Podcast From A Hat!

What Was Picked From A Hat?

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15 Objects – Picked at random by Cody

• Music box
• Rusty hatchet
• Self sealing Stembolt
• Glass eye
• Nun-chucks
• Coaster
• Rudimentary AI
• Amulet
• Microphone
• Whip
• A peony
• Shoehorn
• A watch
• A book
• A mystical book

10 places – Picked at random by Jami

• Whiteshell
• Nova Scotia, Canada
• Dog Park
• Catacombs
• Half Moon (Lockport)
• Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
• Island
• Library
• Park/Garden
• The Moon

5 Story Ideas Picked at random by Brenna

• Someone’s deep dark (or silly) secret is revealed.
• Someone thinks they killed someone else, who is completely fine.
• Blind date
• We’ve woken up in a dimly lit, locked, wine cellar with a splitting headache, no phone, and no memory of how we got there. What happened? How do we get out?
• Running from the past

8 Characters – Picked at random by Syd

• Joseph Baran – Basically Jake Peralta
• Sally – decades old ghost of a little girl
• Stoned Joe Biden on Acid
• Cecile Monte-Braque, middle-aged mistress of an heiress.
• 0000 – secretive AI nobody knows exists
• Jana “Black Widow” Stringfellow, a sophisticated, sultry, and sexy secret agent who doesn’t take no for an answer, and answers almost to no one. Almost. She wields a Katana sword and a Desert Eagle side arm, and is very good with them, even combined! Her Achilles Heel is chocolate mint ice cream, parallel parking, and endless reruns of I Love Lucy.
• Movie buff who accidentally commited a crime
• Parking Authority Inspector who does magic tricks

4 Situations – Picked at random by Alvin

• A study of friendship/collaboration
• Unveiling a complex truth
• A bittersweet ending
• a general focus on isolation

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What Were Our Options?

Below are the pools of thing to pick from a hat that were suggested by the Cool Discuss Team!

Please Provide 5 Objects

Archaic Tablet Ancient Grimoire Rusty Hatchet Rudimentary A.I. A Mirror book puzzle skull pillow candle A watch A peony plague doctor mask cigarettes

rocking chair Amulet elevator shoe horn Christmas tree piggy bank Venus fly trap Music box Mystical Book Tea Towel Camera glass eye psychedelic mushroom camera synthesizer microphone

An earth-sized fire extinguisher frying pan delivery truck self-sealing stembolt beer coaster Sword knife handcuffs whip nunchucks Coffee Mug Flashlight Sunglasses Bottle Opener Christmas Tree A Stink beetle

Places Pool

Story Ideas Pool

• A character discovers an AI hiding in their watch It’s 4am
• the cupboards are empty, and food is *needed*
• Something important is stolen and must be found
• Suddenly everyone else in the apartment building is gone, your suite is the only one left
• Your reflections are moving on their own
• Someone’s deep dark (or silly) secret is revealed.
• A character is drenched in a goopy substance (food/mud/blood/etc.).
• Something lost is found.
• A character talks to animals/objects like a Disney princess.
• Someone thinks they killed someone else, who is completely fine.
• Psychological thrill-murder in Churchill,
• romance of 2 separate couples at 2 separate times and then time coincides,
• horror/spirit displeased with trespassing undersea wreck,
• comedy of the errors in Winnipeg at an office job/library,
• speakeasy prohibition era romance of same sex partners.
• Dental appointment
• blind date
• is that a spider or fluff
• approaching co-worker I don’t know well in the corridor
• forgot my wallet in my car
• A road trip gone awry – flat tire, we’ve run out of snack food, the last 3 motels have been booked up, we haven’t showered in 2 days and there’s no radio or wifi signal to assuage the growing tension.
• We’ve woken up in a dimly lit, locked, wine cellar with a splitting headache, no phone, and no memory of how we got there. What happened? How do we get out?
• We’re checking out a rural property, when our phones ping that there is a tornado warning. We look to the South and see the funnel cloud touching down. We only have a few minutes to get to safety before it hits.
• Packing up your childhood home – reminiscing and saying goodbye to your formative environment
• You slipped in the shower and now suddenly every object and looks like a cat. How do you navigate this new feline world?
• having an affair
• buying illicit goods
• running from the past
• chasing the past, the past catching up to you
• The world’s first AI-equipped hacky sack has gone rogue.
• A jealous rival sabotages a magic act by switching out a fake sword for a real one; hilarity and/or tragedy ensues.
• The long search for a sacred magic item with world-saving power is found, and a small child promptly swallows it.
• A hero chooses to satisfy their dead friend’s last wish; traverse a warzone to recover their prized bottle of Bordeaux.
• Our Reluctant Hero is contacted by a childhood friend, who needs help saving their local LARPing property from a corporate land grab.
• A young hockey fan who fantasizes their favourite hockey player with dirty thoughts, dreams on meeting them one day, but when they unprecedentedly encounter each other at a hardware store, things take a turn for the strangest, weirdest, and most profound turn between the both of them.
• Ten years set into the future from present day, an astronaut embarks on a journey with their fellow astronauts on a mission to Mars. However, as soon as they leave Earth orbit, they discover a stowaway, and must figure out a way if they need to abort the mission, or continue as planned while taking care of their stowaway.
• Set in 1985, an FBI agent begins work in a newly created division within the FBI specializing in cyber crimes. However, a case gets out of hand with an agent involved, when they LITERALLY got involved in what would be called “virtual jousting” where the agent involved was heavily influenced by a computer virus, which turns to violence in which they’re mirrored onto the outside world from the computer world by way of jousting unsuspecting victims using an office chair, a keyboard and a mouse.
• In a post-apocalyptic future, after a catastrophic war that involved biological weapons that costed millions of lives globally, a young scientist discovers a formula that would cure the infectious disease that was spread by the weapon used by warring belligerents involved. However, one of them found out of the discovery made by the scientist, so they decide to go after the scientist and “contain” the scientist at all costs, but not before they make it their life mission to save what’s left of humanity, and thwart the warring powers who caused the destruction of humanity, because the cure wasn’t the only discovery the scientist found…
• The last monarch in modern times, a king who is slowly losing power with no heir to the crown, his future and his kingdom is at stake where modern democracies are taking over governing powers of the land. As he makes his final attempts to stay in power, a young girl enters the kingdom and asks to speak to the king. Upon initial conversation, it was discovered that the young girl is a lost relative to the king, and brings hope to the kingdom. However, the girl will need to convince the king that times are changing, and that the only way to have a kingdom survive is to adjust to the modern times.

Character Idea Pool

• Joseph Baran – Basically Jake Peralta
• Jane Sinclair – reclusive writer that prefers her own characters to real people
• Chris Woodsman – cheery middle aged park ranger
• Sally – decades old ghost of a little girl
• 0000 – secretive AI nobody knows exists
• A museum curator with an annoying sibling.
• A construction worker who knits socks.
• A parking authority inspector who does slight of hand magic tricks.
• Hemlock Krivistky, a journalist.
• Cecile Monte-Braque, middle-aged mistress of an heiress.
• Shea Loughlin: even-keeled, no-nonsense lesbian with a dark past.
• Jefferson Pierce: incredibly intelligent, but equally vain and self-absorbed.
• St. John (pronounced Sinjin) Devereaux: Handsome, wealthy, broken, and villainous, he desperately wants to change his nature.
• Movie buff who accidentally committed a serious crime
• A grad student who seriously thinks he is going to be able to find a job in his field (lol)
• pizza restaurant worker who dreams of moving up to pizza chef at nice Italian restaurant
• Stoned Joe Biden
• Movie buff who accidentally committed a serious crime on acid
• A grad student who seriously thinks he is going to be able to find a job in his field (lol) on acid
• pizza restaurant worker who dreams of moving up to pizza chef at nice Italian restaurant on acid
• Stoned Joe Biden on acid
• “The Major”: A grizzled military veteran, now retired, consults as a private investigator specializing in minor parking infractions, petty rime, and the intrigues of lonely rich housewives.
• Vandersen McDougal: World-famous magician, sex idol, and restaurant franchiser.
• S&M domitress
• 50’s gresaser girl
• vampire slayer
• Roderick Lyle Moon, a contractor specializing in security and recovery services (also known as a Bounty Hunter), who works closely with and within the Interstellar Space Alliance on various missions. Has a wicked sense of humour and gets along with everybody, but also takes his job very seriously. He is also an extremely dangerous man during crunch time, and by crunch time, means squeezing out a deuce in the bathroom, dangerous. However, his crunch time is also his weakest time, since his vulnerability is also extremely high in this stage. In the end, the gases he produce is his is his specialty, in which they are extremely potent, and is used as a weapon. The gases are collected and contained into canisters, and to be used as a ridiculously high destructive weapon onto unsuspecting enemies, which creates ridiculous amount of damage and destruction, with 1 million times more destructive force than the Hiroshima bomb. However, it only gets to that extreme state of potency if he eats three bean and beef burritos with extra cheddar cheese shreds and sour cream. If you back him to a corner, and he starts eating burritos, you’ve already written your death warrant.
• Jana “Black Widow” Stringfellow, a sophisticated, sultry, and sexy secret agent who doesn’t take no for an answer, and answers almost to no one. Almost. She wields a Katana sword and a Desert Eagle side arm, and is very good with them, even combined! Her Achilles Heel is chocolate mint ice cream, parallel parking, and endless reruns of I Love Lucy. Her arch rival is the highly talented, slightly arrogant, yet just as sophisticated agent Warren Foxtrot, in which her and Warren always gets into sexually awkward and suggestive situations with him, especially when it comes to fulfilling the same missions, but in the end, will get things done her way, one way or another, but at the cost of getting sexually frustrated.
• Allan Jefferson, an undertaker seeking a career change, tries his hand in comedy. However, due to the current nature of his job, he takes on dark and morbid comedy, which is questioned at best. He loves animals, reading books, and tinkers around with cars. He is married to his wife Anna, and has two kids, who he also loves spending time with. He gets along well with everyone in the neighbourhood. His weakness is his mother in-law, whenever she comes over, she gets over-excited about anything and everything, and annoys Allan to death with her over-enthusiastic approach in things.

Situation Pool

• LGBTQ+ themes
• Moral discussion themes
• simple sweet love type romance situations
• A study of friendship/collaboration
• Unveiling a complex truth
• A bittersweet ending
• Comical scenarios
• political situations and themes
• a general focus on isolation
• confinement and the shrunkenness of hope for a decent life in our decadent and so cruelly precarious society
• Spaghetti Western Space Comedy
• Dramatic Thriller
• Mockumentary