November 13, 2024 • 32 mins
Black Friday of the Dead is our holiday season one-shot which uses the All Flesh Must Be Eaten TTRPG system created by Eden Studios, Inc with the idea of creating a classic zombie-based setting! In our episode 0 we're introduced to our first set of players (don't worry, more are on their way in future episodes) each of whom is playing themselves. So join us as we use the character creation system to turn our 2016 selves into characters and introduce this terrifying zombie adventure we're about to embark on!
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>> Skylar (00:00):
Welcome everybody to a spooky one
shot. normally something that would be done
around Halloween season but this time we're doing
something special for the post
Thanksgiving Christmas
season. That's right. We are doing a
one shot of the All Flesh Must be
Eaten system.
(00:22):
That I have titled Black Friday of the
Dead.
welcome everybody. I'm Skyler, the usual host now
your zombie master as they call it in the All
Flesh Must be Eaten system. the All Flesh Must
be Eaten system is a zombie based
ttrpg. It's a bit older. It's all the way from back
in 1999 is when it was first published by
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Eden Studios Inc. And it is
using the uni system.
there's other systems and such that use this.
But the basic gist of it is I understand and maybe I'm
completely way off. but the unis system
is basically uses like a
D10. I don't know, could be kind of a
little bit more to it than that. But at least with the all
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Flesh Must be Eaten we're looking at kind of a D10 based
system. You're going to roll a D10, add
some skills and I'll go a little bit more into the mechanics of it.
But whatever the case, roll the D10, add some
skills, add an attribute and that's your
results. And whether you succeed or not is based on
that. With me today, I've got
three of our usuals, from one of
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our various campaigns. to my left I've got Dave.
Dave, welcome to the show.
>> Dave (01:32):
Thanks. Glad to be here.
>> Skylar (01:35):
I've got fan favorite from our Criminals of
Isla Numa series, Fatty Lumpkins. Fatty Lumpkins.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (01:41):
Thanks for having me.
>> Skylar (01:42):
Thanks for being here. And another fan
favorite from our Criminals of Isla Numa series,
Quinn.
>> Quinn (01:49):
Yeah, not. Yeah, very excited to be here. This should be a good
time.
>> Skylar (01:52):
It should be getting this absolutely very, not
your little sauce this time.
>> Quinn (01:56):
No, no, no sauce.
>> Skylar (01:58):
Instead I have asked each one of these
players to basically because we are going to be playing in the
modern day, and I say modern day a little bit broadly
because we're going to, we're going to jump back to
2016America.
United States, Iowa
more or less. I mean, is this going to be in Iowa? the like
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setting per se is a little bit fictional in the sense that
like Fatty, I know you. You didn't live here in
town with us. You didn't know most of us.
Dave, I feel you didn't even
necessarily run in the same friend group per se. Like it was
kind of a little bit more outside. Quinn, and I, on the other hand, were
definitely hanging out together in the 2016.
and that's not to be rude or anything to anybody, but I'm just
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trying to. This is alternate reality where instead
we're all friends. We're all friends here, in this kind
of like fictional city, which I didn't really even come up with a name for
because everything's going to take place in one,
primary location, which is the Sunrise
Mall. heavily inspired by our mall here where
we live, which again, I'm not going to name drop because that feels
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weird and I don't want them to get upset.
But whatever the case, this is the Sunrise mall,
modern day 2016. so feel free to make
whatever 2016 references that you can think of throughout, the
course of this. But for now, as part of our
session zero, I want to talk about the
characters. Who is everybody playing? I mean, again,
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we're playing ourselves. But tell me a little bit about
yourselves in your 2016 character
format. So Dave, starting with you, if you're, if you're cool with
that, tell, me a little bit about Dave in 2016 and
what that looks like in your character. So for instance,
off the bat you've got your primary attributes kind of similar to like
Dungeons and Dragons, with a slightly different wording. So
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you got strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence,
perception and willpower. Where did you kind of
land on these stats? And just to give a little bit of reference
to listeners, these stats usually range from like
1 to 5. So a 1 is kind of like,
eh, I kind of a little bit wimpy,
within this particular stat. So like for instance, if you're talking strength,
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I'm not really a strong guy. I'm not buff and muscular. I'm probably pretty
scrawny. That is what it is.
Versus a five in strength is
like I'm pretty much an Olympic level
athlete. so I'm like way up there and then
everything in between, you know, two, three is kind of around like
the maybe average to a little bit above average
or pretty decent even, obviously four,
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that's pretty dang strong. You know, you might be like a
local,
not celebrity, but like you performed well in the like high
school wrestling or something like that. But anyways, Dave, tell us a little bit about where
your character landed in these.
>> Dave (04:37):
All right, so back in 2016, I would
have graduated college, been at my first
job at, ah, an accounting
firm, right?
>> Quinn (04:47):
On.
>> Dave (04:48):
And so back then, a little more
physically, fit probably.
So strength three, dexterity
three, constitution three.
>> Skylar (05:00):
Nice, nice.
>> Dave (05:01):
You know, I, we did some P90X in
college, so
intelligence three. You know, my brain was
pumped full of all that knowledge.
>> Skylar (05:14):
Numbers, numbers, numbers.
>> Dave (05:16):
Perception two, you know, didn't really know how
the world worked.
>> Skylar (05:21):
Sure.
>> Dave (05:21):
You're still, you're just learning and willpower
won. You know, I was studying
for the CPA exam at the time.
Did not take much to distract me
because that sucked.
>> Skylar (05:39):
Oh, man. Well, yes. Okay,
so cpa, Striving
Dave is our first kind of the
start off for our character. And then Dave jumping into. So
the next kind of section here is
your character has qualities and drawbacks. So
qualities are going to be obviously positive things that, your
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character kind of has. Some of them are a bit more like,
I want to say broad or kind of obscure.
some of them are really specific. And again,
so drawbacks are going to, you have kind of a point by system and I'm
not going to get super deep into that because it kind of takes away from like the roleplay
aspect of it. We've already figured it all out. but for you guys listening,
these are kind of what you kind of imagine yourself to
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having. based on the qualities and drawbacks that ah,
the game kind of listed out and there's some that we, I think added
maybe or maybe that's in the skills. But whatever the case, what qualities
and drawbacks does 2016 Dave
have?
>> Dave (06:34):
so say good luck. I mean, you could call it good luck or
blessed, whatever you want to call it. but I've always
been pretty lucky. I feel like.
>> Skylar (06:41):
Nice.
>> Dave (06:42):
Call it beginner's luck. Just luck in general.
Photographic memory. I don't have photographic memory,
but memory is pretty decent, I'd say.
So gave myself a positive to that.
>> Skylar (06:53):
Yep.
>> Dave (06:54):
And then fast reaction time, you
know, reflexes were a little faster
than.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (07:02):
You.
>> Dave (07:03):
Know, all that Call of Duty I played in
college. And then for the drawback side though,
well, I guess one of these is really more for now, but
I didn't even realize that until this moment, but
Paranoid. yeah, it wasn't
until more recently I started listening to more
Joe Rogan.
>> Skylar (07:23):
And it's just got you on it.
>> Dave (07:24):
Those kind of podcasts. So podcasts weren't
really that big of a thing back then. They're just kind of starting.
>> Skylar (07:30):
Yeah.
>> Dave (07:31):
Anyways, we'll still roll with that. And then
physical disability,
I guess you could call it, depending
on what I eat.
Yeah, my bowels would get a little
inflamed. Ibs,
d, if you must know.
>> Skylar (07:51):
Yeah, I was gonna say we
had kind of a lesson in ibs, the different
forms of IBS for. From resident
expert Fatty Lumpkins.
>> Dave (08:03):
I wouldn't say it was much of an issue, but there
was one, incident after a
subway, but we'll not go into that.
>> Skylar (08:11):
And so for that reason, so that you get to kind of take,
like, different levels of how much this, you know, physical
disability affects you. And so we only put it at a
level one, which is the lowest level. not saying that
obviously ibs, isn't obviously a difficult
thing to live with. but it's not like you don't have an
arm in the. In the sense of a zombie apocalypse situation. It's
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not like not having an arm that you can fight back with or defend
yourself with. but I definitely think
it's something that could come up in a
situation of fear and, terror. So.
Fantastic. All right, and then last but not
least, and Dave, yours is the longest list
easily, between the other players, but you have the
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skills. Now, the book itself, for All Flesh
Must Be Eaten has a list of skills, and
it's a pretty big list. you get specific
with things, right? So, like, rather than just saying, I'm good
at science, you would specify what area of science
that you feel like you're particularly good at. So you could say,
I'm science, chemistry. I have levels in
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that. I also am pretty good at biology, so I've got
levels in that and so on and so forth. So you can get pretty specific
with most things. but whatever the case. And then
of course, similar to the levels that we mentioned before, you know, one
is like, I know a little bit here and there,
maybe more than the average person. Whereas 5 is like, this is
what I am an expert in kind of a thing. So,
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I told these guys, I said, I want you guys to
think of whatever you feel like you in
2016 was into was good at,
whatever the case, and just list that out. That's what I want you
guys to go with. So we've got some really
interesting ideas here that are going to come into
play. So, Dave, tell us a little bit about some of the skills that
you came up with.
>> Dave (09:52):
Oh, you want me to run down the list?
>> Skylar (09:54):
Yeah, go for the list.
>> Dave (09:55):
Okay. got sense of
direction, which, funny enough, that
comes from all the Minecraft
we've played in college. Played a lot of
video games in college.
A Lot of free time.
>> Skylar (10:10):
Yeah.
>> Dave (10:12):
Random, item recall, which is. You've probably
seen that meme. A lot of guys have this, like,
where. Oh, you need a paper
clip. Yeah, it's right next to the, file
cap.
>> Skylar (10:25):
You know, it's funny, I feel like I have the opposite of that. I will,
like, set my phone down and then, like, turn around and turn
back and be like, where did I put my phone?
>> Dave (10:33):
So I did have to help my roommate quite a bit
in college locate his missing objects.
I can't find my phone. I'm like, oh, it's under your pillow.
>> Skylar (10:42):
Nice. It's right there. That
could come up for sure.
>> Dave (10:47):
Climbing, longboarding.
>> Skylar (10:50):
Nice.
>> Dave (10:50):
Board games.
>> Skylar (10:51):
Absolutely.
>> Dave (10:52):
Right when I was getting into board games, pretty much. Well, a little
bit after hiding, I
would hide in random places and
scare people sometimes.
Idle endurance.
>> Skylar (11:06):
Yeah. Tell me what.
>> Dave (11:06):
This one I made up this one. you know,
some people, they're in the car, they gotta have music
playing or whatever. Sometimes I'll just drive
with nothing.
>> Skylar (11:16):
Nice.
>> Dave (11:17):
Or just. I'll be doing nothing.
And that's okay. Maybe
I'll just be staring at the computer screen instead
of studying for the CPA exam.
pizza cutting. I worked at a pizza place
back in those days. M. this
one there's official one called
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financing, but I call that business
time. business
major. Accounting major.
>> Skylar (11:46):
Yeah.
>> Dave (11:47):
Procrastination. So this one is
my idea of. You could also say maybe
works under pressure.
>> Skylar (11:54):
Yeah. Like, I set it aside so long that
it needs to get done now, and I. I can work with the
pressure.
>> Dave (12:00):
Some of you are familiar with the, procrastination
Monkey gets you
into gear.
>> Skylar (12:07):
That's right.
>> Dave (12:09):
role playing. That's probably when
I first played Dungeons and
Dragons.
>> Skylar (12:15):
Yeah.
>> Dave (12:17):
then guns, handgun, shotgun. You know,
I did some hunting.
>> Skylar (12:21):
Nice.
>> Dave (12:22):
some shooting.
>> Skylar (12:24):
that'll come in handy for sure.
>> Dave (12:25):
Stealth and I'll.
And trumpet. I played the trumpet.
>> Skylar (12:31):
Nice.
>> Dave (12:33):
Don't play it too much anymore.
>> Skylar (12:35):
But still time. 2016.
Oh, and swing dancing.
>> Dave (12:39):
Oh, yeah, swing dancing. That didn't make. Oh, it's not. Oh, it
is.
>> Skylar (12:42):
Over on the other column, I filled.
>> Dave (12:45):
Up a whole column.
>> Skylar (12:48):
Swing dancing. That if that comes into play, I.
Which I hope it does.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (12:51):
This cool montage of Dave swing dancing
through this horde of zombies.
>> Skylar (12:56):
Yeah, the zombies. He's like, I can get through the zombies. Whipping
them around by them. Oh, my gosh. I
never even thought of it. That's a brilliant idea, guys.
How are we going to get through these zombies? I'll show you.
Proceeds to Swing dance.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (13:09):
Louis Armstrong.
>> Skylar (13:10):
It's brilliant. It's brilliant. I. That's not
a bad idea. That'd be kind of cool.
>> Quinn (13:15):
It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips.
Wake me up.
>> Skylar (13:22):
So just to. Just to jump into it before we jump over to the other
characters. So just to talk about that. So, like, for instance,
in the situation where Dave wants to swing
dance through this entire horde of
zombies, that is absolutely something that you could in
fact do. So basically what I would tell you is, and
this is how checks work, right? In Dungeons and Dragons,
you'd have that huge list of skills. So I would say to you, okay,
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well, roll me a stealth check. And you would roll your D20 and
you'd add your stealth modifier, and then that's where we'd
be at. in this game, you roll a D10
and then you are going to add a relevant
attribute. So strength, dexterity, constitution, et
cetera, et cetera. In this case, let's say for the swing dancing, we'd say
dexterity. and then you would also add a
relevant skill, which in this case would very much be
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swing dancing, which is another plus two. So, Dave, your
dexterity is plus three. Your swing dancing would be
plus two. So then you're having a five, plus whatever you
roll on. the D10, if it is. If it is a
nine or higher, you succeeded. and there are
different levels of success, of course, so like the higher you
roll or the higher your number, the better your success
is and the more like you're kind of going to get out of it,
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versus rolling under a nine. You're not swing
dancing through them zombies.
>> Dave (14:35):
Oh, no.
>> Skylar (14:37):
Them zombies swing dance you right where they want you.
So, that's basically how that works. So with
that in mind, you know, thinking about all these different
skills that you guys have put down, that's. That's where those are going to come into
play.
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With that being said, let's jump over to Fatty Lumpkins.
Fatty Lumpkins, tell us about your choices in. In
attributes.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (15:07):
Okay, so circa 2016, Fatty
Lumpkins was just graduating
undergrad.
>> Skylar (15:14):
Oh, okay.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (15:14):
And with all that crippling student loans
burning a hole in my pocket, I thought,
why not go back to school?
So I was in the process of
starting in my first year of pharmacy school,
and so it was not a very
fun time in my life. So there's going to be a lot of
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boring skills like
reading and memorizing. So I'm
hoping that maybe I'll come across Barnes and
Nobles or something, and they might come into play at the mall.
>> Skylar (15:47):
It's entirely possible. In fact, I do have a
bookstore plan, so there you go.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (15:52):
But for primary attributes, I,
despite the name, would not consider myself
very strong.
So strength is just at a two,
not in the worst shape of my life ten years ago. So we'll give my
dexterity four.
and then because I made it
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into a grad school, I had to give myself a little pat on
the back and give myself an intelligence of
three.
>> Skylar (16:18):
Yeah, I would hope.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:20):
And you can't make it into a grad school
without a bit of willpower, so I had to put that at 2.
>> Skylar (16:26):
True.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:26):
And so that kind of leaves the last two to
round out, perception and constitution.
those. I guess my rationale is I was alive, so I'll give myself
a constitution of four and
a perception of two.
>> Skylar (16:40):
Well, what else did you say? You said you, you lived off of
some, probably not the best of foods.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:44):
Ah. Oh, yeah. And I'll kind of touch on that. I think that'll. Oh,
that'll come in the qualities and
drawbacks.
>> Skylar (16:51):
Perfect. So, I mean. Yeah, that's fantastic. Let's jump
into this dive right into their choices of qualities and
drawbacks.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:58):
So, yeah, in college, I'm sure everyone is probably aware
that the sleep and the meals are probably
not the best.
>> Skylar (17:05):
Yeah.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:06):
So I think that was probably one of my, I'll call
this a quality of resistance
to
exhaustion.
>> Skylar (17:15):
Yeah.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:15):
So especially with gradually. Pretty
adept at studying for
till 2am in the morning and taking a nap,
waking up at 6am to start again. So,
we're gonna give myself resistance to exhaustion.
On that same note, is really
did not put forth a lot of effort when it came to the cooking.
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So I will be the
first to admit that I threw together some gnarly
combinations.
>> Skylar (17:42):
Fair enough.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:43):
So I'm going to consider that resistance to
poison. Absolutely miracle that I did not end up with food
poison. And to this day, food safety is a
joke.
>> Skylar (17:53):
And we have had discussions about that, now that I think about it.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:55):
Yes. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
>> Skylar (17:58):
It does. It does. It helps you fight or it gives.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (18:00):
You IBSC or D.
So some of the other qualities, situational,
awareness. That's. Yeah, I
enjoy people watching, so we'll call that situational
awareness.
>> Skylar (18:15):
Okay.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (18:16):
And then for drawbacks, I
usually just say pharmacy school killed all the fun in me,
so that's kind of where I, gave myself a
drawback. And to contrast, Dave's
good Luck, I do not have a lot of luck, so I'm
going to give myself bad luck on that.
>> Skylar (18:32):
Awesome. And just for those listening, so as far as
the luck works, so Dave took good
luck, and on the other hand, Fatty
has taken bad luck. And they work basically the
same way. they are points either in positive if
you took good luck, or negative points
if you took bad luck. And those points can be
used at any point during the, game
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to either benefit a particular
situation in which case you'd want to spend the good luck,
or hinder a situation when you're willing to spend
the bad luck. so for
instance, if Dave were in a situation where he really
needed to make this, he was trying to shoot a
zombie and he really needed to make this shot, he could
say, all right, Skyler, I want to spend a point of
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my good luck to add a plus
one to my role here and to
ensure that he gets a nine or whatever the case.
on the other hand, Fatty has a point in
bad luck. And the way that we've kind of justified this because you're probably thinking,
okay, well, if they get to choose when they get to spend
it, could Fatty just say, never
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by the end of this campaign not have spent it? to which I
said, and honestly, you had pitched
it, which was if you haven't spent
it by the end, when the end comes up and whatever
big showdown or whatever is going on at the end, I
will, I, as the zombie master, will spend it for you.
I will take that minus one off of
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something important that you're about to do, maybe to keep you alive or to
keep an NPC alive. So, it's one of those things where, you
know, you might find a situation where you say,
hey, I feel really confident, or I have a lot of
numbers, loaded up on this particular skill. I'll
take the bad luck now, and probably still
succeed. And that's, that's, that's definitely a way to do
it. but otherwise that's, that's how luck works in
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this game. Normally it'd be used in kind of more of a
supernatural situation, but we're not, we're really
setting this in real life per se.
and some, some people are just lucky and some people aren't. It is what it
is. So, but anyway, sorry, jumping back over to Fatty
Lumpkins, your, your skills. So, yes,
you've got a list here as well.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (20:40):
And I think I'll piggyback on Dave's take here
is I played a lot of Minecraft in college.
And yeah, I would say that I was pretty good at it all
right. Making some of those cool sculptures, only
to log in the next day to find out that your roommate
had put a penis on one of the sculptures.
So I was pretty good at disguising that.
>> Skylar (20:59):
Oh, okay. Just, put some clothes on or. Yeah, some
underwear.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:02):
and then some of the skills are the boring ones that had
come about from school. So there's math
and general note taking, rote
memorization. Maybe there'll be a
puzzle or riddle that we'll need to solve and I can
memorize. It's left, left, right, left, right.
>> Skylar (21:19):
That's right.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:19):
We'll see.
>> Skylar (21:20):
Up, down, R, L,
R, start.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:26):
some of the other things is played a lot of disc golf
in school, so maybe I'll find
myself a pile of plates that I can
fashion into discs and chuck out the hordes of
zombies. And then other
skills just came about from random summer jobs.
So mowing power tools.
Maybe I'll find myself in a Sears and be able to
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weaponize some of those materials.
>> Skylar (21:51):
They are. Power tools are very weaponizable,
for sure.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:56):
And what else? I've kind of been skipping around
here. So computers.
I'm a millennial. I should be somewhat familiar
with computers. I enjoy the general
trivia. So useless knowledge. Maybe
I'll be able to flout some.
>> Skylar (22:11):
Of that about pairs with the memorization stuff
pretty well.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:16):
particular categories of useless knowledge include the
skills of being big Lord of the Rings
fan, big Harry Potter fan. So maybe I'll
be able to make some of those references. If not,
I recommend reading those. So, yes,
go to your local library.
>> Skylar (22:32):
Absolutely.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:33):
And then I think that about covers it.
>> Skylar (22:36):
The only one I see that I don't know if you mentioned was
customer service.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:40):
Yeah, that goes with the summer job. So
mowing power tools and customer service.
>> Skylar (22:44):
Moen power tools and customer service.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:47):
Those are separate jobs. One job does not
equate all three of those qualities.
>> Skylar (22:51):
I didn't give good customer service for two
of those. You only
get one thing from me, and it's
either customer service knowledge of the
products or.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (23:04):
Exactly.
>> Skylar (23:06):
Awesome. Fantastic. So that takes care of Fatty Lumpkin's
character. And then last but not least, we'll jump over
to our last player. for. For at
least, ah, where we're at right now, there's a possibility we might
add in somebody, depending on where things are at next,
time we record. But right now, we have Quinn.
Quinn. Tell us about Quinn in 2016.
>> Quinn (23:26):
Unlike these guys, I was, I was working a couple different
jobs.
>> Skylar (23:29):
Yep.
>> Quinn (23:30):
So, I put, for the primary abilities,
like, I just kind of went with. Even
across the board.
>> Skylar (23:36):
Yeah, you are pretty.
>> Quinn (23:37):
Yeah. Just even across the board. And I put a little extra in perception
and constitution.
>> Skylar (23:41):
So it's like twos and threes.
>> Quinn (23:43):
Two twos and everything except perception. Constituent. I did threes,
and I was. I just kind of evened it out. I feel like.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (23:47):
Yeah.
>> Quinn (23:48):
You know, I wasn't really an average guy. Just pretty
average. Just really, you know, for
some of my qualities, I use acute
senses. Yeah, I put a couple in that.
Good, luck. I put a couple in that.
>> Skylar (24:00):
Absolutely.
>> Quinn (24:01):
You know, I. Even though, you know, get into it
later with my gambling, you know, the gambling. Just
turned 21, you know, and, so the
gambling skill, you know, I feel like I had good luck, even though I probably
didn't. And then
the resistance. I can hold it.
I have a fear of public restrooms.
>> Skylar (24:22):
Yes.
>> Quinn (24:23):
So, I have been made fun of
and joked about. I tend
to not like using a public restroom. So
I can hold it.
>> Skylar (24:32):
Have you seen the status of our public facilities?
>> Quinn (24:35):
Well, it's not good. It's not good.
It's not good.
>> Skylar (24:39):
I actually really appreciate this because, there is a
situation. So throughout the game, I will have.
If something happens, something comes up. You guys will be
making, fear rolls. And fear rolls,
basically, it's kind of like everything else that we've described so
far. You're going to be rolling the D10. you'll be using your
willpower. And basically it's to keep yourself
from kind of. You guys are regular people, right? Like
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Your average dudes 2016. You haven't
experienced, you know, war
or, you know, horrible tragedies or
things that would, like, really horribly,
traumatize a person. And then all of a sudden,
you're thrown into a zombie apocalypse type
situation, and you're gonna see things that
you've never seen or ever wanted to see before.
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in reference to that. And so that causes fear. Right.
And to emphasize on that fear, that's when you have
to make those fear rolls to avoid, like,
freezing up or in Quinn's case, you
know, maybe peeing yourself. Right.
So by having the resistance of I can
hold it, it actually very much could come into
play if you were to ever hit that point where you might
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end up peeing yourself, which would be a problem. Right.
Like, it's gonna cause some m. Some inconvenience, to say the
least.
>> Quinn (25:53):
Yeah. And then just for some skills, I'm not gonna go through everything.
>> Skylar (25:55):
Yeah.
>> Quinn (25:56):
but, you know, I had a couple driving jobs, so I put
My skill at driving is like a three.
That, would be for car. And then I did get into driving like a, like a
bigger truck towards the end. So I'm gonna put that as a two.
>> Skylar (26:07):
Yep.
>> Quinn (26:08):
you know, like the, like, kind of like them computers, electronics. I
just, I'm not the most knowledgeable, but I still, I do know a little
bit. So I just kind of put those at just an average, like a
gaming kind of like they were saying. I had that in there, you know, as
a one, cooking. You know,
I, I worked, at a taco place for quite a while.
>> Skylar (26:25):
That's right.
>> Quinn (26:27):
you know, the gambling's in there.
the, the one that I'll say is the, the
funniest one probably is I first time
worked at a nursing home.
>> Skylar (26:38):
That's right.
>> Quinn (26:38):
So I know an awful lot about wheelchairs.
So wheelchair operation is a two,
so you never know. But I know how those
wheelchairs work.
>> Skylar (26:48):
Hey, it's people that probably haven't used a lot of
wheelchairs. Between the rest of us, I mean, I don't
know, maybe fatty, you've had some experience in the medical
field? No. Okay. So between the rest of us, we don't know a whole
lot about the ins and outs of wheelchairs. So you've got all the
secret knowledge of those probably
plenty of little levers and other
things.
>> Quinn (27:08):
There's really not that much.
>> Skylar (27:09):
Oh, okay.
>> Quinn (27:10):
But, very well might be able to weaponize one. You never
know. You never know if anybody out there.
>> Skylar (27:15):
Who'S listening has ever played like, Dead Rising 2,
slash, any of the sequels there. There's
definitely at least one, if not multiple, like,
wheelchair mod weapon mods that you can make in
the game. And they get wild, they get pretty crazy.
>> Quinn (27:30):
So, yeah, we'll see if that comes into
play at all.
>> Skylar (27:33):
Awesome. All right, well, that is everything as
far as these guys go. this will come out at the same time that
episode one comes out. So you guys can definitely check
that as well. Right after you finish listening to this. Like
I said, as the, Zombie Master, I've created basically a
2016. It's Black Friday,
so Thanksgiving night. I know we all call it
Black Friday, but ironically, by 2016 it had worked
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its way into, holiday about giving
thanks. And it'll be set at
around 6pm I actually, looked up, I had
to Google 2016 Black Friday
ads, And I actually got slapped with some nostalgia
because I explicitly remember like being at home
because we would have been on Christmas. Well, just general
like break from those of us that were in
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college, looking at these ads and circling
items that I was going to go run out and try to get once,
you know, the sales started at about 6pm was how
far I had gotten. And I think that was pretty much the max. I think that's
about where things hit. We're in
2024 now after everything that happened with COVID
I mean, Black Friday is pretty much extinct at this point.
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It really doesn't exist because everything's online now.
which is honestly nice. I'm not trying to sit here and advocate
against it, but at the same time, I think we all saw some
of the sort of modern day first world
atrocities that kind of stemmed from Black Friday
people trampling each other and just the general irony
of we're here on a day to give thanks and instead
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we're out beating each other up and pushing past
each other and so on and forth to get a deal at
a store. It's unfortunate.
but I'm excited, to jump into this. So I
will jump off so that you guys can tune into
episode one of Black Friday of the
Dead.
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Welcome everybody to a spooky one
shot. normally something that would be done
around Halloween season but this time we're doing
something special for the post
Thanksgiving Christmas
season. That's right. We are doing a
one shot of the All Flesh Must be
Eaten system.
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That I have titled Black Friday of the
Dead.
welcome everybody. I'm Skyler, the usual host now
your zombie master as they call it in the All
Flesh Must be Eaten system. the All Flesh Must
be Eaten system is a zombie based
ttrpg. It's a bit older. It's all the way from back
in 1999 is when it was first published by
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Eden Studios Inc. And it is
using the uni system.
there's other systems and such that use this.
But the basic gist of it is I understand and maybe I'm
completely way off. but the unis system
is basically uses like a
D10. I don't know, could be kind of a
little bit more to it than that. But at least with the all
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Flesh Must be Eaten we're looking at kind of a D10 based
system. You're going to roll a D10, add
some skills and I'll go a little bit more into the mechanics of it.
But whatever the case, roll the D10, add some
skills, add an attribute and that's your
results. And whether you succeed or not is based on
that. With me today, I've got
three of our usuals, from one of
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our various campaigns. to my left I've got Dave.
Dave, welcome to the show.
>> Dave (01:32):
Thanks. Glad to be here.
>> Skylar (01:35):
I've got fan favorite from our Criminals of
Isla Numa series, Fatty Lumpkins. Fatty Lumpkins.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (01:41):
Thanks for having me.
>> Skylar (01:42):
Thanks for being here. And another fan
favorite from our Criminals of Isla Numa series,
Quinn.
>> Quinn (01:49):
Yeah, not. Yeah, very excited to be here. This should be a good
time.
>> Skylar (01:52):
It should be getting this absolutely very, not
your little sauce this time.
>> Quinn (01:56):
No, no, no sauce.
>> Skylar (01:58):
Instead I have asked each one of these
players to basically because we are going to be playing in the
modern day, and I say modern day a little bit broadly
because we're going to, we're going to jump back to
2016America.
United States, Iowa
more or less. I mean, is this going to be in Iowa? the like
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setting per se is a little bit fictional in the sense that
like Fatty, I know you. You didn't live here in
town with us. You didn't know most of us.
Dave, I feel you didn't even
necessarily run in the same friend group per se. Like it was
kind of a little bit more outside. Quinn, and I, on the other hand, were
definitely hanging out together in the 2016.
and that's not to be rude or anything to anybody, but I'm just
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trying to. This is alternate reality where instead
we're all friends. We're all friends here, in this kind
of like fictional city, which I didn't really even come up with a name for
because everything's going to take place in one,
primary location, which is the Sunrise
Mall. heavily inspired by our mall here where
we live, which again, I'm not going to name drop because that feels
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weird and I don't want them to get upset.
But whatever the case, this is the Sunrise mall,
modern day 2016. so feel free to make
whatever 2016 references that you can think of throughout, the
course of this. But for now, as part of our
session zero, I want to talk about the
characters. Who is everybody playing? I mean, again,
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we're playing ourselves. But tell me a little bit about
yourselves in your 2016 character
format. So Dave, starting with you, if you're, if you're cool with
that, tell, me a little bit about Dave in 2016 and
what that looks like in your character. So for instance,
off the bat you've got your primary attributes kind of similar to like
Dungeons and Dragons, with a slightly different wording. So
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you got strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence,
perception and willpower. Where did you kind of
land on these stats? And just to give a little bit of reference
to listeners, these stats usually range from like
1 to 5. So a 1 is kind of like,
eh, I kind of a little bit wimpy,
within this particular stat. So like for instance, if you're talking strength,
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I'm not really a strong guy. I'm not buff and muscular. I'm probably pretty
scrawny. That is what it is.
Versus a five in strength is
like I'm pretty much an Olympic level
athlete. so I'm like way up there and then
everything in between, you know, two, three is kind of around like
the maybe average to a little bit above average
or pretty decent even, obviously four,
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that's pretty dang strong. You know, you might be like a
local,
not celebrity, but like you performed well in the like high
school wrestling or something like that. But anyways, Dave, tell us a little bit about where
your character landed in these.
>> Dave (04:37):
All right, so back in 2016, I would
have graduated college, been at my first
job at, ah, an accounting
firm, right?
>> Quinn (04:47):
On.
>> Dave (04:48):
And so back then, a little more
physically, fit probably.
So strength three, dexterity
three, constitution three.
>> Skylar (05:00):
Nice, nice.
>> Dave (05:01):
You know, I, we did some P90X in
college, so
intelligence three. You know, my brain was
pumped full of all that knowledge.
>> Skylar (05:14):
Numbers, numbers, numbers.
>> Dave (05:16):
Perception two, you know, didn't really know how
the world worked.
>> Skylar (05:21):
Sure.
>> Dave (05:21):
You're still, you're just learning and willpower
won. You know, I was studying
for the CPA exam at the time.
Did not take much to distract me
because that sucked.
>> Skylar (05:39):
Oh, man. Well, yes. Okay,
so cpa, Striving
Dave is our first kind of the
start off for our character. And then Dave jumping into. So
the next kind of section here is
your character has qualities and drawbacks. So
qualities are going to be obviously positive things that, your
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character kind of has. Some of them are a bit more like,
I want to say broad or kind of obscure.
some of them are really specific. And again,
so drawbacks are going to, you have kind of a point by system and I'm
not going to get super deep into that because it kind of takes away from like the roleplay
aspect of it. We've already figured it all out. but for you guys listening,
these are kind of what you kind of imagine yourself to
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having. based on the qualities and drawbacks that ah,
the game kind of listed out and there's some that we, I think added
maybe or maybe that's in the skills. But whatever the case, what qualities
and drawbacks does 2016 Dave
have?
>> Dave (06:34):
so say good luck. I mean, you could call it good luck or
blessed, whatever you want to call it. but I've always
been pretty lucky. I feel like.
>> Skylar (06:41):
Nice.
>> Dave (06:42):
Call it beginner's luck. Just luck in general.
Photographic memory. I don't have photographic memory,
but memory is pretty decent, I'd say.
So gave myself a positive to that.
>> Skylar (06:53):
Yep.
>> Dave (06:54):
And then fast reaction time, you
know, reflexes were a little faster
than.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (07:02):
You.
>> Dave (07:03):
Know, all that Call of Duty I played in
college. And then for the drawback side though,
well, I guess one of these is really more for now, but
I didn't even realize that until this moment, but
Paranoid. yeah, it wasn't
until more recently I started listening to more
Joe Rogan.
>> Skylar (07:23):
And it's just got you on it.
>> Dave (07:24):
Those kind of podcasts. So podcasts weren't
really that big of a thing back then. They're just kind of starting.
>> Skylar (07:30):
Yeah.
>> Dave (07:31):
Anyways, we'll still roll with that. And then
physical disability,
I guess you could call it, depending
on what I eat.
Yeah, my bowels would get a little
inflamed. Ibs,
d, if you must know.
>> Skylar (07:51):
Yeah, I was gonna say we
had kind of a lesson in ibs, the different
forms of IBS for. From resident
expert Fatty Lumpkins.
>> Dave (08:03):
I wouldn't say it was much of an issue, but there
was one, incident after a
subway, but we'll not go into that.
>> Skylar (08:11):
And so for that reason, so that you get to kind of take,
like, different levels of how much this, you know, physical
disability affects you. And so we only put it at a
level one, which is the lowest level. not saying that
obviously ibs, isn't obviously a difficult
thing to live with. but it's not like you don't have an
arm in the. In the sense of a zombie apocalypse situation. It's
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not like not having an arm that you can fight back with or defend
yourself with. but I definitely think
it's something that could come up in a
situation of fear and, terror. So.
Fantastic. All right, and then last but not
least, and Dave, yours is the longest list
easily, between the other players, but you have the
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skills. Now, the book itself, for All Flesh
Must Be Eaten has a list of skills, and
it's a pretty big list. you get specific
with things, right? So, like, rather than just saying, I'm good
at science, you would specify what area of science
that you feel like you're particularly good at. So you could say,
I'm science, chemistry. I have levels in
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that. I also am pretty good at biology, so I've got
levels in that and so on and so forth. So you can get pretty specific
with most things. but whatever the case. And then
of course, similar to the levels that we mentioned before, you know, one
is like, I know a little bit here and there,
maybe more than the average person. Whereas 5 is like, this is
what I am an expert in kind of a thing. So,
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I told these guys, I said, I want you guys to
think of whatever you feel like you in
2016 was into was good at,
whatever the case, and just list that out. That's what I want you
guys to go with. So we've got some really
interesting ideas here that are going to come into
play. So, Dave, tell us a little bit about some of the skills that
you came up with.
>> Dave (09:52):
Oh, you want me to run down the list?
>> Skylar (09:54):
Yeah, go for the list.
>> Dave (09:55):
Okay. got sense of
direction, which, funny enough, that
comes from all the Minecraft
we've played in college. Played a lot of
video games in college.
A Lot of free time.
>> Skylar (10:10):
Yeah.
>> Dave (10:12):
Random, item recall, which is. You've probably
seen that meme. A lot of guys have this, like,
where. Oh, you need a paper
clip. Yeah, it's right next to the, file
cap.
>> Skylar (10:25):
You know, it's funny, I feel like I have the opposite of that. I will,
like, set my phone down and then, like, turn around and turn
back and be like, where did I put my phone?
>> Dave (10:33):
So I did have to help my roommate quite a bit
in college locate his missing objects.
I can't find my phone. I'm like, oh, it's under your pillow.
>> Skylar (10:42):
Nice. It's right there. That
could come up for sure.
>> Dave (10:47):
Climbing, longboarding.
>> Skylar (10:50):
Nice.
>> Dave (10:50):
Board games.
>> Skylar (10:51):
Absolutely.
>> Dave (10:52):
Right when I was getting into board games, pretty much. Well, a little
bit after hiding, I
would hide in random places and
scare people sometimes.
Idle endurance.
>> Skylar (11:06):
Yeah. Tell me what.
>> Dave (11:06):
This one I made up this one. you know,
some people, they're in the car, they gotta have music
playing or whatever. Sometimes I'll just drive
with nothing.
>> Skylar (11:16):
Nice.
>> Dave (11:17):
Or just. I'll be doing nothing.
And that's okay. Maybe
I'll just be staring at the computer screen instead
of studying for the CPA exam.
pizza cutting. I worked at a pizza place
back in those days. M. this
one there's official one called
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financing, but I call that business
time. business
major. Accounting major.
>> Skylar (11:46):
Yeah.
>> Dave (11:47):
Procrastination. So this one is
my idea of. You could also say maybe
works under pressure.
>> Skylar (11:54):
Yeah. Like, I set it aside so long that
it needs to get done now, and I. I can work with the
pressure.
>> Dave (12:00):
Some of you are familiar with the, procrastination
Monkey gets you
into gear.
>> Skylar (12:07):
That's right.
>> Dave (12:09):
role playing. That's probably when
I first played Dungeons and
Dragons.
>> Skylar (12:15):
Yeah.
>> Dave (12:17):
then guns, handgun, shotgun. You know,
I did some hunting.
>> Skylar (12:21):
Nice.
>> Dave (12:22):
some shooting.
>> Skylar (12:24):
that'll come in handy for sure.
>> Dave (12:25):
Stealth and I'll.
And trumpet. I played the trumpet.
>> Skylar (12:31):
Nice.
>> Dave (12:33):
Don't play it too much anymore.
>> Skylar (12:35):
But still time. 2016.
Oh, and swing dancing.
>> Dave (12:39):
Oh, yeah, swing dancing. That didn't make. Oh, it's not. Oh, it
is.
>> Skylar (12:42):
Over on the other column, I filled.
>> Dave (12:45):
Up a whole column.
>> Skylar (12:48):
Swing dancing. That if that comes into play, I.
Which I hope it does.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (12:51):
This cool montage of Dave swing dancing
through this horde of zombies.
>> Skylar (12:56):
Yeah, the zombies. He's like, I can get through the zombies. Whipping
them around by them. Oh, my gosh. I
never even thought of it. That's a brilliant idea, guys.
How are we going to get through these zombies? I'll show you.
Proceeds to Swing dance.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (13:09):
Louis Armstrong.
>> Skylar (13:10):
It's brilliant. It's brilliant. I. That's not
a bad idea. That'd be kind of cool.
>> Quinn (13:15):
It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips.
Wake me up.
>> Skylar (13:22):
So just to. Just to jump into it before we jump over to the other
characters. So just to talk about that. So, like, for instance,
in the situation where Dave wants to swing
dance through this entire horde of
zombies, that is absolutely something that you could in
fact do. So basically what I would tell you is, and
this is how checks work, right? In Dungeons and Dragons,
you'd have that huge list of skills. So I would say to you, okay,
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well, roll me a stealth check. And you would roll your D20 and
you'd add your stealth modifier, and then that's where we'd
be at. in this game, you roll a D10
and then you are going to add a relevant
attribute. So strength, dexterity, constitution, et
cetera, et cetera. In this case, let's say for the swing dancing, we'd say
dexterity. and then you would also add a
relevant skill, which in this case would very much be
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swing dancing, which is another plus two. So, Dave, your
dexterity is plus three. Your swing dancing would be
plus two. So then you're having a five, plus whatever you
roll on. the D10, if it is. If it is a
nine or higher, you succeeded. and there are
different levels of success, of course, so like the higher you
roll or the higher your number, the better your success
is and the more like you're kind of going to get out of it,
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versus rolling under a nine. You're not swing
dancing through them zombies.
>> Dave (14:35):
Oh, no.
>> Skylar (14:37):
Them zombies swing dance you right where they want you.
So, that's basically how that works. So with
that in mind, you know, thinking about all these different
skills that you guys have put down, that's. That's where those are going to come into
play.
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With that being said, let's jump over to Fatty Lumpkins.
Fatty Lumpkins, tell us about your choices in. In
attributes.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (15:07):
Okay, so circa 2016, Fatty
Lumpkins was just graduating
undergrad.
>> Skylar (15:14):
Oh, okay.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (15:14):
And with all that crippling student loans
burning a hole in my pocket, I thought,
why not go back to school?
So I was in the process of
starting in my first year of pharmacy school,
and so it was not a very
fun time in my life. So there's going to be a lot of
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boring skills like
reading and memorizing. So I'm
hoping that maybe I'll come across Barnes and
Nobles or something, and they might come into play at the mall.
>> Skylar (15:47):
It's entirely possible. In fact, I do have a
bookstore plan, so there you go.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (15:52):
But for primary attributes, I,
despite the name, would not consider myself
very strong.
So strength is just at a two,
not in the worst shape of my life ten years ago. So we'll give my
dexterity four.
and then because I made it
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into a grad school, I had to give myself a little pat on
the back and give myself an intelligence of
three.
>> Skylar (16:18):
Yeah, I would hope.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:20):
And you can't make it into a grad school
without a bit of willpower, so I had to put that at 2.
>> Skylar (16:26):
True.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:26):
And so that kind of leaves the last two to
round out, perception and constitution.
those. I guess my rationale is I was alive, so I'll give myself
a constitution of four and
a perception of two.
>> Skylar (16:40):
Well, what else did you say? You said you, you lived off of
some, probably not the best of foods.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:44):
Ah. Oh, yeah. And I'll kind of touch on that. I think that'll. Oh,
that'll come in the qualities and
drawbacks.
>> Skylar (16:51):
Perfect. So, I mean. Yeah, that's fantastic. Let's jump
into this dive right into their choices of qualities and
drawbacks.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (16:58):
So, yeah, in college, I'm sure everyone is probably aware
that the sleep and the meals are probably
not the best.
>> Skylar (17:05):
Yeah.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:06):
So I think that was probably one of my, I'll call
this a quality of resistance
to
exhaustion.
>> Skylar (17:15):
Yeah.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:15):
So especially with gradually. Pretty
adept at studying for
till 2am in the morning and taking a nap,
waking up at 6am to start again. So,
we're gonna give myself resistance to exhaustion.
On that same note, is really
did not put forth a lot of effort when it came to the cooking.
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So I will be the
first to admit that I threw together some gnarly
combinations.
>> Skylar (17:42):
Fair enough.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:43):
So I'm going to consider that resistance to
poison. Absolutely miracle that I did not end up with food
poison. And to this day, food safety is a
joke.
>> Skylar (17:53):
And we have had discussions about that, now that I think about it.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (17:55):
Yes. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
>> Skylar (17:58):
It does. It does. It helps you fight or it gives.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (18:00):
You IBSC or D.
So some of the other qualities, situational,
awareness. That's. Yeah, I
enjoy people watching, so we'll call that situational
awareness.
>> Skylar (18:15):
Okay.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (18:16):
And then for drawbacks, I
usually just say pharmacy school killed all the fun in me,
so that's kind of where I, gave myself a
drawback. And to contrast, Dave's
good Luck, I do not have a lot of luck, so I'm
going to give myself bad luck on that.
>> Skylar (18:32):
Awesome. And just for those listening, so as far as
the luck works, so Dave took good
luck, and on the other hand, Fatty
has taken bad luck. And they work basically the
same way. they are points either in positive if
you took good luck, or negative points
if you took bad luck. And those points can be
used at any point during the, game
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to either benefit a particular
situation in which case you'd want to spend the good luck,
or hinder a situation when you're willing to spend
the bad luck. so for
instance, if Dave were in a situation where he really
needed to make this, he was trying to shoot a
zombie and he really needed to make this shot, he could
say, all right, Skyler, I want to spend a point of
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my good luck to add a plus
one to my role here and to
ensure that he gets a nine or whatever the case.
on the other hand, Fatty has a point in
bad luck. And the way that we've kind of justified this because you're probably thinking,
okay, well, if they get to choose when they get to spend
it, could Fatty just say, never
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by the end of this campaign not have spent it? to which I
said, and honestly, you had pitched
it, which was if you haven't spent
it by the end, when the end comes up and whatever
big showdown or whatever is going on at the end, I
will, I, as the zombie master, will spend it for you.
I will take that minus one off of
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something important that you're about to do, maybe to keep you alive or to
keep an NPC alive. So, it's one of those things where, you
know, you might find a situation where you say,
hey, I feel really confident, or I have a lot of
numbers, loaded up on this particular skill. I'll
take the bad luck now, and probably still
succeed. And that's, that's, that's definitely a way to do
it. but otherwise that's, that's how luck works in
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this game. Normally it'd be used in kind of more of a
supernatural situation, but we're not, we're really
setting this in real life per se.
and some, some people are just lucky and some people aren't. It is what it
is. So, but anyway, sorry, jumping back over to Fatty
Lumpkins, your, your skills. So, yes,
you've got a list here as well.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (20:40):
And I think I'll piggyback on Dave's take here
is I played a lot of Minecraft in college.
And yeah, I would say that I was pretty good at it all
right. Making some of those cool sculptures, only
to log in the next day to find out that your roommate
had put a penis on one of the sculptures.
So I was pretty good at disguising that.
>> Skylar (20:59):
Oh, okay. Just, put some clothes on or. Yeah, some
underwear.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:02):
and then some of the skills are the boring ones that had
come about from school. So there's math
and general note taking, rote
memorization. Maybe there'll be a
puzzle or riddle that we'll need to solve and I can
memorize. It's left, left, right, left, right.
>> Skylar (21:19):
That's right.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:19):
We'll see.
>> Skylar (21:20):
Up, down, R, L,
R, start.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:26):
some of the other things is played a lot of disc golf
in school, so maybe I'll find
myself a pile of plates that I can
fashion into discs and chuck out the hordes of
zombies. And then other
skills just came about from random summer jobs.
So mowing power tools.
Maybe I'll find myself in a Sears and be able to
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weaponize some of those materials.
>> Skylar (21:51):
They are. Power tools are very weaponizable,
for sure.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (21:56):
And what else? I've kind of been skipping around
here. So computers.
I'm a millennial. I should be somewhat familiar
with computers. I enjoy the general
trivia. So useless knowledge. Maybe
I'll be able to flout some.
>> Skylar (22:11):
Of that about pairs with the memorization stuff
pretty well.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:16):
particular categories of useless knowledge include the
skills of being big Lord of the Rings
fan, big Harry Potter fan. So maybe I'll
be able to make some of those references. If not,
I recommend reading those. So, yes,
go to your local library.
>> Skylar (22:32):
Absolutely.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:33):
And then I think that about covers it.
>> Skylar (22:36):
The only one I see that I don't know if you mentioned was
customer service.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:40):
Yeah, that goes with the summer job. So
mowing power tools and customer service.
>> Skylar (22:44):
Moen power tools and customer service.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (22:47):
Those are separate jobs. One job does not
equate all three of those qualities.
>> Skylar (22:51):
I didn't give good customer service for two
of those. You only
get one thing from me, and it's
either customer service knowledge of the
products or.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (23:04):
Exactly.
>> Skylar (23:06):
Awesome. Fantastic. So that takes care of Fatty Lumpkin's
character. And then last but not least, we'll jump over
to our last player. for. For at
least, ah, where we're at right now, there's a possibility we might
add in somebody, depending on where things are at next,
time we record. But right now, we have Quinn.
Quinn. Tell us about Quinn in 2016.
>> Quinn (23:26):
Unlike these guys, I was, I was working a couple different
jobs.
>> Skylar (23:29):
Yep.
>> Quinn (23:30):
So, I put, for the primary abilities,
like, I just kind of went with. Even
across the board.
>> Skylar (23:36):
Yeah, you are pretty.
>> Quinn (23:37):
Yeah. Just even across the board. And I put a little extra in perception
and constitution.
>> Skylar (23:41):
So it's like twos and threes.
>> Quinn (23:43):
Two twos and everything except perception. Constituent. I did threes,
and I was. I just kind of evened it out. I feel like.
>> Fatty Lumpkins (23:47):
Yeah.
>> Quinn (23:48):
You know, I wasn't really an average guy. Just pretty
average. Just really, you know, for
some of my qualities, I use acute
senses. Yeah, I put a couple in that.
Good, luck. I put a couple in that.
>> Skylar (24:00):
Absolutely.
>> Quinn (24:01):
You know, I. Even though, you know, get into it
later with my gambling, you know, the gambling. Just
turned 21, you know, and, so the
gambling skill, you know, I feel like I had good luck, even though I probably
didn't. And then
the resistance. I can hold it.
I have a fear of public restrooms.
>> Skylar (24:22):
Yes.
>> Quinn (24:23):
So, I have been made fun of
and joked about. I tend
to not like using a public restroom. So
I can hold it.
>> Skylar (24:32):
Have you seen the status of our public facilities?
>> Quinn (24:35):
Well, it's not good. It's not good.
It's not good.
>> Skylar (24:39):
I actually really appreciate this because, there is a
situation. So throughout the game, I will have.
If something happens, something comes up. You guys will be
making, fear rolls. And fear rolls,
basically, it's kind of like everything else that we've described so
far. You're going to be rolling the D10. you'll be using your
willpower. And basically it's to keep yourself
from kind of. You guys are regular people, right? Like
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Your average dudes 2016. You haven't
experienced, you know, war
or, you know, horrible tragedies or
things that would, like, really horribly,
traumatize a person. And then all of a sudden,
you're thrown into a zombie apocalypse type
situation, and you're gonna see things that
you've never seen or ever wanted to see before.
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in reference to that. And so that causes fear. Right.
And to emphasize on that fear, that's when you have
to make those fear rolls to avoid, like,
freezing up or in Quinn's case, you
know, maybe peeing yourself. Right.
So by having the resistance of I can
hold it, it actually very much could come into
play if you were to ever hit that point where you might
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end up peeing yourself, which would be a problem. Right.
Like, it's gonna cause some m. Some inconvenience, to say the
least.
>> Quinn (25:53):
Yeah. And then just for some skills, I'm not gonna go through everything.
>> Skylar (25:55):
Yeah.
>> Quinn (25:56):
but, you know, I had a couple driving jobs, so I put
My skill at driving is like a three.
That, would be for car. And then I did get into driving like a, like a
bigger truck towards the end. So I'm gonna put that as a two.
>> Skylar (26:07):
Yep.
>> Quinn (26:08):
you know, like the, like, kind of like them computers, electronics. I
just, I'm not the most knowledgeable, but I still, I do know a little
bit. So I just kind of put those at just an average, like a
gaming kind of like they were saying. I had that in there, you know, as
a one, cooking. You know,
I, I worked, at a taco place for quite a while.
>> Skylar (26:25):
That's right.
>> Quinn (26:27):
you know, the gambling's in there.
the, the one that I'll say is the, the
funniest one probably is I first time
worked at a nursing home.
>> Skylar (26:38):
That's right.
>> Quinn (26:38):
So I know an awful lot about wheelchairs.
So wheelchair operation is a two,
so you never know. But I know how those
wheelchairs work.
>> Skylar (26:48):
Hey, it's people that probably haven't used a lot of
wheelchairs. Between the rest of us, I mean, I don't
know, maybe fatty, you've had some experience in the medical
field? No. Okay. So between the rest of us, we don't know a whole
lot about the ins and outs of wheelchairs. So you've got all the
secret knowledge of those probably
plenty of little levers and other
things.
>> Quinn (27:08):
There's really not that much.
>> Skylar (27:09):
Oh, okay.
>> Quinn (27:10):
But, very well might be able to weaponize one. You never
know. You never know if anybody out there.
>> Skylar (27:15):
Who'S listening has ever played like, Dead Rising 2,
slash, any of the sequels there. There's
definitely at least one, if not multiple, like,
wheelchair mod weapon mods that you can make in
the game. And they get wild, they get pretty crazy.
>> Quinn (27:30):
So, yeah, we'll see if that comes into
play at all.
>> Skylar (27:33):
Awesome. All right, well, that is everything as
far as these guys go. this will come out at the same time that
episode one comes out. So you guys can definitely check
that as well. Right after you finish listening to this. Like
I said, as the, Zombie Master, I've created basically a
2016. It's Black Friday,
so Thanksgiving night. I know we all call it
Black Friday, but ironically, by 2016 it had worked
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its way into, holiday about giving
thanks. And it'll be set at
around 6pm I actually, looked up, I had
to Google 2016 Black Friday
ads, And I actually got slapped with some nostalgia
because I explicitly remember like being at home
because we would have been on Christmas. Well, just general
like break from those of us that were in
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college, looking at these ads and circling
items that I was going to go run out and try to get once,
you know, the sales started at about 6pm was how
far I had gotten. And I think that was pretty much the max. I think that's
about where things hit. We're in
2024 now after everything that happened with COVID
I mean, Black Friday is pretty much extinct at this point.
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It really doesn't exist because everything's online now.
which is honestly nice. I'm not trying to sit here and advocate
against it, but at the same time, I think we all saw some
of the sort of modern day first world
atrocities that kind of stemmed from Black Friday
people trampling each other and just the general irony
of we're here on a day to give thanks and instead
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we're out beating each other up and pushing past
each other and so on and forth to get a deal at
a store. It's unfortunate.
but I'm excited, to jump into this. So I
will jump off so that you guys can tune into
episode one of Black Friday of the
Dead.
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