Short Rest: C3 Ep. 59: Havoc

Another episode where I can match Caldwell's passion. This time its for Tom and Jerry

I think I'm exactly ten years younger than you guys and that's my exact reaction to the prequels, fuck yeah lightsabers!

Naddpole that was born in ‘94 chiming in — family also saw the prequels in theaters and my siblings and I️ didn’t love the prequels KOTOR is still one of my favorite games

During the first lockdown, when me and both of my younger siblings were 17, 14, and 12 respectively, we all would all go outside and aggressively fight with my brother‘s toy hard plastic light sabers, Oppa capture the flag style. If you hit somebody above the knee and under the neck that person was killed. You could then go respawn after counting for 60 seconds, and walking back to the respawn point with your lightsaber above your head, before you could rejoin the fray. The winner was the person who killed the other two before anyone had a chance to respawn. All of us also knew how to use a sword/weapon to a certain degree (my brother had memorized all of the Jedi light saber formations, and me and my sister had gone to what basically amounted to Larping camp years prior) so we genuinely were hitting each other to kill, lol. Nobody ever got seriously hurt, though, at least physically. Emotionally, they were plenty of fights about who won or whether someone got hit or not. And likely somebody got bruised. And I genuinely fully forgot about all of this until re-listening to this short rest right now We also started a basket focused cult that claimed to cure coronavirus through wicker. But that’s a whole other story.

Jake sniped Cadwell with the and you mean it. Had me rolling

Listening to this episode again, and can I just say how much I appreciate the ages of everyone involved in this podcast. 🥹 It feels so good to have content that I relate to, with individuals within the same age-range!

the prequels are great if u just mute it when anakin complains

All this lint talk makes me think of that gum commercial "Who you callin' cootie queen you lint licker!"

Re the capitalization of words for fantasy stories. The threads left on a loom once the woven pieces are cut off are called Thrums which I think might appeal to both Sol’s textiles appreciation and Emily’s musical interests and might not show up in a casual thesaurus search.

Omg listening to this the week never stop blowing up drops! Just makes me want Emily on never stop blowing up even more!!

On the Topic of Ducts: there's a middle-grade series of books called Gregor the Overlander, where the portal to this underground world (full of huge bats that people ride a la dragons) is in the laundry room of his apartment building. 10/10.

There is this really great TTRPG called .dungeon that has the "You're playing people playing an MMO" premise! It also has super fun classes, like a wizard that circles passages in a real book to cast spells, a ranger that invokes the abilities of real pets, and a witch that has a number of spells equal to their piercings and tattoos!

Omg if all of you were isekaid that would be the best campaign ever!

I'm maybe like ~2 years younger than all you guys but I swear Murph's references are spot on for all oy my youth 😂 probably cause it took 2 years for it to hit me in the buck end of nowhere Northern UK 😅🧡🧡🧡 (P.s. yes, dot hack was the series around back then)

I don’t understand how the campaign is almost over, I feel like there’s still so much to d😭

Not precisely a lintwife, but the Emelan series by Tamora Pierce has a bunch of different and interesting types of ambient magic users, including a stitch witch who does definitely use lint at points

I always forget Caldwell is Hugh's first name. My son's middle name is also Caldwell (in part because of naddpod)!

She killed Boris Frigg, she fucked friggis boar; it's your favorite rainy day Dae fave: Calliepie(?) Petrichore¡!

OMG huge T. Kingfisher fan over here. I have been working my way through all of her books since December and having a blast. Amazing to see all the love for Ursula in this comment section. ❤️❤️❤️

I couldn't get into SAO but .hack// was a personal fave. Love the idea of you guys doing a "Trapped in VR" style campaign.

.hack mention babeyyy (true kings know it's worlds better than sao 😌🫣)

I honestly would love a Sword Art online style campaign

Give us more Star Wars talk!!!! I could sit here and listen to them talk Star Wars all day. Go watch Clone Wars and talk about it!!!!

There’s a book called Crudrat by Gail Carriger that is about children who clean the vents in a spaceship that have little animal friends called murmels if anyone is looking for a book with a dust/lint/vent cleaning vibe 😬

For the MMO idea check out DIERPG, it is basically what y'all described. You play real life people who get sucked into a ttrpg and then get special powers, I'm sure you can theme it as a vr mmorpg.

Fully agree that Murph absolutely nails the way he narrates Sol’s movement. He’s like a frog Rey Mysterio

Love the MMO campaign idea!

I'm really liking the T. Kingfisher books, they feel very folkloric and kind of darkly medieval in a way that's not completely depressing

Murph I must ask did you honour the cock?

I just want Caldwell to know that you can buy kyber crystals at Disney! I have 😅

Now I really wanna see an SAO based campaign 😳

I’m conflicted bc I’m both so excited for the next ep but I don’t want this to end 😱😭 really quick question - if next arc is the last arc, and it’s faewild, are we ever gonna catch up with Hardwon and the rest in the astral plane??? Did he save Beverly and moonshine???

You can buy just crystals at some gift shops!

So I know Jake said he wasn't going to look at other feats, BUT have you guys looked at the giant and planar stuff that WotC put out recently? There is a feat tree that starts with Rune Shaper (from "Bigby Presents: Glory of Giants") and one that starts with Scion of the Outer Planes ("Sigil and the Outlands").

Has anyone else been writing down books emily reads? Every suggestion so far has been a banger

UM AHCKUALLY the dog’s name is Spike 🤓

Y'all should check out the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. Book one is called "Gardens of the Moon." It's a very good high fantasy series.

When are we going to get to some Yogi Bear talk?! “HEY BOO BOO! Let’s go get them pic-a-nic baskets!”

"Same grade at work" really got me

#whereisthedirtyguppycut?

Listening to this on Star wars day great timing lol

Northern Lights representation in NADDPOD finally!!!

the bear isn't a wife tho, sadly

Also if you're into dust wives, the seventh bride has sooooo many wives--there's a clock wife and a golem wife and no spoilers but someone does have a bear

OH MY GOD YOU'RE READING NETTLE AND BONE!! T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon is one of my favorite authors. *strongly* recommend the seventh bride (which has a similar tone) and Thornhedge, which is just the most heartwarming beautiful book

Popping in the comments to recommend a game to Emily - Indika. It's kind of like a brief but severe Slavic orthodox religious trauma rollercoaster.

Fun fact: Peregrine falcons are more closely related to parrots than they are the other birds of prey.

campaign 1 ep 17 right around 23-24 min yall make a tom and jerry joke and jake also makes one so he knows

I hope they never let that Tom & Jerry hater Jake on any 8 Bit Book Club.

Loving the Tom and Jerry bits. For Emily-they were on Welch jelly/jam jars (which after empty make a good juice size glass). I know because I struggled through eating grape jelly to collect all of the designs as a kid (strawberry jam was and still is my jam). And because my mom is wonderful, she saved them for me through multiple moves and they are in regular rotation now at my house. Might have less than a full set now, because gravity and glass, but probably the first thing I remember working for as a kid!

Emily please read the Gideon the Ninth series if you haven't already! Badass necromancers in space with swords!

You have to discover all the nests. Could you make alts for mmo campaign idea? I liked how a chaotic entity (Havoc) was able to weaken a lawful entity (Alexandrite, but this might be a stretch). And May the Fourth be with you.

Y’all need to do a Starwars Oneshot!

Emily is iconic for that last bit

No spoiler working for empire strikes back

So, Tom and Jerry IS the new Flintstones

Emily, I loved Nettle & Bone! So glad you’re enjoying. Two other book recommendations for ya based on witchy fantasy vibes—Thistlefoot and One Dark Window. I think you’d love both!

The Irish Goodbye by Emily at the end had me in tears

After they watch the prequel, they should watch the red letter media plinket review

I'm SO here for the dot hack campaign....

Ya know, a Star Wars 5e one-shot has BIG Mixed Bag energy 👀👀👀

Can’t believe we’re almost done with the campaign wow

Murph is definitely right about younger millennials and the prequels. Jar Jar was delightful to me as a 5 year old—and he still is now

You know what @Murph, if you struggle with watching phantom menace, take a look at the Jar Jar Binks was a Sith Lord the whole time theory. I seriously think that was George Lucas’s plan the whole time and it makes you see the movie in a whole new way

Absolutely want that VRMMORPG campaign

Caldwell, you can buy just kyber crystals at Disneyland! They have a whole wall of them at one of the gift shops.

With both of these entities that each have the ability to see into the future (one being with artificial intelligence and the other good ol’ fashioned divining) squaring up to battle each other, in a real way, this is the NADDPOD Duel of the Fates

Hey Murph just a heads up there is a movie from Tom&Jerry talk to each other and save a kid, they give the reason for the chase being that they never talked or something before hand. That was a trip as a child since no one else know what I'm talking about

Absolutely loving C3!!!

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