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Episode 40 (April Fools Recording): “A Wide Set of Stairs”

One of the main things we do in editing our podcast is cut stuff. We cut long pregnant pauses, we cut fillers, we cut obnoxious background noise, and we cut long tangents. But a lot of this stuff we’ve saved in “outtakes” files, primarily for our own entertainment. We like to laugh at ourselves and how many fillers we use, for example.

While adjusting to the pandemic lifestyle through the Spring and early Summer kept us from our normal editing and posting schedule, Lucia decided to make a rough cut of outtakes and release it on 1 April 2020. She did this on schedule. Though we haven’t posted it to the site until now, it did appear in all of our podcast feeds on April 1st…without any explanation. This is the result. The track goes all over the place, from conversations with chickens to drum-beat loops of stuff getting knocked over through people stuttering or laughing until they vomit, randomly picked from two years’ worth of outtakes (so the age of the players – and the quality of their voices – jumps all over the place). Enjoy!

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Episode 39: “Tall Glass, Short Flask, Leaky Jar” (All Souls Night, D&D 5e)

Episode 39 of our podcast: the next episode of the “All Souls Night” D&D5e game.

Okay.

It’s been five months since we last posted an episode…a lot has been happening for us and in the world at large. Like most people in the United States, we’ve had a big change in our lives and routines with the arrival of the new disease, Corona Virus ID-19. While so far our precautions have been effective and we’ve been lucky enough that no one has become very sick, the shelter-in-place guidelines have kept us from continuing our games in person. Like most people, we’ve had to adjust to limiting our exposure to other people in person, frequent hand-washing, conducting work/school/social interactions from home and online, and wearing masks to provide some protection for others from whatever contagion we might have. With all this, our schedule of editing and posting episodes was disrupted, and it took us a LONG while to get back into a rhythm of editing again.

But, while we haven’t been playing and recording any more games in any of our All Ages RPG campaigns, there are two bright notes: first, we have so many sessions recorded already that we could be posting weekly episodes for a year and not exhaust our backlog, and second, we have been successful in playing some other RPGs online, to the extent that we’re now practiced enough that we could probably resume our campaigns and record them for posting to the podcast somehow. We have done that once before, after all, with the All Daughters crossover one-shot game.

How have you balanced work and play in the pandemic?

As I write this, the fall 2020 semester of school has just begun. This episode resumes the All Ages RPG D&D 5e game from Dungeon in a Box, “All Souls Night,” which we recorded in November 2019, with the Greenwold’s Greatest Detective, Sid Onoso, and friends deep in the Muttonwood, trying to find the missing cheeseman, Piotr Fromanchen. We rejoin the Detective and company in the midst of a battle with crazed goats…