WEBVTT 00:00:25.170 --> 00:00:30.590 Hello, everyone, and welcome to Salt Cravings episode 50. 00:00:30.770 --> 00:00:31.950 My name's Brianna. 00:00:32.290 --> 00:00:33.490 And my name's Clair. 00:00:33.530 --> 00:00:35.010 I almost said my name's Brianna. 00:00:35.090 --> 00:00:36.210 It's just two Briannas. 00:00:36.730 --> 00:00:37.890 It's just two Brianna. 00:00:37.910 --> 00:00:38.550 Well, we'll see. 00:00:38.570 --> 00:00:41.550 Maybe that'll be the thing, who knows? 00:00:41.630 --> 00:00:45.370 Well, hi, welcome to a podcast where Brianna just talks to herself for an hour. 00:00:45.390 --> 00:00:51.170 Yeah, so that's what we're doing today for our special 50th episode. 00:00:51.290 --> 00:00:52.710 I'm going to speak to myself. 00:00:53.230 --> 00:00:56.370 No, but we are doing something special for episode 50. 00:00:56.850 --> 00:01:02.710 If you look at the length of the episode, actually, what we're going to do is just do one craving for multiple hours. 00:01:04.510 --> 00:01:14.650 Yeah, yeah, no, it's absolutely, as you can tell, just us being like, all right, here's one craving that we're going to just really drag it out, come up with 15 solutions. 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:16.650 Every single solution. 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:25.110 We're really like, I feel like we just burn through too many cravings, so we really have to like ring them out for every solution that we possibly can. 00:01:25.130 --> 00:01:28.910 But also I'm lying right now, so maybe you should save this. 00:01:29.310 --> 00:01:31.770 Yeah, I can say the thing. 00:01:31.770 --> 00:01:36.790 So we talk about games a lot on this show, especially tabletop games, but games in general. 00:01:36.990 --> 00:01:46.690 And so we figured, because at this point with Salt Cravings, we enjoy doing the thing that we do, but we're also very excited to try doing new and interesting things. 00:01:47.030 --> 00:01:50.830 And so we figured for episode 50, we might try something a little bit different. 00:01:51.210 --> 00:01:54.630 And so today, we are going to play a tabletop game. 00:01:55.130 --> 00:02:01.490 And we are specifically playing A Duet of Steel by Adrian Thoen. 00:02:01.790 --> 00:02:03.910 I believe that's how that's pronounced. 00:02:04.690 --> 00:02:08.970 A Duet of Steel is a role playing game of long-term rivalries for two players. 00:02:09.290 --> 00:02:11.930 I'm very excited for this. 00:02:12.150 --> 00:02:15.110 But before we get started, we want to know, you know. 00:02:15.130 --> 00:02:22.950 I was thinking before we jump into it and whatnot, we should do the ending stuff now because this might not be for everybody. 00:02:22.970 --> 00:02:28.870 And I just want to say, like, if this is not your thing, like, do not feel like you have to listen to this episode. 00:02:28.890 --> 00:02:30.110 You can, like, we will be back. 00:02:30.130 --> 00:02:31.570 We'll be back with more Cravings. 00:02:32.150 --> 00:02:36.210 But, like, if listening to an actual play podcast is, like, it's not for everybody. 00:02:36.210 --> 00:02:37.230 I just want to be straight up. 00:02:37.310 --> 00:02:38.330 We really like it. 00:02:38.430 --> 00:02:44.030 So if you want to follow us on social media, you can go to Salt Cravings at Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. 00:02:44.330 --> 00:02:52.230 You can also, like, send in submissions for next time or the time after or maybe the time after to submissions at saltcravings.com. 00:02:52.450 --> 00:02:53.470 Just e-mail that in. 00:02:53.630 --> 00:02:54.590 You can give us a rating. 00:02:54.610 --> 00:02:56.710 I feel like we haven't said that in a while. 00:02:57.150 --> 00:03:00.710 Give us a rating based on how you liked this one episode, maybe. 00:03:00.730 --> 00:03:01.190 I don't know. 00:03:01.210 --> 00:03:02.990 That's a good way to rate things. 00:03:03.550 --> 00:03:05.450 Yeah, based on the weird episode. 00:03:05.510 --> 00:03:11.650 Also, like, just, like, this episode's probably going to be a little slower than other episodes in just a mood. 00:03:12.170 --> 00:03:13.250 But also, who knows? 00:03:13.270 --> 00:03:14.010 Let's see, right? 00:03:14.030 --> 00:03:15.670 Like, it's also, it's still us. 00:03:15.910 --> 00:03:16.510 It's still us. 00:03:16.510 --> 00:03:17.110 It's still going to be him. 00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:17.570 It's going to be chaotic. 00:03:17.590 --> 00:03:19.470 It's still going to be fun, I think. 00:03:19.810 --> 00:03:25.970 Like, I'm not imagining us going deep and super serious on this one. 00:03:26.090 --> 00:03:32.430 But yeah, but please let us know, like, if you do listen to this episode, or even if you choose not to, please let us know what you think of this. 00:03:32.650 --> 00:03:33.690 Obviously, we like playing games. 00:03:33.710 --> 00:03:34.870 We play games together a lot. 00:03:35.330 --> 00:03:48.290 And in some ways, this is us trying to get a feel for whether or not people would be interested in more of this as, like, maybe a second pod, or, you know, an occasional special episode or stuff here and there, right? 00:03:48.310 --> 00:03:52.750 Like, if people are interested in this, we would love to hear from you. 00:03:52.770 --> 00:03:55.390 And if you're not interested in this, we would also love to hear from you. 00:03:55.770 --> 00:03:58.530 Yeah, especially if this just like isn't your thing. 00:03:58.630 --> 00:04:00.330 Like, don't feel like you can't speak up. 00:04:00.410 --> 00:04:03.030 Like, we are testing the waters and we want responses. 00:04:03.170 --> 00:04:09.110 So if you don't speak up, then, you know, count that as I don't know, not voting is a vote in and of itself. 00:04:09.130 --> 00:04:11.070 So I guess that works too. 00:04:11.230 --> 00:04:13.390 If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. 00:04:13.970 --> 00:04:14.710 Exactly. 00:04:14.730 --> 00:04:15.870 As the band Rush says. 00:04:16.190 --> 00:04:18.850 Common source of wisdom, the band Rush. 00:04:19.350 --> 00:04:22.250 Um, so please let us know. 00:04:22.270 --> 00:04:23.530 We would love to hear from you. 00:04:23.550 --> 00:04:27.430 Um, without further ado, um... 00:04:28.270 --> 00:04:40.350 So, uh, to sort of set up a duet of steel, throughout your life, throughout generations of your family, throughout the various fronts of your war, you have had one great rival. 00:04:40.770 --> 00:04:43.010 Again and again, you clash with them. 00:04:43.650 --> 00:04:48.250 One walking away, the victor of the battle, but bearing the scars of your war. 00:04:49.030 --> 00:04:56.170 A Duet of Steel is a game about rivals who engage each other in charged exchanges over an extended period of time. 00:04:56.510 --> 00:05:06.030 Whatever the setting and scope, the focus of a duet of steel is the two duelists, their climactic duels and the aftermath of these confrontations. 00:05:07.010 --> 00:05:12.850 The Duet of Steel is a dance of antagonism with the ebb and flow of conflict and recovery. 00:05:13.310 --> 00:05:16.930 But it is a duet with the two parties playing off each other. 00:05:17.410 --> 00:05:19.330 It takes two to tango. 00:05:20.390 --> 00:05:21.670 Let's get ready to play. 00:05:22.270 --> 00:05:23.090 Let's do-do-duel. 00:05:33.090 --> 00:05:40.290 I have instead made us some spreadsheets to help us do this long distance. 00:05:40.550 --> 00:05:42.010 Yeah, these are incredible. 00:05:42.590 --> 00:05:43.070 Thank you. 00:05:44.310 --> 00:05:47.250 We're also going to need a deck of playing cards. 00:05:48.070 --> 00:05:49.870 Try this link and we'll see if this... 00:05:51.150 --> 00:05:52.610 Oh yes, this will totally work. 00:05:53.010 --> 00:05:54.770 Oh hey, I can see your little cursor. 00:05:54.890 --> 00:05:55.510 Ah, cool. 00:05:55.910 --> 00:05:57.830 Alright, so we've got some playing cards. 00:05:57.850 --> 00:05:58.990 We've got our sheets. 00:05:59.550 --> 00:06:03.970 So the first step in this game is to establish your setting. 00:06:04.550 --> 00:06:14.110 I don't know why it says as a group, but I guess you could theoretically play with more people and just sort of split it up into two teams, which would I guess also kind of be fun. 00:06:14.590 --> 00:06:19.390 You could theoretically do rival factions that clash together. 00:06:20.110 --> 00:06:23.330 But as a group, discuss the setting and scale you want to play on. 00:06:23.350 --> 00:06:30.870 This is your chance to create a broad sketch of your duelists and the stage of place and time that your conflicts are played across. 00:06:31.210 --> 00:06:37.550 When describing your duelists and the setting of their conflict, use your favorite media as inspiration for your ideas. 00:06:37.890 --> 00:06:45.350 So Brianna, I originally came into this being like, we do a lot, well, I do a lot of space things. 00:06:45.490 --> 00:06:46.590 I like space a lot. 00:06:46.610 --> 00:06:48.410 I like sci-fi and whatnot. 00:06:48.430 --> 00:06:51.430 And I was like, maybe we should move away from space. 00:06:51.770 --> 00:06:52.170 Great. 00:06:52.190 --> 00:06:53.510 This is excellent. 00:06:53.510 --> 00:07:03.650 I'd like to share that I did just finish Cowboy Bebop last night, and it is absolutely one of the worst shows I have ever watched, which I feel like is going to make a lot of people angry. 00:07:03.970 --> 00:07:07.530 But also I feel like we could write a better Bebop. 00:07:07.850 --> 00:07:08.510 We could. 00:07:08.530 --> 00:07:10.750 Do you want to know my alternative pitch? 00:07:11.270 --> 00:07:11.570 Yeah. 00:07:11.810 --> 00:07:12.590 Was it last night? 00:07:12.610 --> 00:07:13.510 Yes, it was last night. 00:07:13.570 --> 00:07:18.390 I watched the movie Orlando, which is based on a book by Virginia Woolf. 00:07:19.010 --> 00:07:19.610 Hell yeah. 00:07:20.190 --> 00:07:43.590 Orlando is about this immortal British noble who is born in 1600 and is given immortality powers and basically lives through these various centuries and at one point changes genders and like is just kind of an all around nuisance and problem for everyone around him and later around her. 00:07:43.970 --> 00:07:52.070 I guess not an all around nuisance and problem, just has a weird ass life where they just show up every 50 years and they're like, hey, I'm here now. 00:07:53.570 --> 00:08:03.450 My pitch is Orlando but it's rivals is like these two immortals over the set or mortal nobles over the centuries. 00:08:03.790 --> 00:08:04.250 I don't know. 00:08:04.270 --> 00:08:05.150 That's my pitch. 00:08:05.310 --> 00:08:06.890 I don't know if I'm feeling immortals. 00:08:06.890 --> 00:08:10.350 That was my thing is like I actually think I want to play mortals. 00:08:10.470 --> 00:08:14.930 I think I want I think I want the time scale of this to be like a lifetime at most. 00:08:15.590 --> 00:08:23.230 But my other thing other than just my petty, I could do Cowboy Bebop better was like an Atlantis style setting. 00:08:23.910 --> 00:08:39.810 Ooh, I mean, I'm really vibing unsurprisingly these days with like this kind of nobility vibes of like Regency, like Regency or, you know, anywhere from like the 18th century to Jane Austen. 00:08:39.830 --> 00:08:41.010 Like that is the vibe. 00:08:41.030 --> 00:08:42.310 You fuck with the bourgeoisie. 00:08:42.630 --> 00:08:43.690 Aesthetically, yes. 00:08:43.830 --> 00:08:45.310 It basically every other way. 00:08:45.330 --> 00:08:47.050 No, OK. 00:08:47.070 --> 00:08:51.330 This is my one problem is like I don't know anything about that stuff. 00:08:51.530 --> 00:08:52.990 And that's OK. 00:08:53.590 --> 00:08:55.690 It does kind of limit me a little bit. 00:08:56.190 --> 00:08:59.930 I'm happy to like maybe do like an alternate history. 00:08:59.950 --> 00:09:00.270 Yes. 00:09:00.290 --> 00:09:07.510 So what I was going to say, what I was going to say is I'm interested in this Atlantis setting in which Atlantis. 00:09:07.510 --> 00:09:09.170 I just want to be very clear. 00:09:09.190 --> 00:09:10.250 Not Atlanta Atlantis. 00:09:11.190 --> 00:09:11.530 Yes. 00:09:11.690 --> 00:09:12.090 Sorry. 00:09:12.110 --> 00:09:12.930 Do I say Atlanta? 00:09:13.230 --> 00:09:14.170 I heard Atlanta. 00:09:14.190 --> 00:09:15.430 You might have said Atlantis. 00:09:15.450 --> 00:09:17.510 But I was like, well, let's just go to Atlanta. 00:09:17.530 --> 00:09:19.710 You know, let's just play a game in Atlanta. 00:09:20.590 --> 00:09:21.910 I know so much about that city. 00:09:22.750 --> 00:09:24.030 I definitely know where it is. 00:09:24.050 --> 00:09:25.650 I almost am. 00:09:25.710 --> 00:09:32.850 I am thinking about this in terms of this kind of Atlantis society that has this. 00:09:33.610 --> 00:09:41.050 Basically, in terms of time period, I'm thinking about like big poofy dresses and like gold. 00:09:41.310 --> 00:09:42.770 Can I propose an idea? 00:09:43.830 --> 00:09:50.510 Can it be like an alternate history where in like, I don't know, the 1600s or the 1500s, Atlantis made itself known? 00:09:50.750 --> 00:09:52.870 And I guess like it changes history, right? 00:09:53.230 --> 00:09:54.850 And like, we don't have to zoom into that. 00:09:54.870 --> 00:09:58.150 But like, where do we want this to take place? 00:09:58.370 --> 00:09:58.670 Right? 00:09:58.690 --> 00:10:01.350 Like, do we want to be like, I mean, it could be in Atlantis. 00:10:01.350 --> 00:10:04.690 It could be outside of Atlantis, but like influenced by Atlantis. 00:10:04.750 --> 00:10:06.470 I don't need it to be in a real place. 00:10:07.290 --> 00:10:08.210 That's fair. 00:10:08.390 --> 00:10:14.630 When I say about aesthetically, there's nothing like European aesthetics are really not that different from each other. 00:10:14.650 --> 00:10:17.810 I don't need it to be set in a particular area. 00:10:18.170 --> 00:10:19.210 I truly don't. 00:10:19.710 --> 00:10:26.330 The thing about Atlantis, though, is like it truly doesn't feel like it would have European vibes. 00:10:26.610 --> 00:10:28.790 It doesn't feel like that would be its thing. 00:10:29.050 --> 00:10:29.330 It's true. 00:10:30.670 --> 00:10:32.590 It doesn't have to, but Atlantis isn't real. 00:10:33.250 --> 00:10:34.670 If it did, it would probably have Greek vibes. 00:10:36.070 --> 00:10:37.210 Can we do Greek? 00:10:38.270 --> 00:10:41.250 I think you're just going off of Apostolus. 00:10:41.610 --> 00:10:44.190 Yeah, I mean, Apostolus is kind of the vibe. 00:10:44.610 --> 00:10:49.270 Apostolus from Friends of the Table, an inspiration for probably us doing this. 00:10:49.750 --> 00:10:51.310 Honestly, probably, yeah. 00:10:51.610 --> 00:10:56.270 I think one of the important things is like our duelists, I don't conceive of them as being good people. 00:10:57.030 --> 00:10:59.310 Why, like, maybe mine is, I don't know. 00:10:59.350 --> 00:11:03.050 Like, yours doesn't have to be a good person, but like, I don't know who my duelist is yet. 00:11:03.350 --> 00:11:05.510 I don't conceive of mine as being a good person. 00:11:05.690 --> 00:11:12.790 And the most fun way for me to show that they are not a good person is to make them a member of the nobility. 00:11:13.130 --> 00:11:13.510 Great. 00:11:13.530 --> 00:11:15.470 I mean, that's, yeah, okay, that's easy. 00:11:15.850 --> 00:11:29.150 Because that makes it both me saying kind of straight up, this person is like, takes advantage of people and is like shitty towards other people and also gets to have cool aesthetics. 00:11:29.350 --> 00:11:37.650 Do you want to be like a queen from some European country and I'm like Atlantis, Atlantisian, Atlantean, Atlantean? 00:11:38.170 --> 00:11:46.370 I have a better idea because I, as much as I say, I want to mess around with these aesthetics, I don't want to like actually just play out colonization. 00:11:46.390 --> 00:11:51.510 That is like, that is the problem, of course, with being a royal and being a bad person. 00:11:51.770 --> 00:11:53.830 That's generally what the goal was. 00:11:54.210 --> 00:11:56.930 Yeah, but I didn't say I wanted to be European. 00:11:57.090 --> 00:12:00.410 What I would suggest, what if there's two Atlantis's? 00:12:01.770 --> 00:12:02.490 I love it. 00:12:03.270 --> 00:12:03.890 Oh my God. 00:12:03.910 --> 00:12:04.290 Okay. 00:12:04.290 --> 00:12:06.730 What if it has nothing to do with the surface world? 00:12:07.010 --> 00:12:12.950 What if it's like Atlantis versus the Magma, or like even further down? 00:12:13.370 --> 00:12:15.070 Like Atlantis goes further down. 00:12:16.230 --> 00:12:17.070 Maybe that's the setting. 00:12:17.090 --> 00:12:23.950 Maybe we can look more at like the characters in a second, but I think like, what if we're just like, we never touch the surface? 00:12:24.410 --> 00:12:24.690 Yeah. 00:12:24.710 --> 00:12:26.950 Is this upper Atlantis versus lower Atlantis? 00:12:27.370 --> 00:12:39.610 I had conceived of them as completely different places, but you know, like why not just call it like, you know, like North and South places are completely different generally, usually for reasons. 00:12:39.930 --> 00:12:45.350 I conceive of it very much as being like once upon a time, this was one group of people. 00:12:45.650 --> 00:12:51.150 And over time they slowly became like, well, there's the North and the South. 00:12:52.310 --> 00:12:54.850 There's North Atlantis and South Atlantis. 00:12:55.350 --> 00:12:57.370 The king in the North Atlantis. 00:12:57.590 --> 00:12:58.030 Yeah. 00:12:58.450 --> 00:13:02.910 What if it's like, when we think of Atlantis, we always think of like going up, right? 00:13:02.930 --> 00:13:03.710 Like building up. 00:13:03.750 --> 00:13:05.450 What if they built down, right? 00:13:05.470 --> 00:13:08.070 Like you're at the bottom of the ocean, you build tunnels. 00:13:08.850 --> 00:13:12.070 And that's how you like get, I guess, around. 00:13:12.090 --> 00:13:16.330 You can build other places if you go through tunnels, you don't necessarily have to swim. 00:13:16.890 --> 00:13:18.070 Very important questions. 00:13:18.170 --> 00:13:19.270 Are they fish people? 00:13:19.770 --> 00:13:23.490 God grant me the strength not to just remake Apostilicians. 00:13:25.490 --> 00:13:27.930 So I'll play Millie and you'll play Tessaly. 00:13:27.950 --> 00:13:31.710 I think I'm pretty clearly playing Cassilier. 00:13:33.810 --> 00:13:34.530 What do you think? 00:13:34.550 --> 00:13:41.510 They could be mermaids or fish people or I don't know, humans with certain fish features. 00:13:42.270 --> 00:13:45.070 I think it'd be cool if they were like part rock, right? 00:13:45.950 --> 00:13:47.270 They don't need to breathe. 00:13:47.290 --> 00:13:50.870 They could survive underwater, not because they're fish, but because they're rock. 00:13:51.490 --> 00:13:52.130 I see. 00:13:53.010 --> 00:13:53.870 That's interesting. 00:13:53.910 --> 00:13:54.550 I like this. 00:13:54.870 --> 00:14:00.070 You know how, I don't know if you've ever looked up tectonic plates where they meet in the ocean. 00:14:00.390 --> 00:14:11.710 It's pretty freaking cool if a plate is pulling apart, which usually doesn't happen on a surface because mountains are the result of tectonic plates running into each other. 00:14:12.210 --> 00:14:17.910 But tectonic plates pulling apart usually results in magma coming up out of them. 00:14:17.930 --> 00:14:22.790 But because it moves so slow that it forms more land. 00:14:23.010 --> 00:14:25.230 What if people come out of that? 00:14:26.070 --> 00:14:26.470 Nice. 00:14:26.830 --> 00:14:29.910 Oh yeah, the next round of births is happening. 00:14:30.250 --> 00:14:36.550 We're just rock people that are literally created by tectonic plates being pulled apart. 00:14:36.830 --> 00:14:37.470 Hell yeah. 00:14:37.590 --> 00:14:38.430 Oh, I love that. 00:14:38.650 --> 00:14:40.130 So we're volcanic rock. 00:14:41.230 --> 00:14:41.730 Yeah. 00:14:42.190 --> 00:14:44.830 Which like volcanic rock is still porous too. 00:14:45.170 --> 00:14:48.110 So it makes it very easy to move around underwater. 00:14:48.130 --> 00:14:49.330 Yeah, it's perfect. 00:14:49.890 --> 00:14:50.310 It is. 00:14:50.410 --> 00:14:53.050 I'm going to write down Rock Atlantis. 00:14:54.270 --> 00:14:55.470 It's my favorite album. 00:14:55.790 --> 00:14:57.330 We're in Rock Atlantis. 00:14:57.610 --> 00:15:00.250 There are polarized parts of this place. 00:15:01.330 --> 00:15:03.570 In many ways, in many ways polarized. 00:15:03.810 --> 00:15:04.470 Oh my God. 00:15:05.910 --> 00:15:06.890 Who are the duelists? 00:15:06.910 --> 00:15:07.030 Who are the duelists? 00:15:07.310 --> 00:15:08.690 Who are the duelists? 00:15:08.750 --> 00:15:10.150 Are they individual people? 00:15:10.150 --> 00:15:11.050 Are they gangs? 00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:14.250 Are they societies, armies or entire nations? 00:15:15.130 --> 00:15:18.890 Your duelists are who you follow over the course of the game. 00:15:19.250 --> 00:15:23.230 This can do a lot to establish the scale of the conflicts and stakes. 00:15:23.510 --> 00:15:28.450 The smaller the scale, the more intimate your relationships with the duelists. 00:15:28.850 --> 00:15:32.090 I'm getting vibes that you want to be an individual. 00:15:32.470 --> 00:15:39.710 Yeah, I definitely think of it as like, yeah, absolutely, I was vibing with individual. 00:15:39.730 --> 00:15:41.210 I have a question, Brianna. 00:15:41.410 --> 00:15:41.810 Yeah? 00:15:41.950 --> 00:15:44.970 Do you want to be an individual going up against a society? 00:15:45.410 --> 00:15:49.430 I'm more interested in us being on the same scale. 00:15:50.090 --> 00:15:51.950 Yeah, no, I'm happy to be an individual. 00:15:51.970 --> 00:15:55.710 I think it's just easier if we are on the same scale. 00:15:56.010 --> 00:15:58.310 All right, we can both be a person. 00:15:58.970 --> 00:16:08.750 I'm interested in potentially being individuals who might have group affiliations, but I think the focus should be individual. 00:16:09.190 --> 00:16:12.670 So we need to talk about our duelists. 00:16:13.150 --> 00:16:19.770 And so we have these duelist sheets, and we are going to come up with names, which is very important. 00:16:20.030 --> 00:16:28.770 And then we're going to take motivations and flaws, and they can be broad or just one word. 00:16:28.790 --> 00:16:33.270 We take between two and five motivations and flaws each. 00:16:34.130 --> 00:16:37.390 I thought about my motivations and flaws. 00:16:37.430 --> 00:16:46.730 I don't know anything about this character, but so I think one of my motivations is going to be horny. 00:16:47.530 --> 00:16:51.370 And I think one of my flaws is going to be horny. 00:16:51.790 --> 00:16:58.470 So I'm really making a diverse character here. 00:16:58.490 --> 00:17:01.010 But I do have other words that I'm going to think of. 00:17:01.030 --> 00:17:03.750 But anyways, so I just needed that to be. 00:17:03.770 --> 00:17:05.970 That was probably the most important part of my character. 00:17:05.990 --> 00:17:08.510 So you want to be a noble? 00:17:08.950 --> 00:17:09.770 Yes, I am. 00:17:09.810 --> 00:17:12.310 I am definitely a noble. 00:17:12.830 --> 00:17:21.970 I don't know if this is even like a story of like a person who's afraid to lose their power because like it doesn't even cross her mind. 00:17:23.030 --> 00:17:25.510 Of course, she's rich and powerful. 00:17:25.670 --> 00:17:27.130 She's always going to be. 00:17:27.490 --> 00:17:27.870 Right. 00:17:30.010 --> 00:17:32.030 I'm seeing inspiration for this character. 00:17:32.050 --> 00:17:34.070 Yeah, there's definitely a lot of inspirations. 00:17:34.090 --> 00:17:35.050 It's hilarious. 00:17:35.070 --> 00:17:43.230 The actual inspiration that I think I'm pulling from the most is, if not Orlando, also Emma 2020, a movie that is so good. 00:17:44.030 --> 00:17:44.410 Yes. 00:17:44.770 --> 00:17:52.230 It's also, I understand also Clementine Keshe, but that is not actually to the degree that you can differentiate Clementine Keshe from Emma. 00:17:52.510 --> 00:17:54.290 It's more Emma than Clementine. 00:17:54.750 --> 00:17:55.030 Okay. 00:17:55.050 --> 00:17:58.930 Well, I'm familiar with the latter, so I don't know anything about Emma. 00:17:59.230 --> 00:18:06.070 She's a shitty, manipulative person who's genuinely actually good at manipulating people, unlike Clem. 00:18:07.250 --> 00:18:07.890 Okay, great. 00:18:08.210 --> 00:18:09.190 What if it's this? 00:18:09.210 --> 00:18:16.190 You have been so good at getting power, and everyone in your life just believes what you say. 00:18:17.010 --> 00:18:20.250 But for some reason, I never believed what you said. 00:18:20.490 --> 00:18:22.970 You just could never sink your claws into me. 00:18:22.990 --> 00:18:26.430 I think the idea that one of my motivations... 00:18:26.450 --> 00:18:29.690 I think of a true challenge. 00:18:31.370 --> 00:18:35.510 I think a motivation of a true challenge. 00:18:35.570 --> 00:18:37.910 Oh, God, that's great. 00:18:37.930 --> 00:18:40.170 I think she almost wants to be threatened. 00:18:40.690 --> 00:18:44.870 It's not that she's interested. 00:18:45.450 --> 00:18:49.490 She doesn't believe that she'll lose her power, but she wants to believe that she could. 00:18:49.510 --> 00:18:50.510 Oh, my God. 00:18:50.530 --> 00:18:55.230 It's a fucking power fantasy, but a lack of power fantasy? 00:18:55.490 --> 00:19:03.890 It's Marie Antoinette playing as a peasant in her second home in the years leading up to the French Revolution. 00:19:04.430 --> 00:19:05.290 Oh, my God. 00:19:06.190 --> 00:19:15.330 I'm thinking about this and I'm like, so you could never convince me, which means like maybe we had sort of like a rapport at some point. 00:19:15.510 --> 00:19:18.130 I'm sort of thinking like, was I in? 00:19:19.010 --> 00:19:19.990 Was I in X? 00:19:20.150 --> 00:19:21.850 Am I in X Royal? 00:19:22.050 --> 00:19:26.010 Like, did I leave because you corrupted whatever I was in? 00:19:26.030 --> 00:19:27.970 You were the new up and comer. 00:19:28.050 --> 00:19:29.730 And I was like, I was settled. 00:19:30.010 --> 00:19:31.430 And maybe. 00:19:31.730 --> 00:19:35.790 And you came in and everyone was just like, oh, wow, this person has such great ideas. 00:19:36.050 --> 00:19:40.310 And I was like, wait, are we not gonna like consider maybe they're not great ideas? 00:19:40.330 --> 00:19:42.230 And everyone was like, of course, they're great ideas. 00:19:42.250 --> 00:19:43.010 What are you talking about? 00:19:43.030 --> 00:19:44.470 Listen to what she's saying. 00:19:44.470 --> 00:19:46.270 Like, how can you question that? 00:19:46.290 --> 00:19:48.630 Yeah, yeah, I like that idea a lot. 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:50.190 What if you took my position? 00:19:50.710 --> 00:19:51.570 You pushed me out. 00:19:51.950 --> 00:19:59.510 I don't know that she would like, the interesting thing here to me is the potential of like, she didn't want to push you out. 00:19:59.670 --> 00:20:01.030 She wanted to be at your level. 00:20:01.210 --> 00:20:09.850 She wanted you to be her rival in the like, in the, you know, the manor and in the king's court or whatever. 00:20:10.110 --> 00:20:13.210 But you just went, okay, bye. 00:20:13.230 --> 00:20:20.730 Yeah, I think it's like, I think it's the same where it's like, I didn't expect you to be my rival. 00:20:21.050 --> 00:20:27.370 But it started being like the meetings where like, our ideas would always be opposed to each other somehow. 00:20:27.390 --> 00:20:33.270 Like, you would bring up an idea and it'd be like, well, I've actually been doing this thing for the past three months. 00:20:33.790 --> 00:20:35.510 And I thought I would bring it up. 00:20:35.590 --> 00:20:41.190 And they would just happen to be like opposed ideas, like they just would not work with each other. 00:20:41.210 --> 00:20:43.570 And like that would just keep happening. 00:20:43.610 --> 00:20:47.270 And like, who knows if it's coincidence, who knows if it's not coincidence. 00:20:47.370 --> 00:20:52.730 I think eventually, I think eventually it became not coincidence, even if it was originally. 00:20:53.030 --> 00:20:57.490 And I think at one point, I was just like, well, fine, I'm not making any leeway here. 00:20:57.510 --> 00:21:01.310 I will find an alternate way to get things done. 00:21:01.870 --> 00:21:05.610 I think I figured out my first flaw that is kind of related to this. 00:21:06.090 --> 00:21:07.210 Yeah, what is your flaw? 00:21:07.770 --> 00:21:09.430 I chronically overextend. 00:21:09.870 --> 00:21:11.790 I just go too far. 00:21:12.070 --> 00:21:16.290 Like, and not just the way of like, not in terms of extremism. 00:21:16.570 --> 00:21:19.510 I don't think this character has enough of an ideology for that. 00:21:19.910 --> 00:21:34.570 I think just she'll like go, it's the Emma thing of like, you know, going too far in the way that you want to manipulate someone or the way that you want to like try and be in control of a situation. 00:21:35.310 --> 00:21:36.450 Or in a duel, right? 00:21:36.470 --> 00:21:37.190 Like that sort of thing. 00:21:37.210 --> 00:21:38.210 Right, yes. 00:21:38.630 --> 00:21:46.950 I think one of my motivations is, I don't want to say revenge because I'm never interested in revenge stories. 00:21:48.370 --> 00:21:55.930 Except for revenge stories where my father dies, so I try to kill the person who killed my father because my father killed their father. 00:22:02.690 --> 00:22:04.110 It's all about dads. 00:22:04.150 --> 00:22:05.550 It's just dads all the way down. 00:22:05.570 --> 00:22:09.190 The John Green book, dads all the way down. 00:22:09.210 --> 00:22:18.030 I think one of my motivations, the thing is I'm so bad at government motivations. 00:22:18.030 --> 00:22:20.490 I don't think it has anything to do with government anymore. 00:22:20.510 --> 00:22:24.810 I don't think they care about government anymore. 00:22:25.390 --> 00:22:28.970 I think the motivation is finding a new home. 00:22:30.450 --> 00:22:31.150 I like that. 00:22:31.590 --> 00:22:35.190 I think about what else this character would care about. 00:22:36.630 --> 00:22:44.050 The other motivation for this character is being adored. 00:22:45.770 --> 00:22:49.150 This character wants two things, to be challenged and adored. 00:22:53.350 --> 00:22:57.430 So it sounds like this horny motivation of mine is going to help a lot. 00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:00.670 It's kind of perfect. 00:23:01.430 --> 00:23:10.210 I think the flaw here is, does not have compassion. 00:23:10.230 --> 00:23:12.830 Is that too harsh? 00:23:13.850 --> 00:23:15.530 Like a little bit. 00:23:15.570 --> 00:23:16.370 It's a little harsh. 00:23:16.390 --> 00:23:18.770 It does not have compassion towards something, maybe. 00:23:18.790 --> 00:23:22.570 I think it's like, yeah, I think it's just kind of a general... 00:23:22.930 --> 00:23:24.670 What's more interesting is that she's like... 00:23:24.690 --> 00:23:28.910 What if the flaw is never backs down or like always doubles down? 00:23:29.830 --> 00:23:31.730 That's kind of chronically overextends. 00:23:32.050 --> 00:23:38.270 I'm thinking about this in terms of like, does not think about other people unless she has to. 00:23:40.010 --> 00:23:42.730 I'm trying to think of what I want to focus this on. 00:23:44.570 --> 00:23:45.010 Yeah. 00:23:45.250 --> 00:23:48.710 Because this also is stuff that could come up during the duel, you know? 00:23:49.010 --> 00:23:49.750 Yes. 00:23:49.890 --> 00:23:52.310 It is actively going to come up during the duel. 00:23:52.310 --> 00:23:54.030 Actively going to come up during the duel. 00:23:54.150 --> 00:23:56.490 I think it's like, oh, it's... 00:23:57.250 --> 00:23:59.110 Oh, maybe something about collateral damage. 00:23:59.310 --> 00:24:01.590 People are best used for collateral damage. 00:24:02.090 --> 00:24:03.770 That's, I think, too harsh. 00:24:04.010 --> 00:24:07.210 I think it's more like, almost does not notice. 00:24:08.630 --> 00:24:13.090 Does not notice collateral damage. 00:24:13.090 --> 00:24:18.570 Has, I don't know if there's a better wording for this, but I feel, I guess, oblivious. 00:24:18.930 --> 00:24:20.090 Maybe single-minded. 00:24:20.270 --> 00:24:24.870 I think single-minded is right, which is singularly focused on one thing. 00:24:25.590 --> 00:24:29.030 It gets very invested in one thing. 00:24:29.270 --> 00:24:30.950 What are synonyms for focused? 00:24:31.530 --> 00:24:33.810 I mean, single-minded is what this thing is. 00:24:34.570 --> 00:24:37.470 Having or concentrating on only one aim or purpose. 00:24:43.010 --> 00:24:43.570 Conceited. 00:24:43.590 --> 00:24:44.830 Is that your flaw? 00:24:45.390 --> 00:24:47.290 No, I'm just looking. 00:24:47.310 --> 00:24:48.550 Are you describing me? 00:24:48.570 --> 00:24:51.530 Because that's all such, that's definitely true. 00:24:52.130 --> 00:24:58.010 Ooh, though I am going to take this other word, which is direct. 00:24:58.470 --> 00:24:59.410 That is my flaw. 00:24:59.750 --> 00:25:00.550 I'm direct. 00:25:01.650 --> 00:25:03.470 No, I don't want to make the same character as you. 00:25:05.990 --> 00:25:07.670 I think there's a difference. 00:25:07.770 --> 00:25:08.590 I'm blunt. 00:25:08.610 --> 00:25:09.330 Is it blunt? 00:25:09.550 --> 00:25:11.610 Actually, my flaw is compassionate. 00:25:11.990 --> 00:25:13.370 Ooh, that's fun. 00:25:13.750 --> 00:25:14.170 Yeah. 00:25:15.230 --> 00:25:19.110 Something that can be used against me during a duel, for example. 00:25:20.050 --> 00:25:22.010 I'm still not sure what I am. 00:25:22.570 --> 00:25:23.070 Maybe I... 00:25:25.450 --> 00:25:35.670 The thing about government stories or royal or anything like that is, my go-to is, what if we just burn the whole thing down? 00:25:36.170 --> 00:25:37.870 Yeah, I understand. 00:25:37.890 --> 00:25:39.050 I get it. 00:25:39.070 --> 00:25:39.890 Listen, I get it. 00:25:41.490 --> 00:25:57.570 Every time I watch anything to do with royalty or monarchy, or really government even, there's one part of my brain that's like, ooh, cool, and another part of my brain that goes, ah, I want to destroy the whole fucking thing. 00:25:57.590 --> 00:26:06.870 I don't want to go too deep into this question, but is the government of our Rock Atlantis hierarchical? 00:26:07.230 --> 00:26:09.350 Is it like, is it a monarchy? 00:26:09.470 --> 00:26:11.550 Is it a, does it have a leader? 00:26:11.570 --> 00:26:13.050 Does it have an elected leader? 00:26:13.430 --> 00:26:16.090 Does it have leaders, a council, a table? 00:26:16.230 --> 00:26:21.790 A thing that we could totally do here is like, completely separate ourselves from the governance. 00:26:22.170 --> 00:26:27.790 I can totally see this character being a noble, but not actually caring at all about the government. 00:26:28.610 --> 00:26:29.750 What if it was a book club? 00:26:31.650 --> 00:26:32.470 A book club. 00:26:36.030 --> 00:26:36.490 Huh. 00:26:37.230 --> 00:26:38.790 What if you stole my book club? 00:26:40.050 --> 00:26:41.010 Oh my god. 00:26:41.030 --> 00:26:41.510 Yeah. 00:26:41.690 --> 00:26:42.850 It should be so, yes. 00:26:43.270 --> 00:26:44.050 Absolutely. 00:26:44.250 --> 00:26:45.090 Gotta be petty. 00:26:45.210 --> 00:26:51.250 Like this is not, this is not our big, like, magnum opus about, like, oh, the government structures of monarchy. 00:26:51.450 --> 00:26:53.090 Nah, this is about a book club. 00:26:53.110 --> 00:26:54.110 This is about a book club. 00:26:54.850 --> 00:26:56.050 This is about, like... 00:26:56.690 --> 00:27:02.250 I was, like, planning to bring this book for three months because it, like, there was a big book we were reading. 00:27:02.270 --> 00:27:02.950 It took a long time. 00:27:02.970 --> 00:27:04.370 I was very excited to bring this book. 00:27:04.390 --> 00:27:06.410 And then you came in, you were like, well, what about this one? 00:27:06.430 --> 00:27:07.650 And everyone got really excited. 00:27:07.670 --> 00:27:09.150 And I was like, oh, okay, okay. 00:27:09.250 --> 00:27:10.130 Yeah, we can do that. 00:27:10.710 --> 00:27:13.410 And then you just kept coming with more suggestions. 00:27:13.970 --> 00:27:14.390 Yeah. 00:27:14.410 --> 00:27:16.510 And I knew you had this book to present. 00:27:16.530 --> 00:27:18.250 And I told you about it. 00:27:18.790 --> 00:27:23.070 What if you like stole my book idea even? 00:27:23.230 --> 00:27:26.670 Like I had a thing and I like shared it with you. 00:27:26.690 --> 00:27:27.570 I was like, oh, welcome. 00:27:27.590 --> 00:27:29.370 Like I brought you into the book club. 00:27:29.390 --> 00:27:32.810 And you were like, oh, that's great. 00:27:32.830 --> 00:27:33.610 And then I like shared. 00:27:33.630 --> 00:27:35.490 I was like, oh, yeah, I've been really currently. 00:27:35.510 --> 00:27:36.330 We're just reading this. 00:27:36.350 --> 00:27:37.330 It's going to take us a while. 00:27:37.350 --> 00:27:39.610 But like, I'm really excited to share this book. 00:27:40.210 --> 00:27:41.230 And you're like, oh, wow. 00:27:41.250 --> 00:27:45.310 And then like you just fucking steal it from me and presented us your own idea. 00:27:46.270 --> 00:27:51.930 I feel like this character is would just be like, well, I have to find the perfect book to counter this. 00:27:52.310 --> 00:27:55.170 This, but people are going to like the pitch more. 00:27:55.190 --> 00:27:56.230 Oh, God. 00:27:56.250 --> 00:28:01.390 Like would not do the exact book, but would be like, oh, yeah, that sounds interesting. 00:28:01.410 --> 00:28:04.690 This one has like that, but it's vampires. 00:28:05.370 --> 00:28:09.330 This one has like one more star on the rating system. 00:28:09.350 --> 00:28:09.650 Yes. 00:28:09.870 --> 00:28:10.650 It has one more rock. 00:28:11.610 --> 00:28:12.970 We rate things in rocks. 00:28:13.790 --> 00:28:16.770 God, the idea that this is what a book club is so funny to me. 00:28:17.070 --> 00:28:19.870 Yes, book club Rock Atlantis. 00:28:20.710 --> 00:28:21.910 Oh, it's so perfect. 00:28:22.350 --> 00:28:26.630 So mine is an Atlantean noble who pushed your character out of a book club. 00:28:28.090 --> 00:28:33.490 Mine is once the leader of a book club. 00:28:35.150 --> 00:28:36.710 Now, question mark? 00:28:37.390 --> 00:28:37.810 I don't know. 00:28:38.110 --> 00:28:39.890 I don't know if I stayed at the book club. 00:28:39.910 --> 00:28:41.350 I guess I have to have. 00:28:41.370 --> 00:28:42.710 No, you don't. 00:28:42.990 --> 00:28:48.490 Who says this could have started because of a book club, but it's not still about a book club. 00:28:50.110 --> 00:28:57.950 Like, this could be a constantly increasing, like a constantly evolving series of clubs. 00:28:58.490 --> 00:29:03.390 And anytime you join a club, I just come and join and try to show you up. 00:29:03.710 --> 00:29:11.910 The thing is, like, it's not that I join clubs, it's that I keep making clubs and then, like, I'm too polite to say no to you. 00:29:11.930 --> 00:29:14.810 So yeah, there's no way that we can actually... 00:29:14.830 --> 00:29:15.590 Oh, that's my flaw. 00:29:15.590 --> 00:29:18.790 I'm overly polite, overly polite. 00:29:19.050 --> 00:29:20.110 Can't say no. 00:29:20.790 --> 00:29:22.190 God, I love it. 00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:53.150 Once the leader of a book club keeps making new clubs, keeps making new clubs, and it's like I had a book club, I have film club, like, I even made an anime club, and like your character probably didn't know anything about anime, but like found the like one popular anime, also rock anime, and I love that everything is like, yeah, these are the books that Rock Atlantis reads. 00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:56.130 This is the movies that Rock Atlantis watches. 00:29:56.710 --> 00:29:57.970 Damn, these movies rock. 00:29:58.490 --> 00:29:59.670 These movies rock. 00:30:00.090 --> 00:30:04.290 The thing that I can think of here is that like, I have vast resources. 00:30:04.710 --> 00:30:11.510 That is one of my, I guess it's not a benefit, but like my motivation, but I like, I think about this. 00:30:11.530 --> 00:30:12.730 You're motivated to spend. 00:30:13.350 --> 00:30:15.270 Yeah, I don't know. 00:30:15.370 --> 00:30:24.830 Investment, you're a venture capitalist, and you want to invest in all the clubs that I'm running, which is, oh, I just want to invest in all the, you have such great ideas. 00:30:24.850 --> 00:30:31.050 I just want to make sure that they get lifted off the ground, you know, really taken to their, what they really could be. 00:30:31.070 --> 00:30:38.990 I think like the motivation, one of the motivations here is kind of, one of the motivations, yes, okay. 00:30:39.350 --> 00:30:40.670 Here's the third motivation. 00:30:40.810 --> 00:30:48.990 And I think we can, maybe we should cap it three each, but my third motivation is knowing everything, the best. 00:30:49.930 --> 00:30:53.310 God, I think I'm going to take the motivation. 00:30:54.210 --> 00:30:55.490 Media connoisseur? 00:30:55.510 --> 00:30:57.510 Yeah, media connoisseur. 00:30:57.530 --> 00:30:59.090 I don't know how to spell connoisseur. 00:30:59.510 --> 00:31:01.370 Connoisseur, thank you Google. 00:31:02.870 --> 00:31:04.630 I don't understand either, thank you phone. 00:31:05.510 --> 00:31:07.310 What is my other flaw? 00:31:07.950 --> 00:31:09.970 So you follow me club to club. 00:31:10.730 --> 00:31:15.670 What if your biggest flaw is like your... 00:31:15.690 --> 00:31:16.890 Lack of secure identity. 00:31:17.610 --> 00:31:20.030 I was going to be like lack of being subtle. 00:31:21.470 --> 00:31:24.130 Yeah, you're right. 00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:30.170 Like after the fourth club, it's like, okay, but maybe you're not hiding this, right? 00:31:30.190 --> 00:31:33.270 Like maybe we're friends, but like we're rivals. 00:31:34.130 --> 00:31:36.310 My question then becomes, is that a flaw? 00:31:37.470 --> 00:31:39.870 No, well, yes and no. 00:31:40.410 --> 00:31:44.410 Like technically, mechanically, a flaw is just something I will use against you in a duel. 00:31:44.890 --> 00:31:53.130 How about, let's go with, I'm more interested in the like, the fact that I don't have a personality outside of like trying to... 00:31:53.710 --> 00:31:57.730 You can only find a personality in the media that you consume. 00:31:58.270 --> 00:32:06.170 You become like hyper fixated on the characters in whatever we are watching, reading. 00:32:07.210 --> 00:32:09.030 I don't even think that's the case though. 00:32:09.090 --> 00:32:16.290 I think it's like, her personality is tied to you in a really significant way. 00:32:16.310 --> 00:32:18.090 And like a really un- 00:32:18.390 --> 00:32:20.130 like, unhealthy way. 00:32:20.150 --> 00:32:21.290 Unhealthy, thank you. 00:32:22.290 --> 00:32:31.930 Yeah, I think like lack of secure identity is probably the way to frame this. 00:32:32.410 --> 00:32:33.090 What is my... 00:32:33.110 --> 00:32:37.190 Okay, so my flaws right now are horny, compassionate and overly polite. 00:32:37.730 --> 00:32:40.570 And my motivations are horny, media connoisseur. 00:32:42.690 --> 00:32:43.890 And I need one more. 00:32:43.910 --> 00:32:45.990 I think my motivation is independence. 00:32:46.930 --> 00:32:47.270 Day. 00:32:47.450 --> 00:32:47.850 Nice. 00:32:48.010 --> 00:32:49.750 I want to make sure that the aliens come. 00:32:53.750 --> 00:32:55.110 Nice. 00:32:55.710 --> 00:32:58.890 And alright, I'm gonna look at names. 00:32:59.850 --> 00:33:01.390 Yeah, okay, I've got it. 00:33:02.590 --> 00:33:05.030 Oh, yeah, I know what my name is. 00:33:06.010 --> 00:33:06.590 What's your name? 00:33:07.910 --> 00:33:10.290 My name is, of course, Paul the test pinnacle. 00:33:11.050 --> 00:33:11.850 That's great. 00:33:12.510 --> 00:33:13.790 You want to know what my name is? 00:33:15.290 --> 00:33:16.130 It's just coal. 00:33:23.370 --> 00:33:25.430 Oh, no last name. 00:33:26.210 --> 00:33:27.150 No, I'm just coal. 00:33:28.030 --> 00:33:28.410 Nice. 00:33:29.110 --> 00:33:30.450 I think I've made out of coal. 00:33:30.910 --> 00:33:31.670 Love it. 00:33:34.970 --> 00:33:37.150 I'm definitely like, like I would. 00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:39.930 It's at least some sort of volcanic rock. 00:33:39.950 --> 00:33:42.610 I think it's like we are all made from volcano. 00:33:42.630 --> 00:33:48.970 Like my main thought here would have been marble, but we're all made of whatever rock we want. 00:33:49.170 --> 00:33:50.030 Like, who knows? 00:33:50.370 --> 00:33:51.370 We are an advanced. 00:33:52.910 --> 00:33:54.330 What's ryo light? 00:33:55.390 --> 00:33:56.650 So might be ryo light. 00:33:56.670 --> 00:33:58.370 That might be the thing that I'm thinking here. 00:34:01.870 --> 00:34:06.890 It's a cool, like lighter ryo light. 00:34:07.690 --> 00:34:09.410 Cole uses they them pronouns. 00:34:10.790 --> 00:34:11.770 I'm she her. 00:34:12.390 --> 00:34:13.610 Politesis, she her. 00:34:13.970 --> 00:34:14.970 Politesis. 00:34:15.270 --> 00:34:17.570 You might as well just name your character politics. 00:34:18.670 --> 00:34:20.970 Actually, politesis means formal politeness. 00:34:24.050 --> 00:34:28.230 My name basically means the pinnacle of politeness. 00:34:31.510 --> 00:34:33.450 You want to know what my name means, Brianna? 00:34:33.470 --> 00:34:35.590 Yeah. 00:34:35.730 --> 00:34:36.290 What's it mean? 00:34:36.310 --> 00:34:38.370 It means I'm a fucking rock. 00:34:40.610 --> 00:34:41.150 All right. 00:34:41.390 --> 00:34:43.070 I think we know who our doulas are. 00:34:43.110 --> 00:34:46.150 We know where they are. 00:34:46.250 --> 00:34:46.670 I guess. 00:34:47.130 --> 00:34:49.690 Where do we see them and the time scale? 00:34:50.930 --> 00:34:52.570 Is it the various clubs? 00:34:52.770 --> 00:34:57.610 Is that the playing field that we're going to be looking at? 00:34:57.630 --> 00:35:10.690 Imagine a university, but if a university was a palace, in terms of there are a bunch of rooms in which the different clubs are in. 00:35:10.830 --> 00:35:13.010 Everything is just taking place in... 00:35:13.030 --> 00:35:15.910 I don't want to just limit us to the rooms. 00:35:16.270 --> 00:35:22.750 I think this is like this wing of the palace with rooms that you can book for various clubs. 00:35:22.770 --> 00:35:24.210 From students? 00:35:25.490 --> 00:35:26.050 We could be. 00:35:27.450 --> 00:35:28.670 We totally could be. 00:35:29.210 --> 00:35:32.950 Maybe some sort of private tutorship university. 00:35:33.450 --> 00:35:34.670 It could be a high school. 00:35:35.070 --> 00:35:35.750 God. 00:35:36.250 --> 00:35:37.610 It's a boarding school. 00:35:38.130 --> 00:35:39.550 It could be a boarding school. 00:35:39.610 --> 00:35:41.130 I don't know that I want to play a teenager. 00:35:41.870 --> 00:35:42.850 Rock teenager? 00:35:43.010 --> 00:35:44.650 Different than a human teenager. 00:35:44.970 --> 00:35:47.330 Who knows what the education system is, right? 00:35:47.350 --> 00:35:48.570 You take it at your own pace. 00:35:49.410 --> 00:35:51.190 This education system rocks. 00:35:51.310 --> 00:35:54.710 That's not going to be the last time I make that joke, nor is it even the first time. 00:35:55.090 --> 00:35:58.970 I can totally imagine this being a university with the energy of a high school. 00:35:59.410 --> 00:36:03.630 Thinking about what an education system could be like, right? 00:36:03.650 --> 00:36:10.970 What if it's just an open resource center, but clubs are still a thing? 00:36:11.530 --> 00:36:15.650 Schools and universities have clubs, but it's sort of like an opener. 00:36:15.670 --> 00:36:17.110 I was going to say opener. 00:36:17.130 --> 00:36:18.110 It's more open. 00:36:18.490 --> 00:36:30.390 The thing that I think about here is because this is almost certainly a school for nobles and is focused on those sorts of people, they have a lot more resources than a regular university. 00:36:30.410 --> 00:36:35.210 So of course they have extra rooms. 00:36:35.530 --> 00:36:40.470 So it is like the private version of the open to the public. 00:36:40.850 --> 00:36:47.850 Like, it takes that concept and then it goes, yes, but what if we made the elite version of this? 00:36:48.850 --> 00:36:51.170 AKA universities for most of history. 00:36:51.550 --> 00:36:51.910 Yes. 00:36:52.650 --> 00:36:53.350 So we're making... 00:36:53.370 --> 00:36:54.010 This is, yeah. 00:36:54.190 --> 00:36:56.610 What if we're making post-university? 00:36:56.670 --> 00:36:57.810 Not post-secondary. 00:36:57.830 --> 00:36:59.510 We're making post-university. 00:37:00.010 --> 00:37:05.630 You just sort of like hang out and get knowledge or like go to clubs, like... 00:37:05.950 --> 00:37:07.570 There is something very Greek about this. 00:37:07.930 --> 00:37:13.590 This is like, it feels like this is the kind of like environment of kind of... 00:37:13.610 --> 00:37:17.250 You just go and lounge and read and learn. 00:37:17.350 --> 00:37:21.670 Yeah, and you're like, it's like philosopher's school. 00:37:21.690 --> 00:37:22.770 Yes, exactly. 00:37:23.210 --> 00:37:25.050 Like, that is the vibe here for sure. 00:37:25.350 --> 00:37:31.850 It's a post-university philosopher's school, with a wing that you can just book rooms for clubs. 00:37:32.090 --> 00:37:34.170 Because why else are we consuming media? 00:37:34.190 --> 00:37:39.270 Why else do I keep making these clubs for like different ways to learn things? 00:37:39.290 --> 00:37:45.830 Because, you know, what better way is there than to philosophize these different things, right? 00:37:45.850 --> 00:37:46.970 We talk about these books. 00:37:46.990 --> 00:37:48.270 Are these all media clubs? 00:37:48.870 --> 00:37:55.550 I mean, I think like if my character is creating them, yes, it is like it is there's a book club. 00:37:55.570 --> 00:37:58.010 Maybe there's like five book clubs at this point, right? 00:37:58.030 --> 00:38:00.790 But one of them is like Gothic literature book club. 00:38:00.790 --> 00:38:06.970 One of them is like whatever the equivalent to queer theory, but for rocks is a book club. 00:38:07.850 --> 00:38:08.950 Rocks can be queer. 00:38:09.390 --> 00:38:10.170 Exactly. 00:38:10.190 --> 00:38:11.370 This is my gay rock. 00:38:11.390 --> 00:38:12.790 Rocks can be fucking gay, dude. 00:38:14.050 --> 00:38:19.030 My rock does not subscribe to the idea of a binary gender system. 00:38:19.670 --> 00:38:31.750 I want us to say it doesn't have to exclusively be media clubs because I can totally imagine a way this game goes being like, it's all about media until it is about fencing. 00:38:31.770 --> 00:38:37.130 I was literally going to be like, well, maybe just like one week I'm running a fencing club, right? 00:38:37.150 --> 00:38:39.870 Like, maybe the clubs don't even last that long, right? 00:38:39.890 --> 00:38:40.470 They're just like... 00:38:40.490 --> 00:38:51.170 Yeah, no, like I totally, I totally envision this as like, these are like, oh yeah, we come to this club and we get maybe a couple of meetings in before it falls apart because of me. 00:38:52.690 --> 00:39:06.210 Going back to like, I guess Touchstones, like a lot of my Touchstones are maybe a little too anime, but like Auron High School Host Club was like something from like long ago that they had a bunch of different clubs. 00:39:06.210 --> 00:39:24.030 Literally, they just had a, like, they were a host club, but they did like different club things and they tried out different club things, if I'm remembering it right, but also that's basically what we're doing, except better with rocks and we're going from club to club. 00:39:24.510 --> 00:39:26.910 So it's basically Auron, what was it? 00:39:26.930 --> 00:39:28.650 Auron High School Host Club. 00:39:29.390 --> 00:39:34.590 Auron High School Host Club crossed with Emma in Atlantis with rock people. 00:39:34.850 --> 00:39:35.730 Yes, this is great. 00:39:35.750 --> 00:39:39.210 This is a good piece of media right here. 00:39:39.230 --> 00:39:41.330 Yeah, so I think that's the stage. 00:39:41.490 --> 00:39:48.910 It's like this palace, this castle, that these different like philosophy adjacent. 00:39:48.950 --> 00:39:50.530 It's not even philosophy. 00:39:50.550 --> 00:39:54.850 It's just like whatever you can philosophize, which is just to say everything. 00:39:56.490 --> 00:39:57.250 Type of club. 00:39:57.250 --> 00:40:03.270 It's like, how do you justify making like a throwing paint at a wall club? 00:40:03.390 --> 00:40:12.090 Well, we want to see, you know, the effects of the psyche, looking at different shades on different textures of walls and, you know, bullshit like that. 00:40:13.590 --> 00:40:14.710 What is the time scale? 00:40:14.730 --> 00:40:19.550 We're rocks, so like it could be centuries, but I don't think it is. 00:40:20.250 --> 00:40:27.310 No, I think of this time scale as very much being like, time's probably weird here, but maybe months, right? 00:40:27.330 --> 00:40:28.190 Maybe a few months. 00:40:28.210 --> 00:40:29.610 Yeah, yeah, probably. 00:40:29.630 --> 00:40:30.970 That feels right. 00:40:31.490 --> 00:40:39.370 I think there aren't really seasons here in the same way there are above the water, but if there were seasons, it would be the summer option. 00:40:40.010 --> 00:40:41.710 Depending how far down we are, right? 00:40:41.730 --> 00:40:44.810 Because technically, oh shit, are we bioluminescent? 00:40:44.830 --> 00:40:50.370 This is incredibly unimportant, but are we super deep down, right? 00:40:50.390 --> 00:40:59.410 Because at some point, sunlight no longer reaches a certain level of the ocean, but a lot of species become bioluminescent. 00:41:00.010 --> 00:41:01.470 I think of, I don't know. 00:41:02.630 --> 00:41:05.250 What if just moss grows on us and it glows? 00:41:05.270 --> 00:41:10.250 Yeah, I think there's some people who are bioluminescent, and I don't know that everyone is. 00:41:10.610 --> 00:41:12.810 You can get the moss installed if you want. 00:41:13.570 --> 00:41:15.090 How does a rock get a tattoo? 00:41:15.190 --> 00:41:19.010 Well, you get moss on you instead, and it looks like a cool dragon. 00:41:19.070 --> 00:41:19.870 What's a dragon? 00:41:19.890 --> 00:41:20.650 I don't know. 00:41:20.750 --> 00:41:23.050 It's just a cool, weird land creature. 00:41:23.070 --> 00:41:27.490 Yeah, I don't know that my character would want moss on her, but... 00:41:27.530 --> 00:41:29.950 Cole absolutely has moss tattoos. 00:41:31.150 --> 00:41:31.510 Nice. 00:41:31.730 --> 00:41:33.570 They really like their moss tattoos. 00:41:34.210 --> 00:41:34.770 I like that. 00:41:35.110 --> 00:41:36.090 They have a flower. 00:41:36.130 --> 00:41:37.550 They don't know what a flower is. 00:41:37.570 --> 00:41:40.110 They read about what a flower was one time. 00:41:40.890 --> 00:41:43.510 Yeah, I think that there is a little bit of light. 00:41:43.710 --> 00:41:48.030 I think most light comes from within this kind of society. 00:41:48.050 --> 00:41:51.130 There's a lot of bioluminescent stuff and a lot of just like... 00:41:51.450 --> 00:41:56.770 Yeah, I mean, we probably use it for whatever the Frick street lamps or whatever our lights are. 00:41:56.990 --> 00:42:00.990 Basically bioluminescent powered, which is a fun little touch. 00:42:01.330 --> 00:42:03.670 Now we pick one special each. 00:42:04.250 --> 00:42:07.510 Can we maybe quickly go over how the game itself is played? 00:42:07.930 --> 00:42:11.930 I just want to basically lay out what a duel is. 00:42:12.430 --> 00:42:18.330 So with duels, it says, Your goal is to make your opponent forfeit the duel or make them pay a high price for their victory. 00:42:18.610 --> 00:42:21.290 Players draw up to their maximum hand size. 00:42:21.310 --> 00:42:22.930 At the start of the game, this is five cards. 00:42:23.190 --> 00:42:24.190 Keep your hands secret. 00:42:24.210 --> 00:42:25.750 Dueling is about bluffing and strategy. 00:42:26.130 --> 00:42:31.230 Once each player has their hand, draw a card to determine the stakes and spoils for the duel. 00:42:31.790 --> 00:42:35.910 I admit, I've skimmed the kind of actual play mechanics. 00:42:36.250 --> 00:42:38.230 I read it and I had questions. 00:42:38.250 --> 00:42:40.850 I was like, does this seem like it makes sense? 00:42:41.010 --> 00:42:46.590 But I feel like to see if it does make sense, we'll have to play a little bit of it first. 00:42:47.070 --> 00:42:58.210 So over a period of time, we're going to go through a series of duels and then downtime and back to duels and switching between those two. 00:42:58.690 --> 00:43:02.050 Each duel has its own stakes. 00:43:02.890 --> 00:43:08.230 At the beginning of a duel, I believe we have a stakes card. 00:43:08.350 --> 00:43:16.710 For example, some stakes might be status or renown amongst peers or claim to valuable territory or turf. 00:43:17.290 --> 00:43:20.550 The stakes sort of describe how the story is going to go. 00:43:20.790 --> 00:43:23.030 Narratively, it gives us a direction. 00:43:23.470 --> 00:43:28.650 But then there's spoils, which is a mechanical thing we gain from a duel. 00:43:29.650 --> 00:43:31.470 There are two types of tracks. 00:43:31.490 --> 00:43:35.510 There's a victory track and a reconciliation track. 00:43:35.630 --> 00:43:48.930 Once we go through the six duels, each duel might put a point in reconciliation or one of our individual victory tracks, or we might gain a new special. 00:43:49.010 --> 00:43:51.750 And specials are abilities that we have. 00:43:51.990 --> 00:43:59.070 We can use our specials against each other as we duel, and specials in turn can become spent. 00:43:59.410 --> 00:44:03.390 Right now, we each start off with one special. 00:44:03.590 --> 00:44:05.670 There's also reprisals. 00:44:05.690 --> 00:44:15.290 Reprisals happen as a result of the outcome of duels, either during play or at the end of a duel. 00:44:15.510 --> 00:44:26.230 Reprisals can do anything from permanently remove one of your rival's specials or permanently reduce your rival's maximum hand size by one. 00:44:27.870 --> 00:44:29.950 Do we just draw between duels? 00:44:29.970 --> 00:44:31.630 Do we draw back up to five? 00:44:32.110 --> 00:44:36.770 Yeah, the structure is every duel you draw up to your current maximum hand size. 00:44:36.910 --> 00:44:38.990 I need to choose a special. 00:44:39.630 --> 00:44:40.970 So which one are you taking? 00:44:41.770 --> 00:44:43.030 I'm taking Always Prepared. 00:44:43.830 --> 00:44:45.690 Start the next duel with one extra card. 00:44:45.750 --> 00:44:49.370 After drawing, you may discard up to three cards and draw three replacements. 00:44:49.610 --> 00:44:57.870 I was thinking about which one you would take the other day, and I was like, all according to plan feels very much like a move you would take. 00:44:58.250 --> 00:44:59.770 That is the move I would take. 00:44:59.790 --> 00:45:08.570 The one that Paula Tess takes is basically just trying to like start out with such good odds that you don't have to like think strategically. 00:45:09.410 --> 00:45:25.190 Just to read out, all according to plan, the one that I said I thought Brianna would take is when you win a duel and explain how you set up a plan to turn your rivals' motivations against them, play a face card from your hand to replace the suit of the duel's spoils. 00:45:25.370 --> 00:45:28.090 You basically control what the spoils of the duel are. 00:45:28.330 --> 00:45:32.130 And the most important thing about that is of course the monologue. 00:45:32.570 --> 00:45:34.690 Yes, you do have to monologue. 00:45:34.710 --> 00:45:35.610 That is important. 00:45:36.410 --> 00:45:39.030 I'm gonna take all of according to plan, I think. 00:45:39.330 --> 00:45:40.010 Hell yeah. 00:45:40.650 --> 00:45:43.310 So now we move on to playing, I believe. 00:45:43.890 --> 00:45:49.230 Now that you have the stage of your conflict and your duel is defined, it's time to start playing. 00:45:49.650 --> 00:45:56.810 Play starts with your first duel, then follows the timeline on the conflict sheet, which I guess we will just be going through. 00:45:57.250 --> 00:46:03.190 Use details you have established in the conflict sheet and duelist sheets to set the scene for your first duel. 00:46:03.710 --> 00:46:06.050 Then it is time to engage your opponent. 00:46:06.370 --> 00:46:07.790 We start with duels. 00:46:08.270 --> 00:46:13.350 Your goal is to make your opponent forfeit the duel, or make them pay a high price for their victory. 00:46:13.790 --> 00:46:16.390 Players draw up to their maximum hand size. 00:46:16.410 --> 00:46:19.310 At the beginning of the start of the game, this is five cards. 00:46:19.630 --> 00:46:20.970 Keep your hands secret. 00:46:20.970 --> 00:46:22.890 Dueling is about bluffing and strategy. 00:46:23.170 --> 00:46:28.150 Once each player has their hand, draw a card to determine the stakes and spoils. 00:46:28.570 --> 00:46:31.870 So, let's draw some cards into our hands. 00:46:32.410 --> 00:46:39.530 If I'm reading mine correctly, my special, do I start this round with six instead of five? 00:46:39.970 --> 00:46:41.850 I think if you started with it, then yes. 00:46:42.270 --> 00:46:43.590 Yeah, you start with six. 00:46:43.970 --> 00:46:46.470 Alright, let's put one card here. 00:46:46.850 --> 00:46:48.950 So, we start with diamonds. 00:46:49.050 --> 00:46:53.190 So, the stakes of the first duel are nine, sorry. 00:46:53.490 --> 00:46:57.990 VIP status at a social event or diplomatic negotiation. 00:46:58.350 --> 00:47:00.290 It's obviously a social event. 00:47:01.210 --> 00:47:06.410 Is it like a party for all the club leaders? 00:47:06.970 --> 00:47:09.770 Yes, absolutely. 00:47:10.350 --> 00:47:13.650 And it's like who gets to be in charge of organizing the party? 00:47:13.670 --> 00:47:21.510 So, this is a committee meeting for organizing the party of club leaders. 00:47:21.630 --> 00:47:23.570 Or even not just a committee meeting. 00:47:23.630 --> 00:47:36.310 It's like what we are doing to gain, I guess, votes to support us as party planner for this club party, I guess. 00:47:36.650 --> 00:47:37.990 This could be about credit. 00:47:38.710 --> 00:47:44.370 We could all be at the meeting together, but this is about who people will say put it together. 00:47:44.390 --> 00:47:47.110 Oh, I see, I see. 00:47:47.130 --> 00:47:49.250 Technically, we're all organizers. 00:47:49.450 --> 00:47:54.350 This is like the leaders of the clubs coming together to put on an event for all of the clubs. 00:47:54.470 --> 00:48:01.330 And you're the leader of various clubs now that I have now left behind, and I am the leader of whatever my newest club is. 00:48:01.830 --> 00:48:05.930 So we're both on this leaders of the clubs committee. 00:48:06.110 --> 00:48:14.290 And then the spoil, because it's diamonds, is either a point to victory or a point to reconciliation. 00:48:14.790 --> 00:48:15.490 Cool. 00:48:15.990 --> 00:48:18.350 Players each flip a card from the deck. 00:48:18.410 --> 00:48:21.330 The player with the highest card chooses who attacks first. 00:48:21.570 --> 00:48:25.450 If it's a tie, draw again until one player has a higher card. 00:48:25.470 --> 00:48:26.250 All right. 00:48:27.130 --> 00:48:27.410 And? 00:48:27.430 --> 00:48:32.050 Ah, so you get to choose who goes first. 00:48:32.350 --> 00:48:36.210 This character is definitely one who attacks first. 00:48:37.150 --> 00:48:40.310 You don't hesitate. 00:48:40.690 --> 00:48:44.130 Is there a specific way in which I describe my attack? 00:48:44.910 --> 00:48:46.350 I just say my attack. 00:48:46.730 --> 00:48:47.150 Yeah. 00:48:47.350 --> 00:48:52.070 As a defender, I get a choice in how I am defending against your attack. 00:48:52.270 --> 00:48:56.010 But you, as the attacker, are just attacking me. 00:48:56.550 --> 00:49:04.470 The attacker plays a card face down and describes their attack, what they say, how they strike, what they are aiming for. 00:49:04.710 --> 00:49:05.690 How are you attacking me? 00:49:05.690 --> 00:49:08.870 Are we in the committee room? 00:49:09.050 --> 00:49:10.530 Is it just like a lounge room? 00:49:10.550 --> 00:49:13.430 Like it's just one of these rooms in this castle? 00:49:13.730 --> 00:49:14.650 Absolutely. 00:49:14.670 --> 00:49:15.890 It's one of the rooms in this castle. 00:49:15.910 --> 00:49:21.250 Very high ceilings, very like, you know, very pretty chairs. 00:49:21.590 --> 00:49:23.030 What's the color like Brianna? 00:49:23.510 --> 00:49:24.750 So it's obviously stone. 00:49:25.150 --> 00:49:31.650 I think it's like the kind of dark volcanic stone, but with like kind of gold accents. 00:49:33.390 --> 00:49:40.990 And we still have like the the nice like soft greens and blues of like bioluminescent like lamps, I guess. 00:49:41.550 --> 00:49:46.510 Yes, there's an alternative version of this where it's just Emma, but the walls are glowing. 00:49:46.550 --> 00:49:48.130 I really need to watch this movie. 00:49:48.150 --> 00:49:50.950 Apparently we're just recreating Emma underwater. 00:49:50.970 --> 00:49:53.170 The sequel to Emma, Emma Underwater. 00:49:53.190 --> 00:49:54.490 I like this. 00:49:54.530 --> 00:49:55.830 I liked this movie so much. 00:49:55.890 --> 00:49:56.810 This is the problem. 00:49:57.010 --> 00:50:00.970 Imagine this this image, but the walls are just glowing. 00:50:00.990 --> 00:50:03.150 Oh, that's so good. 00:50:03.170 --> 00:50:04.670 What did you Google to find that? 00:50:04.690 --> 00:50:11.150 I Googled Emma 2020 set design, and it's habitually chic. 00:50:11.410 --> 00:50:14.790 A look at the Emma film location, Feral Place. 00:50:15.230 --> 00:50:20.530 It's basically any of the images in Emma where you see the light blue walls with the white trim. 00:50:20.550 --> 00:50:26.470 There's like a grandfather clock in this image, but this is kind of the vibe that I've actually decided to go for. 00:50:26.510 --> 00:50:30.970 But instead of a blue and a white, it's like a dark black and a gold. 00:50:31.270 --> 00:50:35.370 It could be, but I'm almost more interested now in the bioluminescent walls. 00:50:36.210 --> 00:50:37.530 Oh, I see what you mean. 00:50:37.550 --> 00:50:40.470 Instead of just blue, it's like glowing blue walls. 00:50:40.490 --> 00:50:41.430 Oh, I love that. 00:50:41.450 --> 00:50:42.150 That's great. 00:50:42.250 --> 00:50:47.990 And I think we are like assembled in kind of like a circular formation, right? 00:50:48.010 --> 00:50:50.430 It's a circle around in the room. 00:50:51.330 --> 00:50:51.930 Uh-huh. 00:50:52.370 --> 00:51:00.770 Paulites says, well, I am so excited that we are doing this. 00:51:00.790 --> 00:51:04.870 I can't wait to host this party. 00:51:06.390 --> 00:51:14.570 I think it's going to be a really good time, a great time for us to all get to know each other really well, to recruit new members to the club. 00:51:15.310 --> 00:51:23.590 And of course, my father's parlor room, of course, will be the perfect location to host an event like this. 00:51:24.610 --> 00:51:27.630 So of course, I will be hosting it. 00:51:28.610 --> 00:51:30.010 That's the way that I'm attacking. 00:51:30.610 --> 00:51:32.770 You're just assuming you're already hosting it. 00:51:32.790 --> 00:51:33.230 Got it. 00:51:33.290 --> 00:51:33.650 Yes. 00:51:35.110 --> 00:51:35.550 Great. 00:51:35.550 --> 00:51:38.930 So as a defender, I can choose one of the following. 00:51:38.970 --> 00:51:42.470 I can choose to block, endure or concede. 00:51:42.870 --> 00:51:51.130 And so if I choose to block, I would play a card from my hand face down and describe how I block, evade or nullify the attack. 00:51:51.410 --> 00:51:53.590 After that, we would both flip our cards. 00:51:53.830 --> 00:51:55.350 The highest value would win. 00:51:55.770 --> 00:51:57.890 And the defender wins the tie. 00:51:57.910 --> 00:51:59.370 Aces count as one. 00:51:59.390 --> 00:52:00.390 That's very important. 00:52:00.690 --> 00:52:01.530 Aces are low. 00:52:02.310 --> 00:52:04.150 Unless modified by a special. 00:52:04.170 --> 00:52:07.830 There's an ability that neither of us have that changes that. 00:52:08.050 --> 00:52:16.890 If the attacker wins, which would be you right now, they would eliminate one of my reprisals from my sheet based on the suit of the card that you played. 00:52:16.910 --> 00:52:22.050 And if I win, if the defender wins, then my reprisal is not eliminated. 00:52:22.190 --> 00:52:26.410 And we would basically just move on to me attacking you. 00:52:26.830 --> 00:52:29.770 If I choose to endure, I would not play a card. 00:52:29.910 --> 00:52:37.170 And instead, I would describe how I weather the storm of the attack and accept to have one of my reprisals eliminated. 00:52:37.570 --> 00:52:39.190 Or my third option is to concede. 00:52:39.410 --> 00:52:42.470 The defender yields to the attacker, forfeiting the duel. 00:52:42.750 --> 00:52:48.290 And the attacker wins the stakes and spoils, but may suffer a reprisal from the defender. 00:52:48.630 --> 00:52:53.170 So mechanically what that looks like is you would resolve the stakes and spoils. 00:52:53.970 --> 00:53:00.290 I would, out of my remaining cards from my hand, you would select one of my cards. 00:53:00.670 --> 00:53:07.890 And then if the card that you select from my hand is a reprisal that has not been eliminated, then you would suffer that. 00:53:08.990 --> 00:53:13.850 The only thing that I would have a question is like, do I get to pick which one or do you get to pick which one? 00:53:13.870 --> 00:53:16.290 Because there are two reprisals for every suit. 00:53:16.310 --> 00:53:19.270 There's two for hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. 00:53:19.690 --> 00:53:26.870 After that though, the last step of that would be all the cards are discarded and we would continue to the next step. 00:53:27.010 --> 00:53:31.890 After a duel comes passing time, which are little scenes. 00:53:32.510 --> 00:53:44.510 The last thing, if the duel is not over after either blocking, enduring or conceding, then the play cards are discarded and the defender becomes the attacker and the process starts over. 00:53:44.530 --> 00:53:47.310 So we're just basically going to take turns sniping at each other. 00:53:47.330 --> 00:53:50.550 And that's the duels. 00:53:51.910 --> 00:53:55.050 So you have assumed that you are just going to do this. 00:53:55.530 --> 00:53:56.410 Let's just start off. 00:53:56.430 --> 00:53:57.110 I'm going to block. 00:53:57.330 --> 00:54:04.010 So I played my card face down and I'm going to describe how I block or evade or nullify the attack. 00:54:04.030 --> 00:54:15.890 And I think Cole is just going to look at you and go, I thought we already had a room planned for this and we haven't decided who's hosting this. 00:54:16.470 --> 00:54:20.330 Maybe we can just see how this goes and reveal our cards. 00:54:20.690 --> 00:54:22.690 Yeah, you win that one. 00:54:23.810 --> 00:54:27.830 So you got a queen, I got a seven for the audience. 00:54:28.390 --> 00:54:32.530 So because the defender wins, my reprisal is not eliminated. 00:54:32.550 --> 00:54:34.250 So nothing really happens right now. 00:54:34.850 --> 00:54:38.670 You know, we should have done before jumping into this has gone over our sheets again. 00:54:39.190 --> 00:54:40.130 We can do that now. 00:54:40.670 --> 00:54:42.990 My character is Politesse Pinnacle. 00:54:43.270 --> 00:54:52.770 She, her pronouns, her motivations are for a true challenge to be adored and to know everything the best. 00:54:53.650 --> 00:54:56.230 Her flaws are that she chronically overextends. 00:54:56.350 --> 00:54:59.410 She is single minded and she has a lack of secure identity. 00:55:00.330 --> 00:55:03.990 And she is an Atlantean noble who pushed Cole out of their book club. 00:55:04.150 --> 00:55:07.450 And her special ability is always repaired. 00:55:07.690 --> 00:55:09.410 Start the next duel with one extra card. 00:55:09.410 --> 00:55:13.030 After drawing, you may discard up to three cards and draw three replacements. 00:55:13.790 --> 00:55:16.050 I am playing Cole, they them. 00:55:16.570 --> 00:55:21.430 My motivations are horny, media connoisseur and independence. 00:55:21.730 --> 00:55:24.150 Look, Brianna, you can't laugh every time it comes up. 00:55:24.410 --> 00:55:24.970 You can. 00:55:24.990 --> 00:55:26.050 I'm just going to make fun of you. 00:55:26.590 --> 00:55:32.150 My flaws are also horny, compassionate and overly polite, aka can't say no. 00:55:32.350 --> 00:55:42.210 The description I've put down is once the leader of a book club keeps making new clubs, is made out of coal and has moss tattoos that glow. 00:55:42.230 --> 00:55:44.610 So I guess I win. 00:55:44.650 --> 00:55:45.830 So like, is it just... 00:55:46.430 --> 00:55:48.890 I'm just like, I don't want to step on any toes. 00:55:49.730 --> 00:55:54.830 I just think that maybe we should follow what we already had planned. 00:55:56.470 --> 00:55:59.170 Just seems like less work, maybe. 00:55:59.610 --> 00:56:01.770 And then I guess it's my turn to attack. 00:56:03.910 --> 00:56:08.910 I think if she has any responses, it's just like, oh, of course, of course. 00:56:09.850 --> 00:56:12.130 What happens to me if I lose this? 00:56:12.730 --> 00:56:18.810 If the defender wins on a block, nothing happens to the attacker. 00:56:18.830 --> 00:56:22.570 So I am going to attack you. 00:56:22.970 --> 00:56:23.970 How are you attacking me? 00:56:23.990 --> 00:56:27.590 I don't know if Cole, like, aims to be in charge. 00:56:27.630 --> 00:56:28.770 I think maybe... 00:56:29.190 --> 00:56:35.590 Do you think Cole would, like, win the popular vote if left to their own devices? 00:56:36.270 --> 00:56:39.670 Yeah, if left to your own devices, like if I didn't interfere? 00:56:40.010 --> 00:56:41.410 Yes, that is what I mean. 00:56:42.010 --> 00:56:44.630 Yes, I think that that's absolutely true. 00:56:45.430 --> 00:56:48.450 Then I think the attack that I'm going to make is... 00:56:49.570 --> 00:56:51.570 Well, I'm very excited for this too. 00:56:51.590 --> 00:56:52.470 I know we all are. 00:56:53.590 --> 00:57:06.090 I think that it's best if we focus our attention on working together, and we'll let the representative body decide who needs to step up this year. 00:57:06.110 --> 00:57:10.390 In the meantime, I think we all just really need to pull together and do our best. 00:57:11.410 --> 00:57:12.830 And I guess I'll play a card. 00:57:12.850 --> 00:57:16.570 Yeah, I think I'm going to block in this case. 00:57:17.730 --> 00:57:23.170 I think she says, you know what, Cole, I think that that is a great idea. 00:57:23.190 --> 00:57:25.790 And I'm so excited to coordinate the committee. 00:57:26.310 --> 00:57:29.150 Yes, I think everyone should totally participate. 00:57:29.850 --> 00:57:32.630 And I think it's totally a good idea. 00:57:32.650 --> 00:57:33.530 You know what? 00:57:33.990 --> 00:57:34.790 Let's start. 00:57:34.850 --> 00:57:37.410 I'll start assigning people to things. 00:57:37.830 --> 00:57:39.890 You won. 00:57:41.230 --> 00:57:42.990 This game is all about bluffing. 00:57:43.150 --> 00:57:46.230 So I have played a two and Brianna played an eight. 00:57:46.290 --> 00:57:47.050 And I played an eight. 00:57:47.190 --> 00:57:49.550 Yeah, Brianna won very easily. 00:57:49.790 --> 00:57:53.050 So the interesting thing, right, is we only have five cards in it. 00:57:53.070 --> 00:57:54.170 Well, you have six. 00:57:54.470 --> 00:57:56.770 That's the interesting thing I didn't think about. 00:57:56.790 --> 00:57:58.450 That is the interesting thing, isn't it? 00:57:59.410 --> 00:58:02.790 I didn't think about how powerful that ability was until just now. 00:58:04.610 --> 00:58:06.870 Because I can run out of cards before you. 00:58:06.890 --> 00:58:08.770 It's true, you super can. 00:58:09.310 --> 00:58:11.810 I think I block that specifically in that way. 00:58:12.530 --> 00:58:27.870 And I think my attack is what I absolutely do, because I am always prepared, is I produce a clipboard with a list of positions on it. 00:58:28.630 --> 00:58:29.290 Oh, good. 00:58:29.630 --> 00:58:32.290 And start to circulate it around. 00:58:32.390 --> 00:58:37.390 And of course, written as head organizer is already my name. 00:58:37.410 --> 00:58:39.970 God, you're so not subtle. 00:58:41.530 --> 00:58:42.190 Oh, I love this. 00:58:42.210 --> 00:58:43.110 What do you want from me? 00:58:43.130 --> 00:58:47.770 I just I love it because like playing out, you were like, oh, I'll take charge. 00:58:47.790 --> 00:58:49.350 And I was like, oh, no. 00:58:49.370 --> 00:58:50.610 What if we work together? 00:58:50.630 --> 00:58:53.290 And you were like, oh, yes, let's all work together. 00:58:53.310 --> 00:58:56.450 So I made this thing and I put myself in charge. 00:58:58.210 --> 00:58:58.570 All right. 00:58:58.690 --> 00:58:59.750 I played my card. 00:59:00.130 --> 00:59:01.310 How are you going to respond? 00:59:01.750 --> 00:59:06.210 I mean, I guess just to like demonstrate the mechanics of this game, I'm going to pick Endure. 00:59:06.470 --> 00:59:07.910 So I don't play a card. 00:59:08.210 --> 00:59:15.190 Instead, I describe how I weather the storm of the attack and accept one of the reprisals to be eliminated. 00:59:15.510 --> 00:59:18.230 So you get to eliminate one of my reprisals. 00:59:18.430 --> 00:59:19.410 They're all open. 00:59:19.430 --> 00:59:25.170 We haven't we haven't done any of them, but it does match the suit of the card you played. 00:59:25.190 --> 00:59:28.250 Of course, I did play a king of clubs. 00:59:29.110 --> 00:59:38.830 So are you getting rid of your rival may not attack first in the next duel or your rival must show you two of the cards in their hands at the start of the next duel? 00:59:39.690 --> 00:59:42.510 Just to be clear, I can't do this to you. 00:59:42.870 --> 00:59:46.070 You cannot make me show you two of my cards. 00:59:46.470 --> 00:59:47.030 All right. 00:59:47.410 --> 00:59:53.750 And I think how I'm doing that is I think I'm just smiling as you're passing this out. 00:59:54.690 --> 00:59:59.470 And I say, oh, this is very organized. 00:59:59.610 --> 01:00:00.670 This is so nice. 01:00:00.770 --> 01:00:02.730 I'm glad that you had the time to do this. 01:00:02.750 --> 01:00:04.730 I hope it didn't take too long. 01:00:05.270 --> 01:00:08.650 I am happy to talk about these positions. 01:00:08.990 --> 01:00:13.550 I really think we need to focus on what events should take place. 01:00:14.010 --> 01:00:17.430 And I think we can come up with a lot of these ideas together. 01:00:17.450 --> 01:00:21.310 I don't mean to make you feel like you've wasted your time. 01:00:22.790 --> 01:00:27.750 I just think more heads are better than one, you know? 01:00:28.470 --> 01:00:29.290 And so that's my attack. 01:00:29.730 --> 01:00:34.890 I am saying we're just going to fucking ignore your thing that you've just passed out. 01:00:35.830 --> 01:00:38.570 I'm going to endure this one. 01:00:40.050 --> 01:00:42.510 I have played the Seven of Diamonds. 01:00:43.570 --> 01:00:46.510 So I'm going to eliminate. 01:00:47.130 --> 01:00:56.050 Your choices are your rival may not recover any specials before the end of the next duel or permanently remove one of your rivals specials. 01:00:56.790 --> 01:01:03.230 I'm going to choose you can't permanently remove one of my specials. 01:01:03.670 --> 01:01:04.890 So now it is your turn. 01:01:04.910 --> 01:01:09.470 I was a little unconvinced at first, but now I see the mechanics of this and I like this. 01:01:09.490 --> 01:01:11.330 Yeah, this makes sense and is good. 01:01:11.810 --> 01:01:12.370 All right. 01:01:12.550 --> 01:01:14.250 Now I'm on the attack. 01:01:14.730 --> 01:01:22.830 And I think the way that I endure that is just by going, you know what, Cole, you think so smartly about all of these things. 01:01:24.010 --> 01:01:28.890 You know, I really appreciate this thought process. 01:01:28.890 --> 01:01:34.550 I think in order to, of course, come up with the events, I think I'll just start us out. 01:01:34.570 --> 01:01:38.110 And I think the main event should be a dance, of course. 01:01:39.730 --> 01:01:43.630 And that can be kind of the main event there. 01:01:44.110 --> 01:01:45.610 What are you, how are you responding? 01:01:46.630 --> 01:01:50.690 I might pick Concede just to sort of demonstrate the game. 01:01:50.710 --> 01:01:51.170 Yeah. 01:01:51.510 --> 01:01:54.730 And also, like, I don't think Cole would be opposed to a dance. 01:01:55.090 --> 01:01:59.650 Like, I don't think that's the, I don't think that's the worst thing to lose at. 01:02:00.270 --> 01:02:01.730 You would be in charge of the dance. 01:02:01.750 --> 01:02:05.170 In fact, like, out of character, I was kind of thinking it was a dance. 01:02:05.190 --> 01:02:08.830 So I think I am happy to concede. 01:02:09.210 --> 01:02:14.410 So on a concede, the attacker resolves the stakes and spoils. 01:02:14.730 --> 01:02:19.570 So I guess tell us how it goes. 01:02:20.210 --> 01:02:21.190 How the event goes? 01:02:21.210 --> 01:02:22.490 I guess so, right? 01:02:22.510 --> 01:02:24.530 Because you get VIP status. 01:02:24.550 --> 01:02:26.870 You are in charge of this event, it ends up. 01:02:26.890 --> 01:02:37.510 Like, even though you're not officially in charge, because, like, we're all in this together, yada, yada, yada, you ended up putting together the dance. 01:02:38.090 --> 01:02:47.570 I think I know exactly how to demonstrate this in the most fun way possible, which is the dance, it goes, it goes extremely well. 01:02:48.190 --> 01:02:55.510 And of course, it is in the middle of the dance that I've asked you to dance with me for. 01:02:57.050 --> 01:03:06.870 When they, of course, reveal whatever the Atlantean, like, rock equivalent prom queen to be. 01:03:06.890 --> 01:03:08.290 Oh, it's the Rockefeller. 01:03:08.530 --> 01:03:09.430 The Rockefeller. 01:03:10.310 --> 01:03:14.390 And of course, they reveal that I am the Rockefeller while we are dancing. 01:03:14.790 --> 01:03:19.950 We're dancing and I guess like my grip tightens just a little, but then I like loosen up. 01:03:19.970 --> 01:03:21.590 I'm like, oh, sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. 01:03:21.610 --> 01:03:22.970 It's so perfect. 01:03:23.890 --> 01:03:32.670 So I'm going to, because this is diamonds as the spoils, I'm going to choose a point to victory for me. 01:03:35.210 --> 01:03:41.710 So I hold out my remaining cards, aka I will tell you that I have two cards in my hand left and you would pick one. 01:03:43.230 --> 01:03:44.010 I'll choose one. 01:03:44.030 --> 01:03:44.950 All right. 01:03:45.610 --> 01:03:45.990 Fuck. 01:03:48.250 --> 01:03:51.190 So it was picked the three of diamonds. 01:03:51.230 --> 01:04:02.670 So I get to permanently remove one of your specials, or I can say that you can't recover any specials before the end of the next duel, which I think I'm going to do. 01:04:03.090 --> 01:04:06.190 You can't recover your special this round. 01:04:06.210 --> 01:04:08.210 So I'm going to mark that as used. 01:04:08.730 --> 01:04:09.130 All right. 01:04:09.150 --> 01:04:11.210 So my special does not apply this round. 01:04:12.050 --> 01:04:20.190 So I think we start the next thing on the timeline, which is a passing time. 01:04:20.650 --> 01:04:24.370 Passing time is the preparation and recover between duels. 01:04:24.950 --> 01:04:27.630 We each get one of four choices. 01:04:27.650 --> 01:04:37.410 And those four choices are to show a vignette of your duelist licking their wounds and recovering any reprisals that may have not been permanently eliminated. 01:04:37.870 --> 01:04:46.490 Or, option two, show a vignette of your duelist gathering their resources and recover one spent special, which is what I made you unable to do. 01:04:47.130 --> 01:04:55.810 Or, the third option, show your duelist researching or practicing their strategies and discard as many cards as you like and draw the same amount of cards. 01:04:56.050 --> 01:05:02.850 Finally, show how your duelist saps their rival's resources and make them discard up to two of their cards. 01:05:03.310 --> 01:05:04.290 I have a question. 01:05:04.690 --> 01:05:06.070 When do we redraw? 01:05:06.570 --> 01:05:08.450 I think we redraw at the beginning of every duel. 01:05:09.630 --> 01:05:10.870 Okay, I get it. 01:05:10.950 --> 01:05:11.450 I see. 01:05:11.510 --> 01:05:11.930 I see. 01:05:11.950 --> 01:05:13.670 That's why it's up to two cards. 01:05:14.110 --> 01:05:26.530 I was a little confused on the final thing about passing time because I thought the final thing about making your opponent discard two of their cards was to make your opponent have less cards at the start of the next duel. 01:05:26.810 --> 01:05:27.490 It's not. 01:05:27.510 --> 01:05:34.070 It's just to force your opponent, if they were hanging on to good cards, to get rid of those cards. 01:05:34.510 --> 01:05:35.290 That makes sense. 01:05:35.810 --> 01:05:39.170 Do you want to go first or do you want me to go first in our passing time? 01:05:39.190 --> 01:05:39.950 Why don't you go first? 01:05:40.430 --> 01:05:50.510 So I think for my passing time, I'm going to show a vignette of my duelists licking their wounds and recover any reprisals that have not been permanently eliminated. 01:05:50.530 --> 01:05:58.250 So I'm gonna reset my reprisal of your rival must show you two cards in their hand at the start of the next duel. 01:05:58.490 --> 01:06:02.590 And I think what this is, I think it's just me having fun at the party. 01:06:03.050 --> 01:06:08.490 Like I think you throw a good party and I think I enjoyed myself. 01:06:08.510 --> 01:06:13.590 And I think the next day it's like I have, I think it's Quiet Club. 01:06:13.750 --> 01:06:21.230 I think this week I'm in charge of Quiet Club where we all just sit in a room and we try to be as quiet as possible. 01:06:21.250 --> 01:06:22.390 I've invented libraries. 01:06:23.870 --> 01:06:24.410 I love it. 01:06:24.770 --> 01:06:32.350 It's very nice and quiet and it's like a good time to just think to myself after a very loud and chaotic party. 01:06:32.370 --> 01:06:34.490 I think mine is similar. 01:06:34.610 --> 01:06:37.670 I think mine is recovering reprisals. 01:06:37.730 --> 01:06:38.810 I can't recover specials. 01:06:39.090 --> 01:06:42.890 My kind of wound here is that I can't be prepared this next time. 01:06:43.210 --> 01:06:54.330 And so I think what it actually is, is I didn't show up to Quiet Club because I was at home sleeping because I was so hung over. 01:06:55.210 --> 01:06:59.210 It's basically just me sleeping for a whole day. 01:06:59.730 --> 01:07:03.870 The version of this I'm imagining is you sitting in Quiet Club and all of you like... 01:07:05.170 --> 01:07:06.490 And it just cuts to me. 01:07:06.650 --> 01:07:08.490 Just face down in my bed. 01:07:10.750 --> 01:07:11.570 Like not... 01:07:11.590 --> 01:07:13.150 Covers are not on top of me. 01:07:13.170 --> 01:07:15.490 It's just me flat on the bed. 01:07:15.510 --> 01:07:19.570 And then cuts back to you. 01:07:22.270 --> 01:07:22.870 It's that. 01:07:23.350 --> 01:07:24.130 It's great. 01:07:24.830 --> 01:07:30.510 Following the timeline, the next thing that we do is a duel. 01:07:30.970 --> 01:07:34.470 So first thing we do is we draw up to our maximum hand size. 01:07:34.630 --> 01:07:37.290 But you have the same hand size as me now. 01:07:38.830 --> 01:07:41.450 Oh, the next card is the Ace of... 01:07:41.810 --> 01:07:42.650 Clubs? 01:07:42.670 --> 01:07:43.230 Spades? 01:07:43.590 --> 01:07:44.210 That's clubs. 01:07:44.430 --> 01:07:49.630 The stakes of this duel is a petty matter of pride or position. 01:07:53.750 --> 01:07:59.350 Oh, we start out with a huge blowout party trying to be in charge of it, and the next one is just... 01:08:00.250 --> 01:08:01.050 Time to be petty? 01:08:01.290 --> 01:08:01.670 Mm-hmm. 01:08:01.670 --> 01:08:03.650 It's time to be petty. 01:08:03.810 --> 01:08:07.430 And the spoils are a new special for your duelist. 01:08:07.770 --> 01:08:08.670 Cool. 01:08:08.690 --> 01:08:09.350 That's exciting. 01:08:09.950 --> 01:08:13.450 So we play a card to decide who goes first. 01:08:14.230 --> 01:08:14.530 And? 01:08:14.550 --> 01:08:16.550 Ooh, I thought I had it. 01:08:17.350 --> 01:08:19.050 You got queen, I got ten. 01:08:19.570 --> 01:08:21.050 I get to choose who attacks first. 01:08:21.070 --> 01:08:22.910 You get to choose who goes first, yep. 01:08:23.270 --> 01:08:28.150 Which is interesting because whoever goes first spends their card first mechanically. 01:08:28.970 --> 01:08:35.870 The more I'm playing this, the more I'm actually very enjoying the very simple but nicely laid out mechanics. 01:08:36.190 --> 01:08:39.030 I've decided no more dice, only cards for gain. 01:08:42.290 --> 01:08:43.330 Why don't you attack first? 01:08:44.010 --> 01:08:46.190 Okay, how much time has passed? 01:08:46.210 --> 01:08:47.930 Has it been a few weeks? 01:08:48.350 --> 01:08:52.030 I would like it to be a few weeks, I think, I will say. 01:08:52.050 --> 01:08:53.910 Okay, it could have been a few weeks. 01:08:54.170 --> 01:08:54.910 What's the club? 01:08:55.370 --> 01:09:01.170 I'm not too sure, but I think within that club, do you think it is... 01:09:01.290 --> 01:09:03.670 It's not even about the club. 01:09:03.690 --> 01:09:09.030 It literally, whatever the squabble is about, it has nothing to do with what the club is. 01:09:09.110 --> 01:09:11.610 Oh, I know what it is. 01:09:11.630 --> 01:09:23.030 I guess it's not nothing to do with the club, but it could be, instead of the book club thing of, oh, we're deciding who gets to choose the next book, it's interpreting a specific line in a book. 01:09:23.230 --> 01:09:24.530 What if it's even pettier? 01:09:24.970 --> 01:09:29.690 What if it's just like, who was supposed to bring the food for this meeting? 01:09:30.230 --> 01:09:31.450 Because no one brought any food. 01:09:31.470 --> 01:09:35.770 And we were both convinced it was the other person. 01:09:35.790 --> 01:09:37.050 Uh-huh. 01:09:37.610 --> 01:09:39.490 This is the pettiest of petty things. 01:09:39.490 --> 01:09:40.010 Uh-huh. 01:09:40.250 --> 01:09:40.610 Uh-huh. 01:09:40.630 --> 01:09:41.050 All right. 01:09:41.270 --> 01:09:42.310 You attack first. 01:09:43.550 --> 01:09:44.990 I'm going to put a card down. 01:09:45.010 --> 01:09:52.230 I think it just starts out as like, I don't mean to disrupt. 01:09:52.250 --> 01:09:53.690 It's not even that important. 01:09:54.930 --> 01:10:06.130 It could just be a matter of it just slipped your mind, but I was just really looking forward to your Nan's cooking. 01:10:06.150 --> 01:10:16.210 I just, I was thinking about it all week and I just, I know like you can't undo what has happened and we can all just move past this. 01:10:17.210 --> 01:10:20.970 Maybe we can just have more next time. 01:10:20.990 --> 01:10:27.050 God, I'm trying to think of the thing, because I know how I want to defend against this. 01:10:27.070 --> 01:10:28.930 I'm just trying to think if this is blocking or enduring. 01:10:29.570 --> 01:10:30.850 You know what, let's do a block. 01:10:30.870 --> 01:10:32.190 Let's do a full on block. 01:10:32.350 --> 01:10:32.790 Okay. 01:10:33.530 --> 01:10:36.990 She says, oh, you know what? 01:10:38.310 --> 01:10:42.230 I got confused because you were supposed to bring it last week and you didn't. 01:10:42.550 --> 01:10:52.650 So I thought you were going to make up for that by bringing it this week since I had to bring it last week and had to run out and get food. 01:10:53.410 --> 01:10:54.730 Oh, that's so good. 01:10:54.750 --> 01:10:56.630 All right, let's pick our cards. 01:10:57.350 --> 01:10:58.070 So you win. 01:10:58.090 --> 01:11:00.330 So you make an attack now. 01:11:00.630 --> 01:11:04.590 Do you want that to be the attack or do you want to do a different thing for the attack? 01:11:04.610 --> 01:11:05.350 That's the attack. 01:11:05.370 --> 01:11:07.150 It's a block and an attack all in one. 01:11:07.230 --> 01:11:08.530 All right, what am I doing? 01:11:08.690 --> 01:11:09.690 I think I'm enduring. 01:11:09.710 --> 01:11:11.910 I think like what you said is true. 01:11:12.010 --> 01:11:22.030 I did forget, but I think I go, okay, I did forget that one time and I apologized it. 01:11:22.390 --> 01:11:24.010 Everyone said it wasn't a big deal. 01:11:24.030 --> 01:11:26.590 I don't know why you're bringing it up again. 01:11:26.610 --> 01:11:28.890 Yeah, that's how I'm enduring. 01:11:29.550 --> 01:11:30.550 The six of hearts. 01:11:31.910 --> 01:11:45.270 So you can eliminate either your rival may not recover any reprisals before the end of the next duel or one of your rivals reprisals may never be recovered once it is used. 01:11:45.930 --> 01:11:51.790 I think I'm going to go with one of your rivals reprisals may never be recovered once it is used. 01:11:52.190 --> 01:11:59.790 And so then I guess my next attack is going to be, we all make mistakes, but we all have to own up to them as well. 01:12:00.290 --> 01:12:03.530 And we all have to step up each individually. 01:12:03.530 --> 01:12:04.630 I know you know that. 01:12:04.750 --> 01:12:08.570 And I really think this was your turn to step up this week. 01:12:09.450 --> 01:12:10.430 I will play a card. 01:12:10.450 --> 01:12:13.410 I am going to try and block it. 01:12:13.830 --> 01:12:14.750 That's fair. 01:12:15.970 --> 01:12:17.170 Oh, yeah, no. 01:12:17.170 --> 01:12:20.430 I mean, if I had made a mistake, I would totally own up to it. 01:12:23.110 --> 01:12:25.590 Let me just check the schedule real quick. 01:12:26.650 --> 01:12:26.910 Um... 01:12:26.930 --> 01:12:28.610 How right is the schedule, Brianna? 01:12:32.790 --> 01:12:34.290 7 over 6. 01:12:35.810 --> 01:12:44.090 And I think my attack here is that I've edited the schedule to look like it's not my turn. 01:12:47.670 --> 01:12:55.410 And I think specifically the thing that I say is, well, we did edit the schedule, of course, because you didn't bring it last week. 01:12:55.430 --> 01:13:00.010 We did just switch our weeks around, as you can see by the schedule here. 01:13:00.650 --> 01:13:03.730 I'm gonna block, and I'm just saying, can you hand that over here? 01:13:03.750 --> 01:13:04.670 Can I take a look at that? 01:13:04.690 --> 01:13:06.230 Alright, and... 01:13:07.370 --> 01:13:07.590 Oh! 01:13:07.610 --> 01:13:08.650 Ty goes to defender. 01:13:08.770 --> 01:13:10.470 And I am defending, so I win. 01:13:12.510 --> 01:13:13.730 Yeah, I guess what's your attack? 01:13:14.150 --> 01:13:15.930 So you changed this, right? 01:13:15.950 --> 01:13:16.670 That's what you said? 01:13:16.670 --> 01:13:17.630 You faked this? 01:13:18.770 --> 01:13:19.930 Yes, I faked it. 01:13:20.970 --> 01:13:22.690 Then I think my attack is this... 01:13:23.710 --> 01:13:24.850 Wait, let me check... 01:13:25.690 --> 01:13:29.550 And I think I pull out my schedule, and it is the unedited version. 01:13:30.210 --> 01:13:38.390 And that is my attack, is I am pulling my unedited version out, and I'm comparing them before showing everybody else. 01:13:38.410 --> 01:13:40.430 I think I have to endure this. 01:13:40.970 --> 01:13:56.470 I think the attack here is simply to point to the date on my schedule and your schedule, and say, as you can see, mine is the updated version. 01:13:57.390 --> 01:14:01.410 You change the date, and then you go, oh, mine is newer. 01:14:01.710 --> 01:14:02.630 How are you responding? 01:14:03.530 --> 01:14:04.170 I'm enduring. 01:14:05.310 --> 01:14:10.090 I think it's like, oh, I see. 01:14:10.610 --> 01:14:13.990 I suppose that could be wrong. 01:14:14.630 --> 01:14:18.030 And my card is the Nine of Spades. 01:14:18.470 --> 01:14:21.830 I'm going to eliminate permanently reduced your rival's maximum hand size by one. 01:14:22.370 --> 01:14:23.930 So I think my attack is this. 01:14:24.490 --> 01:14:26.330 Oh, I think I asked someone for theirs. 01:14:26.450 --> 01:14:27.850 I think I asked another person. 01:14:27.870 --> 01:14:30.150 I was like, oh, does anyone else have one of these? 01:14:30.170 --> 01:14:31.370 And someone else pulls out. 01:14:31.390 --> 01:14:36.590 And that is my attack is we are verifying ours against the third parties. 01:14:38.090 --> 01:14:40.510 She concedes on this point. 01:14:41.050 --> 01:14:47.330 I think she just like puts her schedule away and says like, you know what, Cole? 01:14:47.510 --> 01:14:48.730 I'm going to take your word for it. 01:14:49.670 --> 01:14:53.270 I'm really looking forward to your Nan's roasted. 01:14:54.330 --> 01:14:55.430 What is a rock food? 01:14:55.770 --> 01:14:57.930 Your Nan's roasted coals? 01:15:00.130 --> 01:15:03.870 No, your Nan's roasted ash. 01:15:04.030 --> 01:15:04.750 No, ash. 01:15:05.030 --> 01:15:05.630 It's ash. 01:15:06.210 --> 01:15:07.670 Sorry, Ash. 01:15:07.710 --> 01:15:09.870 I'm really looking forward to your Nan's ash. 01:15:11.230 --> 01:15:15.450 I'm going to take a new special. 01:15:16.150 --> 01:15:22.650 I think the special that I'm picking is Vicious Reversal. 01:15:23.050 --> 01:15:35.510 When you exploit one of your rivals flaws and use an ace to block an attack, you successfully block and make an unblockable attack on your opponent's reprisals that matches the suit of your ace. 01:15:35.750 --> 01:15:40.350 So basically, this is the skill that turns an ace from low to high. 01:15:40.690 --> 01:15:46.230 So my reprisals, I have pretty much all of them open except for I can't remove one of your specials permanently. 01:15:46.610 --> 01:15:48.930 Wait, don't I have to choose one of the cards in your hands? 01:15:49.710 --> 01:15:52.670 Yes, so then how does it work when I don't have cards? 01:15:53.970 --> 01:15:56.510 Oh, I guess you don't. 01:15:57.810 --> 01:16:03.290 Yeah, if I had known beforehand, I think that would have helped, but I also didn't think about it. 01:16:03.310 --> 01:16:05.390 I also don't know that my character would have thought about it. 01:16:05.870 --> 01:16:08.570 I think because it says may suffer a reprisal. 01:16:09.110 --> 01:16:11.430 So I think, yeah, I don't think you suffer a reprisal. 01:16:12.070 --> 01:16:13.750 I mean, I guess it was just food. 01:16:14.370 --> 01:16:16.950 But you won the spoil of being petty. 01:16:17.730 --> 01:16:18.710 It's very important. 01:16:19.210 --> 01:16:27.630 So now the next thing is interesting because we have two passing time actions instead of one before our next duel. 01:16:28.250 --> 01:16:28.470 Oh. 01:16:29.350 --> 01:16:31.510 Do you know which one you want to do? 01:16:32.350 --> 01:16:33.610 Yes, I do. 01:16:33.770 --> 01:16:36.810 Okay, I know both of them because we're out of cards. 01:16:38.930 --> 01:16:39.450 Uh-huh. 01:16:40.030 --> 01:16:42.210 It's recovering reprisals and recovering specials. 01:16:42.470 --> 01:16:43.290 Yeah, that makes sense. 01:16:43.330 --> 01:16:51.010 And I know the scenes because licking my wounds is definitely me bringing my nan's ash to the next meeting. 01:16:51.490 --> 01:16:54.790 And just, like, just graciously handing it out. 01:16:54.990 --> 01:16:58.190 Did you bring whatever the equivalent of, like, embroidered hand? 01:16:58.430 --> 01:17:04.570 Like, if you're handing out tarts, you hand the tarts out on, like, embroidered, like, cloth and you hand them to people. 01:17:04.810 --> 01:17:08.310 Like, whatever the equivalent of, like, handing out ash is on that. 01:17:08.330 --> 01:17:09.670 Like, a little cup. 01:17:09.970 --> 01:17:14.050 A little cup that is engraved, of course, with everyone's individual names, of course. 01:17:14.070 --> 01:17:15.330 They can keep their glasses. 01:17:15.630 --> 01:17:19.830 Yeah, I'm also going to be licking my wounds. 01:17:20.190 --> 01:17:26.150 I think this is, like, turning off edit mode on the schedule for other people. 01:17:28.190 --> 01:17:31.890 So people can't just, like, forge things anymore. 01:17:32.230 --> 01:17:38.010 And, like, and maybe it's, like, a conversation with one of the other members of a club. 01:17:38.350 --> 01:17:44.130 And also just, like, I guess, enjoying my ash that you've brought. 01:17:44.150 --> 01:17:45.250 It's real good. 01:17:45.830 --> 01:17:54.590 I've put the cup up in my, I don't know if we have rooms, but wherever my room is, it just sits in my room now. 01:17:55.230 --> 01:18:02.570 My recovering special, Show a Vignette of Your Duelists Gathering Their Resources and Recover One Spent Special. 01:18:02.930 --> 01:18:12.930 This is me at a desk with a ton of papers, and I'm just forging every single type of paper I could possibly need. 01:18:14.010 --> 01:18:21.530 Printed out papers of the schedule saying anything, of clubs saying anything, of just any piece of paper I could need. 01:18:22.410 --> 01:18:29.070 One of them is just blank club, where you've just left it blank, so like whatever the next club I make is, you just fill it in. 01:18:29.450 --> 01:18:30.110 Basically. 01:18:31.150 --> 01:18:35.510 I'm going to force you to discard up to two cards. 01:18:36.130 --> 01:18:36.990 I don't have any cards. 01:18:37.750 --> 01:18:39.250 Zero, that's up to two. 01:18:39.710 --> 01:18:42.290 How did you try to sabotage me and how did it not work? 01:18:42.950 --> 01:18:45.770 I'm trying to like sap your resources. 01:18:46.210 --> 01:18:51.990 Is this like you watching for me to make further edits to anything on the document? 01:18:52.610 --> 01:18:58.450 And you're like keeping it open to watch and see if I make any edits so you can edit them right back. 01:18:58.710 --> 01:19:00.150 But I've printed everything else. 01:19:01.870 --> 01:19:02.730 That sounds good. 01:19:03.810 --> 01:19:07.490 So let's draw up to five cards. 01:19:09.670 --> 01:19:11.810 And also I'm drawing, of course, six cards. 01:19:12.650 --> 01:19:13.950 Of course, of course. 01:19:14.710 --> 01:19:23.250 And don't forget that after drawing, you may discard three and replace three up to three, just to be clear. 01:19:23.270 --> 01:19:24.950 All right, you have six cards. 01:19:24.970 --> 01:19:25.850 I have five cards. 01:19:26.410 --> 01:19:29.830 Now it is time to reveal a card. 01:19:29.850 --> 01:19:39.310 It is the Four of Hearts, which means the conflict is about a moral or rhetorical victory. 01:19:39.330 --> 01:19:47.350 Oh, and the price of winning is a point to reconciliation. 01:19:48.090 --> 01:19:49.150 Interesting. 01:19:49.730 --> 01:19:54.430 Is this just us deciding if we put the point to reconciliation? 01:19:54.870 --> 01:19:55.590 The winner. 01:19:55.630 --> 01:20:02.650 Yeah, the winner puts a point in reconciliation, unless you have a thing that lets you change the spoils if you win. 01:20:02.790 --> 01:20:04.450 And I don't believe either of us do. 01:20:05.110 --> 01:20:05.870 That's not true. 01:20:06.270 --> 01:20:07.570 You get to do that. 01:20:08.050 --> 01:20:09.370 That is your ability. 01:20:09.590 --> 01:20:13.070 Oh, yeah, that's literally my ability, all according to plan. 01:20:13.730 --> 01:20:18.810 Okay, so now we each draw a card from the deck to see who decides to go first. 01:20:19.310 --> 01:20:19.910 You win. 01:20:19.930 --> 01:20:20.610 So I got a nine. 01:20:20.630 --> 01:20:22.610 Nine over an ace. 01:20:22.630 --> 01:20:25.770 I think I'm gonna go first. 01:20:26.330 --> 01:20:28.230 So where what it what club is this? 01:20:29.170 --> 01:20:31.270 This is a moral or rhetorical victory. 01:20:31.290 --> 01:20:32.550 I think it's a debate. 01:20:32.570 --> 01:20:34.510 I think it's a literal debate. 01:20:35.530 --> 01:20:36.410 Debate me. 01:20:37.010 --> 01:20:38.550 I think we're debating. 01:20:38.570 --> 01:20:41.130 I don't even think it matters what we're debating. 01:20:41.470 --> 01:20:46.750 There is a debate going on and it's whoever like maybe it's not even who wins the debate. 01:20:46.850 --> 01:20:49.770 Maybe something goes wrong at the debate. 01:20:50.350 --> 01:20:55.750 And it's like something goes wrong and it's the victor is the one. 01:20:55.770 --> 01:20:57.550 I don't see why it can't just be the debate. 01:20:57.570 --> 01:20:58.210 Yeah, sure. 01:20:58.230 --> 01:20:59.250 It can just be the debate. 01:20:59.270 --> 01:21:00.110 It's just the debate. 01:21:00.290 --> 01:21:02.330 Because it doesn't matter who wins the debate. 01:21:02.950 --> 01:21:03.950 It truly doesn't. 01:21:04.210 --> 01:21:05.310 That's how debates work. 01:21:07.090 --> 01:21:08.970 And like, what is the debate even, right? 01:21:08.990 --> 01:21:16.330 It's just us on like a little podiums in front of like three other people who just happen to be signing up for this moment. 01:21:16.390 --> 01:21:17.930 For this month's club. 01:21:17.950 --> 01:21:20.270 Also, I think like more time has passed, right? 01:21:20.290 --> 01:21:21.670 This is like a few months later. 01:21:22.890 --> 01:21:25.330 I'm Googling good debate topics. 01:21:25.950 --> 01:21:28.290 Oh, is this like a moral philosophy problem? 01:21:28.310 --> 01:21:30.510 Of course it's a moral philosophy problem. 01:21:30.750 --> 01:21:32.690 Okay, so then it's, is it the trolley problem? 01:21:32.710 --> 01:21:33.770 Can we do the trolley problem? 01:21:34.010 --> 01:21:36.030 Of course we can do the trolley problem. 01:21:36.090 --> 01:21:38.350 Yes, we can do the trolley problem. 01:21:41.870 --> 01:21:43.070 Which side are you on? 01:21:43.470 --> 01:21:44.890 Do you pull the lever or not? 01:21:45.710 --> 01:21:47.190 Do your, do your attack. 01:21:47.390 --> 01:21:54.490 You can define what side I'm on, because I will literally just take the side you won't, because I don't have a secure identity. 01:21:54.710 --> 01:21:55.930 I don't believe in things. 01:21:55.990 --> 01:21:58.250 I'm just a fucking contrarian. 01:22:00.010 --> 01:22:03.050 I think because I'm compassionate, I think that's my flaw. 01:22:03.510 --> 01:22:06.130 I am on the side of like take action. 01:22:06.650 --> 01:22:12.170 Inaction is still action, so at least do what you can to save who you can. 01:22:12.530 --> 01:22:19.530 And so I think I don't want to actually debate the molly problem, the trolley problem with you, Brianna. 01:22:19.890 --> 01:22:23.830 So I think like, I think this is like the scene of like we're on break. 01:22:24.110 --> 01:22:28.210 I don't even know what this break looks like when there's like five people in the room. 01:22:28.490 --> 01:22:34.030 But I think it's just like a five minute break and everyone's like gone outside because it's not that interesting of a debate. 01:22:34.530 --> 01:22:36.290 It's literally just the trolley problem. 01:22:36.770 --> 01:22:38.290 And it's just us in the room. 01:22:38.450 --> 01:22:57.070 And I'm like, I really think there are more important moral discussions that we could be using our time to really tackle and help those come to the hard conclusions that we need to help them come to. 01:22:57.090 --> 01:23:00.230 I just don't think this was the best thing to pick this week. 01:23:00.890 --> 01:23:06.570 And I guess my attack is saying that you pick the trolley problem and that it's a stupid idea. 01:23:07.350 --> 01:23:07.790 Great. 01:23:08.190 --> 01:23:09.650 I'm going to block that. 01:23:09.890 --> 01:23:17.130 Yeah, I think my block is saying, oh, I'm sorry. 01:23:17.150 --> 01:23:19.190 I didn't realize you didn't care about murder. 01:23:19.210 --> 01:23:24.590 Okay, let's flip our cards. 01:23:27.830 --> 01:23:28.790 Yeah, it goes to you. 01:23:28.810 --> 01:23:33.190 We both went for eights and I and defenders win on tides. 01:23:33.310 --> 01:23:34.110 So you win. 01:23:34.130 --> 01:23:37.750 I can't believe you didn't care about murder. 01:23:40.470 --> 01:23:41.970 What is your tag, Brianna? 01:23:42.790 --> 01:23:48.710 You know, the trolley problem is representative of something quite a bit bigger. 01:23:48.790 --> 01:24:09.590 I mean, consider if it's not, you know, some people on an underwater trolley, but it's instead, you know, the choice between killing a gunman and not killing the gunman, you know, that's basically the same as the trolley problem. 01:24:10.110 --> 01:24:13.790 Brianna, no, that is not the same as the trolley problem. 01:24:16.350 --> 01:24:17.350 I'm blocking by the way. 01:24:17.370 --> 01:24:20.530 I'm using my ability. 01:24:20.550 --> 01:24:23.450 So I played an ace and I'm using my new ability. 01:24:23.470 --> 01:24:25.250 I just took vicious reversal. 01:24:25.390 --> 01:24:37.470 When you exploit one of your rivals flaws and use an ace to block an attack, you successfully block the attack and make an unblockable attack on an opponent's reprisal that suits the match of the ace. 01:24:37.490 --> 01:24:39.510 So what flaw am I exploiting? 01:24:40.070 --> 01:24:41.030 Single minded. 01:24:41.030 --> 01:24:45.610 Can I say that the single minded is you're just trying to be a contrarian and you literally don't know? 01:24:45.630 --> 01:24:47.010 Yes, that is exactly the thing. 01:24:47.710 --> 01:24:54.210 That's not the trolley problem at all, even remotely. 01:24:54.950 --> 01:25:03.030 So I think my attack is going to be like, it really seems like you don't actually know what the trolley problem is. 01:25:04.010 --> 01:25:06.750 Why did you sign up for this? 01:25:07.010 --> 01:25:12.690 It seems like maybe this isn't the right club for you this time. 01:25:13.730 --> 01:25:14.730 She's going to block here. 01:25:15.370 --> 01:25:22.070 Yeah, I mean, she's like, no, of course this is the right club for me. 01:25:22.630 --> 01:25:24.610 I'm all about the spirit of the debate. 01:25:24.750 --> 01:25:30.230 Like, debate club isn't about what you actually believe. 01:25:30.370 --> 01:25:40.130 It's about the power and importance of debate, which, by the way, Brianna's note is true about debate club. 01:25:40.370 --> 01:25:42.150 It's why I hate debate club. 01:25:42.450 --> 01:25:43.170 All right, and? 01:25:47.210 --> 01:26:02.370 I think my attack is perhaps if you care so significantly about issues as opposed to the spirit of debate, perhaps you should have started some sort of social justice club instead. 01:26:08.330 --> 01:26:09.490 You know, I think I'm going to concede. 01:26:10.590 --> 01:26:11.910 And I think that's like, all right. 01:26:12.110 --> 01:26:15.590 I think that is like, huh, that's a good idea. 01:26:16.010 --> 01:26:22.930 Maybe what that looks like before you tell me how you resolve your stakes and spoils is like, everyone comes back in after the break. 01:26:23.430 --> 01:26:31.790 Cole's just like, you know, while everyone is out, Paula T's convinced me, you know, she's right. 01:26:32.530 --> 01:26:35.150 And debates over. 01:26:35.890 --> 01:26:36.510 Excellent. 01:26:36.890 --> 01:26:38.370 So what do you do with that victory? 01:26:39.050 --> 01:26:44.050 I mean, so first of all, I put a point into reconciliation. 01:26:44.570 --> 01:26:46.610 I think there's something here. 01:26:48.090 --> 01:26:56.070 That really interests Paula T's in the way that like, you told me to start a club and then I did it. 01:26:56.090 --> 01:27:07.910 Yeah, because I think the thing here is Paula T's, I guess, kind of assumed that you were also like her, and you were just doing this to be to be a shit. 01:27:08.350 --> 01:27:16.890 Instead, she's like, oh, like she has for the first time the thought in her head, this could be a friendly rivalry. 01:27:16.910 --> 01:27:23.670 I could be what she thinks is I could be both adored and challenged by this person. 01:27:27.330 --> 01:27:32.750 That's how she conceives of it in terms of a point into reconciliation. 01:27:33.290 --> 01:27:46.990 I think I think in terms of the moral or rhetorical victory in this case, it's just her being like, as you can see, this clearly shows that the trolley problem is my solution is the right one. 01:27:47.350 --> 01:27:49.770 The best thing to do is to do nothing. 01:27:53.590 --> 01:27:54.490 That's her opinion. 01:27:54.510 --> 01:27:56.690 Technically, you won by doing nothing. 01:27:56.730 --> 01:27:59.370 So you literally showed your side. 01:27:59.430 --> 01:28:00.830 I won on several levels. 01:28:02.650 --> 01:28:05.490 So now we need to resolve the Stake and Spoils, which you did. 01:28:05.870 --> 01:28:09.970 And then from the Defender, I will tell you that I have two cards. 01:28:10.030 --> 01:28:12.870 So you get to pick one or two randomly. 01:28:13.170 --> 01:28:18.130 And that will be a reprisal that is done to you from me. 01:28:18.670 --> 01:28:20.290 As always, I'm number one. 01:28:20.910 --> 01:28:21.270 Great. 01:28:21.990 --> 01:28:29.970 I am going to pick your rival must show you two of the cards in their hand at the start of the next duel. 01:28:30.670 --> 01:28:33.910 You get to pick them, but I'm going to know two of your cards. 01:28:34.570 --> 01:28:36.110 Let's do time passes. 01:28:36.330 --> 01:28:38.730 What are you doing? 01:28:38.770 --> 01:28:40.270 Or I can go first if you would like. 01:28:40.770 --> 01:28:41.770 Do you have a good ending? 01:28:41.790 --> 01:28:43.010 Because I could come up with a good ending. 01:28:43.350 --> 01:28:44.650 So I think I'll go first. 01:28:45.710 --> 01:28:49.290 I think for mine, how many cards do you have still? 01:28:50.250 --> 01:28:50.570 Two. 01:28:51.590 --> 01:28:52.310 Discard them. 01:28:53.270 --> 01:28:55.330 I think it's sapping your rivals resources. 01:28:55.930 --> 01:29:01.450 I think it's like I make SJW Club and I am fucking calling it SJW Club. 01:29:01.990 --> 01:29:05.610 And the debate, we literally never even finished a debate. 01:29:06.050 --> 01:29:08.190 No one shows up to debate club anymore. 01:29:08.210 --> 01:29:11.590 You're the only member of debate club for like whatever the week is. 01:29:12.210 --> 01:29:14.430 And I think it's just like an awkward. 01:29:14.450 --> 01:29:17.010 I think it's just like you're really excited. 01:29:17.030 --> 01:29:21.750 You just won the debate and it's like you show up to the next debate and no one's there. 01:29:21.770 --> 01:29:23.510 It's just you for the whole hour. 01:29:24.150 --> 01:29:24.490 Yeah. 01:29:24.730 --> 01:29:32.290 And you see like across the hall, SJW Club and everyone who was supposed to go to debate club went to SJW Club. 01:29:32.930 --> 01:29:45.670 This is excellent because I think I am going to recover my special, which means I'm going to show a vignette of my duet list gathering their resources. 01:29:46.390 --> 01:30:15.810 The way that I'm showing this is that out of my bag, I pull a bunch of papers, and I think it's just me holding the papers up, and crossing out debate topics, and writing beliefs, and walking into the social justice club. 01:30:15.830 --> 01:30:22.230 I thought you were going to have a moment where it's like, and I throw them in the garbage, and it's character development, but like, nope. 01:30:22.870 --> 01:30:25.230 No, it was never character development. 01:30:26.010 --> 01:30:33.910 It's the Scooby Doo meme of like, let's see what's under the mask, but it's character development, and then you rip off the mask, and it's like more pettiness. 01:30:36.990 --> 01:30:38.110 Yes, basically. 01:30:39.210 --> 01:30:41.470 So I think we're going to take a break here. 01:30:41.710 --> 01:30:48.770 From our perspective, I think we'll come back to this, but overall, this is going to be edited together into one episode. 01:30:49.910 --> 01:30:51.170 So we'll be back. 01:30:53.250 --> 01:30:54.110 We're back now. 01:30:54.190 --> 01:30:56.990 We took a week break. 01:30:57.410 --> 01:30:59.390 Thank you for waiting 10 seconds. 01:31:00.330 --> 01:31:10.570 So we left off on a passing time, which means the next thing that we're going to do is a duel. 01:31:11.090 --> 01:31:20.750 I do remember the structure of a duel, and it starts off with us drawing up to five, unless you use your ability. 01:31:20.770 --> 01:31:22.730 But I believe you've used it up, correct? 01:31:23.230 --> 01:31:24.790 No, I just replenished it. 01:31:25.270 --> 01:31:26.570 You did just replenish it. 01:31:26.570 --> 01:31:27.930 So are you going to use it? 01:31:28.430 --> 01:31:28.690 Yep. 01:31:29.150 --> 01:31:29.670 All right. 01:31:29.670 --> 01:31:31.190 So you're going to draw up to six. 01:31:32.130 --> 01:31:32.370 Yeah. 01:31:32.390 --> 01:31:35.610 And now I get to decide if I want to discard some of my cards. 01:31:35.750 --> 01:31:36.170 Yes. 01:31:37.110 --> 01:31:39.290 I'm not going to discard any of my cards. 01:31:39.930 --> 01:31:40.670 Oh, OK. 01:31:40.670 --> 01:31:41.250 I'm scared. 01:31:41.950 --> 01:31:48.670 That's that's the downside of that ability is that you get information about my hand based on how many I discard. 01:31:49.290 --> 01:31:49.790 Uh-huh. 01:31:49.830 --> 01:31:50.330 Uh-huh. 01:31:50.790 --> 01:31:52.090 Let's flip this card. 01:31:52.850 --> 01:31:54.970 So it is the 10 of clubs. 01:31:56.070 --> 01:31:57.830 The prize is a new special. 01:31:58.670 --> 01:32:01.370 A lingering wound or insult. 01:32:02.030 --> 01:32:05.350 Oh, I have an idea. 01:32:05.690 --> 01:32:06.550 Can this be? 01:32:07.770 --> 01:32:32.550 What if a lingering wound or insult like the lingering wound is the fact that you keep very obviously coming to these clubs that I start, even though at this point, even even to me, it feels like it should be obvious that I don't want you in these clubs at this point. 01:32:32.810 --> 01:32:34.970 What if it's a confrontation about that? 01:32:35.210 --> 01:32:43.510 And like, that's the stakes is like, opening up this wound, like directly, because I don't think my character has brought this up. 01:32:43.630 --> 01:32:44.850 What do you think about that? 01:32:45.290 --> 01:32:46.190 I like this idea. 01:32:46.210 --> 01:32:56.810 I think there's something interesting here about like walking into being like, hello, and you being like, I think in terms of how we frame this, we should decide who's the attacker. 01:32:56.830 --> 01:32:58.430 That's an eight. 01:32:59.070 --> 01:33:01.710 Oh, I get to decide who's the attacker first. 01:33:02.950 --> 01:33:04.030 You should attack first. 01:33:06.490 --> 01:33:07.750 Is this like months later? 01:33:07.930 --> 01:33:12.810 Do you think again, it's like, or do you think this is like immediately after? 01:33:12.830 --> 01:33:15.310 I think it's got to be SJW Club. 01:33:15.970 --> 01:33:18.710 This is a politically charged club by definition. 01:33:18.930 --> 01:33:29.950 So what if we just like have opposing ideals to the point where like, this is just not something that like Cole, that I can like, deal with anymore. 01:33:29.970 --> 01:33:36.670 I think like one day we've made it through our club meeting. 01:33:36.690 --> 01:33:40.170 And I think it was just exceptionally rough that day. 01:33:41.790 --> 01:33:45.510 Paula Tess, can I see you after class? 01:33:46.090 --> 01:33:48.830 I just, I want to talk about something. 01:33:50.870 --> 01:33:52.750 And I think I ask you to stay after class. 01:33:52.770 --> 01:33:53.710 This isn't my move. 01:33:53.730 --> 01:33:56.490 I'm just curious if you would stay after class. 01:33:56.710 --> 01:33:57.690 Not class, sorry. 01:33:57.710 --> 01:34:00.610 I guess I say, can you stay afterwards? 01:34:00.630 --> 01:34:02.430 I'm your teacher now. 01:34:02.830 --> 01:34:12.170 I've been promoted in these past few seconds, and I'm a teacher of this open-body learning facility. 01:34:12.930 --> 01:34:18.070 And I just ask you, can I talk to you afterwards? 01:34:18.610 --> 01:34:20.130 Absolutely, of course, Cole. 01:34:20.750 --> 01:34:29.530 The bell rings or the moss flashes or whatever to signal the end of the period of time that we have together. 01:34:29.550 --> 01:34:32.350 And I think everyone is filtering out. 01:34:32.810 --> 01:34:43.590 And Cole's gathering their things up extra slowly just to make sure that everybody leaves and is very nervous and shaking a little bit. 01:34:44.030 --> 01:35:00.430 And I think it comes up to you, I have to ask, would it be okay if you stop coming to the clubs that I make? 01:35:01.150 --> 01:35:01.590 Please. 01:35:03.250 --> 01:35:10.770 I think this is my attack, where it's like I am confronting you directly, telling you, do not do the thing you are doing. 01:35:10.790 --> 01:35:15.070 Yeah, I think unsurprisingly, she's going to block that. 01:35:15.630 --> 01:35:20.210 So you played a ten, I played a jack, which means I win, which means... 01:35:20.690 --> 01:35:26.610 The attacker wins, they eliminate a reprisal from the defender's sheet that matches the suit of the attacker's card. 01:35:27.490 --> 01:35:30.270 So you get to eliminate one of my hearts. 01:35:31.130 --> 01:35:36.070 I'm going to eliminate, your rival may not recover any reprisals before the end of the next duel. 01:35:36.810 --> 01:35:43.690 I think the kind of way in which you get me here is like, you kind of cast me off guard, where I'm like... 01:35:47.750 --> 01:35:52.410 I'm like, oh, I wasn't aware it was a problem. 01:35:56.010 --> 01:36:03.710 Cole, I'm happy to do as you wish, but I perhaps I had misunderstood. 01:36:03.730 --> 01:36:04.830 I thought we were friends. 01:36:05.610 --> 01:36:15.770 And is it not a reasonable thing for a friend to wish to spend time with another friend? 01:36:17.430 --> 01:36:18.510 I'm going to block this. 01:36:20.790 --> 01:36:21.950 Why are we friends? 01:36:22.530 --> 01:36:26.790 I used the jack, you used the three, and so I get to eliminate one of your reprisals. 01:36:27.770 --> 01:36:32.090 I am going to eliminate permanently reduce your rivals' maximum hand size by one. 01:36:32.750 --> 01:36:33.790 What's the response here? 01:36:35.270 --> 01:36:37.250 I think it's just Cole being shocked. 01:36:43.810 --> 01:36:46.810 Why do you not have friends? 01:36:46.830 --> 01:36:48.390 Do you know what friends are? 01:36:48.650 --> 01:36:54.230 Friends don't lurk in each other's clubs and make snide comments at them. 01:36:55.190 --> 01:36:58.990 I'm going to endure because she doesn't have a good response to this. 01:36:59.010 --> 01:37:04.410 I'm going to eliminate reduce your rivals' current hand size by one until the end of the next duel. 01:37:04.530 --> 01:37:05.430 How do you respond? 01:37:05.450 --> 01:37:08.070 Cole's being very direct right now. 01:37:09.050 --> 01:37:14.190 I think she's like, well, I mean, I have friends, of course. 01:37:15.410 --> 01:37:30.790 I feel that, you know, she's sort of like, and she's like, well, Cole, if you don't like me, you can just say so. 01:37:30.810 --> 01:37:34.050 I don't know why you've kept this going for so long. 01:37:35.410 --> 01:37:41.250 I started to think that maybe there was something here, but I suppose there isn't. 01:37:41.270 --> 01:37:50.550 I think I'm going to endure this time, and that's what I'm saying. 01:37:50.570 --> 01:37:52.690 I mean, am I not saying that? 01:37:53.730 --> 01:37:55.170 I'm going to eliminate. 01:37:55.490 --> 01:37:58.930 Your rival must show you two of the cards in their hand at the start of the next duel. 01:38:00.610 --> 01:38:04.910 Look, if you want to be friends, then you can at least try to act friendly. 01:38:04.930 --> 01:38:07.330 You don't have to be such a... 01:38:10.530 --> 01:38:11.310 nuisance. 01:38:11.550 --> 01:38:13.450 I'm sorry, I don't mean... 01:38:13.470 --> 01:38:15.210 I don't mean in a bad way. 01:38:15.970 --> 01:38:16.970 I'm blocking this? 01:38:17.890 --> 01:38:18.530 That's fair. 01:38:19.050 --> 01:38:24.230 I played the Queen of Hearts, you played the Eight of Clubs, so I win this one. 01:38:26.930 --> 01:38:30.130 Cole, let's be honest with ourselves for a moment. 01:38:31.130 --> 01:38:40.270 Are we not both people who need some sort of competition, who need some sort of adversary to truly be our best? 01:38:40.350 --> 01:38:47.610 To me, what I've been trying to do is to push you to be your best, and I think I've been doing a fantastic job. 01:38:48.510 --> 01:38:49.250 I'm enduring. 01:38:49.870 --> 01:38:54.890 I'm blocking one of your rival's reprisals may never be recovered once it is used, I'm blocking that one. 01:38:55.730 --> 01:38:57.950 I don't want any of those things, what? 01:38:57.990 --> 01:38:59.310 That's crazy. 01:38:59.590 --> 01:39:01.850 That's a crazy person thing to think. 01:39:02.330 --> 01:39:03.470 Like, I don't... 01:39:03.750 --> 01:39:06.210 You haven't been pushing me to be my best self. 01:39:06.410 --> 01:39:09.950 You've been judging everything I do. 01:39:10.070 --> 01:39:15.670 You've been there every time to just make sure that I can't have fun anymore. 01:39:16.010 --> 01:39:22.850 I've been starting these clubs to try and have a good time, and every time I look, you steal it from me. 01:39:29.190 --> 01:39:37.110 It's just like her kind of stammering, like unsure of what to say, and it's like, I clearly misunderstood. 01:39:37.850 --> 01:39:38.590 What's your card? 01:39:38.890 --> 01:39:39.810 King of Hearts. 01:39:40.270 --> 01:39:46.850 You only have one hearts left, which is one of your rival's reprisals may never be recovered once it is used. 01:39:47.930 --> 01:39:49.290 My kind of final attack is... 01:39:54.510 --> 01:40:00.410 Cole, you're the only person I've ever met who actually challenges me. 01:40:01.430 --> 01:40:06.330 It is not based on what you want that I'm doing this. 01:40:06.370 --> 01:40:09.890 It is based on what we both need. 01:40:10.750 --> 01:40:24.670 I believe, Cole, that the most productive our relationship could be is like this, is what I've been doing. 01:40:27.570 --> 01:40:31.030 I'm going to endure, but also I'm out of cards. 01:40:31.970 --> 01:40:34.370 I'm going to eliminate one of your reprisals. 01:40:34.810 --> 01:40:41.690 Yeah, I only have one spades left, which is reduce your rival's current hand size by one until the end of the next duel. 01:40:42.110 --> 01:40:43.550 Are you out of cards too? 01:40:44.010 --> 01:40:45.050 I'm also out of cards. 01:40:45.450 --> 01:40:47.270 So if we're both out of cards... 01:40:47.650 --> 01:40:52.370 If we're both out of cards, flip a card from the deck, and then depending on the suit, that's how this ends. 01:40:52.890 --> 01:40:54.910 Oh my goodness. 01:40:54.930 --> 01:40:57.390 Oh, these are rough. 01:40:57.410 --> 01:41:00.210 I just want to respond quickly before we do this. 01:41:01.490 --> 01:41:05.350 I don't want to play in your fantasy game anymore. 01:41:06.150 --> 01:41:07.890 Let's flip this card. 01:41:08.690 --> 01:41:09.730 That's a clubs. 01:41:11.370 --> 01:41:13.590 We both lose a passing time scene. 01:41:14.630 --> 01:41:17.350 Cole just bursts out crying and runs out of the room. 01:41:17.370 --> 01:41:31.030 And I think we like see Paula Tess's face as she's like just jaw open, like confused. 01:41:32.110 --> 01:41:33.510 She thought this was fun. 01:41:33.910 --> 01:41:35.150 This is fun to her. 01:41:36.650 --> 01:41:38.250 Why isn't this fun to other people? 01:41:40.210 --> 01:41:54.130 And so, yeah, so we both lose a passing time scene as I think like, I think on my end, what that is, is it's just her kind of like not knowing how to, what to do. 01:41:54.150 --> 01:41:58.070 But like for Paula Tess, what this looks like is her wandering the halls. 01:41:58.690 --> 01:42:02.030 Just sort of like, oh God, like, what am I doing? 01:42:02.130 --> 01:42:03.170 What's my purpose? 01:42:03.810 --> 01:42:05.950 I don't think there's a club for a few weeks. 01:42:06.790 --> 01:42:09.770 I think it's, I think it is just cool. 01:42:10.250 --> 01:42:15.750 Like we haven't said that there's classes, but I think it's cool just like, like not doing anything. 01:42:15.970 --> 01:42:18.130 I think just like, cause they're scared. 01:42:18.170 --> 01:42:20.390 Like that was a, that was a confrontation. 01:42:20.410 --> 01:42:22.470 That was like an actual confrontation. 01:42:22.490 --> 01:42:27.110 And if I show my face, then like I, I was awful. 01:42:27.190 --> 01:42:28.230 I was so mean. 01:42:28.250 --> 01:42:32.190 I have an idea for what'll be, what'll be kind of the next conflict. 01:42:32.390 --> 01:42:33.730 We do have one more passing time. 01:42:34.610 --> 01:42:35.410 We do, we get one. 01:42:35.850 --> 01:42:38.330 I think I'm going to recover my reprisals, not my special. 01:42:38.650 --> 01:42:40.750 And so you're licking your wounds and recovering. 01:42:40.770 --> 01:42:43.110 What is, what is that like? 01:42:43.110 --> 01:42:49.930 I think it's like, I think in like the week, it's one therapy session. 01:42:50.850 --> 01:42:59.330 Because like one therapy session is enough for her to be like, oh, I had this fight and I'm sad and I don't know what to do. 01:42:59.510 --> 01:43:04.210 But it's not long enough for her to get into the like underlying issues of why she's doing this. 01:43:04.770 --> 01:43:13.630 Does she like be like, oh, my friend and I had a fight and they said something mean to me and I don't really know what to say about it. 01:43:13.650 --> 01:43:15.750 Like, what is the framing of this? 01:43:15.930 --> 01:43:22.710 I think the framing is like, I thought that we were friends, but I guess they didn't think we were friends. 01:43:23.670 --> 01:43:27.750 And I don't know how to, where to go from here. 01:43:28.590 --> 01:43:31.210 And the advice is probably like, well, have you tried talking to them? 01:43:31.710 --> 01:43:32.790 Yes, basically. 01:43:33.610 --> 01:43:41.270 So I think I'm also, I'm going to knock back four reprisals back to what they were before. 01:43:41.710 --> 01:43:43.690 And so I'm also licking my wounds. 01:43:43.690 --> 01:43:47.430 It's funny because I was also going to be like, oh, it's a therapy session. 01:43:47.670 --> 01:43:49.550 But what if it's the same therapist? 01:43:50.110 --> 01:43:51.470 God, that's so good. 01:43:52.090 --> 01:43:53.950 It's the one school therapist. 01:43:53.970 --> 01:43:55.570 And again, it's not like a school. 01:43:55.730 --> 01:44:06.930 It's like a private learning institution, but like it probably is still has like the one therapist for the like potentially hundreds, if not thousands of individuals. 01:44:07.030 --> 01:44:07.590 I don't know. 01:44:07.610 --> 01:44:08.650 Yes, basically. 01:44:08.810 --> 01:44:27.130 But I think it's just like one therapy session of like Cole just talking and not really stopping, because do the floodgates ever just burst open for you and you like finally have the words to like say what you've been wanting to say for potentially months at this point. 01:44:27.410 --> 01:44:32.170 And you have to tell everybody, but it just so happens that the first person you actually tell is a therapist. 01:44:32.530 --> 01:44:35.170 That happens basically for an hour. 01:44:35.730 --> 01:44:48.230 I love the idea of it's like politests like coming out the door and like in the same shot, like 10 seconds pass and then Cole walks in the door and it's literally the next client. 01:44:48.510 --> 01:44:49.590 Yeah, absolutely. 01:44:49.610 --> 01:44:50.230 That's what it is. 01:44:50.510 --> 01:44:54.010 Do you want to draw a card and see how it works with your idea? 01:44:55.150 --> 01:44:56.650 Yeah, I would love to. 01:44:57.150 --> 01:44:58.390 So the Nine of Diamonds. 01:44:59.350 --> 01:45:00.570 Oh, we're back. 01:45:00.690 --> 01:45:01.970 We've gotten a nine before. 01:45:02.150 --> 01:45:03.310 We started with a nine. 01:45:04.490 --> 01:45:08.950 VIP status at a social event or diplomatic negotiation. 01:45:09.270 --> 01:45:12.030 Does this work with what you had envisioned? 01:45:12.590 --> 01:45:13.770 Maybe we can workshop it. 01:45:13.790 --> 01:45:14.690 What was your vision? 01:45:15.190 --> 01:45:20.470 My original vision was that she kind of shows up at Cole's door. 01:45:21.070 --> 01:45:24.910 Can I suggest what if Cole is having a party with their real friends? 01:45:25.730 --> 01:45:26.770 Oh, that's rough. 01:45:27.430 --> 01:45:29.970 The conflict is to get access to this party. 01:45:29.990 --> 01:45:31.770 Oh, that sucks. 01:45:32.010 --> 01:45:33.670 That makes me feel so bad. 01:45:33.690 --> 01:45:35.150 It might be right. 01:45:35.170 --> 01:45:37.950 I want to give my character some agency. 01:45:37.970 --> 01:45:44.190 I want her to make a move because so much of her shit is reacting. 01:45:45.110 --> 01:45:45.390 Right? 01:45:45.410 --> 01:45:50.090 This is like this entire game has been Cole setting things up and then her reacting to them. 01:45:50.390 --> 01:45:53.110 And I want her to set something up so that Cole has to react. 01:45:54.410 --> 01:45:55.250 Oh, okay. 01:45:55.870 --> 01:45:56.750 Right? 01:45:56.750 --> 01:45:59.310 That feels fitting, honestly, after this. 01:45:59.610 --> 01:46:00.450 Okay, here we go. 01:46:00.470 --> 01:46:01.230 I have one. 01:46:02.150 --> 01:46:11.710 I think one of the traditions at this school is like a tournament of sorts, like a dueling tournament. 01:46:12.270 --> 01:46:18.290 It's kind of expected that you will participate in. 01:46:18.310 --> 01:46:20.210 Like everybody? 01:46:20.530 --> 01:46:24.970 Yeah, like in the school or at least certain groups of people. 01:46:24.990 --> 01:46:39.430 And I think there's just a day where she knocks on Cole's door, and they open it and she passes them a saber or whatever, and it's like, come on, we're going to practice. 01:46:43.250 --> 01:46:49.350 Can it be like, it's not that time, it's like Cole has to decide and Cole ultimately does decide to go? 01:46:49.370 --> 01:46:58.470 Like, if it's like, Paul Utes coming by, leaving a really ornate gift, and the long gift is, I'm assuming, like, the... 01:46:58.490 --> 01:46:59.890 Like a fencing, yeah. 01:47:00.010 --> 01:47:02.050 Yeah, a fencing lance or sword. 01:47:02.590 --> 01:47:10.650 But it's like a beautiful box on my doorstep, you're not even there, and there's just a note, like, noon tomorrow, here's the location. 01:47:11.070 --> 01:47:11.430 Yes. 01:47:11.450 --> 01:47:14.830 And it's just like, Cole has to decide whether or not to go. 01:47:14.830 --> 01:47:19.690 And I think at first, it's like, Cole's like, no, fuck this, like, absolutely not. 01:47:19.850 --> 01:47:24.470 Like, has just an hour of a meltdown, and is like, I will never show my face ever again. 01:47:24.490 --> 01:47:27.410 And then it's like three hours of like, well, do I go? 01:47:27.430 --> 01:47:28.950 Like, maybe I should. 01:47:29.110 --> 01:47:31.270 Maybe this will finally put an end to everything. 01:47:32.970 --> 01:47:36.630 Like, I show up and like, where are you? 01:47:36.650 --> 01:47:40.270 Like, where is this place you've invited Cole to? 01:47:40.790 --> 01:47:41.950 It's a practice room. 01:47:42.490 --> 01:47:49.450 I can't decide whether it's a common practice room or it's like something that her family has. 01:47:49.470 --> 01:47:53.210 I don't think Cole would go to a private location. 01:47:53.230 --> 01:47:55.730 That feels like, like scary. 01:47:56.190 --> 01:48:01.550 So yeah, it's like a common practice room that is there kind of for this purpose, and she's booked it. 01:48:02.390 --> 01:48:03.970 Do you have things like set up? 01:48:03.990 --> 01:48:10.030 Like, is there some grand thing that you've done with this room as Cole walks in and sees anything? 01:48:10.510 --> 01:48:11.450 No, it's just you? 01:48:12.190 --> 01:48:15.050 It's just me and a sword and like... 01:48:16.590 --> 01:48:18.130 Like, because I... 01:48:18.390 --> 01:48:24.730 Like, the reason that I'm framing this way is like, my thing that I've decided not to renew is always prepared. 01:48:25.690 --> 01:48:27.890 I am not prepared for this. 01:48:28.290 --> 01:48:29.070 I've just like... 01:48:29.950 --> 01:48:32.550 I've just like been like, well, come on. 01:48:32.810 --> 01:48:41.350 It's basically her in just this big empty room where there's, I assume, bleachers of some kind for people to watch and maybe there's one or two people there. 01:48:41.530 --> 01:48:45.870 But she's just been practicing and just sort of looks up when you walk in. 01:48:46.430 --> 01:48:47.690 You know, it's interesting. 01:48:48.070 --> 01:48:53.650 The spoils of this are a point to victory or a point to reconciliation. 01:48:54.170 --> 01:48:55.550 Yeah, that feels fitting. 01:48:55.870 --> 01:49:09.950 I also think this is like specifically a, you know, with with the VIP aspect of this, it's like this is in a way kind of a a smaller representation of how this tournament is going to go. 01:49:10.510 --> 01:49:10.910 Right. 01:49:11.470 --> 01:49:18.030 Like, all right, the very least, it's like the sense of like how things would go when we face off for real. 01:49:18.950 --> 01:49:23.410 And the VIP status is who ultimately comes out on top. 01:49:26.350 --> 01:49:26.910 Oh, I see. 01:49:27.190 --> 01:49:27.650 Yes. 01:49:28.310 --> 01:49:28.890 All right. 01:49:29.650 --> 01:49:31.290 Let's see who goes first. 01:49:32.690 --> 01:49:33.050 Yeah. 01:49:33.070 --> 01:49:34.310 Oh, aces are low. 01:49:34.330 --> 01:49:36.190 I get to decide who goes first. 01:49:36.930 --> 01:49:44.250 I think Cole just like shakes their head and like walks into the room and is like, I don't know why I'm doing this. 01:49:44.730 --> 01:49:48.090 And like, I guess we don't have like armor because it's just we're rock. 01:49:48.110 --> 01:49:48.750 It doesn't matter. 01:49:49.290 --> 01:49:56.910 Like, it's fine and just like walks up to like the starting position is just like, well, come on. 01:49:57.910 --> 01:49:59.130 I think you can go first. 01:49:59.790 --> 01:50:04.410 OK, she starts out with, all right, let's get into position. 01:50:04.470 --> 01:50:07.090 And I think there is the duel happening as she speaks. 01:50:07.650 --> 01:50:11.690 Cole, I was thinking perhaps we can find a better arrangement. 01:50:12.250 --> 01:50:19.410 I think the attack is her just assuming like, well, we have to we have to figure out some way to do this. 01:50:19.850 --> 01:50:20.910 Keep doing this thing. 01:50:21.930 --> 01:50:23.450 I'm going to endure. 01:50:23.650 --> 01:50:28.250 And I think what that looks like is literally enduring as they flinch at that. 01:50:29.010 --> 01:50:33.030 And like you get a point in on them and and we reset. 01:50:35.310 --> 01:50:37.450 There's no I'm not making arrangements. 01:50:37.470 --> 01:50:40.710 I'm just I'm just playing your game. 01:50:41.750 --> 01:50:42.890 And what are you marking? 01:50:43.710 --> 01:50:46.910 One of your rivals reprisals may never be recovered once it is used. 01:50:47.030 --> 01:50:47.930 So we've reset. 01:50:48.670 --> 01:50:58.110 And I think Cole makes like a jump, a jumping lunge at the I don't know how fencing works, a jumping lunge at the beginning, which is totally legal in this. 01:50:58.230 --> 01:51:02.210 And just like after this match, I don't ever want to see you again. 01:51:02.230 --> 01:51:05.530 Oh, she's going to try and block that. 01:51:06.110 --> 01:51:07.150 Oh, I still win. 01:51:07.570 --> 01:51:11.110 Yeah, I was not expecting I played a two. 01:51:11.590 --> 01:51:13.650 I was like, I'm just going to throw this away. 01:51:13.930 --> 01:51:15.270 What does that look like? 01:51:15.290 --> 01:51:15.550 Right. 01:51:15.810 --> 01:51:21.730 And just quickly, I'm just going to say I'm going to I'm going to remark, permanently remove one of your rival specials. 01:51:22.070 --> 01:51:22.370 Yeah. 01:51:22.390 --> 01:51:23.030 What does that look like? 01:51:23.050 --> 01:51:30.490 I think she tries to mount like this unsuccessful defense is like rapidly trying to hit your blows away. 01:51:30.510 --> 01:51:35.490 She's like, but Cole, we're we have a connection. 01:51:35.770 --> 01:51:41.210 We we can't we we're not it can't. 01:51:41.230 --> 01:51:44.070 And then you like get a hit in and we reset. 01:51:45.050 --> 01:51:48.670 And she says, like, what can I do? 01:51:48.850 --> 01:51:53.290 What what could I do to to to keep this going? 01:51:53.310 --> 01:51:56.290 Cole, I we need this. 01:51:56.310 --> 01:51:57.850 I'm going to endure again. 01:51:58.490 --> 01:52:03.970 I'm going to get rid of the permanently reduce your rivals maximum hand size by one. 01:52:04.550 --> 01:52:10.270 I think Cole just goes, you clearly need this. 01:52:10.290 --> 01:52:12.090 I need space. 01:52:12.110 --> 01:52:19.710 I think the attack, I think what they say is what you need is friends. 01:52:19.710 --> 01:52:24.610 What you need is someone who will talk to you. 01:52:25.470 --> 01:52:27.430 All you ever want to do is talk. 01:52:29.430 --> 01:52:30.490 You need to listen, please. 01:52:32.490 --> 01:52:33.550 I'm going to endure. 01:52:34.270 --> 01:52:39.870 And the endurance here is her just saying, okay, Cole, I'm listening. 01:52:40.430 --> 01:52:48.370 And then her attack is, is like again, a flurry of kind of sword blows and is like, yes, I'm listening. 01:52:48.390 --> 01:52:49.450 And then keeps talking. 01:52:49.450 --> 01:52:50.790 And then says, yeah. 01:52:50.810 --> 01:52:55.010 And then says, tell me the truth, Cole, about what this could mean to you. 01:52:55.030 --> 01:52:59.730 I'm going to endure, but you never listen to me. 01:53:00.250 --> 01:53:01.550 So I don't know why it's different. 01:53:01.690 --> 01:53:07.790 And I don't know why telling you the truth would make a difference because you only listen to yourself or you only listen to what you want to hear. 01:53:07.970 --> 01:53:10.890 You never actually think outside of your own mind. 01:53:11.090 --> 01:53:12.550 You need to get out of your brain. 01:53:12.910 --> 01:53:14.490 You need a friend. 01:53:14.750 --> 01:53:16.030 And that's not going to be me. 01:53:17.370 --> 01:53:18.970 That was my endure and my attack. 01:53:18.990 --> 01:53:20.790 So go ahead and mark. 01:53:21.190 --> 01:53:22.450 Mark your other spade. 01:53:22.770 --> 01:53:25.650 Reduce your rival's current hand size by one until the end of the next duel. 01:53:26.450 --> 01:53:29.350 The response is a concede. 01:53:29.590 --> 01:53:30.370 She concedes. 01:53:30.530 --> 01:53:31.230 Really? 01:53:31.870 --> 01:53:32.250 Yeah. 01:53:33.570 --> 01:53:35.870 She says, she even say anything? 01:53:35.890 --> 01:53:39.030 I think she just goes, I, you could... 01:53:39.930 --> 01:53:47.010 She's like in the middle of deflecting and then she just stops and she says, but I, you, I... 01:53:47.850 --> 01:53:54.390 And she drops the sword to the ground and just runs out of the room. 01:53:55.330 --> 01:53:57.610 A fun and lighthearted comedy story. 01:53:57.630 --> 01:54:04.690 So on a concede, I take the spoils, which, God, I guess, what is winning? 01:54:04.710 --> 01:54:10.330 I like the idea that it's just like, you gotta buy. 01:54:11.330 --> 01:54:16.770 We were scheduled to fight at some point in the tournament, and I just didn't show up. 01:54:18.670 --> 01:54:18.890 Oh. 01:54:20.430 --> 01:54:29.130 I think there's almost like a, like, oh, yeah, like, she'll come and I can apologize and, like, I could say sorry for all the mean shit I said. 01:54:29.150 --> 01:54:32.990 And the announcer is like, oh, we got 10 minutes until it's, like, called. 01:54:33.570 --> 01:54:37.530 And Cole starts to get, like, anxious, like, oh, God, is everything okay? 01:54:38.610 --> 01:54:40.210 Like, did something happen to her? 01:54:40.710 --> 01:54:45.930 And then, like, the match gets called, and I think Cole's still just waiting for, like, a while. 01:54:46.570 --> 01:54:48.430 I'm gonna put a point in reconciliation. 01:54:48.930 --> 01:54:49.210 Yeah. 01:54:49.910 --> 01:54:51.410 I don't know if that feels right. 01:54:51.690 --> 01:54:54.790 It feels, it feels potentially fitting. 01:54:55.090 --> 01:54:56.750 Like, it's up to you, right? 01:54:56.770 --> 01:54:57.370 It's your call. 01:54:57.850 --> 01:54:59.050 Should Cole feel bad? 01:54:59.070 --> 01:55:05.570 I don't know, but I think Cole feels bad, and, like, thinks this is, you know, their fault for what they said. 01:55:05.590 --> 01:55:21.150 And, I mean, I just want to be very clear that, like, you know, in real life, this is just someone standing up for themselves and then setting a boundary, but it can often be very hard to set a boundary when you haven't done it in, like, either a long time or ever. 01:55:21.170 --> 01:55:23.650 And it can often feel gross. 01:55:23.770 --> 01:55:26.890 So I think Cole just hasn't done this before. 01:55:28.310 --> 01:55:38.230 On kind of my side, like, my character is shitty, is, like, shitty and is being manipulative because she doesn't have a better coping mechanism for the things that she's feeling. 01:55:38.250 --> 01:55:40.650 Yeah, she's in her head a lot. 01:55:40.890 --> 01:55:48.290 She's in her head a lot and was, like, she's projected onto Cole that Cole is, like, going to save her from the boring life that she has. 01:55:48.310 --> 01:55:52.770 Oh, the boring life of being a rich, like, philosopher. 01:55:52.790 --> 01:55:54.010 Yeah, right? 01:55:54.030 --> 01:55:56.270 Like, it's nonsense. 01:55:56.670 --> 01:55:59.350 Which, like, to be clear, Cole is also a rich philosopher. 01:55:59.710 --> 01:56:00.830 Yes, uh-huh. 01:56:01.470 --> 01:56:06.850 Um, what does the passing time look like? 01:56:08.890 --> 01:56:09.710 I know what mine is. 01:56:09.730 --> 01:56:11.850 Oh, wait, no, first I have to use a reprisal on you. 01:56:12.970 --> 01:56:14.910 Oh, right, I forgot how the game works. 01:56:14.930 --> 01:56:16.650 I have to flip a card, right? 01:56:16.670 --> 01:56:17.830 I flip a card and then... 01:56:18.830 --> 01:56:20.850 No, I choose a card from your hand. 01:56:20.870 --> 01:56:22.110 I have one card. 01:56:23.070 --> 01:56:24.190 Okay, then it's that card. 01:56:24.210 --> 01:56:25.750 That's the four of spades. 01:56:26.030 --> 01:56:28.290 Spades, so what are you using on me? 01:56:28.310 --> 01:56:29.590 Do you have either of your spades? 01:56:29.610 --> 01:56:30.250 You do. 01:56:30.470 --> 01:56:33.730 I reduce your rival's current hand size by one until the end of the next duel. 01:56:34.510 --> 01:56:37.770 Oh, which is the last duel, so I get four cards next duel. 01:56:37.950 --> 01:56:38.590 Great. 01:56:39.050 --> 01:56:40.250 Which should be interesting. 01:56:40.630 --> 01:56:45.090 Yeah, and I'm recovering my special, is what I'll be doing. 01:56:45.610 --> 01:56:49.550 So show a vignette of your duelists gathering their resources and recover one spent special. 01:56:49.570 --> 01:57:00.470 I mean, mine here is, I think it's like her, you know, in her room, just like very like broken up about things and is like sad and stuff. 01:57:00.790 --> 01:57:03.970 And then she like is like, you know what? 01:57:04.170 --> 01:57:05.650 I don't I don't need this. 01:57:05.670 --> 01:57:06.510 I don't need them. 01:57:06.530 --> 01:57:08.650 I'll I'll make my own club. 01:57:09.150 --> 01:57:13.710 I'll make my own club and I and I will need I'll find another person. 01:57:13.950 --> 01:57:15.250 I'll find someone better. 01:57:15.750 --> 01:57:17.550 Someone who deserves this rivalry. 01:57:18.830 --> 01:57:22.110 And you have truly been challenged yet. 01:57:22.130 --> 01:57:23.450 Yeah, exactly. 01:57:23.470 --> 01:57:24.810 I wasn't beaten. 01:57:25.190 --> 01:57:37.650 No, I'm going to show my do list researching or practicing their strategies and discard as many cards as I like and draw the same amount of cards. 01:57:38.870 --> 01:57:43.430 I mean, I think the strategy is just like, I need to know what my next club is. 01:57:43.470 --> 01:57:47.090 Like, I think, you know, I've let this distraction go on long enough. 01:57:47.930 --> 01:57:51.370 I assume this is the last I'm going to see of Paula Tess. 01:57:51.390 --> 01:57:54.510 I haven't seen her in like a week at this point. 01:57:55.150 --> 01:57:56.990 Not even since that duel, probably. 01:57:57.430 --> 01:57:58.430 Yeah, probably. 01:57:58.890 --> 01:58:00.490 Maybe it's more than a week. 01:58:00.510 --> 01:58:01.910 Maybe it's a few weeks. 01:58:01.930 --> 01:58:02.730 Maybe it's a month. 01:58:03.670 --> 01:58:13.370 But I think, like, just unbothered, I am given a foothold to sort of regain myself and organize. 01:58:13.450 --> 01:58:17.250 And I'm going to discard two cards and draw two more. 01:58:18.030 --> 01:58:18.830 Yeah, all right. 01:58:18.990 --> 01:58:24.930 And then we can figure out what this last duel is going to be about. 01:58:25.210 --> 01:58:27.390 First, we draw cards into our hand. 01:58:27.990 --> 01:58:30.330 I'm going to be using my specials, so I'm going to grab six. 01:58:31.190 --> 01:58:31.670 Great. 01:58:31.690 --> 01:58:33.510 I have four cards this time. 01:58:34.030 --> 01:58:36.090 Yeah, you're not well set up for this one. 01:58:38.070 --> 01:58:42.830 Now let's figure out what the spoils in the, you know, the the thing. 01:58:42.830 --> 01:58:44.950 This six of diamonds. 01:58:47.810 --> 01:58:51.050 An injury or compromise of one's well-being. 01:58:51.070 --> 01:58:52.730 This is the final duel. 01:58:52.750 --> 01:58:56.610 I don't want this to be like a life or death situation. 01:58:56.630 --> 01:58:58.150 I don't think that's what this is. 01:58:59.310 --> 01:59:00.370 No, no, absolutely not. 01:59:00.910 --> 01:59:08.270 What if we accidentally made the same type of club and like a few months later, like we both make it to Nationals or something? 01:59:08.890 --> 01:59:10.150 Yeah, fuck it. 01:59:10.170 --> 01:59:10.470 Sure. 01:59:10.490 --> 01:59:11.790 I love this. 01:59:11.810 --> 01:59:13.830 What if we both made a Glee club? 01:59:15.370 --> 01:59:16.430 I don't know that it should be. 01:59:16.590 --> 01:59:18.050 Does it have to be a Glee club? 01:59:18.070 --> 01:59:19.290 I feel like we can do. 01:59:19.530 --> 01:59:21.910 No, it doesn't have to be. 01:59:22.130 --> 01:59:25.510 This is like, this is the ultimate showdown, you know? 01:59:26.190 --> 01:59:30.210 Look, Glee made Glee club look like the ultimate showdown. 01:59:30.450 --> 01:59:32.090 It's not quite, but go off. 01:59:34.870 --> 01:59:38.510 I'm almost more interested in it being like a kind of... 01:59:38.950 --> 01:59:39.810 Poetry club? 01:59:40.390 --> 01:59:46.450 No, I just am questioning whether this needs to be like this big kind of going to nationals thing. 01:59:46.770 --> 01:59:50.790 I want this to be really personal, because at this point this has gotten really personal. 01:59:51.310 --> 02:00:00.270 What if the stage is nationals, but it's like this is like behind the curtain, or afterwards, or beforehand, or like the night out. 02:00:00.590 --> 02:00:09.030 It's just like we don't know where we are, like we're in strange land, or we are fish out of water, or rocks out of water. 02:00:09.270 --> 02:00:11.910 I also like the idea of Atlantis nationals. 02:00:12.650 --> 02:00:13.630 Yeah, it's very funny. 02:00:15.770 --> 02:00:22.750 I think this has to be a situation in which like, we are forced to interact, because I don't know that we would interact otherwise. 02:00:23.750 --> 02:00:24.330 Yeah. 02:00:25.130 --> 02:00:25.290 All. 02:00:25.310 --> 02:00:40.650 All the teams are put up in one location, and there's one dining hall, and it just so happens that we, the seats are assigned maybe, and also, is Paula Tess by herself? 02:00:41.210 --> 02:00:41.910 Yeah, of course. 02:00:42.450 --> 02:00:44.710 Okay, I don't think Cole's alone. 02:00:44.730 --> 02:00:46.990 You know breakfast at a hotel? 02:00:49.870 --> 02:00:50.330 Uh-huh. 02:00:51.410 --> 02:00:55.930 Like, like, sad breakfasts are like good, like, are there melons and honeydew? 02:00:56.010 --> 02:00:57.990 Or is it like four types of cereal? 02:00:58.010 --> 02:00:58.970 There's good shit. 02:01:00.890 --> 02:01:04.070 I think it's like, everyone is kind of there, right? 02:01:04.770 --> 02:01:09.730 And Cole is like sitting down and eating at this table with like two friends. 02:01:10.270 --> 02:01:18.930 And there's like one open spot and Paula Tess comes in and it's the only open spot left. 02:01:19.410 --> 02:01:24.490 She sort of looks around and is like, like, okay, we should decide what club this is. 02:01:24.510 --> 02:01:27.050 I think Poetry Club is interesting. 02:01:27.670 --> 02:01:28.790 I think that's fine. 02:01:28.810 --> 02:01:39.790 I like, I love the idea of like, does Paula Tess like try and see if someone's gonna leave, but is like awkward, now awkwardly standing there for like over a minute. 02:01:39.810 --> 02:01:44.190 And it's just like, nobody leaves and just like, she's hungry. 02:01:44.870 --> 02:01:51.670 Yeah, and I think she like kind of sheepishly comes over and it's like, can I sit here? 02:01:53.210 --> 02:01:57.410 Cole looks around the room, I guess. 02:01:57.430 --> 02:02:00.870 I think she just kind of starts eating. 02:02:01.190 --> 02:02:03.970 Let's decide who's gonna attack first here. 02:02:04.690 --> 02:02:05.310 That's a queen. 02:02:05.490 --> 02:02:07.170 All right, you get to decide. 02:02:08.070 --> 02:02:13.850 If you want to go first, Cole just goes back to laughing with their friends, maybe? 02:02:16.350 --> 02:02:17.710 Like just pretends you're not there. 02:02:18.030 --> 02:02:26.950 Yeah, I think she attacks first, and I think her attack is so written any good new poetry recently. 02:02:28.370 --> 02:02:36.990 The like, laughter cuts off, I guess, and they just like look at you and they're like, yep. 02:02:39.670 --> 02:02:40.750 Is this enduring? 02:02:41.010 --> 02:02:42.110 Oh, it's enduring. 02:02:42.130 --> 02:02:43.950 Yeah, it's enduring 100%. 02:02:44.550 --> 02:02:46.570 I'm just gonna, it doesn't matter. 02:02:46.710 --> 02:02:49.850 I'll eliminate that you may not attack first in the next duel. 02:02:50.350 --> 02:02:51.430 There is no next duel. 02:02:51.450 --> 02:02:53.590 Yeah, this is the last one. 02:02:54.450 --> 02:02:55.450 What's your attack? 02:02:55.830 --> 02:02:57.150 Oh, God, I have to attack. 02:02:59.590 --> 02:03:04.550 Oh, you're still an active participant, regardless of whether or not, like, I know. 02:03:04.610 --> 02:03:08.030 I'm just like, I don't want to be like, Cole's polite. 02:03:08.430 --> 02:03:09.810 Cole's also compassionate. 02:03:09.830 --> 02:03:12.530 That is another flaw of mine. 02:03:12.550 --> 02:03:19.330 And I think after this awkward, like, silence of like, yep, doesn't know what to say for a second. 02:03:19.650 --> 02:03:25.470 And then it's like, it's cool that you started your own club. 02:03:26.870 --> 02:03:29.910 I didn't think you'd do that. 02:03:31.330 --> 02:03:34.910 I don't know if that's actually an attack, but I don't know if it feels like an attack. 02:03:34.950 --> 02:03:36.850 Yeah, play a card. 02:03:36.870 --> 02:03:38.150 Let me play a card. 02:03:39.310 --> 02:03:41.070 I'm going to block it. 02:03:41.790 --> 02:03:50.050 And the way that I'm blocking it is I am saying, yeah, well, I guess there's some things you didn't know about me, Cole. 02:03:50.990 --> 02:03:53.090 So you block that successfully? 02:03:53.110 --> 02:03:58.690 And then I think my attack is, it's her. 02:03:58.750 --> 02:04:00.130 She's still this way. 02:04:00.150 --> 02:04:09.750 She says, like, she says, really excited to get on that stage and show who's really the best at this. 02:04:10.890 --> 02:04:13.170 I'm going to endure. 02:04:13.790 --> 02:04:21.270 I think it's just like, it's Cole just being like, oh, yeah, I'm actually rooting for Granite. 02:04:21.710 --> 02:04:25.270 I really like his words he's going to share this year. 02:04:26.570 --> 02:04:30.990 I'm excited for everybody's, but yeah, I think he's going to take it. 02:04:31.750 --> 02:04:34.770 You're trying to imply it's like you versus me again. 02:04:34.790 --> 02:04:36.630 And I'm like, oh, yeah, it's this other person. 02:04:36.730 --> 02:04:38.750 Yeah, of course. 02:04:39.730 --> 02:04:43.750 I checked your rival must show you two of the cards in their hand at the start of the next tool. 02:04:43.750 --> 02:04:45.230 That is what I okay. 02:04:45.270 --> 02:04:46.570 Yeah, you're attacked now. 02:04:47.770 --> 02:04:50.150 It's like awkward for a second. 02:04:50.450 --> 02:04:55.170 And then Cole like makes like shifts their eyes to their friends. 02:04:55.730 --> 02:05:00.170 You're like across the table from me, I'm assuming, because it's four people at a table. 02:05:00.390 --> 02:05:00.730 Yeah. 02:05:00.910 --> 02:05:03.070 And I think Cole's eyes like shift back and forth. 02:05:03.090 --> 02:05:12.390 And then like, looks a little nervous and it's like, do you want to go shopping with us before the tournament? 02:05:13.690 --> 02:05:15.090 This is a genuine moment. 02:05:15.230 --> 02:05:17.390 And I don't know if that's like expected. 02:05:17.410 --> 02:05:21.750 Yeah, I can't tell if this is block or endure. 02:05:21.770 --> 02:05:22.830 I'm going to say the thing. 02:05:22.850 --> 02:05:25.490 And then I want you to help me figure this out with what this is. 02:05:26.090 --> 02:05:34.370 Because the in-character thing for her to say is, I appreciate what you're doing, Cole, but you don't have to. 02:05:34.390 --> 02:05:36.690 I get it. 02:05:38.990 --> 02:05:40.550 It sounds like endure. 02:05:40.870 --> 02:05:41.350 It does. 02:05:41.570 --> 02:05:42.790 Yeah, I think she's enduring. 02:05:44.090 --> 02:05:47.430 I am going to mark one of your rivals reprisals. 02:05:47.450 --> 02:05:49.510 It's going to be recovered once it's used. 02:05:49.530 --> 02:05:52.230 Again, not much matters at this point. 02:05:53.090 --> 02:05:54.450 What matters is the story. 02:05:54.950 --> 02:06:03.890 And in the interest of the story and kind of her next attack, I think what she says is, I hope you find what you need when you go shopping. 02:06:05.110 --> 02:06:06.130 I mean, I'm enduring. 02:06:06.150 --> 02:06:07.570 I know what I'm going to say. 02:06:07.850 --> 02:06:11.270 Oh, it's, I mean, the shopping isn't really about what we find. 02:06:11.290 --> 02:06:14.330 It's just, you know, we like spending time together. 02:06:14.350 --> 02:06:18.090 And I heard this city has some fun, fun stores. 02:06:18.190 --> 02:06:22.770 I'm just excited to, you know, hang out with my friends. 02:06:23.870 --> 02:06:26.330 Thought, I don't know. 02:06:28.090 --> 02:06:29.650 I don't know if this sounds rude. 02:06:29.670 --> 02:06:37.190 I just don't know if you've gotten to just hang out with friends before. 02:06:37.210 --> 02:06:39.530 That's why I asked. 02:06:41.110 --> 02:06:43.110 I'll just eliminate your other heart. 02:06:43.130 --> 02:06:43.630 Doesn't matter. 02:06:43.650 --> 02:06:46.410 Yeah, so what are you doing? 02:06:47.070 --> 02:06:52.350 God, she just says like, I never wanted your pity and I sure don't want it now. 02:06:54.070 --> 02:06:55.150 Is this you blocking? 02:06:55.390 --> 02:06:56.010 This is me blocking. 02:06:57.530 --> 02:07:06.210 Unfortunately, I am using, my ace is high, I'm using my ability, vicious reversal. 02:07:06.230 --> 02:07:14.130 I guess narratively how this is a vicious reversal is like, I'm just trying to do what you wanted. 02:07:14.150 --> 02:07:16.290 I thought you wanted to interact. 02:07:16.290 --> 02:07:18.270 I thought you wanted to be friends. 02:07:18.650 --> 02:07:23.610 I'm just trying and it seems like, it just seems like there's no winning. 02:07:23.630 --> 02:07:26.190 I can't get you to leave. 02:07:26.210 --> 02:07:28.390 I can't get you to come with us. 02:07:29.190 --> 02:07:30.690 What do you want? 02:07:31.910 --> 02:07:32.990 Who are you? 02:07:33.010 --> 02:07:40.790 I don't know anything about you other than you're tenacious and you don't give up, except when it's easy, I guess. 02:07:41.490 --> 02:07:49.010 So my attack, I think she says, Cole, I am who I've always been and I want what I've always wanted. 02:07:49.230 --> 02:07:51.650 I want to be pushed to be better. 02:07:52.330 --> 02:07:57.650 I want to, I want to connect with someone who's on my level. 02:07:58.350 --> 02:08:04.090 I want to, I want to feel challenged. 02:08:04.110 --> 02:08:16.630 I'm so tired of these people who don't, don't ever seem to want to have this fight. 02:08:16.650 --> 02:08:25.570 And I thought you would want this fight because you are brilliant and you are kind and you are all of these good things. 02:08:25.590 --> 02:08:26.990 And I thought I could match that. 02:08:27.410 --> 02:08:32.770 And I thought you could do that for me. 02:08:33.250 --> 02:08:36.290 And God damn it, Cole, I just want to feel something. 02:08:37.350 --> 02:08:38.670 I just want to feel alive. 02:08:41.290 --> 02:08:42.190 Think I'm blocking. 02:08:43.550 --> 02:08:44.030 Okay. 02:08:44.670 --> 02:08:45.890 Blocking, but it fails. 02:08:46.450 --> 02:08:49.470 But I think it's like, I already tried. 02:08:49.930 --> 02:08:51.930 I'm clearly not good enough. 02:08:52.850 --> 02:08:53.970 I'm out of cards. 02:08:54.070 --> 02:08:55.470 So as an attacker. 02:08:56.550 --> 02:08:58.630 Oh, well then both of us. 02:08:58.650 --> 02:09:00.290 So it's the same thing as before. 02:09:00.310 --> 02:09:03.710 This is the last card of the game. 02:09:04.050 --> 02:09:06.630 Yeah, we have to draw our final card. 02:09:07.250 --> 02:09:16.050 Now with in mind that the stakes of this duel are an injury or compromise to one's well-being. 02:09:16.810 --> 02:09:18.290 Do you want to draw the final card? 02:09:18.310 --> 02:09:19.690 I'd love to. 02:09:21.030 --> 02:09:22.070 And let's go. 02:09:22.910 --> 02:09:23.550 That's a club. 02:09:23.570 --> 02:09:25.630 Double KO. 02:09:25.950 --> 02:09:27.630 You both lose a passing time scene. 02:09:29.290 --> 02:09:33.510 I mean, there's no passing time scene, but I think it ends bad, right? 02:09:33.530 --> 02:09:34.990 I don't know. 02:09:34.990 --> 02:09:39.050 I think there's like, let's consider where we've ended. 02:09:40.210 --> 02:09:42.110 Yeah, so like, double KO. 02:09:42.170 --> 02:09:49.990 We both take the losing end of the stakes is like an injury or compromise to one's well-being. 02:09:50.710 --> 02:09:52.730 Reconciliation is the victor here. 02:09:52.750 --> 02:10:01.350 And I wonder if this is like, I almost wonder, and I'll suggest this, and you can decide if you think this fits. 02:10:02.330 --> 02:10:07.670 Is this just them being like, we need to talk this through. 02:10:08.710 --> 02:10:31.090 And if there's a thing that we lose here, it's the like, I don't know, I don't want to speak for Cole, but for my character, it's like very much like I would happily miss this competition to talk about this actively and actually work through this and see where things are going to end up for us. 02:10:32.010 --> 02:10:35.370 Is the like injury to well-being like an emotional injury? 02:10:35.390 --> 02:10:40.810 Like this, like it is a reconciliation where it's like the friendship fucking sucks for a while. 02:10:41.370 --> 02:10:46.290 Or it's just even just really hard stuff to talk about, to say like... 02:10:46.310 --> 02:10:48.170 To be like, you hurt me. 02:10:48.770 --> 02:10:54.430 Yeah, or to enter for, you know, for my character, I know that there's the sense of like, like... 02:10:54.990 --> 02:10:57.050 It sounds like you're hurting too. 02:10:57.450 --> 02:10:59.070 Yeah, absolutely, right? 02:10:59.170 --> 02:11:00.830 And you have to recognize that. 02:11:01.430 --> 02:11:05.930 Yeah, like, of course, it's us, and so we're gonna go the like, transformative justice route. 02:11:06.190 --> 02:11:29.970 But like, this feels like a potential solution here in which it's like, we have to reframe our whole relationship, and that's gonna be hard for these two characters, who this entire game has been, regardless of whatever our rivalry stands for, this has been kind of one sided, in which I'm kind of the attacker, and you are like, just sort of taking it. 02:11:30.110 --> 02:11:38.290 And there's like, this sense here, where like, there's a reason that your flaws are compassionate and overly polite, right? 02:11:38.310 --> 02:11:44.550 Like, you have to say shit for real, and you have to know that it's gonna hurt, and you still have to say it. 02:11:44.630 --> 02:11:51.310 And I have to say shit, and like, get hurt, and recognize that what I've done is project onto you. 02:11:52.030 --> 02:12:04.130 And I think that like, the reconciliation to me means, we don't just call the whole thing off and go our separate ways and like, nurse this hurt. 02:12:04.570 --> 02:12:06.210 We like, talk through the hurt. 02:12:06.530 --> 02:12:13.450 But the fact that there is still this loss on both sides here shows that like, it still hurts. 02:12:13.450 --> 02:12:20.630 It still forces us to reckon with hard questions and like, reckon with ourselves and who we are and our flaws. 02:12:21.970 --> 02:12:34.710 Yeah, and I think maybe just to paint this a bit, it's like, you know, like, Cole just like, I don't know if we have lips, bites their like, lips and just is like, tells their friends to like, they'll catch up with them. 02:12:35.830 --> 02:12:42.010 Maybe we see like, scenes of like, the competition is happening and they're like, two empty seats. 02:12:43.470 --> 02:12:51.370 And like, we are cutting back and forth between like, wonderful poems and just this like, hallway. 02:12:51.390 --> 02:13:05.250 It's just like, shitty lighting and it's just like, both of, both Cole and Paula Tess just like, different like, talking positions, just back and forth and I think Granit does win. 02:13:05.370 --> 02:13:20.310 I think, you know, Granit's poetry is great and he wins and there's this like, wonderful like, happy juxtaposition of like, everyone's cheering and then it's like, we switch back and both of them crying but they're hugging. 02:13:20.970 --> 02:13:34.050 Yeah, if you are cool with this, I feel like our good kind of final image here is maybe a new club that they've started together. 02:13:34.070 --> 02:13:36.030 Friendship club, it's friendship club. 02:13:36.670 --> 02:13:44.170 Is it a kind of club about transformative justice and like, this kind of notion of mediation? 02:13:44.570 --> 02:13:46.950 To me, that feels like it could. 02:13:46.970 --> 02:13:51.330 I don't think Cole is emotionally capable of doing that for other people, but sure. 02:13:51.350 --> 02:13:51.710 You know what? 02:13:51.730 --> 02:13:52.790 Friendship club works, then. 02:13:52.850 --> 02:13:55.650 I think the idea of a friendship club is. 02:13:56.070 --> 02:13:59.430 They'll get to transformative justice club in five to 10 years. 02:13:59.690 --> 02:14:04.470 I think for now, it's like a shitty banner that just says friendship club. 02:14:04.490 --> 02:14:07.970 And I think that's where transformative justice club starts. 02:14:08.270 --> 02:14:10.650 I think it's the only club that lasts that long. 02:14:10.670 --> 02:14:13.450 I think every other club died at most a month. 02:14:16.690 --> 02:14:18.210 Usually, it was a few days maybe. 02:14:18.950 --> 02:14:20.770 But I think this one just like does survive. 02:14:20.790 --> 02:14:22.510 And I think like it goes through changes. 02:14:22.530 --> 02:14:24.150 And at first, it's friendship club. 02:14:24.170 --> 02:14:27.390 But yeah, I think like, you know, they share their story. 02:14:28.710 --> 02:14:30.530 They do reconcile. 02:14:30.550 --> 02:14:31.690 I have a question. 02:14:32.010 --> 02:14:36.650 Does Paula Tess feel like she needs a challenge anymore? 02:14:36.670 --> 02:14:38.990 Or does she find the challenge? 02:14:39.350 --> 02:14:44.770 For her, it's a recognition that there are healthy ways to be competitive, right? 02:14:44.810 --> 02:14:50.030 That like, competition can be consensual and fun. 02:14:50.750 --> 02:14:53.390 That it doesn't have to be like this. 02:14:53.470 --> 02:15:01.010 That like, she could get really into some sort of competitive thing or some sort of like, things she can do on her own. 02:15:01.430 --> 02:15:03.430 There are other avenues here. 02:15:03.470 --> 02:15:15.170 And I don't, I think the thing for her is she no longer looks for a challenge in her kind of personal relationships when that other person doesn't want that. 02:15:16.270 --> 02:15:17.390 Where does Cole end up? 02:15:18.530 --> 02:15:19.890 I think Cole learns from this. 02:15:20.810 --> 02:15:26.030 It's a very important lesson that like, you can't have boundaries unless you talk about your boundaries. 02:15:26.530 --> 02:15:31.150 We see like someone else who they say like no to. 02:15:31.190 --> 02:15:34.810 I think it's just as simple as like, someone is like, can I join this club? 02:15:34.830 --> 02:15:39.550 And it's like someone being like a dick. 02:15:39.810 --> 02:15:42.630 And it's like, well, I have every right to join this club. 02:15:42.650 --> 02:15:48.470 And I think they just like look over at Paula Tess and then just like looks back and it's like, no. 02:15:49.090 --> 02:15:53.050 Or it's not like, no, it's like, you're gonna have to speak to someone else for this. 02:15:53.070 --> 02:15:56.730 This isn't my position actually. 02:15:56.750 --> 02:15:59.770 It's hers and like gestures to Paula Tess. 02:16:00.070 --> 02:16:03.010 And Paula Tess says, get the fuck out of here. 02:16:10.370 --> 02:16:15.310 Yeah, Cole laughs and yeah, Friendship Club survives. 02:16:16.170 --> 02:16:22.010 That's A Duet of Steel brought to you by Friendship Club every Tuesday at 6 PM. 02:16:22.570 --> 02:16:27.830 Actually, every Monday at 12 PM, you know, when we released our episodes, those Friendship Club. 02:16:29.370 --> 02:16:30.210 That was really good. 02:16:30.650 --> 02:16:34.470 Thank you to Adrian Thoen who made this game. 02:16:35.390 --> 02:16:37.030 And thanks to y'all for listening. 02:16:37.150 --> 02:16:40.550 This was a lot of fun and I'm really, really glad that we got to do this. 02:16:41.510 --> 02:16:45.730 This might not have been the gaffaws and chuckles of a normal Salt Cravings. 02:16:46.290 --> 02:16:51.110 But I hope you left this feeling like you got something out of this. 02:16:51.130 --> 02:16:52.610 And if 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