Hey Heroes, it's James, your GameMaster, and welcome to this thing.

Those of you who follow me on Twitter already know we opted not to have a regular story

episode this week because that would have required Casey Tony to have to work on election night.

And I had to work on the day of the election and I also had to work today, the day after the election when we're still counting ballots

and I know my nerves and my emotions make everything very fraught right now for me and it's very difficult to get things done and

while I don't have control over my deadlines I do have control over Casey's and so I

opted to just skip this week entirely and give him some space to rest and you know hopefully not have to force himself into a situation where he has to make a lot of creative decisions and you know

Creative work can be taxing in its own way so yeah we skipped out in the show instead we're bringing you this this is something that originally was going to be a piece of Patreon bonus content

This is the session zero that we did for our Nordia art.

I always record our session zeros because I want people to be able to see like the

dominoes that we set up for ourselves and the way we kind of implement those story decisions and how we successfully or

unsuccessfully managed to capitalize on our different ideas.

If you happen to be a player or a game master, I think it's a fun way to peek into somebody else's creative process.

And I think it really gives you an idea of how we approach storytelling as a group and you know what things we find

valuable what things we find memorable and how we appreciate each other's ideas you

know you can see what we were thinking and planning versus how we actually

manage to implement things and you can also sort of track how we were surprised by various decisions that got made along the way.

The session zero runs about 30 minutes.

You know, I will say a huge part of that runtime is bits.

I left in most of those bits because we do need bits. Content

warning, we do joke about the coronavirus because at the time that we

recorded this it was a very distant possibility and had not evolved into the ongoing

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