Episode 65
Episode 65: Doctor My Eyes
Book comes back a changed man, while everyone scrambles to save the Baffles from its impending doom.
This one is gross.
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Transcript
Foreign.
Speaker A:Welcome to Oops All Apocalypses, a show where we explore the collapse of society by playing fun tabletop role playing games.
Speaker A:I'm your host, Stu Masterson, and I'm joined by two off brand popsicles sold from an ice cream truck.
Speaker B:I want to be the Sonic that has one gumball up here, one gumball I like two inches above where I should be and one gumball I two inches below.
Speaker A:And the gumball is also the hardest substance ever created.
Speaker B:Made of like literal rocks.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, I'm definitely demented Spider Man.
Speaker A:He has no special candy on him though, right?
Speaker A:He's just.
Speaker C:No, he's got gums.
Speaker C:He's got gumdrop eyes.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Or gumball eyes.
Speaker A:Cannot imagine how Spider man would have gumball eyes.
Speaker C:Oh, you haven't seen.
Speaker C:You haven't seen demented ice cream Spider Man?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:You have to Google demented ice cream Spider Man.
Speaker A:I already am.
Speaker B:I want to know whose idea it was to put gumballs of all things on ice cream.
Speaker B:Why do I want gumballs on my ice cream?
Speaker B:I don't want to chew and eat gum while also trying to eat ice cream.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That is one of the worst combinations.
Speaker B:Who decided that was what we were gonna do?
Speaker A:The problem is nothing's really good on ice cream.
Speaker A:All of this.
Speaker A:Unless it's like a melty chocolate or a caramel or something like that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Any candy that you think is a good idea, like I used to always, when I was a kid, put gummy worms on my ice cream or gummy bears and they become also inedible.
Speaker B:They become rocks.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Slightly wet cement.
Speaker A:Concrete, baby.
Speaker B:I would make just like these terrible hodgepodges whenever they had like the, you know, when you're in elementary school, they had Sunday day.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:And they just have all those weird things.
Speaker B:I basically put everything on there and it was mostly topping and not ice cream.
Speaker A:The only good topping.
Speaker A:Whipped cream.
Speaker B:Whipped cream.
Speaker B:You say it like Stewie Griffin from Family Guy.
Speaker A:I'm the original Stew, which is a.
Speaker B:Running joke in Family Guy.
Speaker B:Why did you say it?
Speaker A:I've never heard of this football shaped baby before.
Speaker A:This is copyright infringement on my character.
Speaker B:The allegations are damning.
Speaker A:This week we have a Buzzfeed presents apocalypse.
Speaker A:And this week I'm going to ask and I'm going to use this against you during our podcast.
Speaker A:Just so you know.
Speaker A:I decided that's a good thing.
Speaker A:I should start doing more.
Speaker A:So this question is, what is something that you have, like a tremendous overconfidence in based on, like, no actual thing to back it up.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:And you can't use this one Brady slash Book, because I'm going to use that as an example.
Speaker A:But like, your knowledge of computer science would be like something like that, but I want a different one.
Speaker C:Meaning my knowledge of computer science that Book.
Speaker A:Book's theory that he knows what he's talking about with computers, despite that being proven wrong repeatedly.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Wait, we didn't introduce ourselves.
Speaker A:Well, then do it.
Speaker C:We just said what.
Speaker C:What kind of ice cream we would be.
Speaker A:What do you want me to do about this?
Speaker C:I'm interrupting you so we can do it.
Speaker B:Hey, everybody.
Speaker B:I am Sonic the Hedgehog.
Speaker B:Ice cream cone with one gumball eye two inches above his eye where its eye is supposed to be and the other gumball eye 2 inches below where the eye is supposed to be.
Speaker B:And I play Ocean, a gentle giant who is having a psychic connection with some pretty cool robots.
Speaker B:Which is not what book's about.
Speaker A:And who are you?
Speaker C:Hey, everybody, I'm Brady.
Speaker C:I'm also the Marvel branded Spider man.
Speaker C:Ice cream with two gumball eyes.
Speaker C:He is demented.
Speaker C:And I play book McCready the Dead the.
Speaker C:Okay, should I not introduce my new first impression?
Speaker A:No, you can.
Speaker C:The cold and staring brain picker.
Speaker C:What book's coming back is a different playbook, baby.
Speaker C:He got shot through the lungs and now he's weird looking.
Speaker A:What is this exciting?
Speaker A:I mean, I'm excited for this.
Speaker A:This is our first new playbook we've ever had here in Oops.
Speaker A:All Apocalypse history.
Speaker B:I'm a little jealous, honestly, because we.
Speaker B:We were before the.
Speaker B:Before we were recording.
Speaker B:We were all going through helping him build his new book and man, you've got now more abilities than I do.
Speaker B:I need to get Ocean killed so I can get a new playbook and have room to grow as a character profile.
Speaker B:Like a build again.
Speaker C:You got to die more.
Speaker A:You've made it too hard for you to die.
Speaker B:It's because I picked.
Speaker B:Oh, that's scary looking.
Speaker B:Brady is showing us a picture of demented Spider Man.
Speaker C:The thing that I'm learning though is it's not off brand.
Speaker C:You said off brand popsicles, but it's apparently Marvel branded.
Speaker A:Fascinating.
Speaker C:You were doing a Buzzfeed Presents Apocalypse.
Speaker A:Since I was interrupted with your introductions, I'll repeat.
Speaker A:And you guys are really just stalling for time to be able to come up with a really good answer.
Speaker A:So I'm excited to hear it.
Speaker A:But I want to hear what's something that Book and Ocean are just like, unfoundedly overconfident in.
Speaker A:It doesn't have to be, like, a big thing, but just, like, what is something that they're like, oh, yeah, I could do this.
Speaker A:Despite probably never having done it or not having those specific skill sets, I've.
Speaker B:Got to give one for Book.
Speaker B:For Ocean.
Speaker B:I mean, for Ocean.
Speaker C:Learn who you're playing, dude.
Speaker A:We've only been playing for 64 hours.
Speaker A:So bad.
Speaker B:But I think Ocean has an undue amount of confidence in his ability to cook.
Speaker A:Ooh.
Speaker B:I think that.
Speaker B:I think he believes he has a very refined palate.
Speaker B:And despite never having cooked before, I think he probably thinks he could make some pretty good stuff.
Speaker B:I don't think Ocean has ever actually cooked, though.
Speaker B:I don't really think you do that very often.
Speaker B:Besides just, like, grilling meat and open cans.
Speaker A:Yeah, you've reheated a lot of stuff.
Speaker A:But that's interesting, and I'm excited for you to get an opportunity to test that.
Speaker B:He doesn't like most of the foods that we've had in this poc.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This episode, the.
Speaker B:This series.
Speaker B:Many of the time.
Speaker B:Most of the times when food's brought up, Ocean's, like, that doesn't look very appealing.
Speaker B:So I see him being a little.
Speaker B:Little snobbish with the food he eats and thinks he can do better.
Speaker A:I get that.
Speaker C:I think Book is super overconfident in, like, his.
Speaker C:What's the word?
Speaker C:Hold on.
Speaker C:I need to Google something.
Speaker A:Intelligence.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker A:Confidence.
Speaker A:Looks, Friendliness, smell.
Speaker C:Book is super overconfident in his etiquette.
Speaker C:I think that Book thinks, like, because he's read a lot of books and because, like, he.
Speaker C:He was raised with good manners, I think that he thinks he could function in high society or could, like, you know, has really good etiquette and, like, you know, but.
Speaker C:But, like, really, he's just a weirdo who lives in a cave, you know.
Speaker A:Like, I can't wait for you to get stolen by Faye.
Speaker C:Like, he says, please, but, like, he doesn't know what, you know, how to actually handle himself in public.
Speaker C:Like, he's not a social person, so he's very incorrect about, you know, his.
Speaker C:His.
Speaker C:His ability to function in an actual society.
Speaker A:Is it just, like, a blind spot, you think?
Speaker A:Or does he actually think everyone else is acting wrong, or does he do just not pick up on that?
Speaker C:Well, I don't think he has any good examples of how people, like, I think everyone is acting wrong, but he also thinks he's acting right, if that makes sense.
Speaker C:So I guess it's more of a blind spot.
Speaker A:My overconfident spot.
Speaker A:I have a lot of confidence spots, but I think mine is.
Speaker A:I feel like I could just write a book, like, tomorrow.
Speaker A:Like, someone could be like, hey, here's an advance.
Speaker A:Go write a great book.
Speaker A:And I'd be like, sure thing.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker B:I feel like a lot of people feel that way.
Speaker A:I haven't done, like, long form writing in, like, 10 years.
Speaker B:Yeah, I used to write all the damn time, but I have not written since college.
Speaker C:You wanted to make movies.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker B:And I wanted to write books and all this stuff.
Speaker C:We should.
Speaker C:All the three of us should take a year off of work and we should each write a book and see who sells the best.
Speaker A:Well, we have a super secret prod project that is.
Speaker A:It's going to take a lot of writing, so we'll get some good firsthand experience on if I can write an entire book.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's actually true.
Speaker C:That's actually really true.
Speaker A:But yeah, I've.
Speaker A:I have that complete overconfidence where if someone offered me a contract to do that, I'd probably be like, absolutely.
Speaker A:And just fail miserably in a few months.
Speaker C:All right, we should record podcasts now.
Speaker A:This was.
Speaker A:This is what we're doing right now.
Speaker A:Oh, you mean we should be.
Speaker A:Go back to the action?
Speaker A:Is that what you're recommending?
Speaker D:Lulilu.
Speaker A:Last episode, you guys broke into the room that was housing the great protector gods of the Boxcar Children, which are also a pair of flight suits.
Speaker A:There used to be a triplet of them until Book's mother stole one, but you tried to break into there and throw rocks at them so you could become at least temporary members of the Boxcar Children, which would prohibit them from incarcerating slash killing you intentionally.
Speaker A:Ocean successfully hurled a rocket one, which basically means he is a member of the Boxcar Children.
Speaker A:Book ran up to them, and instead of taking the easy way out of throwing a rock, he decided to flip between the legs of one and then ride it like a stallion before he brought his sword down on top of its helm, which worked great until he got laser beamed through the lung holes by the other one.
Speaker A:So we ended last episode with Book collapsing to the ground and his vision fading and him being unable to collect his breath.
Speaker A:So I don't really want to play through this, like, next, like, four minutes of what happens, because I don't think it's going to be too interesting.
Speaker A:So I think we should kind of zoom forward with it and get just little snippets of scenes of what's going on.
Speaker A:So I'm going to just ask you guys some questions, and then I'll describe what's happening as it's going on.
Speaker B:Let's do it.
Speaker B:I like it.
Speaker A:So, Book, you feel your head clunk against the ground and your vision starting to black out.
Speaker A:And just.
Speaker A:No matter what you do, you just can't breathe.
Speaker A:You hear some laser beams, and then you feel definitely Ocean's hands on you.
Speaker A:Ocean, what would you say to him?
Speaker A:What would you be trying to do as you get to him?
Speaker B:So when Ocean sees this, he.
Speaker B:He immediately runs for to him and he puts his hand and is like, book, Book.
Speaker B:And starts shaking him.
Speaker B:And he tries to.
Speaker B:To use healing touch.
Speaker B:Yeah, he tries to use healing touch to try and see if there's anything he can do.
Speaker A:Book.
Speaker A:You feel this warmth deep in your chest, and it does feel nice.
Speaker A:And you hear the comforting tones of Ocean.
Speaker A:But even as it seems like you're getting healed up inside, there's just no air inside.
Speaker A:And you try to take a breath and just nothing happens.
Speaker A:And your vision keeps fading as you're trying.
Speaker A:You're shaken and shaken by Ocean.
Speaker A:And then your vision goes black.
Speaker A:Your vision kind of fades back in for just a second, and you can tell you're being moved briskly down some hallway.
Speaker A:You just see lights kind of flashing above you as one after the next goes and goes.
Speaker A:And you hear a voice that you are surprised to hear.
Speaker A:Who is it?
Speaker C:What?
Speaker A:You hear a voice that you're surprised to hear.
Speaker C:Like a person, probably.
Speaker A:That's most of the stuff that has voices.
Speaker C:Like, someone I recognize.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's my dad.
Speaker A:As you're getting dragged and these lights are just flashing above you, trying to, like, turn your head and look, but something's kind of holding it in place.
Speaker A:You can tell there's a flurry of people around you, but you just hear this, like, kind of soft, echoing.
Speaker A:Book.
Speaker A:Book, come on.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:Stay.
Speaker A:Stay with me.
Speaker A:Book, come on.
Speaker A:You can do this.
Speaker A:You can do this.
Speaker A:But you.
Speaker A:No matter how hard you try to, like, look up and go towards that voice, you can't.
Speaker A:And your vision again, just fades out.
Speaker A:Last time, it was like almost a, like, sudden, just like transportation.
Speaker A:It was like you're blacked out and then came to and you're in this new room this time.
Speaker A:It feels like there's hours and hours or days of time that pass, and it is not a restful sleep.
Speaker A:You're constantly hearing these malevolent whispers just filling your brain.
Speaker A:And just saying.
Speaker A:You can tell they're like demeaning, aggressive statements against you, but you just cannot pick out what any of them are.
Speaker A:It's like you're in the middle of a cafeteria and everyone in high school is just insulting you.
Speaker A:And it just is unending.
Speaker A:Give me a Rita situation.
Speaker C:Okay, here we go.
Speaker C:I rolled two sixes plus 3:15.
Speaker A:Ask me three questions.
Speaker C:Okay, question one.
Speaker C:Is my dad here?
Speaker A:Not an option.
Speaker D:I'm just kidding.
Speaker C:Question one is, who's in control here?
Speaker C:Question two.
Speaker C:What poses the biggest threat to me?
Speaker C:Question three.
Speaker C:What represents the best opportunity for me to survive?
Speaker A:You are just in this darkness with this cacophony of voices surrounding you, and it seems like they're trying to kind of rise up and engulf you.
Speaker A:Anything you try to do to, like, distract yourself from it, it only lasts for a moment.
Speaker A:And it seems like it's getting louder and more encompassing.
Speaker A:Despite that, you still can't pick out what they're saying.
Speaker A:And you know that this is a threat to you.
Speaker A:Whatever is roiling in your brain right now now is trying to fully consume you.
Speaker A:But you get this sense that despite that, there's a part of you as.
Speaker A:As you remain focused and as you're trying to search around for anything, even though it's just all darkness everywhere, you kind of feel like you still have control over what happens here.
Speaker A:You are able to get away from this.
Speaker A:And you notice just this tiny pin prick of light.
Speaker A:And as it comes more and more into focus, you recognize a wolf of the maelstrom.
Speaker A:It looks just like the ones that were investigating Ocean that one time when he was kind of unconscious.
Speaker A:It's still in its wolf form, but as you get closer and closer, just like back then, it kind of peels out of the mouth, and you see this very humanoid form step up and beckon you closer to it.
Speaker C:What else do I see?
Speaker C:Is that all I see?
Speaker A:That is the only light around you.
Speaker A:Behind you, there's just this growing cacophony of sounds.
Speaker A:But you were not really seeing much.
Speaker C:Then I stepped forward because the wolves, they did help me once when I died before, and I'm dying again.
Speaker C:So I stepped towards it.
Speaker A:As you get closer, you can kind of see into this cloud.
Speaker A:If anyone can't remember from like 56 episodes ago, and I described them, they have this kind of unforming head and face that doesn't really have any normal features on it.
Speaker A:And that as you look into it, you see.
Speaker A:See what looks to be a little microcosm of Some room that's kind of reflected in that face.
Speaker A:And it looks like a room with a hospital bed.
Speaker A:You recognize yourself laying on it.
Speaker A:There's all sorts of apparatuses hooked up to you.
Speaker A:Right now.
Speaker A:You see Ocean sleeping in the corner on an uncomfortable chair.
Speaker A:And you see standing over top of you looking down, another wolf of the maelstrom, just looking right into your face with its hands on your shoulders.
Speaker A:You feel it kind of drawing you back in towards your body.
Speaker C:If I move, like my hand in my.
Speaker C:In my separate body, in my mind body, does my hand move in on my regular body that I'm looking at?
Speaker A:You move it and it's like you're just under a thousand pounds of weighted blankets.
Speaker A:Like you feel yourself kind of moving against something, but it's not able to go in that direction.
Speaker A:It's like you're just being weighed down.
Speaker C:Okay, then.
Speaker C:Yeah, I want to.
Speaker C:I want to swim towards my body, but I want to see if I can catch a glimpse of like the face of the wolf leaning over me.
Speaker A:You push forward in some across the universe ass view, getting closer to your body there.
Speaker A:And eventually the light of the room just overtakes you.
Speaker A:And there's just a split second of white blindness where then when your eyes open back up, you're laying in a bed.
Speaker A:There's no wolf of the maelstrom over you.
Speaker A:There's beeps and boops all around you.
Speaker A:Like, you're hooked up to a machine that seems to be measuring your heart rate.
Speaker A:What do you look like right now?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Super fucked up.
Speaker A:You've been.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:In the hospital for a bit now.
Speaker C:Book does look super fucked up.
Speaker C:I think he has, like a bandage over one of his eyes, like, wrapped around his head and then cutting across his left eye.
Speaker C:Kind of like an eye patch, but made out of bandages.
Speaker C:I think probably one of my books.
Speaker C:Eyes popped from the.
Speaker C:From the effort of trying to breathe.
Speaker A:Gross.
Speaker C:And I think he.
Speaker C:His entire torso is also wrapped in bandages, but otherwise like, so.
Speaker C:So he's.
Speaker C:He's like kind of a reverse Scooby Doo mummy.
Speaker C:You know how like the Scooby Doo mummies, they're kind of.
Speaker C:The bandages are kind of falling off the arms and stuff.
Speaker C:Oh, wait, no.
Speaker C:I guess that means he's.
Speaker C:He is a Scooby Doo mummy.
Speaker C:His arms and legs are fine, but his head and his torso are like, completely mummified right now.
Speaker A:A little alarm starts going off on one of your machines, and a few seconds later, a door opens and in walks someone dressed like a doctor you probably were a little hesitant to trust most of the medical attention of the boxcar children before this, because you did see that one dude set up who was just kind of lopping off arms and whatnot when you first came in here, if you recall that.
Speaker A:I do recall that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:This looks like a much better setup.
Speaker A:And she looks much more professional than that guy.
Speaker A:And she goes, hello, I'm Dr.
Speaker A:Arnold Palmer, and, and you're very lucky to be with us today.
Speaker D:Where am I?
Speaker A:You're, you're still in the baffles.
Speaker A:You're in our defense factory here.
Speaker A:You have a lot of people that care about you, and they, I promise they like just stepped out to get some food.
Speaker A:They'll, they'll all be back.
Speaker C:I don't think a Book says anything.
Speaker A:She looks at some little dials, she changes some things.
Speaker A:She taps on your knee for some reason, and then she walks out.
Speaker A:And then, Ocean, where were you at?
Speaker A:What were you doing during the last few hours here?
Speaker A:It's been, to give you more context, it's probably been like three or four days total.
Speaker C:So Power Armor kicks open the door?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:So I think Ocean has been, with his medical training, has been trying his absolute best to assist the medical people that have been helping Book here.
Speaker B:So that's kind of how I see that.
Speaker B:He spent a good portion of the time trying to be as hands on as possible just so he doesn't feel useless.
Speaker B:But right now I think he probably is out getting food.
Speaker A:Like you were saying, Crashy runs up to you, Ocean, while you're eating in some large cafeteria, there's a bunch of boxcar children here.
Speaker A:The food's actually pretty good.
Speaker A:It's mostly these meals that are just like pre sealed and heated up though, but you pull this metal top off of it, but the food inside, pretty tasty.
Speaker A:You hear crash, you run up and go, Ocean, Ocean books awake.
Speaker A:Books back.
Speaker A:Books back.
Speaker D:Oh, shit.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Come on, let's go.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Ocean heads over.
Speaker A:He takes your food as you run past him and starts scarfing it down.
Speaker A:A few minutes later, you.
Speaker A:You run in there and you push open the door and you see Book laying, not looking much different than he did last time you were in here.
Speaker A:But his eyes are open and he seems to be breathing on his own for the first time.
Speaker A:You know, the last few days it's been mostly machines working on him, but they were trying some weird science.
Speaker A:How do you feel about, I guess the sciency shit that they were trying to do to him to keep him alive?
Speaker A:So Stuff that would be like his bionic eye or weird apparatus to keep his lungs working.
Speaker A:Would you have been trying to, like, help out with that or you've been like, I know, I know medicine.
Speaker A:This is weird.
Speaker B:He would try because he also has a background with, like, tinkering and making stuff.
Speaker B:But I suspect that the level of tech that they're dealing with here is probably far beyond than what.
Speaker B:What he could feasibly assist with, because I.
Speaker B:His tinkering and building and engineering stuff is usually just with scraps and makeshift equipment.
Speaker B:It's not with high tech computer robots and whatnot.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:So I think he'd feel a little uncomfortable, but he would recognize that this is probably the.
Speaker B:The only option at this point with how extensive his wounds are.
Speaker A:That makes sense.
Speaker C:I think when Ocean walks in, Book was unwrapping his head bandage and is holding, like, a handheld mirror to see what his face looks like now.
Speaker A:What does your face look like now?
Speaker C:I think one of his.
Speaker C:I decided his eye didn't pop.
Speaker C:His eye got, like, super heated by laser stuff.
Speaker C:And so, like, I think his left eyelid is gone, and there's just like a glass, Semi.
Speaker C:Glass, semi robotic eye in his left eye socket.
Speaker C:But it's like always open.
Speaker A:Disgusting.
Speaker C:Wonderful, but.
Speaker C:And I think his is like the skin around it's kind of charred, but otherwise his head looks more or less normal.
Speaker A:Crash.
Speaker A:You skids into the room behind you, and you do catch a quick little grimace on his face as he looks at you and he goes, oh, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm so happy you're awake.
Speaker A:You've missed a lot.
Speaker A:How are you feeling, Stu?
Speaker C:Is it.
Speaker C:Is it, like, healed or did I take the bandages off too early?
Speaker A:You probably took it off a little too early, but it's not going to kill you.
Speaker C:So it's like.
Speaker C:It's like oozing.
Speaker C:It's oozing a little bit.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's gross.
Speaker C:So I think a book is.
Speaker C:Is using a piece of gauze to, like, blot his metal eye.
Speaker C:His.
Speaker C:His glass metal eye.
Speaker A:I don't know if you're supposed to touch that.
Speaker C:Wait, is Ocean.
Speaker C:Is Ocean in the room?
Speaker C:Is Ocean in the room too?
Speaker A:Ocean's here.
Speaker D:Ocean.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, look.
Speaker B:How are you feeling?
Speaker D:Thank you for sitting with me.
Speaker D:I saw you.
Speaker D:I appreciate it.
Speaker B:I did everything I could.
Speaker B:I know you would have done the same book.
Speaker C:Then turns to Crash.
Speaker D:You.
Speaker D:Am I one of you now?
Speaker A:That is a complicated question, but yes, yes, you and Ocean, you don't have anything to worry about getting Thrown back in prison.
Speaker A:You're doing great.
Speaker A:And you notice that actually Crash, you now has not the fancy arm that you described to him, but he does have a prosthetic arm too.
Speaker A:This little, hey, that's good.
Speaker A:Gangly robot, little looking arm doesn't look tremendously effective, but he goes, Yet a lot of people saw what happened and were really, really jazzed about the whole protector situation.
Speaker A:Excalibur opening up like that has never happened before.
Speaker A:So you got like a lot of fans actually, and they've been like doing some rituals for you and leaving some offerings and stuff like that.
Speaker D:Excalibur opened up.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, Excalibur opened up.
Speaker A:There's a subset of people here who thinks it belongs to you now.
Speaker D:I just thought I could get my wish better if I hit it.
Speaker A:He goes to the blankets and lifts them up and goes, looks like you got your wish.
Speaker A:Book does not say anything, but, yeah, they've been giving you a bunch of shit.
Speaker A:And you look in the corner and there's like candles set up and there's like a bunch of signs that say like, get better soon.
Speaker A:There's a bunch of cards that.
Speaker A:It looks like a big portion of a Hallmark store in the corner there.
Speaker A:But then there's a lot.
Speaker A:There's just like boxes of ammo and bullets and knives and it looks like handmade like hammers with nails welded to the end of them and a bunch of random shit.
Speaker C:At the top of one of the piles is a like fancy six shooter.
Speaker C:And I immediately pick it up, I pop out the chamber and I spin it.
Speaker C:Is it loaded?
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker C:Hell yeah.
Speaker A:No safety.
Speaker C:Book.
Speaker C:Book.
Speaker C:Book is just holding it against his chest.
Speaker C:It's his now.
Speaker C:It's his prized, is his new prized weapon.
Speaker A:As you hold that, something in this pile also catches your eye.
Speaker A:And you see there's this strange like about fist sized sphere of glass that's on a little tiny stand.
Speaker A:The stand is not very ornate or anything, but for something about it, it seems important to you.
Speaker C:Okay, so Book has the antique handgun in his right hand and with his.
Speaker A:Left he palms the sphere as it touches you.
Speaker A:It feels warm.
Speaker C:Book brings, brings it to his chest and peers into the orb.
Speaker C:He ponders the orb, hon.
Speaker A:You ponder your orb 14 hours later.
Speaker A:Now, as you look in this orb, it just looks like a glass orb.
Speaker A:But you keep thinking you notice like little clouds of something in it.
Speaker A:But as you turn it in the light, it seems to disappear.
Speaker A:It's like just little flecks of something that disappears.
Speaker C:Flecks of fun.
Speaker C:Book tries to sit up.
Speaker A:As you sit up you realize there's like a lot of weight right around your chestal cavity under these wraps.
Speaker A:Like it feels like difficult to move around.
Speaker A:Like you're definitely more stiff there.
Speaker A:It tremendously hurts still, but you feel like something heavy and as you punk it.
Speaker A:There's definitely some metallic something under these wraps.
Speaker C:Okay, I unwrap my chest wraps.
Speaker C:Probably also ripping up scabs and stuff, which is cool.
Speaker A:Gross.
Speaker A:What's your chest look like?
Speaker C:It's sort of like, you know, the Winter soldier, how where his shoulder on his metal arm.
Speaker C:Where the shoulder meets the metal arm there.
Speaker C:There's some like plates like that.
Speaker C:And then there's also just some like copper tubes like kind of steam punky sticking out of back of his back and chest.
Speaker A:Yeah, I gotta let the coolant out, you know.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:In comes Papa Woody.
Speaker A:He just stands there and smiles at you.
Speaker D:I thought you weren't welcome here, Papa Woody.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:No, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm allowed anywhere.
Speaker A:They're just not big fans of me here.
Speaker A:You know.
Speaker A:I'm like.
Speaker A:I kind of lead the boxcar children.
Speaker A:Like 50.
Speaker A:50.
Speaker B:Have you earned anything from Hot Goss or Hot Josh?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:We have had a meeting of the minds and it's still a little bit up in the air about what we're about going to do about this whole here situation.
Speaker A:But your guys arrival and that stunt you pulled back there has won a lot of people over.
Speaker A:So I.
Speaker A:I think a lot of the boxcar children are going to look to you for what should be done.
Speaker A:I don't know if Hot Goss is fully on board yet.
Speaker D:I'd like to meet with them.
Speaker A:I'm sure we can set something up.
Speaker A:Let me get her like right now.
Speaker D:Can you?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I told I'm basically the leader of at least half of these people and the good half, not this shitty half in here.
Speaker D:This half saved me.
Speaker A:Yeah, but my half didn't shoot you with a laser.
Speaker A:Think about that.
Speaker D:I see your point.
Speaker A:I'll be back.
Speaker C:Am I able to sit up?
Speaker A:Yeah, you can set up now.
Speaker C:Can I put pants on?
Speaker A:Yes, you can put pants on.
Speaker A:You can get dressed.
Speaker A:Your clothes don't fit like they did before.
Speaker C:Yeah, I don't think book and put his shirt on, but I think he puts his pants and like his jacket and his boots back on.
Speaker C:So he looks exactly the same.
Speaker C:Except now he's got no shirt on.
Speaker A:Yeah, and also a gross metal chest thing.
Speaker C:Steampunky gross shit poking out from his Jacket.
Speaker A:Then a few minutes later, you hear heels clicking.
Speaker A:And then you see stepping into the room what has to be Hot Goss because she looks almost exactly like Hot Josh, but like 5% hotter, 5% older.
Speaker A:And also has like a shit ton of military badges on her leather crop top jacket.
Speaker A:And she says, I'm so happy that you have woken up and joined us here.
Speaker D:I'm sorry that we lost four days.
Speaker A:This is okay.
Speaker A:We still have a good amount of time left.
Speaker A:I am told that you are favored by our protectors.
Speaker D:Well, one of them killed me and.
Speaker A:The other opened for me, you know, 50, 50.
Speaker A:That happens.
Speaker D:Sounds like they're undecided.
Speaker A:But Excalibur has chosen you.
Speaker A:I don't know what he has chosen you to do.
Speaker A:I don't know if this is a sign that you need to like use him to help solve this problem, but we have a few ideas.
Speaker A:But we are interested in hearing what you think, the best approaches.
Speaker A:And I would also like to apologize for Hot Josh.
Speaker A:You know how she is.
Speaker D:I learned how she is.
Speaker B:I'm sorry we didn't talk to you first.
Speaker B:We've.
Speaker B:There was some confusion on who to talk to regarding your leadership.
Speaker A:You should also avoid Papa Woody.
Speaker A:She says and holds her hand up as he finally catches back up and enters the room.
Speaker A:He is not very useful from a strategic perspective.
Speaker A:Well, I'm going to have to just disagree with you on that one.
Speaker A:I think I got the perfect plan for stopping this ear water.
Speaker A:You know what stops water.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And he holds his eyebrows up really high and looks at everyone one at a time.
Speaker B:Looks at him.
Speaker B:Yeah, Ocean just kind of goes, where are we gonna get all that salt, Papa Woody?
Speaker A:I got all the salt you need right here.
Speaker A:And he reaches into his pocket and pulls out one of the like packets of salt that comes with forks.
Speaker A:Comes with plastic forks.
Speaker A:They got dozens of these bad boys.
Speaker A:Hold up.
Speaker A:Ready to go.
Speaker D:I think the water might come pre salted, Papa Woody.
Speaker A:Oh, it's salt water.
Speaker A:I have to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker A:It's okay.
Speaker A:No bad ideas and brainstorming.
Speaker D:I agree.
Speaker B:Ocean looks at Book and raises an eyebrow when he says no bad ideas.
Speaker B:And I agree.
Speaker B:I mean, I think the simplest, most straightforward and thing we can do here is just take back control of the override system.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:If we can somehow get back and hold of it and prevent it from opening, sever the tower's control over it.
Speaker A:Do you want to mention your mechanical override codes?
Speaker C:Well, they're their mechanical override codes, so not really?
Speaker A:Yeah, you don't have to mention it.
Speaker C:Do you think they'll be mad that we stole them?
Speaker A:Not as mad as drowning would make them.
Speaker C:I think I'll wait until I interpret the override codes.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Who.
Speaker C:Who was it?
Speaker C:That crash you said we needed to.
Speaker A:Talk to about those Cookie crisp team would be helpful.
Speaker A:Hot Goss.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I think obviously we would like to stop the doors from opening if we can find any sort of way to override the override.
Speaker A:As it is, we've had people look at the software at the terminal and can't figure out any way of doing it.
Speaker D:I don't know what Hot Josh told you, but I think we have four things that we should be pursuing simultaneously.
Speaker D:The first and foremost is to keep the doors from opening in the first place.
Speaker D:But as a backup, we should also be looking into how to divert the water if it does come.
Speaker D:And if that doesn't work, we'll need to figure out how to evacuate everyone who's below the doors.
Speaker D:But lastly, I think we should also be trying to destroy the tower.
Speaker A:I think it is a wonderful idea to evacuate everyone down here.
Speaker A:Get them on out of here.
Speaker A:This is a dangerous place now.
Speaker A:And I think my salt plan may really help out with that kind of diverting the water.
Speaker A:Now, now that I think about it, if it likes the salt, we kind of lead it and a trail to where we want the water to go.
Speaker B:I don't think water works like that, Papa Woody.
Speaker A:But we should start immediately evacuating the defense factory.
Speaker A:Get everyone out of here.
Speaker A:I got plenty of room and we got like 10 extra yurts up there.
Speaker A:We're good to go.
Speaker D:We just need to figure out how long it would take to get everyone out.
Speaker D:And then when we reach that point, that's when we start the evacuation.
Speaker A:Or maybe start it a little early.
Speaker A:Give people some time to plan out their days.
Speaker A:Maybe they'll a little too tired to do something one day and it's okay to put it off for one more.
Speaker A:I think we should just start getting everyone out now.
Speaker D:I think there are resources here we'll need if we're going to redirect the water.
Speaker D:Especially if we're using salt.
Speaker A:No, we should not use salt.
Speaker A:Book.
Speaker C:Book.
Speaker C:Wink tries to wink, but he only has one working eyelid.
Speaker C:So it just looks like he's blinking.
Speaker A:Or all your blinks.
Speaker A:Winks.
Speaker C:Well, now all of my blinks are winks.
Speaker C:But now you can't tell if I'm blinking or winking.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:I think we should count down the days for how long evacuation would be.
Speaker A:How about Papa Woody?
Speaker A:You start planning out the evacuation and try to figure out where people could be safe within the baffles and give us an accurate timeline for how long that's going to be because I'm, you know, I'm not too good at the geometry and maths and things.
Speaker A:You got a couple people you could spare to kind of help that out?
Speaker A:Yes, of course, of course, of course.
Speaker A:For I have.
Speaker A:I did talk to Hot Josh.
Speaker A:I know she's hard to deal with, but she is very smart and I agree with her when she told me that destroying the tower without thought and plan could be very foolhardy.
Speaker A:They may have the only way to be able to stop the doors from opening.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:They knew how to kick it off.
Speaker A:They probably know how to stop it.
Speaker A:I think we need to get that information from the tower.
Speaker D:Well, it sounds like either way we're invading or should I say infiltrating.
Speaker A:Yeah, that sounds a little better.
Speaker A:They're pretty dangerous there.
Speaker A:It's going to be difficult to do like a full on attack or anything like that.
Speaker B:So if we're just going to go in and get information, how.
Speaker B:How's the best way to infiltrate this place, you think?
Speaker B:I used to work at the tower and I know that the security there is unpro.
Speaker B:Unmatched.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We have never been able to have someone.
Speaker A:We've only done observational observation of them.
Speaker A:We have not done any infiltrative observation.
Speaker A:0% at.
Speaker C:@ observational observation book goes cross eyed for a second.
Speaker A:Only distance.
Speaker A:Only distant viewing.
Speaker A:Nothing up close.
Speaker A:We've had people try to break into the tower before.
Speaker A:We've had people.
Speaker A:We made tall ladder from one building all the way to the other one.
Speaker A:Did not work.
Speaker D:You know if they open auditions.
Speaker A:Yes, I'm aware of them.
Speaker A:I assumed it was a trap for someone specific.
Speaker D:But is it a trap if you know it's a trap?
Speaker A:Depends on the type of trap.
Speaker A:But yeah, usually yes.
Speaker A:Still yes would be normal answer.
Speaker A:Unless it's like a.
Speaker A:Like a legal trap and if you know about it, you'd probably be able to avoid it.
Speaker D:I'm thinking of setting a counter trap to the trap.
Speaker A:A trap?
Speaker A:Trap.
Speaker D:Trap them in their own trap.
Speaker A:I would love to observe observation that I told people that it's like not a big deal to go to there.
Speaker A:There's.
Speaker A:There's no reason we should spend extra resources trying to figure out what this open audition is because I think it's a trap for specific people.
Speaker A:But that did not stop some boxcar children from thinking that they are going to be the next Zendaya.
Speaker D:She is Michi.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:I think that we could definitely spare some people and I can try to push maybe some more intelligent people to help out.
Speaker A:I assume you guys are doing some infiltrating yourselves.
Speaker D:Yeah, we'll be up to something hot.
Speaker D:Goss I for the plan of redirecting the water.
Speaker D:I had an idea.
Speaker D:My parents came here one time in a submersible.
Speaker D:And I think that submersible could be very valuable to the people of the stew.
Speaker D:I think we could use it to trade them for a piece of technology that we gave them a couple months back.
Speaker D:Technology that will allow us to map.
Speaker D:Map the rock beneath us and identify where we could redirect the water to.
Speaker D:Do you think your people could fix up the submersible forest?
Speaker A:I'm sure that will not be any sort of problem.
Speaker A:Is this.
Speaker A:This is near the door.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:It's in the pool of water.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Papa Woody.
Speaker A:Is that fine if I send some people up there to deal with it?
Speaker A:I really think my engineers could really solve this problem a lot quicker and more expeditiously.
Speaker D:I think your engineers will be needed for the salt investigation.
Speaker D:Don't you?
Speaker A:Give me a sway someone role.
Speaker C:Do I get a bonus on that now?
Speaker C:Thought I did.
Speaker A:I don't know you.
Speaker A:It's going to take me at least 20 more minutes to memorize all of your stats.
Speaker B:It's completely new.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker C:I don't see anything.
Speaker C:Okay, that is a six, a three, and a plus three.
Speaker C:So that's a 12.
Speaker B:Dang, you're right.
Speaker A:There's going to be a lot of work done to make enough salt cannons to fill up the right pathway for the water.
Speaker A:I guess I can delegate some of that as long as I have like a.
Speaker A:Some oversight, of course, which I then will delegate to one of my new members.
Speaker A:Book McCready here can oversee the overseeing of the effort.
Speaker A:Is that okay with everyone here?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Hog House is nodding her head violently.
Speaker C:Bug is super jazzed because that's.
Speaker C:That's just.
Speaker C:He just basically said he's going to give me.
Speaker C:I mean, it's supposed to be for the salt stuff, but he's also basically said that he's going to let us boss some people around, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So we'll reconstruct the underwater dirigible.
Speaker A:We will map out evacuation routes.
Speaker A:That's under Papa Woody's regard.
Speaker A:He will come up with salt cannon solution that leaves infiltration which it sounds like you all.
Speaker A:You two are also taking point on.
Speaker A:What do you need from us?
Speaker A:And I think we need more information on what exactly we have to get from the tower.
Speaker D:There's one more thing that.
Speaker D:That we should be trying to do.
Speaker D:The most important thing.
Speaker D:We still have to figure out how to keep the doors from opening in the first place.
Speaker A:Isn't that what the infiltration of the tower is for?
Speaker A:To figure out a way to undo what they did?
Speaker D:Yes, but it's also to keep them from keeping us from doing the other things, if that makes sense.
Speaker A:Keeping.
Speaker A:Keeping.
Speaker D:If we keep them busy on their turf, they won't be on yours.
Speaker A:Okay, so you don't need anything else from us.
Speaker A:You got that part down.
Speaker D:No, we do need more from you.
Speaker D:That's what.
Speaker D:What I said was that we need your people to investigate how to keep the doors from opening.
Speaker A:Oh, wait.
Speaker D:There's one more thing.
Speaker D:I completely forgot about this ocean and I.
Speaker D:Wait, maybe you can.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:There's one more thing that we want to do, and that's to see if we can reach my mom on the surface to get her to activate the pump station.
Speaker D:So that as another.
Speaker D:Another.
Speaker D:Another backup scenario, we could hypothetically pump all of the water out from behind the doors so that if they do open, nothing bad happens.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:So, problem is, my engineering team has to do three of these things.
Speaker D:Which three?
Speaker A:To reconstruct dirigible, they have to investigate undoing of door open.
Speaker A:And they have to figure out a way of communicating surface.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker D:While we do investigating how to redirect the water, how to infiltrate.
Speaker D:Infiltrate the tower.
Speaker D:And we help with all of those things.
Speaker D:Because if you get in touch with my mom, she'll probably want to hear from me.
Speaker A:Yes, but I'm saying I don't know if I have enough people for all three of those things at once.
Speaker A:Engineering team is not very big.
Speaker A:It's mostly cookie crisp.
Speaker D:I have some people that'll help.
Speaker D:We have something called a through the Earth communicator.
Speaker D:It's back at our hometown, but we have some people that could bring it here.
Speaker D:And maybe your people could hook it up in a way that would allow us to talk to the pump station up top.
Speaker A:I think number one priority is stopping door from open.
Speaker A:So can they focus on that first?
Speaker D:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And then you can go retrieve through the Earth communication device.
Speaker D:We have a long to do list of stuff to do.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm really worried about the number of things you've just said and the amount of time we have Well, I.
Speaker D:Think this would be a pretty catastrophic event.
Speaker D:So the more backup plans we have, the more prepared we'll be.
Speaker D:If even one of those backup plans is successful, we eliminate the risk of destroying your community.
Speaker A:Yes, but sometimes if you have a million people do one tiny thing, nothing get done.
Speaker D:You mean a million people do a million tiny things.
Speaker A:Each one for each person is what I'm saying.
Speaker A:If a million to a million, that would be 1,000,000 million things total done.
Speaker A:Which will always get enough.
Speaker D:Yeah, I understand.
Speaker A:I'm saying a million people do one thing, it doesn't accomplish anything.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:They're like, oh, I've started loading a revolver.
Speaker A:I've started putting powder and grenade.
Speaker A:I've started turning on the car.
Speaker A:And then we're flooded underground.
Speaker D:Yeah, I see what your.
Speaker D:Your point is.
Speaker D:All right.
Speaker B:I think our biggest priority would be to figure out if we can re engineer from how they hacked the gate.
Speaker B:Perhaps we could just.
Speaker B:Without even having to go into the tower.
Speaker B:If they have.
Speaker B:If they were able to wirelessly hack the.
Speaker B:The door like they did, why can't we do the reverse?
Speaker A:You mean hack the tower?
Speaker B:We can hack the tower.
Speaker D:You have my computer.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker D:Have you analyzed it?
Speaker A:We have read the hard drive.
Speaker A:Yes, we've copied hard drive.
Speaker D:What about like the.
Speaker D:The actions that were taken?
Speaker D:I don't even know how they got onto it.
Speaker A:Yes, apparently there was a WI FI connection of some sort, but I didn't connect anything.
Speaker D:Do you think.
Speaker D:Do you think whoever built the computer built a back door into it for the tower?
Speaker A:That is a reasonable.
Speaker D:Is there a way that we'd be able to find out?
Speaker A:We can try.
Speaker A:That's also cookies.
Speaker A:Crispin.
Speaker A:Donut.
Speaker D:Well, whoever built the back door would know how to.
Speaker A:Do you guys have like, any things that would be good for exploding?
Speaker A:We have a lot of people who explode.
Speaker A:We have a lot of people who shoot bullets.
Speaker A:We got six people who know what a computer.
Speaker D:Once we get the mapper back, then there'll be a lot of things to explode to redirect the water.
Speaker D:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker D:So maybe that'll be a good thing for your engineers to focus on is rebuilding that dirigible.
Speaker A:Okay, so do that before the door stuff.
Speaker D:Well, we can't really do anything with the door.
Speaker D:You said you already looked into it.
Speaker D:Right?
Speaker D:So why don't Ocean?
Speaker D:I look into that.
Speaker D:He's good with computers.
Speaker B:Ocean once again looks at book and raises his eyebrow.
Speaker D:I know you can't read Ocean, but you type good for some reason.
Speaker A:And he can Be your eye.
Speaker A:Because you have one now and you get the joke Book.
Speaker C:Book closes his.
Speaker C:His remaining eye and, like, he can still see.
Speaker C:So he's like.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:I don't get the joke.
Speaker A:You have one real eye now.
Speaker D:Oh, right.
Speaker D:Thanks.
Speaker A:That one's a tiny robot.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Where'd you get this?
Speaker D:It's pretty cool.
Speaker A:Tiny robot eye room.
Speaker D:You access those remotely.
Speaker D:Like, let's say I rolled this eye into another room.
Speaker D:Would I still see what's.
Speaker D:What it's seeing?
Speaker A:It could possibly, depending on charge.
Speaker A:It is basically being powered by.
Speaker A:I don't know the specifics.
Speaker A:This is Dr.
Speaker A:Question.
Speaker A:But it's being charged by your little movements of juicy part around it.
Speaker A:There's like a friction of the juice and that makes it have energy.
Speaker D:Juice friction.
Speaker A:Juice friction.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker D:That could be handy.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker D:Are you good?
Speaker A:I'm good.
Speaker D:Am I, like, free to go?
Speaker A:Yeah, you're a boxcar child now.
Speaker D:No, no, I mean, like, did the doctor, like, say I'm good?
Speaker A:Oh, you're good enough.
Speaker A:It's about to flood in here.
Speaker D:All right.
Speaker C:Book tries to stand up.
Speaker A:Everything hurts.
Speaker C:I have my cane, though, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:As you fully stand up, you feel like your rib cage weighs five times the amount it should.
Speaker A:Like, your skin is being pulled down.
Speaker A:Your muscles are being compressed underneath it.
Speaker A:Your guts and stomach are smashed more than they should.
Speaker A:There's just this constant weight down on you that you feel like it's going to take quite a while to get used to.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I think Book is, like, kind.
Speaker C:I think it's kind of hunched a little bit now.
Speaker A:Yeah, that definitely helps.
Speaker A:Like, it repositions it.
Speaker C:It kind of gets.
Speaker A:You find the spot that's the most comfortable to have this extra weight pulling your skin down.
Speaker A:It's gross.
Speaker A:This is a gross episode.
Speaker A:Someone said juice friction earlier.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's you.
Speaker B:I don't like it.
Speaker C:I like it.
Speaker A:Bad episode.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I gotta write this shit down.
Speaker C:This is too much for me to keep track of as a human being.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Too much for six engineers to do.
Speaker C:In two weeks now.
Speaker C:It'll be good.
Speaker C:I have a following now, Stu.
Speaker D:It'll be good.
Speaker B:I wonder if we could get Randy Candy to help us out a little bit because he's a hacky boy.
Speaker B:Why don't we have him try hack stuff?
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I think we should get Randy Candy to look at the laptop to see if Antaglio put in a back door for the box or for the.
Speaker C:For the.
Speaker C:For the silent to get in.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:Because Randy Candy didn't have the computer.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker C:That was all Intaglio.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Randy Candy just had the hard drive.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:And then he gave it to Intaglio to build the laptop for you.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:I got.
Speaker C:I gotta write some stuff.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I think if we can have Randy Candy take a look at the laptop, I think we could possibly just reverse engineer how the Tower hacked it to just do the opposite of what they set it in.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:Fusible.
Speaker B:I'm just very not for invading the Tower.
Speaker A:Any way to avoid going in there.
Speaker B:Ocean just is not ready for that.
Speaker B:Thinks that'll go very poorly.
Speaker D:Ocean, you promise?
Speaker B:I just don't think it's time to take it out just yet.
Speaker B:Especially not when we don't have the resources.
Speaker B:I don't think we're any closer to being able to take them down than we were before coming here.
Speaker D:I mean, our plan was always to use the open.
Speaker D:The open audition to get inside.
Speaker D:And that open audition seems to line up with when the doors are gonna open.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker B:That's true, but if the door.
Speaker C:Wait, dude, that's what we figured out.
Speaker D:Right?
Speaker C:The open audition is gonna happen like a couple days before the door opens.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Not very much before, but a couple.
Speaker A:Few days.
Speaker D:I think we have time to do what we need to do to get ready.
Speaker D:Before we worry about that, what about.
Speaker B:That robot that you got there seems to take a liking to you.
Speaker D:I think we'll have to think about it.
Speaker D:We promised it to Vesuvius.
Speaker D:I don't.
Speaker D:I don't want to give it to Vesuvius, but I think what we could do is.
Speaker D:Do you remember that harness I made where he's on my shoulder?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker D:I think we could maybe hook him up to it so he can control it when one of us isn't inside of it.
Speaker B:I think it's a good idea.
Speaker D:Do you think that's something that you could look at?
Speaker B:Yeah, I promise.
Speaker B:Vesuvius.
Speaker D:Hot.
Speaker D:Goss, there's one more thing I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker D:Excalibur open for me.
Speaker A:Yes, I'm well aware.
Speaker D:And I think it could be really useful for the challenges that we face.
Speaker A:Be specific.
Speaker D:I'd like to take it.
Speaker A:Karl, do you think it will help you?
Speaker D:I think that the Tower obviously wants those doors open.
Speaker D:Probably just to take away this threat that is your civilization.
Speaker D:It'd be better to have a mobile war suit than a stationary one.
Speaker A:So you're using it to attack the Tower?
Speaker D:Yeah, probably.
Speaker D:We want to stick our.
Speaker D:Our bodiless friend in it or on it.
Speaker A:The RC car?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:You know him?
Speaker D:He's great.
Speaker D:He's a nice guy.
Speaker A:He has eaten much of our food.
Speaker D:Where does it go?
Speaker A:No one knows.
Speaker D:Has he really?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:We haven't been feeding him all this time.
Speaker D:That must be why he's so hungry.
Speaker A:That's cruel.
Speaker D:He has no stomach.
Speaker D:What would he do with food?
Speaker D:He's powered by a battery.
Speaker A:He still has a pancreas.
Speaker D:What?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:The pancreas.
Speaker D:You would have a pituitary gland.
Speaker B:You don't have your pancreas if you're just a head.
Speaker A:I thought you guys shoved that in his neck long.
Speaker A:My bad.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:So I would like to have a better idea of how you're going to use the suit to attack him.
Speaker A:This is one of our projector gods.
Speaker A:And it did open up for you.
Speaker A:And I know many of my followers would be pleased to see you zoom away with this.
Speaker A:But then we are down to one.
Speaker A:And your mom's still the last one.
Speaker D:Well.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:The 1.
Speaker A:The people who aren't bought into you are going to be very upset about the situation.
Speaker A:No matter what I say.
Speaker A:No matter what you do.
Speaker A:So I just want assurances that it is going to help us not be flooded.
Speaker D:I think destroying the tower or using it against the tower will help us both.
Speaker D:But I also think that we can come to an agreement where Vesuvius can help protect your town as much as ours.
Speaker D:Mutually beneficial for more than just the short term.
Speaker A:Then I'm going to need you to perform a Chaos God ceremony with Vesuvius Nightingham as your emissary within Excalibur.
Speaker D:We'll.
Speaker D:We'll knight him as a Chaos defender.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker A:He cannot throw rock.
Speaker A:So I don't think he will technically be Chaos cultist.
Speaker A:He will not be a Boxcar child.
Speaker A:But he can be like your kind of emissary.
Speaker D:We can work out the details once we figure out how to get him in.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:If you're okay with that.
Speaker A:Smash cut Knighting ceremony.
Speaker A:You guys are in the hangar.
Speaker A:There's a giant metal sheet put around the other protector so it cannot see outside of it.
Speaker A:They've set up some podium near Excalibur.
Speaker A:Who has remained open.
Speaker A:It still seems like somewhat active.
Speaker A:But it's definitely not in like a sentry patrol mode or whatever it was before.
Speaker A:And it's still open.
Speaker A:And you look.
Speaker A:You guys are in positions of glory right in the middle of the room.
Speaker A:Hot Goss is next to you.
Speaker A:On the other side is Papa Woody.
Speaker A:And the doors open up.
Speaker A:And Vesuvius is Being carried in on whatever those Roman emperor things are where people hold each of the edges of them still on his RC car.
Speaker A:And everyone erupts into cheer as he gets led up to the podium near you.
Speaker A:He's presented to you, Book, to slide off of his car chassis and be input into the rabbit suit.
Speaker C:Okay, first, I draw my cane sword, and I'm going to knight him in a night of chaos.
Speaker A:Excellent.
Speaker A:Okay, so tears are welling up in his eyes.
Speaker C:I draw my cane sword and I kneel because he's a car.
Speaker C:And I touch the cane sword to either.
Speaker C:The sword to either side of the.
Speaker D:Car and I say, I knight the Vesuvius night of chaos.
Speaker D:Defender of the baffles.
Speaker A:Hell, yeah.
Speaker C:And then I slide him off and I stick him in the robot.
Speaker A:You stick him in the robot.
Speaker A:And he.
Speaker A:He looks a little claustrophobic for a second.
Speaker A:He's kind of moving his head around and he goes, okay, No, I think, yep, it's no power.
Speaker A:No power.
Speaker A:Arms move a little bit.
Speaker A:And if the arms kind of do a little bit tiny robot dance, just like a little bit of a tiny.
Speaker C:Robot dance, I.
Speaker C:I nod to Jacob or to.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker C:I nod to Ocean.
Speaker B:Ocean takes out one of the power cores and takes a look in the back.
Speaker B:And I assume, considering that's what Book's parents did, that there's some sort of opening to slot one in.
Speaker A:It looks like it was legitimately made exactly for the same type of power core.
Speaker A:Like, there's a tubular slot that's a little larger than an armless polymer that you see there's some connection points right at the bottom that seem to line up perfectly with this power core.
Speaker B:He pops that in.
Speaker A:As you push it in, you hear big.
Speaker A:And then a.
Speaker A:As this blue light kind of traces around the whole outside of it, pushing out from that power core.
Speaker A:And Vesuvius starts being able to move around.
Speaker A:The robot seems to loosen up.
Speaker A:He does some kind of stretches like a human would do, like a non robot would do.
Speaker A:And there's a little bit of some, like, jump jets as he kind of jumps in the air a little bit.
Speaker A:And he puts his hands in the air and everyone starts cheering.
Speaker A:Second smash cut.
Speaker A:You guys are heading back to Hamlet opening with Vesuvius.
Speaker A:He's sitting on the trunk, weighing down the back tremendously.
Speaker A:Just holding on.
Speaker A:I like that.
Speaker B:My spider's just grabbed.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Any small incline, any bump, he.
Speaker A:The back of the spider is grading against it.
Speaker A:And you guys can return back to Hamlet Opening.
Speaker A:Do we want to do end of Session moves.
Speaker A:He does not care anymore.
Speaker B:We can foreign.
Speaker A:Choose a character who knows you better and you can add plus one to their hx.
Speaker A:You can choose up to two characters.
Speaker B:Up to two.
Speaker C:So I'm gonna create HX with Crash.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker B:I was just about to say the same thing actually.
Speaker C:And I'm gonna give him plus one.
Speaker A:Okay then I actually think if you guys are both doing that, both of you can put Crash at plus two.
Speaker B:Oh hell yeah.
Speaker A:With this new plus one.
Speaker A:Because I feel like you already kind of know him pretty well, so he's probably a plus one before.
Speaker B:And I'm trying to think.
Speaker B:I think I want to add one more fake Suvius.
Speaker C:I was gonna do the same, which.
Speaker B:I guess is Vesuvius.
Speaker B:Now I need to rename them to just Vesuvius.
Speaker A:Are you satisfied with your place in the world?
Speaker D:No.
Speaker A:Never get plus one xp.
Speaker A:Does your scavenge choice still hold true?
Speaker A:I think both of yours does.
Speaker A:Personally.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think so.
Speaker A:Plus one more X and then end of session moves that you guys have.
Speaker B:I have none.
Speaker B:I have only start obsession moves.
Speaker C:So I still have my interrogating reality.
Speaker C:Choose one of your mysteries.
Speaker C:Tell the MC you'd like to mark it true or false.
Speaker C:They must choose one of these answers.
Speaker C:Go ahead and mark a true.
Speaker C:Go to market fast or for now, you better not mark it either way.
Speaker B:I think the mystery of the robots is pretty serious.
Speaker B:I don't think Book has.
Speaker B:Ocean and Book have talked.
Speaker B:We haven't really had the chance to talk about the.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The revelations that Ocean learned regarding the rubits.
Speaker A:Yeah, you guys should have that discussion.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think.
Speaker B:I think we should.
Speaker B:Because it could be.
Speaker B:Depending on what you ask, this could be a very telling.
Speaker B:So as they're driving back in the car, Ocean turns to Book and says, so did you notice anything about those robots?
Speaker B:You know, the one that we have in the pack here?
Speaker D:I think I connect to the chaos God.
Speaker B:So you felt it too then?
Speaker D:It spoke to me.
Speaker B:Ocean nods and says, spoke to me too.
Speaker B:But it's not just that.
Speaker B:Feels fundamentally different than the psychic maelstrom.
Speaker D:I think it is its own kind of psychic maelstrom.
Speaker B:So is it.
Speaker B:Are they AI?
Speaker B:Are they the same kind of things that of the administrator of the tower?
Speaker B:Are they something different?
Speaker B:How long have these things been around?
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker D:But I think they are at odds with each other.
Speaker B:I would say so.
Speaker B:I asked them, do we share our wishes?
Speaker B:Do we share wishes?
Speaker B:I mean, our wishes don't control control.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:No one told you that at least and okay.
Speaker A:And all the boxcar children told you their wish?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Ocean nods and says, I asked for its help to take down the tower and it didn't seem very opposed to that.
Speaker C:I think Book just says, that's a good wish.
Speaker B:Ocean waits for a second to see if Book will say anything else.
Speaker B:But when he realizes that Book is not ready to talk about his wish, he nods and says, maybe that's why it was so easy to get Vesuvius in there and bring it over here.
Speaker B:I kind of expected to be a struggle and not want it.
Speaker B:But maybe that's why it's so willingly coming with us.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Book looks over his shoulder.
Speaker C:I guess he sees Vesuvius riding the back of the spider.
Speaker D:We can't.
Speaker D:We can't forget that Vesuvius was made by the Tower.
Speaker D:I know that.
Speaker D:We seem to have freedom from their influence, or at least blowing his body up did that to themselves.
Speaker D:But he has immense power in that suit.
Speaker D:We have to make sure it's not used against us.
Speaker B:Well, I'm honestly not too worried.
Speaker B:I think it's alive.
Speaker C:The suit.
Speaker A:Your lungs healed immediately.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:You think the suit is alive?
Speaker B:I think it is.
Speaker B:I think whatever kind of thing controls it is sentient.
Speaker B:It seems to choose who it attacks and who it doesn't.
Speaker B:It seemed to willingly choose you.
Speaker B:You bargained with it when you spoke to.
Speaker D:It seems to be doing what Vesuvius wants.
Speaker D:For now.
Speaker A:For now you look back and he's fist pounding the air with every bump.
Speaker A:Look what I can do.
Speaker C:Doing the air guitar.
Speaker B:I think for now it's letting us.
Speaker B:I think for now it's letting whoever pilots it do whatever it wants.
Speaker B:But I felt an entity in there when I saw it through the psychic maelstrom.
Speaker B:I didn't just see an empty suit with a.
Speaker B:With a.
Speaker B:With some kind of complicated programming code.
Speaker B:What I felt was something.
Speaker C:I think a book.
Speaker C:Book is holding his orb under his coat.
Speaker C:And I think he, he.
Speaker C:He pulls it out of his pocket, takes a peek at it.
Speaker A:A pocket.
Speaker A:Ponder.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're going to bust out a pocket.
Speaker A:He's just looking at.
Speaker C:He's just looking at the orb.
Speaker C:Because you said that I felt like a presence in it.
Speaker A:Right pocket Ponder.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:And as you look down into it, that kind of swirly mist, you, you can see it.
Speaker A:It's not just a little fleck like before.
Speaker A:You see it almost glowing, even though it looks dark and shadowy colored.
Speaker A:And it's in your enclosed pocket right now.
Speaker A:You see this darkness glowing inside of it kind of flicking around.
Speaker D:Nice.
Speaker A:Do you ponder anything specific into the orb?
Speaker C:I want to ask.
Speaker C:So Book.
Speaker C:Book is looking at his orb, and he's.
Speaker C:I think he can feel the presence within it, and he can also, like, remember the presence.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker C:He could feel the presence.
Speaker C:He can remember the presences that he felt when the robot suits were, like, communicating with him.
Speaker C:And Book wants to know if the world psychic maelstrom is an.
Speaker C:Is an alien intelligence or will or potentially multiple intelligences and wills.
Speaker A:With your conversation with Ocean just now, and as you look into the.
Speaker A:You ponder your orb.
Speaker A:Sorry, I almost said look into the orb.
Speaker A:You never did that.
Speaker C:Ponder.
Speaker A:Only ponder the orb.
Speaker D:Orb.
Speaker A:When you pondered the orb briefly, it seemed to be reacting to the conversation you're having.
Speaker A:And you sensed definitely an intelligence, not just in there, but as you were dying and flowing through your consciousness.
Speaker A:You know something was intentionally pulling at you.
Speaker A:It's an intelligence that is definitely.
Speaker A:You don't understand it at all is what I would say is a currently completely ununderstood intelligence.
Speaker A:But you feel like that psychic maelstrom is some sort of alien intelligence.
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Speaker A:Brady McDonough made all the art and logos, and Jacob uses that little tiny torch that some chefs have to make all of our design desserts.
Speaker A:Just have, like, a nice little crispy, crunchy top.
Speaker A:Lovey bye.
Speaker C:Hojos were good, dude.
Speaker C:I haven't had one of those in 8 million years.
Speaker A:I love to lick in that little plastic thing in the box.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:That's where all the good stuff was.
Speaker C:I like when it would melt from in between the cardboard and the.
Speaker C:And the plastic, so the cardboard would start to disintegrate in your hand.
Speaker A:You could just slump.
