Transcript:End of 2019 Fireside Chat

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MATT: Woah, I think we're on.

MATT: Hey everbody!

MARISHA: Hello everybody! Welcome to our end of the year critmas fireside chat.

MATT: Yeah

MARISHA: We're gonna answer some questions, do some reflecting.

TRAVIS: We don't even have a fire though.

MARISHA: Enjoy.

LIAM: It's right there.

MATT: The fire was the friends we made along the way.

LIAM: The warmth of the community.

MARISHA: Plus we have our fakey fire.

MARISHA: Maybe if we feel like it, we'll play a few rounds of jackbox because games are Christmas. That's what you do.

MATT: Yeah.

MARISHA: But first, Travis take it away.

TRAVIS: Yes, thank you Marisha.

MARISHA: You're welcome.

TRAVIS: Some of you may noticed that some of our content has begun migrating over to our official CR channels. We love you guys. This process takes a little bit of time and we are incredibly thankful for your patience while we get all these things moving. We will have more about it soon. It will be back, just give us a little bit of leeway. Love you guys!

MARISHA: Yeah. And now...

TRAVIS: Should we do it?

MARISHA: Yeah. The thing.

TALIESIN: There's a thing?

LAURA: What thing?

TRAVIS: Does anyone need like food or drinks or stuff?

LAURA: I dont have a drink and I just realized it because I'm eating the jalapeno pizza probably.

MARISHA: Aww

TRAVIS: Here, have some mystery drink.

LIAM: Could someone pass me a slice of pizza please?

TRAVIS: Yes.

TALIESIN: Also, throw me a tiny slice.

MARISHA: If anyone has any questions, feel free to shoot them off in chat. We also have the amazing Dani Carr doing some curating for us.

MATT: the challenge of seeing where the robe ends and pants begin it's intentional like a camoflauge into myself.

MARISHA: (Laughing)

MATT: So you're seeing me against me.

ASHLEY: Somebody is asking where Sam is.

MARISHA: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Sam could not make it because he's stupid.

MARISHA: (Laughing)

TRAVIS: That's not the real reason. Sam could not make it beacuse he's too sexy.

ASHLEY: Yeah, that's pretty good.

TRAVIS: Sam could not make it because his teeth overtook the rest of his body.

MATT: Also true. That's viable.

LAURA: Sam is the Laughing Hand.

MATT: Don't spoil it.

TALIESIN: It's hard to get all of us in a room and if we can get almost all of us and we'd usually call it a win.

TRAVIS: That's true.

MARISHA: Yeah.

MATT: Um yeah. So thank you guys for joining us. Do we have the IPad somewhere?

MARISHA: I have it. Oh, you have it.

LIAM: We can all read from there but the gang is curating questions for us.

MATT: Indeed.

TALIESIN: Um wow chat is it's.

LIAM: Awesome Shadow 17 oh my gosh somebody's typing real fast here wants to know what our favorite Christmas cookies are.

MARISHA: Christmas cookies. Gingerbread

LAURA: Sugar cookies with icing yeah with like the regular old cake icing on the top.

MATT: I respect that.

TRAVIS: Oh, we're going complex. I'd say, snickerdoodle with a little coffee icecream.

MATT AND MARISHA: Ooh

TALIESIN: I kinda wanna branch out out out of cookie into like I like a rum-soaked like British fruitcake, the kind that are like designed to last seven years or eight years.

MARISHA: Oh, the kind that you used to enjoy in 1862.

TALIESIN: And it's still fresh. It's still fresh and you don't know what thoses little green bits are but they're like a black light reactant.

MARISHA: Uh huh.

TRAVIS: So Taliesin, what did you call them when you first invented them?

TALIESIN: Jaffer cakes

MATT: Jaffer cakes. I like it. I like it.

ASHLEY: I like fruitcakes.

TALIESIN: Fruitcakes are the best.

ASHLEY: I love it.

TALIESIN: I love it so much.

ASHLEY: Oh my god, I love it.

TALIESIN: Yeah, if it's too tough to eat you just soaked it in rum until it's soft enough to stab with a fork.

LAURA: Never had fruitcake.

ASHLEY: It's kinda weird. It's kind of like you know. We're gonna need to.

TALIESIN: We're gonna have to bring some fruitcake.

MARISHA: It's gonna be like good like the right fruit cake, right?

TALIESIN: Of course.

ASHLEY: There are some fruit cakes that are not great.

MARISHA: Okay.

TALIESIN: They famously like they last so long that they often get regifted year after year and someone's like I think I made this for you. It's still just like ugh because it's so alcohol.

MATT: Someone just asked what Ronin is getting for Christmas.

TALIESIN: They almost get like cardboard sometimes.

LAURA: Aww. Ronin is getting a little kitchen.

MARISHA: Aww

LAURA: A little wooden kitchen

TRAVIS: Ashley's getting him some throwing stars.

LAURA: He's like obsessed with pulling all the pots and pans and bringing them into the dining room and like and then he'll like go put all the pots and pans away and go back in the dining room and walk over to where he had them and he'll start going " imitates eating sounds."

LAURA: He pretends that he cooks!

TRAVIS: He literally hugs trees so you know.

MATT: You're basically raising Caduceus.

TALIESIN: Cooking the trees. Cooking the trees, man.

LIAM: Matt, how's the intramural basketball team going? Asks LickTheCow.

TRAVIS: I love this timeline.

MATT: Oh, my god.

MARISHA: As more and more people keep discovering it.

MATT: Props to the hard times for their-- I mean, their incredible staff of writers that put out a volume of content-- quality content that is insane. I just happen to occasionally be in that [indistinct], it seems, and that's a little off-putting.

MARISHA: You're a cultural touchstone.

TALIESIN: I'm not going to do it, so I'm going to tell you that I was thinking about doing it. Of installing a basketball hoop while you guys were out of town.

MATT: I've played like three games of basketball in my life. They were all in elementary school.

TALIESIN: I wasn't entirely sure that you would know what it was. I was a little worried that you'd be like-- is like this is a bird feeder or something?

LIAM: So what what position are you? Like a forward or a goalie or a shortstop?

MATT: I think you're joking.

TRAVIS: One of those was correct.

LAURA: A kicker? Is there a kicker?

TRAVIS: There is not in basketball.

MATT: No.

TRAVIS: They're not legally.

TALIESIN: Or weaver.

ASHLY: There's a thrower.

TRAVIS: You had the mad handles in that picture though. Mercer was like looking up while he was dribbling. That was good.

MATT: People asked what the people of Tal'Dorei do for the holidays or Christmas. That would be Winter's Crest. Winter's Crest Festival, which actually is specific to Tal'Dorei. It has not spread into Wildemount. Wildemount has their own kind of winter solstice-type event.

MARISHA: Wait, what?

MATT: Yeah. Winter's Crest is specifically an event that celebrates the victory over-- a terrible time in Tal'Dore's history specifically. It's location-specific.

MARISHA: But what does Wildmount do?

MATT: What does Wildemount do? I'll have to look it up for you.

LIAM: They decapitate one dissident on the steps of the capital.

TALIESIN: Are there people in Wildemount that celebrate Winter's Crest but do it weirdly?

MARISHA: What time of year is it?

MATT: It's past the new year.

TRAVIS: Yeah. This is like Australia, it's like summer right now.

MATT: Yeah, you guys are coming like on TravelerCon.

LAURA: Yeah, I don't know what time of year that is. I just know it's a month.

MARISHA: Did we miss Christmas in the Happy Fun Ball?

MATT: I think no. I think you guys would have probably been on the seas, pirating.

TRAVIS: Did you miss the holday decorations up?

LIAM: This means we can have Christmas again in the summertime.

LAURA: That's right. Christmas in June.

TRAVIS: 50% off Christmas trees.

LAURA: Christmas in Du- Du- Duthamar. I don't know the names of the months.

MATT: Dunalar?

LARUA: Dunalar.

LIAM: By the way, Winter's Crest spawned out of all of us begging Matt to make us a Christmas-themed D&D game while we were playing at home.

ASHLEY: One of my favorite games we ever played.

TALIESIN: That was a really good game.

LIAM: We did a couple of them.

MARISHA: Was that-- we fought a tiny dragon, right?

TALIESIN: Tiny dragon.

ASHLEY: Yeah. It was a brunch day. You decorated the table like it was winter wonderland.

LIAM: One of those years we bought presents for each other and some of them were like in-character gifts. I think you gave me the mirrors for like looking at your pores like you have giant coke bottle glasses on--

LAURA: Yeah, because you and I talked about how we're obsessed with looking at our pores.

LIAM: Pores.

LAURA: It's fucked up.

LIAM: It's a problem.

TRAVIS: It is a problem.

LIAM: But the mirrors-- you said that they were mirrors for him to-- for Vax to look around corners.

LAURA: See around corners.

LIAM: And look at his pores.

TRAVIS: I gave Pike a set of pine cones.

ASHLEY: Pine cones.

TRAVIS: Pine cone earrings.

ASHLEY: And I put those-- every year I'm reminded of that because they go on my Christmas tree every year.

TRAVIS: The best part was I took them-- she opened them up and there were these little gold pieces of string on them and I was like, "So, those are--" and she was like, "Earrings?" "Yes!"

MARISHA: That's right. You won, because you gave gifts from Grog.

TALIESIN: And they were so ridiculous.

LAURA: They were so good.

TRAVIS: There was only one bag of rocks. I think it was for that asshole.

ASHLEY: And I think on mine when you wrote "Pike", I think the K and the E were backwards. It was like, "To Pike, from Grog."

TRAVIS: I think there was a Y instead of an I.

ASHLEY: I think there was a Y.

MARISHA: I think you gave Keyleth a bunch of leaves and a handful of ripped grass. They were all crunched leaves in a bag.

TRAVIS: Might have been more Christmas shopping than I've ever done in my life.

MATT: Barren Eve. Barren Eve is-- the winter holiday is called Barren Eve. It's winter's longest night.

MARISHA: Barren Eve.

MATT: Yeah. Second of Duscar. It is technically a day of mourning for those lost in wars of old. So it's a somber--

ASHLEY: We missed it. Time to go back!

MATT: It's somber, but it is also considered a time for family and people to get together.

ASHLEY: Wait, so what time-- how far away was that?

MATT: That was a while back.

ASHLEY: So maybe what we just need to do then is just go back to that time--

MATT: That was three months ago, in-game.

ASHLEY: Let's go back three months and then I'll just play all those games.

MATT: There you go.

TRAVIS: Yeah.

LIAM: For the rest of the campaign we just game the Happy Fun Ball. Go into it for like four days. Come out-- it's Christmas. Get back in, stay there four days, come out, it's Christmas.

TALIESIN: Halas was not like an immortal-- he wasn't an immortal wizard at all. He was just using the ball to live long enough to solve his problems. What an asshole!

MATT: Yeah.

TALIESIN: Oh my god. You made the Doc Brown of...

MATT: Yeah, he's an asshole!

TALIESIN: He's like a D&D Doc Brown.

MATT: I was wondering when you would figure that out. His whole ability to adjust time within his own space was part of that reason. He could jump forward and slow down when he needed to.

TALIESIN: This is why we should have the Council on the Fun Ball. Just putting it back out there.

TRAVIS: There's a question. Who is on the Council of Tal'Dorei.

MATT: Yeah, I don't know, man. Probably some important people.

TALIESIN: "Happy Fun Ball 2: Back to the Ball."

MATT: Every time you ask the question one of them dies.

TRAVIS: How does Essek celebrate the holidays?