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Dungeon World Session 1 !

A bard and their troup trying to spread a message to the common folk

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Wymar Sane

A powerful lizard offers to live in your house. Do you accept?

MyOtheHedgeFox

MyO the HedgeFox here again! And yeah -- it’s MyO like "mayo" in "mayonnaise." M-m-mayonnaise. Mm-mm, mayonnaise. Ahem. (puts on a robe and a wizard hat) YOU! SHALL NOT! SKIP THE SOUL-NOURISHING ICELANDIC MUSIC! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzSJBhPFTcY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzSJBhPFTcY</a> And now, a few questions to stall the time while the soul-nourishing music plays. =) 1. I really enjoy the idea of tomato rice, rao! Could you please spell out the name of the tomato ingredient you mentioned, or show the picture in Google Images or something? Sounds interesting, but using a whole container of tomato juice does seem quite luxurious! 2. After rewatching Fist of the North Star, I’ve been constantly misspelling your nickname as raohcow, which led me to imagine you dressed as Kenshiro’s brother in training. Punching people until they explode, too. Come to think of it, that wasn’t a proper question. Ahem. Let’s start anew. 2. Did you ever learn to sing in a sort of professional or educational environment? Why or why not? 3. Uh, again, have you ever played Gobliins (Goblins 2), that DOS quest by Coktel Vision? If you did, did you enjoy it? 4. You - or the reflections in the gifts we the collective send you -- seem quite fit! Any advice on how you keep yourself this way? 5. What are the funniest puns in French that you know? 6. Oh wait, I ran out of questions for now. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer them, rao! Very much appreciated! Again, hello from Russia, and take my money!

Anonymous

Hi! I'm finally back after a bout of sickness after the holidays, but it's all good now: I don't have any questions, but just some music that might be familiar! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGNxpLsHBoM

Mibz

Dear raocow, Warning: Wizard questions are thought up by professional thinkers. Do not try them at home. spring has come to moominvalley youtube.com/watch?v=Ugz9h3MbBPA 1. What's your opinion on the Moomins, anyway? It's very cozy entertainment for when you need a comfy mood in my opinion. 2. Following on from that, do you do have any special entertainment you watch solely when you need to chill out? 3. Would you rather have death from above or death from below? 4. A treasure tussle! Who would win a fight between Dynamite Headdy, Marina Liteyears, Gunstar Red and Epsilon-Eagle? 5. A powerful wizard appears with your weekly shipment of boons! However, all of these boons have HIDDEN DOWNSIDES! Please read the following descriptions and then see the horrible downside to the one you picked! Levitation lets you levitate like a foot off of the ground and lets you propel yourself in any direction at will. You cannot however, go any higher than one foot. Levitation speed can also be controlled with will with a max speed of an Olympic level sprinter. The cookbook is filled with the signature dishes of famous chefs through the ages. By tapping one of the pictures of delicious meals, you can conjure it up piping hot. They also come with their own plates and utensils. The advisor grants you access to a friendly fellow of great wisdom, always able to impart excellent advice on any subject matter required. They can also double as a top rate tutor if there's any skill you want to learn. Music spirit allows you become a world class singer and dancer whenever you get in the mood to partake in that kind of thing. You can even summon appropriate backing music if you want to! THE NASTY STUFF ---&gt; <a href="http://pastebin.com/rzPRGqC8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://pastebin.com/rzPRGqC8</a>

Lovely Penguin

Haha, I just can't stop commenting. Oh well, have another question: What's it like being able to put voices to people you've seen around online? Do you start to imagine their text posts/chats in that person's voice? I know I do, haha. Also, I think it's pretty crazy to hear a familiar voice (yours from, well, all your videos, or Mikkofier's from the Let's Fate campaign he is/was in), and for it to not be a recording, but an actual person you're interacting with. It's kind of surreal, but awesome.

Lovely Penguin

Seems like I've seen the McElroy brothers mentioned everywhere as of late, and I was just curious if you've consumed any of the stuff they do ("My Brother, My Brother, and Me", "Cool Games, Inc", "Monster Factory", "Car Boys", etc)? If not, I suggest you give at least one of the things I've mentioned a look-see; they're quite funny!

Anonymous

A mediocre wizard appears in front of you and starts turning yellow flippy blocks into obstacles. Do you kill him now or do you deal with the annoyances and hope that you don't need him for a wall of flippy blocks later?

Mikkofier

Unsolicited foreigner trivia: The name of our local roleplaying convention, Ropecon, comes from the finnish term for RPG, which is 'roolipeli' (lit. role game). Naturally, Fingerpori had a strip about the possible misunderstanding that name might cause: hs.fi/fingerpori/car-2000002474956.html Moving on: Music to assault a police station to: youtu.be/pU-DfRSFWbA Solicited questions: 1) If you had one of those smart houses, who would you have voice the house's A.I.? 2) Who are you and who am I, except a couple of people wasting lots of time? 3) If you were to come back from the dead as an undead, what kind of undead would you most like to be? 4) It's been a long while since we gave wikipedia roulette a spin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random 5) Would you trust a robot surgeon of world renown? 6) One of my favorite TvTropes pages is "Cultural Translation" ("When a dub replaces foreign cultural references with their own", though it applies to any translation, not just dubs), because I find that kind of stuff fascinating. Are there any french examples that you are aware of? Some finnish comic book examples: Superman is called Teräsmies (lit. Steelman), the Marvel character Punisher is called Tuomari (Judge) and the X-Men member Nightcrawler is called Painajainen (Nightmare, "possibly because the translator didn't know what a "nightcrawler" was, and thought it had something to do with nightmares") 7) A powerful stray energy blast wipes your memory of one random thing. What are the best and worst case scenarios?

Bellmoore

Excelsior, friendly neighborhood cow-man! Music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=URqviqEnRJ4 Have you tried giving your pineapple snausages? If that doesn't work, try feeding it a soul every now and then. If you were a young superhero just starting your heroic career, which of these types would suite you best: The Beacon - get by with self-taught skills or minor powers and plenty of enthusiasm. The Bull - big, strong, tough and big-hearted. Heavy hitter with big feelings. The Delinquent - manipulative trickster and trouble maker. The Doomed - your own powers might be killing you or maybe you are hunted by a powerful nemesis, whatever it is, your time is limited. The Janus - can you keep up with the obligations of your mundane life with all the trouble and excitement your superheroic life brings while keeping your two identities separate? The Legacy - you're the latest in a storied heroic lineage, can you uphold that tradition? The Nova - you're a font of barely controlled power, lose control for a moment and you will cause unwanted destruction. The Outsider - you're not from here, maybe you came from another planet, the future or a different dimension, but your powers and ways are strange. The Protégé - you have received training from a mentor whose powers mostly match with yours, will you follow in their footsteps or forge your own path? The Transformed - your powers came with a cost: you no longer appear human. Can cope with the way people treat you or will you behave as montrous as you look? RPG of the week is "Masks: A New Generation", a superhero game based on the same engine as Dungeon World. Players take on the roles of young superheroes trying to find their place in the world. "A giant robot is smashing down Main Street. Your best friend tried to kiss you. Your mom thinks your grades need work. Your mentor thinks your team is bringing you down. Oh, and your costume is ripped. Just another day in Halcyon City..."

Zephyr Dragon Lord

raocow raocow raocow! Feeling far better right now. Last week was incredibly strange and disorganized. Hopefully this week treats me super well. Also, you don't know about Lemongrab? Someone educate him in a way that does not invoke copyright! (because I have a gig to do) I feel like weaving a story this time. So let's try something a little different this time. First of all, obligatory music (and also where PEDAL STOOL comes from, if you care to look up the fight) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptlBb8wEWA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptlBb8wEWA</a> Now then... let's begin. There are still questions here, but it is not of the usual variety. Blackness. It was there as far as the eyes can see, and even beyond that. It felt of a grand infinite, something you would never really comprehend right now. But you felt some other presence. What was it, raocow? This presence makes itself known, lighting up the room in the process. A fortress is where you preside currently. But what's it made of, then? Following this, what's appeared before you makes an action quite typical of such a creature, knowing full well you are there alone with it. It keenly studies you aura... before slinking back outside. But then... you witness a black vortex suck up the presence before you really got to bond with it, doing so with an appetite not unlike a starving shark. For a mere split second, this vortex stares at you before retreating. Do you recall what you saw within, besides the presence that was taken away? More music in the middle, because the last one was short. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKsDH4NdSY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKsDH4NdSY</a> ...You know, this type of thing is at its best when a line of text simmers over a week. I'll actually ask a few questions now. 1.) How'd you feel about this narrative exploration, raocow? 2.) So I went on a nice adventure today. What's the biggest adventure you've been on? 3.) What's been your tensest moment playing games? 4.) Are there any fierce rivals that have appeared over the course of your life? 5.) Since the sky has already fallen several times (according to conspiracies), what would happen if the sky were to un-fall? 6.) What's your favorite children's book? Okay, time to wrap up (but not rap). Thank you for calling, and I'll use your suggestions at the next known opportunity.

Anonymous

*Wall of yellow flippy blocks*

UmbrellaProtege

Salutations Raocow! Music Igloo: <a href="https://youtu.be/gSGk1bQ9rcU?t=13m50s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/gSGk1bQ9rcU?t=13m50s</a> To answer you last week, my French class did make me paint French paintings! It also made me write that French story, and we also had to track down, learn/translate, and sing entire songs in French in front of our teacher while being graded (which was super awkward but I've had worse). I even had to bake French food and probably tons more I forgot about. My teacher was awesome. I regret not using enough French to remember more of it because she came up with really immersive ways for us to have to learn and use/remember French, even in the middle of nowhere American rural-ville. Oh and don't feel bad about laughing when it comes to my parents, any time I share a "tragic" story I always try to put a funny spin on it since I've learned to see the humor in almost anything. It's a little harder to convey via text but trust in that I'm chuckling at how ridiculous they are. Honestly it's a pretty good way to deal with crap. I can see why comedians do that. 0. Have you ever heard of the game The Neverhood Chronicles? It's a goofy, fully claymation point-and-click adventure PC game from 1996 made by a studio that had a lot of Earthworm Jim alumni on the team. You play as Klaymen, the guy on the soundtrack cover, and basically all you start out with is that you don't understand anything in the world around you. There's obviously some kind of society missing from the neighborhood you're in, but aside from machines and a few monsters it's just you and a bunch of empty houses to explore. Lots of fun and wacky little scenes and puzzles to solve, and so much hard work went into the clay sculpting/stop motion. Absolutely wonderful game, if it ever comes out on Steam or GoG I would recommend it hands down - I regularly regret my inability to play it easily. The same buncha folks got back together and recently made Armikrog, a game on Steam, with voice talent aboard from Animaniacs' Yakko and MST3K. Armikrog didn't capture my imagination the same way the first game did, though, but then again I am older than 10. And the music! The music of the Neverhood was made by a one-man band (mostly) and it just blows me away every time I listen to it. Some of it is actually quite good. Some of it is quite weird, but in a good way. One of the songs is just a crowd of people laughing transitioning into them screaming transitioning into them crying and back again. Another is a bunch of instruments being banged on while other songs from the soundtrack fade in and out and a man says "Number 8". Another one is just a man hitting a snare drum while rhythmically gargling. It's a real trip. Certainly not my favorite game soundtrack overall but an honorable mention for its standout strangeness. "Operator Plays a Little Ping Pong" and "Triangle Square", which is an area in the game (think like a market square), are my personal favorites. 1. If you had to pick a pre-computers period of history (let's say, prior to World War I to be safe) to live the rest of your days in, where would you pick? Why? 2. If we lived in a world where high-tech cybernetic prosthetics were a viable and affordable commodity available to the public at large, would you choose to replace any part of yourself with a robo-version or would you want to remain fully human? 3. If you choose to replace something, or you were being forced to by an unrelenting society with a cyborgs-or-bust mentality, what part(s) would you replace and why? 4. If you were sent back in time to your answer from #1 after having replaced whatever part of yourself you chose from #3, what sort of difficulties do you think you'd face in everyday society by being a metal monster man (or not, depending on the part)? Are you screwed when you run out of your current charge or would you be able to continue life as only mildly impaired? Will our hero survive? TUNE IN NEXT WEEK. Back to the Neverhood for a second, there's what equates to an in-world Space Bible written on the walls of one of the buildings in that game. It has about 8 - 10 long verses or passages per wall, and if I remember right there are 38 walls. Most of it is parodying religious texts (I think there are three walls' worth of text in a row that are just "...And Blorbadorb begat Blinkibloo, who smelled, and Blinkibloo begat Borldaborf...") but some of the stories actually deal with the backstory of the planet the Neverhood takes place on. They're not required to read for completion (although you do have to walk past them all and back, which is a dick move), but I know I spent hours as a child rummaging through those screens. 5. What's your opinion on heavy optional lore in games? (Whether it relates to the ongoing events of the story or is just worldbuilding for the sake of worldbuilding) I've seen these sort of things in RPGs mostly, but it can happen in platformers/adventure games and even fighting games if that fighting game is BlazBlue. Do you bother to read those optional narratives as a player, on your own time? Does it capture your imagination, or do you feel it is a pointless time-sink? Let's assume for the sake of argument that the game had passably good writers. I thought of all this lore business because if I had to sing one praise for Zelda: Breath of the Wild that I'm not sure other people are singing enough, it's that the races and societies in the game are actually -living- in their towns. They aren't just in some featureless water cave that of course must be Zora's Domain because that's where all the Zoras are, O foolish player. They have histories (as a society and personally among their families), unique buildings and craftsmanship styles, furniture and decorations, traditions... they show or talk about their foods, their mythologies, their growth patterns, their desires, what it means to be a success in their culture, their superstitions... and other people and races talk about how they see them and how they fit into the overall world. It's a difficult thing to pull off, but I think they've done it across the board with flying colors. Game's pretty good y'all.

D

Iji.... more like.... iji 1. Last week you said Psychedelic Eyeball sounds like he just learned English from school or whatnot. Sounds like you're throwing shade (as the kids say) on his English skills? Do we need to have a rap battle in English between you two to establish who is the superior internet English speaker man? 2. Could you take us through the schedule of what happens on a typical day for raocow? Like, wake up at X am, then do whatever, start recording at X am, and so on. If you must pick a day of the week, how about... Wednesday? 3. So you know, the "silent l in solder" thing is just in American English (and maybe a few other places). In the UK and Austrailia, the l is pronounced. Not sure what most people do in Canada outside of Quebec, if it's different than what you say. But it's still really weird to hear!

Anonymous

oh man I'm super bad at doing things not at the last minute so I guess I'm sending you questions on sunday night!!! (I s2g I'd probably have arrived late for my own birth if it was possible) first: I've been kinda busy and I haven't watched all your most recent patapons so this might have already been asked and answered, but what's going on with cortex? I know I saw you post that you were streaming a game a little while ago, so are you just oh shit wait I just realized it's probably archived on twitch and I just checked and yeah it is and also you guys have done several &amp; are streaming a boss fight right now as I type this. my bad! okay so new slightly altered first question: do you plan to post the live cortex stuff to itunes at some point??? all the older episodes are already there + that's kinda where I get all my podcast stuff so I'd appreciate it!!! (obvs though I can use twitch if you don't want to post it to itunes so it's not like a huge deal or anything to me if you decide not to) second: can you use dative of possession in french? I fully realize you may not know what that means, so let me explain (this explanation turned out longer than I expected and I now realize that the first paragraph is kinda superfluous so feel free to skip it): dative is a case, and cases are a thing in some languages where nouns take different forms to show what they're doing in a sentence. neither english or french really have full case systems, but they both come from languages that do so they retain some amount of case in their pronouns. in general though, most of the information that is conveyed by case is instead shown with prepositions or word order in languages without it (e.g. the equivalent of instrumental case in english is usually shown by "with" or "by" as in "I open the door with the doorknob" or "I travel by train", and genitive case does the same thing as the french "de"). the version of latin slightly before classical latin had 8 cases, but somewhere along the line things got complicated so classical latin has 7 cases but two of them are really uncommon and one of them is sort of 3 cases smooshed together. I won't bore you with all the details of what the different cases are (although I could go through them later for a future patapon if you're interested I guess), but the thing that's important to know for this question is this: dative indicates the indirect object of the sentence. for example, if I say "I give the gift to the boy" or "I give the boy the gift", the boy is the indirect object, and in latin you would put "the boy" into the dative case. in latin there was also this thing called the dative of possession, which was where you could basically say "[somebody] is [something dative]" and it would mean "[somebody] has [that thing]" english pronouns don't show the dative case, but some french pronouns do (specifically lui/leur). so to conclude this overly-long question, I'm just curious if, when you use a pronoun in the dative, it can be used as a dative of possession. or in the form of an example, is the phrase "leur sont les pommes" or something similar to it (I'm going off online conjugation charts so I may have screwed something up) a real thing somebody could say? meaning "they have the apples"?

swirlybomb

One of these weeks I won't be putting this off until the last minute, I swear. I'll pass on story time this week, though I figured I should mention; last time with the owlbear, the DM wasn't intentionally trying to get us killed or anything... he just rolled a random encounter and happened to land on the hardest possible one @_@ Just a quick French question or two; In French, plural nouns (always? usually?) add an S to the word like English typically does, but instead the S is silent. Are there ever scenarios where that creates ambiguity regarding whether something is singular or plural? It's been a very long time since I learned French in school, so the answer's probably obvious and I've just forgotten... What is/was playing video games like in Quebec? Do you ever get French versions of games, or is all your gaming experienced in English? Hope you have a good week!

CesspoolofHatred

Behold! I have returned from the self-imposed exile that is “real life + education” to menace the pat-a-pons with high quality rips once more! And it comes with a challenge to YOU, Mr the Cow! SUDDEN CHALLENGE: LIVE TRANSLATING MUSIC You must make your best attempt to translate the lyrics of this song as it plays! There is an answer key of sorts in the comments! Replays and rewinding are allowed (and encouraged). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkYFRbA_S4U" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkYFRbA_S4U</a> [Do not read past this point until completed challenge attempt.] So! How was that? Confusing and vaguely depressing? This is the power of Nier Automata. It comes out on Steam on March 17th. Get hype. QUESTIONS! 1. And now my cunning plan to have a music track play uninterrupted has worked brilliantly, so have another music. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hL9Xr3PkJI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hL9Xr3PkJI</a> 2. Extended thoughts on the Gintama? I am aware you’re watching it right now since I crawl all over the pat-a-pon Discord, menacing the unwitting with Drakengard and NIER fanboying and snaring them up into my devious traps. Wymar has been my first victim! 3. Speaking of Drakengard, it has this neato feature called “Weapon Stories” where, if you grind out your weapon enough, it tells you bits of story about its history. Imma have you react live to a few of them. Let’s start with this one! <a href="https://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2005/26-weapan27.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2005/26-weapan27.jpg</a> 4. Real sweet, ain’t it? Now this one. <a href="https://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2014/25-crimsonhood2.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2014/25-crimsonhood2.jpg</a> 5. By the way, this is how you pronounce Drakengard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrT2utF_ac" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYrT2utF_ac</a> 6. One more for today! <a href="https://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2032/59-poisontongue2.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lparchive.org/Drakengard/Update%2032/59-poisontongue2.jpg</a> And that’s all! You have a good one, Mr the Cow!

PizzaPony

Heyos the rao. I don't think I've ever added an outro statement after my last questions, so you were just horribly confused. MUSIC, this is what I would choose as a fighting game character theme youtube.com/watch?v=9s8Z-JWdS_E&amp;index=2&amp;list=PLE409BA45CD5486F7 QUESTIONS, come on! Come On! COME ON! 1. Where does the magic happen? 2. There is now a huge pile of cake with bat wings sticking out of it in your home. What do you do with it? 3. Was there a point to making the advanced voice channel locked? If you didn't want anyone else there, you could have just asked us to leave. 4. I think this quote from Sherlock may help you with your LPs. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" 5. In the event of an emergency, where is the nearest exit? 6. What's your biggest complaint with the universe? 7. My raocow, what big feet you have. (from the B-day gift video) 8. In some English shows, people will say something French in order to sound smart/fancy. Do you happen to know what those moments would be changed to if the show was brought to a French speaking audience?