Okay, I'm pulling out of the parking lot. You all know what that means. Actually, maybe you don't.

So my son Adam had an orthodontist appointment today, and I had to take him there, and I just dropped him off at school.

So I'm starting my podcast from school, because that's where my drive-to-work starts.

So it is still drive-to-work, because I still have to go to work.

And as I explained before, I've done podcasts from the school.

It's a way, it's close to my home, it's close to my school.

Hopefully you will get the same amount of content today.

Okay, so last we talked, I was talking about the design of Odyssey.

Uh, and I introduced you to the design team, and I talked about the creation of the main,

two main mechanics, flashback and, um, uh, flashback and, hold second, crossing the road,

uh, flashback and threshold. Um the road. Flashback and threshold.

So today I was going to talk about, oh yeah, that's where I left off.

I was explaining how we started with a simple theory of the graveyard and how things kind of

exploded from there.

So let me start by talking about the graveyard.

So one of the things that's interesting about the graveyard as a mechanic or as a, you know, as a theme, is...

So the graveyard is interesting and that it's part of the game.

The graveyard is there.

Now, normally, normally, the graveyard doesn't matter too much.

Now, even in Alpha, Richard made a few cards that cared.

You know, he had Ray's dead that could get something back from the graveyard.

He had animate dead, which could, you know, animate a creature from the graveyard.

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