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Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Sorry, Honey, I have to take this for a special After Dark bonus episode.
Speaker B:Hi, Chris.
Speaker A:Where we are going to sit around, interrupt each other at random juncture, wait.
Speaker C:Shit around, because you should have.
Speaker A:But also talk about what just happened in Operation Midnight Passage, a short scenario meant to last perhaps one or two sessions, although we'll dive into that a little bit more detailed later. That went a little bit longer for our run expert, by the way.
And tonight we have the author of the original manuscript, also known by Only in Dreams, written by Dariush Griffin. He's joining us here. Thank you so much, Dee, for coming on.
Dariush Griffin:My pleasure. Yeah, I don't know where you guys want to begin, but it's good to be back.
Speaker E:Let's begin with your pleasure. Let's start from the beginning.
Dariush Griffin:The beginning.
Speaker A:I think we should also mention, Dee, that you wrote another one of our original scenarios. Or your original scenario, really. We just fucked around and put it on tape, but Hidden Stomach or for us, Operation Gold Mongoose.
So this is the second original piece that we've stolen from you in Defiles.
Speaker C:It's our second dose of D. You should have said that.
Dariush Griffin:Vitamin D. I mean, I think Defile was a bit strong, but it was certainly enjoyable watching you guys stumble through them. I'll tell you, like, it was gross.
Your character wouldn't be gross. I'm be honest. But.
Speaker E:Whoa, watch it.
Dariush Griffin:Shots. Yeah.
rse, and I wrote that back in:So I had, like, a few motivations when it came to Only in Dreams or Midnight Passage, you know, really, I wanted. So I wanted to write something that was better, A.
But B, I wanted a more streamlined scenario because I think in Mongoose there's, like, a little bit of a split between, like, what the kids are doing versus what the adult is doing in the abandoned furniture factory, whatever it was.
Speaker C:Mm.
Dariush Griffin:And that is.
Speaker E:Would you say it's like a wild mongoose chase?
Dariush Griffin:A little bit, yeah. It requires, like, a little bit of player, like, intuition to figure out, like, how do I connect these two pieces?
You know, that was something that I would always smooth over just with, like, GMing, because originally it was just written for myself. Right. So I was like, all right, let me write a streamlined scenario that should be very easy to walk new players through.
It was targeted for new players, but.
Speaker C:Seasoned players, on the other hand.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, yeah. And it was something that I. Idiots. Well, we'll get to that. We'll get to that.
It was also something that I wanted to have in, like, a full fleshed out antagonists that you could also swap out too. So if you had already had an antagonist that you liked from previous scenarios and you wanted to carry them forward, you could do that.
But if you never had one before, and this is like, maybe a new group of players, like, here's a fully fleshed out antagonist you can use for future scenarios and games. And then, you know, lastly, I did actually write it with Sorry, honey in mind.
And I think it was really nice to come after Operation Goodfellow because that was just amazing. And, like, the entire time I was listening to the ending of that, I was just like, holy crap, this is insane. I love it.
But you didn't get to use the Sorry, honey line because none of the player characters had actual important bonds that were like a spouse or a girlfriend or anything. Because, like, at the start, it starts with a phone call at, like, 10 minutes to midnight or whatever.
And I was really hoping someone would utter the titchter line, sorry, honey, I have to take this. But none of your player characters are in a state for that to actually happen, so that was a little sad.
Speaker E:We did have a couple, Dariush. But Chris insisted we cut it because it didn't fit with the narrative he was going for.
Dariush Griffin:It makes sense. Yeah, makes sense. I mean, all your characters are like, who would you say that to? The guy in the bathtub? No.
Speaker E:Right. 100%. You've been listening.
Speaker A:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to be honest, it was cut not to better the story. It was specifically to spite you. Yeah, it was a spite cut.
Speaker B:Yeah. Chris would go into a rage when we use it. He would like, no, no, we have to punish him. He knows what he did.
Speaker A:And you do know what you did.
Speaker E:Exactly. That's exactly how he sounded. Wow, Marconi, that was amazing.
Speaker B:Thanks. I'm kind of like a voice actor, you know.
Speaker C:Never would have guessed.
Speaker E:Same.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah.
Speaker C:So anywho.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, there was a few other reasons in there too. So, like, I intentionally poke fun at a lot of my own tropes when I wrote this.
I was like, oh, let me just have fun with myself here, because I love to masturbate. Who doesn't? Anyone who has played any of my scenarios would probably have picked up on them. Like, I know Chris probably picked up on the owl scales.
Like, okay, he's doing an owl thing.
The best one, I thought, were the human cultures who are constantly trying to go to sleep, which is a callback to a game that Chris ran called Cthulhu, actually, where I had a shotgun priest, a priest who really liked his shotguns, and he was trying to knock out an npc and the rules for knocking someone out and call it Cthulhu or not necessarily guaranteed or also likely just to kill a person. And so that was a reference callback to a scene where I was attempting to knock someone out and I ended up murdering them instead.
Speaker A:They were in a bathtub. I. I recall. So it was a very good callback.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, there were little references for me personally, which I enjoyed seeing you guys kind of run through those. So that was some other motivations that I had too.
Speaker E:Did they tickle you?
Dariush Griffin:They did tickle me. Finding an actual reason to put a journal into a scenario. Like, I always love it when players find journals or, like, notes.
Like, who writes that down anymore? Like, who writes down crazy stuff that they're experiencing? There's no reason for you to ever have that happen.
Like, no one writes journals these days. It's very rare to find anyone journaling. So finding a reason to put an actual journal into.
Speaker E:Yeah, super weird. Every day, hiding his journal.
Speaker A:Well, do y'all have any questions for D after having. Coming out the other end?
Speaker C:No, actually, none.
Speaker A:Scenario.
Speaker B:What's the percentage of, like, actual scenario that we saw?
Dariush Griffin:So you guys got the beginning and then pretty much nothing else. That's not necessarily true.
So Chris did a really good job of taking the skeleton of the manuscript and applying it and wrapping it around the crazy whirlwind tour you guys did of the rest of Arkansas.
I guess I will say that I did playtest this with, like, four of the groups, and only one of the other groups had an issue with something close to a total party wipe, and that was on the human cultures. You know, something unnatural where you'd expect to have a party wipe. Not on an NPC with a gun.
Speaker C:Yeah. Not on a white supremacist.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah. So I want to talk about that a little bit.
Speaker C:Yes, please.
Dariush Griffin:I have to be honest. I. Oh, no.
So when I was writing up this scenario, I tried to imagine, like, as many different approaches that I could think of that players might take towards each One of these scenes and I thought I did a pretty reasonable job of like, here's all the different skill sets you could apply to these scenes and like, potentially solve these challenges. I wrote exactly like one paragraph, a small paragraph for the approach that you guys took. Because I just thought that it was insane, period.
And like, go on.
Speaker E:The hell of fun.
Dariush Griffin:I'll read it to you guys mostly verbatim here if you guys want to know.
So it's like, yeah, granted, comma, the agents could always attempt to abduct and interrogate David, though he is armed with a concealed medium pistol. So like right there.
I just assume that if you were going to enact violence, you would attempt to abduct him rather than just, I don't know, shoot him up in the middle of your warehouse. Like when there are normal people standing by that have like those people, like the people.
Speaker A:I mean, they. They began by beating him. In their defense, they didn't draw right away. They kept the iron holster for a little while.
Speaker E:And all those people were criminals.
Dariush Griffin:No.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:Yes, they were.
Dariush Griffin:No. No one there.
Speaker E:Yeah, they all.
Dariush Griffin:None of the other workers are criminals. They're just normal people doing their job.
Speaker B:I like to point out that Tiberius is incompetent enough to not be able to produce any kind of violent action. He tried.
Dariush Griffin:You did try.
Speaker E:Defeated by the plastic wrapper.
Speaker B:The plastic really is my main nemesis right now.
Dariush Griffin:Which is I will be.
Speaker A:My blister pack.
Speaker C:Blister pack.
Dariush Griffin:There were also a lot of free guns in the scenario too, but you guys managed to walk past all of those, which is my favorite part as well.
Speaker E:Beautiful.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah. Inside the nightstand.
Speaker E:I think Chris took those out for us though. Right, Chris?
Speaker A:No, they were there.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah. I don't think Marconi, your character would have, you know, picked up one of the guns. Although maybe now he would like.
I don't know if your character was a pacifist and like now he.
Speaker E:After having just a little bitch.
Dariush Griffin:Just.
Speaker E:Like your run of the mill.
Speaker C:Brian's a little sore.
Speaker E:Your run of the mill little.
Dariush Griffin:I think you're just mad.
Speaker A:Are you mad because he got away.
Speaker B:From you and Chloe?
Speaker A:Are you still but butt hurt about that?
Speaker B:I am unstoppable.
Speaker E:I would consider myself ass hurt a little. A little bit more than butt hurt.
Speaker B:You just kept getting more and more mad. Greater substance.
Speaker E:It was ridiculous in the. The favoritism, the bullshit on the part of one young Hamjay. Unbelievable.
Speaker A:Interesting. Interesting. I think Mark.
Speaker E:And by the way, that's why some pretty good roles. I left the show.
Speaker C:Now, about that, though, were you playing a little harder as Ryan? Like, a little harder on, like, getting. Getting your end goals done because you knew you were on your way out? Or how was this.
What was your deciding factor in how you played him near the end there?
Speaker E:Absolutely not. No, I was going ham on Ryan. I would argue I played Ryan fairly consistently throughout the whole. The whole thing.
It just often worked in my favor to be as reckless. My recklessness ended up working out an astonishing amount of time.
It usually didn't work out that way for everybody else, but I got lucky as hell on just general survival.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's how I feel about running away.
Speaker E:I mean, that's time and time again.
Speaker C:What Ryan has done.
Speaker E:I know. The man survives. He still survives.
Speaker C:Well, we don't know about that.
Speaker E:Oh, we do.
Speaker B:Or do we?
Speaker E:We do. We do.
Speaker A:I would. I would definitely say that Ryan's story is not done on our show. Happy to.
Speaker E:I mean, I wouldn't say that, Chris.
Speaker A:Well, hey, man, back in the box. You can decide whatever you want. I have enough audio from you now to recreate you in the digital realm.
And you didn't sign anything with me to prohibit such acts. So either you read my fucking scripts and get railroaded, or I railroad a facsimile of you.
Speaker B:Damn, you're getting railed.
Speaker E:Yeah. And by Chris, no less. Ugh.
Speaker A:Yeah, Pretty gross.
Speaker B:At least you'll get a steak.
Speaker E:Way to take one for the team.
Speaker C:So, D, what would you say is probably the best outcome in the scene where everything fell apart in that warehouse? Like, what? What could we have done better?
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, so, I mean, like I said, I playtested it four times, and one group just completely ignored, like, they went. So I didn't have a single group not break into Hog City when presented with the opportunity.
However, I also assumed there would eventually be some group that was like, let's go check out the pharmacy or the pharmaceutical distributor first before going to the mushroom and herbal supply company.
The fraud to investigate that first was the fact that there were no cameras there, which, I mean, I don't want to get meta, but typically when a GM says that, it might be a hint, but also, we don't take hints. Yeah, you guys don't take hints. The 12 round boxing bar is also another prod too.
We need to investigate this now, because if we wait and this is another challenge that can be presented with players, if we wait, then that bar is open for lunch and dinner and later on at night. So it's just going to get more and More packed.
And that did happen to one of the playtests where they went back later in the evening, start firing off firearms. And of course, now it's like dinner rush or whatever.
So now all these, like, pedestrians are hearing tons and tons of shots next door as these horrible mushroom zombies are crawling out of the streets. And all of these people are witnessing this. So that was a bad time for a lot of people involved.
Speaker E:But real quick there, you said that brings up a question for me. I'm sorry, real quick, just while we're on it for Chris, hearing Dariush describe all of that, do you, Chris, ever want to just have smart players?
Cause all of that made a lot of sense. Never before when it was pointed out. But, man, so much missed.
Speaker A:I don't think it was missed. You explored new horizons.
Dariush Griffin:Exactly.
Speaker A:In a scenario that Dee and I thought was locked tight. So well done. And we're both very impressed with the performance.
Speaker C:We took the bolts off, dug into the engine, and we tore out all the parts, and somehow it still ran.
Speaker B:We derailed that train into the ground.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah. Yes. Anyway.
Going back to the farm scooter distributor, so most people would either try and talk their way in, and then when they failed, they were like, let's go investigate Hawk City. And then they would go investigate Hawk City, and they wouldn't go back because it is very challenging.
It's very difficult to walk up to someone and be like, let me see your records. No.
Speaker B:Right.
Dariush Griffin:Who the hell are you guys? Like, hell no.
I did have one group go in at night to try and, like, clean things up after they had done the slaughterhouse, which I thought was, like, really cool. And of course, when you go back, there's. There's actually, like, that's cool. Nothing there at that point. So it's all just kind of cleaned out.
But it was really cool to see them try and tie up loose ends like that.
Speaker A:Oh, good on them. Yeah, that's a rarity.
Speaker C:Yeah, we don't do that either.
Speaker B:That's a good groove. Wow.
Dariush Griffin:You get no bonus points for that. But, you know, I tell. I tell him you did a good job. That's.
Speaker A:That's bonus.
Dariush Griffin:So, yeah, typically, I expect either players would use credentials if they had it, which, of course has very detrimental effects at the end.
Because one of the lessons of this scenario is to teach players to be covert, which is why it was hilarious to me that you guys completely blew that out of the water. You failed that lesson. So if you end up using your credentials, the ending is much worse.
I Will say that I think Chris had to tweak the ending based on his antagonist and where his story is going. But. But it was pretty close to the actual as written in it.
Or you would try and like fast talk him with like, hey, we're a local news agency and we're doing our story about you. We'd love to tour your facility, which is still a very difficult persuade.
Or another one was like, I want to pose as a distributor from another company that wants to buy their products and distribute them outside of Arkansas. Which that would require you to have like, good accounting and good persuade.
Speaker B:And.
Dariush Griffin:And you could probably persuade David for that money is a motivator for these characters, this criminal organization. So that was a better angle than a lot of the others.
But even that one failed just on bad wills because once again, he understands they're doing something shady. He doesn't want to just give it out to him. Even then, it's still very difficult.
It's designed to be a very difficult encounter that you don't necessarily have to pass. Which is another lesson to teach the players. You don't necessarily need to succeed in all of these avenues to all the evidence.
You need to piece it all together.
Speaker C:Yeah, we're the prime example of that.
Speaker B:What if you don't get any of the evidence?
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, so that is. That's a. That's a. That's a bad time. Bad things continue to happen basically until you figure it out. It's very hard to not get any of the evidence.
I would say the next most challenging that you guys never had to deal with. But the next most challenging part of the scenario I would have to say is a Wizard Carpet Care.
If you had someone with like good signals intelligence, I would probably. I don't like doing this, but like, it's difficult. We're playing characters that we aren't necessarily people in real life.
Like, I'm not a signals expert. I'm not a covert. Yes, by. Right. So we have to be like, well, imagine if you were. You might have these skills to know about these things.
Speaker E:So like, are you talking about the rp?
Dariush Griffin:I know in this game. Exactly.
Speaker B:The Known Knowns and the Unknowns. Unknowns.
Dariush Griffin:But that typically, like anyone who broke into Hog City, they would then be directed to Wizard Harbor Gear, which already gotten hints, like from the very beginning. Like, usually someone passes the awareness check to know that there's a wizard.
Speaker E:What about Dogs Mead?
Dariush Griffin:Hogsmeade?
Speaker C:That's Harry Potter, bud.
Speaker E:Oh, sorry. That's my bad.
Dariush Griffin:Anyway, there. If you had Signals intelligence. You'd know to, like, track one of the vans using, like, any number of tracking tools available.
You could even have it in your kit. But, like, you could just go buy an AirPod and, like, solder out the audio sounds for it. It's super easy if you have the skills.
Speaker C:You're describing stuff I have no idea.
Dariush Griffin:About, but this is, like, all over the news. Like, you can just buy AirPods and, like, slip them in people's luggage or purses and just track their stuff. It's, like, super easy to do.
Or if you didn't have that, you could just buy a phone with any GPS tracker, tape it up to the underside of a van or something.
Speaker B:Eric's taking some rough notes right now. Just as fast as you can.
Dariush Griffin:You can rig up all sorts of things. But, you know, that was the easy route there, which no one really took. The harder one was a player that had good stealth but not good drive auto.
So they tried to tail one of the vans, and that typically leads to a shootout at, like, a meth house on the outskirts of Fayetteville. And even from that, you don't have to shoot the guys who then just hijack their van at that point.
So there were other ways to get around that, but that typically led into player death as well, which I was fully anticipating.
Speaker E:I'm glad you mentioned that route.
Speaker A:Me too.
Speaker E:I am curious about your personal experience with meth houses.
Dariush Griffin:Oh, mine? I mean, I. You know, I like to cook on a daily basis.
Speaker E:Yeah, because you're a winner.
Dariush Griffin:That's right.
Speaker C:Winter's winter.
Dariush Griffin:I haven't slept in, like, a month. It's great.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:Who sleeps?
Dariush Griffin:We use teeth, too. It's much easier just to slurp down.
Speaker E:Yeah. You smoke the meth, you don't chew it.
Speaker B:I know a guy who would love those teeth.
Speaker C:Paris.
Dariush Griffin:That's right.
Speaker B:A lot of great reveals.
Like, I'm Chris, I'm so glad that you didn't let us know each other's thing, and I'm just, like, really impressed that everybody was able to, like, dish it out a little at a time so that it's, like, for us, it's a reveal. Right. And that's kind of a fun thing as a player.
Speaker E:Olivia, have you listened to all of this stuff, even that you weren't a part of?
Olivia:I might be, like, three episodes behind.
Speaker E:Okay. But you've heard the good parts.
Olivia:Yes.
Speaker E:I think I was in the ones.
Olivia:That you were in.
Speaker C:Yeah, right.
Olivia:At one point, I had to draw from you, and I was like, what would Michael do? I should have said Ryan, but I said, what would Michael do? And I kind of live with that in my head.
Speaker E:I love that. You're welcome.
Olivia:I know I can't live up to it.
Speaker E:But Chris, what's been the most fun part about having your wife as a cast member?
Speaker A:A whole good one, I think. I think the fact that.
Speaker E:Careful, careful.
Speaker A:But both can not do household chores at the same time and have fun, that's pretty ideal. And I'll think about it.
Speaker C:My wife likes to slowly turn up the volume on the office downstairs.
Speaker E:I'm gonna not accept that bullshit answer.
Speaker A:Uh huh.
Olivia:It was kind of boring and fell flat, didn't it?
Speaker E:But I mean, that's not a sincere answer. Chris, Chris, you get to play your favorite, favorite game, the game that. And I quote when I say this.
You would give up everything you have to play more with your wife.
Olivia:And sometimes he does. So maybe it's better that I answer because I definitely come from a background of not doing this whatsoever.
Speaker E:And I love it.
Speaker C:Tell us more.
Olivia:Previously, I mean from the Cyberpunk podcast. And I'll. Sorry, honey. I got to be parts of this world because he'd include me in some of his writing process or listen to the music he was producing.
That was fun. But this puts it on another level of something that we can share together.
And I gotta be honest, I didn't listen to the podcast really at all until it was like I had an opportunity to take Michael's spot.
Speaker E:Love it.
Olivia:I jumped in and it was like, wow, I have been missing out. I know how much he puts into this and you guys all do. And it was a lot of fun catching up and now getting to be a little part of this.
Speaker C:Well, it's been a joy.
Speaker B:Did you, did you have that feeling?
Speaker E:Sweet.
Speaker B:Did you have that feeling when you were like, God, I don't want to listen to this because I'm afraid it's bad and then I'll know. And I love this person. Right? Like obviously, like you like to show like you just said. But I feel like when you some.
You have a friend who makes art, I think that's like the hardest thing is like, I don't want to know about it because if it's bad, then I feel bad. You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Then you just have to stare in a wall when they talk about it.
Speaker E:And we don't. Marconi. We don't know if she considers Chris a friend.
Speaker B:That is true. That is true. Yeah. Dang.
Olivia:No comment.
Dariush Griffin:Let's take Stakes.
Speaker E:Dang. That's the funniest response.
Olivia:If you guys weren't as funny as you are, I kind of kept listening and I would have said, I can't do this.
Speaker C:Well, looks aren't everything, so.
Olivia:Looks aren't everything.
Speaker C:That's my go to response when somebody tells me I'm funny.
Speaker B:People tell you you're funny, Eric?
Speaker C:Oh, all the time.
Speaker A:Yeah. I didn't buy that for a second.
Olivia:Well, you have. I mean, you've heard the accent, so I thought that was great. It might not be funny, but it's awesome.
Speaker A:You know, actually love the accent. Yeah, great job on the accent, man. Well done.
Speaker E:Actually, he has an accent.
Speaker C:I just tap into the quarter of my genetic heritage that comes from Canada and I channel that.
Speaker E:Oh, that's exciting.
Speaker A:What part of Canada do your people hail from?
Speaker C:Saskatchewan.
Dariush Griffin:Oh, really? Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay. Fascinating.
Dariush Griffin:I will say that I think the change in characters have been really nice and refreshing because I think for a while there, there was just, like, way too much hassle. This is my opinion, by the way. It was the. I think the. Was it Cold Snap? I forget. I'm forgetting the name. What it was called. Whatever.
The one shot was where you guys were hunting. The. Not Yeti. The Windigo.
Speaker A:Cold Snap.
Speaker E:Mm.
Dariush Griffin:It was so much, like, beautifully named. Yeah. Mistreatment of that poor, like, npc. That Chris is like, role playing. And, like, you guys are just like, such assholes for that npc.
I was just hoping that when he came to pick you up in the helicopter, he would just execute each and every one of you. Just, like, put you guys down and then, like, call back to the program, be like, yep, problems taken care of.
Speaker C:That's probably the right ending for that.
Dariush Griffin:But I just have to.
Speaker E:Chris, you should have had Darius write that ending, too.
Dariush Griffin:Well, I just got to assume that, like, some of these.
Well, what I would like to do is I think for some of these agents that have really made life difficult for Delta Green, like, say you, I don't know, take an FBI vehicle to a massacre at a pharmaceutical distributor with FBI license plates, and you just leave it there for Delta Green to try and sort out, they're eventually just going to send you on these, like, operations that are just, you know, one way death trips.
Speaker C:To be fair, they didn't leave it at the shootout. They did take it back to the hotel in actual.
Dariush Griffin:Which also had a shootout. Ryan, as the FBI van. I forgot about that.
Speaker A:It was found in a ditch. Yeah. And it was missing conspicuously. Ryan and Prentiss, at that Stage. So that was revealed.
Dariush Griffin:Whoa.
Speaker A:We said that was kind of the montage. I thought it was conspicuously missing another twist.
Speaker E:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker A:Prefixes put me back in. Change a whole meaning of a word.
Dariush Griffin:But, yeah, I'm looking forward to the. The operation that's basically just a death sentence for all the agents. Go kill the shockers.
Speaker A:Hell, they've been doing that. They've been doing that D for this group since Crown Jupiter.
Dariush Griffin:It feels good.
Speaker E:It's been trying choices that have been bad since the very beginning.
Speaker C:I mean, Relic did not need to put his hand in that fire, but it was cool. It was fucking dope. And now he's a bookend.
Speaker E:Now he's a relic.
Speaker B:Speaking of choices, did you find yourself listening and at a certain point, being like, oh, they're finally getting it, or they're finally on the right trail? And then did you listen to the show? And then a right turn.
Any moments like that that you thought maybe we were on the right track, but then we fuck up again.
Dariush Griffin:I mean, everything up until the distributor, I think you guys were doing okay pretty good. The burning of MJ was hilarious to me. Like, I don't know if that was. I think you were on, like, antihistamines or something.
Like a huge amount of Benadryl or something.
Or maybe it was just because I don't know if there was a time break, like a week, and you guys just forgot that you're given explicit instructions, like, not to give this person anything difficult. And you called them up and were like, right, yeah, Hack a laptop for me.
Speaker C:Yeah, that was the. Benny's.
Dariush Griffin:Okay. I thought it was something like that.
Speaker B:The hat man made him do it.
Speaker C:Yep.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, yeah. You don't necessarily need mj. It's just like a nice, valuable resource because you called him up and been like, hey, here are these businesses.
Can you tell us anything about them?
Speaker C:And he's like, sure.
Dariush Griffin:I did a whole background check. Turns out the run by this, you know, white supremacist group, they all have criminal connections.
Like, you should probably be cautious, you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker C:Yeah, Little forewarning would have been nice for our characters, but.
Dariush Griffin:But you could also do that if any of your characters engaged in, like, open source intelligence gathering ahead of time.
I know they don't have library use anymore, but, like, you can always be like, yeah, I just want to spend like an hour and, like, just go on the Internet and try and find everything I can about these names, these businesses. The GM should be able to collect that for you. If there is anything.
Yeah, if you have accounting skills and things like that, you can look at the Secretary of State filing.
Speaker C:I did get blocked on bureaucracy.
Speaker A:Check.
Speaker E:So, Dariush, what was. What is your favorite part of the white supremacist philosophies?
Dariush Griffin:None of them. None of them actually.
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker E:Yeah. That wasn't really the question though.
Speaker B:What's your favorite gun to your head?
Speaker C:Okay, moving on.
Dariush Griffin:Yeah, I'm not gonna answer that.
Speaker A:But it's wise decision.
Dariush Griffin:I'll tell you why they were included. It's because when I was doing research for this, I wanted your beliefs. No, definitely not. Yeah.
They are abhorrent individuals and they are only included because I was doing research into large criminal organizations that happened to be operating in Arkansas. And they happen to be one of them for a long period of time. So if you were to looking.
If you were looking for an organization to hijack for your own weird occult various reasons, they would probably be a good choice. That is why there were no other.
Speaker E:I thought it was because Chris was trying to get viewership up.
Speaker A:And it.
Speaker E:Worked and he wanted to appeal to like the main. The main segment of listener for Sorry.
Speaker A:Honey was like our target.
Speaker E:I'll make the good guys the bad guys.
Speaker B:Michael, I'm. I'm so glad. I'm so glad that I pissed you off and you left the show. I mean, I'll say it. I'll finally say it right. You. You. You're the worst.
I hate you.
Speaker E:Oh my God. So good.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker A:On that note, anyhow, unless we have any other questions for de.
Speaker C:So many questions.
Speaker E:So many questions.
Speaker A:I would. I would say, you know, Chris, imagine.
Speaker E:A barely scratched surface.
Speaker A:Well, please don't allow me to interrupt. Michael. What else do you have?
Speaker B:Oh, don't ask. Michael. Eric knows he's tapped out here.
Speaker C:So what was in the jar in the slaughterhouse?
Dariush Griffin:You guys gotta find that out on your own.
Speaker A:No, you took that as shields.
Speaker C:Sure did.
Speaker A:And it is in the quote unquote inventory. And if you want to discover its secrets, you have all capability of doing so.
The next little sniff little which will be called Operation Active Exchange.
Speaker C:Oh, I thought it was Gigolo Thunder.
Speaker A:That's after that. Okay, if you survive, we'll be playing another shitter mission in between. This one by Discord user Ivra or Ivra. Not sure how to pronounce that one.
Apologies. That's going to be called Cruel Summer. We'll be recording that very soon here to get that out to y'all asap.
But yeah, until then, thank you all for listening.
Speaker E:Are you choose your favorite characters.
Speaker A:I can't believe we almost got out without you asking that question. We almost got out, all right. And you've asked him that before.
Speaker E:Yeah, but the character lineup has changed. There's been several new characters introduced, one one of which is played by Olivia.
And it'd be really interesting if he had some insight into why his new favorite character is his new favorite character. If his favorite character changed. It was previously Ryan.
Dariush Griffin:Well, I would have to give it to. I mean, since, you know, Ryan is now, I guess, the mission or a mission.
I'd have to give it to Paris just because I have a soft spot for twisted wizards. Even though Frankfurt and Paris. I guess Frankfurt. You want to think about it that way. Just went off the deep end, in my opinion.
Act like a sociopath there, but that's okay.
Speaker C:Did not see that coming.
Speaker E:You say that in a way as though it's excusable or dar you. So you say that in a way that, like, it's. It's absolutely abhorrent on his part to be a sociopath. And I think that that's pretty established.
Speaker C:That you don't mind.
Speaker E:Of the sps.
Speaker A:Well, let's. Let's type in.
Speaker E:I have four more.
Speaker A:Thanks for. Oh, my God.
Speaker E:I don't.
Speaker A:Okay, Dee, thank you again for writing a great scenario and for joining us to talk about it. I look forward to more because they are so fun to run.
And thank you all out there for listening, for sticking with us, for joining our discord and giving us feedback directly to our faces, good or bad. It's also very, very appreciated by myself. And I can think I can speak for the rest of the cast as well on that point. Be seeing.