The cast reflects on the big moments and accomplishments of Season Six, including their feelings about upcoming changes for Season Seven.
Join Wren, Kappa, Sebastian and Dax as they recap Season Six and talk about the latest season’s highlights, regrets, and their wishes for Season Seven. If you’re new to our show, please excuse some of our audio issues given we had some members travelling or sick.
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Transcript by Wren
[Wren and Kappa humming the "Roads Uncharted" theme song]
Wren: [in tune to theme song] Don't interrupt the beginning! Boo-da-boop, beep boop. Doop, doop-doop-doo. This is the theme title song now! Bum bum bum.
Kappa: And then the beat drops. Booowah.
[Mock dubstep beats]
[Laughter]
Relaxing piano music fades in [00:36]
Dax: Welcome back to "Roads Uncharted", a podcast for nerds, by nerds. Ah, so, every year we do a special talk back episode where we reflect on big moments, accomplishments, setbacks and other feelings and thoughts we have about what happened in the prior season.
So, here's your warning now: this will be a spoiler-riddled episode. So, if you have not finished Season 6, please stop listening right now. This is your last warning before we get into the content. Uh, otherwise, if you don't care and you want to listen to Season 6 afterwards, that's totally your call. But you have been warned.
Alright, so, now that the spoiler warning has been given, uh, why don't we take a quick second to say "hi" to the audience and remind them – especially for those that might be listening to this that haven't ever listened to us before and are being brave in doing so, uh, who we are.
I'll go first. Hi, I’m Dax, I use she/her pronouns and I'm the game master. I play all the NPC's and all of the ridiculousness that comes into this podcast outside of our guests.
Sebastian: Hello! I am Sebastian. I use they/them pronouns and I play Trix, who also uses they/them pronouns.
Kappa: Hi, I'm Kappa. I use any and all pronouns and I play Rou who uses he/they...he/him? I can't remember, it's been so long.
Dax: Um, last I knew, it was "he/him". But, as always -
Kappa: Sweet.
Dax: Gender can be fluid and if that has changed, that is absolutely okay!
Kappa: Sick.
Wren: Hi, I'm Wren. I use they/them pronouns and I played Eight in Season 6, who also used they/them pronouns.
Dax: Alright, so. First thing's first: players, do we wanna do this kind of in a sequential thing or should we just talk about – should I just throw some big moments out at you randomly and see how you react?
Kappa: Yeah! Yeah, throw big moments out.
Sebastian: Yeah, big moments. Your favorite big moments.
Dax: Favorite? That's not – that's not fair. Um, okay so, the first big moment I think that happened in – like, if we're talking big, right? We're talking big moments in the season?
Kappa: This whole season was a big moment.
Dax: This whole season was a big moment.
[Wren laughs]
Sebastian: A mood.
Dax: The first giant thing that happened is that Rou died.
Kappa: Oh, yeah that's right! I died.
Dax: Rou was the first character death of the entire series.
Kappa: That feels so long ago!
Dax: It does, doesn't it?
[Sebastian and Dax laugh]
Wren: What do you mean, "Rou died"?
Dax: Rou died!
Wren: No!
Kappa: There was a full death.
Wren: There was a full episode without Rou in it.
[Kappa giggles]
Dax: There were a couple of episodes without Rou -
Sebastian: There were a couple of episodes without Rou.
Dax: But we'll get into that. But, yeah, that was the episode where you all got trapped in the dining hall because Eight triggered a trap and you all fought demons that basically turned into your doppelgangers.
Kappa: That sounds like you blamed Eight for Rou's death. Just a heads up.
[Dax and Sebastian laugh]
Wren: Yeah.
Dax: Well, not intentionally. I technically blame the doppelgangers. But I will say that, from a GM standpoint, it was great in the middle of the episode to hear, like, all of you going "that's why you wanted our character sheets before the session!"
Kappa: Mhmm.
Dax: Um, but at the same time, in that episode, you know, Eight ended up getting captured and Trix was kind of just, basically put in this Catch-22 situation with their grandfather. So, let's break some of this down. So, the Rou dying thing, let’s start with that because that was a thing. It was a big deal.
Kappa: Yeah, so, I mean – first character death of the show. I don't know! In terms of my own experience, I've only had characters die in one shots and/or they were always meant to die! So, having Rou die in this – having a character die in the longest-running game I've been in, it was a lot! It was emotional. I don't know if we – we cut it out of the episode, right? We talked about it together, of like, player agency in the situation, what it meant -
Dax: We kept that in.
Kappa: We kept it in? I thought we had a discussion afterwards, though. We had a discussion afterwards like "how we're feeling about it" and -
Dax: Oh, that part? No, we cut that out because it was part of our decompression.
Kappa: So, I just wanted to shout that out. If, like – I really only felt comfortable letting Rou perish because of how well we knew each other and how well we are connected in this space, because afterwards it was pretty emotional. I know that he came back, for sure – we knew that he was, um, not – it was always on the table for him to come back if needed or if wanted. But in the moment, it was something scary and I don't think I could have done that without the people at this table, specifically. So, you know, just another shout out – we're a big fan of safety tools here and communication. But, but having something like that exemplify why these things are important. Um, really came into fruition here, the reason why these things exist.
Wren: Yeah, obviously the – a lot of the emotion was on Kappa's side with the death of a long-running character and, ultimately, the decision on how to handle that was in his hands. So, we, as a table, talked about how we felt and what the suprise meant to us and kind of all worked together to move forward from it. I think that the narrative that came out of it was, ultimately, exciting and we got some new changes to Rou as a character. So, I think it'll be even more fun for listeners and for Kappa, as the player, to see how that all manifests and what that means for Rou in the future.
Kappa: I also, like, the opportunity to show, um, because Rou died. But his soul was under contention. So, it was really interesting to see the interplay between deities in this world. That was a really great opportunity.
Wren: Yeah! Um, one of the big taglines for the series is that "gods meddle in the lives of mortals".
Kappa: Mhmm.
Wren: And we haven't really seen a whole heck of a lot of that in the series. We've seen, like, one or two instances of it happening, but it's always been something small and one-offish. Getting to see the interaction between the patron of the werewolves and the god of death and how they both, essentially, bargained for your soul was really interesting to see how some of the – as said – the deities are mixed up in this.
Kappa: Yeah.
Sebastian: Yeah, I think, uh, I think for Trix it was – I – it was an opportunity to flesh out the relationship between Rou and Trix because they had the opportunity to bring him back to life but didn't necessarily know exactly how to do that. I also obtained the dagger made out of Rou's tooth, and that was just a really cool moment, as well.
Wren: I love that it's just a normal-ass dagger.
Kappa: Yeah. [chuckles]
Dax: Rou has that constant reminder that he has no tooth on his left side [laughs]. And that dagger exists!
Rou: Yeah, that's fun. That's gonna be fine.
Sebastian: Does Rou mind that we're just using it?
Rou: No, he does not.
[Dax and Sebastian laugh]
Wren: I mean, at this point, Rou’s got his own pelt, so.
Kappa: Yeah, that - that is weird to me. He wears his own pelt! I think that's metal as fuck though. But it's awesome! Rou dying also gave me the opportunity to play a different character, like, an antagonist to the series. That was a lot of fun.
Dax: Yeah, Raspy was a whole thing.
Sebastian: Raspy!
Dax: Yeah, so let's, let's chat about Raspy a little bit. I think that would be a good segue into that. So, we've got this, you know - audience, as the players have mentioned, you know – you got to see our check in before we went forward with the decision to, kind of, off Rou and set him aside for a little bit. You got to watch us, in real time, talk about how this was the reality of the situation and how do we want to move forward with this, because as Kappa mentioned, player agency is very important. It's huge, right? Very important.
And what you don't see is afterwards, when we're doing our decompression, our call-outs and check in's and we're talking about our feelings, that led to me and Kappa having a side conversation of our own. Like, "Okay. What do we want to do?" And, um, Kappa, you had said that you wanted to play this character that was basically an antagonist to the party, but also a glass cannon. And I think that Raspy ended up being, I think, exactly what you wanted. [laughs]
Kappa: Yeah. I had a very specific image in my mind. Those of you who are familiar with Victor Zsasz from the Batman comics?
Sebastian: Oh, yeah!
Kappa: I was just like, "this man is just Victor Zsasz from the Batman comics in visual". Right? So, he has all of these tattoos of runes all over his body. He never wears a shirt and he's.. he's fucking nasty, stinky man all of the time, forever.
Sebastian: [laughing] Stinky man…
Kappa: And it was great, playing an antagonist for a little bit. After a while, it was like "oh man, I can't wait to get back to Rou because I hate being this mean!"
Dax: It- What I - what I enjoyed, is that it became for several episodes, and I think it even came into the recap at some point about how bald and how shirtless - [laughs]
Kappa: Oh yeah!
Dax: Raspy is! It just kept coming back. We had to keep, for some reason, bringing that to the forefront, just in case anybody forgot! Raspy is shirtless! [laughs]
Wren: Doesn't wear a shirt. [laughs] He just doesn't!
Kappa: It's how - it's how the runes work!
Dax: Yeah.
Wren: Mhmm.
Dax: But, you know, amongst Eight having to.. because Eight, as I mentioned, was captured and Eight basically was put in Raspy's hands. You know, Raspy was tasked with…trying to goad Eight -
Wren: You can say it. "Care".
Dax: Yeah.
Wren: Put in Raspy's "care".
Dax: Fine, "care".
Kappa: [chuckling] Mhmm.
Dax: Trying to goad Eight into trying to show off some of that power that we saw a little bit of in Season Five and try to figure out – excuse me – what is going on there. And, uh, you know, while Eight and Raspy were having this back and forth, Trix, you know, is offered to join their grandfather. And Sebastian, you had Trix kind of enact a plan. Um, just in general. I know you had, what, a 14-step plan for Season Six?
Sebastian: Yeah! They had, yeah, they had this, like, grand plan and it was going to be about "Here's how I'm going to escape, here's how I'm going to get to Eight, I'm going to inform Eight of the plan because I've seen what happens if I communicate poorly with Eight. And, so – and then I was going to betray my grandfather. It was going to be so good. And possibly seize power.” But, that – I didn't get past step two because I tried to leave my room and got instantly captured by a dragon.
Dax: Yeah, you met a talking dragon.
Sebastian: Yes. Which I, as a player, missed all of the clues that the dragon talks, so that was on me.
[Kappa laughs]
Sebastian: Yeah, but, yeah, I have a big-brained plan. I think I -
Dax: What's worse is that you lied to her.
Sebastian: Yeah. I think I can still do the plan by the way, but we'll see.
Dax: Ooh, alright, so in Season Seven...
Sebastian: It's a modified version of the plan.
[Wren laughs]
Dax: Okay. Gonna make a note of that.
Sebastian: I really liked, I enjoyed the way that Eight handled that problem, because I encountered "Zero" who was Eight's, kind of, subtle, like, secret-keeping side? Yeah. It was kind of like an ongoing puzzle for my character to figure out whether Eight had done a personality or persona switch as they had done with Amara or if it was Eight just manifesting a more sneaky persona so as to better do this job. It was very funny.
Dax: Yeah, this was the first time that Trix had encountered one of Eight's personalities. That was fun for me to watch. Watch that in real time, like, the player going "Okay, what is going on here?".
Rou: It's funny, because that's the exact same thing that I went through the first time Rou encountered that. I was, like, wait, is this a personality swap or is it just Eight being silly?
[Wren laughing]
Wren: A little bit of both!
Kappa: It's a little bit of both.
Sebastian: Yeah, ultimately, Trix decided that Eight is going to do whatever it is that they need to do, but as long as we're aligned on what we need to do, we're all good.
Wren: Yeah, exactly. Um, Eight is, Eight was definitely a character to go step-by-step with very detailed explanations on what to do.
Sebastian: Right, yes. Which I think I provided.
Wren: [chuckling] Yeah.
Sebastian: Or, tried to.
Wren: Raspy was a wild, wild ride.
Kappa: Yeah.
Wren: I, I struggled with Raspy because I wanted so bad to keep up the "best friends", the "Eight is best friends with everyone" schtick. As a player, I knew that Raspy was a bad guy and that they were absolutely there to be a giant tool.
Kappa: [Laughing] Yeah, that's so accurate.
Wren: I still giggle a little bit at the exchange, "Oh, we're not really best friends are we?" and "No, we're great friends." And there were all sorts of weird exchanges between the two. And Raspy being obsessed with Eight's power and Eight's mother was also creepy.
Kappa: Yeah.
Dax: The mom jokes!
Wren: The mom comments? Yeah.
Kappa: I can talk about that a little bit. Dax, I can talk about that a little bit, right? So, um, to make Raspy feel more tied in to Dax's narrative – or, the narrative that we were building in the background, Dax was feeding me information that, like, Raspy could, that would help Raspy's motivation or things he could bring up to be relevant to the story, right? Instead of just being this massive tool.
He could be this massive tool, but also relevant to the story. One of the things that Dax shared with me was something about Eight's mother. Or something about – there was something about a previous party member, right, that you had shared with me to include and I completely zeroed in and laser-focused on the mom part. And that was, uh, interesting and fun, because I, personally, I had no idea where we could go with this. But, I was also, like, let me.. let me throw in some mom jokes here.
Dax: Okay, so I found it. So, I had told Kappa that, uh, I said that okay, so you're aware, your boss, Erdir, The Dragon, had been questioning an Elf. A spellweaver. And she has revealed, unwillingly, that the person that Eight calls "mother", whom Erdir and the Emperor know as Amara is a quote-unquote "murderer and deceiver". And those are Erdir's words, right?
Kappa: Mhmm.
Dax: Um, so, Erdir says that the subject has revealed the following: the subject read Eight's mind when they last met and saw that "Mother" a/k/a Amara, has hidden some sort of contraption within Eight. The subject also saw Eight holding their mother's dead body. So, you know, take that as you will, whether Erdir was making some stuff up or if maybe that’s something that actually happened.
Um, and this was kind of implied with Cela later on in the season when she does tell Eight that they've been, you know, torturing me and they've been pulling memories from my mind without my consent, essentially, you know it was kind of hinted at. It was a callback to what Raspy says. But, yeah, the fact that, like, everybody just zeroed in on the fact that he made a "your mom" joke. It was a nice little moment of levity for all of the BS that Eight endured for four days.
Kappa: Yeah.
Dax: Of course, we gave Raspy a slightly dubious end -
Kappa: Yeah.
Dax: When Trix and Eight finally did reconvene and, uh, you know...There were portals involved and bright flashing lights, so, like, it's kind of assumed that Raspy is gone in, maybe, in the portal? But we didn't actually - it's one of those – we don't see a body, so we're not entirely sure.
Sebastian: Certainly gone. But we don't know where.
Dax: Exactly.
Sebastian: He's gone somewhere.
Kappa: Mhmm.
Wren: Yeah, I thought that ending for the character was particularly fun, in the sense that – I always love the opportunity for a villain to resurface in the future as some sort of recurring problem. So...
Kappa: He's going to come back, but you won't know it because he will be wearing a shirt.
Wren: Yeah, we'll be like "who's this handsome, handsome foe?"
Sebastian: And then, yeah, they'll have to, like, rip it off. See the runes and be like, "Yeaaaah!"
[Kappa chuckles]
Dax: So that kind of led us, um, inadvertently to the next big thing that happened in the season and that was Trix, um, making the blood oath with the Emperor.
Sebastian: Oops.
Kappa: That was great.
Dax: Oops? That is all that you have to say, is oops?
Sebastian: No, I have plenty more to say about it, but mainly that was my main thought! Um, we did this kind of weird ritual. Trix was kind of like, "Okay, I need to go along with this because I have to earn the Emperor's trust" and then afterwards he casually drops, "Oh, that was a blood oath" and they were just trying to stay cool, like, "Oh, yeah, I totally knew that was a blood oath! Yep."
He actually did call them out on not asking enough questions, which they were deliberately doing to not create suspicion. But, that also, I guess, not asking questions is also in a manner suspicious. And even then, later, it was revealed that The Dragon was spying on them the whole time! All of that. But still, I'm really excited to see what the blood oath actually does, if it does anything. Because they were like, "Okay, well, maybe I've gotten myself into trouble and bound myself to this person and his terrible lineage. Whatever. But it might be something that I can exploit later.” I'm really hoping that it's something I can exploit later.
Dax: Don't mind me, just taking notes in real time. Um...
Sebastian: Yes, no, seriously. Like, I really hope that. Because if it means that, you know, I'm secured as the successor or whatever, that's good. That will help me. Not because Trix is particularly power hungry, although that is a risk that is present, but, uh, yeah. If they can, if they can seize power and stay in it then perhaps they can -
Kappa: Do we -
Sebastian: Do the good reform. Go ahead.
Kappa: Do we, do we know how the line of succession works in your kingdom? Or has it always been your grandfather?
Sebastian: My grandfather's, like, the past 400 years, right?
Kappa: We might be going to Kidohlva. I might have some research questions!
Wren: I don't even know where that kingdom is!
Dax: So, Trix would be aware, um, that historically the Adar-Kai run a matrilineal society. Technically, it would not have been Trix's grandfather. Had things gone the way they should have, it would have been Trix's grandfather's cousin.
Sebastian: Okay.
Dax: Because of the way that it goes, right? So, but, you know, that was part of the whole deal of what led to the War of Seven Hells. There was betrayal and a coup d'etat and there was all of this other stuff going on in the Empire and Trix's grandfather came to power and things went south, fast. Um...
Sebastian: Mhmm.
Dax: Which Eight would have been mildly aware of, because Eight did study a lot of history. So, the answer is that it's been the grandfather for a while. Should it have been? No. No.
Sebastian: Yeah. When you have a tyrant, the laws of succession kind of get thrown out the window.
Dax: Yeah.
Kappa: Mmm. Mhmm.
Dax: But, I mean, let's think about it this way: the blood oath did also allow for Trix to meet their first deity. Um, we did have a lot of deity intervention this season. It's been a while since we've had this much.
Sebastian: It was useful. Uh, Trix doesn't really trust deities. Uh, they're just another, like, way too powerful. We know way too little about them. They have their own motivations and there's just a load of stuff that they will never be privy to. So, fully, Trix does not trust divinity. But has, in several moments, had no real other choice.
Wren: Yeah, they always seem to show up when you have no other option but to listen to them.
Sebastian: Yes.
Dax: I mean, the listening to them kind of worked out in Trix's favor because Trix was given the option to, you know, "Oh, well, you can.. I can give you this knowledge to help out your friend. Or I can give you knowledge of how to have an advantage in the upcoming, you know, problems that you're going to be having" and Trix was like, "Oh, well that's an easy one, right?" and then had to go back to the room and go, "now what am I supposed to do?"
Sebastian: Yes.
Dax: [At the same time as Sebastian] But you know what -
Sebastian: [At the same time as Dax] Also, because -
Dax and Sebastian: [to one another] No, go ahead.
Sebastian: Yes. I was going to say that also because Trix thought that actually having Rou back would be the advantage to solving the problems to come. Like -
Kappa: No.
[Wren snickers]
[Sebastian laughs]
Sebastian: It was good, though. I really enjoyed bringing Rou back and I enjoyed, like, the moment, like, that Rou immediately came back and we had this whole, "No, wait, this one's an assassin! No that one is an assassin!" and Rou is just in whatever clothes that Trix had in their wardrobe. It was so good.
Kappa: Still am!
Sebastian: Yeah.
Kappa: No, wait. No, never mind. I have clothes now.
Dax: Yeah, you got to change into your gear. Well, I, personally, honestly, I personally loved, uh, you know, I gave Sebastian some very vague knowledge about what Trix needed to do to resurrect Rou, right? Very cryptic, like, answers from a god would be and, um, I gotta say, like, Sebastian, I was very tempted to have you, like, use what you offered. So, Trix ended up having this emotional, like, pouring out of the heart moment, you know, as a first attempt. And I kind of liked that. I thought it was, I thought that was good. Um, but it was very funny to just go, "No, that didn't work". It's like, "What? Ugh."
Sebastian: Okay. [laughs] It was funny. I thought that because, uh, that Trix figured out that they needed to just give blood or something, they'd just be like, "Oh, that's it? That's easy." They thought it was going to be a thing that was difficult.
Wren: And being vulnerable is difficult.
Dax: Being vulnerable is difficult, yeah. But, I don't know, Trix was basically hovering near death, like, the entire season, too. Even the drops that were used to.. to resurrect Rou ended up making them pass out.
Sebastian: Oh, yeah. That also was funny.
Wren: I love -
Sebastian: Rou comes back and the first thing he has to deal with is Trix.
Wren: ...passed out in a bed. Yeah, I loved that scene and then when the guard came in and was like, "I'm going to smother you!" Um, that was, that was -
Dax: Well, well, wait. Why did the guard want to smother Trix? Hmm?
Wren: Not because of the potential for an assassination.
Dax: Look, I think...
Kappa: Could not be that.
Wren: Could not be that.
Dax: I love Rou so much, but I think that… so, earlier on in the season we had that instance of Faerlin, like, threatening the guards and trying to deceive their way in with the party and Rou was like, "What the fuck are you talking about? None of that is true!" It was very much like, "Really Rou?" And then we have this instance of, like, Rou you were trying so hard to deceive the guard into thinking you were some sort of "Special Task Force".
[Kappa Laughing]
Dax: It just did not... Then you accidentally… I don't remember what the exact line was, but you accidentally revealed something you really shouldn't have about Trix. Right? Like, so – oh, I think it was -
Sebastian: It was the assassination plot.
Dax: Yes!
Kappa: Yeah.
Dax: And it was just great to describe how the lightbulb went off on this guard's face and Kappa was immediately like, "Oh, shit".
[Kappa giggles]
Kappa: I mean, that's what – that's the story that the dice told and I love doing that.
Wren: Mhmm.
Kappa: Might as well make it fun, right?
Sebastian: And, again, it was fun.
Wren: I really do enjoy how throughout the series as a whole, so far, we've had everyone sharing each other's secrets on accident. Like, Rou's a werewolf. What? Trix is royalty. What?
Kappa: What?? [laughs]
Dax: Trix and Rou had their.. their nice moment. Got Rou back on the scene, all unbeknownst to Eight who's down in the dungeon and, you know, finds their - an NPC called Cela that is a Spellweaver that Eight met when we were a livestream D&D campaign. So, that was a fun callback for me. And then Eight found what appeared to be the children and, like, this big ol' massive creature guarding them.
And instead of trying to do the thing that Eight would normally do, I think, which is talk, Eight decided to stab the critter and basically just got facepalmed. And you or another character were constantly on the edge – I don't think you ended up healing more than four wounds for the entire season, I think. Did you?
Wren: [sing-song voice] I was livin’ on the edge!
Dax: You really were.
Wren: [sing-song voice] Again and again and again...
Kappa: This season was very much like, "Please, let them sleep".
[everyone laughs]
Sebastian: It was.
Wren: Ain't got no time for sleep. We got shit that needs to get done! Missing children! Missing children need to be rescued. Um, how dare you switch the children out. How dare you!
Sebastian: We got baited.
Wren: I was like "Finally, I accomplished my goal!"
Kappa: It was all -
Wren: And it was all an illusion!
Dax: Honestly, for me that was pretty fun to basically reveal that, like, oh, the party had like – you ended up getting back together with Trix and Rou. You got to fight a mind-controlled beastie named Mongo and, uh, and then I was like, "How great for you, you're back together, you've made a big burly friend. Oh, oops, the children were all just an illusion." So, like, I'm sorry but at the same time, your BBEG was all about illusory fuckery. So, it made sense.
Wren: Well, that illusory fuckery was what really helped us to convince Mongo to be our friend. Because it was like, Mongo, you've been gaslit for how long? You've been guarding nothing? You're just chained in a basement, don't you just want to break something about that? And Mongo was like, "You know what? Yeah, I kind of do." And that’s how we made our friend.
Sebastian: I did appreciate the, "Don't you just want to go apeshit" scene.
Kappa: Yeah.
Sebastian: That was very good.
Wren: Don't you get tired of being nice, Mongo?
Sebastian: Yeah.
Dax: Okay, so. I have a question: so, um, Sebastian, after you all discovered that the children were an illusion, right, the whole party ended up leaving down a secret tunnel and you decided to stay back. Now, granted you staying back had an advantage for what was going to be coming for the rest of the season. But do you as a player have any regrets on that decision?
Sebastian: No, I don't think I do. It is what my character would have done. I think it was, from my perspective, a bad decision. But, also, it is the decision that they 100% would have made.
Dax: Even given that The Dragon pulls out an orb that shows a replay of Trix telling Eight a/k/a Zero, at the time, all about their plan to kill the Emperor, and -
Sebastian: Yeah, I didn't mind. I also thought that it makes sense that The Dragon has just been invading my privacy this whole time. Um, and I did - you know, you were very fair in that situation - you did give me a roll to, uh, to convince the Emperor that The Dragon was lying. But it was a very difficult roll. I think I rolled it and then used an ability to reroll it and I didn't do very well.
Wren: That one was a very interesting mechanical scene. It was, like, you rerolled and then Dax made you reroll again. And it was just, like, triple reroll!
Kappa: Yeah.
Sebastian: Yeah, I think that the result came out and I thought it wasn't that bad. But maybe, still, the Emperor's trust with The Dragon is, at the end of the day, higher than his trust of Trix. So, you know. Fair enough.
Wren: Mhmm.
Kappa: I think I made a meme about it.
Wren: How do you argue with Fantasy TiVo?
[Dax laughs]
Dax: All that I can hear now is the "blipping" noise that TiVo used to make when you would rewind or whatever.
Kappa: Oh yeah! [imitates TiVo noise]
Sebastian: Yeah, but it also meant that I got the chance to be stuck in the dungeon and meet Talbain.
Wren: Mhmm.
Dax: Yeah, yeah, so, Talbain. Let's talk about WallE's.. WallE's character. Our only guest that we were able to have in this season. Let's hear some thoughts, reactions, and everything about that whole arc.
Sebastian: Trix respects him as a fellow member of one of their many professions.
Kappa: I really enjoy WallE as a player. Whenever we're in stuff together, we usually fall into rival/friend roles. Um, and this felt very much like the same, but given the twist at the end, I think this was fresh. This was a nice, um, an interesting development for our characters and the plot overall. Um, yeah. Also, having WallE tied to.. WallE's character, Talbain, tied to Rou's backstory, it was really cool to see that flashback. That was a lot of fun.
Dax: Yeah, I think that if there had been enough time, doing another flashback with the two of you would have been good too. I like when I can use flashbacks to introduce character connections. Um, so that worked out really well. For those of you that don't follow either Roads Uncharted or us on BlueSky, first of all, why aren't you? But also, second of all, you would have kind of gotten a glimpse as to how this decision came about. Because WallE and Kappa were like, "Put us together in a game as rivals" and I was like "Oh, hey, I’ve got a game for you."
[Kappa laughs]
Dax: So, then as with all of the guests, I have our meetings and we chat about what they want to accomplish as a player. And some of them are really into being a GM information tool, like LD when she guested as Ozma Baum and, uh, you know, Stephen when he came in as Tindal. So, and other times they want to come in and be chaotic, like Gaynor as Shepard or Shadow as Florence. So, you know, god, I was not expecting, honestly, there are times.. and I say this a lot in the podcast.. that I wish that we were livestreamed because, like, some of our reactions are absolutely hilarious.
Like, when WallE was describing that he was hanging upside down and chains were wrapped around his body and he was basically just turning in place and then illustrating that with, "Oh, wait, I have to come back around. I don't see you right now." Like, moments like those were just cracking me up.
Wren: Yeah, uh, with editing all of this audio for the podcast, I get to relive those moments over and over again as I'm working with them and having WallE as a guest was a real delight for everyone in the recording. I can say that with no small amount of confidence just based on the number of laughs that we had in that. And, I think, there's only one thing - one thing - that disappoints me about that guest arc. Purely from a group-selfish perspective, is that I wish Rou or Trix or Eight had been able to be the one to K.O. Mr. The Dragon in that final confrontation.
Kappa: Mmm. A little bit, yeah.
Wren: But you know what? We take our "W's" where we can get them.
Dax: That's true, WallE's character did get that final moment. [sighs] God, that NPC stat block was just ridiculous. Just between movement shenanigans and the damage on that character? Um, it was rough! It was rough. I can say that, objectively, as the person that created the stat block, it was a little rough.
Wren: Here's a question for you: how long ago did you create the stat block?
Dax: I created the stat block, um, when we first converted to Genesys.
Kappa: Wow.
Sebastian: No!
Dax: I have tweaked it - to be fair - I have tweaked it over the seasons as, um, you know, obviously the character hadn’t come up yet, hadn’t come up yet. Not really, in.. Eight confronted The Dragon when we were a livestream, so I had an actual tested stat block that I could convert to Genesys, which is one of the things that the system does teach you how to do as a GM. And, so, as the seasons would go on and I, you know, didn't have this character actually confronting the party just yet. And as I became more familiar with, you know, creating stat blocks and things and creating rivals and all sorts of stuff for the party, you know, to interact with, um, I would tweak this NPC.
And I'm glad that I did because if I had given you the original Erdir, it...it could have either been a massacre and TPK or you would have killed him in one round and I don't think that would have been very satisfying for y'all. So, um, it honestly could have gone either way with the original build. So, um, I'm glad that I did take the time to tweak it. But it has been - the original has been around for quite some time.
Kappa: I think if we had been fully well-rested, we would have kicked his ass.
Dax: Oh, yeah. It would have been so much easier for you, for sure. Um, which, also, not only fully rested, but also Trix had been stabbed in the back, um, because I finally got to reveal the question everybody has had since Season Five: "Is Faerlin actually, you know, an ally or are they an enemy in disguise?" And so, um, in my summary notes for this talk back, I wrote in all capitals "FAERLIN IS NOW CURRENT ENEMY FAERLIN." [laughs]
Wren: I done know the whole time.
Dax: [sighs] I know you knew. You had your suspicions. I'm pretty sure everybody did. There was a lot of -
Sebastian: Yeah.
Dax: A lot of lines I was trying to drop to.. to give their true intentions away to anybody that was, you know, paying attention. Um, so I don't know if that was actually evident and I did a good job, or if, like, Wren, you're just super suspicious of any NPC that I create.
Wren: No, I'm not super suspicious of any NPC you create. But I think Eight was just very, very much, uh, convinced that Faerlin was not on the level, which is weird for Eight.
Dax: Yeah. Actually, you never even called them "Friend Faerlin", it was always "Former Enemy".
Sebastian: Yeah, it was always "Former Enemy".
Kappa: Yeah.
Wren: Mhmm.
Dax: You know what, that's a good question. So we know how Wren feels. Kappa and Sebastian, how did.. were you surprised at all by the reveal or..?
Kappa: I said it in Season Five at some point. I was like, I think Rou was like, "Until you show me that you are bad, you're okay in my book." Or something like that. Of course, I was suspicious, as a player. Mostly picking up on Wren's cues of, like, this dude is up to no good.
Uh, and I'm like, yeah. We absolutely don't have any reason to trust the person because I don't know how far back their allegiances lie. So, yeah, I think, as a player, I was like, "This person is going to turn around and lead us into a Sarlaac Pit or something or poison us in our sleep or something like that." But Rou was very much still "innocent until proven guilty."
Sebastian: So, Trix was of two minds. They were like yeah, this could fully be a deception. But also, there were some compelling details that Faerlin said, like that his family served Trix's family for, like, generations and generations. And for Adar-Kai, that's, like hundreds and hundreds of years. I think Faerlin themself was over 400 years old, or something.
That kind of said, yeah, they have an allegiance to the Emperor, but they did do some pretty convincing things. They cut off one of their fingers, too, so that Trix didn't have to do that. And, so, that sort of thing...Trix thought okay, well, either they are disloyal and really dedicated to this bit, as it were. Or they are genuinely loyal because this is exactly the sort of thing that an Imperial servant would have to do. So, Trix always knew it was a possibility. But figured that, you know, we should take advantage of whatever it is that we were able to get and Faerlin was actually extremely useful at multiple points.
So, when the reveal came, Trix wasn't exactly surprised. But they were just like, they as a character were a little bit disappointed to be like, "Aw, man, even after hanging out with us you still didn't want to come over to my side? Okay, look, I know I'm broke but I'm nicer than he is. So, yeah."
Dax: It almost felt like, I'm not mad because I kind of suspected it, but I am just very disappointed.
Sebastian: Yeah. It's disappointed. That was very much the vibe. So, Trix was, like, "Damn, okay, well. You're going to serve your own poor taste, then."
Kappa: That was another thing. You weren't paying Faerlin. So, I was like, "Yeah, Faerlin is going to kill us."
Sebastian: [laughs] I was trying to! We, just - all of our money that we had was paper and it got burned when we left the encampment. It was so...
Wren: Then you would have just been paying Faerlin and also betrayed.
Sebastian: Yeah. I mean, I think I did acknowledge that in a line afterwards. I think I was like, ultimately I'm glad I wasn't able to pay them anything, because then I didn't lose money. I guess I could have killed them and then taken the money back, if they even kept it on them.
Wren: Yeah. Talk about a negative investment.
Sebastian: Yeah. And I am still broke, with zero money.
Wren: But you're rich in friendship!
Sebastian: It's true, exactly. The real treasure is the friends we make along the way.
[Wren laughs]
Dax: We talked a little bit about there might be some disappointment about WallE getting the final hit on The Dragon, um, but how do you feel about finally killing the BBEG? Or, maybe, what you assumed was the BBEG? Kind of hard to tell at this point. Um, how do we feel about that? Finally being rid of him?
Sebastian: It was a good fight.
Kappa: I still don't think we're fully done with him. There's just... Dax, with your illusion shit going on with this character, I'm not 100% that we're fully done with him. And so it's really hard to celebrate and feel joy for being done with the BBEG when I know there is some percent chance that he can come back.
Sebastian: [sarcastically] What do you mean? Eight did like a whole exorcism.
[Wren laughs]
Kappa: Yeah.
Wren: There was holy water, and latin chanting, and candles and he shrivelled into a mummy and then turned into dust...I'm sure it's fine!
Sebastian: Yeah…
Wren: There's no way he'll come back. Yeah, I'm glad to finally be done with him. He's been a real pain in the ass for all of these seasons we've had so far and he's caused a lot of trouble for a lot of different NPC's and guest characters along the way. And now it just leaves us room to adopt an even bigger, badder big bad end guy.
Dax: Which, I guess, kind of -
Sebastian: Yeah.
Dax: Oh, go ahead.
Sebastian: The god from the orb.
Dax: Well...
Sebastian: Or no?
Dax: Well…?
Wren: Is Umé bad, though? We don't know.
Dax: You don't know. You don't know anything about -
Sebastian: Yeah…
Kappa: I mean, we got… we got vibes.
Wren: [laughing] The vibes were...bad.
Kappa: They were so sour.
Dax: They were.. they were such rancid vibes.
Sebastian: Rancid vibes! Trix isn't really that concerned with the moral alignment of the god. They just really hope that the god is able to take out their grandfather and then take advantage of the power vacuum.
Dax: They are really hoping for a lot. [laughs]
Sebastian: They are hoping for a lot of things!
Dax: So, let's talk about that. Because the end of the season had a lot going on for it. Um...
Kappa: Who's, who's… who's mad?
Dax: You found the [laughs] - we'll get there - you found the orb that you learned about in Kidohlva in Season Two. Three? Three. Um, where Venya gave you all a vision that said like there's this glass orb with copper bands that, you know, could be really dangerous if Erdir gets it in his claws, right?
So, you found that and that's huge. Um, when the mummy-thing happened with Erdir, like, suddenly the floor split open and Trix and Eight took a tumble. Um, and, um, Eight died. May or may not have killed a Seven Sword. We're not entirely sure about that. And, uh, some guy named Umé was claiming to have been freed by the party's actions. So, a lot of unknowns but a lot to talk about, none the less. Um, so, who wants to start and unpack all of that shit? [chuckles]
Wren: Did Umé come out of the ring or the orb or are we not supposed to know yet?
Dax: You don't know yet.
Wren: [Quietly] Don't know yet.
Dax: Yeah, you don't know yet.
Kappa: Came out of the fucking Dragon's body. Trapped in there.
Wren: You know... yeah, I didn't even think about that as a possibility. Yeah. Totally could have been inside of the-the-the well-preserved Erdir body.
Kappa: This is why I can't trust that we're done with Erdir.
Wren: Hmmm. I'm questioning everything now!
Dax: As you're supposed to! But, yeah. And I mean, like, as a sidenote, too: Venya never really told you what this orb does. They just said that it would be a problem if Erdir got ahold of it. Um, and, you- you understand based on what Talbain thought it did was that it was a transporter.
Kappa: Mhmm.
Dax: There was a lot of vagueness and that was all intentional at the end of this season, like, as to with everything going on, what may have actually freed Umé, who they actually are, where he actually may have been. Because he comments that it's been so long since they’ve been on the mortal plane. There are a lot of questions just surrounding this god, right? And it was intentional. I have to give you something to do in Season Seven!
Kappa: Yeah!
Dax: But, of course, we also have the whole "Eight dying" thing. So…
Kappa: Yeah, do we want to talk about that?
Wren: I'm dead.
Sebastian: Yes.
Kappa: Done. [chuckles]
Dax: Well, we've talked about the Rou feelings. Should we not also address thoughts and feelings on Eight? Because there's been no resurrection conversation with Bahu, as of yet. There has been nothing other than Eight has fallen into the lava like Gollum in The Return of the King. Right? So..
Kappa: Mhmm.
Wren: Just a little guy, melted away inside of lava.
Kappa: I'm, like, worried about.. because, um, some of the concern that I have is that Eight being the longest standing character in the campaign has a lot of - carries a lot of the theme and identity of Roads Uncharted as a whole, with them. So, Eight dying, has me... we'll be fine, you know, in terms of analogies outside of Roads Uncharted, is it like Season Seven of The Office where Michael leaves? That is something that I have been... that has been on my mind. Not necessarily a bad thing, you know.
I'm sure, if Eight is gone for good and we do bring in a new character or if there is space for Eight to come back, whatever the situation, we're still going to have, like, this same - like, it's still going to feel like Roads Uncharted, is what I'm saying. But, I would be lying if I said that I am not having these feelings at all, or I'm not thinking about this. Anyway, those are - that is my thought around Eight's death.
Sebastian: Yeah. Um, Trix has a, um, for lack of a better word, a sinking feeling that there is less of an opportunity for Eight to return than there was for Rou. And they don't know exactly why they think that. But, I as a player, I can say that they witnessed Eight fall into lava. It's going to be very difficult to come back from that. Um, they also don't trust the gods and don't know that - to their knowledge, Eight doesn't have connections to the gods in the same way that Rou does. They could be wrong about that, though.
Wren: Eight had met a god. Uh, early on, the god of nature, so. That was Lohr.
Sebastian: Okay. Yeah, Trix is not aware of this. But if the god of nature wants to step in and do nature stuff, Trix would not be opposed to that!
Dax: Eight just becomes a full-on, like, druid-type build, if we are going to make an analogy to D&D, since that was what this originally was.
Sebastian: A druid that uses bees!
Wren: Eight comes back as a mudman.
[Kappa and Wren laugh]
Kappa: Eight is just a collection of bees.
Wren: Ah, bees!
Dax: A jar of dirt that everybody has to cart around.
Wren: A jar of dirt with a heart in it.
Kappa: Just a small cloud of butterflies that follows the party.
Wren: Right, um, yeah! I mean, as the player for Eight for all of these years I...don't necessarily let go of the character with a light touch to it. I know that Eight has been around since the beginning of the story and Eight has a lot of connection to, obviously, the various NPC's and the- some of the goals that were originally tasked to their collective party when they went out on this adventure. But, I hear what Kappa said about another brilliant comparison being The Office when Michael leaves. People always say, "Well, that's when it went downhill."
But, I think that the story is, the story and the strength of the AP is so much more than just Eight as a unifying or a primary node for themes and goals and things like that. Um, not that I am saying that I think Eight is the lynchpin, but there is a whole lot that feels like it is lost with the loss of that character. Especially because us, as players, know that there has been no discussion about bringing Eight back, not like there was with Rou. That was something that happened pretty quickly in the season and -
Dax: Um, I'm just going to interrupt you. We did have a - and we can edit this out if we need to or keep it in the recap - but we did talk about it at the end of the episode, which is part of the reason why we decided to go with, um, that as our last season. But we did talk about the possibility, not as thoroughly as we did with Kappa, um, but we did have a table discussion, you know, for safety reasons, like "If we go this route", kind of thing.
Wren: Okay, yeah. Um, my brain is-
Dax: No, it's okay. I just don't want the -
Wren: My brain is Swiss cheese.
Dax: We talk about how we are about safety tools and it's not fair to say that we didn't have this discussion as a table. Like, if this is a direction we go in where Eight doesn't come back... I don't want any misunderstanding that we aren't consistently using the tools we have. You know?
Wren: Yeah, no. I'm, that's, yeah. Um, that's not what I was getting at.
Dax: Okay.
Sebastian: I kind of interpreted that as, like, we haven't talked about bringing Eight back in the sense that we have discussed a resurrection plan. We have discussed whether to do it.
Dax: See, two different [laughs] we listened to the same thing and we interpreted it in two different ways.
Sebastian: Right.
Wren: Yeah, no. I'm not saying in the sense of, like, we didn't talk about the options and how we felt about it and safety with respect to the loss of the character.
Dax: Okay.
Wren: But more in the we didn't make, as Sebastian said, an action plan for it. Um, so...
Dax: Okay thank you for clarifying. I did not get that from what you said, at all. So, I appreciate you clarifying.
Sebastian: Yeah, essentially there's, like, no plan to resurrect Eight and I thought we kind of decided that we're good with that, like, collectively. Yeah.
Wren: Mhmm. So…
Dax: Sorry, feel free to continue what you were saying. I apologize for interrupting.
Wren: I don't.. I don't remember. [laughs]
Dax: I am so sorry.
Wren: Um, yeah. I mean, I think at any rate, with the loss of one character, there's going to be new avenues for storytelling to explore and new dynamics for the characters to explore as well, so…
Dax: I guess the last thing to talk about, which, kind of big but kind of also much smaller in the grand scheme of things, too, is that the last thing that we really left off with is that, um, Talbain ends up taking Umé on some strange offer to help him with their plan and, essentially, turns his heels on Rou. And we kind of left off -
Kappa: [Deeply and darkly] Betrayal.
Dax: With these two disappearing into nothing. And that's where we kind of left the season off on, so, uh, obviously this was a planned thing with Kappa and WallE. You know, they knew above table that there would be some rival-thing going on as far as the guest arc. But, uh, as players, you know, how do we feel about WallE potentially, uh, teaming up with what might end up being the new BBEG. I mean, we're not sure yet, but..
Kappa: I feel real bad for Rou.
[Dax laughs]
Dax: That's fair.
Kappa: Really, that's - that's it. I think, um, if WallE does come back, it's going to be interesting to see how that.. that decision ripples, um, once, um, our party has been rested enough to - and has a clearer direction. It might be a situation like with Raspy where we get rid of him somehow, question mark? But, yeah. I think the primary thing is that I just feel really bad for Rou.
Wren: Poor Rou. Lost two friends in ten minutes. But you still have Trix!
Sebastian: Yeah. We're buddies, are we not?
Dax: I do love the, "We're friends, right?"
Sebastian: Yeah. [chuckles]
Wren: Now I'm just imagining them sitting around a campfire and Trix just being like, "So, you're, um, a werewolf. How's that going?"
[Kappa laughs]
Wren: It's just like, without Eight, what do we do?
Sebastian: Yes.
Dax: Yeah, you have no cook now!
Sebastian: Yeah I also -
Dax: You have no automatic healer.
Sebastian: Yeah, I also finally, like, you know, took one rank in Mechanics so that I could maybe help repair Eight and I'm looking down at this lava pit thinking, "Yeah, there's no fixing that. Oof."
[everyone laughs]
Kappa: I have enough knowledge to know that I can't fix that. [laughs]
Sebastian: Yeah, exactly.
Dax: Yeah, we ended up, gosh with that - oh, sorry, I had asked a question of all of the players and then I didn't… so, Wren and Sebastian, any thoughts on the Talbain, like, I don't - betrayal, I guess, maybe?
Sebastian: Yeah, I think that, Trix 100% saw that coming, like, this whole time. I mean, he was very open about, like, nah, I only care about getting the orb. Trix is like, "I can respect that." Trix thinks it's a bad tactical decision because, you know, like, Trix also thinks that we're the winning side here. Go on, you'd go with this random person from an orb who you don't actually know? This person could try to take advantage of you, whatever. Like, again, it kind of comes back to Trix's mistrust of beings who are vastly more powerful and does not want to put themself in that kind of position.
So, it's not the choice that they would make, but it makes sense for Talbain. They kind of wish that Talbain was smarter about it. Like, why would you put yourself at the mercy of this ridiculously powerful being that just came out of an orb or, maybe a ring, as it were.
Wren: Or maybe a corpse!
Sebastian: Yeah! Or maybe a corpse. We have no idea - exactly! And so, they're just like we don't know anything about this person, but, sure, go ahead. Take this corpse-ring-person over Rou and Rou's friends.
Wren: I mean, ultimately, the betrayal was the avenue chosen by, um, WallE as the player. And I think that it's kind of sad, because Talbain is, like, looking for a place to belong?
Kappa: Mmm.
Wren: And runs into Rou by happenstance and, by extension, Rou's friends. And Talbain's got it in his head that Eight replaced him as Rou's friend. And I feel like there's a little bit of, maybe a little bit of misplaced trust or broken trust that kind of helped push Talbain in that direction, coupled with Rou being like, "Hey, I met a werewolf that you could go talk to in the middle of nowhere! That would be fun for you to go do!" And Talbain just being like, "That sounds awful."
Dax: God, side by side, those two thoughts together are really depressing.
Kappa: Yeah.
Dax: I know that they came separate and from two different angles, but...my god.
Wren: So, picking the - the god who is like, "I can do nice things for you!" makes sense to me, um, given that Talbain might have been feeling disappointed in Rou as a friend and just looking for that quick dopamine hit. So...
Kappa: It's sad, but it also makes me mad at Talbain. Because that's what you pulled from the conversations?
Wren: Yeah, no! [laughing] This is just me!
Kappa: WallE is not here to defend himself!
Wren: I know! Exactly, so..
[Kappa and Wren laughing]
Wren: I could be totally off base. But that's just some of the thoughts that I had about it. Um...
Sebastian: Eight is just dead at this point! So, like, I'm not saying that it doesn't matter that, like, Talbain felt replaced, but also, like, you know, from Talbain's point of view, that problem has kind of been resolved. I’m just, you know...
[everyone laughs]
Sebastian: Like, bro. Come on!
Wren: Your robot's gone. Can I be your best friend again?
Sebastian: Yeah! I do think that, like... yeah. Very funny. It's a very funny way to think about it. But, yeah.
Dax: Nah, that's.. that's actually a very good point, Sebastian. I didn't even think of it that way, either, so.
Wren: Some people just wanna be friends with gods.
Dax: Yeah. You know, I mean, this could or could not be a bad thing for Talbain. We'll have to- we'll have to see what comes of that. Um...
Sebastian: Yeah. So, like, has WallE given you, like, permission for us to, like, fight him, like if you were to give him, like, a bad guy stat block?
Dax: Oh, WallE and I are already in talks for things and that's all I will say.
Sebastian: Ooooooh. Okay.
Dax: But there is - there is a possibility that WallE could come back in the future.
Sebastian: Okay! I shall await eagerly and see.
Dax: Uh, so, I think, um, we're coming up on the end of the talkback. So, one thing that we did not do in our last episode because of… so, for transparency, audience, you wouldn't necessarily know this, but, you know, we had Episode 24 occur and we got done recording the episode and we all sat there and we had our talk about, "Okay, do we want this to be the end of the season with Eight gone?"
So, we decided as a group that that felt like a good place to end the season and, so, normally, at the end of the season on our last episode, we talk about what are our favorite moments from the season and we've kind of touched on that a little bit on.. on that with this talkback-recap situation. But, is there any moment that, maybe, really shines out for you players as, like, "this was my top moment for this season"? And it can be for your character, it can be for somebody else's character. You know, I kind of feel like, especially after the end of the season and what we just talked about, it might be better to end on a more positive note, you know? [pauses and then in a higher-pitched tone] A happy moment!
Sebastian: Honestly, I did really like when the party finally reunited. Because it felt like we were separated for various reasons for a very long time and that, like, was a very good moment for me and also for my character, uh, because.. yeah, I think that while I didn't have any regrets about staying in the fortress, I think Trix after having, like, been cut-off from their friends for a while was like, "Oh, maybe this was a bad idea." and had some regrets. So, it was, uh, it felt good to be back with the gang; the Cult of Joy, again.
Kappa: I don't know my favorite Rou moment, there were lots this season. But, I really, personally, I really enjoyed fighting Seal Team Six at the backdoor of the whole fortress. The most efficient -
Dax: With your pants incident?
Kappa: Yeah, the pants -
Sebastian: Oh, that was so funny. The undergarment emergency, yeah!
Kappa: Yeah, yeah. Somehow having the most effective, efficient guards posted-up there was just really funny to me. That was a really great.. great turn of events.
Wren: Yeah. Um, that was a, a fun series of scenes, was fighting the world's most effective Cult of Tannyth members. As far as, like.. and, and, yeah, Sebastian nails it: our crew was separated for so long this season that having a favorite moment feels like having a favorite moment is hard to do, so...
For Trix, I think my favorite moment for Trix this season was the dragon moment where Trix gets kidnapped by this giant, flying monster...
Kappa: Yeah.
Wren: And then finds out that she talks and is like, "Why don't I just say I'm out for a stroll because I like to climb stuff!" and then just gets squeezed to - to near death. That was a hilarious moment, especially because us as players at that moment, Sebastian was like, "Ooh, a dragon!" waggling eyebrows and proceeding to get completely knocked out. Um...
For Rou, the undergarment emergency was a hilarious moment, yeah. But, also, I kind of liked the whole, "Let me get my pelt from you, Mongo" scene. Because it was very much a what the hell is this and what do I do with this kind of moment. It had a real gravitas to it that I think is understated through the season and through the moment.
And then for Eight, I think, one of my favorite moments this season was probably, um, rescuing Cela and not turning around and running -
Kappa: Yeah.
Wren: When she's like, "Just leave me behind" because that's not what Eight would have done and Eight would certainly not abandon a friend in need, so. Plus also, one of my favorite moments is when Mongo gets stuck in the wall that is closing and just goes, "Ow".
Sebastian: That was good.
Wren: [chuckling] Fucking, Mongo.
Kappa: This season.. this season very much felt like our characters were dropped into Game of Thrones.
[Wren laughs]
Kappa: It really did.
Dax: See, I would, I would argue that this was your first dungeon that I've ever thrown at you between all of the fights, all of the party separation, all of the dangerously close to low health moments. Like, to me, it felt more like you getting dropped into a dungeon for an entire season.
Kappa: Yeah, this was "mega-dungeon" this season.
Dax: Don't worry, audience. I promise you that Season Seven will not be like that! I think, let's see. I have all of the NPC's. So, what can I say is probably my… so...I think for me, I'll just kick it back to you players. My favorite moment for Trix was at the.. in the last episode. Eight is like, "Trix, fall this way!" and Sebastian is just like, "Fall this way, sure. Yeah. Great." It felt very Trix to me but it was also just friggin' hilarious. But then rolling with the dice to explain how you, like, do this really cool flip and it looks awesome and then you land on your butt. And it's like, "I totally meant to do that." So, uh, that was a great moment.
Rou arguing with the god of death, that was great. And then for Eight, honestly, I think Eight, as Zero, sneaking through the.. the fortress and we kind of get that image of Kronk from The Emperor's New Groove, of like, Eight humming to themselves and stopping behind a wall and going [imitates humming]. Because Eight was playing as Zero, who is their most creative counterpart. Um, but I think, as.. I am happy that the next thing that's going to be coming down the pipeline has been revealed this season. I wasn't sure it was going to happen this season or next. So, glad it got revealed this season which means we can hop right into it. Um, with that...any closing thoughts, players, before we sign off until next year?
Sebastian: Not other than I'm really excited for what we have in store. I'm excited to find out.
Wren: Yeah!
Kappa: I'm really excited for Trix's turn to meet death!
Sebastian: Haha. We'll see! Not if Trix can help it! They do not actually wish to die.
Dax: [Sarcastically] Wait, Trix doesn't wish to die? What?
[Wren gasps sarcastically and Sebastian laughs]
Sebastian: Self-preservation is very important to them, you might have noticed. Or you might not have.
Dax: Self-preservation is strong in this one.
Wren: Mhmm.
Sebastian: Yes! You may or may not have noticed.
Dax: Wren, you had said "Yeah." Was there anything more to that or just "yeah"?
Wren: Looking forward to what Season Seven holds?
Dax: Okay, I just wanted to make sure that if you had anything further that you're, you know -
Wren: No.
Dax: Alright. Well then, with that, audience, we are going to sign off on this talk back. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for bonus content that's going to be coming out over the next couple months before Season Seven airs. And we'll see you in early 2026 -
Kappa: Oh my god.
Dax: With the new season.
Sebastian: 2026!
Wren: Six!
Dax: 2025 has been a long year, y'all. And that's all I'm going to say about it.
Kappa: Mhmm.
Dax: So, with that, be good to yourselves, take care of each other. You know. Take care of your community and we'll see you on the next episode.
All: Bye!
Music fades out [01:19:01]
Wren: Hi, I'm Wren. I composed the opening theme for Roads Uncharted. I also played the character Eight. You can find me all over the internet at Thornydryad.
Kappa: Today, Rou was played by me, Kappa! Christian is okay, too! I'm a performer and writer in the TTRPG space, among other things. You can find me on the internet at TheKappaChris.
Sebastian: I'm Sebastian. I am sebastianyūe everywhere on the internet, including sebstianyue.ca because, despite my accent, I am based in Canada. I am a writer, editor, and game designer in the tabletop space and today I have played Trix. It's been a pleasure. Thanks, bye.
Dax: And I'm Dax. I've been the game master. You can find me on BlueSky at gmdax. We don't talk about the other site. The Roads Uncharted podcast has been GM'd, as I mentioned, but also produced by me. We use the Genesys RPG system published by Fantasy Flight Games and we use music licensed through Epidemic Sound. Thanks for listening and we'll see you next time.