October 9, 2024 • 18 mins
Today, Ramie and Beth delve into the intriguing world of "City of Mist," a tabletop role-playing game that combines modern settings with mythological elements. They explore the unique mechanics of character creation, emphasizing the dual identities players must navigate—one rooted in the mundane world and the other steeped in mythos. With a starter box filled with resources, including character folios and maps, the hosts discuss how the game encourages players to craft their own stories while balancing their characters’ mythological and everyday lives. The conversation also touches on the variety of characters players can embody, from ordinary postal workers to legendary figures like Sherlock Holmes or even unique interpretations of Disney characters. As they share insights about the game’s structure and themes, Ramey and Beth highlight the challenges and creativity involved in developing compelling narratives within this imaginative framework.
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(00:05):
Hello. I'm Ramie.
And I'm Beth.
And this is brother KnowsQuest, the podcast where I, your
host, introduce my sister to the
wonderful world of tabletop role
playing games. Beth, do you know
what we're talking about today? It's
been a while since we had power outage.
I have no idea.
Okay, we're talking about thiscity of Mist. Yeah. It's based a
lot on the power, the Apocalypse
games,which I talked about in an earlier
episode. If you want to know more
about those, listen to Apocalypse
world.It was the first, and it gives you
more details on the rules. You got
the starter box in your hands, right?
(00:34):
Mm hmm.
Okay, explain what comes inthe starter box real quick.
A booklet for playersexplaining the rules of the game
through short learn as you play.
Readout text, a booklet for the MC explaining
the role of the MC and containing
thedetails of your first case. Shark
Tank. Five pre generated character
folios, 20 tracking cards, the crew
themed card, two custom city of Miss
Dice, seven location maps on two
double sided sheets, 41 illustrated
character tokens.
(01:04):
Yeah. City mist is a modernday city. Or you choose a city that
you want to put this in. It's like
anameless city. You could put your
own in it, where ordinary people
aresecretly mythological figures. Not
everyone, just some of them. The
mist that they talk about in the
name kind of veils things. If someone
gets attacked by a unicorn, somebody
whose inner self is actually a unicorn,
it just shows a horse rampaging the
distracts to normal people hanging.
(01:29):
Well, that's still an oddsight to see.
Yeah, but it's less odd than a unicorn.
It's kind of like ripd howthey had different identities, and
he was a hot blonde and the other
onewas a little chinese man.
Yeah, I forgot about that. Ilove that.
And they were doing thesecrazy things. It looked absolutely
ridiculous.
It did. I'll need to watch itagain. There's a second one.
(01:51):
I was gonna say, didn't theymake a second or was talking about
it?
Yeah, they did make a second.I'm pretty sure the basic concept
is amythos, the legendary identity. And
you have your logos, which is a mundane
life identity, and tags, which are
powers and weaknesses that go along.
It's kind of like the apocalypse
worldstuff I was mentioning earlier. You
kind of figure out your character
motivation, and then you have to
make your identity so you get the
idea of what you want to play as.
You want to be like a postal worker
who's secretly arbos or something,
justwhatever mythological or story you
don't have to be mythological. It
could be a story. Think of Sherlock
Holmes or something. You could be
your secret identity because Sherlock
Holmes and. But the more you focus
onone part of your life, the other
parteventually wanes, so you have to
decide. And the problem is, if you
choose, it sounds nice. Yes. I want
to be completely Sherlock Holmes,
butyou also have to suffer the fate
ofyour mythos. In the end, you don't
want to play as Loki and end up getting
really good at something, and then
eventually, you get tied down and
tortured by Odin because of the way
the mythos goes. So you might want
to balance that a little bit more.
Oryou could choose to go one way or
the other. You could just be a postal
worker. The character sheets you
got there, what are some of them?
Cause I didn't look through the box
since the day I bought it, and it's
been a while back when I bought this.
(02:59):
Chips. I've got maps,interesting chips. They're falling
apart.
What?
I mean, not apart, but, like,how? They're on a sheet, and you
push them out.
Oh, okay. A lot of them arelike, yeah. I thought I was like,
well, I haven't opened it in about
ayear, but I didn't know that was
going to happen. Unfolding.
Well, this is nice.
Yeah, a lot of the stuff, I'vegot a bunch I bought.
This is a nice quality, andit's big. Let's see. Lily Chow.
(03:24):
What is her mythos and Lobos?
Lily Chow. Forget it. It's alla lie. It's always been a lie. They're
just trying to get me to come back
home. They've sent private investigators,
atherapist, even my best friend. Oh,
a therapist. But they don't give
adamn about me. They've been hiding
thetruth, a dark, horrible secret about
who they are and what they've done.
And that's why I'm never going back.
Hans is different. He cares. He wants
me to be my own person, and he makes
sure I have what I need. And he can
do things you wouldn't believe, insane
things. Setting him free was the
best thing I ever did. Now I've got
to set myself free of my stupid parents.
I'm guessing Hans is the big green
man behind her.
(04:10):
Yeah, I don't recognize Hans.
Maybe it's pronounced Hans. Ha n s. I'd say it's Hans.
What are some of the othercharacter sheets? Because one of
them, I do remember recognizing the
mythos of. See, when I first got
into this, way back when, I learned
what it was about. I did not know
itwas based on power led by the apocalypse.
Iknew it sounded familiar.
Detective in Kudu. I'massuming that's how it's pronounced.
It'salways been there, ever since I was
a child on the streets. This urge
calling me to rip through all this
modern woman crap and just syringe
through the wild and become a beast
when I answer the call. This facet
ofnormality is not the only thing I
tear through. You better not get
inmy way. That's why I keep it bottled
up. I don't have time to go on a
wild rampage. I've got more burning
issues to deal with, like how this
neighborhood is going to hell. Oh,
well, that sounds familiar. And how
my sergeant is all up in my grill
fornot doing my paperwork. Problem is,
ordinary cops don't see the things
Isee, which is why I'm moonlighting
as aprivate eye with people like me.
Ifany of my colleagues finds out, I'm
done for.
(05:14):
Okay, hand me the othercharacter sheet you'd already went
over so I can look at it. I want
tosee. I don't think I have the PDF
for this. I looked. I didn't find
it. Oh, yeah, they have a poster
onthe back. It's like a poster, but
on the other side of the poster is
your character sheet, and you unfold
it. And on the outside of the poster
is literally, like I said, a poster.
Lily Chow. Let's see what? Lily Chow's
a green magical giant mystery. Who
am I without huns?
(05:37):
Thorny tentacles.
He's a mythical giant. He's anunusual big brother. They have, like,
tags, like bastion and conjuration.
Sorcerer supreme.
Yeah, power tags.
Yeah, power tags.
That's what I was. She's gotthe one I've got here. The detective
hasthorny tentacles.
She's. This one's even. Even.Two in mythos and two in logos. How
many is yours under her name on the
inside?
(05:58):
Mythos one. Locos, three.
Okay. Yeah, she did sound likeshe was more into the detective stuff
than this one and more into her job
than her other half. I forgot how
nice these were.
This is the character sheets.
Yeah, well, see, I've got thebooks in there. I was going to cover
the books first, and I remembered
I hadthe starter set so we'd cover those
first. So I kind of just picked this
up and ran in here with it.
It is for those, obviously,who cannot see, because this is a
podcast. A thick, glossy cardboard
thatopens like a bro. Well, not even
abrochure. It's bigger than a brochure.
It's much bigger. As he mentioned,
like aposter. That's like a menu open.
(06:32):
Yeah, it's like a menu sizedposter that folds open. Two page
menu.
Yeah, a good quality menu.
What are the other charactersheets? If you don't mind going over
those.
Really wish they would come upwith some names I could pronounce.
They can pronounce it. Wecan't. That's the problem.
Tlaloc. T l a l o c. Don'tjudge me, okay? Just my luck. Being
born with this much charm and good
looks into such a dump of a neighborhood.
People here gotta make ends meet.
Andwhen they can't, they come to me
and make it happen. I had a good
thing going, and life was just fine
the way it was. I was starting to
make a name for myself, but now this
thing comes along, this electricity,
and Ifind myself flowing into places I
shouldn't be in, seeing and hearing
things I'm not supposed to. Can't
deny this power has its perks. But
lately it's been heavy on my conscience,
and I didn't even know I had one.
What goes down in this neighborhood
isdownright sinister. If I don't do
something about it and the people
gethurt, it's on me. But this response
isthe last thing I need right now.
Godof rain and lightning. Okay, is it
wherever there is water, I am?
(07:33):
Okay, yeah, keep reading belowthat. Where? It's where it shows
their handwriting under the mystery.
Andit will tell you, usually, who their
character, their other half is.
Who threatens to blot out thefifth sun. What does it mean to be
everywhere? As the God of all watery
things, Tlaloc, or however that's
pronounced, can turn his person into
water and reform it wherever body
ofwater exists, if it's a big enough
forhim to go through. In his divine
purview, he controls storms and lightning.
But with his newfound powers came
agrowing need to find those who would
ravage the earth. A need he's been
trying to stifle.
(08:08):
So he's an eco warrior? Well,mine was Iron Hans under lily Chiles.
Should be two more. I just want to
cover these. Cause I like to get
the idea what's in the character,
whatpeople could play as, since it is
a starter box.
Job or job. You think you haveit all figured out, huh, kid? You're
young, on top of the world. Nothing
canhurt you, right? Listen, son, I know
a thing or two about feeling invincible,
and I know it's all a show. We both
know you're hiding your pain. So
why don't you get off that high horse
and tell me what it is you've lost?
See, well, I used to have everything
once.Then I got hit so hard, I thought,
I'llnever get back on my feet. I've lost.
Never mind. The point is that I somehow
got up. Somehow. I always get up,
no matter what they do to me. The
trick is, don't let the pain tell
you what to do. So what do you say?
Think you can try that for me?
(08:57):
What was. Now? Read theirlittle blurb about their motherhood.
I'm assuming he's a priest.Okay, maybe he's got a cross on his
neck.
It probably is.
Devil. Devil, take it all.What is the purpose to my suffering?
Jobsimply cannot die. He tried. Like
his biblical mythos, he is at the
center of a bet between God and the
devil that has ruined his life, but
keeps his body alive and his soul
untarnished.
(09:20):
So he is literally after hisnamesake job. Okay, that made life
easier. What is the last one? What's
his mythos? What's his level? Locos
and mythos.
Not level, but what's his onein three? Baku, the people of the
city are slumbering, sleeping even
through their waking hours. And in
their sleep, bad dreams haunt them.
Flesh and blood nightmares that prey
on their oblivious minds and numb
bodies. Sometimes they awaken for
amoment, just enough to call for help.
I'm that help. I am here to hunt
that which hunts, to terrify that
which terrifies. I'm the nightmare
ofthose who would be the nightmares
ofothers. But I am a nightmare from
which there will be no waking up.
My name is Baku, and I am the dream
eater.
(10:03):
I call it the other half. Ishould say mythos.
Oh, it says, who created thismonstrosity? Baku is a chimera.
Chimera?
Chimera. What's that?
That's a. Remember we coveredhim. It's one of those creatures,
kind oflike mixed of multiple different
things.
Oh. A magical being made outof leftover parts of other animals
created to devour nightmares. He
can change himself to counter any
dark or phantasmal entity.
(10:29):
Phantasmal?
Oh, okay. He encounters.
Okay, at least you got thatpart down. So each character has
motivations and why they're into
this. The core mechanics are two
dsix, plus your relevant power tags.
I'll cover some of the basic moves
you go through, like go toe to toe,
which is something most characters
can do.This is a move for physical conflicts.
Soyou roll whatever stat you have in
toe to toe. Added to your two d six
you have investigate which needs
nodescription face danger. This is
aversatile move used to overcome any
obstacle or challenge that isn't
covered by another move. It's the
catch all or convince which is a
persuasion manipulations move. The
Mc, the master of ceremonies, which
is the dem GM, they have inflict
harm,which is a move that allows the Mc
to inflict harm on a character either
as a consequence of actions or the
environmental damage. Reveal a danger
to the characters offer an opportunity
forthe characters to do something compel
a choice. This move forces characters
tomake difficult decisions with significant
consequences and it's pretty simple.
Rules powered by the apocalypse is
fairly rules light this is a little
bit more crunchy than normal PBTA
games, but I like it for its setting
and not even much for mystery games,
solving mysteries and all that. Like
this game is kind of focused at it's
not necessarily have to be, but every
time I read something, somebody's
playedit or something, it's usually done
that way. And I do like this mainly
because you could play as, let's
saythe hatter from Alice in Wonderland
asyour second, as your mythos. That
would be kind of fun. You're telling
what would happen there. The evil
queen. That would be a good one.
TheRed Queen. If you go around painting
roses red and beheading folk, yay.
Yeah, I keep going to fairies and
princess stories and fairy tale,
allthat stuff, but there's a lot of
good ones. You could be Abraham Lincoln.
It doesn't have to be mythical or
it could be from books or just lore.
It could be the idea of overreaching
influence of social media if you
wanted to. I am the embodiment of
social media influencers. It's just
the wildest stuff you could do. I
found the box set available at many
online stores. I will say that I
couldn't find a PDF version. There
might be one, but I did do some searching
and couldn't find it. Son of Oak
games are the publishers and that's
the website I have a link to in the
description for the starter set and
that's where I got it from. I ordered
the whole set. It is perpetually
on preorder if you get it from them. I
bought it on pre order a year ago,
got it about a year ago, but still.
Idon't really know why it's always
onpre order, but it did show up. So
they're not trying to scam you that's
always nice. And then after I got
it, I went on to order, like, a whole
bunch of other stuff. I've got, like,
four more books to talk about. We
will talk about City of Mist for
abit, as long as nobody's complaining.
But asfor the starter set comes with everything
you need. Character creation. We're
going back and forth between character
creation and what's in the box, but
that's how I'm doing this. You choose
your mythos, and then you choose
yourlogos, and then you have to figure
outhow the two clash or intertwine or
get along however you want to do
it. That could be difficult. It's
very open. It isn't like d and d,
where you just pick a class in a
background and you just copy down
the stuff it gives you. You have
tothink about it and then pick the
stuff that matches with it in the
books, like skills and things. So
it's a little bit harder to build
acharacter if you're not used to being
open minded, I guess, is the way
toput it. But I myself fiddled with
the character creation and kind of
enjoyed it. So if I can do it, most
people can, because I struggled a
bit on a couple of games I've talked
about here. I don't really know how
much to say about it. I want to cover
the core book, the two core books,
thePlayers handbook, and the master
ofceremonies guide. Game masters toolkit,
I think is what it's called. Mc Toolkit.
I can't remember. I'll talk about
that next episode. How do you like
the idea of this? I don't know if
I'd want it to be in a city. I'd
like it to be in a town.
(14:00):
Yeah.
I'm more familiar with towns.
Yeah. I don't know. It's different.
I like to. I mean, imagine thecharacters you could play as. You
could be a waitress and be Princess
Ariel, I guess, is what you would
play. I don't know who you'd play
as.
I'm a waitress that swimsaround the.
Ocean, work at a seafoodrestaurant. It's like a daily nightmare
every time you go, oh, I don't know
what Disney Prince, what character
from aDisney I'd play as Ursula. My day
job would be ruined.
(14:25):
I don't know, Jafar. I thinkJafar would make a little more sense.
Yeah. I just keep going toDisney ones. Cause, I don't know,
it's just the easiest to kind of
think about sometimes. That'd be
kind of cheating to play as Harry
Dresden wizard. I guess you could.
Afairy queen. That'd be a good one.
A dragon.
Wouldn't that be kind of like Maleficent?
Yeah, pretty much. She was aarch fae, I suppose. Of course you
could also choose bad things. Your
alter ego could be people's fear
ofnightmares. You could be Freddy Krueger,
you could be Chucky. Just Charles
LeeRay in a person's body. Again, that
would be bad. But he thinks he's
ada all every time he transform. Just
a lot of fun you can have with this.
And especially if you pick the right
job that you have as a mundane Libeau.
We'll go into more of it next episode
because I'll have time to go through
more of the books. We've had a serious
power outage here. Luckily I had
abacklog of episodes for this podcast,
but horrific history and hauntings
didn't, so we missed an episode.
(15:20):
Hurricane hell came through.
Yeah, we weren't hit as bad asother people in this part of Virginia,
but we were extremely lucky, which
isn't normally a problem. In our
recording room we have backup batteries,
but by the time we realized the power
wouldn't come on in time, I had already
used those backup batteries to power
other things in the house.
Well, also, I didn't evenrealize that part. I was thinking
thelast time the power went out, it
was kind of awkward being in a dark
closet for you.
(15:46):
It was. I had a candle.
Well, good for you.
Because we sit in the closet,and it's the same closet Scott uses
to dry his no window crops out. It
smells kind of bad. So we sit in
astinky closet with a lot of old furs
hanging up to sound dampened. Next
week I'll actually have time to cover
the entire core books instead of
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people been buying I'm interested
in. Itmight be nice to talk about after
these are done. So did you say you
would play this though?
(16:32):
Just I would play it. Couldyou make an Inuyasha setting.
Yeah. Why?
Like, when he's in the modern world?
Yeah, you could do that. Idon't know about a setting, but you
could play as Inuyasha. Your big
bad could be Shishomaru, a crime
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(18:01):
I've been Raimi and I'm Beth.
And this has been brother nosequest. Bye.
Hello. I'm Ramie.
And I'm Beth.
And this is brother KnowsQuest, the podcast where I, your
host, introduce my sister to the
wonderful world of tabletop role
playing games. Beth, do you know
what we're talking about today? It's
been a while since we had power outage.
I have no idea.
Okay, we're talking about thiscity of Mist. Yeah. It's based a
lot on the power, the Apocalypse
games,which I talked about in an earlier
episode. If you want to know more
about those, listen to Apocalypse
world.It was the first, and it gives you
more details on the rules. You got
the starter box in your hands, right?
(00:34):
Mm hmm.
Okay, explain what comes inthe starter box real quick.
A booklet for playersexplaining the rules of the game
through short learn as you play.
Readout text, a booklet for the MC explaining
the role of the MC and containing
thedetails of your first case. Shark
Tank. Five pre generated character
folios, 20 tracking cards, the crew
themed card, two custom city of Miss
Dice, seven location maps on two
double sided sheets, 41 illustrated
character tokens.
(01:04):
Yeah. City mist is a modernday city. Or you choose a city that
you want to put this in. It's like
anameless city. You could put your
own in it, where ordinary people
aresecretly mythological figures. Not
everyone, just some of them. The
mist that they talk about in the
name kind of veils things. If someone
gets attacked by a unicorn, somebody
whose inner self is actually a unicorn,
it just shows a horse rampaging the
distracts to normal people hanging.
(01:29):
Well, that's still an oddsight to see.
Yeah, but it's less odd than a unicorn.
It's kind of like ripd howthey had different identities, and
he was a hot blonde and the other
onewas a little chinese man.
Yeah, I forgot about that. Ilove that.
And they were doing thesecrazy things. It looked absolutely
ridiculous.
It did. I'll need to watch itagain. There's a second one.
(01:51):
I was gonna say, didn't theymake a second or was talking about
it?
Yeah, they did make a second.I'm pretty sure the basic concept
is amythos, the legendary identity. And
you have your logos, which is a mundane
life identity, and tags, which are
powers and weaknesses that go along.
It's kind of like the apocalypse
worldstuff I was mentioning earlier. You
kind of figure out your character
motivation, and then you have to
make your identity so you get the
idea of what you want to play as.
You want to be like a postal worker
who's secretly arbos or something,
justwhatever mythological or story you
don't have to be mythological. It
could be a story. Think of Sherlock
Holmes or something. You could be
your secret identity because Sherlock
Holmes and. But the more you focus
onone part of your life, the other
parteventually wanes, so you have to
decide. And the problem is, if you
choose, it sounds nice. Yes. I want
to be completely Sherlock Holmes,
butyou also have to suffer the fate
ofyour mythos. In the end, you don't
want to play as Loki and end up getting
really good at something, and then
eventually, you get tied down and
tortured by Odin because of the way
the mythos goes. So you might want
to balance that a little bit more.
Oryou could choose to go one way or
the other. You could just be a postal
worker. The character sheets you
got there, what are some of them?
Cause I didn't look through the box
since the day I bought it, and it's
been a while back when I bought this.
(02:59):
Chips. I've got maps,interesting chips. They're falling
apart.
What?
I mean, not apart, but, like,how? They're on a sheet, and you
push them out.
Oh, okay. A lot of them arelike, yeah. I thought I was like,
well, I haven't opened it in about
ayear, but I didn't know that was
going to happen. Unfolding.
Well, this is nice.
Yeah, a lot of the stuff, I'vegot a bunch I bought.
This is a nice quality, andit's big. Let's see. Lily Chow.
(03:24):
What is her mythos and Lobos?
Lily Chow. Forget it. It's alla lie. It's always been a lie. They're
just trying to get me to come back
home. They've sent private investigators,
atherapist, even my best friend. Oh,
a therapist. But they don't give
adamn about me. They've been hiding
thetruth, a dark, horrible secret about
who they are and what they've done.
And that's why I'm never going back.
Hans is different. He cares. He wants
me to be my own person, and he makes
sure I have what I need. And he can
do things you wouldn't believe, insane
things. Setting him free was the
best thing I ever did. Now I've got
to set myself free of my stupid parents.
I'm guessing Hans is the big green
man behind her.
(04:10):
Yeah, I don't recognize Hans.
Maybe it's pronounced Hans. Ha n s. I'd say it's Hans.
What are some of the othercharacter sheets? Because one of
them, I do remember recognizing the
mythos of. See, when I first got
into this, way back when, I learned
what it was about. I did not know
itwas based on power led by the apocalypse.
Iknew it sounded familiar.
Detective in Kudu. I'massuming that's how it's pronounced.
It'salways been there, ever since I was
a child on the streets. This urge
calling me to rip through all this
modern woman crap and just syringe
through the wild and become a beast
when I answer the call. This facet
ofnormality is not the only thing I
tear through. You better not get
inmy way. That's why I keep it bottled
up. I don't have time to go on a
wild rampage. I've got more burning
issues to deal with, like how this
neighborhood is going to hell. Oh,
well, that sounds familiar. And how
my sergeant is all up in my grill
fornot doing my paperwork. Problem is,
ordinary cops don't see the things
Isee, which is why I'm moonlighting
as aprivate eye with people like me.
Ifany of my colleagues finds out, I'm
done for.
(05:14):
Okay, hand me the othercharacter sheet you'd already went
over so I can look at it. I want
tosee. I don't think I have the PDF
for this. I looked. I didn't find
it. Oh, yeah, they have a poster
onthe back. It's like a poster, but
on the other side of the poster is
your character sheet, and you unfold
it. And on the outside of the poster
is literally, like I said, a poster.
Lily Chow. Let's see what? Lily Chow's
a green magical giant mystery. Who
am I without huns?
(05:37):
Thorny tentacles.
He's a mythical giant. He's anunusual big brother. They have, like,
tags, like bastion and conjuration.
Sorcerer supreme.
Yeah, power tags.
Yeah, power tags.
That's what I was. She's gotthe one I've got here. The detective
hasthorny tentacles.
She's. This one's even. Even.Two in mythos and two in logos. How
many is yours under her name on the
inside?
(05:58):
Mythos one. Locos, three.
Okay. Yeah, she did sound likeshe was more into the detective stuff
than this one and more into her job
than her other half. I forgot how
nice these were.
This is the character sheets.
Yeah, well, see, I've got thebooks in there. I was going to cover
the books first, and I remembered
I hadthe starter set so we'd cover those
first. So I kind of just picked this
up and ran in here with it.
It is for those, obviously,who cannot see, because this is a
podcast. A thick, glossy cardboard
thatopens like a bro. Well, not even
abrochure. It's bigger than a brochure.
It's much bigger. As he mentioned,
like aposter. That's like a menu open.
(06:32):
Yeah, it's like a menu sizedposter that folds open. Two page
menu.
Yeah, a good quality menu.
What are the other charactersheets? If you don't mind going over
those.
Really wish they would come upwith some names I could pronounce.
They can pronounce it. Wecan't. That's the problem.
Tlaloc. T l a l o c. Don'tjudge me, okay? Just my luck. Being
born with this much charm and good
looks into such a dump of a neighborhood.
People here gotta make ends meet.
Andwhen they can't, they come to me
and make it happen. I had a good
thing going, and life was just fine
the way it was. I was starting to
make a name for myself, but now this
thing comes along, this electricity,
and Ifind myself flowing into places I
shouldn't be in, seeing and hearing
things I'm not supposed to. Can't
deny this power has its perks. But
lately it's been heavy on my conscience,
and I didn't even know I had one.
What goes down in this neighborhood
isdownright sinister. If I don't do
something about it and the people
gethurt, it's on me. But this response
isthe last thing I need right now.
Godof rain and lightning. Okay, is it
wherever there is water, I am?
(07:33):
Okay, yeah, keep reading belowthat. Where? It's where it shows
their handwriting under the mystery.
Andit will tell you, usually, who their
character, their other half is.
Who threatens to blot out thefifth sun. What does it mean to be
everywhere? As the God of all watery
things, Tlaloc, or however that's
pronounced, can turn his person into
water and reform it wherever body
ofwater exists, if it's a big enough
forhim to go through. In his divine
purview, he controls storms and lightning.
But with his newfound powers came
agrowing need to find those who would
ravage the earth. A need he's been
trying to stifle.
(08:08):
So he's an eco warrior? Well,mine was Iron Hans under lily Chiles.
Should be two more. I just want to
cover these. Cause I like to get
the idea what's in the character,
whatpeople could play as, since it is
a starter box.
Job or job. You think you haveit all figured out, huh, kid? You're
young, on top of the world. Nothing
canhurt you, right? Listen, son, I know
a thing or two about feeling invincible,
and I know it's all a show. We both
know you're hiding your pain. So
why don't you get off that high horse
and tell me what it is you've lost?
See, well, I used to have everything
once.Then I got hit so hard, I thought,
I'llnever get back on my feet. I've lost.
Never mind. The point is that I somehow
got up. Somehow. I always get up,
no matter what they do to me. The
trick is, don't let the pain tell
you what to do. So what do you say?
Think you can try that for me?
(08:57):
What was. Now? Read theirlittle blurb about their motherhood.
I'm assuming he's a priest.Okay, maybe he's got a cross on his
neck.
It probably is.
Devil. Devil, take it all.What is the purpose to my suffering?
Jobsimply cannot die. He tried. Like
his biblical mythos, he is at the
center of a bet between God and the
devil that has ruined his life, but
keeps his body alive and his soul
untarnished.
(09:20):
So he is literally after hisnamesake job. Okay, that made life
easier. What is the last one? What's
his mythos? What's his level? Locos
and mythos.
Not level, but what's his onein three? Baku, the people of the
city are slumbering, sleeping even
through their waking hours. And in
their sleep, bad dreams haunt them.
Flesh and blood nightmares that prey
on their oblivious minds and numb
bodies. Sometimes they awaken for
amoment, just enough to call for help.
I'm that help. I am here to hunt
that which hunts, to terrify that
which terrifies. I'm the nightmare
ofthose who would be the nightmares
ofothers. But I am a nightmare from
which there will be no waking up.
My name is Baku, and I am the dream
eater.
(10:03):
I call it the other half. Ishould say mythos.
Oh, it says, who created thismonstrosity? Baku is a chimera.
Chimera?
Chimera. What's that?
That's a. Remember we coveredhim. It's one of those creatures,
kind oflike mixed of multiple different
things.
Oh. A magical being made outof leftover parts of other animals
created to devour nightmares. He
can change himself to counter any
dark or phantasmal entity.
(10:29):
Phantasmal?
Oh, okay. He encounters.
Okay, at least you got thatpart down. So each character has
motivations and why they're into
this. The core mechanics are two
dsix, plus your relevant power tags.
I'll cover some of the basic moves
you go through, like go toe to toe,
which is something most characters
can do.This is a move for physical conflicts.
Soyou roll whatever stat you have in
toe to toe. Added to your two d six
you have investigate which needs
nodescription face danger. This is
aversatile move used to overcome any
obstacle or challenge that isn't
covered by another move. It's the
catch all or convince which is a
persuasion manipulations move. The
Mc, the master of ceremonies, which
is the dem GM, they have inflict
harm,which is a move that allows the Mc
to inflict harm on a character either
as a consequence of actions or the
environmental damage. Reveal a danger
to the characters offer an opportunity
forthe characters to do something compel
a choice. This move forces characters
tomake difficult decisions with significant
consequences and it's pretty simple.
Rules powered by the apocalypse is
fairly rules light this is a little
bit more crunchy than normal PBTA
games, but I like it for its setting
and not even much for mystery games,
solving mysteries and all that. Like
this game is kind of focused at it's
not necessarily have to be, but every
time I read something, somebody's
playedit or something, it's usually done
that way. And I do like this mainly
because you could play as, let's
saythe hatter from Alice in Wonderland
asyour second, as your mythos. That
would be kind of fun. You're telling
what would happen there. The evil
queen. That would be a good one.
TheRed Queen. If you go around painting
roses red and beheading folk, yay.
Yeah, I keep going to fairies and
princess stories and fairy tale,
allthat stuff, but there's a lot of
good ones. You could be Abraham Lincoln.
It doesn't have to be mythical or
it could be from books or just lore.
It could be the idea of overreaching
influence of social media if you
wanted to. I am the embodiment of
social media influencers. It's just
the wildest stuff you could do. I
found the box set available at many
online stores. I will say that I
couldn't find a PDF version. There
might be one, but I did do some searching
and couldn't find it. Son of Oak
games are the publishers and that's
the website I have a link to in the
description for the starter set and
that's where I got it from. I ordered
the whole set. It is perpetually
on preorder if you get it from them. I
bought it on pre order a year ago,
got it about a year ago, but still.
Idon't really know why it's always
onpre order, but it did show up. So
they're not trying to scam you that's
always nice. And then after I got
it, I went on to order, like, a whole
bunch of other stuff. I've got, like,
four more books to talk about. We
will talk about City of Mist for
abit, as long as nobody's complaining.
But asfor the starter set comes with everything
you need. Character creation. We're
going back and forth between character
creation and what's in the box, but
that's how I'm doing this. You choose
your mythos, and then you choose
yourlogos, and then you have to figure
outhow the two clash or intertwine or
get along however you want to do
it. That could be difficult. It's
very open. It isn't like d and d,
where you just pick a class in a
background and you just copy down
the stuff it gives you. You have
tothink about it and then pick the
stuff that matches with it in the
books, like skills and things. So
it's a little bit harder to build
acharacter if you're not used to being
open minded, I guess, is the way
toput it. But I myself fiddled with
the character creation and kind of
enjoyed it. So if I can do it, most
people can, because I struggled a
bit on a couple of games I've talked
about here. I don't really know how
much to say about it. I want to cover
the core book, the two core books,
thePlayers handbook, and the master
ofceremonies guide. Game masters toolkit,
I think is what it's called. Mc Toolkit.
I can't remember. I'll talk about
that next episode. How do you like
the idea of this? I don't know if
I'd want it to be in a city. I'd
like it to be in a town.
(14:00):
Yeah.
I'm more familiar with towns.
Yeah. I don't know. It's different.
I like to. I mean, imagine thecharacters you could play as. You
could be a waitress and be Princess
Ariel, I guess, is what you would
play. I don't know who you'd play
as.
I'm a waitress that swimsaround the.
Ocean, work at a seafoodrestaurant. It's like a daily nightmare
every time you go, oh, I don't know
what Disney Prince, what character
from aDisney I'd play as Ursula. My day
job would be ruined.
(14:25):
I don't know, Jafar. I thinkJafar would make a little more sense.
Yeah. I just keep going toDisney ones. Cause, I don't know,
it's just the easiest to kind of
think about sometimes. That'd be
kind of cheating to play as Harry
Dresden wizard. I guess you could.
Afairy queen. That'd be a good one.
A dragon.
Wouldn't that be kind of like Maleficent?
Yeah, pretty much. She was aarch fae, I suppose. Of course you
could also choose bad things. Your
alter ego could be people's fear
ofnightmares. You could be Freddy Krueger,
you could be Chucky. Just Charles
LeeRay in a person's body. Again, that
would be bad. But he thinks he's
ada all every time he transform. Just
a lot of fun you can have with this.
And especially if you pick the right
job that you have as a mundane Libeau.
We'll go into more of it next episode
because I'll have time to go through
more of the books. We've had a serious
power outage here. Luckily I had
abacklog of episodes for this podcast,
but horrific history and hauntings
didn't, so we missed an episode.
(15:20):
Hurricane hell came through.
Yeah, we weren't hit as bad asother people in this part of Virginia,
but we were extremely lucky, which
isn't normally a problem. In our
recording room we have backup batteries,
but by the time we realized the power
wouldn't come on in time, I had already
used those backup batteries to power
other things in the house.
Well, also, I didn't evenrealize that part. I was thinking
thelast time the power went out, it
was kind of awkward being in a dark
closet for you.
(15:46):
It was. I had a candle.
Well, good for you.
Because we sit in the closet,and it's the same closet Scott uses
to dry his no window crops out. It
smells kind of bad. So we sit in
astinky closet with a lot of old furs
hanging up to sound dampened. Next
week I'll actually have time to cover
the entire core books instead of
just this. Other than the sonoboat
gameslink in the description, I have a
couple affiliate links for the core
books, which we'll talk about next
week in the description. For drive
thru RPG, you don't have to buy the
books if you use it, it will just
help the podcast. Whatever you put
in your cart and drive through RPG
will help us. And I do buy a lot
ofPDF's and since I don't think I have
the PDF's for this, I might get this,
but I've also been looking at some
acouple of other games that I've seen
people been buying I'm interested
in. Itmight be nice to talk about after
these are done. So did you say you
would play this though?
(16:32):
Just I would play it. Couldyou make an Inuyasha setting.
Yeah. Why?
Like, when he's in the modern world?
Yeah, you could do that. Idon't know about a setting, but you
could play as Inuyasha. Your big
bad could be Shishomaru, a crime
lordrunning a little demon empire. Yeah,
that would work. Yeah. If you like
what you heard here. Uh, we have
other podcasts for part of the gruesome
gaming Group podcast network. We
have horrific history and hauntings.
It'swhere Beth here tells me all about
everything in the title. Horrific
history, hauntings, some true crime,
usually some murders. We have some
good older ones. There's an Halloween
episode we covered last year that
was pretty popular. It's still up.
If you haven't heard that one, go
back and listen to it. There's a
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ofour socials, including the top link
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ofour podcasts for groups. Gaming Group
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Brother Nose Quest and leveling Duo,
which a podcast we don't do as often.
But whenever we play a new video
game, we really like me and Beth,
orme my friend Dakota. Create another
leveling duo and talk about that
video game. Follow us on the socials
orjust messages and we'd like to hear
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And then below all those links, you'll
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ofthings to cover. Thank you to the
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Other than just helping us keep the
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gives me ideas of what other books
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bought. Thank you for listening.
(18:01):
I've been Raimi and I'm Beth.
And this has been brother nosequest. Bye.
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