The Curtain Ain't Dropped Yet!

"Is the podcast dead?  Has the sun set on you guys?  What's the freakin' deal?  Where's the other episodes?  I've listened to everything y'all have and [inexplicably] I want more, what am I to do!"

 We have heard you, I'm not going to give you any excuses, we have fallen off the wagon but WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE FIGHT!  That 'fight' of course being the business of bringing open-mic, non-scripted, nonsensical game table mayhem to your ear holes.

The above photo was taken just two days ago, so there is proof the minions haven't had a Yoko-style breakup.  White Tail, Mystery Meat, and myself took our ladies out for dining and drinking.  It was a great night, it was over too soon, and although it wasn't the forum for discussing podcast plans we still said some stuff on the topic.

White Tail (formerly T-Bone) has talked about starting up a new game set in the Dragon Age world, which is ripe for RPGing.  I spoke to the boys about the emails I've received very recently about the show's status, and that we should get back at the stick, which was unanimously agreed upon.  Mystery Meat is 'up for anything' and good to go.  

All in all, the bottom line is we fell into a bit of a rut of doing nothing with recording and boardgaming has dominated the tabletop as of late.  That and some scheduling issues have severely hampered our Saturday games, which have seen the lion's share of the recording.  

We're working on getting the ship back on course friends.  Thanks for being patient.

Mark, We Are Okay

There's a lot of that going on, running low on an ammo, being chased by undead hordes, trying to survive.  Pretty much everything that's been going on with the Minions podcast; just trying to survive.  

Duck Sauce runs the server that hosts the episodes out of his home, but it crashed, then he fixed most of it but other stuff didn't get fixed.  Then his upstairs bathroom exploded into the kitchen below.  He's also a family man, so life doesn't pause so he can fix podcast issues.

He tried to clue Gyro in on the technical side of things, why he picked Gyro I will never know since both Americano and Mystery Meat work in the computer-go industry and neither are more than a foot from the latest technology at any given time.  T-Bone isn't in the industry but he does tech-stuff on the side as a hobby, so he would've been a better choice as well.  Gyro surfs the web and checks email, and up until recently, plays World of Warcraft, that's the extent of his tech-fu.  

What we need to do is just sit back, take a moment, sip some Bourbon, inventory, and start anew.  As with most things in life, with the new year weeks away, that may be the jumping on point.  Here's our action-item list:

• Gyro and Duck Sauce need to be in the same room with their computers
• Gyro needs to take notes on what steps to do to get an episode air-ready
• Duck Sauce needs to do whatever it is to get the podcast server limping along
• Episodes that need to be published need to be...published
• We need to figure out where we left off
• Get season four intro theme song from Spacejacker
• Start recording again, week night sessions, Around the Horn, whatevs

Minions MIA?

Yeah, it's been dormant...dead...a ghost town!  That's why Pavel here looks so unsure of himself.  Rest assured, the Minions themselves have NOT been dormant.  We've got, like, a lot of finished episodes in the can and just waiting to be delivered to you.  We've got some Pathfinder all-Elf stuff, a new Superhero game using a new ruleset (ICONS), a bunch of Around the Horn, and you know, other stuff.  In all seriousness, as of this writing, we've got at least half a dozen episodes that are as yet unreleased.  So stay tuned, go back and listen to some older episodes (surely you haven't heard them all, right?) or relisten to some of your favorite moments.  Winter's coming, and so are more Minions.

Elf on Elf Action

Where are the heroes?  Where's the latest podcast?  All in due time my friends!  I must say, and with Duck Sauce's own admission, that at least two episodes are forthcoming due to "guilt" and "sloth".  Duck Sauce's own words, I swear, err more or less!

We just wrapped up episode 63 and it was an all-Elf party romping through the Rise of the Runelords adventure path for the Pathfinder RPG.

We also have the last episode of the Mass Effect story arc soon to be aired as well as the character creation/bull session of the aforementioned Pathfinder campaign. 

So not only have we not forgotten you, we've got a whole lot of episodes ready to unleash!  Until then, enjoy!

-Gyro