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This is Trash Planet, the podcast that beats
ass and eats trash. And man, we left our heroes
in a pickle. As Tank headed out to celebrate
his tick ball victory, the giddy girls chose
the moment of his absence to attack. Connie sent
an emergency page to Tank, which Tank ignored.
And so, Connie and crew faced crisis alone. Ladi's
combat medic expertise got Enla and Runk out
of there alive, but they're both injured. Runk
took a shot to the shoulder, and Enla is gutshot.
It's real bad. And then, Connie executed an incapacitated
Moe Getty, and everyone saw. This act of brutality
ended the fight, but will it solve our hero's
problems? Probably not. So, this brings us into...
Ooh, baby, downtime. Nice, relaxing downtime.
First, let's do the mechanics. If you have injuries
or juice burns, they're going to heal one because
we're moving into a different phase of play.
Except for you, Tank, you're fucked. You're absolutely
fucked, nothing you can do. Related, Tank, you
earned some money from your tick ball game. Take
two coin. This is just to you. This is not to
the group. This is Tank's money. Oh, baby. Ooh.
And as a reminder, you never got payment for
the birthday boy, but you could because the skimmer's
trust had a bounty on him. It's just that would
be a thing you could look into is investigating
that whole situation. Please pay me for the acts
I have done, et cetera. And morale and resources.
Normally I would have given you plus one for
the tick ball victory, but then I think the events
in the last episode probably even it out. So
probably not that. Also, we lost Lottie Skimmer.
So, you left it in the wastes up when you were
dealing with the birthday boy. You know exactly
where it is, but going to get it would be its
own thing. Also, it's like split in half. Yes,
it's real bad. So, negative one resources. Hi,
Karamba. And then finally, faction attention.
You are now negative one with the panzers. for
the simple expedient of executing a friend of
theirs at point blank range. And you're also
plus one with the fuzz. So great job. Tank did
some good football. We all loved it. Football?
What's football? I've been watching football
at work on my one coworker. It's been great.
Like British football. It's awesome. I could
care less, but it's a great football. Playing
footy. Sometimes they sing. Did you guys know
that? It's beautiful. They're singing like you're
a fucking wanker. To the tune of like, uh, Oasis
song or something. And I'm like, beautiful human
connection. Have you seen Ted Lasso? Cause I
think Ted Lasso did a really good job of like
making up their own, like, uh, like chants and
songs. We open on the sound of rain, acid rain,
plinking off the tin roof of the screaming slice,
hissing as it hits. We see words on the screen
eight months ago. Lights are low in the slice.
Rainy season is all about conserving power, so
there's no air filtration right now. We've all
got masks on indoors, candles burning in the
windowsills. Silhouettes are moving slowly through
the building. The rain's bad enough that we're
all camped out in the booth tonight. Nobody's
on the roof. And Halberd walks up to a booth.
She's got her mask on, big hammer mask, big bald
head, tiny round body. She's got an armful of
what appears to be random fabrics. She dumps
them on the table. All the clothes I got are
random bullshit, but who knows if it fits, but
anything's gotta be better than the robe, right?
And sitting in the booth, we see a young man
with silver hair. His forehead is acid blue,
the brightest it's ever been. The skin is cracked
and swollen, still leaking blood, even weeks
after the injury occurred. Nehar, what do we
see in your character's face? I feel like, at
this point, he hasn't stopped crying for days.
Like... Red puffy eyes streaks across his face
probably just from the dirt and stuff I wouldn't
say he's emaciated because he hasn't been Exiled
for that long and he's sort of been able to scrounge
up food, but you know he looks in very bad shape
Still wearing the robe at this point. Yeah, I
think it's not very patched up It's it's like
he has probably like a tank top and and regular
pants underneath the poncho robe, but it's very
torn up you see like all of the burn marks on
it and everything yeah halvard's picking stuff
up she's like okay this is like a dish towel
i don't know we could do something with this
uh this is like a dress it's like a mumu you
ever heard of mumu that's a good word what mumu
i don't know what that is it's a type just take
the clothes kid come on get it okay yes thank
you i halvard was it yeah Albert Mandelstam,
don't forget it. No, of course not. You've been
so generous. I... You know what? I think I can
use this dish towel just to patch up this little
hole on my shoulder, actually. What? You want
to keep the robe on? What? Like, it kicked you
out, kid? I mean, come on, you're free. Like,
let's get you a new situation, right? Like...
I'm free? I'm not free. This is my life! She
kinda looks at ya. Alright, what's your name
also? I don't have one. Come on, you have a name?
It's just a rule thing, the whole contrition
thing. No, they took it from, I don't get to
have one. Reign's porn. Albert is, I don't know,
complex emotions on her face. She kinda hits
your shoulder again, she's like, well I'm not
calling you in contrition, that is so many syllables.
Let's do Connie. Connie short for in contrition?
Yeah. It's not a name. It's like, it's short
for incontrition, so you're in the clear. I can't
argue with that, I guess. Great! Wax you again,
harder this time. You're like, ow! She, uh, wanders
off. Alright kid, you sleep tight, you need anything,
I'm in the pantry. Don't need anything, I don't
want to talk to you. See you in the morning,
you can help out, or don't. You can fuck off.
Sleep tight! Connie, at this point, I think,
like, probably just curls up in the booth. has,
like, one slice of the mushroom pizza just in
his hands, and, like, quietly, it, like, nibbles
at it. Oh, my God. Oh, like the pizza rat of
old. Of old. Yeah. So the camera follows Halbert
as she's stomping over to her seed closet, where
we see Janouche, who is sitting cross -legged
on the floor. He's drinking soup out of a hollowed
-out bowling ball. He's got his sketchbook out.
He goes, what's the deal with the new guy? Halbert
says, I don't know, let's ask. With a practiced
hand, she spreads out her juice deck. She lays
them out in a beautiful line on the floor, closes
her eyes, holding one hand over the cards, hovering
over, stops, picks one, flips it upright. We
see a jagged black and white spiral. At the center
of the spiral, there's a silhouette of a woman.
Her hair is floating all wild, her eyes are luminous.
Halbert nods. Damn, crown of spiral. She looks
at Yanoos, she's dead serious. That's Billy below.
What's that mean? She sighs, she kind of taps
the carton on her knee. Spirals is complicated.
People think the suit is about death or loss,
but it's more about the mystery, I guess. Like
transformation. Like it's the labyrinth, you
don't come out the same way you came. Billy shows
up when the only way out is down. She leans back
against the wall. Billy and Connie. Guess we'll
see. The camera cuts we are back in the present.
It is a bright -ass morning on trash planet Connie,
where are you at? I'm probably sitting in my
tent. I just killed a person with a shotgun There
aren't that many marks on it But the one thing
Connie sort of staring at is like on his shoes
There's like just one little spot of blood that
made it to his shoes. I don't think I got any
sleep after that Yeah. Birds con in the distance,
warm breeze. Everything is so normal, it hurts
your feelings. What do you want to do with your
first downtime action? I probably do want to
de -stress and I'm probably going to roll for
it. Okay. I've been playing fast and loose because,
you know, de -stressing with gambling is funny,
but also like there's other ways to de -stress
and it's just more narratively interesting. This
is maybe a... Too big for the moment, but if
you wanted to change your vice like it feels
like your character has been through enough Yeah,
that like if you were like, all right, this is
the break point i'm this way now like that would
make sense to me So what would you suggest I
change it to? We've mentioned the stargazing
like yeah on the tower and you're just like zoned
the fuck out, you know, yeah 100 unavailable.
I don't know. I think yeah that that sort of
obsession is is definitely it And this is morning
time, so I'm using a telescope in the daylight
trying to track probably like satellites and
stars. You go to Halberd's lookout tower. I think
that's the highest spot that I know that I can
like reliably get to. Yeah. Do I see like what
Halberd has carved into the chips up there? Yeah.
Okay. Well, why don't you do your stress roll?
We'll see about that. I swear to God, it's going
to give me a six because I have five stress right
now. Please no crit, please no crit. That's a
four. I love this new vice because overindulging
is literally just like what you stay out there
and the sun starts coming up and you're like,
damn it. Connie is more sunburned than he's ever
been in his life. Okay, so I think we have a
beautiful cut of you climbing up on the tower,
sitting down, and then it's the fast -motion
thing where Connie is dead center in the shot,
perfectly still, and everything is zipping and
moving around him, and the lighting's changing,
and stuff is whooshing in the distance. Hours
are passing. Connie is doing his thing on his
own. When you look down, you see the place where
Halvard was carving. It looks like a wind tower.
It looks like one of those big, pronged, three
-propeller spindly thing. Looks like a whole
field of those. She's done a lot of just nervous
etching around it, like just going over and over
and then around and like a spiral pattern around
it. Strange. Not sure what to make of it. Yeah,
I think I spend all day up there. I try to sort
of remember what Halberd is carved, but my my
attention is more on what's in the sky. You know,
I use my telescope. I try to be as purposeful
as I can be in what I'm looking at and part of
it is just like seeing space trash that's in
orbit. But also like some things that look like
space trash that are maybe satellites all of
that and try to sort of note down every individual
thing I see. I picture it very beautiful like
I feel like stuff is burning up in orbit orbit
all the time so there's just huge splashes of
like explosions and things smearing over the
horizon like yeah. Also like copper burns green
so like you could have a we totally see a thing
that's just like entering the atmosphere that's
just like a huge green streak across the sky
beautiful good downtime where would you like
to send the action i guess i want to see tank
yeah tank tank so thinking character wise you
just had a huge win on your team you don't feel
like you had such a good personal showing but
it was like a fine team showing and then you
I don't know, arguably either let down your friends
or they let you down, something like that. A
little bit of column A, a little bit of column
B. Yeah, do you think that you would be focusing
on tickball right now? Do you think you would
be focusing on... because I think you would be
aware of a lot of stuff that could help the slice,
but it's like, I don't know, are you focused
on that right now, you know? Tank is probably
still distancing himself a little bit from the
slice, so I think he's gonna... Maybe just focus
on some tickball stuff right now. As you're walking
through the hallways of the training facility,
people are like giving you the nod. People are
happy to see you. You're like, yeah, I'm on the
team now. Yeah. Yeah. Hey. Hey, bro. It's me,
Chops. Oh, Chops. I didn't see you there. You
were like... I was facing the other way. Yeah.
I didn't have a scene in mind. I just wanted
to say hi. Well, I got something for you. Okay,
as you're walking through the halls, you still
have the juice burn where you have several juice
burns. You're accruing them at an incredible
rate. First of all, you're noticing with every
step, there's like this little wave of bugs that's
just moving with your feet. They're like, oh
boy. And then secondly, you also have the little
baby Bjorn for the birthday boy on your chest.
And he's looking there, he's looking normal,
but you kind of brush up against him at one point
and your fingers go through him. as if he's wet
sand and birthday boy looks up at you sadly you're
like oh he's losing power um so birthday boy
is powering down if you cared to do stuff about
that but you know who's to say tank is gonna
hit up the the juice clinic at the facilities
oh what does it look like it's like a separate
part of the facility you like go down some stairs
it's kind of like in the basement like a russian
bathhouse he walks in and it's like all steamy
and there's just like a big spa pool of of juice
and you look over at the counter my god it can't
be hi what whatever what are you doing here oh
i just i work here since when uh a few months
now This is this is kind of blowing my mind right
now. How have I never seen you here before? People
don't tend to notice me. You're right. I don't
tend to notice you. Except for that one time
you were just stalking me and you were just like
eating yogurt really loud. I don't know what
you're talking about. Okay, yeah, yeah. We'll
pretend that never happened. So like are you
like a like a juice shaman as well? Oh my gosh,
you guessed my title correctly immediately Yeah,
you know kind of like Subway has like sandwich
artists Subway canonically on Trash Planet Pick
up the whole thing drop it on Trash Planet, yeah
Cool, canon Crevver is holding a dangerous -looking
elixir. What does it look like? Nehar? It's red.
It's like a bright red in color, but also looks
like it has edible glitter Like it has it has
like sort of a thick consistency where you can
see the glitter swirling around inside Beautiful.
This is my newest creation. Oh Wow yogurt and
juice This doesn't have yogurt in it doesn't
you really are the best Oh, I didn't know but
like apparently milk -like products like they
turn into like glitter and juice so I just I
thought about mixing my two passions and this
is the creation oh man I really don't want to
drink this right now take it's already in your
hand here um I mean I've tried it myself it's
it's potent but um here I'll give you a free
sample I call it Ruby shoes. Oh, man. I guess
there's no place like home. That's exactly why
I call it Ruby shoes. It gets you where you're
going. The camera pulls in on Tank. You are sitting
down in the juice bath. It's like a hot tub kind
of situation. Just hot juice. Acidic. bad for
the skin. I just sort of like go in there like,
ah, and there's a point five seconds of relaxation
and then you're like, ah, my skin, my skin. And
you slam the ruby shoes, sounds like. I guess
so. Wait, Gryver, you said you tried this? Any
bad side effects? Any good side effects actually?
Well, it made my eyesight incredible for like
three days, but Mostly because I've been crying
a lot, but um I think the other side of fact
which was pretty interesting was like just a
couple of my fingers got really long, but I guess
bottoms up. This is like one of the perks of
being on the roster. Trevor's the real hero.
You slurp it right down. Viscous. Thick. Chunky.
Tank has tasted a lot of juice concoctions in
his day and this is by far the worst. I love
it. Is it fair to say you just get a juice burner,
like you don't even roll for it? Are you prepared
to accept another juice burner, or would you
like to fight it? I mean, I kind of asked what
was gonna happen, so I think he knows full well
his fingers are getting longer. Alright, why
don't you roll your stress reduction. That's
four. What are you at now? I am at two. Hey,
that's not bad. Yeah. Okay. Just to clarify,
so long fingers is now added to his list of two
spirits, and that's a seven out of eight? How
long me talking? Do I roll for length? Oh, wow.
Well, no, I think you just have it now, right?
Until we clearly make two spirits. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, but I'm saying like long fingers. Oh, how
long? Yeah, like how? Roll for length. Yeah,
you gotta roll for length. I think one is normal
finger size, six is a lot, whatever that means.
Three. Oh, wow. Okay. Victor Wimbanyama is length
of fingers. Fucked up, yeah. Who? Who? We know
basketball. We know basketball. We know ball.
We know ball. We're all about sports here at
Trash Planet. I have a proposal to make this
slightly worse. What? Your fingers are longer
because they're gaining additional segments.
Oh, no. I don't like that. That's brutal. All
right. Beautiful downtime. Where would you like
to send the action? Let's see what Lottie's doing.
All right. I'm going to start with escaping some
stress. I'm going to guess that after that horrible
night that we had, Lottie would have been up
in her greenhouse. Instead of getting ready for
deliveries and stuff like that the following
day, she would be preparing whatever she can
to try and figure out how to help Enla. with
all of the injuries she endured. So she's basically
just kind of been doing that like all night in
her office, just working on like little poultices
and creams and stuff like that, painkillers.
That's awesome. Yeah, give me that roll. Ooh,
of course. That's a six. Wait, how many did you
have? I had five. No! Yes! So I over -indulge.
What happens? In her panic and all the stress
of trying to figure out things that will heal
up Emma, she leaves something cooking in a pressurized
vessel for a little bit too long. The top pops
off and there is now a hole in the top of the
greenhouse. Devastating! It goes off like a gunshot.
You're like, oh, yeah, brutal, brutal. You know
what else doesn't help is you go downstairs to
get some materials to patch it up. There's a
guy from Contigo there who's like, delivery for
Lottie Faber's daughter and hands you a package.
It is a message from the Tender Mercy. It is
a letter from Shreetha. It is a radio transponder.
Great news, you got to do the meat pickup in
a few days. Just immediately like, Oh God, my
responsibilities. Ladi just stands there staring
at the box for a good, like two minutes before
she moves. No. So that is a backing faction request.
You have been invoked for your meat grabbing
capabilities. Where would you like to send the
action? Let's send it to Inla. So Inla needs
to de -stress. and heal so let's start with healing
because it sounds like Lottie's already made
some some poultices for me so i'm hoping that
will help with this role i go to Lottie and ask
her to help me i think you don't go anywhere
i think you are up in your tent and people are
coming to you because you are in rough shape
so even better yeah i'm pretty lazy it's that
thing where we can hear you breathing really
high pitched like just painful painful So when
we heal, somebody has to roll care for you. I
would give you a plus one because you specifically
called out that you were preparing for this roll.
Can Runk also help? Yes. Runk has Runk's vibe.
You've just been shot in the shoulder. They're
handling it better. Like they're pretty much
motivated by the fact that Emla has been very
shot and they've been not very shot. Like they've
been clipped. I think their arm is in like a
makeshift sling. but for the most part they're
using like some localized like painkillers and
stuff to deal with that but they're they're basically
just looking after enla at this point i picture
the shot is from above and so enla's lying down
in her tent which is just crammed full of shit
like there's no shelves in a tent you know you're
just putting shit on the floor and then it's
rung like on the ground next to her just and
then lani leaning down like i don't know it's
nice yeah i think they have access to some like
cooling pads and stuff that they can like move
in and out of the freezer to help with some of
the pain and whatnot. Oh, sick. Okay, hit me
with that roll. That's a two. You had two plus
ones on that. There was a second one? It was
you preparing and then it was Runk helping. Yeah,
so there's three dice. Yeah, so one more. Come
on, Runk, come on. Runk out of six. Runk rules.
We love Runk. Six is three segments. Okay. So
one of my things is healed. Yes. You just wipe
out one of the level twos. That's huge. Thank
you. Yes. I have a proposal. Oh, what's your
proposal? We could spend our one coin from hope
to increase the success by one and make that
a crit. Yeah. Runk found the world's last thing
of tiger bomb. Crit five segments. Okay. So if
you punched it up, then you would fill one level
two and you would get three out of four on your
second one. So that feels honestly good to me.
That feels good. Yeah, if you guys are good with
it, I feel like that should be where the coin
goes. I'm fine with that. Yeah, do it. Yeah.
Obviously, I'm fine with that. OK. Appreciate
you. Beautiful little, I think it smells so medicinal
in Endless Tent right now. Look, we've just got
all kinds of shit happening. We got teas. We
got poultices. We got lotions. We got ointments.
We have actual cleansing alcohol. Oh! I think
there's this beautiful moment where, Lottie,
old wartime ritual, you pull out your cleansing
alcohol, each of you takes a tiny little sip,
and then you dump it on the load. Yeah, good
stuff. Connie! Connie, you hear a clattering
on the roof. When you head up there, you find
Petra's tent in disarray. All of her soft belongings
are in neat garbage bags. All of her fiddly radio
gear is in crunchy plastic crates. Petra is carefully
lowering the crates to the ground on a rope.
She looks up at you, kind of gives the up nod.
She goes, hey, uh, heard that was crazy. You
okay? Yeah, surprisingly, I, I'm not hurt, but,
you know, endless in a bad way. What are you
doing? Yeah, we're heading out. Who's we? Me
and Rambo. And you lean over the edge of the
slice, and you see that eight -year -old kid
that you helped him out. He was trying to reach
off -world, you know? He kind of looks up at
you, waves. He's happy to see you. Something
about seeing a friendly face that is like, you
helped this kid in a moment of need, you know?
Yeah. Petra says, first of all, it's kind of
hot. Giddy Girls and Panzers and shit. Like,
I am not about it. Secondly, I've been in limbo
for a minute. It's about time I got moving. Me
and Rambo are gonna fix up the satellite. He
thinks we can break the number station. So you're
just leaving? Yeah. We're gonna be at the satellite
for a while, and then we might head north, depending
on what we find. What are you hoping to find?
You should ask Halberd. It's not mine to talk
about, but it's something I can do for her, you
know? She's done a lot for me. Yeah. This is
very sudden. Are you - You killed a guy. You
killed a guy and that means they're gonna come
and they're gonna kill you and then maybe me
because I'm like near you. You're leaving because
of me? Yeah. It's not personal. I want you to
take care of yourself, okay? I killed someone
to protect us, not to endanger us. I mean, look
at Rambo. I'm doing this to help people. Doing
this to help you and halberd you can't just leave
because I helped you Petra Looks at your real
sharp. She's just kind of shaking her head, but
she's not gonna argue with you She says take
care of yourself. Can you just we're gonna be
at the satellite and she turns away Negative
one resources you have lost Petra Full messages
The only one who knows how to pager words. Yeah,
the radio expert. Oh, man. Where would you like
to send the action? We'll get back to you for
your real downtime action. I will send it to
Enla. OK, so Enla still can't move super great.
But she's stressed about everything that just
went down. And so she turns to her favorite vice.
of art. Since she is laying down she can't do
her interactive art pieces like she likes to.
So instead she just starts to draw obsessively
the same image of Connie shooting Moe Giddy over
and over and over again. Can we see a moment
with you and Runk like I think I imagine Runk
would not have left your side right like Runk
is just sort of camping out in your tent like
yeah I don't know this is uh Call it nighttime.
You know, you hear crickets, clavagers clicking
in the distance. Tired, long day of being in
pain. You're just drawn scribbling like chalk,
charcoal on cardboard. Yeah. I'm glad you're
here. I'm sorry that all that happened. Are you
sure you want to keep going? Like, you've been
at this for hours. I just, I need to get it right.
I just want to get it right. I know that this
is, I mean, it maybe helps you make sense of
the situation, but I don't think it's good for
you. I don't think overthinking like this is...
Are you trying to tell me my art's not good for
me, Rung? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no No, you don't get it like hey, I made
a perfectly rendered birthday cake on a side
of a boar In a moment of crisis and I can't make
Connie's face look real. It's driving me insane
You just look so scary in that moment Do you
really want to remember that do you really want
to put it on paper? Etch it in stone like that
I feel like I have to I feel like we'd pan over
to like 30 different discarded drawings But all
of them just have like big scribbles written
through like driven through them because they're
wrong I just I feel like if I can capture it
perfectly Maybe the nightmares will go away That
was awesome y 'all give me that stress roll that's
a five Sweet. So I lose five, right? Yeah. Yes.
And you were? I was almost maxed out. So I had
two away from it. So that was one more. So I
have two now. Sick. This has been a productive
healing session. For me, yes. Yes. Still minus
one die on most things. Where are we at in terms
of resources? We have your two coin that you
have. And then does the group? We spent our one
coin. We spent our coin allowance. Sick. All
right, Enla, where would you like to send the
action? I would love to see what Lottie's up
to. Lottie! Okay. I think I want Lottie to build
some trust with Connie. So I want to say Lottie
maybe catches Connie like after that little scene
with Petra taking off, like not long after that.
I mean, I was, I'm thinking like maybe like after
the healing situation with Enla, Lottie was just
like exhausted out on the roof, like smoking
around her mask like she does. And she kind of
witnessed that. So she like kind of... Invites
Connie over to chat for a little bit because
kind of like waves him over with a head nod when
he joins in she just kind of says so You brought
the gun. Yeah, I thought we needed it. We have
Johnny law after us Thank you for bringing the
gun You see a tightness that you didn't quite
notice in Connie's like shoulders and chests
Like he just is able to relax for a moment Yeah,
I I don't know what we would have done otherwise.
I know we agreed differently, but I think you
made the right call. I'm glad someone thinks
so. I... I mean, Enla might not be here otherwise.
I wanted to bring that up though, because I need
to know you're still okay. We're dealing with
some dangerous people, and I think we're gonna
have to ask you to do that again at some point.
I don't see how else to deal with these kinds
of people. We have to be dangerous people to
deal with dangerous people. We can't - I understand,
Connie, but that's a heavy burden for you to
bear. Are you okay? Yes, I'm fine. I would do
it again. I would do it a thousand times. In
fact, we're not done with this. Connie, it's
- I know. We're not done with this, and we won't
be for a long time. So, we gotta keep it together,
alright? For everyone else. Yes, I hope you can
make Petra see this the same way, but yes, we
do. athletes usually do, wants to blow his money
on cars. So he's going to hit up Lottie because
Lottie is the only person he knows that knows
anything about skimmers. Does Lottie know anything
about skimmers? It takes mind. In the way that
people can tell a Ford apart from a Toyota. I
mean, she knows not to get roped into a 28 %
APR on a Mustang. There we go! And Tank is going
to take himself down to the Ferrari skimmer deal.
Whatever the equivalent of that is. Okay, can
we see the scene of you and Lottie on your way
up there? Cause like, have you guys ever hung
out one on one? Yeah, she's my juice dealer.
Oh yeah, okay. Alright, we're having a beautiful
walk. We're walking from Bugtown, which is a
bad neighborhood, all the way through Middle
Chips into Upper Chips. Like, how is this going
for y 'all? Yeah, so I was thinking maybe I get
the skimmer with the really... cool racing stripes.
Sometimes they charge a lot for that tank, but
maybe maybe Anna could paint some racing stripes
for us. Yeah, like a local artist. Exactly. Local
detailing. Yeah, yeah. She's not going to like
trap me in some crazy experience like her art
seems very experiential and not like traditional.
Well, you're right, but She knows how to paint.
You remember the pig, right? I guess that was
traditional art in a sense. As you're walking,
beetles are following you in, like, the wake
of a ship. Like, you're just coming with ya.
You make your way through. There are armed guards,
like, around Upper Chips area. I think that there
is some finagling of, you know, hi, I'm me, I'm
Tank, I'm a tickball player. They're not concerned
about you because you're a public figure. They're
a little concerned about Lottie because she is
not. They're pretty concerned about all the bugs.
following you this is the juice burn you are
delicious to critters uh yeah i just realized
we have a really funny thing going on here what
i'm a bug lantern yeah a lot is sparking off
random electricity tank is full of bugs All right,
you make your way uptown. Upper Chips, man. We
haven't spent a lot of time here just walking
around in daytime. It's so nice. They have paved
roads. They have like well -dressed people toodling
around. You see young moms with kids in strollers.
There are some wealthy people here and they are
all out today on a beautiful, sunshiny afternoon
in the Upper Chips. You make your way up to...
Batchelder and Sons, a vehicle dealer. They would
never say skimmer dealer because skimmers are
what poor people have to use. This is a vehicle.
You're going to purchase a vehicle. You walk
in, pneumatic hiss. Incredible. You can take
your mask right off. The air smells sweet and
clean. Beautiful filtration in here. Shiny, bright,
beautiful skimmers. Big ones, little ones, shiny
ones, less shiny ones. They're all shiny. What
am I? talking about an attendant like sprints
over to you they're wearing a beautiful pinstripe
suit hello uh what can i help you with today
yeah i was looking to get a sick car absolutely
sir absolutely can i get you some chilled juice
it's regular juice it's not it's not oh um i'll
have some oh okay yeah all right she's in my
crew all right all right this uh attendant disappears
comes back with That's right. Pink grapefruit
juice. Holy shit. I don't know if you've ever
tasted anything like this. This is, it's punchy.
It's tangy. It's like juice. No, it's like juice.
Why did we name it this? It is a regular ass
fruit juice. It just tastes really good because
I can't imagine there's a lot of grapefruits
on Trash Planet. Lottie is confused for a moment
because she thought it was juice. But. She sips
away at it and is visibly like very pleased with
what she's drinking Wow, we see three vehicles
like the montage of you guys looking at shit
knee heart What's the first vehicle they're looking
at? It's basically like a Cadillac equivalent
of a hover car. So it is blue, it is sleek, with
like silver trim. Is it one of those that's really
wide, it's like a boat kind of feel? I was thinking
very long. Ooh, hell yeah. What is it, like a
Buick Skylark or something? What are the old
80s, like really long cars? Sick. We pan over
Tank and Lottie's face. Are they smiling? What
do we see? Was thinking maybe something like
more sporty, you know, of course absolutely come
right this way Maddie. What's the second vehicle
we see? It's trash planets version of like a
Bugatti. It's like It's all like it's all super
svelte but like looks like a like it's all like
pointy and weird places and It's like acid green
and this one as you can see sir has the floor
the threat the flusters. I'm flustered I'm so
sorry. I've never been around a tickball player
before Attendant is sweating It has the thrusters
so you can do a midair like control your fall
as you're vaulting Really incredible piece of
machinery. Yeah. Well, I was kind of looking
more for like a daily driver Not just something
I can you know, take out and go real fast a couple
times a year Why don't you let me take a look?
Strong hand on your back smack really hard voice
right in your ear. I Got a suggestion for you
You look over, fucking Trent Dort. He's just
here. He's just here. Oh, man. Big A -frame,
you know, white dirty A -frame. Looking kind
of unkempt. Raggedy mullet. He's grinning at
you. Crazy crooked grin. He nods the lot. He's
like, howdy, ma 'am. How you doing? Son, I got
a skimmer. Blow your brains out. So beautiful.
You want to take a walk with me? Yeah. Yeah,
I guess. I guess I'll take a walk. He wasn't
asking. Tim knows, like, he's got us, right?
Yeah. I think that you guys have probably debriefed
on all of this. Lottie, this is Trent dorks.
Yeah, the color has already drained from Lottie's
face. Oh, my god. As you're walking out of the
dealership, the attendant is trying to get the
glass back. Like, I think it was a real glass
glass. Are you relinquishing your glass of grapefruit
juice? There's a scene of Shay and Lottie trying
to give it back, and she can't let go of the
glass. I think Trent just leans over and is like,
she's fine, leave her. And the attendant just
backs off. Like they know him, no problem. He
walks you outside. You see, he has got a skimmer
out here. Y 'all came here on foot. He came here
on this sexy little two -seater, beautiful, like
sleek little vehicle. One look at this, you're
like, ooh, that goes fast. He said, well, it's
chili dog day. I was thinking about getting chili
dogs. Y 'all want to come on a walk with me?
I do love chili dogs. I also love chili dogs.
See, I knew we were going to - Who doesn't love
chili dogs? I know. Oh, smacks you in the back,
Lottie. He kind of like nudges into you. He's
like, how about you, ma 'am? You vegetarian,
what are you? I could eat. Fantastic. We cut
forward. He takes you right back to the food
court. Unexpected. I think that he kind of walks
the skimmer. Like he's going at a walking pace
through the city streets, out of the, you know,
upper chips. And he's just chatting as y 'all
are going. He's just talking about nothing. And
you end up... back in the food court where he
parks the skimmer, sprints on over to a food
stand. It's like a very dour old man, completely
expressionless, emerges with three chili dogs.
Maddie, these chili dogs have an unusual topping.
What is it? There is one with a like a purple
kind of chunky topping. Don't know what it's
made of. Then there's another one that is like
unsettlingly yellow. That's beautiful. And the
third one, you know, it's another thing that
should probably not be eaten. It's blue, like
a like a weird electric blue with like teal swirls
in it. Beautiful. All right. Trent had these
stacked in one hand. I picture the food court
is having big concrete chunks that people just
sort of use as picnic tables. People are clustered
around. Nobody's really paying attention to you.
Trent looks like a local, like, you know, he's
crazy old man. long thin mullet he's looking
at you smiling he's comfortable hands out his
stack of chili dogs he's like all right i got
chunks i got purple i got blue uh any preference
i i always like the chunks myself i'll take the
blue man after my own heart slides you the blue
slides you the yellow I don't know what's in
this tastes real good though. You know that guy's
been here for like 30 years I mean I respect
the hell out of a man you work the same chili
dog stand gotta know a thing or two about chunks
know what I'm saying just hoses the So do y 'all
eat your chili dogs Yeah, Lottie's probably just
like nibbling at it. She doesn't like the yellow
sauce that much, but she does like these chili
dogs So Trent finishes his real quick he goes
Alright, let's cut to it. You know, I really
liked that whole bullshit with the jailbird.
I was very impressed. I mean, you know, tell
you what, working with goons nine times out of
ten, you got to tell them exactly what to do.
You got to lay out the plans A to B. You got
to sit on them the whole time. No verve, no schwa
de vie. You did this jailbird shit. That was
crazy. It just came up with it. It was beautiful.
I really appreciate it. I love to see craftsmen
work. That's all I'm saying. Thank you. That's
the pacing in real life, too. He's just smiling.
I'm leaving that entire positive. Yup, yup, yup.
Tank, as he's looking at, as you're eating your
chili dog, you notice him noticing you for a
second, and he kind of smiles. How'd you like
the chili dog? Oh, it was good. Yeah, I have
like three a week. Gee, I did, too. I respect
that. I've got to support the locals, you know?
That's what I'm saying. Let's cut to it. You're
from off -world, right? Tank was like mid -bite
and he he just like slack -jawed like chili just
dripping down his mouth and it's like Yeah, yeah,
how'd you know? Your teeth son? No, they ain't
no helicot teeth. Huge fan, pearly whites. A
lot of you know that they're both telling the
truth. Tank is not from here. I don't think Lottie
does anything in response to that yet, but...
He's like, I'm just checking. Y 'all ain't gonna
run away on me now. You're gonna run away to
daddy. You've had your role in the dirt. You're
done. No, I'm here. I'm just hitting my stride,
you know? Like, I just made the roster on the
fuzz, and yeah, these are my people now. That's
good. That's good. Well established. Kind of
smacks you on the shoulder, Lottie. And I've
seen you before. Seems like you've seen all of
us before. Absolutely. Back in the day, I mean,
you wore a different uniform then. I did. It
was a jumpsuit, not a uniform. Sure, sure. You
Grinders folks, I don't know. You still got the
spirit? You still grinding away in there after
all these years? I do. I don't know if they do.
Good answer. He says, all right, well, let's
cut to it. I got a job for you. Grinders got
something of mine I need back. You're gonna get
it for me. Screaming, crying, throwing up. Tank
is just gonna, he's gonna kind of side eye Lottie.
Who do you think is taking point on this conversation?
Well, it sounds like he's talking to me about
this. I guess in response to that, I would just
say, okay, go on. I can't be fucked dealing with
it. Figure you're local you got the terrain you're
not local, but you probably got some money or
something got some connects So they took something
in mind don't quite matter what don't matter
to you matters to me though matters I get it
back within I don't know say a week. I figure
a week a week That don't work for you that don't
fit in your busy schedule. You've got eyes on
us You know we're not doing so great right now
Oh, really tell me more because it seems like
you're doing fine to me seems like you're eating
chili dogs with your old friend He uh, he's like
hang on. I'm still hungry gets up sprints off
to a different food cart. You all have a minute
alone We can't we can't turn it down. We can't
turn it down, but we need more time You know
the grinders way better than I do like and knowing
them. We're gonna need more time man Do you still
have any connects like is there a way we could
we could get this back like peacefully I can
get in the door, but I don't even know what Trent
wants us to take. I know. He comes back. He's
got another stack of chili dogs. Nehar, these
are presented in an interesting way. What do
they look like? They're skewered on... That's
what I want out of my chili dog. Just kind of
dripping. They're skewered on giant, what looks
like knitting needles. It's one knitting needle,
and they're stacked side by side, but it goes
through a whole set of them, through the middle
of the bun. That's so stupid. I love it. Yeah,
it goes through hamburger style on a hot dog.
You look over at the cart, it's being run by
two, like, they look about 10 years old. They're
trying to do the slap game where, like, you have
two hands out, the other person has them under,
and you try to reach up and slap them really
fast. Trent comes back flapping chili dogs everywhere.
He's like, all right, round two, hands chili
dog, hands chili dog. What do you need us to
get from the grinders? Okay, well, it's technological.
Don't... Not gonna make a lot of sense to your
baby brains about four feet high cylindrical
kind of capsule kind of shape Gonna weigh a whole
shitload. So you're gonna need skimmer. I assume
you got one, right? We're working on it. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean I was trying to buy one He broke
his fuck though, right? Here reaches in his pocket
tosses you the keys Sexy little skimmer. Yeah,
that's the one That's just a gift from old uncle
Trent All right, don't say I never did nothing
for you. I'm a real matron of the arts. Okay.
I love to see craftsmen at work I love to look
after my own. So hey you want skimmer you got
it. There you go We need more time Okay negotiating
give me more and then give me a role maybe We
could do this in a week, but the rest of the
group doesn't look like we do one of them's hurt
bad Another one just left and we kind of got
a lot of heat on us right now Okay, gonna need
to lie low for a bit Or they're gonna know what
we're up to the moment we walk in the door. Yeah,
we're we're kind of in a bad way with the the
giddy girls right now Flashback to Connie Shotgun
blast. Oh, what a night. That was yesterday All
right, please give me sounds like persuade to
me. This is desperate standard Are we doing a
grip roll here? I think yeah, I think you too
for sure I'm gonna take two stress and push myself
for an extra die A five. Three for me. Sick,
okay. Alright, so success with one complication.
Trent mulls this over, eats his chili dog. He's
kind of gnawing, like the skewer makes it so
you have to gnaw on it. Really brutal, really
brutal way to eat a chili dog. Are you guys finishing
yours, by the way, or second chili dog? Yeah,
yeah. Trent never turns down a meal. Incredible.
Oh yeah, you feel the god of meat rumbling happily.
It's just somewhere in the back of your brain.
Good old Chuck. All right. Now he's like begrudgingly
eating because free food is nuts. It's hard to
turn down right now. Yeah. Trent says, all right.
Tell you what, seven days and I up your take.
How about that? How much we talking? Talking
money. Bitch. I said how. How much. I know. It
don't matter to you. It matters to me. I'm gonna
make a lot of money on this. You don't need numbers.
You don't need information. You just need to
do what I fucking tell you. You understand? Okay.
Not a business guy, but you offering up more
money from an amount that we never knew in the
first place, it seems a little sus to me. Something
interesting here, Lottie. You can tell when people
are lying. He said he's going to make a lot of
money on this. That's not true. So Tank is saying
that and Trent is like, how about this? I got
you by the neck. Does that not make sense to
you? I mean, you're going to do what I say either
way. That conversation is going on and Slotty,
you're mulling that over. Dort, I just heard
your take on goons five minutes ago. You would
have already followed through on that. If you
didn't need us for something, this is important
to you. Important enough that goons aren't good
enough So scratch our back and we'll scratch
yours He hears this smiles a lot of he likes
you like you just get this sense like fuck. Yeah
I get the vibe from from Trent that he would
not want like bullshit kissing up to him. Yeah.
Yeah He's like, all right, let's call it eight
coin. Let's call it a coin and be happy. Let's
all be happy You got a skimmer, you got a job,
you got a purpose. I mean, what else can I give
you? I know they got it at Grindr's HQ. I know
they got it in a lab somewhere, so I'm hauling
it off. Probably deep in the R &D division, if
I had to guess. So a big, nondescript capsule
from the Grindr's R &D department. Yes, ma 'am.
That's all we have to work with. Yes, ma 'am.
Should be all you need, correct? Correct. Which
one do you like better? Points to the empty chili
dog wrappers. Let's agree. What's the better
one? We got the old school style. We got the
chunks. We got the purple. We got this beautiful
skewer by these beautiful young people. We look
over the people at the stand are doing a Fortnite
dance. You know, I kind of like the classic chili
dogs. I was actually hoping I would have gotten
the purple one earlier. Those are my favorite.
Oh, my bad. No, Trent ate that one. He ate the
chunky one. Yeah, that was the purple one. Trent
smiles. That was the right answer. He says, all
right, I appreciate y 'all. Y 'all some good
people. Leans back on this chunk of concrete.
Lottie, you're not so good a reader, so I don't
think you appreciate what's on this screen. But
as he leans back, Tank, you see this white film
pop up in front of him just in midair. flat white
square and then it turns into a satellite view
and then it turns into a zoomed in satellite
view you see tents and you see buildings and
you see the three of you sitting at the food
court and moves a button like moves one hand
this is iron man hud kind of shit zoom it in
onto the food cart of those two kids doing their
little dance and punches a button in midair loading
proceed question mark you gonna do anything whoa
whoa whoa what are you doing Are you going to
make a move or are you just talking? This is
not you, Lottie doesn't know this is happening.
This would be a desperate roll if you did anything
at all. But you don't have to because this is
like moments. I'm going to just reach out and
try to grab his wrist. OK. Yeah. Desperate minus
one. Desperate minus one. What am I rolling?
I guess probably fight, right? Or touch maybe.
I would accept either. OK, I'm going to do fight
minus one. OK. But you do get to mark playbook
experience yes, yep, that's the benefit your
hand whips out A lot II think we see this from
your perspective You didn't know what the buttons
were saying you had some sense of what was happening
You see tanks wrist shoot out like he's trying
to grab Trent and he just bounces off like you
don't see him hit anything But his wrist is you
know, hits something, feels like a force field,
you would guess it's nanites, you know? And Trent
doesn't even look at you, Tank, and just punches
the button, and we hear a sound like a whip snapping.
White heat scorches your whole body, like you're
inches from a flame. Everything seizes up, like
all your muscles, your spine, you're just clenching
the loudest sound in the world, like the earth
tearing open. When your eyes open, you were looking
at a smoking crater on the ground where a chili
dog salesman used to be. You see molten pools
of metal fluttering paper. You smell burnt nothing.
They're molecules now. There were two kids, there
was a chili dog stand, and there is absolutely
nothing. It happens so fast that people don't
even know how to react. Like, they don't know
where it came from, what it did. There was something
and then it's gone. This is an Argus shot, a
laser shot from orbit. It makes people disappear.
So Trent whistles. It was hell of a thing. Stands
up. Picks up what's left of the chili dog. Starts
walking. Big munch. Um, looks back over. Alright,
let's call it eight coin. Let's call it, uh,
what do we say, about a week? Alright, I'll collect
in about a week. Y 'all, let me know if you need
anything. Stop on by the house sometime. I love
having guests. Tank is just like... All the color
has drained out of his face. He's completely
deflated. Lottie probably just says to him through
gritted teeth, wear and win. My place, Dort Mansion.
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