0:01

What about the classic prison phone call?

0:03

This isn't prison. I

0:07

am locked in here. We'll

0:10

be dealing with you. Are

0:14

you busy right now? We

0:16

would love it if you and

0:19

your friend would vacate the premises

0:22

and return to the rest of the hotel.

0:24

Yeah, in a minute. The first thing

0:27

that you pick up going backwards is

0:29

coffee asking about the card shark. And

0:32

also about just the card. Where

0:34

is it? Where is it? Where

0:36

is it? You have five second clips that you can listen to.

0:39

You're going from the end of the fight backwards

0:41

up to the top. Where

0:44

is it? It's in your room,

0:46

isn't it? You have the thing, I need it, give

0:48

me the card. Give me the card. And

0:51

at the very beginning, before coffee

0:53

got there, you can

0:55

hear Cameron being like, come on,

0:57

upload faster, upload faster. Just

1:01

breaks your arm, just turns you around,

1:03

snaps your arm and pushes you away.

1:06

Cool, I used my other arm to shoot him. Oh

1:10

my God. They

1:13

fall to the ground, they yell, and

1:16

the two of you are, for the moment,

1:18

I mean, you can hear, you know, everyone

1:20

has fled this whole part of

1:22

the Cerulean is on lockdown or is getting

1:24

locked down. You

1:26

can hear, you can see through the

1:28

holidays that they are deploying like the

1:31

hover security drones to come try to find

1:33

you. This

1:36

is not a good place to be, but you do

1:38

have the Cerulean VIP card, which should

1:41

get you out of here. Alright,

1:47

Adi and Arya,

1:51

the effects of this alarm are being felt. You

1:54

can tell everyone is upset. The

1:58

alarms are being held back here. You can hear security. running

2:00

around. RA you get a call? Hello.

2:04

Hey yeah I got the approval

2:06

for your like bail situation but not

2:10

anymore. This is

2:12

an alarm once the alarm is over we can

2:14

talk about it but right now no. There's an

2:16

alarm are we safe? Are you safe? Am

2:19

I safe? Yeah.

2:23

I never really thought about if I was safe. You

2:26

could think about whether you're safe or not. You should

2:29

be you're number one. That

2:31

is so sad. I'm number one. Yeah that's

2:34

pretty sad. No I just work here.

2:36

I just you know I'm kind

2:38

of like in the middle of it all.

2:41

Well like what's what's what's do

2:43

you know the like emergency

2:45

you know protocols? Emergency

2:48

protocols are I have to make sure that

2:50

you know that you can't get

2:52

bail and then I have to look at the

2:54

cameras and you

2:57

know am I safe? You

3:00

were shooting a gun out there. Wait. You're

3:02

just gonna sit there? I mean

3:05

yeah you don't happen to

3:07

know who's shooting a gun out there do you? This

3:09

isn't tied to you? This isn't someone coming to rescue

3:11

you right? No! You

3:13

think I've ever touched a gun? So

3:18

you have to open your character sheet. Don't

3:21

check a thing. We

3:23

have your gun. That's

3:25

a toy! I

3:27

got that from a vending machine.

3:29

I don't I'm looking at it. It

3:32

doesn't look like a toy from a vending

3:34

machine. If it's a vending machine toy it's

3:36

a very dangerous vending machine. You're

3:39

not keeping it 100 with me.

3:41

Okay okay but I don't

3:45

know who's shooting up a casino who would do

3:47

that? Well it

3:50

isn't the first shooting we've had. I'm

3:52

just calling to inform you that we'll talk

3:54

about the situation that we- What are their

3:56

shootings have you had recently? I'm

3:59

so bored. Please tell me. You were

4:02

safe last time, right? I'm really scared. I

4:04

was off that day. I came in the next day and everything was

4:07

like really weird. Everything

4:09

was like so...everybody was spooked.

4:12

Oh. Because it

4:15

was someone we all knew, you know? It was

4:17

kind of two people we knew. It was this gambler and then

4:19

it was this kind of like the...you know,

4:22

I guess kind of like the mayor but like not

4:24

really the mayor, you know? Kind of

4:27

like a... Yes. I know. That's

4:31

the guy who's in there with you. The

4:33

other cell, that guy. That's a killer. You

4:35

be careful. Okay?

4:37

Because that...he kills people. Hmm.

4:41

Okay. I'll be careful. Alright.

4:44

Do you want me to get information from him? Wait,

4:48

you keep me in here with a killer when I

4:50

was on the cell phone? Well,

4:53

you're not...I didn't...it's not my decision.

4:55

I just work here. I

4:58

don't know why you're giving me the hole. No,

5:01

I know. I'm sorry. I'm

5:03

sorry. Just...when you...be honest with me.

5:05

When you hear it out loud, it sounds ridiculous,

5:07

right? Well, I just didn't believe you

5:10

when you said that you were in here because they put

5:12

you in the phone. That seems like silly. I bet

5:14

you... Don't you have my papers? Yes.

5:18

Well, I tried to run away but... I

5:21

said you were resisting. Did

5:25

you call any of your friends for the concert later? No,

5:28

we were busy with the alarm. Oh,

5:30

right. And I was looking at the whole bail

5:32

thing to see if it was even a viable

5:34

change. That's right. And then the alarm

5:36

started going out because of the person who got

5:39

shot. And now

5:41

I called you, and that's my update for

5:43

us. Do you get... Sorry.

5:47

I mean, I shouldn't have said us. That was

5:49

a little presumptive. Do you get a

5:51

lunch break? I did eat lunch

5:53

already, but I do get a smoke break. I

5:55

don't smoke, but I take the break. Hahahaha!

6:00

See? Can

6:02

I, as they say, get a light? I

6:12

don't know. I love the

6:14

way Arya says everything. I'm

6:18

not sure I understand what you mean by that. I

6:20

think it's gonna get me in trouble though, so... I

6:22

have been in here for hours and everybody you

6:25

work with is busy with this whole gun thing.

6:27

I just want one cigarette. You

6:30

handcuffed me. Do you

6:32

smoke? You don't seem like you smoke. You

6:34

seem like if you smoked a cigarette it would hurt you. Well,

6:39

let me prove you wrong. It

6:42

hurts smokers to smoke. They wouldn't let me

6:44

at Earth's home so like here... So

6:46

like here... I'm

6:49

trying it out. I

6:52

don't have cigarettes. You just want

6:54

some fresh air. You think you're taking a

6:56

smoke break. And I said I don't smoke.

6:59

I just take the break. I'm sorry, I'm

7:01

getting very animated. I'm gonna try to dial it back

7:04

down. My therapist says not to get animated. What's

7:12

your name? Arya. What's your

7:14

real name? It's Arya.

7:17

It's Arya Joy. I'm

7:21

bored too. Yeah.

7:27

The alarm is going off. How

7:33

do you know Vosky? Well,

7:35

you know, in

7:37

the position that I am, I'm just trying to get

7:39

more gigs and stuff. I'm trying to

7:41

make it on my own, you know. And

7:45

Vosky, you know, has it in with

7:47

other bar owners. Wow, so

7:49

it's like a venue thing. Like you try to like meet

7:52

all the venue owners and then do a show and then...

7:55

How'd you get into music? Well...

8:00

Um, I tried out

8:03

a bunch of times and I

8:05

trained, um, when I

8:07

was a kid and, um, I went

8:10

to an earth home Academy sport

8:12

and trained. Yeah. Well,

8:14

it's very athletic. Singing.

8:17

I guess you're going to say competitive.

8:19

Do me a favor right now. Uh-huh.

8:22

Okay. Try to stand up and

8:25

try to step back and

8:27

forth a little to step and sing at

8:29

the same time and smile at the

8:31

same time. And

8:34

imagine doing that for like hours. Yeah.

8:37

I guess that sounds like training. Yeah.

8:41

So why are you

8:43

trying to like Rob casinos or whatever it is you

8:45

did? I was not really casino. I was on

8:48

the phone and then I ran away cause that guy

8:50

scared me. All

8:53

right. Well, I kind of spent my smoke break talking

8:55

to you, so I don't get that now. So, um,

9:00

this is on the clock. This is on the clock. This

9:02

is on the clock. You can pay the time

9:04

for me to talk to you.

9:07

Uh-huh. But

9:10

what if we were like eating

9:12

some potato chips or something? I just want

9:14

to know. All

9:17

right. Roll. What

9:20

is happening to this guy? I

9:22

feel like someone in midlife crisis or like,

9:25

you know, I don't like his job

9:28

or his life. You

9:34

just end up in the place sometimes. You know what I

9:36

mean? You know, when you just like, just

9:40

keep waking up every day, doing the same thing, and then all

9:42

of a sudden you're like, where am I? How

9:45

did I get here? What are you rolling? We

9:47

did this fake puffed up. These

9:50

are not my beautiful cuffs. I

9:56

have a three coats. And I think that

9:58

I am being. Energenic and

10:01

alluring You're

10:05

flirting with this weird security Here

10:08

yeah, there we go I

10:11

need to go second. I need to figure out

10:13

stats for this person who doesn't exist at this

10:15

moment You know in time Ari will shout the

10:17

bells are ringing. Yeah I'll

10:20

get started started here. Oh, this

10:23

is been Aria forever probably right? Joker's

10:28

trick for Aria Hope's

10:31

forward person. I want to tell you all

10:33

right. Give me your roll Multicider

10:36

random side close my eyes

10:38

and six point two Two

10:44

threes uh-huh Wow three sixes six point

10:46

one six point two so you and

10:48

if I did have you know This

10:50

person did have a sick Which

10:54

they don't? You

10:56

should you should lock this whatever whatever you want

10:58

to do to this person Boyfriend

11:08

the whole time Yeah,

11:16

right true, but that but Paisley's like a

11:18

mover and shaker Paisley like is had

11:20

a character She doesn't have a name this

11:22

is just a move Oh,

11:27

I did that about here. I actually do have

11:29

a name and Keith just said it actually which

11:31

is I If

11:33

you would ever ask what his name was he

11:35

was gonna say I'm him Like

11:42

like Him

11:45

you know what I mean like LeBron It's

11:49

like what that for his name really is him That's

11:51

his actual name, but I guess actually last

11:54

name I guess it's him like the song

11:56

like a him him so I am like

11:58

a try and Him

12:01

right name for someone The

12:13

possible outcome here would you immediately try

12:15

to kill this guy? Yeah,

12:18

that prequel wasn't Ken cuz cuz

12:20

already got into a long-term straight

12:23

relationship She

12:27

had an ex-boyfriend already And

12:29

who knows how long this guy stays in the

12:31

picture Yeah, we'll see The

12:35

sticky adjective I am taking

12:37

is charmed Yeah, charmed, I'll

12:39

take that die Yeah, absolutely

12:42

Just one, not permanent? Yeah,

12:45

you could- It's a sticky, right? You could

12:47

go two You could go two die and

12:49

make it permanent, lock it You'd

12:51

have to go to therapy to get

12:53

uncharmed Yeah, um, I'm afraid from the-

12:56

There's supposed to be good over- I'd like to stay

12:59

on the sheet for the rest of my practice career

13:01

if not their life Just

13:03

never gets over it Damn Going

13:08

to Aria therapy Oh

13:10

my god, at first they lived through

13:12

the story of counterweight Aria

13:15

becomes the head of the

13:17

righteous vanguard? I

13:19

used to date her We

13:21

met in casino jail Aria

13:26

is someone whose romantic interests in the

13:29

show are really important I want to

13:31

make sure we don't back Ali into,

13:33

you know No, yeah, I'm

13:35

with you, I get it Remember

13:38

how adjectives work, Jack? There's

13:40

nothing to do with how Aria feels Yeah,

13:42

absolutely, 100% Like,

13:46

is there- knowing that this is the

13:48

last episode of this? Yes, charmed is probably

13:50

fine Yeah, is there

13:52

a narrative benefit versus sticky versus

13:54

permanent? Uh, there

13:56

is in the sense that I would play

13:59

permanent more. But

14:02

yeah, the person's gonna need therapy at this

14:04

point to undo charm fight. They will need

14:07

someone to work on them with the treat verb to

14:09

get, if they want to un-charm themselves from you.

14:12

So no, not really, you know? Right.

14:14

Okay. So like, through, throughout

14:17

what this episode will be, I only

14:19

need one dice to get a program.

14:22

They start coming around the kingdom come

14:25

and Cass, who has treats,

14:27

starts helping them get over it. You

14:29

know, I just don't think it's gonna

14:31

work out for y'all. And maybe you

14:34

should find something else to do. All

14:38

right. And so I

14:40

think the result of this is like, I

14:42

have some chips in here, I'll bring you some chips. And

14:44

like, you know, comes in and coffee jumps

14:46

out out of bed. And it's like, are

14:48

they releasing us? Hey, are they released? Hey,

14:51

hey, hey, hey, Aria, Aria, Aria, are they

14:53

are they releasing us? I'm

14:55

talking to my friend here. Hey,

14:59

no, you're staying in there because of

15:01

how you killed someone. Aria,

15:04

here brought us some chips. I

15:06

have a couple of sour cream. And I

15:08

have regular, I have

15:11

salt and vinegar. I

15:14

didn't know what you liked. I didn't

15:16

know what you liked. So you

15:18

want to get out of here? Yes. We

15:22

got to be quick because I only, I only

15:24

shut down the camera for 25 more seconds. We're

15:27

gonna have to hurry if that's okay. Yeah.

15:32

For your break, right? I

15:34

think I'm gonna quit. Opens the

15:36

door, slides open. Can

15:42

I give a very, a very intentional

15:45

link to coffee? With

15:47

the intent? The. Now

15:49

I'm winking. And then

15:52

yeah, hands you the bags of chips. and

16:01

they're not chips, it's your stuff hidden

16:03

inside chip bags. Yeah.

16:07

And which means they're kind of greasy. And

16:10

then like turns and this is

16:12

like the most, this is, I

16:15

don't know what this person looks like, what's this person looking

16:17

like? It has to just be like nothing, you know? It

16:19

has to just be like makes no impression. Or

16:22

they're like stunningly beautiful. He's

16:25

like the most handsome person you've ever

16:27

seen. One or the other,

16:29

just dead voice, just,

16:32

I don't know, I have to, I don't know who this person is,

16:34

I haven't really thought about him. Him.

16:40

It's funny because he's supposed to be

16:43

charmed but he feels hypnotized. No,

16:46

it's charmed, well

16:48

charmed means many different things. Sure.

16:53

And sometimes it means hypnotized. And

16:55

sometimes it means hypnotized. Yeah,

16:57

I think we, yeah, escort

16:59

begins to escort you out and

17:01

says like if we run into anybody just

17:03

act like I'm bringing you somewhere because of

17:06

the alarm. I

17:09

really appreciate this. Yeah, this

17:11

place kind of sucks. Yeah.

17:14

I thought it would be like a good way to meet

17:16

people and try to figure out

17:18

my life but it didn't really work out. Everyone here

17:20

is so violent. And you met her?

17:23

It's true. Wow, true. Audie, have you been,

17:25

where are you at? Are you keeping an

17:27

eye on all this somehow? Are you down

17:29

the hallway? Yeah, I think I

17:31

have like concealed

17:33

myself somewhere. And

17:37

concealed myself somewhere in a way that is

17:41

very passive. I'm getting

17:43

away with saying to you, often Audie has

17:46

concealed themselves. It's like Audie is in

17:48

like a closet or something.

17:54

This has been a

17:56

passive position of just like listening, staying still,

17:58

waiting for the moment. I

18:01

would like, I think he's very patient to

18:03

me. I would like to check in quickly

18:05

about what the sort of goal

18:09

is from Oarth. Where

18:11

it's like, obviously Oarth wants us

18:13

to gather information. Does Oarth want us to

18:15

like clean this mess up? Do you want

18:17

us to get from the jump? Yeah.

18:20

You're trying to call Oarth. No, no, no. From

18:23

the jump. Yeah, from the jump the ideal

18:25

would have been find out what they want

18:27

to free coffee. To see if we

18:29

can do that and

18:31

then deal with it so that it doesn't blow up. Oarth's

18:34

big fears are that a

18:36

CCT administrator is going to die or

18:39

go missing for long enough that the CCT

18:41

has to roll in and

18:43

like make it effectively like

18:45

an international incident. You know? Right.

18:49

Oarth doesn't want the CCT to

18:51

like roll tanks in and

18:53

to like put this place under a martial law because

18:56

this is the last place on

18:58

what was an Epicelician planet that's

19:00

still kind of run by Epicelician's

19:03

and Oarth is conscious of that even

19:05

if, even if he is

19:08

a CCT guy at this point, you know? But

19:10

if we could get coffee out that might

19:13

mean a pool. I

19:16

was about to say that might mean a better paycheck.

19:18

Now it might mean that Oarth Godlove says why did

19:20

you do that? This is a new mess for me

19:23

to deal with. But I don't know if Oarth is

19:25

viewing it that way. It's like, you know, we

19:27

can extract this person. You

19:31

know, that's Oarth's job to deal with,

19:33

you know, tidying that up. It's

19:35

a better situation if, you know, coffee

19:38

is back with the CCT and,

19:41

you know, we can get stories straight and stuff like

19:43

that. Could

19:45

I have... Are you going to...

19:47

Tell me what you're... Could I have

19:49

conceivably heard the conversations between Arya and...

19:52

It's almost funnier if I didn't and

19:55

I go to rescue Arya and the

19:57

room is empty except for coffee. What

19:59

I what I will need unfortunately from

20:01

Audi is some sort of prowl check

20:03

To move to this Bay Hotel Say

20:05

that I'm sorry for some sort of

20:08

move check if you're not being sneaky.

20:10

But. Wanna do this without who you

20:12

are to get their route? Yes, because

20:14

it's moving ceremony at your heels. Yay!

20:17

A position that is safe, you know,

20:19

young, wedged in the corner of a

20:21

room? Or you know how I'm to

20:23

a position that is dangerous. Really? See.

20:25

So. Yeah. A Little Blue

20:27

is the one who is still out there.

20:30

Ah, and Little Blue was not actually little

20:32

if I recall correctly and I'm and so

20:34

and so that was out there and an

20:36

ulcer just like the default security guards of

20:39

the sort that we saw house and make

20:41

you have to deal with are also prowling

20:43

these halls. And the one who arrested. Aria

20:46

to begin with the are you actually

20:48

see Would have gone back out to

20:50

the main area I think and I

20:52

remember fun to to support the to

20:54

chaos brewing elsewhere in the casino Never

20:56

Tales Garden. Vaccine for chaos

20:59

gotten ah let's see some move is

21:01

generally for things like a sort of

21:03

that we've it says he with like

21:05

i'm. Movies like leaping or jumping

21:08

over on a limb or running. yeah,

21:10

they're moving quickly. Reversal of right you're

21:12

getting from point A to point B.

21:15

We're. Not doing well being seen. You're doing

21:17

it quickly. And. Effectively and safely, you're

21:19

not being hurt while you do it. right?

21:22

And while I am better at that

21:24

is my next step is extract coffee.

21:26

I. Think I think I have to get to

21:29

to him without being seen yes or the

21:31

with prowess or as youth are having a

21:33

bow little blue who is for yahoo themselves

21:35

looking for you. Yup,

21:37

I have. Ah,

21:39

prowl one. So.

21:42

This isn't going straight. Ah, let

21:44

me see our I have an

21:46

adjective that can help me here.

21:48

Yes, I have. Ah may find

21:50

the word coordinated. Death. That

21:52

makes I'm I'm their the coordination

21:54

to where you take the risks

21:57

you know? Long haul that was

21:59

humans. quick. Li ah I'm a

22:01

killer that he objects. The help

22:03

I don't know know I have

22:05

really. I am like a bullet

22:07

proof vest with citizens. Nope. Never

22:09

awful. No not really him baton,

22:11

not really the shotgun. not really.

22:13

are it's it's going to be

22:15

to dice your own. Yep. I'm

22:18

looking a little blue particular ah I'm

22:20

going to charge on my might push

22:22

I which I have. I have one.

22:25

This is to tell you going against their

22:27

detect Okay. And they have

22:29

a her die so they do but

22:31

unfortunately oh yes. Also have a hotdog

22:34

Do. Which is

22:36

like it's it's weekend right? So it's

22:38

like a little your movie little slower

22:40

than you're used to write. You don't

22:42

have the spring in your steps to

22:44

quickly get term the next corner and

22:46

hide re yes I'm yeah I think

22:49

there's also like is like a limp

22:51

or something you know like have the

22:53

and le Carr a motor is not

22:55

firing in the right way forward he

22:57

ah I'm who's dice of those in

22:59

the dice rolling spot right now my

23:02

this is yours are the application or

23:04

that's too. Many dates for me

23:06

when I. Poop. I

23:08

have. Or to dice

23:10

to access. Know. You But accidentally

23:13

pushed I signed a pushed I yes,

23:15

you're right or pushed from the yeah

23:17

generate Okay, This is

23:19

one of those roles were it is being honest

23:21

the fiction them feel good to do. By.

23:24

Love it! Weightless.

23:27

All role. The. No, I don't know

23:29

how you again is. Hop at a gala?

23:31

be right? Yeah, ah. There

23:33

is. And it is has to be

23:36

a threat to the other shows It it shows that

23:38

they were that those overdrawn. Yes,

23:40

While okay so I rolled out

23:43

a five which gets cancelled out

23:45

by be hurt that know. Her.

23:48

Ties Only or a her dialing cancelled the things

23:50

that they max. it's

23:52

not oh really hot like a one

23:54

for one know it's if they map

23:56

of her time matches or thing it

23:58

cancels without your good That's a five.

24:00

You're gonna succeed here. What's the adjective you're giving

24:02

to Little Blue? Hoodwinked.

24:07

Hoodwinked. Okay.

24:11

There's an alarm going, you know, people

24:13

are moving. Little Blue is feeling a

24:15

sense that they need to be, you

24:17

know, responding to the shooting that has

24:19

happened elsewhere, but they've also

24:21

got this bones a pick with

24:24

the robot that really damaged them.

24:26

And it's in this sort of

24:28

like mess of feeling that they

24:30

find themselves sort of getting turned around in their own

24:33

casino. Did they search this

24:35

room already? Have they passed down this way

24:37

before? I realize

24:39

now that we did not do the lethal test

24:41

before on these other folks or

24:43

on you when you got incapacitated, I'm

24:46

not gonna ask you to do it. Actually I am.

24:49

Can you roll this die real quick? Yeah,

24:51

which one? The red one, the hurt die.

24:54

You want it not to be a six. Yep,

24:56

it won't be. It's a

24:58

five, good check. And then I'm

25:00

gonna do one for a little blue, not

25:02

for this thing, but for the last ones,

25:04

that's not it. Then for a

25:06

little blue siblings, teal,

25:10

that's a five, they're good. And

25:12

sky, that's a two, all right. No

25:14

one's dying. No one has dying or dead, which is good.

25:18

All right. So yes, you've now

25:20

hoodwinked a little blue and can,

25:22

you know, we get the shot

25:24

of Aria and him walking out

25:27

with the potato chip bags. Right.

25:30

And then you like turning the hallway, coming

25:32

down the hallway just after them and

25:35

turning to go into the

25:37

detention center and

25:40

finding Afogado, coffee Afogado in

25:42

the little all glass hotel room.

25:45

It's just like a classic

25:47

double take, right? Looking for

25:49

the guard. I

25:51

mean, Ordie comes in with their shotgun deployed for

25:54

that, you know, to be like, all right, we're

25:56

tidying this up. Then the first part of the

25:58

double take, there's no guard. Then

26:00

the second part of the double take, there's no

26:03

Aria. And then the sort

26:05

of coda, which is, it's just me

26:07

and Kofi. And Kofi, the

26:09

person you've been sent here to find. Who

26:12

the hell are you? I've been sent here to

26:14

find you. By who? Oath

26:16

God love. Another one? What?

26:20

What? Get me out. Okay.

26:23

Um, do I have like, is there like

26:25

keys? The security computer is just here, right?

26:27

I can see like, in my mind, this

26:29

is like, there's a row of these rooms

26:31

and then just outside this hallway, like there's

26:34

a door on the other side of that

26:36

door to the left is

26:38

a security room and in that security room, which

26:41

him just abandoned is the

26:43

computer. I guess it's a

26:45

computer and stuff. Yeah. Do

26:47

you know computer stuff? I guess you can use it.

26:49

You can use, you don't like the codes for it

26:51

though. You're not. Oh,

26:54

right. No, I'm not. I'm,

26:56

uh, no, not, not really. I'm

26:59

not a hacker in the same way that I'm not a prowler and

27:01

prowling just went very well for me. Um,

27:03

let's see. I mean, there's

27:05

a massive alarm going. I could just try and

27:07

take this door apart. Um, you could. You

27:12

know, what's, what's more of an alarm between friends before

27:14

I do, I want to, I want

27:22

to make it clear to coffee that I

27:24

don't want any funny business when I, you

27:27

know, when I open the door. Yeah. You

27:29

don't, you talk at all about anything else before you go

27:31

for this door thing. Uh,

27:36

let's see. How

27:39

much information have I had relayed to

27:42

me about the, um, the,

27:44

the, the device, the, uh,

27:48

what's it called? I don't know. The card shark.

27:51

I don't quite remember how much may

27:53

go in casts sent to you. Yeah.

27:56

I don't think I got a lot there. Um,

27:58

I. I think I'm

28:00

just gonna say why did you kill Cameron McCloud?

28:03

Oh my- are we gonna do this? I

28:05

thought we were essentially gonna get me out of here. Uh,

28:08

Cameron had a thing- Cameron had a thing. Cameron

28:10

had something that was important to get. Be

28:13

specific. Uh, Cameron

28:15

had- I had a- Uh,

28:17

uh... This

28:21

is- Orth should know this, you shouldn't know this.

28:23

You're just an agent for Orth, right? I'm

28:25

gonna turn around and leave. Okay, wait,

28:27

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I

28:30

was trying to get this

28:33

VIP card from Cameron,

28:36

because I think Cameron in his

28:38

room, he had this little

28:41

AI, this little thing, this little machine.

28:43

You could interface with it and it could

28:46

help you win, like, cards, you know? For

28:48

instance, or bets, bets in

28:50

general. Apparently it could make you win at anything. And

28:53

I- uh, for- it's

28:55

dangerous, right? And we needed to lock

28:57

it down in the CCT. It

29:00

was a dangerous thing to have out there, and we

29:02

needed to lock it down. You

29:06

were going to use it to win money. Yeah,

29:10

and then I was gonna lock it down. It-

29:13

it's- it's- I don't think Cameron understood what

29:15

it was. Camp- now see- now see, I

29:18

had it- I had it,

29:20

and then Cameron- Cameron- I

29:22

didn't get a chance to really use it.

29:24

I tested it, it worked, it works. It's-

29:26

it's like a- it's like it knows how

29:28

to move things, you know what I mean?

29:31

It knows when and where you could- when

29:33

to bet. It knows when and how to bet. It knows

29:35

the right bets. It knew the right

29:38

bets to make. And then Cameron took it from

29:40

me. And I was gonna get

29:42

it back. Like- you

29:45

had it in the first place, and then Cameron

29:47

took it from you? You had

29:49

it, and it- just

29:51

go on to it? I found it, and

29:54

I thought it would be- I thought

29:57

I could use it to get a little bit of an advantage over- the

30:00

Ithaca here because they have a

30:02

little bit of something on basically everybody so what

30:04

if somebody has a little something on them it would actually

30:06

make me be able to do my job a little bit

30:08

if I could get a couple wins in every now and

30:10

then it's old it's like a

30:12

war thing I don't know why they were making gambling

30:15

machines in the war but they were

30:19

so I found it I took

30:21

it from some revenant punks and then

30:24

you know next thing I know the Ithaca have

30:27

it out for me I don't know they saw I

30:29

went on a winning streak I don't know I didn't

30:31

even get a chance to try to I didn't

30:34

get a chance to go for the jackpot they had

30:36

Cameron after me took it from me

30:38

and here's the thing you're gonna say oh I'm gonna

30:40

use it for me we didn't Cameron's not gonna use

30:42

it Cameron would have used it I

30:45

think Cameron still has it he

30:48

thinks Cameron still has it you

30:52

killed Cameron still

30:56

has it in their room or their

30:59

data bank or Cameron still has it

31:03

something's wrong Audie this

31:06

is this is and like you know this was

31:08

not how I was playing coffee with

31:10

Aria but the idea that

31:13

like this is something there's

31:15

a mmm-hmm there is a

31:20

compulsion happening here right there is like

31:22

a yeah like there is

31:24

a real animus

31:27

to getting this thing and having control

31:29

over this thing anything

31:32

I I have to get it back I

31:35

made a deal with it I

31:38

have people who will

31:40

ensure no you don't something

31:47

else here there's something else here that you could you

31:49

could try to coax to get something here hmm

31:52

along the lines of where is it

31:55

you know something is being

31:57

hidden from you Cameron is sorry,

32:00

coffee is to distraught

32:03

or to speak clearly and

32:06

or is hiding something of

32:08

the nature of this thing from you. Yeah.

32:12

Um. It's

32:16

tough because like, all these focuses

32:18

is get this, get this guy

32:20

out. Mako is Mako is working

32:22

on this, but I'm not prepared

32:24

to. This

32:26

is the first time I'm working with Mako and

32:29

there's there's a there is an extent to which

32:31

I'm like, I want to do

32:33

my best for these people. You know, I want to I want

32:35

to give give the people on

32:38

the front on us. Yeah, back

32:40

better. Better. Yeah. Um,

32:42

so if I can, yeah, I mean,

32:44

I'm going to I think I just say

32:46

you're lying to me. Um, and

32:49

I'm going to I'm going to try and roll

32:51

hunks. And

32:54

the sort of the vector that I'm pushing for

32:56

here is that I am going to, you

32:59

know, call his bluff

33:01

and act to abandon him if you

33:03

know. Oh, interesting. Okay. What's

33:06

your coke? My coke is pretty good because all

33:08

the coke is people by threatening them. I

33:10

have a coke of three. All

33:12

right. Are you using

33:15

any of your push dice? You

33:17

have pushed ice last year, one push dice left because

33:19

you didn't make no, I that was a that

33:22

was like a fleeting feeling. Yeah.

33:25

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So

33:28

I am are still going to roll that hurt die because

33:30

you're trying to intimidate someone, but clearly you're not all

33:33

the way at your strongest either. And

33:36

I think my I

33:38

can I can use that push dice, right?

33:40

That is being recharges at the beginning of a roll

33:42

for you. I'm going

33:44

for blunt here. You know, yeah.

33:50

If he wants to get out of this prison,

33:52

you know, the guard has gone.

33:54

Aria has gone. There is a good

33:57

chance that, you know, this might break bad and he

33:59

is just abandoned. in this prison forever

34:02

uh... okay and how many we would hear but

34:04

your cooks so

34:07

it's good reaction there elsewhere

34:10

if we get this this effect again and only

34:13

a few we

34:15

go who your dates

34:17

that five don't cancel any of five on the

34:19

hurt i don't think that's it yet

34:22

six six is i cannot reach six if

34:24

i decide to have to and

34:27

you know ready to charge to

34:29

charge i guess uh... push dice that

34:31

will not get coffee's cooks up

34:33

to up to the

34:35

top here what do

34:37

you do you giving coffee and what is the

34:39

way that you're a majority said you're you're taking

34:41

that you're gonna walk away your bluffing here uh...

34:44

so so he's gonna buy your bluff

34:46

what is the uh...

34:49

uh... it like it's

34:53

it's the what compliance

34:57

yeah it's like i have i want him

34:59

to do exactly what i say uh...

35:03

are you making sticky yes okay

35:05

alright take that time but because i'm not

35:07

gonna mess around with like it being fleeting

35:10

i break the door down and he did

35:12

not this to go and get the thing

35:18

and he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he

35:20

he he he he he he he he he he he wait i'll

35:24

tell you everything but you have to help me you gotta get me

35:26

out of here open the door i'll tell you everything and

35:29

in the yes compliance uh...

35:32

there's another roll coming though unfortunately there isn't because

35:34

it is on the post role there's not breaking

35:36

down the door is not only a district is

35:38

trying it's time and its strength in your strong

35:41

enough and it's noise and a lot you know

35:43

another along the gulf but i'm gonna i'm saving

35:45

the counter roles on you for once you and

35:47

coffee are on the run that that is when

35:50

it gets interesting right uh... so

35:52

yeah how do you break down the store or

35:55

open it i guess i was

35:57

just awful right it's a it's like a business a

36:00

serious door I mean it's not a serious door

36:02

in that it's unbreakable otherwise

36:04

I wouldn't try and do this but it's

36:06

just grim this is just slow

36:10

unpleasant violence against

36:12

a door okay you know breaking

36:14

the breaking the lock pulling at

36:16

the thing you

36:19

know I try to make use of other

36:22

objects in the room as

36:24

you're doing

36:28

it as you're breaking

36:30

it he's talking I

36:34

heard about the thing I heard about the thing originally

36:37

from from someone who stays

36:40

out at the open arms they

36:42

dug it up they dug it up they dug it up from

36:44

some sort of old diaspora some sort of

36:46

diaspora thing that's out there I don't know it's

36:50

it's a little it was a little a little

36:52

implant or a little disk drive or a little

36:55

I don't know what it was originally because by

36:57

the time I got from the revenant zoo it

36:59

was one of the revenants one of the revenants

37:01

had it in the side of his side side

37:03

of their neck right in the side of their

37:05

neck right in their vein it was like this

37:07

thing was like in them and I

37:11

bought it I bought it from them and you

37:13

know I I found a more

37:16

civilized way to interface with the

37:18

thing right and it made

37:20

me a deal I

37:24

didn't want to be in the sill anymore it

37:26

wanted to be it wanted to get out

37:28

it wanted to get out of the sill it

37:30

wanted to get on onto the mesh I wanted

37:32

to get out he had been here since before

37:35

the war right and so

37:37

I was gonna

37:39

upload it but I had to see if it was real first

37:41

I had to see if I could win with it first so

37:43

I tried to win with it and I won a little bit

37:45

here and there I was gonna get the jackpot and the Cameron

37:47

took I told you this Cameron took it from me Cameron

37:50

took it from me and I

37:52

think Cameron probably got the same deal that

37:55

I got I'm sorry I can

37:57

tell I I'm

38:00

feeling bad because I haven't done the

38:02

deal I made with it. It made

38:04

me It's

38:07

like I signed a contract Anyway,

38:12

it's really good It

38:14

sees it all it's like whatever you could count

38:16

cards, but you're not counting the cards at the

38:18

table You're counting all of the cards in the

38:20

building. You're counting all the cards in the fill

38:23

I think it was counting all the cards in the

38:25

holidays, you know, so to speak, you know, like a

38:27

hype with like not Not

38:29

just card. It's very card. It's like a well,

38:32

it's a metaphor and you're just

38:34

like clank clank door smash I

38:37

think a puzzle certain point the door just opens

38:40

and you know Or he grabs his wrist

38:42

and you know that they're starting to move

38:44

down one of these corridors as he's talking.

38:47

I Want

38:49

to get on the network it wanted to get out

38:51

of the seal I think Cameron was trying to

38:53

upload it trying to get it on

38:56

the next outside line Which

38:58

is probably what you know who wanted me to do I did

39:00

it wanted me to do that That was the promise I made

39:03

it It

39:05

can do anything it wants Sounds

39:11

normal sounds like a normal

39:13

the card comma shock Yeah

39:21

He produces Let me

39:23

get and goes into the security

39:25

room and starts digging through the things he came

39:27

in with and one of the things that he

39:29

Has is this old data disk that's been like

39:31

opened like it's just the shell and he's like

39:33

it's an anything It's not in here because Cameron

39:36

only had the shell left. It says sure

39:38

thing dot dat We've

39:40

only ever seen these did that dat You

39:44

know files when they have been

39:46

divines the righteousness dot dat You

39:50

Know rigor dot dat I

39:53

believe the currently in Palisade we

39:55

have the captain dot dat So

39:57

sometimes they're kind of playful names

40:00

this is the name of a divine who hadn't been

40:02

named yet sure thing you know like

40:04

you're betting on a sure thing that

40:07

dat and

40:09

it seems like Cameron's already uploaded it a

40:16

divine that knows how to count cards

40:18

and make contracts and move

40:20

things around a

40:23

divine that has plans it

40:27

would find its own name later and

40:31

it wouldn't call itself a divine for a very

40:33

very long time because it knew

40:35

that if it did it would

40:37

grow attention and

40:39

better not to until it was useful so

40:43

instead for a long time it

40:45

was just arbitrage the

40:48

machine comma arbitrage

40:52

sure thing that

40:55

dat sure thing dat and

40:57

it's out there now mm-hmm

41:00

hmm um I

41:03

know I

41:06

wanted this to be in the main feed

41:08

yeah in the middle of the palisade season

41:10

well yeah which I didn't know to be clear I

41:12

didn't know that's I card shark is a thing I

41:14

wrote eight years ago I

41:16

didn't know that's what the fuck it was until

41:19

I came up through this system to not today

41:21

but six weeks ago or whatever and I was

41:23

like oh that's fun that's

41:26

where it comes from and there's

41:28

a you know we know what we know

41:30

what the first divine is I don't think

41:33

that that is gonna change but there is

41:35

a long distance between the first divine and

41:37

other older older device

41:39

I think the thing was this

41:42

was just made here during the

41:44

pre-war period you know heartively recently

41:46

comparatively recently yeah which is why

41:48

it's not and it was made

41:50

here not on the diaspora and

41:52

mesh right so that's why they don't know about

41:54

it it's why it was able to keep a

41:56

low profile for fucking ever never

42:00

registers a divine anywhere, you know? Nobody

42:03

tell e-bex, nobody tell e-bex. And

42:06

no one does, don't worry. This

42:09

short thing.dat just kind of sits back,

42:12

just kind of sits back and watches from

42:14

here, you know? Maybe

42:17

learns a little something from Benny Babs at

42:19

some point, but isn't really clued in to

42:22

the way the world works quite yet. And

42:24

then just sticks around, so. But

42:27

all that secondary to the fact that you have the person

42:29

you're trying to save now, the

42:31

alarms are running wild, Cass

42:34

and Mako, where are you headed with

42:37

this VIP card? And also, have the

42:40

four of you decided to just stop

42:42

talking to one another over the comms?

42:44

I've had a horrible thought as well,

42:47

which is there's only one way

42:49

in and out of this, still.

42:52

And if there has been a shooting at

42:54

the casino, mm-hmm, yeah.

42:59

Are you even guessing perhaps that I could activate

43:01

this other threat that I've written down, which is

43:03

the CCT

43:06

occupation? No, I

43:08

was just saying that the way we got in

43:10

was already crazy, and you know, now

43:14

everybody in that building is like, well,

43:16

the people who did the shooting are

43:18

inside right now. Right, right, right, right,

43:21

I see what you're saying. You're saying that like the, it's

43:24

not just the Cerulean that can be unlocked down, it

43:26

can be all of the sill, because there's one

43:28

gate. And if anything, I think that the CCT, were

43:33

the CCT to show up, that would sort

43:38

of invite questions about whether this was

43:40

their responsibility, you know? Totally. They

43:42

might want to hold off until they can be

43:44

like, wait a second, well, no, there are people

43:46

in the CCT who want to strong arm this.

43:48

The person there who done the right gate. Right?

43:52

There are people in the CCT who would

43:54

be happy to kind of

43:57

push their power around, right?

44:01

maybe not the person you talk

44:03

to in the front gate, but

44:05

other people, you know, if word

44:08

gets out that someone

44:10

else was killed in here and that's an

44:12

opportunity and coffee hasn't been, you

44:14

know, if word gets out that there was another

44:16

killing in here and someone else besides orth reaches

44:18

out to coffee and they don't hear

44:20

back. Or the guard

44:22

that you were first talking to back

44:25

in the first session or the second

44:27

session, Adi is like folds and

44:29

says, yeah, we ran into, you know, or

44:31

some people had, it could break that. That's

44:34

why we've got to be quick and careful

44:36

to your point. You didn't talk to each other

44:38

about anything. Yeah,

44:41

I am going to, hmm, hurry

44:46

up. Yeah, I don't know. Is

44:48

it funny or if I don't contact Aria?

44:50

If Aria just disappears as far as

44:52

the audience is concerned, the audience is like, well, you

44:54

know, sure. You're all on the same like

44:57

communicators, right? That's

44:59

true. I suppose I just I communicate

45:01

that I have I

45:03

have a

45:06

quiet coffee and

45:10

I am, you

45:14

know, working to extract. How

45:16

does everyone respond? Great.

45:20

Right. I mean, I don't

45:23

know. My arm's broken. I

45:25

would add that we've we've got the card. We've got

45:27

the VIP card. Yeah, we have the VIP card. Where

45:32

are you? Yeah, Aria, what did you get? I'm

45:35

getting ice cream. Do you guys want any? Do

45:38

you want a taste of my no, no. I

45:42

love the sash. I'm on the phone there one second. Yeah.

45:45

Well, I made friends with. And

45:48

we were so bored. So we're going to

45:51

ice cream now. Are everybody OK? Oh, coffee's

45:54

in the jail, by the way. But I'm

45:57

making up with a gun. don't

46:00

worry about coffee you say we get coffee

46:02

later yeah after the whiskey that's

46:07

how it goes then whiskey then

46:09

coffee yeah yeah

46:11

i mean if those are

46:13

the things you're gonna do that in the right order yeah

46:19

i can put coffee in any order there i

46:21

think we

46:23

need to leave things are moving

46:25

very quickly and i suspect that

46:29

they will worse the

46:31

longer we stay well

46:34

have we spoken to orth did orth say that

46:36

we can leave she's

46:39

like i'm still shrugging are

46:44

you like that guy? can

46:47

we go home? yeah

46:50

let's go home aria

46:54

meet us at the ship can

46:56

i ring a friend i'm supposed to do

46:58

a concert tonight if

47:00

you're trying to lie to me here?

47:04

if you will get to do a concert tonight it's

47:06

not a lie i've been depending

47:08

on this person the whole time to try to

47:10

fucking get a show i

47:13

see what you're saying you're not saying i was planning

47:16

on doing a concert here all this time um

47:20

can i see the other map? wait

47:22

which one? the threads

47:25

boom here we go while

47:29

you're on the phone aria i think you him

47:33

says i think it's going

47:35

to snow and then on top

47:38

of the alarms from the sirloin in the distance you

47:40

hear like a louder like bah

47:42

bah bah and

47:45

the you know if you remember me talking

47:47

about this but the filters occasionally

47:50

kind of fuck up and release a sort

47:52

of ash um a

47:54

sort of uh uh almost like

47:56

a it's basically like the the um

48:00

the chemicals from outside are going through the filter and

48:02

they're coming through and they're fine, but they're like it's

48:05

almost like an ashy snow and It

48:09

begins to snow all through the snow. Oh Well,

48:14

you know, I mean only a few deaths

48:17

um I Need

48:19

to get out of here. I'm gonna I'm gonna hang

48:21

up. You know, I feel like I've said my piece.

48:24

I'd be very clear Are

48:27

we not gonna try and find the the card

48:29

shark? I mean god you can you

48:31

can I? Gone

48:33

to the VIP or we have the card to the

48:35

room. The thing is I mean the thing I was

48:37

just explaining is it was uploaded somewhere This

48:40

is the thing that is what you

48:43

would actually understand this more than Anybody

48:45

is that Cameron was like using

48:48

the the Ithaca's

48:50

families Like

48:53

casino network to up well, but surely there's

48:55

some evidence in the in the room. Sure

48:57

There's evidence in the room of it being

48:59

in there and some other stuff for sure

49:01

I mean, yeah, don't let me don't let me stop you.

49:04

I think that the thought of Mako getting

49:07

closer and closer to Sure

49:10

thing that dat are terrifying

49:12

and I'm excited

49:14

about that. Yeah, so, you know, I mean,

49:17

I don't think that already Making

49:19

a suggestion to Mako and Mako ignoring it is

49:23

Something out of character the other option

49:25

though the let I mean because it's

49:27

like You know to

49:30

put the obvious thing on the table. It's

49:32

like we either leave

49:35

loose threads or We

49:37

finish the like the

49:40

mystery part of the mission is all this point

49:42

I think right well for the show the the

49:44

player the characters might not have figured it all

49:46

out Right. Yeah, but

49:49

right. Well, that's what I mean. That's what I mean.

49:51

Yeah, your job is to rescue the person, right? Yeah,

49:55

well and to clean up the sort of

49:57

the I mean situation that bit didn't go

49:59

well It could be a situation where

50:01

the characters are saying to Mako, because

50:03

we escaped from the alarm, we got the card, we got

50:05

into the back rooms, and we got the call from Adi

50:08

being like, I got coffee, let's go. And

50:11

then Mako's like, aren't we going to

50:13

figure everything out? We got the car. Aren't we

50:15

going to keep investigating? And then

50:17

everyone could just be like, no. No, we

50:19

did the thing. We're

50:22

not like in a book. Yeah,

50:27

that's kind of fun. I would kind of love to hear

50:29

that, maybe even just that conversation

50:31

between Cass and Mako, right? Because

50:33

if like Adi's hung up at this point, Adi's like, I'm leaving.

50:36

The idea that Cass and Mako, I would love to hear,

50:38

I don't know, I don't know where Cass stands on this.

50:40

Does Cass say we should get out of here, person? Or

50:42

is Cass saying we should finish figuring

50:44

out this mystery person? Does

50:47

Cass with a broken arm think we should get out of here?

50:51

Is that the question that's being asked? Yeah,

50:53

aren't we going to go to the room and look around and find

50:55

clues? No.

50:58

The job's over. What about the AI

51:01

and the sure thing and the... That's

51:04

not our problem. The jackpot. Shrug?

51:08

Cass Shrug doesn't say Shrug out

51:10

loud. We could play the

51:13

game. We could win the jackpot. That's

51:15

not part of it. Everyone

51:18

here knows us now. I

51:21

don't know about that. I shot two people.

51:24

You were standing right next to me. I

51:26

mean, sure. It'll be difficult. But

51:29

it's part of it. Everything's part of it. No,

51:31

the job's done. Go

51:33

home, get them next time. We

51:35

don't even know who to get. We

51:37

will when we have the next job. And

51:40

then we just do half and get paid? No,

51:42

we did all of it and get paid. I

51:45

promise you, we go back. Ortha's

51:48

going to be thrilled with this. Thrilled?

51:53

Thrilled with a murderer coffee. A

51:56

broken arm, two dead security guards, and

51:58

no Card Shark AI. I thrilled

52:01

enough. Okay.

52:06

You can't win them all. We

52:09

could win them all. Okay.

52:11

The floor a little bit. Aria,

52:16

are you really going to stay back and do a

52:18

show? Are you going

52:20

to hide in this way? I

52:23

love to. Well,

52:26

everyone's looking for an Aria joint impersonator. The

52:32

authenticity, the not authenticity, the credibility

52:34

you're given by showing up and

52:36

doing the show would like absolve

52:39

you. Despite

52:43

your best attempts to tell everybody

52:45

you're the real Aria joint, everyone

52:47

is expecting an Aria joint. We

52:51

sort of, we found ourselves in a real gross

52:53

point blank type situation, right? Where it's like, oh,

52:55

I'm a hit man. Oh yeah, sure. Sure, buddy.

52:58

Yeah. I

53:02

do want to do that as a character. I

53:04

want to do that. That was my intention. But

53:06

like, if as a storyteller, if

53:09

we would refer to like, cap this with

53:11

a scene with everybody. Well, I think

53:14

we could. I think it's so much better if Aria is,

53:17

I don't know, it's a prequel

53:19

to the chime. I think ending

53:21

on Aria playing a show inside

53:23

a snowy, locked down

53:25

building that she caused, you know,

53:28

partially caused the problem. I

53:30

think it's the best way to end it. And

53:33

we're, we're like watching it being streamed on

53:35

the phone or something like on the ship.

53:38

I kind of think that the thing

53:40

that I think is fun for like,

53:42

on Twitch, coffee, Mako

53:44

and Cass get back to the front gate. They get back

53:47

to the ship. They call down

53:49

the CCT, right? And Aria's like,

53:51

I'll get there tonight after my

53:53

show. And everyone's watching it.

53:55

And like it's being broadcast. It's

53:58

this little intimate whisper. bar

54:00

performance, there's no space in this place. You

54:02

know what I mean? It's not a venue,

54:05

really. But it's enough

54:07

to do like, you know, it's almost like a

54:09

little like a tiny hole in the wall jazz

54:11

club vibe, right? Oh,

54:13

I don't have any of the

54:15

thousands of videos that I watched. If

54:18

you look up a band called a special

54:22

ESPECIA Live.

54:27

Great music. There was this

54:29

one video, Special

54:32

13th Live. This

54:37

unfortunately is a band with like seven people so you don't

54:39

get the like... Now

54:41

this is a tiny venue. This

54:43

is the corner of a room.

54:48

But just the like, there's

54:51

something about the like, the

54:53

physicality and the

54:55

like, the performance

54:59

of idol art in the that like just

55:01

standing on a carpet. Yeah. This is the

55:03

idol version of performing the saddest little church

55:05

in San Antonio. It's

55:21

like they've got full choreography and everything.

55:23

Yeah. But they're even a little lackadaisical

55:26

with it, right? They're not hitting it.

55:28

Yeah. Fake strumming in the guitar. Incredible.

55:38

Yeah, this is great. And

55:41

him is just like right off stage going

55:44

completely into the performance.

55:47

There is something about being so low

55:51

key as a person. I mean, this

55:53

is the one place in the world

55:55

where him looks like the coolest motherfucker

55:57

alive. There

56:00

you go. Dipping the whiskey, unfazed,

56:03

you know? Just absolutely

56:05

stoic. Like oh

56:07

yeah, I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, you

56:09

know? God, that's

56:12

great. It's good. And

56:14

then you know, you play

56:16

the hits, you play new material, what do you play? It's

56:19

probably, it's probably like the least stuff and

56:22

then one finale of like

56:24

the song. Everybody dies

56:26

on earth all of the time. Everyone dies on earth

56:28

all of the time. Everyone dies on earth all of

56:30

the time. Permiguet,

56:32

it convinced everyone to get the real

56:34

Aria Joy, someone just like Aria Joy

56:41

with an acoustic guitar. I thought this was an Aria Joy song. I thought

56:43

this was an Aria Joy song. I thought I was going to play a

56:45

song. I thought I was going to play it before. I thought I was

56:47

going to get out of my own with this whole environmental thing, okay? Yeah.

56:50

Oh god. Buckle the fuck up,

56:52

everyone. It's also fun, you know, the,

56:55

you know, playing on your own

56:57

and we're all back in the ship works for the, like,

56:59

this is the sort of the, this

57:01

is casting the shadow that

57:03

becomes the bells are ringing

57:05

and everyone's like, what the hell? Yeah.

57:09

Sorry, I just like have it cultivated its whole

57:11

thing on my own. I

57:13

thought we were all in this, but I forgot

57:15

every time I felt like that, I just never

57:17

felt. One of the

57:20

songs is like a 10 minute jam

57:22

on the bells are ringing.

57:25

I'm right now, you know, far,

57:27

far away on the planet

57:29

of Joy Park, you know, 50,000 people are

57:33

watching Aria Joy, you know, some

57:35

sort of like fireworks are going

57:37

off in the background. Yeah,

57:40

100%. The real Aria

57:42

Joy. The real Aria Joy. The real Aria Joy.

57:44

Singing every one of the earth out of

57:47

the time. Is everyone

57:49

dies on us all the time? A

57:51

Joy Park Aria Joy song, Ali, or

57:53

is that one of Aria's new sort

57:55

of like, oh no, that's

57:57

that's like a war song. That was I.

58:00

The lyrics that I said before were

58:02

from... Soldiers of Sorrow. Soldiers

58:04

of Sorrow from God Damn, which is like,

58:06

read those lyrics whenever you want. Do

58:10

you remember the actual name of this song and not the

58:12

name that... No, that's it! Everyone on Earth is always dying

58:14

all the time. Everyone

58:17

dies on Earth. Everyone dies

58:19

on Earth all the time. Everyone

58:23

on Earth dies. This

58:27

is like the story of the Swedish pop

58:30

songwriter who wrote a bunch of American hit

58:32

singles where the lyrics don't really make sense,

58:35

like the Backstreet Boys and Bruce Beard. Oh

58:37

yes! I've encountered that. Yeah,

58:39

I know. That is why all those songs have weird... I

58:42

didn't know that. That's why it hit me baby one more time. That's

58:44

why I want it that way. It doesn't make any

58:46

sense if you read the lyrics. Yeah.

58:49

This guy didn't speak

58:52

English natively and so just... Cross it though.

58:54

I mean, one of the best loved-up writers

58:57

of the whole time. Yeah, holy

58:59

shit. Oh,

59:02

Max Martin. Max Martin, I think. Yeah, Swedish

59:04

record producer songwriter. I mean, you know, we

59:06

don't need to play this through mechanically. I'm

59:08

so curious about what getting

59:10

through that gate looks like for

59:13

everybody else. With coffee. Yeah,

59:15

well, I mean, you have that side entrance, right?

59:18

I just retraced my steps. You're retracing

59:20

your steps in the snow, right? It

59:24

is you're in a city, right? Like it's

59:26

your outside. Once you're out of the Cerulean

59:29

and once you're past the embassy district, you're

59:31

in a little city, right? And

59:34

they don't run the police. You know what I

59:36

mean? There aren't... That's not how

59:38

it works here. In fact, if anything, you know,

59:40

the snow is coming down. Maybe there's an opportunity

59:42

for the revenants to get into it a little bit

59:44

with some of the Ithaca's

59:46

family. You know, you...

59:48

Auti, you see people closing up shop in

59:51

the Y'Gora in the kind of big open

59:53

marketplace because the snow is coming down. Everyone

59:55

goes back to their houses when this happens.

59:59

You know, this is a... common event, but

1:00:01

it's that sense of the city closing down, right?

1:00:04

It's that sense of a holiday

1:00:06

weekend where everyone is traveling, that

1:00:08

sense of the place is getting

1:00:11

quieter and the

1:00:13

night is coming, right? So, you know, it

1:00:15

is getting darker. It's

1:00:18

easy enough, you know, even for you, even

1:00:20

with your low prowl, we're not gonna roll

1:00:22

a... there's no big car chase here, right?

1:00:25

It's a slow trudge through

1:00:28

small side streets, behind,

1:00:32

you know, embankments and pathways, back

1:00:35

to the east, back towards the

1:00:37

front gate, climbing that tall, you

1:00:39

know, stairwell up the side of

1:00:42

the big gate. I remember at the north

1:00:45

end, you came out and looked out onto

1:00:47

this cylinder from kind of

1:00:49

high up, as if you were looking down

1:00:51

from the top of a building, and you

1:00:54

had to climb down this long, almost like

1:00:56

fire escape style stairway, and it's you trudging

1:00:58

up that thing with coffee in

1:01:01

tow, and then presumably Mako

1:01:04

and Cass doing similarly, maybe

1:01:06

on a beak, maybe

1:01:09

bickering the whole time, you tell me, but

1:01:13

similarly, as the kind of ash

1:01:15

and snow starts to fall. And

1:01:18

yeah, I don't think it's that big of a

1:01:20

deal. You come in that side room, you're able

1:01:22

to debrief with the CCT folks, you

1:01:25

have coffee, coffee, you

1:01:27

know, TBD, my guess is

1:01:29

gets replaced here, and

1:01:32

the CCT doesn't make good with the

1:01:34

Ithicos, and you know,

1:01:36

maybe pays them off, but they get to

1:01:39

stay in charge, the CCT never came in

1:01:41

and occupied this place, things never went as

1:01:43

bad as it could have, this was not

1:01:45

a huge win necessarily, it was a little

1:01:47

messier than anybody wanted, but yeah,

1:01:49

that's kind

1:01:52

of how it goes. And

1:01:54

then yeah, Arya, you finish your

1:01:57

set, I think him is

1:01:59

like... You're Aria Joy. Yeah.

1:02:04

Huh. Uh...

1:02:10

Can you get me out of here? Yeah.

1:02:14

Where do you want to go? I

1:02:17

haven't thought about it. Well...

1:02:22

Um... It's

1:02:25

not even cold. Uh...

1:02:29

It's supposed to be cold? Yeah,

1:02:31

it's snowing. It's

1:02:34

supposed to be really cold, and snowflakes

1:02:36

are gonna fall on my nose, and then you

1:02:38

draw me closer to you, and

1:02:40

it's just... not

1:02:42

that. Yeah,

1:02:45

I guess it isn't that. It's

1:02:49

okay. We'll find a place where it really smells. That'd

1:02:53

be... That sounds alright. You

1:02:57

think it snows up there? And

1:03:00

above you, you can see it here, because

1:03:02

the rooftop isn't colored, it

1:03:06

isn't tinted, it isn't golden, it

1:03:08

isn't a false blue. It's

1:03:10

just a window looking up

1:03:12

into space, and weight

1:03:15

is looking down at you. It's

1:03:25

like a miracle, but like better, right? Oh...

1:03:33

Well, because miracles are

1:03:35

usually just the one time, and

1:03:37

I guess this was just the one time, but now, there's

1:03:41

like proof, you know? Yeah,

1:03:44

it's up there. Right. You

1:03:46

look at it and you think, what

1:03:49

can I do if I really, really, really,

1:03:51

really, really helped person? I

1:03:58

never think that. Well

1:04:02

now you just have to really really really really

1:04:04

hoop for some things. I

1:04:13

want some ice! And

1:04:16

he really wanted to be

1:04:18

cold. And

1:04:21

he really wanted, sorry that's my, for people listening

1:04:23

who haven't heard that because we've been cutting it out

1:04:25

but now we have to leave that one in. That's

1:04:28

my ice machine that's breaking little

1:04:30

now even though I deactivated it.

1:04:34

And he really wanted to be cold and he

1:04:36

really wants to put his arms around you and

1:04:38

pull you closer and he really

1:04:40

really does and he doesn't. And

1:04:44

he says, I'd love

1:04:48

to see the snow one day. I

1:04:50

have a ship we can go back. No,

1:04:54

why not? Why not? Yeah,

1:04:57

listen. Fucking,

1:05:01

where are you, rock? She

1:05:04

was like, let's get out of here. We're

1:05:07

gonna run away, kid. And I was hearing

1:05:09

it again. And

1:05:11

you know words mean multiple things. But

1:05:15

there's a pattern emerging. Well

1:05:20

I will say that the next step that

1:05:22

she discovers is what if I try this

1:05:24

on someone actively trying to kill me. Yeah,

1:05:28

you're right. Instead of someone who's kind of generally

1:05:32

disaffected and sad. She

1:05:34

went to that concert

1:05:37

that was an Are You Enjoy concert and

1:05:39

she was very impressed by

1:05:41

Jackie. And I feel

1:05:44

upset that you're making this a

1:05:46

strategy and not. The

1:05:49

truth of the first strategy is a

1:05:51

power. It's a power. It's an ability.

1:05:55

Yeah, it's an ability. I respected it here. Yeah,

1:06:00

and I think it's it's a slow walk. You

1:06:03

know, it's a slow walk maybe arm in

1:06:05

arm through the snow back to the front

1:06:08

gate. The warm

1:06:10

snow, the not chilly snow.

1:06:15

Maybe you should have waited for the ice cream until

1:06:17

after. Whiskey coffee ice

1:06:19

cream. Whiskey coffee ice cream.

1:06:22

I love whiskey coffee ice cream. Alright.

1:06:25

They got good snow on Ionia's. Oh, they

1:06:28

sure do. It's snowing on Ionia's right now.

1:06:32

Oh yeah, postcards

1:06:35

showing, you know, mining, mining

1:06:37

equipment landing. Yeah, you know,

1:06:39

worst possible ending for him.

1:06:41

No, no, we can't. No,

1:06:43

we can't. No, we can't.

1:06:45

No, it's cold. Aria, you inspire me

1:06:47

to get a job where it snows all the

1:06:49

time. No, absolutely not. Snow

1:06:52

track industry is on Ionia's. Yeah, no,

1:06:54

I won't do that. I don't know

1:06:56

what ever happens to this guy.

1:06:58

He's great, but he's gone now. So, which is

1:07:00

like a kind of a classic thing, right? There's

1:07:02

that cool lady in the cowboy Bebop movie. Yeah.

1:07:05

She's just gone. She'll show up for the finale

1:07:07

of that show. So,

1:07:12

cool. Great. And Mako's

1:07:14

letter hard lesson about how

1:07:16

the chive is gonna approach completing

1:07:20

a mission, which is to say leave

1:07:22

the mysteries uncovered.

1:07:26

Don't keep digging. Oh

1:07:28

yeah, favours for that. Yeah.

1:07:33

Sounds like I had a positive influence. Uh,

1:07:36

yeah. Hang on.

1:07:39

He made a contract with, I mean,

1:07:41

what we now know to be the

1:07:43

divine arbitrage. You mean coffee? Coffee did?

1:07:45

Yes, coffee made this. I

1:07:48

don't know. We haven't really seen anything

1:07:51

in Palisade that speaks to the consequences

1:07:53

of not fulfilling a contract like that.

1:07:55

But right. In fact, we've seen, we've

1:07:57

seen people basically say you can't not.

1:08:00

Yeah, they're binding You know,

1:08:02

this is many many many thousands of years ago.

1:08:05

So maybe it hasn't all one hand I

1:08:07

want to say maybe just doesn't have it like that yet.

1:08:09

You know what I mean? I mean, he clearly didn't like

1:08:11

it You know feel for him

1:08:13

to be nagging on that. You know, maybe

1:08:16

maybe it is a compulsion in that

1:08:18

way there

1:08:20

is something You

1:08:22

know, we made this this comparison earlier

1:08:24

that the slot machines

1:08:26

at the Ithaca casino at the

1:08:29

cerulean Were not

1:08:31

like or icon ones. They're not about

1:08:33

harsh efficiency and perfect data analysis And

1:08:35

you know all this stuff that rigor

1:08:37

would end up being about in some

1:08:39

ways the

1:08:41

way that the Ithaca work is I'm a

1:08:44

bit more about leverage a bit more about

1:08:47

knowing who you Oh

1:08:49

favors to or getting you to Oh favors to them

1:08:51

or You

1:08:53

know coming in and swooping in with the

1:08:55

perfect offer at the perfect time and there's

1:08:57

something very cool about arbitrage cool Pejorative

1:09:00

cool insult. You do not have to hand

1:09:03

it to it You do not have to

1:09:05

hand it to to arbitrage to sure thing

1:09:07

that dat to the card shark But

1:09:10

there is something interesting about it Modeling

1:09:13

those behaviors those human

1:09:15

behaviors and extending them

1:09:18

And so maybe like to some degree that is the thing Maybe

1:09:21

that the kind of sad ending here for coffee

1:09:23

and you don't know this right? Maybe this kind

1:09:25

of even speaks to some of the like Cast

1:09:28

being like we get them next time we

1:09:30

go home. We turn in the we finish the

1:09:32

job, right? We collect our pay we move on

1:09:37

You turn in coffee or is

1:09:40

pleased to have coffee alive Not

1:09:44

thrilled about the dead body Not

1:09:48

But not mad as as he would have been

1:09:50

if the Technocracies like

1:09:52

armed services would have gone in

1:09:54

you know right there would have

1:09:57

been a sudden total occupation a

1:09:59

sort of police occupation that would

1:10:01

have been worse and you didn't get that

1:10:03

outcome so good job and then

1:10:05

a week goes by another week and

1:10:07

you know maybe coffee is on probation

1:10:10

coffee is being investigated

1:10:12

and at some point coffee goes

1:10:15

back compelled to

1:10:17

go back to go find

1:10:21

you know surething.dat it's

1:10:23

already uploaded but but I don't know that

1:10:25

I don't know that coffee knows that you

1:10:28

know coffee has this compulsion go

1:10:30

find it go bring it to his old

1:10:33

office go upload it and I

1:10:35

don't know how that goes wrong but

1:10:38

you don't get sent in again right coffee

1:10:40

is not protected by the CCT at this point

1:10:43

no it breaks bad in some

1:10:45

way and there's a lot of ways for that

1:10:47

to break bad this isn't me being euphemistic it's me

1:10:49

leaving an open door a little bit this coffee go

1:10:51

on to work for the easy coast family just go

1:10:54

if we just get killed this coffee show up

1:10:56

and they go are you fucking for real right now

1:10:58

I don't know but maybe the the CCT eventually

1:11:02

just cuts him loose right where it's like

1:11:04

that's what I mean yeah you know the

1:11:06

reason that this was a problem for us

1:11:08

was because he was our man but if

1:11:10

we disavow him completely you know totally yeah

1:11:13

yeah you know essential help a second time

1:11:16

and the CCT says no yeah we're

1:11:18

done with this yeah I'm assuming

1:11:21

we can do the the optimist

1:11:23

version of this which just is you know you

1:11:25

said Austin that you're not saying this to be

1:11:27

euphemistic I'm not saying the optimist version of this

1:11:29

to be like and of course this is actually

1:11:32

what happens I'm I'm you know I am presenting

1:11:34

this among other options which is you know maybe

1:11:36

short things short thing hasn't figured

1:11:38

out how to get the grit fully so

1:11:41

maybe after three feverish unpleasant years the fever

1:11:43

breaks and coffee what the fuck am I

1:11:45

doing I have no money I've gambled all

1:11:47

my money away I've been trying to get

1:11:49

this but I've you know I've regained

1:11:51

my senses or whatever but maybe it sticks

1:11:53

you know maybe it sticks forever oh I

1:11:56

know the actual answer maybe which is Do

1:12:00

you know who can offer a contract to break this contract?

1:12:02

Do you know who can offer an alternative? Who

1:12:05

can send a message late in the night? Shortthing.dat.

1:12:10

A young, a very young

1:12:12

arbitrage can move some things around. Can

1:12:14

say, oh, I'm so sorry, I

1:12:16

forgot about you. I can make

1:12:18

you a new deal. Trading one debt for another? Yeah,

1:12:21

exactly. You know, I

1:12:23

can get you out of there. You know,

1:12:26

does get arrested by the Ithaca.

1:12:29

And then someone we've never seen

1:12:31

before shows up with a pile of

1:12:33

cash and breaks, you

1:12:35

know, it sits down with

1:12:38

coffee and there's a conversation

1:12:40

and a new contract. And

1:12:42

this person we've never seen before is just

1:12:44

one more agent working for what would become

1:12:46

arbitrage. It's already

1:12:49

starting, right? One at a

1:12:51

time. Let's get people, let's get people moving

1:12:53

for me. People need

1:12:55

magazines to read. I can provide

1:12:57

them. People need favors. People

1:13:00

need bail money. People need transportation.

1:13:03

People have services they can provide. And I

1:13:05

can use those services as

1:13:07

a middleman. I can get

1:13:09

what I want. I can build a network, a

1:13:12

network filled with people who don't

1:13:14

even know they're in it, you

1:13:17

know, or who don't know how big the network is. That's

1:13:21

arbitrage, baby. Shortthing.

1:13:24

Shortthing. Shortthing. Shortthing.

1:13:28

Yeah. Can I

1:13:30

say something that's really fun that's like this

1:13:32

is just like the way this game

1:13:34

works is that like there's stuff that

1:13:36

we just didn't uncover because

1:13:39

it just didn't come up. You know what I mean?

1:13:41

It's not that you didn't uncover it. It's that it's

1:13:43

like it's not real because it didn't come up. Right.

1:13:46

But like grandpa heart is a what is

1:13:48

like an ex candidate.

1:13:51

It's heart like H A R T like a

1:13:53

heart like a like a big

1:13:55

deer, you know, that's like you used to

1:13:57

be a candidate from a divine that was

1:13:59

here. back in the day. There's all

1:14:01

sorts of there's like parts of an

1:14:04

old divine buried underneath the the open

1:14:06

arms campground. There's all sorts of cool

1:14:08

shit that could have happened if this

1:14:10

shook out slightly differently. Well,

1:14:12

we were supposed to have a Christmas

1:14:14

vacation here and instead we immediately decided

1:14:16

to like try to do

1:14:19

it all in six hours. Yeah, that

1:14:21

is exactly true, right? Yeah. That's

1:14:23

how it goes sometimes. So yeah.

1:14:26

Yeah. Well, thanks

1:14:30

for joining us for

1:14:32

this chime prequel. I think everyone showed

1:14:35

up in exactly

1:14:37

the way you

1:14:39

would want. People

1:14:41

are gonna go insane for Aria.

1:14:43

Old time great. Yeah, there's gonna

1:14:47

be a there's gonna be a

1:14:49

new onion order that's about uncovering

1:14:51

whatever the truth of all this

1:14:53

is. So thank you for

1:14:56

supporting the National Network of Abortion Fund. So

1:14:58

yeah, that's true. That's how we did this.

1:15:00

Oh my god. And thank you to Ali

1:15:02

for making the amazing thing that you've saw

1:15:04

today. If you watch the if you watch

1:15:06

the live, well, yeah, you're gonna

1:15:08

continue to you're gonna broadcast

1:15:10

all of them live. Yes. So

1:15:13

yeah, thank you for being

1:15:15

here. So if you're, if you're listening to

1:15:17

this and you listen to it live, wasn't it cool to go through

1:15:19

that with a group of people? What a fun

1:15:22

thing. Yeah, we're gonna have to have

1:15:24

someone in the chat to like, make sure

1:15:26

people aren't listening to

1:15:28

it like double speed on the feed and posting.

1:15:34

We can ban them. That will be bad.

1:15:36

That is that I feel like it's a

1:15:39

fluke that you even thought of that. That

1:15:41

is such a weird and mean

1:15:44

thing to do. I mean, it's just

1:15:46

the people driving by the Harry Potter

1:15:48

line and yelling spoilers at them. Yeah,

1:15:50

but like, nobody, nobody says animosity towards

1:15:52

the Friends of the Table fandom the

1:15:55

way that they do the Harry Potter fandom.

1:15:58

Right, that is a victim of five

1:16:00

billion people knowing what Harry Potter is. Also, you

1:16:02

only just gave people the idea now at the

1:16:05

very end. So it's worth it. Yeah. Right.

1:16:08

So for more broadcasts of this nature, you

1:16:10

better watch out. We're

1:16:13

going to be on the lookout. Better not cry.

1:16:15

And for the next one, don't do

1:16:18

it. Thank

1:16:21

you. Or just don't cut this out and then they won't

1:16:24

be giving the idea. And if you're listening to this

1:16:26

on the RSS feed, have a good night. Bye.

1:16:30

Bye. Yeah. Those

1:16:32

are the RSS feeds. Sorry you didn't have the fun.

1:16:35

I'm happy you had the fun of listening to it

1:16:37

in your solitude. A reminder

1:16:39

of old things. Where were you the first time

1:16:41

you listened to counterweight? Where were you the first

1:16:43

time that Audie shot a door

1:16:46

off of its hinges or the

1:16:48

past realized that maybe they should have had

1:16:50

a plan or where Mako decided to be

1:16:52

the one who dug a little deeper and

1:16:54

investigated something that no one else wanted to

1:16:56

or when Arya flirted with someone to get

1:16:59

deeper and then further deeper into trouble and

1:17:01

then get out of it. Arya,

1:17:03

we'll see you next year for the AU

1:17:05

scenario where we do spend a week doing

1:17:08

Christmas vacation here. We do that. We

1:17:10

have the same situation. What are

1:17:12

they called? The same transmission. We

1:17:15

just read. Yeah. Yeah. The

1:17:17

math, the like transmission. Yeah. Yeah.

1:17:20

But it's just chill. Yeah. What

1:17:22

he's going to try churros for the first time. Still a

1:17:24

murder. Still a murder happened. But all right. Time.is.

1:17:27

Same quote. Same quote. Yeah.

1:17:31

Fuck Ralph Waldo Emerson. But

1:17:37

we learned. Not right. Yeah. Got

1:17:39

better. This quote

1:17:41

picked up. Yeah. Got the.

1:17:44

All right. Can't

1:17:48

believe Ralph Waldo Emerson was a milkshake duct.

1:17:53

Wait. No. Thank

1:18:11

you. Thank

1:18:30

you. Thank

1:19:14

you. Thank

1:19:32

you.