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Tales from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight rollout. Thank you so much for
my friends. Please bear it with me, everybody. I decided to have
a massive coffee fit before we started today's episode, so if at any point
I mute myself, it is for your benefit, not mine, but my
friends. We are starting here in Atari Twilight, but before we can go
forward, we have to go back. Atari Twilight is a story about the
eighties, played using free leagues Tales from the Loop system. Tales from the
Loop calls it's setting the eighties that never was. However, the fantastical elements
that we've added to our story has created our very own eighties and eighties one
of limitless possibilities. Our kids, our heroes will be traveling between these different
versions of the eighties, learning important facts to hopefully take back with them to
their own reality. But between all of these different eighties, spread across like
rows in a garden, Between all of these eighties, some things never change.
The music always the same, the movies, books, and TV pop
culture all the same. Everything that you remember or heard about happened. As
for our sandbox, Garrett Maryland is the heart of it all. There five
kids seek to save not just their eighties, but all of the eighties that
ever were, including our own. In their way stands a cadrea forces so
fantastic that only the Greatest Decade could have them. Characters from television, movies,
and novels walk the streets of Garrett. The Transformers, Gremlin's night Rider,
the characters of King's books, and many more all present Garrett Maryland.
Their hometown is the Nexus. It is where the fate of everything will be
decided, for it holds the Loop, a great mysterious research facility, a
miraculous particle accelerator that powers not only scientific progress but the imagination. And this
vast and terrible loop will be the armageddon of all existence. In this the
last year of the Greatest Decade. Here in nineteen eighty nine, all will
be decided for good or ill, the end of the age, and this
tale is upon us. Four years, over one hundred and thirty five songs,
ultimately forty episodes in the making, comes down to this. We return
to an eighties here in Garrett, in the Highlands of Maryland. And when
we last saw our intrepid band, they had traveled to a parallel version,
one of many of their home towns of Garrett. Some of them had found
their lives better, others weren't as fortunate. After encountering an evil version of
themselves, robotic parents, and different variations of the lifes the lives they left
behind, they find themselves now in the Sancta Sanctorum known as the Paperback Exchange.
But that was then. Where are we now? The only way to
go forward, my friends, is to go back back, one last time
to our shared story, our eighties. Back one last time for the love
and memories. Back one last time to stand with our fantastic heroes. George
Butts, Jerry Baker, Shannon Locke, Ben Mackenzie Robot, and Casey Mitch
Mitchell. Welcome one and all to an end of an age. Welcome,
my friends, to atari Twilight Rollout. Episode four, Dead Poets Society.
My friends, you find yourself in the paperback Exchange. It's roughly eight thirty
on May fifth, nineteen eighty nine. As you are standing there, Gary,
the assistant sidekick of Maggie who runs the paperback Exchange, has just flipped
closed the sign from open to closed, but not forever, because you have
asked Gary to aid you in getting to the alta boys and girls club defined
by Gary in our last episode as a place for the linquents or a reform
school, but he also described it as looking like a jail. This structure,
this facility, is halfway between Garrett and the Loop, just to the
north of the city that you now sit in. My friends, if it
is a jail, and if your friend Bend is there and the call came
from that facility to try to aid him in escaping, you are now tasked
with either finding out where he is, how he got there, and retrieving
him. That is easier said than done. Everybody, please go to your
Spotify playlist, because this is the eighties, and the eighties aren't the eighties
Without the music, please go down the track number two Totos Stranger in Town.
Queue that one up and I will turn my attention to the fantastic players
before you and ask them now for episode four, Dead Poets Society. My
friends, this is not your Garrett, but it is a Garrett. You're
minus one number. What do you do? If I remember correctly, we're
getting a ride. Gary's gonna give us a ride up to the school.
Right. Gary has just closed the paperback Exchange. He seems to be getting
himself ready. He's heading towards the back. If there's anything you would like
to do to be reminded mechanically, because this is the Tales from the Loop
system, everybody has or all the kids, the heroes have a place that
they can call safe where they won't be injured. As long as you don't
have your technical hideout, which is Teletran two. In these parallel garrets,
the paperback Exchange acts as your HQ. So here in this moment, if
there's anything that you need to do, any equipment you need to kind of
prepare, or anything that you need to do mechanically, now will be the
time to do it. I don't think anybody's still carrying a condition. If
you are, you can remove it at this time. Since you are all
together at the paperback exchange. I will let you know that if you spend
your pride in the last episode, and I believe it's just Shannon, it
has not refreshed for this episode. So it is an expendable commodity that if
you've expended, is gone. Gary's heading out back. Is there anything you
all want to do? As he leaves you in the paperback exchange for a
moment, and I have two Michigans and I know exactly what I'm golling to
do with them. Areas and left too, just quick, yeah, lock
recess. Okay, we need a strategy, guys. We keep going into
these things like with an idea way too late. Hold on now, I
always try to bring a strategy and you guys just do whatever. And anyway,
I'd like to think more so that you'd like to say no to our
strategies as we you know you I agree with it's a strategy not to have
a strategy, because it's kind of like the American policy. The Soviets can't
win if they don't if we don't know what we're doing either. So okay,
I take I started to agree with Butts, and then I strategy.
We're going to come up with. We're in an alternate universe. We're going
to a school that we've never heard of that's supposedly like a prison basically.
So, yeah, I there's one that we could try get help. It's
helped. You're just going to drive us. No, you guys don't know
what to get help. Okay, what that's No? Is this one of
your mom's sex things? Growth? I don't see. Oh that's relevant,
Jerry. Your dad's been in and out of prison, right, you know
how prisons work? No? I don't. I don't. What have you
ever seen me talk about dad that one time in the sixties and then yo
when you like thought them? Yeah, so you don't know how prisons work?
Yeah, they lock you up, they throw away the key, and
then somebody somebody like makes you their wife, Shannon. What about your friends?
They're delinquents, right, They get locked up all the time. I
will imagine the ones that are definitely vampires, the ones that are definitely going
to probably kill all of you guys. Sure, let me go and ask
them, see how they feel about it. No, No, I don't
mean right now, but like in general, have they been to like,
you know, like the Bad Boys School? Okay, despite the fact that
I can be rebellious, I actually never got myself in trouble with the law.
I didn't. I said your friends, your friends, did they're idiots?
Well not really, I wouldn't say idiots. Sometimes, what aren't you
asking me exactly? Have you ever been to the Bad Boys School to visit
them or do they have any have talked about how they've escaped. I don't
know. Were they in the Bad Boys School in our universe? I don't
feel like we were. I think we're missing the logic. I'm just I
feel like I saw them at school. I was pretty sure they just smoked
everywhere and beat people up. I mean, generically speaking, right, there
was no school to have. But I'm really good into, you know,
breaking into things, so you know it could probably this might be a smooth
pocket thing. Guys, I don't know, like that's what we've done.
We'll never get If that's the case, Well, I'm sorry. How many
Just get locked up and then go find Ben and we'll get you out.
See that's to get help. See we're getting back to my plan. Okay,
you're explain what that is. It's we go there and we ask for
help. Okay, you're a troubled kid, Jerry, clearly. And then
and then Rob has a heart attack that actually works a lot of the time,
saying he's really good at it. Yeah, the last time we were
at the hospital, Rob, Rob had a great heart attack at the hospital.
The dance too, or what what if I just just go go up
to the door and say, hey, hey, I'm a bad boy and
I need to be in school here. Nobody's gonna believe it, too Street.
I think Jerry could probably do it. Hey, I have a good
idea. You can beat butts up in front of the prison and you both
can get locked up. You can try. I'm okay with that one.
I mean, and then find Ben, figure out how he's doing, and
then we'll find a way out. Do they catch visitors at this prison?
I don't know, yeah, Jerry, I don't know if they're gonna give
conjugal visits for Ben. I don't know about that. I hate you all,
I hate you all. This isn't funny. Well, maybe maybe we
can ask Gary to see if he can just get a visitation with Ben.
I feel like we're overthinking it. Maybe just one of you is his brother
or something. Yeah, you. Yeah, you want me to talk my
way in a situation. I wasn't listening. I just heard some about brothers
and this is still America, right, people rights, they can you know,
I mean, if anybody's gonna think he's got a brother, it's gonna
be you. Wait, wait, it can't. It actually can't be Jerry.
It can't be Jerry, and it can't be me because you guys,
we're dead, because we're dead. If they fingerprint us, that's kind of
dead giveaway. Do they fingerprint dead kids? I mean they finger print us
on birth? I guess right. I don't know how the government tracks people.
Okay, but if they we're not getting anywhere. Strategy, we have
a plan. We have a plan. You guys were just got which one
are we going with? You guys beating the shit out of each other.
Let's go each other. It's gonna be a one side of fight. But
you know, we can I can act. We we we pretend man.
Okay, worst case scenario, Rob has a fake heart tech that looks real
in front of her everybody to distract them. Yeah, okay, great,
Well, well why wouldn't they just call an ambulance? Yeah, but they'd
still have to like bring me in time. They might be probably have medical
facilities there. Yeah, true, true, and unless they just just so
happened to have baby as burn in the guard check. I like the fight
idea better and better yep, same agreed. Mm hmm okay, let's um,
Rob, just please keep it in your back pocket. This we're gonna
find a way to fuck this up. So we need to go. We
need to have a fail safe. And it's clearly you gary a question.
It's right a minute. We need to have a fail safe, failsafe back
up. The thing that that is the plan B is the heart attack.
That's the fail say. Yeah, okay, I don't know, I've got
I've got I've got three Michigans. I don't understand the question, Greg.
I would like you to look back over what you said four years some forties
something episodes and point to me a time when the heart attack didn't work.
That's true, it's worked every time. I'm not saying that the past that
doesn't indicate future results. I'm just saying that, you know, I got
you. I might actually end up having a heart attack this time. I
could be the boy who cried cardiac arrest. Oh god, all right,
Yeah, Gary, is you can the back door? Um, you know
that there's like an office area in the back that's through like a beaded curtain
that Maggie kind of keeps. If you walk into the back, there's just
a regular kind of a steel desk back there, you know, crystals everywhere,
candles everywhere, incense everywhere, and then a door that leads out into
the actual exterior behind the building. Um, Gary waits for you there in
a nineteen seventy nine Kimaro. She grabs some paper clips somewhere. You have
acquired some paper clips? Okay, great, cool, shock them. I
I will let you know that a nineteen seventy nine Kimaro can comfortably fit one
person. You can fit in a nineteen seventy nine Kimaro four people. Beyond
that, someone's a hood ornament, right. We could also just plank on
each other. I'm gonna take my bike. Somebody else can ride with me
if you want so. Yeah, if you want to have one person with
Shannon and then Gary and the three others would uncomfortably fit in the camaro,
Mitch Mitch volunteers. I'll I'll I figure if you if I alternate you teleports
it and tries to kill me. You you be the you. You might
be the best person to fight you bad. Okay, don't break your head.
He climbs on the back of the bike. So on the bike Shannon
passenger, Mitch shotgun is Jerry backseat, then would be Rob and George.
Um, you head off, and this early morning here on Sinco to Male
is very similar to any morning that you would see in Garrett. Everybody go
up and let's switch up to a little bit of a who can it be
now? Minute? Were title track one on the playlist. As you all
drive through Garrett, you see many familiar sights, but again it's that constant
repetition of the Amy's in the air that come by. That for Rob obviously
would be more disconcerting in the fact that he sees the face of his parents
everywhere that he looks. But for you all, it's this constant repetition where
even on one block or one street, you might see six of these errands,
you know, seven amys. They're everywhere. They're behind the wheels of
vehicles, they're driving kids to school, they're driving and picking up groceries.
You see these domestic acts and also acts of like civil maintenance of picking up
trash or even you know, cleaning up after pets, maintaining shrubbery. All
of this is happening under the watchful, constructive gazes and hands of amys and
errands. Let you quickly leave the small town of Garrett. And as you
start to head on the direction or two on the road that you know would
take you directly to the Loop, you pass by the road that would have
peeled off to Castle Grayskull, but that road does not exist. You pass
by a blank sheet of forest, no cut, no gravel. Road eggsits
off to that alternate facility. But the facility that you all would remember as
the Ivory Tower, which was the kind of a southerly offshoot of the Loop
proper comes into the you only now it's much less grand, less scientific,
and contains a huge chain link fence around it. Gary slows down as you
see that there is a guard booth in front of a chain link gate.
There's a stone sign that says Alta Boys and Girls School, Boys and Girls
Club. And beyond that you see the stone and metal building of something that
was fabricated, probably only about twenty years ago, but was meant to look
like it was fabricated even further back, you know, in the thirties.
It has a vaguely asylum like look to it. You can see that the
windows that are set within it are far grander than a two paine structure,
as they have you know, the arc over the top. They kind of
dripped down in a cathedral cut. It stares back at you, revealing no
secrets other than it is a formidable kind of situation. And the guard looks
as you move close a camaro and a motorcycle, do you stop or do
you continue? Buy? Gary is slowing to sob keep going. She'll slow
down, Shannon will slow down behind and them, Yeah, keep going,
yeah, keep going, keep going. We ken't just stop here and like
watch then they dig us up that they know that we're staging it. So
we have to keep going. And he just you know, shifts ends,
takes you further north past the faci. Ay right, Rob, you already
to have the heart attack? Yeah, yeah, palms are getting your palms
all sweady, and he's reek oh so heavy yeah yeah, Okay, So
everybody, I would let you know that this is extended trouble. You are
currently the planning to do here um to get this facility to notice you or
for you, let's just put it to you this way. For you to
gain entry beyond the gate by talking to the guard, I need eight successes
of some kind. This is all of you working in tandem. You tell
me what you would like to do. I will tell you what to roll.
Remember that you do have your prides in play, you do have your
luck in play. You can always push and take a condition, and you
can stack successes. But this extended trouble is just to get inside the gate.
If you talk to the guard, that's the stipulations of it. You
tell me how you want to do it. We've driven past the facility at
this point, righted up in kind of motion for carry to once we're like
out of out of my line of sight of the guards. Yeah, Gary
pulls over soon as wherever you indicate, you know, an off shoulder like
a bus turnaround, and you're all able to converse whether you stay inside the
car or on the bike to lead up to you. But you have a
moment of reprieve. No eyes are on you. Okay, guys, what
exactly are we doing? Because that's pretty situation wise. I mean, you
guys just want to like grow up and just get into a fight with the
guard or with each other. High lady, surprise. That's kind of what
I was thinking at this point. I don't think we could fight because also,
like I was thinking about on the drive up here, I'd be really
they'd be really weird if they just like kidnapped us, right, like,
all these two bad these are two bad boys. Let's take him inside and
lock them up in our school. That's pretty that's pretty creepy. But either
we could like sneak around back and we like boost someone or multipople up and
over the fence line we rushed the gates. Wire cutters. Maybe Gary has
them in his trunk. Maybe it's a toolbox. Gary, you have wirecutters?
Greg? Is it? Is it barbed wire at the top of the
fence. It's barbed wire at the top of the fence that curls over in
like that anti embassy kind of swoop that comes down. I'm sorry, I
got distracted. Yeah, out towards us, like towards the exterior of the
the I was we have four Michigan's. Yeah, buddy, it's a big
steak. It's a big steak. Oh, I chat you glorious. I'm
really certain to not like Michigan. I love it whole point Michigan. I
don't land of a thousand villains. Don't know there's a back door. We
could a prison joke somewhere from somebody. Come on, nothing really, Shannon,
if you we could throw your jacket on top, like, oh no,
sir, because because it's gene, it's damhim. It'll rip right through
if you have a leather jacket on. You think leather doesn't rip. That's
why they atorcycle jackets out of leather. So you don't get your skin torn
off. Yeah, but it destroys the equipment. Yeah, I better than
our skin. This will go right through it here to us, this is
not happening. I'm not using that. I will sooner do some kind of
like never mind, okay, okay, so what we're m hmm, what
other ideas do you have besides which you had better tools. We could use
it to do the floor mats the car, the PARKI that's not bad.
We could try It's kind of rigid, but we could try it on does
he have does he have floor mats? I sure do? Rob? Sorry?
Yeah, so well who who and Rob's going to do his best to
vertically throw one of the time out. Currently, you were along the side
of the road away from the facility, so you are now at the back
of the facility attempting to scale at Just so I'm stating this, it's nine
in the morning. You all are throwing these things. On top I mentioned
how big the windows were. You're throwing uh formats over the barbed wire to
gain entry into a secure facility. Unless somebody stops me. I'm gonna I
mean, is going through her, Like what happens? Okay, if we
get inside, then what Now we're just a bunch of strangers inside of a
locked in facility, and what happens then? What if they're armed guards?
Okay, what if they are gonna shoot if somebody is trespassing, which they
don't just shoot kids, They're just a private property. They know, Hello,
right to bear arms. Nothing. Really, it's merrily, I don't
think, yeah, it's have to right to kill somebody. This is in
Texas. It's me Maryland's we're pretty liberal around here, you know, jeez.
And Gary does that say yeah, but it's Garrett not because we're in
the Highlands. Yeah, well, okay, they're not risk getting shot.
I mean, I know Jerry is familiar with weapons of you know, the
bullet variety, but I mean not on the receiving end. Do you do
you not remember like three months ago when we got shot with a grease gun.
That's not the same thing. They it was several people with machine guns.
Act if we tried to kill you, weren't out in the open.
Yes, no, you guys heard to say it was going to shoot down
all of our ideas. Right, fine, you guys are on your own.
No, no, we can't speak in there. Look at look at
this art of this building. Where's Bet? I don't know, you know,
Yeah, why don't we just try to like get a visit. We're
brother or his grandma's dead and we gotta tell him or I don't I don't
know, Yeah yeah yeah, or mm hmm grandma Dad though, that's like
you've been done. You could tell him Maggie sent you. He they let
him call for for Maggie. Maggie's dead, sure, and and that's why
we have to just that's where we are loved. Oh who Who's Who's gonna
be Maggie? What Maggie? We're saying Maggie's dad. Oh called okay,
and she's dead. Oh oh, I thought we were gonna pretend we were
Maggie. But I think that makes more sense. Yeah, m hm.
We are forty minutes in this episode and we have driven to the place.
Yep, that's not true. We've driven to the place. Argue, we
didn't start forty minutes ago. Guys. Have have you guys seen the old
movie Oceans eleven from like the fifties? No? Yeah, all right,
so I think I saw I fell asleep part way through. But like they
always had a plan and a back up to the plan, so it just
went from plan to plan to plan to plan to plan. So I think
planned one talk to guard, plans who rush the gates, Plan three,
fine Ben Plan four get out part tack is plan five. Okay, that's
how did What do you want me to do when you guys are storming this
facility? Just keep the engine warm without the car. Gary, You're surprisingly
cool with all us. I was told to help you all, but I
might I offer maybe just watching it or talking to the guard or you guys
kind of went right into like full military op mode. Yeah. Yeah,
we generally don't have a lot of time when at this point, yeah,
well we never know we're going to fall down and just like zero. Just
also, you all would remember that Gary is much older than you all.
I mean he's graduated from high school. He's like in this like nine,
he's nineteen ish um for the first time that you've ever known him. He
seems to look at you all as being not necessarily in charge, but he's
not confident enough to offer any type of correction to your plan. He seems
buffuddled by your existence, which makes him a little bit less cool. Perhaps
same man, same Okay, So who's going to go talk to the garden?
It's either Robber I rob Anti. Maybe I think where the smooth talkers,
aren't we? Because that's what I'm thinking. Like Rob's like the soft
one. I'm the smooth one. Robs a soft one, So we make
him feel pity, that's true, Rob, Can you just cry? Maybe?
Maybe? Great? But do your parents really cool? What did you
did your parents really cool? Does your dad will work for My mom's a
sex therapist for for geriatrics. That's pretty cool, you know, lifelong sex
life. It's pretty great. It's cool. She think grass, You guys
think uh, and my dad does. We don't talk about what my dad
does, but I don't know what he does in this world. If you
what I'm saying is, if you say your George Butts, does anyone care?
Well? Yeah, they're like, oh that's that cool kid from high
school from the guards at the prison. Aren't gonna say, They're gonna hear
the rumors from the other kids. Okay, try that. So the Butts
doesn't hold a lot of weight here. Oh he's also do you think do
you think if he dies here he does in the other universes too. Mitch
Mitche jams his hand into his pocket and pulls out like three quarters two nickels,
a diamond, a penny uh and counts it all out and Shannon out
like eighty eighty one cents. Remember, I'll give you a I'll bet you
eighty one cents. He gets his as kicked. Okay, I'll take that.
But nice, Oh carry on, please with your plan plan a plant
guards. Let's go. Yeah you got this, Butts. I know we're
all going to drive down there or are you walking down there? I feel
like, yeah, dropped off by Gary. Yeah you're like okay, yeah,
Garry, you could be all right. And again Gary looks like uh,
like a young Bret michaels Um, the lead singer of the hair band
in So basically Greg, yeah, well come on, I get to right
so U yeah? Um Gary, Oh yeah I can. He tries to
like he like tucks in his Anthrax shirt. I I'll help. Who has
off a leather bracelets? Wake from from this group? Who has Alwaukee?
Because I gave mine? Oh, mine's wet? All do Yeah, Mitch
is is wet? You gave yours to Jimmy Ben didn't have one, So
the other three do have functional wakie talkies. Okay, So me and Mitch
are going to stay behind on the bike and look for other pulp potential points
of entry while you guys do that thing, and then you can when you're
able to radio us like let us know that you're in, and we'll be
on standby in case anything goes wrong, like watch if you know some stuff
goes down. All right, So the code word is eagle has landed.
That means we're in. Okay, what happens if shit's going wrong? What
is the code for that? Michigan Michigan who? Okay, eagle head?
No one likes the Michigan Eagle had a hard attack in Michigan. It's one
of those two that's you figured out from from the context. Okay, great,
just great. Somehow Gary acquired one of Rob's McDonald's napkins, and he's
furiously writing down these different combinations of code. If you yeah, if you
write it down and somebody else finds it, then they're going to know the
code. The McDonald's that could just float around like big pen. It doesn't
exists right in a mobius cloud around him. Just snatch one like you're one
of those dollar capsules. Okay, uh yeah, okay, and he gets
in behind the wheel of the Camaro. That's um, okay, I'll take
you whoever, good luck. Who's coming with me? Is it just me?
Come? I'm come, I'm, I'm I'm I'm up with you.
I'm there for abutional support. Oh someone give me a walkie. Oh yeah,
we need a walkee. Uh you can guess. I made might just
whip you always break yours. I just never used mine. Rob was going
to pretend like you's go, oh, you're gonna give a town very slow
region. All right, So loading up in the Camaro, we have Jerry,
Rob and George and staying back to scout the perimeter for a potential weak
spot into the facility. We have Shannon and Mitch correct. Yes, the
car cree some turns around, heading south back down towards the Alta Boys and
Girls Club. We'll stick with the car as we go down. Let's switch
it up a little bit, let's go to let's do a little It's do
a little red rain by Peter Gabriel. Everybody, As you drive down,
you see the same set up as before, a little bit brighter now that
another maybe thirty forty five minutes has passed. As you see the guard,
the guard looks up again, recognizes the Camaro, and this time does not
return his head to whatever is taking his attention on the desk, whether it
be a book or something of that nature, and he watches you as Gary
slowly turns around and pulls into the slight kind of bubbled pull off right in
front of the closed gate and drives up to have his driver's side by the
guard, and the guard slowly watches you pull up, stand ends up,
opens the door, and when he walks out, Jesus Michigan five walks out.
He is wearing a gun, Michigan five. He seems to be armed
with both baton and pistol, and he is wearing an altar uniform. This
is not something a state trooper would wear, nor a National guardsman. It
is neither military, nor is it like civil patrol. This is private security.
He walks forward, leans down, but stays away from the vehicle.
He's not within like leaning distance against the window sill, and soon as he
sees Gary and Gary's bandaned head, he pulls back up and his hands doesn't
rest on his gun, but moves a little bit closer to the front of
his thigh. What can I do for you? We're here to visit Ben
mackenzie. Mackenzie, there are no appointments. Visiting hours are later this evening.
It's uh, we have we have bad news for him, so it
doesn't wait until visiting hours. Did you contact anybody to allow you to deliver
this bad news in person? I tried calling Ben, but he just wasn't
answering the phone. They don't have direct lines. You have to talk to
something facility. Well, we're here now, we could talk to somebody.
If you could let us in, We'll talk to the visitor control roll me
a hoo, give me a charm here. One success, you buy yourself
the time. It would be for him to go back check the book on
the desk and come back and say, I don't have anybody's supposed to come
in this morning. It's it's in an emergency. We didn't have time,
right. I feel like we missed what we talked about earlier, where you
know, we didn't call ahead. So we're gonna go talk to every it's
in charge. I'll see. That's the thing. I don't do emergencies.
So you're gonna have to talk to somebody and then they send down a name
and they say so and so it's coming, it's an emergency, and then
I let that person in. Then get get the person in charge of emergencies.
Let's see, that's your job. I'm being paid to do this one.
You're really good at it too, the best. Thanks shoot that gun
a lot. Mhm. I haven't today. M hmm. That's a menacing
answer, sir. Can you just just for radio radio for somebody to come
down here and talk talk to us? Uh? Not part of my job.
They wouldn't listen to me. Even if I did pretend to pretend for
a second that we're not young delinquents going to the school, and we don't
owe you anything, and you're a human being, maybe like you know,
consider consider at time someone you love was gone and and and you couldn't do
anything about it. Roll me a charm, Jerry mail it, Oh,
I got zero success. I will be glad to help you if your name
is on the list. If it is an emergency, inside will let me
know and I will open the gate. We probably won't converse if you're on
the list. If you aren't on the list, this is the end of
the line. Sir, is is Eugene Butts on the list? He goes
back and checks, No, Eugene Butts is not on the list. I
think I do like a like a like a knuckle punch into Rob's thigh or
knee. Mhm um boom, what about Matt, Maggie hit him again really
hard? M How do you know, Maggie. Well, well, we
need to talk to Ben. Mm hmm. Throw me a charm, Rob,
mm hmm. That's so charming. Is hand moves away from his thigh
and hence away from the firearm. Listen, if you want to see your
friend, just come back and visiting hours six o'clock tonight, six to eight.
We don't we don't have time, and we don't we don't know know
who, know who to contact? Best I can do. And he starts
to move back towards the booth, m rop art attack. Boo boo boo.
But sir, and he's gonna open the door and just fall out,
just a face plant into the ground. How he walks back and as he's
closing the door, he says, I think your friends having a heart attack.
Closes the door, Rob, what the fuck was that? Dude?
Like, drag him into the car, But he's committing the entire time,
So you're gonna have to just drag him dead weight into the car. I'm
gonna I'm gonna tell Gary to drive, and I'm gonna drag you an the
stones. Gary has been silent the entire time. And you realize at this
point that Gary is covered in like a severe flop sweat, like his entire
his hair is matted in the back, the bandana is dark across the front.
You can tell that he hadn't taken his hands off of the steering wheel
because he couldn't. As soon as he relieves his like right hand from the
wheel. It's just shaking so profoundly as he grabs the gear shift. Yeah,
yeah, all right, and he kind of as you take off a
bit. Yes, Jerry's got a punchment if I give him, Charlie Horse,
you blew it to Gary? Yeah? What what? What? What?
I didn't say? You look so guilty? Yeah? What are you
smuggling? Gary? Dude? I feel guilty. I don't know. The
guy had a gun. It's Friday morning. Everybody has a gun, but
I don't. I play rock and roll man and work in a comic bookstore.
The closest I get to ship like this is when I repunish your war
journal. There's your real call, right, So he moves back. Then
at that time, during the events of the failed incursion through the gate,
Um, let's go turn back the hands a time a bit. As we
go to Mitch and Shannon, what are you all doing? As you can
kind of skirt down to the perimeter, and you can see that there's a
bit of a field before the actual chain link fence goes up, So there's
some like a no man no man's land in between the forest and the chain
link. What would you like to do um, Shannon's just looking for alternultertunent
like exterior doors, either for like deliveries or something along those lines. Right
when you get into the back, you see that there is a large loading
dock. Um. Currently there aren't any like box fans or anything there,
but just by looking at it, you would think that it's the height for
like a box fan. Not necessarily something as big as like a semi but
something amid range you know, actual load type of vehicle. Again, nothing
there, but several entry points that kind of you can see that they kind
of bleed off of the loading dock there. There is a one main door
and several smaller eggs. It's along the base see from just eyeballing it about
four in total. And is there another gated entry or is the one in
the front the only access. One in the front seems to be the only
access for vehicular movement off to kind of near the front there's like a personnel
sized gate, but that's still within eyeshot of the guard booth okay, and
nothing like that anywhere else along the fence. Just that one spot right and
in the back. You would know too that behind it there there aren't any
roads leading up behind here, so it's just fields and then the woods.
So there's no real reason to have a vehicular gate back here. Um there's
no access roads at this point and the field separates the chain Lek fence from
the woods. M okay, and it's I mean it's not huge. It's
like twenty five thirty yards. That was a bust. What would man?
This is not easy. We could under it. It's well, I thought
about digging, but I'm what if? What if? Are there camera?
Greg? I they'rely like CCTV cameras. Oh, you can roll me a
let's do an investigate I can I can do that. I can roll those.
I know how to play. Um. Let's see here, uh investigate
one success. Um it's not littered with close caption TVs. But you see
that there's one kind of uh almost looks like a shoe box with a lens
on one end, and it's doing that fateful sweep that you see in like
every Swortz of Negger movie. Mm hmm, Well see one visible. What
if we what if we just get out of ice of that and then we
back the bike up like right to the chain Leak fence, right and then
you pop it in neutral and you just fucking throttle it and that it'll dig
a hole, and you just do it couple of times and then we could
probably scrape our way underneath it. You don't think it'll be too loud.
I mean, it's a brick building, and worst case scenario will both beyond
the bike, So you just rock it into the woods. I guess right,
yeah, that's true. I mean, if Buds isn't dead already from
talking to that guard, I don't know how else we're gonna get in here.
I mean, I don't know. I don't even want to think about
the catastrophe that could be happening right now. Speaking of that, as this
is at the point where a sweatsilked Gary is pulling the Camaro away from the
front of the facility, going back to the meeting point around the curve up
by the bus turnaround in the gravel. As you are kind of looking from
your vantage point in the woods, you see a black suv enter the area
and pull around to the back. There are several other cars parked there,
all of them many of them the predominating type, and make a black suv
very loop esque. You see this one park and an extremely tall woman gets
out face claim Uma Thurman. You see her get out, She reaches back
in, pulls out a very thin briefcase with a shoulder strap, and puts
it all the way over her head. You then see her walk to one
of the back doors. You see she kind of nods and the door opens
from the inside and she grabs it and enters. That was super suspicious.
Yeah, yeah, I don't want to use that door probably. Yeah,
it sounds like a I mean, I'm not disliking the bike idea here definitely
makes sense. I mean other than that, like we just go find like
tin snips and cut the fence. Yeah, yeah, that'll probably be the
easiest, most discreet method. I just don't know how much time we have.
I mean, didn't they somebody told us. I don't know. There's
so much information playing around that we can't we can't go without Ben, right,
like we physically can't. I don't. I don't think it's we physically
can't go without Ben. I think it's like you can't leave without Ben because
something bad happened. Oh okay. Jimmy said in the last episode that to
his knowledge, you cannot jump unless you are all together or the person that's
absent is dead. That's right, that's what it was. Yeah, yeah,
and so and you hopefully Ben's not dead? Right? You all mentioned
time? Um, you know you've been here for a bit. Looking down
over the area. I will say that you can easily meet back up with
George, Rob and Jerry. Do you spend time observing this facility? Do
you want to add to your information by watching? And so? How long
would you like to stay? We're gonna say we're around nine thirty now in
the morning, ninety five almost ten. Um, tell me how long you
would like to watch the Alta Boys and Girls Club and I'll let you make
roles and won't get information if there any exists. Well, let's meet back
up first, and then this is Shannon's things. She'll sit and watch for
hours if she needs to, so whether whether anybody wants to join her,
but she'll definitely be the one to sit and watch. Um. Yeah,
let's go to the meeting meeting spot first. You all meet back up.
So how'd it go? You're alive? That's Richard said, His pocket and
hands are eighty one cents. Thank you. Well, yeah, fucking Gary
blew itt Man, what do you mean? Look at him. Gary is
absolutely covered in sweat. So did you like have a fistful like what happened?
Not even the heart attack to pull us out of that wall. Yeah,
well, Rob, it was not great work from we gotta we gotta,
We had to work on that little dust still on his face. Did
you talk to the guy? What happened? No, shot up there and
take the heart attack right away and got sweating and a ran away. Yeah,
of course we talked to him, Mitch. Well what clearly that failed
too, so it wasn't just yeah, and you guys aren't on the inside
of the perimeter either, So how'd your how'd your excursion go? Well,
we already have a plan, but let's find out what you did or did
not do visiting or is your from suits to be? When we name dropped,
names didn't work, Maggie didn't work. My dad's name didn't work.
He has how you knew Meg? Knew Meggie? That's weird. Yeah,
well that's also when he started like shutting down even harder though, So Matt
saying her name kind of made things for us. I think Gary who who
like sides the owner of the paperback exchange? Who's who is Maggie, Like,
what does she do here? She she runs the exchange. She's in
a couple like local clubs. He's like ringing out as bandana. She,
Um, what are the club she's? Um? I mean she meets with
people and plays cards once a week, and she has listening parties and on
the weekends. And um, I mean she just has a group of friends.
Everybody has a group of friends, like you guys, are a group
of friends? Seems kind of yeah? But are they like are they like
famous people in her group? What do you mean, like famous for everyone
or famous for Garrett either both? Um a guy from the fire department.
Um, I mean Sarge. I think I heard that something happened to him
though, Um is the science teacher from the middle school. Um. Did
the guard look familiar to you? Gary? Did he look familiar to you?
Um? I didn't try to look directly at him. I mean vaguely
familiar, but I don't know his name or anything like from here. Vaguely
familiar. Yeah, yeah, like I've probably seen him around town, but
you know, not like I got high with him, Ernie, I mean
I know him or anything. M hmm, Wait does us does Eugene Butts
play cards with Maggie. Um, yeah, how do you know? Uh,
doctor Butts. Guys, Maggie plays cards with Sarge. Mister dairy Butts.
That's like our altar. Oh great, that can't be a coincidence.
I mean it's a small town, but like it seems plus Sarge was killed,
well or died in an accident. We don't know did he die?
Uh that's what. That's what. That's what we heard. Yeah. Who
did you hear that from? It's not in the paper the police. Oh
wow? Yeah, Hey, what do you know about Sean Locke? He
seems like a guy. I don't know Sean Locke. See your age.
He lives he's he's an adult, he lives here, big guy military.
Oh my dad, I was trying to skirt around that one. But yeah,
but there's no point. I mean, um, I think I know
him. He has a and he just kind of motions for a yeah,
like a robot. No, no, no, he's got like his hairs
like yep, it's a military cut. Yeah. Yeah, okay said the
same thing. Okay, do you know him? I don't. I don't
know him though. He doesn't play cards with Maggie. Though I know that.
Okay, I feel like we need to split our efforts here. I'm
gonna stay behind and watch the facility, but we need to get some information
about this guard. Um. I'll take you out wherever you need to go.
I mean the new issues came out tuesday. I got rid of most
of them. There's only three or four kids you need to pick them up.
So, I mean the store will take care of itself until after school.
As if any of you gave a shit about the paper wreck exchange is
business hours? Is there is there a radio shack in this Garrett? Yeah,
maple her small Okay, oh great idea. She grabs her money,
Mitch, get supply so we can get into the stamp person. Wow.
Now I was gonna have to ask and he just takes out answer in his
pocket. Great. Um, I would like to go to radio shack.
Um. That's it. That's as far as my plans got. I gotta
fix walkie talkie. I gotta make one for wirecutters, multiple sets, wirecutters,
multiple sets in case yes, yeah, uh, anything to help with
lock picking. Maybe I got paper clips, but really that's not going to
help. I don't think we have a local criminal store. But I'll see
what I can do. You're you're mechanically inclined. You should be able to
figure it out. I mean, this is like you're know niche area,
I build robots in a junkyard. I've never Okay, so this is like
a locksmith deconstructed robot. Okay, what would you put into a robot so
that it could pick locks? I don't know what you don't i'd have to
know about. Okay, I'll fig you. I'll I'll see what I can
do. I'll see what I can do. Okay, so I'm gonna do
that. I'm gonna get supplies. You're gonna recon take here, any hands
or the walkee that he got from from from Jerry. You take that?
Actually leave it on. Hey, I don't I know, I'm being the
voice of reason a lot lately, and that's kind of out a character.
But you know how, you're the last Mitch. Yeah, maybe you don't
go yourself. Oh yeah, no, I I was gonna yeah, I'll
take Gary loss. Yeah. When you see the last Mitch, confusion reigned
across is already in the fuddled phase. It's cool, man, No,
I'm with you. I was gonna say mechanically. I'll let you all know
that if there's a fight, Gary is not the NPC to leave with Mitch.
That is your benefit for today. Yeah, this is not Sarge,
this is not uh Sean Locke, this is not this is not this is
not an evil Shannon even Um this is yeah, Gary is you don't want
to put Brett Michaels in between evil doers and Mitch. I don't understand why.
Um yeah, we'll just uh the dead kids squanded and he like puts
a hand up, right, five, I don't have a heartbeat. Do
I count us dead? You're a robot. It's a different story entirely.
And you exist here. You have are really alive? Is the question you
should be asking. I'm wake clothing a dead kid. Wow, you all
hear Gary Whisper just beneath his breath? What the I mean? Johnny Johnny
five was alive. So I mean that's what's probably fine. If somebody wants
to stay here, they can. But I'm just literally gonna be sitting here
watching the prison. So we should No, we should stick with our group
sizes because if Shannon has to leave quickly, she can only take one person.
Yeah, h I'm I'm I'm going with match. Okay. Wanted to
care of myself, guys, so don't worry about it. I find we
left you on your own. You forgot who we were. I wasn't.
No, that's not fair. We all jumped and then that happened. That
that wasn't I was with you guys. Actually, if you recall so,
really, I'll be fine. I have the walkie, I promise I will
keep it on first sign of travel, I'll take my bike and get out.
Okay, no, no, no, we have to at least have
a buddy system. Nobody else is volunteering. I guess I'll stay here with
you. Oh well, don't worry. Really good at not listening to you
so like we could ignore each other. Great. I have to at least
open the store by three thirty. If you all need a place to meet
back up, It'll be open from three thirty to nine. Gary offers some
more useless information. Okay, we arrive to them all though, So okay,
yeah, I just have to be back at by three thirty. It's
he looks down, it's almost eleven now, Um, then we better go.
Okay. He goes and just gets behind the steering wheel, awaiting further
instructions. This Gary kind of sucks, So we'll meet back at the paperback
at three o'clock. The other the other Gary didn't know where the robot.
The other Gary was cool until he became a centicon. Okay, it's cool
as Gary, I knew? Ready break right? Sorry? Fine? Okay.
So as Team Camaro heads off consisting of Mitch, Jerry, and Rob
with the show first gills of Gary the sucky version um leaving behind Shannon and
George, We're going to speed up a little bit of time because it's going
to take some time for Camaro team to get down into the Maplehurst. Mom,
how long will Shannon and George maintaining an observation of this facility? Like
how long are you going to to watch it? Are you going to maintain
your position in the woods? Are you going to you tell me how you
want to watch it, where you want to kind of fix your gaze,
or if there's any particular angle you want to pay attention to, and I'll
give you information based off of a combined investigate role. Whatever vantage point gives
the best site towards the front entry, but gives like if there's people going
in and out of the back like doors as well. Side. Yeah,
I was just gonna say that post up on the side. Yeah, so
you can just kind of see the front and see the back, and if
you too kind of split the difference by about ten feet, one can kind
of take the you know, predominantly the back, and one can take predominantly
the front. How long do you wish to observe this and then roll me
and investigate each of you, please until three o'clock. Till three o'clock.
Okay, you said to investigate, please, I should not have done this.
Oh my gosh. Oh okay, what's success one of those days?
Okay? One success. If you want additional information, I will say that
either of you can use a pride, you can use a luck. The
one that you have would already count George. If you wanted to use luck
to reroll the whole batch again, see, you can get another one.
Of course, you can push, but pushing will result in a condition.
But you can also stack advantage or a stack. Success is doing that as
well. I don't have that option because I don't have luck or pride.
I'll use my luck and it let's be rolling two. Let's you roll everything
but the success correct or as it all dice have to be rolled. Um,
yeah, go if you go ahead and reroll it, I think it
keeps the success separate and then rerolls the rest of your remaining non success dice.
So you reroll the batch again minus Yeah, you're sixty years Okay,
that's investigate. Is there a way to put luck into it? Or now?
I mean to be fair, just go ahead and re roll it again.
How does add it to it? I don't care to success again?
Okay, So for a total of three, here's what you all observe during
your time up until three o'clock. You can see that at exactly three pm
there is a shift change. Right around two fifty ish. You see a
bevy of cars come in and all of them enter into the same door that
you saw the tall woman go throom, and you see an equal number of
staff members come out, all wearing that uniform that the guard wore. For
variations thereof Some of them have kind of like a more of a medical cut,
more of like a scrub cut, but they're all the same kind of
navy blue color as they come in and out, and you can see that
they bear name tags, and some of them actually have kind of like lanyards
with identifying like IDs and stuff dangling from them or belt buckles. You also
notice that as you watch this at twelve noon, you see a delivery arrive
in a box van. It is being driven by an Amy and as it
opens up, people from the inside come out, two of which are an
Errand and an Amy. They unload food. You can see kind of like
the styrofoam containers that they are pulling out, and you realize right away as
soon as you see the kind of color of the styrofoam that it is,
seems to be a large order of takeout from the Chat and Chew. They
shuttle those inside, and as soon as they are fully unloaded, the box
van drives off through the gate and departs. Also at eleven am you see
a black sedan pull up. You see two kids roughly twelve and fourteen.
They are brought out, one boy, one girl twelve as the boy fourteen
is the girl. They are brought in and they are both handcuffed and they
go in through the main double door in the back. Beyond that, you
don't see anything else until just before you leave. At that shift change the
tall woman comes out and she seems to be pushing a very large crate,
like a something on wheels. It's massive, and she takes it over to
her suv, talks with a few of the people that are coming in and
coming out, and lights up a cigarette. And as soon as everybody has
either entered the building or exited the building with your three successes, you see
her open up the back of the sub, open up the crate, and
a child jumps into the back. She gets into her car and drives away.
A child jumps at the back like eagerly, or or like under duress,
very eagerly. Can we follow her instead of beating out the You sure
can, But it's right at three o'clock, so we will skip from there
and go to the radio shack at the Maplehurst Mall. Mitch, you have
at King's Ransom, which is forty dollars that'll buy you just about anything in
Garrett, the things that you mentioned before. You can get chisels, you
can get you know, tin snaps, whatever you would like as far as
breaking into the facility, and you can also get plenty of components to buy
some Mitchie talkies. Perfect. That's the plan I'm basically walking down like um
the like telephony aisle, and I'm just fucking I'm just piling things in there.
I've got like switches, diodes, like like anything that looks like spycraft.
He just has taken it off the shelf with a hum with a pair
of tin snips, because that was the last thing on the list at least
one. Uh. And soldering kid is what he is, what he has
as he just piles us all in his arms because you know, kids don't
use carts, uh, and then dumps it on the counter. And at
this point in the day, there's only one worker in radio Shack a little
bit of information. Radio Shack employees in the eighties and early nineties worked on
commission. And as this is the only person there, a king's ransom of
a forty dollars purchase is going to net this gentleman four dollars. He is
super happy. Ah, this is good, good purchase. This is solid,
solid bit of electronics. Here. Can I get you anything? Do
you need anything? I've got plenty of I got plenty of duct tape back
here. If you need it or anything I can is it free? Because
I'm like a a big, big customer. He pulls out a huge ring
of duct tape, like you could put it around your shoulder and it would
like be a pauldron, and he just slides it across. Absolutely, just
come when I'm working. Cool, name is done? Do you like a
card that says like don discount? He takes out a card and it is
all black. It has what looks to be a lightning bolt going across it
that spells out dawn. But at the same time as the dawn with a
lightning bolt, there is a son coming up behind it and he hands it
to you. That's cool, man, I'll take that. Yeah, no,
I'll for sure be back. Made those myself, you know that.
I would never that looks professional like it looks like by the way, it
looks like somebody made it on a dot matrix preenerty made that myself. That
looks like it could it like solid? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I'm
not paying ten cents a card. I like the front and the lightning bolt
is cool solid right? Yeah, no, it's yeah, it's like it.
At first it looks like asky font but like it. You know,
it's it's different because it's unique for you. Don exactly. I mean you
gotta make a statement anyway. I can I get this in a bag?
You sure can. And you see him pull out a promotional radio shack backpack,
ladies and gentlemen. These are backpacks that were given out back in the
day. And these backpacks also contain, for no reason, what'so fucking ever?
A phone. This phone has to still be plugged into a landline.
But just so you know, your backpack has a phone. Here you go.
We only give these out to special customers. That's really cool. Can
I is this like? Can I plug this in anywhere? Anywhere you can
find a jack? That's like potentially weirdly handy, isn't it. It's almost
like you've been gifted a magic item because we've had five Michigans. Such a
it's such a very specific thing that exists. Okay, cool, Yeah,
I'm not gonna look that gift us in the mouth. Thanks man. Don
uh he get the fuck out Greg immediately. Sure, Don will be brought
up on murder charges later. Yeah, you're able to go, and you
may go wherever you would like. Is there anything else that this group would
want to do from now until the meeting time of three thirty at the paperback
exchange. Okay, Cherry rob I got everything that I need. I'm gonna
build so many I gotta backpack with a phone on it. That's weird.
Um, and this guy gave me a discount and so much duct tape,
Like we could duct tape I don't know, butts to a flagpole or something.
I don't know what we can do either way, we have so much
talking we could do that. Um, we'll give you eighty one sets if
you do that. If I if I doctate butts to Yeah, yeah,
I would need your help. You're the biggest person. No, no,
no, you have to do it. That's why he's got robot strength.
I can't do that. I like to see that. Okay. So by
the time we get back to it's been visiting hours. We know this,
right, I thought visiting hours was six to eight. Yeah, it's three.
Yeah, Garry can't drive us back. He's got open the store.
Oh sh yeah, sorry, just what what do do do do do we
need need to put her put her name on a list? Oh? Yeah?
What if we what if we couldn't wouldn't let us in? What if
we had a phone backpack to call them? I had I gotta plug it
in. I gotta plug get into a place where a phone would be,
which is weird because like you'd think if a phone could go there, there
would be a phone there. But um, I have it. I could
climb a telephone pole, I guess, and plug it in. That'd be
the first time I climb a really high pole and got knocked off of it.
Um, what if we have Shannon call and like do like an old
lady voice and pretend to be Maggie and and tell tell them that we're coming
to see Ben because she's indisposed or injured or elderly. That's the best plan
you've ever come up with. It's this is a solid prety. Sure I
came up the plan where we stormed the loop, but I'm mean, I
guess this one's cool. I'm always amazed that the plans that are formulated by
this group always have some type of like ven diagram influence from the Muppet movie.
Like there's some version of plan that comes up that has been done by
the Muppet. Um, so I mean they were always successful. So I
stop stop looking too deep into my plans. You'll find out the secrets.
I think it brought the paper towels. Jim Henson presents at twilight. That's
I've got I dude, I would pay. I would empty the unmade gaming
bank account if we could have a Muppet atari twilet. Are you shooting me?
Um? Okay? Cool? So so that's that's the plan. We
get Shannon back there, do an old lady voice call in a thing.
We can all go there with. Oh, just Gary, can I borrow
your car? Can Shannon borrow your car? She drives? No, okay,
Gary can stop us f work? Okay? Uh? Do you need
any help to them all? No? Yeah? Have Like, if you
three dollars left, I can get orange Julius. You guys want to orange?
Just putting on Julius? Do they have a goog Google? Great?
Great great American cookie? They aunt Dannie's pretzels. I really want to slice
it a Googo cookie cake. Finally, have three dollars, Rob, So
it's orange Juliets. Damn it, Rob. If you want a cookie cake,
you there, there's a cookie cake available. It's like a knockoff.
It's like a cookie. It's like a Yeah, it's like a cookie pus
or something like that. Everyone, oh man, carvel cookie push. I
love that this is just like carvel kioskar bro only salas cakes. Yeah,
cookie plus what was the whale called? Um? Oh god fudge you the
whale doesn't fun the way? Hell there we go absolutely u Yeah, it's
my last three dollars. Don't just don't tell, just don't tell, shadded
that we used it to buy a cookie. Plus you've been eat the whole
thing before she gets back. Not not not not an issue. You are
able of cookies, right, It's just like, you know, it's like
cookies walking past like the chess king. Another bite of cookie, you know,
it's like you know, like the last final drink of a or like
the of an orange Julius cookie. And then it's just everything is every other
cookie, right, just stuffing them in my mouth, not even really in
haling them, like cookie monster. Yeah, and then like eight cuts in
it's robbed, just with that exhale like that, and then it cuts back
and then you just see him like revamped with cookie. Okay, that's the
kid from Matilda after it eats the cake. Okay, So yeah, you're
able to do all of this. Three thirty rolls around. You're back at
the paperback exchange. Gary has reopened it. There's not a rush of people
waiting to come in. But at this time you realize, as three thirty
comes and goes, you do not have a Shannon or a Butts because Shannon
Butts are elsewhere and Garrett following a black suv. My friends, I would
like you to roll a Let you see, how do I want you?
I want you to roll me a sneak if you are trying to follow like
in a clandestine nature discreetly. Yeah, so romy a sneak then, Shannon,
since you are the one in charge of the bike, Oh my god,
think three finally, geez, how many back to back failures right now?
The cap out on this one's too, so you can take one of
those successes and save it. So if I ask you for a sneak roll,
you automatically can bank a success with the two mac stout. Though.
This is like if at any point the driver of the suv would kind of
check mirrors, which she is doing quite a bit, you are able to
stay in the blind spot of this suv either by going in behind parked cars
in certain areas, creeping around where only motorcycles can really go, and in
doing so the driver you can almost see the tension relieve from the car as
it was taking erratic turns right left, right, right, left, right,
right left. But then it eventually slows down and you see it pull
behind the Garrett Fire Department. What the heck? What is up with this
lady? This is a small The Garret Fire Department is a volunteer fire department.
So the parking lot itself only has about eight spots in the back,
and over half of those are filled right now, So she's taking like the
sixth of the eight spots. If you go into this area, it will
be no noticeable even with your sneak rolls. This is something that um,
if you drive right by, she's not going to notice you if you enter
into the parking lot. I mean they'll be aware that the vehicles entered what's
across the street. Maybe would just park across the street, f it's a
business. Yeah, you have an alleyway across the street that links back up
with main street. Okay, yeah, we'll better. Okay, are you
trying to watch the vehicle or are you see roman investigate? Then as you
are able with those sneaks, you get into position before anything happens with the
vehicle zero from Butts on. God damn, look at all the dice I
have. That's crazy. It's seven dice with zero. Yeah. I will
tell you you can push for a condition or you can use luck here if
needed. Neither one of us have luck? Yea? Is it enough to
push for a I don't think my private it works here. I always though,
No, I have an idea for my pride later. There's like after
the heart attack, it's like after that, that's the in case in case
of emergency, break glass, right, okay, right, um, I
will know that. Yeah, this condition will just be exhausted. You know,
there's the tension of the moment. So it's not something that would be
kind of noticeable, but it's just something that you know, does Shannon want
to push it? Because she's a little bit better at investigating than than Butts,
but is more of a muscle back. I'll like going all the stuff.
So do I take the exhausted now? Right? I click on it?
Go ahead, though you don't even know if it's gonna work. I
clicked on it. We'll see what happens real quick. Nah. Yeah,
but it did work with the condition. Okay, Yeah, yeah, I
would like you roll me another D six then, because you get the condition
after you take the role, so you don't have to Yeah, no,
damn. So yeah, it's just exhausted. By the time you guys get
set, you know, you see it, one of the kind of the
regular trucks, the fire trucks pulls in and kind of obscures your vision,
and by the time it kind of pulls away, there's some discussion you hear
among the volunteer firemen. And as it pulls away, you see the door
closing on the back of the fire department and the vehicle that you were observing
looks empty. Okay, I'm gonna go straight for the vehicle, like,
just straight looking is it Is it left unlocked or is it locked? When
you get to it, it is unlocked. Okay. Shannon opens the passengers
side at the front and looks at the glove compartment or any information. Sure
thing, let's see roll me a yeah, just roll me an investigate here,
George, are you nice? George? Are you accompanying her? Or
are you saying George totally misinterprets what we're doing here. He goes into the
backseat and lays down on the floor to hide as if we're gonna pop out
for this later later, What are you? What are you doing? Shush?
Can you hear us? George's lying down in the back. And you
reach in and pull out a registration card and again this is registered to the
Loop. Again it just says Loop and it's a very vague address like one
Loop Way Garrett, Maryland. And but under that, as company cars often
do, it's registered to a specific individual. And you see it's registered to
a doctor Jay Thrice. Okay, there is also a gun in the in
the glove compartment, well kind of a gun's like a it's a military issue
forty five, like a pistol. Yeah. No, I'm I'm thinking,
um, oh boy, but there's a gun in take it. But I
can know someone's coming towards you in get in, get take the gun and
get in. Give me the gun. No, she like turns her around.
I'm not giving you the gun. Stop. They're gonna use it if
we don't take it. No. She closes the glove compartment and leans on
the car as she very casually closes the uh, the side door, give
me the gun, takes out a cigarette. Oh hi, what were you
in my car? And you see this very tall woman looking at you,
and she seems to have a very almost not like a plastic face, but
in the expression was faced to the point where you can tell that she plays
a mean game of poker. Were you in my car? Yep? Deal
later? Who roll me a charm with that one? Ship? That's a
good that's baller because I'm gonna fail it. I know. I was just
these freaking roles, man. You know I was gonna say, you're going
to succeed on that no matter what, because that's fucking ball or that Yeah,
I was in your car. You gotta light that's that's that Shit's too
good for me to not let that happen. Okay, So you bank both
of those successes. You were going to get it no matter what. So
take both of those for any charm roles in the future, or if you
would like to use one of those to get an answer from this person that
she may not have given you without it, you may use You may spend
them both in that manner to ask a question of this person. She stops
and slowly reaches in and you see her pull out a pack of camel lights
and there is a lighter kind of inside the cellophane, and she pushes it
from the cellophane at the bottom and kind of berths the lighter up the top,
pulls it out, lights it, and extends it to you. Appreciate
that. Oh, it's been a day you volunt here. No no donating,
you could say, so, Oh cool. I was just walking by
and I was going to stop in and see if they wanted any help this
weekend. But I have to do community surface snoopyde but yeah, kind of
yeah, don't not really looking forward to it. My parents, you know
who are your parents? She lights a cigarette of her own. Do you
know Sean Lock give you this one for free? The lady without tells her
throat Titans never heard of him. Uh huh, Well that's okay. You're
probably not from around here, are you? I could say that. Have
you been in Garrett for very long? I've lived in Garrett my whole life.
But you're not from around here. What do you What do you do?
Oh? A little of this, a little of that. Work for
the government. Yeah, my dad does as well, go figure military.
Right. Well, your dad would probably tell you that if he was ever
asked about another agent, he probably would say that he had never met them
or heard of them. Ah, yeah, I know it's all hush hush
around there. So are you doing anything now? Think about getting some coffee
if you wanted to come for the thank you? Right? Is this an
implied threat or is this an actual offer for coffee, because this is what
the character would be thinking, knowing full well you were in her car.
You had the admission you were in her car. Un she needs to do
this? Um, I don't. That's that's a tough So I'll tell you
what my motivation is as Shannon, she wants to get her away from the
vehicle because Butts is in there and there is a gun that is probably loaded
inside the vehicle, so she doesn't want to know what he's going to do
about it. But she doesn't want Butts in that vehicle basically because she thinks
that he'll get shot or killed. That's the motivation there. Pings is just
around the corner. They have good coffee there. If you've ever been I
actually haven't had their coffee, good to know. Why don't you join me
and then you can just hang out or we can sit in silence in case
that's something that you're interested in doing. No tell on this one. But
she just nods and you see smoke jet out of both of her nostrils,
and she just kind of nods and indicates almost like you know, after you
and she'll follow at your side, not behind you. But as you are
exiting, you would see the back of the fire department open up. And
I'll give you this one for free. You see a man face claimed Tom
Saleck, coming down the stairs. He is dressed in a Garrett County Fire
Department T shirt. He has a Garrett County Fire Department hat on as well,
and with him is oh, you would say, a twelve year old
girl who is dressed identically to him, except in sizes that would fit her.
And he looks down and says, come on, honey, let's go
home. This is the same girl that just left the Alta Boys and Girls
Club. He heads towards one of the trucks, not the big ones,
but like the pickup trucks. Yes, Shannon just continues on to get coffee
with this creepy lady. You do, and as you leave, but you
would hear the trucks start and this Bronco pulls out and you are left inside
the black suv. My friend, what do you do as you are left
alone inside a loop vehicle. I go to the front. I definitely take
the gun, and I to the best I think I could do it.
Um, I want to either crush the barrel, break the trigger, or
in some way destroy this gun so that can't be used the easiest thing to
do. You could pop the clip out and render it useless. You see
no additional ammo. If you want to destroy the gun for all time,
then yeah, you can just bend the barrel of that cool. Yeah,
so I'll pop out the bag it just bend the barrel. You'll put it
back to that way like she has to like, what's this like a cartoon?
You put it back in the so she pulls it out and it'll be
bent or exactly. Yeah, Okay, so there's not a high speed car
chase and she doesn't look at the barrel while this is happening. Well,
I guess I didn't say anything earlier, so I guess it's I guess it's
afterwards. Does the name doctor J Thrice ring any bells? Does? Because
my dad knew a lot of people, my mom knew a lot of people
in town. Is this somebody that I would have heard of before. I'll
tell you what my friend. Let's do a seldom used role here in Tory
Twilight ROMI contact one. Success. You have heard the name before. You've
heard the name in association with your mother. You don't know how or why,
but doctor J. Thrice rings a bell. Dang, I'll shoot.
I want to see if I can sneak into the fire department through the same
backtor that totally not brainwashed kid came out of. Sure, absolutely romy a
sneak if you want to be sneaky about it. But it seems to be
a bit of a public entrance. Yeah, no success. You walk in,
Um, you get a couple of looks from people as you come in,
you kind of startled. Somebody a getting dressed in like the Garrett County
Volunteer Fire Department shirt. Doesn't say anything to you though. As you get
a few steps in, you're kind of in the garage area. It opens
right up into the garage area with the two of the long the water truck
in the ladder truck, and one of the guys finally says, hey,
man, can I help you? Yeah, I'm supposed to be picking up
a friend. She she was here to do community service. Sure name.
We had a couple of kids here earlier. Uh, I'm sorry, young
people. Yeah yeah, well yeah, uh yeah yeah. Shannon Locke right
looks like a kid up to no good. You know, it's pretty obvious
when she's around. I don't And he turns around. Any asked a couple
of the guys and comes back nobody knows a Shannon Locke. Um, sorry
there, No one's laughed. They all laughed, so you missed them.
Can at least use the bathroom before I head out? Yeah? Sure,
right there, and he points to kind of an area that's offset. It's
part shower, part bathroom. It's like a like a gym bathroom. It's
more locker room. The guys spend a lot of time here. They don't
seem to give us ship at all that you are here. Okay, yeah,
So I'll like go to the bathroom area and then if nobody's really looking,
I'll try to look around and go to the back of the actual fire
hall and see what's happening. I'll tell you what roman investigate when you're in
the bathroom area. One success inside the Waiste receptacle. Maybe it's because you
just recently threw a crystal in one into McDonald's that doesn't exist in this garret.
As you look in, you see an outfit that matches the description of
what the people or the students that go to the Alta Boys and Girls Club
would be wearing. It's crumpled up and thrown in the trash can. Okay,
I'll definitely like try to like shore don't have backpack to I I'll just
take it. I'll just hold it and if I have to, like slip
it under my shirt around the back of my chain jacket that way, if
there's a bowl, just a little bit less obvious. No one pays a
bit of attention to you. These guys are. George is not used to
that. You know, he's so popular, right, I mean these guys
are as soon as they see you, know, they give you like the
they go back to their conversations and they think nothing of it. The Volunteer
Fire Department is a frequent spot for people to come and go, so it's
not a military facility by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, is there
like an actual back or is it just like an open bay where they keep
the engines and it's an open bay. It looks like there's a top floor
now there. It seems to be a little bit more restricted to get up
there. You can only assume it's probably like a residential area, you know,
like a kitchen where the guys have beds so they can sleep there during
their shifts, which are usually like two day or day on a day off,
that type of thing. Yeah, but it just rows of lockers,
rows of open lockers that have full kind of firefighter kits in them, with
the boots and pants already set up to be stepped into. You know,
the smell of soap they're always washing the engines and shit. Yeah, is
there a pair of wire cutters just sitting around? Like maybe it's on a
tool rack on the on the wall. I'll tell you what, if you
can roll me a what do I want? I want to tinker from you?
You roll me a tinker, and I'll let you know if you can
identify a pair once there's a pair right there. On your way out,
I just as if I owned the place. I just pick them up without
looking anything, and I just kind of walk with them on my shoulder,
and if anybody talks to me, I ignorm and I just keep walking.
Nobody says anything, and if they did, there's no malice throwing your way.
Those cutters will never be missed. Okay from here, I totally did,
even like I guess maybe it wasn't a soundproof car unless you tell me
otherwise. So I know that they're going to Pings, so I might go
back to the bike and if I can still see Pings from the bike or
the alleyway at least, then I'll scout out there until I see Shannon again.
Yep, and Pings is the whole front of Pings is glass, so
you could see that the two of them are sitting in at the bar and
there presumably having cups of coffee. But before we do that, we cut
back to the paperback exchange. Friends, it is past three thirty. Now
do you do anything? You have not had an arrival of a Shannon nor
a Butts. I think Mitch is too hardcore into making a new Mitchie talkie.
UM and whatever he can make out of um, all the stuff he
just bought, all the stuff he just scraped off the whole countertop. Um
that he has completely lost track of time. Um He's he's probably like sprawled
out on the middle of the floor. Because Gary's not gonna say shit.
Um, so he's just like soldering. The room smells like burnt plastic.
Um. It's a it's a bad time for anyone that wants to come in.
But he's he's too he's too deep. Okay, um, I will
tell you this. Uh, let's say that it's I want to empathize from
both Jerry and Rob m that's zero successes. Who succeists? Rob, you
are the first member of the autobots to realize main Street Jimmy never checked down?
Jimmy, Jimmy, what what what wasn't? What wasn't His sister is
supposed to supposed to check check back with us? Oh oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Oh what do we call him? Jimmy May main Street,
Maine, Maine for sure. Let's take all day if you do it?
Um uh Jimmy, Uh, just this is uh, he's not gonna
know our call signs. Jimmy, are you are you? You? You
copy? Jimmy. No answer, Jimmy, you gotta press the button on
the side. Uh, and then and then talking to the bottom part.
I'm just staying over over thanks for guests. Probably no answer, Yeah,
Jimmy, if if it's coming in. If it's coming in, crackly,
just extend the antenna all the way up and then press the button and then
talking to the bottom part over. He knows he's a walkie talkie. He
was in the worthy figured out okay, cool, well what what what?
What about? But but but and Shannon and Rob's gonna look up at the
clock. Should have should have been been here by now. Well, I'm
sure quarter after four. I'm sure Shannon can clearly hear me calling Jimmy right
now. So I assume she respond tectically. Butts can hear because it's our
backpacks on her bike, and he's, yeah, I don't have my own
beach talkie that I actually keep turned on you. I'm sure I'm sure she'll
she's about to hear it and respond as to why she's late. Uh I
already forgett call signs, Jazz. I know I'm Jazz. I'm trying to
forget your remember yours? Wheel jack? Wheel jack? Okay, and wheeljack,
this is Jazz. Go for wheel jack. Uh we uh, we
took a little detour, a little reconmission. Well, we'll be back at
the eagles nest and I don't know when but we'll be there at some point.
Everything's fine. How are you? You're not that cool? Over?
Also? Uh sorry not over Actually, um no, we can't. We
haven't heard from Jimmy over. Well. Uh, we never gave him a
we we should have given him a call sign over. That's true. We
didn't do that. But he still has a walkie and he still knows most
of our first names. Over. Okay, well he does, so I
think we're okay. Over. Can you guys like zoom around and and like
look for him on the bike since you're on your way back over No,
can do m hm, your teams, We're in a delicate We're in a
delicate situation in which I cannot do that right now. He's he's not saying
over neither, he presses. They probably are just just loud enough to be
over right out. I would kiss her, I mean, like the telescopic
things. Oh, they're definitely kissing. Delicate situation. Lock, okay,
so uh with that exchange, George used to have an observational point outside of
Ping's restaurant. As our camera would then leave George go through the glass just
as George kind of puts the antenna down and we pass through the glass into
the kind of loud area right by the bar um where there's dishes being prepared
and everything, and Doctor Thrice is still smoking inside and tapping the ashes into
the saucer of the cup. Heard any good stories? It takes a drink
taken. What have you heard any good stories? Um? Not really no,
there's just not nothing. You'd be interested and I'm sure. Um do
you have kids? Uh? No? No? Do you do you work
with Have you ever worked with kids? I work around the children, Yes,
occasionally, well, trups because that's kind of you know. Oh do
you know usually young adults. Um, have to be younger than sixteen.
Okay, that's like really broad. Do you have any particular like things that
you have to do with them? Or won't be a comprehend as you are
apprehend Let's see two successes. She is fishing for information. Okay, Um,
well you don't have kids in your round, but you work with kids.
What made you get into that necessity? Necessity? M hm? You
said you worked in a government. Yeah, I'm not mutually exclusive. I
can feel a calling and still work for the government. So you enjoy the
work you do? Sure? Well, how did you get into it.
I guess you could say I was born to do it. How did you
get in your line of work? My line of work? H gosh,
bad friends. Right, yeah, it's kind of how it goes trying to
figure out what's next. You know, Dad wants me to kind of stay
on the right side of things, I guess. But you know, there's
a girl that runs around town with two boys on motorcycles most of the time,
get into a lot of trouble. I heard they stole a car last
month. Wow. Really, M surprised. I don't know her, it
is surprising. I mean, you know, troublemaker clearly. You know it's
written all over me. Right, you don't seem like a troublemaker. I
don't ye my parents would disagree with you. Maybe you can talk to him,
convince them otherwise, you know, sure, sure, I just you
know, point him out. I don't at least give my observational two cents.
Well, I mean, one of them's military, the other one is
I guess technically government. M sort of. They both are very like by
the book, you know, do your ABC dot your eyes across your tees
kind of people. So it just seems kind of you know, Stiff,
it's crazy. Yeah, you know about that girl all that rides around with
the hooligans. I can't imagine that she would have parents like that she did,
of course she would be more like you. Maybe. I guess I'm
more of a you know, facade rather than an actual troublemakers that you're trying
to imply. Not at all. No, I don't believe you to be
a troublemaker. Oh were you a troublemaker as a kid? Let's classified,
But your childhood is classified. Of course, all government agents childhoods are classified.
They don't want to put their families at risk. Wow, I'm very
curious about what it is that you do that is like super top secret.
That's pretty Maybe I should do what you do. She looks around and you
see her nod to the owner and paying nods, and this area is cleared
out. You see that the cook's move from this area, go into the
back, and you are all both left alone. The clinking of the dishes
disappears, but silence rains. Now no ambient noise. When did you get
here? I walked in with you, So I guess what twe We've been
sitting here for like twenty minutes or so? When did you get here?
Okay, I just answer your question. I'm really sure why you're asking again?
When did you get here? Do you have a mitch? Do you
have a mitch? Is this like code for something I do not? I
lost mine? Uh? Okay? What is a mitch? And where did
you lose it? I watched him get shot to him? Okay, who
shot him? You can throw me a I want to tell you something.
I want to just give this to you about should I use my banks charm?
Let's do that? Okay, I have two banks charms. This Garrett
is undefended. It's going to fall within the week. I'm trying to get
as many children with potential out. If you are looking for Ben Mackenzie,
he's in the facility and I cannot get to him. Does that ring any
bells? Should I roll something here to see if I can trust her?
You can roll me an empathize if you're trying to suss her out. Okay,
I have no points an empathize, but we'll see how this goes.
No again, she's got that poker face. Yeah. What do you know
about Sean Locke that you didn't tell me before? He's a killer here,
like with Sarge. No, Sarge was an accident. Who's accident? He
was trying to help. We were trying to This is the site that I
believe your father and Mitch's father jumps to. This is where they lost Mitch's
dad. Your dad was here, he's gone. Now. This beast that
is left is a crude rendition of your father. You mean the big muscle
Pulkman, the killer, That's what we call him. Okay, do you
have a rob with you? We have many things? Do you have a
rob with you? What is the importance of having one? If you have
one, they will see him. And she looks outside at the Amy's and
the Errands. They are coded to him. Oh, okay, So do
you have a rob? Yes, we have a rob. Get him out
of Garrett. How far out of Garrett? As far as you can get
him? Well, we meet then. First, do you have a Mitch?
Yes, we have a Mitch. Then you are the last. Let's
cut to the paperback exchange. No, Greg, let's go up. Let's
go back. Go back to that rewind. As the soldering is taking place,
and as these weady, everyone's kind of waiting and for the next step.
The next phase, and as five o'clock rolls around, then the sun
dips beneath the first line of trees. It's still up, it's still bright,
but the sun's down. As soon as the sun dips beneath the skyline,
every amy on the street and every errand on the street stop. They
freeze in midstep. They freeze in positions that if a human would do so,
they would topple. And they slowly bring steps that were extended by left
foot and place them side by side with right foot until they are standing in
a military backstraight chest out, military precision. They're carrying grocery bags, they
drop them. They are carrying dog leashes, they release them. If they
are driving cars, they kick the children out of them. I was one.
They begin to move towards the town center. They begin to move towards
the paperback exchange and rob. As you look out through the glass, past
the open sign with the closed but not forever facing you, you see the
approach of your mother and your father repeated in a dozen variations of clothing,
and make cars stop along the streets. They get out, and they begin
marching like ants towards the hill that is the paperbag You see them coming,
and you hear them coming because they begin to chant Rob Rob Rob Rob,
and between each Rob there is that five second awkward pause. But now it
doesn't sound like a timed response, sounds sinister, like they're putting more power
and purpose behind Rob Rob Rob. Everybody please queue up every breath you take
by the police. Rob. You see them coming, George, you witnessed
this from the alleyway the doctor in front of Shannon. It's too late.
Maybe we can find you another Rob, or we could save the one that's
here. It's never worked before. Wow, you didn't have me or Mitch,
did you? Her poker face cracks and a slight smile lists the left
side of her face, and that, my friends, is where we will
end this session of Atari Twilight. Stay tuned for next session, episode five,
Death in the Family. I hate this show that I who's that lighting?
Greg? Greg Greek? But now what everyone's really we got that walking
talking checks? Right? Greg? How many walking talkings did I make?
I just I'm like, what are you buying now? Talking? I mean,
you had several hours there and that's everybody. Mitch is incredible with this
type of stuff, so this is his wheelhouse. You could have created.
You know, I would say at least two or three. Solid Um,
what the fuck? Okay? Cool Um? I have one question before we
do our outros, Greg, wait, I have one question. I have
one answered for chat. I just wanted to let you know you gave me
five Michigans. That was one of them. Okay, that was my question.
The other full many are you carrying into the tragedy that is episode five?
I promised a boss level encounter if I was ever given four in one
episode. I'm taking that with me because episode five there's must weak spot.
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