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Portal Quandary
Portal Quandary
Episode 26: Portal Quandaries and Answers
Your portal queries revisited! Join us for our post-season Q&A to explore how our party developed over season 2, wrap up lingering questions, and see if Rosie can name all 123 goats before Close of Business. You'll also get a teaser into our between-seasons mini-arc coming up while we prepare for season 3!
Content warnings for this episode include coarse language.
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Dungeon Master, Editing, and Community Manager is Tyrone Cross
Noah is Steven Edwards
Timothy is Olive Jerome
Lucille is Rosemary Ochtman
Magnolia is Jorja Odd
Elias Moffat is our Content Producer, Narrative Consultant, and Transcriber
Theme song is “Belly of The Beast” by Lily Harnath and Henry Lucas (@lilyharnath & @henrylucas5)
We’re on the lookout for a couple of people to join the team as a Community Manager and Transcriber. Send us an email if that sounds like you!
Email us at portalquandary@gmail.com
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people and produced on the lands of the Awabakal, and Wurundjeri people. Portal Quandary acknowledges and pays respect to our traditional custodians and to their past and present leaders.
The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased) is intended or should be inferred.
Olive/Timmit: Portal Quandary has some content warnings. You can find them in the episode description.
Theme Song: [rock music plays]
Finding home in the belly of the beast, to make it home we can’t accept defeat, so roll the dice and come along with me, finding home in the belly of the beast
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Hello, and welcome to Portal Quandary, episode 26. This is going to be our final episode for the Prophis arc. It’s our final episode Q and A session!
Olive/Timmit: Part two!
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Electric Boogaloo! The same as last time, I’ve got a big deck of questions submitted by social, submitted by our friends. Some I took from last time. I’m curious to hear your answers again. Someone had a great suggestion that we’re going to roll to see who does the first question. Shall we roll?
*dice rolls*
Jorja/Magnolia: Oh fuck.
Rosie/Lucille: Guess who got a nat twenty?
Jorja/Magnolia: Oh yeah! I’m not first.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh, I’m first.
Olive/Timmit: Well, I rolled a two.
Jorja/Magnolia: Shall we announce what we got?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Okay.
Rosie/Lucille: Twenty.
Jorja/Magnolia: Nineteen.
Steven/Noah: Thirteen.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Five.
Olive/Timmit: Two.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Rosie.
Rosie/Lucille: Do I just take one and read?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: No.
Rosie/Lucille: I’ll keep it a secret.
Jorja/Magnolia: You just get to have it.
Rosie/Lucille: Ooo, we have a question from Jorja. ‘Did you think that your character would end up where they are: friends, choices, morals?’ Who answers? Do we all just answer? Do we all just go for it, or are we going around the room?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You drew it. You can go first.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh. Well, to be honest, I always knew Lucille would end up with the king. I didn’t expect her to soften as much as she did and become friends and actually care about people as much. So, that was pretty cute. Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: I didn’t really have any expectations of romancing anyone. It just kind of worked out that way, but otherwise I think Magnolia stuck to what I imagined her to be.
Steven/Noah: Yeah, I don’t think Noah did any character growth either. He did emotions once, and that was about it.
Olive/Timmit: No, see… He definitely emoted and opened up quite a bit.
Steven/Noah: You reckon? To who?
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, yeah. I was having a conversation earlier, and - with someone who listened to the podcast quite recently - had mentioned a couple of times where Noah would emote, so I would say that you definitely developed.
Steven/Noah: Not me.
Olive/Timmit: No, no. Not you. Noah.
Jorja/Magnolia: No, you still don’t emote.
Steven/Noah: No, I don’t really know anything about anything.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I really love that sweet conversation we had at the end of episode twenty-four. You were like- Sorry, Noah was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m just going to hang out,’ and then you were like, ‘Timmit bursts into the room and we hang out,’ and you were like, ‘Lucille bursts into the room and I hang out, and then Magnolia comes in and bursts in, and we all just hang out.
Steven/Noah: I didn’t… I was just there. You all came into my room.
Olive/Timmit: Forced you into a social situation.
Steven/Noah: I don’t think that’s character growth.
Olive/Timmit: I think Timmit was Timmit from the start right through until the end. I don’t think there was much development there. He just kind of held true. He did ease up in moments around animals. There were some exceptions, but I mean other than that he was… I don’t know, I feel that he stuck true to his original character.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I don’t know, I listened back to the first episode you were in and back to now, and you were very timid. Like, very very timid, and now you just fuck around with these guys all the time.
Olive/Timmit: I didn’t realise how timid he really was.
Jorja/Magnolia: ‘How do the players feel about the Summer and Winter Court, and how has that changed over the season?’ From Steven. Can I clarify, players as in my character or me?
Steven/Noah: You.
Jorja/Magnolia: Me. I think at the start it felt very black and white that the Winter Court were evil, in my opinion, and sent the Summer Court away, and that there was no place to judge, but now knowing more it’s very like, ‘Ooo, well hold on. I think we’re missing something. There’s a little more to it,’ and now that everything’s back its like, ‘Okay, something fucked happened. I got to figure that out.’
Steven/Noah: I feel like I should answer last because it was my question.
Rosie/Lucille: Fine, I’ll go, shall I? Hello. Yeah, kind of similar. At the start I was like, ‘Ugh, evil Winter Court,’ but then I was like, ‘Hang on. What if the Winter Court didn’t banish them?’ because we’re only hearing it from the Summer Court’s perspective, so we don’t actually know what’s going at all. The Summer Court could just be painting that picture of them to be evil, but maybe actually they did something terrible to them and we don’t actually know what’s going on, so now I really don’t know, but - you know - there’s another season.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: What!?
Olive/Timmit: What!?
Jorja/Magnolia: Who told you that!?
Olive/Timmit: That’s just a little teaser for you for the end of the episode. When I first came in as Timmit, his backstory was essentially that he was a graduated law student going into becoming a lawyer, and hadn’t actually done much law- lawyering.
Steven/Noah: Practising?
Olive/Timmit: Yeah sure, I don’t know much about lawyers at all, and decided to go with that and then immediately realised it was probably a bad idea, but the premise was that I wanted him to be a sceptical character because I knew the people that would be playing and the personalities that would be in the room, so it was like, ‘I’m going to come in with a bit of a sceptic view,’ and immediately from the start I didn’t trust the Summer Court. It was like, ‘Okay, they’ve been banished from a certain area, and here’s the story that they’ve been feeding us. I don’t believe it. I’ve never seen the Winter Court. They could be legitimate,’ and then by the end of the season, for Timmit, his suspicions were kind of confirmed without any additional knowledge. It was like the exact thing he was afraid would happen, happened because there was no way to define for the Summer Court what would happen. It was just their home. They didn’t know Pangea. Because we told them that we came from Pangea, so yeah, that’s just my input on that.
Steven/Noah: Pangea… yeah, I think similar to Jorja’s answer is yeah, we were presented with an issue, so it was like, ‘Oh yeah, these people are willing to help us. They must be the good guys,’ and then I think there was I moment where I thought, “Oh, they could double-cross and take out portal and come back to our world and start destroying everyone,’ but I think when the coordinates showed that they went to a different place I was like, ‘Oh okay, they’re fine. Whatever.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah, I think that covers it pretty well. I think in the beginning when you're first starting you need definitive qualities for them, and then the longer that your podcast starts running, then you can start to get more nuances in about, ‘They say they’re good, but are they good, and the bad guys, how bad are they?’ That is something that I want to explore more in the next season.
Olive/Timmit: I think it was easier for me to run with that more sceptic side to the character too because you guys had all had your introductions with the Summer Court in a really positive way, whereas I was coming straight into it with you, so it was a little easier for me to go, ‘Oh well.’
Steven/Noah: On that vein too, I feel like the prologues really painted the Winter Court in a negative way, and the Summer Court in a positive way, so there was that as well. Like, the Winter Court are hissing, whereas the Summer Court, we’ve spoken to them and they don’t seem to do that.
Olive/Timmit: The propaganda logs.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: The prologues were also from Kyros’s perspective who was another Summer Court, so unreliable narrator.
Steven/Noah: Dirty Summer Court.
Olive/Timmit: Biassed.
Steven/Noah: This question comes to us from Billy. ‘What was everyone’s least favourite moment in game?’
Jorja/Magnolia: When Timmit…
[laughter]
Jorja/Magnolia: No.
Olive/Timmit: Valid. Valid.
Jorja/Magnolia: Just when Timmit.
Steven/Noah: Least favourite moment… I’m going to assume that’s as a player.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, I think that’s what he meant. Yeah.
Steven/Noah: My personal least favourite moment. It was probably when I was trying to explain Pangea to a dragon and the someone was trying to steal the essence- two people were trying to steal the essence. Yeah, that was probably a bit of a low point in my game.
Rosie/Lucille: I knew that was going to come up.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, that’s top of the list for me. It’s either that or almost dying first episode.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh, you did!
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, it’s those two. I can’t really decide which one.
Steven/Noah: That’s rough.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: It’s a tie.
Olive/Timmit: It’s interesting with that because for me playing in that particular scenario, it was recognising what Lucille was doing and needing to make a decision. Am I just going to let this unfold and be around, or am I actually going to be involved and give it a fifty fifty split on that, so, you know, it wasn’t really…
Jorja/Magnolia: Smart? Wise? Thought out?
Olive/Timmit: No.
Rosie/Lucille: I got the essence.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, it was also not encouraging. It was from a point in my mind, looking at it, going, ‘Okay, she’s going to continue to try and probably piss it off even more, so we might as well try to help and actually steal it and take some of the heat. Literally. Lol. Haha.
Rosie/Lucille: Get it? Dragons?
Steven/Noah: Get it? Because you got burned.
Jorja/Magnolia: No.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh, it’s because they breathe fire, Jorja.
Jorja/Magnolia: What?
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, I think my least favourite part in-game was the combat in the bird house. That was a little chaotic. It felt just a little- It was just- No, it was just a little chaotic, and it was just broken up a little too much, and it wasn’t as smooth, so it was confusing at times, but that was… Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I needed to plan for the fact that all four of you would run in different directions immediately.
Olive/Timmit: Yep.
Jorja/Magnolia: How would you not guess that we would do that? One: You cover more ground. Two: we’re fucking idiots.
Rosie/Lucille: I actually can’t think of a least favourite moment. My go to was when Lucille was dying in the non-magic area, but that was chill. That was fine. That was a little bit of fun, so that wasn’t even a low. I’ll say when people didn’t understand how amazing it really was that I managed to take that from the dragon and save the day, so yeah. That’s what I’ll say.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Bruh.
Rosie/Lucille: Just to stir the pot a little, you know?
Jorja/Magnolia: Just a little.
Rosie/Lucille: Just a little bit of a stir, but no, it’s chill.
Olive/Timmit: I feel like as players we were very divided about that.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I think it made for great content. I’ll give you that.
Jorja/Magnolia: That’s all that matters.
Olive/Timmit: There’s just a couple of wounds that we like to throw some salt on sometimes.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yep. I think I could have dealt with Hymnbo’s disappearance in a better way. I think I did it okay. I didn’t want to just be like, ‘Oh, who’s this Hymnbo guy? We’ve never seen him before,’ and obviously logistically Nathan wasn’t able to continue, but did I have to kill him off? I don’t know. Did I have to put him through a shredder?
Olive/Timmit: It was a little brutal, but you know.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I was trying to make that whole area more tonally darker. But I think that was the only dark thing about it and then we just went back to being normal.
Olive/Timmit: It definitely set the tone of that experience.
Steven/Noah: It also made it more real for the players because it made us be like, ‘Oh shit, that can happen.’ I know that I played the rest of that very differently. I was like, ‘Stay away from that thing. Cut the chains. Do not get pulled in.’ I was like, ‘Absolutely not.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I remember that. Half of that episode was outside the room planning how to go inside the room.
Olive/Timmit: That combat was really great, mechanically and also tonally, so I think that was really good.
Rosie/Lucille: That was cool.
Steven/Noah: I also didn’t feel like there was going to be any roll for saving. It’s just, that’s it.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: ‘You are dead.’
Steven/Noah: ‘You are dead.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I’m going to grab one of these here cards. Another one from Jorja. She asks, ‘Knowing everything you do now, if you had to go back and remake your character, what would you change?’
Olive/Timmit: I’ll go ahead and start. I would have not gone ahead and made a character who was scared of animals because my god that lowkey kind of sucked for the setting of this campaign, and every time an animal came up was feeling the need to be like, ‘Oh no, I’m afraid of this animal,’ and I could have probably toned it down a bit, but also the bit was interesting to me. I don’t know about how everyone else felt about it, but yeah. If I could go back and change it that would definitely be the one thing I would change.
Rosie/Lucille: I’d definitely keep the goats. I think that if I was to change something I’d make Lucille more amicable and easier to connect with people and actually listen to them rather than be like, ‘No, I know what I’m doing. I’m going off to do my own thing,’ because that would be more conducive to a story and less difficult at times because I know at times I would be like, ‘I know Lucille as a character would do this. That is not going to be useful to the story or the party, but I’m sticking to the character.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Counterpoint: A good story does not have a smooth road. There are bumps and if everyone gets along, that’s not fun to listen to.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, fair.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think for Magnolia, I would make her more cautious. She seemed very headstrong at times, and in that being perceived as gullible or just thinks that everything’s okay.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, a very trusting character.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, so I think I’d change that. Also, I was going to say maybe not a bunny, but no, I liked the bunny.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: It was good.
Steven/Noah: I probably would have made Noah a fairy, knowing that everyone else on the other side was a fairy. I feel like Lucille got a bit of a special treatment sometimes, and I’m like - knowing that there were fairies on the other side - yeah, give me special treatment. Absolutely. I know that one of the languages I picked was Elven because I had no idea about any of this going into it, and I was like, ‘Yeah, that seems like a common D&D language. Let’s go with Elven. LOL, fairies.’ Knowing that, I would have gone with that instead. I think I was happy with Noah’s personality and the way he played, but maybe there was some mechanical things I could have played. Maybe some of the combat stuff because I ended up with twenty AC. Did I need all that? Could I have gone with some things that were not combat related, but yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Skittles gives people attacking you disadvantage as well, so did you need twenty AC when he could also do that?
Steven/Noah: No comment.
Olive/Timmit: Oh, it’s me next.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh shit, son.
Jorja/Magnolia: Oh, fuck.
Olive/Timmit: Ooo. Hahaha. ‘What is every character’s star sign?’ This question comes from eanthefrog. We have gone over this. We went over it in one of the episodes.
Rosie/Lucille: We did, and I remember my answer for once.
Olive/Timmit: I can’t remember which one it was, but I think Timmit ended up being Sagittarius, I think. I’m not too familiar with star signs, but I remember I think that was the end verdict.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: My vague things of that conversation was that Jorja said that you were a Leo because it’s a fire sign.
Olive/Timmit: That’s right.
Jorja/Magnolia: We’ve also discussed this in between when it was first discussed and now, and I reminded you of that.
Olive/Timmit: And I forgot.
Jorja/Magnolia: And forgot again.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh my god.
Olive/Timmit: Sagittarius is my go to if I need to talk about it, but yeah, Leo makes sense.
Rosie/Lucille: Lucille’s definitely a Scorpio. It doesn’t need to be explained. She’s a Scorpio.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I don’t know any of the star sign stereotypes except my own. Why a Scorpio?
Rosie/Lucille: Scorpio’s are really strong and independent and fiery. You do not want to mess with a Scorpio.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Is that another fire sign?
Rosie/Lucille: It is a water sign, and it is described as being “strong, enigmatic, and independent characters who crackle with the intensity and charisma that makes them unignorable,” and I would say it is probably hard to ignore Lucille.
Steven/Noah: I don’t know anything about star signs, but I know Taurus is an earth sign, and I think Noah would be an earth [sign].
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah?
Jorja/Magnolia: Okay, judging by this quick Google, Libra.
Steven/Noah: The scales.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yes.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: ‘I’m a Libra.’
Steven/Noah: ‘Libra. Party. Fuck.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: What is Libra known for?
Jorja/Magnolia: Charming…
[laughter]
Jorja/Magnolia: This one says ‘Charming, beautiful, and well balanced.’ I like the charming thing because Magnolia definitely tried to charm people just by being nice. ‘They thrive on people and things being orderly and aesthetically pleasing. They also crave balance and they can be equally as self-indulgent as they are generous. They like making peace between others.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: That’s Magnolia.
Olive/Timmit: That’s very on brand.
Jorja/Magnolia: Hence the scales, I guess. I read one that I showed Steven that was, ‘Aquarius: philosophical but detached.’
Rosie/Lucille: I have another question from Jorja. ‘Is there an NPC your character would go back to find?’ Yes, the king. That’s me.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Just rapid-fire, let’s go.
Jorja/Magnolia: Well, I mean it was discussed that I’f go back for Cleary, but on a grander scheme she would try to find Pidge.
Rosie/Lucille: Excellent.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yes.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Pidge!
Steven/Noah: As Noah, no-one. As Steven, probably Onyx because he was the first one that Noah was even introduced to, and he saved him and then we didn’t really talk to him after that.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Such good friends you are.
Olive/Timmit: As Timmit, I mean he kind of did. He went back and he found Margaret at the end. So, that would be Timmit’s answer. As Olive, Pidge. Two hundred percent.
Jorja/Magnolia: We’re going to go find Pidge, baby.
Olive/Timmit: Oh yeah, I want a Pidge in my life so bad. The sweetest little thing.
Steven/Noah: Justice for Pidge!
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Even after he betrayed you.
Rosie/Lucille: Pidge can never betray.
Olive/Timmit: No, he’s just Pidge.
Jorja/Magnolia: He’s just doing his job.
Rosie/Lucille: Such a good boy.
Jorja/Magnolia: This one is from the handsome and dashing Tyrone. That’s weird, that’s what’s written on here.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh, that’s so weird. I wrote that.
Jorja/Magnolia: ‘How did your theories on how the second half of the podcast would go match up to what ended up happening?’ I was still unsure until the end as to what was happening. I had ideas of what might happen, and most of them were, ‘You’ll get back and there’ll be a huge war between fairies,’ so I was shocked because I was like, ‘Oh, fuck. We’re just in Melbourne.’ So yeah, it was drastically different.
Steven/Noah: I know there were hints dropped about Melbourne when we went to Exanimus, but it did not occur to me at all, so when we went through the portal and we were on Lucille’s farm and we were still the same, and then we found out we were in the same world as you guys even though you went through a different portal, I was like, ‘Okay.’ Yeah, it was very different to what I thought.
Olive/Timmit: For me it was… I had expected there to be a little bit more of an espionage spin on it. When we found out that they had come back to Melbourne, for me, that was like, ‘Yep, that makes sense.’ I kind of had suspicions around that, and had wanted to pursue that with other characters, but I think I was looking in the wrong places and asking the wrong questions because I had expected there to be a darker or more ill-intent motive behind them wanting to return home. So yeah, for me it was pretty much, ‘Half yes, but also not in the way that I expected.’
Steven/Noah: I really wish I’d investigated the coordinates as Noah because I’m sure he would have had enough knowledge of them to be like, ‘They’re really fucking close. In the grand scheme of portal travel, they’re really close,’ but I did not think to do that.
Olive/Timmit: No.
Steven/Noah: But maybe he noted it in his head and thought, ‘That’s fine.’
Rosie/Lucille: I didn’t really have any theories as such except for hearing about the Winter Court, and thinking it sounded like this cool winterland wonderland place, and hoping that we’d go back there, and then we didn’t go back there, but then there’s these fairies and stuff there. So, it kind of matched up because I was like, ‘Oh, you know, maybe we’ll see the Winter Court’, and we kind of did but not really, but I didn’t really solve anything. I didn’t think that the Winter Court would be there. I just wanted there to be the Winter Court, so long story short…no answer. But also when the thing looked like Melbourne, I was like, ‘Oh cool, Melbourne.’ I didn’t think anything further of that.
Steven/Noah: This one comes from Jorja.
Olive/Timmit: What?
Rosie/Lucille: Woah.
Steven/Noah: ‘With life becoming what it was, and magic becoming the norm, what changes would that bring to your characters.’
Olive/Timmit: I feel like you delved into it a little bit with the epilogue with Noah. Like how he had himself set up.
Steven/Noah: He was like, ‘I’m going to make money off of this shit.’ Yep. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. He made it a way to make it work for him. I mean, Timmit just quit his job.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah…
Steven/Noah: What now?
Olive/Timmit: Well, that’s question because with the skills that he has and with the way that the world will change, I feel like he would go into an area of law that would really benefit the changes that have occurred and protect them, but would kind of be like a Daredevil situation.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh.
Olive/Timmit: Where he’s a lawyer by day, and then a vigilante by night, you know?
Jorja/Magnolia: Blind.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh, he thinks he’s so cool.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: But you need a cool little outfit.
Olive/Timmit: Oh, absolutely. It would just be a… He would get a Sharkboy and a Lavagirl costume and put them together.
Rosie/Lucille: That’s brilliant.
Jorja/Magnolia: That sucks.
Olive/Timmit: I really love how I divided the room with that answer.
Steven/Noah: Again. The same fifty fifty split. Christ.
Olive/Timmit: There’s two different kinds of minds in this room.
Jorja/Magnolia: Some are superior.
Rosie/Lucille: But it’s never the same. It’s never the same people.
Olive/Timmit: I think you know who’s superior.
Rosie/Lucille: With magic now being in the world, Lucille would definitely stick to her same routine of looking after the goats. Like, she believes in hard work, so she wouldn’t cut corners with magic, but she would enjoy doing cool little things like randomly turning her sheep blue for a day, and be like, ‘Ha, blue sheep.’
Steven/Noah: I’ve been blue. It’s not worth it.
Jorja/Magnolia: I have a vial for that.
Rosie/Lucille: And yeah, but if she’s feeling sick or something she’d probably use the magic to do her chores, but apart from that she’d just continue everyday life, using magic as a little novelty every now and then or when it’s really needed.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think Magnolia would channel magic into helping people, but also helping her with her plants.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah. I think she would try and use it selfishly to grow plants, but she’d also consider a career change because she’s like, ‘Oh, I can probably do more with this. I can probably help with this.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Are you going to turn into a druid now?
Jorja/Magnolia: No, god, please no. I’ve played so many fucking druids. Oh my god.
Olive/Timmit: There’s a typecast and you fit it.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep. It plant and animal. I’m in.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Plant-girl. The Thorne Files Podcast asks us, ‘What’s your favourite moment and/or NPC from Prophis?’
Jorja/Magnolia: I assumed we were all going to say the same thing at the same time.
Rosie/Lucille: Wait, are we talking about the NPC? Is that what we’re answering?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: We’ll go favourite NPC first.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh wait, but there’s a couple.
Jorja/Magnolia: No, there’s only one.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, there’s only one.
Steven/Noah: There’s really only one.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, there’s only one.
Olive/Timmit: Should we say it at the same time?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Rosie/Lucille: But what if I get the wrong one?
Olive/Timmit: Alright, ready? Three, two, one:
All: Pidge.
Jorja/Magnolia: Well done Rosie.
Rosie/Lucille: Yay, I was so stressed.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Pidge was in two episodes.
Olive/Timmit: And Pidge is king.
Rosie/Lucille: I love Pidge.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Not Margaret?
Jorja/Magnolia: No, fuck that bitch.
Rosie/Lucille: No, she’s second.
Jorja/Magnolia: I ain’t even seen her.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: That’s your choice.
Steven/Noah: She’s literally the Unseen Servant.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Favourite moment? We had least favourite moment before, so now it’s our favourite.
Steven/Noah: I think pulling out a spanner and casting Eldritch Blast. That was pretty cool.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Ping, pow, zap!
Steven/Noah: Fuck, I did say that, didn’t I?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Rosie/Lucille: Getting to show everyone my goats when we got back to the goat farm. That was pretty cute and wholesome.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yes.
Rosie/Lucille: We frolicked.
Steven/Noah: You frolicked.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I had an evil DM smirk when it was episode twenty-four when all of you were in the room before the final fight, but it was just Timmit and Noah at that point. You guys were talking about returning back to your old selves. You were like, ‘Oh, I miss being tall.’ You were like, ‘Do you think we’ll stay in our forms or do you think we’ll change?’ And I was like, ‘Hmm. Hehehe.’
Olive/Timmit: Funny that.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think handing the bag to Timmit with the sending stone in it to say goodbye. I like that.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Because I know you floated the idea before, I was staring at you like, ‘Are you going to do it? Are you going to do it?’
Jorja/Magnolia: I kept avoiding the question every time you asked.
Steven/Noah: I think putting my multitool into an elevator and controlling the elevator, that was…
Olive/Timmit: That was a clutch. That was pretty sick.
Steven/Noah: That was so good.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah.
Steven/Noah: I know you hated that, but I loved it.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: *imitating Noah’s taunting sound*
Steven/Noah: *taunting sound*
Olive/Timmit: Definitely a tie for me between getting to run along a tree at ridiculous amounts of speed in that finale episode - that was a lot of fun getting to utilise that - and receiving the boots of flying, and knowing the phrase. The ‘Go, go, go, go!’ and how much that really annoyed everyone. For me, it was so great.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I thought you were going to say the dragon, when you took the eight d8 fire damage.
Rosie/Lucille: I was actually just about to add that a favourite moment for me was the dragon moment. That was pretty fun.
Olive/Timmit: That was pretty cool that I managed to actually survive that. That was nice.
Steven/Noah: I hate that that’s a highlight. They will learn nothing.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, but neither did the dragon, so you know?
Jorja/Magnolia: Learned about Pangea.
Steven/Noah: He learned so much about Pangea.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, and imagine what he could have done with more knowledge too. You don’t know that dragon. You just boldly trusted it.
Steven/Noah: And we’ll never know.
Jorja/Magnolia: He didn’t get teleported.
Olive/Timmit: No, he got fucking deaded, mate.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah-
Rosie/Lucille: I don’t know why that happened.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Thanks to your new boyfriend.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh, the king.
Jorja/Magnolia: I do like that I got to cast Misty Step on me and a giant elk. That was kind of fun. I also liked that I had a giant elk.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Toby.
Jorja/Magnolia: Toby.
Rosie/Lucille: I liked that I got to convince all of the society and the king that I really was sorry for the chaos that I caused.
Olive/Timmit: Oh.
Steven/Noah: And I got to lie and get away with it.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, yeah, the lying was fun.
Olive/Timmit: One hundred percent, my favourite moment was the moment that Lucille had a conscience.
Rosie/Lucille: Yes, that was one of my favourite moments.
Olive/Timmit: Such an ingenious use of telekinesis- Telepathy, sorry, but oh my god, amazing.
Rosie/Lucille: I genuinely loved that whole thing. Like, the whole telepathic thing.
Steven/Noah: And she never knew.
Rosie/Lucille: I hate that she never figured it out.
Jorja/Magnolia: She’s going to die not knowing.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I did set up a few opportunities for you to learn, but we managed to dodge.
Steven/Noah: I feel like there were some moments where she started to yell a little bit more and be more vocal about it, so I was like, ‘I need to stop using this or I’m going to get discovered.’
Yeah, she was just cottoning on to it and then it never came back.
Olive/Timmit: Oh man. Okay, this one comes from our Content Producer, Elias. ‘How many sets of dice does each person own?’
Jorja/Magnolia: I’m going to go last because I’m ashamed.
Steven/Noah: I have two.
Jorja/Magnolia: Rosie?
Rosie/Lucille: I don’t have any dice unless you count the Boggle set that I have at home which isn’t actually mine, but it’s got some dice in it.
Steven/Noah: Then no.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Roll the dice but they’re just letters.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah. Oh wait, it is letters.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah. You don’t own it, and it’s not numbers, and it’s not the right die.
Rosie/Lucille: Okay, so I don’t have any dice. In case anyone was wondering, I use Jorja’s or Oli’s dice when they’re playing, and it’s different every time, and they’re all really pretty.
Olive/Timmit: I don’t have the exact number. I think it’s around… I think I own over twenty sets. Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I don’t understand. I have six. I don’t understand why we get into such large numbers.
Rosie/Lucille: Pretty.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, they’re all so pretty and all different colours and shapes. Well, I mean they’re all the same shapes, but…
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You can get different shaped ones like the d8’s that are the long pointy ones and then the short ones, or the spinny roller ones.
Olive/Timmit: True.
Jorja/Magnolia: I was just saying how it’s seven different shapes to every dice. I have twenty-nine.
Rosie/Lucille: Woah.
Olive/Timmit: Damn.
Jorja/Magnolia: And there’s a couple extra that aren’t a part of a set because they just threw in extra d8s and d6s.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I would hate that. I need a full set. I’ve got a rainbow set that’s missing a d10. I never use it. I can’t.
Jorja/Magnolia: Who uses a d10? Use a d100.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I don’t care. I’m missing a dice.
Olive/Timmit: I got a D&D advent calendar not last year, but the year before for Christmas. It was a lot of fun, but yeah, I have a lot of random dice that aren’t a part of any set.
Steven/Noah: I have my two sets. One are big and one are little. That’s it.
Jorja/Magnolia: I have two little sets.
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We’ve got another question from Elias. ‘What was the first thing everybody’s character did after getting back to their real home?’ Well, Lucille definitely hugged her goats out in the field, and then when she went back into her little hut she made a nice cup of tea, and she sat there on her very, very old armchair that squeaks when she sits down and has an old knitted rug on it, and she sat there with her tea and fell asleep to the sound of goats bleating.
Jorja/Magnolia: Magnolia had a shower.
Rosie/Lucille: Smelly.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, she now has fur, and has definitely done a lot of activities and exercise. Shower.
Steven/Noah: See, Noah did less exercise because he spent the back of a robot, so he maybe didn’t need to shower as badly as you did. I mean, I think I went over everything that Noah did.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Steven/Noah: He just continued his work. Put his robots to work. Oh, I guess he brought Honey Boo Boo back to life because she was in the shield, so he made her an entity once again.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You need those ergonomic exercises that they have for planes and for workplaces where you have to get up every hour or so and do five minutes of moving your legs.
Steven/Noah: I don’t understand.
Olive/Timmit: Timmit probably would have visited his parents first. Checked in with them and made sure they were alright, and then after that probably would have cried for several hours realising that he would have had to resize his entire wardrobe, and then everything else that came after.
Steven/Noah: Jeez, make us look like arseholes.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, fuck.
Steven/Noah: ‘I love my parents dearly, so I went to them.’
Jorja/Magnolia: ‘I went towards people and reconnected.’ Shower. I stink.
Steven/Noah: Build robot.
Jorja/Magnolia: Build robot, shower.
Olive/Timmit: Well, Timmit was always a mummy’s boy.
Jorja/Magnolia: That tracks.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah. Your question.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: Guess who it’s from?
Rosie/Lucille: Jorja?
Jorja/Magnolia: It’s from Jorja. From me - shock, horror - ‘Are there any questions left unanswered that you’d continue to investigate?’ Magnolia wants to know what the fuck the reeds were. That’s all.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I can probably answer some of these depending on what they are and if I want to explore it in the next season or not. I mean, you brought the reeds back with you, so…
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep. You never know.
Steven/Noah: I smell some science.
Jorja/Magnolia: Sabotage. Just, ‘Oh I don’t like you.’ Plant a reed.
Steven/Noah: Damn girl.
Jorja/Magnolia: No, I wouldn’t do that.
Steven/Noah: You would.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Olive/Timmit: I love that.
Steven/Noah: Unanswered questions… From me or from Noah?
Jorja/Magnolia: Either. Both.
Steven/Noah: Noah has no questions. He is perfection. He’s fine.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Nothing that happened that you were like, ‘Why? Why did that happen?’
Steven/Noah: No, but I don’t know if I have any questions.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I mean, I know all the answers. I love tha, mostly Magnolia, but maybe a bit of Timmit, are the only people who talked about their visions from the portal. Rosie and Steven, they got their portal visions, and they were like, ‘Okay, anyway, moving on. I’m not going to tell anyone about that.’
Steven/Noah: I was playing a character.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, Lucille don’t talk about things.
Jorja/Magnolia: She kind of did, but missed half of it.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, she said the things. Like, ‘There was this purple thing, and there was this guy there, and oof. Weird, right?’
Steven/Noah: She talked about things, just not necessarily the right things.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, I think it’s very much on par for myself and Timmit both just wanting to know who the Summer Court is. Just, ‘Who are they?’ because they were obviously not being super upfront about who they are or why they were where they were or how they managed to get there. Like, they explained the story, but it’s still a question of, ‘Yeah, but who are you really?’ So, that’s a lot of what Timmit will be exploring.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Not something for next season, but I did explore the idea in my brain of having a future season where it’s set before they were banished and everything and leading up to them getting banished.
Steven/Noah: Like a prequel.
Olive/Timmit: Like a prequel. Like an origin story.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah, I think the issues with that is you have a definitive outcome that needs to happen, and that’s very railroady in that sense.
Olive/Timmit: You’d need to play it on a different kind of play format.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah.
Steven/Noah: We explored the Quiet Year.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Rosie/Lucille: I, as Rosie, don't have any questions, but Lucille definitely has a question, which was not answered. She just wants to know what the voice in her head is. That’s it.
Steven/Noah: And that is a perfectly reasonable question. Who’s questions next? Me?
Jorja/Magnolia: I think that’s you, love.
Olive/Timmit: I would have thought Lucille’s question would have been, ‘Can the king make babies?’
Jorja/Magnolia: I think the question would have been, ‘Can Lucille make babies?’
Rosie/Lucille: Lucille has all the babies she needs in her goats.
Steven/Noah: This question is a blast from the past from Jorja. ‘Were there any moments that made you change your perspective or morals?’ No.
Jorja/Magnolia: Noah is perfect.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: That was exactly your answer last time as well.
Steven/Noah: Yeah, he is perfection.
Rosie/Lucille: No moment in particular that stands out, but just a general change of trying to see people more positively rather than ‘I’m old.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: It’s almost that question of, ‘Did changing into a young fairy make you feel younger, or did that happen just because?’
Rosie/Lucille: Thinking about it, being a fairy was better because you could do more things. It’s suddenly more exciting and cool.
Steven/Noah: What do you mean? Lucille could do everything.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, actually you’re right. Lucille, she never had a medical condition or anything. She could do literally everything. You’re so right. Thank you for reminding me.
Olive/Timmit: I think one moment that I can definitely pinpoint Timmit’s a lot more relaxed stance towards animals was when Lucille conjured the familiar of the goat and seeing how happy it made her. It was a moment for Timmit to recognise and go, ‘Okay, you do remember that not all animals are inherently bad,’ and then it was a couple more moments after that that started to help him out a little bit I guess.
Jorja/Magnolia: Not the elk eating breakfast with you?
Olive/Timmit: That thing should have burned in hell.
Jorja/Magnolia: How dare you. I love Toby.
Olive/Timmit: I preferred Toby- I preferred OG Toby. Dog Toby. D-O-G.
Jorja/Magnolia: But he fucking died.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh I get it. D-O-G.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: D-O-G [Dee OG, or The Original]
Rosie/Lucille: Dog.
Jorja/Magnolia: Fucking hell.
Olive/Timmit: D-O-G.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think a moment for Magnolia was Lucille almost dying. It very much changed her perspective of ‘Oh fuck, this could could go very bad very quickly,’ because there was an air of, ‘No, no, it’ll all be fine.’ So I think that was, ‘Oh no, I really need to protect these people. That one in particular.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: This bitch.
Steven/Noah: I was going to day, ‘These people?’
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, no, you’re fine. Noah’s perfect.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Something that I found interesting listening back was Magnolia, after Hymnbo died, getting really riled up and starting a fight with the building, and defending him basically, and then the next episode, to Cleary was like, ‘Oh yeah, Hymnbo died. Okay, moving on.’
Jorja/Magnolia: She grieved. Yeah, I think it was more the shock of it happening and having all of these other people in the building still, and it wasn’t so much a, ‘How dare you do this.’ It was a, ‘Do this to me. Don’t do this to them.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, so she was trying to get attention and become the victim.
Steven/Noah: Another blast from the past. Let’s see if it’s changed since last Q&A episode. Valiant Odyssey asks, ‘If your character had to kiss/marry/kill three NPCs of your choice, who would they be?’
Rosie/Lucille: Wait, is this as our characters?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah okay, cool.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yep.
Jorja/Magnolia: The first three words were, ‘If your character.’
Rosie/Lucille: Oh.
Olive/Timmit: Kiss Pidge, marry Thaumus, and kill Toby.
Jorja/Magnolia: This says NPCs right?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: I have my answer.
Rosie/Lucille: Well, go on.
Jorja/Magnolia: Mine was also going to be kiss Pidge, marry Cleary, kill Margaret.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Ooo, why?
Jorja/Magnolia: Because fuck Timmit. She’s unseen. She’s supposed to be unseen. I can see her. She needs to die.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Unseen Servant should be unseen and not heard.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Steven/Noah: Does Skittles count as an NPC?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: We counted Toby and Margaret, so yeah.
Steven/Noah: Perfect. So, we’re going to kiss Onyx for saving my life. We’re going to kill Thaumus because she is horny as fuck, and i’m going to marry Skittles.
Jorja/Magnolia: Nice, nice.
Olive/Timmit: Very fair.
Jorja/Magnolia: I was going to kill Thaumus until that happened.
Olive/Timmit: What’s wrong with Thaumus guys? Come on!
Jorja/Magnolia: Umm, she fucking sucks.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I thought she had a good voice.
Tyrone/Thaumus: Hello darlings!
Jorja/Magnolia: I think it was also because she was tied to Timmit.
Steven/Noah: One hundred percent.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Noone else went and visited.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, no. We didn’t give a shit.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah actually, you know what? No, I will say she has helped you not be blue anymore, so that’s unfair.
Steven/Noah: Eh, I would have found a way.
Jorja/Magnolia: Lucille would have figured that out in two episodes.
Rosie/Lucille: Hmm? I was zoned out trying to figure out who I’m going to kiss/marry/kill. This is really stressful. Anyway, I would definitely marry the king for sure. I don’t want to say I’ll kiss Goaty because that’s a bit weird.
Steven/Noah: But…?
Rosie/Lucille: But Lucille’s going to kiss Goaty, and then she’s going to kill… Look, honestly I think She’s going to kill Pidge. Rosie loves Pidge. Lucille hates Pidge.
Jorja/Magnolia: That’s fair.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Why not? Why doesn’t she like Pidge?
Rosie/Lucille: Well, you know, birds are cool and all, but Pidge was just a bit much. Like, you know, ‘Oh, Pidge.’
Jorja/Magnolia: Very Lucille.
Rosie/Lucille: Just to Lucille it’s a bit in your face, you know? It’s just a bit too much Pidge, and Pidge didn’t get right to the point and all that.
Steven/Noah: You know the top of the kill list for Pidge is Lucille for the same reasons.
Rosie/Lucille: I mean, yeah, fair.
Steven/Noah: Justice for Pidge.
Olive/Timmit: Did you- You answered? Did you answer?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: No.
Olive/Timmit: You go.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I don’t have a character.
Rosie/Lucille: Say it as Tyrone.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: It says, ‘As your character.’
Olive/Timmit: Which of your NPCs would you kiss/marry/kill?
Rosie/Lucille: Remember, Goaty is included.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I’ll kiss the king. I described him as a hottie. Who am I marrying? Do I marry Cleary? She’s the most reasonable… Oh, Kyros. I’ll marry Kyros. I like Kyros. Let’s kill… Who don’t I like? Who do I hate?
Olive/Timmit: Who do you hate voicing the most?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Goaty.
Rosie/Lucille: I am deeply offended.
Olive/Timmit: I thought for sure it was either going to be between Maraget or the talking goat at the very start.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: It’s the same sort of thing, when Goaty has brief talks. The goat voice, I hate it.
Olive/Timmit: We’ve got another blast from the past. This one’s from me. ‘What’s your character’s theme song?’
Rosie/Lucille: I remember what I said last time, but mine has changed, I think.
Olive/Timmit: See, last time I think I said mine was Animals ironically because I didn’t have a proper answer, but I’ve had time to think about it now.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Everybody’s pulling out their Spotify.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah. Actually, let me review. Give me a second.
Steven/Noah: This song is not in my Spotify. I just want to say that. It’s Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.
Jorja/Magnolia: Domo Arigigato, Mr. Roboto. Domo [To the tune of Mr. Roboto by Styx]
Steven/Noah: Yep, that one. That’s Noah’s new theme song.
Olive/Timmit: Alright, mine would have to be a song called Nobody Likes The Opening Band by a band named I Don’t Know How, But They Found Me. I feel like it very much fits Timmit.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I know the band. I don’t know why. I think they’re good.
Olive/Timmit: They’ve got a couple of really good bangers. That is one of them, but I think their most common one is Razzmatazz.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh, It’s Leave Me Alone is the one I know.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, Nobody Likes the Opening Band.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Why?
Olive/Timmit: Because they’re actually the underdogs. Nobody can appreciate an underdog until their story has been told.
Rosie/Lucille: So, the last time this question was asked the answer for Lucille was Burning Pile, but this time I’ve decided it’s going to be Addicted by Bliss n Esso because - I have a justification for this - because now she’s actually starting to enjoy life, and she actually doesn’t want it to end, and she wants to keep on going and going and going. Rather than the negative thing she was in before. Now she has this new found, ‘Ooo, everything is new and this is kind of exciting and cool.’ Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: That’s so wholesome.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think I’m going to go with Heart of Gold by Neil Young. Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Ooo, because you’ve got that heart of gold?
Jorja/Magnolia: No, it’s about searching for a heart of gold.
Rosie/Lucille: Naww.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Steven/Noah: Gay.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep. I was going to go Chappell Roan, but I was like, ‘She’s not dancing in a club.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Last time you had a joke answer of Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Or something by The Paper Kites. I can’t remember.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think my real answer was Woodlands. Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yep, that’s it, and Steven had Unstoppable by Sia. Yep.
Rosie/Lucille: Question from jacobpartoftheproblemjohnston. ‘Does anyone’s characters have any regrets about how things played out across the story?’ None. No regrets. Everything is perfect.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: No ragrets.
Jorja/Magnolia: No ragrets. I think Magnolia regrets letting Lucille go off on her own so much because she almost died that one time, but then she’s also like, ‘Eh, but she bagged the king, so sometimes it works.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Get that bag, sis.
Steven/Noah: Yeah, no. Perfect. Nothing. No comments.
Olive/Timmit: I think one regret I have for Timmit is the effective use of some of the downtimes. Especially the library episode. Just could have done something different or looked for something else. Yeah, that’d be about it.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah, I think downtime is something I’m looking to expand more into season three as well to not make it so rigid as it was. I mean, I talked about Hymnbo before, about having regrets about that. I don’t have a character. I don’t have to answer.
Jorja/Magnolia: I abstain. Can we skip this one?
Olive/Timmit: Absolutely not.
Rosie/Lucille: No, you have to.
Steven/Noah: Not now.
Jorja/Magnolia: Okay, this one is from Tyrone. It is directed to one person.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh no.
Jorja/Magnolia: Rosie, please name all one hundred and twenty three goats. Go on, you didn’t want to skip it.
Olive/Timmit: Buckle up.
Rosie/Lucille: I didn’t. Let’s go. Alright-
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You’ve already named some. Don’t forget them.
Rosie/Lucille: Yep, no. Sparkles, Sprinkles, Sprunkles, Spankles.
Jorja/Magnolia: Spanks for short.
Rosie/Lucille: Then we move into Vegemite, Marmite. We had Cup, Eclipse, Mike, Laptop, Party, Grass, Sprinklegrass, Poop, Fluffy, Cloud, Cloudy, River, Rain, Goose, Sheep One, Sheep Two, Sheep Three - they’re like The Three Stooges. Then we move right into Fiery, Snouty, Rory, Angry, Huffy, Puffy, My Favourite, The One That Won’t Stop Talking, Mehhh, Moooo, Glasses, Stream, Flowing River, Flower, Sunflower, Daisy, Rose, Marigold, Fern, Tree, Gumtree, Water Gum, Iris. Then we go into Pelican, Swallow, Fish, Fishy, Shark, Cow, Rooster, Rooster Number Two, Rooster Number Three, Roost, Crow, Pigeon, Pidge, Eyebrows, Peach, Peachy, Apples, Swans, Black Swan, The Grey Goat, The Goat That Keeps Me Up At Night, Elias, Pens, Ink, Jewellery, Pendant, Penny, Pinny, Pony, Pony But Not Pony, The One With The Hooves, The One With The Split Foot, The One With One Leg, Leggy, Slow, Skin. We have One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. Mist, Misty, Mountain, Gilli. Then we have Gills, Squid, Squirmy, Slimy, Always Runs Away From Me And Won’t Come Get Food When I Give It Food Come Here You Little Fuck.
Jorja/Magnolia: That’s his full government name?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: That’s one hundred and one?
Jorja/Magnolia: No, that’s… Yeah, that’s one hundred and one.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: So, we’ve got twenty-two to go.
Rosie/Lucille: Alright.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Do you want some hints on the ones you haven’t said yet?
Rosie/Lucille: Go on.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You haven’t said Salt and Pepper.
Rosie/Lucille: Salt, Pepper.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Dragon.
Rosie/Lucille: Dragon.
Steven/Noah: Dragon, I knew Dragon.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Dragon was King Oberon’s favourite.
Rosie/Lucille: Then there’s also Boof. I had a dog named Boof once. Then there’s Dog. Then we’ve got Storm Boy, Stormtrooper, Star Wars, Darth Vader. Then we’ve got Snowy, Chelsea. We’ve got Goat. We’ve got Goaty. Goatsanimus the Second, Goatsanimus the First, Sponge, Coffee, Coughing, Jorja, Cameron, Trotter, My Least Favourite.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: At some point I was like, ‘I’ll stop her,’ and then we just kept going. I was like, ‘Okay.’
Olive/Timmit: I lost track of the count twice- Five times, and I can’t explain how excited I am to see that come out in the transcript.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Good luck Elias.
Steven/Noah: And then do a word find to see if there’s any duplicates.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: I feel like maybe Sponge was said twice, but-
Olive/Timmit: For the most part that was impressive.
Jorja/Magnolia: I liked My Favourite.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: The One That Won’t Get It’s Food Come Here You Little Shit.
Olive/Timmit: Come Here You Little Fuck. That fucking killed me.
Steven/Noah: Come get your food you little fuck.
Olive/Timmit: I just picture Lucille saying-
Steven/Noah: That’s your fucking name now!
Rosie/Lucille: Little Fuck for short.
Jorja/Magnolia: That’s LF over there.
Steven/Noah: This one’s from Jorja. ‘What is one moment from the game you wish you had done something differently?’
Rosie/Lucille: I have one straight away. I wish that I had used my luck in the final battle to not go into the realm where there were all the dead goats.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: ‘The realm’?
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: ‘Into that realm.’
Rosie/Lucille: ‘The realm’!
Steven/Noah: It was just in your head, love.
Rosie/Lucille: No, it was real.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I’m so glad someone rolled a one.
Steven/Noah: ‘I rolled a one. I rolled a one? Shit.’ Nothing. I am perfection, and I will remain that way.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yes, you are. I wish that instead of going to the library we just found someone to talk to because I feel like the library wasn’t going to have the information we wanted.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yep.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, one hundred percent. I have to agree. I was holding out for something being hidden away, but no. Talking to more NPCs would have definitely been the better thing to do.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I think I let everyone off a little too easy on the Exanimus fight. Sometimes I’m fighting for time, but sometimes I should just let it be two episodes and fucking go for it. Because we teased your room. We teased some of the stuff with the goats. There could have been more opportunities for Steven to look into a room. More things for Timmit to see, and just in general I - like obviously you did a sick arse roll and took over the elevator, but - I could have definitely made it fight back a lot harder.
Olive/Timmit: It definitely would have been a two-parter.
Steven/Noah: You could have fought harder, but you would have lost.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Like I opened the elevator shaft at the top of the elevator at one point. I was going to fucking start dropping shit on you,’
Steven/Noah: Good luck hitting my AC, buddy.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, motherfucker.
Steven/Noah: But yes, in the future you should try that.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: This one is mostly for me, but I can throw it out to everyone. It says, ‘What inspires your incredible art? I’ve been inspired by each image so far,’ from chelseatheselkie on Instagram. I would say check out our character artist, Afra. They were in season one as well as Milo, the dragonborn. They are @sunkissfelix on Instagram. I’m commissioning her again for the next season…s. Plural. More on that a little bit later. Honestly, I do just use a lot of Canva on our Instagram and Facebook. We try and keep it to the space theme. We try and keep it a bit whimsical. I do my best to select the images and modify them where I can, but I’m not a very good artist.
Olive/Timmit: I know that when I’m looking for reference photos for characters and things, I’m trying to find things that are - I don’t know - more obscure in a way. Not necessarily unique, but just, ‘You know what would really make this interesting? Full body tattoos. Why not?’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: I did the opposite and went for things that I already knew there were pictures of, and just changing them a little bit. Like, Magnolia’s original design as a rabbit is just one of Peter Rabbit’s siblings.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh, actually?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yep.
Olive/Timmit: That’s cool.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: ‘I could have gotten away with it too.’ I know that Rosie’s an artist. I don’t know if you want to talk about what inspires your art in general?
Rosie/Lucille: None of it’s really to do with D&D though.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You could just talk about it in general. I’m sure Chelsea would want to know, artist to artist, what inspires your stuff. If you want them to find your Instagram? I don’t know.
Rosie/Lucille: I just like painting things that are kind of pretty and kind of magical and whimsical. Like little abstracts and flowers and pretty much anything that my brain goes, ‘Hey, wouldn’t that be pretty if I put the paint over there and then swirled it in this particular way?’ And then I try it, and I’m like, ‘Oh that’s cool,’ or it’s shit and I go over it.
Jorja/Magnolia: But the final products are really pretty, and we have one in our house, and I highly recommend looking at Rosie’s art.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh, thank you.
Olive/Timmit: You can find her at Instagram handle insert here.
Jorja/Magnolia: Rosiesartystuff.
Rosie/Lucille: It’s changed.
Jorja/Magnolia: Fuck.
Rosie/Lucille: Now it’s just rosemaryochtman.
Jorja/Magnolia: Well, there you go.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: How do we spell your name in case we want to find you?
Rosie/Lucille: R-O-S-E-M-A-R-Y O-C-H-T-M-A-N. Think like Octoman, but without the ‘o’.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: But thank you so much. You should also check out chesleatheselkie on Instagram. I feel like, Jorja, you’d love their stuff.
Jorja/Magnolia: Shit’s cute as fuck. There’s little bookmarks. It’s all adorable.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: It’s all like bookmarks. I think they’ve got customised dice boxes there. I think there’s also potions that they do sometimes. There’s a potion of healing there somewhere.
Jorja/Magnolia: Oh my god. You are very talented. I am jealous. Well done.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh, oh, that’s such a cute little bottle.
Olive/Timmit: Okay, I’m actually quite intrigued by this. So, the question comes from Elias. ‘What does each character do or like that is inspired by the player’s own personality traits/interests?’
Rosie/Lucille: Lucille’s stubborn. I’m also stubborn.
Jorja/Magnolia: True, yeah you are.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Is it?
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, I’m pretty stubborn.
Jorja/Magnolia: She’s gullible like Lucille, but also stubborn.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I’ll give you that.
Rosie/Lucille: I mean, fair.
Olive/Timmit: I think that Timmit is very much like me in that I can be a bit of a control freak, but also simultaneously a pushover. So, it’s like Timmit is the extreme version of that where he’s overthinking and overanalysing. Thinking that we should move in a particular direction, or that something’s not quite right so we should really handle this, and as soon as someone else suggests something it’s like, ‘Oh, but I really think we should… Okay, we’ll go with you then.’ It’s that deflated kind of thing, and then moving on.
Jorja/Magnolia: I am a big fan of biology and plants, especially old plants that are no longer as seen or just gone. I’m also a big fan of making people happy.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I think that’s called a people pleaser.
Rosie/Lucille: Or just a really nice person.
Jorja/Magnolia: Thanks.
Steven/Noah: Yeah, I tried to model Noah after myself, which is why he’s so perfect.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I was going to say, making Noah based off of your interest in Magic the Gathering.
Steven/Noah: I don’t even know her.
Jorja/Magnolia: Who is she?
Steven/Noah: That’s not personality traits that we share though.
Jorja/Magnolia: No, Noah isn't into Magic, he’s based on Magic.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: What about Lego? Both of you like Lego?
Steven/Noah: Yeah, yeah.
Olive/Timmit: Love of Zelda?
Jorja/Magnolia: We’re just adding to the perfect.
Steven/Noah: Exactly. These fall under the umbrella of perfect.
Rosie/Lucille: From Elias, ‘What is everybody’s favourite monster/encounter?’
Steven/Noah: I personally liked the one in Theran. Just because it was combat based, and I think Noah did really well in that arena.
Rosie/Lucille: Which one was the one in Theran?
Steven/Noah: The one that was multiple statues, and then they split and reformed, and then split again and reformed.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh. Yeah, cool.
Steven/Noah: I think the fact that they were all spread out, and Noah was able to… I think he was just well-built for that fight. He was able to get to where he needed to get to and smack, which was literally all he was able to do.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah, cool.
Jorja/Magnolia: I liked the very first encounter, as soon as we came out of the portal.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh, the buffalo?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Oh, shit.
Jorja/Magnolia: I think it set a good example of, ‘It’s kind of like real life, but also what the fuck?’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, I liked it. I thought it was fun.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I should have made you guys fight that at the end instead of the tree.
Jorja/Magnolia: No, the tree was cooler. I liked the tree too.
Steven/Noah: We didn’t have Vicious Mockery. We couldn’t tell him he had buffa-low self esteem.
Jorja/Magnolia: We just had to kill him with fire.
Rosie/Lucille: I liked the cloud encounter because everything was cool and everything was a cloud.
Jorja/Magnolia: I like how annoyed that made us.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah.
Steven/Noah: It did though. It set us off.
Jorja/Magnolia: ‘There’s water, and there’s- No, there’s cloud!
Steven/Noah: No, it’s fucking cloud! ‘He went to have a shower.’ Yeah, but is having a shower, or is he having just a cloud?
Jorja/Magnolia: ‘I’m just going to pop out real quick. I’m just going to have a cloud.’
Olive/Timmit: I think my favourite encounter was my first encounter too with the puzzle. Neptis. Yeah, I really liked it because it was an interesting puzzle in the way that it had to be solved, and the mechanics behind having to take turns to solve it with the present threat there as well, but also not there. It was a strange element that I really liked, and it was the first encounter. It was an interesting way to be initiated into that. Into the podcast.
Steven/Noah: Yeah, I rolled a nat one at the start of that, so I wasn’t very useful at all. Sticks are made of wood. Yeah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: That was when you had Comprehend Languages, and you were not telling us what the octopus was saying.
Steven/Noah: I remember that.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, that was cool.
Olive/Timmit: Yeah, because I was afraid of the octopus, also learn good spells.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Yeah, no. It was good. It was a good episode. I know everyone is going to death glare me, but I’m going to say the dragon.
Rosie/Lucille: Yay.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I actually really liked the way that went out. I know that we’re not a huge fan of the combat that’s not actually combat, but trying to sneak and get the essence while you’re going around. Timmit’s going around while you’re trying to keep it appeased.
Steven/Noah: I agree. I thought that it was a good encounter. I just didn’t like the way that it was done.
Jorja/Magnolia: Not from a DM’s point of view.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I liked voicing it as well.
Rosie/Lucille: Do the voice.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Well, I mean I had an effect on it as well, but he’s like:
Tyrone/Astronovis: Tell me about Pangea.
Steven/Noah: Well, it’s this really cool place with all these…
Jorja/Magnolia: Well, it’s just one big place.
Olive/Timmit: I think it worked out really well in the end because of the way… Yeah, it was that balance of trying to appease it and also it was throwing it off balance that made the whole encounter work really well.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, I think that can work really, really well if that is your plan going in.
Steven/Noah: Yeah, if your team members are on board.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, like - you know - if you’re at the head of a dragon that it’s going to get pissed off at some point.
Olive/Timmit: But did we really ever have a plan going into anything?
Steven/Noah: Yes! No. We did.
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah.
Rosie/Lucille: Lucille didn’t.
Olive/Timmit: Well, no. We weren’t included.
Steven/Noah: Correct.
Olive/Timmit: Because it was presumed that we’d fuck it up.
Steven/Noah: Correct.
Olive/Timmit: Which we did anyway.
Steven/Noah: Correct.
Jorja/Magnolia: This one is also from jacobpartoftheproblemjohnston. ‘In a few words, how did your character change from episode one to the finale.’
Steven/Noah: Zero.
Jorja/Magnolia: Can’t improve upon perfection.
Rosie/Lucille: We kind of had this question already, didn’t we?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: A little bit. Maybe we’ll do it in a few words. Rapid-fire.
Steven/Noah: Skittles.
Olive/Timmit: Animals are kind of okay.
Rosie/Lucille: Grr to ahh.
Jorja/Magnolia: Toby and gay.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Is that a change? Were they not gay before?
Jorja/Magnolia: It just wasn’t declared.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Alright.
Steven/Noah: This one comes to us from The Thorne Files Podcast. ‘Are there any rolls that would have changed the course of the campaign if they’d been different?’ I believe that goes to you.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: I think that goes to all of us, but one for me - I think I was telling you the other day - was you, Noah, and Lucille were working on the orrery together, and you were trying to get the coordinates for the Summer Court and going back to Atrius, and you could see the projection from the magic mirror of Atrius, and I made you roll a nature check. You both failed on it, but if you had succeeded you would have seen things like eucalyptus trees. Maybe some magpies. Shit like that.
Steven/Noah: Fuck.
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah. That would have been cool.
Jorja/Magnolia: Damn, imagine if that happened.
Steven/Noah: I think one roll that might have changed was when I was digging a little deeper into Timmit’s head because I failed- Did I fail that, or did you succeed something?
Olive/Timmit: I succeeded that roll. I was trying to think about an answer to this, and I absolutely agree.
Steven/Noah: Because that would have been absolutely different because you wouldn’t have known.
Olive/Timmit: No, no, there was a backstory that I did work on that would have been available that expand on and look into that unfortunately-
Steven/Noah: But you succeeded.
Olive/Timmit: No, I succeeded, and then I reacted as Timmit would, and then it just never got brought up again because it got set as a boundary, which was respected, but at the same time I was also like, ‘Fuck, now I don’t get to utilise this back- Shit!’ You know?
Steven/Noah: But that’s the only roll I can think of, at least that involved Noah, that probably would have changed a little bit.
Rosie/Lucille: I don’t really have one that I can think of.
Steven/Noah: ‘I used luck. I didn’t fail any rolls.’
Rosie/Lucille: Teehee.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: You could have failed on a death saving throw. You could have rolled a nat one.
Rosie/Lucille: Oh yeah, but I didn’t, but yeah, I could have, and then Lucille would have died, and then she wouldn’t have gotten with the king, but then she wouldn’t be sad because she would be dead, so…
Steven/Noah: She’s finally at peace.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Okay, this one is from jacobpartoftheproblemjohnston. They ask, ‘Are there any fun facts about Lucille’s goats that didn’t get mentioned in the show?’
Rosie/Lucille: I don’t remember if I mentioned it or not, but I taught them how to do tricks. Like how to jump through hoops and do little circus tricks.
Steven/Noah: I just love the way you opened that with, ‘I taught them to do tricks.’ Not Lucille taught them to do tricks.
Rosie/Lucille: No, it was me. I did actually have a goat when I was little that I taught to do tricks like jump through hoops, and I taught her how to jump onto the trampoline with me and jump. She could climb up the little ladder.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: So cute.
Rosie/Lucille: So yeah, Lucille had done that with her goats.
Olive/Timmit: Amazing.
Jorja/Magnolia: That tracks.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: They do tricks.
Rosie/Lucille: This can’t be the end though because you missed my question.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Rosie would like to ask, ‘How dare you?’
Olive/Timmit: How dare we what?
Rosie/Lucille: I don’t know.
Jorja/Magnolia: I would say with passion and gusto.
Rosie/Lucille: Nice.
Steven/Noah: With perfection.
Olive/Timmit: With confusion but courage.
Steven/Noah: ‘With goats.’
Rosie/Lucille: Yeah. Yeah actually, I’m stealing that. With goats.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: With self determination. Did you guys have any more questions?
Olive/Timmit: Maybe one question that could be interesting for viewers. So, ‘How did we go about creating these characters? Did they take inspiration from people or things in our lives?’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Who’s that from?
Olive/Timmit: That was from Violet.
Jorja/Magnolia: Magnolia’s bunny form did take inspiration from Peter Rabbit. That’s where the folded ear came from also because she has one that’s floppy. I think there’s one called Flopsy. I can’t remember, and I think her background was just something I didn’t know was a study, I guess, so I was like, ‘Oh, shit. I wish I knew about that. I would have studied that at university.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Actually?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah. old plants are cool.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Fuck yeah.
Jorja/Magnolia: But other than that, it was just, ‘I’m going to make a different version of me because I know that it’s going to get changed,’ so I’m not going to focus too much on the human side, and then the bunny side was, ‘Ah, bunny. Oh, Peter Rabbit.’
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Cute.
Steven/Noah: Well I’m a huge Magic the Gathering nerd, and there are creatures in that called thopters, which are little, flying, mechanical monstrosities, so I wanted to make those, so I looked through the D&D books and found out I can do it through artificer, and then I Googled, ‘What is the best race for artificer?’ and it told me gnome.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Is that actually?
Steven/Noah: Yeah. So, that’s why I went with a gnome artificer, and then I tried to match a magical gnome artificer to a human. Like, how would the skills transfer? Why would I all of a sudden be good at making artifice? So, I tried to come up with things that a regular human would be able to do that would be transferable when he moved into the magical world.
Rosie/Lucille: I just wanted to make a character that was kind of chaotic, and I just thought, ‘How fun would it be if it was just a little old lady and she had goats?’ and then it just kind of grew. I didn’t really have any modelling it off of a certain person. I - just as the game progressed - improvised the character as it went, and, you know, it was, ‘Oh, look what it’s becoming,’ and then Lucille was born.
Olive/Timmit: The true embodiment of chaos. For Timmit, I knew that I had wanted to play a wizard. I had tossed up a warlock as well, but I had recently done that, and I hadn’t played as a wizard before. The shift between the human and then the fire genasi… The fire genasi was more of a choice on coolness I guess. Who doesn’t love fire? But then, for me, it was what kind of person would they be as a human that would translate well into wizardry? And I thought being a wizard takes practice and knowledge, and so lawyer was the immediate connection for me, which was a mistake because I don’t know any lawyers or what they do. I probably should have done some research into it for this character, but…
Rosie/Lucille: Na, she’ll be right.
Steven/Noah: I think you got away with it.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Well, that comes to the end of our questions. Thank you everybody for submitting questions. I’m going to list off: Violet; eanthefrog; jacobpartoftheproblemjonhston; Elias; Jorja; Steven; Olive; The Thorne Files Podcast; Valiant Odyssey; chesleatheselkie; Billy. Rosie, was there…?
Jorja/Magnolia: Yeah, it was, ‘How dare you?’
Rosie/Lucille: How dare you?
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: So, what happens now? Oh shit. We’ve reached the end of a sage. Well, hopefully you listened to our The Quiet Year: Spring bonus episode the last time we released an episode, and hopefully that interests you to join our Patreon and listen to the other three episodes. And, coming up next, we’re doing a little mini-arc, which I think is going to take through most of the year. I think pretty much to the end of December. A six episode mini-series that takes place in the Monster of the Week TTRPG system, which we’ve already recorded four episodes. How are we liking that so far?
Rosie/Lucille: Woo!
Olive/Timmit: Woowoowoo!
Rosie/Lucille: Very fun. Sea World.
Olive/Hode: It’s alright, I guess. Quite a bit of fun.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Olive has beaten me to it. I thought we could just do a quick introduction of what we’re playing. Spoiler free introduction.
Olive/Hode: I’ll take the longest. I’m playing Hode. He likes magic and has a boss that he doesn’t like.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Nice.
Jorja/Sassandra: I’m playing Sassandra. She’s very interested in so much that’s going on, especially the really creepy things, or the things that don’t make sense. One of which is maybe in the party with them. You don’t know. Just anything different she likes and will run headfirst into.
Steven/Doug: I play Sir Doug. He’s a dude. You may call him mundane. That’s about it.
Rosie/Ezra: I play Ezra Elfie, who is a sea elf from the city of Sea World, which is in the sea. Yeah, Ezra’s a little bit spooky, but she’s mainly an intern for the city council, and she’s very excited for her adventures and what they might mean for her internship.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Something to get you interested in the season besides the wonderful characters that you were just introduced to is that we go back to explore Phoenaxis, the world from season one, to explore a more high fantasy scenario in the city of Aubade where Kyros made a brief stop and left some chaos and ran away again, and so these characters are dealing with the chaos that he left behind. After that, looking at our schedule, I’m expecting it to be in the new year, is season three. Monster of the week is like 2.5, but this is what we’re calling season three, and it is called Atrius. Honestly, if you have listened to this entire episode and spoiled yourself, that’s on you, but yes, we’re returning to the world that we left at the end of season two where we’re fantasy creatures in an urban fantasy scenario. We saw bird creatures driving cars and on their way to work. What else did we see? We saw gnomes and fairies and firbolgs and elves and all the fuckery that goes along with that. Thank you so much for supporting our show. This is a sad departure from season two, but hopefully a warm welcome into the future of Portal Quandary, so thank you so much. Please support us on all of our socials. Please support us on our Patreon. All of these are @portalquandary, Q-U-A-N-D-A-R-Y. Thank you.
Jorja/Magnolia: Thanks!
Rosie/Lucille: Thank you. Yay!
Olive/Timmit: Thanks!
Steven/Noah: Ah.
Jorja/Magnolia: Ah.
Rosie/Lucille: Ah.
Olive/Timmit: Ah.
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Bye!
Olive/Timmit: Bye!
Rosie/Lucille: Bye!
Theme Song: [rock music plays]
Finding home in the belly of the beast, to make it home we can’t accept defeat, so roll the dice and come along with me, finding home in the belly of the beast
Tyrone/Dungeon Master: Thank you so much for listening to Portal Quandary. Portal Quandary is made possible by the following people: Myself, Tyrone Cross as Dungeon Master, Editing, and Community Manager, Steven Edwards as Noah, Olive Jerome as Timothy, Rosemary Ochtman as Lucille, and Jorja Odd as Magnolia. Elias Moffat is our Content Producer, Narrative Consultant, and Transcriber, and that theme song is Belly of the Beast by Lily Harnath and Henry Lucas. We’re on the lookout for a couple of people to join our team as a Community Manager and as a Transcriber, so if that sounds like you, slide into our DMs or shoot us an email, and that email is portalquandary@gmail.com. We’re also on a bunch of social media now including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads, and Patreon, all of which are @PortalQuandary. And this podcast was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, and produced on the lands of the Awabakal, and Wurundjeri people. Portal Quandary acknowledges and pays respect to our traditional custodians and to their past and present leaders.
Theme Song: [rock music continues]
Finding home in the belly of the beast, (in the belly of the beast), to make it home we can’t accept defeat, (there’s no turning back) so roll the dice and come along with me, (come along with me, let’s go), finding home in the belly of the beast.