Trash Planet contains themes of desperation and
poverty. We portray a comedic, absurd, and violent
world. For a full list of content warnings, please
see the episode description. So we cut back to
you guys pulling into your final destination
which turns out to be Big artificial mountain
a lot of stuff piled up around an ocean liner
like about half of an ocean liner tipped over
on its side Its cavernous and creaking and huge
as with anything that is hollow on the inside
and is supporting a mountain on top of it You're
just immediately like oh You are walking into
the side of an open ship and you hear a clatter
from inside. There's some lights shining. You
have arrived at Volpertinger's puppet show. And
so you see a bunch of pillows on the floor. This
is where a few scattered people are sitting.
This looks like the audience area. You see a
big stage that is a U -shape that's around the
pillows on the floor. So as you walk up, you
immediately make eye contact with Lynn Linda,
who is spangly as ever, and is surrounded by
two people holding up cameras of some variety.
They look very high -tech. She waves at you and
tries to gesture you over, and the show is going.
The show! We've got to watch the show! And so,
on this big U -shaped sta - we see a show in
three parts. There are risers on the stage. You
know, people can stand on them. There's two levels
of risers. So below the first level, we've got
a little kids level puppet show. Just little,
like, animal puppets on strings that are being
doodled around. And above them, in full view
of the audience, we see some human people who
are puppeteering it. Well, the people have strings
on their backs and the strings are reaching up
to a history lesson. Once upon a time, there
were beautiful buildings on Helica. Beautiful
buildings that had shipments and had crates and
had large heavy things that needed to be moved.
And so, there were mechanisms to move large and
heavy things, right? Big clawed machines. But
then those buildings were destroyed in the war.
And it didn't make sense to leave those machines
attached to the buildings anymore. And so they
had to become mobile. A kind of mobile suit.
Kind of mobile suit. piloted by one person. Nihar
is putting his head in his hands. Nihar is turning
to ash. Nihar is drifting away. Yes, that's right.
It's a 12 foot mech. What do you want from me?
That's exactly what I wanted from you. I wasn't
melting away out of shame or anything. I was
melting away out of... Pure excitement not being
able to contain myself. Yay! You wanna see the
puppet show now? You wanna see the puppet show,
bitch? And so, the way that this puppet show
is going, uh, it's so involved. Like, there's
a story happening at the bottom, but there's
also a story happening at the middle. Like, the
puppeteers are all gesturing and shushing each
other, and there's, like, drama, and there's
themes, but they have strings attached to them
that are, like, Volpertinger is up in this mech
suit, clanking around on the second layer of
risers, trying to control everyone at once. And
also the mech suit is, like, falling apart, and
they're, like, hopping out trying to fix it mid
-scene, and, like, everybody has to stop and
stand still. Like, I don't know, it's themes,
you know? It's themes, and it's - puppets and
it's bullshit going on it's so sweaty in here
the energy is dank other people in the crowd
you see a few scattered like roving looking types
you see Lynn Linda and her camera crew um yeah
you're watching a fucking puppet show what are
you all up to what i tell you Connie nothing
like it this is way more involved than i was
expecting i thought it'd be the only ones i've
read about it's like a tiny artificial stage
and puppets hanging off people's fingers. Oh,
you think Volpe would just do something that
simple? I mean... I suppose them working on the
Jailbird animatronics should have tipped me off
that it'd be a bit better than that. Are you
absorbing theme? Volpertanger is yelling from
the top level. Hello, it's themes! It echoes
throughout the cavern, just bouncing off all
the metal. All the other performers kind of stop
and look at them like, that was not in the script.
So you have arrived at puppet show. Puppet show
is going to continue for 24 hours. They're taking
a break every so often, but are you just going
to wait around and, I don't know, see how it
plays out? Enla is enthralled. Enla cannot take
her eyes off of the multiple layers and is Talking
to Connie, but in short little bursts because
her attention is entirely She's obsessed with
this. This is 100 % You know watching Lord of
the Rings extended edition and you're just pointing
out all the things to your significant other
That is representative of how when we were like
four we we went on this crazy trip and we ended
up getting all mixed up with this like giant
like bird situation like what yeah crazy i think
it's about society you know do you see like the
three layers of control that are yes absolutely
yes absolutely voberting is a genius you know
i've been casting some of their work like back
to the home planet you know and it's really taking
off i mean it's very exciting they're really
going to see some commercial success i hope i
assume you know oh lynn that's incredible i know
just think they could like go on tour you know
tour yeah Take it galaxy -wide, I mean, why not?
I mean, they're successful enough. Go off -planet?
Sure, I mean, with the right sponsor, who's to
say? You know, anything's possible. I don't know,
I'm just a student, but I would love to see it
happen. What? She's a student, Joe Baker. Richest
person you've ever met. Quit your job! Go on
tour! Yeah. As we know, this is on an ocean liner,
or what's left of one, scrapped up and rusted.
You guys are chilling on carpets, beautiful rugs
piled up. Nice collection of rugs, actually,
you're admiring the handicrafts. You're sitting
there with a bunch of rovin' ass fucks, you know.
These are some real goobers. On the bottom level...
They have actually made it out of the forest
these cute little animal puppets. They have made
it to the Hall of Judgment They finished welding
the exits shut so they can summon the Dark Spirit
so they can teach you the lesson about friendship
On the middle level one of the puppeteers is
saying very seriously Well, Pertinger, I think
it has gone far enough. I think it's not a good
idea and Zelenogorsk says we said we would move
these childish figures from left to right. We
agreed to this And then Bunk, who's also there,
says, I'm Bunk! Like a Pokemon? Like a Pokemon!
Bunk is a Pokemon person. And on the top level,
Volpertinger is still in the mech, not really
responding to what's happening below them. They're
soldering something, constantly fixing up the
suit, but they're also working on something small.
You can't quite see it. And it's this nice moment.
Connie and Enla, you're sitting here. You don't
know about the sinkhole yet. You're having a
moment of rest and relaxation. You're thinking
about a ship in the middle of the desert. You're
thinking about the kind of energy it takes to
put on a puppet show at the end of the world.
So it's pretty noticeable when you hear engines
revving and people shouting in the distance.
Engagement roll, please. Well, can you think
of any reasons that you would have advantages
or disadvantages in this moment, hearing, shouting,
knowing you have a stolen object, having just
a sort of an instinctual feeling about who might
be out there looking for their big expensive
mech? Well, I mean, I think that's the benefit
is that we do know that this is stolen. Like
that is a benefit because otherwise if we just
come to this puppet show, we would not have known
that other than if we if I'd No, found out on
the sledge. Okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a good
thought. Since you volunteered by runaway dice.
Yay. I just grabbed them. Please roll for me
2d6. Oh, God. No, that's good. Yay. That was
a six. That was a six. A six and a one. That's
what I was like. Okay. All right. With a six.
Okay. Who is spacing out? Is it Connie or is
it Enla? That's a good question. I think I'm
spacing out in that I'm obsessed with the very
nice rugs. Yes, a classical weaver. You know
what you're looking at. You're like, wow. I know
the artistry in this thing. So you're really
in your senses. You're in your body. The puppet
show is also happening. That's fine. And so you
are the person who notices first when you hear
revving engines, you're like, that's coming closer.
You have enough time that you can do whatever
you wanna do in this moment. And this is a location
where you wouldn't expect any engines outside,
right? Like there wouldn't be wandering people
out there. You remember how hard it was to get
here? Yeah, like this was a kind of semi -hidden
location. I'd probably like nudge Enla and Lin
Linda and just say, listen, listen, someone's
coming. No, it's engines coming this way. I think
they're skimmers. Oh shit. Wow, really popular,
isn't it? Uh, yeah, very popular, uh, Lynn, very,
uh, kind of like pull Connie to the side. Um,
I did tell you that, um, I do believe that that
mech suit thing, pretty sure Volpertinger stole
it. I assume they didn't build it themselves,
but, uh, can we get a little description of what
that thing looks like? I don't know, Nihar. Mech
guy. The guy who cares about mechs. I promise
I was not setting myself up. No, no, no. I was
like, there's no world in which I decide what
the mech looks like. Like, yeah, I don't know.
That's all you, baby. The only thing about it
is that it's 12 feet tall and it was initially
just for lifting big objects. You know, like
we got to hoist this so we can weld under it,
et cetera. So whatever else about it. Yeah. I
think it's... Very much like the suit from the
end of Aliens. Yeah, it's like Exo Loader. Yeah.
Except it's not quite as exposed. I think it
does have like a glass case where the pilot sits.
Since it is, I don't know, you're working with
a lot of dangerous breakable objects with it.
And I think probably on its hips, it has like
interchangeable arms, like where you can just
plug the arm in. like rotates and gives you another
one different arms for different tasks yeah so
it probably has like an excavator arm like a
like a clamp uh a clamp mehar is making crab
movements Oh I don't know what else I don't think
there's like one of the arms isn't weapons yeah
I don't think it's like a gun type Mac maybe
like a wrecking ball but yeah yeah baby this
thing is a wrecking ball right what would you
like to do with the Mac well right now Volpertinger's
in it yes I think I want to interrupt the show
yeah get in that puppet show boy I'm gonna run
up to, I guess the bottom stage. I don't think
I can get to the higher levels and just like
start waving my arms towards whatever audience
there is and just say, someone's coming. We need
to be ready. Some outside people are coming in.
Get off the stage. What are you doing? You're
ruining the show. Get off the stage. Is this
part of the show? Indeed. You look up, you hear
a clonk. and you skip backwards and you see that
Volpertinger has dropped down. You know when
you're fucking around with a soldering iron and
solder and you can kind of build it up into a
melty metal thing? Volpertinger has been making
little soldering figurines of the audience. So
Volpertinger drops down a little tiny Connie.
So just clonk, hits the ground next to you, you're
like, oh. Oh, that's amazing. Fulpertinger, you
need to stop the show! The show is live now,
Connie! The show is all around us! Are you ready
for this show? I'll be honest, Connie. There's
not a lot you can do once the show starts. Fulpertinger
kind of gets this haze. I cannot stress this
enough. I'm not going to be the one who's stopping
the show. We have a couple of skimmers come scooting
in real fast, whipping up dust, whipping up trash
in their wake. Immediately, a bunch of fellas
just hop off holding guns. We got two fast little
skimmers. We got a big skimmer. Looks big enough
to maybe carry a mech back, is the impression
you get. We see some guys. We see some nondescript
guys. These are goon type guys, okay? We see
them. We also see Merx Bigly, who we met once
in the skimmer tunnels below the city. Um, this
guy is, he's body modded to hell and back. He
is bright red. He has devil horns implanted in
his skin. That's not really a juice thing. That's
not a, an alien thing. That's just a guy who
likes to look like a little demon. Okay. So Merx
Bigly rocks up. He's got a big cigar, no mask.
Interesting. And it's just like vulper thing
or you fuck. Give me my Mac back. And. Wanders
up and is is guns. It's guns. It's guns in play.
We're in guns. This is the situation is guns
Volper Tinger Best GM in the business. We all
love to see it Volper Tinger Moves to the center
of the stage and says welcome to this show. I
don't know. It's a strange energy No one is firing
yet. The crowd is on their feet. People are reaching
for weapons. Is there anything that you guys
would like to do? My instinct is that Enla would
want the, like, knows that Volpertinger is in
a state. Also, she's obsessed with art, so she
doesn't want the show to end. So she wants to
try to incorporate these new people into the
show. So how will you do this, Enla? It's insane,
but yeah. Hey, I do have Daredevil. So the thought
process being that Enla is up on stage next to
Connie and Connie's little metal version. And
she turns on her performance artist. Hello, everyone.
Welcome, welcome. We have some newcomers here.
This is really exciting. You guys can come in
and see our amazing show here today. I cannot
wait to show you what we have in store. It's
truly Truly an amazing art form if you guys just
want to take a seat and we'll be we'll be done
shortly Incredible. What would you like to roll?
Like it gotta be charm, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
we're gonna call this desperate standard Yeah,
are you using daredevil? Yeah, I'll use daredevil
on that. So I'll get an extra Plus here for funds.
Hell. Yeah, and that gives you a negative For
the consequence, right? Yeah, one negative dice,
yeah. Except there are no consequences, because
that's a six. There's a six! Amazing! Okay, Bigly
rocks up. Leather vest, shirtless underneath,
hairy chest, cigar, gun, in hand, sees, performance
art. Edla, you have captured his attention. He's
like, is this you? You're also part of this bullshit?
Bullshit, sir. Sir. It's obvious to me that you
have not been in contact with true art. Okay,
okay, but it's my mech. I need my mech back.
You're gonna help me get my mech back? Like the
good thing about this is that he is not firing
on you. Like the ghosts are all just looking
at you, confused, surprised. Yeah. Well, we just
want to put on our show. We could talk about
the mech. Yes, let's - how about we finish the
program because this was obviously a case of
our friend Volpertinger just borrowing the mech
for a specific performance and then once the
show is done, you can have it back. The problem
is this is a 24 -hour show. Volpertinger is like,
yes, exactly. You know, I left note. I left note
inviting you to this performance and - Say I
will borrow your give back. You must simply wait
another 12 16 hours until show is finished and
mercs like 12 hours I'd like to take a flashback
to a piece of art that Enla created in fresco
just a few short months before she really wanted
to kind of explore the world of dioramas, so
The wonderful world of dioramas. Wow, I'm there
right now. So Enla is really into creating environments
a la dioramas, but in like 80 % reality scale.
And so she creates a slightly smaller, but to
scale version of The screaming slice. And it's
right next to the actual screaming slice. The
camera pans like we see the screaming slice and
then the camera pans just a little bit to the
right and we see like the silhouette of the same
building but in cardboard. The scammers parked
outside because this is the garage. What do we
see? What happens in our 80 % scale screaming
slice? We'll call it the yelling slice. The raised
voice like the raised voice sliver So she creates
this slightly smaller version of the screaming
slice Complete with the Vinny Vinny vertebeast
because he was still around at this time r .i
.p. My boy But but Vinny does not work in the
smaller the smaller screaming slice paper mache
paper mache Vinny Everything's paper mache. Yeah
Everything's paper mache. Paper mache and like
random objects that kind of look sort of like
the thing if you squint right. So the idea though
is that once they walk into the cardboard enclosure,
a door shuts behind them and a large crate is
pushed in front of the door so they can't get
out. There's still a trap element. I thought
this would be your first one. No, there's always
a trap element. That's the fun part, right? So,
uh, so basically what happens is, is that the
first person wanders in and they're looking to
order a pizza. Oh, yeah, I can help you right
here. And Enla's like cramped behind the little
miniature counter like, sure, I can help you.
Um, and then Tank helps by pushing the box to
close them in. That's the automated element is
just Tank waiting. So, uh, so it's just Enla
and this, uh, and this. amazing human who got
trapped in here of trying to order a screaming
slice. Once the door is properly closed, Inla
looks at the person and says, I'm so sorry, I
actually this is an art exhibit. Oh, I've never
had that flavor before. Is that like a like a
meat lover? Oh, no, it's just we don't actually
serve pizza. I do have like some play pizza,
but not real pizza. Wow. Is that like made of
Play -Doh or? I've never had that before. I'm
not opposed. I feel like the melty texture might
actually kind of do something for me. It is non
-toxic. Who's this guy? Oh, hi. Yeah. I'm just
helping out today. Wow. What a cool restaurant.
I'm a bit of an artist in training. That's amazing.
This place is like 80 % smaller than I thought
it would be. I'm not so good at numbers. That's
okay. Our schools aren't the best here. I really
wanted to... Show some of our consumerism and
how potentially we could be living on top of
each other large the large consumerism large
Large consumer. Okay, and inlet turns around
and grabs like a cardboard cutout with pizza
drawn on top of it But like like a five -year
-old and like hands it over. It's like here you
go This person goes to sit down in a chair and
it collapses Ass on floor sprawling still holding
up pizza Wow, this is pretty amazing. I've never
had a pizza like this before. You just go right
for it. They just start gnawing at one corner.
Yes, this is an immersive art piece. My name
is Inla and thank you so much for your cooperation
today. And here's a 20 % off coupon for the streaming
slice because, you know, it would be like 80
% the price of a normal pizza. Yeah, Tank is
our businessman. No, no I'm not. Wow, this is
a really special operation. I'm gonna remember
you guys. And they just sort of walk directly
out, not through the door because it's paper
machete. It's just sort of like Kool -Aid man.
And so I think we snap back out of that memory.
And this is one of those guys with Bigley, right?
How many stress is that? That's a lot. Okay.
Is three fair? Like you're trying to make a friend
in the past that will help you in this moment,
right? Yeah. Okay. Can you take three stress?
I can take three. Okay. Where are you at now?
I'm at a six out of eight. Oh, wow. Okay. Wait,
sorry. There should be nine. One, two, seven
out of nine then, seven out of nine. Math is
hard, children. It is, it is. Art is good and
will pay you a lot of money, so you should do
that for your career. Anyway, we snap back into
the present day. Mr. Bigley is out here with
his gun and his cigar looking so cool, so tough.
Behind him, we see one of the classic goons sort
of looking like a Lego action figure. Just, oh,
Enla, wow. Oh, hi. That was a really good pizza.
I was thinking about that. I went back. I tried
to find your place, but it melted. Well, yeah,
we used it for a short time as, as the skimmer
garage that that was Lottie's idea. But I, I
just, yeah, it kind of, uh, the acid rain really
got to it. So the pizza was really good though.
Oh, thank you. Their mouth is like cut up at
the side. The joker. Yeah. Okay. Um, this person
turns towards bigly. Boss, this is really exciting
stuff. I think you want to see this. And Merc
is like, what the fuck is wrong with you? What
happened to this guy's face? My face is normal.
My pizza was delicious. I love art. They look
at you with sincerity in their eyes. I love art.
Oh, I can't. I'm just, I'm honored to hear that.
And we have such an amazing piece of art to present
to you today. Don't worry. Nobody's trapped here.
Other than the fact that you're going to be entranced
by this art for the next 12 to 16 hours. Really
good save. That's a plus one to endless fan clock
and a minus one to her serial killer status.
So as this is happening, Connie is looking incredulously
at the fact that someone actually like recognizes
Edna, but like the gears are turning in his head.
Since we have an admirer of rovin art, or of
wasteland art here, Connie walks up to Merck's
bigly and says, listen, we can compromise here.
We said Volpertinger would return this mech suit.
after the exhibit was done you clearly have a
soldier of your own who's willing to stay and
watch the whole thing so there's your bit of
insurance once the thing is done they can either
tell you or collect it themselves and and be
on their way you don't have to sit here for the
whole 12 hours especially not with not with your
guns you're sort of ruining the artistic experience
okay what do you want to roll for this i want
to do a persuade okay uh risky standard Unless
you want to punch that up in any way. Yeah. I
can make do with two. Let's see how badly I roll
today. That's a five. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Mercs
looks at you incredulously. Look at this tender
moment between this faceless Lego style goon
and Enla and Volpertinger. When did I say he
was Lego style? Why is that in my head? this
guy shaped like a lego figure by the way okay
does he have a name yet uh lego brick man okay
is that helpful there you go love it rabbit's
been playing lego island the masterpiece early
2000s uh masterpiece video game devin how dare
you you know i The ultimate boss of Trash Planet,
yeah. What was the main pizza guy? What was his
name? It was like, Olly Pepperoni or something?
All right, Mercs looks at you. Looks in your
eyes, the sincerity within. Looks at their Lego
brick style associate. Looks at Ella, who is
very sincere. Looks at the fact that no Rovens
have attacked them. They fully came here looking
for a fight and with some extremely clutch roles.
We're not fighting, we're chilling. And so...
Mercs bigly you will take responsibility for
this you like I'm trusting my associate But you're
willing to put your life on the line that this
Mac comes back when the show is over of course
What do you expect me to say no to that? Mercs
goes for a big spooky Handshake like it's spooky
because you realize that he has a bunch of magnets
implanted under his skin And you can feel it
in his hand when he goes for the handshake. And
it's also just a very painful handshake. Big,
overwhelming handshake. Predator handshake. You
are now locked in, baby. And Mercs is like, all
right, wrap it up. And the rest of the goons
start moving out. Lego Brickman sits beside you
guys. So what kind of stuff are we eating here,
Enla? No eating on this one. At least, I mean,
I think there's a snack table back there. But
it's some traditional... Droven food, but this
is less about his batteries Okay, maybe not as
traditional as I was expecting So the show continues
you sit down with Lynn Linda with Lego brick
man on your beautiful carpet It's a good day,
man. Sometimes you just win And so speaking of
winners, we cut back over. You guys are still
in the old media room where you've got those
big busted green computers, you've got stacks
and stacks of mini discs and chips and... old
-ass technology humming and beeping around you.
Get your little booties on your feet, including
the feet of the birthday boy, who is still on
your chest, still feeling like a lump of wet
sand. Tank, even in this clean -ass environment,
you see some clavagers that are like poking out
of a wall, just sort of piling up, trying to
get close to you. Like you are still delicious
to animals and they are coming for you. So yeah,
what's the vibe like? Can I have another thing?
You probably have like 20 mosquito bites on your
legs. Those short shorts, man. You're toast.
Okay. So I feel like we have a lot on our plate
right now. Where do we want to prioritize this
whole sinkhole thing? So to recap the things
you're worried about right now. Trent Dort has
pressured you to do some kind of unknown heist
on the grinders. You're looking for a huge metal
object. That's what you know about Trent Dort's
whole deal. On top of this, you just found out
his sinkhole's gonna destroy the city. You came
here for information about the heist, but this
is new information. And on top of this, you know,
like, you're feeling the strain of... being torn
in two directions with your team and with, you
know, being a local. You just gave up your cool
mask. You're still wearing the old one. Lottie,
you've just I think that you've spent your whole
life in Fresco. And so to hear this kind of thing
coming up, you know, that's a moment. You know,
Tank, I I don't know what we're going to do,
but we can't make that decision without without
Connie and Enla. So let's let's do what we came
here for. All right. Makes sense. Makes sense.
And Lottie's going to pull Ivy's attention. Yeah,
real quick Look, I just learned that the city
I live in is gonna collapse into a sinkhole There's
a lot I've got to take care of But I do want
to help you find these researchers. So if you
scratch my back, I'll try to scratch yours I'm
looking for the things that the grinders did
during the rebellion leading up to the big drop.
Oh my um Are you speaking to military action
or? Yes Probably one of their bigger operations
during that time. Are you looking for anything
in particular? Oh, just anything we have. They
probably would have stolen something, hit some
large facility, highly guarded. Maybe it's related
to, to Dort and sons. Ooh, she, she thinks real
hard. Um, all right, let me check. So are you
assuming that. I'm assuming I'm managing to ask
about whatever they did to seal this capsule.
Okay. I could be wrong. You could leave me a
stray if you want, but that's what I'm trying.
All right. I would take this as an examine or
a find role. And you're going to have a plus
one for Ivy's help because she is a librarian.
Limited standard. Like you're not at any risk
here. It's just going to be standard reward.
I'm pretty good at examines, so good for that.
Let's go for it. That's a four. Okay. Oh, thank
goodness. I could only see the tutus. All right.
I'm going to call that tick two on the Grindr's
research clock. Okay. So, Ivy disappears for
a while, comes back with a big stack of records,
paper records. They look like they spooled out
of a computer, like auto printer kind of feel
old school. And she says, I didn't find exactly
what you were looking for, but I do have oral
histories of Many grinder actions in that period.
I didn't find well, I copied anything that had
overlap with Trent Dought Dought and sons I assume
is what you're looking for. So anything that
could Keyword search reference anything anywhere
his name shows up in grinders research. This
is what I have I did not find one specific heist
Just the history of their correspondence. So
here you are big stack There it is. Yeah. You're
also going to take one on time with your consequence.
So we're running short. That's almost done. Yeah.
Yeah. Is it five now and two on research? All
right. Narratively, I don't want to trap you
here just reading forever, but also they wouldn't
want to loan it out. So Lottie knows that she
doesn't have enough time to go through all of
these records. So what she does is she starts
flipping through them and keeping track of locations
that they hit so she just looks glances through
everything doesn't look at the details just looks
at like a list of locations that grinders were
involved in and like notes that down somewhere
maybe just tries to memorize it and then that's
what she focuses on like the different places
that they might have gotten whatever this thing
is from hmm all right you have a list of locations
there are a bunch of names you recognize and
some you don't some of them are just coordinates
Trash Planet has changed a lot. Sometimes the
names that we know now were not the same 50 years
ago. You have a pile of coordinates. We can get
back to it. That is your two heist research.
Yep. Hell yeah. Awesome. Awesome. Is there anything
else you would like to do at the library? Yeah.
Tank is going to ask for some information on
nanotechnology. Oh, shit. I be... Am I hearing
you right? Nanotechnology? Really? Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. And he points to the... The birthday boy?
Oh my god, really? Is that what that is? You
know, we were all curious. I mean, it's just
interesting to see a single father, you know?
It's wonderful. He is my boy. Birthday boy gives
a little peace sign. You're telling me this is
a nanotechnology asset? What is this? It was
kind of more of like an amusement park ride.
Amazing. Yeah. Wow. What are you looking for
specifically? How can I help? Is your goal to
learn how to get nanite control on your own?
Is your goal to... He wants to be able to use
nanotechnology as a weapon, like as a countermeasure
to Doertz technology that they just don't have,
right? They need something that can kind of even
the playing field long term. Okay. So I would
ask about either disruption or like nanotechnology
interface controls. Yeah, I think Tank would
lean more towards interfacing with nanotechnology
because of his formative experience. All right,
excellent. We actually have a great deal of research
on this subject. She brings you a crazy stack
of printouts, and it is a lot. It's enough that
you're like... Uh -oh. The same way I feel when
I'm looking at master's level research and I
go, uh -oh. So you are looking down at this like,
well, the answers are all here and I don't really
have the time or the insight to do anything with
it. And Ivy says, you could probably have your
device store some of this if you were, we can't
loan it out, but I mean, all of it, if you have
a way to record what you're interested in. And
the birthday boy on your chest is like, gives
a little shrug. Can I interpret what that shrug
means? There's multiple kinds of shrugs. Like,
oh, that could work. Or like, I have no idea
what's going on. Yeah, talk to the birthday boy.
What's going on? All right. One second. Let us
huddle up. All right, birthday boy. You got anything
that can store information? Birthday boy kind
of cocks his head at you and then gives a little
thumbs up. Sick. Sick. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We got
something. All right. Well, I'll leave you to
it then. Okay. Cool. Thank you. Yeah. And so...
You spend the next few minutes just holding up
pieces of paper in front of the birthday boy,
and then he gives you a thumbs up! That's just
as simple as that! The birthday boy takes out,
like, a disposable camera. Put, like, a nanite,
like, it's... Yeah, everything is made out of
his flesh, technically, so... And he's, like,
winding it up. I love that these two scenes are
happening in parallel, because Lottie is trying
to memorize really important information, and
in another room the birthday boy is doing this.
Also the birthday boy has this functionality
built in because it's like the amusement park
thing of like you go to the counter to look at
your photo All the photos have that frame for
the amusement park guy on the outside of it.
Incredible, yeah, absolutely canon. So are these
user manuals? Yeah, I think this is user manuals,
it's academic papers, it's a lot of stuff that
was written on our cellos. It originated on Arcelos,
so it is assuming that you are a competent scientist
working in a nanite lab, right? So it's just
all at that level, but it's all there, you know?
This is, yeah, like nanite technology is not
that new anymore, like this is out there. So
yeah, absolutely. So bam, nice. Bam. Would you,
hmm, I don't know. I would count that as heist
research, but it is something, right? You know
what? Let's start a new project clock for you.
Let's just call it Nanites. How hard do you want
to go on Nanites? Your goal is to eventually
interface with Nanites, right? We're going to
call it an eight clock, but we're going to tick
two on there. Sick, sick, sick. A fruitful day
at the library. You hear the air conditioner
whirr. We hear soft shoes on clean tile. We hear
less soft shoes because they're scraping because
they're covered in little plastic baggies because
y 'all are some filthy scum from outside. And
so the day comes to a close. And so the camera
cuts over to the puppet show. We have a beautiful
scene of Lin Linda seated next to Lego Brick
Man, your round friend, and Enla and Connie back
on the carpets watching the play. So I think
there's actually a break in the middle because
Volpertinger wanders over. They're sweating.
They're so hot. It's really hard to operate this
mech. They're chugging water. Bunk is doing a
one -man dream ballet during the intermission.
You're right. It just cuts to that so Volperdinger
can have an hydration break. Yeah. Volperdinger
thunks down next to you guys and says, you know,
how's this show supposed to happen? This skimmer's
trust comes. I invite them, you know, I teach
them lesson of sharing. The dark wizard comes
to forest and, you know, they say, oh, I need
mech back and then gun battle. And then I am
killed for my art and I die for my art. This
was how the show was supposed to go. I'm not
sure I was supposed to respond to that, Volpe,
like... You prevented my death. Yeah, are you
upset about that? They hand you a little Enla
that they have made out of... It's just had a
little melty, soldering stuff. Enla immediately
puts it in one of her pockets. Yay! They look
over at you, Connie. Something is different about
you. I couldn't tell you what, but... You have
killed. I taste blood when I look at you and
the roof of mouth is They've always been really
good at this kind of stuff. Like they have always
had like a crazy sense Yeah, I can see that and
there's a lot of things in the world that we
just don't understand and I I understand them.
I think they do Of course, they do that. That's
just how the universe works. We were meant to
understand piecemeal This this makes perfect
sense. I don't see why that's relevant. What
is relevant is You are not dead. So, whether
you're grateful about that or not, it's of no
concern to me, but I pick up one of the rugs.
See this? Imagine if one of the threads came
unraveled right here and I pull on it a little
bit so it comes a little bit unraveled and like
shows how it would fall apart. Do you really
want this to be your legacy if this comes undone
here instead of at the end where it's meant to?
They really consider this. Patch on the shoulder.
This beautiful rug. You keep a souvenir? I would
love to. I did not have esoteric conversations
on my bingo card for today. This is gonna happen
again. The Connie Volpertinger combo is something
we need more of. Yes. Agreed. Yeah, so the show
actually just fully starts over. You see all
the puppeteers are just like... Okay, they were
fully prepared to die by gun battle for art.
They're like, nope, guess we'll just do the show
again. This is the menu. Exactly. Exactly. We're
menuing it. Lego Brickman says, this is actually
good because I get to see it from the beginning.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I'm just like, like
pointing my head towards Lego Brickman just like
doing a doing a bash. We see the shot in silhouette.
It's from really far away. It's a beautiful Like
just the silhouettes of everyone watching this
beautiful show and then Connie with like a big
tube just like bonk They're gonna come back for
the mech we need to we we need the mech we need
to save Wolpertiger I don't think they were gonna
just you know what maybe I'd knock them at the
end And so the scene plays out. You watch the
whole fucking puppet show again. This time it's
different because in the middle of Wilbertinger
has rapidly included all the little soldering
iron sculptures of the audience and Enla jumping
on stage and Connie advocating for them. And
there is that beautiful little moment of being
three deep in the puppet show, you know? I'm
always saying it's important to stay three deep
in the puppet show. What does that mean? I'm
always saying it, Maddie. I don't know what to
tell you. So as the show is coming to a close,
it has genuinely been like 12 hours. You are
sweaty. The rugs were nice at first. The rugs
are not nice anymore. You've been eating batteries
for the past several hours. Lego Brickman says,
that was enthralling. Art is the only force keeping
this universe together. You know, I say that
all the time. How dare you? Connie, I'm so glad
Lego Brickman that you have shared this moment
with us thank you i'm really glad to have seen
the puppet you know and now and now i get to
go home take the mac and then i i bonk him on
the back of the head uh with the wrench that
i usually carry with me as a weapon I do not
want to kill this person, but we need him out
of the picture so we can steal the mech. Amazing.
We see the scene in silhouette, the wrench rising
in the darkness, bonk, Lego brick man. The funny
thing is, just because of that last thing you
said, I felt justified. Before I was like, man,
I'm going to have to hurt this person. Incredible.
Now my viciousness comes through. And instead
of just like this, instead of just an up and
down cute little bonk, it's like a full baseball
swing. Are you trying to take the mech in the
moment or what are you trying to do? At the moment,
I'm just trying to incapacitate. lego uh so we
can uh have the mech or basically like take vulpertinger
so there isn't the risk of of him taking it or
him going back to his friends or communicating
with his friends okay so i think we see that
scene play out in brief flashes bonk vulpertinger
hopping out of the mech connie jumping into the
mech question mark i don't know is he ready for
this I thought there was a bit here for maybe
Lego Brickman falling apart. Lego shattering
sound. Yes. And so as Lego Brickman falls to
the ground, we cut back over to Tank and Lottie.
Are you guys leaving the library at this point?
Yeah, I think so. I think we are probably said
our goodbyes like Troy and Ivy and them and kind
of like. Going through the airlock situation
again to get back outside. You have to give back
the booties. They're gonna recycle them Wait,
wait, wait, so before we leave what what night
was movie night and can I come back? Oh, I can't
hear you the helmet the helmets pretty tight.
Mmm. Can't quite can't hear you. Oh, okay Yeah,
I think it's a beautiful little scene of you're
on the very fast skimmer So you're gonna make
it home and no problem, but we see you know sunset
starting to build on the horizon You're trudging
back to your skimmer. You're getting your stuff
any weapons or any stuff you checked in at the
gate They're handing that back to you checking
out of the library fruitful library trip. Yeah,
how y 'all feeling? Lot of bad information learned
just now tank your new mask It's not so good.
The other one you could forget you were wearing
it this one It has a rasping sound every time
you breathe too intensely. It's you know, and
There's a little bit of wind whistling through
it every so often when you turn a certain way
You just get a blast of clear juice smells. Oh,
you know this toxic atmosphere Yeah, not so good.
So you're heading back to your skimmer Lottie
and Tank get into the skimmer and I feel like
it's silent for a little while. Just kind of
sitting with the weight of what they learned.
Wait, wait, important question. Are we sitting
how we have been sitting or are we like actually?
I think we sat normally. Okay. I think we sat
the way we were sitting before. I'm pretty sure
was just like me on top of you It was just funny
to like not dismount and just go right away after
dropping them off But no, I think if we're just
getting on it normally we just get it on normally
Tank is driving. Oh Yeah, it is it is his new
baby Birthday boy kind of looks up at you goggles
up at you a little sadly losing power might need
some power soon yeah so i feel like we travel
for a little while just like sitting silently
with the weight of the horrible information we
just learned um and eventually uh ladi kind of
breaks the silence and says i'm sorry tank i
i can't myself you're from off planet uh yeah
you you weren't really supposed to know about
that but how long have you what There's like
no one left from off -planet here. When did you
get here? Uh, I don't know, like a couple years
ago. Are you, are you stuck? You can't leave?
Like what, why are you here? Well Lottie, my
dream was to be a tickball player. And the only
place that has tickball is Helga. Right Tank,
I get that, but you don't understand what staying
here is gonna, do you know what it's gonna do
to your lungs? You haven't out, you should go.
That's the thing, I don't want to go. I love
it here. Tank. And you gave away that nice mask
of yours. Yeah, that one kind of sucked. If I
knew I was gonna have to, you know, confront
my life story with you, I probably would have
just given them my life story, I guess. Seems
like I made a bad choice. Why haven't you told
anyone? It's kind of obvious, right? I want to
avoid these kind of conversations. I want to
be someone from Helica. I don't want to be looked
at as some posh off -worlder. I don't want to
be a businessman. I came here to start a new
life. I don't want to be reminded of what I left
behind. Of all places? Whatever. Tank, you've
made stranger decisions than this one. Um, we
do have to find your new mask. I -I guess this
one works. So it's secret then? Oh yeah, yeah.
Please, just... between me and you. Okay. And
I -I mean, I guess, like... Trent Dort also kind
of knows? Yeah. You made a trend or maybe so
it's like Circle of trust That explains where
you got the nice mask. I thought that I thought
the team bought it for you. Oh No, no, the team's
never given me shit Look and Like especially
don't tell Connie I Don't I don't know what he
would do with that information, but I don't think
he would like it Look, Tank, that's not for me
to tell him, but... I feel like that's something
he should know. You two have been fighting for
how long now, and... And what, it's supposed
to just fix our relationship? Hey! I'm from off
-world, I guess we're friends again. No, no.
But... Connie's whole thing is that he's worried
that you don't have your heart in it, that you're
more focused on the team or something like that.
You've had an out from all of the stress, all
of this chaos this whole time. And you don't...
You don't want out. You've just shown me you're
more committed than I thought was possible. And
that's what he's worried about. Well, I'm just
not, I'm not ready to cross that bridge. Just.
Tank turns on the radio. Imagine Mike blasts
up. My butt! My butt is horny. You wouldn't think
it would be possible for a butt to be horny.
Tank turns off the radio. I thought that was
gonna be like maybe some music that we could
just like drown out and not have to talk about
this the rest of the trip but that was just that
was just really crazy weird I'm sorry I'm sorry
that happened yeah honestly I think that would
be worse than the awkward silence let's just
go with that awkward silence it is the camera
follows your stupid expensive skimmers Scootin'
through the waste, out into the twilight, night
pigs howlin' in the distance. What does a night
pig howl sound like? Yeah, Maddie, what does
a night pig howl sound like? Well, got it in
one. It kind of sounds like they were sleeping.
The whole point is that they're active at night!
That's how they trap their victims. It sounds
like they're snoring so they get closer and then
they just run them over. It sounds like an obvious
cartoon snore. And so I think the scene ends
with two skimmers pulling up at the screaming
slice. Old skimmer, new skimmer. Old skimmer
looking kind of busted, a little bit wiggly,
but we got Connie, we got Enla, and a mech. Travelling
behind you, 12 feet tall, just big and spooky,
running across the waist of Little Pertinger,
hops out of us. I am exhausted. You know how
difficult it is. It's the reason that art is
humane and machine is inherently evil. I think
I am done. I think I'm done with this type of
thing. You're done with puppetry? No. Okay. Just
this one. This one sucks. Well, we'll take it
off your hands for you. That'd be great. I'll
be honest, I'm not sure where we're gonna put
it. You look over sadly at the paper machine
that melted into dust. Yeah, my 80 % of my 80
% version of the screaming slice is completely
gone. It wouldn't have fit in there anyway. Connie,
you see the... You see Lottie and you see Tank
scootin' up on your big hoppin' skimmer. Powerful
engine. Beautiful machine. We got three machines
now. We got a little arsenal built. Tank hops
out. Whoa, shit, we got a mech now? Yeah, somehow
we were... Well, people are gonna be looking
for this thing, so we need to find a place to
hide it. But yes, for now we do... We do somehow
have a construction mech suit. You look over,
Tank is wearing a mask pretty similar to yours.
What happened to your face? What happened to
your mask? Oh, yeah, I had to swap it out to
give something to the library to enter. They're
kind of big on collecting. You gave them your
mask? I was kind of backed into a corner. It
was kind of the only thing I could give them.
I don't have many things of value, Connie, and
they wanted something valuable. So I gave them
my mask and now I have a shitty mask like you.
Take his ass! Take - Take - Take - Take - Take
- Take - Take - Take - Take - Take - Take - Take
- Take - Take - Take - Take - Take - Take - I
love that. And takes stalks into the distance,
leaving behind beautiful skimmer and the huge
-ass mech. Lottie, you're tired. You've been
on the skimmer all day. Long day. How are you
feeling? I think you already said it. It's been
a long day. She's tired. And she's not looking
forward to sitting the group down and telling
them the bad news. Oh, yeah. OK. The camera pulls
out on the four of you. Heading into the screaming
slice you got shit to take care of you got problems
coming up But you got your skimmer back got a
little bit of heist research done Tank learned
a little bit about nanites birthday boys sitting
heavy on your chest looking tired. We're heavy,
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