Transcribed by Tyler (Twitter: @Tyler_MoonSage)
## Intro
Rhi: Welcome to our Season 3 Wrap-Up and Q&A. A huge thanks to everyone who sent in questions. We had a ton of fun chatting about them, and of course thanks to all of you who have continued to support us through all three seasons so far. The end of this episode features a few clips from our Season 3 blooper reel, and our patrons should be able to listen to the whole thing on Patreon now.
As I mentioned last time, after this episode we’re going to have a pair of bonus episodes featuring Kim and Josie in Leviathan Song. Join a pair of leviathan hunters as their ship chases down one of the great immortal demons of the Void Sea. It’s pretty spooky and very gay, as one would expect from the show.
Also, Minna did an interview with the podcast Tales from the Fandom. Be sure to check it out on Monday, August 10. There’s a link to the podcast in the show notes.
Next, Minna is going to tell us about this month’s Featured Charity.
Minna: This month I would like to urge you to look for organizations providing health services and emergency resources like food pantries in your community. I will be making a donation to the St. Petersburg Free Clinic which is a multi-service independent non-profit that provides assistance with food, shelter, and healthcare to the underserved in Pinellas County. Currently they are experiencing increased need, and they are committed to continuing to provide services including a drive-thru food pantry. You can donate with me by going to StPetersburgFreeClinic.org/donate. Thank you!
Rhi: Please continue to contact your representatives, especially your senators, about further financial support for everyone in the US during this pandemic, and continue to push for better funding for the postal service. I’m sure everyone listening knows how absolutely vital the USPS is to our country and how it is being deliberately sabotaged by the people in charge of it. We need to demand that the sabotage be halted and the USPS be properly supported, especially now.
Now then, let’s get started. Shall we?
## Q&A [0:02:22]
Rhi: All right! Welcome everybody to our Season 3 Wrap-Up and Q&A! It’s kind of wild that we are at the end of a third season. [laughs] We’ve done—I’m pulling up our Simplecast right now. I’m trying to remember how many… How many episodes have we done now?
Kim: How many episodes total?
Rhi: Yeah, how many episodes total. I’m trying to find that.
Kim: Oh geez, I don’t even know.
Rhi: Uh, 57.
Kim: Wow!
Rhi: Between official episodes and wrap-ups and bonus episodes. So yeah, three seasons, 57 episodes, and here we are. I probably don’t need to have everybody introduce themself again, but we’re gonna so that I have an excuse to ask people questions.
Minna: [giggles]
Rhi: So, let’s start off, we’ll just go down the order we are here in Discord, so Kim. Wanna introduce yourself, say who you play? And then your question that everyone will be answering this recording is when in this season, in Season 3, were you the most proud of your character?
Kim: Ooh, that’s a good question. Okay.
Rhi: Thank you.
Kim: Anyways. Hi, I’m Kim, I play Blaire. When was I the most proud of Blaire? I have to go back and remember everything that she did in Season 3.
Minna: What the fuck happened in Season 3?
[laughter]
Kim: I know. For the listeners, it’s been so long since we’ve recorded anything that I’ve completely forgotten what Season 3 and… eh.
Rhi: Yeah, it’s all just sort of…
Kim: When was I the most proud of her? I mean, I think I just, by default, have to go with her finally breaking off from Setarra in the season finale, just like finally realizing that this person is not her friend. There’s going to be dire consequences of that, but…
Rhi: [smiling] Mm-hmm! Oh yes.
Kim: Heh. We won’t get into that now, but yeah. This is a turning-point in her arc that has been planned and I was looking forward to for a long time, her finally just putting her foot down and stepping away from all this. I am so excited for what we have planned and what’s coming next for her. So I think just by default I have to go with that.
Rhi: Yeah. It’s definitely a good moment for her.
Kim: Yes.
Josie: Hi, I’m Josie. I play Minx. I think I was most proud of Minx during the finale, just that when it came time to confront the horrible thing and go through the dreams and stuff her first response wasn’t “kill it with fire.”
Kim: yes! Yeah.
Josie: She’s come a long way and is starting to stable out a little bit, and maybe have a little bit more empathy for the things in the world that Blaire cares about.
Kim: Aw.
Josie: Her just taking a more chilled back role and trusting in the expertise of her companions and stuff. That’s where I was most proud.
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: Hi, I’m Minna. I play Myra. I am frantically scrolling through the episodes that happened in Season 3 trying to remember.
[laughter]
Kim: That was my problem! I don’t remember what happened in Season 3.
Minna: I can think of things that I’m really proud of the Magpies for doing, like our shared goals.
Rhi: Yes.
Minna: We got the clinic up and running, and we just did so much cool community stuff. I’m really struggling to think of a specific Myra moment at the moment. I don’t know why. I’m proud of her in general. She’s grown a lot. I’m having trouble pulling out a moment of my memory.
Kim: Yes.
Rhi: Yeah, I mean that is A-OK. I don’t want this to be a difficult pop quiz.
Minna: It’s really just that I have to relisten to the episodes when they come out, because I have like no memory of things a lot of the time outside of vague sketchy blurs.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Yeah, well, and the fact there’s so much of a lag time between when we record and when the episode comes out.
Kim: Yeah.
Minna: But I do really like that they’re finally getting to make big changes in their community which is such a big thing for both the crew and for Myra.
Rhi: Yeah. That was kind of what I was gonna, like, my response for this. I’m Rhi. I’m everybody else in the game.
Minna: [giggles]
Rhi: That was gonna be kind of my thing, what am I most proud of the Magpies for, and I think it’s exactly what, Minna, you just said. You know, you got the clinic up and running, you have helped Nyryx and her coworkers open up an employee-owned, or reopen the brothel where they work as an employee-owned institution, you know, you helped the Lampblacks and the people of The Docks start working together to start pushing out the gangs and the cops. Yeah, you have started to make some really solid, material changes in Duskwall, which is awesome.
Minna: We even connected some fangirl teens to some real resistance movements.
Rhi: Yes!
[laughter]
Kim: That’s right. Yes.
Rhi: Yeah, you helped some enthusiastic wayward youth to channel their energies in a direction that’s not gonna land all of you in jail. Yeah, that whole episode came because that’s one of the score prompts in the Vigilantes book, somebody is trading on your name to do stuff, and the way it was phrased in the book it sounded a little more malicious, but I’m like what if we made it really cute?
[giggles]
Kim: I had no idea it was even a book thing.
Josie: Aw.
Rhi: Mm-hmm. So yeah, as we pretty much always do in these wrap-ups we’ve got a bunch of questions from folks on Twitter, some of our Patreon backers… we’re just gonna go through some of them and chat about them.
So, the first question that we have is from a long-time fan who has submitted a great many questions and Devil’s Bargains. KrysmPhoenix, one of our patrons, asks: What other RPG system or setting could you imagine playing your character with their personality entirely intact? And then, for me specifically: Rhi, same for you, but a system or setting you can GM The Magpies in. So basically Krysm has just lobbed a generate AUs prompt at us.
Josie: [laughs]
Kim: Or different systems.
Rhi: Which is why Minna was completely losing her shit when she saw that prompt.
[laughter]
Rhi: Do any of you have thoughts on that?
Josie: I mean, I think we just saw it in the finale.
Rhi: Yeah, yeah, we did see several possible AUs.
Josie: Not to step on Rhi’s toes, although I do think that the recent game Flying Circus could basically run The Magpies unchanged if we did that.
Rhi: Yeah, I haven’t gotten a chance to play that yet. It looks very cool.
Josie: It’s kinda like Blades in the Dark except instead of a score it’s a job involving planes.
Rhi: Oh cool!
Josie: Yeah.
Rhi: Yeah, so you could take Minx’s dream world and cross it with that and just have sky pirates.
Minna: Oh my God!
Josie: Yeah, exactly.
Kim: Oh my God. Skyjacks AU for Minx.
Josie: Yes.
Rhi: Oh man, yeah, basically.
Kim: I’ve been giving this some thought since it came up in the Discord server a few days ago. I think for me to play Blaire with her entire personality intact would not be hard in any given game provided that system has some kind of supernatural element in it, so I don’t know why but I can actually see her translating well to Masks. I feel like that there’s a Masks playbook for her where she would be well.
Josie: Oh yeah!
Minna: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Oh, interesting, yeah!
Kim: I just really like the idea of a modern AU Blaire who is just a diligent student but also like a cryptid chaser and a supernatural person.
Rhi: Oh my God, yeah.
Kim: Yeah!
Josie: She has posters saying “I wanna believe.”
Kim: Yes, exactly. Yup.
Minna: Low key, I think she’s the Doomed.
Kim: Definitely. Yeah.
Rhi: I feel like the Doomed or I could also see an argument for the Nova.
Minna: Yeah, or even Protégée if you count Setarra as a very bad mentor.
Rhi: Ooh! Ooh!
Kim: You could. You could, yeah. I’ve only played Masks once, so I’m not super familiar with the playbooks, but yeah, what I said, she could translate well to D&D or even Edge of the Empire.
Rhi: Yeah. I think Masks might be a better choice than even Edge of the Empire or D&D, because in those settings there is supernatural stuff but it’s very accepted by the world.
Kim: That’s true. Yes.
Rhi: Like everybody in D&D knows there’s magic. masks you can have, like… there’s a lot more room for variance where Blaire could be into some, you know, the way she is in our game, into some very weird shit where people are like “um… are you sure about that?”
[laughter]
Kim: yes. Yeah, I totally see where you’re coming from.
Minna: Here’s the thing. I really like AUs, and I’ve been doing them for so long in fan fiction and RP that I could stick her anywhere with her personality intact, but I would really enjoy Star Wars.
[laughter]
Kim: Mood.
Minna: I know that we’ve talked about it in the server, but I really enjoy that AU. Occasionally I play with that in my head a little bit. It’s very good.
Rhi: Yeah, I think that was my slightly cop-out answer, was basically Scum and Villainy…
Minna: Uh-huh. Yeah, no.
Kim: Yeah, yeah.
Rhi: …which is the Forged in the Dark, Star Wars with serial numbers filed off, game.
Minna: Definitely that more than even Edge of the Empire I think, in terms of actually playing.
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think that would be a very fun alternate universe version of the crew, because the other thing with that is you could also continue to do very similar types of scores just in space, on a spaceship.
Minna: Mm-hmm! Oh man, just imagine the magpies being like, this planet, Rebels style, this planet is ours, we will defend it and free it from the Empire.
[giggling]
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Yep. Ah, yeah, a Star Wars AU of The Magpies is very good.
Josie: Yeah.
Kim: Yeah. We’ve definitely discussed it before. I remember.
Rhi: Yeah. All right. So the next question is from Michelle Kelly who is one of our transcriptionists.
Minna: Yay~
Kim: Thank you Michelle Kelly.
Rhi: Yeah, so huge shout-out to Michelle. She does phenomenal work. If you’re looking for a transcriber of your podcasts I highly recommend her and also our other transcriber who sent in a question as well. So Michelle’s question: Does the group plan out big plot twists in advance or does Rhi just give a general idea and then reveal the twist during recording? For example, the reveal of the final member of the Circle of Flame.
Kim: Hmm.
Rhi: I can sort of start on this a little. I think the last time that I kept a really big plot twist from you was the Rigney thing.
Kim: Yes.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Minna: I think that’s the only big plot twist you’ve kept from us.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Yeah…
Minna: Most of the time it’s us planning them together and building them up together.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Yeah.
Josie: Well, it seems to be like plot twists that directly involve our characters are planned in advance, ones that are more relevant to the NPCs… don’t get told.
Kim: You kinda keep to yourself.
Josie: yeah.
Rhi: Yeah… yeah. That was kind of why I was like “I think this is what I do, more or less,” but you know I couldn’t exactly remember. Yeah. For the example given here, yeah, we had talked about the reveal with Tesslyn for a while, because we knew that was gonna be a huge thing for Minx, so we knew kind of what that was gonna be. I will say, one thing that I did kind of hold back a little bit was I had planned to ask Kim to describe Setarra’s demon form pretty much since the show started. [laughs]
Kim: Wait, you did? You’ve been asking me to describe it?
Rhi: No-no-no, I had that planned that whenever her demon form was finally revealed that I was just gonna hand it to you.
Kim: Yes. Yes. Yeah, that was one twist that I as a player did not see coming, in that moment when Setarra transformed. Blaire and Setarra coming to a head was something that was planned for the season finale. That’s something that Rhi and I have discussed for a long time about how we wanna do that, how we wanna make that look, how do we come to this moment. I did not know that Setarra was going to transform into her demon form during that confrontation in the season finale, so she asked me on the spot what does this look like.
Rhi: [laughs] Yes.
Kim: And I was so excited, because I did not see that coming at all.
Rhi: Yeah. I had been sitting on that for literally years. When I was outlining my notes for Setarra I deliberately did not describe what I think her demon form looks like, because I’m like “I’m just gonna hand that to Kim.”
Kim: [smiling] Oh my gosh. That actually makes me very happy. Thank you. For what it’s worth, I’m very happy with what we come up with. I kind of envision it a little differently than how I described it in the episode, but yeah, I’m happy with what we came up with for her.
Rhi: Yeah, it was very creepy.
Minna: I do very much enjoy the way that we plan stuff out a little bit together. I enjoy that style of collaboration and knowing at least in advance where you’re going even if you don’t know how you’re getting there. I like that a lot.
Rhi: Yeah, I will say as a GM that’s actually been a shift for me from when I started out, because I got into RPGs through D&D 3.5, and D&D… 5th Edition tries to be a little bit better about it, but eh…
Josie: Eh-heh.
Rhi: D&D generally sets up the GM and players in opposition, and there’s very much an attitude of you can’t tell the players what your plans are because then the players will try to thwart them.
Kim: That’s stupid.
Rhi: Yeah. [laughs. So I was used to this approach of make all of these broad sprawling plans and then keep them secret, and you know, hand out little nuggets of information when the players roll well enough, and that… it doesn’t work super well in my experience. For the kind of games that I like to play and that I like to run I much prefer to have at least some… and it varies from game to game. I’m in some games where we have a little looser goals, but at least having some goals for a character or knowing roughly, yeah, like Minna said, knowing where you’re aiming for, and then even if you know what your target is, how you get there is not set in stone.
Josie: Right.
Kim: Yeah. For what it’s worth, all the games that I’ve ever been in that I enjoy the most are the character-driven ones where there is a lot of discussion out of character and in between sessions, between the GM and the players, you know, what are your goals, what do we want to do, whereas if you’re playing with a GM who just, you know, keeps on smiling and doesn’t tell you anything, I personally don’t find that fun.
Josie: Right.
Rhi: Yeah. The smiling GM is fun when you’re just doing a one-session, really crunchy dungeon crawl where there is no plot. [laughs]
Kim: Right. Exactly. That’s the only instance where I think I can tolerate it, but for long-term campaigns that’s not what I look for in a GM. That’s not my idea of fun.
Minna: Yeah. I think my playstyle is always gonna be a little influenced by doing other kinds of RP before this.
Rhi: Yeah. So, we are now going to move into a special segment that I have dubbed the Kevin Brown Power Hour.
[laughter]
Kim: (singing) Kevin Brown!
Rhi: Because one of our patrons, Kevin Brown, submitted like seven questions. We’re not doing all seven, sorry Kevin, but we did pull out some of our top ones here that we really liked. So, first question: What was your favorite outfit for your character from this season or any season that we have done?
Kim: Ooh~ [laughs]
Josie: That’s…
Kim: Minx?
Rhi: I knew this was gonna be a good one for Josie. [laughs]
Josie: I think it’s either the masquerade ball outfit or the pirate outfit.
Rhi: Ooh, both good choices.
Josie: Yeah, like, serious answer, Minx’s masquerade ball outfit with the open back and jewelry and stuff, silly answer, pirate outfit.
[laughter]
Kim: Yeah, my answer is definitely the masquerade ball, because I remember during that session—I frequently doodle during sessions, because as an artist it’s just kind of what helps me pay attention, in like almost any situation, so I draw a lot while we’re recording—and I remember during that session I actually drew Blaire’s outfit. I don’t know if I’ve ever shared it. The masquerade ball where Blaire just absolutely hammed it up with the Magpies aesthetic and yet nobody suspected her of actually being a Magpie.
Rhi: [laughing] Yeah.
Kim: I think that’s my favorite look that I’ve ever done for her.
Minna: What outfits has she worn? [laughs]
Rhi: Yeah, that’s a… Myra really—
Minna: Oh! You know what my favorite was?
Rhi: Uh-huh?
Minna: The time Blaire made her over to go talk to the youths.
[laughter]
Kim: Oh, that’s right! Yes!
Minna: yes!
Rhi: Yes, that’s right, when you went to the bar.
Minna: Just delightful.
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: The masquerade was also very good, but just in terms of it being a very fun and funny thing to envision.
Rhi: Yeah, Myra pretty much only dresses up in sort of unique outfits for scores, but I feel like when she does have a different outfit it’s like wildly off the rails, like dressing up to hang out with the youths or disguising herself as a ghost to haunt an alleyway.
Minna: [laughing, delighted] Oh my God! I forgot about that one! [laughing, unintelligible]
Rhi: Yeah! I was just trying to think back about disguises from this season.
Minna: Oh God. How much Sherlock Holmes DNA do we think there is in Myra that I didn’t realize I was putting in there?
[laughter]
Josie: A lot.
Rhi: Quite a bit.
Minna: I have a type. Oh God, did I know that? Did I know there was Sherlock Holmes in Myra?
Rhi: I think on some unconscious level, probably. So the next question, still from Kevin Brown: What food would your character love from our world that they can’t have in theirs?
Kim: That is such a good question, because there’s so much food that doesn’t exist in Blades in the Dark.
Josie: Uh-huh.
Rhi: Yeah, or like isn’t practical, like a cheeseburger… [laughs]
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: …would be basically impossible. I don’t even know. I think we had determined that cows don’t exist anymore.
Kim: Yeah. Yeah.
Rhi: But yeah!
Kim: Hmm… I think ice cream. I know that we’ve established that ice cream kind of—
Rhi: There’s goat’s milk.
Kim: Yeah, goat’s milk ice cream exists in this setting, but from what I understand it’s a rare snack for common people.
Rhi: Mm-hmm.
Kim: I’ll try to think of something else, now that I’m thinking about it, because I know that there’s so much food options that we have in the real world that don’t exist in Blades.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: Come back to me if I don’t think of anything else.
Rhi: Yeah!
Josie: I think Minx just would enjoy all kinds of fruit, because we barely have that.
Rhi: Yeah. I think we’ve established that there’s like apples available in Duskwall.
Kim: You know what I think I can see Blaire really enjoying is sushi. I know that probably exists in Blades because fish exist, but…
Rhi: It might not, because the fish, like, I don’t think you wanna eat the fish coming out of the Void Sea raw. [laughs.
Josie: Uh-huh. [laughs]
Kim: Exactly, yeah, which is why my brain went to sushi. I was just like, you know, in a modern AU I can see Blaire being really into sushi, but I don’t think we ever established that exists in our setting.
Rhi: Yeah, I don’t… I would imagine not.
Kim: All right, so that’s my final answer. Blaire likes sushi.
Rhi: All right.
Minna: Myra has strong, strong tea connoisseur energy, but tea isn’t really a thing because leaves aren’t as much of a thing.
Rhi: Yeah. I think that it’s just kinda… I mean, you can make tea out of kind of anything. I think that a lot of…
Kim: Right.
Minna: Yeah, and she drinks mushroom tea, and we’ve had basil tea.
Kim: Tea does… yeah.
Rhi: I think that a lot of… yeah, the tea that we have in the real world where it is like “a tea plant” is not really a thing that exists.
Kim: Now that we’re talking about it, I can see Blaire being really into boba tea, too.
Minna: Oh, yeah!
Josie: Aw!
Rhi: Also, possibly coffee. I don’t know if coffee’s really a thing in Blades.
Kim: You’re probably right. I don’t think coffee exists. Oh my God, in any setting that has coffee Blaire is a coffee junkie, for sure.
Rhi: Hmm, I’m just kind of… I feel like, yeah, coffee is something that needs—
Kim: It’s a bean, so…
Rhi: Yeah, well, it needs a lot of sun. It’s a tropical plant.
Kim: Yes.
Rhi: So might be difficult.
Minna: There’s another AU for us. Classic.
Rhi: Coffee shop AU?
Kim: God, this is such a good question.
Rhi: Yeah. So, the final question in the Kevin Brown Power Hour, another one that Minna was really excited about is: We haven’t seen much about the history of the world in the show. How would your character describe how the world has changed, and what is the most important or impactful historical event to your character’s history? [laughing] Now this question assumes a certain level of out of character knowledge of Blades history.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Minna: Yeah.
Rhi: And like, there’s also, the history of the setting is left fairly open. Like, there’s some major events…
Kim: Yeah. The book, from what I’ve read, it doesn’t go too much into the history of Duskwall, it’s just like this is a setting, it’s a pre-cataclysmic world, do what you will.
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: There’s like some bullet points, but they’re very vague, and I have extrapolated a lot.
Rhi: Uh-huh. [laughs] I’m kinda flipping to the, uh, there’s a timeline in the book somewhere but it’s like one page. There’s the founding of Duskwall, the Cataclysm…
Kim: Did I say pre? I meant post-cataclysmic.
Rhi: Yes. [laughs]
Minna: We knew what you meant.
Josie: Yeah, whatever. [chuckles]
Rhi: Yeah, there’s just not a ton of stuff. I think probably the most recent major event for everybody is the Unity War.
Josie: Yeah.
Minna: Ooh, yeah.
Kim: What was the second part of the question? It was like, you know, what piece of history is most important to your character or whatever?
Rhi: Yeah, basically. What historical event has… and I think, yeah, you can make stuff up too, because the history is so…
Kim: Yeah, because I was going to say, I feel like for Blaire it would have to be something to do with the history of Tycheros which the book doesn’t go too much into.
Rhi: No.
Kim: Yeah… so I don’t know.
Rhi: I mean, it could very well just be Tycheros joining the Empire.
Kim: That too, yeah.
Rhi: Which, you know, because that’s how Blaire would be able to be a student in Duskwall.
Kim: I guess so, yeah, because her going… Blaire comes from a middle class family, and I don’t know if this is common knowledge amongst the listeners or not, but she got to Charterhall University with merit. She was offered help with her tuition by the university, so her leaving her family and going to Duskwall to be able to attend university was a huge deal for her family.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: So, yeah, I think that has to be my answer, Tycheros joining the Empire, because that must have happened either before or during her lifetime that allowed her to get into the city in the first place.
Rhi: Definitely before.
Kim: Before? Okay.
Rhi: Yeah. The details on how Tycheros ended up being part of the Empire are pretty vague, most of the rest of the regions of the Empire we kind of know how they came in, either war or threat of war, but Tycheros is so far away that I don’t really know how that happened, but somehow they ended up deciding that joining the Empire was the right thing to do.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: But yeah, other thoughts on this?
Minna: Honestly, my money is on the leviathan hunters kind of figuring out that they could get fuel from the leviathans, because I think a lot of the industry of Duskwall ends up built around that and it’s so central to the ruling class here. So I think… yeah.
Rhi: Mm-hmm. Yeah, I was gonna say, you’re nobility in Duskwall if you own leviathan hunters.
Minna: And I think also for Myra so much of her life has been affected by just industry existing and being a prominent part of Duskwall culture, because she was born in a factory family, and yeah.
Rhi: Yeah, that makes sense. What about Minx?
Josie: Yeah, like, I feel like this is kind of a cop-out answer because it affects everyone very much, but just any element of class struggle I think.
Rhi: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Josie: In that case I think it might be the same as Myra, the advent of the nobility is kind of that, or the introduction of capitalism into Blades in the Dark.
Minna: Yeah, that’s what I was trying to pinpoint, basically.
Rhi: Yeah.
[laughter]
Kim: Yeah, no, I don’t think that’s a cop-out answer at all, Josie, because Minx and Myra were both born into poverty, for sure, and that informs both of their characters very much.
Rhi: Yeah.
Josie: Right.
Minna: Specifically in Charhollow which is shaped by that.
Rhi: Mm-hmm.
Kim: Yes. Absolutely.
Rhi: Yeah, I don’t know how the economy evolved in this setting really if it… Because you know, specifically before the Cataclysm it was sort of a much more idyllic fantasy setting.
Minna: So Duskwall started out as like a coal mining outpost.
Rhi: A mining outpost. Ironically, founded by Skovlan. [laughs]
Minna: Yeah.
Kim: Oh really? I didn’t know that.
Minna: I did a whole Magpies Quills post about how we became Akorosian and not Skovlanders.
Rhi: Yeah. It was originally a mining settlement.
Minna: Doskvol means coalmine of the Skov.
Kim: I knew none of this, but that’s also because I don’t read.
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: Or, I think it was “Doskovol” originally.
Rhi: Yeah, because it was founded a couple centuries before the Cataclysm, and then the Cataclysm happened and they were basically cut off from Skovlan, so by the time sea travel was reestablished the allegiance had shifted. So yeah. Thank you, Kevin, for your many, many questions.
Kim: Thank you, Kev.
Rhi: They were all very good and thought-provoking ones. So, the next question that we have is from BlueKryptonite04 on Twitter. This will be a pretty quick answer probably mostly from me. Their question is: Selfishly, could you or have you considered a weekly release? I was behind for like a season and a half, but now waiting two weeks for each new episode can be tough. Thanks! Love the Magpies.
Thank you! Yeah, I considered a weekly release when I was planning the show, and I considered my ability to edit and record that quickly, my ability and the cast, and it’s just not feasible, you know, with all of the other commitments that we have.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: I have a, like, just purely from an editing perspective, I have a full-time job, I’m in several other RPGs… I would have to give up a lot of my other extracurriculars to stay on top of that editing schedule, and that would make this not fun. Honestly, I probably would have gotten really badly burned out a long time ago if I did a weekly release.
Kim: I would say that for all of us, too, I think the every other week recording and release schedule just works for our schedules better, because we all have lives and we’re all, almost all of us are in other games, so our schedules flip-flop around a lot and it can be tough to get us all together, because we are scheduling… we’re all in different time zones almost.
Rhi: [laughs] Yeah, there’s also that.
Minna: Spread across the continental US.
Rhi: Yeah. It’s just, in order to keep this as a sustainable, fun project it’s an every other week thing. If I had both the money and the mental ability to delegate, [laughs] and be less of a control freak, and I could hire an editor, it would be a different story, but yeah. I enjoy editing the episodes. I really like doing that piece of it. So yeah, for me to keep doing it it’s gotta be every other week. I know the two week wait can be rough, but it’s what makes it possible for the show to kind of keep going.
So, another question from Twitter from Sleppy I think is how I would pronounce that, that’s my best guess, simply asks: So when are you gonna steal a leviathan hunter ship?
[chuckling]
Josie: I suppose the answer must be soon.
Rhi: At some point!
Minna: [smiling] Who knows. Oh my God, though, none of us knows how to sail.
Rhi: Yeah. I think maybe that’s the answer, when the Magpies learn how to sail or they befriend a ship captain.
Kim: Yeah, none of us know how to sail, Phin is God knows where… I feel like Blaire would absolutely love to spend a week on a leviathan hunter ship as a passenger, but she does not know the first thing about sailing at all.
Rhi: And the fact that she thinks she would enjoy being on a leviathan hunter ship as a passenger says that she should not be on one, because like… [laughs]
Kim: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Rhi: Like, they’re whaling ships basically, so it’s not a fun expedition.
Kim: Yeah, no, in her mind being on a leviathan hunter ship she would be there as an observer and a researcher. She would be like taking notes and like cartography and noticing all of whatever fauna that they dredge up. She would not be there to actually harpoon anything, because “what are you doing, that’s an animal, that’s a supernatural creature, no!”
Rhi: Heh, it’s a demon, a massive, massive demon that has smaller demons living on it.
Kim: Yeah. [laughs] No, she doesn’t care about that, she just wants to learn more about it.
Minna: Is it canon in our version of the Blades world that some ships are driven by, like, almost demons? Because that was a really fun aspect. I don’t remember if it ever crossed over into this world, but I deeply, I have a need for Kim to meet that ship.
Rhi: A game that Waffles originally GMed that I was not in but Minna was.
Minna: The one Seeks is from.
Rhi: Yeah. All the leviathan hunters were fueled by or were, not fueled but sort of guided by bound demons. That might be canonical. I’m not sure.
Minna: I don’t know if it’s canonical to the book, but I feel like it came up in this game somewhere, but I might be wrong, I don’t remember… but I would like Kim to meet one of those.
Rhi: If there is more information on that it would be in the Leviathan Song expansion pack I suppose. So yeah, I think the answer to when are you gonna steal a leviathan hunter ship is when somebody learns how to captain one. Minx could definitely get the outfit, but that does not…
[laughter]
Josie: Yeah, and I mean that’s the most important part, right?
Rhi: Yeah. That does not convey upon you the knowledge needed to sail a ship.
Josie: Eh, I’ve read enough novels.
Kim: Also, I feel like… This is kind of a cynical point of view, but I feel like we wouldn’t get away with stealing an entire ass leviathan ship.
Rhi: [breathy] Oh, no.
Kim: Because we would have to dock it somewhere.
Rhi: Yep, yeah, and there’s only—
Kim: You know?
Josie: Well no, here’s how it goes down. We steal it and immediately crash it.
Rhi: [laughs]
Minna: Yeah.
Josie: We successfully stole it, we just didn’t keep it.
Rhi: We moved it, slightly.
Minna: I will say that I think Seeks might actually know how or at least know somebody who knows how, just saying.
Rhi: Yeah, that’s true. I think Seeks in her past did spend some time on a leviathan hunter, but Seeks has a rich tapestry of life experiences prior to coming to Duskwall.
Minna: Seeks was briefly a pirate, I think.
Rhi: Yeah, for a little while, yeah.
Kim: Yeah, from a practical standpoint, leviathan hunter ships are huge and we’re only a crew of three people against… and if we were to steal a ship from an entire leviathan hunter crew, which could be I don’t know 20, 30, 50 people, I don’t know what the standard number is for a crew.
Rhi: Yeah, I think it’s more than that.
Kim: I don’t think we could get away with it as a crew.
Rhi: All right. So, the next question comes from Christian Chou, I think that’s how that’s pronounced, also on Twitter. Blades is a system based around playing a character and running the risk of seeing them die. Have you talked about what would happen if someone dies in the game, and is it something that you look forward to or dread? Love your podcast, trying to catch up.
Kim: Huh…
Rhi: Hopefully you have caught up by the time this goes live. So, one of the things with Blades, which actually we literally just discussed in the episode I was editing earlier today, is that because of the stress mechanic the players can resist any consequence that I give them up to and including death. So, death is something that only happens with the player saying yes, I want my character to die, otherwise I can be like hey, you took level 4 harm, you’re dead, and the player can be like actually no, I might be very badly injured, but I am still alive, because the dice said so. Which is something I really, really like about the system. I don’t know… We haven’t really talked about it.
Kim: Yeah. I was just gonna say, going off of that, that out of character I don’t think any of us have ever discussed our characters dying, because I don’t think it’s something that’s ever even crossed any of our minds because of the way the stress mechanic works.
Josie: It’s crossed mine. I don’t want it to happen to Minx, but I remember having a discussion that were Minx to quote-unquote “die,” vampire Minx?
Minna: [laughs]
Rhi: Right. That’s the other thing, if your character dies, like… Blaire could die and just come back as a ghost character. [laughs]
Kim: Exactly, yeah, and she would be thrilled. Yeah, exactly.
Minna: There’s three different playbooks you can choose after you die.
Josie: If Minx died her ghost would just be like huh, I make a good-looking corpse, let me get back in there.
[laughter]
Rhi: Yeah. “I’m too beautiful to be dead!”
Josie: Yes.
Kim: Yeah, I think that’s one of the things I like about this system is that there’s a lot of freedom about death in this game whereas if your character dies there are still avenues, and not to say that other systems don’t have this, but there’s a lot of interesting avenues where you can continue playing as your character in different ways should your character experience a death.
Minna: The thing I do like about Blades is that you don’t even really have to have that conversation about death, I mean obviously it’s good as a group to be on the same page, but like we definitely had to talk about that in D&D because…
Kim: Right. Yeah.
Minna: …death is a very real risk in D&D, and I don’t ever want my player character to die unless it is something that I have set up very carefully and really want.
Rhi: Yeah. I’m in the same boat.
Minna: Highly, highly, highly unlikely I’ll ever do that to Myra, because I don’t think that’s the story we’re telling here for her. She has been learning how to live.
Kim: Agreed. At this point Blaire is a character that is very near and dear to my heart, and death is not something that I want for her at all.
Rhi: Yeah. I think having a character die and just leave the show, particularly at this point, would be very unsatisfying I think.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Kim: And very devastating, I think, just in and out of character.
Minna: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Yeah, which is why I like that the decision is 100% in the player’s hands as opposed to, like Minna said, D&D. We had to have a pretty… For one of the games that Minna and I are both in, we had to have a very lengthy conversation about how death will be handled and everybody’s comfort level with having death be a threat for their character, because if you play D&D rules as written, if the dice say you die, you die, and that’s it.
Josie: Right.
Rhi: So yeah, I really like how Blades handles it. As much as I might kind of delight in throwing challenges and stuff at the characters when I’m GMing, ultimately I am on their side. I want the characters to win and succeed. I like putting them in hard situations because it’s cool to see how you all get out of them, and sometimes because, you know, you have to face down the consequences of your actions, but ultimately I’m not out here trying to kill off the Magpies, that’s not fun.
Josie: Right.
Kim: Yeah, no. This is a bit of a tangent, but Rhi, I think that’s one of my favorite aspects of you as a game master is that you love…
Rhi: Aw.
Kim: I know this about you because we’ve been friends for so long. When you are a game master you love to instill the fear of death into your players, but I know you as a game master that you don’t actually want any of us to die.
Rhi: No!
Josie: Uh-huh.
Kim: Yeah.
Minna: [giggles]
Kim: Game masters who feel like they are against their players or like they want their players to die, to me in my opinion that’s not a good game master.
Minna: It’s very much the fan fic writer’s approach where you want your characters to suffer, because that’s where the drama is…
Rhi: Yes.
Josie: [laughs]
Minna: …but you also want them to come out the other side because you love them to death.
Rhi: Yes! Yes, that’s… yes, and excellent summation. My favorite fan fic trope is hurt comfort, so…
Kim: Same!
[laughter]
Minna: Mm-hmm! Mm-hmm!
Rhi: Here we are!
Kim: Yeah, this is why this works so well.
Minna: This is why I’m like this about Devil’s Bargains.
Rhi: Magpies, 1.5 million words, hurt comfort, 57 chapters. [laughs]
Kim: Yeah.
Minna: Other tags on this hypothetical fan fic, found family.
Rhi: Mm-hmm!
Kim: And we’ve done there was only one bed.
Rhi: Yes, we did.
[laughter]
Minna: Oh God! I love that this is… This is why we work, isn’t it?
Rhi: Yeah. Oh man.
Kim: Yeah, this is why we all work well together is because we all read fan fiction.
Rhi: All right, so the last question that I have, this comes in from Tyler_MoonSage who is I think the very first transcriptionist, transcriber that I hired. They are phenomenal to work with. They also are one of the leaders of DOTS RPG which creates resources for blind and low vision gamers, so like braille dice and other cool resources like that.
Kim: Hell yeah.
Rhi: Yeah, Tyler is just a delightful person, and I love this question that they sent in. Which Pokémon would each magpie have on their teams if they were trainers?
[others gasp]
Minna: Oh!
Kim: I’ve thought about this! Yes! Thank you!
Josie: Whole teams or like signatures?
Kim: [clapping] Yes! Yes!
Rhi: I think you can give as many or as few Pokémon as you want.
Kim: Oh, I’m so happy.
Rhi: I also made an addition for myself which was, I will add this after you all have given your answers, I added for me what type of Gym Leaders would some of the villains be. [laughs]
Minna: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Kim: Ooh~ Oh my God, I’m so… For the record, listeners, I did not look at any of the questions before we started recording this. I’m so happy because I have thought about, you know, Blaire as a Pokémon Trainer before.
Josie: Excellent.
Rhi: So yeah, what Pokémon would you all have on your teams?
Minna: Can I just very quickly—this is not Myra’s—Rigney has a Growlithe. I insist.
Josie: Yes. Yes, absolutely.
Rhi: Yeah~
Kim: Yes! Yes, because it’s Hound’s Bar, Hound’s paw.
Minna: The Hound’s Paw is named for the Growlithe.
Rhi: What’s it named, Minna?
Minna: No-no-no, The Hound’s Paw is named The Hound’s Paw because Rigney has a Growlithe.
Rhi: Oh! Yes, that’s very good. This is extremely good.
Kim: Okay, so Blaire is definitely a Ghost-type trainer. She has a Gastly. She has a Mimikyu. She has… God, I have to look up Ghost-types. I know I’ve thought… Come back to me.
Rhi: [laughs]
Josie: [laughs] Hmm, I feel—
Kim: Let me pull up Bulbapedia real quick.
Rhi: [chuckles]
Josie: I feel like Minx is a Fairy-type trainer.
Rhi: yeah, I was gonna say Fairy or…
Josie: And her favorite Pokémon is Gardevoir probably.
Rhi: I was gonna say Fairy or Dragon.
Josie: I am a Dragon trainer. Minx is a Fairy-type I think.
Rhi: [laughs] I see.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Has to be the most extra.
Josie: Uh-huh.
Kim: So, Blaire definitely has a Mimikyu, a Mismagius, I would think a Cofagrigus.
Rhi: The PokéRap is now playing in my head.
[laughter]
Kim: Yeah, I’m sorry.
Rhi: No, don’t apologize!
Kim: She would definitely have… It’s a good song.
Rhi: It is.
Kim: She’d definitely have a Gastly and a Gengar for sure. I could see her with a Lunala if she managed to capture a legendary. I’m literally just looking at Bulbapedia right now, but like, Blaire would work well with any Ghost-type Pokémon, hands down.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: She’s just a Ghost-type trainer.
Josie: Right. Okay, I’m looking at a list of Fairy-type Pokémon. I know Minx would have Alolan Ninetales, because it’s all sparkly and blue, Galarian Rapidash, because look at that thing.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: Yes! Yes, yes, you’re completely right and you should say it.
Josie: It’s gorgeous. Gardevoir, because it’s so elegant. Who else would she have? She might have a Primarina. Primarina would work.
Kim: She would definitely have a Primarina.
Josie: Happy fairy seal. Yay.
Rhi: [giggles]
Josie: Hatterene, because it’s a fashion Pokémon.
Minna: [gasps]
Rhi: [laughs] Yeah.
Josie: And then…
Minna: Does Minx have a Jynx?
Josie: She does not have a Jynx, because Jynx creeps me out and I don’t like it.
Minna: Mm-hmm.
Josie: And I think Mimikyu, she might have sympathy for Mimikyu.
Kim: Aww! Our Mimikyus can be friends. I forgot to mention, Blaire definitely also has a Murkrow.
Rhi: Oh yeah.
Josie: Nice.
Minna: Beautiful. I can’t decide with Myra. Like, on the one hand, I think she actually might be a Normal-type trainer. I mean, I, Minna, enjoy a lot of these Pokemon, and they’re very versatile which I think is very Myra. I could also see some Dark in there, though. I could totally see her with an Umbreon.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: Yes. Yeah.
Josie: I think Salia is definitely the Dark-type Gym Leader.
Rhi: See, I was thinking Psychic for her.
Kim: [gasps]
Minna: Oh, mm-hmm! Uh-huh! Mm-hmm!
Josie: Oh, because she fucks with your head? Sure.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: What about Psychic/Poison-types? Did those exist?
Rhi: Probably.
Josie: They’re out there, I think.
Rhi: Yeah, I had Salia as the Psychic-type Gym Leader just waging psychological warfare on everyone.
Josie: Right.
Kim: yeah, that fits.
Rhi: Yeah. I could see Normal-Dark mix for Myra for sure.
Josie: Mm-hmm, and there are Normal and Dark Pokemon now, like Obstagoon.
Minna: Mm-hmm, but I think like… I like her with a Persian. I like her with a Pidgeot. There’s a lot of really good Normal Pokémon for Myra I think.
Josie: I like that too.
Kim: I feel like it goes without saying, Setarra is like, you know, a Water-type Gym Leader.
Rhi: Oh yeah.
Kim: Water/Dark. I’m sure those exist, I just can’t remember any off the top of my head right now.
Rhi: Yeah, she definitely is the Water Gym Leader.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: I’m trying to think. Where’s my list? Tesslyn is the Ghost Gym Leader.
Josie: Okay.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: That tracks.
Rhi: I’m trying to remember my other Circle of Flame members.
Minna: Ooh, what’s Mora?
Rhi: Rock.
Minna: Yeah.
Rhi: For reasons that will be revealed later.
Minna: What?!
Josie: [laughs]
Minna: What does that mean?
Rhi: That means I maybe have some secrets still and I was lying a little bit when I said I reveal everything.
Kim: Oh no!
Josie: [laughs]
Rhi: Although no, Josie did get it correct that when it comes to some NPCs I do still keep some secrets.
Kim: Rhi, I know he’s not an enemy, but what do you think of Bazso?
Minna: [gasps]
Rhi: Ooh! Dark. Dark/Fighting.
Josie: Yeah.
Kim: Fighting, yes, I could see Fighting for him.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Oh, no, you know what, not Dark, Steel.
Minna: Yeah!
Kim: Yeah, Steel/Fighting.
Josie: Yeah, I like that.
Rhi: Steel/Fighting, for sure.
Kim: Steel/Fighting for him, definitely.
Josie: He definitely has a Lucario.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: Yes! Yes he does. Ooh! While we’re at it, Jeren?
Minna: Oh buddy, he’s a Bug trainer.
[laughter]
Rhi: Nope, you’re right.
Kim: Yes! Yes!
Rhi: Yeah, no, you’re right.
Minna: I love that I didn’t even have to stop and think, I just knew he’s a fucking nerd.
Rhi: Yeah!
Kim: You’re so right.
Rhi: [giggles] What were you gonna say, Josie?
Josie: What type is Nyryx?
Rhi: Ooh…
Kim: Hmm.
Rhi: I can see… Hmm. Possibly also Fairy.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Potentially, I’m looking at Grass-type though, also.
Minna: Oh my God, that would be so cute!
Kim: There’s a lot of cute Grass-types.
Josie: Mm-hmm.
Rhi: In a modern AU Nyryx has an apartment that is just filled with plants.
Josie: Yeah, Grass-types.
Rhi: Like, my original mental image of her apartment I had to edit out all of the plants, because she just would have terrariums and potted plants everywhere.
Josie: Aww.
Rhi: She’s just… yeah. I think I could see Grass-type.
Josie: Yeah, let’s go with that.
Minna: And she has the vibes of people you encounter in the anime who have Grass-types.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: I just thought of this. For those of you who have played Pokémon games, sometimes you come across trainers who are teams, and sometimes you have 2v2 battles.
Rhi: Yes!
Kim: So, Lani and Roxanne.
Minna: Yes!
Rhi: Ooh!
Josie: [gasps] Aw!
Rhi: Ooh, oh that’s good.
Kim: Yeah. What kind of trainers would they be as a team?
Rhi: Yeah!
Minna: I think that… I think Lani might be ground. I just really like that idea.
Rhi: Yeah, I was gonna say Ground or Fighting.
Kim: I can see Ground for her.
Minna: Minx! Those mix well.
Rhi: Yeah. Roxanne?
Josie: Flying maybe?
Minna: I like that a lot!
Rhi: I was thinking Flying, yeah.
Minna: They’d balance each other, and then she can have like a Zubat, because I feel like she has a Zubat.
Kim: Yeah~
Rhi: [laughs] I think that—
Josie: And the Flying person can attack them while the other one spams Earthquake. [laughs]
Rhi: Yeah, I think they both have Fighting-types, Lani has Fighting/Ground, Roxanne has Fighting/Flying, and they will just ruin your day.
[chuckling]
Minna: Seeks has a Chansey.
Rhi: I can message Waffles right now and find out what Seeks would be.
Kim: Kay I feel like would be Water and Fighting. She would have a mix of both.
Rhi & Josie: Mm-hmm.
Minna: Definitely a Blastoise in there.
Kim: Yes! Absolutely.
Rhi: [laughs] Yeah.
Minna: We could go on forever. This is gonna be an entire episode’s worth of us thinking about…
Rhi: Yeah, no, this was extremely—this is why I saved it for last, because I knew that we were gonna get real deep into it.
Minna: Ugh, I’m real into it.
Kim: Thank you. Thank you for this question.
Josie: Is there anyone who’s a Dragon-type trainer?
Rhi: That’s what I’ve been thinking. I’ve been trying to figure out if we have anybody.
Kim: Scurlock?
Rhi: No. Scurlock is a pure Dark, because he’s a fucking edge lord.
Kim: You’re right.
Josie: [laughs]
Minna: Consider lady Drake, not just because of the pun, but also because of the pun.
Rhi: Oh, okay, so Lady Drake for Dragon, I thought about that, but I think she’s Ice.
Minna: Ah.
Kim: Yes. You’re right.
Minna: But you could be both. They mix well.
Rhi: Yeah. We haven’t had anybody who’s a Fire-type.
Kim: Yeah.
Rhi: Myra has at least one Fire-type though is the thing.
Minna: [laughs] I’m so mad I didn’t say Fire-type as a joke for Myra!
Rhi: Myra has mostly Normal and then a Charizard.
Minna: One. She gets one late. Late in the game she gets a Fire-type that she ends up bonding real hard with.
[laughter]
Kim: What about our Deathland Scavengers? What about Dowler and Rigney’s brother?
Rhi: Oh, Nevan. Um… gosh.
Josie: Oh, well I think we may have established that Rigney is a Fire-type trainer, right, because he has a Growlithe?
Minna: Oh yeah.
Kim: Right, yeah. Rigney could be Fire-type.
Rhi: Yeah. Yeah, I could actually see that. Waffles has informed me that Seeks would have adopted a Grimer or that new garbage monster.
Kim: Yeah!
Josie: Yes, she’s Poison-type. Perfect.
Kim: Yeah. Yes-yes-yes.
Rhi: Yeah, Seeks as a Poison-type trainer makes sense.
Minna: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Rhi: Yeah. [laughs] The quote from Waffles is “she would have adopted a Grimer or that new garbage monster, like whatever needed love.”
Josie: Why not both?
Kim: Whatever needed love. That’s just the Seeks MO right there.
Rhi: Trubbish is the name of the other garbage monster.
Kim: Trubbish! Yes, that’s the new one that’s just trash.
[laughter]
Rhi: I’m now explaining to Waffles why I have thrown—For what it’s worth, Waffles did not fucking flinch. I just messaged them out of the blue, “what type of Pokémon trainer would Seeks be?” “Ooh! Hmm…”
[laughter]
Kim: What about Nevan though? Did we figure out Nevan?
Rhi: No, I didn’t figure out Nevan. Well, I think that he has a bunch of Eevees.
Josie: [laughs]
Minna: Aww~!
Kim: Aww, yeah.
Rhi: He has an army of Eevees.
Minna: Eevees and Eeveelutions.
Josie: A good boy.
Kim: I was just gonna say, like whatever—he would just have a collection of Pokémon that resembled cats like a Purrloin and a Meowth, etcetera-etcetera, but I like the idea of him having a bunch of Eevees.
Rhi: I think he defies specific typing and just has an army of Eevees.
Josie: [laughs]
Kim: I like that. I like that. He’s an Eevee trainer. That’s very good.
Rhi: Yeah. [laughs]
Josie: Including a Sylveon, because Sylveon says trans rights.
Minna: Yes.
Rhi: Mm-hmm.
Kim: Yes! Yes she does. Do we know who would be an Electric-type? I don’t think we’ve assigned Electric-type to anyone yet.
Rhi: We haven’t.
Josie: Hmm.
Minna: Dowler.
Kim: Eh…
Rhi: Eh.
Kim: Well, lightning barrier as a smuggler… maybe.
Minna: It was a bad joke based on that.
Rhi: [laughs]
Kim: I mean, it could be that.
Josie: Fucking, um, what’s his face? The noble who helps us out, with the tea.
Rhi: Oh! He’s not a noble. Amancio, the deal broker.
Josie: Amancio. He strikes me as an Electric-type.
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: Aw yeah, he uses them to power his greenhouse.
Rhi: Yeah.
Kim: Yeah. I could see Electric-type for him.
Minna: What would the apprentices be? I’m suddenly wondering.
Rhi: Oh…
Minna: This is a bad. Wester actually might be a Fire-type.
Rhi: Yeah, or Fighting.
Minna: I would say Ojal is Fighting.
Rhi: Ojal is Fighting.
Josie: Clave comes across as Ice to me.
Rhi: Yeah.
Minna: Yeah, she’s Ice.
Rhi: All right. Thank you so much, Tyler, for this question.
[laughter]
Kim: We love it.
Rhi: This was a delight.
Minna: Very important.
Rhi: This was very good.
Minna: Very important character work here.
Rhi: Yeah. [laughs] I still can’t get over the fact that I just messaged Waffles on Discord, zero context, and they just instantly were like yes, I will give this question my full consideration, I don’t need an explanation.
Josie: Waffles is a good bean.
Kim: Yes, they really are.
Rhi: Waffles is one of the very best beans. That was the last question that we had, so I think that’s gonna do it for Season 3. As always, thank all of you for listening, for sending in questions, for tweeting at us and leaving reviews and backing us on Patreon and all of the wonderful things that you do, and we will be back in some amount of time. We might be taking a brief hiatus between Season 3 and Season 4. At the time of this recording we haven’t quite worked out our schedule yet, but we will be returning very shortly, so thank you all and we will see you soon.
Josie: Yeah!
Kim: We love you!
## Outro [0:56:19]
Rhi: Thanks for listening. The Magpies will be back in two weeks. In the meantime, follow us on Twitter at @magpies_pod, and visit our Patreon at patreon.com/magpiespodcast.
The Magpies podcast is GMed and produced by Rhi. Follow me on Twitter at @rhiannon42 and check out RPGSkillCheck.net for my copy editing and accessibility freelance site.
Blaire Culhane is played by Kim Kogut. Follow her on Twitter at @kimdianajones.
Minx is played by Josie. Follow her on Twitter at @DragonGirlJosie, and watch her art streams at picarto.tv/DragonGirlJosie.
Myra Keel is played by Minna. Follow her on Twitter at @mynaminnarr.
The opening and closing theme music is from ‘Trio for Piano, Violin, and Viola’ by Kevin MacLeod, and is used under a Creative Commons license.
The Blades in the Dark roleplay system is the creation of John Harper, and is published by Evil hat Productions.
## Bloopers [57:30]
Kim: For some reason I could just picture that as an Always Sunny title card, like the gang steals the New York Times.
[laughter]
Minna: Honestly, that would be fantastic, but also we would die.
—
Minna: You know it’s a heck of an episode when I have spicy cover identities open but not my character sheet.
[laughter]
Rhi: Hang on, I gotta tweet that.
—
Rhi: I wish I had asked Minna how long she was going to be gone for.
Kim (as Blaire): That’s okay, because now this is time for… memeing.
Rhi: Oh no. [laughs]
Josie: Oh God.
Rhi: Minna was the one who needed fish in a tube explained, so…
Kim: I know, but [mumbles] … This is feral silly-billy time is what I’m saying. I can ramble.
Minna: I return. What is feral silly-billy time?
[laughter]
Kim: Okay, you’re back.
Rhi: Uh, all right.
Minna: Is that every time with Kim?
Rhi: Pretty much.
Kim: Yeah.
[giggling]
Rhi: All right.
—
Rhi: Amancio talks like… Sonic, on speed.
[laughter]
Rhi: Why did I do that?!
Kim: Not exactly like Sonic, though.
Minna: Amancio’s the guy who makes weird tea, right?
—
Minna: I love how Blaire’s the only one of us who has parents and she’s the one who has adoptive parents here.
[laughter]
Rhi: Mm-hmm! Listen.
Josie: She has an abundance of parents.
Kim: Blaire Culhane stole my parents for political reasons.
[laughter]
Rhi: Oh man. I know at some point there was a joke that was like sometimes a family is a mom, a dad, a mom, a mom, a vampire dad, and a Whisper.
Kim: Do what you need to cope.
Rhi: Yeah.
Josie: A cat and a statue.
Rhi: Oh yeah, and a statue. Can’t forget Kevin.