The show you're about to listen to was originally a live streamed actual play on
twitch dot tv slash on made Gaming. Arise, millions and welcome to this
unmade gaming production. Join us on our adventures as we take a jump to
the left, a step to the right, and time work all around the
multiverse to find out exactly how to save the town of Garrett. In this
original Tale from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight rollout. Before we can go
forward, we have to go back, my friends. Atari Twilight is a
story about the eighties plague using Free League's Tales from the Loop system. Tales
from the Loop calls it setting the Eighties that never was, because the fantastical
elements added to our history, however, herititary Twilight. We call it n
Eighties, one of a limitless number of possibilities. Our kids, our heroes
will be traveling between these different variations of the eighties, learning important facts to
hopefully take back with them to their own reality. Secrets abound, hidden presidential
bunkers, potential allies, twisted versions of themselves, and secrets of the Loop,
all revealed in the copies of their world. But between all of these
different eighties spread out like rose in a garden. Between all of these eighties,
some things never change. Their 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 the heart of
it all. There five kids seek to save not just their eighties, but
all the eighties that ever were, including our own. In their way stands
Acadria, forces so fantastic that only the greatest decade could house them. Characters
from television, movies, and books walk the streets of Garrett. The Transformers,
night Rider, the Joker, the characters of King's Books, and many
more all present Garrett Maryland. Their hometown is the Nexus, and unlike any
of its mirrored versions, their Garrett is inaccessible behind a wall of unknown force
avail, and their garret is where the fate of everything will be decided.
Their Garrett is where they must return, for it holds the Loop, a
great mysterious research facility, a miraculous particle accelerator, the powers not only scientific
progress, but the imagination. And this vast and terrible Loop will be the
armageddon of all existence, and only these heroic teenagers can stop it. If
only they can return to their reality in this the last year of the greatest
decade. Here in nineteen eighty ninety will all be decided for good or ill,
the end of the age, And this tale is upon us. Four
years, over one hundred and forty songs, ultimately forty episodes in the making
comes down to this. Now we return not to their Garrett, but to
a Garrett in the highlands of Maryland. What secrets and dangers await them.
When last we saw our heroes, they faced an army of parental robots,
They met a fantastic four wheeled friend, and a terrible secret known only to
Jerry Baker. But that was then. Where are we now? The only
way to go forward is to go back, my friends, Back one last
time to our shared story, our eighties. Back one last time for the
love and memories. Back one last time to stand with our fantastic heroes.
George Butts struggling to stay alive in a world without power, Shannon Locke Fate's
wild card in this grand game, Casey Mitch Mitchell, the second to last
of his kind, robot, beloved son, and Jerry Baker inside him rest
the power of lightning and a dangerous secret. Welcome one and all to the
end of an Age. Welcome my friends to a tary Twilight rollout, Episode
six, Clear and present danger. My players, you're lucky and pride both
refreshed and if I could, would one of you like to roll lead for
this session? And this person cannot be robbed? I think we just do
it and let the rolls decide who's who's the lead? Or do we have
to Yes, I would be nice if I wanted to give you five shots
at it, but I don't want to do that. I want one of
you to pick and oh, that's right, that's right, because it okay,
I forgot what's think it's I think it's lots of Shane another or I
go to Okay, I can go either way with that, but it would
you prefer I think at some point we're all well, maybe we'll all have
a chance at it, so probably okay, old ladies, first, I'll
let you take this run after you. Now, just all right, lead,
Let's see what my roles are going to be like today. Five successful?
Okay, I'm good Sassafras alright, uh Met, Shannon has ten dice
to give to any of the other players in any amount for any role.
So you cannot give them to yourself, but you may give them to Rob,
George Mitch and Jerry ten Dice. Hell yeah, that's a bit of
a game changer. But that's damn. I have to roll with it.
If only I had a corruption Yeah, I mean, we're kind of in
the ship now, so it's it's totally fine. It's it's I mean,
not to give anything away, but it's a really good time to have those
disu my friends. When last we met George, George Ends his apparent friend
slash date Sam had just arrived at a miraculous top hilltop mountaintop field known as
the Moon Tower, with a scene dominated by a large firebreak iron structure.
This was for fire watch and things of that nature, but now decommissioned,
the locals have called it the moon Tower. Here at the Moon Tower,
a party rages with no fewer than one hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty
people. Among the partygoers we have one Jerry Baker and one Shannon Locke,
who with their apparent besties Dutch and Knee, are engaged in the time old
classic of a keg stand. Well at least Shannon is at this particular moment,
at this particular time here in Garrett, Maryland, at eight fifteen in
the evening, the date to be discovered upon your discovery. Across the way
from this rager of life filled party, we come to a rose Hill,
upon which sits a cemetery filled with the past, present, and future Garrett
residence at least at some point, but here right now, some that were
a past are now present as Ben, Rob and Mitch stare at their own
graves. So with those two sides for the first time, I'm going to
ask who wants to go first, the cemetery or the party cemetery. To
the cemetery. To the cemetery we go, then, So, my friends,
at the Rosehill Cemetery, you stare down at your graves. You see
that you have both been born obviously on your birthdate, but died on the
same day. At least Mitch sees that. Rob. You see no birthdate,
You see no death date. Your stone simply says your name and beloved
son. Ben Mackenzie looks at his own and turns around. Gone or the
electrodes that we're sticking out of his head. His hair has seems to have
grown back in a bit. He still has a haunted expression then, but
he turns and starts running to you, Mitch, what do you do?
My friends? Greg? This this cemetery. Is this like fairly like open
like plane kind of thing is there? Like trees and that kind of business.
There's the occasional tree. Yeah. This is mostly dominated by the headstones,
of course, all aligned in the rows of a garden. But there's
a couple kind of bumps of geometry where a mausoleum or two rest, or
perhaps a large monument to some local hero, you know, juts up into
the sky, some kind of massive remembrance a tree here or there. Okay,
do you need one to be close to you, because I'll give it
to you if you as long as there's high ground, like a mausoleum or
something. A Mitch doesn't care about the dead. He is one in several
universes now, so he's getting an immunity. He's going to like wave towards
Ben and if I can see Rob, he's gonna wave towards Rob. And
then he's gonna start booking it towards whatever the highest climbable structure is. And
he's going to try to get on top of a roof or a tree or
a statue for all he cares to try to get a height over the town
of Garrett. Absolutely, it's easy enough. There's a mausoleum that kind of
has almost like a cascade on the outside of it, like a block almost
looks like stairs in and of itself. They're rounded as to not have so
sharp a geometry to them, so you're quickly able to kind of scamper up
those and get yourself about ten feet off of the ground, you know,
atop the rise here at Rose Hill. Ben hears you and turns in the
direction that you're indicating, kind of rushes and starts to climb up behind you.
Everybody, before we go any further. It's only right too, since
this is the eighties and it's our eighties, and the music is the music.
Our soundtrack must start. And so, my friends, if you go
to our Spotify playlist for episode six, Clear and Present Danger, I would
like you to go down to track number three, A little Madonna like a
prayer. Life is a mystery. Yeah. He once he gets up there,
not really taking notice of Ben. Ben's safe here in the cemetery.
Ironically, he is like unnecessarily covering his hands over his eyes to block out
the moonlight. I don't know. And he's looking around the town of Garrett,
the same thing he did in the last Garrett. He's looking for identifiable
structures that either are or are not there. Is this structure different here than
it wasn't the last one missing one like Castle Gray Skull was missing. He's
trying to identify what is off here. Sure, go ahead, you can
roll me a investigate. As you look around, Rob, what are you
doing? You see Mitch climb atop this mausoleum. You see Ben follow him.
Ben's just about on top of the mausoleum to join his friend, and
you are still at your grave. What would you like do? He's gonna
stand there and just kind of look at it for a second, give it
like a kick, not like he's trying to kick it over, but just
kind of just kick at it. Huh. He's gonna turn around and absolutely
no hurry, just make his way over to the mausoleum. Roman, investigate
when you kick your stone two successes. The Rosal cemetery is well tended.
It's it's not as if weeds creep up around all the stones, but lawn
care and lawn service for an area this size is a perpetual thing. And
it seems that this particular segment, at least the segment where your stone is,
it's probably next on the list to be tended to. So there's a
bit of grown up grass. But as you kick it, you notice something
sparkle in the moonlight at the base of your stone. Well, yeah,
I'm gonna pick that up. Well, okay, let me rephrase that.
I'm gonna bend down and see what it is. I'm just gonna reach my
hand down there, pick up glowing Sure, you kind of you know,
carefully spread the grass to kind of look and reveal what this sparkle happens to
be. As you do so, you see that there are two items there.
One of them appears to be a back of a better definition, a
ring that you would get out of a bubble gum container. One of the
ones with kind of a split bottom to the band, so it could fit
any sized finger. But the ornament or the indication the stone of this cheap
plastic ring is a symbol of the autobots, and beside it is a piece
of glass grass muted. Good call, He's going to put the ring on.
It fits, and the glass grass in his pocket. It is pocketed.
Ben takes to the top of the mausoleum and runs their scrambles the kind
of three or four ft towards you, Mitch, and he opens his arms
up wide as you're looking around, and if you don't stop him, what
are you doing? He goes into hug you them. What's happening? We
don't hug Rob hugs? What do you mean we don't. I've never hug
I don't think I don't I don't. We can just came for me.
We've never hugged before. Yeah, man, dog, we've never been stuck
inside a thing before. Did you see what they did to me? Yeah?
Oh all right? Man like like puts an arm around him. That's
like he goes, you go side hug. He goes like full chest hug.
Okay, all right, that's that's Rob's thing. That's Rob's that's Rob
does the it can be. Everybody's saying, okay, all right, okay,
can you we gotta all right? Okay? And he like okay,
peels his arms off of them. All right, okay, listen, we
have to we get We have a we gotta do stuff. We had to
figure out where we are and where everyone else is and and and what's wrong
here? And are you? You know? What? Are you? Okay?
You had a lot of We've been through a bunch and this is not
the worst I've seen you, But I still pretty bad. I don't know.
They were doing stuff to my head. What were they doing? I
don't know. Okay, you stuck needles in it, and I saw that
I hooked me up to a battery or something. I mean, if it,
if it helps it all. When Jerry came in all cool and lightning
e, some of the lightning was bouncing around your head and that was pretty
cool. I didn't see it. Well it was your head, So yeah,
I guess that's cool. Are you? Are you? Are you?
Like okay? Now? Like? Are you? Don't know? You're in
like a different body now? So, I mean, I guess you're the
one that knows everything about this stuff. I don't know anything. Why does
everyone keep thinking that? I just keep getting thrown along? Um? Rob?
Are you joining them atop this building? Yes? Sorry? Okay?
Um, as soon as you would get up, then Ben would hug you
as well. Just yeah, Rob's gonna fall on right back, and Ben
does not break So until Rob you break this, this conversation is being done
with Ben hugging you Rob. I mean world number one. Rob's not breaking
it. That's what I figured. So everybody, in your mind's eye,
this is a hugged pair of Ben and Rob talking to Mitch. Mitch,
as you look over the course of garrett Um with your two successes, you
see the following one bank one of those successes. You only needed one to
reveal. It's it's difficult to see as far as the it's dark here in
the town. It's eight fifteen, but it's still a bit of light,
which would lead you to believe that it's sometime in the summer, because that's
the only time it would remain light this long. And as you kind of
scan the horizon, you notice two things. There is not a McDonald's here,
and neither is there a castle. Gray skull. Okay, okay,
um yeah. He kind of looks over and says, okay, it's another
one. There was no there was no gray skull in the last one,
and there's no gray skull in this one. Um Okay. The hill,
you guys, it's a real long hug sure. That's that's that was always
the plan, the hug or the hill, the hill, right, Okay,
I'm just saying it's still going. You guys can stop hugging. I
mean he didn't need to, Okay, and he just Ben just buries his
head deeper into like Rob's shoulder. He's not crying, but it's it's it's
okay, okay, buddy, take take your time, roll me and empathize
Rob three empathize successes. I'm empathizing so hard right now. You really are.
And because of the proximity and because Rob is Rob, you will use
all three of those successes to come to this realization. You don't think Ben's
as upset as he thinks he is, or acts like he is, or
pretends he is. A nearly impossible feat for those of you that are fans
of the Tails from the Loop free league system is three successes. Rob just
rolled three successes. Uh. Rob's gonna like if if Ben's head is kind
of buried where he can't really see Rob while he's holding him, He's gonna
kind of look at Mitch and just get like a face and kind of head
nodded down towards Mitch and try his best with his facial features to ask the
question, do you think something's off? Like Mitch also motions back in like
a hugged me like it was weird. I don't know. Hey, Ben,
yeah, buddy, you uh you you? Oh okay? I am
now thanks? Yeah, yeah you you you two? You can let go
go now he does, and because and again, a five with the lead
was crazy enough, but a three or four empathize is equally as intuitive.
As these successes are all being used. The other free one that I will
give you is when he pulls back and looks at you, he says something
very genuine. I feel like I haven't seen you a long time. Rob.
It's like that's that's than twenty four hours. Man, hasn't been that
long. But given what you've been through, it looks over at Mitch,
looks over at Ben. I get it. But um, what what did
it? Did happen? I showed up there and I was trying to get
to Maggie's and they got me and they took me to that place and they
locked me up, and I tried to call them. I tried to tell
them that Maggie was my aunt, and they let me call but they listened
to me when I did it, and um, then they just took me
and started doing what you who it was when you found me? You know?
Where where did you? Where'd you pop up? A Garrett had the
trade lens? Where'd you? Where did you pop up? At a lake?
Well in in in the lake in a car at the bottom of the
lake. That sucks. Yeah, he kind of get used to it,
I guess, which is also pretty shitty. Um. Okay, I pop
up with like a b blah blah block away from paperback We should probably stay
away from there because it's bad news. Where is away from where? No?
No, no, it's different everywhere. We need to at least make
an effort to see if Maggie's there. Okay, do you think it's safe?
The paperback exchange? It it seems like everything goes wrong when we go
there. What what do you It's not I mean, it's a circumstantial,
it's not. We we only what what happened the last paperback exchange? Yeah,
I mean guys telling me I wasn't there, but I bet you something
bad happened. What about the one before that? M hm? Right,
you like they look for us there. M hmm. Yeah, you guys
think, yeah, no it is. It is like they look for us
there and Mitchick for sure shoots a look to to uh to rob Um like,
uh, something's not right. Um uh we we should we should go
to the hill though. Okay? Yeah, and you know it sounds got
a point about the paperback exchange. Remember when he her hurt my thumb?
That's true? And Gary, yeah, do you remember that man, when
you broke your finger? Yeah, yeah, my my thumb. I thought
it was your I don't know they must have done I remember it being your
finger, man, Yeah, it was one of them. Oh god,
Um I tried to catch Yeah, Mitch hope you know what Greg I forget?
Did we ever get tupperware? Wasn't that wasn't didn't you did not?
As I say, wasn't that one of the butts of secret missions to get
tupperware? He was going to grab some from the house, but I don't
think it was ever acquired. Yeah he was. He was too low on
power. Um, Mitch is gonna pull all out his walkie um and like
Kiva mic a few times, uh and say any autobat, any autobot,
this is wheel jack. You don't hear anything. That's about thirty seconds.
You're gonna hear an echo when the Rob frantically turn his off. Yeah,
I mean Robs would go off as far as being keyed. Um, throw
me a this is gonna be a program, Yeah, program, Uh,
Mitch, I'll allow you to do this. You may get plus two dice.
Since this is the Nichie talkie UM, a semi iconic item for this
particular moment, I have a plus two to that. I didn't. I
didn't. It didn't pop up. So let me just roll you to your
assurances one success with one success. As you have to move away from the
frequency just a bit. It's not it's just a few spots on the dial.
You can hear a voice. You're not sure. It's not that it
doesn't sound familiar, it doesn't sound strange. It's just garbled and you can
tell that there are words being spoken. I will take before we go over
to the moon tower. I will take with the program. Let's just do
an investigate from everybody, from both Rob and Mitch. As you kind of
huddle around this and listen to successes, is what you need. You hear
two words at least, you're pretty sure these are the words paperback exchange,
and we zip through the air of Garrett Maryland and everybody, if you could
please queue up track number one, Greg's favorite eighties song, It is Q
Fields Dancing in Heaven. And as we zip and spiral down around the large
structure known as the moon Tower, they're already like ants upon a hill or
at a picnic to be ruined. Several adventurous and inebriated teenagers are scaling the
outside of the iron structure, getting from halfway to three quarters to the top
flat portion, which has been padlocked off as far as the safe ladder goes.
So the only way to gain the apex of this top of the world
moment at Garrett is to climb the outside. But as we go from the
heights of dangerous activities here we go down to one that is not dangerous,
but an activity of sport. Nonetheless, as Shannon Locke is inverted on top
of a keg, the tap of the keg has been just recently removed from
her mouth, and in an effort to replace the beer that has left a
flipped upside down Dutch walks on his hands towards you, Shannon, and much
like a dual Spider Man goes in for a kiss. Jerry Baker. You
are standing about five feet away from the scene with your good buddy knees arm
wrapped around you as he squeezes you and says, yeah, man, let's
do this. Deny my friends, what do you do? I think Jerry,
not expecting this camaraderie, reacts with his gut like he usually does,
and and we'll push knee away, good of me, and he pushes you
back. Come on, man, and it's one hundred percent not an attack,
but like, oh, it's just what we're doing. And he kind
of like sorts bobbing and weaving. Um, yeah, Jerry's can punch him
Romeo force, that's no successes on ten dice. Um. He you throw
a punch and knee catches it right in front of his face, and he
looks at your hand and says, he turns your palm, reaches behind him
and pulls out a cannon beer and puts it in your palm and slaps the
outside of your fingers, and then he reaches out and pops it for you.
I think I think it's at that moment Jerry will kind of get his
bearings and take a deep breath and like shaking lower his hand, looking at
the beer and then looking at Shannon. Yeah, Shannon. Yeah. Shannon
also is totally caught off guard. I don't think she ends up diverting the
kiss. I think is just like a what the heck just happened moment,
and then when she realized who it is, I think just eyes wide,
like I just left this person, like after betraying them, Like that's the
first thought that crosses her mind, and she's just in complete and utter shock
probably comes down from the kit stand at that point. Okay, I want
two rolls from Shannon. I would like a move role, and I would
like an empathize role. Please, okay, move to successes empathizes to success,
guys, I am okay with my dice being this free. Okay.
So with the move role, what I'm going to allow you to do is
this, you dictate you both are going to come down in a heap as
you kind of move. You said you don't block the kiss, so I'm
assuming that the kiss lands then, and so as Dutch's lips meet, yours
your empathized role just before you collapse or teeter or fall in whatever way you
tell us. You realize two things about Dutch. One he means this kiss,
and two he's happy okay, And how do you fall? I think
side by side? When you're about halfway down, he starts laughing. When
your legs kind of crack into the grass. It doesn't do any damage or
anything like that, but you're both kind of laying on your sides, and
he rolls over onto his back and laughs. It goes, how's the hell
of a ride? I think Shannon is silent for a minute as she also
rolls onto her back and like looks up at the sky, and I think
that moment, I'm assuming that there's not that many clouds in the summertime.
It's probably nice stars are visible. She thinks about her dad and the time
they went camping and talked about the constellations. And I think she probably just
looks sad, doesn't really say anything or react to to Dutch. As you're
laying there side by side, you would feel his hand search for yours.
She won't pull away. I think she's distracted right now with her her own
thoughts. He would wrap and lace his fingers in yours, not like fingers
and like fingers in between fingers but just fingers inside of your hand. Ye,
and um he would just whisper up, not turning to look at you,
but staring up into the sky with you. He would say, beautiful
woodn't it? Yep? Sure? As does she like see anybody like from
her current bantage point? Or is it a kind of just like tunnel vision?
M, you'd be able to see Jerry and knee. Uh, they're
close enough, and there's there's legs of kids everywhere, you know, and
this is you're near the keg, so there's traffic kind of coming around.
But um, it's a big place, and so people aren't like stepping over
you or getting too close to you. You know, might see the arrant
person kind of walk up and shit, someone's laying down here, and then
move around. But M, you're kind of given a bit of a berth.
Okay um, without turning to Dutch, what what date is it?
Is that? What you ask him? Do you feel the hands your hand,
his hand in yours? Tense just a bit, and he said,
are you all right? It's fourth of July? Oh shit? Um?
Yeah, but what what date is it? Tuesday? Oh? Man?
The date, like the whole date, Tuesday, July fourth, nineteen eighty
nine. Right right, are you testing? No, I haven't been drinking
that much at all. I think I think maybe I have. Um.
She kind of like gets up a little bit, like sits up on her
on her hands and let's go of Dutch. His hand, his hand is
kind of like supporting you. It's not trying to be creepy, but it's
like he's trying to like keep you upright, like he thinks you might throw
up or something. Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just as probably just a
you know, blood rush into my head too fast kind of and yeah,
um yeah, so okay, um deserves some food somewhere. Maybe I got
like the chips and stuff back in the truck, but yeah, could you,
um, would you mind getting that? Sure? Heyne, pass me
your keys. Man and Knee, who still is looking at Jerry, kind
of shakes his head, reaches into his pocket, unclips his keys from his
belt chain and throws them to Dutch. Dutch takes him I'll be right back,
thanks. She throws a glance over to Jerry, like and as that
happens to over top, Dutch looks at Jerry and Knee and it's just kind
of like the keep an eye on. You can see there's concern on his
face. Yeah, and then he moves off. She like tries to like
get Jerry to like come help her off the ground, like a like pretending
to like not be able to get up kind of thing, and see if
he gets what she's trying to do. He's a little slow, but he
was looking for some sort of um guidance. So yeah, he'll he'll pick
up on that. Yeah, She'll kind of like take his hand and like
purposely stumble towards him and like hold on to his shoulder, like side check
shoulder. Are you Jerry, Jerry like whispering like to him, Yes,
Okay, going on, I have no idea. Dutch just kissed me.
What the hell I tried to punch knee? But we need to pretend like
everything is normal whatever normal is here. Okay, we got it, Like
I got Dutch to go go to the truck. Now we need to get
rid of me. Any ideas? No, Okay, I'm gonna go throw
up, good idea. She like stumbles away again, purposely over over the
top, exaggerated stumbling, and yeah, right, as soon as you you
get maybe two stumbles away and knee looks at Jerry and he was like,
go with her, dickhead. I'll get some water. Yeah, water,
water and maybe a bucket or we're outside, dude, right water fast.
When you say fast, he kind of looks at you box and eyebrow like
the fuck, and then goes to find water at a teenage party. That
right, He's also going to look for the ark of the Covenant while he's
out. As he moves off, our camera follows Dutch as he weaves towards
the kind of the secondary lot field where everybody parks their cars and is moving
towards a kind of a beaten up brown truck, And as he moves through,
he inadvertently kind of catches the shoulder of a kid. Hey oh sorry,
dude, George, you see Dutch kind of shoulder check you lightly and
then apologize as Sam looks up at you. I don't think we should stay
here. I think we should. Um, we're not get in trouble.
I took front because I only have my one hundred and eighty day permit.
WHOA, what are you? What are you talking about? We just got
here? Yeah, but I mean does this look like us? It's a
party. But again they're playing q field. So it's weird. No,
just get over that, you know, it's we got to do this right.
It's part of being a kid growing up, you know. We can't
walk away from parties. Let's just only stay for a little bit, okay,
um, get back in time to see the fireworks. Fireworks Fourth of
July fireworks. Oh yeah, yeah, duh ka, missos Right, can't
we just see him from here? Well, we could see him from here,
can we? Yeah? But I mean they're done in the park in
town, and I mean from this distance, we'll only just kind of see
a little bit of them, like flashes. I mean, let's see,
let's see how we've you know, let's not commit one way or the other.
Let's see how it goes. Maybe we warm up a little bit.
I'm gonna have you roll me and empathize. George. Oh I still have
two conditions. Oh you can take those off. I'll let you reroll them.
I don't know which ones I have checked, though, so I could
just roll six dice and just go from there, maybe, says, I
don't know which ones I have. If you want to show one success with
one success, you know that Sam isn't gonna let this go. She's not
real comfortable with you all being here, and you see that she's almost she's
scared, and there's sort of like a desperate quality to not wanting to be
here. But she's here obviously because George or whoever the George was before you
got here, I really wanted to come to this party. All right,
Well, um okay, and she kind of squeezes your hand. Let's do
this, all right, Let's let's just walk around and see who we know,
and you know, just go from there. It's a party, so
you know, ay, like loose like playfully, like shakes her hand like,
you know, just loosen up. I know you kind of obviously reading
the room, right and you see her and for a second she kind of
does like the like shakes her whole body. Right, just just get loosing.
Okay, all right, all right, let's do this. Let's do
some Parti's party. Yeah, Um, can I survey the party and see
if if I see any of the other kids. I don't think I've seen
any episodes in the obviously, right, I will take an investigate from you,
and I will also take an investigate from one of the other people,
whether it be Shannon or from our good buddy Jerry. Jerry's not great at
paying attention, that's true, and Shannon is looking around already for others.
So I'll go ahead and roll that. I still have the two petitions on
Pang one success. George does not see you, but you see George.
Okay. She like elbows Jerry pretty hard, maybe not on purpose, but
like to make sure that she got his attention. Katesps, Oh that's is
that? Sam? I think? So? Oh this is a weird place.
Yeah, you think you're a your girlfriend is n'e? I that's not
funny? She sure, because I'm laughing. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
This is a serious situation. Yeah, yeah, get off your your like
love train or whatever. We gotta find everybody, okay, love train.
That's funny. You're funny, Jerry. We do have to find everybody,
though, do you want to? Like? She kind of looks around to
see if Nie is coming back or not, or Dutch for that matter.
I'll let you know this free of charge. Me is going to be several
minutes to come back without water. M Dutch. You can see is kind
of on his way back with a bag of uts potato chips in his defense.
It's a large bag. Okay, um, all right, go that
direction to like intercept, but just the casual uh. And Shannon kind of
looks around to see if somebody is like throwing a hoodie anywhere you're looking for
like suspicious folk. No, no, like thie. I thought I thought
you meant like somebody like hearing from a hoodie somewhere. Okay, No,
no, like somebody's like coat or hoodie or something. You want to acquire
a hoodie? Yes, okay, Roman investigate because it is fourth of July.
A successful investigate, you find a hoodie. Okay, three successes.
You find three hoodies, I'll take which everyone's the biggest one. And she
throws it over her best so you can't see it and then just collar up.
Yes, you have a navy blue West Virginia Mountaineers hoodie, only perfect
and she kind of just in a sneaky of a fashion as possible. I'm
happy to roll for it if you want tries to make sure that Dutch does
not see her like as she's leaving with three investig yates, I will allow
you to find the hoodie and make it past Dutch as if you're trying to
intercept George, I will allow you to do all of this without Dutches's knowledge.
Okay, perfect, that is what we do. Okay, Jerry's Jerry's
not in disguise, He's just kind of hunched over but still quite large.
Dutch seems to be going one way and following Shannon kind of takes you around
where Dutch is going through. So you all miss one another, but you
do intercept Butts and Sam kirkshaw off for that matter, as you all kind
of congregate amidst the party at the moon Tower. Oh oh hey, hey
that's and Sam. He what's up? Chair bear? Shannon. Sam's hand
squeezes yours, George, and she kind of turns and leans into your ear.
How do you know these people? We'll go to art class. We
go to school with them, don't we. These are the ones that smoke
outside. Well it doesn't mean I don't know their names. You don't know
anybody's name. That's blow a certain class. They have to live on our
street. The people don't live on our street. Well, we'll talk about
that later. That's very You know, these they're okay, they're not great
people, but just just tolerated. Okay, we'll just we're at a party,
you know, Lucy Gusini like wabbles are a little bit you know,
Okay, but I've never seen them at the club before the club. Yes,
yeah, so so I mean, and she just kind of shrugs,
as somebody with money in the eighties often did. So. Yes, here
for the party, huh in a party, it is? Yes? Is
it sure? Sure is? Without water? There there is no water at
this party on the fourth of July. Nonetheless, Yeah, in nineteen eighty
nine, of all times, Yeah, isn't that crazy drink? Sorry,
just excuse me for being weird. It's nine times too. Sam in the
Robots, I would like to cite this moment as why everyone looks at Mitch
to come up with plans. Um so yeah cool, hey, um yeah,
I don't know, I'm so so uh butts could I h could I
borrow you for a minute. Jerry's tried, but he can't seem to use
the keys to get into the car. Maybe you're you need a sober hand?
Yes, yes, yeah, I just lean over the dj ens just
stay here, would yeah, just stay talk just talk no, no,
just talking about yeah, offer him a cigarette. I don't know what Jerry,
be nice, don't don't steal from your sister. But those are for
us. Just just just have you seen the big one smoked two at lunch?
Just one? Just no, just be polite, keep him busy.
He can't talk of his cigarettes in his mouth, and maybe he does.
Just don't listen to him. I can't believe you're leaving me. I'll be
right back. That's what they say in all of the horror movies. Well,
you know, the cute girls usually last a little bit too. You'll
be all right, I'll be back. Why don't we just leave? Let
me just let me help her. I don't know what it is. Whatever
she's wasted. I just want whatever. Let me get her to whatever vehicle
so she can go home or whatever, and then I'll I'll be back.
What time is it? You do have a very expensive watch on my What
time is it? Yeah? It looks like a rolex of some kind,
and when you look at it, it looks like it's about nine twenty By
this point, it's like eight forty five or got plenty of time. Okay,
good, Yeah, let's leave in like a half hour. Yeah yeah,
I'll be back. Okay, be nice, please, please be quick.
Yeah, yep, um, as you and Shannon are walking off you
here, So, Jared bear, would you like a cigarette? I should
have? And Jerry's back to wearing that face that looks like somebody near him
farted. Um, A very shaky hand extends, holding one singular smoke.
It's not even in a fucking pack man, it's just one smoke. I
don't I don't smoke. I'm good. I mean, thank you, Sam.
And she puts one into her mouth and flix her hair back and says,
do you have a light. Let's cut over to George and Shannon as
they are moving towards the parking lot. Okay, okay, um, I
don't know what's going on just yet, but everybody's very friendly with each other,
by the by the way of kissing and such. Oh you and Jerry
kissed. No, not Jerry Dutch, which is almost worse. I can't
tell. Okay, can we not just know if we're not whatever? Okay,
so um you and samp Okay, that's great. Um, I don't.
I don't know where the rest of them are. It's like nighttime.
Also problem, it's almost my birthday and I feel weird and um, I
don't know what to do. I don't even know how old you are.
What are you talking about? It's your birthday? Like just feel old,
that's all? Okay? Well, you know, like we we left and
it was like winter and now it's summer and all this time has passed and
I feel like we're not saving anything. Yeah, it's it's times. A
time is a it's a you know, hm, it's time. Yeah,
it is time. Okay, Okay, So you feel weird. I mean
I think we've been jumping a lot. Maybe that's just a side effect,
just thinking like maybe this Shannon was drinking a lot before I got here.
Yeah, I mean there is a lot of beer here, so it's gross.
Yeahs okay, Um, what are we going to do about Sam?
She seemed kind of jumpy. He doesn't want to be here, okay,
but like we need to find the others and Sam is probably not going to
be on board for that. For you ditching her because she seems kind of
clingy. Yeah, I can't speak about this one. Normally I defend Sam
day and night, but you know, I don't know this one from that
one. Uh. But she she's here with her sister's car, so I
think drive her home then take the car, or we steal Dutchess car or
Knees car, whoever's car we steal. We're steal a car. That's all
I'm saying. It's won't get where we need to be. This is partful
the course for me. I'm okay with this plane. Yeah. So I'm
assuming, uh, Mitch probably dead again, so he's probably some graveyard,
right, yeah, so we should look where a recent dead body or or
old Yeah, exactly. So we could go to the Morgue. That's where
I was last time. We could try there. Um, we also have
walkie talkies. I should probably turn the volume on. Yes, yes,
you're right, we should do that. We have to go to the hill
though maybe they if well, one of them might be alive. Oh I
think we're a loan let me just okay, yeah, I'll give bats.
I'll give you this one for free. The Moon Tower is ten miles outside
of the town of Garrett. Jazzed autobots. All they're dead is hell,
all right, we gotta figure out where they are. Okay, We're gonna
like consume their bodies and with with that we spiral into the air with the
jazz to autobots and that signal breaks up about four miles away from where we
are, but we continue the other six until we get to the hill in
Garrett where we see Rob, Mitch and Ben. You've been sitting here for
twenty five thirty minutes, my friends? Where the hell is everybody? Um
on their way? I hope? Okay, Well, hey when did you
die? There? There? There wasn't there wasn't a date. Maybe I
just wasn't handled correctly. I don't know what that means, like a package
like the UPS delivery guy. They don't play death dates on if they don't
know. Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe I'm missing? Well
I was missing, I would have yeah, yeah, usually so far in
my experience and Jerry's you sort of pop up where you died? Yeah yeah,
yeah, I thought about that. So maybe maybe maybe I am I
I am there and they just didn't know what about you? Ben? When
did you die? Yeah? Ben? Some? When did you die?
It's some on my birthday? Like but when though I was twelve, it
looked like I was also my birthday. So and he like puts up a
high five to high five. Been yeah, okay, hive, Now we're
death buddies, like me and Jerry were last time, right, Okay,
all right, man, I'm dead dead too. We don't know you could
be missing. Well, if I was missing, I would have shown up
Robot. I'm gonna give it to him high five and he's he has his
hand out and it just you accidentally high five his hand. That's like just
pointing out. All right, let'sten. When he high fives you, he
pulls away and snaps you are looking. So that was weird. Um,
okay, listen, guys, I have I have an idea. Um uh,
I need to boost the signal on the antenna for the walkie talkies.
Um, we could we could climb the one tower that I fell off of.
Or we could go to the old guy DJ what's his name, DJ
Rock. We can go see him and climb his hijack. The radio tower,
the relay tower. It's outside of town. The radio tower. M
yeah, they just relay it from here. DJ Mrock is out in the
woods. Oh, I've never been there, so I guess I guess the
tower here. Or we could see if Maggie's around, But why don't we
get to the tower instead. I like that idea. Or we can go
to Butts's house. Yeah, which which one one's closest, because I'm a
b be honest, it's been a long day. The paperback exchange is between
where you all are on the hill and for if you go over to the
map, I will show you currently you are all at the top of the
hill. And so if you proceed down, butts His house, if you're
going to his dad's would be or I'm sorry, Butts his house would be
right up here, and the paperback is here. I thought, you said,
Jerry for a second, oh, and I thought, why the fun
would you be going to Jared's Greg whereabouts is the radio tower from season one
that I climbed and an attack my fucking Decepticon it fell. Yeah, it's
way down the edge of the map. It's between the math truck graveyard and
the trade winds, So it would be right there if you can see that
all the way over to the right side. Yeah, yeah, we could.
Okay, so if we if he like gets a stick or something like
it's drawing on the grass, we could we could go to butts house first,
right, and then we keep going down. We jump onto Maine and
we go down, we hit the paperback exchange, see what's going on there.
We can go to the trade winds and stop by your house, uh,
Rob, and see what's going on over there, and then we can
cut down to the radio tower. Oh then don't know, Okay, we
can skip your house. Um, but but buts, Butts is rich,
so they might have satellite TV. We could probably do something with that,
right, No, it's completely different frequencies. Oh yeah, Nerd, It
only would literally take you about a minute to get over to butts is from
where you are. Cool. His house is right off the next blot.
Um. As soon as you go up, the house is dark. Uh
fuck, Um, Greg, I this is a little this is a little
meta. But since since bus seems fucking loaded, Um, what's what's in
the driveway? Nothing? Shit? He rings out? You would know that
in your Yeah, in your Garrett Prime, I believe that Eugene had a
corvette. Um, but that was in the garage and even if you peek
into the garage, it is not in there. Okay. He definitely rings
the doorbell a couple of times. You can hear it kind of go through
the house. No lights appear in any of the windows. Damn, No,
Butts, all the butts is this it's a butts. It's a bus
free zone paperback exchange. Yeah, um, I guess that's the next option.
It's the next closest missmember. Maggie would know what to do, or
at least some point us in the right direction. Yeah, you can like
give her a super hug and make sure it's actually Maggie. It's just at
the At the sound of that, Rob's gonna reach up and kind of grab
his crystal. It is there, Thank God, to the paperback exchange,
Greg a little bit. Okay, you all get we're gonna since we were
with the other group for a little bit, we're gonna take this time to
bring you up to nine twenty. And that's where you would be when you
get to the paperback exchange. It is also where several mountains over we have
everybody at the Moon Tower. The paperback exchange is locked, but there is
a light on inside and the let me see make sure I have this right.
The closed sign that has turned over says closed but only for a finite
period of time. What do you do? You have a secret knock,
rob or And it's probably different here, so you know they they probably don't
have the same, the same, nah, nah, or anything, but
I can try. Yeah, what's the worst I could happen? And Rob's
literally just gonna rob. As you get close to knocks on the door,
just um, something that happened simultaneously to your knock, Roll me and investigate.
Maybe nothing happens. Oh, I have one successful investigator. With one
success you are given the following. Just as your first knuckle hits the three
sequence, you notice there are no crystals in the paperback ex change nine.
As you look through they're usually dangling from fishing line. Crystals are absence,
giving an almost large quality, or a kind of a cavern esque quality to
the paperback exchange because normally you can't really even see the ceiling. The drop
ceiling is covered by these descended on various lengths and various altitudes of crystal.
And as you hit that first knock, you hear from the back. I
could have sworn I heard something, but don't worry. I think we have
some leftover from pangs. And then a knock coming and you see through the
non beaded doorway in the back comes a man maybe seventy seventy five long white
hair. Hold on, hold on, when you hear where the lock,
the bolt turns, and without hesitation, the door opens. Oh boys,
it's fourth of July. Aren't you out having some fun? Face? Claimed
Jeff Bridges. H Greg looking for Mackie. Oh it's one of your friends.
Come on in, Come on in. If you need something, I
can get it for you. I haven't shut the register down. I never
really do, but um, come one in. Yeah, you do you
work here? Paperback exchange doctor Holter Rockerville owner operator. Let's cut over to
the moon Tower, my friends. Jerry, how do you smoke the cigarette
that you have? No? No, Sam? Does do you give her
a light? Or does she have to produce her own? You find that
you do have a lighter in your pocket, even if you never had one
before. I think I think Jerry will will give her a light. Um.
You can see how uncomfortable she is. Thank you. And she sits
there and smokes in a way that you think she probably learned from either Dynasty
or a movie, as she's kind of smoking between her middle and ring finger.
So so uh you and you and butt? Huh? Yeah? Pretty
special guy, he's the best houses dead. See cool. Mister Butts is
a dad. He's fine. It's just like sometimes at school you hear like,
oh that guy's dad. Are you sure as an evil robot? But
you know, well, fuck dude, give me a second fuck. Um
No, no, I don't don't think he's an evil robot. Um,
he's kind of boring. Oh that's that's the best kind of dad. Yeah,
okay, Um, what do you do for fun? Jare bear?
It's Jerry, just just Jerry. Um okay, I beat people up for
calling me that. But you're going to get a past because you're a girl.
I do parties and I find my friends. Um. Do you know
Ben Mackenzie no is Is he a fellow smoker? Oh? Yeah, he's
he's a joker too. Huh. Um, I gotta find him, you
know. And and and Mitch and and and Rob Rob. Are they at
the party here or are are they in town? I don't know. We're
so we're at the moon Tower right m hm. Hey, do you have
a car? No? Oh? Does Butts have a car? No?
Oh? Okay, you know you use these two these? Sure? She
slowly shifts it from between med one rings between four and ring or four?
Good, So I'm gonna you Hey, let's go find those guys. Okay,
and she makes a bee line towards the car the parking lot that she
doesn't have. Yeah, Jerry follows her. Um, maybe you could convince
them to go back in town. What time is it? By the way,
you do not have a watch, Jerry. It's like night, okay.
Um. You would see fast quickly approaching Shannon and George. You would
see um, Sam and trailing Jerry. No sign of Dutch in knee,
Jerry trailing and kind of shrugging his shou Oh god, Jerry didn't keep it
her from What are we gonna do? Jerry? What do we expect?
I have a terrible idea. You always do right, and you're all together
dope. M hey, hi Jerry here, and I decided maybe we should
go back and we should go into town. Mum. I feel like it
would be sick. Yeah, yeah, I think a baby sick. She
like leans onto Sam. Oh okay, okay, um okay, yeah,
could you like um? She just kind of like rubs her back. She
looks it, but in a very obviously regretful fashion, and she's going to
try to force herself to throw up on Sam on Sam yep okay, Um,
Jesus okay, okay, free league, let's do this. Um what
should I make you roll to see if you can vomitum? Shit? Uh
you know what I'm going with? Charm god? Okay what success? Oh
my god? Okay, So it's a little bit, but it's enough to
gross her out probably. Um she her ma opens the lit cigarette, which
is now just about it's just a filter with maybe a centimeter of actual cigarette
drops to the ground as you vomit on her like her brand new like George
ash jeans, and she looks at George. We have to go yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, nope, yep, yep, let's
go. Yep. Oh god, I'm so sorry. Just do you need
a ride? Maybe you should take her to home, you know, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. You you take care of yourself. You
got plenty going on here. Ye, you know, like you got a
real hill to time. You're right. Yeah. She starts, she starts
to take she takes off her she has like a light jacket and she takes
it off, and it's like whipping it, as if whipping will somehow get
like liquid vomit out of something. But she's like whipping it and you just
see crap flying off of it. If she's doing it and she's trying to
like like just scrape with the blade of her hand, I'm touching mom it
as she's doing it. Everybody, if you would go to your Spotify playlist,
please at the very bottom you will find a song called Lost in the
Shadows. Looking to cue that up. I've even put it on repeat free
of charge, everybody, no investigation needed. You hear your first screen,
and hear your second, and you hear about a dozen. You see people
starting to run in every direction from the moon Tower. At precisely nine thirty
when in the town of Garrett the first of the fireworks goes off. Here
at the moon Tower, figures begin to set, ending from the sky and
ripping the throats out of the children in the field. Sam, who is
blading the vomit off of her jeans, calmly looks up at George and says,
you lied to me. I asked you what time it was. Yeah,
are we more worried about that? And he's like, cool, look
at this over your shoulder and like it's pointing at She shakes her head as
two figures, one of them free falling from the top of the moon Tower
crashes to the ground about ten feet from you, completely still. The teenage
face that you don't recognize looks up into that beautiful crystal Garret sky. The
fall did not kill him, The fact that he no longer has a throat
did. The second figure slowly comes to rest behind her sister as the blood
soaked face of Veronica Kirkshaw looks at all of you and she licks her lips.
Looks like you're on the menu. George, let's got back to the
paperback exchange friends. Hey, everybody, Um, looks like the fireworks are
about ready to start. Can I get you anything? I was just about
ready to go downstairs. I don't do well with the popping in the lights
kind of rattle the old brain a little bit. M hmm um, yeah
you were Here's C C. C. Maggie Right, yeah, I'm afraid
I don't know him. Wait a minute, it's a rob. Right.
Did you ever find your friends? Are they? Are these your friends?
What about that sharp dressed kid you were in here with? George? Did
you do? Do you do? You didn't know where where George is at?
You came in with you a couple of months ago. I haven't seen
y'all, since you're looking for your buddies. Uh, Ben in a jerry,
Yeah, well we've we found the bend Ben, And he's gonna kind
of point at Ben. Ben's reading a Batman comic book. This is a
funny comic books. I hate you, Greg, But do you did you
do? No? No, no, well, Maggie, I'm afraid I
don't. He's gonna kind of look over at Mitch. Do you um do
you know? Um um man uh sh Mandy Myers? Oh yeah, who
is she? She used to be an old club of mine. What was
the club called the American Leaders of Tomorrow Association? Was was there a was
there a Patrick Mitchell in there too? Yeah? What did you do?
You know all this? Did you? Did you? They tell you about
us in school? Yes, exactly, the super cool science stuff, right,
m teachers, That's what I do. I'm a scientist. I thought
you owned the paperback store exchange. Well, and he points to Ben's comic
book. You have to be Bruce Wayne in the daytime. Oh okay,
He like puts his hand over Rob's mouth. Do you have a secret lab?
Is that was in the is that was downstairs? You have a secret?
You have a secret like scientists lab roll me a charm. That's my
dump stack, Greig, come on, good thing. You have somebody that's
a leader through But yeah, I have two dice alrighty actually three three?
Yeah? One success one success. Um. He leans forward. I do
are are you a wait? Are you a mad scientist? Or like no
rad signed? Who told you that? I'm just asking. I got to
clarify, and of course not. I've had a couple of experiments that have
gone a little hey wire, but nothing that would constitute like global domination or
anything. Now I'm fine with global domination. Do you have a CB radio
or a HAM radio? I could probably figure that out, kadd Were you
the ones that we're on the the frequency? Yes, that's me. Yeahs
us look at that. He rips it out of your hand. Okay,
let you show. I would have probably made that a little bit bigger.
But yeah, I made it out of radio check parts and on the floor.
It's impressive, young man. Thanks health together by hopes and dreams.
Let's screws him duct tape. But that's I mean, it's all for this.
Scarret's kind of awesome. He closes the door. You don't mind if
I locked this, do you boys, I just want to make sure no
one else comes in. Nope, If we can go to that's great.
Yeah, come on, come on. He locks it, he goes and
he walks you all back, and you can tell that this guy's probably closer
to eighty as you can see him now kind of fully move He's got a
little bit of like a Dick van Dyke, kind of like skeletal gait to
him as he moves up. But he gets to the back of the place,
and what normally could only be breached through beaded curtain is just an open
door. And when you walk in, you see that there is a door
that does not appear in your paperback exchange, just behind where the metal desk
would be. He gets the door and it doesn't say keep out. It
just says employees only. And he opens it up and he says, ye,
are you guys cool? We're the coolest? Oh yeah, well hold
on, Ben, Ben, Oh I'm cool. It's cool. I mean
it's kind of weird. Have you all ever seen any strange things in Garrett?
And that's when the first firework goes off, and when you hear the
about a second before you actually hear the pop of the explosion. Doctor Holter
Arcaville grabs his head. Oh it started. Um, if you want to
come down, come one down, boys, And he opens the door and
you see him descend immediately down some wrought iron steps. Mitch, you would
recognize these steps, Oh, son of a bitch, Greg Ben Ben regard
of the cretin science basement. Uh. Ben Ben steps into the room.
Okay, creepy science basement. Okay, okay, sorry Ben, Um and
uh, I think that's that's the last thing he says before he runs down
these stairs. Um. The way the kidnapped mitches to lure him into a
science fan. Um right, Um. You hear up, and you hear
the second and the third firework go off, and you hear visible pain or
audible pain coming from beneath from doctor Arkaville. Uh, and you hear him
yell up. Could click close the door please when you come down, close
it close. Ben closes the door. Um, it doesn't have a lock
or anything like that. You can you actually see Ben close it, then
open it back up, nod, and then close it again. As you
all descend, they'll give you this one for free. This is now there
should be Mitch would tell you two desks that are facing one another. In
here, there's only one desk, but there is every implement of a mad
scientists laboratory that you can think of. This has the globe with the lightning
inside. This has a beaker that seems to be beaking something. Everything and
anything that looks like it could be either chemical, electrical, or biological,
and experimentation seems to be going on simultaneously. It smells of ash mold,
and you're pretty sure piss of that. But when you get down there,
there's that that constant, burning, rotting smell that's kind of inundating you.
It's basically like you would smell if you walk through a laboratory area in a
school, So like a most unfinished basin correct, right, um. As
you get down there, the first person down, doctor Arcaville, is talking
to the corner. We have guests, so calm, keep your breathing.
Calm. He hunched over a little bit. Don't scare them. Never seemed
to be nice boys, and they're science Frank fans, So that's us.
What you got? What you got over there? Just be calm and he
turns around. How much do you all know about different dimensions. It's just
like looks at rob. Uh, how much do you know about different dimensions?
Whoa bit, um, don't be scared. This is my friend.
Um just just come on out. And you hear him and you see at
about seven and a half feet tall, Frankenstein walks out from the corner.
M hm, he's ain't doctor Archiville standing in front. He's just gentle.
Was a mouse. He were gonna burning me sticking with pitchforks. I had
to save him. I had brought him here. Um, he's my friend.
I did not expect Frankenstein. It's neither of all the things from the
movie. No, no, we we got it. You can see that.
I just Frankenstein. Of Like, are there other monster people here?
I don't know. Um, I didn't bring him here. I don't think
how did how did you get him here? With my slide? You?
I'm sorry? Like, is it a portal? Well? A portal denotes
the ability to go in two directions, like a door. My slide just
comes from there to hear. Oh, he's only he's only got the shoots,
not the ladder. Fucking nice, It's true, Greg, Do I
see anything that looks like the thing that was in the basement of the nineteen
sixty nine Uh, because it's funny you should ask that, because in the
exact space where you saw the thing in the nineteen sixty nine Castle Gray Skull
office, there sits a square. It looks like a frame without a picture.
Can you just like reach in and grab stuff? Is that how it
works? Haven't done it in a while? How do you know so much?
Why aren't you scared? Boys? He gonna shit if we die from
here? Um? He would, he wouldn't survive. That's rough. Um
okay uh um. And he like reaches over the desk and sort of I
assume they're on wheels. He grabs her like the old rickety spinney like wheelchairs
and like sort of slides it over to him. Sir, you you you're
you're gonna want to take a seat, okay, okay, um you you
two Frankenstein m hmmm. And he slides down the wall, but he listens,
he sits down. Do you know? Uh? Okay so alta um
yeah? Uh? Sean Locke right, Pat Mitchell, yeah, Melanie McKenzie
yeah, does Eugene Butts remember, how do you know all this? Carl
Baker? Yes, is there. Uh an Anna ann Anna Blake. She's
going a blake now she was in a green man Dan Blane know thiss?
Yes, how do you know this? You asked? How his eyes go
wide? We? Uh? From here? Are you? We have a
winner? You see tears pour out of his eyes? Okay, it works?
He works? What works? It happens? You were here before and
left. I can't make anybody leave that was it can only bring him in.
Um okay, oh you know. Uh. Mitch grabs another chair and
just sort of sits on it and like has his arms on the back of
it like guidance counselor style. Um so okay, um Sean, what are
you doing here? What do you need from? Yes? O? Can
I help? Who's Maggie? Why did you you you need a Maggie?
Is it important? Is the world in trouble? Is there something way I
can help? I don't think this is like back to the future. Um,
not at all. Where where we come from? We don't know you,
but we know Maggie, and Maggie runs this place. And there isn't
a science lab. I don't do you do you have a daughter or a
wife. She's kind of old. Yeah, yeah, m hm. She
like which done died? Oh, well me too. Um, he's gonna
he's gonna fill his crystal and pull it out from his shirt. What about
this? She might have have one of these? Never, there's something may
I and he puts his hand out for him. Whoa, whoa, wha,
Well, I'm just gonna put it under the microscope. Oh yeah,
yeah what and yeah he's gonna reach into his little bag and give him one
of the other crystals. Uh. The bag is being held by Shannon Locke.
Help bag is being held by Shannon Locke. Is actually what's going on?
And a man, I don't want to get this coming rock he Mitch
sees like Rob's hesitants and he kind of cuts in his head. Do you
know what? Do you know what? Uh? Doctor Fox or doctor Sawyer?
M hm. They work at the Loop. What's what does your loop
do? Powers the East coast, but nothing like one we went in Richland,
Washington, powers the West coast. Okay, you got two over here?
Yeah, okay? Is is Frank the only weird thing in Garrett.
I didn't mean to bring him through. I was trying to get Frank.
We were after him. Bring what through? It sounds crazy. Oh,
we haven't heard it. I think I I brought through other monsters too.
You asked before I lied. Okay, Frank's good, he's a good boilo.
He's my friend here. I don't want to get him in trouble.
If something happens to me, then he will be all alone. He did.
We are not here for Frank and I'm fourteen and he's a giant.
Whoa, whoa, whoa who hold on? Hold on, it's not count
our chick chickens. M. We can't take Frank with us. That's just
that's not we can't. We can have our own own Frank and stuff.
We have robots. We have enough problems. Who's gonna babysit? Okay,
sir, I'm sorry. What you were gonna say? What kind of monsters
you brought? Mhm? Genas and species? Please? A slide works.
It's just it was always a fan of doctor Frankenstein. He made a friend,
but the friend was but I always thought that if he did it right,
he'd have a friend. And I was thinking about that and I found
Frank and they were coming for him. They were they were going to burn
him, and I had to bring him in. I had to write you
would have done the same. M hmmm mm hmmm. What else other than
Frank? We're cool with Frank. I think I brought the other ones.
Which ones though, like the creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wolfman,
the Mummy, yea dracul And and we cut back to the moon Tower.
Everybody que up lost in the shadows again as Veronica looks at you, the
bottom third of her face drenched in maroon blood. She walks up behind Sam
and leans her tall kind of slender form her shoulder, her elbow on top
of Sam's shoulder and looks at the three of you screaming. You see people
being swept and carried into the air thirty forty eat and then dropped figures in
flight at least a dozen. Looks like you're on the menu, George,
Well, get used to a vegan diet, and I gotta go for a
swing Roma force three successes. You smash into her face and you can see
that she's moving, almost almost gets out of your strike, but you just
landed, and you see her head rock and you see flex of blood fly
off that are still fresh enough to be able to separate from her face and
fly off. Sam ducks the punch. She's not moving particularly fast, but
it wasn't aimed at her. It's just a reaction on her part. And
as you crack Veronica and she flips in the air and lightly lands back on
her feet. She looks up at you and I had a Michigan George.
Your vision goes black and white, and in the bottom corner it says two
and that, my friends, is where we will end our session of Atari
Twilight. It's ten o'clock already on the crap wow ah well, well Greg,
greg Greg Greg Gregory, Uh if Shannon wasn't a vampire yet. Untary
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