Episode 303 - Something Mailbag This Way Comes

Before we jump into the next chunk of this arc we wanted to take a moment to answer y’all’s burning questions! Thank you all so much for writing in. We always love doing these eps since it gives us a chance to wild out a bit. Next episode we will I guess go into some sort of worse place than Prison Planet so that is something nice to think about. I think one of the planes was entirely on fire? Working on our tans would be nice, I guess… Anyways I don’t think there are any controversial questions this time (Pie is better than Cake) but feel free to scream at your listening device along with us.

## **Q&A**

*A Note: I try to spell everyone's name as accurately as I can. Since, I don't know the names, I might get them wrong. Sorry if you see your's or a loved one's name on here, and it's misspelled. Also, I am not trying to write down verbatim what each person said in his/her/their questions, but they are in quotes. It's confusing, but it's fine. I'm paraphrasing.*

* Question 1
	+ Michael Urban asks, "What's better: *Friends*, or *Frasier*"?
		- Jennifer and Tim: Frasier!
		- Nika: They're both bad!
		- Michael: Nika can't like it because it has Ros in it.

* Question 2
	+ Michael Urban asks, "Please describe how your characters see each other (Michael, feel free to pick up and do the same for an NPC)."
	+ Jennifer: Rowan and Toby have a lot of history together, but Rowan and Lahni are almost there to being besties.
	+ They all go over various relationships and what-not.

* Question 3:
	+ DiscordianToken asks, "When you make characters, do you go out of your way to make something you haven't played, or do you try to recreate characters?"
		- Jennifer: New, different characters each time.
		- Tim: Same thing, different characters.
		- Michael: Also different.
		- Nika: Different characters, but will bring back someone who she liked, but didn't get a proper resolution.

* Question 4:
	+ MisterRed (that's me!) asks, "Was there ever a Baron von Du, or was Adira making it up?"
		- Michael: Yeah, there was a Baron von Du.

* Question 5:
	+ MisterRed asks, "Whatever happened to Slaad the Slaad?"
		- Michael: He's an agent of pure chaos. Who knows where he is.

* Question 6:
	+ MisterRed asks about the Abriged Drunks and Dragons.
		- Michael: That's not gonna continue.

* Question 7:
	+ MisterRed asks about possibly changing the name to be more sponsor friendly.
		- Several possible names are considered.

* Question 8:
	+ MisterRed asks, "Nika, How many lives has Jaela had?"
		- Nika: 27! *(THIS IS CONFIRMED, NO TAKE BACKSIES!)*

* Question 9:
	+ MisterRed asks, "Which *Sex and the City* character are you?"
		- Nika: Charlotte, but sometimes a Carrie, and sometimes when she gets drunk, a Samantha.
		- Tim: Mr. Big *(Boo)*
		- Michael: Never seen it *(Boo)*
		- Jennifer: Miranda *(Samsies)*

* Question 10:
	+ What is one "hidden" aspect of yourselves that you have incorporated into your characters?
		- Tim: Uses people.
		- Jennifer: Rowan represents some of her own worst qualities, such as problem avoidance.
		- Nika: Dark Jaela.

* Question 11:
	+ Musashi asks, "I want to get into DnD, but I can't find a DM. I'm thinking about DMing myself. Do you have any advice? What books should I buy? Physical copy or D&D Beyond?"
		- *The Players Handbook*, *Monsters Manual*, and *The Dungeon Masters Guide*, in that order.
		- Also, look up Matt Colville's *Running the Game* series on Youtube. Here's a playlist.

* Question 12:
	+ Twitter asks, "What process do you use to get into character?"
		- Nika: Drink!
		- Also, they talk about it in the chat.

* Question 13:
	+ Hugo asks, "Is there a Dr. Ruth equivalent in Drunkeros?"
		- Jennifer: Probably!

* Question 14:
	+ Lahni, what are some delicious treats where you're from?
		- Find some recently deceased meat that hasn't turned yet (you can't kill it yourself), and mash some mint leaves into it.

* Question 15:
	+ Lahni, is it hard to be around people? You're always so friendly.
		- She's always happy to make new friends, but since everyone she knows is dead, she's got to be careful about who she trusts.

* Question 16:
	+ Toby, I'm your biggest fan. Is it better to send fan mail to The Tower of Gray, or the White Spire office?
		- The Tower of Grey

* Question 17:
	+ Toby, how do you keep your books safe during travel?
		- Keep Rowan away from the books AT ALL COSTS!

* Question 18:
	+ Will we ever see The Baby-sitters Club again?
		- They're probably all dead.

* Question 19:
	+ What's your favorite moment in *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*?
		- Jennifer: When the guy who turns into a dinosaur looks for the pieces of Jesus Christ's body.
		- Tim: When a guy lets his house burn down, so he can win a dice game.
		- Michael: "HO-LY SHIT! OH MY GOD!"
		- I don't know what any of this means, but there you go.

* Question 20:
	+ What is your favorite book?
		- Nika: *Illusions of a Reluctant Messiah* by Richard Bach
		- Tim: It miiiiiiight be the *A Song of Ice Fire* series, but it also is probably *The First Law* series.
		- Jennifer: The last series she got into was *The Lies of Locke Lamora* by Scott Lynch
		- Michael: His favorite book he's read in the last year was *The Name in the Wind* by Patrick Rothfuss.

* Question 21:
	+ What is your character's secret guilty pleasure?
		- Toby: Not washing out the beakers after use.
		- Rowan: Read child-hood books in her pajamas.
		- Ros: Getting pedicures
		- Lahni: Rolling around in the dirt on Sundays.
		- Toby: "Googling" himself in the White Spire Sending Network

* Question 22:
	+ What pets would your characters have?
		- Toby already has a rat named Snake, and Arlington, his familiar who can turn into anything!
		- Lahni has her ferret!
		- Rowan: Either a normal dog, or a scorpion.
		- Frank: He has a goldfish named Goldie, that he feeds so regularly that Goldie will live forever.

* Question 23:
	+ Michael, would you ever kill a PC without telling the player first?
		- No, but he might let them die in a reversible way.

* Question 24:
	+ ~~Marry/Fuck/Kill~~ Wed/Bed/Behead NPC's (Specificly, Ros, Adira Harper, and Ashayara Dayne, then they try to figure out who they should do for three dudes. It's a lot of that for a while)
		- I'm not gonna get too deep into this one. It's all over the place

* Question 25:
	+ Tim, would you do a *Sly Flourish*?
		- He does. *(Tears)*

## **Trivia**

* Lahni has never been in the Jerk Yert
	+ She's also never fucked, and isn't really into it. She may be asexual
		- Toby also doesn't think about it too much, but isn't opposed to the idea
* Frank views Skud in a romantic way
* Gertrude The'arcane confirmed to be Zird's mom!
* The Baby-sitters Club are all dead.
* The dead ferret Lahni carries around with her was her childhood pet, and when it died, her pappi taxidermied it so it could stay with her forever

## **Quotes**

**"I had a DnD Podcast T-shirt on, and someone said, 'I love that show.' and I'm like, 'I'm on it!'** ~ *Jennifer Cheek, superstar*