Roll History: Juiblex, Part 4 – Roll History
Welcome back to the modern era! We have buckets of info and lore for you, as well as buckets of uh slime. Sorry. But there is Glabbagool! At least there’s Glabbagool!
Plus: Juiblex at a Party Doing Impressions of Christ, The Dichotomy of Shoes and Berries, “DM’s Tip!” (Three Tips and Out), and A Gnome Is What Happens When You Don’t Try Hard Enough.
NOTE: There were some fairly major audio issues on this one that Alex has done their best to clean up, but they’re not a miracle worker so apologies for the problems you can still hear.
This episode’s (smaller than usual) gallery:
Additional Show Notes:
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- Episode art by our very own Sami!
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- Our Sources for this one:
- Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins. Monster Manual. Wizards of the Coast, 2014.
- Christopher Perkins, Adam Lee, Richard Whitters. Out of the Abyss. Wizards of the Coast, 2015.
- Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crafword. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Wizards of the Coast, 2018.
Additional Annotations
- So we didn’t do show notes for the last episode. But it was an actual play one, so it’s fine. Surely you don’t mind.
- Alex says ‘I’m not Stu‘ in reference to a Rugrats bit that was a meme back in uh 2010, around the time Stu was making chocolate pudding at 4am because he’d lost control of his life
- These notes do very quickly dissolve into ‘here’s the shit Alex was referencing’, don’t they? Immediately following Rugrats we had a bit from the Big Lebowski. They believe in nothing.
- We swear to god, Alex isn’t religious. See? Didn’t even capitalise ‘god’ there!
- Anyway the bit about the vinegar on a sponge at the crucifixion? That’s likely a xylospongium, which the Romans used instead of toilet roll, which was the style at the time. Modern Christianity portrays Stephaton’s offering of said sponge as an act of mercy, but like many Christian traditions, it’s become unmoored from historical context. Not that any of that is canon; this is some Gospel of Nicodemus shit.
- The ‘Ooh I’m dyin” bit is from that Bugs Bunny short with the baby penguin. Mel Blanc is the best there ever was at screaming his fucking head off.
- Maroon 5?! Hmm. That link is purple on our PC. Have we done that before? Oh fuck
- Bowling for Soup really do have a song called ‘
Put It In Your Ass and Then You’ve Got a Tip‘ ‘Running From Your Dad‘ - Our chiptune version of This Love was made with Gashisoft GXSCC and a MIDI file of the original song.
- Later, Alex goes ‘Spiders’ with a weird cadence. It’s a reference to a Nostalgia Critic bit, because unfortunately Alex watched a lot of that at a formative age and will never escape the memories of it. We’re not going to link it here.
- ‘I’m the typo guy that likes to roam around’… That’s The Wanderer, but more to the point it’s in Chicken Run, isn’t it. It’s a Chicken Run song.
- Alex was absolutely right; Twitter doesn’t really exist anymore, does it? It’s ‘X’ now, so named because it’s owned by the most divorced guy to ever live
- “It’s time for the DM’s Tip, it will / go inside / your brain / Next time you’re running an RPG / remember the tip / and use it in your game”
As always, thanks for listening!
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