Hello at the time is 19:42. And I'm gonna play through my game once so that people can reference this as an actual play document. And they kind of see Oh, how does this work? What does this look like? The problem here is that my game, the third word in the title is, is made up. And when I transcribe this, it's going to, say the word carmash, or committed, which are close, but not it. So I'm going to do a kind of command F, and replace that with chicken. No, actually, I'm gonna replace it with the real word, but with Yeah, with the word I made up, but I'm gonna just say the word chicken now, because it's going to be easy thing to find and replace. But that's not how the word is pronounced. It's pronounced, Kmiyd. Kmiydish. This game is Recipe on Kmidyish paper, by Pearse Anderson and Aylin Erkan and I am excited to like spend like an hour or so playing this and have you join me. I'm on a hand voice recorder. I'm going to be walking around, I apologize for any notes for any ambience, and kind of for me blabbering on that you might not get in more of a tight end adaptation. Apparently, there are some actual play people who have booklets of everything that they say. So this is kind of like that style. Let's find out how it goes. But okay, starting here.
This is a Recipe on Kmiydish paper. Now, I've played this game a few times, all the way through already. So there's gonna be sections of this game, I will not need to reference and due to copyright usage, I will not be playing any of the music as well. So I'm going to pause through that or skip it entirely. The drawing will also be inaccessible in this actual play, maybe I will post it to my Twitter after play. And I might pause and play as the session goes on. So if there's adjustments or brakes, that is why, but I could just probably skip content and safety. I will not be playing the alternate play mode of pantry edition. And instead I will just get straight into on my copy the section titled The recipe. So I could choose between the beverage, the pastry, the meat and the preserve. I have played one game with the preserve with two games with the beverage and I think I should plays the meat to round it out. There's a lot of interesting questions of sentience and meat playbook. And I have some fun ideas I've been kind of thinking about. But it also makes me realize I never could I skipped setting and culture I need to figure out who my people are. Let me pull up Blue Kmiyd's their encyclopedia. So I could just take a look at some words. shocks but words are gonna be hard to transcribe as well. Let me pick a word. It's very easy to find and replace. But I could say Italians. No, those are real people. Let's call them the watchers. Yeah. My insular cultural group will be the watchers. I think this game I will not make them be a religious insular group. I think it's going to be
an ethnic or racial group. That We'll be defined by the Kmiydish I mean, it messes up throughout the playthrough. You know, they will very clearly delineate delineated what race and ethnicity may be their, their world and their slivers look like because they're getting more into industrialization with that standardization, maybe elements of social Darwinism, and maybe the treatment of the watchers will reflect that. So the watchers, I have been thinking a lot since I travelled to the Chicago Botanical Gardens, about rock gardens and about gardens that do not use what we would often consider living elements. And I think I want to incorporate that into this group. So maybe one aspect of their cultural identity that I should be summarizing and what to do sentences can be that the watchers spend
one hour each morning and a flotsam garden. And what I'm picturing is maybe these people come from a coastal region where there was a lot of
flotsam and jetsam washed up on a rock or rocky shore. And that was a place for reflecting on life. That was a place for reflecting on the turn and change of the world. And almost despite being a violent beach side, a meditative beach side. So now that they have immigrated to the six slivers, there's a child crying outside, I hope you can hear that, um, the watchers still bring that tradition of these kind of rock beaches and the churn and change. And maybe that's where maybe it's a garden where they put their trash and then kind of reflect on what they have discarded throughout their throughout their week throughout their life. Maybe it's a place where they do not clean the rocks. And if birds hit the walls of the courtyard and die there, they become part of the Flotsam and they let them decay naturally. I think that that could be a really fun way. And because it's an hour each morning, it delineates a kind of ritualized use of what could be a very busy time in the city. You know, I don't know if the watchers will be employed in that many bakeries because they have to, for this hour a day. It's impressed on them from a young age to come out to these flotsam gardens. And I think that's going to really tie well to choosing the meat. So let me go to that page. Three, go to meat.
Okay, take a look at some of these image qualities later. Um, you are composed with as much grace as the animal was slaughtered with thanks to a snout to tail butcher. describe them, their deli and how messy you are to prepare. Okay, I also have to add four traits two of which being ingredients. I think I should probably just start there and then circle back to the butcher who prepares us. I'm going to say us throughout this or me, who knows the meat I like um, I like brisket. I like concentrated meats, however that looks like there is this Japanese dish. Yeah, like a bow Neato. You know some kind of Usually, I mean, it would be dried into a block that amount of concentrated meat. Here it's described as fish rock, made from skipjack tuna fascinating. So I think one of my traits will be concentrated you know, prep like prep pressed in some way. And these are a coastal people do they have access to fish in Bblue Kmiyd where this game takes place? I'm going to say yes, I'm going to say they do. It's some kind of inland fish. Let me just google river fishes. Get a name from you. freshwater fish of America. Fine, whatever. trout perch. large mouth. Drum. sturgeon. I'm going to do sturgeon. I'm going to do sturgeon. Kind of throwing it back to long held and long debated Jewish concepts of sturgeon and kosher ness that feels really natural. Another ingredient maybe something is folded into Well, okay, it's, it's somehow it's processed. It's probably slow cooked. And dried. Yeah. So concentrated slow cooked sturgeon with pine needles. Yeah. Something that add kind of plant matter. smell. So that covers my traits, concentrated slow cooked sturgeon with pine needles, the, the butcher who composed us with grace. Traditionally, when I think about me, I think about land animals or you know, birds, but because of that butcher maybe applies less. Maybe this would be more kind of a fishmonger. So I'm going to as a rule, state improvise and just kind of interpret this, how, how I pleased the butcher, who is a watcher gets sturgeon from karst the karst environment of Blue Kmiyd. So this kind of karst geography means that they are hidden rivers, rivers go underground and then pop out. And although some fish can navigate those waters, well, maybe through a series of mirrors or traps or nets, they're able the watchers to harvest a lot of sturgeon and maybe secret it away caves throughout the city. And
that probably happens during the night. So maybe the butcher is kind of a nocturnal character, someone who is purposely isolated and sees themself as helping the community through this act through this like long preparation of probably what do you do with fish you do you got them you deep bone, you he you know, carefully slides in these bunches of pine needles throughout different aspects of, of the fish, you know, different segments of flesh.
So very detail oriented. And the deli reflects that. Maybe the deli is done outside. That'd be hard for
for rain. But there needs to be some if there's a large I mean, if there's a large smokestack For the slow cooker it should be it should be done somewhere where that could kind of leave. Yeah, let's do
okay, sorry I had I had something I lost that I don't even think about this this much. This is just the first creator. This is just the first chef as the creator. The dead deli is similar it's kind of a skeleton crew. And in the darkness, there is the the slow cooker going for hours. So it's probably doesn't need to be maintained that much like you assure you flip the storage and halfway through, but you have a lot of downtime. So maybe the the, the butcher spent a lot of time doing things that can be done in the dark like singing or playing bone games. Oh, I like bone games. Yeah, let's do bone games. Bone games in the furnace light. You know, kind of like feeling the bones is that is you know, did it land right side up. Can you define anything from that? Etc, etc. how messy you are to prepare and consume. You are we we are not that messy to prepare nor consumed. By the time that someone has us. Similar to something like bonito, they can shave off sections. They can use us in you know in stock preparation. They could eat us like jerky. So we're actually we're really not messy at all. Okay, butcher actually named the butcher. I think it's fine. Again, it's every single name I use, I'm going to use something that the auto transcriber can pick up on. So our questions are, what are you called? And why? How do chefs honor the animal through you? Yes, come come in. Whenever you are chefs started an eating society around you what makes you most proud each time the society meets and prepares you. You appear in a popular piece of art ballad play autobiography political cartoon that you're forever associated with? How did that art misrepresent you? You exist through the slaughter of a living being How do you understand the divide between life and death and yourself on this life death spectrum? And then finally of a complex but loving relationship with the watchers. What about them Do you find most strange and comforting? So I'm gonna kind of thinking about these throughout play time. But for now, head on to the opening where I could choose one shaft from the list below describe the shaft how they acquired us answer the questions and then choose from could be better could be worse. And kind of just go throughout that. So I have six chefs to start with. I think I'm gonna just gonna divide the opening up into six six. I don't think I'd want to look at all 12 right now.
So got to the butcher. I feel like I've a fairly
I definitely have a better sense of the watchers than they do about the people of Blue Kmiyd, the Kmiydish. And so I kind of want to explore that in the first chef. I could open with Head of Household that could be good. Okay, realize that this PDF is wrong. So that's good for me to pick up on, but not useful for you. Yeah, let's do let's do the old magic. The old match eyes and altruistic and mischevious elder who wears incredibly long sleeves and has a few tricks up them So starting off with how did the old match I acquire us from the butcher? Well, I think this match I they have a purpose to maintain the flotsam gardens. I think they are those who might select or remove items when it feels right. They are people who may be historically before they moved to blue check and were involved in shipwrecks or saw things at sea creatures that might not be explained and their mentality on kind of the depth of life. And going back to these playbook questions, the divide between life and death feels very different for them. And I think because of those experiences, they've kind of been gifted this new sight this new perspective on the world and benefit from it. So they inherited us because slowly asked the meat was used for cooking. But if people had elements that were left over then the the match eyes would continue to prepare us in a different way they would they would, you know, slow cook us again, in those furnaces for second, a second bake or roast, I don't exactly know the right word. And then they would leave us they would they would leave us in the flotsam gardens. Because this is the element that has left the culture and maybe the concept is well okay, we'll get to let's get to that in the in the questions. So essentially, they inherited us because we began to make this the sturgeon variety of the meat and people weren't consuming some of it fast enough. Maybe you know, you you you forget a bit of in your pantry or God forbid, someone, someone dies and people don't go to their house soon enough. So, you have this leftover food, but it could still be rejuvenated through heat and then through the use of the food. So, the old matters question is describe how they use magic to give back to your people. I think they give back to the watchers by this match I specifically but but the whole the whole class of them by being these inter locators is the right word, these intermediaries between spirit world's in here. And I think they also know what to do when someone is is meditating in a flotsam garden or someone has a a shift of consciousness or shift to perception is probably how they see it. And some of these objects are maybe brought back to life.
So a wooden doll for example, discarded because it is broken arms. They might see this doll if they meditate for long enough or with such vigor and regularity. They might see it walk around or point to objects or speak to people and I think the magic I have the responsibility of interpreting those actions and knowing when to remove and add things. And that's magic in itself. Now how are you incorporated into their newest rituals? Your second question is think we are too weak do we do we come back to life? Like do they see us a sea of sturgeon in the flotsam gardens enough and maybe if they do, connecting this back to food because really this this I mean, I could see myself kind of heading in another direction which is which is fine, that's the game. But I also want the sexual play to definitely emphasize this idea of eating and preparation. Maybe they they feed us after that second bake to those who See these seeds of sturgeon. If we come back then we are consumed by this car and will forever be a part of their, of their body and their their sight in small ways. And maybe this is an associated change, maybe there's a series of tattoos on the eyelid of I see a fish school fish, I think that can be really fun.
So let me just write this down. I could pause you while this happens, we have a policy returned. Okay. So I think we have the the old match, I cleared pretty well. I haven't named either of my characters. And they don't feel very personal. Like I I'm more describing a class of people rather than direct individuals. I think that's, that's fine right now. But it does give a certain vagueness to the story. And I want to definitely pin down like character traits and memorable people. Because I think that's how you get, that's how you move from summary to seen in writing. So let's let's scroll down to could be better could be worse and select something from there. Yeah, I think I'm gonna choose could be better for my first one. Preferably could be better than could be worse should be equally distributed. So with four chefs in the three acts you would get to could be betters to could be worth it. It's not just that I want to front load, pain and misery at the beginning. Because I'm sure it'll happen throughout the game. But I think there hasn't been that much interaction between the watchers and the Kmiydish. So I want to figure out how they interact and, and, and, and what level of intimidation or or just kind of what relationship they have. And picking something that could sell a plot or or create conflict gives me opportunities to explore motivations between the groups. So she wanted to explain Let me take a look at this pick list and choose.
Okay, I think I'm gonna use number either three or nine. And it could be better nine is a group outside the watchers tried to replicate us, and how did that work out? And then three as a breakaway group of your people were inspired by a chef and separated themselves from the watchers. I think three is interesting, because I could connect it back to the US. School people with the schools of sturgeon tattoos with who have seen us. And nine is interesting because it brings that outside element in i think i think i got to do breakaway. I think breakaway could be really, really fun. Yeah. So there's, the breakaway group was inspired by a chef, who are they and why do they need to separate themselves? So I'm going to say that this old man Jai Wow, went about their business, you know, for many years, and responded and interpreted these visions. And eventually, a lot of a lot of school people understood themselves as marked as people who have inherited some base element of us to understand the karst geography of Blue Kmiyd underneath Blue Kmiyd. They can't be caught like the sturgeon can because they are the best mix efficient human They already have fish on their body in some form and inside them always by consuming us and they break away from the watchers. And they become the swimmers, let's call them and swimmers maybe feel like they have seen everything from flotsam gardens they need to see and maybe one of their directives is to create more flotsam kind of general destruction
and graffiti maybe that could be that could really alter the city later in the game
yeah they've had an officience and they need to map the city for the walkers they see it as a service but they also see themselves as maybe as as as as a class on higher even higher than the magic is the old magic time they see themselves as surpassing them which I'm sure the the old magic as a as an elder feels very disrespected by so they're just kind of going to do their own thing these school people these swimmers and we'll check into them later and circle back to one of our questions which I think this this then really best answers
we exist the slaughter of a living beings how do we understand the divide between life and death? I think now that we are we are seeing ourselves interpreted through all of these different you know watchers and and and visions and in groups we see all matter as never been created or destroyed. We see ourselves as we think we don't know if other if other matter is conscious, is sentient like we are as food and I think I should probably explore that later. Like we don't know if we're special. But we do know that everything is alive. And maybe we feel connected to swimmers, maybe even a bit non consensually like we did not ask to really become like such this large part of their consciousness.
Also, because these tumors exist and answered that question, I'm going to change a trait I think concentrated slow cooked sturgeon pine needles maybe the Euro us Ronna I know I like that. I like that word kind of I like the world like a block.
Maybe it's not sturgeon. Maybe they changed the recipe to avoid the creation of more swimmers. They're like nah, be these people suck. They're really they're really kind of altering where we want culture to be. And we all just change this to like another you know, freshwater fish. I mean, look at the Yeah, trout. I'm just gonna change this to trout. Oh, when I forgot to draw us Oh, my this is this is really not my best work. Give me a moment. Now because the the swimmers or at least a watcher is believed that no more swimmers can be created. That's going to really aid like, if if a century passes, then that whole subculture might die out. So let's just keep an eye on on time passing and what I choose for that. But I could totally choose another opening chef once I finalize just the last few answers, which is describe how the chef passes you or loses you.
I think maybe the our our mad DJI is so distraught from the creation of swimmers. they assign a new A class of people to deal with living beings or at least fish, some kind of different interpreters. And they kind of just they don't want this to be part of the job anymore. Some magic passes a song. And in terms of time passing, I'm gonna let one year pass. So I'm gonna take a minute and 23 to listen to the second track on the committee on the check in either CLS, I'll see you in a moment. Okay, I just misspoke. It was actually not one minute, 23 seconds, it's 57 seconds because I switched the tracks. The other one had a lot of false endings. And I didn't want people to get confused by that. So next opening, I get some new characters. I think the wild card could be really interesting. I think the cafeteria overseer brings up a lot of good opportunities for exploring the economy of
Blue Kmiyd. Yeah, let's do let's do the cafeteria overseer. I don't know what that will look like. This. So it's described as a political and bear like slop slinger. Their vibrant headdress is supposed to make them recognizable from a far distance.
Okay, so a year has passed. We've been transferred to a new class of interpreters. And then maybe that class we can deal with later. Because that's not really what matters right now. What matters is who is preparing us was cooking with us. And if the cafe to Siri, cafeteria overseer, and they are using these blocks are no longer in. Like I'm no good. I'm not sure the flotsam garden stuff happens right now. But I want to focus on how they use us as flakes. And because of that, I think I'm going to alter concentrated trait. And I'm going to switch that with like a like a rose zotoh could be good. Honestly, yeah. Because, you know, they make us into a broth using these flakes and then they need something to absorb that. I think, like a long grain rice would be awesome. Was risotto that arborea, whatever. But that's also, I think, really great for cafeteria food. So starting us off, how does the cafeteria oversee or inherit us?
I think there's a lot of blocks being used. And I think it is something that the watcher request. Maybe the cafeteria overseer isn't even part of this. of the watchers. That could be that could be more interesting. Yeah, let's make them a Kmiydish. And let's say they got a lot of requests. What is the job that the cafeteria is connected to? I think this is going to be really important to answer. Let's just let's make sure it's not one of the questions. I don't have to double answer it. No, it's described how they feed hundreds each day. So I think I'm going to tie the industry and does something that again could tie back to some of the island origins of the watchers. So thinking to Keno maybe if they used a lot of sales and they had a large rigging element of their sailboats, they could work in in the dock yards. They could be stevedores They could be in fabric Mills I thinking about sign painting today. I thought that was interesting. But I was also thinking about i get i don't i don't know if this would go well with karst topography, but oil I think I've already added one element of underground you know, with with kind of the the swimmer is trying to map the city out the the the sturgeons and I assume the trout Now, coming from that area. So I think maybe there's oil in Blue Kmiyd. Yeah. And they're oil workers. Maybe. Yeah. And they know their way around tunnels from a lot of people grabbing all this stuff, grabbing all these routes. Okay, so it's an oil working cafeteria. That's gonna be interesting. Now I said the cafeteria owner was political description. And Bayer like, I think those are those are really fun adjectives. And maybe the cafeteria worker is a, you know, a big union man. Or now I'll make this a union woman with a vibrant headdress. Maybe it's some sort of set almost ceremonial hardhat and light. Something that doesn't work, really, but isn't supposed to. It was a gift from those in the in the shafts or digging in who's kind of saw themselves as you know, we're safe because we ate well, we have the energy to work because of this overseer who I'm going to name
Martha. I know it's not the most creative I will get more creative when I'm not speaking all this out loud. Yeah, yeah. So this was big hat with this big, big hard hat kind of element. Describe how they feed 100 words each day. Well, I think that Martha starts early. There was odo is you know i thankless job. So maybe it's more of a stew I'm gonna keep calling it risotto but I you know, you don't have to constantly stir it. But still Martha is there with the wooden spoon with the you know, the slop cherner etc. And the the the fact that these blocks are concentrated and can be like shaved off really helps.
Okay, sorry. I'm trying to listen in on the on people outside. Yeah, that's cool. But that's not unique. I think the hundreds a day
or meals portioned out into something like tiffins Is there a mechanical aspect of the cafeteria whether in in how its its its organized or how its run?
I think Martha wants everyone to be in the same place at the same time. And that's a big part of union work. You know, even if you you know, you can't be can't be isolated. It's it's degrading, and it stops cooperation. So I think Martha sees the cafeteria as this communal space. And she likes working with watchers. Maybe they are purposely maybe there's a city limit on kind of, you know, ethnic percentages that could be hired for you know, not to pull a fucking mic row, but dirty jobs. And the watchers are seen as people who Oh, you know, they they should fill these kind of dirty job roles. And so the cafeteria oversee or Martha is very quick about feeding people, but has to Be because she knows like use the rest of the time to talk amongst yourselves and plan. Now, how do we make the cafeteria a sustainable institution? I think we make it sustainable because we come back on the weekends. Sorry, by we I mean. Well, yeah, I guess I mean the meat as well. But it also, I actually was referring to the watcher workers. The food is so good. We are so good as this, Rizzo that people are returning for those meals and bringing their families and our are paying Martha for working weekends, and we're able to kind of consistently afford the rent for the cafeteria space. And also just the the churning of something like a unionization drive, because we're you know, we're meeting with our husbands and they're providing paper to write petitions or paper to write strike messages on I think that could be really fun. Yeah. And then, okay, it's a shame I don't even know my, my own order of operations. Um, choose one event from could be better could be worse. This feels like a could be worse kind of situation. This feels like we're happy about it could be worse. Look at this picklist Hmm. I like this. I like like number nine, and unlikely alliances formed between your people, the watchers and a city wide guild? How does this alliance support each other? And how do you help build their camaraderie? I think the oil workers are going to work together with the I mean, if it's not vertically integrated the oil processing people on a city wide strike. And they're going to work with the people who keep the lights on. Like we're physically like filling up the kerosene lamps. And they're there. There's, um, I think I want in Blue Kmiyd, for there to be like, giant streetlights. This used to be a thing in America, I saw TikTok about the other day, these like giant giant street lights that shine down and need to be maintained. And if this is pre electricity, that would have to be some kind of like a series of interlocking Fresnel lenses that are powered with oil. So all of these jobs, kind of, you know, light bearer. like to say, Yeah, but I mean, it says it says a city to the white guilt, I'll just say, Yeah, for sake of ease, light bearers and oil workers work together. They meet on the weekends, they plan on a city wide strike, what are the demands of the strike, they want better working conditions.
They want maybe the whole city is, is held by landlords and it's kind of rent only. And maybe all the watchers are pushed out to marginalize lands or they are just renting they could be pushed out at any time. Yeah, I think that could be interesting. And so they, they part of the demands is work conditions, wages. And, um, the nationalization of the landlord class, or, or at least, at least a swath of them, you know, like 30% of landlords convert to public housing authorities or something. It's not even that it can be better for them. Well, maybe maybe it was a compromise, somehow, kind of, you know, nationalize landlords. And yeah, we did to help with that. We did. And this is all gonna come to a head in a moment. But before then, let me answer one of my questions. So much scrolling. Alright. There's gonna be a better one. format them book for publication.
What do you call it? And why? That feels like that feels like a good that feels like a good one
for this trout pine risotto that is that it's quickly made, maybe on the weekends, maybe on the weekends, there's more time to kind of make an edit. And so it gets this this alternate. Either like flavor palate or texture. Oh, maybe we're called grain caviar. Because those those rice kernels that have you know, soaked up all that all that trout stock, have the kind of mouthfeel of them. Yeah, I like them. I've also adjusted the drawing now to no longer be a block and to be a bowl of Yeah, these little green caviars. Like, inherently we are we've kind of absorbed the rice into our being because the meat started out as what was conscious. But this is interesting. It's now part of us as rice. Okay, the set the set, the shifting the shifting act to
has to be a bit a little bit. How do they How does the How does Martha pass us on? I think she publishes the recipe for all families to have, she doesn't feel tied to it. She goes like it's the people's
you know, communal resource. That's it. And were passed on to the next chef, we're gonna get to, once we introduce to. So at this point in history, sometime during the time passing that I'm going to choose people leave the city behind, never to return perhaps never to return. We started in Blue Kmiyd, but now we go to Rose Kmiyd. What pushed them into one city or pulled them into this one? What did they leave behind and how willingly did they go? I think the strike was broken with scabs and violence. I think some of their demands were accepted. But not the landowning or, or, you know, national nationalization aspect and that really rubbed people the wrong way. And as a response of all of this worker action, they were pushed out of homes, landlords evicted them and without a home they decided to migrate to rows command Where are Rose Kmiyd where the the life is different. And hopefully the landowning rights are different. So I'm going to select three ways that Rose Kmiyd is different. And I think the the time passing is going to be a decade I know I'm kind of doing order of operations, like kind of willy nilly in this natural place because I don't I haven't played my game that much. And I'm sorry but it's what happens. So the city is different in three small ways. I think Blue Kmiyd is different in the streetlights. Yeah. I think as oil workers, they're gonna pick up on that. Okay, I have to change what let me just let me pause here and take notes. streetlights are different. I think visible tattoos are going to be different. And I think perfumes are going to be different. And I'm gonna have some fun with how so active could pick the atoning pilgrim the prisoner, the integrated Baron, the young revolutionary, the hospice volunteer or the apologetic sensor Okay, now remember they've just been put in a decade as past even pushed out. I forgot to play music that's fine. I'm sorry mister presenting my own game. I like this idea of of a pilgrim going back and forth between the cities and kind of seeing labor agitation or passing some of this through. It's unclear how green caviar will connect into that and we will connect into that. I think the Baron could work someone who owns a lot of land and Rose Kmiyd and uses a Yeah, I think let's do the back let's do the Baron. Give me a moment. I'm back. And here's what I think. I'm going to do the integrated Baron for my shifting chef and I'm going to pull the swimmers back in because they swam all the way to Rose Kmiyd. Cities are not that far apart. And I'm sure that karst topography makes it right for them maybe some of the swimmers were able to to find certain signs of oil and the depth and because you know that they're obsessed with mapping
cell petrological, Petro geological whatever that would that would be maps to people throughout the throughout Blue Kmiyd and be like hey, like drill drill here, you know drill baby drill
and not and and not see this as a betrayal because it's a completion of their of their objectives of destruction of mapping and they've named made a name for themselves while we've been dealing with this whole, you know, workers rights issues here.
And the integrated Baron maybe the integrative Baron is is a swimmer maybe they're part of this breakaway group. Okay, let's read integrate a well connected a questionably solvent tycoon who sees business as a solution to urban problems describe their business and the respect among the workers and how do they transform one of the products okay. I want the Baron to be some sort of landowner connecting back to the differences in these cities and I think the integrated Baron yeah is gonna is going to be a swimmer and they used a lot of the oil money to purchase land and I'm not sure you see here's the here's the trouble how does that connect like like why do they want land if they're swimmers maybe they want it for deal it you know, you know kind of going into destruction going into these topics of of they've had enough visions but they might want other people to maybe they make casinos No, some feel right maybe they see it as establishing themselves I think I want I think this this integrated Baron who I'm going to call
Alexa has purchased land sees that as a utopian project in Rose Kmiyd it's it's not wanted land because it is mountainous. And it again it's it's cave like but they're going to build onto those forms and they're going to build a city here. And they welcome the watchers and and similar people into the this new city. This should have a name, Cave City, Cave City Kentucky, whatever, yeah. Okay, so that's, that's Alexa. And she got green caviar because it was brought to her by the migrants. And she sees remnants of it in like she, she she remembers the time that she ate us when we were a different form and she likes the screen cafe or and sees that as an evolution and maybe makes it a standard meal in the communal cafeterias that again might be in this Cave City probably. She probably wants some kind of like yeah, like bit like build up like this is ours like this, we claim and this we know we get a hold down. But again, that makes it really kind of you know, like if she dies like, What is her will say like, well people lose lose the city. What does that look like? So their bit? her business is Yeah, so it's selling selling oil locations. I think that also will fucking change what KFC looks like. I think that I was listening to Atlas Obscura recently the book or no sorry 99% invisible enroll Roman Mars is talking about in Los Angeles, how they are oil directs that are built up with the facades of buildings, and I think that would be really interesting for them to do. Maybe the facades are old ships. hearkening back to this island. I like I like that. The islands and the caves and what you know, it all kind of just feeds on itself. We're getting away from the green caviar. Ah, let me finish off the Baron by saying the workers respect the Baron. But understand that, you know, you're gonna run out of oil at a certain time. And are they you know, let 100 ways of thought flourish kind of shit you know, they're they're experimented with a bunch of different smaller economies or different products and and services that they can sell. So they're hesitant but respectful. And how do we transform one of their products? Maybe we could be freeze dried because that happened to this level of technology. It's It's It's some
kind of a diesel driven world. Say we could be freeze dried. Yeah. Yeah. We can be freeze dried and, and turned into kind of a Mr. E kind of thing.
You know, some kind of instant meal. And we are brought to Alexa. And she oversees the preparation of this. And tastes it tastes sauce after being rehydrated, and it's not perfect. And you lose the pine needles element. Let's say I'm going to replace pine needles with freeze dried in terms of traits. You lose you do lose those elements but it is a business. And with all this oil coming in, I think it might lead to some kind of industrial complex that requires workers maybe distant workers who need very light food ship to them. I think the word going we might we might travel we might travel places Yeah. So select the option could be better. Could be worse.
Let's do could be better. Okay, I can see I can see where this is going let's do could be better one your people are heard at the peak of a great celebration where the spiritually economically or physically How are you used to process the trauma here's here's what i think i think Blue Kmiyd and Rose Kmiyd are on the same mountain range the close I think winters can be bad
and maybe in row maybe Rose Kmiyd is called that because of the color of a glacier or you know snowpack due to pollen or something whatever point is it's a ton of snow up top and one winter
it it goes down it goes down there's an avalanche down the mountain including Cave City and I think Alexa with her level of paranoia and leadership qualities want this to be pinned on Blue Kmiyd there were just no other side they could have planted charges etc etc what was the great celebration?
Maybe it was the first see I want I want our people could but they are the watchers they now feel we're kind of pushed into swimmer leadership which feels
like a much more angry organization like how they're ordered right now. They could be hurtful I'm sure I think they will be and I think the oil helped fuel some kind of tank or gun as well used for guns now let's say tank like a walking tank I like walking tanks walking things are fun Yeah. Um and it was brought to Cape city to kind of walk around to show like hey, like we could do this now like we could traverse mountainous terrain because of the oil that you watchers and swimmers helped gather. Now we could walk these like deep into the range into the world the avalanche destroys part of the city significant section. It destroys that walking tank prototype. But I think afterwards there is like like, there was always the implicit understanding that dehydrated food like us extends Rose Kmiydish reach and now maybe there was a poster campaign or like a Costco-style serving spoons given out to people being like, hey, look look like it's food. We have the food and we have the technology and they saw these two is intertwined rather than food is comfort or food is love. Which you get to win in other games but this game is taking clearly another direction. And there there's this and that and we're used to process that we're we are a symbol of recovery and the extent of possible growth away from the mountains away from the these faux ships then look even weirder swallowed up by snow. Yeah. Yeah, we're a symbol of this, like industrialized the transportation world. And I think we're gonna be a symbol of war, unfortunately. So going back to the questions Have you appear in a popular piece of art? I think this I think it's the poster. And then we appear in that poster. And the question is, how does the art misrepresent you?
I think it dehumanizes us. I think ever, ever, I think we think that ever since those swimmers were removed from interaction with us, and decided they were above at all, they went down a path that did not connect food to life. And that's something we feel is very important. As food that was literally part of many people's meditation, and hallucination and AI and understanding of life and death, as essentially a piece of food, we now feel like fuel. Yeah, I think that's it, we feel like fuel. And that's what the poster bus represents. It doesn't, it doesn't see us as a partner in the battle sees us as ammunition.
And that's going to feed into Act Three. So here are my questions. Which city do we go to during time passing? What aspects of people's livelihoods or culture can be solidified even throughout all this change?
So I think we are going to invade through checking sucks to suck, I guess, what aspects of your people's livelihoods or culture can be solidified? I think their ingenuity and their ability to tinker and reflect in many ways is something that's definitely upheld in more literature and medium. I think our navigational abilities and our maps and our historical routes and using waterways to our advantage is is really relied on. And I think a decade should pass. I think that would feel good. Cuz you need to get the war machine going. And wars take longer than people expect. So I'm gonna listen to some music and I'll check in with you in a moment. Okay, here I go. The settling, I think the trench sapper just makes so much sense given how the story has gone. The Trench sapper a more like an spunky combat engineer who has lived in the front lines for too long. Describe how they think conflict will end and describe how you are shared with the enemy. So, just to clarify, I'm Alexa passed us on. Similar to Martha actually, through publication of the recipe or no, maybe not. Maybe that could have been stolen by the enemy. But there was definitely like, no combat food scientists who honed in on it.
Yeah, ultraedit maybe maybe even trout got removed. Honestly, yeah, it's more stuff happens. trout is now pig. Because pigs can eat scraps. And maybe the flotsam gardens are consumed by pigs. Almost as a as a dis as a purposeful disrespect, disrespecting this faction is that a word of, of Blue Kmiyd. I don't know why the gardens were preserved after the watchers were forced out. But I'm sure they're still around in their little courtyards and those pigs were just kind of stuck. have sent and definitely as a symbol a definitely as as as. Yeah, propaganda fuel for this for this war
so the trench tapper, let's name our trench sapper let's say Joseph. So Joseph inherited us because they were trained by one of those combat food scientists to know he abused the MRP system. And kind of, you know, like, like, like hack the spice packets and stuff and kind of make some really weird options. So, you know, this, this whole green caviar, maybe at this point, it's known as, like green crispy is
because that's what we taste like when we're dry. And people's heating elements on their pockets aren't working, maybe, maybe it's kerosene based, it's not working. And people eat us dry. And then they'd like drink water and just hope it kind of like fits together in their stomach. It doesn't make them feel awful. So what Joseph has done is
it's turned these Krispies into like, What's something to get done? Easy, easy on the road, just
uh, probably has a as a as a sapper, they have equipment. So maybe like a blowtorch. or something. Like a rod of crispy. None of this sounds good. I mean, it's like, it's dehydrated rice. Some kind of, you know, spam like equivalent. You know, stock soaked in it. That's, that's freeze dried. That sounds awful. At this point, like we we probably don't, don't love it here. Maybe they make these Yeah, these green Krispies. We're not even green at this. Yeah, no, they probably still add artificial, artificial color. They make us into like a green pancake. I'm heating us on the overheated element of their like not Gauss rifle but some kind of sapping equivalent, some kind of No. Diesel diesel. Diesel. sapper usually destroys armaments, or repairs their own. Maybe it's like a glue gun like they're overheated glue gun. I like that. Because a lot of a lot of Kmiydish are coming in out of these karst tunnels. And so there's a whole system of like, sending sappers around, not just to work the trenches, but to manage when trench warfare bleeds into like, kind of like tunnels slash naval combat.
When I'm sure they'll still see like sturgeons. So how do they think the concept will end? What about sides want is the inherent question in that question.
I think Rose Kmiyd wants to dominate Blue Kmiyd and and has has the firepower for all of that. But they lacked something or the war would not have been bombed thus far.
I feel like it's kind of like a occupied Amsterdam situation you know with with rebel forces and want rebels to be tied to the landlords. We were we did not flesh out what Blue Kmiyd really looks like culturally. Um, I don't I don't really want add any sort of magic elements this late in the game.
So I just kind of want it to be like they're holding out because the majority ethnic group has buried their dead in blue checking. And getting back these elements of life and death in the divide. They see this as sacred land, and they're willing to fight
until they can excavate the body is and give them a proper re burial. And kind of similar to the librarians of Timbuktu. There's a whole side smuggling operation of corpses going on. And that's what the rebels are fighting for the they don't necessarily see this as they see this as a managed retreat. Yeah, that feels that feels right. And Joseph knows this as a sapper. But the higher ups do not want to or, or cannot, like understand the logistics and the small aspects of the smuggling operation that Justin has seen and maybe partially stopped with their glue gun, or at least you know, they've seen, emptied, emptied, mausoleums, emptied gravestones. So how are you shared with the enemy? I think Joseph comes across a child's grave. And it's it's recent, you know, it's 12 years old. And the person who is digging it up is 16. And when threatened with, you know, having their face glued over, they explain that, hey, I'm digging out my sister, my twin sister. And she was killed by corporate police corporate oil police during the strike 12 years ago. And because of that, her soul is not at rest, I'm going to get her out. And can you not see? We are Sister cities. We are also sister people. And we deserve to let each other rest and succeed as best we can. I'm not asking this is what the person is saying. By asking for. For military victory I'm asking for you know, a chance to say my goodbyes. And I think Joseph understands that and really, you know, kind of immediately internalizes that based on what they were taught despite this swimming you know, propaganda and shares a green pancake with this person. This young really really honestly young soldier so that would fill out us towards could be worse.
Some of these are interesting some of these don't feel smase any work. Um
Okay. I'm gonna do 12 from could be worse. You are served to a downtrodden character with unexpected religious consequences. They see a holy figure in burnt bread, dispatches psychoactive properties, your taste and locks, early memories, etc. How Does the character share your hidden meaning? And do you feel connected to the divine world? I think yes, we feel connected to divine worlds we've connected to the life and death. We have been used as fuel for the last 10 years. But maybe this person that were fed to this downtrodden character, this person that just runs into sees his sister in the pancake. I know that's like wacky, but I think I think we connect to that. Because we were born in Blue Kmiyd. And we were born from the political events that would that would lead to her death. And and no matter is created or destroyed. And so I think that's this convince this, this character to let it go. I think this character sees his sister at peace in us. Not sure how, oh, yes, I am. Maybe this is all happening in a frickin flotsam garden. And just like our initial inclination, they see this school. I mean, in this case, it would be a school of the School of pigs or it would be handfuls of rice, but you know, some kind of some kind of vision come out of us and take the form of a satisfied and restful person who has passed. And they share our hidden meaning with the other rebels. And say that, I know this sounds crazy. But these green pancakes, these, you know, green caviar is green Krispies, whatever, whatever form we are now will absorb much like the stock the spirits of the dead.
Yeah, that feels good. And a good note to end on. So how do the chef's honor the animal through you? They don't the chef's that prepare us now are using Yeah, like I said before, like garbage pigs.
they've forgotten the essence of sturgeon. But the animals that we are honored through our
other life that we know is sentient is other humans. And we value that a lot. Because we feel like we understand them partially. Now I'm going to let two centuries pass and play the fifth track in the Kmiydish rest playlist.
Okay, now it's time to answer two ending questions or one.
Let's take a look at the picklist I like eight feels good. We're all laughing now, I think let's start let's start with a the restaurant factory or house where you're most commonly prepared is converted into other uses. How do you still haunt the building? Who notices your presence and the building's history?
I think this relates back to those early early slow cooker furnaces. And I don't know what purposes for instance would have that will ever honor us again. And would just
I'm sure they will be used for awful things by by this invader force. But two centuries have passed. And maybe there was a change of government that changed philosophy a truth and reconciliation committee
some form and these furnaces have become obelisks now. Or streetlights, maybe. Or both. obelisk streetlight that's, that's fun. I don't know if that's ever been done before. And some people still graffiti on sturgeon fish to the walls. And we feel each of their whether it's, you know, indentations or coats of paint, come Yeah, we're connected. And we see through the light of the Australian obelisk, I think now we're able to look out into more of the city and tried to see all the deaths that we could connect to. If someone you know has fallen can't get up, or if someone drowns in their bathtub. Or if someone
chokes on some garbage pygmy we notice and try to draw them towards us the people who notice our presence our people spend a lot of time in the tunnels only certain ones have been cleared of mines, and the
the glue gun that just a fuse that that hold the chemical that makes the kind of the foaming glue gel is probably toxic over time or something. So know that certain areas had to be either quarantined or remediated. But some have been open to to be national parks, or be other just, you know, national monuments, and kind of the young and the willing to go into them
come back to us and see us as connected. And see it as completing a ritual that was done a while while ago.
So that's the final question. And now I'm asked to look back at my list of traits, which are freeze dried
pig risotto I think slow cook was kept the entire game. But I think I think at this point, maybe it should have been the game changed slow cooked too. You know, artificially dyed or used as an mre. I think this food sounds bad. We sound bad. I cannot replicate us at this stage. I could I could get I guess I could get freeze dried rice, I wouldn't have the same stock elements.
But I could make this and I don't want to I think it's just interesting to reflect on the route This came. The start of the game was it was a really it was a really meditative
almost psychedelic perspective on culture. And then the end circled back to that but the middle certainly got dicey. And it was only like, what 20, 22 years of history. And then if you add the two centuries at the end 222 years of history, but there wasn't that many large time jumps in it. Usually I add a century or two into these games but This was a good playthrough this this this, this did flesh out the world, I think, Well, I think I wish I'd spent more time doing some Blue Kmiyd stuff. And it doesn't feel good to be an accomplice and
some maybe what I would see is evil schemes or lives. But that's life. And sometimes that's kind of where the questions lead you. And ultimately,
we as this green pancake, we're able to help as we could and changed the course of history. So that that feels important. But thank you for listening or reading or however you chose to do this. I would love to an actual play with someone else. And maybe over over text so that you don't have to hear all of my ums and yeahs but check in later. And I hope that you can buy a A Recipe on Kmiydish Paper. worked hard on it. Take care y'all
