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Mysteries of the Loop S1 E13: A Tales from the Loop Actual Play Podcast
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In unlucky episode 13, the kids infiltrate the factory to deliver the computer virus, with Susie and Anthony distracting the security guard. Chaos erupts when the Convoys clash with the Deceivers, and a hidden device sewn into Anthony’s missing brother’s jacket is accidentally triggered, sending events spiraling into the unexpected.
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Welcome to Tales from the Loot
SPEAKER_04games.
SPEAKER_02Welcome back to Stories with Dice and our wonderful
Recap and Player Introductions
SPEAKER_02Tales from the Loop again. I'm Ed, as I've been for the last many episodes, and I'm joined with or by my wonderful, wonderful co-host, Marco. Hello. Next week I'll be Ed. What? But I'll be Marco. That's just weird. And my lovely players, Tony. Hello. Douglas. Hi there. Hi. And so. Hello. If you're listening to us and you like what you hear, please give us a thumbs up, a like, subscribe, a follow, depending on whichever social media you're following us on. If you'd like to join us on Discord and chat to other people that are following us as well, you can do. We have a Patreon. If you want to give us lots of your money, then that's great. Or you can do it for free as well. Please do that. So we just want to a quick recap of where we were from last time. Tony made the mistake of telling me he had notes. So I'm a hundred percent gonna pick on Tony.
SPEAKER_00Thank you so much.
SPEAKER_02That is okay, you sexy Spanish person.
SPEAKER_00Thank you so much. Well, I have the notes for what we did on our side. I will go with that. And I think Susie probably I think Anthony will have to complete the rest until they join us. So what we were doing is we were in the house of the doctor that actually had created these robots. And I think we heard people coming up the stairs at some point where we, you know, after the woman came back to life, or we thought she was still dead. And then we basically hid in one of the archives rooms where we had the servers and all this. And then we heard these people talking, and I was like surprised because they were saying, Oh, I'm Anders. And then we came out, and it was the special agent, Brigita, and the other agent, which I forgot which is called Anders now, from Riggs Energy. And we started talking about because they were like, Oh, you need to help us. And I think Douglas made a speech about you know being deputized and helping them, and he wanted to negotiate the money. He spent a lot of money with the terms, and we almost signed on this. And I think that's where Susie and Anthony arrived,
The Agent's Request
SPEAKER_00more or less. We were like discussing with them on this, and they wanted us to help them out.
SPEAKER_02Cool. Well, how I'll I'll save you that. So, Sol, do you want to just fill in when Susie and Anthony turned up very briefly?
SPEAKER_01I was gonna say, like, I don't think a lot happened. I think where we'd started last time was we'd headed to the hideout. We we we found their note, found out where they were, panicked a little bit. Anthony may or may not have wrecked Anders' car. Like I don't know, I don't know what happened there, but tried to drive it as a ten-year-old and some something bad happened. Whoa, don't know who would have done that. You traitor. And then we we we we we ran there instead. So it took a while. And then we got there, we joined in the fun inverted commerce that was occurring with uh with you know the Honestly, they they felt like agents, but realistically they they felt like home alone villains pointing guns at children. Yeah, there was a there was a lot of things going on. Anthony, what did you what did you do to one of the home alone villains?
SPEAKER_05First, I would just like to say in Anthony's defense that he might he might have definitely crashed Anders' car had he been allowed to drive it, but Susie definitely trashed Anders' car. When we got to when we got to the house, yeah, the agents were there. Anthony overheard one of them talking to someone on his car phone. He got caught, they all got brought inside, or at least he got brought inside. I think Susie snuck inside. And he just sort of destroyed the deal that Douglas was making because he doesn't trust these people. He thinks that they're they he already knows that they've lied about who they are because the police officer told Susie. So he doesn't he doesn't trust them. He thinks that they're somehow involved in everything and that then that they're gonna they're gonna hurt his f him and his friends, right? And then when he went outside I can't remember how he went outside.
SPEAKER_02They weren't they weren't they weren't holding you hostage,
The Plan Unfolds
SPEAKER_02as it were. But when you said you were gonna leave, they let you just kind of go. But you went into the kitchen. They went left the kitchen and went outside.
SPEAKER_05Right. I went into the kitchen looking for a phone. The phone line was dead. I went outside to use the car phone to call the cops, and then I slashed the guy's tires.
SPEAKER_02So the key thing really was that I suppose if I just interject, is that you you were supp the the most of the group that's gonna work with these agents to kind of sort out these robots because you'd find out that the robots were going on we're gonna do what they did with their little robots but make them go larger, and they were these artificial intelligence that were doing this, and so the whole plan was that you and the agents are gonna go ahead and get that sorted.
SPEAKER_01Well, well, well, well.
SPEAKER_02The whole plan that half of them were planning to do that. The other half, well, the main half.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, um Susie and Anthony came in as killjoys and were like, no. They did. In fact, Anthony called the cops on them. Which put an end to that, which meant they got arrested. Um however, they had mentioned a virus or something Anders had picked up on it.
SPEAKER_02They had. In fact, Anders picked up yeah, um there was a virus, which was at their hotel or motel.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01But Susie mentioned something about they kidnapped her and tied her up at the motel down the road. Mm-hmm. At which point we were like, two and two together, let's go get that virus. Computer, not corona. Yep.
SPEAKER_02But you did, you got it, and went back to the hideout, I believe.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_02I think where we left off at the end of last episode is you were all kind of like gathering your stuff to go and break into the factory and to deliver this virus. That was that was your plan to go back to the room.
SPEAKER_05Right, and and Susie is gonna use her keyboard and speakers to create a diversion or to somehow disrupt the the robots. And I'm gonna go with her to help her carry all that stuff back.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So it initially, many episodes ago, Susie had found out that they kind of like you could sort of you made like a smaller version of this, which disrupted the robot's electrical fields or whatever, which kind of caused them to be a bit kind of distracted and not being able to focus on what they want to do. So you kind of like upped it to a bigger level, and it does require two of you to do that.
SPEAKER_01Synthesizer and uh and like an amp script.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then I think some judicious use of some magnetron like uh reflectors, that kind of stuff. I think you just found a whole bunch of junk that you were you were tinkering with to kind of do that.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna lie, Susie's mainly looking forward to just making a really loud sound.
SPEAKER_02Although I think Sven Anders and Johannes are your kind of like main heavies to kind of do the heavy lifting and working.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we identified of the rubbish.
SPEAKER_02Yes. You picked up loads, you you basically picked up loads of rubbish tin cans and sort of like things to make swords and shields, and Margaret, well Anthony was mildly impressed that you're looking a bit like a DD group. Now I think you left Anders to be the one to deliver the Johannes because they're wearing the makeshift armor.
SPEAKER_03I just cheated and went and bored some hockey stuff.
SPEAKER_02That's correct. And you've got the you've got the virus, which you're gonna do. So this kind of sees the kids on your it turns out it's you're now your fourth day of your holiday, in the sort of like, I guess, lane morning, I would I would imagine, making your way to the factory, presumably either on bikes or walking with your big synthesis or your synthesizer and your uh your speakers.
SPEAKER_01Well, I I think we're probably walking, but using the bike as like so we can wheel it along, if you know what I mean. That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_02So are you gonna go back to where you were four at the factory, or are you going to choose a different angle of entry?
SPEAKER_00Well, we said to go back because we know where the servers are where we need to inject the virus, right? It was on this basement area. So we know how to get in unless they change anything. And I think and I think we were gonna go that route, if I remember.
SPEAKER_05Although if we we cut like the hole like quite far away from the factory. So we could probably, if we need to cut a new one, do it closer.
SPEAKER_02If you remember, you've got sort of the factory has got a large chain-link fence around. There's two buildings, a big sort of factory building on two floors, and then a warehouse, which is which is on one floor. There's a security shack outside on a gate, and then towards the back, the back there are loads of containers, shipping containers, old automobiles, old magnetrine like ships and stuff, sort of all just like cluttered in the back, rusting, which all kind of right abut the chain link fence towards the we'll call it the north side of the uh of the facility. What was the plan?
SPEAKER_05I don't think we have a plan. We're just kids. We don't have a plan. We just there was a plan, but involved help from our agent friends who were going to make a distraction, and that plan is gone. That's what Susie and Anthony are for.
SPEAKER_01I'm so glad I'm not here to listen to it.
SPEAKER_05Yes. And Johannes just complained. That's okay. We're gonna play Smash the Marketplace by the screaming blue messiahs and That's what Anthony requested.
SPEAKER_01Was there Ed a microphone in the security shack? Was there? Do you know what?
SPEAKER_02Why don't why don't you make a roll? I think you can try and blag what skill slash attribute you think you can use to investigate.
SPEAKER_01I would love empathize, but that does not make sense. Is there anything else I could no, not really. Alright. We'll do we'll just go for it. Five dice, one success.
SPEAKER_02Excellent. Yes, there was. There was uh there was a um there was a microphone, and you think it probably links to a PA system or something.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we let let let's see about getting into that.
SPEAKER_00So I'm guessing the strategy could be that you two, you and Anthony go on the security shack to make the destruction, while Johannes, Anders, and myself we go through the back and try to get in to the basement.
SPEAKER_02Is that it? Sounds good. Sounds about as tactical as a bunch of 10 to 15 year olds think of.
SPEAKER_00We need to bring the cutters or to cut the fence in case we need.
SPEAKER_02Yep, that's fine. Okay. Uh so presumably you're gonna wait sort of a short while for Susie and Anthony to go and do all that, and
Preparing for the Heist
SPEAKER_02then you'll kind of go in.
SPEAKER_01I reckon we'd probably meet up at the cops of trees just beforehand so that we can make that plan. Because I think we're all just going to grab some stuff. We have a vague idea about what we're gonna do, and then we're gonna go and meet back up and prepare the assault.
SPEAKER_02Okay. So we'll kind of leave the kids sort of like there's a there's a there's some trees behind the factory. So you guys can be in the trees making your plan.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So you are right with your big microphone and your keyboard and all this stuff.
SPEAKER_01Um I I I couldn't have done it without uh Mr. Muscles over here.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, we we got it handled, Sven. Don't worry. Okay. You think you can handle it? And y y y this'll definitely work. I think we can handle it. We know we can handle it.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. I I I even saw there's a microphone system, I think, in the security shack. That might be even better. If we can get access to that, we could probably play the sound across the entire factory. How do we just just the outside? How do we get past the guard? Well, that's that's where we create a distraction as the distraction team for the distraction team. Whoa. That's some deep level thinking, Susie.
SPEAKER_00We got it handled there, right, Anthony? Yeah. Somehow I don't see this. How do you plan to distract this and lost?
SPEAKER_05Don't worry, all you have to worry about is getting inside and you'll be able to do it.
SPEAKER_01We have multiple things that make noise and we're gonna make some noise.
unknownOkay?
SPEAKER_01We're not even gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_00One of us should go with you, one of the, you know, I don't know, anders perhaps should go with you to get some muscle in.
SPEAKER_05Well, if we fail as like the people going in, it's game over for all of us anyway. Yeah. If, you know, they fail, we might still succeed. And then we win regardless of whether they get caught or not. Don't worry, guys. We're gonna make our death save. We're gonna do this. Um what? What? Death saves. At least some read the material.
SPEAKER_01Not gonna lie, Anthony. I thought it was a metal band.
SPEAKER_00Of who who who is sciencey? Johannes, you you can do the virus thingy. You know, I I really don't understand computers. Can you do some science or Anders? Can Anders, can you do some science? I I will just hold the the robots back. That's all I can do.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, you you just put the disk in the drive and press the button and it goes in.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but no normally these kind of things have programs you need to run.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you'll you'll probably have to select the the drive and type in run and hit return. Yeah, yeah. All that stuff. Yeah, return and control break. Yeah, I know what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_00But what do you have? You have a spectral? No, I've I've used the one at the school before. Okay. Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_05Uh they all look the same to me. I think Anders has like a TI99, don't you? Yeah, the smart brothers.
SPEAKER_03My gosh, so so why aren't why aren't you doing it, Anders? I'll just hold up the iron bar and the the the old dustbin lid and go doing this. It's fine. If if I run into trouble, I'll just shout for some input.
SPEAKER_05And you were questioning the noise brigade. That's all I'm saying. Hey, I like that I like that name, the noise brigade. That's like a group, like a rock band.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're gonna open up for the Ramones. Ah, great. That will be the signal. That's the signal. You put blitzkrieg bop and we go in.
SPEAKER_05I know Susie has blitzkrieg bop, but I'm pretty sure she has Queen and maybe the Screaming Bloom Saius. Yeah, that somewhere.
SPEAKER_02What what have you done with the um the one remaining robot that's left? Still in your right side.
SPEAKER_05No, remember I gave it to the cops. Yes. Somebody gave it to the cops, that's it. I remember yes.
SPEAKER_02Okay, that's fine.
SPEAKER_05Very sorry to have ruined your plan, Ed.
The Noise Brigade
SPEAKER_02God damn it! Well, there goes that story. No, no. That's perfectly fine. Carry on.
SPEAKER_05I don't like where he said that. Let's let's get the noise brigade and noising.
SPEAKER_02Okay. I take it you and Susie are not going to be trying to stick up to meet a security shot. You're gonna be quite blatant about it.
SPEAKER_01I think so, remember where we were before? It was a little hard to get up to. I think what we do is we go there as like an initial one. And that's that's to like bait the security sh guy out. Because he's a cyborg, right? So he'll be affected and then or or at least distracted. And then we'll we'll work out a way of sneaking sneaking in, and then we'll we'll then attach it to the PA system, and then we can blow the space even louder. I like it.
SPEAKER_02And while they do that, you're gonna go in through the back and hopefully sneak in and deliver the virus. How hard can it be? Exactly. Easy peasy. Okay. So um I will ask for uh Susie and Anthony to make some sneaking rolls to get to uh we'll call it staging area.
SPEAKER_01Alright, guys, we're we're going. First you'll hear hear some noise, but the signal is the music, all right? You got it? Four dice and one success for Anthony. Excellent. That's four dice and no successes. I'm going to take the scared condition and put Okay go on. No more successes.
SPEAKER_02You were indeed pooping your pants. You were a little bit scared. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now you're actually doing it. It's another thing entirely.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I remember how it went last time, and it's it's you know, I'm getting cold feet, you know.
SPEAKER_02You kind of make your way to the sort of like bushes and stuff, and you kind of stop. Hold yourself for a second. And uh you see the security guard come back out. He's the older man with sort of like big cash, the grey hair. He's um he's quite a bit overweight and he uh steps out of the security shack and he points one uh finger in your direction and says, What are you two doing? And is this the same security guard as last time? It's exactly the same security guard. Does he have a thing on his ear? Uh he doesn't have anything on his ear, but when you look at him, he just looks like he's he's got big rings under his eyes. He doesn't look like he's probably slept since you first saw him.
SPEAKER_05Susie, I got this. So I stand up and I wave and I go, Hey, hey you, asshole, remember me? And then I start moving away from Susie so that he his focus is on me.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's well and truly on you. He hasn't moved away from the security shack, he's standing sort of like outside the security shack, but on on the road that leads into the facility. And he kind of points to you, points at his feet, and says, Why don't you come and say that over here?
SPEAKER_05Okay, tough guy. So I'm like, I'm I'm like looking like giving Susie the eye, like, you know, get ready to to to to make her move. So I I walk up to the security officer, but not within I make sure to stay outside of you know his reach.
SPEAKER_02Do you reckon you've probably got the mobility of Okay. Remember me asshole? He lowers his head and kind of like shakes it. Did you fix the phone? He flashes you a really, really annoyed look. He does that as he's still yawning, he says, as he kind of lets Alice deep sort of grumble from the inside of his chest just go away.
SPEAKER_05So wait, Ed, you said he doesn't have the thing on the side of his head that No no no.
SPEAKER_02You I thought sorry, I thought you said something on his ear. You know, you didn't have any like kind of like security kind of thing. No, I didn't I didn't necessarily mean that. I meant Well you when you look on look you couldn't really see properly from there anyway, but as soon as you got closer, you can definitely see that he's got the stitches.
SPEAKER_05Why don't you come out here, tough guy? You you want to fight a ten-year-old? Like you're pathetic, fat fuck.
SPEAKER_02He kind of like does that sort of like couple of sh shuffle steps forward to kind of go and grab you. There's no ways he's gonna grab you. And he just kind of he shakes his head and then turns around and walks back towards the security shack. Alright, I'm gonna Is there something at all there, like, you know, stones and loads of wild. Yeah, there's there's loads of stones and stuff. Alright, I'm gonna chuck one at him. Okay. Yeah, you throw some stones at him. Uh, it kind of hits him on his back and the back of his head, and he turns around and goes, Cut it out. Come over here and make me. He starts to sort of trudge his way towards you. In the meantime, Sven, Johannes, and Anders is in the map.
SPEAKER_00We're sneaking in, getting close to the fence to the place where we got last time to see if it is still open.
SPEAKER_02It looks like someone has sort of used more links to sort of shut that back up. Alright, you start to cut the um the fence again. Step, step, step, step, step. It doesn't take you long. They're not particularly strong. And you uh open up the uh fence, you can get through. Who's going first? Uh gone first. Could you please make for me an investigation role? Or investigate role. And then what you get? Two successes. Cool. Uh you go to do that, and then you realise that something is being done to the ground that you're about to walk on, as you just about to step on basically the ground had loads of sort of rusted bits of metal, uh dirt and sort of gravel and stuff on, and you realise that someone's actually placed something under the dirt and the and the bits of gravel and stuff. It's all been kind of moved, and you kind of almost put your foot on whatever this thing is, and you kind of take your foot off. I said, Oh, don't say it. I go around I go around. Okay. Yeah, you go around, so you make your way around sort of like some old rusted container parts, various other sort of like electrical or sorry, uh mechanical parts. You have to kind of like make your way through all that. It's just a bit more of a kind of hard thing, Rod than the thing to go straight across. Okay. And Anders and Yannis, you're gonna do the same thing. Please, can I have a move role that includes so that's Sven, Anders and Johannes? Let me know if anyone fails. Uh yep. Can we have a win there? Okay, Pete. You and you did not pass. Johannes. Yep, Johannes failed as well. Johannes failed as well. Excellent. So you kind of try and get across and move and yeah, you've got to kind of get through all the sort of like horrible rusted bits of metal and stuff. Just just seems to be quite tough to do that.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_02Make it difficult. So there's a lot of kind of like scratching and as it kind of catches some of the bits of metal that you're wearing, or indeed the The hockey shining guards and stuff. It kind of like cuts and pulls at that. You reckon that if you hadn't been wearing that, you probably would have had quite a few scratches on your legs and probably tetanus shots to be had. But yeah, you make your way around the trap in the inversion commas. Okay, and now you're you're sort of like a run across that opening that is like a sort of road that kind of goes around the factory. So you've got to cross the road to get to the other side of the road where the factory is. Okay. It seems very quiet. You can't see anything. There's no noise going on. Can anyone hear any distractions going on?
SPEAKER_00Not yet. Yeah, we should probably wait here and to be here tonight. Back to the distractions.
SPEAKER_01Cool.
SPEAKER_02After Anthony Sarag Stones, how's the guy reacting? So he's kind of like shuffled them and kind of like walked forward a bit. So he's away from the steward shack again. Probably no more than sort of like five or or six metres away from the steward shack. He's only going as far as the road that goes into the facility. He's not really chasing Anthony, but he is pointing his his finger at him. And you can see he's getting very, very annoyed.
SPEAKER_01Susie's panicking. And she's like, uh hasn't hasn't seen whether there's like the the stitches on, can't really tell. Has seen that this guy is incredibly and so out of her pocket, she pulls like the the nighttime go-to-bed soundtrack, which is just filled with like classical music, the but the calm classical music, the nursery rhymes, whale noises, whatever. Designed to put you know, designed to to send you off to
A Soothing Distraction
SPEAKER_01sleep. And you And she's like, I have an idea. So instead of using the synthesizer for this one, I'm going to pop that into my tape recorder. I'm going to attach it up to the amp, and I'm going to play soothing music. Not not too loudly, but loud enough that he can hear it coming out of the picture. Like nursery rhyme. I mean it's it's a novel way of doing it. Yeah. So it's a it's a novel way. It feels like a very kid approach to this. I like it. I love it.
SPEAKER_02Uh so Anthony, you can hear sort of like some sort some music coming out from behind the bushes. It's definitely not the kind of music you were expecting. Or hoping for. Or hoping for. The guy's kind of like looking in that direction. And weirdly enough, he starts to yawn. He hasn't fallen asleep, but he's definitely linking his eyes and rubbing his eyes. Do Cyborg's dream? I think I've heard of a book about that. Because I know I know what you are. He kind of sort of shakes his head at you. He seems a little confused. I'm gonna call the police, he says, as he turns around and goes back towards the air.
SPEAKER_05I rush him to try to like knock him down, even though he's ten, you know, ta ten times my size, probably. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Make a uh force roll. You're going to need at least two successors. Can I use my luck point? Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you fail, he's gonna basically grab you, but you're not gonna be able to go.
SPEAKER_05I know I I know I used the luck point last session, but are they new session? It's perfectly fine. Okay. So you've got a million because you're ten.
SPEAKER_02Right. Okay, so force you said, right? Yes, thieves. So force and I think it's strong, is it? Body plus force. Body, sorry.
SPEAKER_05Wrong game. Look at that. I didn't even need to use my luck point. Oh no. I need two successes.
SPEAKER_02All right, right. You need two successes, and you've got one success. So you can use a luck point to get that extra success. Do that. I'm gonna do it. Yeah, you basically rush him, you put your shoulder into it, and you catch him in the back of the knee, and he goes sprawling face first towards the gap between the shack and the road, and he falls face first into sort of like the gravelly bit that's on the um side of the road, and there is a dust cloud that emits around him as he lands.
SPEAKER_01Then I'll yell, Susie, Susie, do it now! Quick run and pick up the synth. And the Oh well, I I don't need the amp, I just need the the synth right. Yeah, you're sort of a small version. Okay. Yep. Although she does think of another idea, she's also going to sort of rip the cord out from the the amp as well. So I've got Walkman in one hand, or my recorder in one hand, I've got the the synthesizer in the other, and all the cords. I'm just gonna start running out of the bush towards the the security office.
SPEAKER_02You make a mad dash across the road. Actually, what are you doing with the security guard? He's kind of like making some muffled noises as he's trying to like move around and get up.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna like kick at the dirt and the gravel into his face to keep him so that it gets into his eyes to keep him, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Hopefully from getting. Yeah, he's finding it very difficult to get up. And then as soon as you start kicking the dirt and stuff into his face, he's obviously trying to he's laying down, trying to keep the you from kicking the dirt and stones into his face. And so he's kind of really preoccupied with just you annoying him, and he's which means he can't get up, he can't use all his hands to kind of like push himself up. Susie runs past you both and into the security shack.
SPEAKER_01First things first, I'm going to find the microphone, find where it's plugged in. What what what kind of cabling are we doing? Is it just fully manually like Yeah, it's it's good old-fashioned 1980s kind of cabling.
SPEAKER_02Whatever that might be, I'm not being an electrician myself, I can tell you. But yeah, you you you you want to kind of like faff it out, you can just make a straight tinker tinker roll for me. Sure.
SPEAKER_01Well well, this is the thing. Like, I'm not gonna start ripping things apart, but I'm gonna take a look. Yep. If I think I can like unplug it and then just plug it straight into the synth, or you know, plug something in, just get the electrical cable, yeah, make something happen. Because I mean, realistically, all we're doing is sending electrical pulses down the same wire.
SPEAKER_02Make it compreh make it comprehend role.
SPEAKER_01Sure. I mean, I I've just talked myself into exactly the same role, but that's fine. I have I I do not know anything about this.
SPEAKER_02You go look at it and go, uh you have an idea of exactly what you need to do, and then when you get there, it wasn't exactly what you were expecting.
SPEAKER_01She goes, Screw it. I'm gonna like use one of the wires, tie it around the microphone so that it holds the button down. A button down, and then I'm just gonna start. I'm just gonna put heavy weight on one of the synths and just make it make a noise into the microphone. So it's really gravelly, it's really awful, and that's what I'm doing. Okay. Um, Anthony, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_05The stuff on the side of his head that signifies that he's I've been turned into a cyborg. Is that is that on the side that's facing me?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Okay. I'm gonna just start if is it like if there are any wires or if there's like a plate or something? No. Well, you can it's just stitches. Okay. So everything's inside his head. Alright. I'm just gonna keep kicking dirt into his face, maybe even kick his face a little bit. Okay, that's fine. Alright then.
SPEAKER_02You you you're you're just kicking it. And that's just this high-pitched whine. Which you hear, yeah, this horrible whining noise comes through the speakers, which you all three can hear at the back. Uh as you can hear it, sort of making a noise inside the factory. And yes, Anthony is kicking a man while he's down. That boy's got some unresolved issues.
SPEAKER_05If I wasn't so scared, I would be bringing it up. Well, they said music, but that doesn't sound like any music I've heard. It hurts my ears.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I don't know if we should give it like one more minute to see what's going on.
SPEAKER_05Well, let's see if it causes any reaction, because you know, we want them to actually leave if it's going to be distracting. Yeah, fine.
SPEAKER_02Okay. We've got a position. Okay, you hold position. Right. So, Anthony. Yes. Could you continue to make a false roll for me?
SPEAKER_05Again, we need two successes for this guy. Yeah, you know I'm rolling two dice when I do this, right?
SPEAKER_02Yep. Just playing it out. Okay. Okay, right. Ticket, no successes. No successes, I'm sorry. No successes. Yeah, you kind of like kick him and you you sort of like kick some dirt in his face some more. You kind of your foot actually takes makes contact with his sort of like side of his face. While you're doing that, he kind of grabs your leg and in his big, meaty hands, he just pulls you down and across, and it's like he's moving around like a little doll. And he he essentially throws you sort of while he's on the floor, and he rolls you off the road and into sort of like the gravel and grass on the other side, as he then starts to get up. You're all scraped and bruised, and sort of like you've got sort of like a bit of road rash to your chin, you know, sort of like jeans or whatever you're wearing, and sort of like a bit ripped.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I I stand up and I'm also you know wearing my big brother's old army jacket, which is obviously a few sizes too big for him. I get up and I'm like padding my clothing to like get some of the dirt and dust off, and I'm just like, I meant to do that, I meant to do that. Yep.
SPEAKER_02As you're patting it down, you suddenly feel something that you hadn't felt before in the jacket, like a little pin or something. What is what is this? Is it in a pocket? No, it seems like it's sewn into sort of part of the jacket's seams.
SPEAKER_05So if the guy's not immediately coming after me, I I'll try to find a way to like maybe tear into the lining or something to get at it.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02As you start to do that, you kind of like I'm sort of like trying to grab at the um little pin thing. You kind of grab something in the pelvic. You haven't actually seen it yet. It's still in the seam, and you feel sort of like a click. And as you as that happens, you suddenly see this heat haze appear around the security guard, and the heat haze suddenly gets brought for just
The Unexpected Twist
SPEAKER_02a brief second, and then the security guard disappears.
SPEAKER_01Whoa, whoa, whoa, what Susie, did you s did you what the Susie's currently like trying to like saw what happened before with the the uh the phone and is trying to like disconnect it. Okay. The phone's not being fixed. The phone hasn't been fixed. Good. She was just double double checking that and she says she steps outside and goes, Andy, you're all right.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I I just made the guy disappear with something in my brother's jacket. You just scared him off, right? No, no, no, no. He he like disappeared, like disappeared into thin air.
SPEAKER_02I'll leave you there for a second. You see from just off to your right hand side a number of these small robots appear on your side of the street, as it were, coming out of the uh various rusted metal uh containers. Okay. Uh there's probably a good fifty or sixty of them, and you can definitely see that there is they're sort of like in in groups of sort of like ten or fifteen, um, and they're kind of making their way through the sort of like rusted metal parts that are on your side of the um fence.
SPEAKER_03So um the distraction is not working because they're going to find us in the point.
SPEAKER_02So they've it looks like they've actually come out from behind you. So they it looks like they've come from the forest behind you. You've gone into the facility, and they look like they're coming into the facility as well. I guess I'll just get the other two's attention and be like, we're out of time, guys. You kind of wave as you as you wave. Are you gonna point at one of them or something like that? Well, yes, I will gesture in that direction. Cool. So Anders Sven, you also see a number of these little robots coming out of the sort of like all sort of like rusted sort of uh bits and pieces that are in the back. And um you definitely see sort of um, in fact, Sven, you actually see Fierce Optimus, the leader, calling sort of a bunch of the others. You can see sort of like the big red scannier trap, one of them, there's a police car, they're all sort of in their their robot form, and you can see them kind of looking around left and right. Then they rush out into the road away from you. They literally run past you, and as they run past you, you can see that you hadn't seen before lying in wait on the other side a whole bunch of the megaton primes, the black snowmobile with the toy laser, the helicopter, or also in robot form, rush out, and the two meet each other in the middle of the road and they start fighting. Are we well hidden from them if we throw them into the basement? They they they basically have obviously ignored you as you've kind of like either through them or past them, or they've come behind you. It looks like the robots were waiting for you to kind of cram across the road, but because you didn't, they were just still waiting. And then these other little other these other robots or similar robots have have rushed in, and now they all seem to be fighting. You could run through them, but that means you'd have to actually get in right run between the robots that are fighting. So now I've never I guess.
Running Through the Chaos
SPEAKER_00I have a plan. Anders, if you're gonna provide cover, and you Johannes, you run and get in the basement, okay? We'll just skip them out there.
SPEAKER_03Are you really Anders? Yeah, yeah. So I went and run in with you. Let's go.
SPEAKER_02Oh can you make move roles for me, please? Let me know if anyone fails.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So as Van did it, one second. Okay. Anis failed.
SPEAKER_02Okay. One success. One success for Andis. So uh Alice, did you want to uh push your role? Would you like to use your pride of any use to kind of I've already used my pride this adventure since the last session.
SPEAKER_05Your luck, perhaps? Oh yeah, I've got I've got one luck left, so I suppose I can re-roll one success.
SPEAKER_03One success. One success. Okay. Okay. Uh yeah, I'll take spend that.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Cool. Yeah. So uh you all rush as you run through all these little robots. There's probably a good hundred and fifty of them in total, all fighting each other, and they're really brutal. You can see arms being taken off. They seem to have made sort of fashion various sort of like little weapons. You can see a couple of them have made little kind of pop guns that seem to be working quite well. And you have to sort of like run through them. A couple of you have got because you've all got sort of like the protection around your ankles, you kind of feel a couple of blows land as you're running through, and as you make your way towards those stairs. As you're making your way towards the stairs, we will cut away back to uh Suzy Anthony.
SPEAKER_05Susie, Susie, you have to go help the guys now, because I have a secret weapon.
SPEAKER_01Gosh, the guy I said I was gonna play music. Hang on. I'm gonna rush on back in, and it doesn't matter because we've got little like I'm just using the microphone playing this horrendous noise.
SPEAKER_02My question to you, Susie, is are you going to use the setup you use with the with the amp, or are you going to not do that? You're just gonna play music. What did you what do you mean?
A Musical Showdown
SPEAKER_02So are you gonna use the weird strange noise thing that you created, or are you just gonna use your synth to kind of like log into it? So the the thing that disrupts it is the fact that you've made this like weird device using the the the synth and the to kind of to do it all.
SPEAKER_01You gonna use that on the microphone, or are you just I'm gonna set that up in the if that's what's disrupting them, then yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's the intention. I'm not. But along with that, I'm gonna play some music over the top. So it's gonna be a right cacophony. And so uh in a in amongst the loud noise, no. I'm I'm gonna put it to the crowd. What is playing? Mash the marketplace. That's what Anthony wanted. It's it's the fight of capitalism versus non-capitalism. Except you're all wrong. It's take on me aha. Amazing. Nicely played.
SPEAKER_02Okay, so to the booming sounds of aha, you're running across the um road. Susie and Anthony are going to grab the uh all the equipment that's needed to do this and running back, hopefully in time that you know your fellow kids are not gonna kind of be skewered by anything. As uh Sven, Johannes, and Anders get to the stairs going down into the basement. And standing on the top of the stairs, you can see Megaton Prime. He is bigger than you remember him. He's sort of like standing sort of like knee height to you, and he is holding in his hand like a sharpened stake knife or something, and he looks at you, and his little robot eyes glare bright, electric blue, and he says, You will not pass.