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Tale from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight Rollout. To go forward, we
have to go back, and here we are at episode eight of Atari Twilight
Rollout. The Iron Curtain Atary Twilight is a story about the eighties using Free
League's Tales from the Loop system. It is a story about group of kids
task with saving the world entire standing against them a collection of villains from the
far corners of movies, TV, comic books, and novels. In the
battleground their hometown of Garrett, Maryland, a sleepy mountain town utterly unremarkable save
for one ominous edition. The Loop, a particle accelerator whose reckless science has
breached the veil between Garret and its limitless parallel dimensions. The loops lust for
knowledge threatens not just their Garret, but every garret every world, in the
great multidimensional garden, our heroes find themselves diving between these mirror images, these
mirror universes. In some foes or friends, in others friends or foes,
but in every iteration of garret, secrets await. If they can find the
right secrets and make it back to their garret, they may just be able
to defeat the loop and save everyone everywhere. But to return home, they
have to find a way to pierce the veil surrounding their home town. The
veil itself is an energy field of unknown origin that repels them each time they
try to breach it, and with each failure, they are cast into another
version of their hometown with new secrets and new dangers. It is Sunday,
December thirty first, nineteen eighty nine. Time is running out. The greatest
decade, the nineteen eighties draws to a close, and if allowed to end,
so too ends all the world. Can our heroes find a way home?
And if so, can they stop the loop and save existence? My
friends, that is what we are here to find out. Our kids stand
at the heart of it all. Rob Oughts, the quiet hero that faces
not only their enemies but his own self doubt? Can he face his greatest
fear? Can he find a way to become the prime? Shannon Locke Torn
between the light and the dark. Shannon has been battered by the visions of
herself and the revelations of those closest to her. But has she been granted
any true answers? George Butts, machine or man? A question that shouldn't
have an answer, But what if it did? What would George choose?
What would he become? Jerry Baker, a hero reborn from the ashes of
a bully? What will he do with the knowledge that their friend Ben Mackenzie
isn't with them? What will he do with the knowledge that an older version
of Mitch is their greatest enemy? Casey Mitch Mitchell the only one among them
capable of jumping between worlds, but not the only being capable of such power.
Unknown to Mitch, an older version of himself is the being known as
he who walks between the rows? How do you win a war when you
are the enemy? 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 fifty songs. Ultimately, Episodes in the Making comes down to this.
Now we return not to their Garrett, but to a Garrett in the highlands
of Maryland. Welcome one and all to the end of an age. Welcome
my friends to Atari Twilight Rollout, Episode eight, the Iron Curtain. You're
lucky and Pride are refreshed. But before we go forward, someone roll lead
for me. This person cannot be George. I got this all right,
Zeros. If you have lucky, you may use it on this role.
You have pride, you may use it on this role. Of course,
they were just refreshed, so I don't know if you want to do so.
You can push it, but that push will give you a condition.
I'm gonna push it. I'm okay with taking a condition given the circumstances of
how we left off last episode. Two successes, so please take the condition.
Upset as you push yourself beyond your normal capacity for success and turn failure
into achievement. With those two dice you are with two successes, you are
able to have a poll of four dice. These four dice may be given
to any of your friends at any time for any role, you may not
take them for yourself, though, rob As at this particular moment, you
all are between here and there. Everybody, if you would please go to
your Spotify playlist, because of course this is the eighties and we always have
a soundtrack, so if you would please queue up track number one, the
live acoustic version of Love is a battlefield. Mitch, I need you to
roll a tinker right now, Everybody, regardless of Mitch's role, you're all
going to get a condition. Jesus, can I use my item for this
role? Absolutely? Yeah? Cool? Cool for successes, Greg coming in
hot, you may bank one of those successes. Anything less than a three
would have given you all another condition. As you all look at one another
with doctor Arkiville his eighty year old frame also tethered and tied to you,
you all look like some type of hellish ball of yarn, as this egg
that was thrown on you by your friend Ben Mackenzie had split and slithered,
encompassing your entire form and drawing you all together a net made of wire and
buying tendril and some pieces flesh as it grabs and grips and cuts into you,
each of you. Where this bone, and why are criss cross is
forming the net? Any exposed that it gets from sleeveless vests or hands and
wrists is immediately cut, as if a razor was drawn across it. Many
of you who are already wounded from the last encounter, namely Jerry Baker,
who already had a stain across his shirt of a torn open chest. Similar
stains make their way across your entire form, George, you don't experience this,
but you can see your flesh being flayed. You see deep gashes cut
into your arm. But just like if somebody took a razor blade to the
forearm of a ken or a barbie, it just splits. Nothing comes out.
I need everybody to roll me a move role. You're looking for a
combined total of six here, Um, looks like we've only got four across.
Everybody who would like to push? Who can push any prides or if
not Mitch Mitchkin push Mitchkin push? Uh not? Well, apparently George will
push as well. If that's a lot, can yep conditions for each of
these pushes? By the way, at one you're able to get one,
which puts you one away from the total anybody else does it. It adds
on to our It adds one. Yeah, okay, I will also push
that's another one. So so, with the combined efforts of Mitch, Shannon,
and George, you all feel yourself being drawn apart, except that this
net that's around you doesn't give an inch. It's almost as if something wishes
to pull you great you through like Plato and some type of hellish fun factory.
You begin to feel yourselves pulled apart. Mitch, your hold on this
transfer is tenuous at best, but you're able to keep focus and keep everybody
together. Even though doctor Arkaville is screaming. He is screaming words of encouragement.
He knows what you're going through. He's telling you to focus. But
through this exchange, you aren't in the field of stars that you are in
before, that place between here and there where you go from one garret to
the next. Instead, you're in that swirl of purple, and it's very
tubular. It's very like a tunnel or the inside of a wave that someone's
catching off of Malibu. And as you kind of make your way through this
ahead of you, Mitch, you're leading them. He teletran two and the
last person that went through, who I believe was Shannon as she grabbed hold
of Arqueville. Shannon, when you continue that hold and move your head back
towards Arquaville over his shoulder, you see a nine ten foot robot moving through
the tunnel after you. I need one last role from Mitch. Is anyone
at four conditions right now? If Mitch fails, you all get a condition.
What are the conditions that we got at the start and who all got
them? Everybody got one condition and then anybody that added to it. Now,
I know Jerry came in with two. Yeah, so I think he's
at four unless he didn't push your role, did you He didn't, He
didn't push your roll, so Jerry should be at three. Yeah. I
think I have two from the push and then when we all got okay,
so this will salt in a condition. If you fail this role, give
me another tinker. I'm gonna give you a luck. Greg, Sure,
do you want to? Maybe? I don't know, give him some of
the dice that we had from leaving. I go into where he made his
mind up real quick, went ahead and rolled, So I mean, I
guess you'll add him to this yeah, if you want to, if you
want to, have to, have to have to one success Greig, everybody
gets a condition. Jerry Baker passes out as his large form slumps. Razor
cuts that huge question mark fish hook across his chest. The newly minted,
newly born hero slumps in the middle of this cocoon that is razor wire.
And then you are in the field outside of Teletrantu. You all crash to
the ground, and as soon as you hit the air of this mountain Maryland,
the flesh and vines and bone and wire begin to release, almost like
a puzzle that all it required was the lack of tension. It begins to
slink away, and then it begins to melt, and in some places where
the wire is exposed, it begins to rust. You all lay there.
Doctor Arkville is looking back, but there isn't a tunnel anymore. There's no
giant robot. There's no glimpse into the place where you were or the place
that you had traveled through to get here. But as you look around,
you see that this entire place has a gray haze to it. There are
vines everywhere that seem to have crept up in the middle of the grab truck,
the mag truck graveyard, pushing some of the other tethered vehicles out of
the way. With these great jack and the beanstock like trunks that have come
up, everything seems to be overgrown. Everything seems to be dusty, and
everything seems very, very familiar. This is the place where you jumped after
nineteen sixty nine. The Teletran two is in front of you. It's green,
it's unaffected by the vines. Welcome back to Garrett. What do you
do? George will check on Jerry, check repulse. There's anything you can
if you have to compress wounds or what have you. He sees You're going
to Jerry Roman investigate as you get over to him. No success. You
get over. You can see these breathing that much, you can, you
know, But as far as first aid or identifying, you know, you
can see numerous injuries on Jerry's form, but you can't see and identify what
might be the cause of what knocked him out, a head wound or some
type of you know, suffocation or something like that. He is breathing.
It seems to be unlabored, if that's any comfort. But the one thing
I do give you, and this one is free. When you crawl among
your friends to kind of get to Jerry through the remnants of the wire and
the remnants of this bone and flesh construction, you see the little indicator in
the bottom right hand corner go from two to three to four to five.
When you get over to Jerry, it's sort of holds it five. You're
not sure why. Okay, I'll pick Jerry up and just cradle him.
Not cradle him, but you know what I mean, just hands up front.
I'm not gonna fireman carry him, gotcha. Yes. As soon as
we became untangled, Mitch runs towards Teletran two like blood dripping down his arms,
his skinned knees, and he is booking it as fast as he can
towards the complete lack of rope ladder and trying to scramble up to wrench open
one of the gates. There's a rope ladder. Okay, He's scrambled up
the ropeladder to try to get inside. It just looks old, looks like
it's been left out in the element for several seasons. Yeah, you're able
to climb up in. What everybody else do is you see Mitch take off
through the dust and the vines, leaving a trail of blood, a trail
of himself from where you are to where he is. Shannon stands up and
just complete pan around, just looking, trying to see what's in the environment,
if there's even anything visible outside of all these vines. And the vines
aren't all encompassing. They're they're punching up here and there, but I mean
they're they're prevalent, They're everywhere. And the sky itself looks like it's caught
in an overcast Seattle version of twilight or dawn. The entire sky is one
uniform color, one uniform brightness. You can't tell where or if there is
a sun behind this this overcast cloud cover. Doctor Arcaville, though, has
stood up. He too has cuts all over him, and he is looking
around and just like you, doing that kind of slow turn that's slowed Michael
Bay three sixty. He seems to be drinking it in just like you,
and you hear him like inhale, sharply, Rob, what are you doing?
Rob's gonna be very confused. So he's he's gonna look over see George,
Kerry and Jerry. He's gonna see Mitch run into Teletran and George you
said you were carrying him like in your arms out front, So okay,
say, like, if it looks like George has got Jerry, he's not
gonna go try to help carry him or anything. So he's gonna try to
He's gonna follow Mitch, probably less hastily, towards Teletran two. Okay,
Then if everybody is either outside and holding position, like, we'll just say
Shannon and Arcaville are kind of where you arrived. George, are you taking
Jerry towards tell a Tran two? Yeah, I would take him towards the
hideout for sure. Okay, So if we're placing everybody in our mind's eye,
we have Shannon and Arkaville at the site of arrival, moving between that
area and tell Atran to a span of no more than twenty five yards.
Is George carrying Jerry and sprinting just ahead of them, or moving rapidly just
ahead of them is rob As Mitch, you take to the top and enter
into tell Atran two, it looks as if it has been updated since you
were here. Last idols have been carved out. O you see new doorways
that lead off of the original one that you expanded from the makeshift garage that
you have made the last true addition that you put onto tel Atran two.
Now it seems that each of the grab trucks below above to the right left
and then off at a diagonal each have an access point from your central and
original teletrantill it is a honey comb. I don't think he acknowledges it much.
He knows where he was going, so all of that just sort of
blurs as he like flings himself into the main central box and just sort of
like grabs what he imagines to be like the rusty door frame and hauls himself
into the adjacent cart, kicks down the trap door and immediately drops into the
garage and throws open the door and throws out like the ramp that we used
for Shannon's bikes, and he just like kind of looks around at everybody.
Some people moving, some people standing, and he says, get the fuck
in here, get in here now. She had an only an investigate.
Nope, yeah, you see the landscape. You know you're hurt in more
ways than one, more ways than the cuts on your body. Um,
the events of the last few moments in the prior Garrett um compounded with what
has just occurred here, nothing is picked up. Archival seems to be in
the same shape as he looks around, but doesn't truly drink it in and
begins to He even offers you his arm, as he believes a gentleman should.
Shannon nods and but kind of like motions to go within her to to
where Mitch's shouting. Basically, Um, I think she'll just check check to
see if Bus is having any struggles with Jerry. At this point, you're
holding it five percent, George, I mean the list the world's in color,
I would imagine I'm doing just fine with him. Then I'll take investigate
roles too, from George and Rob, who are moving at at least a
slower pace than what Mitch did. Two. I gotta two. You have
too many conditions. Rob, just as you're about ready to enter into tell
a tran two underneath where it's still lifted up by the magnets to keep it
aloft, keep it floating in the air in the near the same place where
Jerry's powers awoke. Whenever you all way back in season one, you see
a still form lying on the ground, but just I'm gonna walk over to
everybody. I mean, George is busy with Jerry, Mitch is up the
moad tell trans screaming. You know, if there's so much going on,
he's almost got like a like a shell shock about him. Where he's just
gonna start kind of making its way towards that without really saying much. You
know, you're just gonna start to getting kind of there off towards that to
go see who it is, what it is. It's real, it's real.
And when you get over there, you see this form face down in
the dust. At this age, you're either the size of a kid or
the size of a grown up. This is the size of a grown up,
but the body itself is skeletal, decomposed. You see more bone than
you see what might have been flash and it seems to be wearing long underwear.
Looks to be some type of uniform. Beneath the uniform. What do
you do? Can I take it closer? Is it like, is there
any writing on it? Is there? You know? You can roll it
over? Yeah, yeah, he's down. Yeah, it's kind of look
at bunny when you roll it over him, just above the heart it says
pe Mitchell. He's gonna like take a step back and just kind of yeah,
um okay, okay, um okay, and and go back towards teletran.
You all make it inside, do you secure tell the tran once everyone's
in, Mitch, Uh, I don't. I don't think he does.
He threw the gate open and sort of yelled at everyone to get the fucking
here. Uh, and then he dove back in, climbed up the trap
door back into the main thing. And I don't. Again, I don't
think he's super acknowledging the fact that like it's been updated. It's it's like
muscle memory at this point. Um, there's like a dry race marker that
he grabbed. The cap gets spit. He's scratching these at the rall.
He's grabbing back for tools. He's like moving things around. Um, and
he's sort of like almost autonomously going through the motions of a year or two
ago, rambling and mumbling to himself. You would see that your whiteboard is
completely filled. You would realize that the tools are in similar but there are
more tools and they seem to be arranged in different There are better tools,
power tools, you know, more lab equipment. It seems to be massively
upgraded from your de facto workshop. Yeah. I think he's like grabbing those
tools and using them, or like changing things on the board without realizing that
it's there. It's like almost second nature as he's like cleared a small spot
and started writing new things on it. And anyone that joins that center,
that central truck hub is just seeing Mitch in a frenzy. Okay, so
we'll say that Rob took a break for a second, so George and Shannon
an Arcaville would all be getting here at roughly the same time. Jerry,
you're starting to stir as you're still very injured, but your consciousness is beginning
to arrive. You realize you are being carried like threshold style by George.
As you all get into tell the trand too, I'm going to give you
this one for free, Shannon, George, and Jerry as he comes to
As you're looking at the white board, you can read a few things.
There's a lot of formula and equations that are across it, but they're all
so a lot of like bullet point notes, and one of them that you
immediately see is kind of to the top left hand side kind of opposite of
where Mitch is making a space, and it says they should arrive from nineteen
sixty nine at this spot. Um, I guess Shannon Shannon notices Mitch is
doing his thing. Um, I mean she's been here before. She probably
starts noticing that the space is different from the last time we were here,
right, and we all, if we were actually taking a moment, notice
the same thing. Um. I think she'd just feel like, hey,
Mitch, yeah, what what what? This isn't our place, not like
how we left it? Of course not. It's never the same place.
No, no, no, it's like really different. Yeah, every Garrett's
been different. This is just the closest one. Okay, then why did
whoever was here before us know that we I assume we're going to show up
here and she like points to the top corner of the board. Why did
evil Shannon know exactly where to find me to stab me? I don't know.
Okay, Well, maybe we should like not write on the board that
might have answers that we've been looking for for multiple dimensions, maybe for like
five seconds, I don't know, right on the floor. Instead, Mitch
looks like, what you just said makes no sense to him at all,
and he just looks back, says yeah, whatever, and just sort of
like tosses the marker up in the air in your direction and leaves the board
and begins rummaging at the tool bench that was opposite the board with like what
in his mind is an array of robot parts. You would all see that
whenever Mitch is rummaging through what would be the kind of the robot workstation,
you see a fully realized schematic that is drawn with blueprint detail the creature that
chased you into the tunnel. Wait. I think it's around this time Jerry's
like convincing George to let them down, you know, like um, real,
real awkward exchange of looks. I imagine, like thanks, but I'm
good, It's ok. You can you can show your feelings. You've got
to stop calling me that. That's you don't get to pick your names.
Still kick your ass. Well we'll see tomorrow. I just drop you.
It's not a fire fall. Shannon, as she's looking at the board and
kind of eyeing what she just saw with the robot schematic, she like takes
her backpack off her shoulder and like hands it. Albert Jerry, there's some
first day she's like completely focused on what's in front of her, but like
there's some first aid stuff in the backpack and some snacks if anybody's hungry.
What was Mitch writing in his little little areas? Any anything that makes any
sense or is it just gibberish? Basically, it's mostly gibberish. Like you
would identify it as as things we might have seen in the last few places,
but they're in no order, and it's like he it's as if like
he had too many thoughts at once and was just trying to get any thought
out of his head. Um, he might not even be able to reread
what the hell he just wrote, But they're all just things or facts or
ideas he saw in other garrets. Is there anything else that stands out immediately
on the board that was from the previous author? Sure? Sure, I'll
give you this one for free, because you have at least kind of like
ten minutes to look at this, and so it's not something that needs to
be done relatively quickly. But as you look at everything, you see the
plans for the robot in the one area that kind of bleed over into the
whiteboard. You see that the whiteboard is calculating a lot of the equations have
to do with time, and you see that there is a space where if
anything is to be believed from what's around it. There was likely a map
of Garrett that was fastened here at some point but has since been taken.
The only reason why you know that is there are lines that are kind of
arrows drawn and it mentions things that you know about. You know, like
there's an arrow that says moon Tower, and you would know that that would
be off any map of Garrett. You know, an arrow that says the
lake, and so if you're placed in there from east to west, you
would be able to kind of imagine a square of Garrett. Also, when
you look through, you realize that it's mentioning those little green creatures that you
saw here the last time, and it calls them by name, says that
they're gremlins, and it says there's a good way to rile them up,
and maybe I can have them attack at this certain time, at this certain
moment that is the same as the one that says this is when they will
arrive in nineteen sixty nine. Also, Jerry, you and you alone,
and you look at the board, and eventually Shannon will get it and Rob
will get it. But as you look and kind from the ground go from
the bottom of the white board up, you realize the little corner where Mitch
wrote and the rest of the white board are in the same handwriting. It's
funny because I was actually deducing that another version of Mitch was here. I
was about to say that too, but I don't. Eventually the handwriting match
right. And a second later, Shannon, as you're kind of looked down
at what Mitch wrote, you realize that the tea has crossed the same way.
She looks over to Mitch and then looks to Jerry to see if he
sees what she sees. Where's Ben? Well, Ben put whatever that was
on us, and we're not in better shape for it, that's for sure.
What was that all about? Ben? I don't know who that was?
So where's Ben? He's got to be back at that boys school.
We go with the wrong Ben unless they brainwashed it and it was our Ben
the brainwashed him to sabotage us. I mean they've replaced other people with you
know, other things too. Oh so true, Kay, Ben would die
before he betrayed any of you. I'm not saying that he would betray us,
not willingly, that's for sure. Okay, So one thing at a
time. Um, if Ben is back where we left him at the boys
school, which seems most likely because I don't unless, I mean, I
don't know who was with him before we had to make a run for it
from vampires and killer Robot. Like the whole time where you you met Mitch
and and Rob, were you with Ben the whole time when we got to
the new place, he was he was pretty uh, pretty weird, I
guess, yeah, like not himself weird or just rattled because he was tortured
for hours or days, just different. I don't know, he felt he
fell off off. So maybe if it wasn't him, and then yeah,
I would be safe to assume. But our Ben is still at the boys
school, Well I I just I just assumed, like, like you said,
he was tortured, so maybe he was just acting we weird. But
yeah, we had a look, right, Okay. Um, when when
Rob turns to Mitch, he doesn't respond, walks to the door of the
central room, kicks it open, and drops the ten feet down to the
ground like he jumps off the edge, but the go get him. I'll
get him. You see that doctor Archibill starts to move towards the ramp.
He has also covered in sweat. You can see the dust sticking to him.
I can get him. Are you okay? Are you sure you should
go anywhere? Maybe you should eat something? Oh, I'm okay. I
just I'm a little and it's just I'm not as young as you all.
I'll go get him. Why don't you. I need to look outside anyway,
and you're our bearings. Robbie should go with him. I'll look after
Jerry and Butts. Okay, come on, um, let's let's go.
Uh, let's go. Let's go find him. At find Mitch. Okay,
his uh he kind of offers you his arm. Um, I'm okay.
Yeah, you can see that his arm is shaking. It's and it's
not a shaking like he's cold. It's a shaking like his muscles are spasming.
Let's get down here and take a look around and see what's going on.
Yeah that that't that'll be good for you. And yeah, let's make
our way over towards where Mitch so jumped escaped. It'll take you all a
little bit longer to get outside. Um, while we pan to the outside,
Shannon, Jerry's or anything you want to do inside while you're relatively alone,
George. I mean, Shannon's going to offer to help Jerry with his
enormous chest wound, basically make sure that he's not continuously bleeding. She knows
it that much, at least for first aid, and if he allows her,
she'll hop yeah. And while she starts, he's going to be silent
for a little while before he says, it's him. It's Mitch. It's
Mitch. I saw him. There's another one. You saw another Mitch.
He was going to kill Chris. What when? I don't I don't know
anymore. It was so many jumps ago. We save Chris, Mitch.
That must have been before the Moon Tower. Then, yes, it's before
before so much of this was it before Ben got taken? Yes, how
come you didn't say anything that was ages ago? Basically there were bigger things
to worry about, and I knew everyone would get hung up on it.
But there's another Mitch. Well that explains the robot. Then he explains a
lot points to the board, except for why would he be trying to kill
everybody? Or maybe his robot got out of hand, And I don't know,
Actually, why would he try to kill Chris? Something doesn't make sense.
What if he knows? What if? What if? What if?
Not that different? Oh? No, no that no, not after everything?
That doesn't No, just keep an eye on him. The other problem
is that when I was you know kit, remember um um, he said
the only mitches he ever knew were bad. Same with me, though,
whoa, I know, not a surprise for me. I get it.
We've just been taken everything he says like at face value, he's he's how
we got here, And I just what if he's not taking us home on
purpose? Why would he take us all the way out here in the first
place? Then? I don't know what is the app to gain. I
don't know. It's all too much for me. All right, let's not
let's not mention this to anybody else right now. We just gotta you need
to. You need rest. This is not this doesn't look good. You
need you need to, like we all need sleep, and we all need
some food, and and just to take a take a beat because we're not
in any state to do anything right now at this point. Fine, and
then we can find a way to bring it up, or maybe he'll say
something. Okay. Also, for the sake of positioning, let's say that
this conversation is being had outside of George's ear shot, this is in another
area, because George would have had a chance to contribute to that. I
don't want to take that away from Rhyano. So yeah, first, so
it's at this point it's just the two of you. Yeah, we were
just like kind of whispering like under the breath as she's like close enough to
like right administrating, right, right, right. Yeah, we could I
don't say right, Kona, but we could say I was I'm kind of
doing like that perimeter check. I'm noticing the changes and I'm immediately thinking this
place isn't safe. So I kind of want to get an assessment of what
is happen. You're doing this inside, you're walking around through like all the
new rooms. Then, as this kind of unspoken promise between Jerry and Shannon,
we cut through the honeycomb of the different mag trucks that have been expanded
and George, when you get to what would be like the upper left hand
mag truck, you see a frame of a slide just like the one that
you went through in the basement of doctor Arcavills. Whose room is this like
a totally new room, like this is one that was original. Yeah,
And for those of you that don't know what the mag trucks are a if
you will, nine loaves of bread stacked three by three by three on top
of one another. In the very center is the hideout of the group.
All of these are long what would be like tractor and trailer trucks in this
world. That is a anti gravity lift truck. But they're all tethered together
because they're old and they're starting to not work, and so they go to
a junkyard and float there until they hit the ground and then they're crushed up
and turned in the new grave trucks. Whenever the kids were there, at
first they only had access to that center one, that center loave of bread,
and eventually they kind of burrowed their way into one of the other ones.
Now all nine of them are open, each of them having a different
function from biology lab to one of them looks like it's a place where food
is being grown. One of them is water collection, but the upper left
hand one has a wire frame that looks almost exactly like that portal, that
slide that you went into the bottom of Arquevills. Yikes, that's I think
that's all George's yikes, and turns around and continues his patrol, making a
mental note of it. And perhaps she's got a notepath he's writing this kind
of stuff in and sure, sure at the then, George, what would
also tell you this is this place is incredibly well equipped. You see that
it has food stores. Most of them are like meals, ready to eat,
but they're stacked up enough for the lot of you to be able to
eat for a month basically, or for one person to eat for much longer.
You see that there are large barrels of water that seem to be collected
off one of the top grab trucks, kind of through the top and funneled
around. Will be the roof of all of them. Plenty of water inside
this scrab truck. It's more of a bunker than anything else. You begin
to realize as we see the yikes, as you kind of sit there from
the other side of the frame, we're looking through it at George, and
we travel outside as Rob takes arkabil down, Mitch, you hit the bottom
first, you're down there first, as Arkabil and Rob kind of go down
the ramp, which would be maybe a minute later. What do you do,
Mitch when you hit the dust beneath teletran tu He hits the dust and
cuts around to the original green side the best bush, And by the time
Rob and Arcaville get around to him, he has like one hand on the
lower side of the bag truck and a fresh pool of vomit at his feet,
and he can hear like the crunch of stones, and he just stays
with that like kind of hand up and like head still hungover. Archeville kind
of nudges you rub go He'll go help him. Okay, you're gonna You're
gonna be okay. He raises a very thin thumb. I think Rob's gonna
thumb him batter, give him thumbs up back, and he's gonna kind of
get closer to Mitch and be like, hey, hey, hey man,
everything cool. You hear like a sob like a and he like moves his
hand off the truck and just puts it back towards you, as in like
a get away from me kind of thing, and doesn't say anything. I
mean, I know we've we've been through a lot man, Um, but
like if if there's anything wrong, you can you can talk, you can
talk to me. The other hand reaches around that arm and just sort of
throws something at your feet, and it is Mitch's wrench, but it looks
older. It's it's me. And then that hand drops and he reaches into
his pocket and throws out his wrench. It's me. Uh. Rob's just
gonna be quiet for a couple of beats and then you just go fuck.
I mean, I get that, it kind of makes makes sense. But
that's man who will will in in that in that in that case that that
probably probably it makes what I'm going to tell you next is a little better.
M hm um. And Rob's gonna kind of I mean, is how
close is the body? It's maybe twenty feet away. Um, Rob's gonna
kind of try to point pointed out to him, be like how I found
Uh okay, So it's it's incense. There's two two two use there's probably
probably two of your your dad's right, so, um that that that's uh,
that's your dad. He's gonna kind of gesture towards the body. He
just sinks to his knees, barely missing the pool at his feet. Um,
and it's like his face just follows where your hand is pointing, and
he quietly crawls under the trucks towards it. Unless stopped. You get there
in a few seconds. What do I see? Greg? I'm giving you
this one because you would have seen it before. You see the skeletal remains
rolled over on its back, the p mitchell across the chest. But it's
not long underwear. It is the undersuit that you would wear beneath a dive
suit. That's it. Niche is like ransacking this corpse. He is reaching
in every pocket, every compartment, through the sleeves, like almost in denial,
and Rob can just hear like sobs. You find one thing crumpled in
the right hand is a yellow polaroid of your dad, your mom and you
as a toddler. Yeah. He kind of pulls away and sits cross legged.
Um. And if if anyone is looking under it, there is like
a slight rock back and forth. As he is just sitting there staring in
the vague direction of the body. You feel a hand on your shoulder.
Mitch, shun, Yeah, did you did you know? With them?
It's my dad who your friends rate, it might be another version of you.
You're that dad. Don't give up, Hope. I'm gonna talking up
some song. Sorry, Mitch, I I didn't feel right not to show
you. It's okay, man, this is my dad. It's not another
one. H Do you know, I just know mister Locke said it.
This is the same place when I thought I brought my dad back. He
said, you didn't bring your dad back. You brought he who walks between
the rows. He thought it was my dad because he was wearing a jumpsuit
and he sort of like grabs one hand and like weakly pushes like a leg
out this jumpsuit. He was wearing the top half of this jumpsuit. I
think I killed my dad. Arkivil looks at Rob, go keep your friends,
and Rod's gonna turn off or he's gonna kind of like take a couple
of steps backwards before he kind of finally turns around and starts kind of power
walking back towards the entrance. M hm, um, guys, guys,
uh, we've we've had some developments and Mitch is not doing okay, don't
just say that what's going on? Um? He he made a realization that
that that that that he is is the one that walks between the rows m
and eyes that Jerry like, oh shit, he found he found he found
another wrench and and and in my inf infinite wisdom, while he was going
through that, he showed him the body of his dad that I found.
And he's not doing okay, h where is where is he? He's gonna
just point down down down there. He's with mister Harkiville. He's saying he
killed his dad, like like that he murdered him, or or like a
guilty I'm the reason my dad's dead. Thing that I put myself through all
the time. I'm not always real good with tone, but I feel like
it was literal, right, great, sure you good enough to get down
there? Yeah? Yeah, don't wait on me. You all make it
down there, and however fast or yeah, cause are you want to climb
down? Would we say that in the snack bag there was like sodas or
anything like you know that would be comforting? Yeah, there's all sorts of
stuff. She spent all forty dollars, right, you would, you would,
George, you and you alone would know this as Meta just said,
Shannon has loaded up in there stuff strangely enough, you saw a lot of
all of Mitch's favorite foods when you were going through the stores. That's what
I was kind of getting at. So yeah, I'll if the other thing
out there before me, that's fine. I'll go back to the food store
and pick up a couple of the favorites. And while I'm at it,
I might grab a couple of Mari's for for everybody else, because I don't
know the last time we ate, so Bri a little hungry. So and
then back it up and go outside. George, as you get closer to
the group, as I'm assuming everybody, you would be like the last one
to get to a round. Mitch. Yeah, when you walk up to
the group, the five turns to a six. You're all with Mitch.
Doctor Arcaville is kind of sitting like lying on his side beside Mitch with his
hand on his shoulder, but he hasn't said anything since rob blast. What's
Mitch doing the same thing? He is sat criss cross with his hands in
his lap, and he is slightly rocking back and forth in front of a
skeletal corpse. Think. As George approaches, he reaches to the backpack,
grabs the Coca Cola or Arci Cool or whatever it is Mitch's favorite and just
crouches beside him and hands to him. So here, you need you need
this? What would Mitche's soft drink of choice being, h I guess regular
coke since new coke is out of style at this point. Um, and
he just yeah, classic coke. He takes it. Um, And you
see like he switched his hands with a old polaroid and just takes the coke
and just puts it between his legs and just kind of continues rocky, thanks,
man. Yeah, Hey, this fucking sucks, dude, that's my
dad buds. Yes, yeah, Rob told us, But I want you
to look around. Look who's here with you right now? He tell you
that I'm that bad guy. Yeah, the bad guy I did. I'm
pretty sure I am. Well, then the bad guy used future you and
you have plenty of time to fix that. I brought it, brought me
back with all the when we jumped my dad back, it wasn't my dad.
I mean we didn't know now we do. I mean, it sucks
to here right now. It's it's it doesn't seem like it's within grasp.
But man, we're gonna we're gonna get this, right, guys, and
he like nods back to the crew. Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah,
mm hmm. I think he was here. I think he was stuck
here. That me future me. I think he was stuck. And I
think whatever that stuff he did before and I jumped him back, and now
he's doing more bad stuff. I think someone trapped him here and then I
opened the trap. I mean, that's it's a shitty think about traps.
Right, you didn't know it's a good trap. You probably crated it,
didn't you. Right, it's got to be pretty good. Remember when we
thought you were an even a robot. Well that might still be up for
grabs. You know, we'll see. But if I become bad, Mitch,
do you want to be bad Mitch? No? Then then there's your
answer. Man. You have a choice, right, just like I had
a choice. We all have choices. H Yeah, he just kind of
gets quiet again. I promise that if you become a bad match, I
will kill you. M Oh there you go. Yeah, Mit, you
got that going for you. Thanks. I guess, hey man, I'll
help bury you. I'll watch. I don't think I could participate. H
Hey speak, which matched you want to maybe they am to rest proper.
Yeah, Yeah, And Mitch like leans forward and like tucks the picture into
his jacket and just sort of starts to try to scoop. There's not much
to him, yeah, ignoring the clattering noise and the dust. He just
sort of collects it together and like holding it in one hand. He like
on three legs basically moves out of this thing or attempts to. The coke
is still on the ground. You have him, and you're clear from beneath
the Teletransu or County of Garrett surrounds. You check around the garage see if
maybe there's a shovel or some sort of pick access or something. Yeah,
plenty of tools, plenty of tools. Well, then he's armed and ready
for wherever they decide. Everybody, please go down to the bottom of your
Spotify playlist up tract number twelve. By the rescues. You're walking as everybody
forms a makeshift funeral procession, and at the head is Mitch carrying the remains
of Pat Mitchell. What do you do? I feel like this Smitch's moment,
but I think, yeah, I think as as Mitch finds a spot,
you know, I think you know, George is there too. He'll
have gotten a shovel or a matic or whatever to help. We probably brought
a couple of extras in case the rest of the crew once so. Nan
is actually off on her own gathering sticks, relatively flast sticks, and she's
beginning to carve names into them. Greg, are the woods still there?
They are? Uh? Mitch walks into the woods and he is, uh,
it's basically a straight line from the from Teletrand two. Um passed some
down robots as he walks into the woods to roughly the spot where Van Halen's
tree was, and he sort of like drops to a knee, places it
down, and then turns back and I think actually realizes that everyone followed him
and just sort of opens and closes his mouth a few times and just reaches
out for whoever's behind him to hand him that shovel, and he just starts
to dig. Who's helping. Jerry will be first up there, I think,
exhausted, but Gorch as well. Yeah, rops got the shovel on
the dirt. I'm giving you this one for free. During the shoveling process,
in silence, as you all dig the grave of a parent Rob bumps
into George. In six turns to seven, the Gravest Dog Jan's placed the
names that she's carved on their own kind of stick crosses and put them all
down. And it's all the names of the people that they've seen be lost
pretty much since they started traveling Dutch me all of them. They're all there.
Do you say anything when you lay him to rest? Not out like
not like a eulogy. Mitch puts him in there, and he takes the
photo back out of his pocket and sort of tucks it into wherever he can,
and very quietly he just says, I'm sorry, and with the apology,
he's laid to rest. Three days pass. What do you all do
in the town of Garrett. All your conditions are healed, you have been
together. Your wounds remain present, but no longer hindering your ability to do
what it is heroes do. If you visit the grave, the grave of
so many and representation, if not a fact, one single solitary golden leaf
rests upon the freshly piled dirt, the last remnant of an Helen's tree,
You're all able to sleep and eat. You may have a conversation if you
wish something that you wanted to share, information you wanted to withhold. But
on the third day, Arcaville would seek out Mitch. Where would you find
him during that three days? Mitch is very much compartmentalizing. He's very quiet,
and he is going over every inch of Teletran two and like reading all
of the notes, you know, rearranging the things in the room several times.
And he is probably the first one awake and the last one to go
to sleep. And he likely only eats a few times as he has gone
into complete like autopilot essentially. So that is probably where Archible finds him some
one of the compartments of Teletran actually probably in the center compartment, there's a
hole that leads to the driver's seat where a bunch of like the wires come
out of He's in the driver's seat trying to figure out the I don't know,
upgraded system computer that's in there. Yeah, go ahead and roll me
a roll me a program. As you try to figure all this out,
but do so with plus two dices. It seems familiar. Also, you
would all know that about eight hours after you arrived, the lights inside Teltran
two came on as Mitch was able to figure out where the batteries were for
the power of the place. You said, a program of the plus two
please to success. It's on a program. You figure it out. You
figure out how to power and cycle through the power, how to refresh the
water, how to collect You realize that this bunkers makes a lot of sense,
as much as you might not care to admit it. It's the way
that you would have set it up. You also know that the slide that
is an exact, nearly exact representation of the one in Arcaville's basement has power,
and Arcaville would poke his head into the compartment. I met you,
am, I am I interrupting anything? Uh uh no, doctor could what's
up? I figured? I figured, I figured out where we are.
And he's been up almost as much as you wearing Garrett. And yes we're
in your garrett, but this is different. It's a temporal portrait of your
Garrett. It's a second. It should have disappeared to become the next second,
but it didn't. It just stayed here. Um, it's the one
with a Luke explodive. No, no, I don't think so. UM.
I think that the destruction is just that things get old very fast here,
and that's why there's dust. And I don't know about the vines.
I don't understand those quite yet. But the why everything looks kind of run
down and collapse is because it's probably a couple of hundred years older or or
older than what you think. I don't know why this place hasn't collapsed,
but um, I think that it's it's I was in my youth, I
was a big fan of time. UM. I believe that with the right
application of energy, you could travel through time. It doesn't help us,
but um, you know, you could fix things and make right things wrong
if you wanted to be bad and wrong things right. UM. I even
theorized that with a set of variables, you could speed up time in a
place or or or slow time down in one particular place. I thought that
if I could make it work, that I could let farmers grow their crops
twice and three and four times is fast, and we could get rid of
of world hunger. And if we slowed it down in a spot, somebody
that might have or terminal disease, we could slow it down until they they'd
have treatment or um, you know, keep them alive. Longer, but
I couldn't get its work. I think that this is this is a second
that the lasted longer than it should. This isn't it's your Garrett, but
it's an old second. Does that make sense? Wait? Do you mean
like a second? Like a second in time? Yeah, and it's just
gotten old. That's why everything's gotten old. It's not supposed to still be
here, but it is. How would you isolate a second in time?
Take a lot of power? I don't know, maybe the loop, probably
the loop. How would you get to it? Why? I don't know
why, but it's been here for a while at least, and I I
don't know. I think we need to figure out how to take the next
step and get from this second to wherever your time is and catch up.
Does that make sense? Yeah? Kind of okay? Good, I actually
have an idea. Wait, good, do you? Did you think of
any way to find out when this second was? I couldn't. There's everything
that would have been like a clocks all seemed to be busted and they don't
can't find any dates, and newspapers of all kind of deteriorated. I looked
around and even looked at some of the notes on the whiteboard, but nothing
ever mentions anything other than just generalized time, the passages seconds and minutes,
hours, days, weeks, months, years. I don't know when that
started. I need a I don't I have two variables and I can't identify
any of them. Wait wait, wait, wait wait wait wait wait,
and he starts mumbling again, and he's clicking and typing things on the teletran
terminal. It runs, so it must keep track of something. He's going
to look in the teletran terminal to see if he can suss out when we
are. Seems like you're sometime at the beginning of nineteen eighty seven. That's
the date that you find. You can't find a month or a day or
there's an atomic clock inside here, but it doesn't seem to go back.
You just get four digits nineteen eighty seven. He he just shouts like through
Arkiville. I assume who's still like head in the door. Um, he
just yells, but shad Yeah, Arkaville turns down a is hearing eight as
you turn to yell, and then turns it back up. Whenever you're done,
you get that. Little Shannon slowly joins them. Uh, this whole
time. She has not really been talking to anybody. Maybe Jerry in passing,
but that's basically it. Butts. Butts would get there pretty quick if
it's sounded panicked or at least urgent ul holding strong at seven. By the
way, George, I was about to ask, what the battery? Okay,
it's it's nineteen eighty seven. What do you mean this is nineteen eighty
seven? Right now, it's in nineteen eighty seven. That doesn't end.
This is Uh, doctor Archiville figured it out. It's this is this is
one second in nineteen eighty seven, like frozen in time. Yeah, yeah,
I think if you picked one chocolate chip off the cookie, so that
sounds like somebody did it on purpose. Yeah they had. I don't think
you could do the tell everybody, but what a great wood, great place
to hide? Yeah, yeah, hiding in time? But why why?
Now? Why nineteen eighty seven? Why here? Well, what do we
do in nineteen eighty seven? Right? This kind of revolves around us,
or at least you. We were in school. We're in this. I
don't know when, but we're sometime in the beginning. We we're before we
met. How do we know that? Because we're sometime in the beginning of
nineteen eighty seven, and we met in the summer to be fair, Robin,
Jerry and Benn and yes, Mitch, we're all friends. But Shannon
and Shannon and the Butts who are right here, we're not okay. So
if what I think happened, I don't know who made this, but I
think I think my dad got stuck here or lord here or something. I
my dad's body was only wearing half a jumpsuit, and your dad said,
we didn't bring my dad back. We brought Evil Mitch back. And Evil
Mitch was only wearing half a jumpsuit and it's a dive suit. So either
my dad got here first and couldn't get out or I don't know, But
for some reason, I don't think bad Mitch could dive from here. What
if you can't dive from here, then we're one step closer to us being
the same version. Don't we know that you can because we've seen he who
walks elsewhere? Yeah? What if they only could do that because we brought
him out, We rescued him from here. I mean, there's a framer.
Maybe we do what we did with the slide, can only pull things
in so he pulls my dad. Yeah, and then somehow used whatever information
or like I don't know, technology to to utilize that information to to figure
out how to get out or work on whatever. I mean. The robot
thematic is right there. That's the thing that tried to kill us. I
saw it, so I told I don't think your dad came up with the
robot. No, I said it. I said it. When I saw
the writing, I knew it was mine. So then, what would you
do in the future? Why would you do what he did? He like
sticks an arm out like past everybody and points to that corner of the board.
I would wait for me to get me out of here, right,
and then to do what I don't know. I didn't turn evil yet.
Okay, but what would cause you what? What do you like think about
you and everything that you've gone through? What would make you do something that
you would never think possible. I don't know, man, my dad's dad.
I don't even know where my mom is. We've been missing for who,
I don't know time. Your family's gone. You don't think that's enough
of a motivator for you to do the unspeakable things that you have to do
to bring them back. I mean, because I know that I struggle with
that every single time I've based with another version of me trying to kill you
apparently honestly. No, really, I'm the one who told Ben he couldn't
save his mom. That's different when it's your own family. I guess if
I told you right now that you could save your dad, you do it.
Yeah, but I wouldn't I kill a bunch of people to do it.
What if you didn't realize that that was the consequence. I mean,
that guy seems like he's pretty okay with killing people. You get used to
it. I guess, I don't know. I don't want to. I'm
just trying to put you in another version of your shoes. I don't want
to be in that version. He sucks. He killed my dad? Why
would I kill my dad? I don't know. So there that answers your
question. So the ability to save my dad is not what turns me evil
because evil me killed my dad to get free, or he just left him
behind. That still doesn't save my dad. Doesn't kill him either. But
again, then the ability to save my yeah, it doesn't make me evil
because he died either way. Okay, So it's got to be something else.
I think. I think that Doctor Arkaville says from his little position,
you can't there's paradox that play here because there's already a change. Um,
look around, you're dead or the version of you that is not good was
missing something? What was he missing? He looks at Shannon, and he
looks at George. He didn't have that, didn't have anybody else. You
can all tell that. That's the first time it's dawned on Mitch. Um.
Uh, that not that there's like other people, but that there's other
people. Um. And he just sort of like opens his mouth and closes
it. I I think I have an idea. Oh help, you're actually
a big part of it. One more adventure doing right now? Where would
Rob be? Oh I coudn't hear I heard tell about what I'm doing right
now? So sorry? Umm, probably uh, hanging out in the the
hub would Rob at any point visit the grave? Would rob venture out of
the hub? And if so, for what reason? Over the course of
the three days prior he would probably? So is this just is this like
a full blown town of Garrett? Anything goes, everything's you know, it's
it seems undred percent yep. So he's gonna go check out the paperback exchange.
He's I mean, he's pretty much done it and in every place that
we've been to, he just wants to kind of see if the shadow realm.
How's a miss, Maggie. It has a paperback exchange. It seems
weathered. It seems though you've never seen it, a couple hundred years old.
It certainly looks like it. It does say, just barely visible on
the chain. He can make out the open side. Rob's gonna go in
for sure. Hello, someone there. Rob's heart is a you going to
fall into his stomach, Matt, Maggie, Maggie, Rob and slow motion
running to hook her scenes and he's gonna I mean, obviously she knew his
name, so yeah, he's gonna go up to her. And you hear
the voice coming from like what would be that that beaded curtain area in the
back, But there's only a few beads left. As you kind of break
through, and as you break through, you realize you are standing amidst the
stacks of the paperback exchange. Everybody, go to your Spotify playlist, please
turn on track number two. Take on me as Maggie isn't there It would
be you wouldn't it? Oh this time and I was rewarded. What would
Rob roll here to keep from grank in condition empathize? He would confront this
thing. He's gonna look it in the face. Top. This is so
few words, Fuck you Robards, it's me success. You can see him.
He looks thin and burned. Parts of him are charred and weakened.
One arm is useless, you can see it. The tattered clown costume.
It's burnt and dusty. One side of the face is burned and sagging.
You're not gonna be able to see her. Rob's gonna get like he's gonna
walk up to him, get real close. Um hmm, watch me,
and then he's gonna push him. He clatters to the ground, weighs nothing,
The same thing as pushing over a hamper full of dirty laundry, only
it makes a clattery sound, as if you know someone has dropped spoons onto
the ground. You hear it almost metallically clink. So he hits the ground
and kind of slides to where Miss Maggie's desk would be. The head is
cocked in an odd angle. Breave. Now are you do it. Don't
leave me here refinished me. You don't deserve that. Who you have to
live with the burden of everything that you've done and who you've done it too.
And you get to sit here for the arrest of eternity and have those
thoughts. Why why would I spare you the punishment which you so rightly found
yourself. Here's dooty here to play with. This is your bed, you're
gonna sleep in it. That is gonna flip him off. As he walks
back out outwards, almost like a the breath of a red balloon passing by
your ear, you hear his voice sometimes you have to go away, to
go ahead, and the door to the paperback exchange closes, And when Rob
turns around and finally has his back on the paperback exchange and starts kind of
walking away, the look on his face goes from you know, the most
assured person you know, I've dealt with my problems before. This is nothing
good. Oh my god, I can't believe that. Just holy shit.
And he's gonna be walking away going who punch in the air, like who,
wow, I really I really did those things? Who? And from
there, I guess within the time. Also in those three days, he's
also at some point going to check out his house. Not going He's just
gonna walk past it. It's there, do you look in. He's gonna
stand outside and kind of look at it for a minute, but he's not
going to actually go up to the windows and look inside or anything like that.
Then Rollman's investigate on success. This gloom and light catches the picture window
on the front just right, see two figures sitting on the couch. This
is chronologically, this is something that's going to have happened after the paperback exchange.
So, um, Rob's still not ready to confront that demon yet.
So he's not gonna he's not gonna approach, it's gonna leaf. Then your
house is behind you. Jerry, is there anything you do during this time?
Um? I think basically three days it's been Jerry being a broken record,
like we've got to say Ben and being told we can't jump from here,
and we gotta say, Ben, we can't jump from here. But
he's just making the most of the stash of food and ability to nap because
it's been a while. Who did you tell this to just the group or
did you include Arkabel in this. Um. Yeah, probably anyone who would
listen. Jerry's kind of one track mind at the point. Then before he
would go to Mitch, Arcaville would go to you. If we can get
to someplace with more power, I think I can use the slide to find
your friend. It like tell a trand to a place with more power.
I don't know. I need to slide somewhere with more power. It won't
work with the batteries. There's only one place to go from here, and
that's the catch up. But if I can, if I can get clear,
I might be able to If he means that much to you, yeah,
I s I just know him. It's a psychopath. That's not him.
And we gotta tell We gotta tell the guys. They'll figure this out.
Okay, Mitch, what's your plan once everyone's back, he says,
Okay, I think I think I think I got it. I think I
can I think I can get I think I know how to get somewhere.
I don't know where we'd go, um, but I think we can get
Ben, and I think we can get out of here. Doc. Can
you make the the slide portable? Can we just take that off the wall?
Does it have to be. It's just a frame. It collapses on
itself. Okay. They take about a half hour to take down and half
hour forty five minutes to put back up. Okay, okay, great,
Okay, I need you to just rest up your brain. I think if
we take just I don't know everything we can find from here and we go
to Grace Skill. If this is nineteen eighty seven and we went through the
portal in nineteen eighty eight, then it had to it. They had to
start building it, and making a portal means they have they must have massive
amounts of power. Plus it's the loop, which is like I don't know,
like a big science like superclider. They have to generate enough power.
If they can generate power to power the portal to send five of us through,
we could use it to actorate the slide, and then we could use
it to get the hell out of here. And Archibal shaking his head the
entire time you're saying this, and if this is a second, then the
president you're present, if it's still there, it's still sort of here,
Does that make sense? Kind of? Or so? Either okay, so
he either we're gonna jump somewhere else or we come out the other side of
the second, which would probably be worse. It'll work either way we're out
of the second. It'll work as I think this will actually work. Who
we've got enough to to lose? Yeah, I mean, given a given
everything I know. Yeah, what am I gonna ask to see his math?
The path math? Your math? No? I mean like in school
if you pass it. That's not what we're here to talk about. Um,
I have I have one more request and I need help doing it once.
Once we get everything we need out of here, can we go to
town and just like raid the liquor store and light this place on fire.
If I'm if I'm bad Mitch and I become bad Mitch in the future and
then I get trapped here somehow. Having having all of this as a headstart,
I mean, what's a little bit ours, and given what we've been
through, I'm down if it'll brighten the place up. You guys, remember
when I was the delinquent. I blame Shannon. She she's been a horrible
influence. Ure. Just you're welcome for keeping you guys alive. That's fine
except me, even you you like, forget about your robot He rubs the
scar ribs. So you just want to burn down Teletran two. Basically what
you want, you want to destroy the bunker. Yep, easy enough,
you can hollow it. Obviously, you can't burn the metal when things that
essentially like we're gonna escavenge everything that Mitch thinks we might need at the loop,
which is whatever the fucks around and the frame and then just this Molotov
cocktail each compartment. Yeah. Also, if the batteries are lithium ion,
there's a bombs waiting to happen. So you know, doctor Arcivil's surprisingly knows
a way to make that work. It's not surprising at all. Greg,
Yeah, we're gonna do a little bit of amon. Yeah, we're gonna
do a little bit of a montage here. As the gang begins to pull
out the necessary equipment and load up Teletran two for a one way ticket to
oblivion and the only way to montage here in the eighties it never was is
please go to your Spotify playlist, turn on track number three, break on
through by the doors. You have everything out and Teletran two is burning.
Any opening to the air has flames looking out of it. There are internal
pops that actually move the cube of grav trucks, making it list and lean,
but always kind of keeping it afloat because the magnets that are in place
can't be destroyed. They're kind of affixed to it. But it moves and
leans and spins out of the position that you know, the green on the
outside becomes blackened and stained and pitted by the forces at work. As all
of you watch your Sancta sanctorum go the way of the dinosaur, you are
unimpeded on your track to Gray Skull and within a half day stand in the
very spot that you left. Garrett Prime, Okay, I think. I
think if we go to the basement and we go to where the cages were,
they'll they'll at least have to have started something, so we'll have maybe
maybe we'll have to finish the portal, or maybe we can use the slide
to help with that or something. But they have to have power. Are
you all going down there do it? Yeah? Shannon's the last to follow
everybody, So we follow Shannon them and as we get down, kind of
looking over shannon shoulder, we see the others in front, the bent form
of Arcabille and the younger boys and there is a purple glow. And as
soon as you round a corner, floating free form without any type of frame,
is a whirling circle of purple in the exact spot of the one that
you left through. As we continue to follow, Shannon, Shannon, you
would look down and see that there is a cell on the floor. It
is empty. It should work, it's already on. That seems highly suspicious,
just saying should we get them first? Can you make the side to
pull him through that first? When we get on the other side, I
shouldn't have the same constraints. Time should start working again. My equations will
work. I don't know how he did it. And he doesn't look at
Mitch, but you can tell that he almost flicks his head. I don't
know how he got it to work here. Maybe he had power that used
up. I don't know. But once we get to a real place,
I can get your friend. Okay. Mitch is like his hands on the
back of his head, and he is walking in circles around the portal and
like mumbling. And when he finally gets around to the circle where everyone else
is on the other side, he turns around and says, what what the
hell is so special about our garret? He had this, he made it
work. This is the same one. It's unstable, but this is the
same one that we used. So he could already get out. If he
could already get out, but he was still waiting for us. That means
he was waiting for us to take him home. What's so special about our
Garret? Why did he want to wait so long? Or I don't know
how long the second has been, but why why would he want to wait
so long to get to our Garrett when he could go anywhere? Maybe he
couldn't get to our Garrett? Why? Why is our Garrett the only one?
I've been trying to get back to it for months? Why is our
Garrett so special? Why would I kill my dad to get back to Garrett?
Why would why? What's special about our Garrett? You keep asking the
same question that we don't have an answer to. It's just a shitty little
town. Maybe the loop is different there. Yeah, he had every dimensions,
garop. Maybe you can ask somebody when we get back. Yeah,
I'll just be like, hey, future me so sad. Dad? You
want to tell me why you're a psycho? I don't think that's gonna work.
I mean, I guess you could stay here and wait for the cycle
to repeat itself or something. No, I can't because I'm here and then
I get stuck here and then it's me there you go. It doesn't help
anyone. You might eventually find out your answers. Yeah, then I become
a crazy person. I try to blow up the multiverse or something. But
I least still have answers. That doesn't help anything, shadded, God,
exactly. Answers never solve anything. Let's go, Thank you, Serry'm glad
you appreciated my humor. Well done. Yeah, Mitch just throws his hands
over the air and walks over to Arquavilla to start helping set up the slide.
If we put it just in front, we can commingle. I think
it'll work. Yeah, just missing one thing. Well, and he looks
at you, Mitch, what do I have to do? You gotta get
you all home, Well, you gotta get we gotta gemp in. We
will when we get on the other side. I'll get him my promise.
Can't we slide him in when we get to the other side. Are you're
not listening to anything I said? No, I'm sorry, don't answer that
I already know the answer. It's noo. Arkaville puts his hand on Mitch's
shoulder and if she'll allow it, he reaches over to put his hand on
Shannon's shoulder. She doesn't, she's not bothered by it. Both right,
it's time to go. Yeah, yeah, sure, as any other stupid
questions, Mitch. Yeah, you see, Mitch is like scrutinizing doctor Arkaville,
and he kind of like leans back and slides his hand off of him.
Why can't we get Ben first? You say you don't have the power
here, but you have the power to make us go forward. I have
the power to catch you all up to help. The last guy that I
found that really wanted to get out of here turned out to be a psychopath.
I'm just trying to make it across or we die, really at this
point doesn't matter. I'm trying not to make the same mistake again. Yeah,
you're being paranoid because you made a mistake, you screwed up, and
you got your father killed. I get it, I do. But we
can't let you evaluate every five seconds something whether or not that it's worth a
risk. We have to stop following you behind every tiny, little thing.
I feel like getting my dad killed and also possibly ending the multiverses a pretty
good reason to be paranoid. I feel like it makes all others. So
you're just questioning everything, which means you do nothing. I've done so much,
which we can't paralyze ourselves. What else can we do? Sometimes you
just gotta walk forward. Not one of that stuff's gonna take you, right,
I guess. So what kind of cut us into this mess? It's
just about to say that if you're concerned about Arkaville, I will allow anybody
to roll and empathize, or allow all of you to role and empathize,
because you've had three days with him, three successes. Rob has three successes.
Mitch has two successes, and that's his dump stap. Shannon doesn't need
any roles because she trusts Arcaville. George is a robot. You can't tell.
Then, with the roles, Mitch and Rob come to realize what Shannon
has already believed. Arcaville is not lying. He has no ulterior motive other
than the help. No matter what your Arquaville is in Garrett Prime, this
one is a different creature. M I hate to say it, but we
brought him here. M so like, we're not taking him out of here,
We're taking him with us. He'll he'll be he'll be fine. He's
like eighty something. If he Google goes for a rogue eighty two. Yeah,
I mean, he says, you think UK can't can't can't stop an
eighty two year old from taking over the world eighty two in our world,
and we didn't stop him. With all due respect sir, I mean,
I mean just just just starting at eighty two, you know, Okay,
thank you. Let's do this, Doc. I'm sorry that I get suspicious
and also if you turn out to be a bad guy, I'm going to
be super bummed about it me too. Okay, Hey, let's go roll
Tinker for me, Mitch as everyone's ears pop when I got to give him
this dice? Um, yeah, Franks, you want to you want to
handsome out? Please? Two more dice? Who wants to dice? Mitch?
Mitch, who's rolling Tinker? So we don't die? So one success
there and then hold on, uh one success there? Greg all right,
everybody? So, as the swirl of the already present portal mixes with the
kind of light of the slide mixes with the dive ability of one Casey Mitch
Mitchell. You all feel yourselves not turn into water like when you normal dive.
This is as if you are Initially it's violent, like you mistook a
flip on the trampoline and went face down into the mat that hard press that
doesn't hurt or break, but bends a bit. And then it's as if
you're trying to push yourselves through a huge kind of stretch of plastic wraps oran
rap as your face kind of smears into it, and then it pulls,
becoming like a membrane, almost like waiting or diving through jello. And then
each of you see Garrett, you see your Garrett prime, and for a
moment, each of you see something that's occurring or will occur. And Garrett,
Jerry, you see your father Carl. He is screaming in a room.
His fists are bloody. The room is destroyed around him. You can't
tell where this is that might be your childhood home. You can't tell.
There's so much destruction. Lightning dances over him, burning the floor, burning
the remnants of the furniture, and he's on his knees and you hear him
praying good God, please help me fight or help me die. Don't let
me betray my boy George. You see your father Eugene between the bars of
a cell. A large, massive, three story tall, robotic figure leans
down and peers into the cell. Your service is no longer required, doctor,
butts. I thank you for your willingness to host me for a time,
but I feel this form suits me much better. Don't you take comfort,
doctor, yours is a grand destiny. Soon you will be one of
the very last of your species. Mitch, you are looking at yourself,
he who stands, or he who walks between the rows. He is overlooking
a farm that you don't recognize. But it's from a distance as to be
a half maybe a mile. You hear yourself, in an older voice whisper,
it's time, years of planning, but I'm ready, ready to finish
the ship once and for all. Rob You see Maggie, She too is
imprisoned in some type of cell. Hers, though, has an open window
with just bars reaching out into the air. She looks so thin and so
much older. Her face, perhaps for the very first time, holds no
smile, and his crushed with utter sorrow. And you hear her whisper I'm
sorry, I failed, I failed you all. Shannon Sean Locke, his
face traced with the white lines of recent scars, the history of a year
lived under the thumb of torture. Yet he's still, even in the face
of danger, glares at his nemesis. Around him, tied to similar chairs
are j Thrice and Herb Sarge Saville. Your father looks up. She'll stop
you. Doctor. Arkaville, looking only fifty, almost the same age is.
Your father, leans into his face and returns the smile. Who your
daughter, She's like the dead old boy. Your father shakes his head.
Don't know her. This hill is hers and she's coming to take it back.
Arkaville says, sure she is, old boy, Sure she is.
He stands up. Any last words, Sean, oh, hell, any
last words from any of you. Sean Flint Locke, Herb Sarge Saville,
and Lady Jay Thrice all look back at Arquaeville from where they are tied up
in their chairs, and as one they growl. Yo Joe, everybody,
please go to the bottom of your playlist and turn on. It's the end
of the world as you know it. By the rescues Snow whips past you.
You are not in Castle Grayskull. You are at a fully healthy and
unblemished except for green paint, tell Atran two. Around you, you hear
the sounds of battle. Night has just fallen here in Mountain, Maryland,
and the town of Garrett is under siege. Smoke rolls from beneath strange sounds
and cries float with the smoke from Garrett, speaking sinister tongues and breathing the
songs of terror. Something massive blots out the stars. Fires are raging out
of control. In the periphery. To the north, an old pickup truck
is parked near tell Atran two. It's bumper sticker reads Proud Maryland Military Academy
for Boys. Parent. Smoke rolls from beneath the hood, and what looked
like bullet holes have riddled the front of the vehicle. Van Halen pulls a
wounded but breathing adult from behind the wheel. A tall man in his late
forties, maybe early fifties face claimed Kevin Costner. In the back of the
truck are four teenagers, all sleeping soundly. She turns to look at you.
Oh, thank God, please help me. I have to get them
to the mall. Only they can bring help and my friends. That is
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Atari Twilight Rollout Episode nine, Honey, I Killed the Kids. Untary Twilight
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