Ep. 0: Host Introductions
Meet the Hosts of Microphones & Monsters and get some important information before jumping into the story.
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Adam Culbertson as your Dungeon Master
Richard Collins as Aleister
Max Steele as Dr. Julian Cottage
Steven Sides as Victor Stodge
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welcome to microphones and monsters and
we are going to be
start off we’re going to start off with
with introducing all the hosts uh DM and
players and we’re going to start with
our first player
uh Richard Collins uh you may know me
from our other podcast you know the
couple of you out there that listen to
it something more to podcast
but uh I don’t know I’ve been playing d
d for a long time about
uh 16 years now
um since I started and I’ve been playing
at least one campaign for the most part
throughout
sometimes up to five oh wow but that was
insane times when I had nothing better
to do yeah I think you got the most
experience here very possibly but anyway
uh so I’m going to be playing uh
Alistair who is a dreamland’s cat
I know that a lot of people especially
if they’re not uh up on at least certain
parts of Cthulhu and Mythos may not be
familiar with what dreamland’s cats are
so
I feel like I probably should give at
least a brief rundown basically all cats
have a level of sentience that is
generally unused in the real world
generally it’s only apparent whenever
they’re in the dreamlands which is
basically the land of sleep like where
all of the dreams actually reside uh
they will either be there mentally
whenever they’re taking naps and things
like that and they’re free to explore
the dreamlands as they wish or they can
actually go there physically through
portals that will randomly appear and
disappear wherever they also have the
innate ability to detect where these
portals are at any given time
um or at least nearby ones
so they also have the ability in times
of great stress or necessity to be able
to pull that level of sentience into the
real world
um and that’s where they become a
dreamlands cat rather than just a normal
everyday house cat
so Alistair is a completely jet black
cat black fur head to toe like no bits
of any other color all black
um and at least uh one thing that you
would notice about Aleister at this time
is that one of the eyes kind of glows
with this almost flame-like green
flickering which which left or right uh
left okay important clarification
important clarification very important
yes
um but left eye glows with a kind of
green flame like flickering
Alistair is a warlock and a warlock of
the
I guess elder god Tulsa who is
basically a flame-like entity that kind
of presides over knowledge and mostly
knowledge of of future events and things
that have yet to come prophecies things
like that but there’s I don’t know like
with anything more to everything
um but I think that’s a pretty good
primer on what’s going on okay
and I will put I will uh put it out
there that dreamlands cats the the
sentient cats are like regular citizens
in society and and stuff like that like
it’s not a secret to people or or
anything like that like there are like
prominent
citizens that that
go about their lives as sentient cats
and hold jobs and all that kind of stuff
too so right
um I guess another quick aside for that
um speech with dreamland’s cats is a
little weird because they don’t really
have the wherewithal to be able to form
proper words
um but it’s generally kind of understood
that people that are around them uh for
a long time or uh have to deal with them
closely for at least a few weeks uh
generally we’re able to understand them
yeah and uh within to fully understand
it would be like a week or something
like that but but you can get in in this
setting you can you can gain
the the gist of what a dreamlands cat is
saying within like an hour or two if if
they’re they’re if you’re like wanting
them to know what you’re saying you can
you can make sounds that are similar to
common or other languages right that way
it’s not really bogging down two meows
for yes one male for no yeah
meow
but to fully understand everything
you’re saying they would have to spend a
lot of time with you
right which parties usually would
that’s true he also carries a small sack
on his back that contains his warlock
Tome oh yeah another thing with your cat
this like it’s a cat so it doesn’t have
hands right but it has a tail that can
grab stuff and and more importantly
magehand yes is it may Chand or is it
Mage paw to be fair well considering
that I needed to have opposable thumbs
yeah
duplicating the useless pause probably
wouldn’t be very
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and then another paw and it’s just like
this does nothing
it’s just bigger I can play with three
strings at once
oh man okay it’s my turn uh my name is
Max Steel no not that Max Steel the one
you’re referring to that terrible
um movie and semi-okay uh cartoon show
of the 2000 series
um I will be playing a dull human uh I
know it’s not interesting but it’s kind
of what I wanted to do
um and I will be playing a new class
that came out with eberron known as the
artificer which is basically take a
person with magical proficiency and
being able to infuse that magical
proficiency into mundane items to make
them less mundane and much more useful
Julian uh which is the name of the
character uh Julian Cottage
um he’s a doctor
um he’s been studying um various
um species and subspecies of the Cthulhu
Mythos and
um as well as uh has been Ash for
handling hazardous materials and it’s uh
very prevalent because he carries this
burnish orange breathing mask over his
neck at all times and usually uh puts
the mask on when he’s performing any
kind of work be it you know autopsies or
hindering dangerous materials or stuff
he doesn’t know about
um usually wears a long white lab coat
very dirty very tattered doesn’t like to
change it he’s very thin almost gaunt uh
with short uh dark hair with a little
bit of greenish tint to it
um and yeah that’s about it that’s you
know at least everything we’re going to
go through right now
um I’ll uh in next episodes I’m actually
going to get a better mask I had a
little surgical mask I brought with me
but during our test recording it doesn’t
really have a difference when we’re
doing the recording so
um probably going to get like a painters
set up and you know do a little uh
immortan Joe or uh uh Bane voice see
what that goes like so yep but that’s me
so yeah uh d d experience uh I’ve never
finished a campaign I’ve played several
um and I’ve done a monk before I did a
famous investigator before one campaign
that was ridiculous
inventing all sorts of like mundane
stuff that’s never been heard of in the
DND was like a pulley
so that was really dumb but I loved it
um but yeah I really like
um d d and um I’m this is the one
campaign where like I’ve never done that
kind of setting like this before and any
kind of Cthulhu stuff is super awesome
um just see how many hours I put into
bloodborne it’s
not healthy bloodborne is fun bloodborne
is amazing
um so yeah now I’m ready to dive it into
it so yeah um thanks for uh let me uh
host on
thank you for joining us
all right well um my name is Steven
sides I um I am relatively new to
Dungeons and Dragons and that I have
only played about six or seven games of
a different campaign before starting
this one
I um and I started at level nine which
was pretty sweet uh
but uh but this is the first campaign
I’m starting from the very beginning
um I am going to be playing uh Victor
stodge who is a crypt folk um we’re
playing out of the uh Sandy Peterson’s
Cthulhu Mythos fifth edition uh book
um so uh Crypt folk is the name we’ve
given uh what is referred to and that is
Mythos ghoul
um just to avoid confusion with other
types of ghouls and also because our
setting is Set uh like around 1920s 30s
you know technology type stuff so it’s
moved forward in in the future so uh
mytho schools in the as it was written
are sort of social outcasts they collect
corpses because they have to eat dead
people
um uh as their primary form of
sustenance so Crypt folk they’re more
the keepers of like mortuaries in
funeral homes like they provide the
services for the families of those who
who are dead they also provide uh you
know sort of
they create sort of little artifacts for
um for the families because when they
eat the corpses they uh often get
memories or uh traits of the people that
they’ve eaten
my character uh isn’t fond of being a
crypt folk uh so that’ll come into play
later uh folk generally look more
crypto kind of resemble a mangy werewolf
with Hooves
um
also my character uh always wears a
trench coat and a fedora all uh Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles amazing
um to sort of uh conceal the the more
Crypt folk aspects of you know his
appearance doesn’t really live with the
other crypt folk at all kind of kind of
the social outcast from them but I think
that’s most of the important stuff about
my character right now on your class oh
oh I am a monk
um I’ve never played a monk before so
that’ll be good considering I’ve only
played a one other class and that was
barred so it’ll it’ll be a fun those
Furious blows furio blows
didn’t do I have that yet I think yeah
yeah yeah yeah
I’ll be doing Flurry of Blows many times
well he also has uh psychic features
so that that’s the ability to use
um uh as a monk I’m a necrophage monk
which is also a new class of Monk and uh
that class allows me to gain those
memories or Insight
um from an opponent in battle like in
the heat of battle so that should be
interesting if I can use it properly
yeah and it uses your your key and and
like you have more control over your
your psychic Feast because uh when when
you eat a human you gain their memories
and uh yeah and you get to kind of pick
and choose what Memories you want to get
with key oh yeah as well as do extra
damage so it’s basically Flurry of Blows
with with the little bonus yeah yeah but
I get to have a snack in the middle of
the battle Yeah
but yeah that’s that’s about it so I’m
I’m the new guy and I might ask a silly
question once or twice to make some
mistake so stay tuned he protect he
attacked but more importantly he loved
to snack
and I am your DM who said that Adam
Culbertson
and uh again uh like Richard said uh we
do something more to podcast together uh
this is our second podcast the one that
was our first planned podcast before the
other one the other one just happened
but yeah I’ve been playing off and on
I’ve been playing uh D and D off and on
a little bit of Pathfinder
uh for the past 10 10 to 15 years
something like that
um with huge gaps of time in between so
I originally played with second edition
whenever 3 and 3.5 was out I was still
playing second edition and then made the
jump to Pathfinder and then fifth
edition
about a year ago yep
and that’s when I I started dming a year
ago
and instantly wanted to do something
like this uh like maybe a couple months
into that campaign I was like I wanna I
wanna record it
and this is uh what’s happened a year
later I definitely like the the Cthulhu
Mythos setting because it’s just I don’t
know I’m really into that kind of stuff
like I play the I’ve played this
out of bloodborne
um I love that whole setting hell
whenever I was even um before even
starting the campaign last year I was
telling you I was like I want to create
a setting that that has to do with with
uh Eldritch Horror and all this kind of
stuff and then it evolved to this it’s
just Serendipity that Sandy Peterson
happened to release a fifth edition
version of Cthulhu Mythos yeah right
after we were talking about it really
yeah it made it it completely fixed all
the issues that I was having on on like
making up rules and and classes and
everything like that which in this
setting I have taken out a lot of like
stuff involving like a lot of uh like
discrimination against races and stuff
like that like I like goblins to be a
part of society I don’t think all
goblins are evil or all bug bears are
evil and I wanted to include everybody
which also coincidentally eberron added
them as player races as well so
um and I was already planning on doing
it before that stuff came out so the
this setting it’s uh the world is uh
duns Altera and I’m making it up as we
go
I’ve got one town
so that’s where we start I really like
the Mythos classes or the Mythos races
like the dreamlands cat and and uh the
mytho school
um so I’m glad I’m glad we went with
that and I freaking like when I was
reading over the Unearthed Arcana for
uh the artificer I was like I was like
yeah yeah and I was sending you all
kinds of links yeah on I was like wait
you just make a bag of holding oh well
okay oh sure I’ll play that class why
not and then like after I sent you all
the different Unearthed Arcana versions
of artificers like boom eberron drops
and I’m like hey I bought the book like
it’s fine
I got I got the I I like I like the way
it’s set up I think it I personally
think on paper it looks balanced to me
and I think it’s going to be a lot of
fun especially designed out as a doctor
it should be I think it’s gonna be
really cool and these guys made amazing
backstories to for motivation for their
characters and like they just blew me
away and
they will eventually come out yes yeah
we needed I know we did uh we did a you
did an additional recording session for
alistairs and I was doing it’s not a
dope oh it was it was amazing I loved
how it turned out yeah don’t worry
you’ll you’ll eventually get to hear it
probably sometime later yeah
yeah when we eventually come into a
recording conflict like we don’t have
anything to release all right backstory
go go and
um we discussed that we wanted to keep
episodes short so it’s not like you
don’t have to dedicate an hour and a
half to two hours per episode we wanted
to keep it short to 30 to 50 minutes
that’s our range that we’re that we’re
pushing for and
um without getting too much of a backlog
we have to release twice a week by doing
that with the amount of time that we’re
going to be recording so we will be
releasing on Mondays and Fridays of
every week and at the end of every month
we want to do a like get all the hosts
together and us just talk about what’s
been released so far at that time do we
have a catchy name for it yet for oh
like like the recap episode you mean
like the Talking Dead or something yeah
yeah yeah no I don’t think yet but if
you’ve got microphones and morons
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somehow still alive yeah
um I’ll brainstorm see if I can get
something
we I mean I found some awesome music
that was themed for Cthulhu Mythos kind
of stuff and themed for people to use in
d d games and and
um Marco Mazzy did the music for that
from Fallen Highway Studios and
um
it’s just amazing stuff I I it really is
I have every single one of his songs
that he’s produced to use on this
podcast so we have a a large amount of
music thank you very much yes but yeah I
think that’s is that it yeah I think
that’s it I don’t like have any like
official handles or anything like that
no no no there is a need for it well
I’ll make something sure you know if you
guys really want to talk to me outside
of
whoever’s listening or you know people
in the room they got my numbers but like
you know if you want to be like hey you
know what do you think about so and so
I’ll create a Twitter or we’ll create a
Twitter of course for the channel yeah
but yeah well we already have a Twitter
for the channel it’s microphones and
Monsters uh at mics and monsters that’s
it’s really easy at Mike Mikes mics yes
do you spell out yeah
Andy eggs and monsters at Twitter yes
yep and uh we’ve already been building
up a following on there too like at the
time we’re recording this it’s it’s at
like 80 followers right now so yeah no
you’ve done absolutely no work and
people are already following us we
appreciate it within the actual play
podcast community and d d Community like
I’ve already been just trying to be a
part of that Community I guess I don’t
know you know dropping little
breadcrumbs not working networking
of it
um I’m all stuck on like getting this
story done the crawling chaos is coming
out of his brain right now we’re talking
about that we’re again we got uh some
creepy little monsters coming
but yeah I think that’s I think that’s
it