(Patreon Preview) Mage Hand Down Low: The Badlands - Ep. 63: Masquerade

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0:18 [SPEAKER_03]: Enjoy. [SPEAKER_00]: I do think it's funny how their ends up being like comedy death and drama death in this game. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I, the dissidents, there is funny to me. [SPEAKER_00]: I, it is fun. [SPEAKER_02]: I've been listening back to old episodes in order to like prepare for future episodes.

0:42 [SPEAKER_02]: And early on, it is very funny. [SPEAKER_02]: The sort of like the changes that happen to these characters over the course of the campaign because when Hayden shows up, they are killing everyone. [SPEAKER_00]: That's so true. [SPEAKER_00]: He was kind of a machine. [SPEAKER_02]: They're like, someone's peeing, I kill them.

1:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Someone's hoping to push this crate, I kill them. [SPEAKER_00]: Look, I was well trained to do one thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that episode 3 Hayden would have had a better shot with Clive? [SPEAKER_00]: No, because I was still a mess. [SPEAKER_01]: He was still an absolute mess back then.

1:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just maybe that's more fun. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to wait a minute now. [SPEAKER_01]: That's true. [SPEAKER_01]: Does Clif want a fixer upper? [SPEAKER_02]: He's good at cleaning. [SPEAKER_02]: Clif loves a fixer upper. [SPEAKER_03]: No. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think Clif does Clif have a significant other?

1:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I class Mary, don't work. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think he's a man of the job, you know, I may have the cloth. [SPEAKER_02]: Um, like he's sort of dedicated all this time to just master mastering different styles of fighting like you put a sword in that man's hand, he's going to use it.

2:02 [SPEAKER_02]: It's, yeah, I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, I guess to get back to what we were saying, it is kind of crazy to see like how the characters have changed over time. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, Hayden has become less comfortable with violence this time gone on. [SPEAKER_02]: Solama has become more comfortable with violence this time's gone on.

2:20 [SPEAKER_02]: And Max, Max's character's like a whole new person. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: What, it's funny, like, [SPEAKER_01]: going back to Hayden being less comfortable with violence that comes to a head kind of in this episode with the encounter with Fel.

2:40 [SPEAKER_01]: where Haynes do this in their own mind calculation of fellas determined to kill someone at this party. [SPEAKER_01]: And how do I change the stakes in a way that protects all of my people? [SPEAKER_01]: And the first thing that comes to Haynes' mind is making it a context to raise it up to the upper echelons of people [SPEAKER_01]: those are the ones that are, the dangerous ones that were concerned about is genuinely in my mind as I'm having that conversation with Phil.

3:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I have this thought of, oh no, Phil's going to go after Solomon or Wyatt or who knows who amongst our allies might secretly be at this party. [SPEAKER_01]: So I [SPEAKER_01]: if I can convince them to go after court walk, great. [SPEAKER_01]: If not, like, go after Titus or somebody else that we don't like, that's a leader in three and we'll figure out what to do with it.

3:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Just don't go after Solomon and why? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm scared because if I'm thinking in fell shoes, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Like, fell? [SPEAKER_00]: hates people who are not changing things, but hates the briar family specifically. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think I was worried about like what what what I'm worried about here at this party is like, [SPEAKER_00]: Fel could if it like if they'll really wanted to be an asshole about it, they could dress that like they could make themselves look like Salome and kill Tiberius in public.

4:34 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm scared of. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm worried about that, too. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and that's not what we look like for our test is. [SPEAKER_03]: Put that kind down, Casey. [SPEAKER_03]: Stop writing, stop writing, stop writing that down, stop writing that down. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, think about this is creating an extra step for fell.

4:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Means that fell needs to take more time and plan more and that gives the rest of us more time to stop. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: If it's just, and you have no idea who, and you have no idea who, and glitter babies there. [SPEAKER_01]: And I can't wait to use that. [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm.

5:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Casey, I have a question for you about Fel actually. [SPEAKER_00]: You did a sneaky little thing, and I'm trying to think of if it's a sneaky little thing. [SPEAKER_00]: At the beginning of this episode, you're like, actually, you see a different guard outside of Maggie and Lila's tent, which ends up being cue.

5:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Was the other one fell? [SPEAKER_00]: Did Fel just like a double back and follow our asses all the way from way back in the pit? [SPEAKER_02]: Fell, the thing about a changeling, is felt like fell's not wrong. [SPEAKER_02]: The only way to catch a changeling is to keep your eyes on them.

5:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Otherwise, they're gone. [SPEAKER_02]: And there's just, there's no way to know. [SPEAKER_02]: And so, [SPEAKER_02]: if you are asking if one of the villains of the last arc who has now shown up in this arc made the trip with you in between. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, maybe it was felt. [SPEAKER_02]: Like it's [SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was the lizard.

6:09 [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_01]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard.

6:15 [SPEAKER_01]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_02]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard.

6:25 [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_00]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_03]: That was the lizard. [SPEAKER_03]: It was, we're kind of jumping around, but it was nice to get to do the hair braiding scene again.

6:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah! [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy that I rolled a Nat 20 twice to braiding his hair. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's real crazy, huh? [SPEAKER_03]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: That was crazy, this nuts wild. [SPEAKER_01]: Hey Casey, moving forward can solemnly just have proficiency in hair braiding.

6:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Just in case, like it comes up at a pivotal moment, like if we could like hair braid Tom to death or something, [SPEAKER_03]: Good parade, Tom's hair so good that he dies. [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're doing it too tight. [SPEAKER_00]: I know you got a tender scalps it out. [SPEAKER_02]: No, my beautiful luscious locks.

7:23 [SPEAKER_02]: No, my hair's naturally curly. [SPEAKER_02]: Don't do that. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, there. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, I was going to say something about this. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I think there's truly like, no end to the useless proficiencies that it's all in my eye. [SPEAKER_00]: I truly believe that she is.

7:41 [SPEAKER_00]: She has. [SPEAKER_00]: a thousand useless proficiencies. [SPEAKER_00]: Because she wasn't allowed to have a job for like 10 years. [SPEAKER_00]: I think she plays piano. [SPEAKER_00]: I think she's really going to break her. [SPEAKER_00]: I think she's very going to [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's like there's just a bunch of dumb shit.

8:08 [SPEAKER_00]: I think she would spend at least one day a week filling her house with flowers and then taking all of them down. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you say that and somebody in their audience is going, that is my nightmare and another person is going, that's the life. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And another person is listening while they're taking down all the flowers that they just put up the day before.

8:35 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: If you enjoyed this and want more, consider joining our Patreon at patreon.com backslash, Mage Hand High Five.

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