Short Rest: Eldermourne - Ep. 3: Broken Heart Banshee

I always thought port was dry. Definitely not a shrimp wine either way.

I think naddpod is undercover nicotine industry

crazy that this is how i find out none of the naddpod crew have ever had a good port wine

i cant stop picturing henry as moe from the simpsons

Casper's uncles were bad ass. The only reason the dad didn't spend eternity partying with them is he had to be a parent.

It’s absurd how much I’ve been learning from listening to the Short Rests after being a longtime fan. During my childhood, my parents had these *exact* uncle figurines that they would always put out for Halloween and I had no idea who they were or where they were from until today.

gradually realising i'm emily's poor memory with murph's media culture childhood. i completely forgot about casper's uncles. think i blocked them out from fear. but i do remember shitloads of cereal box toy marketing! like most kids movies in the 90s. good times.

This is the first time I've listened to the short rest for this episode and I fully thought the scampi was intentional to make him weirder 😂

M. Knight came to watch a drama production from my high school, because his younger cousins were staring in it. I was working the sound board and he sat in the seat in front of me wearing a baseball cap.

It is so funny, How things we see as children impact our lives as adults. Like, I don't trust uncles. And honestly, I never really understood why. But, seeing this episode of short rest With Casper and his uncle's brought up some forgotten childhood memories of Watching casper i'm not liking his uncles And as a child that just came into my life LO.L

Agree, shrimp scampi was funnier and I thought it was the baron being quirky

One of my cats nicknames is Romano’s Macaroni Grill’s Shrimp Scampi

I'm loving "crit on your homework" because I'm listening to this before I do my homework

I also thought of shrimp cocktail when they talked about shrimp scampi

“I don’t like Casper because his problems become your problems” 😂

I'd take evidence of ghosts over a pattern of murders for sure. The knowledge of some sort of after life would be pretty clutch 👉👉

Exacto^

Came to the comments to say I have ordered shrimp scampi about 100 times in my life at Red Lobster and there is not a noodle is sight fam. Is the way its prepared #DefendMurph

Ah, confirmation that NADDPOD are into Kobold Press books, I recognized the bar brawl while listening the episode! OMG the Brothels comments, so funny! :D

I think his parents are still alive

ya know, there’s a lot of talk about oddities from emily’s childhood, but murph slept on california raisin sheets and now we find out he collected mcdonalds toys of casper’s uncles??

I was at the Manchester show, please come back to the UK when this plague thing is over 😭

Fia would work so well as a Bladesinger

Stretch was the leader of the uncles

Has Caldwell looked at the Path of the Ancestral Self Monk they recently released? It's exactly the anime moves he's always looking for.

It's so funny emily Is like I DON'T want to bump cigars and makes them sound SO DESIRABLE Lmaooo

I would honestly kill for a podcast that is just all of y’all shooting the shit with each other without any particular topic for an hour every week

Murph: I don't want to re-use voices so that people don't think I'm shouting out old characters and make this campaign lesser. Also Murph: *creates Willy*

Do any of you guys remember those Three Stooges Ghosts in that Scooby Doo/Scrappy movie??? I think it was for a monster school or something

Scampi is a type of fish and you tend to serve it similar to deep fried prawns, not pasta related at all. Almost like fish chicken nuggets.

My cousin’s wife when to college in New Orleans and she said there were haunted and non-haunted options for dorms

I play a changeling rogue and find disguise self really useful in that context. I can already change my body and voice etc. to replicate people but my clothes don't change so Disguise self is perfect for that.

I've finally gotten round to becoming a patron thanks to this new campaign and I have to say, I love the short rests. You're such a lovely group of folks and the conversation is a perfect mix of humour and nerdy D&D stuff. It really makes me miss past campaigns I've played :(

Daddy Murph, I am do thoroughly impressed with your building of characters. I get why you were tempted to call back Ren’s voice, and wouldn’t have been mad. Grateful that you found a new way to do a Rich Guy though. I’m a new-ish DM myself, and I am inspired by your craft every single week. Thanks for everything.

The positives of adulting: podcast talks about shrimp scampi therefore I have been thinking about shrimp scampi for 3 days. For dinner, I have made shrimp scampi.

I was kinda surprised that none of the characters wondered why the banshee was killing the rooks. That maybe the rooks had been the bandits who killed her. Also that maybe the barons father had hired them to kill her in order to keep them forever apart. Which would also give the barons father another reason to haunt the tomb, in order to keep the baron from possibly finding out what had been done. But even so, I love these shows so much. Gives me something to start my work week off with

So what happened to Casper's father? Like, why didn't he become a ghost too like his 3x bros? Or am I just ignorant to the rich Casper lore 🤣

Hey Emily, I think you should take a look at the UA order of scribes for your subclass. It leans super heavily into the whole idea of animating books and whatnot. Anyways, I'm sure whatever you pick will work great but I had to at least try shouting this into the void cause I think it's such a good fit.

Inspired me to watch Casper this Halloween for that sweet stinky uncle content

Poolside pasta? Absolute mad lad energy

Just wanted to let y’all know “ghosts” are just high frequency sounds that trigger hallucinations. Have a good day!

Oh common, smoking a cigar is such a nice experience depending on the situation! Its really no that bad, guys...

i went and bought a bottle of port bc i was like, surely it can’t be that bad. it’s that bad it literally does taste like cough syrup

The shrimp scampi revelation sent me

There's a song called "Beating Heart Baby" by Head Automatica, definitely something Jake listened to about 15 years ago. Somebody more musically inclined than me needs to make a version of it for this episode.

If "Crit On Your Homework" isn't made into a shirt, I'll riot

Im already listening to ep 3 again and I can hear a new voting message 🤩 Go Vote In Person! Y’all rule so hard!

England misses you too

Honestly thought those were dildos before I listen to it😂

Spooky coincidence, the only haunted house that has been declared as haunted by an American court of law is in Nyack New York.

I pretty sure scampi is just a type of shrimp... So everytime you say shrimp scampi it sounds like 'shrimp shrimp' to me xD

Mate scampi is deep fried langoustines, what's going on in the US, PASTA... INSANITY

I did genuinely buy a shitty cigar at a gas station while I was working and listening to the episode lol

I think the uncles were supposed to be the 3 stooges but in ghost form. That's why there's three. (They probably caused the nuclear meltdown through slapstick comedy)

Aww it’s cute to hear everyone reminisce about Manchester, with Covid I haven’t been in town since like January

Thank you for the episode Stinky Uncles and Stinky Aunt

Just fyi: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/shrimp-scampi-pasta

Haven’t listened to the episode just yet, but it’s red on Spotify. Please keep the purple theme, it suits the new campaign perfectly! Before you ask, idk why this is as important as it is to me. The 💜 wants what it wants. Lol

Scampi is just shrimp in garlic butter sauce

Lmfao I always pictured grisly murders as a pile of bodies mauled by grizzly bears too hahahah shit

I'm very disappointed in Naddpod to promote Casper's uncles like that, especially after they came out in favor of Trump. Stinky has even started a podcast called "I'm not racist but..." about how proper ghosts can only be white!

My cat, Murphy, is nicknamed Stinky, and somehow Caldwell became uncle stinky and I dont know how this will affect my life, but it will.

Whenever anyone mentions Disney Adventures, a part of my childhood gets super validated because I read it for years and never met ANYONE who had any clue what I was talking about.

Does the baron give anyone else lemongrab vibes?

I'm glad i decided to purchase Paw Paw

And here I was about to floss and eat spinach after critting on my homework, but after this short rest I’m going to roll myself a stogie with vanilla. Thanks NADDPOD!

#ReleaseTheBrothelCut

I have to add to the Great Scampi Confusion - as an Australian, scampi is an entirely different animal to shrimp for us (... not that we call anything shrimp, they are prawns), scampi are basically miniature lobsters. Excuse the pun but something very fishy is afoot here... who is sowing such linguistic discord? There must be a conspiracy afoot to hide the True Scampi from us all!

Emily, have you read Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente? It’s a Slavic folklore retelling with Baba Yaga and rusalka and it’s set in revolutionary Russia. I feel like it’s super up your alley!

Casper dies of pneumonia

As another person in the U.K., the conversation around scampi in the short rest confused me so much

In the UK Scampy is just like, fried shrimp, so I was just imagining a big plate of deep fried shit floating around the pool 😂

Okay I have to ask, Emily are you gonna pick up Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything? The magical tattoos seem right up Fia's alley, not to mention a bunch of new ways to mess with murph.

I guarantee someone had nutted on that Casper.

#stinkyaunts2020

Actually got another build for y’all, Twin Fists w Ares doom on atk AND special AND when you take damage, throw in the increase doom dmg boon and they just evaporate before you

Also: “Amply Scampi” is a great new character name

I think scampi is just the butter, lemon, garlic sauce not the pasta

Those Casper toys glowed in the dark! I remember Casper's glow from my closet made me think there was a ghost in there. Turns out there was

New Orleans native here! Can confirm that the “haunted” and “not haunted” real estate signs—especially in the French Quarter—are a bit of a joke for the locals, since New Orleans is one of the most haunted cities in the country. The house I grew up in was built in 1835 & had 2 known deaths in it, and at least one of the ghosts used to set fires whenever we had house parties!

I... also was thinking about shrimp cocktail oof

#auntscanbestinkytoo

Honestly the Casper prequel would be something M Night Shyamalan would do

I absolutely have at least one of those Casper toys

I love Roses and Thorns, but it would be neat to change it to Sprites and Wraiths

Quick question, does zerk use a crossbow to cast firebolt? Cause that is great for flavor.

Had to reupload file, it will update in a few min if it isn't playing for you! - Murph

Well seems like patreon doesn't want me listening to this one yet...

I always drop what I'm doing to listen to the Short Rest when it drops, because I absolutely need to understand the album art as soon as I see it. Love you guys so much. ♥️

Omg throwback, I had all of those little hand puppets!!

Captain Casper?

My favorite part about the short rest is looking forward to why the album art is lol