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Welcome to this very special RBGBOT.
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Charity live stream. If you are with us
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live, welcome. We love you. Uh if you're
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listening to this on the RBG podcast uh
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feed, uh go ahead and strap in. Uh we
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ran previously a 6-hour charity live
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stream where we are raising money for MD
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and Anderson Cancer Research Center. Uh
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if you are listening to this in podcast
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stream, you can check the show notes.
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You can still click a link. You can
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still donate to cancer research and we'd
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really appreciate it. Uh, of course you
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won't be able to change the outcome of
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the game today, but you'll be impacting
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lives and we appreciate it. Uh, we're
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raising money to support MD Anderson
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Cancer Research. Um, one of one of our
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good friends is is fighting cancer with
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MD Anderson right now and so this is
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really important to us. Um, yeah, so we
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appreciate you here being with us today.
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Uh, Tyler, I'm going to put you on the
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spot. Do you want to tell folks how they
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can impact the game today by making
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donations to MD Anderson? Uh Randall, I
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would be absolutely happy to. Okay, so
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we have set up some wonderful donor
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incentives for folks donating to the
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stream. Um if you go to
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rpgbot.net/spooktober.
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I'm I realize I'm tracking that
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backwards. Bear with me. So the text is
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on the screen, rpgbot.net/spooktober,
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that will take you to the donation page.
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Uh on the page, you'll click the big
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shiny red donate button, and it will
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offer you your choice of four
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incentives. So, uh you can donate to
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restore some resource points to the
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characters, which is effectively healing
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us partway through the game. Uh you can
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choose to create a GM intrusion, which
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is where Randall inserts
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something probably unpleasant into the
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story for us. Uh, you can donate a lucky
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charm, which Randall will give us a
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cipher, which is a single use
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effectively magic item, like a think of
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it like a potion if you're coming from
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DND. And if you're crazy and donate
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$100, you can heal uh Ash and I for 1d6
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on all of our resource pools, which is
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just an absolute ton of healings. So,
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somebody wants to come in clutch late in
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the stream when we were in bad shape,
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that would be great for us. We also
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considered adding a adding a tier four
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player intrusions which are similar to
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GM intrusions, but we couldn't decide on
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a price.
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>> Yeah, I think what we're going to do
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there is we'll look for uh kind of total
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donation rates. So, anything that you
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contribute helps us get closer to those
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big picture goals. Uh, and so every time
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we hit one of these major milestones,
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we'll we'll call it out and we'll allow
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a player
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>> I do think it's funny how uh the player
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intrusion is going to be harder to
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achieve than the GM intrusion. I see how
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it is.
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>> Yeah,
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>> I'm very happy about this.
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>> Um, all right. Okay. So, uh, we're going
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to be playing today Old Gods of
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Appalach. Um this is uh it's you know a
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little diddy that I put together uh to
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get ready for that. So get welcome for
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folks who aren't familiar with Old Gods
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of Appalachia. It is a cipher system
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game. There's a very popular podcast
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which is kind of a storytelling podcast.
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It is set in an alternate Appalachia. Um
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we're going to be in the the mid 1800s
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or so during our session today uh in uh
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a little town called Williams Holler.
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And with that, I think we can go ahead
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and get into it. What do you say?
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>> Let's do it. Let's do it.
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>> All right. Um, so our our characters
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arrive on the rail early early Sunday
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morning to Williams Holler. Uh, Ash, why
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don't you tell folks a little bit about
3:43
your character and how you found
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yourself coming to Williams Holler?
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So, my character's name is Jesse Miller,
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and uh she's uh she's originally from
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Texas, and uh she's been kind of what
3:58
people would call a prison rat. Um ever
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since she was ever since she was little,
4:04
she's been blaming for things that
4:06
probably aren't her fault, I think.
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Maybe. Um, so, uh, when I was a kid, my
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my parents' house got burned down and,
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uh, my my mommy and my papy died, but,
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um, everybody blamed me for the fire. I
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don't think I caused it. I don't
4:25
remember what happened that night, but I
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don't think it was me. Um, anyway, uh, I
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was, uh, persona nongrada, and the only
4:34
person to take me in was my uncle Joey,
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who taught me the art of moonshining.
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And since then, I've I've been getting
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in and out of trouble. My uh my my uncle
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got hung recently. And uh since then,
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the people who have been taking care of
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me been the state because I've been,
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like I said, out of prison. This most
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recent one, I definitely didn't commit
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this crime, whatever it was they were
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accusing me of. And uh they shipped me
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out to this hell hole in the middle of
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nowhere, I guess.
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>> Yep. Yeah. Not you're you're not you're
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not quite a uh
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um you're not quite prison labor, but
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you're like you're one rung above it is
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what
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>> And uh to describe Jesse, she has um she
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has blonde hair that she's braided over
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her shoulder. Uh sort of a cowboy hat,
5:27
really ratty. Um and just basic ass
5:30
clothing and leather boots, which she's
5:33
extremely proud of. like that. You can
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take anything you want from me, but not
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my boots. My uncle Joey gave me these
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boots, and they're great. They don't fit
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quite right, but that's all right.
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>> I feel like there's a country song about
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that.
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>> There's probably
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>> You can take my heart, but you can't
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take my boots.
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>> These boots are not made for walking.
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Yes, you're right, Josh.
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>> I'm getting cankers on my heels. All
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right, Tyler. Uh, tell us a little bit
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about your character and how they came
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to Williams.
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>> All right. Uh, my character's name is
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Isaiah Wells. He is a beat reporter from
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this the great city of New York. Uh,
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very very diligent, a bit pushy, a bit
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confident, uh, can get in anywhere, can
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get any piece of information out of
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anybody. Uh but he probably asked a few
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too many questions at one point and was
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um in no uncertain terms volunttoled to
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uh get out of town. Um Isaiah was handed
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a one-way train ticket uh and packed all
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of his belongings in a bag, jumped on a
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train to a town the name of which he
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doesn't actually remember at the moment.
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has just gotten off a train to what is
6:54
certain to be his new life in wherever
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we are.
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>> Yeah. What's this town called again?
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Warhorse town.
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>> Yeah. Williams Holler in Eastern
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Kentucky.
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>> Is that a real town or did you make it
7:07
up?
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>> I made it up. I hope I hope I made it
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up. I'm going to laugh. Somebody's going
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to go be like, "William Holler?"
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>> No, there there are several times where
7:13
I've I've made something up and then uh
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my players will point out that's a real
7:18
thing, bud. I'm like, "What?" So, you
7:20
you guys know, quick tangent, you know,
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Cypress Hollow, my V vampire town.
7:24
Originally, it was called New Rochelle.
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Uh, and uh, until somebody pointed out,
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you know, that's a town in upstate New
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York, right, bud? I was like, you're
7:33
joking. No, that's a real I'm like, god
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damn it, I have to change it now. I
7:40
don't think Cypress Hollow is a real
7:42
town. It might be, but nobody cares
7:44
about it.
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>> Yeah. and and then it's getting caught
7:48
on chat. So, this isn't Williams Hollow.
7:50
This is Williams Holler. For folks who
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don't know, a holler is the valley
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between two mountains. Uh
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>> okay.
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>> Yeah. Uh so, so you get into these
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areas. People talk about being down in
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the holler. Down in the holler means
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literally I've got two mountains, one on
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each side. I'm I'm living down in the
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valley. Um a lot of times the easiest
8:09
place to to build something,
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>> right? So, walk through the valley of
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the shadow. Sorry.
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>> No, you're good. You're good. Okay. The
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first view of Williams Holler uh is of
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the rail station. You you come around
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the bin to see a creek running through
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the bottom of the small mountain town.
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The early early morning sunshine peaks
8:30
over the mountain you're riding along.
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Uh but in the shadow, you'd see the
8:33
gaping mall of the mine. It's Sunday, so
8:37
you're not surprised to see the mine
8:38
abandoned. Out the other window on
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Yonder Mountain, you see a beautiful
8:42
apple orchard of flowers and pinks and
8:44
whites blooming, illuminated by the sun.
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As you step off the train, you notice
8:49
men hurtingly hurtingly attaching what
8:51
you assume is a line of train cars
8:53
filled with cold line you just arrived
8:55
on. Some empty cars were led down an
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alternate line in the yard. And you're
8:59
greeted by a man in overalls with a
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five-pointed star badge pinned to the
9:02
overalls. He's wide with muscle. You
9:05
can't help but notice his arms are
9:06
likely bigger round than your head. He
9:08
might be the largest man you've ever
9:10
seen, but when he takes each of your
9:12
hands in turn to greet you, his grip is
9:14
firm yet gentle.
9:19
>> He puts his hand on me.
9:22
>> Hey, Reges out. Shake your hand. You
9:24
don't have to take it.
9:24
>> Oh, okay.
9:26
>> I look at it and look at him. Do I Do I
9:29
still have handcuffs on?
9:30
>> No.
9:31
>> Okay.
9:34
Well, how do you do, I guess?
9:38
Well, you you two must be my
9:40
troublemakers, ain't you? My name's
9:42
Oats.
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>> They call you something more than notes.
9:46
Is that just a nickname? Your mom mama
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wasn't very creative, was she?
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>> No. No. No. She weren't. But she sure
9:53
loved the Bible.
9:55
>> Who doesn't?
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>> Right.
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>> I mean, have you read the Bible? I mean,
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it's got like like killing and there's
10:03
that one guy Samson. He's he's a stone
10:06
cold badass. Like, no, people don't
10:08
people don't think the Bible's all
10:09
boring nonsense. I I just look at the at
10:12
the at the at the interesting parts, you
10:14
know, stuff that supports my worldview.
10:17
>> Cool. We got a reader. That's exciting.
10:21
>> I'm the law around here. Um, let me go
10:24
and lay it down for you. You're not
10:26
going to cause any trouble, are you?
10:27
Either of you?
10:29
>> Uh, no, sir. They're not playing.
10:31
>> Define trouble.
10:34
>> I'm already going to have to keep an eye
10:36
on you. How about this? You don't intend
10:37
to start any trouble, do you?
10:39
>> I mean, I don't intend to start trouble,
10:41
but trouble just seems to have a way of
10:43
finding me. That's all I have to say.
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This aren't my first This ain't my first
10:48
rodeo, if you know what I mean.
10:50
>> I suppose that's why you find yourself
10:51
in Williams Holler now, ain't it? All
10:53
right.
10:53
>> Yeah, I would much rather not. Your
10:55
guys' humidity here is killer. Something
10:58
fierce. Uh, makes me wish I was back
11:01
back in the west. That's all I got to
11:03
say.
11:03
>> I got great news for you. There ain't no
11:05
humidity down in the mines and that's
11:06
where you're going to be working and
11:08
that is negotiable.
11:10
>> You understand?
11:12
>> Yeah. For you're going to get paid in
11:15
company script every day. Uh, this ain't
11:17
no prison labor or anything like that,
11:18
but you're going to work. You got me?
11:22
>> Yeah, I got you.
11:23
>> I don't suppose there's a local
11:25
newspaper, is there?
11:27
Uh, what?
11:29
>> Yeah. All right, never mind.
11:33
>> Oh my god, chat is already being like, I
11:36
just looked it up. Worldview is is first
11:38
appeared in the 19th century, so it's
11:40
not anacronistic. We're going to be
11:42
anacronistic here. Okay, just accept it.
11:45
>> None of us were alive in the 1800s. I
11:47
don't know.
11:47
>> Yeah. So, just deal with it.
11:50
>> Okay. Whip out their laser pistols.
11:54
>> Actually, they were probably fine.
11:56
Old Gods of Appalachia said it's
11:58
primarily set in like 1920 to 1930. So
12:02
vague early 1900s,
12:04
>> but but again we're we're late 1800s
12:07
just to
12:07
>> Okay, got it.
12:08
>> That's where we're at. Okay. Um
12:10
>> so post Civil War essentially.
12:13
>> Yeah. Although I was going to try to
12:14
stay as far away from it as possible.
12:16
Alternate history. We're just gonna uh
12:19
Yeah.
12:19
>> Yeah.
12:20
>> Jesse Jesse is a female character.
12:22
Jesse's still going to go down the mines
12:23
because we're not sexist. You're doing
12:25
work.
12:26
>> No, that checks out. They made women
12:28
sometimes women prisoners work in minds,
12:30
too, I believe. So,
12:32
>> yeah.
12:33
>> Um, and finally, uh,
12:38
church is about to start. Both of you
12:40
need to get into church now. Now, you
12:42
look and and he shows you kind of a line
12:44
on the mountain where, you know, as the
12:46
sun's rising, shadows getting lower and
12:48
lower. He say, uh, before the sun hits
12:50
this railway, I need you to get to
12:52
church. Now, the good news is, uh,
12:55
Isaiah, Tyler, your character, uh, was
12:58
given a heavy bundle and you were told
13:00
to deliver it to Reverend Tim when you
13:02
got to Williams Holler. So, you got that
13:05
bundle with you.
13:07
Um, and so, so you needed to get the
13:10
church anyway because you have a
13:11
delivery to make. Now, let me let me ask
13:13
you a question. Are uh
13:17
you trying to take any kind of look at
13:19
that package before you hand it over? I
13:20
want to give you that. I would
13:22
absolutely now
13:23
>> absolutely
13:26
>> um
13:28
in my head Isaiah is a pretty honest
13:30
sort and unless I have some reason to
13:33
>> You're going to slow me down, aren't
13:34
you?
13:36
>> Just
13:38
Yes, ma'am. I am.
13:39
>> Mr. Goody.
13:41
>> Oh, we didn't
13:42
>> we didn't establish relationships
13:45
like the the game tells you that.
13:48
>> Yeah. And I think I already know cuz
13:50
mine was uh the a person's uh it was uh
13:54
I think for my descriptor it was uh one
13:56
of the players's uh outlook on life
14:00
really irks you and so I think I figured
14:03
out
14:06
and here we are.
14:08
>> Okay.
14:10
>> Um so as you begin to let me stop you.
14:14
Are you going to go and head over to
14:15
church?
14:17
>> Yeah, I guess. It's real obvious. You
14:19
can see it. So, Oats is going to walk
14:20
with you. But as you begin to leave, you
14:23
notice uh there's actually two different
14:25
locomotives. They both have coal
14:27
attached to them and they're they're
14:29
leaving from different directions. One
14:30
the way you came and one is continue
14:33
around. You can see how the rail goes
14:34
around the mountain.
14:36
Uh so, so they're shipping that coal to
14:38
two different locations.
14:40
>> Okay.
14:41
>> Um
14:43
All right. Uh you arrive in church and
14:45
everybody's mostly in their seats.
14:47
There's a few people standing up shaking
14:48
hands and usher sees you and brings you
14:52
along with Oats. Oats sits with you uh
14:54
puts you in the back row uh and right
14:56
about then the preacher stands up, gets
14:58
up to the podium. Um has a little bit of
15:02
an amplication system. They've got a
15:04
little electricity, a little money for
15:05
the finer things here. Not really. It's
15:07
it's trash. It's all tiny and
15:08
everything. But anyway, he he gets on
15:11
that microphone. He's super excited to
15:12
be there.
15:14
We We all long for a little peace on
15:16
this earth. A little slice of heaven.
15:20
That's what I hear you say. You You hear
15:23
Jim Tealing talking about picking apples
15:24
at his orchard and lie dah. You think
15:27
your days are working hard under the
15:28
soil's over. That you found paradise.
15:32
But I'm here to tell you that you will
15:34
not find the kingdom of heaven here on
15:36
earth. We are not placed in this life to
15:38
enjoy the fruits of heaven. We are meant
15:40
to seek salvation through labor.
15:43
This is not paradise. No, you won't find
15:45
it here. We are meant to suffer and
15:47
through suffering find salvation. Are
15:50
you a good man?
15:53
Are you a good woman?
15:55
Then salvation will be your eternal
15:57
reward. What is a single mortal life
16:00
compared to eternity in heaven? I tell
16:03
you that your labor brings you closer to
16:05
God. Deep down in the minds, extracting
16:07
what God here there for us to find. You
16:09
mourn the dead, but why? They're with
16:12
God in his kingdom now. They should
16:15
mourn us who haven't joined them yet.
16:17
Blessed are those who toil quickly and
16:19
join our father in their youth.
16:22
Now, I know what you're all scared of. I
16:26
hear the boss man saying that the coal
16:28
seems running dry. I hear him saying it
16:30
ain't going to happen. I'm here to say
16:32
it ain't going to happen. God won't let
16:34
it happen. We need to dig down deep. We
16:36
need to go deeper. And this week, we're
16:38
going to get down to level seven. We
16:40
need to suffer through. And I'm here to
16:43
tell you that God will deliver.
16:46
>> Boo.
16:49
>> I I just slightly further away from
16:51
Jesse.
16:53
>> Wait. Wait. Do Do you really?
16:56
>> Yeah.
16:56
>> I really
16:58
didn't even have to GM intrusion. You
17:02
>> look, I told you Jesse doesn't fight.
17:06
Trouble trouble seems to find her.
17:09
Um, uh, Oats Oats Oats looks over you
17:13
and just shakes his head like,
17:16
"Who who's there in the back?" Young
17:19
lady, stand up.
17:21
Yeah.
17:23
What do you have to say?
17:26
I have to say you're you're spouting
17:28
some gradea [ __ ] there, father. If
17:31
God believe if if if working in the mind
17:34
so to for the state because you I don't
17:37
know made some wrong turns in your life
17:40
or society abandoned you only for you to
17:43
end up dead. That don't sound like part
17:45
of God's plan. That sounds a lot like
17:47
your plan.
17:50
Well, I I don't quite follow what you
17:52
mean. I don't I don't follow the words,
17:54
but I I feel like you sound suspicious
17:57
to me. Like maybe you have a hard time
17:59
trusting people.
18:02
You don't know anything about me.
18:04
>> That's all right. I don't need to. Maybe
18:06
we'll get to know each other. You trust
18:08
in God?
18:10
>> I do.
18:11
>> You You think heaven will be your
18:13
eternal reward?
18:15
>> I don't know if heaven's in the cards
18:17
for me, father, but maybe for maybe for
18:20
some people.
18:22
>> I think I think you've got a choice in
18:24
how you make it there or not. But may
18:27
maybe we're going to be real good
18:28
friends.
18:32
Maybe.
18:34
Maybe.
18:36
All right. Well, uh
18:40
uh all the same folks, I'd say to you,
18:44
commit to your labor. Commit to your
18:45
work. Let's do what we got to do. Uh and
18:49
um you know, our tonal reward will be
18:53
heaven. Let's go ahead and let's hear
18:56
choir go and play us a song. Uh then
18:59
we'll we'll get on with our Sunday.
19:06
All right. Uh so choir kicks in, starts
19:09
playing a little awkward at first. You
19:10
know, they're they're a little shook up.
19:12
Uh but they they make it through
19:16
and um uh afterwards kind of everybody
19:19
breaks and uh you know, he gets back up
19:21
for a second. All right. Well, let's go
19:22
and walk next door. we got a Sunday
19:24
feast ready to go and um yeah, you know,
19:27
let's make communion, everybody.
19:30
And so everybody kind of shuffles over
19:31
out of the church into, you know, a big
19:33
hall where they've got um you know,
19:37
Sunday lunch put together.
19:39
>> All right. Okay. If there's anything I
19:42
know about churches in the South, church
19:45
food is awesome.
19:47
>> What?
19:49
I had exactly one experience with church
19:51
food and it was amazing. So I
19:54
>> maybe maybe maybe in the deep south I'm
19:56
thinking of churches like everywhere
19:58
else where you know jello pudding was a
20:01
I mean jello salad was a huge thing.
20:05
So I think you're wrong.
20:10
>> Also uh uh Randall we have a donation
20:13
for a GM intrusion. So, whenever you
20:15
want to just
20:15
>> God, I hate you guys.
20:18
>> No, no, keep them coming.
20:20
>> This is going to be a nightmare.
20:23
>> That's what we're here for.
20:25
>> Oh, all right. Uh, okay. I got that GM
20:28
intrusion and and let me know if there's
20:30
any particular recommendations that come
20:31
with it as they come. But I've got that
20:33
GM intrusion locked in. Okay. Uh, so
20:36
Reverend Timid is going to immediately
20:38
approach uh both of you. Um, well, I
20:43
suppose you two are my troublemakers.
20:44
Welcome to town. Uh, you you must be
20:48
Jesse. Is that right?
20:49
>> Yeah.
20:50
>> And that would make you Isaiah.
20:53
>> Yes, sir.
20:54
>> Okay. Isaiah, I believe you have a
20:55
package for me, right?
20:56
>> I sure do. Here you go, sir.
20:58
>> All right.
20:59
>> Completely completely undisturbed,
21:02
unbothered package.
21:04
>> Okay. He's he's going to look at it kind
21:05
of back front and to uh shove it down,
21:08
you know, in his back pocket. Um,
21:14
so Jesse, you didn't like my sermon.
21:17
What What part of my sermon didn't you
21:19
like?
21:22
Just a general gist, I guess. Um, I've
21:25
been told my whole life that being being
21:29
taken advantage of and being forced to
21:32
do work for other people for free is
21:34
some sort of idea of uh salvation. But I
21:38
got to tell you, father, I did a lot of
21:39
those stuff in other places that were
21:42
different from this. And but they worked
21:45
exactly the same. And I don't see any
21:48
sort of evidence of my life getting
21:50
better or any sort of salvation. I don't
21:52
feel like a better person. I don't feel
21:54
like society treats me better. I just
21:57
feel like people always look at me and
21:59
they'll think, "Fuck up."
22:02
Well, uh, you know, sometimes we
22:04
manifest our our our own lives. I'll
22:07
tell you though, everybody's getting
22:08
paid here. You know, you're going to get
22:10
you're going to get paid in script.
22:11
That's that's the local currency. Um
22:13
you'll be able to buy clothes, food, any
22:16
anything that you want to do. Um and we
22:20
get through a couple seasons, things are
22:21
going well, you doing fine. You know, if
22:23
if you if Williams Holler doesn't suit
22:25
your liking,
22:27
go on, do whatever you want. You going
22:29
to spend some time with us. You
22:30
understand?
22:31
>> See, I like this pastor. This pastor
22:33
seemed seems like he understands where
22:35
we're coming from and our frustrations.
22:37
The pastor that you were presenting
22:39
seemed like you were judging us for
22:41
being here in the first place. So maybe
22:43
you should tap into that understanding
22:45
pastor a little bit more.
22:48
>> Well, uh that that's some feedback and
22:51
and I'll take it. Well, I take
22:55
uh I need to I need to go have a a few
22:58
conversations, but I'll make my way back
22:59
around. I'll see how you're liking
23:00
meeting people here. Williams holler. Um
23:05
and and he leaves you. Um you look
23:07
around the room. Uh there's a lot of a
23:09
lot of folks varying age. Uh you can't
23:12
help but notice there's a few folks, you
23:13
know, a bit maimed. You see a couple
23:15
hands missing some fingers. You see a
23:16
couple torsos missing some arms. Um
23:20
>> Oh, I I thought you were going to say
23:21
missing some torsos. Like, uh
23:25
>> I think they're dead. I think they're
23:27
dead.
23:29
Um,
23:32
sorry. Somebody in chat, if it'll suit
23:35
your lacking, you could take all that
23:36
script and spin it in all the other
23:38
places that take their companies down
23:39
script.
23:41
>> It's Yeah, you know,
23:44
>> um,
23:46
a kitty.
23:47
>> Yep. The cat scarf. Is that Cora? Um,
23:50
yep.
23:51
>> Hi, Cora.
23:58
All right. Uh, so we're we're going to
24:01
have a uh a GM intrusion.
24:04
>> Great.
24:04
>> And by the rules, because donation, you
24:07
guys don't get to turn it down, so we're
24:09
just going to lay into it. Um, you you
24:12
all of a sudden you you hear a a
24:15
distressed woman uh just chirp out loud
24:18
and kind of everybody gets quiet and it
24:19
makes it awkward. She's like, "Hush now.
24:21
Hush. Nobody wants to hear that. Not
24:24
another word. You understand me?"
24:26
Um,
24:27
>> who's she speaking to?
24:28
>> Yeah. So, you look over and you kind of
24:30
got to get around some crowds, but uh
24:32
there's a there's a little girl sitting
24:34
playing with uh some some nesting dolls.
24:36
She has like some some metal nesting
24:38
dolls and um you can tell the little
24:40
girl's crying and the woman's chastising
24:42
her and a man comes over and puts an arm
24:44
and brings her kind of out of the way
24:47
and the little girl sitting there all
24:49
alone just still crying. Nobody's really
24:51
talking to her. Um, eyes stretch up to
24:54
the little girl immediately.
24:55
>> Okay. Before before you're able to get
24:57
there, um, Oats kind of pulls you aside
25:00
and tells you it's like, "Oh, you know,
25:02
don't don't mind Mara. Uh, she she's
25:04
mourning her daddy. He he got caught up
25:06
in the collapse digging down deeper at
25:08
seven earlier this week." Um, and her
25:11
her you know, her mom's uh,
25:16
Well, you understand.
25:19
Who's Mara? Is that the Is that the
25:21
[ __ ] that was yelling at the kid or is
25:22
that the kid?
25:24
>> Oh, it's the kid.
25:26
Uh I I assume the older woman is mom.
25:31
>> Yeah, that's right. Sheila.
25:33
>> Uh uh it's a rough time.
25:35
>> Yeah. Well, Sheila should learn some
25:37
manners.
25:39
>> All right. Uh do you still intend to
25:40
approach Marliff?
25:42
>> Mhm. If no one's going to stop me.
25:45
>> Nope. Nobody Nobody stops you. Oh, just
25:46
wanted you to understand what was going
25:47
on before you made your way in. So,
25:49
she's sitting there, she's kind of
25:50
crying just, "Hey, baby girl, what's
25:53
going on?
25:56
Um, she looks up at you and you know,
25:59
you can see a tear welling up in her
26:00
eyes."
26:02
>> Nothing.
26:02
>> And she kind of goes back to her toes.
26:04
So, I'm going to have
26:06
>> Okay, go ahead.
26:07
>> No, I was going to say, well, say what
26:09
you want to say and then um kind of tell
26:10
me your intent in this and I'm going to
26:12
have you make a hole.
26:15
Uh, a lot of adults here can be kind of
26:17
um, well, idiots, you know. A lot of
26:21
grown-ups think like they they know
26:22
things. The truth is they don't know
26:25
[ __ ] But it's all right. You want to
26:28
tell me something? I won't tell nobody.
26:30
I won't even tell your mom.
26:32
>> All right. Uh, go ahead and make me an
26:35
intellect roll. Um, and you you she
26:39
smirked when you said [ __ ] so you're
26:41
getting the feeling you might already be
26:42
making inroads.
26:44
>> You don't think it's going to be that
26:44
hard to get her to talk to?
26:45
>> How do Okay, so how do I do an intellect
26:47
role? I spend intellect, right?
26:49
>> No. No. So you you can uh And so
26:51
everybody at home, uh, we actually we've
26:54
never done a how to play cipher system.
26:56
>> Yeah,
26:56
>> this ain't it.
26:57
>> This is my first first time ever doing
27:00
this.
27:01
>> And so we're going to walk through it a
27:02
little bit, but for folks at home at
27:03
some point, we are going to come back.
27:04
if we're going to do a fullon how to
27:05
play. But to do this, you could just
27:08
roll a a d20. Um, and that's it. You can
27:12
expend effort where if you expend
27:14
effort, you are spending points from
27:16
your pool. Um, and so you have 10 points
27:19
in your intellect pool and every three
27:22
points you spend uh allow what you have
27:24
one effort. So yeah, you could spend
27:25
three points. You can reduce the
27:27
difficulty by one. And I know this is
27:30
complicated. It basically means
27:31
>> No, no. Yeah. So what is it? What is the
27:32
difficulty at right now?
27:34
>> Um, you you get the feeling it's going
27:36
to be pretty easy. And so in cypher
27:37
systems, sometimes your your GM will
27:39
just tell you a number like I need you
27:41
to roll a six or a seven. Sometimes
27:43
they'll tell you it's practically
27:43
impossible. Um, when it when it maybe
27:46
doesn't a lot of times given that
27:48
discreet, easy, medium, hard is a way a
27:50
GMO communicate. So, I'm telling you,
27:51
you think you got it.
27:53
>> Okay, I'll just roll a d20 then.
27:55
>> Roll me a d20.
27:56
>> Uh, 12.
27:58
>> Okay, that's enough. Um, she she
28:00
laughed. Cuz
28:02
I I like Yeah. You talk like daddy
28:04
talks.
28:06
Uh
28:08
do you
28:10
you do you you ever see strange things?
28:16
I see lots of strange things. Shadows
28:19
lurking in the night sometimes. Um weird
28:22
strangers following me. What? What is
28:24
it? What did you see, little one?
28:30
Uh,
28:32
mama said she doesn't want to hear it
28:33
and the preacher said that I shouldn't
28:35
talk about it. But
28:36
>> yeah, well, he's full of [ __ ] too.
28:39
>> Yeah, my daddy used to say that.
28:43
I saw my daddy last night.
28:46
>> What'd he say to you?
28:48
Well, he he was all tore up and he he is
28:51
smoking like he done crawl out of hell
28:53
and he was he was tearing at our front
28:55
door and and trying to pull pull pull
28:59
the door open, but he couldn't he
29:01
couldn't work he couldn't work the knob
29:03
and and the the door was locked and I
29:05
was afraid. I didn't want to unlock it.
29:07
I It was daddy, but it wasn't. And and
29:11
eventually he he saw me through the
29:13
window and he he stood up right and he
29:15
looked at me and he said, "Everything's
29:18
going to be all right." And then he he
29:21
just turned around and left.
29:24
Okay. I think
29:27
>> I think your daddy was right. And I
29:28
think he's looking out for you. Where
29:30
did you Where'd you see your daddy?
29:33
>> He He was right outside my front door.
29:36
>> Where do you live?
29:39
Uh well, you know, if you you go out in
29:41
Maine and you go east down the valley.
29:44
>> Okay. Well, if you see him again, you
29:47
let me know, right? I want to make sure
29:49
you're safe. Um I look at one of her
29:51
dolls and I'm like, "What's this one's
29:53
name?"
29:55
I don't name him. I just stack them. But
29:56
I've been My mama gave this to me. She
29:59
said it was something she played with
30:00
when she was a little girl. Uh but it's
30:02
been missing uh you know, two of the
30:05
nesting dolls. So, listen to this. And
30:06
you see like she loads them up right
30:08
quick, but she's missing two sizes. And
30:10
so she starts shaking and she's like,
30:11
"Mom says a little instrument just
30:14
um yeah, that's nice. I like that."
30:19
Yeah,
30:21
>> you're nice. What's your name?
30:22
>> My name's Jesse.
30:25
Jesse? My I'm Mara. Well, it's lovely to
30:28
meet you, Mara. And don't let your mommy
30:30
tell you what isn't and isn't real. If
30:32
you saw your daddy, then you saw him.
30:34
Okay.
30:36
Okay. Just know that if you ever get
30:38
scared and your mama don't help you
30:40
none, you just come to me. All right.
30:45
All right. Um and and just like you're
30:48
kind of wrapping up this conversation.
30:50
Uh Oats approaches you with uh Reverend
30:53
Tim and another man and and Oat says
30:57
like, "Well, y'all uh I want to
31:00
introduce you here to Jam. Um, jam's
31:03
gonna be uh well,
31:07
hopefully keep you out of jam. I I think
31:09
I met your brother, Peanut Butter. She
31:12
just stickers to herself.
31:15
>> The sheriff's name is Oats and this
31:17
person's name is Jam.
31:19
>> Yeah.
31:19
>> Yeah.
31:20
>> Yeah. Y'all just like to name each other
31:22
food products, don't you?
31:24
>> So, so Jam pipes in as my my real name
31:26
is James, but my mom always said I was a
31:29
little sweet and a little sticky.
31:32
All right, James. We're gonna be
31:33
friends.
31:35
>> Yeah. Damn.
31:36
>> I prefer Jim.
31:37
>> Damn. I like
31:38
>> I like this guy.
31:42
>> Uh,
31:44
and so Oats explains like, "So, Jam's
31:46
going to be showing you the ropes around
31:47
here. Um, he'll he'll, you know, you you
31:50
two are going to be sharing a house. Uh,
31:51
Jam will bring you. Um,
31:54
the horn goes off at 6. You need to be
31:58
you need to be at the mine 30 minutes
31:59
later, but you know, Jam will be able to
32:01
get you there, no problem. Uh, and I
32:03
think Foreman is going to have Jam show
32:04
you the ropes once you get down into the
32:05
mine tomorrow, too.
32:08
>> All right. Uh, how many days a week are
32:11
we working?
32:13
>> Six.
32:15
We take Sundays off. I physically just
32:20
shrink a little bit. Like,
32:24
oh, poor Yay. He's never worked a day in
32:26
his goddamn life.
32:28
>> Hey, hey, hey. Being a reporter is
32:31
honest work.
32:32
>> M sure it is. Let me see your hands
32:34
again.
32:35
>> I the softest hand.
32:38
>> Yeah, that's what I thought. You lotion
32:41
those babies,
32:43
you city slicker.
32:44
>> Hey, I never made enough money for
32:46
lotion. I said it was honest, not
32:48
wealthy.
32:50
>> Fair enough.
32:50
>> Yeah.
32:51
>> Yeah. Those are a lot of times two
32:53
different things.
32:54
Yeah.
32:56
>> Yeah. Oh, I'm like, both of you. Uh, you
32:59
you ever been in Kentucky?
33:01
>> Nah. Do you think he would be here? He
33:03
must have screwed up real hard to end up
33:06
down this way. Ah,
33:08
>> Jam, I'll be honest. I've never left
33:10
Long Island on purpose. Yeah, that
33:12
checks out.
33:14
>> You You lived on an island? God, what's
33:18
what's that like? You like coconuts?
33:21
My mom's got a picture My mom's got a
33:23
picture book with some coconuts in them.
33:24
Uh like two monkeys just banging them
33:26
around. I think
33:27
>> No, no, no. I I I think I learned this
33:30
somewhere. Uh I I think like Long
33:32
Island's one of those false names where
33:34
it's like it's kind of an island, but
33:37
it's not really an island. It's more
33:39
like a uh whatever. What is that thing
33:42
that comes out of the that pokes out
33:45
>> of the of the mainland? It's It's like a
33:48
peak
33:49
>> like an almost island. Peninsula.
33:51
>> Yeah. Peninsula.
33:52
>> That's it. That's it. I was going to say
33:54
something different.
33:55
>> Yeah. It's from the Latin. It means
33:57
almost island.
33:58
>> Does it?
33:59
>> Yeah.
33:59
>> I don't know. I don't know Latin.
34:01
>> Neither do I.
34:03
>> That's what my mom always said.
34:07
>> I know sticker Tyrannis. That's the one
34:10
I know.
34:11
>> I don't know much about dinosaurs.
34:14
>> Uh, all right. Mr.
34:16
Thor, I don't think we're a thing yet.
34:20
>> Uh, Mr. JM, I'm going to interrupt you
34:22
again. Uh, we have another donation for
34:25
a GM intrusion where whenever that
34:27
>> becomes relevant.
34:29
>> Uh, look, those ones are going to be
34:30
fun. All right, Jam. So, tell me more
34:34
about the hauler. Uh, how many how many
34:37
people are here? Like, obviously, Mr.
34:40
Oats here is the law. Who's in charge?
34:44
Um,
34:46
well, what what do you mean? Who's in
34:48
charge?
34:49
>> Who's in charge of what? Who's in charge
34:50
of uh
34:51
>> keeping us in line, keeping us from
34:53
escaping? That sort of thing.
34:55
>> Like, I mean, what what do you mean
34:56
escaping?
34:59
>> This is a prison complex, isn't it?
35:03
>> No. What are you talking about?
35:06
>> Then why
35:08
why was I brought here?
35:11
>> Oh, okay. You know, Oats Oats didn't
35:14
tell me a whole story. You got You got
35:15
in a jam somewhere? Yeah. You got in a
35:17
jam somewhere?
35:19
>> Yeah. I got accused of a crime I didn't
35:22
commit. They locked me in chains, put me
35:24
on a railway, didn't tell me where the
35:26
heck I was going, and I end up Turns
35:28
out, I guess, I'm in Kentucky.
35:31
And the first thing that comes out of
35:32
Oat's mouth is we're going to put you to
35:34
work. You're going to have to work and
35:36
you're going to make a wage. And that
35:38
sure sounds like prison to me. Usually
35:40
folks get to ch Last I checked this was
35:43
a free country and people get to choose
35:45
what kind of work they do but uh he
35:47
wasn't acting like I had a choice in the
35:49
matter. Are you telling me that I'm free
35:50
to go? Cuz I'll be honest with you, Jim,
35:52
that I'm free to go. I'm I'm going to go
35:54
ahead and just walk on out of here.
35:56
Maybe maybe uh take a horse with me.
36:00
>> Well, that'd be stealing unless you
36:01
bought that horse. You got you got
36:02
enough skirt by a horse?
36:04
>> Sure.
36:08
just pop up over his head. Just doubt.
36:14
>> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I I know.
36:16
>> Jesse checks her bag. She's got $2 to
36:19
her name.
36:21
>> Um two is a lot of money.
36:23
>> Yeah.
36:24
>> $2 is is is a lot of money, but it's not
36:27
enough to buy a horse.
36:29
>> Fair.
36:29
>> Yeah. So, we we we get folks uh you
36:33
know, he kind of lowers his voice a
36:34
little like like you you know, every
36:36
every couple years. Um, hell, you know,
36:39
I you know, I think they already snuck
36:41
out, but I could introduce introduce you
36:43
tomorrow. Maybe we'll get to mine. How
36:45
of you folks, you know, who who, you
36:46
know, they had to spend a couple seasons
36:48
working, but at the end of it, they just
36:49
decided to stay in Williams Holler cuz
36:51
hell, it's a better life than wherever
36:52
they came from before. Maybe that'll
36:54
happen to you. But no, I mean, you're
36:55
not uh everybody gets paid. You're going
36:57
to get paid same thing I get paid for
36:58
working tomorrow.
37:00
>> That'll be the first job I've worked
37:01
where I actually got paid in got to be
37:05
at least three years. Yeah, it feels
37:07
real good.
37:09
>> Yeah, I guess I would much rather be
37:12
doing something and knocking rocks
37:13
against other rocks. Speaking
37:15
personally.
37:17
>> Um, well, we
37:20
wait. I think that you just basically
37:22
described what I do all day.
37:25
>> You said you like it or don't like it. I
37:27
got confused because you used a lot of
37:28
words back to back.
37:30
>> I don't like it. If a if a man if you if
37:33
a man like you lacks it and gets
37:35
fulfillment out of it, I ain't judging
37:37
man. Whatever makes a man happy, you do
37:39
it. As long as it's not, you know,
37:41
hurting somebody else, I guess. Um,
37:44
>> how you feel about blast
37:48
like blowing blowing stuff up?
37:50
>> Yeah.
37:51
>> Yeah, that's pretty cool. I like that.
37:55
>> The uh the
37:56
>> I also have a f I have a big fondness
37:58
for fire. I mean, I didn't say that.
38:03
Well, I'll tell you what, the the
38:04
boomers are uh you know, they die all
38:06
over time, so they're always making room
38:08
in the ranks. Um you know, maybe you
38:10
spend a few months, you get used to
38:12
everybody. Um
38:14
>> I see what you did there. I see what you
38:16
did there.
38:17
>> Maybe you could take the blasting
38:18
things. Um you know, there's there's all
38:20
kinds of working in mind. I ain't just
38:21
banging rocks against other rocks.
38:24
>> Fair enough.
38:26
>> Uh okay, Mr. Jam, if you would be so
38:30
kind as to uh lead us to wherever we'll
38:32
be living. I think I'd like to put down
38:35
these suitcases that I've been hauling
38:37
under.
38:38
>> I'm not going to live with this Yankee
38:40
loser.
38:41
>> Well, for a little bit. You know, you
38:43
get enough script, maybe you can figure
38:44
something else out. But for now, um we
38:46
had we had a few deaths this week, so we
38:48
got some homes that are empty. Don't
38:49
mind the stuff. Uh you can think of it
38:52
as a what was it? My mom used to always
38:54
say fully furnished. Um,
38:58
anyway, yeah, grab a bite whenever
39:00
you're ready. We'll make our way over.
39:01
Okay.
39:04
>> All right.
39:06
>> Nice meeting you, Jam. Tell Peanut
39:08
Butter I said hi.
39:11
>> Can't believe you met my grandpappy.
39:16
>> Okay. Um, so yeah, you you know, you're
39:20
able to peruse a little bit, able to
39:21
talk to some folks, eat some food. The
39:23
food is delicious. It's great. There's
39:24
uh there is fried chicken, there's fresh
39:26
fish. Um somebody, you know, mighty
39:28
proud to tell you they they had a trot
39:30
line going across the creek and um
39:32
that's the haul they had for the week.
39:35
>> Let me share it with you.
39:36
>> This is this is uh this is food fit for
39:39
a cane. I'm used to I'm used to moldy
39:42
bread and porridge all the time.
39:45
>> Yeah. You guys eat like this every day.
39:48
>> Well, I mean it's it's Sunday supper, so
39:50
you know that's special. Well,
39:52
>> yeah. Sunday. Sunday. You know what we
39:54
got at Sunday supper at my last joint?
39:57
Salt.
39:57
>> What's that?
39:59
>> Well, that's fancy.
40:02
>> Salt to add to our porridge and moldy
40:04
bread. That's what we got.
40:08
>> Someday.
40:08
>> Long for salt.
40:10
>> Someday Isaiah's going to write a book
40:12
about Jesse and just call Tall Tales.
40:16
Some of them might even be true.
40:21
That is that is 100%. Jesse, she likes
40:24
to tell a bunch of tall tales for sure.
40:28
>> All right. Uh yeah. So, I'll head for
40:30
the church food and kind of try and
40:33
eaves drop on conversations. Try and
40:35
figure out like what are folks concerned
40:37
about locally, I guess.
40:39
>> Yeah, absolutely. Um, so I'm going to
40:43
have you make uh essentially this is
40:46
going to be a stealth check and I
40:48
believe to do that we're going to make a
40:51
speed check. Um, do you have anything
40:55
that makes it a little bit easier to do
40:56
that? Um,
40:58
>> you're stealing.
41:02
>> Uh, I do not have anything about
41:05
stealth. I am trained in finding or
41:08
noticing small details. I am trained in
41:10
sneaking. Can I help him?
41:13
>> Um, yeah. So, you you folks could do
41:16
this together. Uh, Tyler, what is your
41:18
applied observation skill? It actually
41:20
cut off on the sheet that I'm looking
41:21
at.
41:22
>> Oh, um, it it's just finding or noticing
41:25
small details.
41:28
>> Okay, cool. I got it. Um, and then if
41:30
you go to do this, you can spend points
41:32
and be and ease the ease it easier.
41:34
Okay, I got you. Um, here's what we're
41:37
going to do. I'm gonna have you make uh
41:40
Jesse, you're going to make me a speed
41:42
roll. Um Isaiah, you're going to make me
41:44
an intellect role.
41:45
>> Okay.
41:46
>> And it's up to you whether you would
41:47
want to apply effort to this or not, but
41:49
people are trusting. They're just having
41:50
that conversation. Pretty easy to you.
41:53
>> If you're trained in a skill that lowers
41:54
the difficulty, yes.
41:56
>> Um no, wait.
42:00
>> Yeah.
42:02
Yeah.
42:02
>> Yeah. I'm pretty sure it does.
42:03
>> It eases it. You're absolutely right.
42:05
And so easing it basically reduces the
42:07
number you have to roll by three points,
42:09
>> right? Um so uh what is what would be
42:13
the difficulty for this particular roll?
42:16
>> Um so the difficulty started as a three.
42:19
Super easy. Um if you're trained, it's
42:21
going to go down to a two. So you got to
42:22
roll a six.
42:24
>> Yeah, I can do that.
42:25
>> I think I'm going to go straight and
42:26
just see what happens.
42:27
>> Okay.
42:28
>> I almost I rolled another 12.
42:32
>> I failed. I got a five. Oh, buddy.
42:36
That's funny,
42:36
>> buddy.
42:37
>> Okay. Um, all right. We're gonna handle
42:40
you each in kind. Uh, we're actually
42:41
we're going to start with Isaiah. Um,
42:45
uh, you you know, you're eating some
42:47
fish and you think you're being, you
42:49
know, all nonchalant. Um, and all of a
42:52
sudden, the the two women that are
42:53
talking finally just look up and turn to
42:55
look at you. Can I help you?
42:58
Oh, I I'm sorry, folks. I'm new in town.
43:02
Uh, I I'm just trying to get my
43:04
bearings, figure out what's going on in
43:06
town. Uh, my name is Isaiah. So, sorry
43:10
for interrupting you. You please enjoy
43:11
your lunch.
43:12
>> Just let face paling.
43:16
>> You could have let off of an
43:17
introduction instead of sitting there
43:18
just listening. Who knows? We could have
43:20
been talking about any kind of personal
43:21
business and you just letting the words
43:23
flow into your head.
43:25
>> Uh, you're right.
43:26
>> What do you What What did you do before
43:28
you got to town? Were you just there
43:29
listening to people, writing down what
43:30
they say?
43:33
me.
43:34
>> Well, ma'am, uh to be honest, I was a
43:36
reporter, so a little bit. Yes.
43:40
>> Oh.
43:43
Anyway, they they walk away and they got
43:46
uh they kind of get quiet. You can't
43:48
hear what they're saying anymore. Okay.
43:49
Uh we're going to come over to you.
43:52
>> Um All right. Uh and I do, by the way, I
43:55
know we have that jam intrusion queued
43:57
up. Don't worry, it's locked up here in
43:59
the brain. Uh all right. So Jesse, um,
44:03
you are able to listen in a little bit.
44:06
Uh, and it it's two younger men talking.
44:08
It's like, you know, I I don't know. Uh,
44:11
I I think I think Keelan's Orchard
44:14
sounds like a a hell of a deal,
44:17
you know. Well, but but you heard you
44:19
heard the reverend, you know, talking
44:20
about labor or whatnot. Uh, you know,
44:24
I'm not interested in getting to heaven.
44:26
I I don't know if I'm going to be able
44:27
to do it. You you know what Tin's doing
44:29
up there, right? He's making cider. He's
44:31
making apple jack. It's all booze and
44:33
alcohol. I heard the reverend, he was
44:35
talking to my papy the other day and he
44:36
was saying that we're going to wind up
44:37
just like the city. A bunch of drunkards
44:39
running around. Nobody's going to want
44:40
to do any work. Um and and hell, do you
44:44
think, you know, are you going to make
44:45
money in making the Applejack?
44:48
I I don't think so. I think I'm going to
44:49
keep mining. I ain't gonna I ain't gonna
44:51
get involved in any of that.
44:55
>> Um I'll slip away and head back to
44:58
Isaiah. be like, "So, nobody told me
45:01
there was brewing going on here."
45:04
>> Uh, is there?
45:06
>> Apparently, I was listening to that uh
45:09
that group that group of guys over there
45:11
who you failed to try to listen to.
45:15
They're talking about there's a there's
45:17
some sort of apple orchard where this
45:19
guy, what was his name again, Randall?
45:22
>> Uh, Tand uh Joe Tand. Joe Tealand is uh
45:26
he's trying to make uh some sort of
45:29
cider or something out there. I mean,
45:32
hell, I I'm an expert at that stuff. I
45:35
used to help my my uncle Joey distill
45:37
moonshine all the time. Why didn't I be
45:39
put on that instead of this?
45:41
>> I don't think that's legal, Jesse.
45:46
That that might be why
45:47
>> is it? Is it not? I mean, cider is my
45:51
understanding is cider is a very very
45:54
common thing and it's just how you
45:55
preserve apples through the winter. So,
45:58
you make sure you have like fresh fruit
46:00
available essentially.
46:03
>> Applejack and moonshine that's a little
46:05
more iffy because of the whole exploding
46:08
parts, but also it's 1900, so I don't
46:12
know.
46:12
>> No, I think above above board. I think
46:15
you're right. Jesse doesn't realize
46:17
this. Yeah. Um, and she's like,
46:22
>> "Bruing alcohol is illegal."
46:26
>> Actually, uh, I think chat may be
46:28
correct. Uh, at this time, we're
46:31
pre-prohibition. It's super legal. Like,
46:34
everyone's fine with it. This is just a
46:35
thing you do with food.
46:37
>> Yeah.
46:38
>> It probably still blows up though.
46:40
>> Yeah. Like, so rural world history,
46:43
like, think about the the fast western
46:44
expansion. Um folks were growing a lot
46:47
of grain, a lot of wheat, a lot of corn.
46:50
Uh and the corn grew super easy. But the
46:52
problem is corn rots. So you couldn't
46:54
there was no good mechanism of shipping
46:56
corn from the Midwest all the way to the
46:58
coastal cities where there were people
47:00
to consume it. The whole reason like
47:03
Okay. Originally in the colonies, do you
47:05
know what the American liquor was?
47:07
>> Whiskey.
47:08
>> No. Rum.
47:09
>> No.
47:10
>> Rum. Oh. They got they got sugarcane
47:13
from the Caribbean. Brought it in. I
47:15
think they grew some cane like in the
47:17
colonies, but they made rum. They loved
47:19
rum. Whiskey took over because
47:23
>> Yeah. Yeah. The whiskey took over
47:24
because in the Midwest they were growing
47:27
all this corn, but they couldn't get it
47:28
down the river fast enough where it
47:30
rotted. So, the easiest thing to do with
47:32
it was ferment it, distill it, and then
47:34
sell it as whiskey.
47:36
>> Got it.
47:37
>> Um, and then there's a whole history
47:39
with like how scotch comes into this
47:41
with American whiskey barrels where
47:42
>> of course you know this. Of course you
47:44
know this history. You any trip or you I
47:47
don't even I didn't even know this.
47:49
That's very interesting.
47:50
>> Yeah. All right. So, um but yeah, so it
47:54
would be legal to to make um and and
47:57
people wouldn't have called it moonshine
47:58
yet. That's a whole another history,
48:00
too. Uh but it is it is legal to
48:02
distill. Uh and and Jim actually walks
48:04
up in the middle of you folks having
48:06
this conversation. It's like, "Oh, you
48:08
hearing about Telin's Orchard?"
48:10
>> Yeah. A lot of folks are talking about
48:12
it. Is it just Is it a oneman operation
48:15
up there?
48:16
>> Well, he's trying to get people to come
48:18
work with him, but everybody's been a
48:19
little loathed to
48:21
>> I'll work with him.
48:22
>> Mine.
48:23
>> Well, no, you can't. Oats. Oats said you
48:25
got to go to the mine. I'm taking
48:26
>> I thought you said this wasn't a prison.
48:29
>> It's It's You know, it's limited
48:31
choices, not no choices. Um,
48:33
>> is this not America? Did I hit my head
48:35
and we ended up somewhere that's not
48:36
America? What is this [ __ ]
48:40
>> You know,
48:40
>> Jesse, I'll be honest. It it this seems
48:42
like a we are here or we're somewhere
48:45
worse situation for you and me. So
48:48
>> So it's prison. It might be gusseted up
48:52
without walls and y'all might act like
48:54
we have some sort of freedom choice and
48:57
that oh we're getting paid but just call
49:00
a spade a spade. It's prison is what
49:02
you're saying.
49:04
>> James Jam just looks he's like yeah I
49:07
think you got it.
49:08
>> Thank you. Thank you. At least you At
49:09
least you're being honest with me.
49:12
>> Well, I wouldn't dare lie to you. I'm
49:13
your friend.
49:14
>> You did. You told me this wasn't prison
49:16
not a few minutes ago.
49:18
>> By my definition, I wouldn't call it a
49:19
prison. But you're giving me your
49:21
definition and I'm hearing and I'm
49:22
saying, "Yeah, the way you think I call
49:24
this a prison." You're right.
49:27
>> Glad we got that sorted.
49:28
>> It is It is not prison, but it is a
49:31
prison.
49:32
>> It's like a minimum security prison.
49:36
Yeah. Well,
49:37
>> yeah. You know, you uh you get too far
49:39
out, the swamp is going to eat you
49:40
anyway, so you might as well, you know,
49:42
stay in time.
49:43
>> Fantastic. And how long how long are you
49:47
say you've been in this? Not prison.
49:50
>> I was born I was born here. I grew up
49:52
here. Most people here grew up here.
49:54
>> And you have to they force you to do
49:56
this?
49:57
>> Well, no, but I I like working in the
49:59
mine.
50:01
>> Hey, Isaiah, I think we stumbled into
50:03
some sort of cult.
50:08
Uh,
50:10
all right.
50:11
>> All right. Anyway, um, great.
50:13
>> But no, no. Uh, I mean, the the
50:16
>> So, why don't we start walking? While
50:17
we're walking, I'll tell you a little
50:18
bit about, uh, Ta and his orchard.
50:22
>> Yep. Yeah. Yes. Lead lead us onward, Mr.
50:25
Jam. Tell us about this orchard. This
50:27
sounds like the most interesting thing
50:28
in town at the moment.
50:30
>> Okay. So, uh, you you get, uh, you get
50:34
outside. Um, hours have passed, you
50:37
know, between the sermon, the choir
50:38
singing, church, eating, talking,
50:41
getting laughed at, all those things.
50:42
Hours have passed. Um, the sun has
50:45
actually passed behind the other
50:47
mountain. And so, you know, the size
50:50
still lit a blaze. You can still see
50:51
where you're walking, but it's getting
50:53
dark because you're down in the holler,
50:54
and that's how life goes. Okay.
50:57
um you you begin walking and um Jam
51:00
starts to explain to you. So, you know,
51:02
we've been we've been working working
51:04
the coal out of that out of that
51:05
mountain for for generations. You know,
51:08
as long as our families have been here
51:10
and uh we've been lucky, you heard the
51:13
preacher talking about it. Every time we
51:15
think we're out of coal, um we dig a
51:18
little bit deeper. Uh we get a little
51:20
bit under the mountain and we we find
51:24
more coal. We keep digging. and keep,
51:26
you know, that's what that's what fuels
51:28
this town. That's what keeps us going.
51:30
Well, uh about 20 years ago, uh two
51:34
times ago, so we were still up on four
51:36
at that point. Um
51:39
Ton, he he had a everybody said he had a
51:42
nervous breakdown. I was too young to
51:44
really remember it, but uh they they
51:46
said he got to a point where he just he
51:48
wouldn't go into the mine anymore. So he
51:50
uh cleared up and he he points up at the
51:52
orchard. He's like cleared off that
51:54
whole face of the mountains, tore down
51:55
every tree, uh built um what do you what
51:58
do you call it? Like terraces, made it
52:00
into some flat levels. Uh and he planted
52:04
he planted an apple orchard. And he said
52:06
then that it was a gift for the town
52:08
that when it matured, we'd be able to
52:10
work the orchard instead of working the
52:11
mines and everybody could afford to
52:13
live, you know, wouldn't have to go down
52:14
below. And I mean, back, you know,
52:16
everybody thought it was crazy talk
52:17
because one, how the hell are you going
52:18
to grow an apple orchard on the side of
52:19
a mountain? Nobody did it. Uh and and
52:22
two, like why, you know, we're we're
52:25
going to get to more coal. We'll keep
52:27
mining. It'll be fine. Um but everybody
52:31
says
52:33
something spooked him. Something made
52:36
him never want to step foot inside a
52:38
mountain ever again.
52:40
>> What spooked him?
52:42
>> I mean, I don't know. I You know, I've
52:45
had a couple drinks before and asked him
52:46
and he he won't talk.
52:50
So,
52:51
>> can I talk to him?
52:54
>> Yeah, I bet I bet you can.
52:55
>> Or am I not allowed to do anywhere and
52:58
talk to who I want to?
53:00
>> No, you're
53:00
>> cuz I got cuz I because I got to tell
53:02
you, even in my last join, I was able to
53:05
do that, you know, as long as it was
53:07
within the walls. But I couldn't punch
53:09
anyone I wanted. They had they had kind
53:11
of a mild uh
53:13
>> you prohibition, if you will.
53:15
>> Yeah, a bit of a prohibition.
53:16
>> They have the same thing here. You don't
53:18
say.
53:19
>> Yeah. Yeah.
53:21
>> Believe it or not, it is forboden to
53:23
just be whailing on people unless they
53:25
deserve it.
53:26
>> If a guy Okay. So, how that's funny you
53:28
say. So, if if a guy deserves it, if a
53:31
guy's being an [ __ ] can I still
53:33
punch his teeth in or is that just not
53:36
>> Jesse? That's assault. That's a crime.
53:38
They put you in jail for that.
53:40
>> They send you places like this.
53:41
>> I just think it I think it's just just
53:43
basic common decency and learning. How's
53:46
a guy gonna learn that he's not supposed
53:48
to talk to a lady in a certain way if he
53:50
doesn't get his teeth punched in on
53:52
occasion?
53:54
>> M Jesse, maybe words. Maybe try words,
53:57
Jesse.
53:58
>> No, that never works.
54:03
>> Words. Words is what started all this
54:04
mess. What are you talking about?
54:06
>> Exactly. Yeah, word. Words was what
54:08
started the problem in the first place.
54:10
How you going to fix a problem with more
54:13
words? Uh,
54:15
>> I don't understand what's coming out of
54:17
your mouth right now, Isaiah.
54:18
>> Josh,
54:20
actually, assaulting someone over an
54:22
insult wasn't usually a generable
54:24
offense in the 19th century.
54:26
>> Josh, I swear to God. I swear to God,
54:29
you're being worse than Quasit usually
54:31
is, man.
54:33
>> Wait, I'm with you.
54:36
>> Oh my god.
54:37
>> This is all I want to say this is
54:39
alternate Appalachia. So if something we
54:42
do is out of the ordinary,
54:45
just go with it because it's an
54:47
alternate universe.
54:49
>> So Joshua CC, but JM is trying to talk
54:51
you out of it. Go ahead,
54:53
>> Randall. I am going to remind you we are
54:54
waiting for a GM intrusion.
54:56
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah,
54:57
>> there.
54:58
>> Okay, cool.
54:59
>> Yeah. Uh,
55:01
don't worry. I got you.
55:04
>> How much is the GM intrusion?
55:06
>> Uh, $25. So folks are being very
55:09
generous.
55:10
That's incredibly low for a G.
55:15
>> No, but hey, we we love our guest. We're
55:16
very excited.
55:17
>> Yeah, we do.
55:20
>> All right. Um,
55:23
>> does he know the word? How does he know
55:25
the word for
55:28
>> I actually said for
55:32
anyway,
55:33
>> it's not a word.
55:35
No,
55:35
>> it makes sense. That's that's the kind
55:36
of thing Jam would say. Um,
55:39
all right. Uh,
55:42
all Yeah, you're you're GM intrusion.
55:44
So, you're having this conversation. All
55:45
of a sudden, you hear um you hear
55:48
snortings
55:51
>> and uh you hear stomping just definitely
55:55
a horse.
55:57
>> Um and um you look up and you see uh in
56:02
the woods a herd of deer.
56:06
>> H what? Wait. Yeah, just heard heard a
56:08
deer kind of walking through the woods.
56:10
Uh and and Jam is like, "Oh, hey, take,
56:13
you know, take a look." Uh, man, I wish
56:15
I wish I had my gun. We can get that'd
56:17
be good eating.
56:18
>> Um, go.
56:19
>> I wish I didn't take away my gun either.
56:22
I will very delicately pull out my
56:24
camera.
56:26
>> Okay.
56:26
>> Trying to take a picture.
56:28
So, as you're as you're doing this, um,
56:34
go ahead and I I want to get you to I
56:37
think we're going to roll intellect for
56:38
this. Um,
56:44
you get a gander, you get a look, and
56:47
something seems off to you. And as
56:49
you're processing it, Jam says, "Look at
56:53
your feet. Look down.
56:57
Look down.
56:58
>> Um, yeah. Don't Don't look at it. We're
57:00
just going to keep walking. Uh, are
57:02
either of you going to sneak a look?
57:05
>> Yes, 100%.
57:07
>> Yeah.
57:07
>> Okay. All right. Um, I'm going to have I
57:10
think we're going to go for a speed roll
57:11
for this. Uh, and this is going to be
57:13
difficult to do without
57:16
>> Does this qualify as part of my sneaking
57:19
skill?
57:20
>> Yes.
57:21
>> So, I'll let you ease it with that.
57:23
>> All right. So, what is the difficulty
57:25
for me now?
57:26
>> It's gonna be a difficulty four, which
57:28
means you're easing it to three.
57:30
>> Okay.
57:31
>> So, you need to roll a nine or better.
57:33
Tyler, you're going to roll a 12 or
57:34
better.
57:35
>> Can I spend some effort and some speed
57:39
to make it easier?
57:41
>> Yeah. So, you're going to do effort.
57:42
That means you're going to have to spend
57:44
three uh
57:45
>> speed.
57:46
>> Three speed from your speed pool,
57:48
>> which I have 17 of, so that's fine. But,
57:50
>> actually, you have one edge, so you only
57:52
have to spend two.
57:53
Oh, okay.
57:55
>> Yeah. Um,
57:58
>> right. Because I have an edge in in uh
58:00
speed.
58:00
>> Speed. That's right.
58:01
>> Uh, so that brings it down to uh a two
58:05
difficulty. So, six. That's what I have
58:08
to roll.
58:10
>> And I'm
58:10
>> I rolled exactly six. Nice. Okay. I'm
58:13
just rolling straight. I'm hoping for
58:15
the best.
58:16
>> You You got to get a 12.
58:17
>> 16. 16. Okay. All right. Um, you both
58:21
look up ever so briefly and you get your
58:24
eyes back down real quick. Uh, so you
58:27
think the creature maybe didn't notice
58:29
that you were looking, but uh,
58:31
immediately what you realize is that the
58:34
thing that you are looking at, the thing
58:35
that is stomping and hissing at you is
58:37
not a deer. You've seen deer before and
58:39
this ain't it. Uh, it's got uh, it's,
58:43
you know, you know how a deer's arms
58:45
bend and the arms bend.
58:48
Are we with uh we with Jam still?
58:51
>> Yeah, you're still with Jam. Jam was the
58:52
one who told you, "Look down." Yeah.
58:53
>> Don't look at it.
58:54
>> Um
58:56
>> but real quick to give you the
58:58
description. So its arms have been in
58:59
the the wrong direction. You saw uh what
59:02
looked like almost like antlers were
59:03
coming out of the front of its arms. Uh
59:06
it's got it had uh four pairs of eyes
59:09
running up a two long snout and long
59:11
sharp teeth that looked like it had a
59:14
mixture of spitting blood in it
59:15
dripping. Uh, and they were stomping and
59:18
staring straight at it. Straight at you.
59:21
>> Damn. What the [ __ ] is that?
59:24
>> We just We need to keep walking. Just
59:26
try not to look at it.
59:28
>> Okay. Is that a normal thing here?
59:31
>> What's it going to do if we don't look
59:32
at it? What's it going to do if we look
59:34
at it?
59:35
>> Shut. We We We don't We don't want any
59:38
trouble. Um, you you hear the stomping
59:42
and you feel the sound getting closer to
59:45
you. Um,
59:47
>> can we go inside? Can we put anything
59:49
between us and that?
59:50
>> No, there's there's there's nothing to
59:52
go to. You're in the middle of the woods
59:53
right now.
59:54
>> Oh jeez. Should we run? Should we run?
59:57
>> No, just just walk walk real calm. Um, I
1:00:01
am going to have you both roll me an
1:00:03
intellect roll. I'm going to hinder
1:00:05
this. So, you're Yeah, you're going to
1:00:08
need to roll a 15 unless you want to,
1:00:10
for instance, expend effort to ease it.
1:00:12
Oh,
1:00:12
>> jeez.
1:00:14
Uh, that's a lot. Um,
1:00:18
yeah. Uh,
1:00:22
so I could reduce it to a 12.
1:00:27
Yeah, I'm definitely spending some
1:00:29
points on this. All right, do it.
1:00:31
>> What is What is your in what is your
1:00:33
intellect?
1:00:34
>> Uh, in my intellect pool is 16. I've got
1:00:37
one edge, so I'll be able to reduce the
1:00:40
cost by one.
1:00:41
>> I have 10. So, um, yeah, I'll reduce it
1:00:45
by one.
1:00:46
>> So, got to get
1:00:48
>> Okay, so you both need to roll twelves
1:00:50
then. Let's do it.
1:00:50
>> Here we go.
1:00:52
>> Not a 12.
1:00:55
>> I got a six.
1:00:56
>> Okay.
1:00:57
>> I I got a three.
1:00:59
>> All right. In a moment, the creature is
1:01:01
upon you. Uh, and we're going to go
1:01:03
ahead and roll initiative.
1:01:06
>> Oh, no. Oh, no.
1:01:11
Oh boy. Um,
1:01:14
now is a terrible time for me to not
1:01:15
remember how initiative works in this
1:01:17
game.
1:01:17
>> So, we're just going to do a speed roll.
1:01:18
And it's the same as always. You could,
1:01:20
if you wanted to, spend effort to try to
1:01:22
go first.
1:01:23
>> Um, uh, Jesse, I was because you made a
1:01:25
comment a second ago. Uh, they they left
1:01:28
you with your gun
1:01:30
>> um in your in your pack. Yeah. And so if
1:01:32
you I'm not going to deny you your
1:01:34
equipment. Um, and you're out in the
1:01:36
middle of nowhere. So, if you wanted to
1:01:38
um a little bit of redcon here, but if
1:01:40
you wanted to say like once you left the
1:01:42
church, you went ahead and strapped on.
1:01:44
I'm good with that.
1:01:45
>> Yeah.
1:01:46
>> Um cuz you're walking in the middle of
1:01:47
the woods. Um
1:01:50
uh Jam Jam pulls out a knife. Uh Isaiah,
1:01:54
what what do you what do you do?
1:01:58
What me? Um I have
1:02:01
>> the pen is my dear. I have a pecket gez
1:02:05
words.
1:02:06
>> Pocket knife.
1:02:07
>> Yeah, I have a pocketk knife. So, I'll
1:02:08
grab for that, I guess. Um, hey,
1:02:11
somebody in chat is telling me they just
1:02:12
don't a lucky charm. All right. Uh,
1:02:16
>> awesome. Awesome. Okay.
1:02:18
>> Um,
1:02:21
Jesse, uh, as you reach for the gun,
1:02:25
you, um, before you do that, you you you
1:02:28
your hand slips and you find a a
1:02:30
children's toy. Um, it's uh you've seen
1:02:35
one before. It's called a they called a
1:02:36
hoie stick here. You might have called
1:02:37
it something else. Uh, you spin your
1:02:40
hands on it and when you do that it kind
1:02:43
of creates wind and it flies up in the
1:02:45
air and it's really cutesy and
1:02:46
everything, but you feel a strong
1:02:48
instinct that if you were to use that,
1:02:50
uh, maybe that joy might protect you
1:02:53
just a little bit.
1:02:54
>> Yep. I'm going to do that
1:02:56
>> once. But we got to do Let's get an
1:02:58
initiative order first, though.
1:02:59
>> Okay. So, what is it? A speed roll.
1:03:02
>> Um, a speed roll.
1:03:04
>> Gosh.
1:03:04
>> And you got to uh the creature is going
1:03:07
to go on nine. So, if you roll better
1:03:08
than a nine, you're going to go before
1:03:10
the creature. Worse than nine, you
1:03:11
won't.
1:03:12
>> All right. I'm going to spend effort to
1:03:14
go
1:03:16
uh down. So, I have to roll a six or
1:03:20
higher now.
1:03:22
And I rolled exactly a six again.
1:03:25
>> Love it.
1:03:26
>> Uh I rolled a seven. So, I believe and I
1:03:30
said,
1:03:31
>> "Yeah, you're going after after the
1:03:32
creature." Okay. Okay. Um All right. Uh
1:03:36
Jesse,
1:03:37
>> you you happen to have a Lucky Charm in
1:03:38
your pocket. Thank you, donor. We
1:03:39
appreciate it.
1:03:41
>> What does Lucky Charm do?
1:03:43
>> Uh so, so it's the Hoie Stick.
1:03:45
>> Oh, it's a hoie stick. Okay. Yeah.
1:03:47
>> The Lucky Charm donation gives a cipher.
1:03:49
The cipher that you got was a hoie
1:03:51
stick.
1:03:51
>> Gotcha. Yeah, I will I will spin it.
1:03:54
>> All right. So, let me um give me just a
1:03:58
second. I'm gonna go ahead and read that
1:03:59
out loud so everybody understands what
1:04:01
this does.
1:04:02
>> So, real quick, Randall, um so for the
1:04:04
Lucky Charm incentive, uh I asked for
1:04:08
folks to describe a general idea of what
1:04:11
the cipher is. Um and for some reason,
1:04:13
it doesn't show it on the web page. So,
1:04:15
like I have to download the spreadsheet
1:04:16
to check what it is, and it took a
1:04:18
minute. Um, it the fulfillment note is
1:04:21
let them have help from a friendly
1:04:24
spirit.
1:04:26
>> Let them have help from a friendly
1:04:27
spirit. Okay, that's not a hoie stick at
1:04:29
all. And we're going to so we're going
1:04:30
to reccon a little bit. Uh, it is going
1:04:32
to be your turn. Um,
1:04:37
from a friendly spirit. Okay. Well,
1:04:38
let's party. Uh,
1:04:42
okay. Jesse,
1:04:44
>> Jam is Jam rolled better. Jam's going to
1:04:46
go before you.
1:04:48
Son of a [ __ ] Uh Jam uh is looking at
1:04:53
his feet. He's like,
1:04:55
"Mama, I wish you were here." Uh and as
1:04:59
he says that, a wind begins to blow
1:05:02
through the trees. Ash, you get to keep
1:05:05
that hoie stick, by the way, just in
1:05:07
your pocket. Um a wind begins to blow
1:05:10
through the trees. Um, and you all you
1:05:13
you hear words in your head just a I am
1:05:16
baby. Uh, and the
1:05:20
the this thing that is not a deer uh
1:05:24
when the wind hits it, the leaves
1:05:25
blowing past it just huffs and stands up
1:05:28
on its back feet and and kind of backs
1:05:31
up a little bit getting away from you.
1:05:33
you know, it its feet with its spine
1:05:35
spinning in the air and it and it lands
1:05:37
away and it it kind of looks at you uh
1:05:40
just unsure all of a sudden if it wants
1:05:41
to get too close or not.
1:05:45
>> Okay.
1:05:47
>> All right, Jesse, we're not you.
1:05:49
>> Holy stick.
1:05:52
>> Um
1:05:57
stick.
1:05:59
What's funny, I literally had the page
1:06:01
just now and I was like, "Oh, I'll close
1:06:03
this." Okay. Um, all right. So, you hold
1:06:06
it, you spend it. Uh, the wind creates
1:06:08
surrounds and protects you and all
1:06:09
creatures within an immediate range. You
1:06:12
all gain plus three to armor. Um, oh,
1:06:15
Romeo D6.
1:06:18
We got to figure out what level this
1:06:19
hoie stick is.
1:06:20
>> Two.
1:06:22
>> All right. So, it is a level five hoie
1:06:23
stick. Um, so you're gonna get plus
1:06:25
three to armor against damage of a
1:06:27
specified kind for one hour. Um, roll a
1:06:31
D100 to determine the specified type of
1:06:33
damage.
1:06:35
>> I I hate this and I think it's dumb
1:06:38
because it basically has like a one in
1:06:40
10 chance of actually being useful in
1:06:42
this moment.
1:06:43
>> Okay,
1:06:43
>> so go ahead and roll. And if you roll
1:06:45
good, we're going to go with it. And if
1:06:46
not, I'm going to be like, "This is
1:06:47
stupid. We're now rolling on a
1:06:48
>> 30 36."
1:06:50
>> Okay, I This is stupid. So
1:06:52
congratulations. You are protected
1:06:54
against acid damage. That is the worst.
1:06:57
Yeah,
1:06:57
>> great. Terrible.
1:06:58
>> Um, okay. You uh you are actually going
1:07:02
to be protected. You're going to have
1:07:05
that armor effect against slashing and
1:07:08
piercing damage.
1:07:09
>> Cool.
1:07:10
>> Uh because that actually makes sense.
1:07:12
>> Yeah. Yeah.
1:07:12
>> All right. Um Okay. Um All right. And so
1:07:16
that's going to be your action. Um and
1:07:19
the creature is is a reasonable ways
1:07:21
away from you. It's not like up in your
1:07:22
face anymore cuz it kind of backed off
1:07:24
uh when the spirit came. Um all right,
1:07:27
it is now the creature's turn. The
1:07:29
creature is going to approach uh Isaiah
1:07:34
and is going to attack Isaiah. So, one
1:07:36
of the things for Cipher system, GM
1:07:38
never rolls.
1:07:41
>> We roll defense, right?
1:07:43
>> That's right. So, you're going to roll a
1:07:45
might roll Isaiah
1:07:47
>> to protect against this.
1:07:50
>> Okay. Uh, hang on. I'm being reminded to
1:07:54
refresh the uh the donations bar. It
1:07:57
should It's not automatically updating,
1:07:59
which I thought it would. So, I must
1:08:00
have something messed up in OBS.
1:08:05
Interesting. Interesting. Interesting.
1:08:10
See if that changes it. Okay. All right.
1:08:13
So, I'm rolling a might defense roll.
1:08:15
You said that's right.
1:08:16
>> All right. Here we go.
1:08:19
12.
1:08:21
>> Okay. Um, that will uh that'll defend.
1:08:24
And so the creature uh slashes at you
1:08:27
with its elbow, but you're able to kind
1:08:28
of pop out uh ju just in time and not
1:08:31
actually take any damage from the
1:08:32
creature.
1:08:34
Um
1:08:35
all right. Uh Isaiah, we are to you.
1:08:40
Okay. Um All right. So great big not
1:08:45
dear spiky terrifying thing. I've got a
1:08:48
little pocketk knife. Um,
1:08:53
great. Great. Uh, staring in terror at
1:08:57
my um
1:08:59
sheet. So, what does our friend Jam look
1:09:02
like he's going to do?
1:09:04
>> Um, he looks like he might turn and run.
1:09:07
>> Honestly, I'm kind of with him. Uh,
1:09:11
for lack of a better idea, I'm going to
1:09:13
try using my shake the bones ability.
1:09:16
So, I'm going to read you the
1:09:17
description. Your words are so powerful
1:09:20
they cause the bones of a creature to
1:09:22
shudder and shake, inflicting two points
1:09:24
of might damage and two points of
1:09:26
intellect damage. Your target must be
1:09:28
able to hear and understand or at least
1:09:31
understand the gist of what you're
1:09:32
saying. Uh, so I just I just tell it to
1:09:36
shoot. It's like, get E gone. You can't
1:09:40
be here.
1:09:42
>> Okay. And then what do you what do you
1:09:44
roll for that? Um, you know, it doesn't
1:09:46
say it. It's just an action. It seems to
1:09:49
just happen as far as I can tell.
1:09:52
>> Um, but then there's a cost with it.
1:09:54
Like you'll spend something out of a
1:09:55
pool to do.
1:09:56
>> Yeah, it's uh one intellect, but I have
1:09:58
an edge, so it's free for me.
1:10:01
>> Yeah, we're going to take a harder look
1:10:03
at that in a second. Okay.
1:10:04
>> Okay.
1:10:04
>> I don't think that's how that works,
1:10:06
bud.
1:10:06
>> I'll go find the ability and see if
1:10:08
there's a check I'm supposed to be
1:10:09
rolling with it. I think you're supposed
1:10:11
to spend two
1:10:14
uh from your intellect pool in order to
1:10:16
use it. And edge edge reduces the cost
1:10:19
by one.
1:10:20
>> Yeah. Well, shake the bones. One
1:10:21
intellect point.
1:10:24
>> Oh, yeah.
1:10:26
>> And then you have an edge, so you're
1:10:28
thinking it's free.
1:10:29
>> Exactly. Here's our limited
1:10:31
understanding of cipher system. We
1:10:32
really need to play this game more. Um,
1:10:34
I don't like it's an action to use, so
1:10:37
it does consume my turn, but I don't
1:10:39
know if I'm actually supposed to be
1:10:40
rolling a check or something.
1:10:41
>> No, we're we're going to roll uh we're
1:10:43
going to roll with it. I'm going to say
1:10:44
that you are able to successfully do
1:10:46
that, and it is going to take damage
1:10:48
from you having done that. Um, which is
1:10:50
going to infuriate it.
1:10:54
>> Great. Great.
1:10:55
>> Okay. Um, all right. So, G intrusion. I
1:10:57
know that we had one queued up, paid
1:10:59
for. Um, right at this minute, another
1:11:02
creature of a similar ilk is going to
1:11:04
come rushing in from the side. And And
1:11:06
you didn't see it coming, Isaiah.
1:11:09
>> Oh, no. Another one of these.
1:11:11
>> Yeah. Make me a defense roll.
1:11:15
And you uh I'm going to hinder you. So,
1:11:18
you need to roll a 12.
1:11:21
>> All right.
1:11:22
>> Oh, shoot.
1:11:24
>> I totally forgot about my danger sense.
1:11:27
It doesn't matter now.
1:11:28
>> Okay. So you uh you you succeed. Um the
1:11:31
creature comes in and it's trying to
1:11:33
swipe at you with its horns and again
1:11:35
somehow misses. A little clactic. Okay.
1:11:39
Um we're we're back to jam, but but as
1:11:41
we come back to jam, uh you see in the
1:11:43
distance uh a a figure coming towards
1:11:47
you.
1:11:48
>> Okay.
1:11:49
>> Now, this figure uh you can see it has a
1:11:52
bit of fire where a man's head should
1:11:53
be. Uh, and it's almost like the fire is
1:11:55
embedded in the the creature's face and
1:11:58
you can see the the features and the
1:12:00
long jaw and the beard. Um, and it's
1:12:03
it's coming towards you. Uh, and you're
1:12:06
getting, you know, it it's it's running
1:12:08
at this point. You're nervous and you
1:12:09
hear the the growling almost like
1:12:12
there's a the growling of a hound as it
1:12:14
approaches. And all of a sudden, uh, a
1:12:18
fireball bursts into the air, uh, out of
1:12:22
this creature's mouth. And these things
1:12:24
that are not deer see that and they they
1:12:27
run off in the opposite direction. Uh,
1:12:29
and standing before you is a man with a
1:12:32
lamp on his head.
1:12:35
And he says, "Yeah, you know, it's it's
1:12:38
a
1:12:38
>> Oh, like a minor's hat lamp thing."
1:12:41
>> Okay.
1:12:42
>> Uh, and he says, "Oh, yeah. Looks like
1:12:46
Looks like you boys and gals, sorry. Got
1:12:48
in a little bit of trouble.
1:12:50
>> What the hell was that?
1:12:53
>> Oh. Uh, little little trick I do. And he
1:12:55
he picks up a bottle and he pours it in
1:12:57
his mouth and
1:13:00
spits fire.
1:13:03
>> That can't be good for your insides.
1:13:05
>> Yeah.
1:13:06
>> Well, you know, I keep the fire on the
1:13:08
outside. I keep the Applejack on the
1:13:09
inside. And altogether, I'm in good
1:13:11
shape.
1:13:12
Oh, are you um I forget the name. The
1:13:16
guy who does
1:13:17
>> Jim Tand.
1:13:18
>> Yeah.
1:13:18
>> Are you Jim Taland? Jim goes, "You're
1:13:22
damn right that's Jim Talin." Jim, am I
1:13:24
glad to see you tonight. Oh. Oh, how'd
1:13:26
you know to come into town to save my
1:13:27
ass?
1:13:32
That was good timing, Mr. Shotty Place.
1:13:38
Um,
1:13:40
man, am I glad to see you. Let's uh Hey,
1:13:43
I'm I'm walking them uh them up to the
1:13:45
old uh the Smith's house.
1:13:48
>> Someone want to explain to me what the
1:13:50
hell just happened?
1:13:51
>> What do you want to do it just right
1:13:53
here standing the road or you want to
1:13:54
get inside a house?
1:13:55
>> No, sir. Inside house, please.
1:13:57
>> Fine. Inside any structure.
1:13:59
>> All right. Um the the man's dog runs up
1:14:02
next to you and it is one of the cutest
1:14:04
dogs you've ever seen. Well, hey buddy.
1:14:07
>> Yeah, it's it's it's kind of white and
1:14:09
black with like kind of muddled fur, a
1:14:10
little bit of dots here and there, and
1:14:11
it's like, you know, this here's my dog,
1:14:13
Cloot.
1:14:14
>> You scared you scared those messed up
1:14:17
deer, didn't you, boy?
1:14:18
>> You can't. You're a big scary boy,
1:14:20
aren't you?
1:14:21
>> All right. Um, and you're able to you
1:14:23
make it over. You walk in the house. Um,
1:14:25
it's a it's it's a nice enough house.
1:14:27
So, it's the way it's structured. Think
1:14:29
of it almost like a studio. like there's
1:14:30
no individual rooms, but there is uh two
1:14:34
lofts
1:14:35
and so you can climb one ladder, climb
1:14:37
the other ladder, and there's a little
1:14:38
bit of seclusion, a little bit of
1:14:39
privacy. You can look up and see where
1:14:40
the beds are there. Um you've got a
1:14:43
woodf fire stove and you noticed when
1:14:45
you were coming in there was a lot of uh
1:14:47
wood laid out um you know, dry
1:14:50
underneath the porch and so you could
1:14:51
load that up and there's a nice cook top
1:14:53
on top of that stove. Um, you know, a
1:14:56
sitting area, some some nice enough
1:14:57
wooden wooden chairs and a table.
1:15:01
Mostly everything you'd need.
1:15:03
>> Yeah. All right.
1:15:04
>> And you're able to you get inside with
1:15:08
uh Jim and Jam as they were.
1:15:11
>> Jim and Jam.
1:15:13
>> Yeah. Jim and Jam. Uh
1:15:17
yeah. And uh you know Jim uh it's like
1:15:20
you you you folks like Applejack. You
1:15:23
ever had Applejack?
1:15:24
>> Uh, sure. I would I would love some
1:15:26
Applejack.
1:15:27
>> You kidding me? Applejack is my
1:15:29
favorite.
1:15:30
>> All right. Um, he starts passing around
1:15:32
the bottle and he's like, "Yeah,
1:15:35
I got some of my own supply if you want
1:15:37
some of that."
1:15:39
>> I I sure would. What? Uh, what was
1:15:42
grain?
1:15:43
>> Uh, I believe it was um
1:15:47
I I can't remember. I think it's corn.
1:15:50
Okay. I I brewed this some years ago
1:15:52
back with my uncle Joey. She takes out a
1:15:55
bottle with just XXX on it.
1:15:58
>> A gallon jug.
1:16:00
>> Passes it around. She's just a little
1:16:02
bit. I'm trying to save it for a special
1:16:04
occasion.
1:16:05
>> Yeah, there you go.
1:16:09
>> Well, that's pretty good. Uh, you know,
1:16:12
this stuff burns more on the inside than
1:16:13
the outside.
1:16:14
>> Yeah.
1:16:15
>> Miss Jesse, how did you fit a gallon jug
1:16:17
in your pockets?
1:16:19
I' I've had it on the side of my my You
1:16:22
didn't see that on the side of my belt
1:16:24
this whole time.
1:16:26
>> Ma'am, I'll be honest. I was trying to I
1:16:29
was trying to maintain eye contact
1:16:30
politely and
1:16:32
>> B just seeing my window.
1:16:34
>> Excuse me.
1:16:36
>> Actually, no. She she she has she has
1:16:39
like a a travel sack on on her back that
1:16:42
she keeps the jug in.
1:16:44
>> That's actually a that's actually a
1:16:46
thing that she has. Um,
1:16:48
>> it's it's called a travel pack. So,
1:16:50
>> perfect.
1:16:51
>> Mhm.
1:16:52
>> Okay. Yeah, I know. Some uh you know, we
1:16:55
got some strange things out here in the
1:16:57
mountains down in the holler. Uh,
1:17:00
suppose suppose you two are new in town.
1:17:02
Never seen your faces.
1:17:03
>> Yeah, you could say that. More like new
1:17:05
prisoners in town.
1:17:08
>> Ah, I see.
1:17:12
Uh, Mr. Tin
1:17:15
Jesse and I have found our way here
1:17:18
mostly against our will. Uh but it seems
1:17:21
like we're going to be here for some
1:17:24
time. And uh yeah, we we sure would like
1:17:28
it to be a comfortable time while we're
1:17:31
here.
1:17:31
>> Speak for yourself.
1:17:34
I sure would like it to be a comfortable
1:17:36
time while I'm here before uh maybe I
1:17:40
make my way on to somewhere not here. Um
1:17:45
clearly there are some things that we
1:17:46
need to know about the goings on in this
1:17:49
town.
1:17:49
>> I get why a lot of people don't come
1:17:51
here willingly.
1:17:53
>> Yeah.
1:17:55
>> No, I mean people born and raised here
1:17:58
just I don't know. Everywhere has got
1:18:00
>> Yeah. You get that's fine. Yeah. No.
1:18:02
Being born here, I get it. Do you get a
1:18:04
lot of willing immigrants here?
1:18:09
>> No.
1:18:09
>> Yeah, that's what I thought.
1:18:13
Yeah. What was that?
1:18:18
>> Um
1:18:21
just some some of the deer grow real
1:18:24
strange. I I think it's the shadow of
1:18:25
the mountain, you know.
1:18:29
>> Yeah, there's no sir. There's only a few
1:18:33
things that get on my nerves and that uh
1:18:37
one of them is people not showing the
1:18:40
proper respect. The second is people
1:18:43
taking me for a ride and not telling me
1:18:46
the whole truth because they think I
1:18:48
can't handle it for some reason. So, cut
1:18:50
with the [ __ ] and tell me what the
1:18:52
hell's going on.
1:18:54
All right. Well, why don't we have a
1:18:57
longer conversation of that when we come
1:19:00
back from the break in just a second.
1:19:04
>> For folks joining us in the live stream,
1:19:06
uh, we're going to take a break for just
1:19:07
a moment.
1:19:08
>> Is your energy already flagging, Tyler?
1:19:10
You're in for a rough ride. Oh.
1:19:13
>> Oh, okay.
1:19:14
>> No, I'm doing great. Like,
1:19:16
>> okay. You're like, I can't believe we
1:19:17
got that far.
1:19:19
>> No, I mean, we were already attacked by
1:19:21
two Eldrich abominations.
1:19:23
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm having a great
1:19:24
time.
1:19:26
>> I I hope people are enjoying Jesse and
1:19:29
that she's not garbage.
1:19:33
>> Yeah. Honestly, what Okay. Wasn't the
1:19:35
name of the the cowgirl from Toy Story
1:19:38
Jesse?
1:19:38
>> It was.
1:19:39
>> I think it was. Yeah.
1:19:40
>> Yeah. Okay. That's in my mind. That's
1:19:42
the mental model that I'm kind of
1:19:43
running with.
1:19:44
>> That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. You painted a
1:19:46
picture and I'm just I'm adding
1:19:47
>> I was originally going to call her Jesse
1:19:49
Waters, but then I saw, oh, that's an
1:19:51
actual political commentator, so I
1:19:53
shouldn't do that.
1:19:56
>> Okay.
1:19:56
>> Yeah. No, I just the name came to me. I
1:19:58
was like, Jesse Waters sounds cool. And
1:20:00
I was like, is that a real name? I
1:20:02
should look this up before I use it. I
1:20:03
was like, oh no.
1:20:06
>> Almost signaled the wrong thing. Okay.
1:20:08
Yeah. Um, so folks joining us live
1:20:10
stream. We're gonna take a break for
1:20:11
just a minute. Uh, we're going to come
1:20:12
back and we're going to talk for a
1:20:13
second,
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