What's up everybody? I'm doing another Dragon Quest builders video like a month after the game came out when no one cares anymore So to add to the hype. I'm doing it with Ant dude. Hey, oh Spawn wave was also supposed to be here, but what's happening on your end spawn? I'm I'm filling up a river We've been putting off doing this for a week while spawn gets to the point where he can play online And he didn't realize that he's still like five hours away throughout this playthrough I'll be showing and do my island while spawn wave fills up a river Oops don't a lot of yard work over here, Anthony. I don't know if you watched my video I did recently when I was like building my farm up. No, I don't watch your content You don't watch my videos, of course. No, I've done a lot of work since then So I'm gonna show you around that island that little part of the island and you'll be seeing it for the first time as well As everyone else that watched that last video. Okay, I'm excited. I'm excited to oh my god What is this? So this is my oh my god What the hell have you been doing I wish you could see this one It sounds it sounds it sounds amazing sounds like a lot of fun happening over there That's my receptionist desk if you want to get in touch with me up here is where me and Malroth sleep Yeah, we sleep in the same room. It's a very tight space, too. Yeah, we don't we don't mind We're pretty good judge. I'm just saying I'm surprised We spent a good 60 hours in the campaign together and then you can go down and it's like a little storage room Holy cow. I knew you were addicted to this game, but I thought I thought that was just clickbait Dude, no, I wasn't kidding on this one Just on this one. Oh my god. You have propellers on this house. I know what how else would it keep a float? It's fair point. This is my mayor's office I can like use this registry here to like get different islanders over here on this island If I ring this bell, they should all run in. Oh god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh god I didn't know you can get a cow, but he looks happy. Follow me over here We can have a date Kim still hasn't opened the game.  Ah, this is the life. I'm so glad spawn wave isn't here She might want to get started on that game. It's gonna take 15 hours for to join you It's bond.  You should be here eating this delicious bread So last time I made this video all I had it was like a kitchen with like tables But I made a full-blown restaurant now I have a chef in here that cooks next to it I put just a bunch of tables and she actually puts food on the table as it's so good What what what a varied table three loaves of bread and one pasta? Feel free to take a bath. You're looking kind of dirty. I feel offended by that if you want some privacy.  Oh my god Well if you want food for free to take it these are chests in here should have like 60 salads or something crazy Wow, can I title the video like taking a shower with an dude? Uh, yeah, I'll be okay with that Apparently you can breed animals. I haven't figured that one out yet. I mean I know how the circle of life works But this is madness would It's amazing you've gotten anything done aside from just playing this also you have double the health that I do Did you beat the game? Yeah. Oh my god. Okay I wonder if the stuff you collect in my game I keep or you keep uh well if I click collect on this iron It gave it all to me. No Sick dude a thousand iron Rather than building at one of these areas we find a new place on the island and build like a friend resort You work with that. What is a beach resort made out of what material do you think? I would think wood? Haha like a beach restaurant is just hovering over the water. I'm thinking that made out of pure wood Okay, well, we're gonna need wood logs then I think this is an interesting twist.  Yeah, you have a while left. Brittany just said dude this place is straight banging now Oh, I loved Brittany Brittany was my favorite character. That is awesome We should have enough materials for this then if we're making it all out of wood We should be totally fine and you want to make it like in the water in the water I mean we could just make it right here because it's it's like the second you walk out of the portal You'll see it. I want to stop mine like in the depths. I wonder how far out you can go if you ever try that I haven't tried yet. No thing. It's just based on stamina. Oh, you know what? There's probably that weird mystical force that blocks you from doing a bunch of stuff That's what I was thinking, but you're also right I will eventually run out of stamina bunch of windows that could be good air vents. Holy cow Oh, this doesn't look good. No, I'm thinking of just an entire place made out of wood But it looks nice on the inside. I don't know if it's because of you, but I also have unlimited wood Well, you should have unlocked that I think when you do the chicken thing. Yeah It is a little bit surreal for me to say wood so many times Uh while doing this, um well because I'm here or yeah I just said infinite wood and it's just it's just a weird thought. I'm not against it about woods infinite wood Or just like a bunch of me Both actually, okay. Well, I'm gonna start building a foundation over here Do you want to make adjacent shacks so we'll have like my shack? Oh, yeah, that's perfect You can make your shack and then eventually spawn wave can make his shack. Well, I'm sale.  I need assistance You're killing nothing on my screen, but I see there are two crabs attacking me Am I helping you if I do this? No, what? You can't see them. Do you see my health dwindling down? But I'm getting hit by something. I think it's you There's a picture on my screen right now You know where they show like the I guess like the postcards that people take and somebody made a whole cruise like a cruise ship I mean, hey you guys just download these Something you can do is when you start going to the islands like you're going to now It randomizes the island every time and it always puts in one person's creation And you can actually steal their blueprint too Which is kind of maybe what I did for my floating island if I'm giving my secrets away What a youtuber taking someone's idea and claiming it as your own. Hey, I learned from the best of them Yeah, like the best. Should I put logs going the other way or is that weird judging by what I'm seeing that looks fine I think I'm not a huge creative person. So really my my opinion is uh Not someone to take super seriously I have good like concepts in my brain, but I struggle to figure out how they would actually come together and Yeah, that's that's my whole that's my whole life. I think I'll just make a cabin that the same size as yours And then we can just let our creativity run free. Yeah, I mean mine can be a little bigger Wow We can set up both of our cabins and then spawn wave could uh compare the two and say which one's best Oh, that's good. Although he won't see them for a while. That's the thing. He he doesn't have any influence right now Oh, yeah, we won't tell him who's his who's yeah, that's good. I like that I think I'm gonna make mine a little fancier with an ingredient. I don't think you have I think that I think that's cheating No, it's not cheating. I think the comment section will say if that's cheating or not You have like double my subscribers. So it doesn't matter You you win a lot of these say I still need to spend gratitude points to learn get crabs Yeah, there's a lot of them that I haven't unlocked which is probably why you see that Yeah, some of the wood I don't have access to because I don't have any bark I'm just fascinated by some of these things.  I did interesting. I was hoping you wouldn't think of that And only mine would have windows Just a self enclosed space. I'm about to grow the forest right now Okay, now I'm getting hit by a crab. I heard your house come together just then Was that a good feeling? Did you like that? Oh, it didn't come together. I screwed up and it on it On on came together. Yeah Somebody's crushing that pro controller over there. Oh, you can hear that. Oh, yeah, it sounds like a typewriter, man I'm always so garbage when it comes to building things like in a creative way I normally just build a square put the stuff in it and move on with my life Yeah, I feel like some of these some of these creations people have to like really plan some of them out I've never been good at that. Some of the quests are like we need eight beds and two torches I'm like, all right, cool. And I just randomly put eight beds and two torches somewhere. Oh for the quest. Yeah, that's a lighted for the quest Oh, okay. It looks like I do need some bark. I don't think those are bark trees though Those would just be wood trees bark trees. They're like massive and they're like they don't look like real trees I don't know. Can we go off to an island together? Oh waiting for guests. Can you go with me? So setting sail for blossom day in four three Oh, that's so cool. Oh god, this is gonna be an all day thing When we started this wood was just like I have a plan That was all he said This became an all day commitment now This is better than my plan because my plan was to get you to just build my rail for me my my minecart rail That's all it's all coming out in the open now, huh? Because I was so bored of doing it on my own because it was taking so long Okay, these big ones. These are the bark trees. So we have to destroy As many of these until you get bored and then we'll go back Okay Bark is actually I think that's the main thing that I usually run out of and I'm like, man I wish I had more bark a lot of cool things are made with bark But you don't get unlimited of that. You don't realize how much you needed until it's gone Do you do the thing where you like build underneath yourself to get to the top of the tree? Uh, I think I did it once because there was one acorn based quests Acorn based quest. I do not see a chicken anywhere on this island. Can you do this thing yet? We've timed that perfectly Okay, no, I found I found the chicken before we leave here. I'd like to find out the unique build on this island is Oh, I like to steal them. Okay. So I was messed around the smaller island and I realized there was a bigger one behind it So I found everything I need to do now Okay, I wouldn't mind another chicken. Oh, there's a chicken Hey, don't leave your sneak up on it.  Oh, okay. I see it.  So this is something that someone's actually made right just happened to be dropped in here I mean, that's my understanding. I'm not sure how the game like decides. That's the one they want Yeah, can you talk to these NPCs because I can only have one in my party at a time Oh, let's see the other one went up that I don't know why I'm pointing. You can't see there's the blue one I can talk to him just says hey Oh, so actually there's something really cool that I unlocked where so if I wanted to keep this I like draw a point here Whoa, and then I draw a point on the other side and I can like pick the height and all that and the width And then I say yes, and then it actually gives it to me as a blueprint the chicken attacked me He doesn't like you They just said it paralyzed me Good boy Wow I'm gonna give him a pet. All right. Good job. 300 bar. You think that's enough. How much do you have 232? That's perfect. That's fine. That's probably enough and we have a chicken. We can't harvest the chicken though I mean, we can But that'd be very I hate trying to find stuff in this massive bag You can organize it. You can have it self organize I know but I still don't know where things like I'm looking for a armoire should be up here in furniture Should it not the chairs and stuff am I blind? Are you guys getting uh close to done building your stuff some I think on the last part of the river um No, I mean, I'm not close not yet. So as soon as I hit the island you gotta stop building. I gotta judge Oh god, are we being timed now? Oh, I can have bunny ears. I have a fake mustache. I gotta do that. Oh, and bunny ears. Do I look different? Oh, wow, that looks cool. Why did you get that? I don't have that. I don't know. I'm not the person to ask questions I don't know what I'm doing. Oh, cool. I can travel to other islands. I could do a Multiplayer now you guys ready you guys ready no judges judges coming. I'm just kidding. I'm still filling up this river I just wanted to introduce some drama into the end of the situation. Finally youtube drama.  Yeah, it turned out pretty cool. Actually, I'm gonna copy that What a youtuber on that It looks too. It's such a youtuber. I mean, that's a shack right there. You did it. All of a sudden Ann's gonna be addicted to a game tomorrow It's his thumbnail and everything.  That's great I don't appreciate your negativity right now We can make this a series. Ooh, we can do this again But we do it on separate sides of the island so we can't peep on what the other person's doing That's not a bad idea Actually, that's probably a better idea and because then yeah, I wouldn't copy Your major is bigger Uh, yeah I really like xenoblade. I like persona. Oh, no, you hear that one Well chronicles too are just regular xenoblade all of them and x I haven't beaten x but I played a lot of it Wow, I don't want to I don't want to laugh at what you've done But I don't want to say it because then he's gonna know which I'm talking about that's uh Wow, something you did is really really ugly. I'm not gonna say what though What did they have a dynamite in this game or some kind of explosion? Like could you put stuff in like somebody's house and then just blow it up like red faction style? I'm very unsure why you're No, there's no way you could do something like that. I'm just I'm asking for a friend. That's all yeah No, I totally I totally get what you're saying.  That's fine I was only having a good time. Just put a couple of friends Hey, don't you what are you doing in my house? You get out of here Taking my ideas. I can't make windows. I don't have any glass. Do I have unlimited glass? Oh wait, or am I out of glass? You're out of glass. Yeah, I'll make so I can't make window like I'll make you glass. Hold on When do we blow up my building? I'm severely disadvantaged, but it's fine. You're not disadvantaged. I'm making you fine. No, it's fine. It's fine It's fine. I'm making you glass I'm creatively disadvantaged. There's gonna be no way of being able to tell which is which All right, so I see the teleporting pad thing. So I'm about to okay. Well, I'm not done yet But come in anyway. All right. I'm here. You know what it shows me where you guys are anyway It looks like so I'd be able to see who's you are naked What oh our clothes required here My good. I know I guess not. Okay. All right, you put a scarecrow on top of your That's what I was laughing at I like it. Thank you for breaking down my wall spawn. That was appreciated. How do you think I walk into rooms? Okay, you put a hammer in my hand. You're not supposed to be in the room yet. Oh really dude literally just Knocked out the wall next not even the door the wall next to the door. Let me see don't fix it Yeah, I want to know what this man did to you. Don't you walk in that room until I say so Oh, I see something you've done that I really like. How did you do that already?  I made you glass I know I know but then spawn came in and I guess I sort of just ended things But I can guess I can keep building crab won't let me build nothing Give us like a timer or something like a like a five minute time like the last five minutes or so Okay, you can go five minutes five minutes from now looking at all right I don't like to pressure. I I take back the time. It was a bad idea No, no, no, no youtubers don't come up with their own ideas because they're always bad don't hit me I'm trying to I'm trying to kill the crab. I need food. I'm at zero percent. Oh really? Yeah, what kind of island is this? There's no food anywhere No, there is go uh go to your map and walk up to the green area and you'll find a little kitchen And you can take all the food you want out of the the chest. There we go. Okay green gardens I'm warping. Geez you filled all this. This is fancy. They just sit in here and build you food Or make you food the whole time. Uh-huh.  Yeah, you don't have that going on. I don't feel Oh, no, no, of course not of course not. Um Spooky hey chef just not tonight. I'm done. I'm not gonna lie at some point I am gonna build a balcony, but I won't steal it for the judging you have two minutes Oh, really? I'm not giving up. You know what if you want to give up? That's fine. Um, I didn't Are you calling me out? Yeah, actually is this like a permanent residence or is this you like rent this out? I'm looking at bmb. Yeah, man. Hey, dude. I'm telling you give us nice rates on this So how do we move this? Uh-oh. Okay. Let's say Uh would yes, let's say would that maybe somebody took the buggy and started driving around with it And he fell off of there. How do I get it back up there? Uh, press x Lift off. Oh, dude, that's cool. I mean it's a super hypothetical question Yeah, of course the previous question has nothing to do with my entrance right now either. All right Oh, there's blasters Where's that? Where's that crab? I'm gonna find that crab now. How much time do we have now? 20 seconds Welcome back to dqb Dqb cribs today We're checking out and dude check and my shack and we're gonna see who has the better shack and the loser may or May not have to have his shack blown up.  He doesn't have a doorbell. You're gonna have to just I don't know.  What's up fam?  Why are you saying it? You're not the host. Are you wearing a towel? Hey I thought he was gonna actually expect us. Okay. I am expecting you that's that Am I underdressed? Okay. Let's just go inside. Oh, you're expecting a lot of company Little uh Like I guess two person getaway on a beach side resort. Here's where you have uh dinner with four plates I didn't think this through all the way, but that's nice. I'm seeing like eight plates on that table for two people Uh, oh, you're right. You're right It's a dinner plate in a dessert plate, right? Is that how I know? Yeah, man.  Oh, it looks like something happened in here. Oh my goodness Oh my god I have to say the scarecrow in the middle of the room. It kind of loses you some points. It's a little weird Yeah, what made you hang up the carpets on the wall? Uh, because it looks nice And it's a great idea for a shark and I'm not just saying that because I did the same thing Wow I'm gonna go Wow, what a great idea that I also did.  I don't know how to get naked like you did But you can see the exterior of his place. It's pretty pretty messed up. What why is it just floating blocks all over the place? I mean very unprofessional. Welcome back to dragon quest builders two cribs With a z let's go in here. We're gonna see what hopefully is it up there. Oh, I didn't expect you I was good I'm sorry. Here. I am just playing my piano. Where did you get the piano? Yeah, the piano is I'm gonna ask us. How did you get it in here? I have higher living. I need a piano everywhere I go So I had the piano actually built into the room before the walls were built.  I like the big uh like window here. Thank you. There's a nice panoramic view of the Uh Well, it's a view get out of my bed Stretches, I'm just so bored by this it put me you're building. No. No, I don't think that's it Um, no, I like to stare at the neighbor when he's on his balcony Sometimes he goes out there naked thinking I can't see him neither of your rooms have second stories It's a shack. I mean you could have like a loft. I mean, I could but I already have a piano He's being very picky for someone. I don't see you building a shack Why did you put a scarecrow in there? Wait, you took my piano It's weird the disappearing piano really losing the point. You took my piano, I saw it in your hand I have the benefit of having a nice outdoorsy area where you can look out and get get some fresh air Yeah, but it's it's raining right now. I I'm I didn't decide that that is no fault of my own god's decision Oh, well, okay woodwinds.  He just hit me in the head with his club for his mallet. Oh Oops. Well, okay. I mean if woodwinds everyone come outside Okay Where's the uh I'm just gonna I'm gonna drown with my ship. I don't think oh, no you don't knock me out of the bed.  I'm definitely stuck. I have a giant vehicle on top of my grave. I can't get out.  Absolutely, but I kind of want to keep mine. I wish these blasters would blow your place up Wow, okay. Here's what I remember what yours looked like. I'll rebuild yours It was just a table with way too many plates a couple of rugs on the wall and then you know a front of the house I can rebuild that for you. Yeah, there's just it was that simple There's only a there's just a piano and some glass in this one I came in to have a good time in the whole time the second you saw that scarecrow that was it You just laughed at me the whole time. We had a great time. Did you not have a good time? I had a good time. What is that? What is that can you get in here with me? Oh, yeah Hey, that was it for this episode of the QB Cribs. Yeah With a z. All right. That's the end of this playthrough had a lot of fun built some shacks did some things Thank you to spawnway for finally joining this video at the very last minute and uh, what did you do again? You found a chicken told me which shack was better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, then you blew me up after I said yours was better Oh, well to to to be fair.  I was trying to blow his shack up I just happened to be inside the shack And thank you and dude for uh, we just we just moved on right past that didn't we unwillingly playing a part in the competition I didn't know I was gonna do Yeah Now I have uh, I have an idea of what to expect for the rest of the game And then I'm going to come back stronger and more creative than ever Yeah, if you guys like this, let us know we'll do another one If you're not burnt out and dragon quest builders yet And if you want to check out some more great content on the internet and dude makes some really freaking insane Well structured written fully Dialogued videos that I could never imagine descriptive. Thank you And if you want to stay up to date with all things gaming news check out spawnwave That seemed like an underwhelming shout out after ant dudes Like sweat. Oh Oh, I mean, I've been on I've been on your channel a bunch times as it is So that's true. 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Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx dot com, New York Powered Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW.H.com and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists. Hi, welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the definitely able. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. Arlene is not here today, but before we get to our topic at hand which is a very interesting topic of being visually impaired, blind and being an author as well as having a wonderful career as a psychologist. Let's thank our sponsors Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services and many many many others as well as the partnerships of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired and many others. We would like to welcome our guest, Joe Covey, psychologist and author, welcome to Ableton on Air. Well, it's great to be here. Okay. First, let's begin. You are besides and accomplished author, you are also a psychologist despite your blindness. You know what, Larry? Technically, I cannot describe myself as a psychologist because I do not hold a license. Okay. Right? So I can say I'm a psychotherapist. Psychotherapist. Right? I can say I work in psychology, but I can't actually say I'm a psychologist. Okay. It's just a technical thing, but in the field. So go ahead. Would you like to begin there? Despite your challenges with your career, let's start there and then work in as you being an author. Sure. Go ahead. The floor is yours. What would you like to know? What made you go into your career despite your challenges? It was a necessity, right? I needed something to do. I had an entire, you might say, a whole previous life as a sighted person and in that life I worked as an, I was an antique dealer and I had a very active business which made precise duplicates of historic costume. For museums, motion pictures, historic sights, things like that, but in the early 1990s I lost my eyesight and the business ended and I found myself going blind with outwork and very bored. So and living on, living on Social Security and I was, so I was probably at that time 32, 33, 34 and it wasn't much of a life. I remember speaking actually with a blind psychotherapist and complaining to him and saying, you know, even if I don't try, I'm probably gonna live at least another 30 years barring some misadventure. So, you know, I can't, if that's what I have to do is listen, just listen to the radio for the next 30 years. I don't know if I can do that. So his response was, well, Joe, why don't you do what I do? Become a psychotherapist. He said, it's not that hard. You're smart enough, which may have been a compliment. I don't really know. It's not that hard. You're smart enough. And you know, I have to say that psychology was not a passion of mine. It was something that if I were waiting in a waiting room at the dentist, I might thumb through a copy of psychology today. But history was my real interest. But I thought, well, all right, what am I gonna do if push comes to shove? And my eyesight really goes. Well, I could listen to people. I could think and I could talk. And I could do this. It's comfortable work. There's no heavy lifting. Nice, comfortable chairs. Talk to interesting people. So I started, I didn't see, I did not go to college out of high school. I didn't, I had no, I had no college background whatsoever. So I started at the beginning. And it took, you know, the good thing is it gave structure to my life. It gave me deadlines to me responsibilities, work, and work is the best therapy of all. So it, it provided me with a goal. And fortunately, psychology, psychotherapy is like most things in life. The more you know about it, the more interesting it becomes. So without really expecting to love the work, I was fortunate enough to find that I love the work, which is, which is the same as teaching. I'm also 20 years now teaching psychology classes, college psychology classes.  Do you challenge, do you channel your, or how can I say, do you channel your blindness or is it channeled through your writing and how, how is it channeled?  Yeah. No. Yes. Okay. Let's talk about your books. The quiet room. Let's start there. Well, what made, what made you write, or you write about the past in a lot of your books? Let's start there. What made you start writing the quiet room, which was quite interesting. Quiet room and the sequel to it, Female Academy, were originally written as one book under the title Psychotherapy with Ghosts. And that has now become the title for a series. So there are, there are at this point, three of them. And the third one, Bound by Faith, is going to be released on November 1st. So what is that, 10 days? Yeah, something like that. Yeah. What, what started it? I was at my stepdaughter's home asleep, or maybe not asleep in a, what they would probably call a hypnagogic state around dawn one morning, trying to get in another, an extra hour or so of sleep. She lives in a house built in 1822. So if you're familiar with old houses like that, they creak. Oh, they're noisy. I mean, if, if, if a cat walks across a room downstairs, you can hear it. So I was laying in bed, not quite awake, not quite asleep. I don't know. And I had a very, very distinct impression that someone came into the room, walked around the perimeter of the room, over to my side, stood over me, leaned over me, looked at me square in the face, held that position, straightened up, turned around and walked out. And it was all silent. But it was a very distinct experience for me. It really gripped me. I, as I mentioned, my, my interest really intensive interest is in history, particularly the 19th century. So why is that? What's the main reason behind? I mean, there's been a lot of historical writers, but what's the main reason that you wanted to choose the 19th century? You know, I, I don't know if I chose it as much as I was born in 1957. So I was a was what, four or five, six years old during the Civil War Centennial. And I think that made an impression on me. That's, that's one explanation anyway. That's the only thing I can point to that's concrete. And the second part to the quiet room, the female academy, let's lead into that. What? Yeah. What? Um, why did you call it female academy? Because much of it takes place at the Albany Female Academy, which was a real school. It was that the Albany Female Academy was founded in 1813. It is still in operation, in fact, operating as the Albany Academy for girls. So it, it, uh, it has the oldest women's alumna association in the world. I did not realize that there was an Albany Female Academy when I started writing into what was then one novel. There were a lot of very odd, serendipitous things that happened to me in the course of writing these quiet room and female academy were originally written as one book. But I very quickly found that in trying to find a publisher, if one does not have a publishing track record, then the great majority of publishers are not interested in anything that is even approaching 100,000 words. Those two novels together were about 120,000 words. And I also became aware that publishers like series, they see it, and rightly so. They see it as an opportunity to sell two books or three books or four books, as opposed to just one big book. So, so I, I had written Psychotherapy with Ghosts, these two books together as one book was trying to sell them to a publisher already starting on a sequel and thinking, I don't know if I can come up with another 120,000 word sequel. So, I had the brilliant idea, worked anyway, so brilliant enough, right? I had the idea of, this is what we do. We take the first 120,000 word book, we cut it in half, and the third book is another 65,000 words. So, when I presented the whole thing as a trilogy under the umbrella title, Psychotherapy with Ghosts, I was able eventually to find a publisher. But literally, I probably did get a hundred rejections. Yeah. Well, yeah. Now, I looked up a small list, well, obviously the list could be longer, but there's quite a few authors that are blind and visually impaired. And one of them is Oliver Sacks, Alice Walker, James Thurber, and so on. So, you know, there's more. For those that want to tackle who are visually impaired and they want to be a writer as a career, do you have any advice that you could give our viewing audience?  Do you have any advice to anybody that would like to be a writer? Yeah, I would say two things. Yeah. Don't. Don't even try it. Yeah, if you think you're gonna make a career out of it. No, you're not. That's, you would have better luck buying scratch tickets to be altogether candid, right? Why do you say that? It's a very, it's a very difficult thing to break into. Nobody makes money at it. If a person is under the under the impression that they're going to have some kind of income stream, that's highly unlikely. That is highly unlikely. So you suggest that people have something else to back up? You have to. You have to. Yes. So, you know, I'm a psychotherapist. I also teach all of these things. So I have not made, I haven't made any money. These books have cost me much more just in researching than I ever made in royalties or I ever actually expect to make in royalties. The other part, the other part of my answer to that is you're asking me if someone is disabled and they want to go into writing? Yeah, we focus on abilities, but go ahead. Yeah. My advice would be focus on writing. Don't focus on your disability. I would say it's immaterial. Because if you're not a good writer, I don't care what you write or how disabled you are. Nobody wants to read it. Nobody wants to read it anyway because you're unknown. So how does a person make themselves known? Just keep writing and writing? Keep writing and keep promoting.  I'm always hawking books. And very frequently they get given away, but I'm always selling books. I'm always trying to promote them constantly, one way or another in every way that I can. Whether it's by word of mouth, whether it's public speaking, whether it's a venue like this, social media, I have a YouTube channel. I'm putting up a commercial on YouTube, so producing a commercial for that. I have a Facebook page, of course. Publishers, as much as I have personally no interest in social media, right? If you have no interest in social media, well, okay, then why do you use it? Is it a catalyst to make things better for people who want to read your books? I use it principally and initially because publishers will not consider a submission from someone who has no social media presence. They see things like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all of those things. They see that as the principal means to promote books. That used to be the publisher's job, but that was the publisher's job from the 20th century. In this 21st century, publishers have given that job to their authors by and large. It's up to the author to promote their books. Publishers see social media as the principal means to do that. What I have since discovered, in my experience, is that it doesn't really matter how many visits on a Facebook page. It doesn't really seem to affect sales. I think that that is in part because the average time somebody is looking at the screen when you're at a site like Facebook is something like two or three seconds. It's very difficult to get anything across. I have switched my emphasis to YouTube on the belief expectation. I think I am correct in this that if a person goes on YouTube, they are already settling down to watch a five minute, a 10, a 30, maybe an hour long video, an entire show, a program like this. They are set up for a more extensive longer duration of attention. I think that a YouTube channel has more potential to sell books than Facebook. Let's talk about psychotherapy with ghosts. Since you're in the psychotherapy field, what made you want to write that? Is the book set up as though you were interviewing the ghosts themselves? Can you explain more about that? Parts of the book are literally psychotherapy sessions between the main 20th century protagonist and a ghost. Can you explain those that don't know what is a protagonist? Main character. Main character in any fiction. Can you give an example? The premise of the whole series is that in two parallel plot lines, at two points in time, in 1970 a Manhattan disillusioned failed psychotherapist quits his practice and decides to start his life over again as an antique dealer. He buys an abandoned building on the shore of Lake Champlain, intending to make that his home as base of that operations and discovers that one of the upstairs room in the house is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful young woman. So against his, against his better judgment and against his insistence that he's never going back into practicing psychotherapy, he finds himself sitting up all night long speaking with this woman. And of course falls in love with her. It has complications in his own personal love life. The other plot takes place more or less in 1840 and it is the story of that woman's life and what happened to her to cause her to become trapped between life and death. Did you base psychotherapy, did you base it on your own life or pieces of your own life and why was that? The answer to that is yes, though I would, I would hasten to add that only recently did someone point out to me, Joe, you were an antique dealer and now you're a psychotherapist. This guy was a psychotherapist and became an antique dealer. You switched it around. I switched it and it honestly didn't even occur to me. You would call that a blind spot in psychology, right? What is meant by a blind spot? There's something that's patently obvious to anyone else but the individual is oblivious to it. So yeah, the main protagonist in 1970, he is in some ways a lot like me. There are many objects in the house which are objects which I have in the past owned. In some cases still do own.  So I know these things very well and I remember them in great detail. So those objects and that life, that way of life is drawn from my memory quite a bit. But also his experiences as a psychotherapist are drawn from my current, my more current or contemporary experiences. Do you miss, since you are blind and you had your sight, do you miss not seeing, yes or no, and how has that made you more, you know, or made you better as a person? Let's see if I can rephrase that. Well, do I miss having eyesight? I would say yes but not as much as I expected I would. Okay, can you explain why? I would say that in the first few years of being completely blind, which I am completely blind. I have no light perception whatsoever. So there's nothing there. It's just a gray amorphous plane. In the first couple of years or a few years I was much more cognizant of not being able to see things. But, you know, you can get used to just about everything and I lead, I lead just as much of a visual life as I ever did. I'm just not necessarily seeing with eyesight what is actually out there. But, you know, the occipital lobe in my brain, back here where eyesight happens, that's as active as it ever has been. I dream visually and I keep going. And I'm constantly, I'm constantly visualizing everything. So I'm visualizing this right right now. I visualize everything all the time. Now my, and the odd phenomena is that I develop because of that visual memories of things that I've never seen. Now, how is that and why is that? The visual memory part. Why of that is because I'm the same person as I was as the visual person. As the sighted Joseph Covey is the same person sitting here. He just can't see with eyesight now.  He still has this tremendous library of still and moving pictures in his mind to draw from. So my thinking processes are the same. My creative processes are the same. People have commented that these novels are very visual. And I guess they are. And I have visualized everything that takes place in them. Well, what is your, before we end, because we have a couple of minutes left, what is your future goal as an author or a psychotherapist or both? I wouldn't say I have any real future goals as a psychotherapist except to continue doing what I'm doing. As an author, I'd like to produce at least one more novel. I'd like to produce, I am working on a non-fiction work right now. Do you see any of your books turning into a movie or a documentary or any of that? Of course. But that's every author's fantasy. So of course I do, sure. But you know, the odds that that will happen are not great. You know, Larry, you asked me a few minutes ago the extent to which these books are, maybe in some way, autobiographical. And I would be remiss if I did not add that the point of these books really is about our relationship with God. I'm not a religious person. But if you had known me 30 or 40 years ago, you would have known me as the most atheistic, anti-God person you'd ever met. And that is very much not the case for me now. I am not actively religious in the sense of an organized religion, but my relationship with a God is very important to me. So in the course of these novels, the protagonist goes from being a staunch atheist to becoming someone who believes that there is a God, and he comes to believe that because of his experience with the ghost, it's a symbionic thing. Because as he puts it, you cannot believe in ghosts and not believe in God. If you accept the existence of a spiritual dimension, then you are accepting that there is a God or a spirituality out there. So she, the ghost, saves his life because she takes him from being an atheist into someone who believes that there is a God of some sort.  So she needs him as much as he needs her. And that is the real, that is the real story. And with that said, I would like to thank you for joining us on this edition of Abledon and Annette. And what are you going to have me back? That's the real question. Very soon. Is there... I'm just warming up. Yeah, you wanted to see, it was kind of, well it's not comical, you wanted a three-hour block. Can you tell people where they can reach, where they can reach you if they want to get some of your books or get in contact about your writing? These books are available anywhere books are sold. You can go to any bookstore and they can order it for you. If you go to the Barnes & Noble in South Burlington, they have it on the shelf. They can be ordered from Amazon. They can be ordered in all electronic forms. Kobo, Kindle, all of those things. 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Why would it say that why would it be locked in portrait okay so we'll do this in portrait that is the phone like no no it's not locked okay I must have messed up the settings when I made the live that is very bad planning oh well very bad planning so let's do this still yeah yeah we're in portrait yeah we are in portrait mode that's the modern way to do things yeah and we're live both on YouTube and on tiktok hello tiktok my name is Kim Diaz Holm also called an Unge Had Holm and with me in my art studio I have Isaac van Dien van Dien it's written so it's written that should be Fondren Fondren that's even better yeah and Isaac and I have been working on a role-playing game called the outcast Silver Raiders for the last two and a half years yep and we just launched the Kickstarter and less than a week ago yeah six days ago six days ago yep and it has crushed the goals so far been really really good we actually met the goal in five hours which I was shocked by I did not I had no idea what to expect honestly going in like you put something like this out there we've never done a kick starter before I don't think either of us really knew what to expect and we were just blown away by how many people friends and family people we've never met before from the internet who were as excited about this as we were yeah it was a really exciting day the first day when just seeing the numbers rise and expecting it to just drop dead at any moment but it still hasn't dropped dead nope and I I have another job this is not my only job and I went to work that day and I really should have taken that day off because I was not focused on my work at all I was just like so excited about the Kickstarter like watching it feeling really nervous feeling really excited and it's just been awesome so can you give us a brief introduction to what is our what is outcast Silver Raiders yeah so outcast Silver Raiders is an old school role-playing game and it is specifically an occult medieval old school role-playing game so most role playing games of this nature are based on Dungeons and Dragons and Dungeons and Dragons has a sort of specific setting which is very high fantasy it has elves and dwarves and wizards and clerics and all these things that if you're a fan of role-playing games you're very familiar with it also has a world in which these things are very commonplace you have orcs and goblins and dragons and there's a whole fantasy society that usually is set up realistically for a world in which wizards and clerics and all these things would exist what I wanted to do as a big fan of medieval history and someone who loves medieval history I listened to a lot of podcasts about it I've read a lot of books about it I wanted to make a role-playing game that was a little more grounded in medieval times and kind of the truth of that while still making it a fun role playing game so that's the medieval part the occult part is that I wanted to make something that kind of leaned into this satanic idea about role-playing games when I was a little kid my parents are pretty religious and my mother had read all these things about D&D being a tool of the devil and that it would teach you to practice magic and it would get you to kill your friends and all these things and having played these games since I was a little kid and being into metal and dark art and all this stuff I wanted to make a game that actually felt like that so that is the occult part so instead of magic being out in the open and very real it's forbidden it's secretive it's very dangerous it's very dark it leans much more into what you might call like real world magic like grimoires from the 1800s and the descriptions there of rituals and kind of the imaginations of people of like what these rituals involving like sacrifice of goats and virgins and all these things might look like so those two things together occult and medieval make it an occult medieval role-playing game and the old school part is a certain style of play that harkens back to older role-playing games from the 70s and a much simpler style of rules that sort of engenders a certain specific style of play that I really like so we got in contact with with each other in the spring of 2020 yes and a specific time in the spring of 2020 I would say yeah and I think it was like the day we signed the contract I think New York shut down because yeah I think it was two days later I think New York I think we signed the contract on like a Thursday or Friday in New York shut down because of COVID like that Monday and you could no longer go out of your house or do anything so we had all this excitement about the game and then the world I think really changed for a lot of people including us yeah definitely and the plan when we started it was that it was supposed to launch that fall yep yep and now finally it's here but but we have a couple of questions as well from different people we have one question from Imad Otala two questions one of them is will there be a third-party license down the road absolutely you know when we what is the third-party license sure so a third-party license is something with role-playing games I think it's particularly common with old school games OSR games that really just puts up the legal framework that says you can make things for a game you can make things that use the system and the settings of our game and we don't have a problem with that and we're not going to claim that you know you're infringing on our copyright or on our rights in any way we absolutely want to do something like that I think it's something that before the Kickstarter was this successful I didn't know if anyone would want there to be a third-party license for the game but yeah I'm definitely open to it one of the things that we've talked about while I've been here in Bergen visiting Kim is his kind of stances on copyright and how you know I think if you follow Kim on anything you know that he has some pretty strong and well-formed opinions about that and I think that that would just lean really well into that ethos to offer a third-party license so yes we are definitely open to it I don't have much experience with it but I will do what it takes to ensure that other people can use our stuff and build on our stuff in order to make things wow this is great I actually have not seen this piece of art before in my life this one has been finished for a long time yeah I've never seen it before I'm really bad at scanning and sending the finished art I'm noticing because this has been finished for a long time one of the things that made me so happy to join this project is that I will be able to to release this art for free use after the role-playing game is out so after it's out then I will do with this like all of my art and release it so people can download it and can change it and can even sell it or use it for their projects use it for their campaigns and that's sort of how I feel art should be and with most projects like this people are not as willing as Isaac was to say yes to something like that so that is great and also we have promised on the Kickstarter 10 of these pieces will be which we sold that we had an aesthetic silver raider tier on Kickstarter that you could back that would get you the books how much you did that cost $285 so that we were really looking at that as you're paying $200 on top to own an original piece of Kim's art like one of these pieces of paper that Kim is going through right now and we sold through that and like I don't know the first day or two yeah I think the first after the first day all of those tier that tier it was completely sold out yeah yep so we thought this would be a good time to announce more of that tier so we're gonna put 10 more of those up I will put it on the Kickstarter the timing of that I am traveling in Bergen so I don't have full access to everything I have at home but we'll make sure that people know when that's going live because given how quickly the other one sold out we do want to make sure that if people are interested in that they do have a chance to get that tier and if you have already back on Kickstarter you can change your pledge really easily so it doesn't lock you out of doing this if you are interested and basically we will as you see there are more than 20 pieces of art made for this game so we will basically go through all the art and find 20 really good pieces that we feel are equally cool yes and hopefully everyone will get something they like something they love yeah something they love yeah the perfect image for them I'll also say you might be able to see it a little more on the stream if you're watching this but I have not seen any of this in person until I flew here to Bergen this weekend and it as great as the art looks in the book I'm really impressed just seeing it in person I think this is probably true of all art right like if you go see the if you see a photo of the Mona Lisa you're like all right and if you actually go see it in Paris there is something really special about it and different you can see the strokes and it's the same thing here like the the colors I think are a little more varied we made the artistic decision to stick to kind of some pure shades of of red black and white but that really comes through that variation in these live pieces and like seeing the brush strokes seeing the the actual little details like one of the things specifically that I never knew until I saw these pieces in the flesh was that Kim does go back with white ink or white paint and when he scans it and sends it through it just looks like white and I didn't really get that so I think when people get these they will be really impressed with the difference between the printed version in the book which looks great but then actually having a piece will look even more cool yeah so another question here is why did you settle on creating a full game system instead of just setting for one of the other OSR settings and by that he means that when you but I or you back the OSR Kickstarter you will get everything you need to play the game is that correct yeah so there you know there's a bunch of different rule sets out there there's Labyrinth Lord and Old School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lamentations of the Flame Princess a bunch of these things one reason I did it this way was actually the setting book came later I had made my own version of these rules and played it with my friends for a long time and thought I had something that was pretty different that really did express that occult medieval ethos and so I started from the rules and for making something that I felt did have something unique to say mechanically I think it's it feels really different when you play it from playing Old School Essentials or something really based on like the BX versions of D&D so I think that it's a lot of small changes but that they add up to a pretty different feeling and so I wanted to put that out there and that was actually my first goal and then once I started working on the project and writing we built this really huge campaign setting as well and so that was kind of became another cool thing about it but it did kind of evolve organically from the rule set and not the other way around yeah so we also have a few questions on the YouTube and it's a bit hard for me to find them right now but there they are Vardigar asks I live in Spain shipping costs are insane like 65 euro that make me refuse to take a physical copy of the game is there no way to solve the shipping prices yeah I mean that that sucks you know like Kim and I definitely talked about it and I'm gonna be having these freighted in from China and then shipping them out to the US and the prices that we have on the Kickstarter are they're not inflated at all we're charging any like handling prices that's just what we're gonna be charged to ship them one of the suggestions we've seen that we think is a good one is putting the PDFs up on drive-through RPG with the print on demand option checked so that if you do buy the PDF you will have that option to get them printed on demand I've done that before the print quality is not you know I think quite as good and you don't get some of the custom things like the bookmark and the gilded edges and things but we absolutely understand that for some of these countries it's pretty ridiculous we wish it wasn't the case and we hope that that will be a good option for people who do want a physical copy but don't want to have it paid to ship from the US which we absolutely understand we have a couple of more questions here we have one Jeff will it saying add more than 10 to that tier well I mean yeah sorry go ahead Cam I we will consider it but I we also were thinking of maybe doing something else with art as well or at least at one point we talked about doing something I can exhibition or something like that but yeah and also know for me as an artist I may have chances to sell these pieces at a later point and yeah while I have been paid very well for this project it's taken a lot more work than we initially thought like all these projects and there isn't even when the Kickstarter goes very well there's no no huge profit for anyone we will just simply be able to print more of the books yeah and so so we will be discussing the possibility to do more art tier to add more to that here but yeah we have to figure things out we still we were weak in and we still haven't quite landed from the shock opening of it actually yes going well yeah and then there was a question from Vargade again oh my god is that a troll yes so this is an example image of how you can play the game as a more traditional fantasy RPG and then I wanted to incorporate some sort of Norwegian troll influences with this slightly trollish Cyclop so that is definitely is it a Cyclop is it a troll is there any difference who knows it's actually an interesting point that we had talked about that I think we're both interested in which is the flexibility of folklore I think that's something that really ties into that medieval ethos that Kim was saying like in Norwegian culture a troll kind of means like some kind of thing that threatens you or actually what I was saying that that originally in Norwegian culture a troll was a very diffused term yeah and then with the advent of our modern age and with speciation of the theory of species and all of that then trolls started to becoming more and more one thing and then finally you had artists such as Theodor Kittelsen and Erik Vaidenshåll who sort of took the trolls and made them into the image of the troll that we have today but that image didn't exist before Kittelsen and Vaidenshåll kicked us with their art right and so I think it's just great that we've had the opportunity with some of these pieces to just take a more loose interpretation and say like hey this is still a troll even if it doesn't match the kind of you know the thing that's become the traditional representation visually Paul asked did icex very religious parents back the Kickstarter they did actually yeah yeah my mom backed the Kickstarter and threw us a bunch of extra money so thank you mom for that and thank you for you know supporting me even if it doesn't maybe align completely with all their religious beliefs excellent another question from Chris Smith is I'm really looking forward to this release I know a lot of Kim's artists up for free use his daily ink monsters have been a big hit for our tabletop games as monster tokens my question is do you all plan to do any actual plays of the game at release and if so can others get involved so are we planning to stream sessions where we play the game could we do that could we play I want to play the game I haven't gotten to play the game yet would you game master a or you don't call it game I call it I call it referee will you referee a game online for a stream yeah I think it's a great idea it's definitely something we want to do um you know and there's a lot of tools like actually one of the big play test campaigns for this because of the pandemic that I ran was over roll 20 um and so I think I've done it before I'd love to do it again I'd love to keep give people kind of a chance to see it and as for others getting involved um I think we'll have to talk about it because it kind of depends on the interest there um you know we can't get everybody involved so we'd love to have some outside people I love you know gaming with people I haven't role played with before but yeah all really good suggestions I think we'll definitely do some kind of actual play with the art we're looking at now I just want to uh point out that at some point while drawing this there happened a change because in the early part of the art I was very much sort of uh feeling a little bit insecure and I knew that Isaac had said that he wanted something that's dark and satanic and diffuse and I didn't want regular monsters they wanted something more obscure and Lovecraft and stuff like that and I sort of kept falling back on how I thought in my head uh a role playing game should look like because we all have our insecurities and also I've worked with people saying like yeah we want this monster to look really weird and different uh nothing like you've ever seen before and then you toss them a bunch of ideas that are weird and different and they say no not like that not like that not like that and then what you're left with is exactly the thing they said they didn't want in the beginning so that's sort of the the problem of working with art directors you could call it once in a while is that the the intention of wanting something different is there but when it comes to actual practice it's not there but after working on this for a while I started noticing that uh no Isaac really likes the weirder I get the more he likes them so I started ditching this one was the first really wild one and I haven't seen this before in my life no you have I sent it to you and you said it's amazing just did you send me a phone phone yeah I sent you a phone photo you okayed this yeah no it looks great uh and also I think you blew past this one but I hadn't seen this before and this is great as well this is like such a you know I think there's some like symbolism there that we kind of might recognize and I just like love that kind of darkness of like yeah this is like a pit with snakes coming out of it but it also probably looks like something you might have seen in your reproductive section of health class and I think that's really awesome I might yeah and it's love crafting at the same time yeah so when Isaac okayed this even though he doesn't remember it I started uh yeah it's been a few years I started uh going gradually more and more loose with art and also I started ditching gradually I started ditching doing pencils and just drawing things directly with the brush now these are still some of the penciled pieces but when we get and this is pencil I'll when we're getting a we'll skip a bunch here because you can't see everything can't reveal everything and I think yeah this is one of the last penciled pieces and that this one is the first piece I did where there's no pencil they're just straight with ink just like my daily ink monster process and like all the art on TikTok so from this point on that was the way I was doing this as well and this one is also one of the wilder ones yeah and this is the where this is in the book is we have like I think I have eight pages of the ritual mishaps table it's something I posted about on our Instagram but I always really loved in the warhammer setting that they had this perils of the warp table with all this stuff like these things that could happen that were dangerous you know or violent because you used magic and something went wrong so I turned that into this huge table and one of the things that can happen is a portal from hell opens and all of these demons come pouring forth it's one of the things out of 100 and so this is yeah and I think it's probably which number is this oh I don't know which number should be it's probably I think roll I think that might be 99 because 100 is like you 100 is like an angel takes notice of you you turn into an angelic being so I think this is the last one before the only positive one in the uh the table excellent so from this point on all the art is done directly with the brush and I think the art actually improves with that and also after you know meeting you in the flesh and getting to talk about this I'm probably going to go back and make some of the stuff even darker and more Lovecraftian here and there so there is there any more questions is there a bestiary in mind so in the mythic north book there is a big table it goes from zero it goes from one to 120 and the reason for that is that when you roll on that table you roll a d100 but you add 10 if you're in kind of like medium wilderness like in trails or on planes and you add 20 if you're in full wilderness like forest or mountains so you can get all the way up to 120 so in there some things have a more than one in 120 chance of occurring so it's 88 unique encounters some of them are monsters but I would say that more of them are characters in the setting or in the system excuse me there's no mechanical reward for combat killing anything doesn't get you any experience points so combat is set up more as something for characters to avoid in the system and so I wanted to make a full list that's about half of the mythic north book of encounters that people could have where they could certainly turn violent if things went wrong but they don't automatically start out as like the only thing to do here is kill this person or kill this creature so we have plenty of weird creatures and strange stuff in there but I hope that they have a more nuanced set of needs goals that they have beyond just like let's just kill this thing yeah there's not much of you know I've killed my 20th orc now no no that that that doesn't happen part of the occult medieval idea is that every monster that we do have should be unique you know if you think about monsters in medieval folklore they're often the focus of a whole long book or a whole long story around this one monster and so I wanted to lean more into that of like if someone was going and hunting the tree stalker in the mythic north that would be a whole big quest and a whole big thing and not just like something that happens and you kill this thing and you move on and kill the next thing yeah a couple of more questions I love this art I'm regretting not backing at the level that includes a piece of original art any chance for an add-on for the art and we already answered that that we are going to make more add-ons for that tier specifically and we're we're looking into all sorts of different options but we're yeah we are committed to adding more to that tier because I think we can sort of sum it up and say there will be ways for you to buy more of this original art in the future some of that will be through the Kickstarter and then there's probably going to be other ways after that Terry says it's yet it is yet and if I'm not mistaken Terry yeah so it is so Terry's my wife very wonderful she's been extremely supportive of this even when I occasionally get grumpy because I'm like writing and I want solitude when I'm doing that so at our launch party for the Kickstarter which we had in Brooklyn on Halloween on Halloween she made all the hors d'oeuvres made a custom cocktail organized the entire party for me and also dressed up as Yeda as her costume including buying a little stuffed cat from Amazon that is designed to sit on your shoulder so is this a random encounter you can roll this is a random encounter and this is actually a witch so we have an accused witch in the book we have a witch hunter and then we have Yeda who is actually a witch are you spoiling stuff now I think it's fine to tell people that there is a witch excellent um what are your plans for continued support of the game once the Kickstarter campaign is over well it it is a lot of work um for sure and there's a lot of work yet to be done you know even though as I said and you can kind of see most of the art is done the vast vast majority of the writing is done there's still tons of stuff to do to get this to production so I'm trying not to put the cart before the horse and plan too much I do have one big idea which I've talked to both kim and lax about which is a hopefully smaller source book that would be called Jerusalem that would be focused more on the crusades and outcasts journeying to the medieval holy city descending beneath perhaps facing off against nope nope nope nope nope too much too much so I have plans for that source book that that that was spoiler territory for things we don't even know will that yeah we that spoilers for things that may never exist but I do have a lot of ideas for things here is there any core rules for some stress and or fear system like something like the classical call of cthulhu games do we have sanity no we don't um and I don't but in the game I'm talking about haha yeah no uh and I I found in play tests and I I have I've played tests of this myself I also have a few other people actually they ended up being around the world by no design of mine we have a group in California a group in Oklahoma a group in the UK all testing this I think everyone reported the same thing which is that given the dangerousness of the system I think the players are nervous enough about their characters that we don't need to add an additional system on to track that yeah because it is a pretty lethal system it is and again yeah there's there's no need to get into combat so it is lethal but I think once players get used to that they will try to find ways to avoid combat or do really clever things to tip the odds in their favor one of the thing I liked with the system and this is sort of this was the first piece of art I actually made for yeah the whole thing and that set the tone for the rest of sorts and these are the three out costs which are the three main classes uh rogue uh sorcerer and warrior and behind them they have a bunch of retainers and the retainers they carry your shit they they are a sort of a cheat for an encumbering system yep yeah they uh but they can die they can die and one of the most interesting things I felt while reading the system originally was that when your character dies one of the retainers can jump in and become your new playable character yep yeah which is sort of a awesome type of extra life system yeah and you know there's not there's a cost there but you can definitely do it um there are playtest campaigns people did it um and yeah retainers are important I think when people play this game they learn that fairly quickly and they become some of them become attached to their characters their retainers some of them you sort of think some of your friends might be a little psychotic because they start treating them as like uh as cattle yeah as like test subjects but you know I think that's part of the osr ethos but does the player control their own um retainers or does the referee control them the player controls their retainers to a degree most retainers are just laborers or craftspeople and they won't actually fight there's a morale uh role that anyone who's familiar with osr mechanics will be familiar with and they'll probably just get scared and refuse to fight but you can't hire mercenaries who will fight for you he looks scared already uh and paul asks how do you balance putting the character into dangerous situations with not accidentally killing them um I think some of that is up to the referee though I do have a lot of advice about that and the advice that I give in the books uh is all about making the situation clear making it clear that they are entering into danger usually making it clear why they want to enter into the danger and giving the players a lot of agency so if they die they know that it's because they chose to go into danger and not because the referee just sprung a trap on them that they couldn't avoid okay I think we will uh start uh we will be going towards the end of this live soon let's look through a couple of the newer pieces because we've mostly been looking at older pieces this is sort of another piece that's for me symbolized a change in the art towards something I like a lot better I not that I dislike the old art but I I think this kicks even more us and now we're getting into spoiler territory again but there might be spiders I think I there might be spiders I put some sections of the big spider dungeon in the preview pdf so that's actually cool for people to see this art is not in that pdf um but this is some of the art that accompanies one of the big dungeons in the setting book and here you can see that I've gotten a lot more relaxed and a lot wilder as uh as I felt more confident in in what I was doing and that it was actually hitting the right spot any final questions for us before we end this stream so um Mogul says the Jerusalem source book which you might release in the future sounds amazing so that's cool well if we if we get through this I mean we'll get through this but when I get through this I will start thinking about the future I want to focus on doing the best job we can do with this product that we have now but I'm glad to hear people are enthusiastic about that idea I certainly am I love the crusades we've got a bunch of positivity from tiktok we got I'm in love with the art bro give me is he such a comfortable nostalgia for some reason and just overall a lot of positivity like excellent and if you're on tiktok uh please head over to uh or google uh outcast silver raiders you can go to my profile and click on the beacons link and there you will find the Kickstarter if you're interested in old school role playing games or just a little bit of satanic panic then check out the Kickstarter yeah and our our instagram osr underscore rpg also just has tons of links to the Kickstarter I mean we're we're promoting it non-stop trying to get as many people as we can to hear about it and that's the cover art yeah here is the actual cover art I think this might not be available because I might want it show me the money okay one more question here how much is is it inspired by the punk style of murkborg um I asked you would say morkborg morkborg morkborg um I don't think there's any inspiration there which is not a knock against them at all um you know I started working with Kim on this at the beginning of 2020 I've been working on my own on it like I think I found an old post of mine in a forum from six years ago when I was talking about these things so I've been thinking about it a lot I think there's definitely some overlap there because people who like role playing games also tend to like punk and metal and I'm sure that in fact I know that I like a lot of the same bands as the guys who did as I would say murkborg um so I think there's probably some like shared background there of like we all have grown up listening to heavy metal you know listening to this stuff looking at the art but there wasn't really any inspiration I think their book is great um I backed it on Kickstarter I've backed a bunch of the third-party supplements that have come out on Kickstarter I really respect like their take on kind of like formalized like graphic design like what you would see in old zines I think that's an awesome take for a role-playing game um ours is not really that you know I think there's a shared style but otherwise pretty different products so I'm sure I would get along great with those guys if we ever hung out yeah so for my part I I have not been good at following the rpg scene for many years so I started hearing about murkborg or Swedish murkborg uh when people said oh your art looks like murkborg and then then um then actually I might be mistaken but someone sent me a book that I think is a third-party extra that's compatible with murkborg where they had used a bunch of my art for free use so so there is sort of a connection that it's just I didn't make the connection yeah uh and that's very exciting uh and you know it's probably a bunch of the same influences there as well I mean all my art is you know inspired by uh late 80s early 90s or 90s comics I mean it's Frank Miller it's Sam Keith it's Simon Bisley it's Bill Sinkiewicz it's um all the comics great and you find a lot of the same stuff and in a lot of other artists these days so so it's not that weird and also the punk aesthetic uh I you know I made my fan scenes I played in a shitty punk band and uh we were truly shitty but uh but um yeah so it's not that surprising that there are some similarities uh I think this will be the final question also what are some past projects you both worked on well nothing together um this is our first time working together this is actually my first time this weekend I met Kim in person like we talked online but only in person like three days ago um I have not published anything you know myself um I've been a gamer since like I was 11 years old um so I guess that's I don't know I'm turning 39 next week someone else can do that math um the the things that I've done is I think um I started this club called the Carcosa Club it's in Brooklyn New York we have a nice storefront and Greenpoint um it's a private club for tabletop gaming where people play Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, Blood Bowl, board games, role playing games, all kinds of stuff so I co-founded that about five years ago and that's been really successful our waitlist is about seven years long so I think people like it um that's been my big kind of contribution I would say to like the gaming scene for my part yeah I started playing the old fighting fantasy books when I was like eight or nine uh because my grandmother worked in a library and she got it for us the satanic panic wasn't that big in Norway or at least not with my parents so so uh my parents actually bought us um uh the Norwegian translation of Dungeons and Dragons not advanced just plain yeah Dungeons and Dragons and Game Mastered our first session of that and then it was on to you know first AD&D and Call of Cthulhu and Vampire and Mage and Cyberpunk and you know Rolemaster all that stuff and I have been involved in a bunch of role playing or uh either tabletop role playing or computer game role playing projects and all of them have just died to no fault of my own sometimes I've gotten paid for work and nothing has happened and sometimes I've uh not gotten paid and and they had stopped taking the phone from me uh so this will be the first time I'm actually actively involved in a role playing game that is coming out so yeah that feels really really good because it's been something I grew up looking at all the art in Call of Cthulhu and Rolemaster and having my favorite artists among the the Warhammer guys and all of that and so that is a has always been a huge part of who I am as a person and as an artist and I've never gotten to play around in that field before Isaac came along and we made this together one one final question all right what is your favorite time to dungeon crawl song oh man um I I think I will just say my best memory this isn't really related to osr but it is related to role playing games when I was in college I was running a game of this uh a campaign of this game called Orpheus which is an old white wolf game where you play people who can basically like temporarily kill themselves in order to let their ghosts come out of their body and like solve ghost crimes um and we had a and we would start every and it was it was a really good it was like one of the better campaigns I think I've had in my life um just the players were on board you know I was in college so I had enough time to actually do it really regularly it was with my roommates uh we would play Momentum by Project Pitchfork it's not a metal uh song it's more like I don't know Darkwave Industrial or Dark synth pop or something but yeah Momentum by Project Pitchfork whenever I hear that song in my head I like immediately think of jumping in and playing that game and like just how awesome that campaign was so that will be my answer okay so I will have a two-part answer as well so when we used to play a lot um the favorite soundtrack to put on while gaming was for the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula by by Francis Ford Coppola the important thing there is you had to remember to skip back from the the before the horse killing song started because that was only appropriate in climaxes so you had to wait to get that song on that was the important part and for just a kick-ass metal song to to get you ready for some dungeon crawling then warriors done by Slough Fegg so that's a good kick-ass dungeon crawling song yeah I've I've used uh Iron and Fire by Gates of Slumber recently it's like a 12-minute song about the fall of the Roman Emperor Nero that's another a really good one I can recommend okay we will turn that camera around here oh we are in the mirror we're in the mirror as well we could have done that all the time well if we had planned things yeah whose studio is this he was it's my studio I should have known okay um thank you all for watching on youtube and thank you all for watching on tiktok and remember to go to Outcast Silver Raiders on Kickstarter if you haven't and if you have then wait patiently for more of the art tier to be made available but not this piece but because Isaac seems to want it bye bye


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