Unspeakable Words: Troy Baker, Erin Gray, and Felicia Day join Wil on TableTop
Let me get this out there. I am NOT a fan of word games. I am not good at word games, I’m never gon na be good at word. Games word games. Make me crazy.
I know that this is strange. Coming from someone who makes a living by writing down words in a particular order to tell a story, but I’d honestly rather lead a team of adventurers into a crypt, then figure out how to maximize my points or get any points at all with nothing but vowels. In front of me again, but today on tabletop, Troy, Baker, Erin gray and Felicia Day are here. Join me in a word game, and I actually love we’re going crazy is part of the fun we’re going to taunt Cthulhu and discover the ancient secrets of relay by making unspeakable words: [ Music, ], [ Applause, ], [, Music, ], [ Applause, ], [, Music, ] Unspeakable words is a Cthulhu themed card game, where we make words and go insane. It was designed by my friends, James earnest and Mike selling.
Her mic claims that this game was conjured fully formed in a dream. After he played back-to-back marathon games of Arkham, Horror and Scrabble, I believe Mike and the game pretty much plays like it sounds it would. We are cultists trying to spell words of power using letters found in our hand of cards. Cards have a letter and a point value, but this is not like other word games. Letters have points not for their frequency of use, but for how many angles each letter has so o is worth zero points.
Wild H is worth one two three four points on each turn. You will make a word score your points and then pay the sanity cost of saying that word. When your turn is over, you will draw back up to seven cards after you say your word: you will roll this sanity die if you roll over the total points. You scored for that word, you’re, fine. Otherwise you will lose a point of sanity represented by these adorable Cthulhu shaped sanity markers.
I love you Cthulhu shaped sanity marker. I went to Maui, Oh oh you’re, so cute when you’re eating world. If you run out of sanity, you are out of the game, but something awesome happens when you are left with just one sanity point. The proper rules of spelling no longer apply to you and you can make any word you want, and that is what makes this game so much fun to play. Today.
We are playing to 100 points. The first one who gets there with at least one sanity left will win. I will see you at the mountains of madness right after we play unspeakable words, I’m Troy Baker. In addition to being a nerd, I am an actor. Some people need know me from bioshock infinite play, booker, dewitt and also joel in the last well.
My name is Erin gray and I’m an actress was a model before that. Now I’m also acting, but also have a company called Heroes for Hire. My name is Felicia Day, I’m an actor writer and producer, and right now I’m helping to produce all the videos on this channel: geek, etcetera, okay: this is unspeakable words and to determine who goes first, we all rolled the sanity die when you weren’t watching, and I Thought I was going first when I rolled a 60, but then Erin rolled a 17 because it’s tabletop so Erin you will go first, go ahead and make your first word yeah. I nailed it. Yes, oh nice, how many points do you get well?
Yeah 12 points for Erin. This is what you get every Saturday get your nails done. Actually I did nails done. Let’S roll the sanity die and see if getting your nails done, made you insane yeah and then I’m going for what again twelve feet. You want a twelve or better three getting your nails done made.
You insane lose a sanity point, but I got all those points you get all this points but low near kethu. This has to go here. Yeah Cthulhu party’s, starting I’m the first person to lose sanity. N — that does not sit well. Speaking of getting your nails done, I got a manicure before this production table right.
You are so right. Hands would look nice right. You see your reflection of them. Isn’T that great, I used to make fun of it until I did it and then, when they put you in the chair and you got the whole vibration thing and right like glass of wine, your yep right totally get it yeah, it’s a little yeah, I’m this Guy too, at the at the salon. Now did you hang up your phone?
Please hey! I’M clearly trying to watch lifetime right yeah. I need to know if an Julian’s gon na get out of this terrible situation. Okay, so I am making the word Dyke, as in the little boy put his finger in the dike. Oh okay ray that is gon na, be worth eight 13 points for me.
Roll hold variable. Alright, it’s a bold move. We’Re gon na see if it pays off at the beginning of a game, always try to go for the biggest score I can get rather than playing it safe. I have a ton of sanity points and if I lose one, it’s not the end of the world yeah. I know I’m gon na draw up to four cards.
Felicia you’re up, you know I have just a poopy poopy hand. My opening hand is not good. I have a couple of eyes of V and in a queue okay, I do have. I can make one word though, and it is sly. Oh, I said a former actor director.
Oh he’s still an actor director. Is he well? I didn’t see the Expendables. I think his finest work was, of course, in the Italian stallion. Indeed, it’s very difficult to find a copy of it where early is really when there’s early first, but it was really for films.
Yes leaves how you describe, but is it a good movie? Have it? I think that you should try to find it on the Internet. Oh gosh, I accidentally rolled a fourth day, okay, how many points to get four points? Okay, it’s a little overkill understanding your Bowie!
Well, you know I’d like to overcompensate for you um. What is an amazing way to start off? This is the word trope Wow nice. How many points do you get rich? Of course, I get 13 points and I’m gon na see if I can’t keep my sanity because Oh 19, and so I get 13 points, yeah sanity and it’s all a nice turn Erin.
What? Where do you love me? Erin gray? Thank you. I’M gon na keep.
It all clean. How many points do you get for clean 0, 1. 5. 10. 12.
All right make sure we get 24. You guys. Hopefully you haven’t jinx this that’s 11. That’S not 12 use one more sanity point you just want to get closer to Cthulhu. Yes, I am in danger of going completely insane absolutely I uh the best word that I can make.
This is really disappointing to me. The word is pub as the place one goes to drink pints. Indeed, so that’s going to be worth eight points for me, which still isn’t a lot, but it’s as good as I can do now, and that takes me to 21. So eight points I need to roll an eight or better. Someone is not good news.
Late. All right, listen MIT again somebody gave me a puppy puppy uh you again with the poop. It was pooping position and now the poopie hands yeah, I thought Felicia’s whole obsession with the pooping position in Lords of Waterdeep was just kind of a one-time thing. No turns out that Felicia is obsessed with poop uh, yet again, don’t make anything that high price, but me o, as in Keira meal. That’S Italian, can I do a sheen an against?
Is it it’s a foreign word? Oh me. Oh my. Oh me, a — committin. It’S a nice sounding word, but no it’s not a work.
Do okay! So I’m five five judge me Billy, who believe me. I am okay. Moo moo, I’m gon na put down move three boys somebody’s going down. Somebody says the cow says no more than three Wow.
It’S always annoying to miss a sanity check, but it’s almost like it’s like a paper cut to miss it by one that is super super irritating super super. You want to uh, take one of your cthulhu’s and put it in the pile of insanity, [ Applause, ] and one day until retirement. I was just trying to make his way to the pen whenever you knock over a Casillas like shrine that I have built. You invoke the anger of the gods, so I think that’s why Felicia isn’t losing because she’s destroyed the shrine they’re like no her now she’s like poop, and so you know normally. I don’t think this would work, but in context of our conversation, the son of God, yeah different for, was curious.
Whether or not Thor was going to work because it’s a proper noun and in the rules. You know you’re not supposed to use proper nouns, but I felt that my nerd quotient by employing Thor trumped the rules. I asked Mike selling her my friend who designed this game. Can you play proper nouns and he says generally no, but if everyone agrees that you can play proper nouns, then you can play proper nouns, but you know or who doesn’t love or ah so yeah, it’s okay, we’re gon na allow! For how many points do you get before I’ll go over Thor?
I guess I can hang points now. Here’S the problem, though, is is this puts me in a very precarious position, because I need the gods yep. Yes, both the old and the new. Please give me a terrible fire, beautiful role. I feel that the Elder Gods are sort of alright yeah they’re, helping Troy yeah Aaron.
What were you making? Well, you can trying to side between sex, good choice, for what is that yeah axes echo? Well, let’s see sex is sex, is gon na be worth eight and axis is gon na be worth 13, so that’s too high sex is better. Yes, as a general rule, sex is better than axes. I would think I mean, I think, that I don’t know with that.
Your mileage at home may vary, but I have found in my life that, given the choice between sex and axes always choose sex Arijit antrax, you should have gone for axes. This is the one time it acts as little Anatomy sex, I’m losing sanity, but I’m in the lead. So how does that work? I don’t understand. Aaron seems to be hell-bent on going insane.
It’S like she’s on a crazy train like a train – Oh crazy, always good to be on the crazy train. Okay, always good! I am going to make the word choo, as in I like to chew my food 11, which takes me to 32 right. I need an 11 or better eight is not 11. Can you make it to the more subtle clinic?
No, no, there’s nothing subtle about Cthulhu! That’S this whole thing right he’s an obvious kind of guy. Yes, yes, no irony, there he’s not obnoxious to me. My Cthulhu is an introvert. He likes the controlled environment that I raised him in there’s no loud noises.
He doesn’t get startled and I feel I fear for his personal sanity by going in that pen of other Cthulhu’s he’s not a common Cthulhu. I’M gon na go because yet again I kids, we think clever with my poop pan. It is a tie. The pooping poop is a palindrome and that’s why it’s a good word all right. It’S that I don’t have a fixation or anything it’s a tie.
So that’s 10 points for you right. Yes, we got. Oh No 7 is not 10. Oh, don’t make a meal of it come on Danny. It’S so much connects on that right not to have now what Kathir bees.
Oh, that was excellent, all right now! Normally, I would do something: that’s funny yeah, but instead going I’m going straight because you’ll you alarm me with your scores wing it. So I’m gon na do guide, guide right. That’S s! 12!
12 points for you, oh boy, two in a row all right, so I need a 12 or higher. Give me a number of 1917 Wow, Troy you’re rolling like a boss. I think Troy has an ability and his ability is his Cthulhu art he’s a builder he’s like channeling minecraft over there or something people are commenting on my Cthulhu statue and it’s more of an offering to the gods and it’s working because I’m winning five cards up Ready here you go one two, three four. I can’t believe I’ve not been paralyzed, oh dear, I’m in trouble I’ve all these big words, but I’m in trouble. I need to not lose any people.
I want to play groan, but it’s really high. So I want to start with gum and play it safe. I am using gum instead of groan, because I hope that by keeping my score down low that when I throw the dice, I can stay in the game. Okay and that’s gon na get you to 30 Wow Aaron’s now insane. This is my favorite part of the game, because you get to make up words and no one can tell you that.
That’S not a real word so now that you’ve got insane. Actually, you could like look so, for example, let’s just grab these letters and I’ll show you, okay. I’Ve decided that the word on that this word is Jukes Jukes chooks Jukes is a word, of course. The derivative of the old English that that will made up this is what what you actually call all the little little circles that you punch out of donuts. Yes, a the technical term is the chooks, so you would say so.
What are we gon na do with all these chucks? We just learned it’s a waste, and then someone said, let’s start calling them doughnut holes and make money and make money off of them. Power of insanity means you can do whatever what are you’re insane. You can make up any word you want, but you still have to make a sanity check and if you fail the sanity check, you go double-secret insane and you actually die from madness. I’M gon na make a word, and the word is day I like that word.
All right, because it and now this lets me do this – the deep one goes: okay, yes, it saw through those for me. Oh, the yog-sothoth goes. Okay, so anyway, day is worth 5 8 10 points. For me, oh gosh takes me up to 40, come on Ted or better. I know up to sanity.
I could tell there is so much left a chance in this game that planning out lots of strategies is way less fun than just playing the game. I hope you saved a seat for me on the crazy train. Eric said they got ta be joining you there shortly, hmm, ok, it would be my turn. While you’re shuffling that’s correct, um, you have successfully described everything. That’S going to happen right now.
I am going to this table is burgundy and we’re sitting in chairs and I’m holding cards that are made out of paper right. That’S that is also correct. I’M going to put down four letter word called a visa that, what’s in your wallet, what’s 10 points for Felucia, alright wow, I got the vegan parasite I feel like. I might have contracted it at a convention that we both went to, maybe maybe we’re having cocktails, and I was like hey taste this one. Never do that.
As far as I’m concerned, the bad luck parasite that has plagued me since season one can just go, live with Felicia. Now I’ve done all I can for it. There you go. Are you continuing to go very ambitious? Yes, why not with my strategy?
So I will make it frail frail right, seven, twelve. Sixteen seventeen I chose frail and I think it’s my best word because it kind of described everyone else’s strategy, I’m at full sanity yeah. I am. I am saying that I’m gon na go down, but anything. Oh, hey man, that’s not cool man.
I was a man of my word well, his name is Tom, talkative Tom kiss my Lulu. He works in accounting, all right, Aaron Geter, my turn-ins, I’m I’m going to go away and whoa you’re gon na dump your whole hand. Oh I’m dropping my hand because I’ve got to stay in the game and I have a hand, that’s filled with fives and fours. So if I make any three-letter word, even a made-up word, it’s gon na put me at a higher risk. I am gon na make the word ham.
This morning I ate sausage, bacon and ham hottest afternoon. I had a heart attack, ha ha ha. That’S 9. 10. 11.
12 points for meat in Ronnie’s. What hey cholesterol for breakfast I had amigo under say ice has stopped. You up, okay, so I need to roll a 12 hour. 15. Oh kind of my is no actually Ron Paul.
I will not be voting for you. I am NOT insane Wow your turn this day. What word are you making? I actually have a very good word. I had 15 because I had to roll a 12 that might work at our border game.
I’M gon na spell the word free, because everything is this. Free is amazing, so I’m I’m betting on losing a sanity here, but I don’t care because I need to catch up with you guys, of course yep I mean I guess who’s insane now. Oh, it really insane guys really insane join the club, so it actually sounds like normal conversation to that. But what we hear is rough Christine. These guys are crazy.
They can’t understand it. So I’m gon na go with something: that’s a derivative of Old English and was popularized by the band quiet riot of noise. No, Oh! No! Alright!
Alright! Finally, we’ll go! I actually you sold me with the thingies excellent. How about we do? Oh well, we could do Zion new Zion yep, that’s true, you could absolutely do.
Zion. Zion is actually good for 6-8 points. These points for Zion Zion in a sentence please um, hey. I got his eye on you nor trumpets of hey you. That is not as many points as you got for Zion, but it’s 6/8.
It’S it’s same number higher right. Oh, it was eight. Oh of course it’s eight yeah you’re, fine, you’re, fine. For some reason I had in my head that you scored ten. I don’t know what the tale is well Felicia, it’s called losing um when you meet with the dark forces.
Yes, what like? How does that happen? I am the new professor of the dark arts. My background with the dark arts of course began. Hogwarts yeah, as everyone does, and then I took a more of an online course.
I don’t recall ever seeing Troy at Hogwarts, so um, I’m gon na go ahead and call cousin, Anakin’s all right, Aaron you’re insane. What we’re gon na make I’m gon na go with food. Oh, oh yeah! Of course, what what does photos mean? Proto’S means i misspelled food.
Okay! No! I like Muto’s better, like I prefer photos yeah! I know I know I thought is that’s all the pictures that they take at the Hobbit poem. It’S a photo yeah.
So uh, that’s that’s five! You just got it all more than five. Okay come on Aaron! I can do this. I can do this.
Ah [ Music, ] yeah 18 is waiting all right, you’re still gon na game. I am going to make the word jib, as in I like the cut of your jib huh. Oh that’s really good! That’S worth! Oh!
It’S worth a lovin. I thought I had well dominated, and now I’m noticing you can like creeping up behind me, which is actually not too dissimilar from real life 11. I need an 11 or more. I need eleven or more, no, more 11 or level 11 or more is actually number 11 or more 2 is not 11. Everybody, I’m insane would love to buy a timeshare.
It’S like owning a place where you vacation it’s a very tenuous relationship. We have right now because I’m staring across the table at 3, clearly insane people, I’m gon na put down the word cute. The word cute is when you say goodbye to somebody and you’re like hey nice, to see you, sir I’ll see you later and then you could both start to walk into your car, the same exact direction. What’S the cue yeah, thank you. Yeah you’re, like oh, my gosh, so yeah, that’s a cute!
Okay that keep you alright baby. Can you drool for it? I might be out of this game now in the way that I’ve been rolling. Did you see it try to stay on the one? Second they’re?
Good, you know this was also. This is also that moment where it’s going like. That is another usage of cute, Oh cute, yeah. Thank you. Is that moment where you think it’s gon na land on a one.
Congratulations, you survived your first and seen word Troy. Oh, you know, I really feel sorry for Troy he’s not insane. He doesn’t know what real freedom is. This is what Felicia does whenever I make a word like this. She gives me a sneer.
Oh well done. How many points do you make or sneer dangerous? It’S 14 yeah. 14. 14.
Oh, you need to roll away tonight because I just got qu it totally. Cute dude andis is channeling some sorry just step over there. I’M sorry using the most amazing dark magic right now. It’S incredible! I do believe I am yes, hmm!
I’M gon na go big, go big, go big, go big and to go big, go baby, Lacey Lacey! Yes, I loved her lacy bra, hmm, wouldn’t say loved his lacy shorts, so yeah we’ll go with the lacy bra okay, so I have too much to it. I’M getting lighter better, I believe Maron. Why are my rolls unlucky? I don’t I don’t know I’ll be with you shortly.
Okay, I’ll be right! There I’ll be right there, I’m making a word called he’s. Gon na he’s gon na try to go out big because he’s still to blame please this word is really woman is a measure of power and it’s actually used to measure how fast you make your big wheel go when you make the sound room. Look. I had my first 12 room toy when I was six and I mean I leave it up to parents to decide the appropriate room rating for their children’s vehicles, but look uh.
If I could handle twelve rooms at six, then I think other kids certainly can eight eight or better eight or better. Do it, quick? Okay, that was so much quick, quick, quick, quick shoot, whoo hi insanity, Oh God, we rockin this team insanity all right. It’S up to you to somehow take down Troy. You need to make a 30-point word and roll 20 okay.
Okay, I am making the words Amon sainted examine what is what has ended mean it’s the move you make when you and a person with you are approaching someone who obviously knows you and you can’t remember their name. So you go. Oh hey! It’S great to see. You this is my friend Ashley and then Ashley goes in and says hey.
What’S your name boo, my god, it’s interesting that I see Felicia using Cree or creating words for social anxiety things. I think it’s very revealing like she had the Quig and then now she has the zani. How many points is ended a worth four: nine, ten, eleven thirteen nice, I’m uh, it’s goodbye time for notes. No, it’s nice that you’re in this you are in this Erin. Give me your give me your womanly blessing.
My problem in power. Go ahead, put it in the thing: yeah, Troy Baker yeah. I hope you had fun. I declare I’ll. I declare usage a z’ tabletop Cthulhu unspeakable words champion and Tom from accounting can come back.
Oh, that’s right. He gets to come back. What do you touch my wife? What if Oh, No you’re, not my wife, we’re non-gender-specific? My friends, welcome to the losers couch, where I spend a lot of time.
I had so much fun playing this game today that I want to make sure that you guys did not go home empty-handed so actually gathered. Some presents some prizes for all of us that are appropriate for crazy people to have so um uh Aaron. You get a plastic bag with a thing in it. Oh what and Felicia you get some gaffers tape, which is I’ll. Be careful.
You guys don’t hurt yourself, Aaron, that’s not a toy, don’t breathe it in and because it’s my show, I get gin so uh one bottle now, I’m gon na go downstairs and give Troy his appropriate due, and I want to thank say Thank You. Aaron I’ve been here before, I’m not thanking you Aaron, thanks for coming to play on a tabletop. Thank you. What she’s really fine! I appreciate it.
Well, okay, that’s great high five! I feel like you got gin and I got gypped chipton grip and I got ya. Troy Baker! Congratulations on not going insane! Thank you very much.
Congratulations! On being today’s tabletop champion, it was kind of a big deal. That’S kind of a cool move. It’S a little bit of a big deal. I have heard from everyone else.
Who’S won because that’s not me um, I last season. Yes, I spent the entire budget on one really amazing trophy boom. It was such an incredible trophy that we had to actually take it back from the winners after they got to hold it and and fall in love with it, because we could only afford one, and I just want this season everyone to get to date. Ah, so I have spent an equal amount of incredible money on the table top certificate of Awesome Wow. This will be presented to you.
I will now sign it in order to make it official. I understand all right, so this marks that this is not fake or cheap or a repurposed certificate in any way, and now I’m also adding a seal of authenticity which, as you can tell there, is you talking into a voice over microphone, see because that’s what you Do any very good at it! Please make a victory speech, you know in all sincerity, and you know you and I we’ve hung out a handful of times and it’s always a good time. So the fact that you would think that this is well oh right on. Well, I’m really glad that you were here yeah and the fact that I you know clearly kicked everyone’s ass.
It’S just just gravy. Are you going to share this with the Elder Gods that you that you made that dark pact with yeah sharing is is? Is a kind word to use right? Well, you enjoy that. We will see you next time here on tabletop and until then play more games.
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