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It's the night of the first

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of two recording days for this season of Dragon Friends.

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I feel pretty sane. First, the

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bad news. The world is

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no longer habitable to human life. Now

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for the good news. Your new

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life starts today.

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You are all now

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at last in Sector CY4

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inside the abandoned textile factory

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that your mission sent you on and you can see a scene

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of carnage, a scene of bloodshed,

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bodies on the ground what look like many

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different red, orange and yellow operatives

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of a complex, splattered

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in blood, but also a few more

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figures in sort of strange white robes with

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wooden cruciform amulets.

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There's at least two of them and

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some of them are holding

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weapons, some of them holding primitive slug throwers, a

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few of them are holding their lasers. It looks like some

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shit has gone down here

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as Lonnie looks in, his face hardens

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like this isn't the first massacre he's

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seen as he steps inside. Now

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a slug thrower, is that what it

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sounds slug?

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Well, this is interesting because what it sounds to me

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is that it fires slugs, small

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hard tip rounds, and it's a

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sort of kind of automatic machine. You just said it was lying on the ground.

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What were you imagining? Oh, dang, you

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could see the picture inside my head like right now.

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Like a medieval trebuchet that

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holds really big, gooey

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slugs.

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Like a banana slug. Yeah,

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like a banana horse. The biggest gooey is to slugs.

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Is this the gun that he made? No, he has

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a cone round. No, I've got a cone round. Oh, can I grab that slug, slug

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mugger? You might, yeah, you grab a

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working slug thrower and you pull it, it has

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a strap and a sling. You check

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and it has about

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six rounds left. You can't see any

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extra magazines. And Lonnie says, oh, well

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that's not going to help you clean up this mess, mate. Come on, let's

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go. Who's got the power mop?

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What happened here my good man?

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They're up human. I've never

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seen this many bodies since the orgies

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I used to go to back in the day. I wish Not

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that I used to fuck dead bodies. I just want you

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guys to know I just want

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it like but you know This is

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the use of the word bodies. I'm trying to be clever

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with my jokes, but I end up getting all tangled up

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There's a lot of dead bodies here.

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Yeah, you wanted to fuck some

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dead bodies

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I don't know, I don't want to fuck these bodies, I never

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wanted to fuck a dead body. I don't think it's an orgy

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if there's just ten dead bodies. Guys, whatever's going on here

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aside, we've got to clean up this mess. We've been sent

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here to do it, and look, it's a doozy. Now

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the auto-mop. Um, uh,

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Strawberry was wearing it when they, uh, died,

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and I don't think we picked it up.

2:44

So, uh, do

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we need that for this, or... We didn't pick

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it up, so it's just sitting there near the, uh, subway.

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Well, uh, more fool you. Uh,

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listen, if I know anything about this place,

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and I'm just a baby, uh, but... Bodies

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count as clean up. I

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think we need to do a full perimeter check as

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to whether or not there are bodies beyond

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this pile. Um, how do I do

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a search around, like, do I just literally look

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around? You can go, you can search the top levels, there's

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a whole, there's two stories. I mean, if there was a battle

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here, there are people probably taking advantage,

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some of them were, I'm gonna check upstairs. steers.

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Well I'm gonna start on this bloody blood so

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uh... Grabs out his little mop, slaps on his

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little gloves and just starts mopping. He starts mopping up.

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So one question, dear friend.

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Er, Loni, what do

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we do with these bodies? I mean, where

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are they meant to go?

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Oh there's shoots down the hall, we can just chuck them

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in. Very good. And you can see actually

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outside that there are a series of what

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look like public order disposal shoots.

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They're similar to the ones that you put Bofcon,

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Bof3 into. I'll tell you what,

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we'll do the blood and the brains and the viscera

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and the piss and the the shit by the way

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this is the thing you gotta get the piss

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in the shit

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People really focus

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on the blood when they're doing a mop up like this,

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but the bodies do create a lot of piss and shit.

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So let's get that done and then we'll just hoik

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the bodies down the old

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shaft. So you all start mopping

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up, you're on the upstairs,

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the rest of you are downstairs. Where it has to seem,

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it does seem in fact

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like most of the attack occurred.

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In fact because you've got a good view for it, do you want to quickly make

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for me

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just a quick, we'll

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call it, do you know what we'll call it? it

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a brains and

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science check for me really quickly.

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It's a negative one. So is that just a computer check? Yes,

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just one computer dice. That's a three. Alright,

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it's hard to tell what's happened. There's a massacre

4:42

everywhere. You get a little bit lost upstairs but you start

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cleaning, which means that you're away from the rest of the

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group as you start working towards the

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centre of the room. And as you

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do it, as you're sort of pulling bodies away, you start

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getting a sort of sense of what's happened. It looks like there have

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been, there are figures that were wearing these white

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robes that had these Amulets as

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I said, um slug throwers that burst in

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through the walls on the west You can see

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that there are what looks like a controlled demolition

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as if somebody used some kind of limpet mines to blow

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out a wall There was a fight

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and the two of them have died But many

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many more of these other operatives have and

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now that you see them you see that they look

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very very Neat, they look like

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sort of standard operatives

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of red and orange yellow security players that you might find

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all over the many service groups of Alpha Complex,

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but many of them are holding

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little journals in pockets

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or hidden inside their jackets as you're

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sort of clearing them up and piling these bodies in

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a corner. And these journals are

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all embroidered, each of them

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with a little insignia that you recognize Lonnie,

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that says ACL-H-R-G

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and then there's a sort of alpha complex crest. Yeah,

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yeah. What's all

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this about? Remember

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I was telling you guys just before.

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about the the grey

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culture clubs. Yeah. Yeah, well,

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these are the history freaks.

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He sort of looks around. Which ones are the history freaks?

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Oh, well, I mean, look, there's... First

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of all, our job is to mop.

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All right. But second of all, if

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I'm if you're asking me, most

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of these people are the history freaks. The other ones are the religious

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nut jobs. There's only two or two

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of them. and the rest of them are these. So

6:30

basically... They're all different

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great clubs. The history freaks

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are alert. Jesus

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Christ, could you, could you, if you get asked me

6:37

questions could you mop while you're doing it? So,

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yes, of course. So you all

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mop as he points there and he slaps

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the side of the thing, ACL-HIG, AlphaCom

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Local History Research Group. So

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as, you know, you've probably figured

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out history in, you know,

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the AlphaComplex is discouraged.

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or at least outside of the

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immediate history, let's say weeks,

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that's fine, months, that's fine, years,

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you're sort of pushing it at years

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and these

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guys do decades. There's

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actually a culture club which is

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very encouraged

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by a computer friend and they do wonderful

7:21

historical stuff on stuff that happened a couple of months

7:23

ago. We have of mixes with the bird watching

7:25

society. And

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that's great. That's tickety boo. A tennis

7:28

tournament that they organize. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's

7:31

great. Thrash them. Absolutely decimated because

7:33

they're very weak in the upper body. You

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hear rumors and this is sort of, you know,

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it's bearing them out of people who want to

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delve a little bit deeper into the history of the,

7:46

the old, you know. And so why

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are they fighting the religious nut jobs? Well,

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that's not for me to say. I have no idea. Who knows what

7:53

motivates these sickos? How do you

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feel about all this death and destruction? Well,

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I feel like if you

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You really wanna know? Bofen?

8:03

Bofcon? Like I wish

8:05

I still had the use of my second arm? Yeah, like

8:08

that's how I feel. I feel like I

8:10

really, you know what? I feel like

8:12

I wish that I didn't

8:15

have a completely paralyzed left arm.

8:18

Well, you should have caught it then.

8:20

Well,

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I knew through it with the best of intentions,

8:24

but I'm not gonna get another one of these.

8:26

You know what I mean? I'm number six. Oh,

8:30

yeah. Anyway.

8:34

He sort of picks up his mop and he

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walks off into a small ancillary

8:38

room and continues mopping. The

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two of you, Buffcon and Clancy, you

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see the main room. You can see, as I said, there are figures

8:45

sprawled out. And you can sort of see

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that, as I said, some of the figures, the religious

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robed figures are coming through the Western wall, and

8:53

some kind of defense was put up here. And it looks

8:55

like they were defending what looks like

8:57

one figure whose body is just riddled

8:59

with slugs, not the fun

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slugs either, little metal slugs. Who

9:04

was- I'd argue they're not fun. Well, they need

9:06

to dance. So it looks like the religious

9:08

people came in. That's right. So let's

9:10

get the, let's search the body

9:13

of the- It looks like there was a target is what I'm saying.

9:15

Of?

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The one of the, so yeah,

9:19

the target, the guy with all the slug. They

9:22

were defending one body and

9:22

he's standing slumped in the middle next

9:24

to a capsized tripod

9:27

with a multi-recorder, a kind of camera

9:29

audio recording unit, usually used

9:32

by the propaganda departments of the service groups

9:34

that has been crashed and fallen over

9:36

on its side next to him as if it was just in front

9:39

of him. And as I say this, also, as you're all

9:41

investigating, you, Strawberry, come back

9:43

down having found absolutely nothing upstairs.

9:45

But,

9:45

Fi, I don't know if you feel like I feel, but

9:48

I must admit, I have a little wave of curiosities

9:51

simply come over me to notice more about this.

9:53

whatever's gone down here. Yeah.

9:56

We're ever gonna survive here. I feel like the

9:58

feet, the, the, What

10:00

has gone down as important for us to know.

10:02

I mean should we have a little press

10:04

of that audio recording thing?

10:06

Can I speak as a leader?

10:09

You could speak sure. Uh as

10:12

someone who has died already you have died already. Uh

10:17

if I

10:19

would not like to speak. It's your turn to die

10:22

is what he's gonna say. No you can. I've died

10:24

he's died it's your turn to you go press

10:26

the button now and you die. As leader I'm gonna

10:29

say let's just do the job, let's clean

10:31

it up, let's get rid

10:33

of everything. He's got a bunch of lives he hasn't

10:35

even used yet, come on. I

10:38

mean, let's cleanse this

10:41

place and get out of here.

10:43

All right, I'm gonna pick up the, so

10:46

just to be clear, Dave, it looks like

10:49

something was happening here at the Textiles Factory, and

10:51

then the religious people burst in through the wall

10:54

and shot them up, and it looks like they were potentially

10:56

making some kind of film. I'm gonna

10:58

grab the camera. I

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wanted to read, are you gonna grab it to watch

11:02

it? And you're

11:04

lunching forward to grab it? Yeah, I'm grabbing it. Can you make a mechanics

11:06

engineering check for me?

11:09

Mechanics engineering, so that's one.

11:12

If you wanna grab it, do you wanna grab it as well? That's

11:16

not a pass. Oh no, not

11:18

yet. All right, you lunge forward with

11:21

suddenly, and you sort of push Clancy

11:23

aside, and you rush towards the camera, and

11:25

you start sort of pulling at it, And you can tell that there's some

11:27

kind of articulated door that's meant to get the film

11:30

out, and you cannot for the life of you work

11:32

out how to open or operate it. As you sort of stand

11:34

there, so getting a little bit red as you realize

11:36

that whatever film is inside this,

11:39

you can't do it. I've got operate

11:41

as a skill. Yeah. So I've grabbed it. But

11:44

this isn't operating because it had fallen over, it was broken, this was engineering

11:46

to get it open. There's something stuck with it. Okay.

11:48

And you got no successes, but you can re-roll

11:50

it with a point of moxie. I've got a bit of

11:53

engineering knowledge. I have quite a

11:56

bit of engineering knowledge. I mean, if you want me to have a little

11:58

go, I could have a little tinker if that's... It's alright

12:00

with you. I shoot it with a slug gun. Really?

12:04

Yeah. The camcorder? Yep.

12:07

You shoot the camcorder? Yeah. You want

12:09

to do anything first? You can act before the shot. If you

12:11

want to... This is the first time we've done this,

12:13

which is very exciting, but we can go into

12:15

a little paranoia versus paranoia here. What do you want to do? Tell

12:18

me very quickly or a shot will go off. Okay,

12:22

make a violence and guns check. Um...

12:27

He might fail the chance. It's true.

12:29

Because I'm really good at guns, but I don't know about him.

12:33

Oops. Five is a success. There is a single

12:35

shot. There's a pew, and the camera, which there was a

12:37

little light on it, goes dead. And you hear, as

12:40

everyone's silent for a second, and the camera's dead.

12:44

As the leader of this group,

12:46

I have a responsibility that

12:49

will get me in trouble if you fuck

12:51

with this tech. Can

12:55

I say something? You are.

12:58

You, you, hey, this is

13:00

the voice I'm doing, okay, yeah. That's the one.

13:02

You... Jennifer Colerch, Jennifer Colerch, Jennifer Colerch.

13:05

Hey, you're acting real strange.

13:09

You're acting real weird. Like you're

13:11

a guy who's trying

13:14

to keep a bunch of evidence out of the hands of us. And

13:17

we're just out here trying to do our jobs.

13:19

No, you're not doing your job.

13:22

You're sticking your nose into business that

13:24

friend computer... Friend computer,

13:25

you there? Hello, yes, how

13:28

can I help you? This guy's destroying

13:30

evidence. Who is? This

13:32

guy's strawberry. Well, I

13:34

was gonna take that to you and explain

13:36

to you that there's a great

13:38

culture club

13:39

here. Strawberry? Is this true? He's

13:41

destroying evidence of it. They had a whole film. He's

13:43

probably the star of the film for all I know. Do you have

13:46

any evidence of this destruction of evidence?

13:48

You can watch it back in my eyes. I just saw

13:50

him shoot it. I didn't. Did we get a record

13:52

on? Unfortunately, the way that the Cortex

13:55

recorders work is you must blink your eye,

13:57

remember? If you don't, I have nothing that

13:59

I can look at.

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And in that case I must defer to the team leader.

14:03

Is this team member operating within

14:05

the parameters that you set as a leader? this

14:08

team this team member is

14:10

a

14:12

Confused and emotional

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I am fulfilling my Mission

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which is to clean up this mess.

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All right Well, remember that as team leader you are ultimately

14:23

responsible for the safe execution of

14:25

the mission and if any troubleshooter Shooter

14:28

underneath your command is a liability

14:30

that mission. Please bring it up with the briefing. Thank

14:32

you Frank computer See

14:34

you later before you go for a few years for Sam doing

14:37

a lot of mopping I cannot hear

14:39

you and I do not acknowledge my ping doing

14:41

some great mopping Yep, you you

14:43

will get them you will get the credits that you got

14:46

to stop trying to get those extra credit Yeah,

14:48

right

14:48

also, but also I'm

14:50

doing a bit of dustpan and brush for as well But

14:52

you will become you will reach green quicker

14:55

if you stop talking to me. I will yellow

14:57

would be good Even this

14:59

is exactly what I was talking about if

15:02

you fuck around I've

15:04

I've had five treason

15:06

stars I do

15:08

not want to go back and Lose

15:12

another life because ultimately

15:14

if you fuck around and I

15:17

get fucked Not. And

15:21

not in a good way, because that's impossible for

15:23

us, unless you can get the one-sixteenth

15:26

of a chub or whatever it is that

15:28

Lonnie can muster. There is a choo,

15:30

and all of the lights go out.

15:33

And it's only because of the fact that you're all still wearing

15:35

your night vision memo augments

15:37

that you can still see, but all of the power seems

15:39

to die around the entire textile

15:42

factory. The lights outside too that

15:44

were shining in through the broken limpet mind wall.

15:46

It's a bloody another power holiday guys

15:48

just use

15:49

your night vision and keep on mopping

15:51

Alright, you hear suddenly a distorted squeal

15:53

from the distance of voice loud

15:56

speaker system and the voice calls

15:58

out unbelievers

16:00

Unbelievers!

16:03

We have your surrounded As

16:05

you do this there's suddenly a blink of a hollow unit

16:07

and a face shows of an imperious looking woman

16:10

also Then white robes again with

16:12

another one of these kind of cruciform figures a sort

16:14

of downwards arrow with a H This one

16:16

made out of wood Return

16:18

unto us the bodies that we need

16:21

and you may go in peace Dave

16:23

I'm gonna start recording Yep,

16:26

great. You can just wink at me and I'll know who

16:28

you is So anyone you're looking at is currently being recorded.

16:30

Yeah, cool. I'm gonna

16:32

walk

16:33

out and chat to these guys.

16:36

So just walk out through the demolished wall? Yeah.

16:39

Great. So I head out, say, Oh,

16:42

hey there, who are you? We are,

16:44

what, what? No, yep. We,

16:49

I'm Moira. Whoa. So,

16:51

so, so somewhat to fly, I had a loud halo

16:53

every, you didn't think you'd. Oh, hey. Yeah, there's

16:55

actually, there's a crowd starting to form outside

16:58

You're standing up on the first floor. I'm just

17:00

poking my head out. Yeah, you're poking your head out of a ruined

17:02

wall. Yeah. And you can see the crowd and you can see

17:04

sitting on a soapbox, a woman

17:06

in robe surrounded by a few more figures, all

17:09

of them with slug throwers. Hey there,

17:11

we don't want any trouble. Well then, return

17:13

unto us the bodies of the fallen. Who

17:15

are the fallen? What do you want the bodies for? We were

17:18

going to give them a nice burial. A nice

17:20

burial?

17:20

Well, they're dead. Do you didn't know?

17:23

I know well our brothers and sisters

17:25

have fallen, but they will not be

17:28

returned to the chutes. They

17:30

will be interred with us.

17:33

Who are you?

17:35

I am

17:36

the church. Well, a bit of the church.

17:39

Sorry, I didn't mean to say I was the church. That was...

17:42

Oh God. We're the church, we're all the church. No, I know,

17:44

I know, I know. You said we're all the church. No, we all

17:46

are the church. The church is within us. You said all of Alpha

17:48

Complex is the church. All the church, yeah, no. The church

17:51

is within us and all of Alpha Complex is the

17:53

church, but I was just rhetorically, I was...

17:55

My name is Moira.

17:57

What if I, what if I kill Moira? That's

18:00

a great question. You're asking me? What

18:03

if I kill more than one? Currently you are illuminated by

18:05

floodlights. You're standing, you don't have your

18:07

gun raised and they all have guns,

18:10

they're standing looking at you.

18:11

And what about where am I in the dark? They

18:15

don't even know that there's anyone else in the building because the only

18:17

one that's come out into the lights at the moment is

18:20

the figure of Bofcon. Can I... Well, tell

18:22

me when I can do something. You can do anything. What do you want to do? Well,

18:25

I think while they're all focusing on... I

18:27

was going to say Freeza. Well, they're all focusing

18:30

on boff con

18:31

to, lovely,

18:33

lovely boff con, to, you know, sort

18:35

of, what's the word, eliminate

18:39

the tension, there's

18:42

definitely a word for that, as

18:44

I'm gonna secretly drag those bodies

18:46

away.

18:48

Oh, okay. Put them somewhere else so there's

18:50

nothing to fight over. Because there's those

18:52

two, the two bodies in the white robes

18:54

that that thing is wearing. So I said there were no bodies upstairs, you can drag them

18:56

up if you wanna You're trying to de-escalate the situation.

18:59

I think, yeah, maybe I'll

19:01

try and drag them just back out the way we came.

19:04

Oh, okay. Well, that would be hard because if you drag them out

19:06

the way you'll go out into the streets and as I said,

19:09

the noise is attracted a mob

19:11

that seems slightly but not completely sympathetic

19:14

to the cult. It's clear that this, they're mostly infrareds,

19:17

but it's clear that the whatever religion

19:19

this is, it does have sway over some of the infrareds

19:21

in the sector.

19:23

Okay, so I would

19:25

be unseen if I dragged

19:26

them. Drag them from the front doors,

19:28

you won't, yeah, you would be seen, but you can drag them upstairs if

19:30

you want. Okay, I'll try that. All right, you start dragging

19:32

the bodies upstairs. What are you doing while this is happening? Um.

19:38

I'm gonna record as well. Did you? I

19:41

like how you did the wink and then you weren't confident

19:43

that Dave saw it. The saw, I don't fully

19:45

get the ombreons. You're standing,

19:47

you're in a two-story textile building. You

19:50

came in through the door. You know, you're in a textile

19:52

building, Simon. Just a congratulations. Textile

19:54

factory. Translomes, remember I said, big

19:57

spings, big things. Gantries up the top.

19:59

on the The

20:00

first floor actually the Western Wall is blown

20:02

out where some kind of church

20:03

commandos came in, massacred everyone running

20:06

down the stairs and there's a big

20:08

blood, all the bloodshed is centered around the center of it.

20:10

But also this, most of the second

20:12

story other than the attack place is mostly

20:14

abandoned. And how many people with guns are there? At

20:17

the moment. Yeah that we can see. There looks like

20:19

at least three of them standing near Moira but they're used,

20:21

they've got medium range slug

20:23

throwers like improvised guns. None

20:25

of them have anything approaching a current rifle

20:27

for example. When you hear through a lah-ho-hay-lay,

20:29

hear me, reds!

20:31

Return to us, the bodies. I know

20:34

you are here under supervision.

20:37

I know you are here, but to complete

20:40

a simple job, you

20:42

have no dog, whatever

20:44

that is, in this fight. Just

20:47

return to us, the bodies, and go about

20:49

your day. Nobody need respawn

20:52

today. And one of the other ones

20:55

who doesn't realize of his voice is being amplified, leans

20:58

in near the loud halo, and you could sort of hear him whisper

21:00

to Moira, and the box,

21:01

don't forget about the box. I'm doing, I'm

21:03

talking about the box. Not just the bodies, we're gonna need

21:05

the box as well. No, I know, but I was gonna start with the box,

21:08

and then I was gonna start with, no, I was gonna start with the

21:10

body. Cause you start, if you're starting with the box, you mention the body.

21:12

No, I know, I'm just flustered because you're in my, you're sidecoaching,

21:15

you're sidecoaching right

21:17

now, I had a whole thing. Can we see if they have any like,

21:19

oh, we can't see if they're wearing night

21:22

vision, Robes over, that's a

21:24

great question. Make for me very quickly a,

21:26

oh, you know what? No, you just have a little look. Now that you're looking for

21:28

it, you can see that two

21:31

of them

21:31

have what looks like red clothes onto the robes,

21:33

but Moira has what looks like

21:36

this flashes of green. Okay, and can we

21:38

see any like stars and stuff like over

21:40

them or anything? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Moira

21:42

has one star and one of the other

21:45

ones has four stars and the other

21:47

one has no stars. And the other two have no stars.

21:50

Interesting. And you can see their names as well because even though they're,

21:53

You should be able to see the names. You can see three of their

21:55

names. Moira's name, although she calls herself

21:57

Moira, but you look at it, it glitches

21:59

in.

22:00

out of reality as if it has some kind of digital

22:02

compositing effect over it. The others

22:04

you can see their names you can see it's Randall,

22:07

Tracy and Boingo.

22:10

That's right it's Randall write

22:12

it down Tracy and Boingo.

22:15

Tracy was almost the name of the person that I chose. No that's

22:17

interesting maybe that's some kind

22:19

of strange happenstance. Is

22:21

there like an initiative audio for this day or are we just...

22:24

I'm just waiting for you guys to see if she's gonna

22:26

keep talking. All we We require a view list

22:28

for you to leave so we can take the

22:30

bodies and also have a little look around Dave

22:33

I'm gonna do something gallant. Okay. She's

22:35

I'm gonna use up two of my moxie To

22:41

to negate the effects of my wounds That's

22:45

okay. Yeah, you are so

22:47

close to insane. Yeah If I

22:49

die again, I get reset that's one way of thinking

22:52

about it, but also So

22:53

what happens when... Well, actually, if you die

22:55

when you lose it, you don't get all your moxie back.

22:58

It's a bit different. We haven't seen that yet. You know what?

23:00

That'll be a fun thing to enjoy if it happens. For now, let's

23:02

keep going. And I'm gonna start by bluffing with

23:05

Moira.

23:09

Then I'm gonna, sorry, I'm

23:11

gonna use my moxie that I've used for

23:13

the shooting. But first I'm gonna bluff. Okay.

23:16

And I'm gonna say to Moira... Just tell me what you're doing with the bluff. Okay.

23:19

Okay, Moira. Okay

23:22

then Moira, I'm just gonna

23:25

go back in and get you your bodies. So

23:27

just wait here for a second.

23:30

You have three minutes for

23:33

some bad bull.

23:35

It's gonna be so bad. Okay. And

23:38

then the bluff is, um...

23:41

But I don't see a box. Do

23:43

you know anything about the box? What's this box? And

23:46

I'm gonna... I'm trying to get them to argue over the box

23:48

again. again. I don't think there's a box here at all!

23:51

Okay make for me a bluff check. Bluff

23:53

check would be uh Is that brains

23:55

bluff? Yeah, brains are huts bar.

23:57

You do whichever one you want. Dealers choice. You

24:00

Five minus two is three. Plus

24:02

two is five again. Now

24:05

you're thinking with paranoia, this is right. Oh,

24:08

that's that guy. Yep. One and

24:10

then five. All right, that's a success. All

24:13

right, so you get a success with a computer. So

24:16

you, yeah, I don't hear

24:18

about this box. So you start to hear a consternate,

24:21

like what seems like consternation. This is why I

24:23

didn't mention the box because now he's heard about

24:25

the box. He doesn't know about the box. He didn't know what the deal

24:28

was. He said the word box. I think he's just talking

24:30

about a cube that's... while

24:32

that happens. But before you

24:34

do anything else,

24:35

unfortunately, you hear a sort of three chimes

24:37

that you recognize very much, and a voice pops up into

24:39

you, not just your ear, but everyone around, because

24:42

a little terminal opens.

24:43

And you see... You

24:46

hear a voice that you know very well, and it's... Yes,

24:49

what box are we talking about? I

24:51

don't know what the box is, but just wait,

24:53

what? Wait a second, are we gonna do something real cool,

24:55

computer? I'm just trying to understand. You said

24:58

that you didn't see any box

25:00

that you want. They've asked about a box. I don't know this box.

25:02

They want this box. I don't know what the box is.

25:05

Make for me a brains alpha complex check. One

25:08

success. One success. Yeah.

25:10

All right. Well, I suppose that it's only fair

25:12

because it's your first mission to give you time to

25:14

find out. But I will expect a full explanation

25:16

about this box at the debrief. The computer

25:19

disappears. Right. And then I'm gonna shoot

25:21

Moira.

25:22

That's what I'm using

25:24

my boxy for. So you talked about

25:26

the box and now in order to distract

25:28

them so I could shoot them I see all right

25:31

I can't that's what I use my moxie for the computer

25:33

didn't distract them because I was close to you So I guess that works

25:35

so make for me very quickly is anybody else doing

25:37

can I do a? Reaction

25:40

yeah my reactions. Yeah, why don't you

25:42

wait for that? I see what it is. So why don't you let this happen first? I'll

25:44

do some shooting as well so I like

25:46

they can't see me. Yep But I'll,

25:50

I think if I see fire,

25:53

if I see Bofcon open fire,

25:55

I would... You're gonna also try and shoot? And you're

25:57

gonna shoot at them as well? Yes. Both

25:59

of you make... Give

26:00

me quick violence. Guns checks? That's

26:03

one success. All right, one success is

26:05

going to probably, in Jamoire, as you take one

26:07

of your only, is it two or three slugs? Oh,

26:11

you two. You two, so you take one of your two,

26:13

super solid slugs, yeah? Success and computer success.

26:16

All right. It's five.

26:17

Five and five. Five is fine, no, five is

26:19

fine. Oh, it's the two successes. All right, so you're aiming

26:21

at one of the other ones, you're aiming at Boingo,

26:24

you're shot guns down, suddenly fire,

26:27

shoots out as you see your friend

26:29

Bofcon step forward with the cone rifle and just

26:32

as he's about to shoot you

26:34

hammer Boingo and Boingo falls down in

26:37

a flurry of red blood. You know what? Because this

26:39

is a red laser and that's

26:39

enough. Well I also have this slug gun but

26:42

I also have this thing which is like kaboom

26:44

which is instead of hitting its target a ranged attack for another

26:47

appropriate action if you think you can get away with it hits something

26:49

nearby that blows up with a three meter

26:51

blast radius. Okay great. Alright

26:53

so you actually hit Boingo who who falls,

26:55

goes wild, and smashes into a can

26:58

of the fuel that they are indivisibly

27:00

using for their petroleum-based loudspeaker

27:02

system that they have. I said

27:05

we should just use a battery. I

27:07

mean, there's an explosion wiping out all,

27:11

you know, yeah, wiping out all three of

27:13

Moira's associates so

27:14

only your shot is about to go off. And you want

27:16

us to play something? Yeah, I would like to play

27:18

jam. Okay, so jam,

27:20

I believe. Bonkies. Bofcon?

27:24

Bofcons. It's a gem. Weapon.

27:27

And I think gem. But can he see me do that or is that just like a

27:29

magic wish? No, he can't see it's a magic wish. But

27:31

Michael Hing can see you do that. Michael Hing can,

27:33

but Michael Hing's a good enough role player that he won't hold this against

27:35

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27:37

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All right,

28:14

so the super-dense solid jams

28:16

inside your cone rifle and until you can work

28:19

out how to eject it, it sort of interferes

28:21

with the barrel and it's,

28:23

I suppose, puts its dick in it. And

28:25

now a cue can't get rid of that, you see? Yeah,

28:28

yeah. We've had the, something explodes nearby,

28:30

we've had the jam card. With jam card, jams

28:32

a weapon. It's like space balls. Yeah,

28:35

I think it has the option, I believe

28:37

the way the card is written, that it can jam a weapon

28:40

or it can make a scene involve jam, those are your two

28:42

options. But we're going for the traditional

28:44

here. As his rifle jams, Moira

28:47

says,

28:48

it is a miracle of the asteroid

28:52

as you see to the crowd. As

28:54

you see the unbeliever

28:56

tried to shoot but could not

28:59

for the truth will bear out.

29:02

And as she says that the crowd screams

29:04

as one and the doubters are

29:07

mollified as more and more true

29:09

believers of the First George Church are born in the sight

29:11

of this miracle and they start racing

29:14

towards the doors

29:15

of the factory. What do you guys do? To get

29:17

out. To get in, to get to you.

29:20

Lonnie's like, hey guys, feels

29:22

like a lot's going on outside. Could

29:25

super duper use a hand with this sponge?

29:28

He's got one. He's got one. He's

29:30

sopping wet. He's sopping wet. He's got one. It

29:32

is sopping wet and the sinks are full. Very

29:35

quickly there is a crowd of true

29:37

believers racing towards the doors of the factory.

29:39

Does anyone do anything or are they going to burst through? Can

29:41

I go computer friend? Yes. Hello.

29:45

How can I help you? There are a bunch

29:47

of, what are they called? Infrareds who

29:49

have been excited

29:50

by a great community.

29:53

Oh, this isn't good. This

29:55

is a sector free industry. It is important that riots not

29:57

occur in your area. Can

30:00

you like zap him or something? Oh, I would you

30:02

like some kind of assistance? I could dispatch

30:05

armed forces. Yes, please.

30:08

Excellent. Dispatching armed forces to your area to...

30:10

and as you see this Lonnie races forward and tries

30:12

to tackle you to the ground. Dispatching armed

30:14

forces to your area to deal with any violence

30:17

or trouble. He can't stop you and he's like, you crashed to the

30:19

ground. And he's like, you idiot!

30:22

You fu... Oh god,

30:24

I'm so sick of people who are new here.

30:27

Alright, let's just try and clean up as much

30:29

as we fucking can before this fucking

30:32

thing happens. You mop. You

30:35

sponge. You... I

30:38

need to just punch you in the face. Because I just

30:40

needed to do that. Now the doors, no one

30:43

has stopped the door, so at this point, because they're not barricaded

30:45

or anything, the crowd has started to tear

30:48

into the room. and

30:51

strawberry

30:52

is gonna just make it as like, infrareds,

30:56

friend computer has dispatched armed

30:59

forces

31:00

disperse immediately. No,

31:02

but they can't hear. This is a crowd racing towards

31:04

you. Do you wanna be heard? Yeah. Hey,

31:07

do you wanna be, hang on a second. Wait,

31:09

friend computer? Yes. Need

31:11

a loud halo. That'll be 25 credits. Yeah, I'm

31:13

near

31:14

vent, Uh... X9634.

31:19

And then the little package comes out and it's all

31:22

loud, Haler in it. By the way, you

31:24

guys can do that. Thanks

31:27

for letting us know. Sounds

31:30

passive-aggressive, but I feel like I've been doing

31:32

a lot on this mission.

31:34

And as he says that the crowd has now raced forward

31:36

and they charge... Infrared's halt.

31:39

Friend computer has dispatched military

31:41

force. Please

31:43

halt and disperse from the area. Make me

31:45

a hutzpah and timidite check.

31:47

Oh ho ho, that's a six. That's

31:50

correct! I have dispatched a vulture class

31:52

squadron of attack helicopters to raise

31:55

this neighborhood block. They will arrive

31:57

in three minutes, so please disperse

31:59

if possible. possible. Should we

32:02

disperse from there as well? This

32:04

turns it into a sort of a panic and this

32:06

does stop the crowd but now

32:08

you are all in a time bomb. If they're gonna raise this

32:10

area does it make the cleaning moot?

32:13

No we can do it in three minutes. I

32:15

need this so bad. We can do it in three minutes.

32:18

I believe us. We can't. Can you do it in three

32:20

minutes? We just need to take these bodies. I

32:22

mean clean is clean. You know what I mean? Clean is

32:24

clean. If they're gonna raise it they're not gonna.

32:26

Okay first of all. There are about to be a more bodies.

32:29

First of all, first of all, they're not going to care about

32:31

the blood or the piss or the shit. So we can

32:33

forget about that. We just need to get these bodies into

32:36

the shoot.

32:36

Once we do that, it's credit city, baby.

32:39

So just help me get these bodies

32:42

into the shoot and then we can go. Okay.

32:44

Can I ask a question? Yes. Uh, you

32:46

know the sidebar feature? Yeah. You want to do a

32:48

sidebar? Yeah. Can I do with anyone I want? Anyone

32:50

you want.

32:52

I would like to do it then. Okay. Who are you going

32:54

to do it? I don't want them to know. Do I have, do they have to

32:56

hear? Are Are you going to do it with a Ben character? A

32:58

Ben character. Alright, so you and Ben can go away

33:00

very quickly? Oh wait,

33:02

what the ever-living fuck? I was here to do my job.

33:05

I'm g- am I still taking these two bodies

33:07

to the, to the bus stop? I mean, how

33:09

come, how come you're interfering with what I was, the

33:12

mission you set me on?

33:13

There are bigger things for me

33:16

to worry about now. I thought my task

33:18

for you was simple enough. Take

33:21

the bodies,

33:22

take them to the bus stop and let me do

33:24

my job. That's what I was going to

33:27

do when you came in and tried

33:29

to take them off me yourself. Well, I

33:31

thought you might need a hand,

33:32

but listen, there are bigger things

33:35

afoot. Like what? Like the

33:37

box.

33:39

Well, you didn't mention any freaking box.

33:41

Well, the box is above your pay grade

33:43

to be very honest with you, so

33:45

listen to me very, very carefully. I

33:48

would still like the bodies repatriated

33:50

if you can. In terms of everything

33:52

else, you must get into the

33:54

room and find for me a box. It's

33:57

about as big as a shoebox. It's

34:00

black, it has a sigil on

34:02

it, not unlike the necklace on

34:04

my bosom.

34:07

Well I... well I should...

34:10

Um, simply, listen,

34:13

you need to tell me what room this box is in,

34:15

if you want me to

34:15

do this job. It's in the room with the bodies you bloody idiot.

34:19

Oh, this, right. And

34:22

then take it where? I listened

34:24

to the first bit. If you can,

34:28

bring it to me. If you can't, bring

34:30

it back to the computer and we'll sort

34:33

it out with one of our agents. It

34:36

would be preferable to me if you

34:38

could deliver it to one of...

34:41

Nope, they're all dead, fuck. It

34:44

would be preferable to me if

34:46

you could deliver it to me, but otherwise,

34:49

deliver it back to the computer and our agents

34:52

will sort it out.

34:52

And do I know where this computer is? The

34:55

compu- back at the bloody

34:58

base you fucking moron. What

35:00

base? I genuinely don't know. What

35:03

fucking base? Back

35:05

at the bloody place where

35:06

the computer is, where you go back and you'll

35:08

do your debriefing and they'll say, oh well done,

35:10

have some credits and here's all the things you've- Oh my computer!

35:12

Take the big one, the one that's- Why am I working

35:15

with the big computer?

35:16

Well, because everybody works with the big computer.

35:19

Well, you know, this is a buff my pay grade. I'm very

35:21

confused, but I'll do my best. Yes, so

35:23

look, priority one, get

35:26

the box. Priority two, if you

35:28

could get the bodies, get the bodies. Priority three,

35:32

get the box to me. Priority four, get

35:34

it back to the computer and I'll see what I can do. I've

35:37

got to play tennis goodbye. Tennis. So

35:41

what did Simon, what did strawberry

35:44

and Bofco just see?

35:48

So again, all you saw was that

35:51

Clan C's eyes disappeared. this

35:53

focus as if she's using some part of cerebral cortex

35:55

snaps back into focus, but there's pandemonium

35:58

all around you.

36:00

At the moment, ever since the

36:02

Vulture Attack helicopters have been mentioned,

36:04

there, what was a mob marching

36:07

with divine purpose has quickly become a panicked

36:10

crowd who is trying to run for the

36:12

distance. Three minutes, you've been told, until an attack

36:15

vector hits this factory.

36:17

Alright, I'm gonna grab the leader's

36:20

body and put it in the chute. Alright, you run and grab

36:22

a corpse and you start putting it into the chute? What are you doing? I'll do it.

36:24

What's that? It's a corpse chute. Violence, malign.

36:26

Alright guys, I'm gonna grab a body too. Oh,

36:29

this one's light, that's fun for me. That's

36:31

fun, so you're taking one body each, that's fine, no rolls. So

36:33

you guys start grabbing bodies of the local history research

36:35

group, just cramming them into the shoot one after

36:37

another, what are you doing? Um,

36:39

I think I'm going to leave those bodies upstairs,

36:43

the ones that I hit out of sight, and

36:45

go back down and start to help. Alright,

36:47

so you guys start spending time, and soon, time

36:50

goes... Wait, were we putting bodies

36:53

of the cultists or the history people? No, the history people,

36:55

because yeah. So the you're

36:57

grabbing the bodies of the local history group

36:59

and you're grabbing these sort of sadness Lonnie says hang on a second

37:02

Fucking hang on a second. There were more bodies

37:06

That

37:07

when I came in this room, there are more bodies

37:09

don't look at me I don't see mine is 75

37:11

seconds until Vulture strike guys.

37:13

If there's anybody's left, we're not gonna get a sweet

37:15

sweet credits

37:18

We can't go we can't go looking for bodies

37:21

that you might have imagined let's just deal with the bodies

37:23

in front of us, old man. T minus 60

37:25

seconds until Vulture Strike.

37:27

We should leave, otherwise we won't get our

37:29

credits

37:29

regardless, correct? Well,

37:32

no, that's true, I'm on my last bloody climb. All

37:34

right. Let me run

37:36

around and look for them for you. T

37:38

minus 45 seconds until Vulture

37:40

Strike. Now, you guys are gonna have to work out because this is going

37:43

to flatten this block, what you wanna do, because you're running

37:45

out of time. Can we, how did we get in, through the street?

37:47

You came in through the mag tunnels. They

37:49

are a just down the street. Remember, if

37:52

you go into them, you can start clambering up

37:54

them and out of the sector. I'll run back there. Yeah.

37:57

Back where we go. You guys start running, start running. 30 seconds.

38:00

I'm

38:00

gonna run too, if you wanna do a little

38:02

fucking, yeah, great,

38:04

and I'll be sure to mention this in the debrief that

38:06

you are very thorough to your next

38:09

clone. Goodbye! All right, can you

38:11

all very quickly for me make a violence

38:13

athletics check? You are going to have to, you're-

38:15

I wanna be actually running around looking for the

38:18

box. For the, oh, okay, you wanna see if

38:20

you find the box? I just said I would be looking for the box. In

38:22

that case, I need you to make for me very quickly

38:25

a brains, and

38:27

we'll call this- Plus

38:30

two alpha come you don't actually need to know you don't

38:32

even need to say no you need to roll for that Okay, so you start

38:34

looking around upstairs The

38:36

two of you quickly make me your violence athletics checks

38:42

For a five one success is enough at this point And

38:46

a computer again you roll computers every

38:48

time All right, you

38:50

race forward and both of you managed to

38:52

make your way up towards it and as you do you

38:55

hear the voice of the computer calling

38:58

towards you and it's like hello troubleshooter

39:01

it seems that this mission is a success your vulture order

39:03

is almost on its way yeah

39:06

that counts as cleaning right I

39:08

suppose for our first mission we will

39:11

discuss it in debrief but to be honest

39:13

any destruction of great culture property

39:16

is probably going to look favorably so

39:18

congratulations I guess well

39:20

I have also some exclusive footage of that

39:22

later and you can see me trying

39:24

to kill her so I hope that's what's

39:26

something for you as well. Well save it for the briefing friend

39:29

it seems like you're in trouble so you better

39:31

just get out of there as quickly as possible also

39:33

by the way you're at this moment your data is

39:35

flashing you sort of see a little flashing signal

39:38

can you both make for me a

39:40

program yeah mechanics program

39:44

no science uh brains program tech for me

39:46

for strawberry and for no

39:49

successes

39:52

no successes for either

39:55

of you all right don't worry about it for now and

39:58

the so you scramble in and you managed to. to get

40:00

up onto the tube. Now you keep searching around

40:02

and at the last minute, you really

40:05

starting to get nervous because you know there's not much time list into it.

40:07

When you push a size of furniture and you see

40:10

what looks like a very, very scared young

40:12

man in a yellow jumpsuit

40:14

who's hiding underneath what

40:17

is obviously like a destroyed filing cabinet

40:19

and he's clutching his hand something. I don't

40:21

understand, they came for us. They

40:23

came for us but all we do is just look at different

40:25

kinds of screws and different kinds of things

40:27

on the walls and talk about the tunnels and the-

40:32

T

40:34

minus 45 seconds

40:35

until the vultures cry. Can I punch him out?

40:37

Yep, quickly make for me a violence and

40:39

melee. I've

40:41

gotten zero melee, so I

40:43

just roll this dice. Your

40:46

violence is one, so you would roll that plus another dice.

40:51

A six computer. Hello, it

40:54

seems that you have discovered a great culture

40:56

of a citizen. Are you in the midst of trying to apprehend them?

41:00

Yep. Oh, is that the black box that I heard

41:02

so much about? Uh-huh, it's

41:04

for you, it's for you. Excellent, because I am

41:06

now tagging it as in your possession and you'll be

41:08

required to account for it at the briefing. Oh, by

41:10

the way, will this help? And then there's a pshh, as

41:12

the entire filing cabinet electrocutes and

41:14

he falls down, collapses unconscious. Remember, Friend

41:17

Computer is here to help where possible.

41:18

Thank you, Friend Computer. So I grab

41:20

the box. Yep. And then

41:23

leave. Okay, you race out. Now you are running

41:26

very close

41:26

to the end, so I

41:29

need you to make for me also a violence

41:31

athletics check, but you're gonna need at least two successes.

41:34

Are there any other exits besides from the mag?

41:36

Oh, that's a good question. There

41:39

is- Would print computer know that? You could go into the

41:41

basement, but that would cut you off from the rest of the troubleshooters.

41:45

You would get cut off from the rest of the group. Okay,

41:48

and is that gonna be closer? It

41:50

looks like it's a little bit closer, yeah,

41:52

but you might then be separated. Do

41:55

you care if I'm separated? All

41:57

right, I'm gonna do that. Okay, great, so you

41:59

ready? forward in that case I just need one success quickly violent,

42:02

violence athletics. Yay! I've

42:05

got one success. You're fine. Yeah one

42:07

success which means you race in as you do

42:09

you see a low hum you look up and you see that the

42:11

sky is starting to turn a weird and

42:13

wicked red before it goes to white you hear a roar

42:15

a rumble and then a high-pitched whine

42:18

as you duck into the old basements

42:20

underneath the textile factory as an entire

42:22

city block

42:23

what was once the heart and industrial

42:25

soul of sector CUI4 is destroyed

42:28

under a barrage of

42:30

Vulture attack helicopter bombs. You

42:32

do wonder as the rubble

42:35

completely closes the surface if you will ever

42:37

see your friends and troubleshooters

42:39

again, but for now you have the

42:42

box. The rest of you wake

42:45

up a

42:47

few days later after successfully

42:50

crawling at no personal sacrifice And

42:52

it may say very very hard for you, Loni,

42:54

who only has one hand, your way out of Sector

42:56

CY4, and find yourselves back

42:59

at your barracks the next day

43:00

you are required by Friend Computer to

43:02

meet with Bradbury for the inevitable

43:05

debrief of the mission. I assume you

43:07

attend, because failure to attend is punishment

43:10

for subversive action. So you arrive and you

43:13

are surprised to see

43:15

that the room contains the two of you,

43:17

but also the figure of

43:20

Clancy, looking injured but

43:22

no worse the worse you take two points of

43:24

damage well I thought was a fairly simple

43:28

cleaning operation we've

43:31

got a whole city block raised

43:35

she looks like shit and

43:37

Lonnie's missing an arm yes

43:40

that's true we had to use an entire

43:43

Okada class extraction

43:45

unit to remove her from the rubble and

43:47

And this was just, this was

43:49

just a bit of cleaning, wasn't

43:52

it?

43:53

So where do we think things went right?

43:55

And where do we think things went wrong? Oh,

43:58

like we're doing like a retro meeting.

44:00

yeah we're doing like a swaps shocker

44:03

as what yeah drank so strength

44:05

said start with strings

44:08

well ah

44:11

or

44:11

poor there's not a lot is there were

44:13

correct jolly good lay of the man and it's the first

44:15

job why i saw gotten

44:18

a real idea of the challenges that lie ahead

44:20

of us doing during the

44:22

this these roles for the could have the alpha

44:24

complex well

44:25

i want to bring up a click here i

44:28

killed a sewer rat while i was

44:30

going to bring up that exact claim

44:31

actually that's

44:35

a positive leery of them in the monitor what

44:37

is it like a place that the clip

44:39

of this the psu about combat

44:41

or as you can you watch a clip and you can see

44:44

the figure of above com

44:46

being absolutely bodied by

44:48

an angry back into of flying backwards

44:51

wrestling it to the grounds

44:52

everybody scurries around now let's

44:54

forget for a second those bats because

44:56

we know that bats were destroyed many

45:00

years ago whatever

45:02

that creature was seem to get the better

45:04

of you what do you think happened there oh

45:06

i don't know but after that

45:09

ah i threw it into the rails

45:11

and then a collector cute it now i also take

45:13

your left school myself so i'm

45:16

i'm

45:16

quite badly injured right now

45:20

very well we're moving on

45:22

to when we have the confrontation with

45:24

the colts now

45:27

i tried to shoot the main one with my gun

45:29

know i've seen the footage of that and that's

45:31

good what do you think happened or jammed for

45:33

some reason i don't know why carriers

45:37

i want to talk about

45:41

to the team leader here regarding

45:44

the footage that you destroyed

45:47

now i'm all for somebody

45:50

taking the initiative and looking

45:52

at the task at hand at

45:54

but i want to know why you felt

45:56

it necessary

45:57

to destroy what could have been

46:00

footage that we could have used to rat

46:03

out more subversives. I

46:05

weighed up the potential danger of

46:08

insidious media infecting members

46:10

of the team, including myself and Lani. The

46:14

risk of that media then infecting

46:17

and creating treacherous thoughts within

46:19

the broader community. Our

46:21

mission was to clean, and to clean that off

46:23

the face of the earth, was

46:26

my first instinct

46:27

to make it spit-spat. bit spot but

46:30

don't you think there could have been a sound

46:32

like Rocco from Rocco's modern life

46:37

don't you think there could have been some sort of

46:41

don't you think

46:43

there could have been some

46:46

insight gained if

46:48

that footage had fallen into

46:52

the hands of

47:04

friend computer. That

47:06

is beyond my pay

47:08

grade. It is not my job to

47:10

think about things

47:12

that are beyond my level. I

47:15

am a red and I am following my orders

47:18

to the letter as best I can. Ding

47:20

ding ding. That is correct. And can I say Bradbury

47:22

that I am pressed with the efficient work

47:25

by your troubleshooters on their first

47:27

mission. You ought to be commended. Take 400

47:30

credits. For

47:32

you. For... For Bradbury.

47:35

Oh well, that's a bit nice. And

47:38

you, team leader, I have allocated 2,200 credits

47:43

for your team for the safe execution

47:45

of your mission. Congratulations! 2,200 credits.

47:49

There is one thing I'd like to raise

47:51

before... Oh yes?

47:55

It's the question of

47:57

plan C. Computer.

48:00

Clancy

48:02

behaved in a very erratic way. From

48:09

what I can tell from the footage, Clancy

48:12

hid two bodies away

48:16

from the cleaning staff. Unfortunately footage

48:18

from this site was lost because

48:20

of the heat signature of the Vulture attacks. Do

48:23

you have any footage Bradbury? No but I'm- Are

48:25

you casting aspersions on a fellow? No but from what

48:27

the team leader has told me- So that

48:29

sounds like he doesn't want his credits! From

48:31

what the team leader has told me! It

48:35

seems, uh, but, uh... We,

48:37

uh, according to Frank Computer have completed

48:40

our task admirably, and to question it further would

48:42

be to question... Frank

48:44

Computer. It seems that you have all performed

48:46

admirably and as I said I will have 2200 credits for

48:50

you team leader to determine how to

48:52

hand out as is the right of the team

48:54

leader depending on the

48:56

levels of competence and assistance that each of

48:58

your members provided on the mission. Each

49:01

member was

49:02

absolutely and entirely

49:05

proficient, sufficient, did

49:07

not exceed any of

49:09

their, did

49:13

reach above their station at all in

49:15

order to execute. You're doing maths now aren't

49:17

you? I can hear it. 550 credits

49:20

to each of the four team members

49:23

which I think leaves 1000 for you is that

49:25

correct? 2200. 2200. So 1100 for you and 550 for

49:30

each of them? No it's Lonnie and then and

49:32

it's four of us including.

49:34

Oh no Lonnie has a separate allocation this is

49:36

for your troubleshooters the Big Brother system has its

49:38

own system. I see well it

49:40

will be divided. 700 Is

49:43

that what you're trying to get to? That's what

49:45

I'm trying to get to. Wonderful. Then I guess the

49:47

last question is you nearly need to return the equipment

49:49

that was given to you at PLC and we

49:51

can log this off and call it a successful mission.

49:54

Can you please hand in your mops and auto-mop

49:56

now?

49:59

Here's my

50:01

night vision back.

50:04

Oh, this is strange. It seems like your Augment

50:09

seems to be full of video Yeah,

50:12

did you not see the flashing light? Is it possible

50:14

that you have deleted important programmatic

50:17

assets by superfluous recording

50:20

of your environment?

50:22

But

50:22

I was I recorded trying

50:24

to kill a woman. I thought you'd like to see that Did

50:27

you remember to turn off the recording?

50:30

Oh, for fucking sake. Fucking

50:32

game. No, this was what the program

50:35

test was before, which you failed.

50:37

Right. This is a pity. Destruction

50:39

of an asset that was granted to you. Well,

50:42

this is your first mission, so I suppose we can dock

50:44

you only 200. That still leaves you with 500

50:46

credits, which is pretty healthy. Do you have the auto-mop?

50:49

We do not. have

50:52

from two of us footage of

50:54

existence of a grey culture

50:56

club that is the church in action

50:59

trying actively to recruit members as

51:02

seen through night vision. So

51:05

that would suggest an additional

51:07

number of credits

51:09

coming up to... That's true. If one of you was to

51:11

identify two grey culture clubs operating

51:14

in the sector, I would grant you an extra 200

51:16

credits if you could name two

51:19

grey culture clubs that were operating in the sector. the

51:21

church and the historians. Congratulations,

51:23

that's an extra 200 credits for you. They

51:25

have to be shared equally amongst our members. Unfortunately,

51:28

remember I said the credits cannot be shared,

51:30

they are only earned. So that's 930 credits

51:32

for you, 500 credits for you, 730 credits for you and

51:34

the auto mob.

51:39

He's already told, he's told you old Fred, we don't

51:41

have the auto mob. You don't have the auto mob. You

51:43

may deduct that from, our team leader,

51:45

I believe. You may deduct that from our earnings.

51:48

Unfortunately, I have to deduct that from

51:50

the earnings of your equipment officer.

51:53

Is this your signature?

52:00

Yeah, yeah, that's mine. That's

52:02

a pity. That's going to have to be 240 credits,

52:05

which means that it still gives you 260 credits,

52:08

which is a reasonable amount. 933 credits for the team leader

52:10

and 730 credits. This has been a successful mission. You

52:15

should be proud of yourselves and yes,

52:17

of course. Sorry, I haven't

52:20

been allocated my credits and...

52:23

Our friend computer always allocates the credits.

52:25

Is this a Lonnie, is it? Yeah,

52:27

it's Lonnie, so if you just give me,

52:30

you

52:30

know, any any spillover I can use

52:32

when I get that yellow jumpsuit, that's fine. I'm

52:35

gonna be racing

52:37

past the obviously because the Big Brother program

52:40

is mostly an observational role. You only earn 75

52:43

credits, which should be enough to see

52:45

you. Yes, I'm yellow. Of

52:48

course there are any reports

52:50

of Malthusis or failure

52:53

to perform your duties by any of those

52:55

in the Big Brother program.

53:02

And can

53:03

I mime to Clancy? Sorry,

53:06

can I mime to Lonnie? Like,

53:09

remember this? Yeah,

53:12

that'd be good. Excellent.

53:14

Congratulations on your promotion and

53:16

there's another burst of loyalty confetti, and

53:19

thump, and a little- And his jumpsuit goes

53:21

up his bum. And a little vacuum bat-packed

53:23

yellow- Wait,

53:26

you're a yellow- Yellow bag full- Hot chutcha! That's

53:28

so good. Down, as it seems that the

53:30

troublemakers have succeeded in their first mission, but more missions

53:32

lie ahead. First of all, there is an R&R cycle.

53:35

There is a mandatory meal of

53:37

lovely red paste. There

53:39

is doubtless many hours of mandatory

53:41

viewing of the Tila O'Miley show reels,

53:44

And there is more adventure yet in Lu

53:47

for these troublemakers of this place we call Alpha

53:49

Complex. We're losing our minds. This has been 4

53:51

hours we recorded today. Goodbye!

53:54

Haha!

53:56

The cast of this week's episode of OK Computer

53:58

is Alex Lee, Simon Greiner and Michael

54:00

Hing. Our Dungeon Master and friend

54:02

computer is Dave Harlan with NPC voices

54:04

provided by Ben Jenkins and music provided

54:07

by Tom Carding. Shakira Khan is our producer

54:09

and the podcast edited, mixed and mastered by

54:11

me Hugh Gist. OK Computer

54:14

is brought to you by contributors to the Dragon Friends Patreon

54:16

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54:19

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54:23

Um, we, Alex made some delicious dinner.

54:25

Oh,

54:29

with my friend Simon and Michael Hing. Hing

54:31

interfered with the guacamole. That's what we're calling

54:34

it. That's what he put his penis in the guacamole.

54:36

Yeah, that really makes it sound like he fucked the guacamole.

54:40

I interfered with some guacamole. No,

54:43

if anything you elevated it by putting your penis in. It

54:46

also elevated my penis. It was good because it was

54:49

very, it was, I

54:51

wouldn't say that guac was spicy, but

54:53

I would say that it wasn't here for a fucking haircut.

54:56

You know what I mean? You know what I mean? It wasn't

54:58

here to just gotta be under the

55:00

radar. A spicy haircut? Yeah,

55:02

it was here for a spicy little haircut. All right, we ready

55:04

to play a little bit more paranoia? Well, hang on. I

55:07

think we're talking about this guacamole. It was some more praise for this

55:09

guacamole.

55:09

What'd you do to that? It was

55:12

up to you had sex with it. What's interesting,

55:14

what is really interesting about this is that we're

55:16

talking cherry tomatoes, onion,

55:19

garlic. So hang on, what was in there before, cause

55:21

Simon, it's not your fault. You said you

55:23

were making a friendly. I made a kid friendly

55:25

guac, which is what I'm making. Your base dip. Which is just guac.

55:29

But a cholula hot sauce, olive

55:31

oil, salt, pepper, lime. So

55:33

just, yeah, a base. But something

55:35

that an eight year old can. And by guac you mean an

55:37

avocado. A four year old. Yes. Yeah, he didn't

55:40

start off with guacamole. He started with avocado. The base ingredient of

55:42

guacamole is the guac. Did I mention avocado?

55:44

Yeah, the guac fruit. Yeah. And

55:46

then I added cherry tomatoes, onions, that

55:50

Alex chopped up. Your dick. Like my penis, which

55:52

is very important. I mean, let's think that is red. Some

55:54

more lime, about.

55:57

And it's very red. That half

55:59

a jalapeno. pepper and

56:02

a bit more hot sauce and then a lot

56:04

of garlic. That's a trick

56:06

to work a Molly. Yeah, it was more garlic. With

56:09

every chip you dipped,

56:11

it whacked you in the face. You know what

56:13

I mean? It wasn't background.

56:15

Dave really wants to play the game. No,

56:18

no, this

56:18

is fine. This is fun.