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that beats ass and eats trash. I am your host,
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case, we last left our heroes scrambling for...
Sorry, did I just kill them? Your pronouns are
ka -chow, ka -pow, lightning McQueen? Is trash
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I am your host My pronouns are he, him, and they,
them. All right. We last left our heroes, scrambling
for resources and for answers. Connie and Enla
headed north to recover our old skimmer and to
attend a silly little puppet show. They successfully
intercepted Volpertinger's suicide -by -art situation
and gained a 12 -foot mech as payment. Meanwhile,
Lottie and Tank had a very different vibe going
on. Lottie did some research for the upcoming
Grinders situation, ultimately gaining a list
of locations where this mysterious object might
have come from. Tank took some beautiful family
photos with the birthday boy, beginning a research
project to interface with nanites. That's the
kind of edge we're looking for against the looming
threat of Trent Dort, who has threatened to blow
our wardens clean off the map if they don't steal
a mysterious something from the Grinders. But
even that threat pales against what's coming,
which is, of course, the sinkhole. From here
on out, we are operating with the knowledge that
there's a sinkhole growing under the city. And
it's with that knowledge that we shift into downtime,
baby. We've got all that regular downtime stuff
on deck with a few extra pieces in play. We cut
into the scream and slice. At the end of the
day, sun's going down. There's a pizza box taped
outside of the door with a big X in splashy black
paint. Sorry, we're closed. The camera's real
close on Halbert. We see her graying buzz cut,
lines at her eyes and her mouth. She's staring
at Lottie with her jaw hanging loose. You've
just told her about the sinkhole. No fucking
way. No fucking way. You're telling me there's
a sinkhole that's gonna - Yeah. No. I mean, I
saw it with my own two eyes. At the library,
they showed us. You can't believe them. They
sell out people like us. They're lying to you.
I don't know why they're lying to you. What are
they getting out of telling us this? I don't
know! She stands up. She's walking around. Yanouche
shifts on the bench beside you, Lottie. We see
candles made out of old sardine cans. We see
paper table mats. Halbert has a bunch of nut
and seed mix made up. We're eating those out
of a semi -deflated basketball, passing it back
and forth. All the wardens are packed into the
diner booths, with Janouche and Halberd rounding
out the crew. Vinny VertaBeast is looming over
the back corner, gobbling at you all gap -jawed.
He's still got a couple feathers in him from
when he was a mighty jailbird. We're back on
Halberd. I cannot believe we recovered. And the
one that left him like that! Halberd's pacing.
A fucking sinkhole. There's no way! I built this
place! I built this place! And what, you're gonna
go down with the ship? Yeah. Yeah, I'm not leaving.
They could be lying, it could not be real, right?
And look... I mean, I guess, but I don't see
why they would lie to us about this. You haven't
dealt with them before, you don't know. Okay,
I stand up. You have a problem with the library.
If we are to have a problem with the library,
you need to tell us why. And you need to speak
plainly. You've been alluding at this for too
long. This is dangerous, and the screaming slice
is woven into all of us, more than it is into
this building. This... She looks at you, uh...
How are just goggles at you? She's like, oh,
like they're religion. Connie, that's not real.
You know that, right? That... What? That doesn't
matter. I built this place. I brought all this
stuff here. Me! You did, and we can try to recover
it, and right now the point is— Recover it! It's
right here! They're lying! They're lying! Yes,
and that's my point. Why are you so convinced
they're lying? You need to tell us if you have
a problem with the library— She stands up, shoves
the seeds at you. The basketball partly deflated
the seeds on the table. She stomps away. I'm—
I'm not taking no for an answer. I need to know
what her problem is with the library. I think
I'm gonna try to grab her collar as she leaves.
She smacks you like full -on like backhand. Okay.
Heavy. Yeah. Don't you fucking - don't you fucking
come at me. Don't you - Lottie, I - I - Halbert,
why do you have to stay? This is what I have
- We've turned the skimmer into an oven before.
We can make it work. This is what I have. This
is all I have. This building? You have us. You
have your life. With us. Not with me. I don't
actually know, um, what I'm going to do. You
knew shut up. Hey, don't talk to my boy like
that. Yeah, yeah, we're boys here. Yeah. You
talk to me here when we're boys. They have their
arms around each other's shoulders. Yadush and
Tank are wearing the same hat somehow. We don't
know where they got it. We got it at the equivalent
of Trash Planet's Jersey Shore. There we go.
Inla eyes the pair and just goes, hmm, and gives
a knowing look. What does that mean? I don't
know. She's always given looks. She's so knowing.
But what does she know? We don't know. We don't
know. Not from that look, just that she knows
something. Tank, the building's gonna maybe collapse
in a sinkhole at any point. How are you doing
with that knowledge? I think Tank earnestly believes
they can do something to stop it. That's safe.
He just doesn't know what it is yet. Okay, what
if we make a bigger sinkhole somewhere else?
Tank. And then all the trash, like we put a bigger
sinkhole underneath the small sinkhole. Albert
is whisking something out of anger. She pokes
her head back. She's like, I like where he's
going. I like where he's going with this. Tank.
We make a bigger sinkhole to cancel out the current
sinkhole. Tank, how much do you know about sinkholes?
I'm not a geologist. But I'm pretty sure this
will work. I'm going to confidently say it's
not. I mean, the Robins deal with sinkholes all
the time with all the trash that... and orbital
strikes and all kinds of things. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So you saw this sinkhole coming? No, of course
not. I mean, the Rovens don't engage in the cities.
I didn't think there could be sinkholes in cities.
Yeah. Sounds like a real sinkhole expert we got.
Tank tank. Why don't let's file that as the backup
plan. If we figure out a way to dig a counter
sinkhole, we'll go with that. Thank you, Lottie.
That's all I wanted. Connie, you were frozen
mid -hover, your face hurts, you've been backhanded
pretty hard, still just kind of frozen in midair,
watching Halberd rustling around in the kitchen,
listening to your buddies talking about a countersink
hole to the sinkhole. I sit down and I don't
like care if anyone's listening, but I'm just
gonna say we're gonna rescue this place by force
if necessary. Well like rubbing my cheek that's
still like that's like reddening. Um Inla is
going to hear Connie under under saying under
his breath that he wants to save everybody and
uh she's gonna kind of pat him on the shoulder
and and be like yeah we're gonna do that. All
right and so Evening turns to night on trash
planets and oh baby. We are down in downtime
Let's do our mechanics So first of all all injuries
and juice burns heal one except for tanks big
problem, which is still a big problem I think
there's now just a collection of rodents that
are just following you wherever you go You've
got vertebrae snapping at your ankles most places
bugs critters You're itchy all the time a lot
of it is annoying, but the delicious to monsters
thing That's really hitting you these days um
ba ba ba payoff no coin payoff didn't make any
money um however you get to argue me about morale
and resources because you got your original skimmer
back and you got a mech um would you count that
as a resource and and we got a second skimmer
that's true you got a hot that's mine and only
mine uh i would argue one resource one morale
i honestly wasn't expecting a morale I think
that getting your original skimmer back is what
I'm counting there. Noise. So I would argue two,
the job was moderate and contained. However,
noise always goes down. Two during downtime,
so just add one. He did very little. Yeah, but
we did piss off the skimmer's trust. Yes, and
that brings us to faction attention, which you
have now activated the skimmer's trust. Mercs
Bigley is now counting on Connie to bring the
mech back in one piece, preferably like any time
now. I don't know, it's a little bit stolen at
this juncture. That's interesting. So we'll see
how that all plays out. And things that refresh.
If you've used your trust in this previous mission,
that now refreshes. And so that brings us to
our downtime actions. Now, everyone gets two
as normal, and we have all the normal ones. But
our situation is fraught, and so we've got some
additional actions. These are other types, like
each of these will use one downtime action like
normal. So we're adding an action type called
warning. You can choose a character or faction
and try to talk to them about the sinkhole. You
don't have to restate it all on Mike. You just
have to tell me that you try. And then we're
going to do some like cool mechanics about that
to see how that plays out within the faction
if you try that. This counts as a community action,
which remember we're holding on to like I'm taking
note of it every time you do those. So that's
the warning action. That's one option. Secondly,
Just for this downtime, just now, never again.
If you choose to train during this downtime,
you will just gain a skill point instantly where
you can put that wherever you want. Your XP is
unaffected. You just get a point. You can do
all the normal stuff or you can do a warning
action or you can train to extreme effect right
now. How's everybody doing on injuries and stress?
I am both and very stressed. So, you know, that
means Enla has an art project coming. So wherever
you want to place that. Incredible. I would love
it. Let's hit it. All right. Yeah. And Liz really
stressed out. So we're going to cause her to
go after her obsession right now, which is her
art. So, you know, she was very influenced by
Volper Tinger's puppet show and really, really
wants to incorporate more theatrics into her
artwork. So at this point, she has obsessively
been writing a musical. OK. Theme of musical.
The theme of the musical is. The theme of the
musical is The Grinders. And this is where we're
announcing our spin -off pod, The Grinders, a
musical improv solo show. Trust me, I can't do
that. Maddie is going to do 45 minutes for us
every week. Every week. Actually, it's three
times a week. Each episode is three hours long.
She'll just do it during her lunch break. Whatever,
no big deal. Fully improvised acapella musical.
I don't promise it's good. Yeah, so my brain
was just like. musicals, puppets, Avenue Q, and
this is where we ended up. Amazing. I love it.
OK, so you said it's about the Grinders. So yeah,
it's about the Grinders. And about the idea is
actually this is the first time that Enla's done
a project to try to get people to like her rather
than just force. So this is actually a little
bit of a vanity project for the Grinders to try
to get them to engage with us or have good allegiance
with us. Alright now we need just four bars of
like the I want song from this grinders musical
What do you do with the grinder on trash planet
you only need to decide We will appear here and
we will unionize so we go and rise And that's
just a little taste of what you can expect on
the new podcast, The Grinders. It's literally,
it's after QC. Oh, you just straight up stole
that? Yeah. It's called, what do you do with
a BA in English? But yeah. No, I think it's,
I think it's original to you. Cut that, cut that,
she didn't steal it. It's original, I feel. I
can't write music and lyrics. It's incredible
and you nailed it. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So this is
intended as a like very glorious type of Grindr's
thing. Yeah, is this a solo show? No, I would
like to think that Enla is starting to realize
that help is important. And in her artwork, the
community is a big aspect of it. We're going
to bring in Ronk and then the rest of the warden
crew as well are going to be a part of this organization.
Yeah, getting Lottie on board was really tough.
I would argue that Lottie is not on board. Yeah,
I picture Lottie's like fine. I'll be there,
but like it just like is a tree over in the corner.
The fuck is a tree? Lottie has stagehand energy.
Gradually your expert character reference. Uh,
please tell me where are you staging this? What
is the staging of the show? I would like to think
it is it is in the food court. It's a it's a
three six. It's in the round Because I just want
to make a musical harder. It's a musical in the
round in the middle of the food court and it's
kind of done flash mob style. Oh my God. So it
just kind of starts. Everybody has to like kind
of just be part of it. You're like dancing on
one of those big concrete chunks that people
eat on and you're like, ah, tippity -tappity
-tapp. People are like, what the fuck? That's
my lunch. Come on. Yeah, it's high school musical
vibes like in the lunchroom. Yeah. Incredible.
Yeah. But with only like six people. Wow. OK.
This is going to reduce stress, clearly. How
could it not? Singing and dancing is clinically
shown to reduce stress. I believe you. But is
it going to appeal to the grinders? So I would
like you to make a separate role. This is going
to be limited standard. I wonder if it's a charm.
It's got to be charm. Yeah. Because you are trying
to get them to like you, right? Well, yeah. Are
you, is this like propaganda? Are you making
them look heroic? Is that what the vibe is? That's,
um, generally trying to make them look very positive,
but I am not trying to be outright lying about
anything, but it is definitely a lean towards
the propaganda side. Yeah. Okay. So it's very
like, look what the Grinders have done for you
and for us. Like a historical musical. Okay.
Yeah. Okay. Give me that charm roll. All right.
That's a four. Okay, so success it is successful
propaganda people like it Lottie. What's the
thing that's wrong about it? So it is successful
propaganda. I think we see the shot of endless
singing and dancing It's annoying at first and
then people are like, oh, okay Michelle, you
know People are selling their wares and eating
their chips and hanging out in the food court
hearing about the history of Helica and hearing
about the big labor uprising some 40 odd years
ago, when the Grinders said, no more, we won't
take this mistreatment. And they got the shit
kicked out of them by the Velker Corporation.
And this is all true. And a lot of it is within
recent memory. You have some older people in
the crowd that are looking at you real sharp
energy. Like the people who remember this stuff
are watching you and like hawk's eyes. Lottie,
what do you think is wrong with the musical?
The people in the crowd who seem less enthused
by the musical a little bit more like Skeptical
of it seem to be the ones that are like on the
older side like people like Ladi and stuff like
that who live through it because the the musical
is a little too like reverent towards the grinders
and not acknowledging like all of the loss that
happened at the same time because it's a little
bit too like These guys are so great. They did
so much for us that it's like downplaying what
was last and like what the cost was and stuff
like that also it's probably like making them
look like yeah let's go get the bad guys rather
than being forced into a corner and forced into
an uprising like people who didn't want to fight
having to fight interesting okay i think we're
going to consider that as world building for
grinder stuff later like i think that that's
going to have impact can i say another cool thing
that happens in this musical please so oh what's
ronk do yes So I would say this is Runk's idea
because Runk has access to magnets. You'll see
where this is going. So the big climactic moment
of the whole thing is obviously the big drop
when the space elevator was destroyed and fell,
which shouldn't be a moment that's like the climax
of a musical, I don't think. You know my favorite
part of the musical when 9 -11 happens? You know,
we didn't say it was a could musical. It'll get
better. Endless motto. The way it's done is that
Runk and Enla and some of the stars, at the moment
that it's supposed to happen on stage, they throw
a bunch of magnets into the air that coalesce
into a thing that looks like what the space elevator
looked like and then collapses to the floor and
shatters. This is very, very eye -catching. I
think we have that moment of Endless singing
a big note, throw up the magnets, clickity -clattering,
and then they all fall down. And for a second,
it is real quiet. And you know, voices pick back
up, the market gets back into swing, scattered
applause. People liked it. people don't feel
hurt by it in a huge screaming kind of way. There's
a subset of people who really, really loved it
and it's really turning off everyone else. There's
people that are actively making their own merch
in the corner. It was like, Hey, can I have royalties?
No, no, you can't. Amazing. Okay. I like that.
Please roll for your stress reduction. Oh, yes.
And that's two. Yes. All right, that is a five.
All right, how much dress did you have? I had
seven, so I'll take it. Oh, hell yeah, smooth.
Okay, Enla, first downtime. Where would you like
to send the action downtime? I would love to
send the action to Connie. Yeah, I'm gonna go
try to warn the tender mercy about this. They
are sort of our... They don't... particularly
like us, but they do like us enough to pay us.
And also being in their good graces, I feel like,
you know, having a somewhat powerful ally is
worth our time. So Connie, I think is going to
take our old skimmer and do the meat delivery,
but also at the same time, like try to use that
time to speak to the tender mercy and try to
warn them. Because I like the meat delivery on
a normal day when you don't lose a transponder
is not that difficult like you do go out into
the waste but you know, it takes substantially
less time and effort than when you When there's
three factions fighting over it. So like I think
I have more time to speak to Probably Marek,
maybe Sharitha, whoever's available when I make
the delivery. Sick! Okay, first of all, super
cool. Secondly, would you go fully alone or would
you try to go with someone? Just purely on the
grounds of you're going into the waste on a skimmer,
you know? Like, it's spooky. I don't think, like
just logically, I don't think I would do it alone.
Take Ronk. Yeah, I wouldn't take the weird...
Oh my god. Look, I would want security. I don't
think Ruck offers too much security, unfortunately.
Did you ask Tank? No. You could ask Halbert.
You know what? Halbert has never gone on these
deliveries, right? No, I don't think so. I think
I would take Halbert. I think we need to talk
and a delivery where we're on a skimmer for a
couple hours through the waste seems like...
A good time to do so. If she wants to come with
me, of course. Incredible. Her choice. Right.
So the next morning, Halberd has slept in her
hammock. She's rolling it away. She's still just
munching seeds out of her semi -deflated basketball.
She's like, Sopcon, just puttering around doing
normal stuff. Do you want to come with me to
make a delivery? I need some extra help and,
you know, you're strong. We could... Do it together.
I can't do it alone. All right, why not? Yanooch!
Yanooch is like, he slept overnight in the...
He slept overnight on the bench. He's like, you're
on deck this morning! Oh God! The morning shift!
We cut. It's Connie and Howard on the skimmer
out in the wastes. Who's driving? I think I am
since it is sort of our group's primary skimmer.
So we see Connie and Halbert on Lottie's nice
skimmer chugging along through the wastes. Connie,
your hands are tight on the handlebars. Halbert
is behind you kind of leaning backwards. Her
hammer mask is, if she isn't careful, her hammer
mask will just whack you in the back of the head.
She kind of shouts in your ear. I think you can
hear each other, you know. We've had conversations
on skimmers before. She says, I got you pretty
good back there. Yeah, is it still red? And I
turn around a little bit. Jesus, you're driving!
God! And she's like physically - But I can see
what's in front of me! That's miles and miles
of nothing! She said, yeah, it looks awful. Mm
-hmm. I'm extremely strong. I could have easily
killed you. With one slap. Yes, you're welcome,
Connie. Why is it us that's doing the fieldwork?
Never mind. This is as close as you're getting
to an apology, so uh, you know, just savor that,
I guess. I could have killed you, I did not.
You're welcome. Well, thank you for not killing
me. But listen, I don't want that conversation
to end that way. Like, you hate these people.
And, you know, me and all of us, we're on your
team. If you hate someone, we need to know why.
And if it's justified, we can do something about
it. I haven't known you to unjustifiably hate
someone. My family died for the library. Did
I ever tell you that? No. Your family? Yeah.
Yeah, my sledge. The Mandelstam. You were a roving?
Yeah. She's quiet. She's speaking slow. We were
navigators. People hired us to find stuff, go
where nobody else goes, and the library hired
us to find something up north. She shakes her
head. Most important part of a sledge is the
hearth. You know, that's the engine that keeps
it floating, but it's all the power. So it's
cooking, electricity. You could swap out every
part of a sledge, but as long as the hearth's
still burning, that's the same one. Keeps running
forever. I don't remember where my family died.
I mean, I know landmarks. That's all I know.
The library won't tell me because they don't
want me finding the numbers station. But I don't
want the numbers stationed. I don't give a shit
about that. I want my hearth back, right? And
they can't understand that because they don't
give a shit about people because they don't walk
with us. You know what that means, walking with
people? Like anybody can say what's right. Anybody
can say, this is good for you. Anybody can say,
I'm helping. How many people are going to walk
with you? I don't know. This is why I'm doing
what I'm doing. I want to walk with you. I want
to walk with... With Lottie and Enla and Runk
and Fulpertinger for some reason. Noticing a
conspicuous lack of another name. That's fine,
it's none of my business. Big Pat. So yeah, so
they're bastards. You gotta watch your back.
You gotta keep an eye out. That's it. So they're
stopping you from finding your family and your
old sledge? Yeah. Yeah, because they don't give
a shit about grief. Wait, but you have a mark
of contrition your heads blue like mine. Why
I thought you were one of the temple not oh this
this thing You realize in this moment that this
mark of contrition that has so defined your entire
life You realize that this mark of contrition,
which has so defined Connie's life and that he
thinks about every day, Halberd regularly forgets
that she has one too. And she's like, oh, I was
with the temple for about two months. You managed
to piss them off in two months enough to get...
Yeah, yeah, it's a funny story. I can't believe
I told you about it. Funny! I had a bad couple
years, you know, I was sleeping rough, I was
getting through, you know. At a certain point,
you just get bored, so you're like, I don't know,
I need something to do during the day, right?
So I joined the Tapestry Volunteer Camp out of
Happy Hollow. They'll give you somewhere to sleep
or whatever, but you gotta do manual labor, church
shit, which is fine, because I was bored. Um,
but they don't let you into every part of the
temple until you convert. And I was like, well,
I've never seen what's in these rooms, so I guess
I'll convert, right? Uh... And curiosity is as
good a reason as any to join the temple, I guess.
You get it, you get it. You know how every temple
has the central chamber with the altar, and they
read you that whole speech where it's like, uh,
uh, in this moment we find this place is the
symbolic center of the universe, the joining
place, here the threads of the tapestry bind
you to all life and all death and each moment
in between, here the wheel turns upon the spindle
of our bodies, here the hand of destiny lays
upon you. And it's like, kinda horny, right?
What? It's all about like hands and binding and
joining and becoming one and all that So I did
fuck that speaker right on the altar and she
came so hard. She changed religions I literally
fucked the tapestry out of her Connie. It was
incredible This is the pussy that makes you believe
in free will It's only the attending speaker
caught us and it was like, oh you gotta get yelled
at in the main office So him and speaker Brin
are like crying and shit They're like yelling
talking about how the tapestry is just a lie
to control people and this whole thing is taking
so long Like they're talking theology and everybody
kind of forgets I was there So I'm just like
wandering around in the office and wouldn't you
know it? They had the safe in there like the
main one that holds all the donations and the
safe is wide open like talk about fate and then
it's like Oh my god Halbert give us the money
back, but it was too late. I had already swallowed
the money you And then they were so mad they
put me in contruction which normally they don't
do that for volunteers Normally, it's just upper
breast, but they made an exception for me And
so I shit out 25 coins and started a pizza restaurant.
That's pretty much it Restaurants a result of
shit coins Big hearty slap on the back. Ain't
it beautiful? You know, the winding threads of
fate around us all or some shit like that. I
can't remember. I'm staring straight forward,
but I am like looking through the landscape.
My worldview has been shattered. You don't owe
me anything, but you know everything about me.
And I'd be remiss if I didn't say I owe you my
life. You don't owe me nothing. Nobody owes each
other, okay? Everything I have. Given all right
what you do with it is up to you. That's that's
how the slice works, right? Yeah, and it's one
of those beautiful places on Helica where that
is actually true That's why I don't think it's
about the building. It's about you. It's about
me. We can build another screamin slice It doesn't
have to be in fresco. It can be somewhere else.
I just it can't happen without you What do you
think I'm gonna run away and build it myself
look at me It's true your ankles are thin your
wrists are weak. You can't sing for shit. You
can't carry a tune You're the shortest man I've
ever met and I've known shorter men spiritually
your shorts Doesn't matter ronk is twice the
man that you are ronk is not a man I know this
they're killing it. They're way better at manhood
than you It just continues in this vein I think
the camera pulls way out and it's just like the
distant sound of Halbert's voice just insulting
you steadily over the past several hours as you
go pick up your delivery. Yeah, you grab that
meat pod clamp it onto the back nice and smooth.
No freaky shit. No guns on the wastes Yeah, I
think I think at this point We like have two
little hooks like you use for bicycles to hold
the meat pod rather than just dragging it on
a chain Feeling pro feeling tight, you know,
this is like a part of our job. Yeah It's twilight
now Sun's coming down Halbert is saying and I've
smelled you on several occasions. That's not
unusual. It's trash planted. We don't have a
lot of water here, but I've smelled you particularly.
We live too close together. I'm tired of it.
I'm tired of your sense, Khan. Thank you for
being honest, but at least to address the last
point, they're going to spray us with perfume
when we walk into the tenement. Are they? Fuck!
And we enter into the tunnels. You go through
all your show and your credentials, all the normal
stuff. Fast forward, fast forward. you trying
to speak with? Are you specifically seeking out
Shreetha or Marek? So that's either the contigo
side of things or the tender mercy side of things.
I was gonna speak with Marek, but because like
Shreetha is extremely dismissive towards anything
I've ever said in the past, so like that's definitely
gonna fall on deaf ears, but the security guy
telling the big boss that, oh the building's
gonna come down, that holds a bit more weight,
I think. So I was gonna, yeah. Makes sense to
me, yeah. At your request, some people in beautiful
uniforms drag Marek out of whatever closet he
works in. This is the man that shows back up
rumpled. This man could rumple a suit of armor.
There's never been a more rumpled man. He's smoking
something, big cigarette, long, falling off at
the end. What? Sorry, who are you again? I make
the meat deliveries. You know, we took over for
the giddy girls. Meat boy, giddy girl, yeah.
Sure. Anyway, I was telling your crew that there's,
we have credible information that there's a sinkhole
underneath the city. And you're pretty close
to the epicenter. So I wanted to make sure I
warned you and warned Sharitha to move things
out of here. And then, you know, maybe you can
rebuild when things have settled down or have
a pop up outside the city in the meantime. All
right. And I think that we cut through what is
a really long conversation. We cut through the,
like, what? You're crazy. No, I'm not. Blah,
blah, blah. All of these things. And at the end
of it all, what it really comes down to is two
things. There's trust and there's fate, right?
And so you're going to make a roll here, but
you're also going to pull from the juice deck.
This is not Connie, the character. This is you,
Nihar, the player. And so you are going to pull
a card for me. OK. third of weave galangal oh
galangal galangal yeah galangal maybe i don't
know it's a type of root it's edible it's delicious
it's galangal galangal sounds like your irish
fuckhead uncle oh i got a galangal fuck the verbs
are adapting carving brightening And the grist
is Loam Rock Candy Walking Stick Pig Iron Horsehair.
Sick. Okay, so you're gonna pick a verb on there,
and you gotta pick the verb first, and you're
gonna roll 1d6, this is your fortune roll, and
we're gonna see how that verb applies to this
situation. So a six is perfect success, whatever
verb you pick, it goes just like that verb. And
is that something that applies to me or something?
Nope, this is how they respond. Okay, well the
easy one is adapting. Yeah, right? Okay. And
just 1d6 you said? Yes. That is a five So one
thing that's cool about the juice deck is that
it's universally good and every time we pull
it the dice tell a fucking story, man I love
it. Okay. Anyway, um So one thing that's cool
about the juice deck. We got these suits, right?
You pulled a weave card Those are cards that
relate to organic matter and transition and change
So this is about as well as it could have gone
and you rolled well, so you rolled a five out
of six You rolled the word adapting Back in the
moment, we see Halberd smoking a fat cigar over
by the skimmer. She's chatting up some bloater,
whatever. We see this moment where nothing bad
has happened yet. People are unloading this meat
pod. You just made a little bit of money today.
You made about three coin. Hell yeah. And Merrick
is looking at you, the ash still in his long
ass cigarette. He knows that you're telling the
truth. And you know that he knows. And both of
you are sitting there knowing it is all about
to change like it from today onwards there's
before and there's after and they're gonna have
to adapt so Connie hell yeah community action
you nailed it can i try to get an additional
little thing out of it oh shit okay what do you
want i want to see if Merrick has a beacon with
which like we can change the coordinates of the
meat pod like where it lands I'm asking for this
so it doesn't land, like, towards the sinkhole.
So you want to be able to figure out, like, you
want to be able to know where the pod's gonna
land? No, I want to be able to control where
the pod's gonna land. So we already kind of know
where the pod's gonna land, but not like immediately,
not like I call pod as in place. It's like I
type in coordinates and the pod is reasonably,
like, launching towards the area that I, like,
in its own time. Okay, I'm going to honor your
five and I'm going to give you a success with
a complication. And so the complication is I
think you have this long, difficult conversation
with Merrick. He's a tough guy. All of this takes
so long. Halbert ashes one full cigar and nighttime
is falling around you. Um, he's like, listen,
so we can, we are in communication with the ship
that drops these obviously, like we give them
a general coordinate. If we request it, we can
narrow that coordinate a little bit, but they
need to know at least 24 hours in advance if
not 48 and that signal comes from Shreetha not
from me like that's me telling her there's oh
like there's shit going on in the city oh whatever's
happening and then she calls the ship right so
that is possible 24 hours Shreetha and to be
clear I'll have to contact you and you will have
to contact Shreetha or sure okay That sounds
like a plan and I just negotiate about like where
on the map we can land Which I think reasonable
like it works well enough Okay I think that Marek
is seeing this as like ah Connie's looking out
and making sure the meat pod won't land in the
sinkhole like I think that you rolled well enough
that um We're taking it like he's just like all
right. He thinks you're on the team, right? So
you have impacted contigo. You've impacted tender
mercy. Where would you like to send the action?
I'll send it over to tank You know tanks gonna
try to alert the fresco fuzz. Whoa Okay, I'm
gonna show up to the The practice facilities
and I'm gonna call a team meeting actually. No,
no, no. I'm gonna I'm gonna go talk to Coach
ufa. Okay. Sorry remind me where we are on the
timeline So you just had your game you just skipped
out on the after party It's been like a couple
days since then or yeah, we had the library mission
after that point which took you know it takes
days to get to yeah okay i joined for a little
bit of the after party but the after party never
left the station that is one of my favorite moments
from that episode is realizing the bus never
left hey party bus don't need to move to start
the party that is true it's true it's true okay
we see cleats on a tile floor we hear the squeak
of Beautiful shoes. We see muscly bodies. Oily.
Ooh, incredible. Tank. Bop, bop, bop on your
way down this hallway. You're a big man on campus
now. You just slayed your first game. People
are giving you the nod. People are... What's
up? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm legally obligated to
forget your name now that you're on the practice
squad and I'm on... No, don't forget me! They
dissolve into ash as you forget them. You see
a green monkey walking down the hallway towards
you. What's his name? Sonny Kong. Sonny Kong.
I just turn face to the wall, just staying there,
not moving, pretending like I don't exist. Sonny
Kong has one arm wrapped around the cardboard
cut out. It's just like... Incredible. Yeah,
doesn't even notice you. You go knock, knock,
knock. Head coach, UFO's office. All right, the
door swings open. You look inside, very beautiful,
very austere, well -designed. She's got some
incense burning on a big metal desk. It's very
like constructivist 60s dreamscape in here. Yes,
I know that vibe. We know. We know, Devon. We
can all relate to what I'm saying. It's very
like dark, constructivist, very textural. The
shades are drawn. That's right, she's got shades.
She's civilized. And windows? And windows, Mike.
What? Yeah, that's actually crazy. Intact glass.
Yeah, that's wild. It looks so normal in here.
It's shocking. She swivels around on a desk chair,
looking good, looking tight. Sick, crazy body,
incredible hair. Toga looks at you, gives you
the nod. Bosman, what can I do for you? Yeah,
coach, I got some bad news. Okay. We're going
to skip through you explaining the bad news.
This is a warning action, correct? Yes. So, my
favorite thing to do, lean over the table all
crazy. I believe in the meat. Did you look? No,
because I got the third of touch. Amazing. I
believed in the heart of the cards and they did
not believe in me. Okay. Third of touch, which
one is that? This might be good, I don't know.
It is the burnt offerings. The verbs are burning,
regressing, scorning. And the grist is coincidentally
my sleeper cell activation phrase. It's teddy
bear, scissors, shoe form, ash, St. Andrew's
cross. So you're gonna choose one of the verbs,
and I will honor that, like, if you pick a bad
one, then one could be good, right? Like, if
you picked scorning, then you would want to shoot
low, right? So, I don't know. I would honor whatever
you want to go with. Wait, wait, so if I pick
a bad one, I want to inverse it? Yeah. Yeah.
Mmm. Is this good? Is this a fun mechanic? Natalie's
looking at me totally convinced. She loves it.
She's vibing with it. Well, they're all bad so
Actually, maybe that's stupid. Maybe let's not
do that. Um, what are your verbs again? burning
regressing scorning I'm trying to I'm gonna hold
you to that actually. Um, you gotta pick one
of these I'm gonna get a scorning. Okay He's
going scorning. I'm going scorning. Give me 1d6
fate That's for okay Four, that is a success.
Something positive is going to come out of this.
What do you say to her? So I give her the rundown,
and I'm going to try to pitch it as like, look,
I got this information from a little errand that
Shahadi sent me on. Shahadi? Yeah. The traitor.
I don't know if he was a traitor, I think. So
there was a little run in with Johnny Law, and
I think they're the ones covering this up. And
I think Shihadi had to get out of town. I think
Shihadi knew something. I think he knew about
the sinkhole. She's nodding. The wheels are turning.
All right, you have activated the verb scorning
for the fresco fuzz. Something positive is going
to come of this. Tell you right now, probably
that's going to impact their relationship with
Johnny Law. Hell yeah, you have just completed
a warning action. Punch the air right now. He's
punching the air. He's punching it so strong,
it's so good. All right, Tank, where would you
like to send the action? Lottie. Lottie. All
right. I kind of want to try the warning thing
too. I want to try something with the grinders.
Amazing. I just looked at you very sharply. It
didn't translate to audio. We've got sharp looks.
We've got knowing looks. Whoa, we got looks of
all varieties. Okay. I've been watching a lot
of BL, okay? What can I say? We're all lookers.
Lottie, what are you gonna do? So Lottie's probably
gonna throw her old uniform on and head out on
whichever skimmer she's allowed to take, presumably
not tanks. to the factory where the grinders
are held up. It's really important to note that
Tank keeps a spare key under the visor, like
the sun visor. This whole time, Lottie has just
been using that key without Tank knowing. Yeah,
that's fun to do that on a jet ski, which is
just not enclosed in any way. Anyway, yes. What
does your old uniform look like? I think we said
last time it was like an it's a bit of like an
orange jumpsuit, but the colors are super faded.
So we see Lottie in your old faded jumpsuit heading
out of town. You're on the old skimmer. It's
still a good skimmer. Not as flashy as tanks.
Puttering around south of the city out towards
the Grinders compound. We see those high towers
made out of concrete and slag just built up and
welded together. Sniper nests back in the day.
Today you can see a couple figures moving around
inside. No gun barrels. That's a great sign.
We see big concrete buildings pre -war, pre -everything.
This building is one of the oldest things on
Helica. Big heavy walls towering over you. What
do you do? Lottie walks into where the admin
offices would be. And she's going to... It's
been a while since she's been here. So she's
going to... Do they have any like... I'm assuming
they have signage for where people's different
offices are in this building and stuff like that.
So she goes through that, wherever it is on the
wall, and looks for any name she might recognize
from the leadership structure, people who were
above her when she was in with the Grinders.
OK. So you walk in, and you see the front offices.
I think this didn't used to be front offices.
back in the day this used to be a man with a
gun who needed to see your identification um
today it is some younger people in a clean uniform
um still a uniform you notice everybody here
is on uniform it's dark now it's very like black
jumpsuit um you're standing out a little hi can
i help you hi yeah i used to work here i'm looking
for someone in charge And so what follows is
about 15 minutes of waiting around and getting,
you know, someone calls somebody, they answer,
you listen for a long time. Oh, okay, maybe refer
them over to this desk, blah, blah, blah. It
takes about 15 minutes to even get an answer
of who you should speak to next. You're just
leaning over the desk. They've got old school
computer monitors here. They only show black
and green. Good technology, solid, old. Looks
like mobile walls are set up behind them. Like
they've shuffled around in here a little bit
since you last saw. it. Stacks of paperwork.
Administration, baby. And finally, after some
time, a wiry old man comes tottering out. This
is Haywood. This is someone that you knew back
in the day. He looks at you, big old smile. Lottie!
Wow! Lottie Faber's daughter. As I live and breathe.
Hello. Hi. That's me. Yes. Get you a bottle of
water working we need to talk privately All right,
we cut to the inside of Haywood's office Towering
papers Paper. An incredible thing. They are printing
their own paper here. We see an old computer
monitor. We see stacked up junk. Heywood, this
is exactly as you remember it. He took you on
this crazy cavernous route through the inside
of the building. A lot of you realize that Trent
Dort wants you to steal from these people. He's...
Chatterin. He's just talking about, yeah, I mean,
stuff's changed a lot since you were last here.
You know, we got a whole, you know, hydroponics
set up now. Real proud of that. I mean, we're
feeding the Wabash buildings totally independent.
Sit down. You can pay for receptionists now.
I know. Ain't it grand? Grins at you. Crazy teeth.
That's a word for it. Sits down at his desk,
barely peeking over the top of the paper. I watch
trouble on you. And you tell him. And so. The
mystic reaches for their cards and then starts
screaming because they dropped all their cards.
I got the fourth of meat, houndstooth. The verbs
are running, relaxing, and interweaving. The
grist is ratchet wrench, intercourse, subway
tile, and gloves. Sick. OK. So what verb do you
want to work with here? Running. Running. All
right. Give me 1d6 fortune roll. I got a two.
Oh shit. Oh no. Okay. We cut to minute 30 of
this conversation. You have explained. You have
pleaded. You have informed. You have done all
that you can. Heywood is fiddling with something
in his hand. He's been like folding up a piece
of paper, just crunching it. He's like, no, that
doesn't make any sense. I mean, I - Lottie, we
can't go around half cock based on the information
from an outside entity. I'm sorry. Just make
- Hey, but I wouldn't be here. You know I didn't
even live on good terms. I know, Lottie, and
that's a problem. That's a problem for us to
believe you when you say, hey, you should just
run. You should just uproot all of it. Those
good terms weren't me stealing or cheating from
you. It was me wanting to help people and you,
as usual, not doing it. And here we go again.
Looks at you. Lips set in a hard line. All right
Lottie the core appreciates all you've done,
but I I can't take your word And we camera cuts
out to Lottie walking out the grinders compound
you have warned them They have been warned plus
one community action. All right, that's something
Where would you like to send the action? I want
to see what and those up to That is a good question.
What is in love, too? I would like to train my
playbook. Okay. What do you want to do? I would
like to sit myself down with some stuff that
I have found and tinker for a little while. Wow,
what are you tinkering on? What are you building?
You know, I want to build another animatronic
to go with Vinny Verderbeest. He seems lonely.
So I think I need to make him a partner. Oh my
gosh, what are you building? I am building Veronica
Verderbeest. And they are very cute. And they'll
fit together like a little set. Oh my gosh. I
really like it. Yeah. Ah, okay. So, bing, you
instantly gain plus one in Tinker. Ka -chow.
Great job, Lightning McQueen. Fuck. You got something
on your mind, Robin? No! I think there's a movie
we need to add to the movie night. I'm gonna
take you to Cars World. I would cry. At Disneyland.
It's actually really cool. I know. It is really
cool. That's what sucks about it. It is really
cool. It is so cool. Are you Steve? Sorry? Are
you Steve? Iron speed. Yeah. Okay, Enla, do you
want to do anything with Runk in this? Or do
we want to leave that? I don't know. Yeah. In
my project of building Veronica, I would like
some help. And you know who's around because
they were part of the musical, Runk. Hey, Runk.
Do you mind helping me out with building this
animatronic for Vinny? Not exactly what I'm good
at, but yeah, sure, sure. Well, I just need you
to stand there and look pretty. Runk, you're
splattered in something. What are you splattered
in? Motor oil. Huge, black, crazy stains on Runk.
Incredible. Beautiful tableau. Enla poking out
wires. Runk doing a fun pose. Two big scary animatronics.
You've been spending more time around here. Yeah,
hold on a second. I'm gonna get a piece of my...
a piece of the skeleton off my skin or that's
gonna make this oh you're so right that's gonna
be perfect it's gonna really tie this together
yeah yeah i i needed to recover but i don't know
it's kind of nice yeah it's been kind of nice
having you here listen it was it It doesn't need
to be weird between us. Most first dates don't
end in a shootout, so... Yeah, you know, I haven't
been on that many dates, but I'm pretty sure
you don't get shot during them, so yeah. So you
don't need to be weird about me staying here.
I was just recovering, and you know, I like you.
And I like being around you. And this isn't just
the painkillers talking. Okay, well, I didn't
say that I had a problem with you staying here.
Okay, good. I'll just... Apart from the commune,
not many people want the person doused in motor
oil, carrying around a bone saw with a giant
skeleton around. I find it so endearing. And
the camera pans out on a beautiful moment here
at the Screamin' Slice. Hell yeah, we have gained
runk as a cohort. This is a buddy we can call
on in moments of need. There are mechanical implications.
We're not gonna get into it. It'll happen as
it happens. Hell yeah, great time. Enla, where
would you like to send the action? I will send
the action over to Tank. Tank is ready. Oh, what?
Uh -oh. So Tank's already at the practice facilities.
So he's gonna take some time. And, uh, he's gonna
train with the birthday boy. Whoa! Training montage!
Whoa! Wow! Big barbell for tank, little barbell
for birthday boy. They're still glued together,
right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. What skill are
you training, or what are you trying to do? Uh,
I'm gonna train fight. Oh, fuck yeah. How many
will you have now? That'll be three in fight.
Oh, hell yeah! We see... another really quick
cut from your montage. What do we see? It's like
the scene from The Matrix where Neo is learning
how to fight and they're in a dojo, but the birthday
boy is the one fulfilling the Morpheus role.
Wow. Can I get a perfect whoa from Tank? Whoa.
Wow. Whoa. You get your skill. Where would you
like to send the action? I'm gonna send it to
Lottie All right, um Lottie wants to train as
well She's worried about the impending catastrophe
and thinks that she needs to brush up on her
medic skills. Oh So she's gonna train her care
What are you up to now? I want to say she has
up like a bunch of old books from when she was
a medic with the grinders Just like collecting
dust in a cabinet somewhere she's just going
through like all of the old like first aid training
stuff that is When she was training was about
like being like a war zone, right? But she's
focused on the stuff about like how to take care
of people with like limited resources and stuff
like that Tank comes into the room carrying a
stack of books And he sets them all down yeah,
so these are all the all the textbooks I had
when I was in medical school I think. He had
the nurse's outfit on just for that. Yeah, but
now he has a white lab coat over top the nurse's
outfit. Wow. Man of mystery. It's not a very
big space, so there's now like no space to like
actually like work with the books and read them.
Lottie, you're learning. You're working. You're
doing it so right, so good. How many care do
you have now? Two. Amazing. A quick and easy
thing. Where would you like to send the accent?
Where would you like to send the accent? I would
like to send the accent to Connie. Well, I do
say I do declare I'm just a simple country lawyer.
I'm going to acquire an asset specifically by
seeing if Trent Dort can give us something to
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