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Hey babe, what you got there? This is a check from Carvana.

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I just sold my car to them. I went online and Carvana

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gave me an offer right away. Then they just picked up the

0:06

car and gave me this.

0:07

Oh, that's a big check. Well,

0:10

obviously you could put this towards your next car, or

0:12

we could finally get that Jacuzzi, or

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I could start taking Tuba lessons, or I could

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quit my job and write my memoir.

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0:30

What's about to happen? I'm

0:31

recording now, so we can talk.

0:33

Mic's up. What? What are

0:35

you doing there? We have so little of this

0:38

still to do, Ben. Can you just? First, the bad

0:40

news. The

0:42

world is no longer habitable to human

0:44

life. Now

0:46

for the good news. Your new life

0:48

starts today.

1:01

You find yourselves in Lime Tree Tango, AKA Lime Tree Tango,

1:05

because

1:05

I am not being consistent about that. A

1:08

disused hab complex somewhere

1:10

in sector CYN,

1:12

and a dead zone from level three up. Friend computer cannot

1:15

hear you. Friend computer cannot see you. You

1:18

have a brief respite,

1:19

and a lot of you are dying. Now,

1:21

you've made your way up to the third story, through past the

1:23

gutters, through secret doors. You

1:26

found yourselves inside strange guest bedrooms. There

1:29

was a lot of things blowing up for a short

1:31

while. Some people were briefly, we

1:33

won't say who lost their minds. And in fact,

1:36

even as you stand now in a central bar,

1:38

in the center of what is the

1:40

CYON safe house, you can see

1:42

the figures of six or seven different operatives

1:45

of CYON standing around you, as

1:47

you hear a pneumatic, a

1:49

flush, and then a very, very wet, very, very drippy, very,

1:51

very amniotic. Cloned

1:54

by the name of BuffCon, Rbuff5

1:56

walks down the stairs towards

1:59

you.

4:00

Who knows what it's called after that? But

4:03

there is a chance that this man is

4:06

not who you think he is. Now, I

4:09

will leave it up to you to decide.

4:13

Whether we are returning him to you, with

4:16

you with grateful arms, or whether you

4:18

decide to do with him whatever you will, I will leave that

4:20

to you. We are just here to help.

4:23

His eyes look at you appraisingly as if for

4:25

the first time, like he hadn't realized how just

4:28

willing to deal you are. All

4:32

right, all right. Now this is good, this

4:34

is good, this is good. I can work with you. Second, what did

4:37

you say your name was? My name is Pikachu.

4:39

And you? The mule.

4:41

And you? A Clancy's leg

4:44

kicks out and there's a hiss of steam. Oh, I say the mule,

4:46

yes. Um, my

4:48

name is Jellyfish. Jellyfish

4:51

is good and? I'm a cop. What? Cop?

4:54

Cop? I'm a cop. I'm

4:57

a cop. What? I got,

4:59

it's because I can turn invisible. I

5:01

just wanna be clear because you came out of a tube

5:04

a second ago with a cling wrapped suit.

5:07

You've unwrapped it and you've put on the jumpsuit? Yeah.

5:10

Yeah, I'm no longer naked. Great, wonderful. And actually

5:12

have you or? Does he still

5:14

have his device? No, no, no, no. Oh,

5:16

well then go and turn invisible. I

5:19

wanna rephrase

5:19

what I just said. I am mutant.

5:22

I think we all just noticed something that I could do. I just

5:24

made this bloody glob over

5:26

here relax when he was going absolutely bonkers. And

5:29

everyone else in this room chilled the fuck out. Sorry, you

5:31

guys might not. Mr. Chill.

5:34

I guess Mr. Chill is it, I can say. I

5:36

certainly felt it. Yeah, so you use

5:38

your tone of command, mutant ability on

5:41

the now very dead body of Bofcon

5:43

Mark IV. Bofcon V, have you dressed

5:46

yourself?

5:47

Yeah, we

5:50

arrive in our jumpsuit, right? Well, no, because

5:52

you're in a dead zone, you're being fired out of a pneumatic

5:54

cannon in a capsule and then you just come out and

5:56

then you get a cling wrap jumpsuit. So you've got it if you

5:58

want. Yeah, we'll have your old outfit.

5:59

if you want to be a cool punk. If you

6:02

want to just strip the body that's on the ground in front of you. Oh yeah, would

6:04

be cool. I'll just wear the red jumpsuit.

6:06

Okay, now it doesn't come with any equipment because again,

6:08

you're in a dead zone. But I can steal that off my

6:11

old body. Yeah, so as long as you lose

6:13

a point of moxie, but you can sort of sit there and start

6:15

rifling through the equipment of your dead body, trying

6:18

not to look your dead eyes in the face.

6:20

And yeah, you can take all that stuff back.

6:22

All right, why don't you guys just wait

6:25

here. I've just got to get

6:27

something

6:27

from my, well, not my, my temporary

6:31

office. Wait,

6:34

which one are you? What's your name? Dingo, just

6:36

had a whole conversation. Sorry, I forgot

6:38

which one you were. Dingo, let me come with you to the office.

6:45

Why?

6:47

Because I am,

6:53

because I have something

6:55

I need to tell you away from.

6:59

I know, boss, the way he said that suggested to

7:02

me not, that was a strange- Excuse

7:04

my friend, he's a baby. He's

7:06

just, he's a bit befuddled. He's just come out of his

7:08

tube. I think, Bob, I

7:11

mean to say, jellyfish.

7:13

We

7:16

need to have a little tatter, tatter, tatter.

7:19

The four of us need to discuss what

7:21

just happened. As you can see, and you know,

7:24

organizations can't be awfully complex. Oh

7:27

my God, the payroll? Have you

7:29

ever tried to do payroll with single touch? A

7:31

nightmare. Look, how- And

7:33

then they tell me that they're changing it. And then MR,

7:36

mutant resources. Absolutely, oh, don't get me, okay,

7:39

let's go, Dingo, Dingo, you're rambling again. I understand

7:41

that I am- They don't need to know about payroll. Okay, well-

7:43

Look, look, look, it's very simple, all right? There's six

7:45

of us here, we've got our guns trained on you. You seem to be

7:48

equipping yourself with what is that? Is that a rocket

7:50

launcher? Oh yeah, do

7:52

you want me to use it? No, I- I

7:55

can show you how it works. You say you need to have a conversation

7:57

with your friends, obviously there's some kind of breakdown in communication.

10:00

I do. I?

10:01

What? You have powers as well?

10:04

Yes, I do. What are your powers? Well,

10:06

if we're all spinning in each other's mouths.

10:09

I can slow down time. I'm yet to

10:12

use it. I'm just feeling

10:14

it come back to me like so many other sensations.

10:17

Like what? Memories. What

10:21

kind of memories? Something I must tell

10:23

you when I ran my hands over that wood, I

10:25

felt as though, not

10:28

me but perhaps the original version

10:30

of me worked with wood.

10:33

Yeah, you actually memory. I

10:35

was Jesus Christ, the carpet. No,

10:37

no, no, no, you do have sort of memories.

10:39

They're coming back to you like all of the memories that are resurfacing.

10:42

A lot of them are as being infrareds, but you have a strange

10:44

one. You saw that desk, which is you imagined

10:46

yourself at a desk just like

10:49

it and in front of what seemed to be a

10:51

strange terminal with processed

10:53

vegetable matter sheets in front of

10:55

you. You were staring at them, looking at

10:57

them, not like this sort of flimsy wax read

11:00

readouts that you get all over Alpha Center, but

11:02

something like rich paper. And you used to

11:04

work at a desk

11:05

just like that. You wore clothes

11:07

of different colors and fabrics

11:09

and you were in a room that seemed to be made of more

11:11

woods and mortar and strange

11:14

materials. That's textures all seem wrong, but

11:16

you remember being very happy. Yes,

11:18

I used to eat something called a hamburger

11:22

at my desk because I couldn't leave for

11:25

lunch because my job was very

11:27

important. But on my desk,

11:29

I remember. What was your job?

11:31

I don't know. I think I was

11:33

some sort of hamburger

11:36

salesman. Hang on. So

11:39

they would

11:39

make you eat hamburgers

11:41

at your desk as a hamburger

11:44

salesman because you would say you'd be

11:46

fresh. No, because he was so important. She

11:48

said, I just

11:48

tried to put this all together. I mean, it was seconds

11:50

ago. I couldn't even tell what a hamburger was. I couldn't even tell

11:53

what a hamburger was. Talk us through your day

11:55

as a hamburger salesman. What are you, like

11:57

a door to door

11:58

salesman? I

12:00

had to call people. You

12:03

were calling people and saying, hey, do you

12:05

have a room? I don't want to ask

12:07

them, but you were just buying a habit. And

12:10

what did people say there? Usually

12:13

they said, I'll just buy one myself. It

12:17

was a cold-calling hamburger

12:20

sales app. Sorry, and

12:22

Sykes is also here. I couldn't help

12:24

overhearing. So like, was it this specific

12:27

guy? Or

12:30

just the concept of hamburgers? Just

12:32

say, I buy a hamburger. How does it get

12:34

to me?

12:35

Do you then go and make it, or is

12:36

that someone else's job? Or do I have

12:39

to go to a restaurant that you contact

12:41

as a third party and pick it up from there? Were

12:43

you paid by commission? Was it like cheeseburger

12:45

leads and there's some leads for better than others? I was. I was

12:47

paid by commission. But I had

12:49

to say, I would call someone and say, are you interested?

12:53

You've got a party to cater for in the near

12:55

future. I would sell

12:58

you a dozen pack of hamburgers.

12:59

I'm sorry to interrupt,

13:01

but let me see.

13:02

There's a beautiful world outside

13:04

of here. And he's sobbing. A

13:06

world where people are buying

13:09

and selling hamburgers. To

13:11

be honest, this doesn't sound like a beautiful world. I

13:13

have two things to say. One, what

13:16

is a hamburger? And two, while

13:19

you're sharing, I need

13:21

to share as well. Sykes,

13:24

please go to the other side of the room, please. No,

13:27

fuck me, I guess. Bye. Sykes walks

13:29

over and pours himself. You didn't spit him a cup. Pours

13:33

himself a contraband

13:35

whiskey, a mashed steel

13:37

whiskey.

13:38

I, circle

13:41

of trust, do not have pals. I

13:43

am not a mutilator.

13:45

I am a guy who

13:47

found himself here. And

13:50

I was the leader of this ragtag ramshackle

13:52

crew, and I can never go back. So...

13:55

But you could go back. I

13:58

am by nature a curious cheeky. Cheeky,

14:00

impulsive man. So

14:03

cheeky. But, very

14:06

quickly, I learned that in

14:09

the world of Alpha Complex,

14:12

I could not be myself. And maybe this

14:15

is an opportunity to be who

14:17

I am. Either way, I'm

14:21

with you. I'm stuck with you. So

14:23

let's make the best of this situation. I

14:25

am no longer your leader. I'm

14:28

your equal. Well, it sounds right

14:30

now like we have a decision to make. Whether

14:32

we stay here, we work

14:34

with the mutants, you with the mutants, we as mutants, or

14:37

we use what we have

14:39

and we go back and we work as double

14:41

agents, not for Amigo,

14:44

but against him. There's a scream and

14:46

sonic sort of whoosh as you, all of the curtains

14:49

alongside the outside wall

14:51

of the bar flutter and you

14:53

can suddenly feel that there's a great hovering shape

14:56

has pulled up alongside the

14:58

wall and then of

15:01

some

15:01

kind of anchors being fired into the

15:03

wall as one of the other mutants runs and goes

15:05

off into the spare room to tell Dingo and Camry.

15:11

Are they going to want to hear about this? I got a guy. Is

15:13

what he says. I mean,

15:16

is this all of us? Are we are we unloading all of our

15:18

secrets or just these

15:20

ones? I think if you got secrets, yeah, probably now.

15:22

Quickly. Um, I'm

15:25

a member of the church. Oh, you son

15:27

of a bitch. I

15:35

don't even remember why really, but I look,

15:38

I know that there is a box

15:41

that they want me to get from the free

15:43

enterprise and I have suspicions that you,

15:45

Buff Con, are involved in the free enterprise.

15:47

You already got your fucking box. What? When

15:50

we're at the other one, you

15:51

got your box. How many boxes

15:53

are there? No, this is the same box,

15:55

but a member of the mutants got it from

15:58

the computer and I've got to get it back. the

16:00

mutants before they give it to the free enterprise

16:02

and does that word mean anything to you? Probably,

16:05

I haven't been paying a lot of attention. Sorry.

16:09

Did you mean this box? You turn around and

16:11

you see that Dingo flanked by Camry is now holding

16:13

up

16:15

a black lecured box with a strange symbol

16:17

under that you recognise very much clancy and

16:19

as you will see it there is only a high pitched whine and

16:22

you hear pshhh sound as a high

16:24

stream of some kind of highly corrosive liquid starts

16:27

cutting a rectangle very very

16:29

slowly through the third story wall

16:31

of the bar while all the other clones

16:34

stand well back.

16:35

This is our ticket out of here, we're trading

16:37

this box to the free enterprise for extraction

16:40

so if you guys want it, well you can't have it.

16:42

For what? For extraction out

16:44

of here, relocation.

16:46

I'm gonna relocate to another part

16:49

of Alpha Complex with a new, I think I'll be called

16:51

Monsieur Big Dick. Firebrand

16:53

hears all this by the way, particularly the last

16:55

bit. And Firebrand's

16:58

like,

16:59

you have no idea how powerful

17:02

that box is. You cannot just trade

17:05

it as a trinket. You need to listen

17:07

to me now. Whatever the free enterprises

17:09

offered you, turn them down. We cannot have

17:11

it fall into their

17:12

heads. This rectangle is about 60% cut

17:14

now. It's obviously

17:17

there's some kind of vast flying craft

17:19

on the other side and they're cutting a doorway into

17:21

this third story wall. I'm gonna use my

17:23

mutant power and I'm gonna time

17:26

jam. Time slap. Slow

17:28

jam. Can

17:31

you bring anybody with you? I can

17:33

slow time around you. Good question. Yes,

17:38

so

17:39

I can do this. Oh, yes, I've

17:42

got enough moxie points.

17:44

Yeah, I can do five actions one after

17:46

another depending on how many moxie points I

17:48

use before anyone else can even blink. Fortunately,

17:51

you only have four moxie points before

17:53

you lose your mind. So that's a maximum of four actions and that

17:55

would send you on a break. But you can do three

17:57

actions and still keep some small

17:59

measure of your

17:59

I'll do three things. Alright,

18:03

so time slows still. The only one that

18:05

can move is Clancy. Clancy, what do you do? Okay,

18:08

I'm gonna grab the box. Yeah, you run

18:10

forward, you grab the box out of

18:12

Dingo's hands. Ripping it out at slow speed

18:14

means that two of his fingers are ripped

18:16

off and flop slowly

18:18

in the air. But he hasn't even reacted because time

18:20

is still slow. That's gross. Do you

18:23

think time's slow or she's fast? I

18:25

think that,

18:25

it's only a question of relativity.

18:28

Yeah, well I'm just saying. Yeah, I have slow

18:30

time. Oh, you were

18:32

saying outside the building what's happening. Is it localized?

18:35

No, I think that she can actually access

18:38

a faster mode of

18:40

movement. So the entire, everywhere,

18:43

Alpha Complex brain computer is moving

18:45

slower right now. Okay,

18:47

I mean, what counts as one action? That was

18:50

your first action. Can

18:52

I jump on board the ship?

18:55

At the moment

18:57

the door is about 60% cut, so

18:59

you could run, jump through the window and you

19:02

could free fall three stories if you want

19:04

to try and grab onto

19:04

the side of the plane or something, but this

19:06

doorway isn't cut yet. Alright,

19:09

well I'll jump out. That

19:12

was a great dinner. So great. Wait, where'd

19:14

you park the car? Oh, the one I just sold at Carvana.

19:17

What? When did you do that? When you were still looking

19:19

at the menu. I went on Carvana.com and all

19:21

I had to do was enter the license plate or VIN, answer

19:23

a few questions and got a real offer in seconds. They

19:25

picked up the car already? No, I parked around

19:27

the corner, but they are picking it up tomorrow and

19:29

paying me right on the spot. Oh, no wonder you

19:32

picked up the check. Yeah, about that. Thought we

19:34

were going halfsies. Sell your car to Carvana.

19:36

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19:42

...window

19:44

then. Okay, that's your second action.

19:47

So you're going to grab the box, you're going to jump

19:49

out the window. Yeah, and I'm going to, as I

19:51

fall, I'm going to shoot

19:52

at the window with my rifle so

19:55

I can... I

20:00

can land in the driver's seat. Of

20:02

the ship? The window of the ship? Of the ship.

20:04

The ship is pointing sideways. You've jumped underneath

20:07

it. Is that right? Have

20:10

I? I thought you meant I could go to a tall window,

20:13

jump out the window and jump into the driver's seat. I think

20:15

there's a tall window. I don't know if you can get into the driver's seat, but

20:17

you can get onto the Thunderbird. But of course,

20:19

this is a pretty impressive piece of athletics.

20:23

Or I guess throw? What do we think? It's

20:25

athletics or throw. Either way, deal this choice. But

20:27

it's definitely a bit of chutzpah and

20:29

athletics or throw. All right.

20:32

So you need to make the roll. And because you're bursting through the door

20:35

as well, the moment you break through the window,

20:37

the computer goes, ah, there you

20:38

are. Your HUD lights up and I need you to roll the computer

20:41

dice as well. But the computer would

20:43

be very slow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no. It's just

20:45

managed to connect to you. All

20:47

right, I've got a computer six. And

20:50

I've got a five and I've got a sixes. All right, so

20:52

you suddenly as your third action, you

20:55

grab the box, all of you see suddenly a whir. Dingo

20:57

screams in pain as some of his fingers

21:00

just flop out. The boxes are

21:02

blurred and disappears as is Clancy.

21:04

And then suddenly you hear a shattering behind you and

21:06

you turn around just in time to see the

21:08

Clancy clambering onto

21:11

what is a Thunderbird attack craft. It's a large

21:13

troop transport. It can hold about 12 different people.

21:16

There are other figures inside the

21:18

transport and they're spinning around. There's chaos

21:21

and Clancy is grappling with them. So very quickly,

21:23

what do the rest of you want to do? I'm gonna throw a smoke grenade down

21:25

in the room and run towards the open

21:27

door to jump onto the open door. Okay,

21:30

you grab a smoke grenade. Can you roll the dice for me very quickly?

21:33

Yeah, which do I do operate? No, just a six sided dice.

21:37

That's a four. All right, great. You grab a

21:39

smoke grenade and you throw it into the room and it disses

21:41

and suddenly smoke explodes everywhere. No one

21:43

can see anything as everyone shouts and

21:45

confusion and panic reigns. What do you do, Beetle? I

21:48

run over as well. How is the door open? Yeah,

21:50

the door is just one good kick, I

21:52

reckon. And you can smash it backwards into the Thunderbird

21:55

if you want. I'm down and

21:57

I kind of shoulder barge it. All right, you shoulder barge it, making me a violence

21:59

check. athletics. Unfortunately no. Hey just

22:01

quick question.

22:06

Alice

22:12

didn't have to use moxie for her skill.

22:15

Yes I did. Sorry you didn't have

22:17

to roll for your moxie and I just wanted to maybe

22:19

just change the way my one works. I think I

22:22

don't know you made me roll for whether

22:24

it succeeded every time and I think mine

22:26

is you I use it it does always succeed but it's

22:28

an extra moxie if I want to add a word so

22:31

if it's literally one person one word

22:33

like I said well it succeeded anyway so that's fine is that

22:35

okay just because well I don't

22:36

you get a point take off just so I have less before

22:38

I use so much yeah sure okay yeah

22:41

I'll reroll

22:42

to that's

22:45

five all right one five is success is enough it's

22:48

only just enough those music concrete smashes over

22:50

and the entire gun but gunship lurches

22:52

to the side knocking people over who were coming

22:54

towards you with guns their guns scattering wildly

22:56

you can now see that these are very

22:59

slick looking foreign

23:01

sector operatives all

23:04

of them are wearing what

23:06

look at first like regulation jumpsuits but they all have some

23:08

strange gold accessories

23:11

of flash collars this kind of strange

23:13

contraband flare decorating them

23:15

and you know you've seen these before these are members of free

23:17

enterprise one of the more shadowy members

23:20

of the Grey Culture Club's that you had forgotten about until

23:23

now as you're more and more of your memories are surfacing

23:25

meanwhile buff gone if

23:27

I use my

23:30

mutant power do I and that

23:38

succeeds will the person I'm

23:40

possessing succeed in their

23:43

attempt to do

23:43

something or will they need to do a secondary

23:45

role no like I didn't let him roll

23:47

for

23:48

the guns you you will do it for them by proxy can

23:51

I see

23:53

can I see Clancy

23:58

yeah you can see Clancy scramble with

24:00

a bunch of free enterprises that are sort of fighting

24:02

on a rock or a rumble. She's got the box in her head.

24:04

I'm yelling, come on! I'm just, and

24:07

I'm gonna... To you guys. Puppeteer Clancy.

24:10

Yep. To throw the box back

24:13

to me. Okay great, how much money are you spending? Um,

24:16

I'll use three

24:18

then. Great, alright. And there's no computerized for

24:20

this because I'm inside the kind of house. You're still inside, yeah.

24:27

Uh, that's three failures. Then,

24:30

uh, okay. You can do a re-roll if you

24:32

want. You're just gonna cost you what to do. I'll go insane again. Alright,

24:34

suddenly you feel... Oh fuck it, yeah I'll do it, I'll go insane.

24:37

Who cares? Uh,

24:40

and that's a failure

24:41

as well, but I've been sane now Dave. Cool,

24:43

but it's a re-roll, so you actually can re-roll the

24:45

dice. Did you don't, didn't it? I did,

24:47

I added the extra dice. Didn't add an extra

24:49

dice, it's a re-roll. You can re-roll all the dice. Oh

24:52

right. Oh shit! Oh so you don't re-roll,

24:54

so I've got two more chances

24:56

then. Uh, they're also failing. Okay,

24:58

great. We've achieved it.

24:59

So suddenly you spin around as

25:01

the, your hand goes wild. You feel like tendrils

25:03

are pulling it. You turn around and you see with his eyes looking

25:06

at your strange expression, boff con, lurching

25:08

at your hand, but you pull it back, the tendrils snap,

25:11

and the feedback causes you to howl in pain as

25:13

you get hurt, and something

25:14

snaps inside your brain as

25:16

you lose it. Now, uh,

25:19

how does that work for you? You're in the middle of a gunfight,

25:21

this is a different, this is a different break, it's like a break. I guess,

25:24

ice, the most... Have

25:26

a rocket launcher. Um,

25:29

well I guess then because Clanty's stolen the box,

25:32

I'm gonna shoot Clanty with a rocket

25:34

launcher. Okay, is that what you want to do?

25:37

I guess. Alright great, make for me a,

25:40

um, violence and guns check. Two

25:52

successes. Two successes means

25:55

that a missile is slammed into

25:56

the rocket launcher and it fires, and then the gun bird winds

25:59

as the wing...

26:00

smokes. Can you very... No, in fact, I'm

26:02

sorry. You rock it to the side, you take two points

26:04

of damage as the gun bird spins, its

26:07

copters go crazy and it smashes into the side

26:09

of the building and everybody falls

26:12

to the floor as every member of free

26:14

enterprise that was on the only escape

26:16

ship out of town dies and Clancy,

26:19

you die with them and the box falls

26:21

down to the ground on the outside of the hab

26:23

complex as Firebrand

26:27

screams and runs forward to the window and starts

26:29

trying to climb down the side of the building chasing it.

26:31

Meanwhile, what do you do, Strawberry? Um...

26:36

I had some good question. I am going

26:41

to

26:43

grab Bofo and

26:45

throw him out the side of the building. Okay, you

26:47

grab Bofcon and make for me an athletics

26:50

throw check, the violence throw. Violence

26:52

throw, so that's one two

26:54

three four five Now

26:57

because and that's two success

26:59

three successes. That's three successes now because this is up close and

27:02

personal if you want to try and avoid

27:04

it you can make yourself a violence athletics

27:06

checking that you need to get more than three successes.

27:08

I

27:10

It may not be possible. What if I wait, what if

27:12

I try and fight back

27:14

against being tackled. Okay, you can be violence melee not

27:16

violence athletics. Yeah, make a violence melee check And

27:20

I need how many success three successes before

27:23

actually you got to beat him. No,

27:25

they're all right. All right. You try to kick his legs

27:27

out from under him but he grabs you scoops you up by the middle of

27:29

your waist and throws you out the window another

27:31

window unbroken every time someone goes out a window

27:33

to be really clear. They're all choosing at the

27:35

bottom. There's also two mutants carrying like a pane of glass across

27:38

the street.

27:40

As your body goes screaming you fall out the side

27:43

and This is this is

27:45

still

27:45

yeah, this is three stories question

27:47

three stories who thinks I could survive a three-story fall I

27:50

think it would be pretty difficult.

27:52

Do we think maimed or dead? I don't want to be unfair here

27:55

I feel dead is my intent dead

27:57

dead dead. All right, I'm fortunately then like

27:59

falling out Maybe thrown out, I think

28:01

you're gonna land on your head. You'll get a lot

28:03

of flipping action. Buffcon up,

28:06

buff five. Also he's probably falling on the wreckage

28:08

of a helicopter. So. Not the wreckage

28:10

of a lot of glass, right? He's very, very, very dead. You however

28:12

saw this. So, Beetle, what do you do? Just a question.

28:15

I knocked that door down. Did I go through the

28:17

door and onto the ship? Oh no.

28:19

No, you only said you knocked it down. You just said you

28:22

wanted to go. I knocked it, yeah, okay. So you actually, you

28:24

knocked the door down. You were about to dive into

28:26

it when a rocket went past you in the

28:28

ship and smash. And

28:30

I kind of bent backwards. Is there something like a

28:32

drain pipe or something I can kind of like, You

28:34

have a great view of Firebrand

28:36

who is scurrying down the only remaining drain pipe on

28:38

this side of the building. And he's racing down and

28:40

you can see what he can see, which is just

28:43

on the second floor, just one floor below

28:45

you where there's an old junction box. The

28:47

somehow, impossibly, the black lacquered box

28:50

has wedged itself on the junction box and

28:52

is sitting two stories up above the ground. Firebrand

28:55

is desperately reaching for it. How far, how close

28:57

am I to? Okay, so I'd

28:59

say it's within the range

29:00

of my mutation. So I scream

29:02

freeze, which is just like a single word. Well,

29:04

he's climbing. Well, he's climbing. Yeah,

29:07

yeah. Okay, he,

29:10

does it work? Oh yeah, I think it's

29:12

just one word. It's every word. It's

29:14

only a few seconds. So he freezes like a cat startle and

29:19

then just like peels back off the wall,

29:21

completely rigid.

29:23

And you can hear him going, oh, I've got a stiffy

29:26

all over. You don't see what happens to the

29:28

body, but he collapses down two stories and lands

29:30

on the ground. Meanwhile, what are you doing, Clancy?

29:32

I'm dead. You're dead. You hear

29:34

a boom from the distance and you know that Clancy

29:36

will be with you soon, but you have a chance for another action.

29:39

The other mutants meanwhile, suddenly panicked

29:41

in the gun

29:41

flight, having seen that their only transport

29:44

has blown up,

29:45

grabbed their guns and they start descending towards

29:47

you ready to fire. What do you want? I'm gonna

29:50

throw a grenade at them. There's smoke everywhere,

29:52

which has brought you so much time, but this time you wanna do

29:54

a high explosive? Yep. Make for me

29:56

a throw attack. Throw attack. Violence

29:58

throw. with one less

30:01

dice than normal because you can't see because of the

30:03

low vision. Okay.

30:09

Cool, that's a success. So the bar

30:12

blows out this explosion,

30:13

you see bodies raining everywhere, you hear Dingo

30:15

barking above it all trying

30:16

to get attention and you also hear

30:19

at least one of the other mutants who's got a little

30:21

more compass mentus. Is that a word?

30:23

Compose mentus? Yeah. Then the others grab

30:26

what looks like a heavy bulky pack with

30:28

a visor and slam it over his head, his eyes glow

30:31

as he starts moving towards you beetle

30:33

because he can see and all you can see is the red

30:35

of his visor. He's on the side of the building.

30:38

Hang on, who's sorry? No, the last one is Buffcon,

30:40

he's working towards you. Buffcon's dead, he's been

30:42

trying to build a building. We haven't done three-dimensional fights like this

30:44

with multiple clones before. Are you the only person

30:47

in the building? Yeah, I mean... This could be trouble

30:49

for you. I'm getting to climb down. Alright, so in

30:51

that case you and you're still in the building.

30:53

I'm just kind of on the edge. So

30:56

I guess I'm still in the building. I don't know if I'm... I'm sorry, I'm

30:58

really... The visor figure is heading towards

31:00

you in the front of the blown-out door on the side of the

31:02

building. Yeah, big trouble. How close is the

31:04

stairwell like the one way down that you

31:06

said that? The gutters, you can give

31:08

it a go if you want. It'll be an athletics check. Yeah, that's athletics

31:11

for me. Yeah, because you need to know that it's

31:13

checking, you

31:13

can make this brains or violence depending on

31:15

how you want to approach the climb. Yeah, one, two,

31:17

three, four, five.

31:21

Yep, that's good. Come on, lucky

31:23

number six. I got one.

31:26

Is that a six? Yeah,

31:29

one, two, potentially three. Alright, you... You

31:32

scurry down very, very efficiently, grab

31:35

the box as you do, and then you hop down and you

31:37

see that there's actually fire escapes, which is very...

31:39

A weird anachronistic the front computer is built inside

31:42

a building that can never be on fire, but you're able to run

31:45

those down to the surface. Meanwhile,

31:47

you see that Visor figure turn around towards

31:49

you. Is...strawberry.

31:51

Is Firestorm...what's his

31:53

name? Firebrand. Is he... He's dead and disappeared

31:55

in them. I presume it's dead. We don't know where he is. Fill down

31:57

the side of the building. Oh right, yes. Okay, cool.

34:00

Yeah, absolutely. So the mechanics

34:01

operate? Yep. So one, two,

34:04

three. It'll be pretty

34:05

rough and ready. I've six cent, we'll

34:07

stop them from blowing up. That's

34:11

a one, two, three successes. Three successes

34:13

a lot. So you managed to sort of keep jamming,

34:15

jamming, jamming the switch, and then you hear something break

34:18

and the gloves go down, and they're

34:20

just

34:20

insulated gloves now, but they're no longer electrocuted.

34:23

So you scurry all the way down. And then just

34:25

as you're about to hit the, you reach to the ground,

34:28

just as you're about to get

34:29

onto the fire escape, suddenly you

34:31

feel plop, plop, plop, plop as things

34:34

fall around you. I

34:36

am immediately bold.

34:38

All

34:38

right, you just completely make an athletics check for me, violence.

34:41

No, you know what, brains and athletics? Brains and athletics.

34:44

Well, I think it's a brains and athletics check. Yeah, that's fair.

34:46

So that's just a, just two.

34:50

That's a one, one.

34:52

So stupidly. You

34:55

look around for a second trying to work out what you want to do

34:57

as two high explosive grenades explode

35:00

at your feet,

35:00

destroying you instantly, leaving nothing but a smearing

35:03

of smoking boots as you

35:05

somewhat sheepishly land down between him and

35:07

see the dead body of your friend. And then look

35:09

across the road where you can see a bus stop

35:11

standing next to a clone supply depot where two

35:14

very wet operatives, Bofcon

35:16

and Clancy are standing. Hello,

35:20

hello. All going well in there, I

35:22

hope. Hey, you killed

35:24

me. Uh,

35:27

does anyone know where that box is?

35:30

You've got the box? I'm dead, I just got exploded.

35:32

You look down on the ground and you see, and this was

35:35

what looked like an old fragile wooden

35:37

box, but impossibly between his boots,

35:40

it seems like the box, there's

35:42

not even a scratch on it, as if it's impervious

35:45

to damage.

35:46

I have a box. You pick it up, you turn around

35:49

and you can see the figure of strawberry

35:51

holding the box. You hear a vroom behind you

35:53

as a very naked beetle, the third

35:56

emerges from the tube, gets stuck halfway

35:58

and then has to crawl out for the fluid.

35:59

clutching a jump suit in his hand and

36:02

a gun in the other because you were back inside

36:04

Alpha Complex, back inside Sector CYN,

36:06

having escaped the zone with the box for

36:08

now and a difficult decision ahead of you because you are

36:10

now back in the world of friend computer. You

36:13

have done much to get here and it seems that

36:15

you have been, you've suffered but not enough

36:17

to stop so the question now for you is

36:20

do you return for your just desserts or

36:22

do you take what little measure of defense you

36:24

can and try and find a new life for yourselves amongst

36:26

the radicals that lurk beneath Alpha Complex.

36:29

Woo! Starts today.

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The cast of

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this week's episode of OK Computer is Alex

36:35

Lee, Simon Greiner, Michael Hing and

36:37

Tom Carding. Our Dungeon Master and friend

36:40

computer is Dave Harman, the NPC voices

36:42

provided by Ben Jenkins and music provided

36:44

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36:47

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a month. Until next time. Alex

37:02

is being very careful

37:03

of what she drinks which is why you just found yourself some mystery

37:05

cream in the fridge. Yeah,

37:07

somehow I give it a good sniff.

37:10

Yeah. And I've actually, my mutant power as a pregnant

37:12

person is enhanced sense of smell. Which do? I

37:14

don't, I don't really have. So I can smell

37:17

if things are off and this wasn't off.

37:19

I don't have dairy in the house. So

37:21

I never smell off milk but when

37:23

you, if you're given whiffs to things on

37:25

the reg to see if they're off, how

37:27

often do you smell on something that's wrong? Well,

37:30

not often because I usually will throw out my

37:32

milk before it's used by people. We've been a hovel. Yeah. Oh,

37:35

I see. After stuff. You've never smelled off milk? She's also

37:37

a dirty hoe. I'm sure. Oh, probably not actually.

37:39

I can't think of it. I mean, I think, I

37:41

kind of imagine what it smells like. So I must have smelled it

37:43

at some point. But I can't think of a time I have

37:46

opened some milk and gone to

37:48

check and then gone. Yeah. My parents were

37:50

so scared

37:52

of anything ever being off. Yeah. That like,

37:55

let's do a quick poll. If it's the

37:57

day of the use by day. So does.

38:00

truck. Do you drink it? Dave? Yes.

38:03

Sniff and see. No, no, no, no.

38:06

Sniff and see. Okay, so I don't even sniff and see

38:09

because I'm terrified of sniffing off milk.

38:13

I am so, I mean I obviously after like a day

38:15

or two I obviously smell because, but

38:17

I, in my experience,

38:21

now we're friends. Nobody's going to take

38:23

that and use that against

38:25

me.