"I promise that i would expend my last breath to keep her and our companions safe; and i want you to know i have never sought to feed any of them to screeching otherworldly horrors whilst incanting a hymn."
Find yourself a person who loves you as much as Ross loves books ❤ I would 100% listen to Ross talk for an hour about books, just putting this out there
I'm surprised he didn't mention the Dungeon Dimensions, Pratchett's reimagining of the Cthulhu mythos. It's a bit like the Mythos but with more terrible puns.
I love Margot & Carter. Such a great starting scene between Kate and Rob. "I'm no Gunther. But I also would like living and I like you... uh living! I like you... alive."
After the long monolog of Ross over the phone I would have died of laughter if Troy just casually said "Sorry, sir, wrong number" and hung up :D - I mean we all know Troy is a master of jokes like that, right? :D
Guys you have to read Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett or any other of the books regarding the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The books are pretty small and quick to read but filled with humor, wholesome moments and situation that make you think. Also, very important - modiphius just announced a few days ago that they are developing a Roleplaying game based on the Diskworld Series by Terry Pratchett and I am so very excited about this, finally we will be getting a Roleplaying game based on this beloved setting. By the looks of it modiphius will very much honor the source material so it will be worth keeping an eye for it.
I'd just like to point out to Fairuz... it appears that Vaugn isn't on the up and up. I don't know if *you* noticed, but there was a lady skulking around in the background of Vaugn's apartment. I think he's not being faithful to you Fairuz.
1:15:41 in the movie version of this, during Carter's line, we cut to a flashback which pans down to his hands while he's picking the locks and he is using the hair pin that Noura's character gave him in season 1. Showing how much his friends means to him and he respects their skills. i wish i had the budget to make this series a live action mystery pulp thriller that is in denial of being pulp...
Discworld is TOP shelf literacy. I reread them every 10 years! Just hilarious but there is some sort of order in reading them. Although you can read them stand alone.
Guards Guards is great. Has the best definition of good and evil by one of the villains. As are all the Disc World books. For Kate, all I will say is, “The person that doesn’t read, has no advantage over the person that cannot read.” Hehe. Hmmm, how do they get the crates in and out of the secret room?
There was no transatlantic phone line until 1927 and even then it would take a long time to be connected to a call which would likely be very unstable. Telegram was still the fastest way to communicate in 1925, when this campaign is set.
As per usual, Ross is ever amazing, loved the telephone call (Watching the other player reactions are always very cool, Does Rob ever do comedy in his other work? and perhaps a Troy question, will there be, perchance some sort of player debrief at the end? I'd loveto hear the out of game player thoughts :)
Also, just ordered Arkham while watching the show... my CoC book collection is complete...till the next book comes out :) You twisted my poor rubber arm!
OPENING BANTER/TWO RECOMMENDATIONS: I used to be a huge reader in junior high and fell off after entering the working world. But even though I usually only like science fiction and fantasy, I have found, to my surprise, two series that I absolutely hammered through at a ridiculous pace: First is The Parker novels by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake's pseudonym), which is hardboiled crime fiction for people with no patience. The stories are all about a sociopathic professional organizing a daring heist of some sort, and they rarely go as many as 200 pages. They always start in the middle of the action ("When the men burst through the door, Parker was falling over backward in his chair...") and I have never read anything else quite like them: They are sexist and of their time (60s-70s), but they're smart as hell and have the leanest writing I've ever read. There's barely a single word wasted. I started with The Black Ice Score, but you could also start with The Seventh, The Score, or The Jugger, or almost anywhere. (Except the 1980s books, which are for completists only.) I wish sci fi or fantasy would be this trim and fast-paced, but the big money in those genres seems to be in slow world building. The second series I'd highly recommend is the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, starting with Slow Horses and encompassing something like nine novels and novellas so far. The premise: Slough House is where spies for Britain's MI5 go when they're royally fucked up and are doomed to push papers for all eternity until they get fed up and quit. But somehow they keep getting pulled into situations that are well over their heads. The sentences are regularly brilliant, so there's something fun on every page, and the characters are all vivid and interesting, and you never know which one of them might die next. It's a little bit of James Bond, and a little bit of The Office, since these particular spies are not good at their jobs and they might to fight off an intruder with the nearest paperweight. Equal parts funny and thoughtful, I found myself jumping directly into the next one as soon as I'd finished the last. Funny, smart, and compassionate about human foibles. (And the Apple+ series captures the novels perfectly so far, right down to the casting.) FINAL NOTE ABOUT AUDIOBOOKS: For what it's worth, research has shown that the same parts of your brain light up when you're listening to an audiobook or if you're reading the paper copy. Brain scans can't tell the difference. So don't let anyone tell you that listening isn't reading. And if you say "But I get distracted and miss sentences on audio!" you probably haven't noticed how often the same thing happens in conventional reading. It's just how some of us read: not quite absorbing every word unless it's important. Or unless the sentences never waste time, as in the examples I've just given. I'll stop now. Whew!
Cause im a child. Hearing Troy Lavalee say the words "flashlight coming" in a sentence made me smirk 🔦🤸♀️ Then Rob says "hes all over that box". later on killed me a 2nd time.
If Rob really liked Guards Guards, I would point him at Slow horses (they made it into a TV show and their are audio books) MI6 Spy drop kicks trying to deal with real crime...what can...does go wrong
Me two episodes ago....wait... is Vaughn Villiers named after Vaughn and Villiers from The Great God Pan. Today: Ross... I reading The Great God Pan recently....
The way Troy improv’d the father and did a technique I like to use on my own players, it was masterful. It seemed like he was improvising and yet in asking for various innocuous but personal pieces of information, he put such a sense of foreboding and uncertainty. So well done.
Loved disc world growing up. I have read franchise novels since i was young i was born 77. I kove star trek read every one of the TNG and TNG crossover novels. A recent book and awesome franchise book is Alien Cold Forge By Alex White. But what i really kove is anything by Jonathan Maberry. Joe ledger in particular but his Pine Deep books are epic. He also edits a ton of anthologies like X-Filea and Aliens. He does a lot of lovecraftian stories like Kagen the Damed. It reads lLke strang Æons its really good. Akso anything Jonathan Maberry on audiobook is usually read by Ray Porter and hes one of the best readers. Liaten to Kegan the Damed by Jonathan Maberry you wont be disappointed. Then listen to the Joe Ledger series its epic on audibook. Jonathan maberry is also a Marvel guy.
It wouldn't tranlate well to an audio book. It does a bunch of interesting things with fiont, spacing, colors and footnotes, that make it a book that you basically have to have a hard copy of. Totally worth it though.
I don't think troy was expecting Vaughn to make that call right then and had to improvise but we'll done by both and carter should have taken the daggers just my opinion otherwise an entertaining episode
@@Panicagq2 Well... Carter did leave some broken mirrors there... and an unlocked door at the back, maybe? Will the guard report it? You will find out... Next week :D
Great show! I take issue with the claim that we outside the US write the dates wrong! We do it the only logical way DD.MM.YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD why would you have MM-DD-YYYYY?
Rob would be absolutely perfect for Rincewind in a Discworld film.
Oh yes, I can see it now.
Totally! Rob would be a fantastic Rincewind. I could also see Ross as Lord Vetinari.
I can actually see both of them…. My first thought was Vimes 😂
I thought Skid for Vimes?
The real question is. Who is playing Dibbler?
While the entire cast is superb at what they do, Ross really steals every scene he's in. I just love how seriously he takes his role
He’s the real deal
Honestly I cracked up completely at the proposal part. Troy asking "What's your name ' is just roleplaying worthy of an Academy Award.
"I promise that i would expend my last breath to keep her and our companions safe; and i want you to know i have never sought to feed any of them to screeching otherworldly horrors whilst incanting a hymn."
"But, really, who hasn't...?"
Find yourself a person who loves you as much as Ross loves books ❤
I would 100% listen to Ross talk for an hour about books, just putting this out there
Vaughn's phone call to Feyrouz's father made the entire season for me. 😂
"What's your name?" lololol
This cast is such a delight.
Rob bringing up Terry Pratchett... I love this network. So much. Truly the Rincewind of the GCN.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the Dungeon Dimensions, Pratchett's reimagining of the Cthulhu mythos. It's a bit like the Mythos but with more terrible puns.
Mort is the must read out of all the Discworld books. What a fantastic story. One of my most favorite stories of all time.
P. Jabron: "Is she safe?"
V. Villiers: (without a moments pause) "Yes."
Goddammit I love Vaughn so much. An absolute man's man.
I appreciated that once Vaughan disclosed "Waldorf Astoria," the old man finally says, "good." 😂
I love Margot & Carter. Such a great starting scene between Kate and Rob. "I'm no Gunther. But I also would like living and I like you... uh living! I like you... alive."
After the long monolog of Ross over the phone I would have died of laughter if Troy just casually said "Sorry, sir, wrong number" and hung up :D - I mean we all know Troy is a master of jokes like that, right? :D
I'm so invested in every relationship in this series
“Hindsight is always 20/20 when you’re talkin lizard people” 🤣
Top tier episode. I absolutely adore all these characters, and that makes me nervous because, well, they're playing Call of Cthulhu.
Carter: "I got a little draft goin' here...I think I wore my ankle socks." 😂❤ dude, yer killin me! Amazing episode so far...
Imagine building an empire on spices, and your people eat toast and baked beans.
Bottlecap!
"they do the dates backwards there" sure it the rest of the world that do it backwards lol
The cutting edge of American cuisine, not to be missed!
I love Carter, the whole cast is phenomenal but i love the way Rob plays Carter. He makes every episode a joy.
Ross asking for Fairuz's hand is one of the best things...
I don't know how many actual play series I've started and given up on, but not Time for Chaos or Haunted City. Glass Cannon, you guys have the magic.
Guys you have to read Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett or any other of the books regarding the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The books are pretty small and quick to read but filled with humor, wholesome moments and situation that make you think. Also, very important - modiphius just announced a few days ago that they are developing a Roleplaying game based on the Diskworld Series by Terry Pratchett and I am so very excited about this, finally we will be getting a Roleplaying game based on this beloved setting. By the looks of it modiphius will very much honor the source material so it will be worth keeping an eye for it.
I have GURPS Discworld from way back
I'd just like to point out to Fairuz... it appears that Vaugn isn't on the up and up. I don't know if *you* noticed, but there was a lady skulking around in the background of Vaugn's apartment.
I think he's not being faithful to you Fairuz.
1:15:41 in the movie version of this, during Carter's line, we cut to a flashback which pans down to his hands while he's picking the locks and he is using the hair pin that Noura's character gave him in season 1. Showing how much his friends means to him and he respects their skills. i wish i had the budget to make this series a live action mystery pulp thriller that is in denial of being pulp...
"they do the dates backwards, there" said Kate.
Yeap, someone does the dates backwards alright
Discworld is TOP shelf literacy. I reread them every 10 years! Just hilarious but there is some sort of order in reading them. Although you can read them stand alone.
carter's locksmithing rolls have been legendary hahahah legit never seen such a succesful CoC burglarly
Guards Guards is great. Has the best definition of good and evil by one of the villains. As are all the Disc World books.
For Kate, all I will say is, “The person that doesn’t read, has no advantage over the person that cannot read.” Hehe.
Hmmm, how do they get the crates in and out of the secret room?
girrrrrrrl house of leaves is GREAT.
That's a *_lotta_* folks unfamiliar with Pratchett. This saddens me.
Fantastic "Recon Mission"--"Just a little peek"! Nice work from Kate and Rob!
Reading at bedtime is a great way for sodtware engineers to get to work. A fan of the pre-game banter.
There was no transatlantic phone line until 1927 and even then it would take a long time to be connected to a call which would likely be very unstable. Telegram was still the fastest way to communicate in 1925, when this campaign is set.
I will now only think of Rincewind played by Rob. Perfect casting 👌
1:32:33 Everyone's reaction is great, but Noura's was classic :D
Oh wow, Vaughn's call! Troy: What is your name?
"you'd never smell it" if that was a hint... 🦎
Excellent episode. Always a great start to the weekend! The opening scene with Carter and Margot was wunderbar!
The place Derby is prounced Darby. Likewise, the county it's located in, Derbyshire is pronounced darb-is-sher.
National Treasure... Ross Bryant
Wow - Another stellar episode 🥰 Cant wait for the next one 🥰 And many many more 😇
Troy made me spit up my drink with that Lovecraft zinger about the "White people" book lol 😂😂😂 I love the chat before the show
I love this show and crew so much!
If you want more Nixon insanity, watch the podcast, Behind the Bastards. They did a big series on Henry kissinger.
Its truly amazing.
As per usual, Ross is ever amazing, loved the telephone call (Watching the other player reactions are always very cool, Does Rob ever do comedy in his other work? and perhaps a Troy question, will there be, perchance some sort of player debrief at the end? I'd loveto hear the out of game player thoughts :)
Also, just ordered Arkham while watching the show... my CoC book collection is complete...till the next book comes out :) You twisted my poor rubber arm!
Ross popped off on this one! This show is great. Fuck yeeea!
Algernon Blackwood is another of HP Lovecraft’s favorite authors- check out ‘The Willows’
OPENING BANTER/TWO RECOMMENDATIONS: I used to be a huge reader in junior high and fell off after entering the working world. But even though I usually only like science fiction and fantasy, I have found, to my surprise, two series that I absolutely hammered through at a ridiculous pace: First is The Parker novels by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake's pseudonym), which is hardboiled crime fiction for people with no patience. The stories are all about a sociopathic professional organizing a daring heist of some sort, and they rarely go as many as 200 pages. They always start in the middle of the action ("When the men burst through the door, Parker was falling over backward in his chair...") and I have never read anything else quite like them: They are sexist and of their time (60s-70s), but they're smart as hell and have the leanest writing I've ever read. There's barely a single word wasted. I started with The Black Ice Score, but you could also start with The Seventh, The Score, or The Jugger, or almost anywhere. (Except the 1980s books, which are for completists only.) I wish sci fi or fantasy would be this trim and fast-paced, but the big money in those genres seems to be in slow world building.
The second series I'd highly recommend is the Slough House novels by Mick Herron, starting with Slow Horses and encompassing something like nine novels and novellas so far. The premise: Slough House is where spies for Britain's MI5 go when they're royally fucked up and are doomed to push papers for all eternity until they get fed up and quit. But somehow they keep getting pulled into situations that are well over their heads. The sentences are regularly brilliant, so there's something fun on every page, and the characters are all vivid and interesting, and you never know which one of them might die next. It's a little bit of James Bond, and a little bit of The Office, since these particular spies are not good at their jobs and they might to fight off an intruder with the nearest paperweight. Equal parts funny and thoughtful, I found myself jumping directly into the next one as soon as I'd finished the last. Funny, smart, and compassionate about human foibles. (And the Apple+ series captures the novels perfectly so far, right down to the casting.)
FINAL NOTE ABOUT AUDIOBOOKS: For what it's worth, research has shown that the same parts of your brain light up when you're listening to an audiobook or if you're reading the paper copy. Brain scans can't tell the difference. So don't let anyone tell you that listening isn't reading. And if you say "But I get distracted and miss sentences on audio!" you probably haven't noticed how often the same thing happens in conventional reading. It's just how some of us read: not quite absorbing every word unless it's important. Or unless the sentences never waste time, as in the examples I've just given. I'll stop now. Whew!
Discworld! ❤
Man i love this show
My favourite thank you all again!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Cause im a child. Hearing Troy Lavalee say the words "flashlight coming" in a sentence made me smirk 🔦🤸♀️ Then Rob says "hes all over that box". later on killed me a 2nd time.
If Rob really liked Guards Guards, I would point him at Slow horses (they made it into a TV show and their are audio books) MI6 Spy drop kicks trying to deal with real crime...what can...does go wrong
Awesome!
I really hope its cinnamon
Me two episodes ago....wait... is Vaughn Villiers named after Vaughn and Villiers from The Great God Pan.
Today: Ross... I reading The Great God Pan recently....
The more I spend,
The more I get off.... AYO?
Ergodic Literature: House of Leaves. : Goetic Atavisms…
The way Troy improv’d the father and did a technique I like to use on my own players, it was masterful.
It seemed like he was improvising and yet in asking for various innocuous but personal pieces of information, he put such a sense of foreboding and uncertainty. So well done.
Loved disc world growing up. I have read franchise novels since i was young i was born 77. I kove star trek read every one of the TNG and TNG crossover novels. A recent book and awesome franchise book is Alien Cold Forge By Alex White. But what i really kove is anything by Jonathan Maberry. Joe ledger in particular but his Pine Deep books are epic. He also edits a ton of anthologies like X-Filea and Aliens. He does a lot of lovecraftian stories like Kagen the Damed. It reads lLke strang Æons its really good. Akso anything Jonathan Maberry on audiobook is usually read by Ray Porter and hes one of the best readers. Liaten to Kegan the Damed by Jonathan Maberry you wont be disappointed. Then listen to the Joe Ledger series its epic on audibook. Jonathan maberry is also a Marvel guy.
Nixonland is an amazing book. Salut to Ross!
Love it
Loving this series…and all GCN does. Yes…I am a fanboy. 😮😅
Highly recommend Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare......one of the finest reference works ever written
We do dates backwards? Oh, my dear American friends, I think you'll find WE do them the right way round and YOU do them backwards. ;-)
FIRE EPISODE😌✨🔥✨🔥❤🔥✨🔥✨👌
I used the TFC code to buy Arkham!
Nice!
Discworld!
Roughly 1:23:00-1:24:00 very cool atmospheric music! Does anyone know what it is please?
Rob Kerkovich to play Rincewind, when? Can't believe Troy doesn't know Discworld..
Can I get on the Ross Bryant reading list?
It doesn't look like House of leaves is available on Audible. :-(
It wouldn't tranlate well to an audio book. It does a bunch of interesting things with fiont, spacing, colors and footnotes, that make it a book that you basically have to have a hard copy of. Totally worth it though.
Okay, wait Margot - not all Germans love Sauerkraut. I am german and actually hate it. xD
Ross has great dialogue it's true, but sometimes it can be meandering and flowery but not fitting (as in, word usage wise), keep 'em coming though!
I don't think troy was expecting Vaughn to make that call right then and had to improvise but we'll done by both and carter should have taken the daggers just my opinion otherwise an entertaining episode
Yeah, but it made sense not to leave evidence behind and tip their hand early...I also love that Vaughn lied about the call.
@@Panicagq2 Well... Carter did leave some broken mirrors there... and an unlocked door at the back, maybe? Will the guard report it? You will find out... Next week :D
First to post on the greatest show!
so is it Spice it up! or Sp!ce !t up?
GLEM
Google translates Glem as 'Forget' - oooOooOOOOoOOoooo! 😮
Please, good English subtitles! 😮💨
Gwem?
Pretty sure I’ve heard my British friend call trucks “lorries”. 0/10 this whole live play! Immersion broken!
Great show! I take issue with the claim that we outside the US write the dates wrong! We do it the only logical way DD.MM.YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD why would you have MM-DD-YYYYY?