Before they made history playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, “Dimension 20” dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and the intrepid heroes (Lou Wilson, Brian Murphy, Siobhan Thompson, Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, and Zac Oyama) that star on the Dropout tabletop role-playing game TV series sat down with Variety for a game of “Most Likely To.”
While everyone agreed that all six players do their fair share of causing problems, Mulligan admitted there’s one intrepid hero with a particular aptitude for antagonizing the dungeon master:
“As the DM, I’m pointing at a specific person that is right for me [Thompson],” Mulligan said. “I’ve only been told to ‘eat my fucking dice’ on camera by one person. If ‘antagonize’ is an active verb, I think it’s Siobhan.” Thompson, for her part, agreed wholeheartedly: “Oh yeah, I’m not antagonizing him, I’m actually bullying him.”
Though Thompson may be the most outwardly adversarial, Mulligan and the rest of the cast agreed that Ally Beardsley has a particular talent for derailing sessions: “If it is ‘disrupt my ability to do my job,’ then it might be Beardsley,” Mulligan said.
“Brennan builds these beautiful worlds and then Ally is like ‘Fetty Wap exists there. Fall Out Boy also exists there,’” Wilson said.
But while Beardsley’s improvisations tend to lead to chaos, Mulligan says Axford’s tangents often yield exciting story developments, even if they’re rooted in seemingly unnecessary details:
“I’ll put an asterisk on it, which is ‘Most Likely to Expand on a Detail With a Cooler Plot Than I Wrote.’ ‘I’m like wait, expand on that more!’” Mulligan said. “I’ll tell you one that I should have immediately adopted and didn’t, from the first season of ‘The Unsleeping City,’ which was ‘soul laundering’ in the Bethesda Fountain.”
“I loved ‘Scooby-Doo’ as a kid,” Axford admitted. “So I think I have ‘Scooby-Doo’ brain, where I’m always like ‘Well, what’s the mystery behind the mystery?’”
Mulligan, who has DM’d all eight main seasons of Dropout’s “Dimension 20” himself, says several intrepid heroes have expressed interest in DM’ing a side quest: “There are multiple people sitting in these chairs that have pitched what they would do if they ever did a side quest, and I dream of that day.”