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We've got some questions. We've got some answers. We're going to take your guys' questions once we get through some of the writing questions.

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And so it begins. So as always, various questions that are directed towards me that I chose because you guys keep letting me choose all the questions.

And I like talking about myself, but we'll start with one that goes to everybody. So from Twitter, CJ Marisol, Marisol asks, what were the players working theories about why guests kept stealing items?

Could they have confronted the guests if they figured out it was John Boeslash Dawson before the finale? So you guys want to talk about what your theories were?

Yeah, my theory was and this is I forgot who John Boe was and tell the finale happened. So basically my theory was right. I just didn't know that it was John Boe. I was like, so you thought it was like all the same person and they were stealing things.

Yeah, I thought it was going to be all the same person stealing things. Yeah, but I didn't know who that person was going to be.

Yeah, I think I thought they were maybe all working for Dawson or some other God. Yeah, I was really excited. I guess when they were masks falling because I did remember that like in Katz Pantheon, there was a mask maker.

Basically, as soon as I found out that Katz Pantheon contained a god named John Boe the Mask Maker, I was like, that's my favorite because I love masks and you know, the whole like performing and all that stuff. That's my fucking jail.

Hannah, what's up behind you? Can you turn around? It's nothing. It's nothing. Is that a candle? I'm not weirdly fixated on masks. Okay, like I don't know why you're being so weird about this and bringing it up like it's normal.

I think about you know, first up screaming at you. I did a mask, a normal mask. You're a first up bullying. Okay, like a normal mask. Oh, I suppose I can I can answer the other part of that question almost skipped it. Oh, wait, I had a theory. Can I get my theory? Tell me my tell me your theory.

My perspective is weird because I so basically when I recorded my episode, I hadn't heard anything else like from the whole arc. I had heard the last time Fran was on the podcast and then skipped straight to seeker being there.

But like I was like thinking about I know cat had like a thing where she wanted to do like some kind of weird like barred God. So I thought that like there was a barred God of Bards who was like enchanting people particularly because like way back in the day, we were maybe going to do like a musical episode. So I don't think.

Well now happen. But like I remember I was like, Oh, maybe like this is how cat is repurposing that storyline is like with this like ballot thing because I knew what the ballot because I helped write the ballot and then.

There was some kind of like musical God that was like enchanting people to sing the song to bring Mary back or something. That would have been cool. That wasn't what I was doing, but I would have been cool. Yeah, that was my theory and I was like, I've solved it.

Well, I mean, you're not the only person who thought it was maybe a barred. There was a lot of theories. I saw on our discord about it being diamond, which is why diamond came back. Yeah, that was a little nod to the discord because I had completely forgotten.

I had not made that connection. I was like, Oh, I guess it could have been like a Dawson thing, but it was it was too fun to bring diamond back. But I'm going to actually that segues nicely though talking about how writing the ballot.

We have a question from Tumblr from an anonymous Tumblr user. And they asked, what was the process of writing the ballot like? Did you do an episode by episode or was it done in advance? So that was before we even started recording arc six.

I had the idea for the ballot. I had like the chorus. I think done it. Maybe you had the first verse in the first version. The chorus done me. Yeah. And then I came to know well. And I was like, here's the here's the audio note that I have on my phone. I have nothing more. Please help me. And so in like a night. Yeah, we came up with mostly.

We had a call. And as is like normal. Can I have actually weirdly written a few songs together? Yeah. And as is the usual way of things. I am very much like just trust yourself leaving your dreams and like do nothing during the actual.

During the actual meeting. And then later I go back and I'm like, Oh, this could change and this could be different. And I think we also we didn't write the bridges at that time. I wrote the bridges later, which are like the parts where I don't know.

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