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Welcome to Building Vesser, a podcast that takes you behind the scenes of our process

building a completely original franchise IP from scratch.

I'm Victory Palmasano. I'm Anne Halk and Mike's lost it.

I'm sorry. Oh my God. That was Mike McCard laughing. And if you're listening and if you haven't reviewed the

podcast yet, please click the stars and write us a review. Mike's voice is a little quiet today

because he has been on discord, those of you who know know, doing a lot of character creation and he has been talking so much that he has lost

a lot of his voice.

Indeed, we've in fun sessions though, for those of you who aren't on the wait list to be a part of our official community.

It is really fun. It is already thriving, we're playing a lot of games to a lot of sessions together.

But in the ones where you create your own player character for the game, Exile,

it's a full TT RPG. It takes a while.

First time character creation, you could expect it to take a couple hours.

So I'll take five to 25 people through at a time creating characters and I just have to talk the whole time and even

for someone who has sort of like the podcaster voice discipline like I can or like I used to tour and talk on stage, there's

some threshold of continuous talking that I think is about at 90 minutes, that after that the vocal cord start to be like, you know what, no.

They're in exile.

They're in exile, exactly.

So I'd noticed it toward the end of the session yesterday it was getting hard to talk and then last night it got worse and then this morning

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