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Lords:
* Ben
* https://twitter.com/KosmologyB
* Tyriq
* https://twitter.com/FourbitFriday
Topics:
* Which real life occupations are the closest thing to actual Adventuring? And would you want to do any of them?
* Getting a tattoo has somehow motivated me to be healthier
* It's weird that some instruments you play with your hands and others you put in your mouth
* The Mushroom Hunters
* https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/25/the-mushroom-hunters-animation-neil-gaiman/
* Discovering how much butter and sugar is in your common or garden cake has filled me with sheer horror
* A public call to action for the creation of Violence/Threat Jazz as a genre
Microtopics:
* The collection of music songs that you put on the internet last year.
* The Citizen Sleeper trailer.
* Managing a game's Steam store page.
* The conversations you don't have.
* Adventuring as it is conceived of and perceived.
* Going into the field and being exposed to health hazards.
* Rock climbing and its relationship to speed running.
* All the big parts of the world having been discovered already so you need to be satisfied with discovering tiny parts.
* The difficulty of spending a lifetime rock climbing when you don't enjoy rock climbing.
* Whether being sent off to war feels or ought to feel like an adventure.
* Lockdown tattoos.
* The uncle who convinced you to get an eyebrow ring.
* Designing a tattoo so that it still looks right if the recipient suddenly gets swole.
* The Clean and Jerk.
* Compressing yourself inwards as you hit the ground.
* The idea of caring about your appearance.
* Looking in the mirror and feeling good about yourself.
* A portion of meat that is ruining your aesthetic.
* Your full-sleeve Gigantamax Meowth tattoo.
* Ark from Terranigma.
* A tattoo of a goat because you love goats a lot.
* Putting pictures on your body and looking cool.
* Going full body-mod in your old age.
* A Rotom right up there in your armpit.
* Walking around looking like a JRPG character with an asymmetrical pauldron.
* The right torso for me.
* Bone tattoos that are just for you because nobody can see your bones.
* Waiting until you are 80 years old for eyeball tattoo technology to get safer.
* Screaming higher and higher until you take a shower.
* Airflow and handflow.
* Licking a musical instrument that makes noise when it's wet.
* Chromatic spittoon virtuosos.
* Melody Pops.
* How to survive long car trips before portable video games.
* Lollipops you could write with.
* Chocolate cigarettes wrapped in rice paper.
* Rebranding your offensive children's cigarette brand to "Fads."
* The formulation of laws to follow facts revealed.
* Food Tasters.
* One king left and so much food to eat.
* Why so much fiction is so obsessed with royalty.
* Cracking a nut in your brain.
* The moon's excellent product placement.
* Cakes for people to jump out of.
* How to marble a cake.
* The butter iceberg.
* The inside scoop behind all the drama.
* The Sharks and the Jets snapping at each other.
* The dude in Mad Max Fury Road playing a flaming guitar on top of a moving truck.
* Where to see Ben's cats.
