Welcome back to Red Dirt D&D Campaign 3 and our teaser trailer interviews that are going on the podcast and on YouTube.

If you're lucky, we get to be joined by Gary Hester.

Woohoo.

Yay.

Yay.

So I'm glad that you took time out of your busy schedule from harassing children and assigning them essays and making them learn stuff.

Teens.

Harassing teens.

It would be heartless to harass children.

Heartless to harass children.

It's a public service.

When you harass teens.

When you harass.

Keeping them in like.

Wait a minute.

Not harassing children.

Possibly keeping them out of harm's way.

Did I just get a window into a Campaign 3 character?

It's in your psyche.

You didn't even know if you.

If that window was on a boat that was sailing past a car that was driving past a place, then yeah, you got a window.

Are you wearing pink on purpose today?

Of course.

My goal is to wear pink for all of as many of.

I should say not all of as many of our recording Sessions for Campaign 3 as possible.

Because Moxie is a pink tiefling.

Moxie, the pink T fling.

Yes.

That's fantastic.

Our setting is going to be home base anyway.

For now.

Is the city of Ironspire.

Is Moxie a native of Ironspire?

Was she born there?

Did she.

So Moxie was born somewhere else.

I don't know the name of that place.

But she was little.

When she was little, she moved to Ironspire with her mom when she was, I want to say, somewhere in the realm of like seven.

Yes.

And maybe eight.

So young enough to like, understand this isn't the, you know, mom and I have been wandering around for a while, but old enough to appreciate kind of having a home base.

And so her and her mom found a place to stay in Ironspire and she's been here for 50, 55 years or so.

Hocus tea flings.

Right.

So we're living a little bit longer.

And to make some age things work, we're saying that her other half is Elvin.

Oh, so a half Elvin Tiefling.

Yeah.

So she's fantastic.

She's actually, I think I have her age written down somewhere at like 65.

Okay.

But maturity wise, she.

It's.

It's like she's in her 30s.

Yeah.

What does she do?

I mean, obviously here at first level adventuring, she, you know, must hopefully do something else for income or purpose in life.

Well, she's been in Ironspire for 50 years, so she's got to have a job.

She's been working and running a tavern called the Siren Song.

She's been running it pretty single handedly for probably a decade or so.

But that's where her and her mom first kind of started living.

So she's been in that tavern, living there and being a part of it since she was 10 years old.

And so it is definitely home for her.

Was her mom like a barkeep by a maid or who was like the mentor or.

If you want to share.

Yeah, I mean, Moxie's pretty open.

We're not holding much to the chest here.

Her mom found the Siren Song, which had a master reputation for helping out women in need, and went there just, you know, for a meal for her and her daughter and became really close friends with the owner, Rhapsody, who adopted them, took them in.

And her mom actually was Rhapsody's second in command for a long time.

Recently, about a decade or so ago, Rhapsody decided to retire.

She's an elf, so she's not anywhere in what I would call elderly.

But she wanted to focus on her art.

Oh, cool.

And so she retired and kind of let Moxie run it, I think secretly, because I also wrote the character of Rhapsody.

I think Rhapsody really knew that Moxie needed a promotion and so she's retired to work on her art.

That's fantastic.

That's still hanging out.

Probably lives in one of the upper.

Rooms or something like that.

So Rhapsody's apartment, she has the entire second floor.

Her and Moxie live there.

And then on the third and fourth floor, they have other rooms that they let to women in need.

Oh, that's fantastic.

And there's our contact, kind of our circle back around to what we were just talking about with Moxie having this compassionate heart for kids.

Yeah.

The whole bit for the Siren Song is that it has quite a reputation for helping women in need, helping children.

She has been known to help women escape abusive situations.

Rhapsody is a great artist and also a great forager.

And so she can make travel papers, she can make new identities.

She also has a lot of connections in shipping.

Rhapsody was a sailor and a ship's captain for a long time.

And so we can get these women away from this place and away from their abusers.

And that's what her passion has been, is that this, the Siren Song is a safe place for people.

That's fantastic.

Entertainer working at a bar, at a tavern with a secret kind of backroom.

Philanthropy, in a way, or safety or.

Protection, you know, criminal philanthropy.

Right.

But Moxxie's probably not A rogue.

She's not.

And actually this is great because Johnny just reminded me about this movie.

The Tom Cruise bartender movie.

Yes, that's the vibe here.

So she is behind the bar, she's flipping bottles and making drinks.

And as a tiefling, you know, she's got some small magics that she uses to like really put on a show and sell it.

When you have these people coming in to the bar, they're not in a good place.

And so, you know, it's a way to put a smile on their face.

It's also a way to distract people.

If you need a distraction for whatever reason, we need to hide somebody in a back room.

So that's going to lead into her class and her subclass later on of she's actually a bard.

That's fantastic.

Woo.

Finally we have a little bit of magic in the party.

Yeah, we'll see.

I haven't nailed down exactly subclass yet.

I'm kind of waiting to see personalities.

But yeah, at least a little bit of magic.

This has been awesome.

I do have a no pressure, but very gonna shine the spotlight on you question and that is that very possible that you may have created in the past two of the most popular, if not the most popular characters on the network.

And so that of course being Billy the Possum and then Poppy Tea Leaf.

One, any pressure.

And then two, how did it happen?

Like, was it, you know, do you think lightning will strike a third time?

Here's the thing and here's why I don't feel pressure about it.

I didn't make Poppy or Billy trying to be likable.

And so Billy for sure, if I continue just not trying, I think it's really because they pull at very human instincts and they pull at our best D and D characters are part of us.

And so Poppy was very much the, I don't know my place in the world.

But I want to figure it out and I want to do the best that I can.

Then being kind of foisted this responsibility spoke very much to the, you know, eldest daughter in me being the oldest and all of that.

And Billy is the silliness, but he's also the fierce loyalty to friendship.

Also.

I myself am just kind of funny and that like, not to like, there's no humble way to say that.

I think that lends itself to the likability a lot.

I think something that Poppy and Billy both have that moxie doesn't is a degree of naivete.

Oh, moxie is an adult.

Right, Right.

Both Poppy and Billy were very young.

Moxie has a career.

She has responsibilities.

She has people that she's looking out for.

So she's more serious.

And so she may not be the crowd favorite for this one, but she is a character that I've been the most excited to play for a long time.

I've been holding on to the idea of Moxie since episode three of campaign two.

Amazing.

So I'm really excited to kind of see what she does and where she goes.

That's fantastic.

That's fantastic.

Well, I just have one promise to you.

I'll kill Moxie first.

Okay.

Okay.

It's fine.

I will say if we could find, I think, something that Poppy and Billy also both had that maybe Moxie can find along the way.

She needs a little pal.

Oh, Wildfire Mud man.

She just needs a little pal.

Maybe she could find a small orphan child.

Maybe she could just collect a little pal.

I'm thinking, like, you know, sad kitten.

That could be good.

That could really win me over some people.

Or maybe foul mouth bird.

You know, I see where you're going with this.

The problem.

It's really not.

It's really not Poppy and Billy.

It's Mudman and Wildfire.

Wildfire, the accountant was.

I'm telling you, it's good.

He had a little hat and of course, that.

And I've talked about this on the podcast before, but that is.

That all came from, like, my personal gameplay style.

I don't like to keep track of how much money I have.

It's my fatal flaw in TTRPGs.

And so making Wildfire my accountant worked really well.

There we go.

Well, I tell you what.

You will be able to find out if Moxie, the half elven, Tiefling bard.

She's gonna have to be a better accountant.

She has a business to her.

I know.

Does she find a companion?

She gets an excuse.

She hires it out.

I think again, I'm just really thinking I just might make sure she had to make out, like, episode three, and.

Then we don't have to worry about it.

I can't get Carrie to break, boys and girls.

I'm trying.

You know, she's just keeping that happy face on and being like, no, it's all good.

Well, worst case scenario, we just make enough.

We make, you know, Moxie's twin.

She didn't know about Roxy, and now.

You'Re thinking like a player.

You'll be able to find out all these secrets and more coming up soon.

December 4th when Campaign 3 of Red Dirt D and D is right here on this podcast feed.

See you then.

Sa.