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Lonely TTRPG EP 9 - Lone Eons by David Blandy
Episode 9 • 20th May 2022 • Lonely TTRPG • Black Dragon Dungeon Company
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Lone Eons, the solo iteration of Lost Eons, is a Science Fantasy Solarpunk journaling game for one player, using dice and a pack of standard playing cards to create problems and opportunities for you to explore.

Lost Eons is designed to help see our climate reality and high fantasy afresh, experiencing and describing a new world for the first time.

You can find Lone Eons at https://davidblandy.itch.io/lone-eons

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Hello, solo gamers and welcome to lonely.

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TT RPG, the solo actual play and review podcast.

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I'm your host steel stash.

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And this week

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we were playing lone eons written by David Blandy and Lori O'Connell

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with some beautiful cover artwork done by Daniel lock and some amazing

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illustrations inside by Jacob Barry with the layout by David Blandy.

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So lone eons is a journaling role playing game played by taking on

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the role of a post-human character.

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In the deep future.

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This books is a remix of the lost eons player's guide repurposed for solo play.

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So there are some repetitions to keep the solo game self-contained.

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So if you are familiar with lost eons, this is specifically designed

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to help you with solo game.

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I am not familiar with Lost Eons.

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So I am coming in blind.

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Let's see how this goes.

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So we have cards and prompts, help set the scene outline the flora, fauna and the

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world around you always interpret prompts in a way that makes sense for your story.

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Take a different card.

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If it really doesn't fit,

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Continues.

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There will be moments of difficulty and tension, where

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there is something at stake.

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At that point, we're going to roll some dice.

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All right.

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So we've got some cards and some cliquey Clarkies outstanding.

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So four lines in veils exploring your imagination can bring up thoughts

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that you, that can cause anxiety.

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So prepare yourself for what you might expect from the game.

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Think about the general setting of the game and set boundaries about subject

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matter, noting lines, a strict limit, something that should not be touched upon

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anytime and veil something permitted to be mentioned, but not described in detail.

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All right.

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So content warnings on this, it is based on the distant aftermath of our current

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climate cataclysm and mass extinction.

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So.

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Yeah, th that could that could pose some issues, especially if

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you were highly attuned to what's going on with our world today.

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Then we got some example gameplay

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with the intro, . Your people have lived in your Haven for a thousand years.

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It protected you.

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The experience changed you.

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Now, the Haven doors must open.

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What will you find up there on the surface?

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How has the damage world healed?

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Do you have what it takes?

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To survive.

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So lone eons is the solo iteration of loss.

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eons a journaling game for one player using dice and playing cards to create

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problems and situations for you to explore it is designed to help see

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our climate reality and high fantasy, a fresh experiencing, and describing

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a new world for the first time.

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So you decide what happened.

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Fiction first rulings, not rules and it is built to be open unsettling,

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but at the end of the day fun.

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In lost eons, the outcome of anything you were trying to do can be decided

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on without any role when it makes sense for something to just happen.

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Where an outcome is uncertain or a task is more difficult than usual.

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You can perform a skill check where you roll dice to determine success or failure.

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So for equipment, we need a journal and pencil, a deck of standard cards

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some d6s 3d eight and a D four.

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We only have use them flip a coin.

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The game says, it's not your dad to paraphrase the Simpsons, do what you want.

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It's a book.

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It's not the cops

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all right.

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So rolling through the rest of the manual, which is a 48 page manual.

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We have . A lot of stuff.

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This might be a little much to try and do on just a single blind react,

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but Hey, that's the name of this game?

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We blind react.

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All right.

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Oh, we got some beautiful maps and some player sheets.

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Okay, cool.

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Cool.

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So let's get into the Quickstart solo rules.

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You can play with a full character sheet and defined roles

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using the rest of this book.

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Alternatively, use the sample or the simple rules.

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If you're uncertain about what might happen make a test against the world.

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Roll a d6 for your soul and a D four D six or D eight for your skill,

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depending on how confident you feel about your character at this moment,

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roll two D eight for the world.

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If your highest single number meets or beats the higher number

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on the world dice you succeed.

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If it meets or beats the lower number on the world dice, you

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succeed with the complication.

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Perhaps you're wounded, perhaps your lost or something breaks.

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If you fail to meet either die, you both fail and suffer a complication.

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If you roll double on the world, die, roll for a rumor

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all right.

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So this game is played through scenes.

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The first scene begins with your first experience on the surface world and comes

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through the Oracle a standard pack of cards, separated into suits and shuffled,

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so that you have four randomized piles.

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As you progress through the wilderness between the features and settlements

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time passes and things happen.

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Record your reactions in your journal.

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You can be as dull or as elaborate as you want.

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Those are my words, not the games, words.

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Of course.

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None of you listening to me are dull you are amazing,

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which is why you listen to us.

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And if you want to be, continue to be amazing, then if you're

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not subscribed, please subscribe.

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That would be super awesome.

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Also ratings reviews, those things help out so much.

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They really do.

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I'm currently sitting at one review on iTunes from Devin who says that we have

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introduced them to some great games.

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So if you feel like I've introduced you to some great games, please let me know,

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let me know which games I introduced you to and what you like about them.

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You will find all my socials in the show notes.

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In addition, if you like what we're doing and you want to help

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us get just a little bit better.

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We do have a patreon we do have a patreon www.patrion.com/blackdragondungeoncompany.

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We are working on attempting to afford a editor.

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That way, I am not doing all of this by myself.

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Getting an editor will just add a little bit level of polish to this.

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In addition, we do have some more fun podcasting ideas that we want to get

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out, but we don't have the time to really be pushing all of that stuff at once.

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So a couple of bucks from y'all as little as a dollar a month, and you can help

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us towards the dream of releasing more content for you to consume and enjoy.

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Hopefully relate with, but with all that being said, I think it's

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time to about dive on in don't you.

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So we are going to need a map.

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So I'm going to go ahead and go to some of the amazing maps back here.

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And I'm going to go ahead and snag one of those.

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So we're going to drop our lovely map right in here.

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And in addition to all of that, I'm going to take one of the

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pre-generated player sheets.

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It looks like we have several different things that we can do.

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We have a psych which always found yourself, able to read people's feelings

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and intentions an instinctive way a shifter, you remember the first time it

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happened and you knew it was something you had to hide a salvager, which

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most days you can just find enough to exchange for your food that night.

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But sometimes there's something triggering in that.

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Seer since youth, you found yourself attuned to the matrix of essence,

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able to create a flame at the tips of your fingers or still the

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wind for a moment, a scrapper.

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The only way to get by has been fending for yourself and looking after those dear

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to you, the outcast who never felt at home in your society, fighting a life on its

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margins, forging a life on its margin.

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So that's 6 classes.

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All right.

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As per usual, we are going to go ahead and roll for our class.

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So that's a four, so that's the seer.

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Outstanding.

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We got the magic one.

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So I'm going to go ahead and drop my player sheet on my map as well.

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So we have our map.

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We have our player's sheet and we are about ready to go.

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I would say.

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All right.

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So like we said this game is played through scenes.

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The first scene begins with your experience on the surface world

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and it continues through the oracle

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so,

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ah, so first of all, we have to divide our deck up into the

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various suits unfortunately, I don't think that's something I'm

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going to be able to do on stream.

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Not at least in any, a decent amount of time.

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So dear viewers, those of you who are following on YouTube, I apologize.

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You're not going to see the cards.

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But for those of you listening to the podcast, you'll be able to hear, because

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as normal, I will announce what I get,

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what up this brand new pack of cards.

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We got, because my son, God bless him, loves to come and ask me for

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cards and dice when I'm doing my normal gaming with my TTRP G groups.

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So I have a deck that is missing several cards so we had to go

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buy some special ones just for me and also, you know, for him.

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So that.

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I could continue to give him cards and he would not

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be constantly stealing mine.

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All right.

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So give these all a quick shuffle

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This is not the best shuffle in the world.

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I'm not going to lie.

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It's a brand new deck and we are trying to do this all in one shot.

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All right.

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So the goal is, as we travel, we seek insights and feared doom the

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insights of the four ACEs when they come into or come up to play.

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After the action roll against the world.

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If you succeed, keep the card and roll for a rumor.

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Doom is the four Kings.

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When they come up into play, keep after action, roll against the world.

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If you fail, keep the card and take harm.

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Once you have the four insights or doom, the game ends insight ends well, and you

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have, and you live on to share knowledge doom and the journey ends badly in

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lonely misery taken by the cry org or.

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All right.

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So.

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I so, first of all, with character creation, we need to come up with

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a name as per usual my name on this is going to be steel stash

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and a society.

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So we come to the back of the book.

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We're going to go ahead and choose one of the pre-generated

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societies somewhere in here.

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All right.

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So for societies for 8,000 years, during the course of the climate

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cataclysm, hundreds of thousands of vast havens were built deep underground

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to save the fraction of humanity.

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All have been affected by the arcane essence, bubbling up from the earth,

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mantle, mutating, the people and unique in various ways to generate a Haven society.

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To generate The society.

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Our character comes from role on the tables

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all right.

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So it has several societies that are several different aspects of

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society from structured detailed leader, tech level and upside.

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These are all D six, so that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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We're going to go ahead and roll five D six.

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And as we roll five D six, we will let that guide everything.

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So 6, 6, 6, 3, 2.

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That was a really great role that we blew in the beginning.

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All right.

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So we have a community that was once nomadic rotating through several havens,

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connected by underground tunnels, all but one of their havens now have

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been taken over by outsiders detail, teenagers come of age in this Haven by

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creating a piece of art in the deep cave.

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Leader was actually supposed to be d8 we're just going to stick with

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six hereditary ruler, but the current leader much loved, has no children.

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Tech level was a three.

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So a chance discovery of an unsealed empty vault, gifted to this

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community with advanced technology, some devices are so advanced.

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No one knows what they do.

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And two for the upside mystery.

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The last time people left the Haven was a hundred years ago, but they

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never returned what happened to them.

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So we're going to go stereotype and we're going to go ahead and call we're going

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to go ahead and call our society, the Vicks, the Vikins so for those of you who.

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Haven't picked up on it yet.

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Yes, we are going with a Viking rip off.

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So we were going with a little bit of a Viking inspired society.

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and with our Viking society we were fairly nomadic wandering from

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cave to cave, to cave, to cave through a vast network of tunnels.

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Right up until relatively recently in our, in our history the great grandfather

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of the current leader found us a nice Haven that we could set up in and we

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have established ourselves in that Haven.

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Now of course, a group of people did did rebel the that

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particular chief had two sons.

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One of the sons took a party out, but they never came back

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and it is questionable as to why.

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However, the rumor is that several of the other caves that we used to

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have no longer exist or have been taken over by some outside force

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Unfortunately, the current king has no son or daughter, but, but the

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chief has decided that all who come of age all who were coming of age

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this year which will include me.

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Don't let the baldhead fool you.

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I'm very young in this game.

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I'll come of age this year.

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We'll embark on.

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Epic trials, hearkening back to our ancestors.

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And our days of nomadic wandering, and we will all go out and attempt to find

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hidden truths within the world truth that might help reveal some of the items that

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are found in the cave, the cave that only the chief possesses, the key for for it

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has been locked up under their command.

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And they possess these sole key.

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Now I'm hoping to be.

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I'm hoping to be the one chosen to be the successor.

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And I'm hoping to learn some of these ancient mysteries that

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the chief has hidden away for.

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It might make life so much better, but we don't know what those are.

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All right.

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So we need to finish,

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We need to finish with our.

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Character Creation

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yeah.

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So next up, we're going to have we've already picked our class.

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We already have our name.

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We've chosen our society and our.

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archetype So we need a personality,

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Society name, equipment choose if we will mutate and gain traits

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and, or become a spellcaster and discover why we must leave.

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So we already discovered why we must leave.

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We're going to go with that story.

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So personality is going to be a D 10.

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So we're going to roll one D 10.

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And with that we get a seven, seven is analyze the empathetic.

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And some experience, which is another D 10,

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three endure.

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You have been your own keeper.

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All right.

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Right off the bat.

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This is definitely looking like a longer-term game.

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This isn't necessarily a one and done game, like several of the

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others I have done in the past with the exception of dead belt.

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This is this is definitely set up for a more long-term narrative

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with that being the case.

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We're going to go ahead and really just get kicking on this.

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I don't have everything figured out.

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We'll talk about that here in a minute.

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I do want to I do want to get a little bit of gameplay in just to see what it's like.

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So as we travel, we're going to roll a D six and that's going to determine

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what type of Oracle card we take.

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Here we go.

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So we're going to start out right here.

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We're going to say our little our little spot was right there.

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That was our Haven.

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And we come up to the surface world surprised by the

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level of green that we see.

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It is, it is not a pleasant heat out right now.

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The earth and vegetation looks very different from what we've been able

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to grow and control back in the caves.

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This is definitely wild.

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This is definitely something that has been.

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Untouched for a long time

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and we rolled a five.

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So we're going to take a diamond

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for our Oracle cards.

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So that's going to be the four of diamonds.

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Which is going to be a thing four of Diamond's a picture in a locket

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and weapon from the items table.

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So going down to the items.

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Oh, I think it can be either.

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Or we're going to go ahead and say that we found a weapon and we're

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going to roll a D 20 to determine what type of weapon we got.

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12, a guts strong Longbow.

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Heck yeah.

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Go ahead and add that to our equipment, got ourselves a Longbow, but now

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that that's done, we're able to continue on to our next location.

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And once again, at this new little island, Walking through, we will say a

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Landbridge that appears with the tides.

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We came out at the right time to see that this land bridge existed.

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We find our way to this little island and we roll a one

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which is going to get us.

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A club, a heart to diamonds and we meet a being

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all right.

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So

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for two diamonds,

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we have the 10 of diamonds.

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And the three of diamonds, we got the five of clubs and the Jack of

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hearts, and we met a being so we make our first encounter upon the road.

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So let us let's go ahead and deal with that encounter for.

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The being card, which is a club defines the type of being you encountered and the

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being twists the heart and diamond cards.

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Okay.

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Define their appearance and their strengths ok, each entry has a suggestion

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of an appearance and a dice type combined the two dice types to create the world

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dice for the being or a group of beings.

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So when you meet a being role, 2d six, for their reaction to, to who

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you, the being description sets the tone, but a low number is negative.

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A high number is positive.

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So if a family welcomed you and you really to the welcome may hide ulterior

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motives, if bandits want what's yours and you roll a 12, perhaps you find out

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that they're only seeking help for their family as they need food to survive.

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And then there are combat and wound rules that we will get into

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depending on how bad this being is.

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All right.

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So we got the five of clubs, which is our being,

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So five of clubs is a group sits around a campfire,

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So we have a group around the campfire, but we're actually

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supposed to look on the twist table for the hearts and the diamonds.

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So the twist table is lumbering and a hungry Chitnis talons and.

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Slimy scales and promiscuous.

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So a d8 and a D four.

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All right.

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So d8 and D four is the being is he being dice pool of this lumbering group around

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a campfire with scales and talons.

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Wow.

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That's just a terrifying creature.

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I hold my breath.

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Gaze upon it entranced by what I'm seeing.

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Not quite sure what to make of it.

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So when you meet a being roll 2d six for their reaction to you.

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And that is a seven.

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That is a seven.

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So this thing is going to be a.

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It's being it's going to be rather ambivalent to my presence, I would say,

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Yeah, lumbering and hungry.

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All right.

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So we have a lumbering hungry being around a campfire.

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So I rolled a seven.

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That's not, it's not great.

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It's not bad.

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It's not great.

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It's about middle of the road.

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I don't think that the creature is as like, I don't think

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the creature wants to eat me.

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It just wants to eat.

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So what options do I have?

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All right.

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So we have combat, it looks like I got a D four who persuade, All right.

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So yeah, we're going to stand up.

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We're going to make ourselves look big.

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Like I said, I don't think this thing wants to, I don't think.

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this wants to eat me it just wants to eat.

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So we're going to try to convince it that I am not the one.

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So I'm going to roll a D six and a D four.

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If I'm not mistaken.

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Yeah, I'm going to roll a D six into D four and they are going to

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roll a, they're going to roll a D eight and a D for not looking good

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for the home team on this one.

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I should've thought that one through and I got a five, I got

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a five total, so that's not good.

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That's not good.

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All right.

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So let's hope this D eight and D four are just as bad.

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They also got a five heck.

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Yeah.

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If it meets it beats baby, if it meets it, beats.

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Actually hang on.

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All right.

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So the higher dice is, ah, it's not total.

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It's.

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I'm a, when we tied, we tied all the way around.

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We tied all the way around.

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I'm going to say if it meets a beats and because the because

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this creature always ambivalent, that's just going to glare at me.

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And this is going to make its way on its way.

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No point in either of us really getting into a fight today.

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But this place I'm going to go ahead and make my way as quickly

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as possible and go to my next spot for my one D six challenge.

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That is a five and on a five, I'm going to take a diamond,

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another diamond, six of diamonds.

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So that is another thing that I found.

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So the six of diamonds is an ancient plastic toy slash

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miscellany from the items table, coming down to the items table.

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That's a D 20.

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18 now I got a big roll, a hailing horn.

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So we're going to go ahead and add that to my equipment list and there we go.

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So that's where we're going to call it for today.

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This has been lone eons.

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So thoughts about this game, first of all, the artwork is very

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beautiful and the layout, the individual page layout is very nice.

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I am going to give them that

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This is definitely a game that is going to take some getting used to

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this is not something that you just jump in and play at the drop of a hat.

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As you saw character creation is an involved process.

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I noticed that I already jacked up several things in my character creation.

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I never figured out my magic.

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Apparently I was supposed to draw one item from each of the item lists.

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I just kinda went out with my with the shirt on my back.

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All right.

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So several things that.

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Several things that, you know, taking some time and sitting down and being

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very dedicated on this will help out with now the bright side is this does

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like, again, this does feel like a story that can be very well told or

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well-suited for multiple sessions.

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This is not a one and done game.

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This is a sit play for a little bit.

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Think about this come back go back out, come back, go back out.

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So very similar to a very similar to dead belt in that,

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but actually more similar to

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your traditional RPG or your traditional TTRP RPGs.

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Which makes sense, because this is a solo version of lost eons, a T T RPG setting.

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Yes, . It is an intimidating rule book.

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The order of things is not, did not work for me.

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I will say that it did not work for me.

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It didn't flow.

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You can't just go from page to page and pick up what you need to pick up.

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The bright side is when you're actually sitting down and reading it, then.

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Almost all of the references.

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I think all of the references have the page number associated with it.

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So when you actually sit down and read the book, it will say, Hey, find

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this stuff on this page number, but

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you are going to be bouncing back and forth.

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So it is what it is at the end of the day.

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At the end of the day, it's still, it still seems like a very fun game.

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This definitely seems like something I may want to come back to.

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Some of the setup is not as convenient having to divide your

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deck into the individual suits.

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For example, if you have a look, if you have enough decks, like I got it decks

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of cards are cheap, but it's annoying to have to go out and buy a deck.

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So if you have enough decks so that you can have one dedicated for this, where

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you just keep everything separated by suit, that is probably the way to go.

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If this is something that you want to play on a regular basis, otherwise, you

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know, you're going to be spending the start of every game taking your first

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five minutes and going through your deck of cards, just separating out the suits.

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Frustrating, not a deal breaker.

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The dice mechanics are nice.

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I do like, so it is not intuitive to roll two dice and not do the

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total role at the very least when you're used to doing on-line tables.

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If you're using physical dice in your house, on your table, then

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yes, it should be fairly easy.

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Like, oh, the two big guys go over here and I compare mine to theirs

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and the two little dices over here and I compare that to that.

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And I do like that mechanic don't get me wrong.

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I think that's a very I think that's a very interesting mechanic and I do enjoy

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that where you have your dice that determines your success or failure, but

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you also have your dice that determines if there were any complications within that.

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. That is definitely a fun mechanic.

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It's very similar to what Caltrop Core did only where caltrop core was

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using the simplicity of a single D four to replicate absolute success

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success with complication failure, with complication, absolute failure.

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This is using two different dice and the two different dice look.

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I'm a tabletop role player.

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All right.

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Shiny math, rocks go clickety clack, make brain go burn.

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So I do like that.

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I am a big fan of using two dice for success and complication.

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Like I said, all in all, this is a, this is a fun game.

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The setting is very well established and set up.

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It is definitely, it is definitely nice.

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It does just require some actual sit down and think.

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Before you jump on into it.

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If you're listening to this, right a publication.

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So in mid may this is a part of the TT RPG for reproductive

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rights, which is glorious.

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$5 gets you a whole bunch of a whole bunch of games, 270 games for just $5

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on itch and all the proceeds for that.

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Go to support reproductive rights and fighting for reproductive rights

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so something that we believe in very strongly here we definitely got the

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bundle and this game is included in it.

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However, on a normal day, the game is $10 on itch.

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You can find it at David Blandy dot itch that IO slash lone eons link

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will be down in the show notes.

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So by all means, go give that a check-out and see what that is.

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Definitely.

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Definitely.

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If you see this in a bundle and there's other stuff that you

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want, this is an excuse to get it.

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If you don't see this in a bundle of it's not on sale it is still,

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I would say it's still worth it.

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This is definitely, this is definitely one of those where there's

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enough thought in there there's a enough there's enough content.

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This is definitely beefy enough that.

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Yes, $10 may seem a lot for a solo game.

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At least so far we've been sticking pretty much to the $5 range on this

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podcast of thus far, but this is definitely worth every bit of the

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price that they're asking for it.

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And then again, if you see it in a bundle or on sale, that is

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absolutely an excuse to go get it.

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This looks like a great game.

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I'm actually looking forward to doing like a real campaign on.

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Who knows maybe if some of you all become my patrons, you might be able to talk me

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into running a campaign on this for y'all.

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But as is, that is going to be it for this game's appearance on the lonely TT RPG.

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I have been steel stash and thank you for listening.