Hey everybody, this is not Palisade 01 as I am sure folks are hoping for, but the feed has been dry for a few weeks

and I wanted to quickly hop on and say hello and give everybody an update the short version which some of you who are more civilized age fans may already know is that we didn't

unfortunately with Palisade because of an unexpected medical situation earlier this month everybody's fine everyone's home okay you don't have to worry you don't have to freak out we know that you love us we know that you care about us I promise that we are good but it does mean that our Palisade recording central has been a little bit derailed the good news is that this weekend we are finally recording the first full session of the season

we already recorded some material that will probably end up as a Patreon thing at some tier I'm not sure there's stuff in there that's changed like and not in like a fun here's how it changed way more like that ability doesn't work the way you thought it does so let's ditch that or like this thing would be a spoiler to say in this at this point so let's not mention that outright so there will be some stuff that makes it up there and some stuff that doesn't

the delay also in some ways let us spend a little extra time dialing in on some other elements of the season you know Jack had a couple extra weeks to work on the theme and the theme is just so good it's just I cannot wait for y'all to hear it

they literally sent over the final mix to me and Ali and the rest of the crew yesterday it might be one of my favorite pieces they've made not to hype it up too much it really hits like some of my personal taste vectors really well

we also have some new cover art coming that'll get you know deployed with the first episode we don't show that too early and there'll be from a new artist who we've not worked with before I think at all in friends of the table I've worked with her before professionally but not on a friends at the table thing I'm thinking I don't think we have

Craig Shelton who had been doing our art or cover art for years and years now total is actually about three years ago I want to say it was either Twilight Mirage or Spring in Hyron that he needed to step back and focus on on his day job stuff which I mean he I think runs like a whole creative animation company

at this point is like creative director he doesn't run it run it but creative director pretty much up there when he was like you know I have to stop doing freelance stuff I'd focus on the main gig

and he told us that and then did two or three more covers for the show anyway so we've known for a while that his tenure as the friends of the table cover artist was going to to be coming to an end and we will announce the artist that we do work with and link out incredible it's just such good it's so good we'll show off some some we'll share some high res versions of the of the art to when episode one drops so so look forward to that

also say that we got to use this time working once again with Andy Johnson Glick aka Dancing Neuro on Twitter on a map for Palisade just like we do for partisan that'll be embedded in the first episode so people can see that and we'll also tweet that out obviously share that the various places it's so good

and he literally just sent me over some options for various finishing touches as as I'm speaking into this microphone I cannot wait for you to see this thing it is like truly next level in terms of its like detail and characterization and the sense of Palisade is a place and kind of some of the bigger feelings of what the space should feel like as the sort of like fantasy sci-fi melding thing that's happening very excited to share it.

And frankly I was also able to use this delay to get my own head around this setting and prep NPCs and giant mechs and figuring out plot hooks and reading playbooks you know fan playbooks and suggesting that people check those out and you know I got to tell you going from a few years ago when I was you know full-time journalist and critic and then got to come home big ooh now it's time to get on my world building grind like now I'm like set up in a cafe I was also pre-COVID right I think I've talked about what COVID did to my

building to prep for the show and how hard it has been to have lost some of those spaces over the years and that rhythm that rhythm of like go into the office and then like on the way home go to the cafe and set up a laptop and like do that work losing that has really made it hard and that now that what I do professionally which maybe people don't know this but I work at a company called possibility space now where I am effectively like the world building director that was the title I interviewed for they gave me the title I P

director which is such a bad like suit-exounding name like title I hate it I hate IP director except sometimes you to elbow your way into conversations you wouldn't if you were just world building director you know world building director that's like okay like go build your stupid little world IP director means I

get to be in conversations and say things like I think it would be bad for the IP if we did X and they go oh yeah would you have to be bad for the IP so I do my best to use that title well I

point being now that I do that with my day job it's hard to then be like all right I've done eight hours of world building and writing and you know try and

research time to do six more hours of writing and research and world building so yeah so while I do wish we could have

kicked the season off a few weeks ago frankly it is probably better that I had some extra time to do better work

before we kicked things off in a big way while I have you a couple other quick announcements I would love to

keep this under 15 minutes I really would that's I think a realistic he's realistic of me to say 15

minutes I was going to say 10 I thought Austin say 15 so I've said 15 first of all we've been making an

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