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Welcome to Stories with Dice

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Yeah, welcome back to the next episode. Please give us a thumbs up, a like, a subscribe, or a follow. That would be amazing. We have a Discord channel, we have a website, we have a Facebook group, and we have a Patreon channel. If you'd like to go to those individual places, or why not all of them, please do so. And you'll find the links in the description to this because that is what Marco is good at doing when he's setting up the episodes. I'm I'm okay at it. You're better than me, we can show the one doing it. So yeah, I'm gonna do a quick uh little recap as to what happened last session or our last episode. Pretty much everyone has now come to uh the uh the sci scientist, doctor, uh creator of our friends of the machines to Ula Yomika's house through various means. If you'd like to know how, hopefully you've listened to the previous episode. If you haven't, well, go back and listen to the other ones. So you've all kind of come together, the kids have all come together, and you've met up with two agents. We'll call them agents, because that's what the kids are calling them, from Bricks Energy or another shady organization, depending on which kids you would like to speak to. And they have kind of explained to all the kids generally what they think is going on, that artificial intelligence have got away from somewhere, Bricks Energy or another organization or another place, and then they've got out into the world and they've started to sort of take over a factory, build a little robot, and then start to chip people from your town. This has started to get out of hand, and the agents have been uh asked to go and find out what's going on, and in doing so, they have stumbled across from a different angle to the kids some stuff that's going on. Their point of view is that they are trying to upload a virus or something to destroy the um the uh intelligences, and they have

Recap of Last Episode

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got a a theory is that the machines and stuff will not harm kids because they're less of a threat than the adults, of which some of the kids have uh very much disproved that fact, saying that they've been by these these little robots, which has left them with a bit of a quandary. We kind of left last episode with most of the kids agreeing to help these agents, even though we think that the agents aren't saying who they think they are. Anthony specifically is a very anti-agent, and while the rest have agreed to sort of help them for a great fee and some potential help later on, Anthony decided to go the opposite route, called the inspector friend that he had made, and then went to town on the agent's tires at the end of last episode. So we all cut forward about five minutes from where we left off last time to a bunch of police cars arriving at uh Ulla Yonica's house. Lots of blue lights going everywhere, and from inside the house, where the kids are and the two agents, there is a lot of swearing from said agents as a whole load of police armed with pistols decide to then go in to the house and arrest said two agents, who protest a lot about what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

If if I I hear the police turn up, Susie's gonna having written down the names, is going to on a different bit of paper is gonna rush out with that bit of paper and go upstairs and and this and and try and be helpful.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

Does Anders want to be helpful with anything, or Anders gonna stay out of the way or what? Anders will look panic that their scheme is going down plug hole. Yeah. Um and he'll glance across to the female agent and say, uh Have you got the virus?

SPEAKER_05 4:51

What do we need to do with it? She says it's in the motel. As she then is turned around and frock watched out of the house. What's Douglas gonna do? Ah, so Douglas, what what's Johannes gonna do?

SPEAKER_06 5:03

Well, it's too late for us all to run, so Yep, absolutely. I will just keep my mouth shut.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

And Sven, what's Sven gonna do? I'm just trying to probably get out of the way when I hear the police. I don't wanna be, you know. No, agents is one thing, but police. I had encountered before. Yes, you don't care, it doesn't go well with you. No, so I will just once I hear the silence, I will probably sneak out. Uh, okay, you okay, you basically bolt out the back.

SPEAKER_05 5:33

So you kind of like run off into the back garden and and hurdle yoursel yourself through a spiking thorny hedge regardless because you don't want to get caught.

SPEAKER_06 5:43

Yeah, if he's doing that, I'm gonna follow him because I don't want to be involved in any of this either. Stay out of the way. Okay. Right. Well, that's cool.

SPEAKER_05 5:50

So you guys, you two make a run. And as obviously is asked the question. Susie, you come off and and give them the details. So that kind of like fades out for this scene where everyone except Dis and Sven are being spoken to in the police station. Police have arrived, they've arrested the the other two. The ambulance has turned up to take care of the woman, and you've all been taken home after being spoken to at your houses, at your homes.

SPEAKER_07 6:20

I just want to point out that when they were being when the when they were taken outside they were handcuffed and taken outside, Anthony was lean leaning against their car with his arms folded across his chest with a smirk on his face, and then he just flipped flips them both the bird. Okay, cool.

Police Arrive at the Scene

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That's cool. So you all kind of go home or get taken home or find out where you end up going. I I look at you both, Sven and Johannes. And and it's the next morning after you've had a conversation and you've spoken to your parents, they're all worried or not, depending on your parents. And we'll kind of like start

The Morning After

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from there. So all I want to know from both Sven and Johannes is where do you go after you run away? I don't know. Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 7:10

What do you think, Sven?

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Yeah, yeah, it's probably the right place. It wasn't the other day, right? I don't remember even what time it was.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

It was it was about yeah, it was about between eight and nine o'clock. Janice, the whole way back,'s gonna be like, I was so so close, I'd sealed the deal, and now it's just everything's ruined. Yeah. I don't know. We need to discuss with the other boys. Well, if the police will ever let them go, maybe I'll lock him up forever along with those our business partners.

SPEAKER_03 7:39

Damn it. Well, I'm hoping that I'm sure they will not keep them during the night. Should be fine. I mean, I've been there, it's fine.

Plans and Secrets

SPEAKER_01 7:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:46

I suppose you are the expert.

SPEAKER_05 7:48

So Sven and uh and and Johanna are supposed to go back to the back out to the hideout, have a chat, uh kind of like do the usual sort of like, oh, can you believe it did that with MCT away, all that kind of stuff. So uh you can get rid of any conditions you have, because that's one of the one of the rules of being in the hideout and talking to each other and being able to do that. Does that include an injury? That does include an injury, yes. For uh Susie and Anthony, both of you get taken home. You take your stuff, they take your statement. How much of I suppose how much does Anthony say to Ingmarie when, you know, when you take your statement? What are you gonna tell them? Everything you know, and just tell them the truth.

SPEAKER_07 8:32

Yeah. I mean, I'll probably exaggerate a little bit about the guy. We'll definitely mention that he pulled a gun on me. And then, you know, he when he grabbed me, he manhandled me in a way that made me uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_05 8:44

Well, you also, when they picked you up, you had blood on the face.

SPEAKER_07 8:47

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:49

So you definitely played the part. Yeah, that that that's fine. And you know, you end up having a conversation and and talking it through. So Ing Marie specifically takes your statement rather than just any old cop. She's usually the one doing all the kind of like statement taking. And absolutely, she she kind of like agrees. Your dad's kind of oh, right, okay. You're gonna explain that they said that anyone that you've spoken to will be in trouble, or you're gonna leave that out? Nope. Nope.

SPEAKER_07 9:15

You're not gonna tell them or I'm gonna tell them everything. Okay, cool. I'm gonna tell my father that his name was on that list and you know, everything, and that everyone that we know and anyone that we speak to is gonna be. Hit hit list or whatever it is that they that they're putting together. Sure.

SPEAKER_05 9:35

And then what about Susie?

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yeah, these these are the same people that kidnapped me. And I will I'll make that link. I will, in fact, I will probably divulge anything that I'd come uh come, like conclusions that I'd come to on my my board, etc. And just explain. Because I think I think Susie is sort of overexplaining uh also why why she was there in the first place. Because

Statements to the Police

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obviously doesn't want to get in trouble again. And I I kind of imagine Imory going, no, no, no, tell me more about this, and she's still really concerned, like, yeah, but I didn't really we didn't really want to be there. We went to the hideout for you know, and she's like overexplaining and getting herself into trouble. Um it's not gonna be anything I'm I'm holding back.

SPEAKER_05 10:16

What about Anders? What and does when you get home, how do your parents feel about this? This is the first time you've really kind of you've been in trouble with the police properly.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

Yeah, I'll I'll try and be a bit cool about it, you know, so as if it's not really much at all, and then when I get a chance to uh give my version to my parents, I'll just say, Oh, it's just they were worried about the younger kids and all that and really involved with it.

SPEAKER_05 10:44

When they take your statement, what are you gonna say they said?

SPEAKER_04 10:48

I'm gonna plead ignorance that you know we'd just turned up there to uh find asked some questions of Dr. Yonika's and found the door open and the cats were trapped in there and as we were investigating these other two people turned up and anything that was dodgy happened was down to them, not down to us. You're not gonna mention anything about pulling out wires or anything about switching off machines or cutting wires or anything like that.

SPEAKER_05 11:13

Um are you going to explain what they explained to you as to what the reason was for all this happening or No, no.

SPEAKER_04 11:19

No. No, I I'm still holding out hope for salvaging our deal with them.

SPEAKER_05 11:24

Okay. So when the police ask you about reasoning what they said to you, what are you gonna say that the that the two the two agents told you?

SPEAKER_04 11:32

Basically that yeah, they they were investigating what was going on as well, and they had something to do with the organisation and they were gonna be sorting things out and yeah, I didn't quite yeah. I'm gonna plead as much ignorance as to make a bit dumb, like, oh what they're running about.

SPEAKER_05 11:48

Yeah. I'm not go, I'm not real smart. Okay, cool. All right then. So we'll fast forward to the morning then, when you are God knows why your parents still let all these kids out at after all the trouble you've caused. And so, yeah, you all kind of find a place to meet up in the morning. You all are you all gonna go meet Sven and Johannes at the hideout? Or are you gonna meet somewhere at the public seat? The hideout, I think. Excellent. Okay, you arrive back at the light hideout. Ooh. What's Anthony doing with the robot? Uh the one in my backpack?

SPEAKER_07 12:25

The one in your backpack. I gave it to you. Which you gave

The Hideout Discussions

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it to your dad? Right. And did he give it back to me? Then I'll give it to the inspector. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 12:36

She takes it. As evidence. Sure. They're finding it difficult to keep the evidence intact because the evidence keeps running away. But they they they deal with that away from you.

SPEAKER_07 12:48

So you will meet back at the hideout. Do do I still have the condition from last did you speak to uh Anka? No, my Anchor was my grandmother.

SPEAKER_05 12:58

But you had a good night's sleep, so I'm gonna Do you know what? I'll tell you what, you can all take your conditions off.

SPEAKER_07 13:05

So when we get to the hideout, I look at Anders and I say, I had nothing to do with it. The Volvo! What have you done? I told you I had nothing to do with it. It wasn't me. Inspect the damaged wheel and see if I can figure out what's gone wrong with it. My gosh, Anders, what what happened to your car? I know, I know, right? Like, well, how did that somebody must have gotten in here? What how did how did that happen?

SPEAKER_05 13:28

Yeah, the the axles or the the transaxles busted or something.

SPEAKER_06 13:33

We need better security in here, guys.

SPEAKER_04 13:35

I sit in the corner and sulk for about 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_06 13:37

You you can join Johannes, because that is exactly what he's been doing the entire time. Just staring off into the roof and like being miserable.

SPEAKER_03 13:48

Yeah. Yep, you're all sulky. Okay. So what are we gonna do? Because I wanna get my dad back. I mean, I share you guys. I don't know, Anthony, what you were talking yesterday. I really don't care. What are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_07 14:04

That's a good question. Ed, did my when my father gave me the little robot back, did he say anything about what he did not say anything.

SPEAKER_05 14:13

He said he was still looking into it, but he they've done all the scans and stuff they count on them, and they're just gonna they'll get back to you.

SPEAKER_07 14:19

That's what he said. I don't know, Sven. My my my dad's looking into it. He's gonna have answers soon.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

Perhaps this guy is will have helped us. Didn't you think about it, about my dad? And I I get close to you, like very close. Hey man, those guys are not trustworthy.

SPEAKER_07 14:33

They were gonna kill us. They were going to pay us 4,000 crona. Of course they told you that. They would have told you anything. They were going to kill all of us. Anthony's right. I don't agree with that.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

These are the same people that kidnapped me. For what?

SPEAKER_03 14:50

What did they do? What?

SPEAKER_02 14:51

Haven't I told you guys? It was a couple nights ago. I didn't really come join you. It's because they you know, we were going over to the factory again, and then I never turned up. Yeah. They threw me in the back of their car and took me to a motel.

SPEAKER_04 15:03

At this point, Anders steps up, his ears prick up. A motel, Susie?

Discovering the Motel

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:09

Which motel? The the one I turned where the motel was.

SPEAKER_05 15:13

The Apple Farm Yard Motel. All right. Did you know what room they were in? Um probably why does it matter?

SPEAKER_03 15:19

I don't remember the number, but you do remember the room. Why did they take you to Amontel's room? Because they're bad people. And they're a bit anthony.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

They they threatened me about all of this and how we need to stay out of it, and they that they work at Riggs Energy, and then I got told by the police officer that that's not the case.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

So But these are bad people. No, you don't know that. They were just trying to tell you to stay away because they won't they didn't want to get you hurt.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

You used chemicals to knock you out and kidnap you against your will. They're bad. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 15:57

Well they could have killed you. They just want to scare you away. So they're not evil, evil.

SPEAKER_07 16:04

Sven, if they're Uzi's gonna start crying and leave. Good job, Johannes. Why don't you just shut up with your money, money, money, money, Han solo bullshit? Hey, you're very mouthy for a ten year old. I know. I know this thing. I learned it from you, Sven.

SPEAKER_06 16:21

I learned it from watching you. Right. I'm just a bad mood. I'm blown like the deal of the century. How did the police fucking know?

SPEAKER_07 16:29

Because I used the car phone.

SPEAKER_06 16:31

You did what? You did what? I like Jonas's better now.

SPEAKER_03 16:37

I get close to Mark to Anthony. What did you think? Jonas will join you.

SPEAKER_07 16:42

I went outside to their car and I used their special car phone and I called the inspector. Because look, guys, guys, if they were not bad people and they just wanted to warn Susie, then they would have just warned her instead of put a rag over her mouth and knock her unconscious and drag her to some shifty hotel. Well, if Dalaphil excuse me, my friend just ran out of here crying because you guys are jerks. And then I walk out.

SPEAKER_06 17:11

I'm gonna kill him spent this close to throw him off flicking and he just storms off and you can hear him like down in the warehouse just yelling.

SPEAKER_05 17:22

Okay, so Anthony, you and um you go off to Susie. He's probably outside, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Yeah. She's just like sat sat down outside and knocking around, just sort of wiping her eyes. Sorry he said that to you, Susie. It wasn't fair. It's okay, Anthony. I I sort of I sort of I sort of get where they're coming from.

SPEAKER_07 17:42

No, no, no, no. I don't get where they're coming from. They're coming from a place of jerkness. They're jerks, they're being jerks. I don't know what

Emotions Run High

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I ever saw in them as friends. They're assholes. I just want this all to be over. So do all who live to see such time.

Plotting a New Course

SPEAKER_06 17:59

You've broke me. One day the court will land and someone will actually acknowledge it, but not today.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

So what is Anders doing? I mean, he can hear this because he's downstairs talking himself.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

So he's torn between the two groups, but he knows he needs Suzy's help to get hold of virus. So he'll probably head to Anthony and Susie. Hey guys, yeah, they're just upset. Don't worry about them. But we can still sort this out ourselves. We just need to get something from the motel room they were in.

SPEAKER_07 18:30

Something, what do you mean get what?

SPEAKER_04 18:32

Apparently there's a virus. We can use that to stop all this to save everybody.

SPEAKER_07 18:38

But that lady said she didn't know if it would kill the people who are cyborgs. You really want to take that chance? Kill Sven's dad? Is Sven okay with that?

SPEAKER_04 18:46

It won't. It won't. It'll just stop the computers. Believe me. I don't know. What do you think, Susie? Hi.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

I guess we can go to the botel. I don't know how much more I can do.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

Once we've got it, we can then decide what to do, but at least we'll have control of that part of things.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Yes, and what what what if the others try and come back for it? Well they won't know we've got it, will they? It's good to do either way. Go get the others. Let's do this.

SPEAKER_04 19:10

Okay, you go upstairs and you can get to speak to Swan and Sorry. Hey guys, we can still salvage this. With Susie's help, we can find the motel room and recover the virus, which gives us the option of implanting it ourselves.

SPEAKER_06 19:25

The virus. You know where the virus is. We can work with this. Right. You say you say you know where it is. And or Susie does? Susie does.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Both of you?

SPEAKER_06 19:35

Okay, right. I'll just have to go apologize to her. I'm sure she'll forgive me. Susie, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I was just really, really upset about like these things. I get sometimes I get a bit tunnel vision to that sort of thing. But uh Anders was saying you you know something about the the mo where the virus is.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Going to roll my eyes so hard you can hear it.

SPEAKER_06 20:02

Can I can I make an attempt to actually charm her?

SPEAKER_05 20:07

It's fine. Oh unfairly. Yeah, you know, you're you're quite you're fell very likable.

SPEAKER_02 20:12

So she just says she just said it's fine. Yes, I do. We should probably go there soon. Yes, yes, of course. Quicker the

Arrival at the Apple Farm Yard Motel

SPEAKER_02 20:21

better.

SPEAKER_06 20:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 20:22

You uh get on your bikes and you ship down to the uh Apple Farm Yard Motel. Uh nestled in sort of some cozy little bits of woods, farmland around. It's been around for as obviously for as long as you guys remember. It's run by an elderly woman by the name of Agda, and she is always found either in the reception hall of the motel or just on the frontage of the motel. There's all these little kind of pot plants and little hangy baskets and little sort of gardening stuff that she's all out she's she's doing, and when people arrive, she's very keen to go to to say hello and then take them to the little reception room. And indeed, today she is sitting on a large, sort of lazy boy. She's sitting with her marigolds off to one side, sipping a cup of tea.

SPEAKER_06 21:14

Okay, Suzy, which which room is it? I I I'll know if I'm in it. You can see sort of like the the vein twitching where Sisaki's like, this is fine. We can still salvage this.

SPEAKER_05 21:25

There is a whole 12 motel rooms in the motel, and you go to the one that that you remember, Susie, which is about three in from the side. Yeah, I'm gonna peer in through the through the window or whatever. Uh yeah, although all the curtains and stuff are shut. This one. Okay, I think it's this one.

SPEAKER_06 21:41

I assume try the door. It's locked. Yes. Gonna not check it. Hello? Knock not.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Hello.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

There is no answer.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

Alright, who can pick this thing?

Breaking Into the Room

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Let's just go ask for key. That sounds sensible.

SPEAKER_03 21:53

I don't think we can ask for their key. What are you gonna say? Who get their key?

SPEAKER_07 21:57

Alright. I bet Anders knows how to pick this lock.

SPEAKER_03 21:59

Yeah, boo.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

A bit in the open here though.

SPEAKER_02 22:01

Well, if we stand round you, they won't be able to see you.

SPEAKER_04 22:04

What about the owner? I'm sure she can see us from over here.

SPEAKER_02 22:06

No, no, if we if if us three, you like Anthony, come in. You stand here.

SPEAKER_06 22:10

Okay, you effectively make a shield between you and the person who's sitting on a lazy boy. I'm gonna go have a chat with the lady, and even if I don't get the key, she'll be talking to me and thus distracted.

SPEAKER_05 22:22

You go over to talk to her, make a charm roll, don't Okay.

SPEAKER_06 22:25

Do you want me to say what I'm saying before the charm rolls? Yes, please. Okay. I'm gonna be like, do I know her? Or does she know me? You don't know well. You there's no real reason for you to hang around the motel. Okay. And I'm like, Hello. My uncle Anders sent me to collect something from his room, but he didn't give me the key. Is it alright? Could you like unlock it so I could collect the thing from my uncle? I think he's um under uh this number. So I'm gonna be like, turn on my nice little sort of like chitty, childy big blue eyes. I'm a little child, woe is me. Do you want to make uh your charm roll? Minus two dice.

SPEAKER_05 23:06

That's all of nothing. Excellent. I'm not gonna ask you to push that. What room did you say it was? And she kind of like goes back, she goes inside to the reception room and goes over to the the the book of people who has resided. Come on then. She says. Yeah, fine. And she starts to talk you through. You give her the you give him the number, but are you gonna give him the correct room number?

SPEAKER_06 23:28

Can I look and see is is I is Anders like in the actual book when I'm looking through it? No. Okay. Is there like two names against that room or one name or it's one name. Okay. Is there one that has like a man and a woman?

SPEAKER_05 23:43

They don't have the the thing. So literally one person is signed for the room and and and she's basically so you're trying to read it upside down and stuff, so it's it's tricky, but you definitely don't see an Anders like Well I meanwhile back on the outside. Yeah, while I'm in the office, I'll I'll Does Does Anders have any kind of pick lock set or anything like that to pick the lock set?

SPEAKER_04 24:07

No, but he has a screwdriver and he'll do what he thinks is to pick a lock. And then when that fails, he'll reach in his bag and pull out a crowbar.

SPEAKER_05 24:17

Right. Yeah, you kind of like stick the uh the the thing of the lock and it kind of like you wiggle it around, but you manage to sort of like mangle the lock with it definitely doesn't work like it does in the TV shows. So then you kind of resort to brute force court. And uh can uh could you please make a force roll and you can have one for the uh big chunk of metal you're trying to open it with. Any successes? Just the one. That's all you need. Yeah. But you still like faff around with that, and then you put the crowbar in, and there's a large crap on the door splinters, door opens. Meanwhile, back to uh so she's kind of like, so uh yeah, and I don't see an Anders here.

SPEAKER_06 24:58

I don't know what his surname is. He's always just Uncle Anders to me. She looks at you suspiciously and goes, get out of here, or I'm gonna call your mum. I will go a distance away, but I won't join them at the room. Okay, cool. So I'll keep a watch on the office to see if she's going to leave or anything.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

Sure, that's no problem. Then you can warn them if she decides to go down to the uh room.

SPEAKER_06 25:20

And I can leave if she's going to the room.

SPEAKER_05 25:23

That's true. So yeah, the the the room itself um is messy. I've got floral sofas and armchairs and wardrobes. Uh you know, the room itself is a bit dated early 70 decor. But yeah, this is indeed the room that you were in, Susie.

SPEAKER_04 25:43

Okay. This is definitely it. Right. It's everybody look look for something that might have a virus on it. Uh maybe a a floppy disk or a cassette or anything with a an RS232 connector on it. What? Yeah, it's it's you know computer connector. You know, the ones like you know, you get on your printers and things at the ones at school. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:04

No, I know the ones. Yeah, you kind of like have a rummage around. Well, as you rummage around, you find well in fact, how well do you rummage around? Why don't you all make a that's the eight roll, except of course for the Annis.

SPEAKER_07 26:18

Anthony got one success. Thank you. Yeah, and as good. Susie got one success. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:23

And I got two and has got two successes. Okay, excellent. Yeah, and you're all having a good old ramage

Uncovering Clues

SPEAKER_05 26:30

around. So uh Susie, you get hold of Diary, which is in one of the drawers, a couple of like entries and stuff, you kind of flick through it. One of the later wait one of the later, one of the later entries says targets A and B on mobile, but there is no more traces of their former uh former escape bodies, except for the tracks going to the factory. If collection is not possible, both objectives should be destroyed. Agent Bjork has collected some encrypted radio traffic far beyond normal limits. You must start tracing it back to its source. Then there's a bunch of other notes. Um and those notes roughly align with what you heard Regita talking about, uh in more technical terms. Uh Anthony, you find a small radio. Could you make a calculator all for it, please?

SPEAKER_07 27:15

He's bad at calculate. As in as in zero. Oh, okay. So I'm rolling two dice here. Okay. That's fine. Nothing.

SPEAKER_05 27:24

Um, so it's a radio, but it's a it's an odd-looking radio. It has like a weird sort of like screen that when you turn it on, there's like lots of like sort of like green and yellow frequencies and stuff that kind of like come up and down, and there's like a bunch of gobbledygook being said out of the radio. It's not human voices, it's just like a blob blip. It's almost a it sounds almost a bit like the old dial-up to a degree. And yes, you kind of get that sort of sound. But it's really high up on the frequency. You imagine that you have to really listen to kind of hear it. Anders.

SPEAKER_07 27:58

Anders, check check this out.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

Is this what you're looking for? And I'll hand it over to him. It's interesting. Might be, but it hasn't got a connector on it. Keep looking.

SPEAKER_05 28:07

Send, you find a bag full of like duct tape and various implements. There is a load of other things in there. There's a set of lock picks. There is a couple of well, essentially the sort of things that that Anders has. That's sort of like an you know, a crowbar. It's essentially a ye old breaking and entering kit, which is what he has. Oh, what's in this bag? And there is also a couple of fact, there's there's about five loads of IDs from various different companies in there, one of which looks like Rick's Energy, showing that they are special investigators from Rick's Energy. And then go send the picture so they to the woman and the guy. Indeed, yeah, they they match the pictures. But there's also some others. There's a couple that that show that they are from various other companies, like a water company and some other things as well. Essentially everything that you'd expect that you would need to get into someone's home if needed to, depending on what the situation would allow. And then adders, you find just locked in a small box under the bed is a well, it's a lockbox, so you have to break into it to start with, so make a false roll. Or if you've got Tinker or sorry, tech and you want to try and uh use uh one of the breaking entry tools, you can do that. Or you just smash the lock off.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

Yeah, I'll just uh I'm in the groove of smashing things and breaking things at the moment. Fine, make a false roll for me, please.

SPEAKER_05 29:32

Two successes. But yep, you smash the lock off. And inside you can see what looks like an analysis of some source code. If you want to make it if you want to make a calculator or show it to someone who is gonna be able to make a calculator roll, you can do so. I'll look round at the others as well. Anyone good at with

The Virus is Found

SPEAKER_05 29:50

programming?

SPEAKER_02 29:52

And a little bit. What my mother's taught me. Do you want to make a calculator roll, please, Susie? Yeah, currently I can. Two successes.

SPEAKER_05 29:58

Yeah, well, uh surprisingly enough, if you look at this, you straight you straight away understand that these are two lots of source code for an artificial intelligence. And then there's a whole load of like scientific gobbledygook, but essentially these are a couple of papers saying this is the source code, or we have retrofixed a virus to destroy that source code, which would then allow AI to be destroyed. And at the bottom of the box there is a disk.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

Guys, I think I found it. Think you have. It should should do exactly what we want. And and as you say, no one should be in danger.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Let's all head back to the base and we'll we'll discuss what we're gonna do next.

SPEAKER_06 30:38

Yeah. Maybe we should be quick about it. You uh make your way back to the base. So we have the virus or a computer disc with the virus on it. So all we need to do is get it to the computer in the basement, and then problem solved.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

Do you mean the place that we went last time that we were spelled by the nasty robots?

SPEAKER_06 30:59

Yes, I am somewhat simplifying it. But yes, we we just go in, be up we've we already beat up one pile of robots. They just got a jump on us last time, you know. We took care of the ones outside the late the doctor's house, no problem.

SPEAKER_04 31:12

In that case, I need to prepare. I've been rooting through a big pile of odds and ends and pull out an old dustbin lid and hold it up and go, yeah, this this time we'll go back prepared.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Yeah, I like how in the way you're thinking, Anders.

SPEAKER_04 31:26

I also find a bit of corrugated iron and wrap that round my leg. Yeah. So make a different suit of armour I'm gradually piecing together.

SPEAKER_03 31:35

Yeah, I'm gonna do like Anders, like take uh the lid, the lead, another one, and a big pipe metal pipe as my sword.

SPEAKER_07 31:44

That's some pretty cool that's some pretty cool plate mail there, Anders. Did you do you do you ever do LARPing? LARPing? What's that? Live action role-playing. No, that that sort of thing that's for kids. You know, like like those reenactors, you know, who do like those those renaissance fairs and stuff. It's a renaissance fair.

SPEAKER_03 32:03

I think he said rhino. He did say rhino.

SPEAKER_07 32:05

Renaissance, no? Renaissance, renaissance, renaissance.

SPEAKER_06 32:10

Remember the history teacher mentioned something about that once.

SPEAKER_07 32:14

Yeah, you should pay attention in school more often.

SPEAKER_05 32:17

Well, it was boring. You uh you end up making yourself some I don't know, some some some leg lower leg armor? Sure, make a tinker roll for me, someone. I can actually bring the amp this time as well. Oh yes, you can.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

Who made a roll and okay.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

And as you kind of like fashion some stuff to kind of like protect your your your your ankles and your your lower legs

Preparing for Action

SPEAKER_05 32:42

from little robots. Susan, you've really got your uh little dish and walkman combination thing that helps uh disrupt these things.

SPEAKER_02 32:53

Yeah, but I'll I'll I'll gotta go get an actual amp to make it much louder. Okay. And I I'll go get one of my synths as well, so I can actually play the exact frequency we want. Okay, cool. Because I if I record, I did manage to get it back after they uh knocked me up a bike. So I'm gonna go get stuff again. But I actually might ask for a hand. Because it's a lot of stuff to carry.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

Someone's gonna need to hang on to the amplifier for you. Anthony will hold. I'm just gonna uh do like the sword and the shield. Sure. I will not put I mean I need to look cool while I do this. I'm not gonna do like ganders, put the other scrap around. I have my leather jacket. Yep. That's already protection enough. Yeah. Cool protection, I call it. Cool protection. That's true. It's cool protection.

SPEAKER_06 33:39

And and Yannis. Do I know anyone who's on the local hockey team around my size? Probably. Maybe go and like borrow some hockey pads, because those are like big on the legs. But you mean the contacts roll? Yay. Well you really want is the uh goalie helmet. Maybe you do the whole lot. Let's see how it goes. If I succeed over, maybe I'd got the whole thing. Uh which was a contacts. Contacts, please. Only one. Only one is all you need.

SPEAKER_05 34:07

Yeah. Indeed, you do know someone who's on the uh the hockey team. Uh I'm taking your going ice hockey as opposed to uh all hockey. Ice hockey, I think, in Sweden's probably more likely. Yeah, you can get hold of uh like a bit of armor and stuff, you know, for the legs and not as heavy as sheet metal. No, it's also sheet metal. Okay, yeah, that's fine. Uh you can you grab that stuff. You have to make a little bit of detours, you have to kind of wander off to the person's house and make some make some deals with your dwindling supply of resources. But it'll be worth it. You won't all die at the hands of artificial intelligence.

SPEAKER_06 34:46

That's always a bonus. It's fine. If we turn off all the robots, then we can just sell off the t dead toys. We'll kind of end up going off your separate ways,

Final Plans and High Fives

SPEAKER_06 34:55

getting all the stuff.

SPEAKER_05 34:56

You meet up at the hideout sort of in the afternoon. With all the stuff that you have.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

So what are you planning to do with all that stuff so soon? So you know how at the the the the ice cream place we had that cyborg then, and I I played a little little dick there little little bit of music in the in in of off my my walkman into the into the dish, and then it sort of made them go a little bit too loudly. Well, I've just sort of simplified that down a little bit and amplified it with this so I can make a much louder noise and hopefully it will disrupt all of them rather than just just no better place to test it than uh when we need it. I guess Anthony's little robot. That's actually not a bad shout. We can try it. You might want to cover your ears. And she just tads it on.

SPEAKER_07 35:43

I'm like I'm like I've got my hands over my ears and I'm trying to shout that I don't have the robot.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

I don't have the robot. So Anthony, I don't have the robot.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

Sorry, I just couldn't hear what you were saying. I for the I don't have the robot.

SPEAKER_07 36:02

He doesn't have the robot. I gave it to my dad, and then my dad gave it back to me, and then I gave it to the inspector. Anthony, Anthony, Anthony, what are we going to do if you guys doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 36:12

We're gonna do this. So as I see, we've got Anthony and Susie in charge of disruption and distraction. Yeah, we're gonna blind them with science. Me and Sven will provide any protection required, and Johannes, you've got the job of getting this disc into the into the computer and hitting the run button.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Hell yeah. Yeah, high five. That's a plan. Let's do this. I five. Not leaving me hanging, guys. Okay, yeah, high five.

SPEAKER_05 36:44

You all high five at this great idea, which is probably a good place to leave it for this episode.