it is the filler arc in between Goku black and the tournament of power and so it's a baseball episode.

[SPEAKER_01]: Arale shows up and they do the gag manga episode.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.

[SPEAKER_01]: They do an episode where entirely Goku hires hit to like assassinate Goku just so that he can trade with hit.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's one other episode that I'm not remembering, but like it truly is just like four impact.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's the episode where that is entirely predicated on look how hilariously it is for the Dragon Ball characters to get the Dragon Balls now that they are Dragon Ball super characters.

[SPEAKER_01]: So they like they just constantly keep summoning Shenron and also they acknowledge the bomb was the richest human on earth and does not need the dragonballs for anything That's so incredible that's a run of episodes that is for the record books and so like that's Maybe so it's probably soup and so I think what is compelling to me?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think what I want to throw into the pot of what we're cooking on of like [SPEAKER_01]: God kids with superpowers, dismantling a fascist state is this sense of like I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna look at this for episode run of Dragon Ball Super and say like maybe what I want to throw in is [SPEAKER_01]: what happens if we maybe defant to see if I that pitch a little like I'm thinking specifically I think the the the seasonings I'm reaching for off the shelf here yeah are the baseball episode right well super but also very critically uh earthbound of the sense of like like [SPEAKER_01]: and also a little bit like sailor moon magical girl is space.

[SPEAKER_01]: What happens when this world is a suburban street?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's the pitch that I'm throwing into the that I'm throwing in.

[SPEAKER_01]: What happens when these are when these are kids on the block and the space that we're in is a suburban street?

[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's so good because that's it's own [SPEAKER_02]: Like trope space in shown in isn't it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like bleach does it?

[SPEAKER_02]: My Hero Academe.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like there's very much an urban fantasy flavor there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's where my head is at.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's kind of what I want to what I want to cook on.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So where are we?

[SPEAKER_01]: What are we?

[SPEAKER_01]: What are we building?

[SPEAKER_01]: What are we building next?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: So let me scroll because there is a preparing to play section here.

[SPEAKER_02]: There is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also preparing the same page.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we have our claim materials.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have talked about our story.

[SPEAKER_02]: Who are we fighting and why is our next question?

[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: My first thought with our little uphra here of like, goth kids, like outcast kids, fighting a fascist regime.

[SPEAKER_02]: My first thought is not a shown in anime at all.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is, in fact, codename kids next door.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: That was also where I was also surprisingly where my head went.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the delightful children from down the land.

[SPEAKER_02]: It would shock you how often KM&D comes up in my personal life.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I love the idea, like, because it's so classic of like controlling parents, controlling government, it's such a classic for children's storytelling.

[SPEAKER_02]: That makes so much sense to me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I like that a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think maybe, I mean, [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, no, I thought I had something, but I think that that energy feels very good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, because I, I really enjoy the thing about a, okay, Andy that I really like is the sense of, you can't quite tell how much of it is, is the fantasy of the kids themselves and like there's an energy in that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think like, you know, [SPEAKER_01]: that like playing in that space of uh, and this is probably again, this is the thing that is not at all shown in anime, but like playing in die both the comic and the RPG like that sense of like this is the real world shit that these people are dealing with and here's how it's manifesting in the the space that they occupy.

[SPEAKER_01]: is very captivating to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love that so much.

[SPEAKER_02]: And that's also very earthbound, isn't it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, some of this is horrific cosmic horror stuff, but also your twelfth.

[SPEAKER_02]: Who knows?

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, incredible.

[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, what is the most exciting part of this world?

[SPEAKER_02]: And how do we get there?

[SPEAKER_01]: What is the most exciting part of this world?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's got to be like, [SPEAKER_01]: What's the energy, what's the, what's the, what's the energy, what's the fight, what's the fight magic that goes into being like a fourteen to sixteen year old Goth kid?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's, oh man.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have a pitch, but I'll show you if you got someone to hear it.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, toss it my way.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh, it's to add this is uh, I like that we're building a real pallet.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, shout out to noted enemy of the show of it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have a ledger like that we're building a real pallet here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cause like my brain also goes to like when I think about this and I think when I'm when I think about the phrase, uh, [SPEAKER_01]: when I think about the phrase like the magic that goes into being a sixteen year old goth kid like it is not goth at all but I do go to like the world ends with you and that idea like kind of up the persona games were like magic and fashion are like critical pieces of magic yeah oh that's absolutely yeah no you're hitting a nail very precisely on the head like because [SPEAKER_02]: Like the way you look tells, it's the stand user principle.

[SPEAKER_02]: The like, oh, you look freaky.

[SPEAKER_02]: You probably have a superpower that relates to the way you look freaky.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, then it's that sense of what if the first time you hear a song that really becomes your whole personality.

[SPEAKER_01]: That song changes the way that the world operates, suddenly when we are hearing this music, suddenly superpowers, and suddenly the rules of gravity are not on the table.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's that sense of, you know, when I play, like, when, when, when the house music plays and when you build up to the drop, when that drop hits, then suddenly I'm leaping off of walls and I'm throwing Superman punches and toppling buildings.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's musical.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's, it's.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think in the world where this is a show, I think it relies on the drops.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, yeah, it is almost Edgar Wrighty in that it has an attitude of like when the music drops.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's when the soccer drops and those are always lined up and they will always be edited together.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and like when the music is playing the the color scheme of the world changes to reflect the fact that we are in a heightened reality space and we are where we are where the big fight is going to be happening.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, man, that's so good.

[SPEAKER_02]: So okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: How about that?

[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Great.

[SPEAKER_02]: Great.

[SPEAKER_02]: Great.

[SPEAKER_02]: The pitches.

[SPEAKER_02]: We are whoever our characters shall be.

[SPEAKER_02]: A friend of ours has had something confiscated by her dad.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we have to fight our way up to the third floor of their house, which is to us a dark fortress on the hill, obviously.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we have to retrieve it for her.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like we are rescue or maybe it's her, maybe she's grounded.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we are here to break her out so we can go to the rave tonight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that feels great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: So of course, like, of course, the house on the hit, like, [SPEAKER_01]: I've got a visual note, uh, visual homage, visual reference for us is of course this house where our friend or she's been grounded in is of course like an apartment in the city specifically so that we can replicate the final fantasy seven cover art and have a giant kid staring up at us guys like at a gigantic skyscraper.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: Instead of a buster sword, they have a gangar backpack from Hot Topic.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we are really in something delicious here.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the next step is to choose our fighters.

[SPEAKER_02]: There are six fighter playbooks in clash.

[SPEAKER_02]: They represent sort of [SPEAKER_02]: shown in archetypes as I see them.

[SPEAKER_02]: There is the genius who is the smart guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm my call to mine for that is Reza Hawkeye.

[SPEAKER_02]: She is the genius in my mind.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's the cowboy that is fully just, hey, what if Spike's beagle?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like Cherokee deserved his own playbook in my opinion.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, there is the powerhouse, which is your classic.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's your Goku's, it's your deco's, uh, it's your Naruto's, depending on how you look at it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, the Ronin, who is your Sasuke's, your Zuko's, um, your, I am wandering and I'm an edgy boy, and I am trying to be the best that there ever was.

[SPEAKER_02]: There is the specialist who is your rock leaves your again Naruto's because he's kind of several of these.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's somebody who lacks something.

[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have the superpowers everybody else does or you are straight up disabled in a way that changes how you fight.

[SPEAKER_02]: And finally, there is the vessel, who is Krona from Soul Leader, who is a UGE-Dory from JJK, which I am not caught up on, do not spoil anything.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you are possessed of some dark thing, and that thing is where you get your real power.

[SPEAKER_01]: I keep coming back to the cowboy strictly because the phrase gotth cowboy is so captivating to like, and like, I know that it's a metaphorical cowboy and it's like legal sense, but gotth cowboy like I keep coming back to that phrase so much that like that there's there's a character here that I'm scratching at the surface of that I really want to pull out.

[SPEAKER_01]: into the, like, into the world.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love that.

[SPEAKER_02]: And for the record, golf cowboys exist.

[SPEAKER_02]: The show supernatural is real.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's also, you know what, you, you, you are correct.

[SPEAKER_01]: You have identified the golf cowboys.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I see, I've been thinking about this for like the weeks leading up to this recording because I, [SPEAKER_02]: I tend to like lean towards the Ronin.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that sort of my favorite one, but I feel like the Ronin sort of kit is best suited for a party bigger than two.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not sure if I want to play a specialist or like [SPEAKER_02]: a genius, like a support of some kind.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?

[SPEAKER_02]: I've decided.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to play a genius because I think the specialist shines with a bit more long play under their belt because a lot of their themes have to do with overcoming the adversities they start with.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: And so I want to give us a good showcase of not having those adversities first.

[SPEAKER_02]: That feels great.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think when I think of a genius, when I think of a like the smart guy or the the guy behind the screen for for our little I think of like the girl in the group who does all of the anime portraits of us.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: That feels right.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I love I want to be like a scene kid.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think I want to be very artsy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've got my notebook with me.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think I have very strong ideas of in this world what kind of anime characters we would be, not aware that we are anime characters.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that feels good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it was my cowboy.

[SPEAKER_01]: The more that I sit with this idea, another pop culture touched on has kind of like floated into my head that like in that in the spikes being a little tradition, especially after you pointed out the existence of supernatural shout out to the official Tumblr news distribution system.

[SPEAKER_00]: Aaaaahhhhhh [SPEAKER_01]: I, my brain latched on to the vision of such a specific reference, but the lead character from the movie Dazed and Confused Randall Pink.

[SPEAKER_01]: The, the football player who has become burnt out on like football culture and like the, I, I would play on your team, but I won't sign your damn form throw a throw issue to paper in the teacher's face like, uh, relatedly kind of the same energy as [SPEAKER_01]: uh...

James Franco from freaks and geeks particularly in the episode where he goes to play d and d with the geeks like uh...

that energy [SPEAKER_01]: feels very anime cowboy, Spike Spiegel adjacent, and like that character kind of like ending up hanging out with the Goth kids and sort of like finding his identity in personality in that space is very captivating to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I love that so much.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like a lapsed chalk.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's so interesting.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's something really, there's something real juicy in that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I, that's, that'll be interesting to see how it plays with the Cowboys like fun toys that you get.

[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like the Cowboy is, I think the Cowboy has the most fun factor of any of the playbooks.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, there's just a lot of like toys in your toy box that I really love and I'm very proud of.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Fuck yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: So our final step.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have our story.

[SPEAKER_02]: We have our characters roughly.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is time to pick our OP.

[SPEAKER_02]: What is our theme song?

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, obviously, we don't, I don't imagine you're, you have the resources to sort of use the theme song we pick, but I think it's a fun conversation to get us into the mood.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I brought like three touchstones of like before we started recording these are not tied into what we have built here, but like the things I think of as the corners of music genre that I would pull from to get an anime OP.

[SPEAKER_02]: the first and shut out to Dylan.

[SPEAKER_02]: You are a bigger coheet fan than I am, but I am also a fan.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, shoulders, the recent single from coheet in Canberra.

[SPEAKER_02]: Closer by Lincoln Park and born for this by Paramore.

[SPEAKER_01]: Closer's very good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Closer feels really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's got the angry energy that we need.

[SPEAKER_01]: the song that I was like really pulling on or that like really like settled into my head.

[SPEAKER_01]: That feels like if we were to imagine a mashup between these two songs might feel might might go hard in a way that I think is captivating.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is there was a light that will never go out by the Smiths?

[SPEAKER_01]: That dual sense of like we are born for this we are of a fight but We are so like there's there's also this sense of like we are lost we are so We are so like like the world has so left us to behind that the only thing to imagine is our own is our own deaths [SPEAKER_01]: And there's an energy there that I think infuses the world if we are to imagine this world of, you know, we, we gesture towards dismantling of a fascist state, but like a world that is so like controlled and so out of our control, outside of the moments where we sort of like magically forcefully, theoretically, take control of it through these magical, outsized expressions of self in a way that is [SPEAKER_01]: Aaaaahhh!

[SPEAKER_01]: dramatic and dangerous and powerful and freeing all at the same time.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's so good.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's very, ooh, you've added spice to the broth.

[SPEAKER_02]: I really love that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am so with you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think our, is our official, uh, is it?

[SPEAKER_02]: Our official OP is a remix and the style of closer and there is a light that we'll never go out.

[SPEAKER_01]: That feels great.

[SPEAKER_01]: That feels really good.

[SPEAKER_02]: That feels beautiful.

[SPEAKER_02]: Amazing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Shall I kick us off or do or would you like?

[SPEAKER_02]: No, please.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we begin understated.

[SPEAKER_02]: Where do you think your character would be?

[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's Friday night.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know you have a lot of homework, but you don't really have any plans to sort of like take you away from that.

[SPEAKER_01]: like what what would your character be doing early on a quiet Friday night early on a Friday night my character of sitting on a name and I have done my essential googling to see if I can to see if I can if I can lock in full back is such a good last name that I'm trying to I'm going to sit on full back during this I don't a good first name [SPEAKER_01]: I, my character is probably like, God, so I, I know what it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know what it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, yeah, I know exactly what it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've got it now.

[SPEAKER_01]: And maybe this is the first, like, inkling of what we see of magic in the world is like in the backyard.

[SPEAKER_01]: In the backyard, there are a collection of [SPEAKER_01]: target and like the the pushing pads that you that you do drills with and like football training equipment and we are seeing this character like in a very kind of anime like in this very kind of heightened way that is going to infuse the magic [SPEAKER_01]: that we exist with is doing football drills and is like is like everything backwards with very kind of animated almost radical as like leaps and you know acrobatics and then firing a ball through a through a target post and like is doing a lot of a lot of of this kind of like off-hand football training but in a way that is very shot to be a [SPEAKER_01]: like solitary solitary combat training and is very kind of in that stylized space and we're starting to see that sort of stylization bleed in as this character takes all like takes this training for himself more than anything.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: I can see the camera angles.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is so, this is, oh, it's working.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's working.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's working.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's hitting.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's hitting.

[SPEAKER_02]: So, I think first name fullback gets, here's a phone call from inside.

[SPEAKER_02]: And in my head, this is perpetually, two thousand and two.

[SPEAKER_02]: So like, God, it is a landline.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is, you're like your parents, like one of your parents are guardians, picks it up and calls to you that it is for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: When you pick it up, it is the genius.

[SPEAKER_02]: I pulled Gracie out of my ass.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think my brain was making me think of May's uses family.

[SPEAKER_02]: Gracie's on the phone and she says.

[SPEAKER_02]: Lauren needs our help.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I've laid it on a full name.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think my first name is I think it's Donovan Fullback.

[SPEAKER_01]: Donovan Fullback.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Very nice.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do love that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I think like looks looks out the window looks to the looks to his car.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it's just like.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's the situation?

[SPEAKER_02]: Well, her dad, Mr.

Chief of Police, decided that he didn't want to risk her coming to the grave this weekend.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he found a reason and decided to ground her till Monday.

[SPEAKER_02]: We need to get into that apartment and get her out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Opposition.

[SPEAKER_02]: Pardon?

[SPEAKER_02]: Opposition.

[SPEAKER_02]: Opposition.

[SPEAKER_02]: Mr.

States has armed security guards outside on the bottom level.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been doing my research.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think there might be a spy in among the door boys, but I can't be sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna have to sneak through a laser grid security system on floor two.

[SPEAKER_02]: And if we go out the outside, the window cleaners have started picking up forbidden techniques.

[SPEAKER_02]: odds that we make it out alive.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm given it half of a percent.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be there in five minutes.

[SPEAKER_01]: So come with that saying goodbye.

[SPEAKER_02]: Of course.

[SPEAKER_02]: Why would you why would you have formalities?

[SPEAKER_02]: It would be less dramatic.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do think there's a shot.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: As as Donovan is leaving.

[SPEAKER_01]: Of.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think like adding to the to the the vibes of the unmagical world of his parents watching like a news report and like like a news report about like like the city and being like really you know there's a brief shot of like just like we really don't think that [SPEAKER_01]: it's particularly safe for you to be going out like on your own on supervised at night.

[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'm just like grabs his jacket and it's like.

[SPEAKER_01]: Teams team leaders got to lead his team.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mom, I can't, I can't let my friends down when they need me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I promise I promise I'm there to take care of everybody.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can come to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: The red ranger energy that don't have any experience.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's real.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's so my heart is pounding.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is so good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think from here our opening cuts in.

[SPEAKER_02]: You get like the style where the opening plays over not the OP sequence, but like shots of us walking down the sunset lit strings and like establishing shots of the apartment building.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's a real build up to the final confrontation kind of energy.

[SPEAKER_02]: When we arrive, [SPEAKER_02]: Gracie, classic scene kid, pink and black.

[SPEAKER_02]: She's got the feathered like striped bangs.

[SPEAKER_02]: The fingerless elbow length gloves, like the whole night.

[SPEAKER_02]: Anything you can imagine as emo or scene or anything in that space, like she's got it.

[SPEAKER_02]: She's got the candy bracelets.

[SPEAKER_02]: She's wearing the Chuck Taylor's.

[SPEAKER_02]: Everything you can imagine.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and she carries a thick like messy notebook that clearly has a bunch of paper and stuff like stuffed into it.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is a notebook that is thicker than it was when she started using it.

[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and she's got a little at her belt like a holster of pens and markers and pencils and erasers like all of her art supplies right there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Visually I know exactly how I want.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, [SPEAKER_01]: Donovan's like aesthetic to take shape.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's that like he's in very, very deep Winchester, the denim jacket jeans, but like, you know, very feathered hair specifically, a lot of Randall Pink from Dazed and Confused, but I think the two things that are really important.

[SPEAKER_01]: They are both kind of like cast in a shadow.

[SPEAKER_01]: like the hair cast shadows of her eyes that form these large sort of like over the top kind of bag like the shadow forms these bags under his eyes yeah you know the the the the flannel is this like deep blue and I think like as he pulls up you know under a street light like they start to like shift and and fade into like a black and into like like a gray scale aesthetic [SPEAKER_01]: visually like visually where I'm going is I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna save why I'm gonna save where it's like I've got the visual in mind as it like continues to escalate and evolve and I was we're going as more of the magic it's in the play I'm gonna bust it out okay that's so exciting I do want it on the record before you described Donovan I was just putting orville peck [SPEAKER_02]: Like he just wanted our little peck to me for the first like scene, but I do love this.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is so very good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because God God boy, you know?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: We stand at the entrance to the apartment building.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's in the middle of the city.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's busy.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's traffic.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we have two ways up.

[SPEAKER_02]: we can try to go through the inside, go in loud, or we can take the less conspicuous but more treacherous path of scaling the outside and sneaking in through her window.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, it's a really good question.

[SPEAKER_01]: Which of these is the more exciting option do you think?

[SPEAKER_01]: Which of these speaks more to you?

[SPEAKER_01]: Which of these do we want to see play out?

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think.

[SPEAKER_02]: that going in loud almost feels better, purely so we can get to the fight.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think we are more likely to, um, I think it's gonna give us a better diversity if we go in through the building itself.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that feels good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: So because that's gonna allow me to do a set piece.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's gonna allow me to do a set piece that I think is very critical and important.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, which is of course driving my car through the door so the building.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, incredible.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's, I mean, that just happens and kill a kill.

[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_02]: What's your car?

[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I don't think it's I don't think it's a like a convertible sports car.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think it's a cool car necessarily.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it maybe that maybe it becomes one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's maybe that's maybe it is it is in the sense of like, you know, again, it is as [SPEAKER_01]: it is the the taking control of identity and self and expression as magic and so like it is uh...

a pre-ass like it is a very kind of economic sensible car uh-huh that like that like once uh...

once done if in like gets in and like uh...

like [SPEAKER_01]: hits the gas and like like keys in and like we see it go through the door.

[SPEAKER_01]: We see Donovan behind the wheel of like an all black convertibles like convertible sports car in like the retro in the retro.

[SPEAKER_01]: What's the goddamn name of the cool horse car?

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I have no idea.

[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is so important to me that I get the name correct.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mustang.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's a convertible Mustang like retro style like we see it become that as we see it become that as as the the fight like as it goes through the door.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: The music kicks up.

[SPEAKER_02]: We crash through the front door.

[SPEAKER_02]: The lobby is thrown into chaos.

[SPEAKER_02]: And as we step out of the vehicle, we are greeted by how many security officers do you think?

[SPEAKER_02]: Probably two.

[SPEAKER_02]: Two feels good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Two feels good.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: So this is the, it'll take a little bit of behind the scenes, but my favorite part of Clash that I have written so far, which is the NPC building mechanics, because they have worked really well in the past.

[SPEAKER_02]: They feel great to run.

[SPEAKER_02]: Each of our security guards is going to be a Goon tier NPC, meaning that they have, [SPEAKER_02]: Like, one or two techniques, they are pretty easy to take out, and they only have one or two traits.

[SPEAKER_02]: So like, personality, mechanic blocks.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if we want to build these together, if you would like to choose, do you want to figure out what techniques the security officers will or do you want to figure out their traits?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'll figure out, I can figure out their, let's, I'll figure out their traits.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I will check out their techniques.

[SPEAKER_02]: and we can build those together.

[SPEAKER_02]: Going down, I do need to reorganize this booklet, I think.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm proud of what's in it, but it takes a while to get anywhere.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's see.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's too easy to go with something like a protective.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like it feels too, feels too, too one note if they are, if they are security guards to note them as protective.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm like, look at the options to figure out what feels, what feels, what really like leaps out to me over something like straightforward that is embedded in their jobs.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel kind of similarly about greedy like I feel like it I want it almost to be I keep coming back to vengeful Okay, I love that There's something real real The popcorn kernels are popping for me when I look at when I when I look at vengeful and I think about like the notion especially [SPEAKER_01]: of like in this heightened reality like this car has gone through the doorway of you know dramatic leap out of it and there is a sense of like we're going to make you pay yeah yeah no because they're they're not just protecting their charge anymore this is about damages yeah [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, vengeful, the combatant wants a specific fighter to suffer for perceived slights.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you imagine there after you in that case?

[SPEAKER_02]: That feels that feels good.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you feel good about that.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that sounds great to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want to give them more, or are you good with just the one?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that feels good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that feels like a good character note for us to play around in.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, sweet.

[SPEAKER_01]: It feels like you could like a good space for us to play.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I should I say what technique I have given these guys yet or or should I do it as a product to you?

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I think you know what I'll say it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'll all I'll give us this.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have given them the technique Manticore Venom.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a basic technique, so it only costs one potential to use.

[SPEAKER_02]: Whenever they inflict a condition on one of us, we also get the condition drained at level one.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we will be losing our stance tokens as soon as we gain a condition.

[SPEAKER_02]: They basically have poisoned weapons, essentially the flavor.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you have driven us through the door.

[SPEAKER_02]: I will step out and try to cover fire for you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me call back up my character sheet.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna say [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, security bozos over here.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm essentially going to draw their fire to try to get you to get to the elevator as fast as possible.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I will follow you.

[SPEAKER_01]: That feels great.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is where we see their poison weapons manifest as like purple lightning shock clubs.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Almost in like I'm like with a like almost a sci-fi medieval mace kind of aesthetic Yeah, but like with purple lightning flaring off of it And they kind of like sort of for all the midtermatic way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think?

[SPEAKER_02]: Here's a question.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think it'll be that easy for me to get their attention or do you think that might?

[SPEAKER_02]: Prompt to skill challenge from me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that prompts the skill challenge to get their attention off of me because this that this is where their vengeful trait ties in.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is where this is where it comes up.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think if it if it were me trying to get their attention, it wouldn't require it, but if it's you, I think that that calls for a skill challenge because we've established that they are looking to they are looking to stop me as the primary target.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Would it be reasonable?

[SPEAKER_02]: to say that that is an acuity challenge?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that feels right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, cool.

[SPEAKER_02]: Lacuity is my lowest stance.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is one success.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that is a mixed failure.

[SPEAKER_02]: I fail the challenge.

[SPEAKER_02]: But in the process, I create an opportunity for others to solve the same problem in the future.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I gain a couple of potential tokens that I can use later.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think [SPEAKER_02]: I don't get their attention, but I do get the attention of the bellhop, who it has been a spy.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I have cleared that for you, but I think the security guards are still on their way.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that feels really good.

[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then on my turn, I think like, [SPEAKER_01]: I think this is where this is where the magic and the aesthetic takes over.

[SPEAKER_01]: And my actual reference point for what this character looks like starts to come in and starts to look like bleached over as the like the shadows, the hair shadows, so the circles under my eyes turn into like black makeup tears and like my skin turns white and my hair gets a little bit blacker and my denim jacket turns black and my jeans turn black and I take on a aesthetic that is either [SPEAKER_01]: if it that is either depending on your pop culture reference points uh the crow or the wrestlers thing it's what are the uh it's the crow for me i think i uh i've been i mean it's it for me it's it's it's worth staying every day it's uh but say the same aesthetic it's the model one is modeled after the others are like [SPEAKER_01]: but like it's going full the crow and like leaning backwards and getting into like, and I think like three point stance running the running spinning tackle into one of these into one of these guards to take them out immediately.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that is going to be our first contest.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the most involved sort of system here.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the first thing you are going to do, you have initiated a contest because two characters are directly opposing each other with violence, is we want to declare our cross purposes.

[SPEAKER_02]: So obviously you are trying to just take this guy out.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think his goal is to restrain you.

[SPEAKER_02]: So if he wins the contest, he gets you in some kind of like arm bar or headlock.

[SPEAKER_02]: Or even just on the ground with his like stun baton.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you win, he is out of the fight.

[SPEAKER_02]: That feels great.

[SPEAKER_02]: So what are you bidding?

[SPEAKER_02]: I will play the part of our security guard.

[SPEAKER_02]: What am I bidding?

[SPEAKER_02]: What do I have to bid?

[SPEAKER_02]: So you are bidding a number between one and five to read the rules directly because I'm proud of them.

[SPEAKER_02]: To make a bid, declare a number between one and five.

[SPEAKER_02]: This number is basically a promise.

[SPEAKER_02]: It says, I have this many tokens to spend kicking your ass.

[SPEAKER_02]: You will only be able to spend this number from one stance pool, from one pool of tokens, but you don't have to know what pool you're bidding from yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: All you are trying to do is psych me out right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've got a bidding three.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, damn.

[SPEAKER_02]: You are starting off strong.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to bid one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now you have the opportunity to raise the stakes.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can bid a higher number than you just bid or you can let it stand.

[SPEAKER_01]: Now, now, this is a critical question.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a good peeling back the curtain player to play your GM list thing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: If I have bid more, is there is this a bluffing?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is this a critical thing, which may change my answer?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is this a bluffing?

[SPEAKER_01]: Or is this A?

[SPEAKER_01]: Is this A?

[SPEAKER_01]: I have taken a number out of my pool.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you have temporarily taken a number out of your pool, you think of it like collateral.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you win this contest, you keep the tokens.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you lose, you have to spend them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got it, then I'm lowering my, then I then, then we'll reflaver that bid as two, since I have two tokens to spend, but I am bidding two tokens here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I will say.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry, it's just a little bit more behind the scenes.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, that's why you are allowed to bid more tokens than you know you have.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you think you can get away with it, the cost will be that if you lose the contest, there will be an additional penalty for over spending.

[SPEAKER_01]: that's I think that's the question that I was asking and so like in my head I immediately went to I'm trying to I think because I think it please into this character is both personality and also like the character archetype to bid more than I have and trying to like psych out the opponent to make it pretty clear like I don't think raising the stakes will pay off so that they just let me win and keep the tokens that I have okay so you're gonna keep it to [SPEAKER_01]: I'm keeping it at, I'm gonna stay, I'm gonna say three more than I have on my sheet for the listener, but we're, but we're, since we're playing this and we're testing it and we're demoing it.

[SPEAKER_01]: This feels right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is also gonna keep his bid at one.

[SPEAKER_02]: It is now your turn.

[SPEAKER_02]: You declare what, what stance you are, you are bidding from.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am bidding from all of the rock paper scissors.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am bidding from force.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: He, [SPEAKER_02]: is bidding.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me check his, I think he is going to bid insight, which beats force.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he has one insight token he would not have needed to overspend.

[SPEAKER_02]: what's going to happen now is number one he gets what he wants so uh you takes he takes me out of here he depends me down yes you throw yourself at him and I think he judo throws you he gets your momentum and he gets you to the ground by the arm um and you are [SPEAKER_02]: in a tricky position now.

[SPEAKER_02]: First things first, you spend those tokens that you bid, so you lose two forced tokens.

[SPEAKER_02]: Lose two forced tokens, putting me to ero force, putting it to ero.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see.

[SPEAKER_02]: Reach their goal, gain one potential, so he's gonna gain one potential, this guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: And you are going to, [SPEAKER_02]: You get two potential for your trouble.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you get two of those tokens to spend on techniques later on or to boost your tokens in your pools as you wish.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Potential is a very flexible resource.

[SPEAKER_02]: I Gracie sees you get taken to the ground.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think what I am going to do here is to try to get past the Bellhop to get to you.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it's going to be a contest because he's going to try to stop me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Bellhop has, I built him just now, or I gave him a technique at least.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's got one force, two insight and two acuity.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he has the swirling site technique.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think I am going to bid.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is sent in the chat.

[SPEAKER_01]: Great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to bid.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to look at my, I'm going to look at my guy here.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I am bidding one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me check my, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to keep my bid.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to raise my stakes.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to, I'm going to do the same.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I declare force.

[SPEAKER_01]: I am declaring, I think, also force.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we have entered the name sake of the game.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

[SPEAKER_02]: We are clashing.

[SPEAKER_02]: So a clash is what happens when both characters in a contest bid the same pool.

[SPEAKER_02]: We are going to convert the tokens we spent into dice.

[SPEAKER_02]: We are spending them both.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we are going to roll off whoever rolls the most sixes wins with some additional consequences for the both of us before we roll.

[SPEAKER_02]: We can spend, I believe, let me don't check.

[SPEAKER_02]: We can spend potential to build our dice pool more.

[SPEAKER_02]: So a single potential token translates to two dice.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then I will spend that additional potential and roll three dice here.

[SPEAKER_01]: Sick.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am going to roll four by spending one of my potential.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got no sixes.

[SPEAKER_02]: I got two sixes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh shit.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: What does this security guard knocking Gracie on her ass look like?

[SPEAKER_01]: The security guard knocking Gracie on her ass is grabs the bellhop has stepped away from the luggage carrier [SPEAKER_01]: grabs it swirls and sends it hurtling at Gracie, probably like pumbling her into the wall, like the door of the elevator, like denting it and like crumbling it behind her.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Classic like spittle flies, like a slow motion, like, I slump to the ground.

[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, we're in a tough spot.

[SPEAKER_02]: What comes next?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that what comes next has been thrown to the ground.

[SPEAKER_01]: Has been thrown to the ground.

[SPEAKER_01]: Donovan is going to like kick his feet up, catch the neck of this security guard with his ankles and like throw him like a head scissor [SPEAKER_02]: into there's a fish tank in the wall one of these big like a lobby wall fish tanks crash him into the fish tank so that water spills everywhere in the lights flicker okay beautiful I think this security guard is I don't think he's just attempting to keep you down I think he is also attempting to throw you I think he wants you out of the building I think if you lose he [SPEAKER_02]: You are out on the street, basically.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, what shall you be?

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm bidding too.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're bidding too.

[SPEAKER_01]: He is also bidding too.

[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then I am going to up the stakes by one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, use potential to up the stakes.

[SPEAKER_01]: Is that how I do that?

[SPEAKER_02]: So you can raise the stakes by default.

[SPEAKER_02]: If you spend a potential, you focus whatever pool you want.

[SPEAKER_02]: You basically give yourself tokens equal to that forces or to that stances score.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: Then yeah, then I'm going to up the stakes to three.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to keep his it too.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not yet.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is next up.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I got my stance ready.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: What are you, what have you been?

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm dipping, I'm bidding a...

Accuity.

[SPEAKER_02]: Accuity.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: This guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: is going to bid force in order to avoid overbitting, which means you win the contest.

[SPEAKER_02]: You throw this guy.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I keep my tokens.

[SPEAKER_02]: You keep your tokens.

[SPEAKER_02]: He does not keep his.

[SPEAKER_01]: So this raises an interesting question.

[SPEAKER_01]: I've kept my tokens, but I spent a potential to add tokens to my pool.

[SPEAKER_01]: Do those tokens disappear?

[SPEAKER_01]: Do they stay in there?

[SPEAKER_01]: They stay in there.

[SPEAKER_02]: OK, great.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is going to gain two potential for losing.

[SPEAKER_02]: Or I think just one.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, he does get two potential, but you get one.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you got to always get some at the end of a contest.

[SPEAKER_02]: This guy is thrown into the fish tank and he is electrified by his own weapon and he is out for the count.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we need to we can take out the additional security guard and the bell hop or we can try to get past them.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I think fullback like gestures too gracing is like to throw to you and say like what's the play like you he says well on like you know he's got his combat stance you're the brains are we fighting or are we fighting or fleeing what's the priority here [SPEAKER_02]: Bellhop put me exactly where we need to be because I have been thrown to the elevator.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am going to slam the elevator button, get it open, and try to rush us inside.

[SPEAKER_01]: Great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I, I don't think this is a skill challenge for you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a skill challenge for me.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, to try to get past it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Through the room.

[SPEAKER_01]: You're already where you need to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: I need to get past the bellhop in the guard.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Would you think this is better suited as a forced challenge or an acuity challenge?

[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is acuity.

[SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense to me, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, before you roll, I'm so sorry.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because I am in a position to help.

[SPEAKER_02]: I tell me.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think so.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm going to use my powers for the first time.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to activate my sort of magical.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am taking a cue from the very good web comic, Kiel six billion demons.

[SPEAKER_02]: And Gracie has drawing and paper folding based ability.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: And she is going to [SPEAKER_02]: briefly animate a sketch of a sickass dragon she made in algebra the other day.

[SPEAKER_02]: And the tale of that dragon is going to whip out in the form of this like crumpled mass of paper and reach out and if you can grab it, like pull you in.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that's gonna add a die to your pool.

[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, I think it's gonna gain two because I have answered both of these questions in the affirmative.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, great.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I means that I'm, now am I rolling the additional dice?

[SPEAKER_01]: So we spent my potential earlier.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: It added two points into my acuity.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, pushing it from two to four.

[SPEAKER_01]: They stayed in there.

[SPEAKER_01]: So am I rolling four dice or two dice?

[SPEAKER_01]: You are rolling dice based on your acuity score.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if you have a two dice, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: So two dice plus the two dice you're adding.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, correct.

[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, great.

[SPEAKER_01]: And what am I rolling for?

[SPEAKER_01]: You are rolling for threes or higher.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is one success.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is a mixed failure.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: So you don't succeed, but you open an additional opportunity to solve the problem a different way.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm going to, uh, I know what it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know exactly what it is.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: The, the, the opportunity that I open up is like, you pull me.

[SPEAKER_01]: I want to, I want to, I want to, other this magic and say like, you pull me crashing through the, the bill boy, you know, flying knee to his nose, close up shot on the nose.

[SPEAKER_01]: uh...

visible drawing lines indicate like a busted nose uh...

but like in but like i am then side tackled by this other uh...

security guard and i shout to you go go go i got this down here oh man the self-sacrifice play team leader mister it has to be the self-sacrifice play it has to be absolutely okay i [SPEAKER_02]: Russian to the elevator, this is a high speed elevator for the sake of excitement, and I am up in a way to the next floor.

[SPEAKER_02]: What happens down here?

[SPEAKER_02]: Before we cut up to the next floor, what does it look like as you hold these security guards back?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think like, uh, you know, I strike my, I strike my fight pose, uh, the guard twirls.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the guard does the, does the, does the sickest thing in the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: Kicks the base of the second stun club.

[SPEAKER_01]: twirling it into his hand, taps them both together, making a spark, and then like flashes them out, like flashes them out, like fucking eagle from Street Fighter with the dual sticks.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so you are one V-tuning.

[SPEAKER_02]: this bell hop in the security guard.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think the bell hop, I think that the opera, because we got a mixed failure, I think I'm even gonna, I think to like amp up the drama even further, the bell hop is already taken out.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just now, it's just now a dot of inverses like super guard with two, like suddenly we got a close up shot on the guard and like this guard is way more jacked than the other.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like adding into the layering in of magic and imagination, like now this guard is now twice the size and like has the dual, the dual clubs and is ready to like break bones and you see like us both square up as the elevator doors close.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I, behind the scenes have boosted his force score to three, which I feel is very appropriate to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's just powered up, you know?

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: We will cut back to that momentarily.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very excited to see how that plays out.

[SPEAKER_02]: Up on the second floor, we are there is a laser grid.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's classic.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're in spy movies.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think the elevator doesn't go up to the third floor.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's been Jerry rigged so that it won't.

[SPEAKER_02]: I need to get to the stairs past this grid and past like a series of extremely dangerous traps.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think I am going to approach that.

[SPEAKER_02]: What feels very in character for Racy to me, which is by rushing through.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am not going to try to avoid any of these.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am going to try to get through them so fast that they do not affect me.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that would trigger a skill challenge if that is all right with you.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to try to make that a force challenge because that is my better of the two.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_02]: That feels perfect.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have no potential.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I am rolling two dice and I can add to it not at all.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the best I can do here is a mixed failure, but I want actually I could explode.

[SPEAKER_02]: The dice could always explode.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we are going to see if they do.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they do.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

[SPEAKER_02]: So that is one success and one six, which means I get to roll an additional die and see how they work for me.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I still only got to two successes, but I love an exploding die, so I don't really care.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is a mixed failure.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's what it's all about.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to gain two potential and don't forget you gain two potential as well for your skill challenge earlier.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think to make it easy peasy, lemon breezy.

[SPEAKER_02]: I would like to give Gracia condition.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that seems like a fair penalty for those who didn't have long like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That feels good.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am going to give her.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think straight up, I'm going to give her the stance condition withered at two.

[SPEAKER_02]: So until that goes away, I lose access to my forced stance.

[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot have tokens in it.

[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot do force challenges.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am without that pool until this condition goes away.

[SPEAKER_02]: But I will have made it to the stairway, up to the third floor.

[SPEAKER_02]: down on the first floor, facing off against superguard.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think the superguard is going to try one last time, not even to kick you out of the building, but to take you out of the fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, yep, yep.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to rush you and he's going to try to, like, into the sides of your neck jam each of his stunt batons.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think, uh, I think I am going to, uh, like rush, like run in the run at him to hit him with like a flying spear to take him out at the same time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is going to bid.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let me see what he's got.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to bid one.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm bidding three.

[UNKNOWN]: Oh damn.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to raise the stakes to two.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I am going to spend four points of potential.

[SPEAKER_01]: Four to activate one of my abilities.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm activating my super, I'm activating my super ability back foot tango and taking all of the available tokens between all of my stances and reallocating them as I win.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: So good news, it will not cost you four potential only two.

[SPEAKER_02]: Great.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you do not have to tell me how you have reallocated those.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because I don't think it would be reasonable for this guy to know how you have reallocated them either.

[SPEAKER_02]: He is going to declare force.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have declared a Q&A, which means I think he beats you.

[SPEAKER_02]: Force beats, yeah, force beats a Q&A, beats insight.

[SPEAKER_02]: So he spins out of the way of your missile of a body.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he jams his batons into your neck and has you down for the count.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it is going to be at this point.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think reasonable to say he's got you beat in a straight fight.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have a plan to get away from him?

[SPEAKER_01]: I do, actually.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do, actually, and it is that there is water everywhere.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is just flopping.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is, it is strict.

[SPEAKER_01]: It is sometimes that's not about like, sometimes it's not about moving the other body.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's about like positioning the two of like moving in unison with a body to get two people where you want them to be.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it is like falling backwards into the water to blast both of us with electricity.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you even need to roll for that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think that is just smart thinking.

[SPEAKER_02]: You fall back and there is a burst of purple white light running up this guy's arms.

[SPEAKER_02]: And like his veins are showing, he's like tensed up.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I think as he falls, we see that his batons have fused to his hands.

[SPEAKER_02]: And at some point, in some future arc, he shall be back for revenge.

[SPEAKER_02]: But for now, he is down for the count.

[SPEAKER_02]: And with time, with a little bit of stumbling and bruising, you are able to make your way up to the second floor.

[SPEAKER_01]: We meet up, Donovan, are you okay?

[SPEAKER_01]: Every, every game's got its bumps and bruises, but scars fade, glory, loose forever.

[SPEAKER_02]: I, I don't understand your, your sports talk don't often, but I'm really glad you're, you're here.

[SPEAKER_01]: We need like falls forward, Gracie's got a, like, for the way to like catch him for a moment.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.

[SPEAKER_02]: Really the like, the, the, the team bonding, the like, emotional intensity of like, oh, you're okay.

[SPEAKER_02]: We need to get up to the third floor.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think I just kind of blew up all of the traps on this level.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we should be able to take the stairs, but we're in bad shape.

[SPEAKER_02]: We need to be really careful.

[SPEAKER_02]: Careful is my male name.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I really don't think it is.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I sort of shoulder you, work out sort of supporting each other.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we make our way to the third floor.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, Gracie did not have any intel as to what exactly is happening on the third floor.

[SPEAKER_02]: What do you imagine is the final layer of security keeping Lauren in her room?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's gotta be, I mean, this is our first, like, this is both probably the cliffhanger for the episode and also like our big, like our big first arc villain.

[SPEAKER_01]: So it's gotta just be like, [SPEAKER_01]: you know the doorway the elevator doors open and we stumble through and sitting in a chair in an enormous like empty room that feels larger than it could possibly be like the entire floor is this empty room sitting in an office chair is her father like in a business suit [SPEAKER_01]: uh...

doing the the hands cocked in front of the hands cocked in front of her hands corrected front of the face villain pose like waiting for us glowing purple eyes like red like this is like that it is the confrontation with her father that is we are going to have to like take him down to free her from uh...

like whatever spectral prison is actually occupying the truth yes up yes [SPEAKER_02]: He is there in person and he has words for us.

[SPEAKER_02]: Beautiful, beautiful.

[SPEAKER_01]: And we get stands up, he coxy, you know, cracks his knuckles.

[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the visual detail, I think the visual that we leave it on is cracks his knuckles and like a purple energy dragon like swirls behind him.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, oh, this is gonna be that kind of a fight.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the effect animators went nuts on that shot.

[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the closing shot and that's that's game.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's clash baby game point match or whatever that for term is I'm not a drug of a sport.

[SPEAKER_01]: We can set a match overjoy this was fantastic Thanks so much for playing.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very glad you had a good time.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was great.

[SPEAKER_01]: This was so much fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for this.

[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you're favorite moment from play.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was the cowboy tech.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's so every time I have played in testing and someone has played the cowboy, the moment they decide to start playing tricks and start using those techniques is like in the room, the moment the energy kicks up.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like it sure always is.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's I, I'm very proud of how that kit came together and it very much plays how I want it to, which feels so good.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love this a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: I just really loved building like building the world and the themes and then we had the characters and when we really saw the fight scene playing out like the mix of rock paper scissors and like fuckery is so satisfying it's really joyful.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I like we didn't have a whole lot of time but like when you get to really get into a session and like start using your techniques like [SPEAKER_02]: I have a home game going where we are playing a like Scott Pilgrimmy Battle of the Bands is the set up and there have been times when a clash has resolved and we've stood up and cheered like I don't know it's it can be a slow start which is a thing I'm trying to work through like kind of like tweak away but when it works it works and I'm so glad you had a good time it was thrilling being here with you [SPEAKER_01]: No, this is Magnus.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is Magnificent.

[SPEAKER_01]: Real quick, before I wrap up, where can people find you in your work online?

[SPEAKER_02]: You can find me at Sabrina Hawthorne.ich.io and you can find me on Tumblr at Sabrina Hawthorne.

[SPEAKER_02]: You can also email me for business inquiries at Sabrina Hawthorne Games at Proton.me.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's where you find all of my stuff and my games and my boasting.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, this has been wonderful.

[SPEAKER_01]: This is a real highlight of my day.

[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, now we're gonna throw it over to the coolest Jeff the most important jet fuck you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I'm gonna throw it over to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: The future's gonna grab up with the chef.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your rain.

[SPEAKER_01]: stop recording.

[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks pass me and thanks again to Sabrina for coming on the show.

[SPEAKER_01]: That game was so magical.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A hundred and twenty percent and we just make something truly truly magnificent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or if you're looking for more great podcast content, you can check out all my fantasy children, which is a character creation story telling a world-building podcast that I make with my best friend in the world, Aaron Katano-Sias.

[SPEAKER_01]: We take a listener submitted prompt and spin it into an original fantasy character populating shared universe one story at a time.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can also check out Yaziba's Bed and Breakfast, which is an actual play about a heartless witch.

[SPEAKER_01]: A cozy house and the many people making their homes inside.

[SPEAKER_01]: Both of those you can find wherever you get your podcasts.

[SPEAKER_01]: Party of one is as always produced and edited by Jeff Stormer and Jen Frank music for the show comes from the song Infinite Lives by Mega Rain featuring the D&D sluggers and the party of one logos by Evan Roland.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you'd like to inquire about advertising rates coming on the show as a guest or about press coverage of the show, you can email me at partyofonepodcast at gmail.com.

[SPEAKER_01]: And unless I am stake in, that is all we do here so until next time, thank you so much for listening.

[SPEAKER_01]: Remember to fight the forces of fascism every single day.

[SPEAKER_01]: Remember that self-love and self-care are radical and define acts of resistance and as always.

[SPEAKER_01]: Party on everybody.