Burning Questions: A Special Fireside Q&A

As a concussion survivor, brain fog is a silent killer. I'm sorry you went through that

Similar story to Brennan having people remember his name since he’s visible on the internet - my birthday is on April Fools Day so all my friends growing up, even ones I wasn’t that close with always remembered my birthday just cause there’s a funny holiday on it and so I always feel bad that I don’t remember theirs

Lou's reactions to the horner corner always have me full belly laughing

funny listening to this convo about consequences (which brennan is totally right about) immediately after registering to the ep in Starstruck where the Anti Causality Engine was introduced

Thanks to Lou Wilson for inhabiting the exact same brain space I dwell in for the Horner Corner

Assuming Patreon doesn't have a profanity filter which would render such a thing impossible, somebody has to change their nickname to "Conventionally Fuckable Horse" and get a question into a Fireside at some point

What an absolute treasure. I could hear Lou willing himself to slip into the void while Erika and Aabria talk about horses

What a wild ride this episode is! Starting with the most relatable shit that hit me in my damn feels and crying as a former smart person who now has a stupid, unreliable memory due to chemo. 😭🥴 Ending with “conventionally fuckable horse” 🐎 I fucking love this insane podcast and incredible group of people

INSANE that nobody took steel for 5v5. Insane.

May we please have the transcript for this fireside?

This is the reveal of the man in blacks army

Can’t believe this is the Sir Curren reveal

Not sure if it's just me but this episode isn't letting me play or download through pocketcasts - all the rest of the usual episodes and firesides just not this one!

5-on-5, I'm taking Grimore. Pack Tactics and pure athleticism. Or Mr. Soup. No explanation needed.

Goddamm, the thing Erika says about memory (or lack there-of) is so spot on

listener, he did in fact kill that dog

“The Greater Binding” led me down a wiki-rabbit hole about “The Great Binding Law,” which is something the Iroquois Confederacy had to bind the histories of the various tribes, as well as determine laws

Rejoined the Patreon after months and have some catching up to do! This is where I left off, and I’m excited to catch up

Why did nobody pick Steel for basketball??

I feel the same way about the word discipline as Brennan does about the word consequence

of course brennan's mind would immediately go too "can i Win at the here me out cake?" lmao

i swear these canteip tomori BETTER be in the source book when its made and with a full art page for each, cuz this is PEAK world building right here!

I can't come up with a HMO because all I think about are Mirara, The Stranger, and Sworn. Those aren't HMO, those are just the correct choices. 😂

They get dozens of amazing deep questions people want to know and they spend 20 min talking about who would be on a basketball team. 😅

I thought Lou being silent was a bit in the sense that he wasn't going to be in this episode lmao

I literally just did a spit take in my car in response to Lou's sigh after Aabria days "maybe he could crush my pelvis a little." I immediately had to pull over and post this comment (and clean my car).

The great bear out here running game on spirits of all shapes, creeds, and allegiances to corporeality (FIRE and LEAF spirits) but Lou is thrown by a conventionally fuckable horse? Give it to me straight(ish), was this actually Lieue Wheilssounnng in the Horner Corner because Lou was called away for a SeaDoo emergency after the last break?!

Long live Tubbins!

Love the guidance Tomori, but his name has to be Guido

My 5th in a line up would be a true strike tamori, that guy would never miss

Never expected to receive a grammar lesson right off the bat. You are appreciated, Brennan.

the little drop by Aabria about Suvi’s best/worst day is a little anxiety inducing in this two week interlude between 38 and 39, yeesh 😂

Can we storm the Critical Role Offices and take Matt's city document template? I desperately need these godly guidelines. Please and Thank you

The Tubbins/Limon Longhalls crossover was one I didn’t expect and definitely needed

HMO: Vandal. They're composed of liquid. What that body do? More like what CAN'T that body do. Plus, they are the world champ of dirty talk already, it's like their raison d'etre.

the moment I saw the Spirit horse on my email notif I knew we were in for a wild trip to the Horner Corner. Was not disappointed!

Mr. Soup, final answer

My god Brennan , the *muhnamnum manuh mauuh man ummm* for Pomeroy's papery ass chapped lips I'm physically squirming

“It’s hard, because I… I don’t know that there is a single solitary person or creature in Brennan’s beautiful, rich world that I would… not… fuck”

"I can't come... into the Horner Corner" - Lou Wilson

Aabria, i wanna thank you for talking about dealing with long covid. My mama has been dealing with pretty extreme long covid and brain fog for a year (finally starting to improve thank to physical therapy and neurologist!) It has been really scary, and it was nice to hear someone i admire talk about their experience with it so eloquently. I'm so sorry you've had to experience it, and hope you're doing well recovering

Yall slept on Bill Gallows he'd be ripping rebounds all day and stunting on you fools ➰️

Lou "None of These Words are In The Bible" Wilson

Gramorra is def the best to pick in basket ball for defense, anybody runs from her she is legally allowed to kill them

The Horner Corner Song is the best song. 😂

Basque mentioned??? Hey that's my language!

the most conventionally fuckable horse

HMO: the fireball temori. Truly I could justify any of the witches, but particularly Mirara. I'm honestly struggling for answers because so many of the characters are *just* hot.

#ItsAWinnerBaby

Also, I would die for Tubbins.

Brennan winning the Horner Corner juxtaposed with Lou's horror and bafflement is just the best. 🤣🤣🤣 More Horner Corner please! 💖

If i heard someone say "The most conventionally fuckable horse" i would immediately think of Spirit and im not sorry

That was a thing of great beauty. Follow up question: why do you love us so much?

Weather is lovely in South Carolina today, driving home for lunch listening to my favorite podcast on, windows down. Turn into my neighborhood and suddenly Lou Wilson's voice booms out over my car stereo, "Conventionally fuckable horse! Conventionally! Fuckable! Horse!" 😆😆😳

I love that fuckable animals just chase Lou through campaigns, from Emily’s sexy rat to Erika & Aabria’s Horner Corner.

Had an accidental “hear me out” when I described Frankenstein’s monster as hot and realized I had accidentally incorporated a YouTube video by OSP—BUT I STAND BY IT

my hear me out: heno heno moheji

Thank you all for the image of Nif tearing up the court to “More” by Usher in the background 💀

Horner Corner with Lou's reactions, Brennan's competitiveness and the girls just to laying traps everywhere. So fucking funny, I'm still crying.

Thank god Aabria and Erika are here agreeing with me that that is a conventionally fuckable horse and that Hear Me Outs need to be a lil more wild than that But shout out to my conventionally attractive lion, Kovu, who got me started down the path of the Horner Corner ❤️

If y'all haven't checked out Obsidian, I use it for campaign tracking. It's free, so I would recommend checking it out - its been a game changer for me

Nif has big "This cat can ball man" Prince energy. Then after she serves you pancakes.

Put Gramore on the bball team!

If I thought I related to Brennan before about snacks, the massive, unsorted notes on every tab available truly set the bar so much higher.

For a wizard, it's "my actions and plans can shape reality" For a sorcerer, it's "my existence and will bends reality" For a witch/druid, it's "my relationship with reality can guide reality"

I am disappointed that I was given ears for this

I was in no way ready for “The most conventionally fuckable horse” 😭😭😭

I hope Nif becomes ‘The Witch of Worries and Woes’

Kinkshame your coworkers all you want, Lou — eventually something latent in the Horner Corner™️ will call to you

The actual worse thing ever the Citadel has done is what Aabria said, they go about showing off their Amazing Presto doing laundry in a second to peasants

*in man in black voice* get dunked on brother Ursalon

I think the Lingua Arcana would have a form of intelligence just not understood by mortals. If spells can be animated whos to say the very language itself couldn’t be given the ability to interpret itself

Horner corner is the best

HMO: Murara (what that third hand do), Kosta, bioluminescent sea cucumber Naram. The cake is Boston cream pie. Everyone pants after Spirit, but no one talks about Rain 🪶💅🏻

Horner Corner is my favorite segment in the history of podcasting and the fact that Erika made sure we got to it is the biggest gift I could have received this week

I'm so glad they did Hear Me Outs!! My go to is Xartaza the erinyes from EXU Calamity AFTER she gets turned into the mace of the black crown........

The most Brennan thing, “do you WIN the hear me out if????”

Super questions as usual everyone!

"My man came in muted, but dropped bangers every moment since" should, itself, be recognized as an all-time banger of a line

Also, every time Ame, Eursolon, and Suvi neatly divide into a trio of balanced forces, like one of each a charisma caster, wisdom caster, and intelligence caster, it blows my mind.

Wait, so has Eursolon been creating magic in Umora just by existing there?

I need art of both basketball teams, particularly Mirara and her eight knees in shorts.

Every single General Contractor in the citadel saying that they need "their guys" is just waiting for more Mold Earth, Mending, and Prestidigitation Tamoris to be summoned.

Happy to see the conventionally attractive rat discourse coming up on the horner corner

Anyone else worried listening to Aabria talking about Suvi's bad day and now really worried for Silver?

I'm sorry to hear that you have long covid and the effects its had on your ability to recall memory especially for DM'ing Aabria. Part of community care folks is wearing a mask in public and outdoor spaces, lets keep Aabria and our world safe <3!!!

I'm not so sure I can match the freak around here - Hear Me Out Cake, lol.

Thank you for this and for actually taking care and concern for your employees!

I love White Men Can't Jump-ing The Man in Black that's CRAZY work

Please. I beg of you. “I’m carrying this soapbox to the hill I plan to die on” merch. I need it so so bad

Now I can’t stop catastrophising about the rest of Arc 4 because they’ve just dropped some bombshell quasi-spoilers about what’s gonna happen 😱😱😱😱

An Identify Tamori would just be Brian Huskey from the old "If Google was a Guy" CH sketches

Did not expect to get top tier Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron content in my DND actual play podcast but Aabria knows what the people need 🙏🏻

Every time you guys venture to the Horner Corner, Lou turns into Samwise in RotK. Sitting there rocking and weeping like, "Don't go where I can't follow!"

for lou's sake, please like if you think Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron is fuckable

Message tamori name gotta be "Ping!"

A basque mention we are blessed

Mud 🤣

Is Luka Donĉić the Man in Black.?

See this is why I listen to things late, cause now I want fanart of all the tomouris but it doesn't exist yet

haven't listened yet just wanna know cause I'm excited did they answer my question about dragons?

Tubbins is Mr. Noodle for Wizards

"Suvi's worst day hasn't happened yet" 😔 "....and it happens on camera" 😣 "...immediately following her best day" 😫

Now see, everyone thinks The Man in Black would be a slow white boy on the court because they haven't seen him hustle. They haven't Seen him hustle. Just you wait. When war comes, he's going to hustle faster than anyone on the court. That, or he'll be the most dangerously brilliant coach the court has ever seen.

All Will Gallows for the 5v5

I’ve spent all year beefing with the puritanical anti-horner slippery slope furries on tiktok who think that anything remotely kinky is super duper problematic and worth ruining peoples lives over so as funny as the horner corner is, it really really is genuinely soul healing to hear that aabria and erika understand the ethics of boinking fictional non-humans

As a community we must work together and produce 1. man in black in shorts and 2. horner corner fic collection featuring Pack of Vine Monsters, sub Spider Archivest Arms/Chains, Hoard Without Buttholes, and of course that old man making your dreams come true to end the interaction faster

Brennan's 'hear me out' answer was so incredibly good. I really appreciate his willingness to really try to understand those of us who live in the Horner Corner.

Lou was audibly making the "What the fuck are you talking about Jesse" meme face by the end

"I have my soapbox, and I'm carrying it to the hill I plan to die on" Brennan. No. That hill? You're not dying on it. That hill is the hill you defeat everyone on (I have used this for months, and everyone hates me for it because the consequence {with sequence 😉} is now that they can't respond with "weird hill, but at least you're dead")

You know its gonna be a good episode when you open it and the sexy cartoon horse is lookin at you

My hear me out is the lion door knocker. He give off big bragging sub energy and he is portable.

"I can't come" - Lou Wilson

This question wasn’t answered but still wanted to open this up. What would be a hedge sorcerer? I image a con-man family that goes from town to town and steal favors from local sprits before dipping.

So glad to have Brennan win Horner Corner. Umora hear me outs: Toph - knows how to find the sparkling center point which is very important The Lion knocker - what that lion mouth do Lightning bolt tamori - electricity can be fun

The Search for Atlanta now has a grim backstory 😂

I relate so much to Lou at the end of this. Hahaha

Suvi’s worst day is coming up? I’m calling it they save Silver but Steel is dead

I haven’t even listened to the episode and their cake is upsetting and correct.

for the promos on social can yall please use the clip of Lou saying "i'm not a frog in a pot, i know this is hot" cause i need to share it everywhere 🙏🏽💞🙏🏽💞🙏🏽💞

🤣 I love listening to you all chat. Another great fireside! Of note you did not answer half lol, closer to 1/100th of the questions you received. Oh, how the fire must have roared when you poured the rest on. 🔥🙌☺️

'YOUR HEAR ME OUT CANNOT BE SPIRIT THE HORSE. THAT IS A CINCENTIONALLY ATTRACTIVE HORSE.'

THE MOST CONVENTIONALLY FUCKABLE HORSE. AMEN

Brennan wants Silence to give him that juice

As someone named Kelly who loves pink and (gentle, non mean-spirited) gossip I’m so excited to be a tomori. I honestly might need to cosplay this. Also wow I love the horner corner 😂

I have never felt so validated by Lou at the end of this podcast 🤣

I am Lou, how do I get out of the clurb (Horner Corner)?

Having a Friends tomori host speed dating is so funny considering the spell makes you hostile after it ends. It works exactly as well as any other speed dating program but at least the first date goes well lmao.

I need someone to draw the whole bit of the man in black Dunking

i love you Tubbins!

And here I thought listening to this ep might be a hard turn from my morning of reading Emmrich Volkarin Lich fanfics….

'Nif, from the logo' are words I didn't ever consider hearing but now that I have I desperately need that on a t-shirt

Glad to visit the Horner Corner once again. <3

Lou's reaction, naaaigh expected.

Yay my question got answered! Always glad to learn more LORE

I just see that horse face before starting and I'm wondering how it ends up in Horner Corner... Okay, I got there. And that totally makes sense. And I'm going to here me out... that kudzu spirit from arc one. I can't remember her name. But she's possessive, powerful, protective, and will fuck up anyone who youdon't like. She is absolutely a badass to have in your corner and can shift between a full encompassing being to a smoking woman.

Does anyone else think that secretly, Lou is offended that no one said Itsawinnerbaby?

Brennan, welcome to the freak fest. We love to have you with us. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

You all startled so many squeaking laughs out of me this afternoon!

I really hope I get to see Lou play a conventionally fuckable horse in a future one-shot.

Huh? The clearing is the desert? What does that mean

I am forever grateful that you answered more than 200 questions

if I could make an alternate suggestion for a hear me out cake flavor: tres leches. nice and wet

"Guidance" could also be a good name for a Tomori if you pronounced it like an Italian trying to rhyme with "Beyoncé."

Naram in sea slug form. Obvis.

Plus putting Nirav’s wife on the opposite team, he’d be too busy being in love to play ball

does Will Gallows have the hustle required for an entire game of 5-on-5? Or does he get gassed out in the first quarter?

Brennan's "I haven't experienced negative consequences for my system so I haven't invested in a new one" take is how I am with doing things (especially, historically, schoolwork) at the last minute. Like, things always come together and work out fine, so the only negative consequence I've experienced has been all that last-minute stress (which, tbh, has gotten bad enough as I've gotten older to be more and more of a deterrent). But Erika talking about fallible memory is, like, my whole life. My memory is a friggin' colander (yay ADHD 🙃), so I've had to come up with systems and coping strategies. I can only pray to the gods of Role Playing that I find a good system when I start DMing. 😅 Also, the whole Horner Corner bit is *the* most delightful shenaniganery.

AHOO HOO!! Thank you for all your efforts to still feed us our little fireside treats despite such rough circumstances ❤️

Brennan talking about how not failing leads to continued sloppy practices us too real 😂😭

Ahoo crackle crackle FOR AN HOUR!!! What a gift

Did they kill silver?

Long covid is so scary, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with it Aabria 😢 I bought air filters for my home game now that it’s cold to make us all a bit safer.

Thanks for putting this together for us!! Crackle crackle!!

i see the image and i'm sorry everyone in advance that i asked for their WWWO hear me out cake

Crackle crackle!

Didn't even have to listen to know why spirit was in the summary image

'No one is made even a little uncomfortable by our answers, we promise.' Then why is the cinnamon horse on the listen-to-my-reasoning cake

Oh 13 minutes in, ya there never getting to my question. (This is a joke, it’s fine, just happy to get more content)

NOT SPIRIT ON THE HEAR ME OUT CAKE! But I'm listening...

AHOOHOO CRACKLE CRACKLE

Ahoo hoo

I’m so excited! Thank yall for doing this!

That hear me out cake has me so ready before I even hit play. Thank you for this gift ❤️

Is that an AI generated hear me out cake?

Cracke crackle!

AHOO HOOOO 💜💚

Ahoohoooooo<3

Woo

Ahoo hoo

CRACKLE CRACKLE