Transcribed by Raina Harper.
## Q&A Begins
Rhi: Three, two, one…
Rhi, Kim & Minna: Sync!
Josie: Milf.
Aki: Soup.
[brief pause, snickering]
Rhi: I heard milf and I heard soup.
Aki: Yeah~
[laughter]
Kim: I couldn’t hold it in for the whole 10 seconds. There’s a little bit of…
Minna: I snorted a little bit directly after.
Rhi: Yeah. It’s fine. I just… ah, alright. On that note, hi everyone. Welcome to The City That Never Dies, Season 1 Q&A. We have a bunch of questions from fans of the show collected from Twitter and Patreon, and we’re just gonna go through them and answer them and talk about stuff. It’s gonna be a good time.
We probably don’t really need to do introductions, but the first questions I have are one for each player, so we can kind of do intros and say who you are if you want with them. We’re gonna start with Aki… who has a cold and is eating soup, so everyone be nice to Aki.
This first set of questions that we have come from longtime fan of the show, KrysmPhoenix. The first question for Aki is: What is the most expensive thing Pearl has ruined, both by Darling’s command and on her own?
Aki: [weakly] Hello. This is my sick voice.
Rhi: [chuckles]
Aki: Let’s see. My heart says a chandelier, and I truly think it’s because Pearl ran up and bit it and swung on it very dangerously.
[laughter]
Rhi: I love that.
Minna: [singing] I’m gonna swing~
Aki: Mm-hmm. I don’t think Darling’s place is big enough for a chandelier, so it’s definitely not “our” chandelier, but it’s definitely someone rich’s chandelier and it was definitely by command.
Rhi: [laughs] Darling needed a distraction on a job and a tiger hanging off of the chandelier would do it. Yeah.
Aki: Mm-hmm. Especially ones that can just phase in and out of existence. Can you imagine? It would literally just be a ghost chandelier or a freak accident, but no, it’s just a teenager named Pearl.
Rhi: The next question is for Minna. What is something that Arlene finds attractive about her girlfriend that she doesn’t realize is attractive?
Minna: [smiling] I forgot I was supposed to think about this.
[laughter]
Rhi: Yes, Minna, the aro/ace member, talk to us about attraction.
Minna: Uh-huh! I’m supposed to be better at this because I try to think about it for writing, but boy is this something that I find difficult. [laughs] It’s less than attractive than something attractive that Leona would not think is attractive.
Rhi: Yeah. There’s also a vise-versa half of this, so I have to think about this for Leona towards Arlene. I will say, I think for… I don’t know. I feel like the “doesn’t realize is attractive” piece is kind of hard, but I feel like one thing that Leona really likes about Arlene is just her boundless enthusiasm and curiosity about stuff.
Minna: [giggles]
Rhi: Because Leona’s lived in the city her whole life and is perhaps a little jaded by things, and then Arlene is just really excited about a lot of stuff that Leona kind of takes for granted. It makes her see the city in a different way and she likes that.
Josie: Yay.
Minna: See, the thing that I was thinking of just now for Leona is almost the converse of that. There’s this vibe with Leona that she has… I mean, she’s been through a lot also, and I think there’s some kind of steadiness there that, like… Arlene doesn’t talk about all of herself, she doesn’t think that all of herself would be unwelcome or shocking, or you know, dismaying.
Rhi: Yeah. I will say, Leona is going to feature heavily in the next episode we record.
Minna: Oh, I forgot!
Josie: Hurray.
Minna: If I knew. I don’t know.
Rhi: So that’s gonna be fun. Next question is for Kim. What is Val’s favorite casino game to gamble on and are they actually good at it?
Kim: Yeah, so I was thinking about this. I can really see Val favoring roulette. In regards to whether or not they’re good at it depends on the night, as just with most gambling in general. I think they’re very stubborn and always picks a certain number and it doesn’t always work out for them.
Rhi: Yeah? And Josie.
Josie: Hi.
Rhi: Your question. Whose workspace is more dangerous to be in, Echo’s workshop of unfinished gadgets or Blaire’s bedroom of arcane horrors?
Josie: Blaire’s bedroom.
[laughter]
Kim: Aww.
Rhi: I figured. Echo seems like a very organized person.
Josie: I wouldn’t say she’s organized. She’s just… I mean, her workspace is shared, and she’s not usually playing around with ghosts, so she’s conscious of the idea that if something explodes it might hurt someone else.
Rhi: Yeah. So, what you’re saying is, if Echo had a private workshop, the danger level might increase.
Josie: It might be a different story, yeah.
Rhi: I see. Alright.
Josie: Also, if she was willing to keep people in jars.
Kim: Yeah, that too.
Rhi: Good to know. Alright, now this next question, the last one from KrysmPhoenix. Very important. It’s for everyone. Where does your character fall on the Lesbian Wisdom Spectrum? Option 1: Girl hot. Option 2: World cold and harsh, titty warm and soft. Or Option 3: Watch Naruto.
Josie: … Fuck. I don’t know.
Minna: I know the answer for Arlene.
Rhi: Yes?
Minna: I’m assuming this is a triangle a la the McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, one black coffee, etcetera.
Rhi: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Minna: Yeah, so it’s a triangle.
Rhi: I think we can absolutely treat it like that. Yes, I think that makes sense.
Minna: She’s on the axis between world harsh and cold, titty warm and soft and watch Naruto.
Rhi: Okay.
Josie: Given how edgy I’ve made Echo’s skillset, I think she needs to be at least somewhat towards the watch Naruto side of things. I think she’s between girl hot and watch Naruto.
Rhi: [laughs] Good. Good.
Aki: Darling is world cold and harsh, titty warm and soft, for sure, but I think it’s a bit in the middle I would say, more so. It leans towards the world is cold, but it’s in the middle, solely because I think Darling would totally love Naruto.
[giggling]
Aki: I think Darling would love anime unironically. Darling would be like Jamie Lee Curtis watching One Piece and quoting it. It’s that kind of vibe. And girl hot is objectively… it would be incorrect for Darling to not look at someone and went “ugh, girls are hot.” You know? For sure. I think Darling totally agrees with the subject matter of girls are hot.
Rhi: So, on the triangle, you’re in the middle. You’re not on one of the lines, but you’re closer to the corner that says world cold and harsh, titty warm and soft.
Aki: Absolutely. Absolutely.
Rhi: Excellent. Val? Where does Val sit?
Kim: I feel like, now that I’ve had more time to think about it, my answer is similar to Darling’s. Here’s where I’m getting hung up on. Val is very much filled with that very sensible conventional wisdom at times, but also, them being who they are by nature and their sexual identity, girl hot does…
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Girl hot was the main one that I associated with Val, for sure.
Kim: Yeah. Their MO is very much like “people hot,” but in this instance, the prompt being Lesbian Wisdom, absolutely girl hot.
Rhi: Girl hot. Fans, I do invite you to make this triangle meme for us. That would be great. We would appreciate it. Thank you KrysmPhoenix for your wonderful questions.
Next up we have from Crumpet, another longtime listener, to both Magpies and City That Never Dies.
Josie: Hi Crumpet!
Rhi: This one is for Minna and Aki. In the world in which the teahouse assassins were coffee café assassins, what are Darling and Arlene’s names?
Minna: Hang on, I have to google coffee.
[laughter]
Aki: I have opinions on this.
Rhi: Okay.
Aki: I believe Arlene is—
Minna: You have opinions?
Aki: I have opinions, yes. I am opinion.
[chuckling]
Aki: I have a fish ball in my mouth. Don’t do this to me. Okay… Arlene is an Americano. I’m pretty sure that’s fucking coffee.
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: And Darling… Now Darling makes more sense for her to be a more pristine, you know, “these coffee beans were made in Turkey.” Just something super-exported and stuff like that because it just makes sense. However, I’m Canadian and I want to make a pun. Darling’s a double-double. If you don’t know what that is…
Minna: Tim Hortons.
Aki: Yeah. [giggles]
Rhi: Ah, I see.
Aki: It’s specifically… One second. Just so I don’t mess it up, I’m gonna google how to best tell you it. Yeah… Yes.
Minna: [laughing] I’m looking at a list of types of coffees, and one is described as “if you like your coffee with more coffee.”
Aki: Yeah, two creams, two sugars. That makes sense.
Rhi: Alright, so we have a double-double and Americano. I think tea was the better choice here.
Minna: Yeah. I don’t have enough opinions on coffee.
Rhi: Our next question comes from Page who’s a Patreon backer. I had to split up—Page gave us two questions and I had to split them up because the second one is gonna end up being a 20 minute derail and I want us to get through other questions. So, Page’s second question is at the end. The first question is: I know y’all built this part of the setting pretty much from scratch. What’s a faction we haven’t seen much of yet that you are hella excited to become relevant?
Kim: Ugh, that would require me to remember our factions.
Rhi: For everyone here… here you go. I have it open in a tab.
Kim: Thank you.
Rhi: I have the faction list. I got you.
Minna: I was just getting ready to open that.
Josie: I want some of the ministries to become relevant.
Minna: Yeah!
Josie: Because my guilty pleasure is designing—coming up with municipal systems and organizations. I really enjoyed when we were doing that. So, I kinda want adventures in city bureaucracy to become a thing at some point.
Minna: Yes. I’m here for that.
Rhi: I feel like once you get a little bit bigger you’ll start crashing into the Ministry of Preservation or the Ministry of Progress, or probably Transportation. This is also a useful question for me because it will help me plan scores in the future. “Oh, you guys are interested in this? Great! Let me just write that down.”
Kim: Yeah. Now that I’m looking at the list, I think radio and film producers would be really cool to come up after a certain point.
Rhi: Mm-hmm.
Minna: I also think what could be fun is getting mixed up in the rivalry between those two research schools.
Rhi: Oh yeah. The Institute and the Institution, because I hate myself. [laughs]
Minna: Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm.
Josie: That would give Echo an excuse to bring her academic opinions out.
Minna: I also just want The Sovereign and its leader to be more of a character, I think.
Rhi: Yes. Yeah. I am hoping to have them be more visible.
Minna: I forgot there was a hurricane that there are refugees from.
Rhi: Yeah, we haven’t really touched on that, but there was a ghost hurricane.
Minna: There’s so much happening in this city, you guys! It’s harder when we made it all up, so we wanna have all of us. Magpies, I feel like we only got a small sliver of the drama in the city, but that was fine because everyone else can also get that drama.
Rhi: Yeah. There’s so much.
Minna: Ghost hurricane! What does that mean?! [giggles]
Rhi: No idea. It destroyed two cities, though.
Josie: It’s a hurricane of ghosts, obviously.
Minna: Ah~ Anyway.
Rhi: Or the ghost of a hurricane.
Josie: Like Sharknado but with ghosts.
Minna: Uh… oh no. Oh dear. Do you have to explode it to make it stop?
Rhi: Probably. Aki, what were you gonna say?
Aki: Most of the things that I want to see more of are showing up as we record Season 2.
Rhi: Nice.
Aki: I’m speaking as someone who has recorded a few episodes of Season 2 already. So really, yeah, just to echo, I want more Sovereign stuff. I want more Vulture stuff. I really want more Vulture stuff, actually. I’m super into that. I’m into the Vulture stuff for completely selfish reasons.
Josie: Which would be?
Aki: Echo’s backstory is so super-cool, and that is like 49% of why I like the Vulture so much. The 51% is because I truly believe that I could take on the Vulture in a fist-fight and win.
Josie: Oh yeah.
Rhi: [laughs]
Aki: I just think I could beat up Batman, so it’s just my god complex kicking in. That means I need to know everything about them, because you know, I can’t just walk in and beat the shit out of them. I gotta walk in, deliver backstory trauma for them, confirm some of their phobias, and then I beat the shit out of them. Right? It’s one of those things.
Josie: I think you two absolutely need to fight. I want to see that.
Aki: I do. It’s incredibly selfish. I’ll do it through Darling, but it’s incredibly selfish. 51%, 51% of that occupies my mind. Also, I’ve read and voiced as the Vulture, so it’s a little bit…
Rhi: You did.
Aki: I’m very, very biased towards the Vulture stuff. Got a cool backstory. Got my god complex.
Josie: You did an awesome job in that reading by the way. I loved it.
Aki: Thank you. Thank you. I really wish I had a cold during then, because I’m hitting the voice that I actually want for the Vulture right now. But yeah, it’s incredibly selfish why I want the Vulture stuff to show up more. And yes, 49% of it is because of Echo, but 51% of it is because of me.
Rhi: I also have plans for the Vulture showing up a fair bit. I will say though, one that I personally want to have is the Parade Road Irregulars, all of the gangs of street kids.
Aki: That was my third option. I can’t wait for these fucking kids to come out and be like, “you fancy a scrap,” and they pull out a butter knife.
Rhi: Darling’s like, I’m taking all of you home. [laughs]
Aki: Exactly. I just want Darling to be in a better place before they show up, because the last thing you need is a murderous mother going “and I’m gonna take you, and you, and you…”
Rhi: Yeah~
Aki: No, that’s so unhealthy. But I want those Victorian orphans to show up so I can adopt them all.
[laughter]
Kim: It’s gonna be a little different here.
Rhi: You will, one day.
Aki: I also like this Church of Ecstasy shit. I don’t really want them to show up, I just want them to be referenced at random.
Rhi: Oh yeah.
Aki: What if we had graphic tees and it was like “The Church…” and I don’t know, some sort of graphic. Maybe there’s… I don’t know. Maybe there’s female presenting nipples on it.
[laughter]
Kim: Take that, Tumblr.
Rhi: That’s a canonical thing from the original setting that’s like the state religion.
Minna: We once stole a Pope.
Rhi: Yeah… You didn’t steal the Pope, you stole an archbishop one time.
Minna: Okay. I said “a” Pope and I meant whatever fucking church official we actually stole. [laughs]
Josie: I mean, we don’t know if there have been papal schisms in this church.
Rhi: That’s true. Alright. The next set of questions we have come from Dami Wayne whose first question is: For most of the returning cast, your Whisky Jays characters feel almost like as far as you can get from your Magpies characters. Was that intentional?
Josie: Yep. I deliberately wanted to play the exact fucking opposite.
Kim: Yes, but—
Rhi: Well, not exact opposite. You’re still really gay.
Josie: Yeah, but I don’t have it in me to play a straight character. Even before I knew I was gay I didn’t play straight characters. [laughs]
Rhi: [laughs] Kim, go ahead.
Kim: Yeah. I would say, for me, yes it was intentional that I definitely wanted to do a different playbook than Blaire. It was just… the part that was unintentional somewhat is that I was not entirely conscious of how different Val would be in personality and style and world view.
All I knew going in was that I wanted to play someone older, because I love older characters and I feel like they don’t get showcased a lot in RPGs or stories in general sometimes. So, that’s just something I enjoyed and wanted to do. But… I don’t know. It’s hard for me to articulate. There was something that was slightly unintentional and intentional at the same time, if that makes sense.
Rhi: Yeah. How about you, Minna?
Minna: Fully intentional. Myra was such a deeply Minna character. She was pulling on all sorts of stuff including favorite character types and also just me, which is not something I typically do with characters. I needed to do something very different so I didn’t just fall back into Myra zone, which is actually a little frustrating because sometimes we’ll have a problem and I’ll want to approach it how Myra would and I’m like “I don’t have those tools anymore!”
Josie: I do think it’s funny that the two youngest players on the podcast are playing the two oldest characters, and vise-versa.
Several: Yeah~
Aki: I just wanted to play a bad bitch. I wasn’t here in Magpies, but I just wanted to play a bad bitch.
Rhi: And my god, you have.
Minna: Yes. She’s magnificent.
Rhi: The next question from Dami is: Is there a part of Imperial City that hasn’t come up yet that you can’t wait to see? I will also drop in the link to our list of districts.
Kim: Beacon Hill. That’s pure bias. Although, maybe we should advocate that it doesn’t look exactly like Boston’s Beacon Hill, but it should look Boston-y.
Rhi: Yeah, that’s where the… there’s a lighthouse up there, and the Institute of Spark-Craft.
Josie: I do want to see the Imperial Palace at some point.
Rhi: [grinning] me too. Suncrest was my answer too.
Minna: Yeah~
Rhi: Get up to the seat of power.
Kim: Man, that would be really intense.
Josie: I feel like it’s gonna be some 40K-ass shit with like cathedral skyscrapers.
Rhi: Basically. That’s kinda what I picture, just this massive towering monument to empire in all of its bloody glory.
Aki: I want more Belltower because I love cathedrals.
Kim: Same, bitch.
Minna: I was gonna say…
Rhi: We’ve passed through Belltower a fair bit, but we haven’t had a job there. Yeah, because that’s got the, like…
Minna: I want to see the actual carillon. I want that as an environmental thing. The Church of the Ecstasy of the Flesh main cathedral has a carillon, and I think those are so neat.
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Aki: It’s super high-end, so that would be the most elaborate Darling dress-up time for the rest of y’all.
Rhi: Oh yeah. [laughs]
Minna: Night at the opera when?
Rhi: Yes… Yes.
Aki: I have a very—I don’t know why. Everywhere else, I’m picturing it like fucking… like in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations or some shit, but not Belltower. Belltower for some reason in my head looks like Bloodborn aesthetic but everybody dresses like that one scene from the 2002 Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman in it when they were having the Halloween ball thing and everybody’s dressed like that. For some reason that’s what I picture every time I think of Belltower. Everywhere else looks like poor British people.
Rhi: That’s such a specific pull and I love it.
Aki: It’s very, very specific. It makes no sense really why, because technically everybody… Like, just based on what I know about this church, they be fucking in the undergrowth or something.
[laughter]
Josie: These are not mutually exclusive concepts, Aki.
Aki: I know. I know. That’s why I’m referencing that specific scene, because that scene was so sexually charged. Even I, at the ripe age of two or three, was like ‘that’s something there.’
Josie: You were two or three when Van Helsing came out…
Aki: I don’t remember how old I was. Well no, I should be four actually, if it came out in 2002, because my sister was born in 2002.
Minna: 2004.
Kim: Oh.
Aki: 2004? Then I’m six. Actually, depending on when it was, when it is, because I’m a late baby. So like, it could have been five or six.
Minna: May 7, 2004.
Josie: Hey Rhi? I don’t feel so good. I’m crumbling to dust.
[laughter]
Rhi: Yeah, no, it’s okay. I’ve withered away into dust and I will be continuing to produce this as a ghost.
Josie: Ghost host.
Minna: It’s so funny. I always forget that Hugh Jackman is in Van Helsing because Kate Beckinsale left such an impression on me.
Josie: Oh yeah.
Rhi: [laughs] So the next question we have is from HarmonyBat who is a Patreon supporter. This question is specifically for Aki, kind of the opposite of the question to the former Magpies crew. The question is: Darling has been a part of the crew from the beginning, but you’re a newcomer to the Clever Corvids gang. How has that gone? Also, what’s it like to singlehandedly change the dice roll trends of an entire play group?
Aki: Heheheh.
Rhi: What is it like, Aki? What is it like to break your GM on a biweekly basis?
[laughter]
Aki: In terms of what it feels like for the roll stuff, sometimes I feel very bad, simply because… you know. For example, the train heist? I was rolling amazing. The rest of you weren’t. Sometimes that level of chaos is good. Though, I do recognize I helped balance the fuck out of what could have been a very stressful game, because if everybody rolls really, really low with high stress, that could just be bad for us in general. Right?
So, I didn’t fudge any rolls during that game. That heist was 100% me going ahaha, I’m not gonna lie anymore. I lie a lot about my rolls though, in the game. I roll a lot of sixes, and sometimes I just keep it for the meme, but I lie. I lie.
Rhi: [laughing] You’re the only person that lies in the opposite direction. “Well, I got a critical but I feel bad, so I’m just gonna say I got a 5.”
Josie: To be honest, I wish you wouldn’t. I kinda like you just rolling what you roll. It’s fun.
Aki: Sometimes I keep it. I keep more sixes than I assume I normally would. You know how many criticals I get sometimes. It feels bad, man. It feels like shit.
Rhi: [laughs]
Aki: Not like shit, but it’s more like… oh, oops, I didn’t mean to do that.
Josie: To be fair, you did supercharge your main roll immediately. You’re already at 4 dots of Hunt and that’s what you roll for most things.
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: Yeah, I really like the hunting part. Just keep throwing more magic at me. The magic mishaps are all natural. Usually my dice pick something that they want me to die for, so I guess in this game it’s magic. But everything else? I guess not. I guess Darling’s a little too prepared. But yeah, feels funny, I like it for the memes. I really like it for the memes. Feels bad though, I feel like I cause Rhi a ridiculous amount of disappointment.
Rhi: No. No. I will say, the overwhelming majority of the time I am hamming it up for radio. At the end of the day, I am on y’all’s side. I want your characters to do well and succeed. Just, you know, I am here to make getting to that success a little more difficult. But sometimes it’s just like, when you tell me you’ve gotten your third or fourth 6 in a night, I’m just like… my God, the dice luck is insane.
Aki: Yeah.
Josie: I do remember losing my shit when, I think it was your Bring Your Own Mech Q&A, when you revealed you had been doing Accuracy and Difficulty wrong in Lancer the whole time and were still rolling that many criticals.
Aki: Yeah… Yeah. I’m not gonna live that one down. That was over a year of doing that stupid fucking game and still not understanding. The best part is I was rolling the difficulties the way I should have been, so I was nerfing myself the way I should have nerfed myself. I just do it extra.
That’s another thing, I nerf myself by mistake a lot when I play games, especially in things like Pathfinder and stuff where it requires a lot of numbers and sheets and stuff. I’m surprised I haven’t nerfed myself with Darling just yet.
Rhi: As somebody else who plays Lancer, how were you doing Accuracy?
Aki: I just added the +1.
Rhi: Oh…
Aki: I added it like you would, like, on a…
Rhi: You did just a +1 not a +1d6?
Aki: Yeah, just a +1. I was like okay, yeah, okay.
Josie: I lost my shit when I heard that.
Rhi: Oh my god! [laughs]
Aki: So, if I had something… One of my skills I had a +4 in, and I was like okay, cool, I’ll just add +4.
Rhi: Wow.
Aki: I was wrong. I was very wrong.
Rhi: Yeah… Huh.
Aki: Yeah. [giggles] I was seriously thinking that’s how everybody was doing it. It just made sense. And then I was correct… [laughs] Me being breathless at this part is just because I think about that specific moment and I just go down.
Rhi: [laughs]
Aki: Oh, there was a second part to this question. My bad.
Rhi: Yeah. The first part was how has joining us gone?
Aki: Very well, I think. I think this has been super fun. I definitely am glad this is what got me into the system in general. I always liked the idea of Blades in the Dark, but I’m someone who doesn’t necessarily want to read a playbook. A playbook? A rulebook, before I play a game in it. I want to browse through it and then experience it, that kind of vibe.
Kim: Mm-hmm.
Aki: Because it just makes more sense to me that way. That way I also am able to figure out a few other things, like how can I play and optimize my character a little bit better. You know? That kind of vibe.
So, it’s been really great. In terms of just playing in general with y’all as a group? Super fun. I think we have never had a communication issue, ever, which is fucking surprising considering that we are on different time zones and there’s quite a few places apart from us. There’s several miles. It’s kind of like oh wow, that fucks. You know? I fuck with those vibes. I like that a lot.
I also really, really, really liked the beginning of our stuff. When we were making the setting together, essentially. Like all the places and stuff. That shit was dope.
Rhi: Yeah~
Kim: That was fun.
Aki: Yeah. I’ve done collaborative stuff before, but I haven’t done it like let’s say in a call like we did it. That shit was so fun. That shit was fucking dope. I actually think I like this whole campaign a lot more because we got to make it, the setting, together. I like playing in people’s homebrew shit, don’t get me wrong, I like that shit too, but this one hit different. Right?
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: Mm-hmm.
Aki: I was very, very sus about playing in something that was essentially the Roaring 20s. I was very sus. I was ready to quit if y’all did something problematic. [laughs] Because it’s the 1920s, that’s already a fucking strike. Okay?
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: But nothing happened, so it was good. You know? It was all great.
Rhi: Yay~ I’m glad to hear it. Next question. Our next two questions, rather, come from Kevin Brown who’s a Patreon backer. This first one is for Josie. Does Echo dream or remember any of her former dreams?
Josie: Yes? But it’s different?
Rhi: Ooh.
Josie: She still kind of technically sleeps, but it’s more of a rest mode that she goes into while plugged in and recharging. It’s kinda like really light sleep, semi-awareness, sort of. She definitely dreams like that. If she ever gets turned all the way off for a while, that’s just dead-away sleep, no dreaming. Probably didn’t even notice it happened.
Rhi: Yeah.
Josie: But yeah, I think it’s like… How to describe it? It’s less chaotic than normal dreaming because her brain is gears now, so like, I think it’s almost like a very, very old movie projector where you hear the rattling and you can kind of see the gaps between frames. It kind of has that quality to it.
Rhi: Oh, that’s cool. Yeah, that’s very cool. Alright, the next question is for everybody. If they did a Muppet version of your show, which Muppet would play your character and which one would play you? Would they be different and why? I’m kind of obsessed with this question, especially because of the framing of the PC—the character and the player being portrayed by different Muppets.
Kim: Yes. Oh my God. I’ve thought about this question.
Rhi: I can answer for myself, because I have given this a little bit of thought. I would be played by Kermit, and all of my NPCs would be Kermit in a variety of wigs and stick-on mustaches and glasses and whatnot.
[giggling]
Rhi: So, I feel that very deeply in my soul. Kermit tends to be the straight man, and those GIFs of Kermit doing the scrunched up face is how my soul feels when I encounter a pun. So, that’s where I’m at.
Josie: I don’t think Echo would be a Muppet. She would be the one humanoid character because she already is a puppet from a certain point of view.
Rhi: Yeah! [laughs] Oh…
Kim: Oh yeah.
Josie: I think I would be either Animal or Fozzie Bear.
Kim: Oh, I can see you as Fozzie.
Josie: Because I deliver the worst puns. They’re not even good ones, they just make Rhi cringe.
Rhi: Yeah…
Josie: And then I go wocka-wocka.
[laughter]
Kim: I really would love to have Val be split between Statler and Waldorf, a la Marley and Marley in A Muppet Christmas Carol. I think Val just deserves to be two characters.
Rhi: Mm-hmm. They’ve got… The vibes are correct.
Kim: Yeah. Completely. For a Muppet playing myself… I’m tempted to just say Gonzo because I’m biased and he’s probably my favorite, but if we’re going with BuzzFeed “which Muppet are you” and who I closest am in personality, it’s probably Scooter.
Josie: Ah. Yeah.
Rhi: I’m looking at Scooter here.
Kim: I don’t know if any of y’all know who Scooter is
Josie: I know who Scooter is.
Kim: He’s a very neurotic gopher kind of assistant person, and I relate to him very much.
Rhi: [laughs] If I recall when this question was pitched, when I told you about this originally, Aki and Minna, you were both like “I dunno.”
Aki: I don’t watch The Muppets and I never have. I was a Sesame Street baby.
Rhi: I mean, Sesame Street is still… there are still Muppets there.
Kim: I think they’re still considered Muppets.
Rhi: So, if there is a Sesame Street…
Josie: Yeah, how about any Jim Henson property.
Kim: Yes.
Rhi: Yeah, the Jim Henson Company still is responsible for those, so if there is a Sesame Street Muppet that you feel would be correct for you and/or Darling…
Aki: Yeah, yeah… Firstly, the only Muppet though that I feel would encompass me properly, and perhaps Darling, would be Miss Piggy. I like Miss Piggy a lot. What a fucking relatable character. However, if we’re going by Sesame Street, I wanna be the green dumpster monster.
[laughter]
Kim: Oscar!
Rhi: Oscar the Grouch?
Aki: Yeah.
Rhi: The concept of Darling being Miss Piggy as played by Oscar the Grouch is really powerful.
Kim: Yeah.
Aki: I feel it in my heart and soul. I feel that. Pearl would be Elmo, because it makes sense. It does. It just makes sense. Pearl is Elmo, and Darling would just be the big bird.
[laughter]
Rhi: Okay.
Aki: Specifically. Also, with the Big Bird theme where the door just falls off its hinges.
[laughter]
Josie: Menacing Big Bird.
Aki: That’s angry Darling. The Darling on a regular basis is Big Bird teaching us how to count, and friendship, and so many other things. Darling can also be like “look at my cousins. They’re all over the place and they’re also big birds.” You know?
Minna: Is that the other market ladies? Market agents?
Aki: Yeah.
Rhi: Alright.
Minna: Pained noises. I can’t remember any Muppets.
Rhi: I have the Wikipedia list of both.
Minna: Thank you. Can you pitch some? Because I do not know. I’ve seen some Muppet Show now and I still have not retained any information.
Aki: Arlene is Ernie because Leona is Bert.
Minna: [giggles] Yeah, that works. That’s the dynamic.
Kim: I don’t know, is there a little bit of Rizzo energy or am I overthinking this? A little bit, or am I off-base?
Minna: Is Rizzo the rat? I feel like I remember Rizzo.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Rizzo the rat. Yes.
Minna: Okay. I only remember that because of Muppet Christmas Carol.
Rhi: Yeah. Muppet Christmas Carol… the other half of the narration team from Gonzo.
Minna: Which one…? Is Gonzo the blue man?
Kim: Yeah, the whatever.
Rhi: Yes, with the…
Minna: With the schnoz.
Kim: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Yes.
Minna: Honestly, I feel like I’m Rizzo.
[laughter]
Josie: I buy it.
Kim: Depending on how much you wanna lean into the “I’m just a little guy” energy, you could go with Robin. Robin the frog.
Minna: I don’t know who that is.
Rhi: That’s Kermit’s…
Kim: Nephew?
Rhi: …nephew, I think.
Minna: Questionable no, just because that’s giving me Scrappy Doo vibes, and Scrappy Doo is the worst thing that’s ever happened to television.
Kim: Yeah, I agree.
Aki: No, no-no-no, Scrappy Doo is one fucking menace of a child. Okay, Scrappy Doo makes Kevin from the Home Alone series look like a goddamn saint. Okay? You know how many times in movies and shit Scrappy Doo will be put in mortal danger and I would go “just leave him”? I was one fed-up… I don’t know, insert a singular digit. I hated him so much. He was so annoying. I had a cousin I didn’t like and I called them Scrappy just for that.
Rhi: Amazing.
Minna: So we decided that, what, I was Rizzo and we were trying to decide on Arlene?
Kim: I think so.
Rhi: Yes.
Minna: Oh, Robin is very cute, though.
Kim: Robin’s very sweet and much less malicious than Scrappy Doo.
Minna: Robin can be Arlene.
Rhi: Excellent.
Minna: Oh! He would have been the one who played Tiny Tim, wouldn’t he?
Rhi: Yes.
Minna: Okay. [laughs] Sorry that all my Muppets knowledge is who did they play in A Christmas Carol.
Kim: Well listen, that’s like seminal peak S-tier Muppets canon, so…
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Yep.
Minna: It’s the only one I remember. I’ve seen Treasure Island and some Muppet Show, but we only had Christmas Carol growing up, so that’s the one imprinted in my brain. The only valid Christmas movie.
Rhi: The next couple of questions are from Shyest Barbarian on Patreon. This question is: The magpies went until you all felt there was a good endpoint. Now that you’re into a new series, have you planned or roughly sketched out an ending?
Minna: Eh…
Rhi: Uh…
Josie: I… Nope.
Kim: No.
Rhi: Yeah, as you can probably guess from the “eh” sounds, not really. I as the GM have a… I kinda know what the beats are. I guess I can say, as the GM, I have an idea of what the endpoint will be, but I don’t know how we’re getting there exactly. I have rough, like… I’m not gonna say what the endpoint is because, one, spoilers, and two, it could change depending on how things go with the show.
But, I have a general idea of what I’m aiming for. It’s more in terms of characters’ personal arcs than an overarching narrative for the crew, but it’s real rough. It’s mostly based on, like, at the end of every season I’m like “hey, what are your goals for your characters,” and then everyone tells me, and then I build out the arc for the next season. But yeah, it’s pretty loosey-goosey.
Josie: Yeah, I mean—
Aki: Just as a gen—Oh, you go ahead.
Josie: No, you go ahead. Meh.
Aki: Thank you. Meh. No, I will fight you on this. I got my throat all moist because I drank water.
[chuckling]
Aki: When it comes to things that I know are more long-term campaigns, I go under the assumption of at least three seasons. So, I can kind of flesh out my character in my head, like how I would like their growth to be. I’m not a fan of just the rushed marathon where it’s like two or three episodes and now I’m a full-fledged whatever.
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: No, no, no. I want the lingering feeling. You know? I hope you can’t hear, the popo are outside.
Kim: I hear it a little.
Rhi: Eh, it’s fine.
Rhi: It’s picking up a little bit, but whatever.
Aki: Yeah, they have passed. But yeah, it’s one of those type of vibes. I only do this because on my main podcast, on Goblins and Gays, I thought we were only doing it for one season, so I built my character and their backstory and stuff like that for something that could totally be done in one season. Right? I was also under the assumption that it would be, like… in the line. It’s been four seasons.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
[laughter]
Aki: When my co-producer and GM said “nah, I was kinda thinking of this being a little bit more like Critical Role,” I spat water out on my screen and the stains are still low-key there even though I’ve scrubbed.
Kim: Oh wow.
Rhi: [laughs]
Aki: I know where they are because I was very surprised. So yeah, now I just assume, build it for three seasons, that kind of thing. That’s the assumption.
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: If it goes longer, I can totally go longer. If it goes shorter, I can totally go shorter. But I need to have that in my head, that level of fleshed-out kind of vibes.
Rhi: Yeah. My assumption is minimum three seasons for this show.
Josie: Yeah. I don’t know what the ending is. I feel like I had a clearer ending in mind for, well… I have a few different endings in mind for Echo, and I am always hyped to be surprised. It took me a while to figure out what was gonna happen to Minx. It wasn’t until we started thinking about the ending that I was like “okay, I have goals for Minx on where she wants to end up.”
I feel like there’s a few different outcomes for Echo here, but I have no idea when we’re gonna get there because, to be honest, to me, it feels like we’re just getting warmed up with this show.
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Aki: Absolutely. That’s what it feels like.
Josie: There’s a lot of stuff we want to hit.
Aki: The first season was setup.
Josie: Yeah, exactly.
Rhi: The next question from Shyest Barbarian is for Kim. How do you manage to do Val’s voice for a whole session? Is the answer hot tea with honey and/or lemon?
Kim: [laughs] The answer is the complete opposite. I really shot myself in the foot with Val’s voice. It was one of those things that, leading up to the show, I actually workshopped a lot because I didn’t know what kind of voice I wanted to do for this character. I just knew that I wanted it to be different from Blaire.
But, performing Val, I break every single rule that comes with vocal health and voice performance. I will actually, before each recording, I’ll have a little bit of chocolate, sometimes wash it down with a bit of milk so I have extra phlegm, and that makes it easier.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: All of the gravel and grit that I put into Val’s voice is not done in a healthy and sustainable way. The only reason, now, that it’s easier for me to do for sessions on end is, one, I’m not always the one talking, and just practice. It’s been on the back of my mind to-do list to consult with some kind of vocal teacher to be like, hey, how can I do this and not kill myself in the process.
Rhi: Yeah~
Kim: Because there are sessions where I end up and I’m a little bit tired by the end of it and I just drink water. I don’t actually drink tea a lot during recordings. It’s either… you know, the three Ws. It’s either water, wine or whiskey.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: You’re just gonna have to guess which one on every single recording. [chuckles] But yeah, no, do as I say not as I do. Maybe Val’s voice will evolve a little bit once I learn the ins and outs of if I can do it in a healthy way, but for now, what I’m doing just works even if it’s not probably the best thing for me in the long-term.
Rhi: Yeah… Get you set up with a vocal coach.
Kim: I’ll be fine. I’m not too worried about it. It’s just one of those things that’s like “I can make this easier for myself, I’m just being lazy and stubborn.”
Rhi: A mood. Alright, our next question comes from Blaine. The question is: What was each cast member’s favorite character moment from this last season?
Kim: Ooh.
Josie: Is that character moment for ourselves or for someone else?
Rhi: Eh, I say it’s open. Whatever you want to go with.
Josie: Hmm…
Kim: I will say… Oh, go ahead, Josie.
Josie: No, go ahead. I was about to say something from Season 2 and totally spoil it, so I’m not gonna do that.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: Oh no. Oh wait, now I have to think. Is…?
Rhi: You can say it and I’ll cut it if it is a spoiler.
Kim: Yeah, the whole [long censor tone].
Rhi: Mm-hmm.
Kim: Ah shit!
Rhi: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That’s [long censor tone].
Kim: Then what the fuck did we do all through Season 1?
Rhi: We did a lot!
[giggling]
Kim: I’m trying to remember.
Rhi: Go back and look.
Josie: My favorite moments were those scenes near the end where we were figuring out as a group what our characters wanted to do. Like, the scene on the rooftop and us backstory dumping at each other. Those were my favorite moments.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Yeah, that scene after the encounter with lavender where you were all just talking about who you are now and what you want to do and how you’re gonna get there is one of my favorites. It was just one of those glorious GM moments where I just got to sit back and soak it in.
Minna: Also, not as high on the list, but was the moment with the girl who turned out to be a Blood Rose in Season 1?
Rhi: Yeah, that was Season 1.
Minna: That was fun. [giggles] I just like a story that arose out of, like, not… nobody planned that, I don’t think, and I enjoyed it.
Aki: This one is more personal because it was me going “oh, wait a minute,” for my own character. That was when, it’s a part in Season 1 where Arlene basically asked Darling what does she do when she doesn’t work, and Darling couldn’t answer that properly.
Rhi: Oh yeah.
Aki: That made so much sense for me. I was like, oh shit. [laughs] That’s so sad. Her answer was I don’t do anything. Her answer was I stay inside, or I walk around the same routine. I was like, ooh… ooh, that’s some deep internal issues. That is the seek therapy type of answer.
That one was very fun for me because I thought I had a list of hobbies or something. Not a list, but I was like Darling has hobbies, and then I had to sit and think, and the answer was no, she actually doesn’t. She doesn’t really have hobbies anymore. I don’t think raising Pearl counts as a hobby. That is a fucking… that’s not a hobby. Right? Yeah.
Rhi: That’s just taking care of your pet.
Aki: Exactly. I wouldn’t even consider things like shopping to be a hobby because that is not really a hobby, that is just something… I mean, something she likes doing, it’s also something that she shouldn’t overdo but totally does. You know?
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Yeah, coping mechanism.
Aki: Exactly. She doesn’t have hobbies, and that got me.
Rhi: Yeah…
Kim: Yeah! Thinking back, just off the top of my head, what’s coming to mind for me is more so the downtime stuff than actual scores. I always enjoy doing Val and Echo things. I think we had a good conversation when Echo was first trying out their rocket shoes. I don’t even remember what it was entirely about, but I think it was just one of those parent-child “are you winning, son? How are you doing, sport? Champ. Buddy,” kind of vibes. I remember enjoying that a lot.
Rhi: Yeah. I will also say, I really enjoyed just the whole car chase sequence where you were being the distraction for another group of smugglers who were moving something.
Kim: Oh yeah, that was fun.
Rhi: That was just a very… As the person on the outside watching that chaos unfold, it was a lot of fun.
Kim: I also enjoyed the finale as a whole. That was one episode where I felt like performance-wise I finally got in step with how I wanted Val to be the party face, and it started clicking for me.
Rhi: yeah. Alright. So, the final question. We are returning to Page, Patreon backer, for the second question submitted. The reason I’ve saved it for last is because we were asked a similar question on The Magpies and it derailed us for a solid 20 minutes. It is… which partner Pokémon, singular or multiple, would your characters have? I have my own head-canons and I’m eager to be proven wrong.
Josie: Alright, I got this.
Kim: Yeah. We have discussed this.
Rhi: [laughs] Get in there, kids!
Josie: Aegislash for Echo. She would be a Steel Trainer. Full team: Aegislash, Duraludon, Klefki, Bisharp, Magnezone, and Lucario. Boom, done. Got it.
Rhi: Damn. You did your fucking homework.
Josie: [laughs]
Aki: I also have this. However, I want to change this team. We will consider this the Season 1 team, okay? Season 2 and onwards obviously will change, not just because new Pokémon get released but also it feels it makes sense. So, Kangaskhan, Umbreon, Gardevoir, Salazzle, Naganadel, and Luxray. If you don’t know who Naganadel is, it’s literally the Pokémon that turns into a giant gun dragon.
Josie: Yeah.
Rhi: Yeah!
Aki: Yeah, it makes sense. The reason why something like Liepard isn’t in the team is because, one, Liepard is the cat of lies, like literally it’s the deception Pokémon, and while Darling is rather deceptive, Pearl is not. Pearl is Luxray. Pearl is big and luxurious and I’m very attached to Luxray as a Pokémon. It just makes sense. Also, Umbreon has to be here because my Umbreon plushie is named Pearl and I specifically, like, while I was getting her I specifically named her Pearl after our Pearl.
Josie & Rhi: Aww.
Aki: So, it was like a thing. It’s a thing. Everything else makes sense in terms of it’s either mom or hot woman.
[laughter]
Josie: Perfect. No notes. Zero.
Rhi: Yeah, 10 out of 10.
Aki: Exactly. I think that is a good Season 1 Darling team. Truthfully, I think Darling is just fucking Cynthia from Pokémon. Okay? The Champion. The best Champion. I seriously… I’m sorry, it just feels like that, with the dice rolls and just the fucking confidence and the outfits. She’s just Cynthia by mistake.
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: If I had to put her in Pokémon, she’s just fucking Cynthia.
Rhi: Yeah, no, the outfit is very Darling.
Minna: Did you end up doing the thing with the Grass Pokémon? I did not catch all of the Pokémon names. Or are we not doing that? I just wanna check before I answer.
Aki: Oh. See, I didn’t do the thing with the Grass Pokémon. Right? Because that team was made back in Season 1, hence why I said I want to remake it again for Season 2. That way I can add the Grass-type Pokémon.
Minna: I think I was saying that the teahouse maybe had Grass Starters as a rule.
Josie: Oh~
Rhi: Oh yeah. Yes, if they were… yeah. Then, the other markets, flower market would be…
Minna: Probably also Grass, to be honest.
Rhi: Or Fairy.
Minna: Or Fairy! That’s fun.
Aki: I could see Ghost-type. I could see Dark-type. There’s a lot of ones that they could be. But for the tea market? For sure Grass-type. I’m pretty sure I was like, well, I have to go with Sprigatito then.
Several: Yes.
Minna: Yeah, you said Sprigatito.
Rhi: Sprigatito!
Minna: Sprigatito, that’s it, because gatito is cat, little cat.
Rhi: Yes.
Minna: That’s what we call Raja sometimes.
Josie: Aww.
Rhi: [laughs]
Minna: I was gonna say, for that reason, I think Arlene definitely has a Treecko as her guy.
Josie: Aww.
Rhi: Yes.
Minna: I don’t have a fully fleshed-out Pokémon team. I do think she should have a Sneasel both because I, Minna, adore a Sneasel—I finally caught one in Sword recently and I love it! [laughs]
Josie: Yay.
Aki: Good. Good.
Kim: Aww.
Minna: And also because he’s like a sneaky little thief guy. He’s just a little scamp.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Yes.
Aki: It makes sense. It makes so much sense.
Rhi: It does.
Minna: I feel like I had other thoughts, but now I’m head empty, no thoughts, just Sneasel. [laughs]
Rhi: That’s fair.
Kim: There’s plenty of characters that don’t have an entire team, they just have the one Pokémon companion.
Minna: Yeah. I mean, again, I’m still getting up to speed on Pokémon. To the listeners, Minna acquired Pokémon Sword like maybe two weeks ago, tops, and it’s the first new game I’ve had since Sapphire, so I’m catching up.
Aki: I love Sword. I love Pokémon Sword and Shield so much.
Kim: Sword is fun.
Minna: It’s so good! Anyway.
Josie: It’s really fun.
Rhi: Kim? What are you thinking for Val?
Kim: Yeah. Val I think is not, like… doesn’t have a dedicated Type. They’re not a Type Trainer. I think they tend to favor Normal-type Pokémon, but their team is a mixture. Because I know we discussed this ages ago, I still have that list of who would be on their team.
Rhi: Oh, excellent.
Kim: Val’s team consists of Mr. Mime, Meowth, Granbull, Machamp, Tauros, and Ursaring.
Rhi: I like it.
Aki: Mr. fucking Mime.
Rhi: You know what? I was thinking Mr. Mime, or Mr. Rime, for Val.
Kim: Yeah. I know that’s a very controversial pick, but I think Val would look at that thing and be like “heh, look at this fucking guy,” and catch it.
[laughter]
Minna: I’m not gonna lie. This is gonna make me go back to Pokémon tonight, and I am genuinely very excited about the Mr. Mime I just caught.
[laughter]
Aki: Absolutely.
Minna: He’s Ice/Fairy. He has a good Fairy move. I like him.
Kim: He would think it’s hilarious.
Aki: Two Pokémon I feel like are Val vibes are Murkrow, or Honchkrow, right? And Jigglypuff.
Josie: [laughs]
Kim: Yeah. Val should have a Jigglypuff. I think Blaire had a Murkrow.
Aki: You wouldn’t evolve it either. It’s just, like, look at my guy… Jiggly.
Kim: “It’s round, it’s pink, and it sings. How cute is this?”
Josie: You having Machamp on your team makes me want to hear Val call people champ more often.
Kim: I can definitely put it down in my notes and incorporate it in recordings going forward.
[giggling]
Rhi: I thought about… We’ve got a bunch of NPCs. I thought about it for Bailey a little bit.
Aki: Bailey is a Granbull for me.
Rhi: Bailey I think is… I just was thinking a lot of Fighting-types. Fighting and maybe Ground.
Aki: Oh, that’s good.
Rhi: The Vulture is every Dark and or Psychic bird available.
Josie: [laughs]
Rhi: We’ve touched on the market a little bit. Their whole big, like… you know, their own Pokémon Leagues basically where they have their own themed starting sets.
Aki: The Emperor? The Emperor… The Immortal One? That motherfucker. The one that doesn’t die? Okay, okay, okay. He has Meowth.
Minna: Yeah.
Aki: But it’s not the regular Meowth, it’s the upper-class one, the Alolan one.
Kim: Oh, yes, Alolan Meowth.
[laughter]
Minna: I thought you were gonna say Galarian Meowth. I do not like Galarian Meowth.
Kim: What is Galarian Meowth?
Josie: Aww.
Minna: He’s just… I don’t know, something about him is unsettling to me. I could not tell you what.
Aki: He’s just a guy.
Kim: I don’t know, I love Galarian Meowth.
Minna: The way they walk around…
Aki: I don’t like the way the fur jiggles.
Minna: Yeah. They just don’t look right. Also, I just saw Gigantamax Meowth and I love that he’s just a long cat. Just the longest boy.
Rhi: Aww.
Minna: Like, if you picked him up under the armpits.
Aki: He’s a dual reference, one to Longcat and two to the lucky cat statues you see in the restaurants.
Minna: Ah. Yes, I see that now. I was mostly seeing the leggies.
Rhi: I had to look it up. I’m actually kind of fond of Galarian Meowth. I like Perrserker.
Kim: Oh my goodness. Wait. Now that I’m looking at Galarian variants…
Rhi: It’s a horrible gremlin.
Kim: Galarian Mr. Mime, though. I didn’t know this was a thing.
Minna: Yeah, that’s the one I just caught.
Kim: It has a little top hat and a cane. It’s so Vaudeville.
Rhi: Yeah, that’s Mr. Rime, right?
Aki: Yeah, Mr. Rime.
Minna: No, no, no. There’s a different Mr. Mime.
Kim: Oh no, it is Mr. Mime.
Minna: Okay. You know what? I was like, I can’t remember if Mr. Mime looks like that. It’s because it’s a variant. Okay.
Aki: Yeah, no, there’s a variant Mr. Mime and then its evolution is Mr. Rime.
Kim: I see.
Aki: They are the scariest fucking things to come at you out of nowhere.
Kim: No, I love this.
Rhi: [laughs]
Aki: In Pokémon Sword and Shield, Pokémon can pop up in the overworld suddenly, and there’s nothing scarier than one of those fuckers popping up and then chasing you into a corner, because that happens to me a little too often.
Minna: Oh…
Kim: I want to watch this thing tap dance, and then yoink it off the stage with a very absurdly large cane.
Josie: [giggles]
Rhi: Yeah.
Aki: They are really strong, though. They’re really, really scary deadly. I played a Nuzlocke once. That shit almost swept my team.
Kim: Oh God.
Rhi: [laughs]
Aki: I was training, so it wasn’t my actual team, but I was trying to train a backup team, and the backup died. So, I didn’t have backup. [laughs] Because Mr. Rime, I wasn’t prepared.
Rhi: So, what we’ve learned here today is to fear the mime Pokémon. That was our last question. I saved that one for the end because I know how we get about Pokémon. The sheer number of times where I’ve had to chop five minutes off the beginning of recording sessions because we got derailed onto Pokémon.
But yeah, thank you all so much for sending in your questions, for listening, for supporting us through Season 1, and we will have Season 2 to all of you very, very soon. So, bye everyone~
Kim, Josie & Minna: Bye~
Aki: Goodbye, bitches.