Hey, FireGold fanatics! PAPAYA here once again, and it's been quite a while since the last post! Before I carry on with the write-ups, I must apologize to you all for the buzzing frequently evident in these episodes. For some particular reason, the microphone we use kept making the sound, no matter how many times we unplugged and plugged it back into the USB drive. I can assure you that it won't be evident as much in future episodes. With that, let's dive into the episodes!
The 2nd Anniversary special was written by myself and Teddy, with Teddy coming up with most of the hilarity. The crowbar, bag, taser, and his guard character's verbatim was all him, among other things. Seeing as how it was an anniversary episode, I figured it would be fitting that Gold would be hanging out at home playing his N64, hence his Mario Karting with Toad. I completely edited the opening sequence of Gold playing his Mario Kart 64 game together from scratch using the familiar sound effects. It wasn't actual live gameplay sound. From there, we based the questioning Gold gets summoned into on Mongo's suggestion. The background music used during the questioning was Kazuya's theme from Tekken 2. As Arch Canine said in the outro, it was indeed the fourth take and completely unscripted. By the way, if you still have not seen our 2 Year Anniversary livestream with Alex on our YouTube channel, check it out! There's a topic set list in the video description so you can skim through the stream to hear a particular topic that you're interested in.
With Episode 13, it was time to tackle the fourth gym battle. I wanted to make sure that this battle went down to the wire like never before in the series. As a result, you heard quite the back and forth struggle for the Fogbadge. A lot of that battle was me venting out childhood raging for Morty using the Hypnosis, Night Shade, and Dream Eater trio of moves extensively. Arch Canine had a bunch of input on Morty's character. The parts where Morty said "Count them, 1, 2, etc." were all off the top of his head. Some of you will probably ask why we forgot about Metapod. Trust me, the explanation will come in the next episodes. After Togepi saves Gold's hopes, he earns the badge, meaning he would go back to the PokeCenter to heal his Pokemon again. I realized that Gold had yet to use the PC there so I came up with the gag of him tricking Joy into thinking the PC was faulty to get away with self-healing his Pokemon again. From there, he luckily goes in the right direction to the next city and avoids a bunch of trainers along the way. I knew that I had to end the episode with something more than just the gym battle, so I came up with Hoothoot evolving into Noctowl, now voiced by Arch Canine. It made sense to me since by this time playing the 2nd gen games, my Hoothoot had evolved, as well.
With Episode 14, there was a lot that had to be addressed in one episode. Since Gold would still be scarred from the battle with Whitney and her Miltank, I figured he would run away as soon as he noticed the field full of the evil cows. It was a good way to skip the 3 remaining trainer battles on the way to Olivine. From there, Silver confronts Gold and tells him that Jasmine is MIA from the gym. As Gold would, he completely botches his reading of the Olivine sign. I figured he would also be wise to Violet the Random B*tch's tactic of correcting him, so I had him send out Quilava to avoid seeing her pop up again. But, we all knew we couldn't go without her correcting him again, so he then sends all of his Pokemon to send her blasting off again. The forgetful Gold still goes in the gym and is reminded of the situation with Jasmine by the Tipster Nerd. From there, the forgetful Gold goes into the city and is reminded of the Lighthouse's location by a local Sailor. He then enters the House O' Lights, encountering many Sailors, crazy girls, Gentlemen, Bane sound-a-likes, and SAILORS. His whole ascend up the Lighthouse was mapped out by me as I played through the game. The whole Bane part was Teddy's idea. After much battles and distractions, Gold finally reaches the top and finds a depressed Jasmine asking him to go to Cianwood for medicine for Amphy. It looks like Gold will have to find a water Pokemon to surf him to Cianwood, and fast!
All of these episodes were recorded in one day. All 4 of us were able to get together for only the second time ever in mid-August to get it done. It was really fun recording them and doing that livestream with Alex all on the same day. We plan to have another livestream with the Red Squirtle in the future on a more convenient day than a Monday.
Finally, news on new episodes! We have something very special ready for release VERY soon and another Halloween special in the works for October! Want some clues on what the Halloween special will be about? Simply go to our YouTube page (refer to the links on your right), watch the Episode 13 and 14 videos, skim to the end credits in those videos, and listen to the music accompanying the credits in each video. From there, let your guessing commence!
And, that's about it! Until next time, blog you all later!
-PAPAYA
