The show you're about to listen to was originally a live streamed actual play on
twitch dot tv slash Onmade Gaming. Arise, millions, and welcome to this
Unmade Gaming production. Join us on our adventures as we take a jump to
the left, a step to the right, and time work all around the
multiverse to find out exactly how to save the town of Garrett in this original
Tales from the Loop actual play Atari Twilight rollout. Thank you my friends,
always a pleasure to be here on Unmade Gaming and on the YouTube channel of
saide channel. Before we go further, I just want to state we have
a lot to do, but it's easy to kind of zone out during this
beginning part where I segue in and tell us about the rules and the place
that we've been, the things we've been doing. So I will just let
my players know the beginning has changed. Tarry 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, comics,
and novels. The battleground their hometown of Garrett, Maryland, a sleepy mountain
town utterly unremarkable save for one ominous edition. A Loop, a particle accelerator
whose reckless science has breached the veil between Garrett and its limitless parallel dimensions.
The loops l ops apostrophe. Lust for knowledge threatens not just their garret,
but every garret, every world, and the great transdimensional garden. Our heroes
find themselves diving between these mirror versions of their hometown, in some foes or
friends, and in others friends or foes, but in every iteration of Garrett's
secrets await. If they can find the right secrets and make it back to
their garret, they may just be able to defeat the Loop and save the
world in jeopardy. But to return home, they have to find a way
to pierce the veils surrounding their hometown. The veil itself is an energy field
of unknown origin that repels them each time they try to breach it, and
with each failure they are cast into another version of their hometown, with new
secrets and new dangers. Time is running out. The greatest decade of the
nineteen 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? That is what
we are here to find out. Our kids stand at the heart of it
all. Robot, the quiet hero that faces not only their enemies but his
own self doubt. Will he believe in himself long enough to become the prime?
Shannon Locke her mirrors, the twisted and evil versions of herself, have
appeared in nearly every other world they visited. She and announced struggles with her
place in the group. Is she where she is meant to be? Or
is the darkness her true home? George Butts brought to Garrett from one of
its mirrors. He is a being of science, meant to replace a lost
boy of flesh, the faustian bargain of a grief stricken father. Now he
fights with his nature as his battery runs low. Will he survive? Should
he? Casey Mitch Mitchell the only one among them capable of jumping between worlds.
His very existence captures the essence of the struggle of good and evil.
Without him, all is lost. Jerry Baker by former bully turned bottled lightning.
He fights to save his friends using his immense electrical power. But he,
and he alone, knows the secret of their enemy. He knows that
an older version of Mitch plots their demise. Jerry knows that Mitch's very existence
threatens the struggle of good over evil. Perhaps with Mitch alive, all is
lost. 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 forty five songs, ultimately forty episodes in the making, comes down
to this. Now we return not to their Garrett, but to a Garrett
in the highlands of Maryland. Welcome one and all to the end of an
age. Welcome my friends, to atari Twilight Rollout, Episode seven. We
didn't start the fire, my friends, You're lucky and pride is refreshed.
Before we go further, I need to know which of you will roll lead.
This cannot be Shannon, but yeah, I did punch a vampire.
You know that's what leaders do. I mean? We all know this.
Well, let's let's maybe we don't put whoever has the highest Maybe we might
need someone who has a higher one later. Maybe I don't think I have
the highest I think that boat sailed when I did the role last week.
So yeah, I didn't even think about it until before we started here.
I was like, yeah, we kind of ten dice and I gave three
four. Yeah, yeah, okay, so nobody else is stepping up?
Do it all? Right? Come on one, my friends. With that
lead role, you may give out two dice to any of your friends.
You may not use them for yourself, but if any of your friends,
whether present or not present, need dice for a role, you may freely
give them if they are not in your location. However, I am going
to ask the character that receives the dice to explain why George's presence would have
evoked that leadership or his absence evokes that leadership. Maybe something they remember about
him, or something that triggers a burst of adrenaline. Each of those maybe
cast a bit of an RP moment upon the gift. But my friends,
I will now that you have rolled your lead as part of the mechanics of
the Tales from the Loop system, I will let you know that you have
problems currently that need to be solved. Your biggest problems are the following.
Those of you that are at the moon Tower, you must escape the Feast
of July. You must recharge George. You may learn what you can from
this garret, and then you must escape this garret. Everybody, if you
could go over to your Spotify playlist, because here in the eighties that never
were, always will be, and forever is, we always play the eighties
music. Go to your soundtrack, go down to the bottom, because of
course it's on Lost in the Shadows. Please queue that up for me a
little lou Graham, I put my own repeat because it's going to be needing
my friends at the moon Tower again to recap the scene that is surrounding you.
Once was a party of one hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty teenagers
reveling in a beautiful summer evening, a beautiful holiday of the fourth of July.
Keg stands and cigarettes were a plenty harmless fun, if you would for
me. A holiday night in the eighties quickly turned into something far more sinister,
as the cheers of revelry became screams of horror, as beings from the
sky descended upon the crowd or emerged from it and began to rip the throats
and cause general violence to the crowd proper, as children and teenagers were lifted
into the air. In this mass massacre, you all are in a pocket.
As someone that you knew, as the older sister of one of your
friends, Sam, Veronica Kirkshaw revealed herself to be some type of creature of
the night, the lower third of her face drenched in maroon and fresh blood.
And as this cacophony of violence, as this swirling sound envelops you,
George lashed out with a vicious hook that a normal person would never have connected
with, But George was able to put enough force, enough power, and
enough speed behind it to connect squarely with Veronica's jaw. And as her head
snapped and the wet blood left her flesh, George realized that the power monitor
that he had been observing for the last few days awakened in the bottom right
hand corner of his vision, displaying two percent the world in this craziness,
and sound dropped in from stereo to a mono unit, as only one of
his speakers were now working the colorized version of the scene going from to Kansas.
As he went from color to black and white. You are at two
percent. Your body is failing. George, Shannon Jerry, you are both
standing there witnessing this incredible display of violence with a punctuation mark of George's attack.
But in this moment there is a swirl. But amongst the chaos,
there's an amber moment. What do you all do? As Veronica writes herself
and another creature lands behind, this one dressed in a cheerleader's outfit, but
instead she has blood splattered along one entire side of her face through her blonde
hair, and she looks and says, could anybody join in in this?
And you see doubts of saliva blood drop down as she whispers her name,
as she whispers the name of the creature that made her, Veronica, what
do you do? My friends? That's a pretty good question. Um,
it's a great question. I think George just goes huch gow'd door. Can
you guys hear that initial, like deep drawn out tone that came from him
over the radio? So what's Sam doing? In all of this? Sam
has with dodge George's attack, but she is picking herself off off the ground
and gone. Is that that nervousness that was there before that need to leave
the party, to go back to town, back to Garrett, back to
a movie, or back to something it wasn't here. With the revelation of
her sister, however, that's that anxiety has turned to anger, turned to
rage, directed primarily at George. She hasn't said anything since his initial you
lied to me when she realized that George had given her the wrong time before.
She is picking herself up, but without the need for a role.
You can tell that she is not moving like the others. She is slow
in comparison. It's almost as if she's being played at half speed while her
sister and this newly descended cheerleader kind of zip up beside her as they move
with jerky, kind of cut frame motions, and as they move quickly they
flank her and then surpass her. As they're moving towards George, Jerry and
Shannon, my friends, you are in battle. What do you do?
George will, albeit clunkily and slowly, turned towards Jerry. Could I get
a bolt, Joel? I can't do the voice this week, but would
shoot me low battery? George is Sean Connery, which I love. Oh
yeah, that's what I was doing that. I need a boost. Shoot.
Yeah, I mean jerryl BB tensely watching around him, and he'll just
kind of look at Veronica gole just a minute and put his hand on George's
shoulder and see if he could give him a boost out hurting him. How
are you gonna do this? You can roll me a force, But I
need you to explain to me. Are you just fue Green Lantern fisting him?
Like? Wow, Jesus, but Green Lantern shooting him? Um,
it's out? No? I think I think, you know, like George
and Jerry of kinda forged a bit of a friendship in battle. So I
think he's I hope, so he's gonna he's gonna actually give him that flashback
the predator arm clasp, oh, pushing too many pencils, Dylan that moment
the son of a bitch. Uh and uh yeah, try to try to
channel some of what's inside of him into George. Okay, romy then a
force as you attempt to strategically power up your friend. Wow, that's zero
successes. Um, I can give you that. You can, well,
you can if he pushes it. Uh, you can push it. You
can use your pride, you can use luck if you have it to reroll.
A push will result in an immediate condition, though, um all of
those are open to you. In this moment. You have a beat,
a few heartbeats to to do something. I feel like a push is is
uh, you know, fitting for the story, So I would like to
push that role. Let's do it. There's two successes, okay, So
with this, you are going to get the condition exhausted as you fire some
energy into George and as you kind of clasp him, you know, brother
to brother, handshake to handshake. I am going to need George to roll
me in this moment a force of your own, and this is to stay
conscious. No successes, I will use my pride. Pride is that I'm
a survivor. As a result of this, You're two briefly flicks up to
three percent, and the stereo comes back into your hearing, and the black
and white turns to color around you. But you are still while your limbs
aren't as heavy as they were a beat before. As the electricity kind of
cascades and so much of it is lost, your body seems to absorb a
fraction of what Jerry actually brought to bear, and you can see for a
second almost that terminator line where you know Arnold lowered himself into the lava and
you see that flickering of the screen and then everything went black. Yours did
that for a moment, but you were able to fight through it, and
as everything kind of widened back up, you are able to observe everything remain
turned on. I'm I'm just gonna turn into it. I guess, Shannon,
what do you do? Um? I think that she's just kind of
trying to tackle Veronica. Okay, yep. I will allow you to roll
either a move or a force here as you attempt to. They're both like
in athletics and acrobatics. Yeah, let's just go with a move, since
she's trying to do it as quickly as possible. Two successes, you are
able to lock in. And now, how do you Are you going to
like a for a full on tackle to like kind of drive Veronica back or
is this more of a grab? Are you attempting to redirect her while maintaining
your feet. I will allow you for two of the dice, I will
allow you to tell me what happens with one of the dice. I will
just you're going to hit her, but I will explain it. You can
bank one. Yeah, So the intention here is to completely like eventually hopefully
get her into like a chokehold or something to focus force her to focus on
Shannon rather than Butts, because she threatened specifically Butts in this case. So
whatever is happening there, and so yeah, take her to the ground completely.
And that's exactly what you do in a mirror of what you had been
forced to go through with one of the mirrors of your father in another world.
You all see as Shannon moves and jumps and very black Widow esque with
that kind of like rap and spin around, Veronica's body drops into a chokehold,
wrapping her legs around. Veronica, taken unaware, drops to a knee,
but does not go fully prone. You're able to kind of rest your
leg on the back of her calf, you know, to prevent her from
kind of coming back up immediately. And much like holding onto or you would
assume trying to choke a bull, you can feel the strength that she has.
It's, you know, for someone that has just fought a Sean Locke
that is muscle bound, far stronger than Sean. As you kind of gear
up and grab hold. It's at that moment, with Veronica taken out,
I am going to need a move role from both Jerry and from George as
the cheerleader leaps it you. That is a zero for both of us.
Each of you are going to take the condition. I will allow you to
pick one. This is going to be the equivalent of Jerry fingernails rip just
below your sternum, up your rib cage, following the bone, and grabs
hold of that little outcropping a bone that will eventually become your collar bone,
and rip sideways much like a fishhook. Being free, your entire shirt bursts
into an immediate kind of stain of blood. The cloth that hasn't been torn
by this, You have this wound across your flesh, and as the blood
kind of hits the air, you notice several blood soaked faces. Lift up
and look over, almost as if you cast a wonderful scent into the night
air. George, as you get hit, you feel that paralysis going through
you, and you feel a tear in your flesh, but you do not
take a condition, for this is a matter of blood and bone, of
which you are neither. She is among you. She seems to believe that
both of you are terribly wounded, Jerry being terribly wounded. George are just
tired. As we come back to the top of the round, I need
to know what the two of you would like to do before I go back
over to Shannon. Does Jared Barry have an idea? Right now? You're
doing a hopper and Jared Barry is, uh, you know, trying not
to cry. I think, um, George is a little bit taken aback,
but I I think it's gonna take a slice of pie out of the
earth and like to shove as much in his mouth as he can to see
what you do to help recharge more. And from there this, if it's
not too much, I'd like to give an old windmill to h to the
cheerleader windmill punch, Um, I will give you the putting grass in your
mouth for free, and you roll me a force as you windmill kind of
absently as you're doing so, um with a guy like a backhand or a
side elbows type of swipe towards uh, the demonic cheerleader. It was a
force correct please all right? One success, you are able to catch her
and you knock her back several steps she seems surprised, not only that you
aren't bleeding, and two you hit her hard enough to knock her back and
this wide expression with the blood that's up half of her face and streaked through
her hair, she goes, what the hell as she looks down and kind
of begins to rub the area that you caught kind of with that absent elbow.
Jerry, what do you do? My friend? Jerry Will kind of
like takes stock of his injuries. We gotta go, we gotta go,
we gotta go, and he's gonna start making for the parking area. He
doesn't really know how we're getting out of here, but roamy an investigation.
As you begin to move, this crowd is everywhere and there are people running
and just getting ripped out of the off the ground in front of you.
Well, yeah, that's zero successes. As somebody in front of you gets
ripped and pulled away, a feels like a bucket of blood splashes across your
face and as you wipe your hands to clear it, you are momentarily blinded,
my friend, as you don't see a thing, you get spun around,
you're yelling, you don't know where your friends are. Everything's just a
red haze or a veil has dropped over it, and your own chest is
screaming in agony from where this cheerleader kind of wrench you open. Shannon,
I need you to make a force roll as you are being extracted. Yeah,
okay, three successes, you are not extracted as Veronica reaches for you
and you dig in further. You have the move now, and you may
do so with two extra dice at your disposal, with whatever you would like
to do. Okay. I would like to try to take her all the
way to the ground, like shove her forward and hopefully being on the ground
there's some kind of debris or something. She hadn't has no idea what's going
on, but vampire is obviously first thing that comes to mind, with the
whole blood and you know that bit. So she's gonna go with the movie
trope of you gotta stake this bitch in the heart basically. So yeah,
okay, So step one kind of face plant her into the ground. Yeah,
okay, you are able to do that with the moves that you have
just rolled. So as she tries to throw you off, you redirect her
energy much like you did the Sean Locke of before, and using her strength,
you switch it around and drive her fists or drive her face just into
the exposed mud that George just scooped up to eat. So instead of hitting
gras she hits the new fresh earth, as you kind of grind her blood
soaked face into the ground. And you see her looking up at you these
eyes that are twisting to the very corners of the openings. What are you
doing? Obviously a question that you don't have to answer, but with your
other successes, I will say that you bear witness to the arrival of a
brown beat up pickup truck that is screaming directly at you, and you see
Dutch behind the wheel as he screams, get out of the way, shit,
and okay, okay. So she responds to Veronica and she says taking
control, and I think that she just kind of pushes off of her and
gets out of the way for hopefully what me will be doing is running her
over, because yeah, and it's Dutch behind the wheel. And as you
push off and kind of like pike up off of her like you're getting out
of a swimming pool, she goes down for a second, but he immediately
rises to be met face first with the bumper of the truck as it hits
her and bends her backwards. You hear something that sounds like the cracking of
a two by four as the back of her head touches her heels as she
is pushed under the truck Dutch. The window is blown out of the driver's
side. You can see that he is covered and cuts and blood. He
looks out, Get in, Get in. He's gonna grab butts and just
throw him with her into the truck if she can. And where's Jerry?
Does she see Jerry? Yeah? Jerry? Would you haven't gotten far enough
away you would see the arrival of this pickup truck that kind of wove its
way in through the massacre. You're not sure exactly how he got this far
without running anybody over. Maybe that's a question for a later date. But
he has made it this far into the field. He has turned the truck
pointed back towards Garrett. The front would now be filled with both Shannon and
George. Jerry. The back bed is completely open. Yeah, I think,
wiping like just blood off his face. Jerry'll grabbed the side of the
bed of the truck and swing himself up into it. Just bang on the
side. Go And just as you bang and yell, go inside the cab
of the truck, Dutch looks down. You can see that he's got cuts
all over him. Shanny, you're not sure exactly what's happened to him.
It's not a time for triage or assessment of wounds. Have you seen me?
Have you seen me? Acute Lee? Without him, we have to
go. I don't know where he is. Maybe he's safe, but we
cannot look for him clearly. As she like points out the fact that there's
bent in half thing over there, And in that moment, we go to
the bed of the truck. Jerry, just as you wipe the rest of
the blood from your eyes, you see stumbling through the crowd, covered in
blood, carrying a water bottle, dragging a hideously wounded left leg behind him.
You see knee, Jerry. Jerry helped me. For some reason,
your mind turns to the encounter with Chief Rugan all those months ago, where
you turned his gun on him and pulled the trigger. Fate intervened on the
chief's behalf that day, and his life was spared. But in that moment,
you know you meant to kill him. And in this moment, you
know that if you don't act, you will let knee die. Guns and
bullets come in many forms. My friend, do you pull the trigger?
Do you kill me? Jerry? Help me? Jerry? What do you
do? I really wish i'd not taking that other condition. No, I
don't think Jerry does. I think he gives a quick look back to the
cab of the truck and jumps back out, heading for me. So as
Jerry Baker, the bully who picked on his friends outside of the AMC theaters,
who chastised them for not being able to get into the movie Predator,
who was a general dick for most of the times that they have known one
another, leaps out of the back of the truck into a world of vampires
to save a boy he just met back at the paperback exchange. If you,
if you could queue up the song back in the High Life again,
because everything's fucking champagne and giggles over here. Well, bad, bad choice
awards, Greg, We don't want there's a perfect choice of words, purposeful.
I think I hate it all right? Thank you, Stephen? Well
Stephen would when would everybody so outside? Even though you can't hear them?
They're they're muffled, very muffled. The fireworks of the fourth of July have
started. It's about nine thirty five here in garrett Um. There is a
blood bath occurring that you don't know about ten miles to the west, on
top of the hill with the moon Tower, as your friends fight for their
lives and Jerry presses towards a grievously wounded knee. Um, you are able
to have this moment in the lab of doctor Holter Arkabil. He seems happy
to see you, he seems aware of transdimensional travel. He seems ready to
help and with him as shocking surprising if it is, or fantastic as as
possible. The Frankenstein's monster from the movies stands behind him, who he affectionately
calls Frank. What can I do? What can I do to help you?
You all Doc? You said other monsters came through? Do you mean
like all of them? I think I think I did, but I can't
know for sure. There's just been strange things that have happened since Frank got
here, and it's just been it's been an awful situation and something that I
I've thought about. Reports of straight out of the straight out of the horror
movies of people being found without any blood in their veins and people being pulled
to the bottom of the lake, and it's, um, I think it
might be the others. Did you see to see them come through? No?
And I just had my slide and I targeted Frank and I pulled him
through, and I thought I did a good job. Do you have a
Cebe radio? Yeah? And you can see that over in the corner where
Frank had been kind of kneeling down or sitting down, there is a full
kind of ham radio set up with like a multi tiered desk that has several
like transmitters and things like that. It's run up to antennas on the roof.
Mitch slides over to it, pulls out the walkie talkie, looks at
the frequency, immediately spins the dial to that walkie talkie and just begins yelling
into the desktop microphone. There's Busters, guys, guys, guys, guys,
this monsters. There's Busters a Garrett. There's Busters a Garrett. It's
a real jack over I there. I don't oh, don't go swimming or
oh that sucks. Um, I don't know where any of them are um
okay, okay, he just like kind of looks at Rob for a second.
Um, I'm not prepared to fight monsters. No, but maybe babies
ringing Frank can help you fight fire with fire and monster with monster. Frank.
Frank's not much of a fighter. Um okay, sir. Uh,
there's there's three more of us. Uh. They'll look like kids in town.
Um one shit. One is Eugene Butts his kid, um. The
other is uh Carl Baker's kid, and the other is Sean Locke's kid.
Oh my god, do you know them? I know the lock girl.
Okay, she's she's one of ours. She's with us, and and the
other two there with us. Two we we get when when we come here,
we get separated. Okay okay. You see him reach and kind of
just knock papers and knock notebooks around until he grabs something that looks sort of
fresh, like a legal pad. It's only had one page written, and
he tears off that page and he grabs a pen and he starts to okay,
what do you need? Um, I'll help you do whatever needs to
be done. But can we um uh where do you go? Um?
Uh? How can I help? Uh? I don't know. Okay,
so we're we're here because our our our place is broken, and I'm the
only me and I'm the only one that can go all over the place,
I think, except for this new thing. Yeah, we need me,
they need me. We all need to be together to go places. So
we need to find them, and we need to find what's wrong with this
garret besides the monsters. I think that which might be it. M I
think you're what's different me? Yeah, like I said, Maggie owns this
place. She she's like a a hippie. Um, she all always knew.
Yeah, she she knows stuff. Um, but you're you're in our
world and we don't know you, but we know that you work for the
Loop. And if you made this any points of the slide, then I
think I think you made the portal in our world? What am I like
in your world? So far, everyone we've met from the Loop is a
bad guy, real bad Oh. Yeah, I'm sorry, but if it
helps. Every time we go to a new garret, everyone's kind of scrambled.
Sometimes good people are bad, sometimes bad people are good. So maybe
you're actually a good guy in ours you're just a bad guy and we actually
take the form of the current current, one of us that lives here unless
you're dead m like us. You see his eyes open up wide. If
I'm bad and where you're from, maybe if I go with you, I'll
take his spot. Um I I can't. I can't guarantee that I can
get you there. We really really don't know how this works. Okay,
I could go. I have nothing here except Frank, and if Frank and
I could come, we could be of great assistance to you. Just just
just think about it. Just think about it. Um, well, how
do you get are you? I can. I can help get you home
to him and you see him run over to that square, that frame that's
sitting there. I can. I can use this. If you tell me
what your garret's like, I can find it and I uh I get it
targeted. I can't send you there, but maybe if you see it,
maybe we'll help you. Um okay, well wait, first, we need
to find our friends. We need to get them here right because one of
you stay on the radio great and he's still still holding it. What else
can do we have any way to find people? It's fourth of July.
No one's where they're supposed to be where are they everybody's watching the fireworks.
They're in the park, or right, they're up in the parking lot of
them all or great, so that anyone anyone who would be on the streets
is probably our friends or bad guys. Or I don't think the whole town's
bad. Where where would the local youths go to hang out? That's what
That's what I mean. I don't know where my fellow teenagers would go.
Um um. They could be anywhere he your your friends could have arrived in
watching the fireworks with their families, or and it could be anywhere in the
area, just not normal places. And you know it's a holiday. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, okay, uh you know what, Uh Ben Ben
come here, and he like reaches out and grabs for Ben Ben. Okay,
yeah, super important job sit here. You know. He used the
radio. Only use our call signs just in case something bad happens. I'll
just use okay. Um, and he like indicates, like to Mitch,
not even to uh doctor Arquaville, but he kind of like pushes the button
for the Is this how you work it? Is it pushing it down and
hit the thing down and you're talking to it and then after you talk,
you're gonna wait like thirty seconds to see if anyone responds, and then do
it again. Maybe they're at a they were odd. I think they were
out of range for us. But maybe what do you want me to tell
them? You want me tell them call signs and where we are or call
signs? And how do I do you want me to say? Paperback exchange?
Or do you want me to the hill? Was the spot one?
Paper back exchange? Was spot too? Right? Rob? Yeah? Yeah,
okay, meeting spot two? I mean spot two? Okay, got
it, got it. They'll know what that means. A lot of bus
This is bumblebee Spot two and he releases it and then thirty seconds later auto
buds this is bumblebee spot too, And that just going on in the background
every thirty seconds. Rob, we should probably go, oh, look for
our friends they probab probably gonna where where? Where? Is there a large
firework show? It's going on right now, But I I the I can't
be around it. It's too loud. Is it like PTSD? I know
I had a m one of my early experiments. It is messed with my
senses a little bit, my my eyes. I don't like bright light.
I don't like um loud noises. It's much louder to me. What was
what was the experiment? My first version of the slide? What what didn't
work? Real well? My ears popped and my my eyes hurt, like
I looked into the sun and I messed with my inner ear and it never
got better. Okay, that that kind of I think I tried to do
too much. Um So then I just focused on opening windows and trying to
bring things here instead of trying to go there. If that makes sense to
wait, do you have do you have documents that explain how it works?
Yeah? Yes, can I have of them? Um, roll me a
charm, but do so with plus two dice, because this is you're speaking
his language. Uh, let's see fucking two successes. In that big pile
of stuff he swept off of his desk. He reaches down and you see
bundled up almost like a gift parcel with twine on the outside, and twine
lengthwise is a stack of black marble notebooks. This is maybe twenty Jesus.
This would be very similar to the one that you retrieved from the library that
Eugene Butts had. Okay, if you have you have half the portal?
If you have one way not the other way. If I can use this
too, we can take the one that is in the loop and break it
hopefully, or make it not work. You see that. I'll give you
this one for free without needing to roll any type of empathize. He seems
like he's guilty that the person that he is in your garret is potentially responsible
for this. I'll tell you how to break it. If it's what I
If I build it, I can break it. Yeah, I hopefully this
will. This will help. Um, there's a lot of there's a lot
of bad people trying to get specifically to our garret for some reason. I
don't really know why. Um, but if this can stop it, if
this can stop it, hopefully hopefully that will that will work. Um,
And he kind of just like tucks it under his arm. Um. Yeah,
okay, how can I help you when your friends get here? How
can I help you get back home? You can't. I mean that that
idea might be cool, it might work. It might help with the slide.
So everyone has to be near me. Uh and then um okay,
um you know here, sit sit down. Um, I don't I don't
need a portal or a slide. Um, I think I have like a
superpower. It's did, definite, definitely a power. And for a mad
scientist that owns a comic bookshop, you just see his eyes widen and a
huge smile break across his face. Oh, son, how can I help?
It doesn't question that you just said you had a superpower. I don't.
I don't really know. Um, Rob, I don't able to get
where you're going. Uh, we just sort of not go. It sort
of just takes us. He reaches over under your arm and kind of shakes
out the third notebook and he holds it up. That's where I can help.
I'm going to get you home, okay, And you see him go
over to the frame. Tell me everything about your Garrett, anything that's different
from the others. Yeah, miss s thoughts rattling off Garrett factoids, and
much like a lectern, Frank comes over and holds open the notebook and you
see him begin to plug in cables and power as every time he does so,
the lights flicker a little bit, and if Ben is in the middle
of a transmission, you can see them kind of like sit back for a
second as the power gets sucked out of the ham radio for a moment,
and slowly, but surely, you see a swirl begin to form inside the
frame of what Doctor Arcaville calls his slide. We don't need your help,
sign we got some If we got some time, we can fine tune this.
Yeah, yeah, I'll stay here and help um. Rob stash of
crystal Guy and he's gonna well, I don't have the Christmas Mitch doesn't know
that, or he doesn't remember that. You just have. Rob doesn't remember
that either. He's gonna go mm hm. Doctor Arkaville would look at Rob.
You can help too, Sonna. More hands will will make this go
a lot faster. He might b bb too many cooks, but if you
you insist um, and as he turns, we begin. We can only
be described as an eighties montage of preparation of a wire framed slide, sacks
of cool, of of weird science exactly. Yeah, this is just where
you see just like you know, Commodore sixty fours and stuff being ullmer right,
Um, everybody, go to your Spotify playlist if you would, and
queue up Devil Inside by n Excess Jerry. You see that knee falls he
bypasses, landing on his one good knee and drops completely to the ground.
The water bottle is still clutched in his hand. He's looking up at you
and you can see that he is super hurt. In addition to the leg
you can now see when he falls that there is a huge bloody patch on
the back of his head where he has sustained some type of head wound.
But he, with his non water bottle gripped hand, is reaching towards you.
Brother Jerry. There is a gauntlet to run through, a violence and
destruction. You are covered in the blood of the victims of this unholy party.
Roll a move or a force A move you simply try to get to
knee a force you cut your way through your decision. That's three successes on
a move, and so throwing in some of those football skills that you learned
on the gridiron. You know, you body check those that you deem to
be enemies. You slip past those that you can you're simply victims trying to
escape like you, and with only two of those successes needed, you can
bank another one. You get to knee as he's figured, man, thank
you, What the hell's going on? Just hold on and Jerry's gonna scoop
him up like fireman carry and as you kind of throw him over your shoulder
like platoon style. It's at this moment, George, Shannon Dutch, Jerry's
not in the back. Dutch screams as he gets ready to move. You
heard the pound, and he hesitated for a moment, thinking of knee,
but defaulted to what Shannon said and was he put the gearshift into drive and
was getting ready to pull out when he realized Jerry was gone, and he
kind of spins over and looks out over the back into the bed. Oh
my god. When the two of you look, George and Shannon, you
can see that Jerry is coming back towards the truck, carrying knee on his
shoulders. Yeah. Shannon's like, wait, don't go. He has knee,
and Shannon's going to actually get out of the truck to make sure that
nobody interferes with getting to the back. Yeah, it's the truck still moving.
Or did he stop it? I wasn't. He's scary. Yeah,
he stopped it. It's in drive and he kind of jerked it. He
jerked forward maybe like three or four feet. But then he slammed on the
brakes when he realized Jerry wasn't there, in addition to the fact that that
knee wasn't so it's in drive. He has the break depressed. But you're
currently not moving anywhere. Okay, Yeah, and all this by the way,
she got kind of there's a wave of humanity and anti humanity around the
truck right now. Several people are at this point when they saw it starting
to move. You see a boy jump into the back of the truck,
and when he realizes it was stopped, he jumps out and keeps running,
thinking that maybe he got an escape vehicle, but then realized it wasn't going
anywhere. Yeah, as you look around, only an investigate to see if
you can pinpoint Veronica in this wash. I'll take one if you want one
as well. George. Again, I always remember pride if you have it,
luck, if you have it, you can push any role. As
it stands right now. Yeah, as it stands right now, you all
can barely make out Jerry as he's kind of moving back through, carrying knee
over his shoulders. Now you can see that knee is horrifically wounded. You
can see, you know, his leg is almost dangling, the joint compromised
that the knee no pun intended. But um, as he's making his way
towards there, I will give you this for free. In the back window
kind of where a gun rest or gun kind of a setup would be,
is a bow and there are several broadhead arrows. I received a good bit
a donation away back when I added it. At this moment, well,
I guess Shannon's getting in the back and grabbing a bow. I felt more
Shannon than than anybody else. So while she grabs that, I think,
uh, well, I don't like I would like to um have George run
up there like the flash, or at least he wants to try to do
it, even though he knows his battery is depleted. He wants to run
as fast as a flash to help Jerrry out. My friend, I will
allow you to do this, not for the cost of a role or pride
or luck or anything like that. One percent of your energy will get you
there and back again. I'll do it. Tell me how you do it,
then, Jerry, you're caring as you see someone bumps into you and
almost knocks knee off of your shoulders. You have to readjust him as a
wash. You feel something grabb into your forearm and lead three deep nail rakes
that you're able to pull free. As you continue to move, you get
twisted and turned a little bit. George appears. Yeah, so I think
you just see the Nannie blur because he still wears the bright collared Polos double
pop collars. And it's kind of goes too far because he's not used to
this, and he runs back and hopefully in the processes that I imagine that
he's hitting these vampires left and right by accident to help kind of clear a
hole. And then he's like he puts an arm under you to help carry
me and get you and probably still a little bit high test mode here,
and you get dragged a bit, but he gets you back to the truck.
Yeah. For that last kind of like halfway from where you got me
to the truck, George appears to help you and you do not have to
make another role as George's expulsion or expenditure one percent of his power gets you
the rest of the way. Just as you get back to the truck,
George, you're hearing you lose it in your right ear. It is only
coming through the left, the world goes from color to black and white.
As down in the corner, it goes from three percent to two percent as
you kind of power down after this adrenaline surge. Yeah, yeah, George
definitely is like like sliding against the truck, like his knees are buckling and
trying to get back into the backseat. You guys can physically see or see
how basically, Yeah, about one foot away from the truck. Just as
Rhino described the bidders, you would feel Jerry would feel as all of a
sudden, it's almost like he's carrying knees weight and then George's weight. As
George kind of loses that that strength, loses that speed that he had.
And like I said, just like Rhino said, you now are kind of
guiding him him. What do you do now, Jerry? As you've completed
your task, knee is alive, You're back at the truck. What do
you do? I think I think this whole trip, Jerry's been kind of
like, um, you know, the powerlifter about to break his record.
He sees nothing else. He's got the tunnel vision. And as he like
loads knee into the back of the truck, and helps George back into it.
He'll probably collapse into the back of the truck himself and just kind of
let fate take place. At this point, well, as you throw everybody
to the back of the truck and kind of flop in yourself, and as
you're lying there, you look up and you see Shannon Locke standing above you
this view from like her sneakers up. As Shannon, you said you got
into, you've got outside and and she's holding a bow with a bolted arrow.
Yep. What do you do? And does anyone tell Dutch to go
A yeah, as soon as Shannon sees Dutch book it. We got to
get to the butt's house, you feel, and I'll give you this.
You know he's going to start off, so you're able to kind of reach
back and grab the rack as you start moving, but you're still standing in
the back of the truck with the rest of the boys kind of laid out
in the bed. As Dutch takes to the trail, did we get meat?
We got him? Don't stop for anybody. He doesn't intend to.
But as soon as this truck starts to move, the only vehicle that seems
to have actually made an escape, you see several dots in the sky begin
to descend toward you. That is the free Roman. Investigate to get more
than that. It's only good pushing. It's a swirl. You see,
you count three to four a dozen. There is madness happening in the field
that you are leaving, and you're looking back as it's kind of gradually getting
smaller. But the sky seems to turn and those stars that were so pleasant
that you looked up at with dutch are now blotted out with inky blackness that
seems to swirl and move and drop, much like whenever you're out in the
field and you see or you know, the blot of a bat that flies
by. Several of these shapes are descending upon the truck. I will allow
you to fire the bow, and you may use a force shot and just
you know, it's a randomized target. At this point, you're just hitting,
you know, presumably shooting for one of the inky spots, but totally
up to you. Now, she's just gonna wait until she has a a
clearer picture of somebody or something, hoping that she's going to be faster,
because otherwise she's going to run through her arrows pretty quick. Okay, so
in that moment of patience, I will let you know this. A pair
of headlights illuminates just as the truck goes by, and maybe five seconds behind
you, a Volkswagen pulls out and begins to speed behind the truck. You
can see that it is faster than this vehicle, at least right now it
is, yeah, as the truck is just absolutely not firing right the fine
tune Volkswagen, though, seems to be humming behind. You're the only one
currently upright. You have this vantage point the headlights, and you're kind of
in the spotlight for a moment. As these headlights illuminate you standing in the
back of the bed. Jerry George knee is wing, not wailing, but
moaning and pain Dutchess driving the two of you. What would you like to
do? I will let you know this. You can get from the bed
to the cab of the truck either through the slide window in the back now
that the bow is gone, or you can swing out and go in through
one of the windows if you want to be super cool. I guess,
but these rules I don't know about that. I encourage it, you know,
it's a great thing. Ryan, Everybody where do you stand? Condition
wise? You have a four total conditions that you can have when you're fourth
and one you become broken in the tails from the loop system, which is
you don't die. You can, but it doesn't mean inst to death.
It just means that your character really can't do much of anything until they rest
and kind of recuperate or are we able to relieve trauma both physical, emotion
or whatever it happens to be. Jerry, where do you stand with your
conditions both exhausted and injured? George? I have not taken a condition yet
this session, okay, Shannon, no conditions. Jerry stands as the one
that is halfway towards being broken. But me is safe in the back,
and I will let Jerry know because of this little moment of graciousness. He
does not get a condition, but he has a condition relieved from him,
and you get one bonus die. This is the gift of kindness. You
of course lost one, and I would have penalized you further as you let
me die. But that's okay, that's fair, Yay for Jerry growing George.
Jerry, what do you do as Shannon's kind of this isn't the moment
that Shannon's looking around, she sees the spots in the sky. She noticed
the Volkswagen coming. You two are in the truck. What do you do
if he's gushing? I guess, I guess georgiall sacrifice one of his two
polos and see what he could do to like cover the wound, help,
you know, stop it from stem the bleeding anyway. Can It's head wounds,
So it's kind of hard, but he'll at least do something that provides
some comfort to me. If again, sure, absolutely, And if you
would, um, let's see Rome and empathize when you do this, just
to see again, Knee's not screaming. He's moaning, and he's delirious at
this point as the blood loss and the fact that he took a sustained a
head blow has kind of disoriented him. One success, you're able to calm
down and Knee this face that you've known, you know as an antagonist really
or you know, at the very least, someone that is an unknown in
the equation Garrett Prime. He looks up at you and for the first time
he looks like a kid. Someone that is your peers, someone that is
your age, someone that is has the same questions, problems, decisions that
you've had, and with the blood and his own and some of others and
some of Jerry's Thanks man, man, I thought you were addict. Dude.
Yeah, I could say the same to you. But let's not focus
on that. Man. Just stay awake, all right, man, And
he puts his hand out, Yeah, hold on to it. You clasp
him with the same kind of burnt fingers that you sustained in that clasp with
Jerry as he juiced you up. Jerry, what do you do as you
see George kind of tend to knee stabilize him a bit, both again emotionally
and physically, kind of tend to his wound and kind of refocus him.
Well, I think in the in this moment of Jerry kind of feeling good
about himself despite his injuries, He'll sit up, take stock of the whole
situation and seeing Veronica's noticeable vehicle chasing us, Jerry's gonna stand kind of unsteadily
in the back of the truck, take a deep breath and try to tear
up the road behind us to slow the pursuit of the vehicle. With bolt
of lightning again when we started this game. I'm not unsure that sentences like
that would ever be uttered, but I love it. Roma Force Please that
has two successes and much like Heroes of Old or Avengers assembled. As Shandon
stands with bow strung as she looks for any targets in this target rich environment,
Jerry stands up and with a blast behind the rear bumper of the truck,
you begin much like the video games Spy Hunter, just lending down dangerous
and troublesome terrain for a Volkswagon, and the ground and asphalt begins to rip
and split and ripple behind you as you are able to create this almost impassable
bit of road, and with a squeech and a squeal of rubber you see
the lights of the Bulkswagon stop and quickly get swept away as Dutch continues this
drive and at that moment, something smashes into the side of the truck.
I need a move role from both Shannon and Jerry, who are standing in
the back of the truck. I got one success, okay, so both
of you tumble backwards and off of the left hand driver's side of the truck.
As everything gets hit from the driver's side. You get knocked back in
that direction. You are both able to reach your arms out, and before
tumbling to the ground, you grab hold of the side of the bed and
for a moment your feet touch the dirt as you kind of run for a
second and pull yourselves up along the side. You are both in the exact
same position, both kind of holding onto almost like in a shipwreck, holding
onto a bit of flotsam. As the two of you are holding onto the
side of the bed of the truck. And you see that there was something
humanoid that smashed into the driver's side of the truck. And you see that
there is a large length of what looks like rebarn punks piercing the side of
the driver's side. And you see that Dutch is sitting very still behind the
wheel. You see his hand drop from the steering wheel. Guys, you
see blood trickle out of the outside of the door. Back at the paperback
exchange, everybody, if you could queue up a little bit of Ain't Nobody,
which is our fifth track by Shaka Khan. Okay, so you've given
a list to doctor Arcaville about everything you can think of that's unique for your
garret. I assume people that you know, you know the states of your
your friends and your family. Things that might be there that could only be
there, you know, as far as Teletran two and and things that you
haven't experienced anywhere else except Garrett. And with each of these moments we cut
to our montage. My friends, what I would like you to do is
um your best skill, the skill that you have the most in, the
one that can contribute the most dice to a role. Rob roll me your
best skill, Tell me what it is. Mat roll me your best skill,
Tell me what it is? Can I, oh, I'm sorry that
I was gonna say, mine's gonna be empathized and I got secret. Greg.
You may push lucky or pride if you want to do anything. Can
I use my wrench because my certain cast tinker yep, hell yes, three
successes. Doctor Arcaville puts you to actual work on the slide um. You
can see them. He's calibrating certain things and this is more like calibrating an
old television set than it would be calibrating the computer. You know, this
is mechanical, this is hands on, This is fine tuning antenna to specific
positions. And as you're doing it with your three successes. He's telling you
how to break it if you would have to cool, Yeah, I think
you see, I think this fine tunes it even that part, like Mitch
is focusing on the breaking thing, but even like everything he's doing, he's
like trying his best to commit to memory in case breaking it doesn't work with
three successes, which is nearly impossible. With three successes, you are able
to retain the following information without the need for a role. Mitch, you
know how to break doctor Arkaville's invention. Cool. Now, you don't know
how to You're not sure that would be like a permanent break, something that
could be irreparable, But you definitely know how to throw the proverbial wrench in
the works. And he is working with you as you do all of this.
Rob, did you want to reroll or anything or are you going to
go with Yeah, I think I am gonna throw a look on there and
try to reroll that. So let's see. Yeah, No, got nothing
there, Okay. And it's not as if Rob doesn't help at all during
all of this. It's just that Rob, you're not able to really kind
of glean It's not like it's above you by any stretch. The imagination because
Rob's a good student. Rob's able to figure this stuff out. And again,
it is not like computer or science. This is more you know,
put this here and make sure this is facing this way. It's like a
geometry puzzle more than anything else. And so you know, you're able to
get all of this, but where Mitch was able to kind of retain all
of this, these bits and bobs and parts and pieces. You perform your
job admirably, but it's not like you could recreate it if you had to.
No, No, Rob was essentially just kind of holding the flashlight.
No. Yeah, you know he actually had you working too though, so
he's got you. Um, and it's again any montage. You know,
as you are kind of like taking wrenches and hammers and pryebars and stuff when
needed. Um, Frank is handing the stuff to Rob on much like a
prep nurse would give to a surgeon. Um. You know, crow bar
hands a crowbar. Um and the two of you get to work, and
again within fifteen twenty minutes, the slide it's square, the frame has a
swirl of purple in it, and for a moment you see Teletran two,
a green block that looks like a bush, the way the sun looks like
the moon. Um, they're both round. Yeah, that's exactly that,
they're both green. Um, you see it? Is he in there?
Roman investigate as both Rob and Mitch can Roman investigate two successes for one success.
Then it's Rob who sees this and notices this snowing? Is that snow?
I mean obviously here? Um well, I mean it's July now and
we left in and we left in in October. So, um, maybe
maybe time isn't Maybe we're moving faster because we're jumping through time again like the
sixties? Did this so will bring us back? He said, it only
goes one way? Uh? And then doctor Arkaville looks through. Oh my
god, is that in? Yeah? Yeah, that's that's our. That's
our, that's our, that's our secret science lab. It's a good one.
Thanks, And he kind of claps you on the back. His disguise
looks like a bush. It's a good science lab. Thanks. Oh horrible
bush. Well, Hm, it's got potential. We didn't paint paint and
it's so okay. Um um do we wait? Do you think? So
okay? So nothing? So you're it only it only comes in right things.
I can only bring it in if you can get there. Do you
think it's open? Do you think we could get a signal out? I
don't know. I can't send any thing through. I can only bring it
from there to here. But if you said you can go, then you
can go through the door I made. I I just can't. I can't
make anything go from here to there. Okay, it's worth a shot,
It's worth a shot. Okay. You can see that he's reached the end
of his science, and as as he looks like satisfied, a realization hits
Mitch. I I can't take you. Um if if we could, if
we go and this works, we made a door to our Garrett, and
the bad guys want our Garrett. I can't leave the door open. You
have to find some way to close the door. Okay, okay, unless
unless you tell Frank to smash your whole lab and sort of unleash. I'm
on the town. I guess it can't leave, Frank. Yeah, we
definitely don't have monsters in our garret that we draw a lot of attention.
Jerry's the closest we've got, and he's he has lasers. Lasers. This
is like lightning, but we call it lasers. It sounds cooler. It
does. Has the only one that calls it lasers. I'm right here.
It's like a ten foot room. Um yeah, I can I can't.
I can't. We have to close it. I'll tell you what. I'll
close it and then when you guys win, let me know. Yeah yeah,
uh okay, okay, cool send send word yeah yeah, stay on
uh stay on that frequency. I don't know how it works. We'll try.
I will. I'll monitor it all the time. Cool man, okay.
Uh, Now we're just gonna find our friends ben any luck. Uh
you've heard in the background. Um you know autobots, this is Bumblebee.
Damn. I go go to spot two. Um and when you look over,
he's like playing Cat's Cradle with a bunch of the rubber bands that are
ever there, and he just keeps touching and just touching it with his uh
you know, dispressing it. Auto boats is Bumblebee? Is he a square?
You know? And then Jesus Christ greg um um rob I would they're
not gonna be looks and they're they're even if they're with their parents at the
fireworks, they're gonna find some reason to leave. They're not gonna be at
fireworks. They they wouldn't enjoy the entirety of a fireworks show when our universe
is in the balance, would they? Maybe Jerry, No, Jerry doesn't
even have parents. He doesn't, he doesn't. He's not gonna go there,
and he likes the flashing colors. You're not wrong. He's easily amused.
Butts wouldn't hang out. Butts was due, he'd be doing stuff.
He'd be making out with somebody. It's this universe's Butts, and Shannon would
be doing crimes. If we know Shannon, he does do crimes. Autobots,
this is Bumblebee go to site too. Um in the truck, go
to site two. We cut back to a kind of listing brown pickup truck
as the Waukie talkie crackles to life. Whether it would be Jerry's, or
whether it would be George's, or whether it would be Shannon's, somebody's or
all of them crackle to life, and you hear Ben's voice. Go to
sit two guys, Dutch says, as the truck begins goes back and forth
across the road. Shannon climbs into the cab, through the slots, open
the window and climbs in or tries to. I guess when she sees what
the cab what does she see? The rebar has pierced the side of the
door and has pierced the side of the Dutch. You can see his left
side there is a smear of white against his Johnny Cash T shirt. She
hadn't think. I think that got me. Um, you're gonna have to
drive them. I can't see real well, Okay, okay, just just
just take a deep breath. So okay. She carefully climbs in and just
kind of puts her leg across to to the pedal with her other arm,
h you know, her arm on the steering wheel, and she's kind of
like placed her her hand on Dutch's knee like comfortingly, like just like a
hey, it's okay, I'm here. Um, and is trying to not
run any run everybody off the road basically, while still trying to keep some
kind of speed. I imagine the rebar is probably making a little bit difficult.
Yeah, it's a bench seat, so I'm gonna you know, Shannon's
a pretty old hat at driving now, and this is an automatic, for
God's sakes, and it's not a motorcycle, so you can kind of work
the wheel and the break with your left foot, you know, the gas
with your left foot as you are kind of cleaning down the road and in
the distance you can see Garrett. It's probably about four miles away now,
okay, because you're kind of descending into the valley, that is a Garrett
proper. Yeah, Okay, she's just gonna you know, her apherral vision
scanning on occasion to make sure there's not another rebar flying at them, hopefully,
but just there's nothing she can do for Dutch other than just to keep
driving. Maybe she'll probably start talking. So, um, not really the
fireworks display. I'm sure most people were expecting today. You're doing. Okay,
talk to me Dutch, right, we'll investigate what. Nope, he's
fine, He's totally fine. Um. People, Uh, without Chienne's particular
hearing wouldn't pick up on this at all. But um, you hear whispers
from the sky. You can't hear exactly what's being said, but you two
you do hear two very distinct words. It's them. Hey, Jerry,
can you just make sure you keep an eye on the sky. I'm doing
the best I can. Yeah, I know, you gotta, you gotta
just it's fine, it's fine, everything's fine. There's so much blood.
Okay, that's not helpful, Jerry roll investigate, Jerry pretty sure something it's
mine. That's what success. I can definitely tell you that with that success,
some of it is definitely yours. With that that fish hook across your
chest and down your sternum. As you look to the skies, as she
Hannon commanded, you see those inky black shapes, but you get a chance
to actually see what they are as you see three shapes. One of them
Veronica Kirkshaw flying towards Garrett. They're leaving the truck behind. Here, they're
going, they're going ahead of us. Great drive fast. She kind of
presses her leg further to the to the accelerator. They think the truck has
a much more way for it to push. But whatever it has now that's
kind of going downhill a little bit. It gives you, uh yeah.
She just kind of looks briefly to Dutch to see if he's conscious. He
is, but he's his chins resting on his chest and his eyes are on
you as he's kind of turned Oh, Dutch. You know life is something
else. Yeah, I'm not really good at talking. I'm sure you know
about really anything, feelings, especially but um being either I'm really sorry.
Four oh man, I just keep letting people down. Never let me do.
Oh are you wouldn't as saday yesterday in a different, different lifetime.
I wouldn't say it in any lifetime. Maybe I love you, Shanna.
I know I love you too. I'll never change. He's gone. She
just keeps driving, sucks it up in, just keeps on going. Guys.
Is that you? Guys? This is Bumblebee calling the autobots. It's
good a sight too? Oh shit, shit, It tries to use her
other hand or reach for her Jerry pack, you feel Jerry grabbited. You're
not Jerry. I'm not Jerry. You feel George. I think Jerry.
No, George will will see that you're trying to struggle for and'll grab it
and side. This is jazz repeat, Hey, hey, it's it's it's
Bumblebee. We're we're it's sight too. Hurry up, I think we can
go home. Guys. Which one was sight too? Is that teletran?
Is that the lake like to? Uh hill? Paperback pick paperback. You
sure, my best guess, but we got people dying here, okay,
so yeah, it's also kind of the closest, I think. So actually
it's the farthest, is it. I don't you know. I think it's
the furthest right. We'll find out, Greg, tell them, tell them
right right in the middle of town. You're okay, kind of equal distance.
The lake is the farthest. The lake, Yeah, the lake is
an option three. We're not going ten miles buts, buts tell them the
vampires are coming. Oh yeah, yeah, you probably want to tell about
the death descending from the sky. Their headed toward Garrett, and I'm pretty
sure that they know where you guys are, So just buckled in. I
will be you ready to jump vampors on the way. We got to be
quick out me squaks radio. You hear it, squawk back vamps. That
is hilarious. And then you here, and then were we waiting? Were
we ready? Yeah? Real hilarious and he like throws the radio back into
Shannon's bag as they the truck with the four souls in it descends upon Garrett.
We go ahead to the paperback exchange, and in our flight between truck
in store. We pass by three flying figures as they descend upon the town,
but we are faster still as we get to the paperback exchange, Doctor
Arcaville, it's ready, it's ready. I'll make sure everything's okay on this
yet. Do you say vam like vampires? Ben looks whatever they said vamps?
Yeah? Ben, that's Ben. There's we know there's Ben, Ben,
and he's just look fakely. I heard the conversation you were talking about.
I thought you put that together that brought the monsters important news. They're
being chased. Can't be surprised, sir? Do you have a defense?
Do you have vampire defenses? I sorry, that sounds ridiculous, but does
Who has vampire defenses? Ben says from his station at the h His fingers
are still in a rubber band? Who has vampire defenses? Ben? I
mean a forest? But Buffy had them, Van Helsing had them? Like
what blade? Also blade? Then? Come on, sir, do you
have I'm sorry, have garlic or crosses or steaks or we we we we
just crossbow? Don't they can? They can't come in and unless we invite
them? Yeah? Yeah, do they follow the rules? I don't know.
You brought them here. Sorry, I either need to accuse you,
but um, if it makes any different, Frankenstein follows the rules. He's
the Frankenstein from the movies. Okay, whoa? Then oh wait, they
might be people that you know did. Doesn't mean we're gonna let them in.
But if you've invited them in at all, and their vampires, they
can come in whenever they want. It's a store, and it's a store.
Um Um, I'm stumped. Yeah, me too. Um. I
don't want to send Frank out. He seems like a nice guide. I
don't want to make him fight vampires. That sounds h like a bad time
for you, especially if you stay back here. Um. Okay, I
guess let's ask ask Frank frank when he wants have you read the movie?
Have you seen the movie? Mhm? He hands you a crow bar?
Oh no, no, no, oh oh no, and then he pats
Rob on the top of the head. Yeah. See, it's not gonna
okay. We're just gonna hope. We'll hope for the best. We'll hope
for the that they can't get in. We probably probably puts some do do
door defenses up if the signs closed. If we just signed a closed.
They can't come in because it's closed. I did put it closed. Great,
And there's the employees only signed at the top of the stairs and they
don't work here, I hope, right, And you don't have to I
don't have anyone works here, right. I had a guy named Gary,
but he moved to La Jerry Baker Gary. Oh, Gary, Gary Myers.
Oh, he's a robot in our world. It sucked. I was
real mad about it. Yeah, he turned out to be a bad guy.
Are Gary's bad? I liked him, he was really cool. And
then the last Gary we had good impaled by a robot throwing a parking meter.
I'm glad my Gary went to La. Then me too. Man,
uh, Gary Myers is a cool, cool guy. Um, okay,
so employee signed close, signed, we got this? I got this?
Can I have that one? And he like grabs the one notebook back and
Jimmy's it back in the middle. Um uh um oh oh uh okay.
If you find do you have a homeless guy named main three Jimmy? Um
no, okay, do you ever personally know? But the town doesn't either.
You're not sure what that means? Okay, that's weird. H is
there a teenage criminal named Chris. Um. I'm not aware of the local
ruffians. Okay, keep an eye out for that one. He's pretty often
a good guy and also one of your group kind of. He's like a
acquaintance. He's like stuck in time. It's a it's helped him. If
I what would he know that that I will know if he's a good person.
No, he he knows. It's it's like time travel. He knows
only certain things that are seemingly only relevant at certain times that don't make sense
to anyone but him. Occasionally. I know that didn't make sense, but
neither does he. Um. I followed it completely great. Uh, Okay,
get along. Uh, it's it's it's it's it's been great. Uh.
And I'm just gonna I'm gonna stand over here, and Mitch stands next
to the picture frame the window. Do you do? Do you have to
have a kitchen? I have? And you can see over in the corner
there's like a microwave which is like the size of a TV and just like
popcorn and a little sink right there. And he looks at you, Rob
and kind of moves away from Mitch's ear shot. Can you promise me something
side, Yeah, yeah, what's what's going on? If I'm bad where
you come from, you gotta remember something. If I'm like I am here,
my my eyes hurt when there's bright light, my I get really dis
oriented when there's loud noises. And I've got a bad heart. You can
use that. Woo boo. I mean, we don't want to want to
kill kill kill. You don't don't. Don't let me do anything bad.
I couldn't live with myself if I thought I hurt one of you boys,
even if it wasn't me. We'll well, we'll take we'll take care of
it. Loud noises, bright lights, and bad heart, my heart,
okay. And Rob's just gonna gotta keep muttering those three things to himself.
Bright lights and hearts. Good, good boy. While he's searching the cabinets
to see if he has anything that he could use, like garlic powder,
garlic paste. I said that there was popcorn there, So Roman investigate success
or whatever number of them might reward you with something. Three successes, you
find garlic salt, which seems to be the condiment of choice for the microwave
popcorn that both Frank and Doctor Arkaville. Also, if anything stays the same,
perhaps another weapon to use against doctor Arkaville. A fondness for garlic salt
paddle. Yeah yeah, it was just you know, calories. Yeah,
so's Rob's gonna take the garlic salt and like kind of walk over to Mitch
and show him. Yeah yeah, yeah, that could work, just like
like pocket sand. He's getting right in their nose and eyes and mouth.
Oh man, this is this is this is gonna work. Yeah, yeah,
it's this. At this moment that a battered brown pickup truck pulls up
outside of the paperback exchange or uh, Mitch just runs up the stairs,
throws open the employees only door and it's just waving through the glass windows.
You are all together. Knee is unconscious in the back of the truck.
Dutch is still behind the wheel. Yeah, Shaden says, I'll be right
there, waits for a really Nick Yeah yeah, I think George, Yeah,
George will try to help Knee ge out. I don't know if Jared
Barry helps, If Jerry helps with that, what's what's what's happening? You
guys can you guys can carry me out? He's unconscious though he's not in
any danger. He's just bad. Head wound was bad. Yeah, yep,
what you happen? Vampires happened, so many vampires and they are covered
in blood. Yeah, that's a lot. I said, your your day
was so much worse than mine. Veronica, some cheerleader I forgot her name.
Should have remembered it. I don't think it's relevant. Man, I
don't know if Sam was though she she didn't move out to California in this
world he did, probably not. He's fine, he just needs a doctor.
Dutch, on the other hand, you know, And with that we
go back inside the truck. Yeah, Shannon's just taken a minute. Um.
I mean, I'm gonna guess and making this probably cannons that Dutch maybe
held onto something that was like one of his like keepsakes, essentially, maybe
in his jacket or something like that. Let's say Shannon looks around and sees
if there's anything in either of his pockets, it would be You're not sure
in your world what it would be, but it's on his keychain, and
his keychain is exactly the way that Shannon would remember it from Garrett Prime.
But there is what looks like a it's a pink almost like it's a kaleidoscope,
and it says Ocean City, Maryland on the side of it, and
it has a like a little lens on one end. Yeah, she'll take
I'm guessing it's in the ignition with the keys, right, Yeah, so
she'll turn off the truck and take it and kind of just like look inside
picture. It's a picture of sin and at Ocean City and Dutch is beside
you. Only it's not you because you never took this picture. But you
both look very happy. Well at least you had a little bit of something
better than before. And she kind of just looks at Dutch, make sure
his eyes are closed, and gives him a little kiss on the head and
the forehead and maybe we can still fix things. And she gets out of
the truck, pockets the keys with everything, and heads to the rest of
the group. You're all able to make it in, and just as you're
going in through the door, everybody that's up here. Rob's the only one
that I don't believe came up. So I will take from and George is
still vision wise not the great, right greatest right now, Jerry Mitch Shannon
investigate roles for me. Please go one success two for me. It is
Shannon and Mitch that witness the descent of three forms and a fourth. The
fourth is a silver figure humanoid in shape that is roughly ten feet tall.
The three figures lightly touched down in the parking lot. The fourth figure slams
into the parking lot. It is a huge metallic figure and when it stands
up to its full height, youth out of a bit across its chest.
It says, my robot will rule the world. It has one I and
it's glowing a deep purple. Mitch, Shannon, you all are like in
the process of closing the door. What do you all do? Mitch?
I think we need to go right now. You've never heard Mitch talk less.
Uh. He is standing there, jaw as low as it can go,
staring at that robot, um unmoving. Shannon grabs him. Mitch,
right now, we have to leave. I am, that's my I'm.
That's that's that you made an evil robot? Is that what you're telling me?
Right now? We can talk on the way down. There's a Matt
scientists Frankstein and like shoves a Mitch frank steinman. Okay, great, Shannon,
you have one move role bank, which I will allow you to use
right now, but I need you to roll an additional move role. As
the lens in the front of this robot blisters out a beam. Oh okay,
one success. You pull Mitch out of the way just as this white,
hot, purple beam lances through the paperback exchange from front door, through
the comics, through the paperbacks, and out the backside of the cinder block
wall. For a moment, the garret air can be seen completely through the
eye of the needle that this thing has made. It begins to move its
head as it cuts a hole right beside the door as you all are running
back towards the entry into the science way. Yeah, booking it as fast
as possible. Shannon is at this point probably yelling, let's get the fuck
out of here. And there's the sounds of explosions of things popping. The
glass is melting, so it's popping as it gets hit, and the comic
books are igniting when they are two or three feet away from this beam,
So that smell of paperback and then burnt ink and all of this is assaulting
you as you're basically dragging Mitch through the paperback exchange. The reflection of this
beam in Mitch's eyes as he's watching everything in this kind of star struck way
that Mike explained it. You get to the door, close it behind you,
the employees only, and you descend to see the scene that was described
to the others, This mad Scientists laboratory, this wire framed painting with a
squirrel of purple and for free Shannon Jerry George. When you descend, you
can see Teletran two in the distance, the magtruck graveyard, the snowing fields
of your garret just beyond this wall, and you see the wild haired doctor
Archiville. Are these your friend? He looks at Ron Um, Uh yeah,
yeah, you to it. Yeah, that's okay, okay, everybody,
hurry up, hurry up, and he puts his uh hand while Mitche's
shoulder. Son, are you ready, h sir, I'm I'm very sorry.
Um And he grabs his hand on his shoulder and holds it there and
then looks to Frank and says, Frank, destroy everything, and he's gonna
try to grab everyone and dive, still holding onto Archibill's hand. Okay,
all right, everybody, please go to your Spotify playlist and queue up.
We didn't start the fire. There's three vampires on a giant world killing robot.
Greg. I couldn't leave that old man. He seems a nice guy.
He's the most helpful guy we've met the entire time we've been jumping around,
besides Jimmy. Frank looks at doctor Arkaville. Doctor Arkabille nods go,
Frank, you try to get out of here. And Frank turns and looks
at Mitch, rob Doctor Arcaville and Ben Friend. And you see him turn
and looks up the steps as he begins to pound up the wrought iron,
just as a huge metallic fist fun punches through the door, and you see
Frank jump onto this figure as he grabs hold of the arm and gets ripped
back out of the door by this creature on the other side. And you
just hear what sounds like madness. I need Mitch to dive. Ooh one
success, you grab hold of everybody. Everybody runs up. I'm assuming you're
all bundled together. Uh you know what, Greg, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna push. Oh no, I'm gonna I'm gonna. I'm gonna spend my
luck. Um and uh ok, yeah, you want to give me that
die. Okay, cool, I'm gonna spend a luck and reroll to see
if I can get any additional successes. Sure, no, okay, just
one, just one. So with the slide open and doctor Archibill huddling and
holding onto you all, it'll be okay, kids, It'll be okay.
Um. You can see there are tears running down his cheeks as he kind
of looks back in the direction of Frank and the madness that is happening at
the top of the stairs. As you all look back, you see Veronica
as she looks out, flanked by mister Dairy and Hannah cast from the library,
both of them also covered with faces of blood as they see you all
in front of this device. And Arqueville looks around and I can't go.
So when it's to turn it off, what do you do as you are
already in the process, Mitch MANU shit. I don't think Mitch knows enough
on how to stop it, so he continues, Yeah, he continues to
dive if if Arquaville can pull away, then he can pull away, but
Mitch is holding his hand still. Arquaville runs over to what is like the
little control area and he's going to try to time it. You see him
getting ready to pull down on the lever, and I need someone to roll
and move role for doctor Arca. Though I don't care who it is.
I'm giving you Shannon will do it. Go ahead, Channa one success.
You see him time it as he pulls down on the gothic lever and reaches
forward and grabs hold of Shannon in the chain that goes up to the mound
of autobots. And Shannon will give this to you since you're the one that
succeeded on this. Ben's not holding on to you, guys. He reaches
into his pocket and pulls out what looks like a little egg, smiles and
throws it at you. Shannon, Jerry, George, Mitch. Everybody feels
rob You feel this stretch of what feels like webbing thrown over all of you.
As you're all pulled together around Mitch, Mitch, you begin to dive.
Ben smiles and says, you stupid sons of bitches. Don't you know
you're never supposed to tie yourselves together when you dive? And that's where we
end our session. Sorry, Twilight. Jesus Christ, his name's giggles,
not murders. Didn't you hear about the murderer who likes a gil Oh yeah,
that's yeah, the man who laughs. Come on, I was stressful.
That was stressful, and I wasn't fighting vampires. Um. I think
every time you threw it to me and me and fragsreg We're like, got
back, they got back, We're fine. I was like, it's like,
yeah, um, I don't know. You want to wait for him
to get here and let's wait for else. Came corn no ball? Oh
fuck? Oh man, I so I so bad wanted to throw that uh
garlic salt to Frank, like mean Joe Green throwing his jersey again. Tarry
Twilight is an Unmade Gaming production and a proud member of the Unmade Gaming podcast
Network. If you'd like to support our endeavors and get some behind the scenes
at upcoming projects, please join us on Patreon at patreon dot com slash on
mate gaming. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please take a minute to give
us a five star rating and review on iTunes. Thank you for joining us
on this blast from the past, and we'll see you next time on Atari Twilight