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The Time That Shouldn't Be S2 E6: A Tales from the Loop Actual Play
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The group splits up to pursue separate leads. Johannes and Anders visit researcher Karen Holt, while Susie and Anthony return to the hideout with disturbing time-travel documents. Meanwhile, Sven and Joe find themselves stranded in the age of dinosaurs.
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SPEAKER_00Welcome back for episode six. Marco has his mouth full of food. As does Tutney. Tutney seems to be eating a lot as well. I mean, soul's pretending to eat, you know, extra extra HP for that. Douglas is getting on the act too. I don't know because Pete doesn't have a face. That seems like a bigger problem. Let's assume he's eating at all times. I have I have seen him in the flesh. He does have a face. Honest. But when, yesterday, or is that today? I'm doing it again. Whoa, wait. So this is episode five again? Who knows?
SPEAKER_0210. Okay, this is episode six of Tales from the Loop from Free League. And Ed, that GM dude is our GM. Go, Ed. Take it away.
SPEAKER_00Take it away, Ed. Shit happens and stuff goes on, and that's the end of our episode for tonight. No. Where we left off, we have Johannes and Anders taking a bus to the outskirts of Stockholm to try and see if they can find the address, or they have the address to see if they can go to the address of one Karen Holt, who is a researcher. We also have Ant and Susie, who have just found documentation about what's going on in the area. Essentially, kind of, it's a couple of documents and a map, the map showing a bunch of sites around the Malayan Islands, as well as a documentation of a field report about breaches and various other things, and then also an internal memo saying, whatever you do, don't go to where the gate is or use the tunnels at Rick's Energy. And then where we left off last session, Sven found himself in, you know, 1 million BC or whatever the equivalent might be. Brian Durashi Park. Yeah, you've got your, I mean, here kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty. So we're gonna start off with you, Sven. You heard the noise of these breaking sort of like branches, the bug lands on your on your knee. It's a huge insect, and you kind of look around, you can hear the noise and the large growl that's from a ways back in the in the trees in the brush, and the large ferns and the lush, thick grass that's around you. Considering you were a minute or two ago just outside your hideout, there is definitely no factory or hideout there. You can see that Joe is in front of you. Joe kind of like goes to grab the knife that he thought he might have, but it is not there. He kind of looks over at you and says, Sven, we need to get out of here. Well, yes, we need to run or you're going to die. And he turns around and he starts to run. Hello, what's his name? You follow. You basically give chase. You can hear some noises, you see a dragonfly sort of like buzz past your head. It's about the same size as a gull. Like just as it kind of whips past your head and wanders over to what looks like oversized bulrushes and sort of large overcurled plants, and you're sort of like just running, and you're sort of like in this sort of like slightly muddy, swampy terrain, as Joe is just running in a direction. And yeah, I follow. Yeah, you follow to the sounds of noises and things breaking behind you. Beep, beep, beep, beep. The bus pulls up to the uh bus stop, and uh Johannes and Anders, it's your stop. Yeah, we'll get off. Says uh thank you. And uh she drives off. So, Johannes, where's your friend meeting us? Hey there, you here? You can see a dark-haired girl, probably just younger than you, Johannes. And she kind of like takes a couple of steps and she puts her hand out. She's got sort of her hair and a side ponytail. She's got a denim jacket on, and she's got the sort of like one of those sort of like really frilly skirts with all the kind of like embroidery and stuff on, and she's got these yellow and red sort of like tights on and some sneakers. And she says, Hey, how you doing? Hi, Ulrika. Hi Alrika.
SPEAKER_03Violet said you would be happy to give us a hand or something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she said you'd pay me? She puts a hand out.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I will.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, you give her a couple of crones. She's like, Cool. She says, so I can take you to the address. Excellent. She says, come on. She says, uh, how's uh how's things going up at the island?
SPEAKER_03Things are a bit funny at the moment. There's a lot of these Rick's energy people driving around in vans today. Yeah, why? Why are they why are they driving around in vans? That the old man who rents the boat with the canoes. Oh yes. Jan Eric. Yeah, Jan Eric. Saw an alien last night. He's gonna be on the news tonight. Really? Yeah. We we were there for the interview and everything. You might you might see us in the background, maybe, or hear us at least.
SPEAKER_00Cool. Were you saying anything?
SPEAKER_03No, unfortunately, uh you know Anthony the weak? Whatever, annoying American guy one? He was a got on a people's face and they kind of uh sent us to the back. See he's he's alright really. He just gets a bit.
SPEAKER_00Wait, is he like the kind of like one with the weird hair and the funny accent?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, funny accent, definitely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. You say he's American. Yeah, from uh California.
SPEAKER_03Colorado Andos, I think he said.
SPEAKER_00Colorado? Where's that? Somewhere around those parts.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00She uh she kind of like kicks a couple of stones and she's like walking. She says, just over here, and you take about 10 minutes of walking, and she goes, There they are. And she basically points to a very generic looking house. It's kind of like two stories, it's got sort of it's painted sort of yellow, it's got this little kind of bird feeder, it's got a low little fence, there's a little driveway up the side. It's not too dissimilar to the house that you went to before that had the three stories, except this just has two stories. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So instead of having all that, it just was this is just a two-story house. And it looks a little bit dull and boring. There doesn't there's no car in the driveway, there doesn't appear to be any lights on or anything. It's kind of I mean, not not that it's dark yet, but there's nothing to kind of show that there's anyone home. She goes, there you go.
SPEAKER_03You ever seen this Dr. Hunter Hunter? Er? Er? Yeah, Er. She's a doctor? Apparently. Cool. What kind of doctor? Uh brain surgery? Um I'm trying. Here's a question. Who has the badge at this point? Oh, that'll be Joe. Yeah, okay, fair enough. I so I have seen it. So I think it said senior researcher, didn't it? It did. She's a senior researcher. She might do brain stuff.
SPEAKER_00Maybe. Cool. I mean she from from what I know, I don't really know her at all, really, but I've never seen anything weird here. You can see she's got like a little notepad. She's kind of like scribbling some notes and stuff on. She kind of like foods writing the notes. But she just stands there in that kind of like, okay, what are we doing next? Both we're better see if she's in. Cool. She says wander up to the front door and look for a doorbell. There is a doorbell. Yeah. I'll ring it. Okay. You ring the doorbell. Well, listen out to see if there's anybody moving around inside. Yep. You kind of like. Is this um similar to the last one where it had an intercom outside? Yeah, well, there is no intercom because it's just got like a low fence, so it didn't have that because the other house had that big sort of like seven foot like fence all the way around it.
SPEAKER_03Oh right, yeah. So it's so it's not like uh we're eight person's.
SPEAKER_00It's it's not like that, no. So it's it's easy just to walk up the little like garden path to sort of. Is there a car in the drive? There's no car in the drive.
SPEAKER_03Um yeah, but you don't kind of It is middle of the workday on a Friday, she might not be here.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like like probably about three three fifty-five, we'll we'll say. No one seems to come to the door. I'll look around and then wander up the side where the driveway is to see if there's a back door or yeah, there's like a passageway that kind of goes up the back. There's sort of like a little there's a little herb garden, and there's sort of like little tomato bushes and stuff like that, kind of all in all in bloom, and or sort of like have got all the fruiting on it and stuff. There's a as you get around the back, there's blueberry bushes and raspberry bushes and lingerberry bushes, and they're all kind of in full sort of swing of fruiting. There is a back door, and there's a nice little porch area, there's a couple of chairs, a little table, some more there's a there's a whole pot of sunflowers. I'll knock on the back door just in case. You knock on the back door, do you wait a couple of minutes? No answer. I'll see if I can peer in through one of the windows. You look into the the windows of the back door, you can see a small kitchen. It's got this lovely uh uh lemon lemon-designed kitchen, sort of like lots of lemons and limes all over everything. It's got one of those lin only l lino kind of like covers over the over the table, and it looks like there's some there's some pots and plats and plates and stuff, sort of like just left with half bits of eaten food on the table. Yeah. Yeah, Alice looks like nobody's home at the moment.
SPEAKER_03How do you feel, Anders, about doing something similar to last time?
SPEAKER_00Well, she might just be at work. There's a couple of chairs around the back here, we could just sit around and wait and see if she comes back.
SPEAKER_03I suppose that's worth might be alright. Although what time is it? Might have to nip off to make a phone call in a wheel bit wee bit. You wheeler and dealer, you. Well, I did promise I'd call my sister this evening.
SPEAKER_00This is true. Okay, well, while you're thinking about what you think you're gonna do next, Susie and Ash.
SPEAKER_01We were discussing the papers. I'm waiting for our pizzas to be ready.
SPEAKER_02Yes, and and Susie was impressing upon Anthony that it wasn't a document about tempura, that the word was temporal and it meant time, and that his his theories on all the the strange timey whimey stuff going on was correct, which blew Anthony's mind that those words came out of Susie's mouth. Susie, what do we do?
SPEAKER_01I d I don't really know. We we should well we should get back the get these back to the eye doubt and discuss with the others.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I I put it in my like backpack. I imagine I have like a backpack with me. Yeah. And then yeah, we're just like, you know, waiting on those pizzas, drinking our drinking our milkshakes.
SPEAKER_01What flavor did you get, Susie? Again, I said uh I've got dinner later, so I'll just have a slice of the the broccoli.
SPEAKER_02No, no, the milkshake. What flavor? You had a milkshake? Vanilla. Me too.
SPEAKER_01It's basic, but it's the best.
SPEAKER_02Ain't nothing basic about good old-fashioned vanilla milkshakes. Okay?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you get your uh your pizzas, and uh presumably you then go back to the hideout.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and if I see one of those vans parked anywhere, if it's like if no one's in it, I'm gonna launch the I'm gonna let the air out of the one of their tires. Okay. Absolutely. You uh you see one of them? If I don't have something to puncture the tire, I'll just let the air out. Like yeah, holding the little button.
SPEAKER_00That makes sense. Yeah, you um you do in see one of the vans is parked up if you want to do that. Uh there's there there is a person sitting in them, the van, but not the guy you saw before.
SPEAKER_02Well, there's no empty one. I don't see a van that's like empty.
SPEAKER_00It doesn't appear that any vans are actually empty. They've either got two or one driver in.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, I'll go to the back wheel where he maybe can't see me, and have something. Do you think I have something that would puncture the tire?
SPEAKER_00Sure. I mean I can't see why you wouldn't have like a compass or a like a pen or something that you could Yeah, I'll use like a pen and I'll puncture the tire, and then just hightail it out of there with Susie. Okay. Alright, yeah, you basically go to sort of like one of the vans that are parked up from behind, and you just go to the back wheel and uh we'll call it a compass, because you know, you're probably gonna have something like that for like drawing maps and various other things. Yeah, that makes sense. You just kind of go you put it in and you pull it out. You're expecting some like almighty bang, but it's just like a little kind of like noise. And you run off. The person in the van, none the wiser. Good. Sure is right. Okay, you guys make your way back to uh the the hideout. Sort of cycling with pizzas is a bit of an awkward thing to do, but you've probably got under your arm or like you know the pizza's all smushed down when you get there. Yeah, you get back to the uh hideout, there's no one there. Your books are all over the floor, and we sort of rush up the stairs. Pizzas! Got pizzas!
SPEAKER_02What? What happened here? Hello? Where is everybody? I start collecting my DD books, putting them back on the shelves, and then I just open up one of the boxes of pizza and I just grab a slice and I start chowing down because it's like comfort food, you know, and this there's no one here, and it looks like maybe there was a struggle and he's it's giving him a little bit of uh anxiety. What do we what do we do, Susie? What happened?
SPEAKER_01Well, I don't know, maybe maybe the the van people came here and they had to run. Where do you think they went? I don't know. I kind of look around to see if there are no real signs other than the drop books. So I'm um quite confused. And I'm going. I don't know, where's Johannes and Andes? They're not back yet.
SPEAKER_02What if remember when Joe said that he was been he was like bouncing around time? What if what if that time door opened again and and he's and that's why he's gone? And maybe maybe Sven went with him.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, maybe. I don't know. What do we do? Do we wait? Let's look around here and see what we can find. Maybe there's an answer here. Alright. Okay. Peter Hand, gonna gonna start investigating.
SPEAKER_00Make an investigation roll. If um ant's helping, you get an extra dice. Excellent. Yeah, you kind of have a look around just outside, you can see that clearly there's been sort of like a scuffle, and then around the scuffle, there is in a almost perfect circle, maybe sort of four or five foot in diameter, of scorched brown earth and grass, and then in sort of like a ring around that, there's sort of like flattened grass or whatever kind of vegetation is there, and it looks like the the grass and stuff is yellowed, so not kind of like scorched, but like being subject to a bit of heat that's kind of like curled it and stuff. That's what you can see.
SPEAKER_02And then he gets really nervous and start he puts his hands in his jacket pocket, which is his brother's jacket, and he starts fiddling with the with the device. What's your heart? Two. My heart? My heart is two.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02There you go. Did you just roll my heart for me privately? I did. You bastard.
SPEAKER_00You fiddle with the device.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Susie, what what do you think this means? Do you think the tem do you think the tem the tem tempura took them?
SPEAKER_01Time anomaly. I don't know. Well, it's all weird. You're older than me. You're supposed to know things. I know a lot of things, but I don't really know a lot about time travel. I'm sorry, Anthony.
SPEAKER_02Well, that's why you need to watch Doctor Who more often. Wow, no reaction from Susie. Anthony feels crushed. He's definitely gonna push that button now on his device.
SPEAKER_00Susie. Behind Ant, something moves through the through the sort of like bushes, and you see something scaly and lizard-like step out from behind where Ant is. Susie immediately panics and goes, Anthony, look out!
SPEAKER_02And Anthony turns around. I'm assuming it's like a dinosaur. Yeah, you can see this sort of like And it's probably like a human size.
SPEAKER_00No dog size. It's about dog size, like uh probably the size of a labrador. Okay. And it's brown with sort of like speckled sort of like spots. It's sort of like standing on two legs. It's got these tiny small arms that are in front of it, and it's got like a long tail. It seems to have some kind of like crest on it. I'm sort of like just standing up.
SPEAKER_02Anthony is so scared that when he turns around and sees this dinosaur, his hand like slips in his pocket and he hits the button. Okay. You're welcome, Ed.
SPEAKER_00Anytime. Cool. So, Anders, Johannes, what are you doing? Yeah, sitting around on the back porch in the in the chairs, waiting to see if someone turns up. Come home. Seems to be the safest thing right now. Okay, well, you're sitting on the porch and you hear the sound of a door open and close, and then lights coming on inside the house. Johannes, there's somebody back. Let's nip round to the front.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, wait, before the front of the house.
SPEAKER_03How how how do you think we should play that? I think we should really be up the front and not back. We should do badge.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, just ask her if she lost her ID card and then mention Joe's name. See what her reaction is. You go round the front, push the doorbell again. Yeah. Ulrika's kind of like got the notepad out again, and she's like got a pencil ready to sort of like write stuff. You hear some footsteps come to the door, the door opens, and the woman that's in the ID opens the door. She is wearing a blue set of overalls, and she says, Yes. How can I help you? It it's Karen Holt's for Brick's energy? Yes, that's me. You wouldn't happen to have lost your ID recently. She says, No, I don't think so. And she kind of like feels around in her pocket and she pulls out her ID card.
SPEAKER_03Are you sure? I believe uh Joe Rosso might have grabbed it off you in the uh was it the gateway room anders?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, something like that. And then we'll glare at her looking for a reaction.
SPEAKER_03Yes. Can we come in?
SPEAKER_00She she says, Of course you can come in. She opens the door and says, please. She motions you to sort of like the lounge and asks you if you'd like to sit down on the on the chairs and the and the sofa. And she says, and you are?
SPEAKER_03We are consultants who are brought in by Rick's to solve uh situations sometimes. We recently dealt with the Euler Yonkers situation six months ago.
SPEAKER_00This looks really impressed at Johannes.
SPEAKER_03I mean Well, we were. They officially told me I was a consult brought as a consultant for that thing. Yeah. This is all true in his eyes.
SPEAKER_00She smiles. There's like a little kind of like she looks like she's quite looks like she's been up for probably about four or five days. But she kind of like cracks a smile when you say that, and she says, Okay, well, can I have your name then? Do you have any ID?
SPEAKER_03As I say, we're consultants. We're not actually Rick's employees.
SPEAKER_00Okay, but I guess I'm not gonna call you Mr. Consultant, sir. She says, Do you have a name?
SPEAKER_03You can call me Mr. White and him Mr. Pink.
SPEAKER_00I think you can see that Urika's going, she kind of goes, Hi, I'm Ulrika, nice to meet you. Let's say Reservoir Dogs was maybe something he had watched recently. She kind of like shakes Urika's hand and says, Nice to meet you, Ulrika. Pink? White? She says, please have a seat. Reservoir Dogs came out in 1992.
SPEAKER_02It's not.
SPEAKER_03Okay, then I just picked these numbers out of. Unless you're time traveling and we don't know about it. Who knows? Damn it, they they found out Johannes. Run, run! Come on! I just meet up. They found out I was ah, they won't recognize me coming up for crap because it hasn't actually happened yet.
SPEAKER_00She says, please sit down. She sort of like starts to pace a little bit. She says, okay, so how can I help you? Just wanted to find out a bit more about the incident.
SPEAKER_03We've also been having some bad dreams, would you agree, Addison? Seems like we've just been uh doing the same things over and over again.
SPEAKER_00She sort of like she comes to you and she basically kneels down in front of you and she grabs your hands. I will be like, alright, watch it. Slap her way. I mean, she kind of like says, So you've seen it as well. You know what's coming.
SPEAKER_03We don't, which is why we've come to you. We were advised that you were the one who knew what was going on. And it's gonna make us very difficult to solve the problems if we don't know what exactly is going on. Especially with the have you still got the thing, Anders? You know.
SPEAKER_00The bug. Yeah, I reached down and bring out the by now really, really tatty looking bug. She kind of looks at it and says, I see. Well, perhaps you need a drink. I definitely need one. And she goes over to her cabinet and she takes out a bottle of whiskey and four glasses, and she fills them with quite a large measure, and she puts them down in front of you. She's gonna give whiskey to 14-year-olds. She's not ugly first. And she sort of like has a sip and says, Go on. She kind of like holds the thing up to sort of like pink your glasses. Not to refuse it. Then I notice there's a girl here, so yeah, I'd bluff it out and pick it up and make it look as if I do this regularly. I love it.
SPEAKER_03I will I will chink the glass, but I will wait half a second for her to drink first.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. So she gets it. She has a sip, then she actually has quite a big gulp, and then she puts it down and she sort of like motions you to do the same. Okay, I will just take a little sip and then probably you're like she says, maybe I can get you some cola instead. No, that we're we're fine.
SPEAKER_03No, it's great. Yes. Anyway, to business. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Ulrica surprised me does not have any.
SPEAKER_03No mixers.
SPEAKER_00She says, uh okay. So tell me what you know.
SPEAKER_03Okay. What do we know? Well, would you like us to start at the the beginning? Well, why don't you tell me how you've seen the end of the world? Like I have. Now, we haven't I at least have not seen that. Have you, Anders? Oh, it's just the deja vu stuff.
SPEAKER_00It's nice to meet you, Anders, she says. I mean, Mr. Pink White. She says, Look, clearly whatever's happening is happening to you. I'm guessing Joe is a friend of yours. Uh, he's a friend of a friend. I see. Well, I would really like to find him because I think that he's in some serious trouble. And if you know where he is, it would be very good if you told me, so we can kind of help him. But but what about Scott and the others?
SPEAKER_03She says, she looks at you and says, Who? Do you know? What was it? I think there was a Scott. Was there Tony? I think there was. There was definitely a girl. She went through first the gate. I don't think they came back, they uh Mr. Pink. But that was in Colorado, so maybe you don't know what's going on over there.
SPEAKER_00She says, You're very well informed.
SPEAKER_03Well, as I say, we're we're here on business, but we don't have we know a lot, but we don't know everything.
SPEAKER_00I think that I think I think we're in a lot of trouble. And and we need Joe. We need to find we need to find Joe because eventually the world is gonna unravel itself because of the distortion. It's gonna get bigger and bigger and bigger, and eventually it's gonna turn itself inside out. How is Joe gonna stop this? With Joe's information, he hasn't been harmed by it. There is something about Joe that has allowed him to go backwards and forwards or whatever is happening to him, but he he's not very cooperative, and I need to find out what it is. We need to run some tests, and then we need to figure out what it is that's allowing him to do that, and then I'll be able to help set whatever has gone into motion right. And you can help with that. If you know where he is, kids, if if you know where he is, then you should you should really tell me. What what is the function of the game?
SPEAKER_03What were you trying to achieve?
SPEAKER_00I mean, it's it was there for, you know, just it's not mine. First of all, it's not mine. I'm just the one trying to clear up everyone's mess.
SPEAKER_03Oh, of course, yes. It would not your fault.
SPEAKER_00It opened up the possibility to see things from the past to allow us to study things. That, you know, research, that kind of thing. But who my predecessors didn't put the right fail safes in place. But we don't know what they didn't do, so we we we need to try and figure out how we can fix it. Why children initially must have been a reason? Any adults did were unable to pass through the the gate.
SPEAKER_03Sounds like a lot of the children weren't able to make it through either.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I don't know about the others. I only know about Joe, but with the research that we can get from Joe, we can stabilize the gate and nothing bad will happen. But again, she says, I I really, really need to know where Joe is. She looks at Anders and she kind of like ignores Johannes a little bit. Anders, where is Joe? It's safe for now. Okay. We'll want to corroborate what you've said before we pass on any more information. I see. Okay. Well, she sort of like breathes out and she sits down. We only run her over to Sven, because we like we like to see what's going on with Sven. Sven, you kind of like run with Joe as fast as you can, and you end up sort of in sort of like the roots of a large tree. He's kind of like gone under and into the roots, so he's like, you've almost got like a natural kind of cage around you. And he says, if it's one of the big ones, we'll be fine. If it's one of the small ones, then your girlfriend took my knife, so I I can't defend myself. Have you got anything on you? Cigarettes? I mean that's not really gonna help. You've got a lighter, right? Yeah. Okay. At least we can sort of like start a fire or something.
SPEAKER_04Sure, we can. Um, but but what's going on? So did we move? Did we travel as you were?
SPEAKER_00We traveled in time. We are now at the time of the dinosaurs, whenever that is.
SPEAKER_04Okay, okay. So I have like a la like a mud. Nervous laugh. Yeah, nervous laugh like uh like what the uh when do you usually go back? How long that does this last? Sometimes weeks.
SPEAKER_00What? It's difficult to tell because sometimes it feels like weeks, but it's actually just hours. Sometimes it's hours, but it feels like weeks.
SPEAKER_04What are we gonna eat? What are we gonna drink? Well, after that.
SPEAKER_00He says, he looks at a puddle that's on the floor and says, Well, that's something to drink. And we could probably, and he kind of looks around and he basically sticks his arm out of one of the roots and basically hands you a snail the same size as his hand, and he goes, We could eat one of these. No thanks. We can boil it up, and I mean that you know, we can if if if one of them have killed another one, we can go and scavenge the body.
SPEAKER_04Okay, have you been here before? Exactly in the same place? Do you you have a hideout or somewhere where we can go?
SPEAKER_00No. It goes wherever it goes. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if I'm in the exact same spot that we were in before, but like back when, or I'm in a different spot, but back when, or if I'm in the same location as before, because didn't like the continents be different at the time of the dinosaurs. So, for all I know, wherever Sweden was now might have been somewhere else. So am I there, or am I in the location of whatever was there where Sweden now is? I don't know. It it's it's very it's difficult. The scientists tried to explain it to me, and I I just didn't really kind of I just wanted to get out, but I couldn't get out, and this is what happened. I mean, at least I'm not being prodded, which is great.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, okay. But it's clear that if this happens again, you need to tell me because I need to go back with you. I don't think I can try and travel like you do.
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, at least there's two of us. That'd be great. Yeah. Two's better than one, he kind of like sniffs the air and goes, oh he kind of like breathes out, and as he breathes out, you hear the sound of rain starting to pitter and patter against the um the trees, and then within maybe 20 seconds, it is just a deluge of heavy rain, like really heavy rain. Something you've never experienced in your life, and it lasts probably no more than three or four minutes, and then it just goes really, really hot and really really humid, and all the clothes start to stick, and it's just horrible. And you see that he's kind of like taking off his top, and he's taking off his trousers, and he's sort of like turning them into a bit of a bundle, he's put the puts the flip-flops in and says you'll be comfortable like this. And he's basically standing pretty much naked in front of you.
SPEAKER_04Well, I'll I'll take my stuff off too, but I will leave my leather jacket on.
SPEAKER_00He basically starts putting loads of like mud and stuff on him and just covers himself with it and says it'll stop the insects from buying you. You seem like a profession, man. I've been off and on doing this for ages. It's okay, we'll eventually go back. We just have to wait out. And I hope I go back to wherever I was before.
SPEAKER_04Oh, so too. Because I want to see my friends again. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00He kind of looks really dejected. I just want I just wanna I just want to see Ant again.
SPEAKER_04Don't you think there is a way that we can trigger this before? You know, there must be a way that we can trigger this. I mean, this cannot be just rumble random.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Maybe if you were in the gate or or wherever that that is, maybe someone could trigger it. But I don't know. It it's gonna be really tricky. I'm sorry, but we're gonna have to survive. You seem like a strong enough kid, like me. We'll we'll be we'll we'll figure it out. If not, we'll die.
SPEAKER_04And no, that's not an option. I wanna go back. That's the attitude. He punches your arm. Okay, so let's find a shelter for tonight. Don't you do you think we should stay here?
SPEAKER_00This is pretty much about as best that we can get for the minute. Unless we can make a shelter and and do that, but I mean that takes a lot of time and energy, and we might as well just stay here. We can find a cave or something, but it's quite flat, and most of the place is quite flat.
SPEAKER_04Let's try at least to put and say, well, let's try to cover this place with some leaves or something.
SPEAKER_00We can be just be careful of anything. There are snakes, there are spiders, there's well, there's things that'll rip your arm off or eat you in, eat you whole. We just need to hide from everything. That's that's the best option. Hide from everything. He kind of takes a deep breath and says, Okay, this is what you need to do. And he starts to give you sort of like some some details of the kind of plants you could use. He doesn't call them by any scientific names, he says, the big leaves with the spiky bits on the end and that kind of stuff. Susie, ant. Some reason I have welcome to the jungle in my head. There is a small Labrador-sized dinosaur looking at you.
SPEAKER_02Yes, and I I very nervously hit that button on the device in my jacket. You did.
SPEAKER_00It makes a click noise, and nothing happens. Susie, I think we're really shade. At that point, there's a blinding flash, and you and Susie get thrown up against what appears to be a tree, and you see Sven and you see Joe. Both of them are looking at you. Hey, it worked. Huh? What worked? Where are we? Everything is wet, everything is luscious plants, all the stuff you read about in your book that you were looking at is here. Tony, Sven, how how long have you been here?
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna respond to this. Yeah. A couple of hours maybe. Yeah? A couple yeah. But are we back? No, no, we we joined you. What? Wake up, Tony, wake up. And out. You're like, what? What? Susie. Joe. Sven, I time traveled as bitchin'. How did you do that? Push the button. And the device. The device that I found in Joe's jacket.
SPEAKER_00Joe basically puts his fingers in his eyes and goes, I told you not to use it.
SPEAKER_02Well, yeah, it was either that or get eaten by a dinosaur.
SPEAKER_01Well, press it again and get us all back, right?
SPEAKER_02Like eaten by a dinosaur kit.
SPEAKER_00Well, you know, one problem at a time, Joe. Oh shit. He goes, and he basically gives you a massive hug.
SPEAKER_04And will you see the go back? Stop, stop hugging. We need to get out of here. I think so. And I click it again.
SPEAKER_00And you go, pick! There is a large crack noise. And much like Susie saw in last season, it kind of takes out a whole section of the large tree that you were in. That sort of like cover that you were kind of making disappears. It's all just basically been vaporized, and there's a sort of like large semicircle of nothing that you've hit, but you're still where you are, except now you're in a a large puddle of water, because obviously it's gone down into the ground, and sort of like the liquid and stuff is filling up around your ankles and around your knees. And you're like, oh, he goes, No, no, you can't, you have to wait. You have to wait. What happened? What happened? This is the this is the device they gave me to try and come back. But it's it's linked to me, so it doesn't really work. So if if you from what I can gather, if if if I'm somewhere else, it'll bring you to me.
SPEAKER_02Boy, we're so fucked.
SPEAKER_00But I don't know whether or not we can I I don't know. My goodness. Oh my goodness, I see your brothers like looking really panicky all over the place.
SPEAKER_02But if it's if it's linked to you, what if you're using it? It can't bring you to you. Where does it bring you? That's true. We could try it. I hand it to him. Oh my god. Just push it, push it real good. Sorry.
SPEAKER_00He says, I I don't know what'll happen. We can try. Maybe I'll get back to where I need to go. Okay. He kind of puts his finger over the button and goes to push it. And it let's get close. Let's get close to him. You're kind of like crowded in on him as he pushes the button. Johannes and Anders. She says, Whatever you do, never let anyone push that device button because it'll destroy the world.
SPEAKER_03What device? I don't know what you're talking about because I've never seen this device, and it's never been mentioned device.
SPEAKER_00She says, if we can if we can get into where the gate is, and we can get Joe, then we can absolutely try and see we can stabilize whatever's happening. But I won't be able to do that unless I can do some research. Oh, it's this all fucked up, she says. And then says, I'm very sorry. It's all very messed up.
SPEAKER_02All we can't kind of like giggling a little bit, sort of like writing Wait, she's gonna give she's gonna give 14-year-olds brand she's gonna give 14-year-olds brandy, but she's not gonna swear in front of them. She's very tired. She is very tired.
SPEAKER_00And it's mean, it's fine. She she says, I can try and see if we can get get you in.
SPEAKER_03Why is why would it be an issue if I don't you aren't you in charge of the gate project?
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm not in charge, I'm just a senior researcher.
SPEAKER_03Isn't everyone looking for Joe at the moment?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, in in town.
SPEAKER_03So why don't we just all go together to them and they can take us to the room? I don't see what the issue is.
SPEAKER_00That's true.
unknownHmm.
SPEAKER_03Alum Unless there's something you're not telling us, Doctor. Let me that would be an issue for because ideally, we would like Joe to be reunited with his family and not have to go on any more trying travelling expeditions.
SPEAKER_00I guess so.
SPEAKER_03Like, I feel like that's a small price to pay for saving the world. Yeah. Especially if messing around with this has possibly led to the world being destroyed, maybe we shouldn't, like, do that.
SPEAKER_00I mean she kind of she's still like still pacing around and she goes, oh no. As she looks out the front, the front windows, and you hear a couple of you hear four doors open and close outside. And as you and Anders sort of like look over the sort of like sit up a bit, and you look out the windows, you can see two white vans that's pulled up outside her house. No, it's Olaf. Leave through the back?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Sure. Yeah. Leave through the back.
SPEAKER_03What's your phone number? We'll get back in contact.
SPEAKER_00Pulled up the page that I tore out of the phone directory.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Speak to you soon. The door the door bangs. And you hear And um it's Johannes and Ellie. You hear whoever Olaf was banging on the door, going, Karen! Karen, open the door! Karen, open up now! You you and Anders and um Ulrike kind of like run out the back, and you can you can hear the door opening and a gruff sounding man say, The device has been used again, and then we lost it. And then you kind of like run out without kind of like hearing anything. So you push the button, and you hope the world doesn't end, and there is another large crack and the smell of ionized air, and you're now standing in front of your hideout. The factory's there, it's all very much together, it's not in any kind of like ramshackle way. There are there's a car park, there are a bunch of vehicles out the front of the factory, and it looks like the cars are older than you remember. And you can see a few a couple of people kind of coming out of the factory, putting some sort of trilby hats on their head and making their way to one of these cars. And the guy says, Oh yeah, so it says in Swedish. So, yes, we're looking forward to that. Yeah, yeah, it should be a really good game. The 54 playoffs will be amazing as they kind of go to the doors of the car, open the doors, and shut the doors. And I think that's where we're gonna leave it for this session. Welcome to uh Stenhamra 1954.