Highlights

• 00:08:05 Matt:“I talked to Marisha about this. I want it to be in my will that when I pass away, ashes put into gemstones and put on rings and then passed out as magical artifacts. I want to have bones put into dice and be passed on as relics. I got plans to be that creepy dude when I die.”
  Marisha:“He wants to be the cursed item.”
• 00:09:00 Liam:"On a scale of Laura to Liam, after your eight episodes of ExU, are you on the Liam end of the spectrum, where you think the universe is cold and uncaring and doesn’t give a shit about you and the dice don’t matter; just roll and you get what you get, or are you on the Laura side where you think that dice are imbued with qualities and magic and strength, and do you favor any over another?
• 00:13:09 Matt:"One of my strangely-surreal, positive moments to date. It’s weird to create things and then watch it take on its own life with other people. To me, it’s a very wonderful experience. It’s unique to have that then turn back on you and engage you, the creator, with the thing you created, somebody else making it even more alive. I didn’t think that we’d ever be going to meet Gilmore, and the more that began to come up in the narrative, I was like, oh my god, “Is this going to happen?” And then when it happened, I felt like, I don’t know, I got weirdly emotional about it, and also felt like a six-year-old getting to the Christmas tree in the morning. I don’t know, it was so cook, it was so cool.
• 00:26:44 Aabria:"Once you have that table trust, where I’m like, “Okay, I’m going to say a group of things.” Have you guys ever played? There’s a card game called ‘The Mind’, which is just cards numbered one through 100 and you deal a hand and you have to non-verbally put them in the center pile in ascending order, so you have to figure out how to communicate non-verbally with, “okay, I have the next card, I’m going to go. Is yours a little bit higher than mine? Should I go?” So, there’s this very cool balance that, I don’t know, I feel like, as a DM, playing that game with you all and going, “I’m not trying to tell you where to go, but I feel like we all know what we’re doing here, so I’m going to trust you.” So that table trust of the players and being as much of a storyteller as me, I just have the general longer view on this than the rest of you, but we’re all going to tell it together, so just trusting the table to do everything. So, I’m going to bounce that compliment out that you guys are phenomenal, and it was the easiest thing in the world to do, because of you.
• 00:29:50 Aabria:"Everyone had an index card with a character, with a couple prompts, which you didn’t have to use those, I just didn’t want to leave you completely out to dry with, “Congratulations, you’re in the middle of an improve scene, go.”
  Aimee:“What was the name of your lady?”
  Anjali:"Cinna. That was honestly one of my favorite moments, where she was throwing axes at you, or you were throwing axes at yourself, it was so good!
  Liam:“I knew Orym would not have, he is not a showy person, so he wouldn’t have gotten involved. So, I liked abusing my own character. Thank you for that.”
• 00:46:10 Ashley:"A lot of the inspiration for Fearne was-- Harold and Maude is one of my favorite movies and-- Maude, I just love her asa character, and I also wanted to play somebody who’s 112, because fauns live forever. And I loved that she just, you know, in Harold and Maude, when she’s talking about the flowers, and she’s just like, “They’re so beautiful, some are biggger some are smaller.” But, I think after playing Yasha for the three years, how I feel like D&D is a little bit of therapy, for me. And there’s no way for some parts of you to now come out in a character. And I feel like where I was at in my life was really kinda lined up with where Yasha was. You know, I was away from home, and I felt kinda stuck. But this go around, I was like, "I want to do something just kinda fun and weird, where “there’s no bumpers on the gutters”. Where it’s just like, “Well, let’s just go and see what happens!” and it’s so fun, because always seeing Travis just pushing the button, and just, it’s a blast. It’s a blast.
• 00:52:38 Liam:(about Orym)"I wanted him to be more-- I’ve always wanted to play a halfling. Always, always, always, always, always. And I just wanted to play somebody with a purer heart. He’s a little bit like Keyleth. I really designed him to not be the person who made decisions and dragged everyone along with him, but who was just there to help everyone around him in the way that he could. And the chemistry of the group was very dangerous, very chaotic. And he liked everybody in the group. He really, really liked Dorian a lot, and saw so much good in him. And it wasn’t a, “What the fuck, I’m going to kick your ass.” it was seeing someone that you think has so much good, and so much poential, and so much heart mingling with something that could be dangerous to them. And Liam, not Orym, in the back is like, “Yeah, conflict! Put that fucking crown on, Opal!”
• 01:00:14 Robbie:(concerning the crown)“I don’t know if it was ever about Dorian really wanting it all that bad. I just wanted us to have it. I mean, I had ideas of what to do about it, if it ever came in between us, though. That’s something that I’d been planning the whole time after I realized that was that, “If this gets in the way of the group, how do I get rid of the crown?” and it never needed to happen.”
  Aabria:“No, that definitely would have gone the way you thought.”
  Robbie:“That’s what I’m saying, there’s no planning!”
• 01:01:06 Aabria:"I think, knowing what I know about your backstory, with your brother, and leadership, and stewardship of a group of people, let’s play The Prince now. Like, what is a leader willing to do to protect the people that they care about? and that’s like one of the lines in there is “You should be willing to go to hell for your people.” I was like, “All right, you’re going to be the one that I’m going to focus on with this crown now. Prove to me how much you want to take care of them.”
• 01:04:04 Robbie:“It became cannon the minute that Aabria unlocked my memory. So, we had a moment where we traveled to another realm and we were all there, and everything went down. and at the final moments of that, someone was trying to be the last person out and I was like, “No, you go ahead,” and it was just me and you (indicating to Anjali). And I took the circlet, dipped out, and let the portal close, and left you behind in the fucking nether realm.”
  Aabria:“It was a pocket universe.”
• 01:06:15 Robbie:“I also put Orym on a dinosaur, once.”
  Liam:“It was a metaphor!”
  Matt:“That was not can-ish.”
• 01:18:18 Matt:“One of the things I love, that moment to me is indicative of one of my favorite things about role playing games, which is: when you don’t focus on what the rules tell you you’re capable to do, you just instead go with the creative choice, and let the GM and you figure out how that fits into the rules. It’s often the longer you play these games, the more comfortable you are with them, you sometimes subconsciously begin to pigeonhole your options to what’s on your character sheet, which is one of the unfortunate downsides to games like D&D and stuff like that is that it can filter you into that point. But with newer players, or with people that haven’t played for a while and encourage themselves to think outside of that box, is to let that go for a bit and instead just go with the impulse action and figure out how to make it fit later and good GMs will know how to roll with it and make it happen and that was just a perfect example of that. I loved it so much.”
• 01:28:12 Aabria:"Let me be clear: A god showed up and said, “Hey, by the way, don’t go in the crater.” and you guys went, “Eh.” and then went twice.
• 01:37:40 Anjali:“There is something so powerful about learning how to tell stories together that doesn’t happen in the school system and then, depending on your experiences, if you are in the business world or if you’re in entertainment or whatever, you may or may not be surrounded by people who support that.”
• 01:45:15 Aimee:“The Chucklefucks!”
  Marisha:“Cheers to The Chucklefucks! I love all of you ash holes forever.”