Fireside Chat for WWW: All Interludes

Okay, hang on, does this mean that whatever-the-Crowned-Panther-quest-was happening at the same time as the desert forming was pure coincidence?? This did not fill me with dread and uncertainty, just narrative confusion 😭 Pleaseeee return to this plot point and explain wtf was up with the witch Corillia at some point!!

I love spotting Celtic folk lore things! I thought that he was like a knocker!

Hold the fuck up, Erika's grandpa failed the eye exam and then *memorized the chart* so he could get through on the second try!? Talk about "be kind, be cunning". That rules.

Above table, I freaking love what you’re all doing in WBN

I’m having trouble finding Fortune Found. It’s the only Interlude I haven’t listened to so far.

I always assumed that Crowned Panther had some idea about the imminent destruction of the forest and was planning to leave, is that incorrect? If he wasn't going to leave, Did he transport the mushroom spirits to the spirit world, saving them? (that would make Aiden Crutcher's sacrilege ultimately a positive thing, kinda)

us this teh preluedes?

Umora will forever be the first setting that got me excited enough about storytelling to start seriously writing again since high school. You guys are the best! Ahoohoo and crackle crackle also with you may it be et cetera et cetera <3<3<3

I just want to say how much I have appreciated WBN, Umora, and the Fireside, and how much joy and energy it has brought me to listen on difficult days. Thank you all for all you do!

Ok since the South Pole is always hot, and when the WWW crew visit the North Pole and it's dark and cold when in Toma it's canonically described as summer, does this mean that the axis of the planet of Umora basically points its southern pole towards the sun? And Akam (sp?) is in the southern hemisphere?

Brennnan’s new mic is working wonder! Effortlessly sexy low voice. We Stan.

Ahoo-hoo Crackle Crackle🔥Just want to give a shout out to everyone my sweatshirt The Wizard, the witch and the wild one arrived with (every thing else) and it’s wonderful. It’s warm and heavy. I love the back and the embroidery on the sleeve. Thank you 🔥🦊🤗

So wild. I've thought about that Jack London story so many times and couldn't remember the name! Absolutely makes sense that Brennan would know it!

I am excited about the new journeys this crew will take us on, but gah! I'm going to miss Umora!

I’m that person on a train!

I must have missed something. But I can’t follow the clues and get back to you. Did I miss a session or a fireside. So I will listen and listen for “ Clues”.

The rifle sounded quite interesting, especially because it seems fairly short range to me. So if we remember that the WWI era conventional rifles like the M1903 Springfield have an effective range of 100–300 yd, I wonder how that would impact the world? Like, you could have a faction shut out of the magic but that creatively made use of the older tech to still be interesting. Sort of the Zamburak and tachanka group

My grandfather also passed an eye exam by memorizing the answers when trying to enlist in WWII! He shouldn't have been eligible to be a paratrooper because he was red/green colorblind, but he figured it out 🫡 Thank you for sharing his story with us, Erika!

A Ruvian rifle is a fucking beyblade lancher😂

After listening to this podcast, I realized I never finished the episode The Clearing because every time Aden Crusher started to dig the moss out of his foot I would cringe😳😂. But I pushed through today and finished the episode. Wow, a good adventure story with extreme detail on the goriness. ALWAYS listen to the jungle/forest and never disturb without asking permission😉🔥🦊

The Wizard Sigh - a divination wizard who tries to find the lost history of Umora. She's very tired. But I would also love a Carrow campaign!! I wanna see some gargoyles come to life and at least one be voiced by Keith David.

Blades in the Carrow! Blades of Carrow! Faction game Blades in the Dark miniseries set in Carrow!

Dommed him at 18min

My jiichan also served in the 442nd! I adored Dr Harry and now I love him even more. Go for broke!

I need a whole podcast about celtic folklore with Brennan like yesterday

Man Brennan you are so terrifyingly brilliant and it never fails to chill me how you just so calmly and coldly describe things, “the wizards didn’t know about the panther so they couldn’t care less” feeling unsettled indeed Boo Wilson lol

Please have a leprechaun podcast ☘️. So much information and I didn’t have my notebook handy. Must listen again 😊.

I am in fact on a train somewhere being sworn at by Boo Wilson

He dies AND he doesn't listen to his dog!! 🤌✨

Lol, the South Pole is where Indri sends all the sunlight she doesn't want to put up with and now it's hot all the time

I'm glad that the Crowned Panther was confirmed to be unrelated to the blasting of the forest by the wizards it makes it so much more devastating😈

Next interlude: A Night at the Ventroliquism Club.

Thank you for sharing your grandfather’s story with us, Erika 💜 I wish Erika had been able to do this fireside to talk about Dr. Abé and also talk about Matsuri!!! This fireside chat is “all (Brennan GMed) interludes” and is, as always, awesome, but we’re so obsessed with Matsuri over in my house and I want to listen to them talk about it 😭😭😭

Never escaping the dungeon/game master as a service top allegations! 🫡 Brennan: “There’s no 2 ways around it, you can’t dom me” Aabria: “Challenge accept!”

i love the way you all get to honor your heritage through this storytelling. makes me tear up fr

For years I have waited on confirmation of the crown panther being unrelated to the desert and now I instead feel like I need to sit down for a minute.

Erika, thank you for sharing your family history ❤️🤗🔥🦊

Pyramids with canals running between them housing individual great houses literally describes the city of Vivec from Morrowind

They should start naming names each interludes Inter-lous

"To build a fire" was sooo formative for me. Deeply disturbing. Especially the bit about the dog seeing the look for desperation in his eyes

Always love hearing a reference to "To Build a Fire". It's a foundational text for my lifelong love of reading and stories.

I love that Erika honored her grandfather in such a unique way! Dr. Abe sounds like a truly great man. His granddaughters seem to be doing a pretty great job of continuing his legacy!

Anyone else think that Fortune Found wasn’t supposed to be set in the past, but in the moment of recording, Brennan thought of a way to make Okie losing his legs into a lucky occurrence (getting out of the draft) and forgot that the Empire isn’t supposed to be there? So he did some timeline cleanup after Aabria’s question? 😂

Holy shit - my campaign world shares a feature with Umora! South hot, North cold!

thank you boo wilson for pronouncing my name so good i’m kicking my little feet gleefully under my desk at work

No joke, I was listening to this episode and wondering how Brennan handles developing the geography of a setting so rapidly when there are so many factors to calculate to determine what biomes exist in an area (tectonic plate movements, weather patterns, tidal forces, seasons, etc, etc.) and then he busts out "tidally locked south pole" and I had my answer

Gotta love when a Fireside raises so many more questions than it answers. What do you mean The (pre-Free) Roads are on the opposite side of the world from Indri's keep? How does a planet have to be tilted in relation to its sun for the south pole to be an hot desert and not a polar desert? Is Umora even on a planet. It has to be if there's a space campaign, right? I truly love the idea that all these interludes have a narrative job, and that Twelve Brooks continues to haunt and hurt our feelings. The idea of spirit taxidermy will be floating around my head now.

What an incredible tribute. Thanks for sharing his memory with us

Damn, I always wondered what that witch had to do with the creation of the Irulean Desert, but do I get it right? She had no clue this was going to happen?

Yus!!!!!!! I rly hope thy do it right n teh dirty with that clearing one where lou gets it funny style big TIME

Alone is THE BEST

South pole hot not the craziest piece of world building! More dramatic axial tilt than earth! Means that Umora lies more on its side. Perhaps it was struck by a large meteor (as one theory for Uranus's tilt goes) OR maybe Umora is a world of myth and story and it happens to be lying down to sleep as those stories are being told unto and onto it.

Thanks for including those documents, that's an amazing piece of living history.

Damned it! I forgot to submit a question for this.

Whoa no way, that rules! The 442nd are legends. That's the same regiment later-to-be Senator Daniel Inouye was a part of, where he got that famous Medal of Honor story about storming a German bunker and pulling a grenade from his own severed hand. Fighting fascists runs in the family I guess.

"happy halloween you stupid fuck" oh god they are ON ONE in this 😂🤣💀👻

What an awesome tribute!

What an incredible guy Harry was! 😊 I wish I had the memory capacity to pass my eye exams! 😄

What a wonderful tribute and a true hero. Both Erika and their grandfather are true mensches. <3

Abé sounds a lot like Amé

"Well, i have nothing to prove because people try to dom me and I say I am *collection of vowel sounds* in that level" I AM DEAD

Brennan opening the episode with "try to dom me, you can't" and Aabria replying with "challenge accepted" is fucking wild

Host Aabria! 🤩 this ep was a wild ride and I loved Lou’s accent

Welp! Brennan just melted my brain first thing in the morning. You can't Dom him 😅

Thank you for sharing such a personal story with us

This is so awesome! what a great tribute.

Hell yeah 🦝