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Mysteries of the Loop S1 E14: A Tales from the Loop Actual Play Podcast
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In the season finale of Mysteries of the Loop, the kids’ mission to upload a computer virus brings them face-to-face with a powerful AI and its army of rogue robots. Meanwhile, Anthony struggles to control the mysterious device hidden in his brother’s jacket—a device that seems to manipulate reality itself. It’s a climactic showdown that will change their lives forever.
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Welcome to Another Episode
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SPEAKER_01Welcome to another episode. Tell Salute from Off. Hooray! I'm joined as ever by my fellow co-host Margot.
SPEAKER_04Last episode, I was your wonderful, wonderful co-host today. I'm just your fellow co-host.
SPEAKER_01Oh, for God's sake, I'm gonna have to like just get progressively more and more grand as I kind of get along. And this is only the start, so in about five years' time, I'm not really sure. That'll be the entire podcast, just introducing it. As it should be. As it should be, yeah. And and I would say joined as ever by my players, but potentially for the last time by some of them. Hi Tony.
Quick Rundown of Last Episode
SPEAKER_01Hello. We've got the sexy Scottish person, Douglas. It says so under his name, apparently.
SPEAKER_05So must be true.
SPEAKER_01It's true.
SPEAKER_04I am and so I'm always last. That's because you spill your drinks all the time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you should have been that like years ago.
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SPEAKER_06On his yacht.
SPEAKER_01On his yacht, yeah, on his yacht. Rather than him coming to visit me in a dreary, dreary southwest England. We can always meet up at Dragon Meat. Sounds like a plan.
SPEAKER_06Are you going to Dragon Meat? Sorry, I won't I won't jump on the podcast for this, but I I'm I'm planning to be there too. I haven't made any plans yet.
SPEAKER_04But neither have I, I just tossed that out there.
SPEAKER_01God, maybe next year. Maybe
The Plan Unfolds
SPEAKER_01next year. Uh maybe we can kind of get all the other folks that are involved in some of these games that we play to to join us. How great would that be? Uh yeah, so welcome back. Uh just do a quick sort of rundown of what happened last episode. The kids kind of got together and decided that with all the information they'd received over the previous episodes, they were going to upload a virus that they found from some potential agents to stop the robots in their tracks. So they hastily put together a plan. Susie and Anthony would uh distract them from the front while Sven, Johannes, and Anders would come in through the back. It didn't quite go to plan, but sort of went to plan. Susie and Anthony annoyed the security guard until Anthony, it turns out, tackled the uh the old security guy to the floor while Susie ran in and distracted a load of people or robots by hooking up a synthesizer and various other bits to the microphones in the office. Meanwhile, out the back, Sven and the others managed to avoid some kind of trap that was set for them, and as they were about to rush off at the same time that music started bled out over the Tanno system, a whole bunch of little robots came up on their side and ran across the road to be met by another's. Anyone who would have looked at it would have seen that it was the two sides of the uh the robot stories, deceivers versus the convoys, and they were having a good old fight amongst each other. In the meantime, the lads rushed across through the through the maelstorm of these little robots fighting each other to rush down the stairs. Back at the front, it seems that poor old Anthony got sort of tackled by the guy that he kept kicking dirt in his face, and he found, while dusting himself down, something embedded into his brother's jacket. He messed around with it, and all of a sudden what the security guard disappeared in the heat haze. He was uh very taken aback by this, all very excited. Meanwhile, Susie got together and started to put all of her gizmo y tinkered stuff together so that she could play the uh music and stuff that would uh disrupt the robots, they reckoned. And that is where we ended up last session with uh the uh three guys, Sven, Ganus, and Anders, facing down, and I'll just remember his name again, Megaton Prime at the top of the stairs as they go down into the basement to insert the virus into service. And indeed, guess what we'll do is Susie? Could you make a tinker roll for me just to make sure that everything works perfectly well with the uh let's give it a go stuff you have?
SPEAKER_06The rocker got four sixes on four dice. Wow.
SPEAKER_04Wow. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_04That makes up for the sp that makes up for the spilled drinks. Yeah, it does. Uh yeah, 100%.
SPEAKER_01Um okay, you kind of like put everything together and you kind of attach it all, you find a way of kind of just putting it directly in, you kind of like pull out the um the cabling that goes
Music Mayhem
SPEAKER_01towards the the microphone, and you attach it all.
SPEAKER_06This is an elaborate piece, right? With four successes. I'm involving both the amps, the strange, like, well, the synthesizers, the strange extra metal acoustic pieces, and I want to play music over the top. So we're dealing with we're dealing with sort of, you know, three, three or four moving parts here. And if I may, Ed, we've got this really annoying sort of sine wave, you know, sound sound effect coming from the synthesizer, with then Susie pressing play on her little tape recorder, and it starts up crackling and then begins to play Take on Me by a Ha. Now we she was expecting, puts, puts her fingers in her ears, expecting this to be a horrendous noise being played over the tanoin. She she pauses for a moment, takes the hands off the ears, and it turns out it is like the best aha remix possible. It is it is both it is both emphasized the music and is effective.
SPEAKER_01I like that. And with four successes, absolutely, I'm more than happy with that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Remind me what your pride is. My pride is my mixtapes are legendary.
SPEAKER_01I think you have lived up to that. Sven and Anders and Janus, the first thing you see is the music starts to blare out. As it starts to blare out, you can there's sort of like you can definitely feel there's a sort of like a bass to it, but then you can also hear the music on top of it. And whatever is going on in that that first half of that sort of like layer of music is causing all the robots that are sort of like fighting with each other to sort of start going a little bit haywire. They're not stopped working, but they they seem like their systems are sort of like just going a little bit crazy. So you'll see like one go to hit another, but sort of like it hits the floor instead. One goes to run but trips up, or a part of its body turns into like a race car, but the other half doesn't. And so it just seems like they're all their systems are kind of like being shuffled around a bit. But that they are still ferociously attacking each other as best they can. And you've got this guy at the top of the stairs. What about Megaton Prime? Yeah, so Megaton Prime basically is standing there, and he he seems to sort of like twitch. He's got this like big sharp knife in his hands, and he's a bit bigger than the rest. He's just partial knee height, and he kind of like twitches and stuff. He he's he seems to be holding still. You know, he doesn't seem to have sort of been as problematic as some of
Facing Megaton Prime
SPEAKER_01the smaller ones.
SPEAKER_00I will just tell to the guys, okay, I'll take this one. Anders, help me if I need. Douglas, try to go down. Remember, the door might be locked. I move forward, face this guy.
SPEAKER_05We see the door from here, or is it?
SPEAKER_01No, you have to go down the stairs and there's like a turn to the right. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Alright. Sounds like a plan. Yeah. I go forward, it's like, come on, come on, come here, you dirty robot. Okay.
SPEAKER_01The robot will take a couple of steps forward. As it takes a couple of steps forward, you can see that it's sort of it sort of keeps trying really hard to be really kind of smooth in its walking, but it's sort of a bit jaggedy and a bit sort of bit halting, and then it kind of takes a couple of more steps and then walks at a weird angle away from you, towards Michael Road. You know, okay, that wasn't quite right. Then it kind of turns back on itself to walk back towards you, and you can see all the lights in his eyes and stuff are flashing and sort of going a bit weird and crazy.
SPEAKER_00So we'll try to blink him towards me, and then I say, uh Anders. Go behind him and distracting him. And I'm like, come here.
SPEAKER_05Yohannes, let's get down there. Sven, try not to break that one too much. I need a megaton prime. Whatever. Okay, I'll follow Anders.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Right. And as you run down the stairs, followed by Hannes. You get to that same door that you PvC hat. It's got sort of like the pin code on the side. The door is open, and you can see that standing the other side of the door is Sven's dad. Sven's dad is got a large pole in his hand. He looks at you. He's kind of holding his hand to his head, but he's just staring at you. Meanwhile, back at the front, Anthony, you've just seen the security guard disappear into the heat. He A's. Susie's kind of run past. You grab some stuff and gone back into the shack while she's doing her thing.
SPEAKER_04What are you gonna do? I wait for her. I mean, I don't think he would run off and leave her there. So he probably went into the shack, and now that she's got the got the thing working.
SPEAKER_06You pop back in to just find Susie sort of stunned at what she's created. You can see she's just in awe and sort of like bopping along, completely distracted.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you you could see Anthony's head bopping along to the beat as well. He's like, that's pretty good. We should go. We should go help the guys.
SPEAKER_06My gosh, yes, we better go.
A Desperate Escape
SPEAKER_06Quick. You need the way.
SPEAKER_04So then we'll run around to the or I guess I don't know. We can can we can't can we get in through this gate?
SPEAKER_01Uh there is a there is sort of like a pass key kind of like slot for the for the for the main gate. Well, we don't have the pass key. No, that's probably on the security guard. Okay, we'll run around to the back where they can. What kind of security code lock is it? Well, because security lock is like a kind of like slide-in sort of key card sort of security lock that you've got and then a map type.
SPEAKER_06So you're just gonna give it a go. Doesn't think this is gonna work too much, but she's gonna take out like a I don't know, not not even it's probably not even like like a an enamel card. Yes, no, she's got a library card. She's gonna take out a library card, and then she's gonna also take out one of like I don't know. I've I feel like she just has a a bunch of stuff around. If if not, she's got like spare things to make. Speakers and whatnot. Obviously a main main component. But it's also got like some speakers. I'm just gonna jimmy out like one of those basic like magnets or whatever. I'm just gonna try and like use the library card and a magnet and just like to sort of trigger them. Do a tinker roll. I'd like two successes. It's alright. We'll give it a go. Last time we got four, I didn't get any. It's alright.
SPEAKER_01You're like, dun, drive, dude.
SPEAKER_04Really, you need to have.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, this isn't I could probably do it if I had a bit more time, Anthony.
SPEAKER_04So while while she was doing that, Anthony was just like I started climbing the fence. Yeah, that's fine. You start climbing the tailing fence.
SPEAKER_06No problem there. I see see, Anthony dropped down by the other side. I'm like, yeah, you're right. Put everything back in my bag and like throw it over and start dying.
SPEAKER_01The kid's at the back. Right. You are facing Sven's dad. Anders, you're in the front. Mr. Larson? It's me, Anders. He looks at you. Any sign of recognition.
SPEAKER_05If he does, he doesn't seem to be doing very much about it. Your son's outside and that big robot Megton thing's about to hurt him. Are you gonna let that happen? And I will try and get through to him that way. That hopefully that sort of fatherly instinct might break through.
SPEAKER_01He kind of looks to you and says, Sven, Sven, he's he's outside. You see he kind of like looks for a second and says Starts sort of like mumbling to himself, and he kind of starts to walk towards you and then stops, looks around and stands strong in front of you, blocking your path. Well I'll hold my shield up just in case he swings out. And then nudge Johannes.
SPEAKER_05Johannes, do you think you can creep round him? I'll try to keep him talking. There's no way past him, is there? Without him moving. It's very difficult to kind of figure out how you're gonna get past him. Might just have to push him over. Like it doesn't look like we're able to convince him to go outside.
SPEAKER_01He doesn't he seems to be sort of like wavering, but it looks like he's kind of making a decision of does he go outside or does he stay here and protect? You can see the databan's behind him, but he's just standing there. He's quite a tall, imposing guy. We try and convince him again to go out, or is it just one rule? I think, yeah, I think probably you've kind of like probably done as much as you can, and he's he's not really doing anything to you. So he's not really kind of coming forward to talk like you're anything, but he's not really moving. So you're kind of in a bit of an impasse at the moment.
SPEAKER_05I think Anders, we might just have to try and push past them because yeah,
The Elevator's Arrival
SPEAKER_05he's not moving. You then suddenly hear the sound of an elevator. Okay. That I guess just Russian Anders. We don't have much choices. I don't see want to see like multiple people down here. Ready? Alright. On three. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Um to charge. If you could both make a false roll, please. Um I'm gonna need two successors. How are we doing? One H again, I think. One H again. Um you both pile into him and you kind of like all go down into sort of like uh a heap on the floor. You're all sort of like struggling within he's trying to grab you, you're trying to break free, and yeah, it's just a bit of a melee between the three of you. Uh meanwhile, we've got Susie and Anthony running up from the gate towards the factory. As you're running closer, you can then see spilling out from around the corner a bunch of little robots um all fighting each other, and uh the big main gates of the factory open. And you can see about eight or so people coming out of the factory, sort of like looking around. They're all holding their heads and they kind of turn and look down towards Yuchi running towards.
SPEAKER_06I'm probably probably gonna pause if they if I see a huge group of uh robots. I'm just gonna so you know, pause the whole sort of put put my hand out in front of Anthony to sort of say, Well, wait a minute. Who are they? Do you you recognize any of them? Do I?
SPEAKER_01You guys recognize a couple of them from the list of people that you know that that have been town. But not like half months. In fact, one of them you can see is Magnus. One of his friends friends.
SPEAKER_04We gotta hurry.
SPEAKER_06Hang on. Like, I I I'm unsure what you did to him. If you really did disappear him, then maybe don't do that on people we know. Oh, for sure. A wand of disintegration is not to be used lately. I roll my eyes. No, you're right. We should only go to those who wield power properly. Let's go. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Are you gonna are you running towards them or away from them? We're gonna run around to the stairs where we were last time when we tried in here.
SPEAKER_01So you're gonna run between the factory and the warehouse.
SPEAKER_04Yep.
SPEAKER_01Sorry. Go the long way around the other side. Yep, okay. You kind of like start to run, and you can see some of the adults start to sort of mingle around. You see Magnus start to run and give chase.
SPEAKER_04While we're running, I'm like trying to get whatever this thing is inside the jacket free, so I could like actually have it in my hand and know what it is.
SPEAKER_01It's probably no bigger than sort of like half the size of your finger, or whatever it is, is quite flat, and there's like a little clicky thing on it. I'm not really sure what it is, like a little clicker. But it's it's sewn into the and so you you keep trying to pull at it, so you're a little bit distracted at trying to pull it out while you're kind of running and all the rest of it. Uh which means you're sort of like running with these like gangly legs going after Okay, so you're making your way around. It seems that the uh robots are sort of like massing and uh they seem to be sort of less confused when they're together. They seem to be figuring that out. Okay. And the megaton guy? Uh yeah, he's he's kind of like now stopped and just standing looking at you, which is even worse than him moving around. He's just sort of it looks like he's sizing you up. Okay, and the other little ones that are around him? They're yeah, they're kind of like sort of towards him and around him a little bit. There's probably about nine of them now, sort of like surrounding him. They're not doing anything. They're all just stopped and they're all just staring at you, which is really, really disconcerning.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and trying to uh I'm gonna try to move to the kind of to the stairs is to block them on going down.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yeah, yeah. So you're gonna go and you're gonna defend the stairs essentially.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yeah, you do that. Uh as you see running around the corner, uh or you can hear actually before you see it, you can hear Anthony and Susie sort of like screaming and shouting. Meanwhile, down in the uh cellar, Anders and Johannes are busily sort of tussling around with Sven's dad. And you're kind of like giving as good as you're getting. It's more of a sort of a scuffle rather than sort of like trying to punch or hit each other. But it just means that you're all entangled with each other. What do you want to do? See if I can increase the amount I'm restraining him and Johannes. Now get the disc there. So hopefully Johannes can break away. Tempt it to the skip. Between the two of you, I'm gonna need four successes for you to kind of break away.
SPEAKER_05This is gonna be unlikely for Johannes, but this is on force. It's on force or move, whichever you have much of a muchness for him.
SPEAKER_01Wow, we are really good away in one apiece. You've got two successes. Did you want to spend any of your luck, or do you think your pride would come into its own here? What would you like to do to try and get that? I mean, uh just to remind me, what is your what is your pride, Anders? The ability to earn my own money. Okay.
SPEAKER_05I'm an excellent businessman. Well, actually, Anders, we we are technically doing this for money. If we don't upload the virus, we don't get paid. I like to be quite generous, but that's really furious. Well, that's all reason for Anderson doing any of that at the moment. You don't think he was actually wanting to save the people at the village or anything? You could always spend your luck. Okay, then I have one luck, so I guess I will use that to re-roll. Yeah. Oh no, for one more success, is it? It's just another succession.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I'll
Tensions Rise
SPEAKER_01do that as well. Okay, amazing. Which means you get your four successes. So that means that and as you manage to kind of like tackle Sven's dad while Yannis kind of manages to wriggle free, losing one of his shoes in the process. But yeah, that means that you are now in the cellar looking at the data banks, along with all the wiring and cabling and stuff in front of you. There's a set of uh spiral staircases going up to the ground floor of the factory. And that's when you realize that the elevator, so there's like this um like dumb waiter kind of elevator, is sort of like making its way down into the uh into the on the elevator is another one of these maybe thumb primes, and it looks like this one is holding an honest to goodness pistol, a revolver in its hand. And in fact, it seems like the revolver has been somehow sculpted into its um onto the robot. Right, you know I need to get one shot of this. In the meantime, Anthony, Susie, you come running around the side of the factory to see, first of all, a bunch of different robots all sort of like like being very confused and fighting. The sound of our heart blaring out across the uh coming out from the factory. You could also see there's a megaton prime with all these other robots sort of like starting to sort of chales around it, facing off against Sven. Now they've all got their backs to you, and you can see Sven standing at the top of the stairs, essentially defending the stairs from these robots.
SPEAKER_04Will hit that clicker on the robots that are advancing on Svent. Hopefully. Hopefully. Okay. So you're gonna click the clicker. I'm gonna click the clicker and say and say, get away from my friend. Okay. You hit the clicker, nothing happens. Fudge. Oh, now I'm nervously like sugar honey iced tea. This thing was working a minute ago.
SPEAKER_06What do you mean it was uh something supposed to happen?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I was supposed to make them disappear.
SPEAKER_01Well, it doesn't look like it works, but you see Susie is looking well, the first thing you see is Susie's hair is now standing all on end and Susie's feet start to rise from the from the ground. Well, Suzy, you're you're levitating. You can make out a heat haze appearing around both of you.
SPEAKER_02No, no, no, no. Unclick it on I'm trying to unclick it.
SPEAKER_01You want to click it again? Yes. Okay. You click it again, but Susie is sort of like dropped from about, I don't know, three inches, and all the gravity returns to Susie and around you, and the heat haze stops, then you see a bit of the heat haze happening above Susie's head, sort of like on the uh first floor of the factory, and all of a sudden there's this horrendous rending of metal and part of the factory wall disappears, and there is now a gaping hole, loads of papers and like a printer or something falls out of the side of the wall, leaving the above exposed. Did you see that, Susie?
SPEAKER_04Holy smokes. Are you okay?
SPEAKER_06I don't know. What was gonna happen to me, Anthony?
SPEAKER_04I I don't know. I think I think we were gonna be transported to another dimension. Right, on that note. See you.
SPEAKER_05Johannes. Okay. What's the plan? The the gun robot hasn't arrived yet. It has not arrived yet. So I still have a chat. You do indeed. Okay, then I guess I will run to the computer and look the well, data banks. Look for some sort of computer-esque thing.
SPEAKER_01Could you do me a favor and could you make a comprehend role? Okay. How much do you know about computers?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, worst thing ever. And we thought you were the smart one. Uh, you know, there's different types of intelligence. There's emotional intelligence. This acumen. Okay. And I stack the deck a bit. Okay, how would you do that? Motivate myself to succeed by remembering a quote from my book, which is my item. Yeah, that's fine. Okay, so let me see it. The quote add plus two. Okay. So is that plus two dices or two dices? Plus two dice. Okay, so this the the quote I'll go for is success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. And that is Coco Chanel.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_05So yeah, as long as I just don't give up, you know. You dig deep. Dig deep. Yeah. I just refuse to believe that I can fail. So that is an extra two. So that is four mind plus one comprehend. So we're rolling seven dice. And how many do I need? Just need the one.
SPEAKER_01There's two. Excellent. Yeah, you kind of go, oh wait, actually, I remember seeing this before. They're very similar to the ones that were in in uh early Yannick's house. Yeah, you open up and find the available slot and you put the uh the disk into the slot, but now you need to do something.
SPEAKER_05I use my additional success to be like, it says press return. It says press return button to run program.
SPEAKER_01It was that simple, my friend. Only it was that simple. What it is gonna require you to do is to make a program. Listen, this may require Okay, we are rolling on two. Okay. But don't roll yet. So, Anders, you are rolling around with Sven's dad, who is trying to kick you off of him and rush towards Johannes. If you want to stop him doing that, I'm going to require you to make a false roll, but don't roll it yet. Right. Um, unless there's anything you particularly want to do outside of just stuff.
SPEAKER_06Come on, Anders. Chan channel your DD fighter. No, I'm just intent on making sure that he can't get away to stop Johannes.
SPEAKER_01In any particular way? What is anything? Uh basically just trying to wrap myself round his legs so he so he can't shake me off, so he can't run or move. Cool. Then, up the top of Feng, you can see that the uh robots appear to sort of have started to sort of make their way towards you. Uh they look like they're going to have a final charge. What do you want to do?
SPEAKER_00So I will just find my ground and I will start like and and I think I will try I don't know the drive, does it give you anything? Well, I mean it kind of gives you a reason as to why you're doing things. Yeah, I know because I was thinking because you know my pride is nobody tells me what they can do. But I don't know. Well, I suppose that's kind of I'm just holding my ground and I don't want to move. I wanna protect my friends in a way, so I was wondering if I can use it for this final stun.
SPEAKER_01Sure, why not? Go on then, why not? Okay, if you could also make a force roll, you can add positive your dice for that. But not yet.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Susie. What's Susie gonna do?
SPEAKER_06I said no, I'm following Anthony. Um honestly, she's uh a little shaken up after what just occurred. I think didn't you say that someone was chasing us? Yes. Cool. I think at this moment she turns around, remembers, and goes, wait, uh and turns around, we gotta get up there, you know. We've gotta find a way through. He's still coming, and she's actually gonna like I think she's having this is the the first time well not the first time, but one time that she's very uncomposed. Like she's well out of her depth, super stressed out, having having a bit of a moment. Really? I'm almost sick tempted to take upset just voluntarily. Okay. Because of what's occurred. That's cool. I'm not happy. See some XP in your future. Okay.
SPEAKER_01And yeah, I need I need Anthony to help me.
SPEAKER_04Right. Okay. And Anthony. Is there so part of the wall has disappeared only on the second floor or on the ground? It's on the second floor. It's not on the ground floor. And I still can't get the object out of the jacket, correct? No, yeah, it's still in there. You're sort of thinking it away, you know, as you were, inside the jacket. Okay. Well, at this point, Anthony is thinking wherever the security guard went and wherever that wall went, that's where his brother went. And uh so he takes a step away from Susie and he clicks it. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Right. I'll so Susie, you're kind of like just looking around. I don't think there's much you can really do in this situation that will help with this role. And Anthony. What shall we do with you? Uh causing trouble. Um causing trouble. Could you please uh make a let's make a cat roll, but not yet. So if all of you can please uh make the role, or what I need from you is I want ten successes total from all of you. Um
A Critical Moment
SPEAKER_01I can also add to this but I guess she's kind of losing it a bit. You want to kind of do you have lead and w or do you have sort of any kind of heart? Or I guess that's the kind of thing that you go into the mix.
SPEAKER_06Oh what Susie, absolutely not. Not is not a she's very empathetic, but she's in no way has the skills to sort of rile up the crowd. Okay, right. She's very much in her own world.
SPEAKER_01Well, if you could uh yeah, if you can make a heart roll, then if you want to make that roll, I need ten successes in turns more than for your extended trouble role.
SPEAKER_06So with with my conditions ticked, that was one dice, and I rolled on one. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Anthony rolled one success out of his two tech dice. Oh, we've got one success so far.
SPEAKER_00And I roll my force plus the two dice.
SPEAKER_06I I can, however, add I do have one lap point. Okay. I'll spend it. It feels like it's needed.
SPEAKER_00Cool, we've got two successes. I'm rolling now my force. Okay. Only one, I'm gonna push it. Okay. And I will take exhausted because I'm guessing I'm fighting against all this robot stuff, and they're jumping at me, so I'm just doing everything to push them back. So I have one success. My God. One success.
SPEAKER_01That's three successes.
SPEAKER_00I cannot push it again.
SPEAKER_01You can't do anything else now. So that's three successes. So good pressure. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna do use every bit of strength I've got, so I'll set with exhaust it. One more.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01So we've so we've got five successes. I mean you have six now, right? No, six successes are lie. You're six successes.
SPEAKER_05So um, yeah. You just have to get four successes with two dice. No, yeah, that's that's a problem. So well do people have luck that they can spend? Yeah. I have I will spend my last luck to get one success, so now we're on seven.
SPEAKER_00I can do like two, but that would be eight.
SPEAKER_05Okay, so you need two successes then. I'm rolling two dice.
SPEAKER_06I got I got four successes on four dice. It's possible. Gotta pray. Just gotta hope. What else?
SPEAKER_01Okay, I'll tell you what.
SPEAKER_05You can also push it as well if I stay on the two dice. That's true. That's true. I shout instructions across. Oh, I will do it.
SPEAKER_01Um I'm very upset. Yeah, so you were kind of uh as soon as he's kind of looking around, sort of like uh starts to sort of like try and sort of shout encouraging words, but is just not really kind of feeling it as Magnus comes around the corner.
SPEAKER_00Well, what's the Anthony? Don't you have extra luck to spend? You are a ten-year-old.
SPEAKER_04Yes, that's that's that's true. I sp I spent one last session, so I can't.
SPEAKER_01You can spend you can spend you can absolutely spend that luck this time.
SPEAKER_03Okay, then I will do that. But you but you have more than one, no? You should have more than one lack. Right. You can only spend one at a time.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, per roll. Yeah. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_01So actually we were doing we were doing that wrong. Luck basically allows you to re-roll, like a push roll that's for free. Yeah, I was wondering.
SPEAKER_05So yeah, but yeah, I thought you just made the decision about that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so then you'd mix that with the pride, because the pride happened all.
SPEAKER_01I'm happy with that myself. That's fine. Fine. Okay, so yeah, Anthony, you want to spend a luck point? Yes. Then you can do. I'm happy with that, it's fine. Yeah, so you kind of just at the last minute of like you push and you click the button. You kind of like really sort of think really hard. As you click the button, everything just goes really still. So as I said, Susie, you're kind of like, we should all kind of like do something every oh it's my.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, she's like put her hands in her like hair and it's like it's all frizzed up. She's like, you know, really packing panicking.
SPEAKER_01Sven is kind of like, what's Sven doing? You're like whacking and fending off the these robots as they're kind of hacking at you.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I imagine them jumping around and I'm just pushing aside with the lid, and perhaps one grabbing my arm, pushing me down, and just you know, hitting them against the wall and just kicking them, and when the big one comes, I will try to hit him with the pipe, and just you know, melee style, like fighting with them and pulling down my jacket and just uh a big fight.
SPEAKER_01Like that. And as you're sort of like rolling and you're trying to like stop, in fact, you're probably hanging on to or doing something with Sven's dad. I mean, what what is that kind of thing? Yeah, I'm just like kind of like wrapping both my arms and my legs and trying to just wrap myself around his legs to stop him from being able to get up and he's trying really desperately to sort of like he throws the hole towards Johannes, but it kind of like pings off the wall as Johannes kind of like has got his opens up the keyboard, starts furiously trying to like pipe away to kind of like get the disk drive open, sort of like hit enter to kind of like hit run.
SPEAKER_05It's actually more like it's luck. So he's literally just pressing random buttons again more and more frustrated that nothing's happening. Yeah. He's just like, no, no, what did this mean?
SPEAKER_01Um but you end up just kind of like going space, space, end to enter, end to enter, and hoping for the best. I getting more and more frustrated that nothing is happening again, upset. You can see your fingers manage to just hit the return key as the disc starts to whirr, and then it all goes very still. And Anthony, you click the button and everything stops around you. A heat haze starts to build around you, and sort of like this fog appears just out of nowhere, and you kind of see sort of like overlaid in the fog figure, about the same sort of size and height as your brother, and a hand sort of like starts to kind of make its way through the fog towards you, sort of like offering a hand to you. I take it. Joe, Joe, is that you? You take it as the hand uh grips around your your hand and pulls you forward, and there is a sort of like weird zip noise. Um, and as your finger hits the return key and again, as it's like there's this noise of whirring of discs. And as you kind of like bring Sven's dad down, Sven, you kind of hit uh the the last well the one one of the one of the robots as it breaks against the um wall. And Susie you see sort of Agnes kind of like trip and hold his head as he sort of falls to the floor, and and he disappears from view, and it goes really quiet. All the little robots start to fall down. Then Sven's dad sort of like starts to sort of like he goes, Hiders, adders, get off me now. I can see everyone sort of like starting to look a bit odd, and he goes really quiet. You do manage to uh to stop the uh the robots, they all kind of fall over. You all kind of look up in fact, then you look around in the sort of like hallway and you can see that there's just none of the robots are moving, they've all just fallen down. Usually you can see uh Magnus kind of like holding his head and looking up towards you and says, What am I doing here?
SPEAKER_06Honestly, Susie's ignoring him and it's just yelling like Anthony, Anthony, looking around, ignoring Magnus. Who cares about him?
SPEAKER_01And uh Johannes, you can see the the robot touch down on the elevator. It doesn't do anything, it's just an inanimate object.
SPEAKER_05Okay, what do you want to do? Yeah, I'll go check on Anders and Sven's dad then I suppose, since they seem to be yelling at each other.
SPEAKER_01You know, normality suddenly come back and I'm just sort of apologetically backing off. Sorry, Mr. Larson. He's sort of like sort of pushing you away and says, What am I doing here? What's happening? He kind of like starts to storm out as Sven, you're kind of like pushing them and you've got like cuts and scratches all over your arms and over your face and stuff, and you hear your dad behind you. Sven? What the hell is going on?
SPEAKER_00My God, you are alright. Yes. I'm guessing he still has this implant or whatever, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you can see sort of like the scar on along the side of his head.
SPEAKER_00And and so I'm gonna signal him him to the to the implant. Puts his hand on his head and goes, I don't remember going to the doctor. And what's going on? Well, I'm happy you're alright. I don't know what they did to you, but you were something weird. I don't know. Company, I guess.
SPEAKER_01He sort of like says, in the distance you can hear the police sirens coming. And doesn't and Johanna, she kind of like makes your way back up out of the of the cellar as well. And and that's when you notice that there's Susie sort of like shouting for Anthony. But there is no Anthony.
SPEAKER_06Sorry, did you say the police cars have turned up?
SPEAKER_01You can hear the sound of police sirens in the distance.
SPEAKER_06I think before it she she like does a a quick like look around, like runs, runs sort of because it we we were sort of in between the factory and the warehouse, right? So she's then going to run towards the front desk. You are off.
The Police Arrive
SPEAKER_06What are the rest of you gonna do? I'm gonna shout after Susie.
SPEAKER_05Where's Anthony? Susie, where's Anthony? I don't know. Johannes will go check on Sven.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, Sven looks very tired. He looks like he's been through the wars, but she has.
SPEAKER_05Sven, are you alright? Police are coming. Yeah, I'm okay. I guess is when I've got home with my dad. Could I just try and drag away Megaton Prime out the out the wall? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you can do that. Just gonna be like, okay, bye guys, see you later. If you want to do that, you can do.
SPEAKER_01This will not come back to bite me in the ass later. Of course not, no. I mean, what would you do with like a super intelligent robot thing? I mean, I think that was the agreement. Yeah, seems like a plan. Okay, so you're gonna make your way, I guess, the people seem to be sort of making their way towards the front desk or towards the the security shack. They're all kind of like looking at each other, the the adults seem to be sort of like talking to each other. Some of them are kicking some of the robots over, and and you can see sort of like the the police cars turning up at the front front gates, and out of the police cars you can see Ing Marie, a bunch of other police officers.
SPEAKER_06Susie's like at the gate. Yep.
SPEAKER_01By the curious shack, obviously, you see Anthony's dad, who's in the back, your mum's in the back of another police car, and they're kind of like, goodness, they're kind of getting out of the um police cars, and you can see that they're sort of like trying to jimmy the lock and stuff to get out of the way.
SPEAKER_06As soon as sort of Ing Marie gets out of the vehicle, Susie's just sort of at the gate, sort of clutching onto it, sort of speaking through and goes, Miss, Anthony's gone missing. I don't know where he is. He was right next to me and I I can't find him.
SPEAKER_01She looks at you and says, What do you mean he's gone missing?
SPEAKER_06He's not here. I I don't can't find him.
SPEAKER_01The rest of you have all kind of like come down to the gate as well.
SPEAKER_00And you can hear you can hear that. So you mean that Anthony's missing? What is Anthony? I don't know. He he was there and now he's not.
SPEAKER_01Where he sort of like asks you a couple of questions to what was the last thing you saw, where was he last seen?
unknownRight.
SPEAKER_01And you can see it next thing.
SPEAKER_06I think I think Susie's getting more and more agitated because she can't comprehend it. They're not understanding it, and it's all it's all a mess.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the the kind of police come in, they call an ambulance to make sure everyone's okay. They're kind of trying to talk to you, but you're obviously still really upset, and everyone wants to know what's happening to Anthony. Um it was a film, the camera would pan back from the from the factories. You're all talking, uh, all being spoken to, everyone's kind of looking to see where Anthony could have been. You can see Anthony's dad's looking really kind of like upset, kind of trying to figure out what's happened to his child. Meanwhile, Anthony. You take the hand of your brother and you step into the sort of swirling, misty portal type thing, kind of step over the threshold into a very clean white and sort of pale blue room. You can see your brother. Your brother is standing in front of you wearing sort of scrubs, and he uh he looks at you and uh he says, Anthony, and he grabs you and gives you a massive bear.
SPEAKER_04Joe, where uh wh uh where is this place? Where have you been? How how did how did we get here? This is the other place.
SPEAKER_01I've got my jacket. What other place? You need to leave. You need to leave before they come
A Mysterious Encounter
SPEAKER_01back. You've got my jacket. The people who he looks he looks around and he says, There's something strange going on in the loop. Something very strange. But you can't stay around here. You have to leave.
SPEAKER_02Well you're coming with me.
SPEAKER_01I can't I can't, I have to stay here. He kind of like lifts up his his arm, and you can see a long scar on his left hand left arm running from his inside of his elbow to his wrist. There's a large piece of sort of what looks like scarring and some stitches. He says, I can't, they've implanted me with something, and I can't leave. I need to need to go go and get dad, go get mum, and come and find me. I don't know where I am. I I I managed to see that there was like little imprint of the Rick's energy logo, so I know that I'm somewhere in the loop. I don't know where. Go get mum, go get dad, come and find me. He kind of like it's messing with your jacket, and uh he sort of starts to press the clicker.
SPEAKER_04I'm like trying to push his push him away and be like, No, no, you're you're coming with me.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, you need you need to do this. You and he starts he pushes the clicker, you can see his hair starting to stand on the end, and he goes, No, not that one. He clicks it again and and he he he does it like a double click to it, and then you can sort of like start to see the heat A's and he double clicks again, and then the sort of like mist starts to build and he says, Listen, uh the only one that can help me. You need to go get as many friends as you can together, uh get mum, get dad, and find me. At which point he says, Go on, I trust you, you'll be able to help me.
SPEAKER_04And he pushes you through the mist as you trip back out through the mist.
SPEAKER_01And I'm like, as I'm coming through the other side, I'm like, you land with a thud, and uh your dad opens the door, and you can see that you're in your room. You've basically landed on in between your bed and your bedside table and your dad says, Oh my god, Anthony, where the hell have you been? It's been days. And he he basically grabs you and gives you a massive hug. Everyone's been worried sick about you. That is where we will leave we will end the tale smoothly of this story. You know, if there's enough if there's enough people who would like to see a second season, please by all means give us a shout on any of the various social medias we have and say you'd like to see a second season, and there may well be
Conclusion and Future Hopes
SPEAKER_01a second season. So, yeah, thank you thank you very much. I hope you've enjoyed it.