Check Please!

***Check Please!*** is the public release of several quests through the World of Aedron, the immersive fantasy realm crafted by Beardy over many years as the setting for his homebrew TTRPG campaigns. Each season of *Check Please!* is considered its own campaign (with the exception of Campaign One, which was split across two seasons), and with the exception of side games and one-shots, they are canonically the first to take place on the Southern Continent. The show is the brainchild of Kenishra and Beardy.

Session recordings for season one of Campaign One began in early December 2018, and the first episodes were released on YouTube in January 2019. A companion series, *Yes Please!*, soon followed, and its episodes began airing as regular installments of *Check Please!*. The season one finale was released in two parts, with "The Ceremony" airing on March 6th, 2021 and "The Last Goodbye" on March 13. "A New Home", the final episode of *Yes Please!*, was released on March 20th, as a coda to the season.

The second season of *Check Please!* Campaign One began recording in January 2021, with the first episode airing on May 8th. Livestreaming of sessions via Twitch began on November 14th; prior to this switch, game sessions were recorded, then condensed into episodes of approximately two hours apiece, with music and visuals added before the final release.

Plans for a second campaign have been officially made public.

## Additional Credits

* Intro and additional music: William Succi
* Outro music: Andreas Pichler

## Tools & Resources

* Season one game sessions were run using the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop simulator; *Check Please!* began operating on Foundry for season two.
* Communication and logistics are handled via Discord.
* Audio is captured via Audacity and OBS.
* Inkarnate is used for creating world and region maps.
* Settlement maps are created with Watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator.
* d20PFSRD is the group's online reference of choice.
* fantasynamegenerators.com is used at least once – mentioned by name in "Confrontation" (C1 S1 E17) – to quickly generate unplanned NPC names.

## Gear

### Microphones

* Beardy: Shure MV7X
* Keni: Shure MV7X
* Xeno: Røde PodMic
* Screwy: Audio-Technica AT4040
* Foaly: Shure SM7B, ~~Blue Microphones Yeti (old model)~~

### Audio Interfaces & Hardware

* Keni / Xeno: PreSonus AudioBox USB96
* Screwy & Foaly: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen
* Foaly: Cloudlifter CL-1 Mic Activator

### Headphones

* Keni: Samsung earbuds
* Xeno: SteelSeries headphones
* Screwy: Jabra Elite 65t wireless earbuds, Bose QuietComfort 3 wired around-ear headphones
* Foaly: Apple Wired Headphones (3.5mm jack), Sony MDR-7506 studio headphones

### Cameras

* Xeno: Logitech StreamCam, ~~Canon EOS Rebel SL2~~
* Keni: Logitech StreamCam
* Screwy: iPhone (via Camo), Sony Handycam
* Foaly: Logitech StreamCam (primary), Canon EOS 6D Mk II (backup), ~~Logitech C920~~

### Environment

* Screwy:
	+ 2” thick pyramid style foam panels
	+ ~~Nicetown thermal 84” blackout drapes~~
	+ VB70-G Sound Blankets
	+ Rockwool Safe n’ Sound sound dampening insulation
	+ Philips HueGo / LED lights

## Shipping

*For a fun list of canonical and non-canonical ship names, please see List of Check Please! ship names.*