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[0:00] Michael Darty: Hey there, I'm Michael Darty, co-producer and game maker for Mythic Thunderlute, which premieres in just a week.

[0:06] Michael Darty: I'm here to give you another little taste of our pilot, but first, here's how this works.

[0:11] Michael Darty: Our four players will improvise their way through a fantasy-style role-playing game of my making.

[0:17] Michael Darty: After we record, we add sound effects, underscoring, full-fledged musical numbers, and boom!

[0:23] Michael Darty: There you have an episode.

[0:25] Michael Darty: With that, here's the opening number from episode one.

[0:30] Michael Darty: In the cozy yet bustling village of South Talia Shire, Pug Face Doodle Off, the gnomish Taylor's apprentice, awakes and finds herself filled with a great excitement.

[0:40] Michael Darty: Last night at the local brew pub, she saw an aging elf named Eddie the Bard perform just a really solid acoustic set.

[0:48] Michael Darty: But Pugface is almost certain that it was her musical idol and former lead singer of the rock band Elf Mother, Edgar Hawk.

[0:57] Michael Darty: What's more is she saw him leave with her childhood friend and next door neighbor, Roscoe Chubb.

[1:03] Michael Darty: Pugface, what do you do?

[1:04] Pug Face Doodle Off: Uh I'm gonna wake up, I'm gonna toss on my hair, put on my fanciest freaking outfits, and I'm gonna strut next door to my BFF forever, Roscoe Chubb.

[1:17] Pug Face Doodle Off: Everhawk really did crash in its nose pad.

[1:32] Pug Face Doodle Off: No will he lack him.

[1:46] Pug Face Doodle Off: It aims to set up and tie a shot.

[1:54] Pug Face Doodle Off: But no senses tell me something's new.

[2:01] Pug Face Doodle Off: Unpleasure to unfold.

[2:05] Pug Face Doodle Off: Go for them, baby.

[2:10] Pug Face Doodle Off: Something's made from me.

[2:15] Pug Face Doodle Off: So that's safe.

[2:17] Michael Darty: As you open your bedroom door, you're greeted by your father Rikio, who appears to be just beaming with joy.

[2:23] Rikio: Giggling, he says, What is your wish, my sovereign?

[2:29] Pug Face Doodle Off: Dad, what?

[2:30] Rikio: I'm sorry, I'm just kidding. I'm just in a good mood.

[2:33] Rikio: I made you some breakfast if you want some.

[2:36] Pug Face Doodle Off: Oh, great. Uh well, actually, no. I Dad, I'm on a huge mission right now.

[2:41] Pug Face Doodle Off: I gotta go see Roscoe.

[2:42] Pug Face Doodle Off: Uh, can I come back a little later?

[2:44] Rikio: Well, of course, just before you rush off, I got a bit of good news last night when you were at your concert thing.

[2:49] Pug Face Doodle Off: What's up?

[2:50] Rikio: Have you heard about the Talia Shire mines they're digging up not too far from here?

[2:53] Rikio: Well, yeah, they're mining up those gemstones we're always listening to our music on, and the plan is to break ground today.

[3:00] Pug Face Doodle Off: Today?

[3:00] Rikio: Yes, it's happening today.

[3:02] Rikio: Yes, but last night, the foreman of the dig died.

[3:07] Pug Face Doodle Off: Wait, is that a good thing?

[3:09] Rikio: Well, no, that that part's horrible.

[3:11] Pug Face Doodle Off: Yeah, it's what I okay.

[3:12] Rikio: Here's the thing. They need a new architect to lead the dig.

[3:15] Rikio: So Thane Ogdor himself came by the house last night, put your old man in charge.

[3:20] Pug Face Doodle Off: Oh my god!

[3:21] Rikio: Well, so I grabbed my dad and we like start dancing up and down together.

[3:24] Pug Face Doodle Off: Like, have a little dance party.

[3:25] Rikio: Oh fuck yeah!

[3:26] Pug Face Doodle Off: Oh my god, what?

[3:28] Rikio: That's amazing!

[3:29] Pug Face Doodle Off: Oh no, thank you, honey.

[3:30] Rikio: It was an amazing night given the circumstances.

[3:33] Rikio: Your stepmother and I cracked a few bottles of wine to celebrate.

[3:36] Pug Face Doodle Off: Well, you know I don't drink, but she she knocked them back and we had a great time.

[3:41] Rikio: Actually, she's still asleep right now, so maybe we should be a little quiet.

[3:44] Pug Face Doodle Off: Yeah, I'm gonna go.

[3:45] Rikio: Uh, yeah, yeah, I don't want to hold you up.

[3:47] Rikio: Next time you see me, I'll be a working man.

[3:50] Michael Darty: So Pugface leaves the place.

[3:52] Michael Darty: You rush and head next door.

[3:54] Michael Darty: Meanwhile, Edgar Hawk, living in secrecy as Eddie the Bard, has just played his first gig in nearly a century.

[4:01] Michael Darty: 99 years and 50 weeks ago at the Founders Day Centennial.

[4:05] Michael Darty: A terrible performance as the lead singer of Elf Mother cost him his career.

[4:10] Michael Darty: But for the first time since that harrowing event, Edgar feels like a rock star.

[4:16] Edgar Hawk: Good to see I've got that feeling once more.

[4:23] Edgar Hawk: A little rockin' roll got into my bones.

[4:27] Edgar Hawk: And now I just want to hear the crowd roar.

[4:31] Edgar Hawk: Oh, goodness may want it to say.

[4:33] Edgar Hawk: I'm well past my prime.

[4:38] Edgar Hawk: Say, I woke up with this dread for the past hundred years.

[4:42] Edgar Hawk: Something feels different this time.

[4:45] Edgar Hawk: It's not just another Talia Shire morning.

[5:03] Edgar Hawk: Gone, Mr. Fortune and same.

[5:07] Edgar Hawk: But something new is waiting for me.

[5:14] Edgar Hawk: It's beef.

[5:16] Michael Darty: As he wakes up, he hears an eager rapping on the front door.

[5:19] Michael Darty: Edgar, what do you do?

[5:20] Roscoe Chubb: Hello.

[5:21] Roscoe Chubb: Rascoe!

[5:21] Roscoe Chubb: Rascoe, bud, open up!

[5:23] Michael Darty: Roscoe, one of your little friends is here.

[5:25] Michael Darty: The voice of Edgar carries into the bedroom of Roscoe Chubb, the halfling drummer, who had a major victory last night, getting his new flatmate Eddie out of the house for the first time since he moved in nearly a month ago.

[5:39] Michael Darty: Now, while Eddie played a great set, Roscoe got into an altercation with a tall, obnoxious halfling from North Talia Shire named Pasco Slim.

[5:50] Michael Darty: As such, Roscoe had a rather fitful sleep.

[5:55] Roscoe Chubb: Don't wanna wake up just yet.

[5:58] Roscoe Chubb: Still living in a dream.

[6:02] Roscoe Chubb: Here comes just another day.

[6:05] Roscoe Chubb: The same old routine, but in this dream, I'm a drummer playing for the Elven gods, and they lose their shit against all odds and say this ain't just another Talia Shire morning.

[6:24] Roscoe Chubb: Great adventure awaits.

[6:27] Roscoe Chubb: So get up.

[6:31] Roscoe Chubb: A story to be told.

[6:34] Roscoe Chubb: Since your life is getting old.

[6:38] Roscoe Chubb: The wine of life will run it over your cup.

[6:44] Roscoe Chubb: Come on, Roscoe, wake up!

[6:47] Michael Darty: He awakes in a cold sweat and hears Eddie calling from the next room.

[6:51] Edgar Hawk: Roscoe what?

[6:53] Edgar Hawk: Rosco, your friend at the door.

[6:55] Roscoe Chubb: Who?

[6:55] Roscoe Chubb: Who is it?

[6:56] Edgar Hawk: You're there.

[6:57] Edgar Hawk: Who is it?

[6:58] Edgar Hawk: It's Pug Face.

[6:59] Roscoe Chubb: Wait.

[7:00] Roscoe Chubb: It's Pug Face.

[7:01] Roscoe Chubb: Oh.

[7:02] Roscoe Chubb: Alright, I get up, I put on my robe, I walk downstairs.

[7:05] Michael Darty: Edgar rolls back over and goes back to bed.

[7:07] Edgar Hawk: Keep it down, if you would, please.

[7:09] Roscoe Chubb: No, that's not how things work.

[7:12] Roscoe Chubb: I go to the door and I open up.

[7:14] Roscoe Chubb: Oh, Pug Face, how's it going?

[7:16] Pug Face Doodle Off: Hey, I saw someone uh trail off with you and look kind of familiar.

[7:21] Pug Face Doodle Off: I just wanted to know what was going on with that.

[7:24] Roscoe Chubb: Oh, who who?

[7:25] Roscoe Chubb: Eddie?

[7:25] Roscoe Chubb: The guy on my couch?

[7:27] Pug Face Doodle Off: That's him!

[7:27] Roscoe Chubb: No, no, that's him!

[7:29] Roscoe Chubb: You want to meet him?

[7:30] Roscoe Chubb: He loves he loves company Pugface.

[7:32] Roscoe Chubb: He loves it.

[7:33] Roscoe Chubb: You should meet him.

[7:33] Pug Face Doodle Off: Incorrect.

[7:34] Roscoe Chubb: Come on in.

[7:35] Pug Face Doodle Off: Okay, yeah.

[7:36] Michael Darty: So I walk inside.

[7:37] Michael Darty: Great.

[7:37] Michael Darty: Eddie the Bard comes off the couch and into the room where they are.

[7:41] Eddie the Bard: You just see this ancient elf in a robe.

[7:44] Eddie the Bard: Yes, um, my name is Eddie, and only Eddie has my father before him.

[7:50] Eddie the Bard: That is my only name, and so uh nothing more to be known about me.

[7:54] Eddie the Bard: Yeah, sorry you came all the way over here to discover that, but that's it.

[7:57] Eddie the Bard: You want a cup of coffee or something?

[7:59] Pug Face Doodle Off: You're Edgar Hawk.

[8:01] Edgar Hawk: Edgar stops in his tracks.

[8:03] Edgar Hawk: I'm sorry, who?

[8:04] Pug Face Doodle Off: Edgar fucking Hawk of Elf Mother?

[8:06] Pug Face Doodle Off: What did you say your name was?

[8:08] Pug Face Doodle Off: I am Pugface Doodle Up.

[8:10] Pug Face Doodle Off: I am a huge fucking fan of yours.

[8:12] Edgar Hawk: There may have been an elf once named Edgar Hawk.

[8:17] Edgar Hawk: But that person is long gone.

[8:19] Edgar Hawk: You know, I'm I'm sorry, I'm really lost.

[8:21] Edgar Hawk: Who who Elf Mother?

[8:22] Edgar Hawk: I mean, I don't I don't Roscoe, you have heard me play the Gem Stones.

[8:27] Roscoe Chubb: And if it was you, uh born to bleep my dad, that album was on repeat.

[8:31] Pug Face Doodle Off: Wait, you are a legend!

[8:33] Pug Face Doodle Off: You can stay on your couch.

[8:34] Pug Face Doodle Off: Why are you sleeping on a couch?

[8:36] Pug Face Doodle Off: Why did you why is he sleeping on a couch?

[8:38] Michael Darty: Because I don't have an extra bed.

[8:39] Michael Darty: Meanwhile, young Jocasta Stormwood, the half bear half woman from the forest, finds herself in the middle of an excruciating conversation.

[8:49] Michael Darty: Last night, her mother Minerva suggested Joe take charge of the monthly herb deliveries to the people of South Talia Shire.

[8:56] Michael Darty: Since this is Joe Costa's first time away from home, she is overpacked for her day trip and underprepared for social interactions.

[9:04] Michael Darty: As an old dwarf named Schneider drones on about his back pain, all Joe Costa can think is there's only one more house to go.

[9:12] Schneider: The more chronic pain didn't really start until the last couple of years.

[9:16] Schneider: I spent a lot of time sort of hunched over for my job, so I guess it really chalks up to a workplace hazard.

[9:22] Jocasta Stormwood: I understand.

[9:23] Jocasta Stormwood: Well, the the herb I've left you with and that you have paid for, and we have transacted, should should do the trick to make that go away.

[9:31] Schneider: I hope so.

[9:32] Schneider: I hope so, Joe.

[9:34] Schneider: I believe it will.

[9:35] Jocasta Stormwood: Now I really, really gotta go.

[9:38] Schneider: Oh, Gary, I'll let you run.

[9:39] Schneider: I've actually got a lot to get around to myself, so uh yeah, you got as you close the door behind you.

[9:44] Michael Darty: A wave of relief rushes over you, knowing that you are near the last stop on your delivery route, the home of Roscoe Chubb.

[9:50] Michael Darty: Jocasta's feeling really proud of herself.

[9:53] Jocasta Stormwood: Can't believe I did the whole herb run by myself.

[10:04] Jocasta Stormwood: Bringing my mama home the well.

[10:08] Jocasta Stormwood: Gotta feel the life will always be like this.

[10:15] Jocasta Stormwood: The none earth could ever threaten this eternal level, please.

[10:21] Jocasta Stormwood: Yes, it's just all he's taking me on my way.

[10:37] Jocasta Stormwood: Got my mama away back for me in Stockwood.

[10:44] Jocasta Stormwood: A magical forest home when the end.

[10:56] Jocasta Stormwood: Just a tag.

[11:04] Jocasta Stormwood: Couldn't you are casting a road?

[11:10] Jocasta Stormwood: Our futures to be low.

[11:14] Jocasta Stormwood: What do we guess till we meet our destiny?

[11:20] Jocasta Stormwood: So we can see.

[11:30] Michael Darty: Don't miss Mythic Thunderlute, a D&D podcast musical premiering July 26th, wherever you get your podcasts.