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isha (she/her) 🧙‍♂️| 28 | south asian
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the callie + calder sibling relationship was forged in genuinely nice moments i guess but im on episode 70 and i feel like ever since callie differentiated her relationship with kenna (beloved younger sister) from her relationship with calder (twin brother you make fun of) it's like both axford and hurwitz just ran with it. there were plenty of bits before this but calder going "i clutch my veneer. callie is definitely going to try to steal it" without axford even saying anything really took me out......like we've crossed into the realm of bits over reality if you think your found family twin sister is going to steal the cap off your tooth. she literally would though haha she would <3

#i really liked when she said they felt like twins bc calder had twin brothers and was the odd one out#and i think all this started when she used all three helm of ultrus charges and didn't let him have a turn. even though it was his#whenever hurwitz says callie.......... in the calder voice it REALLY makes me laugh#naddpod#ba2mia#calliope petrichor#calder kilde
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so close to the end of c3 (naddpod) but its stressing me out that i am actually getting close to catching up after a year and a half of listening and also im on the patreon now so I get notifications for new episode postings of c4 that make me go fuuuuck i want to experience these guys in a week to week format. but first ☝🏾 skaldova and the heralded (by the person who got me into naddpod) emily axford cringe lesbian knight pc

#that's all I know about skaldova bc people in my life love trying to bait me with axford specifically#shoutout to my friend who was texting me things for weeks like oh emily axford plays mtg don't you want that commander deck too haha#im on the cyra episode I like her but truly so few eps until the end of the campaign#the one piece watcher/reader in me is like you have to catch up NOW!!!!!!!!#but also i have a backlog of patreon content from the one full year that I wasnt paying. and my brother insists that going back to#all of the 8bit book club episodes are necessary. and im sure they are#but I'm a 100% completionist at heart so I want to do this#naddpod
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new jersey needs a win. let this be the murph d20 season fr

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naddpod listener supremacy complex did turn out to be real in that sometimes i could be talking to a friend who also likes dimension 20 and in the back of my head i hear a little voice that goes "damn and they don't even know about jens" because everyone should know how good of a DM he is but also about jens. that being said can you even imagine the kind of encounters he could build with dropouts resources. their story team. a loremaster who keeps an eye on combat and health levels. lighting cues.

#he's just that good fr but actually maybe minis would hold him back#bc his combats are always so dynamic you can't capture them on a board#naddpod
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in which murph has a very normal time at the hands of his players

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Murph: Wel-come back to Bahumia everybody! [Jake, Emily, and Caldwell echo him with "Bahumia!". Caldwell sounds incredibly enthusiastic.] Murph: He's so excited! Caldwell Tanner, thanks for being here. Caldwell: Ye-ah! Murph: It's not your turn yet, dude! Caldwell: I'm so sorry sir! Murph: Okay? I'm your Dungeon Master Brian Murphy, joined by Jake Hurwitz-- Caldwell: Bahumia! Jake: [laughs] Hey! Dude! Murph: Caldwell! Caldwell: Sorry! Emily: [laughs] Bahumia! Bahumia! Jake: I'm trying to rhyme, man! Murph: Quit stepping on him with your enthusiasm! Caldwell: I'm just so ready to go! Emily: Bahumia! Jake: I worked really hard on this. I di-- [sighs] well forget it. Fuckin' forget it. Murph: No you gotta! Emily: Bahumia! [Overlapping crosstalk as Caldwell and Murph encourage Jake.] Caldwell: You've got this. Murph: You got this. Jake, go ahead, don't let these two enthusiasms get in your way, alright? Jake: Yeah. Alright, no, yeah. I got this. I got this. Yeah. Caldwell: Whoo! He's got this! Jake: Fighting alongside-- Caldwell: You've got this man! Do it! Murph: Stop! You have to stop! Jake: I know I got it! I'm doin' it! (Calder voice) Fighting alongside a frog and a bard with my brand new sword, Shard. [Emily and Caldwell laugh.] Murph: Yeah! Pretty good. I do feel like we built it up though, at a certain point. And there was just-- there was no way you could fully deliver. Jake: Yeah. It would've been perfect if I got it out clean right up top as soon as you introed. Murph: Yeah, if we did a super low energy intro. [Jake: M-hm. Yeah.] Caldwell: I think it was great man, I think it was amazing, I can't wait to hear it again! Murph: Who is this person. And then of course we've got Emily Axford-- Emily: Bahumia! [Everyone laughs. The others continue laughing harder as Murph talks.] Murph: Ohh. Okay?? That's the name of the world. Her character's name is Calliope Petrichor. If for some reason episode 57 of campaign 3 is the first thing you've listened to. That's Emily Axford. (laughing) She plays Calliope Petrichor. She did say before we started, I think almost as a counter-bit to Emily's bit, before we started (laughing) Emily said "I'm not gonna do a rhyme I don't feel like it." And I said "wild energy to bring into the episode!" so Caldwell went the opposite and went overenthusiastic. They're just fucking with me! Everything we do is just an inside joke to make me upset. Caldwell: And now you're caught up! Murph: Yeah, and now we're caught up. Caldwell: Bahumia! Murph: And-- [laughs] and Bahumia. And-- Uh, and then of course we've got Caldwell Tanner-- Jake: (yelling) Bahumia! Emily: Yeah!!! Jake's in on it!! Caldwell: See, it feels good! It feels good. Murph: Okay. Caldwell Tanner, of course, plays Sol-- Caldwell: Ohhh, Sol Bufo [Murph: Okay.] I'm feeling fine, just found out I'm two of a kind, [Emily: ooh!] and now I'm gonna go and find out if Swag's still alive. I'm really trying to thrive here. Bahumia. [The others laugh. As they talk, Caldwell laughs too.] Murph: You lost me. But you had me for a moment. And that's more that can be said for the other guys. Jake: Wow. Emily: Bahumia. Murph: [laughs] Bahumia. Jake: Bahumia, guys. Murph: Sure. Hey guys, Bahumia. We did it. We did it everyone. Alright? Everyone settle. Settle? Okay?

[The others sigh as if relaxing, and chorus "yeah."] Murph: Ready? Alright. Let's do-- let's do-- Caldwell: Eldermourne. Murph: Not the right campaign. Not the correct campaign. Caldwell: Shit, sorry. Murph: Let's go ahead and do a little-- [laughs as Emily interrupts him] recap-- Emily: That's Calliope's middle name. [Everyone laughing.] Murph: (through laughter) Shut. The fuck up. Everyone. Alright. [Pause as everyone continues to laugh.] Jake: S-- sorry. Murph: So last time, you left Calder's home to pursue Gowan to the Ice Knife, but received a call from Albin along the way-- [laughs] Shut up, dude. Jake: Bahumia. Bahumia. [Everyone laughs.] Murph: This is precious information! Jake: Bahumia! Emily: Bahumia! Bahumia. Caldwell: (exaggerated) Bahumia! Murph: Yeah, okay. You guys are like pokemon now? [The others laugh.] Okay. Alright. Worst bit ever. Okay. [Jake: Bahumia] You recieved a message from Albin--

Murph: -- You were greeted by a ghostly message in the ice that said Friends… Murph and Emily: Betray! Emily: I remember! Murph: You remember. Good job, Em. Jake: Holy shit. She's back. Murph: You get a sticker. Emily: I wrote it in my notebook. Murph: Very good! [Emily: Yeah, yeah, yeah.] That almost makes up to your behavior for the first three minutes of the show [The others laugh.]

Murph: And that's where we are now. Caldwell: Alright! All my real betrayal heads get ready! Emily: Yeah! Caldwell: This is where it starts! Murph: [laughs] Shut up. All of you. [Everyone laughs.] Caldwell: (through laughter) I can't. I have to talk for another hour at least. I'm so sorry. Murph: It's all good. Alright. So--

Murph: Sweet, well we'll talk more about this over on our Patreon. That's patreon.com/naddpod that's N-A-D-D-P-O-D-don't sing yet-- [Emily and Jake start to sing "We"] Caldwell: Bahumia! Murph: Yeah, remember that. [laughs] D-- Do you guys remember that? Uh-- Emily: Bahumia! Caldwell: What are you talking about, man? Murph: Bahumia! Does anyone else have anything they'd like to plug? Emily: Bahumia! Murph: Bahumia, yeah. Jake: Oh, yeah, I would love to plug Bahumia. Murph: Yeah. Check it out. Campaign 1, campaign 3. Caldwell: The world. Emily: Oh! [Murph: uh-huh] Uh, actually can I plug Bahumia? Murph: Great. Really good job, guys. Awesome. Caldwell: It's an incredible world. Incredible place. [Murph: yep!] Check out all of the incredible environs there. Murph: Yeah. Check it out. Uh- You can follow us on, uh-- Emily: Bahumia. Murph: You can follow us on social media that we may or may not use. @ chmurph's me, @ caldy's Caldwell, @ eaxford's Emily-- [Emily: @ bahumia] -- @ jakehurwitz is Jake-- Jake: I'm actually-- I'm actually @ bahumia. Murph: Follow our campaigns on Bahumia-- Emily: I'm also @ bahumia. Murph: I don't think you are. And you can tweet about the show using #naddpod that's N-A-D-D-P-O-D. [They sing "We are, We are" as the audio fades out, but Caldwell and Jake replace the words with "Bahumia"]

#it's literally always shit like this with these guys#naddpod#q
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axford going "ok calliope wants to hook up with someone can i scan the room. im only interested in people we've never met or seen before." firstly an insane thing to do to a DM but a very funny thing to do to your spouse so murph would have to on the spot mine the depths of either callie's type (glen) or his wife's (unfathomable) for random npcs. and the options he comes up with are 1) reedy long silver hair guy with a guitar 2) goth girl emo bangs 3) ripped and tatted up orc woman. i don't even know what to say. she didn't even hook up with any of them. she went and played cards with kenna

#that did make me laugh I would also play cards with kenna. shoutout kenna#but like making him do that and then going haha never mind is sooo funny but would make me crazy#her awesome bisexuality#naddpod#ba2mia#calliope petrichor
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you guys seem to love krudbert so much (i have been hearing about him since like the week i started naddpod) that i didn't really know what to expect when i got to the pathfinder two shot but it certainly wasn't without a doubt the most discworld party these guys have ever come up with. like textbook. goblin too nice for his death cult. tree farmer turned pinch hitter. incomprehensible 40 yr old lvl 1 wizard. i do get it krudbert and his kind eyes are that iconic but i feel like im seeing emily axford's take on a discworld unseen university wizard and we need to lock in

#she's not even doing rincewind she's doing the BURSAR#naddpod#she is dried frog pillsing it up#but even murph and jake are fully doing discworld ass character backstories#goblin with kind eyes who was too nice for his cult and farmer turned pinch hitter yup#that's discworld alright#krudbert does really remind me of like an animated character that I cannot put my finger on#i think it's the voice though. iconic voice#pathfinder two shot#this is once again making me miss riz though#my brother loves krudbert and zudrick so much and the whole last year I was like well I don't know those guys and he's been like ✋🏾 wait#as if I didn't have like six years of backlog to get through before getting to krudbert let alone skaldova
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ice knife saga 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 naddpod does family dynamics surprisingly well considering that its audio only improv and also the improv is run by four people who can't shut up about star fox 64 (can't blame them) but the extremely well developed kilde brothers dynamic combo with the weird atmospheric arctic horror/alien invasion vibe is well. dare i say peak

#naddpod#ba2mia#and I'll recognize that when they were talking about star fox murph did say he hadn't thought about it in a while#and apparently axford had never heard him talk about it in their decade of marriage so maybe I should give them their flowers for like#having a frog pc and NOT bringing up slippy every minute#the arc is crazy good though it does give the thing. i loved the uncertainty that they're treating the suspected infected with#like everything with gregor bc yes they're suspicious he got replaced but he is still calders brother....hell yeah#the ice knife saga#calder kilde
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hi! was there a certain point of the nadpodd strahd campaign where it clicked for you? i love nadpodd but also don’t get a lot of their references. so far strahd is using enough cultural refs to full house that i’m having less fun than normal.

also! i’m considering relistening to campaign one- did you find it the patreon eps worthwhile?

sorry for false advertising 🙇🏾‍♀️ i haven't actually listened to more than a few episodes of trinyvale strahd. i checked out a bit of it last year because i'm running strahd myself and thought it would be funny to see what they did with it...and it was lmao, but im listening to naddpod in order and im still on the back half of c3. in the same way I haven't heard the early short rests bc i just got on the patreon like a few months ago but from where i am rn it's worth it :)

i do actually get most of their references because of my older sibling's insane knowledge bank on 2000s nerd culture but whenever they get too caucasian about it (aka just nu metal and hit sitcom friends) im equally lost. i think that the nature of trinyvale has morphed and self flanderized to the point of like. the listener now has to accept the reality of the story they are hearing on a baseline but they also have to accept the oily film of delusion that is whatever the triplets think is actually happening. i.e. strahd is the manager of the white lotus hotel and part of that is actually a little true due to caldwell's "yes and" nature. and it is awesome but i can see why it's probably harder to deal with in a full mini campaign as opposed to a one or two shot

#that being said the friends theme needle drop in the five year anniversary special was probably the funniest thing trinyvale has ever done#but yeah it's probably more grating because it's longer form. the last time trinyvale had that many episodes they were like actually doing#plot and character development#you have to remember that it's gone from saving the world Fr to meeting sonic and going to moonstone#and whatever the media dimension one is I haven't seen it yet#naddpod#trinyvale#asks
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[Bahumia theme fades out.] Murph: WEL-come back to Bahumia everybody! Jake, Emily, and Caldwell: Ba-HU-mia! Murph: I'm your dungeon master (laughing) Brian Murphy, joined by Jake Hurwitz-- [Clip cuts forward. Emily, Jake, and Caldwell are laughing.] Murph: Uh, sweet guys, uh, why don't we go ahead and do a little recap? Caldwell and Jake: Yes please. Emily, enthusiastically: Ok Murph! [Caldwell and Jake laugh.] Murph: This was-- you're bringing off-mic bits onto mic. [Emily laughs.] When we-- Caldwell: You're bridging the bit! Murph: Yeah. The reason I was-- Jake: Sorry about that, Murph! Murph: The reason I was laughing-- Emily: (laughing harder) Sorry about that, Murph! Murph: You-- We can't all talk over each other-- Caldwell: It's okay, Murphs! Murph: We all have to calm down (laughing) and let each other speak. Caldwell: Everyone let Murph speak! Murph: That has to happen! Jake: Go ahead, Murph! [Emily is still laughing. She laughs harder.] Murph: Ok-- Thanks guys. (laughing) I-- haven't described what you're doing. [The others laughing.] Right before we started everyone just kept being really polite, but in a way that was not letting me start the recording. Any time I said "we're about to-- let's get started" they would go "ok Murph!" "let's go Murph!" "ready to go Murph!" Emily: I remember that, Murph! Murph: Yeah. Jake: Yeah. Sorry about interrupting you, Murph! Murph: Well the people at home didn't remember it, cause they didn't know. We have to tell them what's going on. (laughing) We can't just say shit. Caldwell: We should do a recap before the recap, Murphs. [Emily laughs.] Murph: Yeah, this is the pre- (laughing) the pre-show recap of the stupid fucking bits you guys do. [The others laugh.] Jake: Well put, Murph! Murph: Yeah this is why I was laughing when I said my name. Emily: (cackles) Touché, Murph! Murph: Okay guys. Uh, let's go ahead and do the real recap. Caldwell, whispering: Sounds good Murph! [Emily and Jake laugh.] Murph: So last time, you guys began-- (laughs). You have to stop. You have to stop. Emily: That was-- Caldwell's one was really good at the end. Murph, over her: So last time, last time, you guys began in Ma Goblin's moving lab [clip fades out].
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the only downside to naddpod being in a not-video format is having watched d20 and seeing how often murph completely silently breaks down over emily's hijinks but in a podcast that's registered as no reaction at all

#was thinking abt this while watching the last d20 episode bc I do think that they have increased the cuts to murph with like#his head in his hands directly after axford finishes saying something awesome#and she's been saying a lot of awesome stuff so far#naddpod