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listeners at home or gonna want to

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meet your G and Z characters. Were.

2:23

Going to start over here with Seal.

2:25

Can you tell us about your character?

2:27

yeah my characters. An Armadillo his name's

2:29

to low arma dust. I imagine till

2:31

oh to be the size of a

2:33

medium sized dog. I think Pillow a

2:36

lot of times walks up right but

2:38

he can also be seen or down

2:40

on all fours. I like to imagine

2:42

that Pillow has a vest and a

2:44

hat and a backpack. You know it's

2:46

just. you know we all like to

2:48

have backpacks where we carry all of

2:50

our cool things in there till a

2:52

works hard as like. Most Armadillo do

2:54

is like a super great. Bigger.

2:57

He can get into the earth

2:59

really quickly a very efficiently. I

3:01

think he exists here in the

3:03

city, and maybe people don't even

3:05

know that he's an Armadillo, right?

3:07

He can pass for. A

3:09

dog. Like an armored dog. She's really

3:11

kind. He's a little subdued, but he's

3:14

very passionate about what he does. The

3:16

we get him that he's the kind

3:18

of wizard. Oh yeah, he's like a

3:20

dust wizard so he can control the

3:23

dust with the wind. He can make

3:25

them what he calls dust Nato's which

3:27

you can envision that in your head,

3:29

right? A big dust tornado for a

3:32

little dust tornado whenever this event calls

3:34

for. This is awesome and now we

3:36

are going to learn about Steps character.

3:38

So. I. Am playing Steve or see

3:40

what? Three Nine also known as Dat.

3:43

Dat. Is a little

3:45

delivery. Robots Road. And

3:48

Dad has basically

3:50

a. Tardis inside of him

3:52

where he starts everything that is

3:54

out going out to deliver and

3:56

one day death became of that

3:58

sentence got very and. Sit em of

4:00

things that he is delivering, especially the things

4:02

that people never picked. Up or he I get

4:04

to the door like oh yeah, don't know that. It's

4:07

to kind of kept it in the little. Inside

4:09

so there's like some our rent have

4:11

suffered. There are very excited to see

4:13

what-uses Sir Alex such or to go

4:16

ahead. For those of you who aren't

4:18

familiar with Doctor Who, a tardis is

4:20

like this time machine. But the thing

4:22

about the tardis that we're talking about

4:24

is that it's bigger on the inside

4:27

das so it's like an extra dimensional

4:29

space like an old all kinds of

4:31

crazy stuff. We don't even know what

4:33

some of these packages are, I literally

4:35

have no idea, but I'm sure some

4:37

will get. Opened during the during

4:40

the adventure but it wouldn't be

4:42

what if world if we didn't

4:44

use a what if questions and

4:46

we have one today from James

4:49

so let's hear it. My

4:51

name is. And

4:54

my says it is

4:56

a nice six years.

4:58

Old and. Can

5:02

fly. Out.

5:10

That. Was green shoots six years

5:12

old. And. Her question is what

5:14

is cats? Could fly into space

5:16

and be astronaut? Cats think you.

5:20

Are like it so we're going to find

5:22

out what if. Cats could fly

5:24

into space and turn. Into

5:26

Astronauts as we returned to

5:29

the city of Dog. Ah,

5:31

plus. Dc

5:36

for one, three nine I'm I'm

5:38

gonna probably call you back for

5:40

the rest of the adventure. You

5:42

have been making lots of deliveries

5:44

lately, so many in fact that

5:47

you're wondering. if people aren't a

5:49

little worried, you see a very

5:51

big bone. It's ship flew out

5:53

of dog obelisk recently, which is

5:55

a strange occurrence on it's own

5:57

because no one really ten. silly.

6:00

Dog Apple As if you leave

6:02

Dog ah bless you head out

6:04

into the frozen wasteland that is

6:06

the world of the Rennes. So

6:08

it's gotten people really on edge.

6:10

Now you are making one specific

6:12

delivery to a friend of yours

6:14

who you deliver to all the

6:16

time and fact it must seem

6:18

to you like they have a

6:21

tardis like storage space of their

6:23

own because they live at this

6:25

very small store front of their

6:27

architecture/cleaning business and yet they get

6:29

delivery from you all the time.

6:31

You don't know where they could

6:33

all be going but you are

6:35

here. Seen that? Hello arm and

6:37

dust and this is actually your

6:39

last delivery of the day. see

6:41

are going to be off duty

6:43

for the rest of the day.

6:45

Even a robot needs to recharge

6:48

some time. Till. Oh, you see

6:50

your your friend or acquaintance arriving. What

6:52

something that you might need for your

6:54

side business. Let's call it before we

6:57

reveal what it is that the kids

6:59

I think I'm gonna need some feathers.

7:01

I need feathers for my tools, for

7:03

working with dust and for cleaning things.

7:05

They're not easy to come by and

7:08

ah, plus I'd right. So you are

7:10

getting a whole shipment of feathers which

7:12

are incredibly hard to come by their

7:14

only a few birds mostly. the city

7:17

is entirely dogs, but as you've. Just

7:19

found out there are some. Non dogs

7:21

that live here. Whether

7:23

they're sneaking around, are pretending

7:26

to be dogs and just

7:28

as these feathers are being

7:30

dropped off, you see, A

7:33

dog or tron. These are security drones

7:35

and you might have something that you

7:38

don't want them to discover. I'm not

7:40

gonna. I'm not going to say what's

7:42

what's what. I certainly these feathers would

7:44

be a little bit curious for them

7:46

to discover. And of course, Deck is

7:48

just about the hand them to you

7:50

at your front door. What do you.

7:52

do i would reach out past the door frame

7:54

and i would grab death and i would pull

7:56

him inside and try to slam the door so

7:59

you don't even have to roll dare for that.

8:01

We can close doors without having to roll dice.

8:03

So, Dack, you're suddenly inside

8:05

this shop. You've never been here before.

8:07

Tilo! Are we friends? Are you inviting me

8:09

inside? What's going on? Hi, here's your feathers!

8:11

And all the feathers are just gonna go,

8:13

oh, and shoot out of, like, the delivery

8:15

hole. And be like, yay!

8:19

I think Tilo is going to still

8:21

be concerned with the drone, and so

8:23

he's going to gently place one of

8:25

his little armadillo fingers over whatever looks

8:28

to be Dack's mouth to say shh.

8:30

Tilo is going to look out the

8:32

window to make sure that the doggatron

8:34

is passing by. You

8:37

see it going the other way, and just as you're sort

8:39

of settling in and feeling safe for a minute, you

8:41

hear a very

8:43

soft tapping near the bottom of your

8:46

door. I think I'm gonna whisper to

8:48

Dack quickly, you have got to be

8:50

more careful! And I'm gonna get closer

8:52

to the door, I'm gonna say, well, who's there? It's

8:55

me, Sniff the, um,

8:58

not cat. Now

9:02

you know that Sniff actually is

9:04

a cat. Right. But has put

9:06

little doggy ear extensions to make

9:08

their ears a little floppier,

9:11

and is thus pretending to be

9:13

a dog, but occasionally does come

9:15

here to you. Okay, gonna

9:17

crack that door open just a little bit to scoop

9:19

my friend inside. I'll say, come in, come in, come

9:22

in. Mondays.

9:24

Oh this is not good. You

9:27

also know another thing about Sniff,

9:29

that they are aptly named for

9:31

their tendency to sniff and sneeze.

9:35

Ahhhh, ah, ahhhh.

9:38

A big sneeze, feathers are blowing all

9:40

over the place! This is the exact

9:42

wrong thing to have been getting delivered

9:45

today. Perfect, that's why I love it.

9:47

And then you kind of hear the

9:51

dogatron drone is getting a little bit closer.

9:53

Is there any place you might want to

9:55

go? I'm going to rush us down

9:58

to the basement and I'm going to ask my Friend

10:00

Sniff and my new best friend Dac grab

10:02

these feathers. Grabbed as many as you can

10:04

Quickly down to the basement. Come on, come

10:06

on come on. Okay, I will see how

10:08

that is. Awesome

10:12

Slip doesn't do a very good jobs

10:14

grabbing and but fortunately you've got an

10:16

expert delivery drone here. Who who who

10:18

I think I'm handle the job. But.

10:23

Of course, once you get into the

10:25

basement you see something death that you've

10:28

never seen before. It's. The does. This

10:31

is the secret headquarters

10:33

of off the rebels

10:35

all. The refugees, all

10:38

the people that don't quite

10:40

perfectly fit into. This idyllic

10:42

but not so perfect dog

10:45

society. Who have i really

10:47

should just start wearing a

10:49

mask when I come here

10:52

says sniff. Tax gonna go over

10:54

like a little I guess that are harvest

10:56

gonna come out that like pull up a

10:58

figure uttered such. A

11:01

stress or friend or I.

11:04

ah. I

11:06

get home smith this

11:09

Welcome to the Dos.

11:13

Oh. Now you see.

11:15

That's the down here. It's

11:17

not. just don't have to

11:20

like. Everywhere else you see

11:22

you see cats and squirrels

11:25

and raccoons. You see octopi.

11:27

You see creatures of all different

11:29

shapes and sizes. and they have

11:32

little market stalls. They're selling things.

11:34

they're trading, things, they're inventing things

11:36

they're talking. All very quietly.

11:39

Of course, because dogs

11:41

have very sensitive hearing.

11:43

A sorry I felt this who

11:45

sneeze coming on so I knew

11:48

I needed to get down here.

11:50

but then I forgot that it's

11:52

so dusty. Can I see a

11:54

stacked has anything that might help

11:56

sniff like I slowed A's or

11:58

I. Like a tissue box.

12:01

Okay, so you're looking for something specific,

12:03

which means you roll learn to see

12:05

how close you get to the thing

12:07

that you need. I've got a plus

12:09

zero on learn. So I just roll

12:11

straight d20. Yep.

12:14

And I got a

12:16

four. On

12:20

a four, what do you think the

12:23

opposite of helpful is that you might

12:25

pull out of a package? It's

12:27

gonna be another explosion of feathers. I think.

12:30

I just roll the feathers. Yeah. You

12:32

go to reach in, it pulls up out and then another

12:34

like, confetti rain of feathers comes out.

12:37

I'm so excited.

12:40

It's okay. I think I've

12:42

sneezed it all up. But

12:44

this is a much quieter sneeze and

12:47

it's a very, very heavy door. So

12:50

Sniff knows that this is a safe place for

12:52

sneezing at the very least, as long as they

12:54

aren't too big. I know I only come

12:56

here every once in a while,

12:59

but there's something serious happening. The

13:01

kitty astronauts, they got out

13:04

a message. Dogzilla is coming

13:06

down from the moon and

13:09

is going to pass by

13:11

Furcast's weather station before reaching

13:14

Dogopolis. We've got

13:16

a day at most before it's here. Tilla

13:19

will, will lean in to sniff. Are

13:22

you sure about this? Where did you

13:24

get your information? Wolfcons. I know its

13:26

name's like a dog name, but it's

13:29

really run by cats. And

13:31

they said that there was some

13:33

massive seismic disturbance on the frozen

13:35

moon of Barand. It

13:37

could only be Dogzilla. If

13:39

it passes by Furcast station,

13:42

all the weather drones, they might blast Dogzilla,

13:44

but that could just make it even angrier.

13:46

I don't know, I don't know what we're

13:48

going to do, but you're like the leader

13:51

of the resistance. That's what everybody tells

13:53

me, Tilla. So you've

13:55

got to do something. Tilla

13:58

would put his arm on sniff's. shoulders

14:00

and say, okay, okay,

14:02

okay, let's all take a

14:04

breath. And

14:07

then not too deep. And

14:10

then I would look at DAC, it would

14:12

all hit me, there's a robot now in

14:14

our secret place. And so I would move

14:16

closer to DAC. And

14:19

a bit suspiciously, maybe I would

14:21

say, um, okay, DAC, you

14:23

can't tell anyone about this place. Oh,

14:27

secret delivery. Secret delivery.

14:29

That's right. Secret friends, in fact,

14:32

yes. Secret

14:34

friends. Okay, cool. Secret friends.

14:37

Tillo. Tillo now is convinced

14:39

of DAC's intentions, but

14:42

not convinced that DAC will

14:44

not squeak about this somewhere else. But

14:46

he cannot. There's nothing we can do

14:48

about it. Now Tillo thinks Tillo would

14:50

say to DAC, do you know anything

14:52

about the weather station DAC? Have you

14:54

made deliveries to this place? Have I?

14:57

It's in space, but you are a

14:59

space proof robot. You can you've made

15:01

the odd delivery up there. But when

15:03

you went up there for a minute,

15:05

they thought that you might be some

15:07

sort of foreign object or comet or

15:09

something and they almost attacked you. Because

15:11

they're just they use their sort of

15:13

weather power to repel anything

15:15

that gets too close to the station.

15:19

Oh, yes, I've been up there not too many

15:21

times. I've been one or two times. Weather draws,

15:23

they're kind of like my cousins, but they're also

15:25

kind of like angry cousins. And

15:27

they kind of told me to go away a little

15:29

bit. I like I maybe

15:32

didn't say it, but they were kind of like trying

15:34

to take me down, maybe go away. But yeah,

15:36

so maybe hard to get up there. But also,

15:38

you need to get up there. Tillo would shake

15:41

his head back and forth and he would say,

15:43

I don't know. By the

15:45

way, I see it. If

15:47

we go to forecast station, who

15:49

without permission will be attacked, just

15:52

like dogzilla will be attacked. But

15:55

we could either try to get permission

15:57

from Parliament or we could go to

16:00

Woofcoms and see if maybe the

16:02

cats could help us. So Tillo's

16:04

thinking we could go to Woofcoms

16:07

and we can assume that that sniff has

16:09

cat associates or friends there? Yep. So if

16:11

we went to Parliament, we would go there

16:14

to try and convince them to let us

16:16

go to Furcast Station, is that

16:18

right? Yeah, and you might be able to

16:20

find out more about Dogzilla. Might be able

16:23

to get advice. But it would be just

16:25

as unknown as going to Woofcoms, where these

16:27

cats are technically under control of the dogs.

16:30

So, you know, there could be challenges there too. Either

16:33

way, it's probably going to be tricky. Well,

16:36

Dak, you're one of us now. Yay! And

16:40

I think you can be useful. And

16:42

I turn to Sniff and I say, I

16:44

think it's time for us to go to

16:46

Woofcoms. Okay, I can lead you there. Are

16:48

my ears on right? One's

16:51

like totally like a bad wig,

16:53

just like hanging off from all

16:55

the sneezing. We will help Sniff

16:57

sort of adjust his dog face

16:59

and his look. Okay. And

17:01

I would turn to Dak and I would say,

17:03

Dak, we're going to get more information about Dogzilla

17:06

from Woofcoms. Is there anything here that you might

17:08

need to do that? I'm going to look around.

17:10

I have lots of stuff here and

17:12

it's going to kind of open up

17:15

the like delivery portal. I'm

17:17

good. Chillo would kind of put his hands up

17:19

to try and almost close that, given the, he

17:21

wouldn't want another explosion of feathers. Yeah,

17:24

a box is like slowly trying to

17:26

force itself out. It's like getting bigger

17:28

as it comes out and you're just

17:30

like, Yeah.

17:32

And Chillo would say, you're right, you're right,

17:35

you're right. You've got enough. You've got enough

17:37

inside. Let's keep it inside. Right, Dak? Okay.

17:40

Off to Woofcoms you go. Let's

17:42

see. Still hasn't rolled any dice yet, so

17:45

just roll a d6 for me and higher

17:47

is going to be better for you. I

17:50

rolled a four. A four?

17:53

Okay. On your way, there's

17:55

a very old pug trying

17:57

to cross the street. Their

17:59

tongue. Is dragging down on the ground.

18:01

They have a little like doggy purse

18:04

slung over their shoulder that has spilled

18:06

open and a bunch of treats have

18:08

fallen onto the grounds. Golden treats which

18:11

are the most valuable of course. Ah

18:14

in your oh boy say.

18:16

A seal your debt The and my. Dog

18:19

Raids? Yes yes that's me the

18:21

the armored dog. I'm a dog.

18:24

Yes, yes you're correct. Three Grazie

18:26

stuff we got going. I know

18:28

we asked him during today's goods

18:31

crazy going on at Katie. Smell

18:33

it. Or you

18:35

have such a better knows than I do though don't.

18:40

Have led him he would get the every with

18:42

I know I'm an old dog. my knowledge my

18:44

now we're glad he used to but I didn't

18:47

Man and I'm a dog and a deliveries. And

18:49

bless the on from a mile

18:51

away and I can also smell

18:54

something different. And a

18:56

say if you if you smell

18:58

something. Bark. At It as the

19:00

ads to saying across the city. People

19:02

have been doing a lot of barking

19:04

lazy ever since at Ship left. So

19:06

people are you know by In Up

19:08

stuff you know bark and is anything

19:10

that looks at them christ wise or

19:12

looked like a squad cars. Have you

19:14

been buying a lot of you been

19:16

scared because of the ship leaving? Yeah

19:18

well like I have been buying some

19:20

stuff. Are you in T for see

19:22

One Three Nine by the way as.

19:25

Oh fred okay I ordered a helmet

19:27

just in case this stuff falling from

19:29

the sky so you can you can

19:31

you get down for me oh sorry

19:33

let me check them effects and stack

19:35

of going to leg go through global

19:37

database. In

19:41

it's. Had a

19:43

little every last ounce. Of

19:46

his dogs trying to open the

19:48

the box with is t Godzilla

19:51

have bought this is. No,

19:55

you know.earth, does Zilla.

19:57

Oh, I mean your.

20:00

I mean everybody knows Dogzilla. Every dog knows

20:02

Dogzilla. Dogzilla is just the great doggy

20:04

spirit in the sky, you know, represents

20:06

all our hopes and dreams, but could

20:08

also come and destroy us at any

20:11

minute. Tillow and Dak would maybe in

20:13

that moment like look at each other.

20:16

Our eyebrows raised or whatever your robot

20:18

equivalent of an eyebrow is. A

20:21

propeller, like arches. Yeah.

20:25

We would maybe help Fred get his helmet

20:27

on before we walked away. Me and Dak

20:29

would also help him scoop

20:31

his golden treats into his bag.

20:34

Well it was nice to see you Fred. I'm glad you

20:36

got your helmet. You look great. Oh,

20:39

thank you. I know. It's really good

20:41

for chewing on. You

20:43

see that the face mask of this football

20:45

like helmet is made of sticks and he's

20:47

already chewed through half of them. Yeah,

20:50

for your troubles. He gives you each

20:52

a golden dog treat, which is very,

20:55

very valuable. Awesome. Hold

20:58

on to that golden dog

21:00

treat, adventurers. You

21:02

might use it when you least suspect

21:04

it, or when you most suspect it,

21:07

or not at all. Really, it's just

21:09

money. Delicious money.

21:12

And with that cryptic message, the

21:14

old pug disappears. No,

21:18

I just walked around the corner. I'm still

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chewing on this helmet. Yummy. What

21:25

will happen when Dak and Tillo

21:27

reach wolf control? Will the kitty

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astronauts be helpful? Or

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is there no way to reach Dogzilla

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in time to save the city? We'll

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find out the answers to all these

21:39

questions in our next adventure. Jane,

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thank you so much for your question. I

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know we only met one secret kitty

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astronaut and he didn't make it to outer space yet, but

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you better believe we get there next week. Remember,

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you can check out Steph's

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website, TTRPGkids, to help you

21:59

get started. playing tabletop

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role-playing games with your family. And

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you can also listen to Phil

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Bucktles' Kid Stories Podcast,

22:07

and his two new

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shows, Dungeon Crashers, and

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Captain Max and the Starfighters. I'd like

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to thank Karen O'Keefe, my co-creator, my

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producer, Miss Lynn, Craig Martinson for our

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theme song, and all you adventurers at

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home who know that it never hurts

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to find out a little bit more

22:26

before making a big decision.

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And until we adventure again, keep

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wondering.