Jan. 9, 2026
Nat 20 & Unwind: U.N.I.T. Debrief
The Crit Happens crew sits down to unpack the U.N.I.T. arc, where everyone played a Wild Magic Sorcerer and tried to hold the world together with unstable spells. You hear how the Universal Neomagic Isolation Team came to life, why surge-on-every-cast felt wild at the table, and what it was like to fight a Breach Core that fed on their chaos.
The players walk through their favorite surges, close calls, and the moment the rift pulled them in mid mission. You get DM perspective on planning controlled chaos, running Instability as a hidden clock, and keeping the story tense without shutting down the fun. The crew talks about what they would change next time, what surprised them most, and whether U.N.I.T. should return when the next anomaly hits Virelios.
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I just made a real Christy move
and took my my sleep pills.
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Welcome to Nat 29 line here on
Spotify and our Crit happens
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00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,640
Facebook page.
Let's discuss quickly.
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I know this was session went a
lot longer than we thought it
5
00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,200
was going to, but hey, wild
magic surges galore.
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So let me ask you this.
How are we feeling about the the
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wild magic surges in general?
Do we need to workshop that?
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Because it did feel like there
was a lot of surgeons.
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Well, I have a clarification
question I think.
10
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Is the one or two on the D6 for
additional triggers or
11
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additional chances of a trigger
on the one spell it would?
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Be additional triggers.
Like true additional triggers,
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so casting one spell could
result in multiple surges.
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And so you're talking about that
the one or two on the road,
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correct?
Or is that the codex I forget?
16
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Whichever one it is.
Because I believe that we
17
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removed that and I hadn't had a
chance to get that from you yet.
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Oh.
Yeah, because I think, I think
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if it's additional triggers,
that's too much.
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But if it's I roll for the
chance to surge and I fail, but
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I have that, I'm in that little
aura thing and then I have an
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another.
So basically I have a 5050
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chance to surge.
If I don't surge, then I have an
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additional third be 3% chance to
surge.
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But every spell could only surge
one time.
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Yeah, and like I like I said,
you know, and I'm going to kind
27
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of get your your thoughts on
everything here.
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But I, I do think we need to
buff down the nerf down the the
29
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surges just a bit because there
there were a lot.
30
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And and it will will work on
that for the the weeks to come
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here because you know, the
sessions to come with unit
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because this is these these unit
missions are those filler in
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between missions between the
actual campaign.
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So this is one that we can
workshop and really make it our
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own.
We can sit down and I'll send
36
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out messages and stuff and get
everybody's thoughts on it.
37
00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:06,560
But holy hell, Rowan power word
kill for the wind.
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Love it that.
Was sick.
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That was sick using one.
Of those powers, yeah.
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And then the mass.
The mass heel.
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Also from Orban.
Good God, I couldn't come in a
42
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better time.
Because Orban needed it the
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most.
Yeah, well, there were, there
44
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were quite a few people that
were not looking great.
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That's what I was.
So we teleport back to, you
46
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know, the syndicate base or
whatever unit headquarters, all
47
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these medics come up.
But you don't expect that all of
48
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us, all of us literally are at
Max health.
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No, we have 0 scratches on us.
Yeah, yeah, the the field medics
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within the Syndicate outpost in
the Action Belt, they, they come
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up rushing towards you like
they're expecting, like just a
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bloody mess, somebody missing.
An arm battered and bloody.
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Right.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
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You come back completely
healthy.
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Not almost, not a scratch on
you.
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And they all kind of look at
each other like the hell.
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But that was like, what?
Hello.
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So yeah, they're, they're pretty
shocked that you come back
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completely unharmed.
That's awesome.
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Good job, Orban.
We're all professionals here,
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yeah.
Obviously, we planned every bit
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of that purpose.
Everything was completely
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planned and that's how we do it.
Also, Orban is very confused,
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right Nailey?
Chris is like where?
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Is any of this is that?
Bailey Oh my God, she scared the
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shit out of me.
I'm just standing.
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Hi.
Hi.
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Hi.
I'm just back to doing my.
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Dishes.
Now I'm in touch with my cold
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fingers.
Thank you for taking 10 years
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off my life.
Yeah.
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OK, we definitely need to rework
the amount of surging because I
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literally built my character to
farm surges.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
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So I think we'll work on the
surges because I was only
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expecting that session to last
like an hour, hour and a half
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Max.
And we're at, you know, almost 3
78
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hours.
So, well, we'll figure that will
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work out.
Expedite the the like the search
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process, you know, like working
through each person's like if
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there was a way to populate, you
know what we were rolling and
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then you know, we could just
work down the line with what,
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you know, what each person
rolled.
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Yeah.
That's a really good idea.
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We could do like like a a layer
a layer or like a like a
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initiative 20 layer effect where
all of the surges from the
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previous round trigger, but we
would have had that amount of
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time to like prep them.
Right.
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Yeah, we can.
We can work something.
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I like that a lot actually,
because remember.
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Also like a mass, a mass surge,
you know, a layer surge.
92
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Yeah.
Well, yeah, that way you're not
93
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like, you know, waiting for each
person to like, see, this is
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what I rolled.
This is what I want to like.
95
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I'm going to stick with it.
Like that kind of thing, you
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know?
Yeah, I think we should have to
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stick with the roll too.
OK.
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I agree.
Yeah, we.
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Can work out.
Everything spend, spend like a
100
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source point, make it a
decision, yeah or something,
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yeah.
Something that cost you?
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Yeah, No, that makes complete
sense.
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Yeah, I, I will work on that.
But yeah, I mean, other than
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that, really great session,
guys.
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That was a lot.
Of fun.
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Cool.
All right, we will return I
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believe as as of this recordings
release, we will return with the
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final conclusion of the Pyre
Hart accord with the main
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campaign with the scale bound
Syndicate and we will kind of
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deal with the fallout of Neros
effectively betraying his party
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and we.
Don't know that yet.
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We don't necessarily know that,
but it's not looking great so
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far.
It's not a good outlook or a
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great vibe so far that you just
said, hey, I'm just going to
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sign this and take basically
complete control.
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So all right, so that will do it
from that 20 and unwind.
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We are all going to go to bed
because we're all old and tired.
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So for everybody here at P3
Podcast Network, I am Spencer
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Hart and we will see you guys
next time.
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Goodnight.
See you later.
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Bye criticism.
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I just made a real Christy move
and took my my sleep pills.
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Welcome to Nat 29 line here on
Spotify and our Crit happens
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00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,640
Facebook page.
Let's discuss quickly.
4
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I know this was session went a
lot longer than we thought it
5
00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,200
was going to, but hey, wild
magic surges galore.
6
00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,120
So let me ask you this.
How are we feeling about the the
7
00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,000
wild magic surges in general?
Do we need to workshop that?
8
00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,280
Because it did feel like there
was a lot of surgeons.
9
00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,000
Well, I have a clarification
question I think.
10
00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:37,320
Is the one or two on the D6 for
additional triggers or
11
00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,840
additional chances of a trigger
on the one spell it would?
12
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,520
Be additional triggers.
Like true additional triggers,
13
00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,640
so casting one spell could
result in multiple surges.
14
00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,640
And so you're talking about that
the one or two on the road,
15
00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,160
correct?
Or is that the codex I forget?
16
00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,720
Whichever one it is.
Because I believe that we
17
00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,760
removed that and I hadn't had a
chance to get that from you yet.
18
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Oh.
Yeah, because I think, I think
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if it's additional triggers,
that's too much.
20
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But if it's I roll for the
chance to surge and I fail, but
21
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I have that, I'm in that little
aura thing and then I have an
22
00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,160
another.
So basically I have a 5050
23
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chance to surge.
If I don't surge, then I have an
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additional third be 3% chance to
surge.
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But every spell could only surge
one time.
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Yeah, and like I like I said,
you know, and I'm going to kind
27
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of get your your thoughts on
everything here.
28
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But I, I do think we need to
buff down the nerf down the the
29
00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:41,040
surges just a bit because there
there were a lot.
30
00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,840
And and it will will work on
that for the the weeks to come
31
00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,000
here because you know, the
sessions to come with unit
32
00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,840
because this is these these unit
missions are those filler in
33
00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,280
between missions between the
actual campaign.
34
00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:57,760
So this is one that we can
workshop and really make it our
35
00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,200
own.
We can sit down and I'll send
36
00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,320
out messages and stuff and get
everybody's thoughts on it.
37
00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:06,560
But holy hell, Rowan power word
kill for the wind.
38
00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:10,160
Love it that.
Was sick.
39
00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,520
That was sick using one.
Of those powers, yeah.
40
00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:15,960
And then the mass.
The mass heel.
41
00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,720
Also from Orban.
Good God, I couldn't come in a
42
00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,840
better time.
Because Orban needed it the
43
00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,280
most.
Yeah, well, there were, there
44
00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,440
were quite a few people that
were not looking great.
45
00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,880
That's what I was.
So we teleport back to, you
46
00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,120
know, the syndicate base or
whatever unit headquarters, all
47
00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,080
these medics come up.
But you don't expect that all of
48
00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,840
us, all of us literally are at
Max health.
49
00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,960
No, we have 0 scratches on us.
Yeah, yeah, the the field medics
50
00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,680
within the Syndicate outpost in
the Action Belt, they, they come
51
00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,800
up rushing towards you like
they're expecting, like just a
52
00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,680
bloody mess, somebody missing.
An arm battered and bloody.
53
00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:55,640
Right.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
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00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,360
You come back completely
healthy.
55
00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,520
Not almost, not a scratch on
you.
56
00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,040
And they all kind of look at
each other like the hell.
57
00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,240
But that was like, what?
Hello.
58
00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,440
So yeah, they're, they're pretty
shocked that you come back
59
00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,320
completely unharmed.
That's awesome.
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Good job, Orban.
We're all professionals here,
61
00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:21,880
yeah.
Obviously, we planned every bit
62
00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,200
of that purpose.
Everything was completely
63
00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:30,040
planned and that's how we do it.
Also, Orban is very confused,
64
00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,640
right Nailey?
Chris is like where?
65
00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:37,360
Is any of this is that?
Bailey Oh my God, she scared the
66
00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,440
shit out of me.
I'm just standing.
67
00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,680
Hi.
Hi.
68
00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,960
Hi.
I'm just back to doing my.
69
00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,640
Dishes.
Now I'm in touch with my cold
70
00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:53,160
fingers.
Thank you for taking 10 years
71
00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,040
off my life.
Yeah.
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00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,320
OK, we definitely need to rework
the amount of surging because I
73
00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,840
literally built my character to
farm surges.
74
00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:01,480
Yeah.
Yeah.
75
00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,360
So I think we'll work on the
surges because I was only
76
00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,160
expecting that session to last
like an hour, hour and a half
77
00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,480
Max.
And we're at, you know, almost 3
78
00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,000
hours.
So, well, we'll figure that will
79
00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,760
work out.
Expedite the the like the search
80
00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,040
process, you know, like working
through each person's like if
81
00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,960
there was a way to populate, you
know what we were rolling and
82
00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,720
then you know, we could just
work down the line with what,
83
00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:32,480
you know, what each person
rolled.
84
00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,480
Yeah.
That's a really good idea.
85
00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:39,400
We could do like like a a layer
a layer or like a like a
86
00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,160
initiative 20 layer effect where
all of the surges from the
87
00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,120
previous round trigger, but we
would have had that amount of
88
00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,560
time to like prep them.
Right.
89
00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,560
Yeah, we can.
We can work something.
90
00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,040
I like that a lot actually,
because remember.
91
00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,360
Also like a mass, a mass surge,
you know, a layer surge.
92
00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,600
Yeah.
Well, yeah, that way you're not
93
00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,160
like, you know, waiting for each
person to like, see, this is
94
00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,200
what I rolled.
This is what I want to like.
95
00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,080
I'm going to stick with it.
Like that kind of thing, you
96
00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,560
know?
Yeah, I think we should have to
97
00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,440
stick with the roll too.
OK.
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I agree.
Yeah, we.
99
00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,640
Can work out.
Everything spend, spend like a
100
00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,280
source point, make it a
decision, yeah or something,
101
00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,400
yeah.
Something that cost you?
102
00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:23,600
Yeah, No, that makes complete
sense.
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Yeah, I, I will work on that.
But yeah, I mean, other than
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that, really great session,
guys.
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That was a lot.
Of fun.
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Cool.
All right, we will return I
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believe as as of this recordings
release, we will return with the
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final conclusion of the Pyre
Hart accord with the main
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campaign with the scale bound
Syndicate and we will kind of
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deal with the fallout of Neros
effectively betraying his party
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and we.
Don't know that yet.
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We don't necessarily know that,
but it's not looking great so
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far.
It's not a good outlook or a
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great vibe so far that you just
said, hey, I'm just going to
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sign this and take basically
complete control.
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So all right, so that will do it
from that 20 and unwind.
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We are all going to go to bed
because we're all old and tired.
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So for everybody here at P3
Podcast Network, I am Spencer
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Hart and we will see you guys
next time.
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Goodnight.
See you later.
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Bye criticism.