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This episode originally aired as the Patreon bonus episode for March 2019. The original description follows:

So here\\u2019s a fun opening story\\u2026\\xa0 The first thing I recorded for this\\xa0song\\xa0was the bass line.\\xa0 I then picked up my sax to play in order to figure out what key I had played the bass line in.\\xa0 Well, I actually couldn\\u2019t figure it out.\\xa0 No note or scale was matching up with what I had played, it sounded terrible!\\xa0 Of course, I then realized, I HADN\\u2019T TUNED MY BASS.\\xa0 I turned on the tuner and lo and behold, I was 20 cents flat.\\xa0 That\\u2019s enough to be its own unique note.\\xa0 I had already written the entire bass line and promptly forgot how to play it.\\xa0 My fix was to literally tune all my instruments to 20 cents flat!\\xa0 It somehow worked and my sax was matching up.\\xa0 Unfortunately, I had picked an extremely difficult key for an Eb instrument (which is what an alto sax is).\\xa0 It ended up being in the key of B, which has 5 sharps for the sax.\\xa0 Plus I was adding additional accidentals (other sharps and flats) to give the\\xa0song\\xa0a jazzy feel.\\xa0 Ok, that\\u2019s enough music theory.

This was quite a challenging\\xa0song\\xa0to write.\\xa0 I\\u2019ve played tons of jazz music in my lifetime but have actually never wrote/recorded a\\xa0song.\\xa0 Instruments included are alto sax, guitar, bass, drums, and my lovely voice.\\xa0 This would essentially be a small combo jazz group.\\xa0 Some combos have three \\u201chorns\\u201d (i.e. trumpet, sax, clarinet, etc.) so this is definitely a small one.\\xa0 Jazz groups always have a bass, usually drums, and then some type of \\u201ccomping\\u201d instrument (i.e. guitar or piano, one or the other, not usually both).\\xa0 Guitar or piano generally provide chords for the horn to play off of but as you can hear, at some points I just followed the vocal line with the guitar, giving it almost a rock type feel.\\xa0 Jazz is the progenitor of most modern music so I thought it was fitting.\\xa0 Here I am talking about music theory again, sorry!

Onto the actual League content of the\\xa0song, I tried to make this a string of consciousness for Dante remembering the League\\u2019s various exploits.\\xa0 There really is no rhyme or reason to the\\xa0song\\xa0and I tried to make it seem like scattered thoughts.\\xa0 Of course, the\\xa0song revolves around the events that Dante thought were cool (Corolla frames) or annoying (like Lace being a better distraction than him in the fight against Cthulhu).\\xa0 As I was listening to episodes, I came across a line that absolutely made me laugh: Luna asking if we were very likely or mostly likely to die.\\xa0 I had to incorporate it as it could have easily been a Dante type question.\\xa0 Then, there is the title\\u2026\\xa0 Shout out to my friend Evan Staves for this title immediately popping up in his head and helping me get my groove started.\\xa0 That made me just have to comment on the fact that yeah, I forget my swords and guns exist.\\xa0 Ultimately, Dante is happy to be involved with the League and loves the new friends he has made.

-Liz

What\\u2019s the\\xa0Name\\xa0of That Sword Again?

\\xa0

Welcome to the Castle Club
Name\\u2019s Dante
Drummer, hit it

Yeah\\u2026

I\\u2019m gonna tell you about some of my friends
They\\u2019re called the League
And it\\u2019s gonna be their stories
Actually, it\\u2019s mostly gonna be about me

Feels like just yesterday, I joined the League
It\\u2019s been a fun time, with no reason or rhyme
Except I kinda lost my arm

This is the only job where I wonder
If I\\u2019m very likely or mostly likely to die
Sometimes people ask me to use my sword, but I don\\u2019t!

However\\u2026

Luckily we\\u2019ve beat a bunch of Phyrexia
I don\\u2019t really use my swords or my guns much
But I do remember the Corolla
It was a good car\\u2026frame

Once, we stopped Dracula
Because I stole his cool ass cape
And everyone else got there too late
They were still clapping at my performance at that play

Dante saves the day!\\xa0 Yes I did.\\xa0 Without my swords and guns people
But y\\u2019all are pretty cool too, anyways\\u2026

Think about all the cool things that we\\u2019ve done
Except I got upstaged by a dino driving on the run
At least we beat Cthulhu

Then one time we got famous for playing rock without a clue
And too bad our only reward was a green slime Stitch fu Manchu

So thank you friends for the good and bad
Your double taps and your portal guns, take me to my favorite danger zone

Is he bothering you over there?\\xa0 No?\\xa0 Ok great.