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Tales from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight rollout. Thank you so much,
my friend, I first of the foremost, I am so happy to be
here. I'm a little under the weather tonight, but I promised to make
the eighties that never was an event to remember, especially tonight as we began
the full ledged arc of this campaign. But before we go forward, we
have to go back, and as we begin all of our episodes, Atari
Twilight is a story about the eighties, playing using Free Lead's Tales from the
Loop system. Tales from the Loop calls it's setting the eighties that never was
because of the fantastical elements added to our history. However, here Totari Twilight,
we call it an eighties one of a limitless number of possibilities. Our
kids, our heroes will be traveling between these different versions of the eighties,
the different versions of their realities, learning important facts hidden in their own reality.
But between all of these different eighties, spread out like rose in a
garden. Between all of these eighties, some things never change. The music
is 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 at the heart of it all. There five kids seek
to say it not just their eies, but all the eighties that ever was,
including our own. In their way, stands a cadre of force is
so fantastic that only the greatest decade could house them. Characters from television,
movies and novels walk the streets of Garrett. The Transformers, Gremlins, 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 songs, ultimately forty episodes
in the making, comes down to this. We return to n eighties here
in Garrett, in the Highlands of Maryland. As we just saw in the
previously on our intrepid band, they had traveled to a parallel version, one
of many of their hometown of Garrett. Some of them found their lives better,
others weren't so fortunate. After encountering an evil version of one of their
own number and learning a bit about the familiar yet very different world around them,
they were again whisked away to get another version of their hometown. Again,
they find themselves separated and in varying states of danger. One stands before
a burned out skeleton of their childhood home. Seems to have found a return
to an old life. One finds themselves fighting against their own father in a
poorly defined sparring session. One escapes the fate of their mirror and swims to
the surface of the Castleman River, and the last stares at dozens of copies
of their parents walking the streets of Garrett. But that was then. Where
are we now? The only way to go forward is to go back,
my friend, back one last time to our shared story, our eighties.
Back one last time for the love and memories, and back one last time
to bear witness to these fantastic heroes. George Butts, Jerry Baker, Shandon
Locke, Ben Mackenzie Robot, and Casey Mitch Mitchell. Welcome one and all
to the End of an Age. Welcome my friends to Atari Twilight Rollout Episode
three. Game Boy. Everybody, if you could go to your Spotify playlist,
because here in the eighties, our eighties, we like to listen to
music like they did in the eighties. So please go to our Spotify playlist.
Que up the very first track, which is Mother Love Bones, Chloe
Dancer Crown of Thorns, which came out in nineteen eighty nine. Everybody,
with that, my players, you all ended separated. To help aid in
your visual location and kind of proximity skills, I have added tokens to our
map in roll twenty. If you go there right now, you will see
that each of you have control of the tokens that you have, and they
are currently placed where your characters are. Now. If your character ever is
taken someplace that you don't know the location of, and I certainly don't want
the others to know the location of, they will be added to the top
right hand corner beside the question mark. Currently Ben is the only person that
is there. Let's see, Jerry, Jerry, you stand and look at
the burned out husk of your childhood home, a home that, in the
previous Garrett that you had visited was at its apex as it's absolute top evolution,
a happy home, a cared for home, a loving family resided in
and of which you were a member, and so was Ben. It seems
to have taken, if it all possible, the other end of the spectrum
and representation life and now death. And to augment that sense of loss.
Before you is an old forgotten shrine, something that would you'd find along the
side of the road for a car crash victim or an a memorial that happened
many many seasons passed. The weather has faded, signs and dead flowers still
remain bundled here along the side of the mailbox. There's an old card that
has faded and whether it ain't smeared but still legible, and it says I
will always remember you, your friend, Ben. Beyond that, beyond these
trinkets, to a life that you never knew enough to be memorialized. You
stand alone. A little further along towards town. Someone seems to be walking
a dog. Vaguely familiar man, but again in Garrett, everyone is vaguely
familiar. And for a moment realize there's a tightness and you feel kind of
constricted. But you're alone, our friend, what do you do? Jury
will take a minute with a little shrine, just kind of take in some
of the names and things that have been left behind to him, knowing full
well what he just left behind. But this is this is more his speed,
This is more what he's just do. So I don't think he'll dwell
on it too too long. But I think he'll pick up that card from
then, maybe fold it in half and just stuff it in his pocket.
No one is near enough for has enough nerve to stop him. It is
a crime of repossession, and you take something that belonged to them, was
for your mirror, it's now yours in your back pocket. Garrett lies in
the same path that it always does trade winds seems to be just below the
hill of your house. There's light traffic here as always nothing out of the
ordinary. The only thing that you do Michigan's, and that's awesome. The
only thing that you do notice is that in this little shrine there is no
mention of anyone else. No one else's memorialized, no one else has flowers
laid to them. It seems that all of them, at least all of
the things that you can kind of make out, are directed to you or
your namesake. Seems weird, but there was There was a date, if
I recall it was an end date for a teerious leg. Sure it was
a few years ago, was it not eighty eighty six? Did we say
it was? It was actually Jerry's birthdate in eighty six. If the paper
is to be or the memorial is to be believed, it said rip Jeron
Jerry Baker eleven fourteen, nineteen seventy four to eleven fourteen, nineteen eighty six,
making you exactly twelve years old. Jerry's bad at mass, so he
doesn't dwell on that anymore. He'll probably like, after stuffing the card in
his pocket, make his way towards the Trade Winds because this place seems a
little more like home, the home he remembers than the last one, in
kind of the students. That's where he'll find his friends. Okay, And
as you begin to kind of walk in a southerly direction towards the Trade Winds
trailer Park, we will cut away. George. You sit in a room
that is very similar to something that maybe not you currently would have decorated or
arranged, but something that your prior self, your eighth grade self, your
popular kid's self, definitely would have felt comfortable in, felt secure enough to
show the populace of the school how cool it was. And inside this room,
you sit in the house that you grew up in. Your father.
You can still hear him humming some big song as he walks down the hallway,
having just informed you that tonight you all will be going out to Hot
Tamali's for Cinco de Mayo, and if that is to be believed, the
date would currently be Friday, May fifth, nineteen eighty nine, the time
seven o four am. He also told you that if you need a ride
to school, Skamy, what do you do? My friend, um,
I think George is a bit in disbelief because to him seeing his dad like
that's something that he hasn't seen in a very long time. Also the mention
of Amy, so he doesn't have his mother. So I think the first
thing he's gonna do is if he's not clothed, he's gonna put on whatever
clothes. So it's probably not going to be the rocker grunge stuff that he
was getting into. So it might be a polo, maybe two of them
with pop collars. You're you're you're wearing two with pops, right, yes,
exactly, double pop. Okay, you would have stuck out if you
hadn't, so I've avoided that mess. Of course, we're the tight jeans
because why not. And head downstairs, and I think at the back of
his head it's on repeat the monster. This isn't this isn't real, This
isn't real, This isn't my home, this isn't real, because he doesn't
want to see what happened to Ben, happened to him. Walks as Huemia's
right, and as you walk down and again, as we've defined in the
past, the Butts House is more of a sprawling type of It's is a
bit of a split level, but the predominance is on that second floor.
You have the if now, Kric, if I'm wrong, Mike, because
I believe that George's room is on one side, there's the living room,
there's the kitchen, and then like the master's suite, and I think your
mom's office is there as well on and then your dad has a separate office,
but it's not where he really works. Your mom actually works out of
the house too, right, So um, okay, So yeah, still
laid out that way. And as you kind of walk out into what would
be the living room or the great room area, kind of interconnecting the two
sleeping areas of this house, you hear your father as he's singing, and
again this Beg's tune is picked up, and you hear your mom's voice kind
of harmonize in with it. And we're gonna say it, Catherine Hahn,
that's the person from Shit's right? Is it? That's the one? She's
Yeah, who's who's Oh, that's right, that's right? Who's uh ship's
creek? Um, Katherine o'hra, is that it? Okay? So yeah,
Katherine O'Hare's based claim. Well, i'll go that with your mom as
Um, she and Eugene begin to dance in the kitchen. This is a
mixture of uh, you would guess some type of slow dance with improvised disco
moves as your dad still wearing the sombrero that clearly displays the hot Tamali's logo
across the back. Um is dancing with your mom as they ham and sing
the beegs and whatever would be the I don't know, let's see the packed
lunch or the breakfast of the day. Your mom always had the George by
default always had very unique food preferences and so whatever that particular you know,
whether it would be like a breakfast kiche or something of that nature, something
very vegetarian and very healthy with my mom invented avocado toast. Then and then
there it is waiting for you as you come out, and as they see
you, they move to embrace you and like pull you into the dance.
What do you do? Uh? I wasn't ready for that, and so
neither is George in this case. He's kind of like going along with because
they're probably pulling him and forcing him into it, and it's awkward, and
oh, it gets real awkward at one point, like Jeane like grabs your
hips and forces him to move. He's like, it's so stiff, sick,
come on you stiff, let's go. Yeah. Yeah, it's you
know, growing paints. And I like try to like scuttle away and just
take the toast and like walk out the door or something. Um. As
you go to walk out the door, you see a rather i wouldn't say
plain but plainly dressed woman. She's sitting beside the door. What's the first
thing you kind of think is odd is that's where the umbrella rack usually is
for your house, you know. And she is sitting on a book on
top of an empty umbrella rack. It's not even a chair, and she's
just sitting there. And as you get closer, she cocks her head and
says, would you like me to drive you to school? Uh? No,
okay, And I just keep walking. M pretty sure to asked who
she was, but I made my choice, So yeah, I started walking.
I'm assuming I'm just gonna go to the garage. It's like a detached
garage if I remember correctly, in three more so I'm gonna go see if
see if my bike is there. Your bike is not but a Honda scooter
is the scooter. It's like tan gold with the the kind of the swooped
up sea and the slightly pulled back handlebars. As somebody thought that that made
it look more like a motorcycle, but it doesn't. I'm down to ride
a better than a pingmobile. So I'm down to ride this. It's more
expensive than the pingmobile, but I dare say nothing is better. That's t
mobile. That's not true. It's about to be better. Okay, So
your gold nugget is ready to rock, and yeah, I think my goal
is to it's a school day, but we're too cool. Well, I
think George might go pass the school or to the school, because that's kind
of near where everybody else lives if I remember right, so at least the
middle school was. So I think I'm just gonna go down my normal route
to school, and if anybody's on the way, I don't know if Rob
might be on the way or Shannon, I might divert to them. Okay,
so this will be good time to check over at the map, George.
As you would approach, you would know that the closest to you would
be Rob. Rob would be down two blocks and like over to the west
two blocks. His house is the closest geographically to yours. Sam's was.
Sam was just one street over from yours, but she's no longer part of
the core group here. Yeah, I need a Yeah, I'll stop by
Rob's house. Okay, so you're on your way. And with that,
Shannon, I need you to make that move role for me, as your
father Sean Locke, jacked up with patriotic whatever and muscles a plenty, is
swinging a haymaker at best possible speed at your head. A failure here will
result in a condition one success. I leave it to you. Do you
dodge it or do you block it? Either way you will not take damage.
Dodge. As you're moving to dodge, you realize that you're going to
dodge this cleanly, meaning that this is something that you can kind of decide
whether or not you want to be fancy with this or let me put it
to you this way. You can make it look like he got close,
or you can make it look like he whipped or any kind of differentiation in
between. Do you want it to look like your dad almost got you,
but that he was nowhere clothes well, he got her in the last one
right from the last hit. Yeah, but you were kind of mid dive
with that one, so that was a little that's true. I think she's
still a little bit peeped about that, so she'll make it that he like
definitely missed. Okay, with that, I will also give you the opportunity,
since you succeeded and chose that route, you may redirect his momentum if
you wish. Do you want to try to do a bit of judo and
take him somewhere he doesn't want to go, or do you want to him
just throw his punch and have whatever happens next happen. This would be your
round in the combat. Yeah. I think she's gonna just do the dodge.
She wants to see what's going on. Okay, So as you move,
you do, and I'll give you this one for free. Sean looks
a bit surprised at how quickly and how expertly you were able to kind of
slip around his punch, and as he is over extended with the power that
he put behind this, you are now watching and from the safe side of
his punch, as you are elbow side to him, as he's already crossed
himself at this point, it doesn't look like your dad intends to stop,
at least in this moment. Shannon, what do you do? His back
is to me, Yeah, he's kind of he threw a punch, missed
you, and now you have like the side and the shoulder where he has
kind of lost his positioning a bit. Do you say he's slightly off balance?
I'd say he's real off balance because he missed and he missed bad.
This is in boxing terms, he just crossed himself up. Okay, m
he's still substantially larger than Shannon, so he's substantially larger than what you're remember
your dad being. This is like if your dad decided to lift six hours
a day, right, Okay, So hmm, everybody go and turn on
a little bit of Higher Ground by Red Hot Chili Peppers. It kind of
fits. Okay, So I think what she'll probably do is actually go for
for a hit a punch where to his side because he's left it exposed,
right, so it's kind of right on the side there. Okay, fantastic
roll me a force. A failure does not result in a condition for this,
damn it. Nope, I know you don't have luck, but I
will let you know. You can push it that will give you a condition,
or you can use your pride to have an automatic success. If you
use your pride, don't make it good. Well, now I'm curious,
Okay, sure, why not? I have never used my pride I think
once since oh, only season one, I think, So let's do it.
Okay. So with that and the fact that Shannon is a little more
human than a human, and you drive this punch into his side because of
the way that I explained it, you are hitting a solid and I mean
solid kidney shot. A good kidney shot can drop somebody. Do you want
to drop your old man? Yeah? So, as quickly as he realizes
he misses, you thunder and piston in a punch with your knuckles just slightly
extended to kind of give them a bit of a drive underneath the ribs,
just a tickle that kid me a little bit. And you hear the air
burst almost like a belch, out of his lungs as he and he drops
to the side. He doesn't go full prone to his back, but he
goes down to a knee and you see him kind of squirrel and you see
that look in his eyes because again I love the eighties and this is a
Cobra cime momentum. He doesn't have an attack this round. Do you want
to try something else, Shannon? Do I want to? He's down on
his knee, so he's down. He's actually below your line of sight now,
so you have every angle open to him from you know, waist up
head. Everything is well within full power. You can put everything behind I
would. I think she's just gonna go with it, and we're going for
a kick to the face. See if he can stop it. Roming a
force them. Please don't roll so terribly, thanks real funny one success.
He goes. He definitely tries, but he's kind of he's done that instinctual.
I'm going to grab the part that just got hit. Move And so
he gets hitting the kid and he both of his hands kind of dropped to
his side, and he can only bear witness as your shin comes thundering in
and cracks him across the forehead and he does go down, and because of
his size, it sounds like someone dropped a wheelbarrow four of bricks as he
against the ground, and he sits there and just moans for two or three
seconds until you hear him start to laugh. It's good. It was real
good, and you see him cough, and when he looks up, you
can tell he gives you that like slightly off your shoulder look at first,
and you realize he's having problems actually pinpointing you, and he kind of after
a second gets your eyeliner and you see something that your Shannon probably has seemed
quite a bit, and that's the pride of Shan Locke. Somehow, outside
of this frame and muscles and high and tight haircut, there's a little bit
of your shun lock there. And he nods and offers his hand for you
to help him up. Do you she no, she does not. I
know better than that, dad. He smiles and laughs louder, and you
realize that he had every intention to do something to you if you had helped
him. And he kind of rocks himself up. He's too big of a
man to do like a quick like get up, but he does something very
similar. She kind of rocks up onto his feet, pushes up with his
hand and takes his full height as he seems so much larger in this space,
and you see him look over to the shadowy figure in the corner and
he says Todd, and the figure stands up and walks forward, and you
see a man that's vaguely familiar. She got your boss one minute forty three
seconds, and your father looks back at you. It's a personal best.
That's a personal best. Mark it down and you see scribbling on the all
right, and he takes it upstairs. Record it with the others. He
Shannon, recognize this person vaguely flay, okay, lean back on something.
Yeah, why did you learn that the kidney that was good, that was
was slid it and slipped it beneath the ribs? Perfect? Thanks, girls,
gotta have her secrets right then, okay, right right right? And
you hear a commotion coming from upstairs where you would know would be the kitchen
and the back door that leads out to what would be the garage where you
and Mitch actually worked on the van and that kind of patio area, and
you hear two sets of footsteps descending, and two uniformed Garrett police officers come
downstairs, and your dad kind of stands up and again he's wearing just like
a tight white T shirt and he looms over a these two guys, are
you doing it? Here, mister Locke. We just need you to come
down for some questions. Somebody there was a hit and run last night.
Someone herbs Ofville was killed. We need to someone thinks they saw you near
in the car, and one of them actually has a hand near his gun
and for a moment as you look between the two for free, I'm going
to tell you, Shanny, your dad looks like he's going to do something.
Oh but he was with me. We were training, so I don't
know who you saw, but wasn't my dad. He takes his hand away
from the weapon. Mister Locke, We just need you to come down and
verify that. We just need to cross your name off a list. We
are not arresting you. This is this is just this is a formality,
just to make sure that you can go down and officially clear your name.
And with that break in the tension between the police officers and your father,
your father seems to acquiesce a bit, looks at you, nods, says,
and you'll take you to school if you need it. I'll be back
soon. Okay, this is my day off. As he starts to talk
to him as they go up, and as he goes past you see him
grab a loop sweatshirt and throw it around and pull the hood up as he
takes to the top of the stairs. I have a question before we move
away from Shannon. What she Andon's birthdate? I have it as July third,
nineteen seventy three. That's right, Yep, it's May fifth, nineteen
eighty nine, which means that Shannon is fast approaching the age of sixteen.
Who are those people that you need to meet? You can see their faces.
Yeah, there's the kid that wears the bandana, there's the there's the
kid that used to wear a mask of some kind. And for a moment,
Shannon, you realize you're forgetting something very important. And in this moment,
Metta as the player, what do you want to do with Shannon to
help her. She's too close to the point of no return. She's getting
close to sixteen, and she doesn't have any of the crystals. That's true,
So what do you do in this moment? You can remember enough,
you're just forgetting the basics. If this were the back to the future scenario
of the picture, just the top of the older brother's head is starting to
go and you have a moment to do something to kind of keep these memories
intact. What do you want to do? Um, she's does she have
her keychain still with her? But she's carried around for literally three seasons.
Yep, everything that you have you have now again you were training in an
outfit that wasn't your own, but all of your clothes were stacked everyone's side.
Okay, that would be what she would go for her vest if it's
there, is her vest there? Yeah? Absolutely so, yeah, she
would go and kind of rummage through the pockets, hopefully finding the keychain.
It is found, Yeah, it's the what's the icon I'm thinking of?
My brain just stopped working the dog tag? No, no Transformer icon?
Why am I blanking on the name? Oh would the symbol? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, she had like taken a Parliament marker and john it on
like the back of like one of the key chain pieces. So hopefully that
sparks something for her. You can remember that you are part of a group
and then you need to meet them. You remember even that it's supposed to
be at the hill. You can remember that, but it's it's it's like
a dream, a very vivid dream, but you're you've woken up and the
more awake. You get, the more the colors seem to blur into blackened
weight of the dream, and you can feel it. You feel that happening.
It's actively happening. It's not something that you've reached a point and then
you have like a moment of reprieve. It's like a constant ebb. You
have all of your stuff, what would you like to do? As far
as where do you want to take? Shannon um, Well, the only
thing she can really remember is a hill. I think she's just gonna focus
on. I need to get to the hill. By the time you gather
yourself and make it out to the garage, many much of which is the
same. You realize when you take to the main floor you can actually see
the police car moving away, and the gentleman known as Andy is sitting there.
But he's wearing at this point a jacket like a formal something that you
would see like a delivery person wear, and across the name plate it says
Aaron, and across the opposite side, almost with a separate kind of added
patch, it has a quotes around it and says Andy. And this gentleman
is sitting there kind of transcribing things from the clipboard to something else, and
he looks up. You need me to drive you to school? No,
I could use a little bit of extra you know, walk, I think
so fresh air. I gassed up your bike for you if you need it.
Oh, yeah, that works. Thanks, You're welcome. See you
when you get home. Yep, see yuh. And he kind of holds
the point for about five seconds too long. All right, then, okay,
keep it weird, Andy, I bye, And that's creepy. And
as you go out, you see a variation of the bike that you have
ridden in the first two seasons, only this one seems to be a little
beefier. And by that I mean you're pretty sure it's got a bigger engine.
You're pretty sure it's got you got a bigger tank. It's the same
bike, the frame and everything sort of fits. It just looks like it's
been augmented a bit. And as you get close to it, you see
that there is some type of note tucked into the creases of the leather of
the seat. She reads it. It says, we have to move the
car. Knee is acting weird. I think he turned Mitch. You are
soaking wet along the bank of the Castleman River. You have just swum to
the surface the final resting place of the mirror of this the other Mitch,
presumably down at the bottom of the Castleman River, in your mom's car,
with what is unfortunately the remains of her behind the wheel. A gruesome,
morbid scene. You have pulled yourself out into the early morning may still cold
here in the mountains. You are getting colder as you are soaking wet.
You are clothes are tight across you as it feels like that cold is actually
constricting them. You are four miles outside of the trade winds along rural Route
thirty six. My friend, what do you do? Fantastic? So,
I think the hanging bodies inside of an ice locker prepared Mitch for pretty much
anything. So he kind of like shakes off what he just saw and some
water and looks around Greg. Is are there like trees? Is there forest
nearby or like a cops of trees or something like that. Absolutely, this
is a very dense area. In fact, you can see that there are
trees lining from what would be the elevated position of the actual road of Route
thirty six, and then trees down to the water's edge. Is one of
the deeper areas of the Castleman River. And so yeah, there's a nice
stretch of very heavily wooded trees, the buzz of spring starting to camouflage the
area a bit better. Great, Noting that he wasn't immediately stabbed, He's
going to head to like the high ground where the road is and climb a
tree to get like a view of what he can see to make sure there
isn't like a secret Shannon or a secret Butts coming to knife him. That
hurt a lot and he doesn't want it to happen again. So he's going
to get some high ground and look around and see what he can see,
right right. And as you do that, and as you look around,
go ahead and roll me and investigate as you kind of take in the area.
And at the same time, you know, thinking about the wound that
you received through your denim vest, you can still feel kind of a slight
pool there, something that is different than it had been prior to the wound.
But there's no more pain and when you look, it's just a thin
line of a scar as if it's had four weeks to heal. Yikes,
cool, Okay, I'm giving you an investigate, you said, please?
Okay, three successes. Fantastic, my friend. You may know and feel
comfortable and that you do not have any enemies, either known or unknown,
approaching your position. Also, you may either bank and investigate free success for
later, or you may ask me a question, or you may double up
or keep two successes for later, ask me two questions. Cool? Okay,
So I don't see anyone near me? Can I see Garrett from here?
You thought I was like four miles away from the Trade wind yep.
Absolutely, And as you kind of turn, you know that just around the
corner you'll see the descent into like the little valley that is the garret area.
The first thing that you would come across would be the Trade Winds.
Jerry's house would be there as well, and then you kind of come up
by the old ups depot where you all had an interesting encounter a couple of
months ago, and then you'd be in the proper But as soon as you
kind of rounded the next curve, you know that you'll have at least a
view of a partial garret Okay from this tree vantage point. My question is
do I see anything from here that sticks out as not correct, like doesn't
align with what I know Garrett to look like, Yes, there is no
castle, gray skull cool, okay, fantastic, And then I will bank
one of those successes for later, and I start hauling ass in the direction
of man. He stops for a second and thinks, like, so,
if Maggie's a Maggie, then Maggie's almost always good. But the hill,
and then he like kind of orientates himself as best he can and then starts
trucking it towards the hill. Okay, And as you start kind of running
again, the only thing is that your body kind of naturally warms itself as
you start to kind of run and exercise. You probably would have had a
problem if you hadn't you know, chosen that route. But as you're running,
you realize that, like your clothing and everything is extremely tight across you,
and you realize that the water has done something just to kind of hinder
your movement a bit. And as you are running in that direction, you're
still able to get full stride and everything just uncomfortable, you know, running
in wet jeans and things like that. But you're heading towards Garrett. As
we go to rob in Main Street, of Garrett staring in the window of
mccruary's department store. Everybody go and queue up a little Tesla love song for
me, please. Rob. As you look, you see your parents sitting
on display. Your mom's standing, your father in a chair being advertised as
Amy and Aaron, the answer to all of your domestic problems with like a
word bubble that says like cleaning, cooking, childcare. And as you turn
and look around the streets, you see a dozen of your mom, a
half dozen of your dad, various tasks, delivering coffee, walking a dog,
carrying groceries, some of them dressed like a municipal worker, cleaning the
streets. And for this moment, Rob, as you turn and look around
and see all of these copies of your parents, and you finally finished the
three to sixty and look back in the window, your mom behind the glass
winks at you. Know, what do you do. He's gonna kind of
step back, you know, like you said, they're they're kind of all
around in the street and everything is I mean, he's probably gonna wander a
bit and get lost and hopefully kind of wonder in the direction of either wearing
these to be or hopefully towards the paperback exchange, because he's not really painted
to where he's to surroundings. He's he's staring at these things walking by he
because these are one he's never seen his parents do any of these things,
you know, and now he's it's it's so much sensory overload for these people
that he has mixed feelings about. There's just so many of them, so
he's going to kind of just wander towards Miss Maggie. Yeah, you know,
the only the only thing that he's that's going to be able to make
any sense to him at this point. And as you kind of stumble in
that direction, you're you're not really again by your own definition, it's you
kind of subconsciously are pulled in that direction. You're not really following any defined
or planned route other than just get there. And as you walk down main
Street, it's almost like every time you pass one of them, there is
a tip of the hat if an Errand is wearing one, or a wink
and a smile from an Amy, and they always say good morning, good
morning, and a couple of them you'll be late for school? Do you
need a ride? He's gonna try to acknowledge one back and an Amy or
an Aaron the first one. Let's say it's an Amy. He's just gonna
ask, did you do you know me? I certainly could. My name's
Amy, And she offers a hand. He's gonna keep walking, and that
hand stays out for five seconds. Have a good day. That answered his
question. It's so yeah, he's gonna just keep kind of going until he
kind of finds his bearings. Um, then just just makes his way to
the paperback exchange, because at this point he's the hill and the friend.
This is taking over his mind. Round you finally turned the corner in there
as the sank to Sanctorum the paperback exchange, and as you get closer on
a very rare occasion, this being Friday morning, a little after seven am,
it's closed. And the closed sign, which is handmade and written in
the bubble kind of graphics of Miss Maggie, it says closed but not forever.
Yeah, he's gonna. I guess he's gonna make his way towards the
hill now. Um, it was that he wanted immediate answers, and I
guess he's not gonna get him without either pounding on the door or just collecting
everybody to see what's going on. I mean, they obviously need to investigate
this stuff. So yeah, fight or flight. So he's gonna fly in
the direction of his friends, okay, and we're gonna stick with Rob.
As Rob, you begin to kind of climb out of the main street area
and that becomes the hill. And this is a hill that you chased some
retreating middle schoolers after your punch bowl dance in the wingmobile that at the time
was stolen way back in season one. Same hill that, yeah, same
hill that skateboarder had rocketed down. Numerous bike rides had been along this route,
and at this point you see a resplendent golden scooter bearing a George Butts
coming down said hill. As you are walking up at George, you see
Rob Rob, You see George. Welcome to Garrett. He's gonna kind of
kind of wave. We don't have our bikes otherwise, we know, Um,
hey, what's up? Man? Are you see it? Seeing this?
I think at this point, um, George wouldn't have noticed all of
the other Robots that are the same one that he probably thought at his house.
Yeah, that broad was at my house too. Who's that guy.
There's a lot of them around. That's my dad, it is, yeah,
yeah, and that's my mom. That's cool. I never met him.
You're not gonna get attached, right, this isn't our garret, so
oh no, no, no, um, we should we should probably find
Mitch though. Huh yeah, I was gonna go to the middle school.
I figured we might as well. That's like a central part, right,
maybe they're there, Yeah, but Mitch, Mitch has always kind of kind
of been allergic to school. So well, we got this, we got
the nuggets, so we'll uh, we'll find them somehow, have have gas,
will drivel and he's gonna like he's gonna like just mess along in the
back. You're able to, Um, you notice that again, Rob would
probably at this point being distracted. But Rob would notice, maybe upon the
mounting of the gold nugget, that George is dressed like he used to,
tight jeans, double popped polo. I think he was. He was so
used to and George looking that way, that to him that's George by default.
So it didn't. I don't think it would have triggered anything immediately just
because of everything else going on, until somebody else points it out. To
him, and then he'll probably be like, oh, yeah, so where's
your You're heading towards the school. Um. Yeah, And based on the
map it looks like there's things around that area anyway. So if we don't
go to the school, we keep cruising over to the trade winds on the
other side of town. Yeah, slow down, have a good look,
and so we don't see anything interesting. Just keeping at him, I'll imagine
as we go down the street, I see more Amy's and Errands. They're
everywhere, Like I thought that was your mom? Is this here your mom
too? Like? And he's thinking he's gonna every time we passed when mom,
dad, that dad, mom and dad man. Maybe that John guy
out in Utah had something going. He just keeps on keeps on driving.
As you all drive down towards the school just above at the top of the
hill, Shannon, you pull up on your bike, there's no one there.
What do you do? Great question? Let me look at the map.
So am I still having trouble remembering things like it just kind of not
really coming to me at all when I'm here or anything like that. It's
one of those tip of the tongue moments, only it's kind of systemic.
As you're who his name is, I can see his face. He broke
his finger. It used to be popular, then he became sort of grunt.
I gave him a cigarette. And it's at this point it's the names.
You can remember, the faces, you can remember the mannerisms, things
they've said. But it's the names of these four and five if you include
Ben, which you just remember, the little guy who you know, none
of them are around. And as you're kind of looking around, and this
is a more residential area, but an Amy walks by, comes out to
get the paper out of the paper box by the mailbox. Did you run
out of gas? I could run and get you some. No, I'm
okay, thanks all right then and she turns in, goes in. It
would a standard Friday morning start to Would that be something that Shannon's like aware
of, Like, oh, I would go to school right now, I
would meet with you know, Dutch, any like that kind of thing.
Absolutely, anything that is outside of those five life and Garrett locations. In
Garrett, Miss Maggie, you remember those names and those things very very easily
because those were things that exist here, exist even if you didn't know anything
about the loop, or experienced any of these these wild things, you would
know how to find your way to the chat and chew. You know,
you remember that easy, you know. But would she normally meet with Dutch
your knee when she got to school or did they meet beforehand? Like what's
the standard thing for her? You would remember that, you know. When
you used to hang out with them, it was something like you would meet
and decide whether or not you were going to get to school on time,
which it was going to be something where you got there an hour or too
late. Okay, I think she'll probably just default to daily routine then,
and so if that, you take your bike and head off towards the Maplehurst
small parking lot where you frequently meet Dutch your knee, And as you drive,
you start to shake your head. Hell with those guys, I can't
remember their names, you know, I mean, what are you gonna do
if you can't remember the names? Yeah, Jerry, As you are walking
towards Trade Winds coming back up the hill, a couple of things you learned
with your little trip to Trade Winds. There was no mitch trailer, there
was no bend trailer. Everything else seemed to be the same. Some guy
was looking for a Robert but that was it. Oh man, nap drives
Dick. I never leave, so you don't have to worry about um.
Jerry's Jerry's gonna like try to remember where everyone said to me, because you
know, we got we got too many cooks and there were a lot of
things thrown out with no no leads at the trade winds. He'd probably like
turn around and walk back up towards the school somewhere. This school day is
it? He doesn't know, he doesn't have a watch. You of the
group, you and Mitch have no idea what day it is, um.
But as you're walking up the hill, it just so happens that in the
time it took you to walk down to investigate the trade winds and then walk
back up, running along the road the intersects with the trade winds, and
at the top of the hill your former residence comes a drenched Mitch Mitchell,
Mitch, Jerry, Jerry, Mitch. He is in full concentration. Oh
what, how do I know you're the real one? It's like the shaking
its fist. But you guys up, do you have a knife? You
laser fingers? Yeah? Probably you probably wouldn't the real one, or you
probably have lazer fingers. Wouldn't you like to know? Yes? I would
because the last person I thought I knew staffed me, and that was that
was bad. It was real bad. I was bleeding a lot. There's
only one match, yes me, okay, I'm the Jerry. Oh who
else would you know? It's the one? I'm the only one. Kind
of dumb question was that, of course it's me. Yeah, I've had
a hard day. Okay, I was dead in the car, so I'm
nice. The patent pending dead kid high five. Okay, what did you
find anything besides that? Is there? Did you find anyone else? No,
nobody has trailers. Well there's trailers, but trailer I'm dead and my
mom's dad, so well bench trammer shout there. Oh but he's he pulls
a card and shows it he's live. Oh okay, well that's great.
Uh the hill. We said we'd be at the hill, right, so
everyone, Oh yeah, she should all go and meet at the hill.
Uh cool. Okay, Well I'm really cold, so I'm gonna keep this
up. And he starts like jogging a place. Okay, I'm gonna go
to the hill. You come with or where is it? Yeah, if
we can't let anything happen to you, let's to work out great last time.
Okay, and he starts trucking back up towards the hill. Um,
keep up. I will take an investigate role from Jerry, and I will
ask Mitch if he wants to use one of his banked investigate roles at this
moment. Uh you, so one of you can roll, or Mitch can
use one of his. I'll I'll use I'll use one. I got one
banks, I'll use it. Jerry's clothes are too small. It's such a
weird observation, Greg. And you realize as soon as you see like that
good way too much sock above the shoe and you know, too much stretch
across the chest, that your clothes are too small too. Are you wearing
Ben's clothes? You know this is just how they wear them? Weird?
I guess I can see your ankles. Ankles, it's weird. Yeah,
well I can see him. You don't look as at least have to have
a whole pants. Man, this is what I woke just run Okay,
wait, wait is it because you're dead? Because I'm dead? Yeah,
I've been dead for like three years and he like slows down. Gross.
Oh wait you're yeah, so are you? Oh at least mine are washed?
Oh yeah gross. Anyway, as we commiserate over dead kid's clothes.
Oh what a weird day. This is Greg all right, so you are
yeah, go ahead, you save your walkie. I was underwater. Mine
doesn't work. Yeah, mine was probably good. Hey to get like a
tupperware, I should have called somebody. That would have been probably a great
idea. I got it. You know, wh would have a tupperware?
Butts his mom would have tupperware. She probably sells it. She looks like
someone who sells type of weare You're probably right, but she's just a probably
awful cress. Gross. Okay, Yeah, you should call people because if
they didn't wake up in water, which I really hope they didn't, because
that'd be weird, we should call them to find out where they are.
Jerryal pull out his waukie talkie, pull up the extendable antenna, and iron
hoyt iron Hood calling dummies dummies committed. That's not that's not the calls are
it is? Here? Isn't Shannon the only one who has Alwaukee and as
you stated before you jump, you always turn it off. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know where that Rob has one. Yeah, Mitch, Mitch
fixed like two of them in the in the cabin. I think the only
person that doesn't have one right now is Ben because Ben was told to share
with Jerry. Yes, because are always together, m h and you fixed
everybody else's. So at this point, I don't know if George or Rob
would have theirs one, but you never told us that you wouldn't have it
on. So George is driving, so Rob's gonna hear that and go it's
for you and trying to pass it up to George. Yeah, what's up?
I found the bitch? Where are you? We're at school for you?
That's not the hill? Who is this? What's my name? This
is Jazz Ultra Magnus. Tell me both those because I'm cool Jazz Magnus.
I think it's him. I mean, no one's that dumb. Why are
they going to school? That's why they asked? Okay, um, can
I just ask him? Ask him if they oh, hey, hey,
it's uh are you? Why are you guys go to school? It's Friday?
Figured you would be at school. What is it sloppy Joe day or
what. It's just like blinks at Jerry, where here to save the universe?
Yeah, in the schools in the middle of town. Figured he'd be
there. Well, I haven't been to school like a year. I don't
know. I didn't know you in school. We went to the same here.
Fine, you handle this, and I like I I did, I
did. I told him, Fine, we'll meet you with the school,
but just pick a place to meet, like a flagpole or something. Okay,
yeah, yeah, find us on playground. It's it's high school,
it's middle school. It's what I'll figure it out. And he just hands
it back to Jerry. You were right, it is, dummies. Let's
go on, let's go, and he starts running towards school. Fucking playground.
We'll cut to about eight o'clock and after searching various playgrounds in the Greater
Garrett area, you are able to find them. I'm assuming at the middle
school playgrounds where at your former Edgar Allen Poe Middle School. Um, there
they are. We don't go. I'm with the Ravens. It's not even
our school. Yeah, but it's like on the way to other things that
you, you losers, would go to like jrunkyard whatever, or the hill
that we said we'd meet at. We had three places, and I'll be
honest, I don't remember which one was first, the hills. I kind
of just threw that out the window. Okay, all right, are you
so you you guys all verified that you're you? Yeah, like a secret
robe. Well, sorry, like a secret agent. We haven't tried tried
to kill each other. Yeah, that's what a That's what a sleeper would
say. Rob. How do I know you're not? But because all my
my parents are robots? No, yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
You shouldn't be here. Are you got robot parents? Yeah, they're everywhere.
What do they do? Just sit on the couch. Yeah, I
don't know. They're the complete opposite of my parents. They don't even have
the same names. I don't even see your parents. Get off the couch.
I didn't know you had parents. I mean, of course he had
parents. Now like a science experiment, mhm, I mean, man,
the loop does crazy stuff. Man? Yeah, now you got meets a
second second guess in Milan birth Man. That sounds like Rob. That does
sound like Rob? Is he what she's saying? And thankfully no, but
oh Ben. I was literally five seconds away from saying If Ben were here,
he'd say, hey, there's only four of us, But I didn't
go ahead. Is anyone to where Ben is? Figured he'd be with Jerry?
Sorry, is that a scooter? If we're supposed to meet on the
hill, would you go to the hill? Yeah, maybe we should.
Yeah, since you guys remembered, yeah, totally every time. Yeah,
the hill hill, Yeah, that hill. Also, does your mom have
Tupperware? No, not you, of course your mom's a robot. But
is your mom a tupperware? Yeah? She she one of her friends sold
her the whole set of it. Great, and he like pulls out it's
walking and it's like still dripping. This keeps happening to me. I don't
know. I don't know what the second time in three days, I look
at a banking woke it up in in the water. Yeah, but tupperware
is are tight. So you can tell by the fart. You're right,
it's a burp, Yeah, fart, burp, the same thing. Okay,
it's two different ends. It's not the same thing. Okay, So
we're gonna find Shannon. We gotta find Ben. Yeah, we gotta find
tupperware, and then we gotta figure out what the hell's going on here with
your robot parents. I don't heavily haven figured out what we're supposed to do.
Every time we jump, we just keep running into shitting and jumping again.
Yes, what you were told by the because it's been a bit,
what you were told by the Chris that you met when you first came out
of the lake and we're pulled under the boat is to pay attention to everything
that you see in the garrets that you go to. If you want to
try to fix something, you can, he said, But not always is
that possible. But things that you learn here might be secrets in your prime
world. So things are are more open in certain places. People say things
that maybe they wouldn't say in your world. Those are things that need to
be paid attention to. Everything could potentially be important, Right, God,
I wish I had my board. Oh you put paper the tupware container airtight?
There you go, it's it's airtight. You're great, Okay, So
fine, Shannon, fine, bend fine paper, find tup aware and pencil
and yes, all right, Well I guess we're hoofing it because you have
a scooter um, who runs fastest besides me? Well, you're a robot.
Yeah, that's what I mean. So, like, why didn't you
just get on the book in it today? Is this a skimped degeneration?
The robots skimped degeneration. Unfortunately, I'm made out of meat. I'm still
real wet, so I'll keep running because it's if I stay still I get
real cold. Right Jerry, you want to ride, bitch or do you
want to drive? Rob's still on the back on. Yeah, I didn't
bring my license, so, like you know, I'll let you drive this
time. It's my it's the sweet McNuggets, So let's go Sweet McNugget.
No hat it, So however you decide to do it. You're able to
make your way through Garrett to the hill, but before you get there,
I need to know what Shannon does. As you get to the Maplehurst small
parking lot just outside of the AMC six theaters, a place where you would
meet the proverbial smoking corner with Dutch and knee and one time ago Chris,
you don't see anybody. No one ever shows up, neither of them appear.
However, you do have like an uncomfortable, like almost like a spasm.
Every once in a while, it takes you a while to identify the
fact that it's not coming from you. But you have a disc in your
pocket that seems to be moving and it's just shaking intermittently. Okay, what
happens if I just not grip it? But just like place the disc on
my palm? Does it just stay there and vibrate her? It does for
a second, and then it lifts about two inches off of your palm.
Does it go somewhere? Nope, just kind of just kind of floats there.
Weird. Um. Does it have any symbols or anything on it?
Smooth? Um. It's again one of those tip of the tongue type of
things. You know, it has something. It's to do with those kids.
You just can't remember if this is it or is there something else?
Got it? Well, she's gonna rummage through her very impressive bag that she
bought at this pharmacy before they jumped. Oh, you got a ton of
first aid stuff in there. It looks like a handmadewakie talkie. You know
you've got like an emergency flashlight. Um, it's a bunch of stuff that
you you know, I believe you were given like almost like a triage kit
too by miss Maggie. Before you left. She gave you additional stuff.
Everything inside that cheap ass LLB knockoff backpack you said you have it is packed
to the mostly with just stuff to keep people alive. Yep. Okay,
does she recognize the wakie? Like does it? Is it one of those
things like this is associated with those kids or just it's sort of but it's
when you look at it, it's like it's a kind of like a beat
up almost like a handmade walkie talkie. Um, it piques your interest a
bit, but you don't have any recollection of what it's for. Okay,
um hmm. It's eight o'clock now, right, Basically school supposed to be
a thing. Yep. Yeah, so she'll she'll go. I'm guessing she
goes to Bretta High now because of how old she is, right, so
she does? Yeah? Yeah, so she'll just head towards school. Then
sure, Sure, I will take an investigate from one of the Fab four,
and I will take an investigate from Shannon, but just one, so
you guys must decide who will not Jerry, I'll jump on some investigate.
Yeah, I got too for Shannon, one for Mitch. So Mitch,
as you're still running it getting in your laps, you know there's only one
other athlete in Garrett that has run this much in an episode. But you
are able to run. And as you are running, you see a motorcycle
kind of coming parallel from the mall past where Sarget's house is. As it
crosses in front and it starts to head towards the school and you recognize,
well, maybe with a bit of dread, a Shannon is behind the wheel.
Uh, Mitch in complete panic mode, like running next to Butts.
He just grabs Butts and switches places with him. And then like she added,
Shannon notices this, Oh yeah, I means your name. Yes,
definitely, she slows down now that she's seen their faces like anything, you
definitely get recognition, like pings of I know these guys. Um. But
again it's the dream has distanced itself from your awareness. Um, you don't
feel any sort of dread about them. I won't think you know it would
be but kind of indifference though, right right, Okay, Um, I
don't think she really like she'll slow down a little bit just to like for
that one moment and then kind of just keep driving towards the high school.
You would see this. She slows down and then continues on her way.
Is that like and evil? Shannon? Yeah? I think so, dude.
She she hasn't stubbed you yet she did. She's just waiting though.
She she's go, go go, and hey that's off at the pass?
Shit it everybody going to any dimes? Shut? She like slows down again
and stops and then like with one leg down still and turns. What God?
Annon? Yeah? Are you like regular Shannon? Super Shandon? I
don't know what that means? You're not you? Do you want to stab
me? Should I want to stab you? Did you do something that is
going to warrant me stabbing you? I don't know what this, Shannon?
Is this? Do you know? Now? I kind of want you?
Why are you saying I'm violent? Don't you not again? Please? I
have never stabbed you. Mmmm? Debatable. I don't even know who you
are? What is your name? What your name is? What? No?
Do you don't know who? Why do you know who anyone is?
Looks like you're a bunch of middle school kids to me, I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure I've seen you around town and stuff, but
um, shit, and do you need something like? Are you guys lost?
What? Yeah? Do you know about a meeting place at a hill?
Uh? I don't know about a meeting place. I was at the
hill. Are you guys following me? No, we're here. You're on
a motorcycle. How would that be possible? I don't know. I'm I'm
just asking. It's weird that I'm going out a hill. We're going to
the hill. That's the meeting place. Okay, who are you? I'm
Mitch Mitch. Okay, well you know me clearly since you've been yelling at
me, But the rest of you, I'm Rob. What's happening wrong?
Okay? Who's pretty boy over here with the pop collars? Yes? A
plural? Really did you get hidden? I don't know, because yeah,
no, she must have because everybody knows who I am. Wow, I'm
dead. That is a really weird name. And I don't know if I
want to meet your parents because that's really morbid. He needs a kid dead?
No, No, he's like a he's like a dead kid. He
died a couple of years ago. Clearly he didn't die because he was literally
talking right in front of me. Do you think we traveled from Did you
get hit in the head? Actually, yeah, technically I did during training
this morning, But that's neither here nor there very much here. It could
it could be really here, like we came from a different dimension. He's
dead here, I'm dead here, Jerry Baker getting the nosebleeds? Do you
have a Do you have a walkie talking your backpack and like a bunch of
medical supplies. Yeah, that is super creepy. Okay, came from a
different dimension. Uh huh, yeah, it's shittn't believing any of this at
all. It's turn it on. I leave that up to you. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh my god, Jerry, look stopped.
Turn it on. Turn on your walkie talkie. Okay. I'll play
along for a minute here, just because this is probably the highlight of my
week. It's a shitty week. Were your friends stupid? Don't call me
stupid? Stupid? How would we have your exact frequency? I don't have
a convincing reason as to why that is, but I'm reluctant to understand how
what you're saying is true? Great? Cool? Can you go like this
real quick? Do you have like sharp teeth? No, I am not
doing that, but it's weird. Could you please it? Just listen?
Are you're not shoving my fingers in my mouth? If you don't have sharp
teeth, you can hit me with the bike. I guess I don't know.
Whatever. Don't kill me. I am not hitting you with my bike.
Maybe that thing, but not my bike. Great to do this?
Are you guys like pretty pleased? Got a bunch of people waiting and the
bushes to be weird? No? No, you look like a walrus do
the thing? Yeah? No, I'm not doing that. I've decided against
it. Okay, great, can you just follow us around until we teleport
again? Um? Okay, let me let me play along with this for
a second. So this whole the walkie talkie is super weird. Okay,
agreed. What is happening at the hill. Let's let's talk about that because
that seems like the more normal thing to talk about. Let's roll the bike
and talk. We'll walk and talk. That's our meeting place. So the
hill's always the hill in Garrett when we teleport, so we can find where
we are find each other. It's a landmark. Okay, And um,
what are we supposed to meet? About saving the world or all of the
world's universe dimensions. I don't know what, I don't know. Multiverse multiverse,
that's a cool multiverse. Yeah, like that for we just thought of
that. Yeah, I feel like one before multiverse is cool? Yeah?
Should we should trade market? It's copyrighted right here. You feel anyone something
just doesn't feel right? Okay? Cool? Have you talked to anyone else?
Is anyone weird? Uh? Well besides us? Yeah? No,
I got that. Um, Andy was really weird. Oh that's Rob's dad.
What Aaron? Oh they all sound the same. Sorry the right,
his parents are robots. We my my Butler parents. I mean that was
only like really weird. Oh well, actually the cops did come down to
see my dad about something that was weird. What did they see him about?
Something to do with, um, somebody dying? Who died? I
don't remember. Well, your dad's alive, so he checked that one off.
Yeah, he's definitely very alive. That's a did he did he killed
somebody? No? Was it a kid? Do I remember the name?
Um? Yeah, I'm not gonna make your roll for this because you were
delivered just a little bit again, and it's not something that would have faded.
It's Herbskay, Okay, what was the name so that meta knows Herb?
But Herb Saville? Yeah, known around town is Sarge. Huh so
her Herb. Most people know him like Serge. Oh shit, yeah,
I wonder if that. I don't know how he died. It's probably some
kind of a hit and run or car or something like that. I'm I'm
not sure that. The police didn't really say much. They just gave me
a question my dad for some reason, which is super weird. But is
it super weird? Yeah? Yeah, it is super weird because my dad
isn't going around hitting people with this car. Okay, what else is super
weird? Where's Ben? Yeah? No, maybe maybe he's with like the
Sarge's family, Like maybe this Ben. Maybe this Ben still knows Sarge.
I still don't know who that's. Do you know the Mackenzie family? I
don't think so. Okay, shit, have you seen your idiot friends,
Judge me, Chris. How do you guys know Dutch and Knee and Chris?
Well, we're pretty sure that Dutch Knee are evil vampires. And Chris
he's pretty cool, but he's like a time traveler or something. The time
shirt. Yeah, we're not really sure what Chris is, but he definitely
time travels. Yeah. Sure, Okay, do you remember do you remember?
Do you remember when Miss Terry said, did they forget? They forget?
Oh shit, what's happened? Am I dumb? Mitch? Am I
this universe is dumb? Mitch? What happened? Was I dumb? In
this universe? Very died? Too many times? If you're in the wrong
body, Yeah, maybe Jerry, And you say, he just starts like
slapping Rob Rob Rob, Rob the crystals, give her the whole bag.
Here's my socks. Wow, we've been playing together too long? Here,
Greg, what happens then? Shannon? The crystals? Rob is just giving
you a bag of crystals. Okay, that's that's Rob, that's George,
that's Mitch, that's Jerry. You don't know where Ben is? Do you
remember stuff? I remember that the last ten minutes of my life are no
longer available to me because of this, and so yeah, okay, cool,
yes, morning, this isn't useful. You hold onto those? Can
you agree to just follow us around until we talk like a babysitter? Sure?
Whatever, Okay, pay me you have like forty dollars in your pocket.
You stole it from a guy McDonald's. It would all be coming back
to you now, Shannon. As soon as you get in possession of the
crystals, all of this would begin to bleed back. The dream is revealed
and laid bare as now your life in this morning to this point seems to
be the abnormality, as everything kind of rushes and resurfaces and balances back.
Oh boy, does need a minute? Is it working? Just just yeah,
just give me a minute. This is really weird. Does someone have
at least I didn't wake up in a dead body this time? Oh yeah
I did. I woke up in a dead body. I drowned at a
car. Waita wait, wait wait wait wait water you okay, hold on,
and she pulls off the note that uh was it Dutch that left for
her or that knee? No Dutch left it for her? The note on
the bike, right, and it said something about moving a car or they
found the car. We have to yeah, says we have to move the
car. Knee is acting weird. I think he turned okay, so um,
possible clue And she shows just shows the note to the group. So
agreed about Dutch being bad me he might not be bad like last time where
he helped me, so maybe he'll help me again the gamble. But also
maybe these people maybe Dutch killed Sarge. That's art, that's the car they
need to hide. Your dad didn't do it right, So that's a good
point. Now I'm worried that my dad is involved in something. Shit.
Okay, what else is well? Maybe not? Maybe not? Someone have
pan and pay Yeah, I have a pen and Peter. Can I see
that? Yeah? Great, and he starts scribbling down as many facts as
he can not even facts, as many things as he can remember from the
last universe, as many things as he can remember from this universe. I
don't know what we're supposed to do with this, but I gotta someone else
hold it because I keep getting wet. I'll just hold it on. I'll
just put it in my backpack. Yeah, I gotta get to very very
stylish backpack. Yeah, you stole that. I did not steal that.
I had plenty of money. I didn't need to steal it. So I'm
gonna pull out a like a like a few napkins from this clump and kind
of hand him the niche to draw him off. Okay, So I need
to find Dutch and find as much information out about this whole thing as possible.
I think that's probably the best use of our time here in case we
have to jump again. But as just as you can in right, and
just as you think that, Shannon, that disk in your pocket begins to
buzz again. And now you remember that that disc buzzes when a Jimmy is
present in the garret that you jumped to. You, guys, hear that
noise? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Jimmy's you're somewhere.
Oh yeah, we should we go to his usual spots, he said,
he's usually good. Yeah, I don't know where transients live great bridges.
Yeah, well, let you know that his nickname is main street Jimmy.
But don't read anything into that. Bridges. Yeah, I probb didn't say
that. I would have said bridges. Oh god, Greg, how far
are we from main streets? He's not a roll. Yeah, guarantee is
not a big place. You're always about ten minutes from anywhere. There's no
bridges here. We don't have a single bird. Well, who's coming with
me? I'm well on the bike. You're already on a bike. Oh
am, I you're driving the golden milk. There walking he's driving. Yeah,
yeah, yeah right, I'll just keep walking. So the only problem,
the only other person walking was was but no, I have the nugget.
Oh I thought we were running. No, I have the nugget.
Coump in the nuggee. Oh I thought you let Jerry right drive it.
So Jerry, like old times, you guys are Yeah, but keep an
eye out for Ben right. Yeah, we can't find him, and we
can't jump without him, or we can, but I don't know what happens.
He's definitely here, he said, he never forget what if? Okay,
that's fine, Well, well we'll figure that out. Let's find Jimmy.
Maybe he knows where Ben is. Where did a Ben go? It's
crazy the idea I got. It doesn't take you long to get to main
Street again. You get a couple of looks from the errands and the Amy's
um, usually like the municipal ones, dressed in like outfits that seem to
be you know, maybe programmed for truancynem But no one stops you or questions
why you're not in school. And it is maybe a half hour later,
right around nine o'clock in the morning that you find main Street. Jimmy's sleeping
in an alleyway as he often does. Veries so much. Should go wake
him up? Me, I don't care, just not me. I'll do
it. I'll do it. I can. I got reflexes. As you
get closer, George, you can hear a buzzing coming from Jimmy, but
he is slumbering through it. I'll um not really kicked, but like I'll
use my foot to nudge his leg to not like overly alarm him. Hey,
Jimmy, nudge nudge. As soon as you touch him, he kind
of shoots up and looks, and as soon as he sees your face,
his eyes go wide and he looks around your leg and whoever's visible, he
marks off each face until he reads all four of you. You gotta mench
you're the group, the ones from the lake. The last one's from the
lake. Yeah, how do you? How do you know that told me
the stuff about about nam to look it up in the library. I did
what stuff you told me to look up and go to the library. I
told Chris is Chris. This is Chris future Chris. Yeah, it's also
current Chris. Yeah, I think I am. They're all the same person
sort of. I'm too old to be Chris here, so I'm Jimmy.
Okay, I'm still kind of this is the whole thing. And you know
where the Ben is? Did you? Did you have a Ben when you
got here? Do you still have him? We had been when we got
here. I mean, well you had a been when we left? Left
the last one. Yeah, we don't know if he's actually here. Everyone
else is here, so we assume he's here too. You okay, so
you you you can't dive from here until he's either you're all together he's dead.
Okay, Well we'd prefer the first one, right. Um? Do
you do you know where? Where? Do you know? Do you know
this place has been? There's no been in this place. He's gone,
gone, dead, gone, not existing. He moved away about two years
ago to where I didn't have to. I'm not able to leave, Garrett.
I have to stay here. I don't know where where we went.
Um Sam moved away, Veronica moved away. Um, there's no DJ M
Rock here. Um. J's like a radio guy. What happens if we
jump to a place where we aren't normally living? Usually it's just you guys
have told me just put you somewhere, somewhere that's gonna be difficult to find
somewhere for Ben Jerry. Where would Ben go? He'd go to find his
mom and then maybe Sargees. Yeah, Soges dead. He got killed last
night. Do you know what happened? Shannon's dad killed him? I stop
that. He's not even your real dad, No, it was it's your
dad, Mitch, I have a dad, shanons. Shannon's dad was just
riding in the passenger seat. That's also I have a dad accessory after the
well, now whose dad did? What? Huh? I'm still happened right
there? You can see that there's a section that you haven't gotten that you
was like passed the alleyway and out into main Street proper. You see the
whole section of main Street as being blocked off and they're redirecting traffic around an
entire area. It also happens to be the same section of the street where
the paperback exchange is. The closed sign is off of the window. Is
my dad bad? Is Shannon's dad bad? There's no, you don't have
a dad here. Just you said my dad killed? I don't think he
was from here? Is Shannon's dads from here. Yeah, but not the
one that was in the car. I don't think he was smaller, like,
not as many muscles. There's two of my dad here. There's two
Shannon's in the last place. What I'm trying to kill me? It was?
There was two of your dad here last night. I think, I
think, oh no, that's bad. But if I'm trying to get rid
of my dad, my real dad, well, the real Shannon, this
dad that's here. They were wearing Loop outfits, your dad and your he
nods the Mitch your dad and nods the she and your dad the Loop jump
suits on the ones with the yellow and I think they were going to space.
Looked like they were going to space. Why are they going around killing
Sarge? I think I think it was an accident. I think, really,
I hope what it? Starge? Do you here? Before he died?
He was good. He let me eat with with him on Sundays.
But I can't stay inside because then I forget. You can't stay inside what
anything? That's why I sleep out here. M Things made the first time
we actually had a conversation, Jimmy, this is very weird. MH.
I'm older. Hey, Um, thanks for the stuff you told me to
do about the war. The I've read everything and I was able to stay
safe. But um, I've read about the tet offensive and I knew what
they were gonna do before they did it, and I saved my buddies.
They were gonna die, but I saved them. Gave me a medal for
it. It's you're welcome. I don't know what to say. Um,
cool man, I'm glad. I'm glad you're still with us. Right if
I die, I don't try to stop me. Mitch, you kay,
don't just let me go. I've got a job. Okay. We we
weren't going to m hmm okay, so all right? Dutch bad knee.
Maybe Shannon's dad jacked, little dad bad, my dad bad Ben missing,
Rob's patterns, robots, tupperware, tupperware, thank you? Uh, George,
what about your parents? Anything alive? And wall dancing being awkward?
Still rich? Okay? Is your dad working at the loop? Um?
They were dancing and it was weird, and I didn't want to be there
too long because you know, we have work to do, so I just
left and didn't didn't do any attachment stuff. Jimmy do you know if his
dad works at the Loop. Everything's real hush hush here. I'm pretty sure
he still works at the Loop though, But no one talks about the loopyard
at all. Really. Yeah, they know it, they know it.
But even the people that work that, they don't, they never talk about
it. M hm uh, Jimmy, this is never gonna be pretty dark.
Were we killed? And he like motions to to Jerry. Yeah,
they burned your house down, and no, no, what happened to you,
Mitch? But you weren't in Garrett anymore? And I figured cars in
a lake. Oh wow, I fucked up. I mean, I wouldn't
blame yourself, Jimmy, you kind of you did your baths a lot,
but you got us here. Yeah, yeah, I did, didn't I.
Yeah, they're all of you. You got to get them. We
gotta get Ben and and and then there'll be all of you. It'll be
all five of you. There's six six, You've got to mention that it's
six. Yeah. Yeah, we need to find Ben um Sue's house.
I guess didn't the cops be at his house? He didn't die in his
house. Yeah, but it's not a crime scene because they whoever killed them,
and or the cops might be in on it, could be watching Sarge's
house. But I mean, like maybe we can go from a distance and
then the thing like Ben wouldn't know that. And if Ben just showed up
there, and there's a Ben who doesn't exist in this town for years,
that'd be pretty suspicious that the thirteen year old boy just wandered up to the
dead guy's house. Okay, yeah, agreed? And what about my dad
that like I don't know? Okay, well, then let's go to Starge's
house together. And if there's nothing obvious about Ben being there, we shouldn't
move on. Do you want me to go? You know me? We
wouldn't want you to go alone. I always go alone, and we don't
want to get you in Hey, more trouble. Jimmy worried, this isn't
where I die? Oh okay, okay, yeah, um, where do
you want me to meet? You? Guys? Can we maybe give him
one of the wakee kikies until he finds Ben? In case he finds Ben,
well, I can give him mine. No, no, you you
know I barely even use mine anyway, that's true. Yeah, let's let's
do that because if he finds Ben before we do, or he needs help
and is in trouble, sound good, Jimmy, Yeah, yeah, Okay,
there you go. Choo opens her bag. He looks down at it
and in a way he looks at it almost lovingly. At the Mitchie talkie.
I always wanted one of these. I'll make you one when we,
yeah, figure the shit out. He's also you know, if you end
up jumping and we end up in the same place again and you have the
walkie still, then we can communicate that way, which could be pretty beneficial.
Yeah, we keep everything we jump with, that's true. I don't
except this. And he pulls the rock out, well at least for now.
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay, yeah,
and he just smiles and walks off. As he kind of gets up from
where he was sleeping. You hear the clink of bottles as you know,
several kind of Boone's farm empty. You know, they just kind of slip
and slide a little mad Dog twenty twenty, any rock gut you can think
of. And he's got a bit of a peppinist step as he rolls in
the direction and then he pops his head back around the alley. You shouldn't
stay here. Where do you want me to meet you? Is Mackie good
here? Uh huh, yeah, he's good everywhere. Maybe Okay, I'll
see it's a paperback then, okay, okay, So what are we gonna
do that? That was a lot, that was Yeah, that was a
whole I guess we just go. Like, I feel like most of us
should hide in the paperback store like we're dead here. I don't think you
exist the like points at Rob. Yeah, and I tried to go earlier,
and then the store store was store was closed, so like I kind
of kind of want to go back and see what's going on. Shann't get
breaking. I don't think we need to break in, Maggie, I'm sure
would love to see Rob again. As always said, it was closed before.
It might have been too early. So we go there. We don't
have to break in just because it's open. It's open. Yeah, the
closed sign is off the window as well. Yeah, aren't we right there
anyway? So yeah, like seventy feet away from you, yea, if
that's your where you're going, you head towards the paperback exchange and again within
the ten feet now that the sign is down and the doors open or has
been opened and closed a couple of times. The smell of nineteen sixty nine
embraces you. And as you get there and open the door and walk in
even before is the glass kind of allows this type of presence. You see
that it is Gary who is working behind the counter, and as you walk
in, he's on the phone and he says, kind of holds his finger
up to you all as you come in. Now, I'm sorry, she's
out of town at the dead concert. Can I help you? I don't
know who is this man? Rude man? How can I help you?
He looks at you all as he hangs the phone up. Rob Rob,
Um, well you just said this Year is at the concert? Um it's
um cover is Macmaggie Year? No? No, she's at a concert down
state at Merriweather. What. How can I help you? I'm Gary?
Who are you? Um? Ro Rob? Rob Rob Rob, And he
turns around and pulls out what looks like a like a clipboard, but it's
more like a dry race kind of a and the name Rob Mitch, names
Rob Mitch, George, Shannon, Jerry are written across it. And Ben's
at the bottom. Rob, you're at the top of the list. Well
you're uh Maggie's nephew, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah that's me. Hey her cosa, Sue Cosa. What do you need?
I'm told to help you at guys out whenever you're in town and Maggie's
not around. All right, all right? Cool? Do you thanks?
Man? Man? Yeah, man, you just need need a place to
you know, le l do you guys? Okay, that explained? Do
you guys know a b um? I know all all all all, all
of the alphabet, yes, right, bright, but I think it's more
like a beat bubblebe oh god, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, ummm mm hmm oh who who's everybody? And he puts the
holds a list up. I'm Mitch, Bitch, George, George, Jerry,
oh Jerry, okay, and Rob and Shannon? Um bes yours?
Ben? Is that? Do you know? B is be here? Now?
That was the Alta Boys Club. They said that they had a be
there and his guardian was Maggie, which doesn't it's on a list man,
So I think I might have screwed up a little bit. What's the Alta
Boys Club? It's the Reforms Is that what you just said? Yeah,
I know what the Altar is, but what's the boys never boys Club?
Yeah, it's we need to get out of there. Yeah, it's just
so we Yeah, it's kind of I mean yeah, I mean they would
say it's for delinquents, but I mean I don't use that term. We're
delinquents. How do we get there? M h, I mean it's it's
just on the way north of it's it's a compound just north of the city.
It's a UM on the way to that. I don't know if you've
ever heard, there's a research facility up there. Um. They call it
the Loop, but there's a UM. It's right along the way. It's
a big place. It kind of looks like a like a jail. You're
you know what would make you really batman? Right now? I like where
you're going with this? What you just to ride to the Altar Boys Club?
Uh? Okay, and that makes me batman? Yeah, but you
know it's pretty close. You'd be saving the day. I don't I like
the Batman. You'd be saving the day or night or good night of day.
All right, Um, Maggie said anything, And he goes over and
closes and turns the sign from open to closed, but not forever. And
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