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to find out exactly how to save the town of Garrett and this original Tale
from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight rollout. Thank you so very much,
my friends. I am so so happy to be back here on Unmade Gaming
to go back into Garrett, Maryland and our story Atari Twilight. Briefly,
Atari Twilight is a story about the eighties played using Free League's Tales from the
System. Tales from the Loops calls it setting the eighties that never was because
of the fantastical elements added to our history. However, here at Atari Twilight,
we call it an eighties, one of a limitless number of possibilities.
Our kids, our heroes will be traveling between these different versions and variations of
the eighties, learning important facts hidden from their own reality. But between all
of these different eighties, spread out leg rows in a garden. Between all
of these eighties, some things never change. Music is the same, movies,
books, and TV, pop culture all the same. Everything that you
remember or heard about happened. As for our sandbox, Garrett Maryland is at
the heart of it all. There, our five kids seek to save not
just their eighties, but all of the eighties that ever were, including our
own. In their way, stansacadrea forces so fantastic that only the Greatest Decade
could house them. Characters from television, movies and novels walk the streets of
Garrett, The transform Gremlins, the characters of King's books, and many more
all present Garrett Maryland. Their hometown is the Nexus. It is where the
fate of everything will be decided, For it holds the Loop, a great
mysterious research facility, a miraculous particle accelerator that powers not only scientific progress but
the imagination. And this vast and terrible loop, well, it will likely
be the armageddon of all existence. In this the last year of the Greatest
Decade, Here in nineteen eighty nine, all will be decided, for good
or ill, the end of the age, And this tale is upon us.
Four years, over one hundred and twenty seven songs, ultimately forty episodes,
in the making comes down to this. We return to n eighties here
Garrett in the highlands of Maryland. When last we saw our intrepid band,
they had traveled to a boring version of their hometown where they had never existed.
After gaining a little information, the potential day clerk named Lisa stealing a
wallet and grabbing some McDonald's day dove again, this time separating upon arrival in
a brand new version of their hometown, one stands before a vacant lot where
their home should be. One greets an infirm father and a rehabilitation facility.
One pulls themselves from a body bag. Two learned they are brothers, and
the last fights for their life. But that was then. Where are we
now? The only way to go forward is to go back, one last
time, Back to our shared story are eighties, Back one last time for
the love and the memories. Back one last time to stand with our fantastic
heroes, George Butts, Jerry Baker, Shannon Locke, Ben Mackenzie rob Ott,
and Casey Mitch Mitchell. Welcome one and all to the End of an
Age. Welcome my friends to atri Twilight Rollout, Episode two, Velvet revel
lution by players. Each of you landed in this new garret. Each of
you have been set and tasked with a situation decidedly different than the one that
you just left and the one that you have known most of your lives.
I would like you to go to our Spotify playlist Everybody, as the songs
of the eighties are as much about this Atari Twilight experience as anything else.
So if you could go there and que up a little Cindi lauper I drove
all night Rob. You're standing before a vacant lot, one that you have
identified by proximity and the use of surrounding flag points. Is the spot of
your home, well at least the home that you remember, but a home
that apparently does not exist here. It is a vacant lot, filled with
debris, rough shrubs. If you patches of grass, a few patches of
snow at your feet, something that looks like grass but breaks and cracks like
glass mirrors back to a time several months ago. But strangely enough, as
you look around, you see that in the middle of this vacant lot sits
a pristine package. It looks brand new of Ping's fine Chinese cuisine. Takeout,
just waiting there. But my friend, this is not my story to
tell, only to tell you where you are. Rob is yours. What
does he do? He's gonna case the joint, I guess, more so
just kind of be on the lookout, just kind of confused, looking around
one this is okay, And then he's gonna check and see if there's a
ticket on the order because most of them, you know, the receipts usually
stapled on the style on top of the style foam boxes that they come in.
So he's gonna go see if there's a receipt and see there's an address,
a name, or what's what's going on. You get closer and you
see that there is in fact a order kind of stapled to the top to
keep it closed like you would do as an employee. You notice that it
is not written. There's not a handwritten note, but there is something that
appears to be typed in a dot matrix printer. It says, I kept
the engine warm for you. And once you get to the bag, you
look to the opposite side what would have been the back of your house and
yard and fence, and there on the other side, on the street beyond
rests. The pingmobile is trying to get no. No. I was gonna
tell you rolling and empathize as you take this in yes, scree, that
would be for successes. Okay, my friend, here's what I'm going to
allow you to do. You only needed one for this, so with these
other three, I'm going to allow you to do the following. Let me
see what can you do with this. You may ask me a question about
your surroundings, or you may pocket the remaining three extra dice that you have
to count as automatic successes on any empathized role for the rest of the session.
So you can ask me three questions, two questions, pocket one any
variation thereof. Let's see, and this has to has to pertain to my
immediate area and surroundings and available knowledge. Right and your friends. I will
allow you to who's the closest to me. You don't know how you know
this, Rob, You're not sure, you can't see anything, you can't
tell. You don't have any type of ESP or telepathy or that you know
of, but you feel that you are very close to Mitch. You have
no idea in which direction he is, but you feel that you are close
to Mitch. So Rob's gonna misinterpret that and feel like he senses a friend
in danger. He's gonna say, he's gonna think it's like a spidy sense,
you know, because he's sure superhero my degree. And now you have
two other questions you can ask or you can bank them and just have two
successes for empathize. I want to have to successes from device because m Rob's
going to Now in the takeout, is it actually food? Is that just
the note on the food? Do you open ye? Oh yeah, absolutely?
Um. You open it up, and you realize right away that the
boxes inside as soon as you touch the bag it's too light. It's not
filled with food, but the boxes that would contain rice or any of the
other entrees inside and kind of folded but empty. However, resting atop these
boxes inside the bag is the mouthpiece to your old mask, your Optimus Prime
mask. So just like the mouth part, just the mouth part is gonna
look at it and then look at the ping bill ping pingmobile and I'm assuming
is it running since it said the card said that it was the was warm.
Yep. If you go over to it, um, you can see
that the key is in the ignition and that the engine itself is warm,
the Pingmobile having apparently recently been delivered to this location. So and he's yeah,
so then he's just gonna get get on it, throw the mask on,
and just go towards where he feels this sense of danger, you know
is, you know, just he needs to get to whatever this feeling is,
you know, and that be Mitch hopefully. Um, then we're going
We're going to see Mitch. I mean, I'll tell you what. You
spend one of those empathize successes that you have, and I will make sure
that you are riding in the appropriate direction. Yeah, okay, you have
one left. So as you begin to move off and ride the Ping Mobile
that you remember so well, there's the crack in the leather of the seat.
You know, everything feels right, The grips of the throttled feels right.
You know, it has the rubber eyes kind of square handles on it.
Everything feels like the Pingmobile that you remembered and had driven all of those
deliveries. I would like you, though, to roll me what is it
an investigate As you begin to move off into Garrett whose success good rolling?
Okay, so you may bank one of those for an additional success for an
investigate later because you only needed one. As you look around, you notice
two things. One, no graph trucks dot the skyline. You don't see
any of the large craft lifting and kind of floating over the hills. You
don't see any of them kind of moving in and through garrett as you always
have on the skyline of your garrett, where these large kind of block container
semis in the air would float along and float over wooded areas and constantly moving
in and out of the city, just like we have semis moving in and
out of ours. The other thing that you notice, no maintenance robots dot
the street. You don't see any type of trash collection going on by the
robots that you saw in your garrett. This is erie in a way because
the sounds that you're hearing. The grab trucks themselves are quiet when they float
and drift along, but you hear almost the background white noise of combustion fueled
engines. You hear large trucks, things that would only be a rare occurrence
and probably part of like farm machinery or something like that, but you hear
it almost like it's enveloping this section of Garrett as you kind of rev your
own combustion engine, which is the Pingmobile, and blast into this new world.
Jerry, Ben looks at you, up at you in the bunk above
as your dad, Carl Baker holds Ben's mom in this kind of lock from
behind as they both laugh, and he has indicated that you all should get
down to breakfast because school is about ready to start. You need to get
ready and get to it. You can tell that Ben can't move his arm.
It feels like you're holding a broomstick. There's no articulation to it.
He's just staring at his mom. What do you do? My friend?
I think Jerry's kind of dumb struck as well. He despite you know,
being in front of the parents, it may not might not be at a
big for him in front of his dad, but he can't help but just
kind of mumble what the fuck? Neither Melanie Baker nor Carl Baker seemed to
hear what you have to say. But Ben looks up at you and you
can see that there are Ben has tears welling in his eyes, but he
had them before the dive as well, and he just looks at you and
what does what does this mean, Jerry, what's going on? We'll be
down for breakfast in a minute. We gotta surprise, we gotta get ready.
They both stop and Carl looks over and almost is one. They kind
of turn and look and say a surprise. Well, and Melanie Baker says,
a surprise. Would you be all being downstairs and ready whenever it's time
to go to school? That would be the best surprise for me. But
they both smile and give two teenage boys their space as they walk out.
Jerry, Jerry, what does this mean? Huh? It just means we
jumped and don't don't think too much about it, you know, but that
they said, Um, your dad, not your dad, but I both
of our dad. What does that mean? I don't know. I don't
know. We need we need to che We got it. We can't get
out of here. Did you do you see how happy my mom was?
Yeah, she had nice clothes on. Did you see she had nice clothes
as her Those jeans cost like forty dollars. Yeah, she always one of
those jeans. She always pointed to him when we went to the mall.
I tried to get him one time, how you have enough money? Ben?
We're gonna get this all figured out, and we're gonna get back and
then we'll buy your mom those jeans. Okay, but you're real mom My
mom's dead, Cherry. Remember, we're gonna fix everything. I don't know.
I don't know, Ben, Okay, I'm not. We need to
get Mitch. If you're smart as mitches. Jerry'll jump off the top bunk,
probably really awkwardly because he's he's kind of spiraling into himself. I'm trying
not to let it happen. And he's going to go over to the window
and look out to see if there's any way to like exit the room.
You said it was downstairs for breakfast, so I assume we're second story.
Is there is there any way that would be easily traversable outside the week?
I mean it looks like you, I mean you've, as Jerry, you
have already narratively described sneaking both into and out of this house. So yeah,
so, I mean you know of ways to get in and out of
the house. And it's the same house. It's not like it's it's layout
has changed at all. So you think that you could definitely, you know,
sneak out if you had to. We gotta go. I don't I
don't know what's going on here, but we can't get too comfortable. Are
you with me? You see? The best's gotten up and he's standing at
the dresser and he's kind of opening the drawers and he says, I got
my own dresser. Are these are my clothes in here? I just had
a box before? And we can't stay. Why not? Because everything falls
apart if we don't fix it, every one of them. Jerry, My
stuff's already fallen apart, but not here. Did you see how happy my
mom was? Yeah? Man, Yeah, but we got a job to
do. If we don't do it, that version of your mom is gonna
be gone too. I don't want to sneak out then, I'm I want
to at least say you know, I'm gonna see one more time? Maybe
fine, but after breakfast, we gotta go meet the guys. Okay,
all right? Maybe maybe they'll be at school too. M Jerry, uh,
Jerry's. Jerry's face is gonna for turn angry towards Ben. Um.
Maybe he's he's never really done that before, but he's gonna like storm back
across the room to grab Ben by the shoulders, just kind of look him
in the face. Ben Yeah, I know this is hard. I know
it's been hard. We gotta go. I didn't think it would be like
this though I didn't. Yeah, it would be easier if everything's up,
I know, Um, I don't know. He reaches to the top of
the dresser. Mitchie talkies are here. He pulls down your Mitchie talkies.
All our stuff's here too, the stuff that we brought. I guess.
Oh on the back of the Mitchie talkies, like are they legit? Just
the same old Mitchi talkies? So they have codecames on. They absolutely do.
And they're the ones that have just been repaired in the fishing shack,
you know, for you all. Just moments before Jerial turn it on and
it kind of motion to bend. I'm gonna go have breakfast, but just
wheel drive. This is iron hide Over put a pin in that m and
you hear a call from downstairs. It's Melanie Baker. Surprise or not,
It's time to go. Boys. You see Ben Over at your closet and
he opens it up. My dad's jackets not in here. Um, I
guess I'll wear this, and he puts on a jean jacket. It fits,
look, it fits right, it looks good, it looks good.
Let's Jerry's meanwhile, like getting himself ready, probably subconsciously picking the crappiest clothes
in the dresser, the oldest. May it was ill fitting. There's some
older clothes in there. You can see that they've probably been set aside as
potential, like work clothes. Probably earlier they were play clothes, but they're
not that old. In fact, some of the worst stuff you can pull
out of there probably would have been some of Jerry's best stuff elsewhere. Yeah,
he's not going to voice that that bothers him. Let's just go to
breakfast. Let's just go to breakfast and you know, let them talk.
Maybe they'll tell us about this place. I don't know. He's you see
him lacing up a brand new pair of like jet black, uh Converse all
stars like Chuck Taylor's. But the souls are white on these and not dirty
at all. This is just like those stories, right, It's like it's
like when they wouldn't they go to the underworld. If you eat the food,
you got to stay forever. Don't eat. Don't eat the food.
Ben roll a charm with a plus two. Should you're talking to Ben,
I don't remember how to do things. There is one success at that and
now it. Ben nods okay, and he kind of quickly ties up the
other shoe. Okay, okay, let's let's go, and he heads out
the room. Here he's going to have like one last look around, take
the walking talkie, um, probably throw it in a book bag and assuming
he has one of those, Oh, this is a room that if Jerry
were to be able to decorate a room, as teenage boys do not decorate,
especially ones like Jerry, but they are able to mark their territory.
And if Jerry had been able to pick the perfect way to do so,
this room represents it a monster, right, Yeah, I think just a
walkie talkie. He really doesn't need much anything to throw it in his bag
and carry it with him go downstairs for breakfast. As you all get downstairs,
you see Ben's kind of finishing hugging his mom and she's just hugging him
like just a full one embrace, and she was, well, I don't
know where this came from, but I like it. If this is the
way that we're going to start all of our mornings now, I like it
and Ben is just holding onto her and she kind of senses that there might
be something wrong, and you see her face kind of drop a little bit,
and she really hugs him and she says to him, is there anything
okay? And you just hear Ben whisper, I like your jeans. And
as you come down, Carl Baker is standing there and he is opening up
the fridge and you see him. There's two brown bags there and he kind
of like with a wax paper wrap. You see him make like homemade egg
mcmuffins and kind of put him in and drop him into the brown paper bags.
He slides them over to you, guys. And when he opens up
the refrigerator to put the eggs back in, you notice free of charge,
no role required. No beer exists in the fridge. You've never seen your
father's refrigerator without beer. All right, boys, dinner, breakfast is served,
but it is time for you to go your rides here and you hear
a beep from the driveway. My friends, if you could all go to
your Spotify playlist, I'd like you go down to track number five and q
up Elvis Costello's Veronica then looks at you like his eyes are wide. They
heard the beep. He kind of has it. He takes his brown bag
and his mom gives him one last squeeze, and he gives a squeeze,
and she hands him his backpack, a brand new l L Being backpack.
Yeah, are right, that's totally normal, like always every day. Let's
go. Brother then doesn't say anything, but he kind of holds his mom's
hand as she has it on the strap of his backpack, and he holds
on for just a second. Is his arm kind of trails away, and
he just walks out. He turns and put his back to you and Carl
and Melanie and walks out as you presumably follow. Then out there sits a
white Volkswagen Rabbit. It's just warm enough to have the top down. It's
actually not warm enough at all. It's still probably high forties, low fifties,
but the top is down. Sitting inside is Veronica Kirkshaw behind the wheel.
Her sister Sam sits behind her in the rear driver's side. Get in,
sleepy heads. Veronica says to both of you, you and Ben,
as you walk out, Ben pulls back and stands beside you. What do
we do? What do we do? Here of the yep, you got
it, and he kind of goes and pulls the front passenger side seat up
so he can climb into the back and pulls it down so you have access
to the shotgun seat beside Veronica. Jerry'll climb in um very clearly uncomfortable.
He's gonna like act like he's looking for something in his book bag so that
he's not forced to face this situation too deeply. Okay, we're ready to
go, Then romy and investigate as you look in your backpack. That's one
success. Then you see the kiss coming as you are pulling up. Just
as Veronica goes in to give Jerry a kiss, what do you do?
My friend probably chokes on his imaginary gum. He'll he'll kind of squeak a
little and cough and like pull away and like cover his face. I think
I'm getting sick. As you pull away and look into the back, you
realize that Ben has just performed a similar maneuver with Sam, who had leaned
in to kiss him. And as both Ben and Jerry are kind of leaning
on their respective sides of the car, both of the Kirkshaw girls look at
the Baker boys and their eyebrows as one lift, Shannon. Everybody go over
to your Spotify playlist if you would please and queue up a little skid row.
This is track number four eighteen in life, Shannon, You're standing inside
the coroner's office here at the Garrett Police Department. The bodies, the corpses
of two boys that you have known most of your life, most of your
life, Dutch and Me, are laid out on these steel gurneys. You
had just been inside a body bag on it a similar gurney, but your
dive, your wake up, and your movement caused it to crash to the
ground. You hear somebody approaching because of a Michigan last time. You recognize
the voice as Chief Rugen. As you look around, you realize that unlike
Dutch in kne you are clothed. You have your leather vest on, you
have your turned off Mitchie talkie. You are not in the same state as
them, but you were in the same location and you saw a newspaper that
said three teenagers killed in a stolen car. You have beats seconds if you
will here in this garret outside of time, Shanon, what do you do?
She grabs the body bag that she just toss herself out of and goes
to the closest like closet or filing any kind of cab, and then she
could fit herself in this body bag in sure, okay, roll me a
stealth as there are several kind of like standing wardrobes around here. Yea.
And there's also a bank full of refrigerated trays. Oh yeah, all right,
one success, because I want to All of the closets are filled with
chemicals and embalming implements and implements that you would use for um, you know,
I investigation. Yeah, however, you see that two of the refrigerated
tables that go into like the mausoleum type of bank, Hey they're empty.
Yep, they sure are, and they won't one of them won't be because
Shannon's going right for it. She'll probably like put a part of the body
bag corner just like just barely wedging it between because she's afraid of getting locked
into the stame thing. Absolutely. Yeah, So you can absolutely kind of
keep it kind of in between the catch as you close it, which means
that it's open a crack, which means that yeah, you can hear oh
okay, And as you are sitting there kind of inside this area. You
hear the door open, you hear a lock give, and then you hear
the door open. Anyone in here, anyone fucking around him here, You
hear the footsteps. Chief Rugan, for everybody involved here is a big man.
He is, at least he was whenever we first met him. Large
police Chief of Garrett drives a Harley. He's a big man that knows he's
big when he's also cruel. So the worst kind, the heavy utility shoes,
that is the standard fair for the Garrett Police Department. You hit it,
hear it on the linoleum, and you hear that kind of that strange
kind of sucking, peeling sound, almost like you know the plastic coming off
American cheese that each time it pulls off the Greg you hear it getting closer.
Is there anything you would like to do? Do you do try to
close the door all the way or do just just maintain complete radio silence so
to speak. She's trying to basically hold her breath at this point. She
does not want him to find her. Yeah, I would let everybody know
that. Narratively met up and last episode said that she was going to leave
her Mitchie talkie off. If her Mitchie talkie was on right now, a
voice would say, wheel Jack, wheel Jack. But it is off,
So Shannon, so smart. Sorry, go ahead. You hear you hear
the someone's fucking arounding here him and then you hear him talking presumably to Dutch
and knee. You two dumb sons of bitches. Can't do anything right.
And then he moves away, and you hear the door start to close.
Where's the third one? Hey? You hear him yelling out into the hall.
You hear that kind of muffled as his acoustics gets switched from the room
you were into a space just adjacent. Hey, where's the one that was
in here? Girl? You hear a voice, come over, Chief,
she should be in there. Someone took her somewhere. I want to know
where a chief. I listen, Simmons, find out where there is a
third body. I have two dead kids in here, and he a third.
We're to look bad in the paperwork. You hear the door close here.
The conversation continued that, but now it's muffled. You have no sound.
You have no between the door in front of you and the door that
was closed. Your acoustics are lost, but you do hear enough. You
hear the door lock again. Okay, what's gonna slowly open the door and
as quiet as she can get out, leaving the body bag in there.
She will check to see if there's a tag on the body bag. The
shit unlock, Okay, she grabs it, puts it in her pocket,
and then kind of looks around the room. You said there was a newspaper.
She's probably gonna grab that, roll it and then put it in her
like her back pocket area. And at that point, is there only one
entry into this room? And they're like a window. There are windows,
but they're all clouded over. It's like translucent glass enough to allow light in
here, but you can see without even getting close at they're sealed. It's
they're not operable windows. They're just for light. Are they operable enough if
they were opened through glass shattering that she could fit through? Oh yeah,
you definitely think you could break this stuff. It's not like it's it doesn't
look like it's like ribbed with chicken wire or anything like that. However,
you do notice that just above the door that was locked, there is one
of those and I Greg's cheese Swiss cheese. Brain forgets the name of those
windows that crank above the old Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, and this is an old building, Garrett PD is one of the
older buildings in Garrett And this is a big one of those. I mean,
it's enough that you could easily fit through. Okay, she's just gonna
she can see both knee and Dutch like clear as day on the slab.
Right, they are literally lying on their backs and they have like like a
modesty blanket across them from the waist down, but they are naked from the
waist up, and you see that there are several bruisings and you can tell
that, even in a state of death, that they've been through some shit.
Is there a corner's report anywhere in this room? Yeah? Clipboards everywhere.
It seems to be one hanging from each of their respective journeys. Can
she look at them? What was that? You do not have one?
Your? They had collapsed journey? Yeah, yours was not there? Okay,
Um. Can I just glance at the first page of Duchess, for
example, Yeah, it says that he traumatic brain injury as a result of
a vehicular accident, and then if you look at knees. Knee says that
it was a cervical separation as a result of a vehicular accident. Okay,
she's gonna real quick grab like a pen or something and like kind of move
their upper lip out of the way, just to check their teeth. You
do, so they are elongated. Okay, that's just a bit. It's
fun both of them. M okay, cool cool. Um. So she
is gonna go and try to I don't know, does she need to move
something or is there like shelves or something that she can use to climb up
to the top of that window there on the door. Shannon is an intelligent
person. In this place is filled with gurneys and chairs and things. You
can easily get to the level above the door. Okay, she's gonna try
to open the window and kind of pop her head on either side of the
hall. I guess sure, do you want to roll? I'll allow you
to roll a stealth here or an investigate. Investigate your checking before you do
anything. Stealth, you're just gonna go. I'll let you know that the
stealth is easier than the investigate. Okay, um, I'll investigate. First
two successes you see the coast is clear, Okay, sneak h one success,
you are able to kind of squeeze through and drop down and you are
inside. This is not necessarily a private section of the Garrett Police Department because
the Garrett Peed is an old building and back in the day a lot of
this was accessible to the public no matter what. So it's not kind of
you You are kind of like right in that gray area of where there would
be like both civilians and police officers. And so you're in a hallway that
you wouldn't really not be in, you know, if someone were to catch
you. So it's up to you how you would exit from this. You
would know it growing up here. You would know enough about the Garrett pe
to know how to get in and out and stuff like that. And you
notice that you're the front doors, just a turn or two in the hallway
away. What's the what is in either direction, Like one one is the
front door and the other goes the other would go deeper into what would be
like the pit for where the police officers would kind of get their daily briefings
and things like that. To the right is more of the police's domain and
to the left is more of the public domain. Back to the outside,
back to like the waiting area where everybody would come to like file a complaint
or you know, register or some type of police report. UM up to
you which way you go though, okay, h h h shoot. She
partly wants to go and find out what happened, but she also doesn't want
to risk getting caught, So I think she's going to try to. Um,
just go out the public access way. You turn the right corner,
you turn the left corner, and you bump directly into an officer that has
a name badge as badge, says Simmons. He looks down at you and
says, Oh, I'm sorry, young lady. Are you Are you here
to pay your respects? We can't have any visitors here for the oh what
happened to those boys? Oh? Okay, Um, do you know when
you know the families can can come by and do that. The families have
all been notified and next to ken or they're on site. But I'd appreciate.
I can't believe it's gotten out already who the kids are, But just
keep it quiet until we make sure, because I mean, grandparents and whatnot.
We're really scared that something the grandparents are going to find out before they're
notified, and we don't want any type of shock, you know, more
so than it would it already be. Yeah, it's pretty pretty terrible.
Actually, Um okay, well then I will are you okay? Um,
not really, but that's kind of you know, who would be right if
you need anything. And he reaches into his pocket and he pulls out like
a billfold that's just full of business cards. And he pulls one out and
it's his police information, your badge number. Ted Simmons hands it to you.
You can give me a call anytime. It's tough, you know,
when you lose somebody like that. A lot of the guys here we were
we were ever in Vietnam and we know what it's like. Yeah, this
is very similar. Yeah, it's yeah, not great. I appreciate that,
Simmons. I'll just yeah, I'll go and I won't I won't say
anything, okay, thanks kind of just casually tries to not be suspicious,
but she probably is being awkward. Just as you're walking out, just as
you cross the threshold. That's like the Garrett pb right into the lobby.
The sergeant's behind the desk, you hear a yell from deep inside the police
department, Simmons, where is she? And the door closes behind you.
Everybody, let's see turn off the eighteen in life. Everyone, let's go
with a little silence for just a bit as we jump over to our good
friend George. George, you have just been gifted with the sight of your
father, Eugene, as he has come out of what is a you would
know as a retirement home, but is also a rehabilitation facility. He's in
a wheelchair, he is not in a good way, and his drool collecting
in his mouth, and he whispered almost like he was looking through the floor.
I lost my marbles, but I'd like you to roll and empathize as
this scene hits you. A failure will result in a condition. Well,
what do you know that is a failure, my friend, You are given
the condition upset as soon as you feel this way and you feel this rush
of the motion. The last time you saw this man, he was fighting
himself and he was fighting enemies as he allowed your grew and your group to
escape. So the idea that Eugene is now the man that you again everybody
face claimed Eugene Levy here, Eugene butts Is was a great guy. He
was a dad joke kind of dude, and then he wasn't and then he
was evil, and then he fought against that and had been fighting against that
and kind of came back to his son at the end of last season.
But as you're looking at this and you see this, this broken man in
front of you, he's kind of twisted on one side, one shoulder above
the other. One side of his face seems paralyzed or loose, as if
he has suffered from a stroke. The jewels collecting from that side, and
you see that his eyes are almost milky as they stare at the floor.
You feel and get that condition upset. And just as you feel these emotions
surge into you, George, in your field of vision and what would be
your lower right hand corner, you see a blinking box. I think I'll
just pat him gently and say, you know, I got I've been practiced,
my marble's dad. I'll give you on you I could spare. And
I pat him gently and and go over to that blinking box. And again
as you kind of turn to go to the linking box, you realize it's
not something outside of your vision. It's in your eye and it looks like
a cursor. Just I'll try to concentrate on it and see if I can
move it without moving my eyes. That makes sense, kind of like,
oh, you don't tell your arm to move? Who just does? As
you focus on that blinking box in your field of vision, it begins to
elongate and it turns and almost turns to like a razor thin edge, and
then it flips up and it says, with a question mark at the end,
suppress emotional response. That's interesting. You have to blink for a second
as a tear rolls down. As you continue to see your father in this
way and with the condition upset, it's yeah, yeah, he's gonna try
to put on a brave face. So yeah, if there's like a prompt
you'd say yes to, then he'll say yes. Suppress it again, turns
onto a razor's edge and kind of zips off to the right. Remove the
condition upset. You feel nothing that is both cool and upsetting. Sorry,
you're going Yeah, you hear Eugene whispering marbles, Georgie, Georgie. Now
I'm here, Dad, Georgie. M hmm, Look to see what they're
doing. They're doing something. Who m helope, what do you think they're
doing? They got him fold fold into what though? I know what you
mean, but like you have to tell me, they did something to my
head. Don't worry that. I'm gonna We're gonna fix us. M Mom
didn't die in a car accident. What do you mean they did it.
I'll get to the bottom of it. I lost my marbles. I just
pat him. I don't know what else to say, so I just pat
him. About thirty seconds after your father's finished speaking, the door bursts open
and you see the orderly and a man in a suit. The orderly looks
at you and gone is that pleasant demeanor? That gone? Is that he's
having a good day, and it's replaced by a business expression. He's been
off his meds for a bit. We need to make sure he gets medication.
He's going to be in pain if we don't. And the man in
the suit doesn't move into the room, but stands in the back and both
of his hands are behind his back. I'll get between the orderly and my
father said, I'm not I'm not done. You know you can come back
later. He's going to start having pain and we have to manage it.
It's part of our oath. Well, I'm going to make an oath right
now that you'll be feeling some pain if you don't leave right now. The
man pulls out a gun. I want to pull out a gun and levels
at George Son. I think you believe you have a choice here. I
would like to let you know you do not. You know the agreement.
Your father's alive, he's in here. You get to live in that nice
little house of yours. Don't act up mhm. I don't say anything.
I just like talk of my jacket and h angstantly walk out. If there's
a cop, if there's a glass jar of cotton balls on the counter,
they're on the floor. Shattered, absolutely can be and you can absolutely shatter
him. Yeah. As you shatter him and walk out, the last thing
you kind of hear is that man going fucking teenagers. You walk outside as
they grab Eugene Butts and wheel him off to the back where he will have
an accident. Speaking of accidents, everybody, could you go to your Spotify
playlist, please go down to track number three take on Me by Aha,
And I'd like to let everybody know that if you are a GM, you've
never lived until you have choreographed or plot pointed a combat scenario to AHA's take
on me, Mitch, you are in what is called extended trouble. You
need four successes. If you do not have four successes, you will take
a condition regardless of what you intend to do after each round. The person
in front of you is Shannon Locke. This is not Shannon Lock of the
leather vest. This is not Shannonlock, who just snuck out of the Garrett
Police Department. This is Shannon Locke, wearing a suit, dressed more like
Peter Gabriel or Robert Palmer, a little high on the ankle, her hair
tied back in a ponytail. But all of those other accessories and all of
those other dress are secondary in nature to the six inch blade she is holding
in he reverse grip in her right hand, in a grip that speaks volumes
about how she can use it. My friend, she lunges for you,
I need a role move for me. Cool. Oh, let's see here.
One success. With one success, she draws a four inch gash along
your ribs, cutting through your geane jacket. Excuse me, your gene vest
cutting through. You feel it skip off one of your ribs. You don't
know how that you can identify the particular feeling, but it's something you'll never
forget, and you're immediately identify it as that one off my rib. You
have the condition injured. As she opens you up on the side, she
spins it back around to the uphand grip and says, go ahead, Mitch,
run you always run. I can't do the injured thing, Okay.
Um cool, I'm gonna refresh my rod twenty That's what I'm gonna do.
Um what do I do? So we're ian correct if I'm wrong? We're
in treements. Right. You are in a field, and now that you
stood up, you look around and you realize you're just on the outskirts of
Garrett. In fact, you are beside what looks to be a construction site,
but you're in the agricultural field just beside it. Okay, okay.
In fact, this is a type of field that I don't know. If
you were running from a robot with machine guns, you'd probably run into this
field. But that's not here nor there. You just have Shannon with the
blade in front. What a specific reference, Greg, I am injured.
Okay, why can't I I can't click on any conditions. I don't know
what's happening here. Um okay, cool, we'll figure that out. Um,
what do I do I need to do? Greg? Did you said
the look wasn't important? But does she look like the suited people that were
chasing me in the middle school in season one? Or does she just look
like regular Shannon in a weird suit? Shooks like if Shannon Locke had been
cast as an extra in Children of the Corn. Got it? Cool?
Um? I would love to uh kneecap her? Um, so like I'm
running. I want to run like at her like I want to run through
through Shannon Locke here, um, in the direction of town. And when
I do, I'm gonna pipe wrench to the knee, is what I'd like
to do. Okay, then roll me a force with your iconic item bonus
because of how you're using this as a weapon in this particular instance. Um,
I will let you know failure results in a condition. I don't know
why I can't check off any of my conditions. Um, okay, so
I'll just add I'll add one less to my my bonus, right, Um?
Hold on? So plus a D six H six just in case.
No, okay, so one success as like cranker in the knee. You
hit her in the knee and she definitely kind of jumps out of the way
a little shock that you charged instead of rabbiting like she expected you too.
And as she comes in, she pays for it by taking a bit of
a hit, but it's not a solid hit, and she is able to
spin and drops her elbow onto the back of your head, causing you to
be dazed as you pop forward. You're going to take a second condition here.
This one is going to be We're just gonna say it's upset um in
lieu of you know, stunned. And she spins and looks at you as
she kind of readies her attack. Are you continuing to run as you barrel
through her attack and then head towards Garrett. Yes, yeah, like it
was a hitter and then hitter's hard as I can and continue running towards Garrett.
Okay, you're stunned. You see Garrett kind of triple and double in
front of your vision as the grave truck less skyline kind of moves back and
forth in your brain, ever working and ever moving says, there are no
grave trucks. Where are the robots. It's one of those you know,
you're always connecting the yarn on your board, even in this particular situation,
but your side is immediately damp. You can feel it's sticking and pulling already.
It feels like you pulled your side like you have muscle pulls there.
And as you're running, you start stumbling through the area, drops of your
blood kind of lying on the the intermittent snow that is here. I'd like
you to roam either actually roa me both Roma move and rome An investigate.
As you are trying to escape from Shannon lock cool. As he's running,
he is going to grab one of the walkie talkies that he fixed, and
he's just yelling into this thing, Michigan, Michigan, you said, and
move. Sorry. Right just as you grab your walkie talkie at the same
time that you would have yelled Michigan, it bursts to life with wheel Jack,
wheel Jack. It's iron hide as Jerry from across the way kind of
sputters and okay. So with your move failure, you feel your legs go
out from under you as Shannon sweeps them, and you drop to the ground
and slide kind of pinwheeling through the loose earth and snow as you come to
a stop, immediately pressing to get back up. But with the one investigate,
you see the approach of rob Ott as he is charging like a night
of old on the wingmobile. Rob you have just witnessed this strangely clad shin
and knife and then hit your friend in the back of the head with an
elbow, and you see her coming down on him to drive this knife through
his back. But my friend, the wingmobile is faster still, what do
you do? Rob is going to become speed and he with face masks fully
attached. He's got a rammer, you know, as long as if she's
if he can hit her, hit her without running over Mitch, he gonna
do it. Roll me a move and give yourself a plus two because the
wingmobile, as a sablished before, is an iconic item. Moves two.
Oh okay, Um, you may use your luck, you may push and
get a condition, or you can use your um pride for a street success.
Um, we're gonna use luck. We're gonna go ahead and use luck
here. Um okay, so let's gonna do that again. No, you
may push or I mean, you may use your pride for an immediate success.
So I'm gonna use my pride. M hm uh. My pride is
that optimist Prime is my adopted father, and I truly believe that I am
the one chosen to save them all. As ridiculous as it sounds, that's
it's he That's what he was chosen for. That's you know, that's how
he has made sense of his life. So that's in all true fashion.
He believes he's gonna wheeley this thing into her face and say to his best
random mention everybody, because I am prepared for just such a circumstance. Please
go to your Spotify playlist, go down to the very bottom where you will
find track number eleven, which is Dare by stan Bush. Turn that one
on, everybody. This is from Transformers the movieum and with a one shall
stand, one shall fall, you charge in Papa Wheeley on the wingmobile as
the front tire takes Shannon squarely in the chin, and you see her rocket
back like she had just been punched by Apollo Creed, and she launches through
the air and you see her actually dip down into a ravine. Some ten
feet away as you pull back down right beside mitche my friends you are together,
Rob him this prime what do you do? Mhm um, this is
just just sorry not there's no response. Mitch was rhetorical. Mitch like is
holding his ribs and stumbling towards the pinbo bile. We we gotta go,
real bad, real bad, Shannon, we gotta go. And he like
is climbing onto the bike and it's like, it's not it's not pretty.
There's like one arm like holding on over the shoulder as for support as he
is like trying to hold his insides inside. Um. And then with all
the adrenaline flowing, Rob's gonna drop the clutch. He kind of you know,
wheeie up again and take off, showing that he in fact just missed
time to gearshift and didn't actually mean to wheelie into her. But that's what
happened, and it's it's all in the reflexes. Right as you are able
to collect Mitch and again without need for a role here frags, Rob can
tell that Mitch is really hurt. This isn't you know, hey, I
fell down or I got my bell rung or something like that. Like you
see that the side of his vest is a huge dark circle. You see
that there is a slash through that vest that is several inches long, and
much is already pale. Sarge is a friend, right, so I mean
come in. Canonically, he's he's he's been a he's been a palm.
Rob's gonna take his chances and try to go. We bring him to Sarge.
He's not going to take him to a hospital, to to to public.
And Sarge was in the military. He probably knows first aid at least.
Well, that is fantastic because everybody, if you would turn to your
map, you will see that the Sarge's house is directly across the street from
and as the pingmobile moments later rolls through Garrett with Mitch grasped on the back
and Rob behind the wheel, so to speak, the door to the Garrett
PD opens and Shannon Locke stumbles out into the sunshine. That doesn't stumble,
strikes a pose out into the stunt sun sunshine. You both see her.
What do you do? Mitch tries not to die, he fails rolling new
character. Thanks, Yeah, I think he's he he's too, he's hiding.
He's holding onto Rob too tightly at his ribs too toightly to do anything
other than breathe heavily into rob. Um Rob's gonna kind of just watch her
and see what she does. Is she gonna attack us? Is she gonna
paralyzed with fear, but more paralyzed with caution, just to kind of see
where this goes? The Shannon see them, Yep, you see. I
mean, you hear the ping mobile more than anything else. As you walk
out and you see the ping mobile with two occupants on it, Um Rob
at his customary position behind the sticks, And what do you do? Is
these they approach and they're eyeing you strangely? Uh? Can I tell that
Mitch is hurt? I'm gonna go ahead and say, from this distance,
he definitely smells like he's hurt. Back, Okay, I guess you kind
of like fast walk to the sidewalk where the pingmobile would be starting to like
come by. You all see her quickly approaching on an intercept course with the
Pingmobile. So a stop, top stop, stop, stop, Okay,
what are you you? You? I'm me. I don't know if you're
you because I just right brand you over Wait what me? No? No,
no, I was just in the morgue. I was not run over.
Well, actually, I don't know if I was run over. Oh
yeah, stabbed him and I did not. Actually, Okay, we can
argue about this later. I don't think there's room for three of us on
this. So where are you going? Because heavier, I'm not taking the
hospital. Yeah, just okay, Well we're in a fount of a police
station right now, so probably right here is not a great place to bleed
out. I'm just gonna just just I'll run you go that way. I
will looking for Okay, I'll, i'll, i'll, I don't. I
don't know if he's even here. Okay, in this, you know,
can you just like get him to the side of the road and then I
will try to help it or something that's bad. Rob's gonna take three steps
to the right to make sure that he's at the side of the road,
directly in the road he stopped, like get off the seamobile. Yeah,
he's being very literal right now. Okay, So Shannon is gonna look,
I mean, like, is he like bleeding bleeding out? Yeah, I'm
pretty sure the right side of me is also read m Shannon would have as
we've stated, narratively, Shannon's dad, Sean, a military man, has
trained her quite extensively in a lot of different things. Um, first day
definitely being one of them. And when you would look at this, Shannon,
this is one of the worst injuries you've seen. Okay, it's also
as soon as you look at it. Um, you remember your dad referring
to specifically like cuts and um kind of like blunt force trauma. There's two
different ways that a cut can be. It can be a tear or it
can be a surgical cut. This is a surgical cut. It's very thin,
almost like it's practiced by a trained hand. Yangs Okay, so it's
pretty deep then, um okay, well, uh does he have a jacket
on? Does he? Um? Sorry, it's a best no, like
with like arms, like it doesn't have sleeves on anything he owns. Yeah,
does anybody have sleeves because neither Just shannons, Yeah, I need I
need that jet I need that shirt right there. Yeah, just you're not
just basically yeah, Rob has never felt more manly than he does right now
in a sleeveless shirt. Shannon ties both of those sleeves together and they like
get a little bit more leverage to pull around Mitch's area like his side,
and as tightly as she can. She like knots it as tight as she
can around the wound. Okay, okay, you do so. Um.
Just at that time, a white Volkswagen Rabbit rolls around the corner and Barry
Jen Janet Barry, Yeah, Jerry and Ben. Um right, I knew
I was gonna do that. It took me three seasons to hit that.
Um. You both of you look outside of the you know, with the
top down in this frigid weather, especially with the wind blowing. Um,
both you and the Kirkshaw sisters. Notice that you see the Kirkshaw sisters don't
recognize the people on the road. Um. You two, however, do
Jerry, Jerry, we gotta we gotta stop Jerry to make her stop a
Veronica stop, She slows down, does not stop. Why there's the guys?
What guys? Who are they? One of them is bleeding? Jerry.
I know when did you get your medical license? Jerry? Last night?
Well, I was sleeping. Just stop the car. She does sell.
She kind of rips the emergency break up in the center console, and
she turns and folds her arms were stopped it. But Jerry'll get out of
the car, um, pull up the seat, get up. Yeah,
yeah, we are going to help um these um strangers. Uh m hm.
He gets out, go go without us. Will beat you at school?
I think school? What do you mean you think the fuck? Jerry?
Look, I can't explain. You have to trust me. Won me
a charm plus four? All right? Well I'll give it that. Then
roll to so one. Success. With that success, she releases the parking
break and before you've stepped fully out, the volkswagons already moving and the door
kind of closes on its own, and she says, in the nicest way
possible, fuck you Jerry, and Boo drives off, and Sam's in the
back like watching, and she kind of turns and kind of crawls up into
the front seat with her sister. As you all are. They're departing towards
Braddock High. It's a bad Shandon, what I'm not a bad Shannon?
No, it is not. That's a bad Shannon. She has a knife.
She got a knife. Suit bash hanon kills just maybe he's lost a
lot of blood. She's stabbing in the ribs. I definitely hit her with
the penguin boo. Okay, and where is she now? Is she following
you? Probably the field in a field okay, okay, let's take care
of the fact that Mitch is bleeding out. Um that that is not gonna
hold that's a temporary also highs and so so much cheery, so much,
I'm supposedly never mind. That's actually a conversation for later. You guys,
do you know this is the last Mitch? Right? She guys, I
don't know. I just walked out here and blood. Um. She says
she gotta kill more. He needs stitches, so either we take them to
the hospital or we find something that I can do stitches, although I haven't
done stitches on something that that big. But and then Maggie knows how to
shut for a second. She said, she says, you're sorry. She
says she gotta kill me to save her dad. She's not gonna stop.
We gotta she killed more. Okay, okay, hold on, Let's maybe
make sure you don't die first, thank you, and then we'll talk about
why she's killing you. Okay, guy, because Sven hurts a Lie's what
I expected. So why who's the movies? Um, it's at this time
walking from what would have been the hospital a block above down this direction,
George, you around the corner, and as luck and the mechanics of Taos
from the loop would have it, you see your friends surrounding a fallen form
of a Mitch. Oh, I double time it, assuming that Mitch is
down like dead. I I sprint as fast as robotically possible. That blinking
cursor appears again. Have too many mututons? Um I activated? See what
it says? It says, reading gauge emotional response with a question mark.
Oh no, um, yes, you select it. It turns into that
razor line and disappears off to the right. You feel live and you double
time it up to them super fucking fast. Yeah. Um. When all
this is going on, Mitch is saying I'm the last Mitch and they're going
to kill hart meted Ben saddles up beside Jerry and says, he why do
you think they tried to why? Why do you think they tried to kiss
us? That's what girls do when they like Yeah, man, but I'm
that would have been my first kids. I'm saving I'm saving him that I
don't even know if I want to get into this with you right now.
But like for who she gets another school, you wouldn't know. Yeah,
in Canada, right now, I don't worry about girls. Girls are easy.
We just jumped into a different dimension. Man, this one was going
really really, it was going really well until you know, Mitche looks like
he got caught robot. Yeah, so let's focus on that. And I
don't I don't know. You gotta stop looking at me like I got answers.
I got nothing. I mean, you're my brother, right, And
he turns and Ben says to the group, Rob's right, um, miss
Maggie or or Sarge. Whenever I used to and you realize he stops before
he says, whenever I used to have to have injuries tended to. I
know the Sarge can do first aid. Miss Maggie kent too. Okay,
have I rolled up at this point yet? I just what was it?
Certainly? Oh yeah, you just okay? Not out of breath, not
sweating. I don't really care where we go, wherever it's closer, that's
gonna stop that blood coming out. Yeah, well we kind of slowed it
down, but I agree you need stitches. Yeah. He likes to talk
and argue, but can't we just isn't Sarget's house right here? And I
just pick him up. Oh you see Sargeant's house and there is a tall
flagpole with a blowing American flag catching the garret breeze. All right, let's
go gang and I just start struggling along over there. That's the that's the
right are you are you start? Yeah? Yeah, I'm like I'm like
holding him like I'm gonna take him across the threshold. Let's got me in
thee. Yeah yeah, yeah, it's called that. There's a lie.
This is so fast. I assume we bet at Sarget's house for like a
few seconds of he's just still talking about it. Oh yeah, yeah I
did. Yeah. You take it over there, and you're able to get
up like the short you know, it's kind of like a bungalow style house,
like like a forty fifties era kind of bungalow house. You're would go
up into the big front porch and you're at the door. You can knock
whenever you would like. Um, without the need for an investigate role.
However, I will say that you do hear conversation coming from inside, quite
a bit of conversation coming from inside, and It is at that point that
you see a sandwich board on this great big porch that says town meeting.
I can't take a dead kid to a town meeting. And yet I'm okay,
this is not good. Okay, can somebody I don't know get like
a needle and thread. I can do my best in the window and see
who's there? Well you sure cut? Yeah, absolutely, go right ahead,
No need for an investigate. Um, as you look, it says
there's a lot of people sitting down. Um, there's a big room,
so I just has a big living room. Um, it's the majority of
this kind of the house. There's about ten people sitting inside. You recognize
people from the Garrett Fire Department? Do you recognize people from the hospital?
A couple suited people that apparently are probably from the Loop, you would suspect.
But there is a riser in here, and there's actually a sign that
says, um, welcome Mayor Mandy Simms. And you see Mayor Mandy Simms,
and that is Mitch's mom. Oh no, um, hm, he's
not gonna say anything about that, would he know? Who would he wouldn't?
Yeah, I know he would definitely choose alive. You would know her
though, to be very very polite. You would know her as somebody that
has a bit of a substance problem. Oh yeah, it's all coming back
now. Yeah, he's gonna keep that to himself. She's starting to talk.
You could listen in if you like, but I need you to roll
and investigate for me. Franks, Yeah, with time permitting. Yeah,
I'll, i'll, i'll kind of listening while they're discussing where to get fishing
lined dick snatch. There's always time for this. Yeah, oh yeah,
I gotta roll for it. Don't sure what was it again? I'm sorry,
investigate, my friend, investigate Okay, gear Um, you can push.
I'm gonna push. This will take give you a condition if you fail
no grid oh one success. Okay, so you do get the condition.
Exhausted. But this is just more of just that adrenaline that you had from
punting Evil Shannon with the pain Mobile. That's left you and you're just feeling
it's almost like you're coming off that high and you just kind of feel a
bit run down a drivelling double exactly. And you hear Mary Mandy Simms saying
that everyone, everyone calmed down, calm down. I have been in my
office has been in discussion with the Loop from the very beginning. They are
building throughout the city and the surrounding areas and the surrounding farms. They are
expanding their invention with the Loop, and should war with the Soviets occur,
they have promised me that Garrett itself will be safe from anything that could happen
from a nuclear catastrophe. In fact, President Bush has moved his bunker to
Garrett and is in the process of doing so. This is going to bring
tremendous opportunity to us, and it should be safety and a feeling of confidence
and of the Loop in your town. You see Sarge sitting there and he's
standing beside Mayor Mandy Sims. Yeah, Rob's just gonna turn back to the
group and say, yeah, yeah, we believe we don't need to be
here. Okay, So hospital, is there a vehicle here that can like
like a truck or something. There is an old like jeep from the Korean
War that um Sorge has repurposed. It's there and it is never not.
You can just turn the ignition. You know, there's no key involved with
this jeep. You may steal it if you'd like. So, guys,
I'm thinking about taking that, and unless you can convince me otherwise, that
is what we are taking to the hospital because we are not running there.
Yeah, no, we can't go. We can't go to the hospital.
Maggie. You said, Maggie can stitch. Right, then are we going
to take him all over town to find out if the people that are here
are actually gonna not? You can't trust. We can't trust the hospital.
I just can't just go in and get some supplies. Then we don't have
to go. You just go to write Aid. Okay, where's the closest
one. I don't know. I've never been to, right Aid. Okay,
Well, we can't stay here regardless with Mitch in the way that he
is. So no, he's fine. We still need some kind of mobility
via vehicle. Yeah, but let's just let's just go. Let's just do
it whatever. He's bleeding out right, Okay, you're still there's funny?
Yeah, thanks, take time, help help help him into the cheap let's
go. Yep, So you're able to climb into the jeep, which is
sand's top and you know it's straight out of like the mash set. And
again as soon as you turn it on, Shannon. It's on and it's
running. This will be the second consecutive episode of season two that Shannon has
increased her theft from fifty two dollars to grand theft auto. It's just one
more thing to the list of impossibilities. I wouldn't watching her way around the
police station. So you're able to uh with the noise that's coming inside.
No one runs out to intercept you or stop you. Where what's your destination
here? Exchange? I mean she's going to go towards the hospital, but
if there's like a pharmacy on the way, she'll stop there instead. Main
Street has the pharmacy. In fact, I believe you all went in there
one time before when you had to fix up Rob's finger. That would be,
yeah, that would be that's one Main Street that's the same proximity as
the paperback exchange. Okay, then she'll go there. You see both the
pharmacy and you see that the paperback exchange are both on the street. Okay.
She parks like in an alley behind like one of the dumpsters or something.
Okay, two of you go scout and see if Maggie's like a crazy
person. I'm gonna go get supplies from the pharmacy. Okay, is that
one Crystal? Yeah yeah, I'll let you guys deal with that, and
one of you stay with Mitch, let him off. You figure it out.
She goes and goes to the pharmacy with two dollars that she's stole.
Before you can get whatever you need in the pharmacy. They're not going to
stop you. Rob's already on his way down. Yes, Maggie's whatever.
She gotta be good. Ben looks down. You were in a knife fight.
Yeah, buddy, he fight, she got, I get stabbed.
It's like the end of Commando. Yeah, it's after I'm dying. It
was. It was batter. I don't think you're dying. She's so fast
in a suit. So they hit her in the Houston. Did you get
in a good shot? I don't know. She kicks me, it fell
over. Rob hit her with the bike second Ninja. Seeing Ben, who
was unfortunately versed in injury, Um looks over his shoulder at Jerry and kind
of raises an eyebrow and says, I'm telling you this place is great.
Are you you stay here? And Jerry's gonna go storm off after ro Rob
you are about ten feet away from the paperback exchange when you smell nineteen sixty
nine. Yeah, and he's, uh, his eyes are gonna get big,
and he's gonna maybe kind of pick up the pace until he can kind
of get a view through the window or let's see if anybody's in there.
Or when you look inside the paperback exchange, it looks exactly like it does
in your garret. There are crystals hanging from line all over the ceiling,
incenses burning, and small clouds, racks and rows of paperback books, and
stacks and stacks of comic books, and they're in a flowy Stevie Nick's esque
dress is miss Mackie. Um, it's that Jerry caught up with him.
At this point. You can hear Jerry coming. Sure, Yeah, he's
gonna wait. You're gonna wait for Jerry to get to him, because he's
not in the chance that she's you know, Maggie X, you know,
the bad, bad Maggie. He wants to have somebody there with him who's
got substantial sizes. Sure, yeah, Jerry, you catch up quickly.
George, where are you right now? Are you helping Shannon? Are you
just sticking with Mitch. I think he's sticking with Mitch. Okay, so
Mitchen, you're with Benn, and uh, you and Ben are together with
Mitch. Gotcha, Shannon's actually buying something and um, Jerry and Rob are
in front of the paperback exchange. Everyone's so far, so good. You
take the lead, but if things get sketchy, we we leave right away.
A good good agreed, Yes, yes, agreed. And it was
gonna walk on in. You open ends those combination Belle crystal kind of mechanism,
clinks clinklinkly as you come in, and she turns and it's that almost
like a music video where you turn it. It's slow and all of like
the the flowy dress kind of turns and as she sees you, she says,
Rob, and she opens her arms. He's just gonna run run to
her. And the fact that she recognized who he was was enough for him.
Did she mention anything about the cutoff sleeves. She doesn't, but she
wraps you in a hug and she whispers in your ear, let's just share
the swim, Jerry. You can see this occurring. Rob's taking no precautions
to hide it. Jerry's gonna let him have it because you know he knows
the allure of this place all too well. Maggie pulls back and looks and
says, I don't know exactly what's going on. I never do. What
do you need from me? M m mitchet Mitch is heard and he needs
help. You have a Mitch, h and show me and she rushes towards
the door. Yeah, and he's as long as Jerry's following. At this
point, you know, gurdon, I'm gonna I'll skirt back to the Ali
with her. Within moments, Mitch, your vision is filled with Miss Maggie
as she leans over. Hey, miss Maggie's here. They have you and
she turned. She turns to George. I assume you can carry him?
Yeah, I got him. She looks around. Do you not have a
Shannon says here? You two two have two? What bad? You got
a bad one? The other one's just okay. Our sh in his ac
chilly buying supplying. At this point, Shannon, you'd be coming out with
everything that you've noted their sex. You have everything that you could perch.
Fifty two dollars could basically buy you half the store at that time, so
you're able to come out with whatever you need. And as soon as Maggie
sees you, she nods and you see a tear run out of both sides,
both eyes. Get him to the paperback quick. Okay, so she's
a good Maggie. That's nice. You guys see a really shitty backpack zipper
doesn't actually close all the way where Shannon's put all the stuff that she just
bought. It's like one of those like Ultra Rainbow LLLB knockoff, just not
knock. Maggie will not only not use what you've brought, but she gives
you additional stuff and to put in your backpack. She gives you like bandages
and butterfly strips and things like that, as she produces what can only be
called like a crash trauma kit from beneath the counter, and she locks the
door and for the first time in known history, pulls down the dusty blinds
along the front window, obscuring the outside world from that of the Sancta sanctorum
of the paperback Exchange. My friends, in Garrett's, where the paperback Exchange
exists, it is considered your hideout. All of your conditions can be healed
here with enough time, and my friends you have enough time. As she
works on Mitch, sewing up his side, Mitch, you'll still have an
injury. It won't you won't have the condition, but you'll still have that,
much like Frags had his broken finger. Morning turns into afternoon. As
noon comes around somewhere in some other universe, as to clock rolls around,
Lisa from McDonald's stands in a green dress in a center court, waiting for
a George Butts that will never arrive, and just as you are all patched
up, then turns to Jerry. Maybe maybe this is all we need to
do. Maybe we can this is this is just like our Maggie man,
you can do it here. If they come first here, we can do
We can do it right anybody else here, this exchange between them, I
probably hear whispers there. He's not being particularly quiet, right. But we
can't stay here. I know you want to. We can't stay here.
There are two other guys that belong here. We don't m maybe they're assholes.
If we take this from them, we're the asses. And that is
Jerry logic that Ben can't beat. Damn it, hey, guys, now
that we're all like alive, sort of, she takes the newspaper out and
puts it down in front of everybody. I'm supposed to be dead, and
I may or may not have gotten out of the morgue next to the bodies
of me and Dutch, who, by the way, had the Chief thing
going on. So oh, and you know, our friendly chief that we
dealt with in the last you know are is here too, and I think
he has something to do with all that. Maggie hears this part, and
she looks over at Channon and then at all of you. Rugan knows wherever
you go. Assume that he knows. Hey, So now that I'm not
immediately dying, um, there's a there's a bad Shannon. But she's not
She's not Shannon. She's not here Shannon. She's Shannon like us. She's
in a suit. She says she killed other mitches. She says she had
to killed one more to save her dad, and she tried to stab in
her death. It's very quick. That means you're the last one. Yeah,
And she's a professional Mitch killing Shannon, which is something I never thought
i'd have to say with my mouth. She almost did it Forever super rob
the Wheels of Steel herself. How did she know where you were? What
did you give me? She was waiting for me, she was there,
I was in a field. I was in the middle of nowhere, in
a field, and she said one more Mitch, and then well, obviously
that's not a coincidence. How does she know? It's like, oh,
I don't know, man, Well, we need to find out because if
we had to jump again, then I'm sorry. I was too busy not
getting stabbed to death. I get it. But now that you're not dying,
we need to figure out what happens next. It's the Loop. Yeah,
they know they are up to something. When I got here, I
was over in Shady Acres, fuck, and my dad was there, but
not you know, not Megatron like my dad should have been. He was
gomped. I mean he was out of his mind. They had him on
med's. He was drooling, he was speaking in whispers, couldn't fixate,
he couldn't look at anything straight. And he told me that my mom didn't
die in a car crash, that they did it, The Loop did it.
And as soon as he was talking about it and orderly, bust In
and a dude in his suit with a gun told me to get out so
that they can medicate him. And I'm not ready to get shot. I'm
not Jerry. I don't know if I could take it or shoot somebody.
I don't know. But so we need to break your dad out of hospital
jail potentially, but he I don't know what we could do to save him.
I think maybe. But also we got to look at the loop.
So we got to find a way we're reacting. We gotta we gotta figure
out what's going on with the Loop so that we don't react anymore. We
can start making educated moves. I agree, So we got to break into
the loop as well. Maggie Nix broke. Maggie moves forward, and that
takes the paper the Channon had and opens it like two or three pages in
and kind of displays a map of Garrett, and you can see a ring
that is extending far beyond the original ring of the Loop, and this ring
is cutting directly through Garrett and the surrounding fields. They're expanding, they're doing
something. They've bought up farms and property in town. The local government says
it's fine that they're building some type of missile defense, and the events of
a war with the Soviets, which I believe is going to happen anytime.
It's inevitable. Things have gotten very bad. They don't believe in peace.
I her heard at the town meeting that they have bunkers against it, against
that the president has built a bunker. We only have the ones from the
fifties. Unless the Loop has something some ace up their sleeve. They probably
do. I don't know. It was all very confusing and hard to understand.
Und this is my dad around her face falls, I'm Sean Fell several
years ago. Wow, I don't know. Oh, well, what about
my mom? Then? Yeah, this isn't your mother. Now I get
that, But what happened your Aaron is troubled. The Shannon here was not
good. Yeah, there's a lot of that going around. Apparently she kind
of cuts across the space to you, Shannon. And it is not condescending,
Maggie never really is. She talks to all of you both as a
like a mother figure, but also as a friend, as an adviser,
but also as somebody that's learning from you all. And it's with that voice,
in that manner that she speaks to Shannon. They are not you as
difficult. It as is to separate they aren't you. Yeah, I understand
that. Obviously I'm not whatever they did, and I could have easily been
who they are. And I guess vice versa. I have no attachments to
whatever is happening here, rather than the fact that we're here to figure something
out and it's supposed to help us save everything else. That's all I can
hope for. I guess she knows everything you said is right except for one
thing. I said. It would be easy for them to be you.
That's not true. They chose what was easiest for them. They chose the
circumstances that had given them their lives. You chose them more different called path.
If it were easy, everyone would do it fair enough. So I
guess what's our next move? Do we go to the loop? I can
help you all if you would like to try to get into the loop.
Rob's nose begins to bleed. We can, and she kind of goes over
and points to the facility. They have tours that go through the loop,
and we can get you all in there to see exactly what it is they're
up to. All of your ears, pop, Maggie, have crystals leave
some behind? Do you have special crystals special. Rob leaves them behind.
Now, yeah, he's as he's fumbling through that, he's also going to
pull out a water of napkins and sort of handing out napkins as he's also
dumping a crystal m do you need crystals do? And she sees the velvet
bag that that Rob has that he's kind of pulling one out and you dump
it to the ground. What should I do with this? The others have
never had any Bring it as far away from here as you can. Okay,
no, no, no water yeah, not in the water though.
Okay, all right, come here, children, And she opens her arms
up to kind of gather you in. Do you all do something like that?
She's trying to hug us, Yeah, robed us robs. Yeah,
she stitched me up. I'll give her a hug. She's kind of pulling
into into it. Yeah, yeah, we know their magical hugs. So's
you've pushed Ben in and Ben was Ben goes with the push. I was
gonna go anyway, and immediately starts hugging, just to make you know that
you're not making him do something he doesn't want to do. So you're all
gathered in a hug and I need a comprehend role from Mitch. Great,
let me see here, foof, I'm gonna I'm gonna spend a luck point
there, Greg, Sure, sure that sounds good. One success, it's
rougher this time. It's maybe your injury, your exhaustion. Even though you
don't have the conditions, you still are experiencing those things. As you begin
to move away from this garret, you have what information you've gleaned, what
knowledge has been secured from this garret, Garrett Beta, as you are being
pulled away. This is the same garret where Pat and Sean, Pat Mitchell
and Sean Locke arrived for the very first jump. This was when Sean and
his recordings to mother and daughter said that Pat saw his wife and it upset
him. Didn't upset him because she was in a bad way. It upset
Pat because he saw exactly what Mandy would become without him, and that was
mayor of this city. As you begin to pull away, you can feel
Maggie holding you, and she's singing and humming to you as you begin to
sink into the floor, and you can tell that it's some type of song
from the sixties. Rob might be the only one to realize that it's Crosby
Stills in nash As you sink into the floor, everybody, please roll me
your best skill. As you are in the place between everybody, if you
would go to your Spotify playlists and let's go back to take on me?
Is that everybody jar? There we go. As you are all careening through
the rows, as you see those star fields whipped by Mitch. You had
gathered a little segment in your mind the last time this happened, but you
only can really focus on that segment again. You can't look at anything new.
You don't glean any additional information from what's going on, and you are
all this time Jerry. As Ben's holding onto you feel him pulled from you,
and as you spin and float and twist, Jerry, you are standing
along a dirt road and a house that had been resplendent and thet you'd ever
seen it, with a yard that was manicured, and a fridge that didn't
have any beer, now stands as a skeletal frame consumed by fire. As
you turn, you see a man walking a dog. The man looks vaguely
familiar. An old faded sign says property of Garrett United Bank. A small
shrine has been erected at the very end of the driveway. Pictures of Jerry
from the age of twelve and earlier. There's a football deflated weathered. Everything
seems weathered, not maintained. A smeared card that is still legible reads I'll
never forget you your best friend Ben and predominantly displayed around a wreath of dead
flowers, it says rest in Peace, Drawn Jerry Baker eleven fourteen, nineteen
seventy four to eleven fourteen, nineteen eighty six. George, you were in
your bedroom at your house and the door bursts open. Your father, Eugene
Butts, wearing a sombrero, comes in. Hey, kiddo, happy Cinco
de Mayo. We have reservations tonight at Hot Tamali's your dad, healthy,
vibrant as goofy as before you need to ride to school, Champ, I'll
leave you even lost your marbles, no, of course not still got them
all right where I put him? If you say so, Looking at the
sobrero hut any who if you need to ride, let Amy know and he
leaves the room. You have never you don't know an Amy, especially not
one that would give you a ride to school, Shannon, roll move.
A failure gets you a condition. A forearm takes you just below the throat
and knocks you down on your back. A face fills your vision. It
is your father, Sean Locke, looking as young as you know him,
and your Garrett, but his hair is cut high and tight in a military
fashion. You can't get distracted when mistaken, you are dead. You hear
me, get up, roll, investigate as you stand. If you do
stand, two successes. Your father is more muscled than you remember, and
your father was always not heavily muscled. He's heavily muscled like a weightlifter from
the eighties. Now he is big, broad, stick as a barrel across
his chest chest. And when you look in your basement of your house,
in the corner, you see a man with a clipboard and a stopwatch.
Shadowy, you can't recognize any features. Your father turns, indicates to the
man in the corner and just says again. And he gets down into a
stance and brings his arms up. You can see that your father, who
looks like you remember him, but more muscled, is moving with severe purpose,
as severe as that haircut that he has he's not pulling any punches.
He is attacking you full force, this time within a roundhouse aimed at your
head. Remind me to have you roll move next time. Okay, Mitch,
Yes, you're underwater. You are strapped into the backseat of a car.
You can't breathe. What would you like to do? Is there anyone
else in the car? I'll give you this one for free. There appears
to be a half decomposed corpse behind the steering wheel. Is the car full
of water? Let me check my notes? Fuck? Yes, cool,
cool, cool, cool cool. Yeah, I'd like to get out of
the car. Greg, That's what I'd like to do, to get out
of the rusted safety harness and the door. Roll me a tinker, okay,
okay? Do I have my trustee wrench on me? Yes? You
do. You have everything that you had with you before. And I'll let
you know too that fail your results in a condition of course, it would
three successes. You are able to get yourself out of the safety harness,
and you are able to burst the window even with the pressure. It appears
to have sustained damage and was just about ready to give anyway, And with
the fact that there's already water in the car. There's not that same type
of pressure differential that there would be, so you're able to kind of break
it and pull yourself through. You see that it's about thirty feet to the
surface. Yeah, he's kicking and flailing and doing everything he can to get
there. And with that extra success, I'm going to go ahead and let
you get to the top of the Castleman River. As you look back,
you see your mom's old sedan floating at the bottom. Not floating at the
very bottom of the Castleman River. You are in a wooded section off of
Rural Route thirty six, about four miles outside of where the trade winds should
be. You pull yourself to the gravel beach. Mitch. Welcome to Garrett
Rob. You are standing outside the main display window of mccruary's department store.
People crowd along main Street, but you are fixated on the product being advertised
in the main window. They're displayed with banner and was signed. It says
Amy and Aaron the helping hands. Your family needs meals, childcare, shopping,
any and everything thing to help make your life yours. Behind the glass,
two seemingly human figures wave incredibly lifelike the woman, presumably Amy, looks
directly at you and winks. As you spin around, taking the rest of
Garrett's Main Street into view, you see a dozen Amis and a half dozen
Errands, walking dogs, carrying grocery bags, or any of an other number
of domestic chores. You are not used to seeing these two do anything.
In fact, you are used to seeing them just sitting on a couch.
For you see the Amy and Errand behind the glass and all their copies walking
along the streets are the spitting image of your parents. And that's where we
will end our session of Atari Twilight. Stay tuned for next week and episode
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