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Tale from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight rollout. Thank you very much,
my friend, and I am always happy to be here with the greatest rping
band ever, the Atari Twilight Family. I cannot wait to continue and conclude
this tale, but before we go forward, we have to go back a
tory. Twilight is a story about the eighties, played using Free League's Tales
from the Loop system, and is a story about a group of kids tasked
with saving the world and tire standing against them. A collection of villains from
the far corners of movies, TV, comic books, and novels. The
battleground their hometown of Garrett, Maryland, a sleepy mountain town utterly unremarkable save
for one ominous edition. The Loop, A particle accelerator whose reckless science has
breached the veil between Garrett and its limitless parallel dimensions. The loops lust for
knowledge threatens not just their garret, but every garret, every world in the
great multidimensional Garden. After traveling and diving to numerous mirrors of their hometown,
our heroes find themselves back in their garret. The secrets they have learned along
the way, coupled with friendships, forged maybe the only thing standing between us
and armageddon. Enemies from movies, comics, TV and novels choke the streets,
somehow privy to passage through the veil, but of their allies, the
forces of good, none seem to have made it yet. The date Sunday,
December thirty first, nineteen eighty nine. Time is running out. The
greatest decade, the eighties draws to a close, and if allowed to end,
so too ends all the worlds. Can our heroes find a way home,
and if so, can they stop the loop and save existence? Can
they drop the veil? That is what we're here to find out. Our
kids stand at the heart of it all. Robot, you have to go
away to get ahead, the words of a clown, advice or a warning.
Shannon Locke returned to the world with her father Sean. Can she finally
save him and in so doing save herself. George Butts running on fumes.
George must confront his existence if he is to survive. Jerry Baker, hero,
brother and protector. Can he keep his friends safe long enough to see
this thing through? Casey Mitch Mitchell. His enemy is older, smarter,
and has had a couple of decades head start. The enemy is also him,
My friends, this is the last year of the Greatest decade. Here
in nineteen eighty nine, all will be decided for good or ill, the
end of the age, and this tale is upon us. Four years,
over one hundred and fifty five songs, ultimately forty episodes in the making comes
down to this. Now we return to Garrett Prime and the highlands of Maryland.
Welcome one and all to the end of an age. Welcome my friends
to atri Twilight roll Out Episode nine. Honey, I killed the kids,
My friends, you are lucky. Is refreshed, your pride is not.
I need someone to roll leadership. This person cannot be robbed, and this
person will not be able to roll. Next week. Three sessions remain,
and the time for words and planning are fleeting. My friends who will roll,
and then we will begin. Nice. I got this, I got
one success. Very good. Then, Jerry, you have two dice in
which you can bestow upon any role that anybody in your group makes. So
any of the other players, if they have something they need to do,
you can give them up to your entire bank of two dice in which to
better their chances of success. You will not be able to roll next week
whenever we roll, and I will let you all know this metawise for the
mechanics, you will have one Pride refresh from now until the end of the
series. Use it wisely. I've just started curiosity, yes, and I
give those two dice away when I'm dead. Uh, well, we'll see.
We'll see if we have a corruption barn, maybe we'll say, because
that's probably what killed you. As you all touch down in your Garrett Garrett
Prime, the garret of your birth, well, the garret of your birth
for most of you, you see in front of you the fields that stretch
around the teletran to your sank, to Sanctorum, your hide out, the
grab truck graveyard, your place of innocence until the summer of nineteen eighty seven
and they're in front of you is a smoking pickup truck. That pickup truck
described as having a Maryland Academy Military Academy for boys, plumper sticker, a
man face claim Kevin Costner being drugged from it by the being you know to
be Van Halen. And as she, appearing to be a teenager, drags
this large, forty almost fifty year old man out of the truck, you
realize bullet holes riddle the hood, the sides, the glass is blown out
of the front, and lying like cordwood in the back of this pickup truck
into end are four teenagers. They seem to be sleeping through whatever hell this
truck has been through. But you all stand there. Van Halen sees you,
cries out for help that you must help her get them to where they
need to be. She issues fourth commands after commands help help as she's pulling
this person out, as you are all still kind of materializing, still kind
of getting your bearing, still kind of getting your first lung full of Garrett
air. But as she is asking for help and pleading for help, her
eyes rest on doctor Holter Arkaville and her face falls. What are you doing
with him? My friends? What do you do? Much like in the
one second of Garrett, as soon as you can see, as soon as
the the green cube materializes in front of them, Mitch is what hits the
ground and he's running. It's he's like he can identify what that is.
He's running towards that and climbing into it. I'm sorry you're heading towards Telltran
two. Ye okay, So as you kind of bust through the snow,
it's very light, it's more of a dusting. It's not actual accumulation at
this point, but you're enough to leave footprints as you're kind of padding through
this the dry grass beneath as you bust and make a trail to Tellotran two,
what do the rest of you do? As van Halen seems to be
not necessarily forgetting the man that she's helping, but eyeing doctor Holter, who
is looking around almost as if you know, ready to point a finger at
his chest me and she begins to move forward. He did this, He
cast some sort of spell in the whole town, and she begins to advance
on him. Shannon puts herself between been Halen and Coulter. It's not what
you think or whatever is happening. We just got here, like literally just
now with him from somewhere else. Just give it a minute for us to
catch up what is happening right now? Roll me a charm my best set,
definitely, Oh but good. Two successes somehow the in Halen in the
middle of this rage and this emotional response to seeing a villain, to seeing
someone that she considers to be her nemesis, someone that has harmed and injured
her friends. Somehow, through that rage and that haze and that hate,
she hears Shannon, how are you with him? Though? Well, we
think that he's a good one. He's helped us in some other areas and
helped us get back here to stop everything or reverse it. I don't know,
to fix it. There's more than one of him, like some others.
I don't really know how much you know at this point. But given
the situation and circumstances, he's a good guy from where we got him.
The reason why there were two successes required for this particular role in not just
one, is the fact that Van Halen, as Chat has guessed, has
never met Shannon, and so as she is looking at you, remembering the
stories that she heard about Dutch and me and Chris and Shannon. She somehow
sees through that skepticism as well, and knowing the situation at hand and knowing
the fact that multiple copies of people exist in something that she does know as
a fact, she nods, and for no other reason than you're the closest,
Shannon. She steps forward, as you were, kind of defensive between
the two of them, and she drops her head on your shoulder. I
need help, okay, Shannon, like kind of like not like a full
embrace, but like embraces to reassure her, like we've got her. What
do you need help with right now? Because there's a lot happening here.
They're all here, they and she's she's like speaking this into your shoulder.
So Rob, Jerry, George, you can all hear this. Doctor Arkabul
can hear it as well. Mitch, you can't. You've moved beyond this
kind of area this theater right now, but you can hear her saying they're
all here, all of them. There's so many we need to help.
Okay, Well, let's let's uh what happened to him? And she points
kind of to the guy that she was trying to bring over Jerry a little,
a little help maybe, Okay, is he alive? He got hurt.
You went through the windshield. And you can see at this point that
the man has a huge dash across his head that has kind of run down
the side of his face and onto his shirt. He seems very pale.
His breathing isn't labored, but it's deep without the need for a role.
Anybody, especially Jerry, who's unfortunately been around the sport of football in the
eighties, would know the breathing of somebody who had their bell rung or somebody
that you know, was experiencing at least a concussion. And it's that deep
almost it sounds like a snore type of breathing. And he's leaning up against
the truck. He's hurt, and he helped me, but he got hurt.
Okay, we can we can try to patch him up. What about
the four kids in the back. We can't wake them up? The lights
and everything that he and she looks over at Arkaville that the other one did.
If they wake up, they'll they'll forget, They'll they'll go back to
being zombies or whatever. The rest of the town is. Okay, town
is zombies. Got it. Okay, well, we probably should get them
out of the truck or we can. Can we move them? Can we
not move them? What are we supposed to do with them? They're okay,
you just have to be careful. They're my friends, Okay, okay,
Well, well we'll help, all right, guys, Shannon's like,
somebody back me up here. I'm sure the hospital isn't an option here because
this guy's not in good shape. And the hospital was taken. The whole
center of town has been taken. What do you need by taking? They're
all here, the robots, and there's little biting things that run. The
whole town's filled with them. They poured in a couple of days ago.
Wow, okay, that's a lot. Why don't we just I'm gonna I'm
gonna put the truck into neutral and we'll just push it into to the bottom
garage area of of Teltran. That way, we don't have to, you
know, move for people. So does that work, guys? Yeah?
Sure, Jerry, maybe you could like shilt the car, shilt the engine.
This engine does not need juice. This engine is bullet ridden. And
yeah, well there's your problem. Yeah, it's the bullet city that's the
problem with the shouldn't be any Yeah, so Shannon is just gonna, you
know, pop it neutral and seize your foot to try to guide it a
little bit with her arm. And whoever's pushing, I guess Georgill will push.
I'm sure yeah, Jerry could push. Yeah. Rob's gonna get behind
it and put his hands on it. But if it's already moving, he's
just gonna kind of walking with it. Yeah, we're gonna not make a
roll here. All of you can get it moving to the point where you
can get it kind of stowed. And it's a tight fit because technically,
you know, this is for bikes and stuff. But we'll say it's just
big enough to get the truck into tell thetran to one of the long grab
truck trailers. And but as you're all doing this, George, you would
see that what had been holding steady at seven goes to six and goes to
five, and you guys stow the truck. I uh, hey, Rob
and I go like around the corner of the graph truck where nobody else is
in sight, and I hug him, hug me back row Oh oh okay,
okay, man, yeah man, uh this is this this is this
is good? This is good? Grow gross it's gross? No, no,
no, grow growth? Oh you know, yeah, it's okay to
to to to embrace your friends. While he's saying this, I'm checking.
I'm eyeing the meter at the bottom right. Is it going up? Or?
Am I just hugging a fool for no reason? Roman investigates, Oh
no, I'm not a smart man. No successes, Roman investigate, raw.
I when George's end, Well, let's let's see what if Rob gets
anything, George. You just feel something hard in Rob's pocket. That's enough,
man, this is gross now, okay, okay, man, Oh
but before you go, and Rob's gonna reach in his pocket and hopefully pull
out of Crystal and be like, I want you to hold onto this.
Okay. You reach into your pocket and you feel the remains of the glass
grass that you picked up several garrets ago, and as you pull it out,
you see that there is a brief flash inside it and it turns to
dust. So Rob's not going to do that. That was the intention.
But then he pulled it out and like you said, your Crystal's fine,
your Maggie, Crystal's fine. That glass grass you saw yeah, yeah,
so yeah, he's gonna I want you to So that's he's intending to give
him the crystal forgets it's on his neck, does that then pulls it off
his neckcase. I want your hole hole hold onto this. Just think positive
thoughts. Man, Man, we're gonna gonna get through this. Thanks man,
cool, good good, And I just like kep him on the short
a little bit and pop right back around the corner and the old steady back
this hull good for nothing. Mitch. Let's cut back to you as we
kind of go back a couple of seconds. As you enter into tell a
trand two about the need for a role, you notice a couple of things
right away. One, the place has been gutted. Two, as you
look around, you realize that there is a thin layer of dust over everything.
And the third thing you notice, because it is now the only true
feature inside of teletran two is the whiteboard and circled in your own handwriting,
it says got here first, mm, fuck you, Craig. He will
have erased everything that was on the white board except for that. I assume
everything was his actual handwriting, like like he the things he wrote like a
year ago or two years ago what the hella was. He writes everything but
that circled thing, and he is like in a small section he has like
a crumpled up piece of paper that he is writing as many things that he
saw while jumping through universes, and then that's in like one like list of
notes, and then the whole rest of the board he's quickly like scribbling half
written equations of things he remembers from the one second in time as he tries
his best to rewrite whatever Megamitch wrote. Sure, absolutely, and you already
wrote a very high success rate to comprehend this in last episode, so you
remember all of it. Great, Yeah, so he is, he's just
going to town on that. So as soon as they get the car eire,
they can get that from the whiteboard squeaking away. It's you're in the
process of kind of filling up one whole like third of it by the time
everybody else would start to roll in the rest of you as you would kind
of enter into teletran too. As a kind of a uniform statement and a
uniform kind of understanding of the area of Garrett. Garrett is to the north,
you would as you look up there not see the normal glow of the
city. You know, it's a small town, but there's still enough light
to kind of dominate that artificial glow that comes from a any type of man
made type of electricity. But there is something more medieval, something more organic,
as flames lick and flash along the horizon, that orange glow, that
dancing glow, that living glow, and you can smell the smoke and occasionally
hear their screen as it just kind of echoes down from the north to the
south through the Grave Truck Graveyard. The Grave Truck Graveyard in and of itself
is still as you remember it, just a collection of these kind of derelict
trucks, but it seems now to have more uniform life than perhaps what's going
on just to the north. But that's what you all witness that you come
in and you see Mitch as he's scribbling down furiously, and you also see
got here first written in his handwriting circle. Okay, uh, guys,
guys, guys, Okay, so so this this is bad guy. This
is what we saw. If anyone has any thoughts about what we saw,
this is don't worry about this. I have to figure out what I would
do if I'm the bad guy, what did I Why am I here?
What do I what? What? So? The tower? The tower from
when we fought the robots, and then and he just starts kind of rambling
off facts that happened. He said bugs, there were bugs, and he
just writes bugs and like circles it with like question marks around it, and
he's like doing his best to recap season one two uh, season one and
two as as he like scribbles things on the board, sort of just randomly
blurting out things that happened to us. And it seems like just when you
kind of get to like maybe one of the elements that contains van Halen,
you know, talking about her tree and the robots that were coming to kind
of damage, you're kind of putting that in that you maybe see her.
She comes in and she says to rob we can't stay here. We they
always check here. I just knew that you all were coming. We can't
stay always check here, all of them. Well, where don't they did
they check? Do you have a secret spot? No, not anymore.
We have to go somewhere where they wouldn't look. They're they're all in the
middle of the town and they always come here, guys, and what's up
my Parently, we're not where, We're not safe right right? They always
check here, well, what do you mean? What do do you mean?
Always it's at that moment that you hear the roar of a jet seems
high in the sky. It's not something that's buzzing in a tree line,
because you know what that sounds like. But it sounds high enough, and
you hear that, does it sound like the jet from before? If jets,
if jets can sound the same, this one sure bears a striking resemblance,
at least in its full jet throat. It sounds like and she just
looks up. They always check, okay, well, your friend here that
helps you is injured. You have four more people that are sleeping in the
back of a truck that doesn't run on its own, also incapable of defending
themselves. I don't I don't know. If we're not safe here, where
are we supposed to go? Sum remember gone? So we're cool? Then
no, we can't go to Butts's house. That's where we play video games.
We can't go to your house, that's where the battlewagon is. We
can't go to my house. I don't even know what's still there. We
can't be here, we can't go to the school, we can't go to
the paperback exchange. Ye else would I go? Would I not go?
Would I never go? Where? If I never? Would say we need
to go to the mall. I guess we could go go go go to
my house. Well, why don't we go to the Feed and Breed.
Maybe I'm only saying that because it was kind of like a hideout that they
used in a different time, and maybe since they previously used it, they're
not maybe not using Do you know if they're using that spot? If we
want to go over to the map As Van Halen is discussing, she would
say that she knows that enemies of all make and model seem to be congregated
or at least vying for supremacy in the center of Garrett, and most of
them seemed to be fighting for the dominance that is the Maplehurst Mall hill.
She would also let you know that she needs to get to the mall.
She has to bring these I have to take these, these four have to
get there. It's the only way that we're going to get help. How's
the mall help? Though? What does the mall have that nobody else has.
That's where we started the spell. And she looks at you like you
should know this, and she says, Vaughan, come on, I forgot
that's the baby paper. I don't remember this at all. You told her
your name when she said her name was Van Hamlen. You said that sounds
like what a Scandinavian person would say they are from They are Van from Halen,
and you would say that means my name would be Vaughan from Garrett.
And she said it was nice to meet you, Vaughan, and you never
corrected her. I love this journey. I don't remember the spell, but
you know it. We've been gone a little while. Do they have How
old are they took a whole year. They're younger than you, I guess,
so they're not forgetting because of you know, getting too old, right,
And she looks over again at Arquaville, the one from here, and
she points a little aggressively at Arquaville. The one from here did something to
the town. He made the lights do something to the people, and they
wired the whole town. It put them all into some type of spell.
And if they wake up, and she indicates the four that are in the
truck, they'll fall right back into it. I can't have that happen,
not again. So what is that the mall that's going to help you other
than the fact that that's where you started the spell? How is going back?
They're going to help them? We have to end it where we started
it, and once we end it, help show up. Okay, but
you just said that, Well, they're the bad guys are everywhere. So
is the mall safe? No? Okay? So you want us to bring
four people that are unconscious to a mall that is definitely not safe, and
also a person that is bleeding from their head. Like I want to help.
I want us to help, but I don't understand how we're going to
do that without transportation for the number of people that we have. And I
mean, let's let's talk about how we're going to do this, because this
is not gonna We're not gonna walk over there. Obviously, she was following
you like you were giving her reinforcement, like this is what we need to
do, and then when you got to the point where there was actual logic
thrown into it, she starts to shake her head. I don't know how
we're supposed to do it, but we have to get away from here first.
Okay. So other than my suggestion, do we have any other suggestions
on where we can go that probably isn't occupied by the enemy. Uh uh
no, uh vet Halet. You you said spell like a wizard, like
a wizard, like dons the dragons. I don't know that I know dragons.
Okay, you really surprise at this point that there's spells here? No,
No, that's not that's that's not the important part. Okay. Do
you know why I couldn't get back here? I've been trying to get here
and I can't. I couldn't get here. And she nods, like you
should know this, but she nods and looks the veil. The veil keeps
everything out unless I don't know how they've gotten in. But is there is
there a spot where the veil's thin? The only way to bring it down
is to finish the spell. Okay, but is there a spot where it's
thin? She's gabs her finger at Arkaville. He's poked holes in it somehow.
Okay, that's what that's what I need. He he's he's he's the
good one. He's from a different place. He's a good one, and
he made a thing like the portal, but only one way, and he
looks around. We don't have them. Oh no, it's like she just
realizes it. But we know, we think we know where he is,
right, and we were gonna bring him over here, but then this happened.
We need we need a new base of operations, clearly, So let's
let's just find a place. Is the closest place to hear is either the
trailer parker Jerry's grandmother's house. All right, she'll feed you like whoa,
but like not nicely. Okay, okay, what about your dad? Your
dad is an evil guy, right do you just do you think he do?
We even know that this is our place, I'm guessing because of this,
any of the points of the I got here first in his own handwriting.
Pretty sure, evil me wrote that to me. Plus, we're in
a big bush right now. Well we were in a bush before, in
a different one. But also then Helen's here here. Yeah, okay,
can we all just pick a place? One place? Just well, if
we go by my my dad's house and he's not there, they wouldn't expect
us to be there, right, right, So it's not far. Maybe
we just scouted out, you know. Okay, don't forget about the four
bodies of people. Yeah, we got to figure out where to take them.
That's what my point is. The mall. We have to go to
the mall right across town. We can't. We can't just run there were
carrying four people. Well van Halen probably could, she would struggle with the
one guy. Is there anything in the car here that maybe I can repurpose
with mitche to to to get us there in one vehicle? I had to
remember. I think we drove, we drove our bikes are at your house,
and then we drove the battlewagon. Yeah, but I don't know where
that is now. Well, anything that was here is gone. I think
we drove the battlewagon to Castle Gray Skull. We did, Yeah, yeah,
yeah, we need a car. The closest places in the trailer park.
Can you hot wire cars? Your criminal? Sorry, it's it's it's
listen. I'm sorry. It's a tense moment. I didn't mean that.
Yes I did. Can you hot wire a car? Probably? But you're
better at stuff like that, aren't you, with the electrical mechanical stuff.
I don't know. I never tried it. Before. Okay, So let's
go to Trade Winds. There's our cars there. They're just shitty. Okay,
So me and you go to Trade Winds on the down low because there's
crazy shit happening, and then we'll come back with the car. Yeah,
okay, okay, can you guys guard the people. Please don't turn evil
and kill me once you get me away from everybody. I think that that's
like the pot, you know, kettle Black, that I also promised to
not turn evil and kill your buddy. Great, So guys, if we
don't return, one of us probably turned on the other, just letting me
up, and then all hope is lost. So you know, just my
money's on Shannon. Come on, thank you, Jerry, she's already stabbed
you man, I get it. You don't have to go to good good,
good good good luck match, Thanks buddy. Okay, we'll be back
hopefully, which is luck as the two of you exit till the trend to
please each of you give me an investigate. Golly, are we working success
for me? Yeah? We're we. We healed from our three day uh
SOB session. You know, correct, you should have any conditions right now,
but if you spent your pride. In the last episode or before the
last refresh, it is gone. Your luck is back, well combined three
successes. As you all go down into the swirl of night, you see
secreted away just at the edge of the road that comes from not the trade
winds, but from the kind of the north east down. It's the road
that Channon drove the buick the one time that got beached. As you all
came through conveniently enough or coincidentally enough, when you were getting away from star
screen, there sits a pristine gloss black loop suv. Mhmm, hey that
one. Maybe that should have enough firm for evoritebody. Right, that's a
loop truck all the more better disguised perfect, Maybe not perfect, but like
definitely better. Okay, or you know, let's let's have a look.
Yeah, you know, make sure there's no like dead bodies, eid or
something. I mean, we could just push those out to the side.
Not the first time we've seen them, which is like a little bit concerned
for you. Yeah, well I keep seeing them. Man, there was
the floor in the freezer, I know, I know. Okay, moving
on, Well, she checks to see if like the back like is unlocked
or not the back like hatch is not unlocked, but the back doors and
the front driver's side doors unlocked. Okay, all right, Shannon like goes
to the front driver's side and make sure that the lights are turned off so
that they don't like whenever it comes on, turn on. Okay, you
hot wire. I'll just take a look around. She's gonna like pop the
lock for the you know, the passenger side and look through the globe compartment
and stuff like that, free of charge, Shannon. As you're looking through
there, you see something very similar to what you saw in Jay Thrice's suv
it registration. It's to an individual user whose name you do not recognize.
It's a Kurt Summers, but you don't recognize the name, but you also
recognize that it's registered to the Loop. It just happens to be a business
vehicle of this Kurt. When you go to hot wire the car, Mitch,
you see that the keys are dangling from the ignition and on the key
chain is an autobot symbol. And on the floor, just at the hump
over between the two seats, there is a folded tented note. It bears
two words last lap. Mitch just turns the key and like reaches it down
and scoops the paper and just holds it over to the passenger seat for Shannon
as he closes the door and gets in the driver's seat. Are you comfortable
drive image? What is this? I don't know, I just saw it
on the thing on the floor. There's also and he like holds the keys
so you can see the autobot symbol. Can you reach the pedals or what's
the yes? I can reach the pedals. I'm just trying. I'm fifteen
now, I don't know. Time has been real weird to me. I'm
pretty sure this is one of ours. I guess. I don't know.
I mean, it's a good sign, right, I'll just take it.
I'll just pretend that this was like supposed to help us. So I light
at the end of the channel kind of deal, I guess, okay,
sure, great. Shannon kind of messes with the radio a little bit to
see if anything comes comes through at low volume when you go to turn on
the radio again, free of charge, I'll give this to you. It
appears that the installed or the aftermarket radio that is usually equipped in all of
the loop trucks, at least the ones that you've known the ones that usually
bear a kind of purple haze that when you crack open the front has a
decepticoncemble inside that's not there. When you look, you see that a radio
shack deck has been inserted into the space instead, and it is tuned in
to GO one O six point one, And when you turn it on low,
there's no DJ, there's no announcements. It just seems to be music
that's playing. And in between each song is an emergency broadcast. It reads
as follows, just as you kind of Mitch as you turn the car,
and it kind of interrupts a portion of the end of the song. And
when it comes to life, it picks back up as the battery the power
flows back into the radio and in that glow of just the deck, the
one of six point one shin and you would hear, and Mitch, you'd
also hear, but it would say, Garrett Resident, please stay in your
homes during the citywide grid test curfew an effect for seven pm, Happy New
Year, And then another song would start and in fact, everybody go to
your Spotify playlist if you wouldn't and queue up track number two by a little
band called One Go one go dead Man's Party. Well, I guess it's
the new year, or the we haven't gone a long time, or the
last day. It's the it's the it's the end of the year. Yeah.
Do we go forward and then back and then forward again and back again?
Yeah? Yeah, Yeah, seems about right. Okay, I tried
to think about it. Yeah. He starts trying to take off towards the
mag Truck graveyard. Yeah, Shandon's kind of on the lookout for any more
sets or just really anybody approaching me a car or anything other than that.
Roman investigates Shannon, and I will not make Mitch rolling move role yet.
As you make it over to nothing again, there's that kind of swirl of
medieval smoke and fire. You don't hear a jet though, And in the
gloom, the recent gloom of night, it looks like it's five oh three.
If the radio on the suv is to be believed, it's the recent
night. Reveals nothing to you as you pull up in front of Teletranto.
Yeah. I think Mitch doesn't think about it, because like they already know,
and he just on the horn as he pulls up outside of Telltran two.
Oh my God, I already know I'm here. I left a note
for me. You yes, but the other people things don't know that exactly
where it isn't matter. Shannon gets out of the vehicle and starts to go
towards where everybody's It'll be fine, supposed to be it, everybody, you
can cut. This particular teletran two, unlike the one that you were just
in, only has your little compartment the garage, and that side compartment that's
open, so it's tighter quarters, but still roomy enough for you all to
be comfortable inside. The only information that I will provide to you that has
occurred since the few minutes in which she In and Mitch left and returned with
an suv George, it now says four percent. Would you like to do?
My friends? Well, we got to load the kids into the car,
so carefully, two per person ahead and feet you're able to get them
loaded in there without any type of bumps. Bean Harlen jumps into the back
and kind of like, you know, mother's them and it's going to sit
back there with them. What would the rest of you like to do?
Shot Gun? So where are we gonna go? The are we gonna go?
To the mall right now? Is that what I'm just I'm just driving
until someone tells me to stop driving. Yeah, I trust Van Halen.
Okay, Well, we've got like an hour ish until the supposed citywide curfew
happens, and that which point, if we are on the road, we
will probably get stucked. So we probably don't want to be on the road
when that happens. Well, you've never been out past curfew. I haven't
been out past curfew when there have been robots and other shit trying to kill
us. So no, just say, I feel like the bullets are probably
the biggers concerned than the curfew. Well where do you think the bullets come
from? Possibly the curfew. I'm just saying we don't want to be standing
out. Okay. The idea of laying low is to not be noticeable.
So yeah, but people loop band, you know, maybe you just got
to take that risk. Yeah. I mean, we're worrying about something that
isn't happening next, so maybe let's just get to the mall and go from
there. Right, we're planning for things that we can't plan. Is that
where we're going? We're going to the mall? Yeah, it's at that
moment, as you kind of pull up from the dirt road gravel road that
goes into the mag truck graveyard and pull into like one of the kind of
outer city proper streets again free of charge, you see what appears to be
a pack of around thirty of those little lizard gremlin like things skiter by,
passing as if they are on a field trip, and off they bound into
the shadows. The fires now can be seen around the outskirts of town,
fires that definitely look like from this vantage point up on the hill, have
consumed the chatt and chew. You see abandoned cars. You know they're abandoned
because the doors are open. You don't see any bodies. You don't see
any signs of violence other than just the the oddity that is abandoned vehicles,
fire, ash, smoke, and absence of human life. And Garrett,
I've lived in the things that just ran by, so I know it's a
little lay in the game for this guy. Since we're in a car and
all, and the main road headed towards bullets, we do we have weapons?
Probably not, unless there's something in this van that we didn't see her
that til box. Maybe there's a gun. I already checked the clook and
I'm meeting get lucky twice. Jerry. That's straight. Jerry can protect us.
But really what she held out of that shotgun. I know all of
you that are carrying a Mitchie talkie. As soon as you hit the city
proper, you would hear it come to life. There's also the sound of
seemingly from the back by Van Halen. There's also a crackle as a sound
of a walkie comes to life. You would hear this is alpha. Try
on going. The autobots come in. Autobots, autobots. City is taking
a pounding. Don't know how much longer we can hold out. Don't tell
me where you are. Just keep this frequency open and if you can,
let us know you're okay. It comes in and out with straight rank.
As you drive like a fifteen year old. It's never room before Mitch takes
his hands completely off the wheel and he's like, it worked, it worked,
I did it reaches over. That's Chris, that's Chris, that's Jimmy,
or it's Jimmy or Chris or both or I don't I don't know how
it works. I made that. Do you want a gold star? Or
do you good? It'd be nice at some point, man. Sometimes no,
I cannot be nice. I'm really happy that you're MITCHI talking works.
Yeah, but that's Chris. He has one and I pushed it. He
lived, he didn't get shot by. I didn't shoot. I didn't God,
this is I didn't kill I didn't. I was gonna kill Chris,
and then I didn't bat me was gonna and then someone call back anyone,
But we shouldn't have enough. What do we call him back for? Though?
I wasn't listening, he said, He said, let us know if
you're safe. Yeah, I feel like that's a trap. He used the
code names, used the code names. Yeah, but we haven't been too
secure about those, right I have. I don't unless every I don't know
everyone checked the back of your walkie. This is off a try. I'm
calling yauto bots coming auto bots autobats. City is taking a pound and don't
know how much longer we can hold out. Don't tell me where you are.
Just keep this frequency open and if you can, let us know you're
okay. What Mitch like reaches in and pulls out his walkie uh and it
says wheel jack on it. What what does your what does you say?
Does mind say jazz yep? Oh shit, say Luthor? That's right,
Yeah, I think that's I think Jerry has that one. Doesn't mean did
Jerry take that one? Then I'm Jerry easily lost track. Yeah, I
think I think he threw that one because I had the one I gave to
uh to uh to Alpha try on, and I think I threw one towards
Jerry. Let's make this easy. Then, everybody's names appear to be on
everybody's walkie talkies except for one. Uh, there is no wheel Jack and
one of them says Luthor, and one of them says nothing because Rob lost
his and he's a jerk. Well, technically there's noise coming from the back
of the SEUVS. True s shit, that's not that's not one of them.
That's not mine. He's not not asking for help, he just wants
to know if where Okay, okay, I'm with butts on this now,
totally right. No, no, no, no, that's not mine again,
proving point that you would you're the other you would have made it though,
so I yeah, but then that means he has mine exactly. Then
this is not safe to use. Yeah, you know, I'm on the
same page, but I don't know when they got it, how long he's
had it. When you say that, and as Rob's beginning to say something,
you hear all of your walkie's crackle, and Mitch, you hear yourself
say, this is wheel chack. We're here. We made it. Where
are you guys? We need to meet up, And you would hear Jimmy
answer, Oh, I'm so glad you hear from you. Guys. It's
out a try on. You know where to find us? Were where you
found me before? And Mitch you hear yourself say, are you in the
alley, and you hear Jimmy say yeah, right off the alley, and
you hear yourself say I'll be there in a second. I think as that
happens, everyone in the car he is. As Mitch steps on the gas
heading for the paperback exchange. Total try if you would go to track number
one, queue up a little Guns n' roses Paradise City as the autobots enter
Garrett proper. In addition to seeing almost at every shadow, in every corner
and every conceivable place car that you could run over, these little green creatures
that seem to be loping and running around these gremlins. When you hit the
main street, the drag that has the paperback exchange that will eventually go to
the police station in the fire department, you see six construction vehicles of green
and purple hue that are driving in parade like formation from south to north.
Up Main Street. You hear the roar of a jet engine above. As
you look around, you see a robotic great cat that lopes down and disappears.
Shannon would recognize this more than anyone else, as she was roughly two
feet from this thing's face. The world of Garrett, much like the between
the covers of a comic book and the paperback exchange, has become a world
of imagination. Hellish though it is. You see no good, there is
no optimist prime. But there is evil, and it is manifest, and
it is here. Other SUVs of loop design seem to be traveling around as
well. They're blacked out windows, obscuring the occupants, the drivers, the
passengers. Luckily enough, so does yours. As you enter into Main Street,
you become, for a moment, part of the construction vehicle parade.
Right behind the mixing machine, the mixed Master. If you will you slow
to a crawl fifteen twenty miles an hour. Mitch, what do you all
do as you look around and see this place that your town has become?
And though you've been in numerous garrets and experience many versions of this place and
each of your core beliefs your soul, you know this is your town,
this is where you grew up, and this is what it's become. What
do you do with my friends? I think I think we're looking at all.
I don't know. Yeah, I mean Shannon seeing seeing the the cat
like thing, I think has moments of flashback to the hospital and everything and
the tower. Yeah, just all jaw gaping silence. Yeah. Then,
my friends, as you creep through this area, provide you with two bits
of information. One the paperback exchange dark though it is, appears to your
left. And two, George you go to three you pull up in front
of the paperback exchange or drive around back? Or how do you The alley
was between the paperback exchange, right, Wasn't that where? That was?
Correct? He would pull up to the alley. Mitch is the dumbest smart
person in the car. He would pull it to the alleyway and look down
the alleyway. Roman investigate. Yeah, Shannon's looking as well, So if
I can roll that to one success for Mitch and one from Shannon. You
both look down and you see what appears to be at the end of the
alleyway. This would be the backdoor, not into the paperback exchange, but
into the beauty salon. That vern like a Kirkshaw used to frequent whenever she
would drive by in her rapit. That's when you used to see her,
or Volkswagen used to see her at certain times. There seems to be a
crack to the door. That's deliberate, that's not kind of blowing in the
wind or with the swirl of snow. But with both of those successes,
I will let you know this, you're in luck. You look up and
a vehicle that you both know very well is driving down the street toward you
as the battlewagon makes its way to the paperback exchange. What to do do
we do we see Jimmy anywhere? You just see this cracked open door,
But you don't see any type er of signal, no flash of lights,
no call on the walkie. You do see the approach of the vehicle that
both of you worked on. Still annoying. That's so annoying. That's so
it. Mitch. Mitch like looks at Shannon and there's like anger and then
he like tweet both of them too, like launches himself over Jerry who called
shotgun, and I mean he starts like cranking the window down as quick as
possible to try to yell out the window. Shannon's actually getting out of the
vehicle and she's going towards the doors. She doesn't say anything to anybody,
per usual Shannon fashion worst heroes. Shannon, and I will let you get
there first if you're moving for speed and that stealth as you crank the window
down if you're moving for stealth, Mitch's voice is going to get there first.
So how are you approaching, Shannon? That'll dictate who gets the initially.
Yeah, I mean which direction is it open towards where we're at,
or like in the opposite direction it's open like facing you, like there's all
in the alleyway that you can see that this door is opened just a bit.
And again it's not moving with the breeze. It seems as if it's
deliberately open. If there like like boxes or like trash or anything that's like
separating the space that I let Shannon could like kind of go next to Strangely
enough, this is the cleanest you've ever seen this alleyway? Hang it okay?
Well, then speed it is okay? You get there first? Are
you going into the open door or are you going to like speak into the
open door, open it and look in, or are you entering the building?
Can she hear anything when she gets to the door, like, is
there any audible you can roll me and investigate? Sure? I sure can.
With two successes two one success would have given you the idea that you
can hear conversation, a low conversation in the room. Two successes gives you
the idea and the fact that, since this is something you technically have heard
before, you hear a conversation that quickly is identified not as a conversation and
language, but a chittering. Hey, if you cast your mind back,
you heard a truck full of these things that had a conversation that ended up
being poured on butts. But the first bug goes past your eye as you
go to look in, and then another which I have to do. And
at that moment, Mitch, what do you say? He just screams out
the window. Jday. The chittering stops inside. Yeah, oh gosh,
and all you can hear is the approach of the finely tuned battlewagon. Let's
see that things takes some damage. So like there's no sound at all now
coming from inside this. As soon as Mitch yelled, it stopped ship.
She's gonna pull her lighter out of her pocket and just put it towards the
door to see if anything happens like with her hand, won't be investigate it.
You'd like the lighter and kind of reach it in, right, Sure,
no successes I'm giving in this one. Anyway. When you look in,
you see that the entirety of this beauty salon is filled with at least
a foot of rolling insects, and sitting in a chair absent of any of
these is a Mitchie talkie and what appears to be a tape recorder. Okay,
great, great? Uh? How how like there's a lot of them.
It's like filled right the whole the whole floor's like somebody spilled a swimming
pool full of bugs, or like a baby pool full of bugs into the
salon. So it's about a foot deep. And you notice it right around
the door that's open. They're kind of holding their own back and they're starting
to slowly ooze out towards your boot. Jerry. She yells, I need
your help now, Jerry. You would hear that as the battlewagon turns into
the parking lot and begins to approach the front of the paperback. My friends,
we are getting to the point where I'm going to ask you round by
round what you would like to do. So I'm going to give you all
one chance right now to have an action free of charge until I start doing
things because I saved a Michigan. Yeah. Yeah, I think Jerry's been
called, so he's gonna open the car door and start moving towards Shannon.
Yes, Shannon's intention here is basically to tell Jerry to fry the bugs with
his lightning hands. So can you can you do it? Yes? Good,
because we need to get to that role and investigate Jerry as you agree
to become a human bugs apper. Jerry doesn't know anything about anything. You're
not sure exactly where your name comes from, but it's among the bugs,
Jerry, Jerry, how about it? You want to knew them? Not
any more? They're talking, they're talking. No, they're not believe me.
Me and bus had this just killed him? Or clear the way.
Get them out of the way so I can get to that. She points
to the chair. Stand back, Okay. She gives him a very wide
berth. Jerry is going to pull out the crystal in one pocket and a
roll of pennies it was getting a long time ago from the other pocket,
and two fist meet in the middle. Try to channel some electricity into this
room to be a bug zapper again. Roll me some force. Then that's
zero successes. You're just about ready to You can feel the power kind of
surging up and you're getting ready to direct it. And that's when you are
taken out of this situation when you hear Shy kill me and you stop.
Shannon, you see the power not manifest and Shannon, you here, kill
me, kill me? Jerry what deck? We gotta go right now,
but I don't care. But it's right there. Jerry's already moving back towards
the truck. It's everybody in the truck doing as Shannon and Jerry. You're
still in the middle of this. You haven't moved away, so you're still
in the middle of this. Conversation. But at this point in time,
what are the three in the truck doing. I think George, he's like
mid embrace with Rob again. Man, just really give me the ghost man.
Okay, it's it's okay. Just lean lean, lean in, lean,
lean into it, and I'm a host. As a reward for this
moment of this exchange of pure emotions, you go to a two George,
as your world goes black and white. Rob, I think you're right.
I think you're taking away from me. I feel like, yeah, maybe
it was too tight. This is not good, Man, you're strong.
Good. Those voice slurs here and there, Mitch, I think bus is
dying. As you hear that. From the mid seats, you would see
the battlewagons stop at the end of the parking lot, and we're using one
of your earlier investigates. You'll know that the battlewagon is sitting very low to
the ground, much lower than you would remember it sitting. It's almost as
if it's been dropped, as if it's suspension has been deliberately lowered. The
backdoors open up wardrobe style from the battlewagon and you see one long silver metallic
leg lands out and set down on the asphalt. Another one sets down on
the asphalt, and the creature that you experienced back in Doctor Arkaville's Little World,
the one that you saw Frank jump on at the right before you Dove
pulls itself up to its nine ten feet height as that one visored eye begins
to glow purple as it Shanna get back at that track, Jarred Giant robot,
Hey the drug. When you yell that, the creature with the eye
stops and the light gets into a pin point and you hear much like the
predator way back in session one, Sharon Shannon Shannon, and to your voice
is calling from inside the robot Shannon Shannon. My friends were in combat right
now. I hate this. What would you all like to do? As
I tell everybody to please go to your Spotify playlist, go to track number
four. A little band called Queen with a guest star David Bowie singing a
little under pressure for us. Mitch's Van Van Group. And I'm gonna have
Alley group, and then I have my friends that can be in a lot
of places. I'm going to allow Van or Alley to go first. You
all decide, and then your other group will go, and then I will
go can go first. Mitch has shifted into drive, has one foot on
the break, has the other foot boom pressing on the gas as he continues
to scream and a very high pitched pubescent voice towards Shannon and Jerry Rob George
inside the van. You also get an action if you would like, as
you see this creature with this visor looking back at you. In fact,
I may have a picture of him that I can toss pure for you all.
Take a look at oh oh m hmmmmmmmm what would you like to do
inside quickness? And I'm contemplating, I think, so where was Jerry at
when he got like? Is this a van with a sliding door? Is
this just a regular open door? Than what is it for the van or
for the van? Is it like a sliding door? It is. It's
like a sliding door on the side of the battlewagon that you're looking at,
and it has the like the wardrobe open in the back. That's what open
to reveal the the extrication of this large robot that came out in your man.
No, No, your your suv has doors. Your suv has four
doors, and it just got a hatchback in the back like a like a
suburban. Yeah, so Rob's gonna kind of like scoot over and grab onto
the ocean handle and lean out and start screaming for him. Hurry up.
You all would hear this in the LA. Yeah, so we're all,
we're all, and there's very much I'm adding on to Mitch's panic, and
so they hopefully, you know, Rob doubling down on the panic. If
that's the case, then with that amount of doubled down panic, let's go
back to the dealer as uh, Jerry, Shannon, you hear this coming.
The screams that are very panic stricken from both Mitch and Rob, and
you are in the alley. The sounds of kill me are coming from inside
the beauty salon. The chittering has begun again. The two of you are
kind of midway between these two worlds. What we have to do? I
think Jerry's going to give Shannon a look like he's about to do something really
stupid unless she stops him. So Jerry, look, yeah, yeah,
that's fair. I hearned this. What do we do? I mean,
it was calling out to say, Shannon, right, this is this is
what the robot did, right, Greg, Like shank Shannon over and over
again, right right. But it's not like it's calling to you. It's
more like it's mimicking Mitch. So it's but again it adds to the it's
not like it's asking you to approach it. Heard the Yeah, heard the
utterance of Mitch and then just repeated it. Got it? Okay, Yeah,
I mean she she's just she doesn't want to leave the things. But
since Jerry couldn't, you know, zap them, She's just gonna kind of
start running towards the suv then with Jerry, not just like slightly running as
fast as she can. Okay, So I will like a move role from
Shannon, a whatever role from Jerry, depending upon what he's gonna do.
If you're gonna run for the suv, a move role, and the results
combined of this, you know, by your powers combined, we'll see what
your move successes are. Oh shitic item fantastic. Okay. So with five,
you are going to make it to the SUV before this creature has a
chance to act. So I will give you all a moment. If you
want to be together, if you want to try to escape or do something
like that, let me know. But you have a moment because of the
advantage is given to you by this success. I'll let you all have a
combined action here makes you better drive real fast. Yeah, that's the plan.
Greg, I'm having a Metachristie. I see the conversation in our private
chat, so so I no, I know what this robot is, and
I was excited when you said that is exactly what the robot is. And
evil Mitch knows what this robot is, and evil Mitch is me. Do
I know? Does Mitch know what this robot is? Yeah? Perfect?
Cool. He is still leaned over where Jerry was, and he, like
hole, pushes open the door and screaming past the two of them as he
still is like with the with the break and gas. He screams out,
crossing fingers on one hand, Glato Barada Nickdo, Glatto barada nickdo, over
and over again, hoping it does anything pull me a charm? Go fuck?
Does somebody want to wait before you roll it? Does somebody want to
help with this? But this someone can only be Rob or George or or
Bitters or Jerry can give me dice? Yes, Jerry, you do have
the leadership dice. But if anything, Georgie is just in his lower register,
drawn out slurred speech, trying to mimic it, something like nose for
rock twos, don't dons. It's funny to eat to that, because that
was my idea, but fully confident, just saying what he thinks it is
actually saying. So maybe maybe Rob's saying it. I'm kind of just repeating
it. We could do it that way, so it's a low function talk
to you and I kind of yeah, okay, roll me your charm and
take the help action, which with this particular instance, I'm gonna let a
combined roll. So if you could each roll me charm, that's both butts,
and we'll take a combination of the two. Jesus rump the charm.
Maybe I don't want to see a bunch rolls. Okay, okay, all
right, I was gonna ask you for some dice, but uh, zero
successes for Mitch. As we know hard, this is dumb stab. I
told you the way I was saying it was right when you yell that out
there is again you can't really tell with a robot something in the animate.
It's like looking to see what the expression on a toaster is. But this
creature sort of elevates for a moment gets stand stands even taller than it had
before. But it isn't until George's voice is mixed with this chorus that it
almost cocks its head as if it's wondering what it's hearing. And then it
straightens and the eye turns from purple to white and it says, command,
Oh shit, I didn't think that far. Uh, defensive protocol suv Okay
from the passenger side draw Arcaville looks at you and says, it probably speaks
in robot right, like computer programming. But but what but just talk robot
to it? Why are you making it? Okay? No, that's his
name, his name is, but he's a robot. But tell it to
tell it to a defensive protocol on the SUV. Uh, Hey, dude,
protect this vehicle. You just literally had to say the same thing I
said. Row me another thing, you drive, roll me another charm,
And I would like an investigate from Rob who is probably closest to George in
the backseat. Holy shit, dude, us Christmas, I expect all right,
I got one success, We've figured it out. Butts should be macing
on robots, not ladies. Look when let's not let's not narrow the scope
here, all right, let's keep it broad. You know, the win's
been trying to get numbers that should have been binary. Strangely enough, Rob,
since you're in the back seat with Butts or that mid row, that
mid seats when he's yelling out the window and you, for a moment you
had had that kind of that deeper register that's been in George's voice since you
return back here to Garrett Crime. It gets higher pitched, and you,
and you alone can hear this almost subaudible admittance from George as he begins to
talk. You hear Rob, and the creature cocks its head. You see
jets shoot out of its palms like Iron Man if you were around for the
MCU in a couple of decades. It lifts up off the ground and floats
beside the suv. George, you are at one percent. One eye turns
off, one ear turns off. As you burst forth this binary code.
You get your message across, but at a cost. You're all back into
the suv. What would you do? Van Halen's looking around, Doctor Arkvill's
looking around. What'steresting going to do? I think it's an evil version of
my robot. If I made a super robot and butts can talk robot,
everything's confusing. We gotta go to the mall right, Van Halen nods.
Can we trust this thing I've set to do terrible stuff? The fact that
the command word worked is concerning. As long as we've encounter me, we
should be fine. It did it? Did the row robot drive the battlewagon,
you know? And he let's go over the break and let's not find
out that would imply that you know how to speak robot your other year.
Yeah, yeah, I can program robot. Well, then he issued his
command in the first place. I don't know, man, if he if
he, if Evil Me knows the Decepticons, then he can probably learned how
to speak robot. Who knows how long he was trapped in the one second?
This is Let's wasn't told anybody by the way about his power issue,
right, Like, I didn't miss anything, Okay, I just want to
make sure I didn't miss something about that. And she would be you jumping
kind of into the backseat part of that mid row seat. When you would
jump in it's at this point, because you're the only other person that's really
seen George like this you would notice that he's got that v of sweat again,
and his complexion like his his skin tone is almost stark white, like
completely colorless. You know, his lips are gray. He looks like somebody
that may have just passed out or just had like severe shock. Butts for
you, guys, something's wrong with Butts. He might he might even be
dying. Well, what if did he say anything to you? Did something
happen? He he's he's his voice and he also screeched at the robot that
wouldn't have caused this. He he was like this before when we when we
first learned about thrice in uh the other I don't know how he got out
of it. But how do you fix you? All right? More power,
better hugs, better hugs? What I guess? Guess, my mama,
My mind weren't weren't good enough. Go go go for it if you
think you can, Jerry, perhaps because he has you know, energy,
didn't we try to zap you before with Jerry? Didn't work? Let me
try again. We're in a car. There's not much we can do right
now. Yeah, yeah, Jerry, come here, could just here and
she kind of like tries to help position Butts in front of her to lift
him upright for Jerry to to have hug him. I guess I don't know
VH. Do you know magic? Do you know magic? Spell? Like
a fixed puts I I And she just shakes her head. She seems confused
by the thought that someone would need power That doesn't make you know, it's
outside of her realm of thought. And then she would look for a moment
at George and then whisper loud enough for Shannon and robbed you here and Jerry
too. WoT Jerry's in the passenger seat, so just be Shannon and Rob.
You would hear her say, he's not breathing about George. He's he's
he's tech technically a robot. I don't think he needs to breathe. Well,
maybe he does, George, do you need to breathe? The shitnestly
asking, I think, yeah, George in the now dominating the entirety of
your vision and kind of like a gray transparency. It says power saver mode,
and it's blinking slowly, power saver mode. You know. Yeah,
you feel your limbs going numb with the cold, Carrie, come on,
do something? What if it hurts him? Well, he's already clearly dying,
so sorry, but I can't even neuricus at this point, do your
past windshield. You see the Maplehurst Mall sign as you turn, I'm assuming
to go towards the mall, Mitch, Yeah, it is out so at
that moment that you see what appears to be a large bipedal robot with two
drums of what look to be vulcan cannons on either side of it. It
turns to open fire on your SUV, but is intercepted by the robot that
is flying beside you. Much like the football field that Jerry Baker practices on
and Scarlet throws spirals to JD. There is a textbook tackle of this bipedal
machine gun toting robot by a robot that may or may not rule the world
someday. And as this crash of metallic titans sounds off to the right,
you have a straight shot to the Maplehurst Mall well, with the exception of
fire and debris and abandoned cars and roving mobs of gremlins. But other than
that straight shot, I've crashed into worst and he just goes for it.
I imagine like it's like like the glass door. The wall of glass doors
is the front of this mall. He's just aiming for it, like we're
gonna regular day that had this drive into the mall, you day of the
debt. As you smash through the front into the mall, everybody, if
you could please go to track number three on your Spotify playlist, play a
Little Buffalo Stance by Nina Cherry. As you sev kind of spins on the
glass a little bit and across the tile as you drift it into the Maplehurst
Mall. Van Halen looks around. We got to get him to the roof.
Now we have to get him to the roof. We don't have We're
down one. We need to get butts to not be dying. Radio check
Jerry, please can you just try. Do we have jumper cables? Maybe
the van look at the back. I'm gonna looking back for jumper cables.
Hey, there they are. Because I like that idea. I want to
be like the movie Crank right, you have to keep the adrenaline up time.
Let's take the movie speed and put it in a man. Let that
man be Jason states the state. Also he's making half the movie looks on
top of a mail box in front of a school bus of kisses. Yeah,
clip clip it to his fingers like the like the thing of the hospital.
And then Jerry, I don't know, clip it wherever you want,
I guess, and juice him up. Oh wait, what's it's going to
do? A bad battery's what's positive? The Oh the car, car?
We might need the car. Do not do that? Well, I'll take
a doctor. Arkivill is putting jumper cables on your both of your pointer fingers
and hands. The other leads to Jerry, gotch bead you can do a
Jerry. Jerry's gonna grab the ends of this cable and try to channel a
little bit of electricity into George. Jew up, jew up, Jerry.
So you're gonna try to control it? Yeah, all right, go ahead
and roll me a force and I will let you know. The higher you
get, the better control you have. I think I'm going to use my
luck. Okay, we need a George. We need a George. No,
we apparently don't you have this. You have your pride to you have
your pride, and you can push it for a condition if you'd like.
Yeah, I think with it not working and it not working previously. Jerry
is going to push it too. Can I help push in? And help
you can, but you will also subject yourself to the potential failure if Jerry
uh fails. Shannon was just going to punch Jerry to try to get him
mad. Oh you can do that, sure, Okay, Yeah, She's
gonna do that while he's like struggling. All right, Jerry take an injured
condition. I like that. I like that, jeez. So yeah,
describe for me Bidders as Metta described the punch, and Bidders described to me
how that makes Jerry focus, Like what is what is it about Shannon's encouragement
that makes it finally work? So Shannon's kind of certain a pace at this
point because like she wants to everything to get fixed at this point, but
damn it, Jerry and she just right just a complete right hook on it
on his face. Yeah. I think Jerry will be like really seriously starting
to doubt himself at this point until he gets clocked and it clears his head
and like suddenly, suddenly it all makes sense. He remembers, like why
he plays football because sometimes you just need to get in a sense knocked India,
and he'll just he'll just try to juice up his friend back. Very
good. So if you would, then, Jerry, with your three successes,
please roll me two D six If you will, power saver mode goes
off. Your left eye, kicks back on your right ear, kicks back
on Colin returns to the world as zero becomes one, becomes two, becomes
three, becomes four. As that moment, Jerry is able to connect the
current and with the jumper cables kind of lancing into you, your index fingers
or your pointer fingers blister at the knuckle and at the nail where all of
this current is rushing in. But as crude as it is, it works
for a moment, as you are able to recharge the four percent. George,
Yes, good job, Jerry. Sorry about punching, but not really.
Hell yeah, where are we? Where in the mall? You gotta
we got a robot? You can talk robot? You can't. I can
program robot. I can't talk it with my mouth. It's not a man
human language. You're a robot. You are, Jerry. Did you,
Jerry be the juice? I'm really glad that worked and you didn't die.
Well I was going to die anyway, so you know, that's it.
Well, Shannon, we can least agree on that. Yeah, well,
yes, never mind, So we should take the kids to the roof,
like Van Halen said. Yeah, van Halen already has removed one of the
kids. It's a boy dressed more like a farmer or has a military haircut.
He she has him kind of threshold Carrie in her arms. We've got
to get to the roof, and she indicates just in the inside of the
hallway there's a utility room. You can even see the wrought iron stairs kind
of criss crossing inside. Okay, whoever, the other smallest kid is in
the back, Shannon, We'll try to kind of like hoist fireman carry style
like her dad's shoulder once. So absolutely, yeah, it just so happens
that you're a fireman carrying a fireman's daughter. It's a really good way.
And I take one of the bigger ones because I know I could probably hoist
a good Wait, so if there's a bigger or older I'm not like whatever,
right right, Yeah, between everybody now and with George back online,
you can easily get everybody carried either by twos or buy ones with in George's
case, Van Halen and Shannon can easily carry two. As you're heading upstairs.
Just as you are moving to climb up these kind of criss crossing wrought
iron stairs, the entire place rocks back and forth. The whole mall is.
If there is an earthquake of a fairly seismic response, and you all
get moved against this narrow stairwell with the cinder blocks on one side and the
wrought iron railing on the other, it's enough to throw van Halen, who's
leading the way. She kind of pitches forward, turns away to keep the
boy in her arms from getting hurt, and unable to stop herself. You
see her smash her face against the wall, and her nose immediately begins to
bleed, and she kind of for a moment spits it out, not realizing
what she has in her mouth, and there's a look of confusion on her
face as this blood kind of coats the front of her teeth, and she
shakes her head and just says it's this way and moves up, flips open
the trapdoor that leads to the roof. Who follows out first, I imagine
Shannon probably was the first to follow. So I'll just say that she's right
behind her, and George it's far behind because he has two of you the
kids as well. Okay, so as you all kind of climb up onto
the roof, Van Halen indicates a specific spot and she tells you, each
of you where to put the kids that are in your care. And you
see her close her eyes as the blood is dripping down across her teeth and
then kind of pulling on her chin and dripping down onto her t shirt,
and you see her whisper words. You can't hear them, but there is
the sounds and the smells of springtime of summer, a fall of winter,
this kind of seasonal calliope that hits you. And the kids who are sleeping
all stand on their own accord, and they reach out in this kind of
sleepwalking slumber and grab each other's hands, and their eyes slowly begin to open.
Doctor Arkaville, you all are kind of off to the sides now observing
all of this. Doctor Arkaville, who has some type of device in his
hands. You've seen him with it before. It's one of the ones that
was with his notebooks that he carried when you all came through. But he
looks down at it and he looks over at Rob Alright, looks over at
Mitch. I could get your friend. I think I can get your friend.
The energy starting to go away. Yeah, let's let them do wizard
shit. We gotta do this. Yes, guys, what can we do?
You all gather as this other group awakens. They begin to speak and
you can't hear what they're saying, but doctor archibilis he's looking at this device.
He's going away, and then he looks it's gone, and you hear
a roar from the sky, and much like the dungeons and dragons that was
mentioned at the beginning of this episode, something out of that realm flies above
as a gout of flame erupts into the sky, and as you all look,
the veil between this world and all of the others falls. And for
this brief moment, there are two possibilities. One Ben mackenzie is open to
you, and two nothing is impossible in Garrett, not now. But that's
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