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SPEAKER_04 0:59

What's dying? Ah, Panic!

SPEAKER_05 1:01

Hello everyone.

SPEAKER_04 1:02

It's another episode of Tales from the Loop. I am joined as ever.

SPEAKER_05 1:06

It's episode eight of the the time that shouldn't be. Do I have to do everything, Ed?

SPEAKER_04 1:12

God, apparently it appears that was that's what it has to be. Jeez. That's it. I'm breaking up with you. I'm done. I've had enough. Where's the quit button? I'm going to bed. Shit, there's no quit button. Okay. Guess I ought to get on and do this then. Episode eight, as well, as my my competent co-host says. Thank you, Marco. You good?

SPEAKER_05 1:29

You're you're your peasant.

SPEAKER_04 1:30

You're a peasant co-host. I'm never gonna get past that at all. I'm like, geez, that's it. Nope. Never. Never never called me a.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

That's a dead set. What's this letter? What? Hang on. Marco's challenging me to a duel. What's the context? I don't I mean, I I never I didn't quite understand your message, so I don't know what the context is. All I did was post my excitement about three upcoming Pendragon releases. And he was very excited.

SPEAKER_04 2:02

And I did a play on Pendragon instead of being as happy as a pig in shit, or as happy as a peasant in shit.

SPEAKER_06 2:11

But you know. That went over my head. Yeah, that went over my head as well. I thought you just called your peasant because medieval. I understand where you're at. But also you will be poor from buying all the things.

SPEAKER_04 2:27

What? Who? I have no idea. But yeah, so you are not the only one. By the end of this year, there's gonna be a substantial amount of Pendragon books in Marco's library. So we look forward to season three of Pendragon at some point in that case. So we have to get to season two first. Yeah. Soon. Soon, my friend, soon.

SPEAKER_05 2:47

Why don't we just do that right now? I'm just kidding. Yeah, yeah, cool. I mean, that's fine. You prepped, right? No. No, it's carnival it's carnival. I've been outside. I mean cooking and chilling. Yeah, I mean, that sounds cool. We'll wait to hear all the uh fireworks later on. Can we talk about why cultures have these outdoor festivities during the worst month of the year in terms of weather? Why?

SPEAKER_06 3:12

I think you've answered your own question because it's the worst month and everyone's Yeah, but you're outside. So why would you go?

SPEAKER_04 3:18

But if it's the worst if it's the worst weather of the year, why would you go?

SPEAKER_05 3:23

It's like the coldest month of the year. It's rainy, it's windy, it's stormy, and there's like this giant carnival going on with floats and costumes and free food. I mean, that's what gets people out, Amy, the free fit. I don't know. Anyway, we also taking up way too much time. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 3:41

Too much banter, too much of it.

SPEAKER_05 3:45

Who do we think we are? Glass Cannon? Come on then, if you think you're odd enough. Did we just challenge Glass? Well, did I just challenge Canons drop? Yeah. I think you just challenged Glass Cannon. We should have like, yeah, a podcast off or something, or an actual playoff or whatever. Or just piss here and done. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 4:02

I mean, I'm not sure how good a shot they are. Um so as ever, other than the wonderful Marco, who is not a peasant, or you have decided, we are joined by Pete. He was just sitting in the background, just listening to us, going, hurry up. Douglas. Hello. Tony. Hello. And Soul, who's doing lots of the heavy lifting at the beginning of the session. Wa hello. Whaaaaa! I mean asking to roleplay or whatever. Well, actually, I've got a question for you. Which Susie would you like to play today?

SPEAKER_01 4:38

I'll play the one I was playing last time.

SPEAKER_05 4:40

Okay, that's fine. That makes my life so much easier. If you played if you played both, you get paid double.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Well, well, two two times zero is still zero, Marco.

SPEAKER_05 4:49

So uh You're not supposed to tell people that. What? We're supposed to pay these people? I mean. Never tell people what you make.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Bad choices. Yeah. I mean, we do this for the love of it, right? We don't do this for money. Never. Never thing we do it for the love of it, not money. So, where did we leave off last session? So we left off with Suzy knocking on the window of Susie's house and Susie going to the window to find Susie standing outside knocking on the window. Well, Sol, what's Susie gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Well, Sol's already got a headache, so uh this is this is gonna be a great start. My head's not gonna hurt any further, I'm sure, with all of this timey whimey. I think we I think where we left it, other Susie. Susie 2. Suzy from the future, from the past. Susie Q. Ladder Susie had kind of knocked on the the the the window and said something along the lines of it's going to something's going to be very bad if you don't come with me. At which point he grabbed my jacket and headed headed out the window and climbed down the ladder and began to follow.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

So we'll call her Susie T because that's what you've called her. She is wearing similar clothes to what you were wearing yesterday. She has, it's more dirt streaked, and sort of kind of like the sort of like puffer sort of parts of her jacket are sort of like ripped open and there's bits of like down and stuff, kind of like coming out of it a little bit. Her hair's a bit more messy, you definitely look like you've been crying, and she says, come on, come on. And she makes her way to your bike, which she is getting on. What do you want me to do? Walk? No, get your bike, she says. That's my bike. No, your bike? This is my bike.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

I go, I think I left it right around the front in the the front door. At what time is it? So it's probably about nine o'clock at night. So my mum's probably still up. Yeah. To add extra jeopardy as and extra extra fun flavour, can we say that we've got like the front room window that my mum is currently watching like the telly of and and doing some like knitting or something? I don't know. Yeah, yeah, she's lines off. She's knitting while she's watching a game show and but my bike's over there like sort of pointing over to the you know the other side. Susie does that familiar shrug that you do. Have to get on like uh have to sort of get down on all fours sort of.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

So thank you for putting yourself into trouble.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

It's okay. Classic GMO roll. Yeah, she's gonna try and like crawl under the window. No, sneak. Sneak what we're doing. Yeah, sneak. I don't think I'm very good at it, but see how good you are. I'm better better at sneak than move. Uh let's roll it. Whee, that's a success. Explain how you do it. Well, it's just uh it's quite simply a sort of get down on all fours, sort of, and make sure I'm underneath the window as the the light sort of blares out. And uh yeah, get to the other side, and I sort of as I get up, I sort of sort of whisper shout, go, where do we want to meet? She like points in direction, which doesn't really help you, and she kind of gets on the bike and starts to cycle. Susie's gonna go sort of straight away from the house to try and get some distance and then cut in to sort of avoid.

SPEAKER_04 8:17

Yeah, she you you kind of like turn around and kind of like cut off and go in that direction and then kind of a head to the left and sort of like go to meet her up. Yeah, she's she seems to have like just she's slowly coasting down the road, just waiting for you to catch up with her. And she looks back and says, Come on, quick. We have to get to the quarry.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

I know she was a bit scared last time of of some of the things that have been happening, so there's a little bit more of sort of a a realization, maybe a remembrance of what happened last time when when she was sort of denying everything, and yeah, just wants to sort of wants it all to be over and knows that the quickest way that's gonna happen is by getting on with it, basically. So she's not really saying much, she's not really arguing back, she's not really asking questions, she's just getting her head down and going.

SPEAKER_04 9:04

Right. Now I believe that you were gonna go and meet your contact this evening. The lovely what's her name? Karen Holt at the uh quarry, correct? Either Johannes, Johannes and Johannes and Anders agreed or or arranged because you'd phon her and said you wanted to kind of meet. She said the quarry.

SPEAKER_06 9:27

So that was what I believe what Janice said thing. And then I think Sven had kind of persuaded him out of his original plan. So I think the plan was Anders was gonna go back and grab the other two. Janice and Sven were gonna go to the quarry early.

SPEAKER_07 9:43

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 9:44

Yep. And then what do we call it? Joe, Anthony, and Anders were going to be close by when whenever anything went down, just in case Sven and Janice got grabbed or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 9:56

Yep, that makes sense. And so, yeah, you kind of like arrange to go there early, so you make your way to the quarry. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 10:03

So what's the plan? There's the the implication there is a plan, but I don't think there really is anyone anymore because it's kind of because the original plan's kind of the woo the window, because there's a chance she might not remember anything. Yeah, you'd like there to be a plan, but there isn't actually a plan. So I'm just gonna share the screen. But we said she would come alone, and we're going to somehow negotiate so we can stop the world ending, which apparently Joe is required for, but then also somehow get it so Joe will go back with Anthony and his family. Yeah. That is that is the ideal outcome. Yeah, so I suppose if the if that is a plan, that is the plan. The specifics on how we're going to achieve that is unknown probably at this time. A lot of talking and bullshitting probably will be required.

SPEAKER_04 10:54

Yep. So I've just shared on the screen a picture of the wonderful quarry that you have. Well, in fact, it's uh it's a nice 3D thing of the quarry. So you can see that there's it's quite high up in some places. You can see there's things that have been built out behind them. There's a lot of these. You can see why it was used for film sets, because you know, it's got all these kind of like ridges and it looks very sci-fi and yeah, yeah. So so you there's only sort of like there's a couple of ways in, either the main road, which goes into the quarry, and there's also a back road that kind of comes out the back. So, yes, it's a very very interesting quarry, in so much as that um it's quite high, filled with water in the two big holes. Yeah, and usually there's kids kicking around and stuff, but but not today. So you kind of make your way early. What's the plan? Where are you gonna set up? I mean, there's some ridges overhead looking down, and you just generally said that you'd meet in the quarry, so you'd obviously have to find them. You assume they're gonna be in cars, so they're probably gonna go through the main track, which takes you into the quarry itself. Most people, there's like a landing part which kind of comes to the first sort of lake, the mini lake that that's that's formed, and that's usually where people kind of meet up and stuff. So that's probably what they think it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_06 12:15

From our previous day out at the quarry, did we see if there was any sort of like other ways out of the quarry? Like you could like go on foot rather than.

SPEAKER_04 12:25

Yeah, yeah, there's there are places, there are places outside that you can wander out to on foot. It requires you to go through like a bunch of dense underbrush, so to the sort of like the north, the northwest, there's sort of like a a little animal track that you can kind of like follow, and that will take you up to the northern part of the quarry, and then take you out, and then you could probably do a bit of like climbing of some small cliffs. Cliffs is probably a bit much. It's some small inclines that you can probably scale and then and then scramble. That means you can get up and over and then down into the back of the road at the back, which goes through a couple of people's houses and through some woods. So you could probably get out that way as well. So there's probably four or so five exits that you could probably use if you needed to. So if you need to scatter 100%, you'd be able to do that.

SPEAKER_06 13:15

Okay. And we all vaguely know where that is because we spent the afternoon wandering.

SPEAKER_04 13:20

Yeah, so you kind of you've got an idea of what's going on there.

SPEAKER_06 13:23

What do you think, Sven? Should we just kind of hang out in the open or make them come a bit further into the quarry before we do this then?

SPEAKER_02 13:32

Yeah, I would say perhaps just stay in the open. Yeah, we want them to see us. It's more the other kids that should be hiding. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:41

Well, there's lots of places up high around here to watch us. So I hope Anders from that actually pick a good spot.

SPEAKER_02 13:50

Yeah, perhaps let's try to find a place where if we need to run, you know, if things get nasty, we can hide or find a way out that is hard for them if they come by car. Um so I'll do something like that. I don't know if I have a knowledge.

SPEAKER_04 14:08

Yeah, I mean, you could probably if you want us to sort of like really think about it, then absolutely you could make a comprehend to figure out.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

Not great, but I'll roll one success.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

Well, in that case, yes. The definitely the two ways out were probably the easiest way for you guys on foot to get out. Anyone driving would not be able to go there, and because you know you're obviously slighter frames than the adults, then it's easier for you to kind of like duck under the trees and run out. And they would have to go all the way around, and there's quite a like a circuitous route to get to that area, so by that point, you know, you could probably stash your bikes near to the exit of the quarry nearest those roads, and then just run to those roads and then get out.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 14:55

So let's do that. Quick, very important question. What's your favourite colour? Yellow. If anyone asks you're Mr. Yellow, and I'm Mr. White, okay? Sounds good. And uh we're, you know, not that anyone would ever do this, but always address each other by these names. So you are again which color? White. White. It's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Johannes always overcomplicates things. We'll just start smoking and lean against a rock or something. We'll just be waiting there looking tough.

SPEAKER_04 15:25

Yeah, so you guys are gonna get all of Pete, sorry, of Anders and an Ant to kind of like come with you.

SPEAKER_06 15:31

I think Anders was heading back to tell them what the plan was. So I'd finish off their game of their board game.

SPEAKER_04 15:37

Their board game, yes. Okay. So Anders, you make your way back to the uh the hideout. Where Ant and his brother have uh just rolled up a couple of characters.

SPEAKER_05 15:49

Yeah, I thought I thought Anders was already there and he was making a fighter. He was, but then I think he got called away. Oh, okay. And then he's come back. Okay. It's been a hot minute.

SPEAKER_04 16:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

So you're you're like, okay, he comes back. Pete. Hey, Anthony, the meeting's on. We got hit for the quarry. Oh, okay. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 16:12

Well, we just finished up Joe's dwarf. So we'll we'll finish up your fighter, you know, after after the meeting, if it's not too late, or or maybe tomorrow or something. Sure. So I I put away all the books and the notebooks and everything, put them on their bookshelf, and Joe and I will follow Pete. I mean, or we'll follow Anders.

SPEAKER_04 16:33

Cool. Yeah, you kind of do that sort of about you wanted to get the release of what, probably about eight-ish, obviously, something like that. Okay, you get to the quarry. Is Sven and Johannes waiting for Ant Anders, or are you going to just leave them to sort of like be up there?

SPEAKER_06 16:50

We're just leaving it up to them to as long as as long as we we just said be go somewhere that you can't get spotted.

SPEAKER_04 16:57

You guys, there's there's there's loads of places you can hide higher up, looking down over the quarries, which you can hide in the trees, and so no one's gonna spot you. So you can pretty much plonk yourself anywhere along sort of like the high ground, and you'll probably be about 60, 70 meters away from anyone, so it's gonna take a little bit of a time for them to climb a cliff or scramble up a some shale or whatever it might be. And at about just gone nine o'clock, you see a couple of white trucks driving into the quarry. How many? Two? Two trucks.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

These white these the trucks that we have been seeing around, or bigger. Or indeed those white bands that you've been seeing around.

SPEAKER_06 17:35

I guess I'll just tap Sven and be like, okay, get ready to leg it. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Johannes told her to come alone. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 17:44

That's why he is like Hey Anthony, looks like we've been sold out.

SPEAKER_05 17:48

Yeah, I figured that was gonna happen. You can't trust these people.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

So, the uh the the trucks come towards you. So Giannis and Sven, are you both down by the water's edge?

SPEAKER_06 17:58

Are you Yeah, we're just like hanging out, you know, like kids.

SPEAKER_04 18:03

Yeah. Kicking rocks into the water, that kind of thing. Okay, well, they uh they kind of drive up and stop.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

I would grab a stone and and have it on my hand. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 18:18

Um yeah, the the they they kind of illuminate you in their in their headlights, or at least one of the truck does one of the one of the vans do the other one kind of like faces towards the water. The door opens, and you see a woman get out, and that is indeed you recognize to be Karen Holt. And stepping out next to her is a guy in a security outfit, or security uniform. Sven, you know that to be Anders Jelson, the security guy. There's two other people in the truck behind that's kind of like pulled up. One of them gets out, he is wearing this overall, you know, the bricks energy overall, and the other guy stays in the van at the steering wheel. And the woman kind of like comes wandering over, goes, hey kids, have you seen anyone waiting around? Anyone, like who? I know, some people with a car or something that's that's you've seen anyone in here?

SPEAKER_06 19:17

Um there might be people further into the quarry. Did you see anyone, Sven? No? What's it all about?

SPEAKER_04 19:24

It's alright. Well uh never mind. Thanks, guys. She sort of starts to walk back to the van with the other guy. She goes, Guess I'm not here yet.

SPEAKER_05 19:32

So wait, that's not the doctor that Johannes met? I mean she's pretending not to know you.

SPEAKER_06 19:39

Well, here's the thing, Ed. Yes. Did I get any was there any sort of like spark of like recognition in this sort of thing? Or was she just like hello random child?

SPEAKER_04 19:47

Nothing. Hello, random child. Well hello, hello, random young adult, you know.

SPEAKER_06 19:52

Well, she was like, hello, random child.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Yeah. So she's basically making her way back. She she turns to you and then she looks at you and she says, You sure you're not seeing anyone else?

SPEAKER_06 20:04

Well, as I say, the further into the quarry there might be someone. We we're just hanging out here throwing stones, aren't we, Sven? Yes, we like it here, like throwing the stones. I'll pick up a stone and just like try and skim it across the door.

SPEAKER_04 20:18

She looks at you and she says, Okay. She kind of like gets back into the van with the security guard and the other guy gets to that van. They reverse and head into deeper into the uh into the quarry.

SPEAKER_02 20:30

The security guy didn't recognize me or didn't say anything.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

Uh he did. He didn't say well, he didn't look like he recognized you. But he did. I'll tell you what, you can actually make a roll for this kind, sir. Why don't you uh make an empathize roll?

SPEAKER_02 20:46

And I get three successes.

SPEAKER_04 20:48

Well, you're on a roll. He absolutely did recognize you. He looked at the ground when he saw you, he looked away, he didn't make any kind of eye contact, he was going out of his way to just blatantly ignore you.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

Well, yeah, I know the security guy, but yeah, he did recognize me, Johannes. I don't think the good doctor they recognize you.

SPEAKER_06 21:07

No, well, she didn't remember anything, or at least remember anything we discussed on the phone, and let's just say me and Anders were quite memorable in our last encounter. Or at least I I believe I'm unforgettable.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

So you think she's here looking for you know, Ant's brother or Well, I think they're looking for someone who's here to make a deal, which I I'm assuming they're probably thinking, you know, big person. Should we follow them?

SPEAKER_06 21:39

Yeah, why not? Worst case scenario, we're just a bunch of kids being nosy. Well, no, worst case scenario, we get kidnapped like Susie. And I would like to avoid that. It didn't sound very pleasant.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Let's go. Chicken. So at anders, you also like high Up and you can kind of see the vans. There's an interaction with them, and then they kind of come closer to you and they veer off to the left to the rest of the quarry. So you can still still see the vans. They kind of like park up in front of the second watering hole in the quarry, and they kind of get out and they have a look around as well, and they seem to be looking for something.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

Anders, what do we do? Don't know. It doesn't seem to be the meeting we thought it was. Maybe we should just make our way back to the hideout for now and see what the others say when they get back.

SPEAKER_05 22:32

I think that's a good idea. I don't I don't I don't like this. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 22:36

You at that point you kind of go, yeah, it sounds like a plan. I don't like this. Then you see Joe. Joe is making his way down into the quarry. What the fuck is Joe doing?

SPEAKER_05 22:49

Joe! You'd have to probably shout at him for you to hear. Can I run up to him and like grab his arm or something and try to yank him? Yeah, make a move roll for me, please, sir. Yay, I'm really good at move.

SPEAKER_04 23:03

Last session, no, no dice roll. This session, loads of dice rolls. Ooh, I got one success. That's fine. Yeah, you as he's kind of like making his way down the shale, you kind of run out behind him and kind of grab him by his breast as he's sort of like leaning back on a rock. And he looks up at you. Joe, what are you doing? Come on. He looks at you and goes, Ant? Yeah, come on, we gotta get out of here. He stops, says, Oh my god, ant. And he kind of like holds his hand up to his mouth and says, Oh, it's so good to see you.

SPEAKER_05 23:36

And he turns around and he gives you a massive hug. Yeah, we've been through this before, like two days ago. Come on, Joe, we gotta get out of here. Those those people in that van cannot see you.

SPEAKER_04 23:46

No, no, I I need to deal with them. And he basically, you can see that in the waistband of his his trousers, there's a looks like a revolver. The hell did he get that? He says, you need to leave. You need to he's like trying to he's trying to like get your hand, he's trying to get his hand away from his wrist.

SPEAKER_05 24:05

You're leaving with us. I'm not you know no no, there's no way you're you're not doing this.

SPEAKER_04 24:09

No, no, no. You you've got to go. It's gonna happen soon, and you need to not be here.

SPEAKER_05 24:13

Can I call to Anders without the people in the trucks hearing me?

SPEAKER_04 24:17

Yeah, I mean, you do that kind of like half whisper, half shout that you know that you don't really want to shout too loud, but you kind of go about as hard as you can.

SPEAKER_05 24:26

Um Anders, Anders, help help, help.

SPEAKER_03 24:30

Yeah, I'll reluctantly make my way down. Anthony obviously needs my help, but I still don't want to get too close to his brother after the warning we had.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

Yeah. So as you kind of get closer, you realize that it's sort of like Ant and Joe have obviously broken cover on that. So they're kind of like a little bit more exposed with some bit of brush around them, but still quite more exposed than the being in the tree line. And as as Ant and Joe are kind of having a bit of a struggle on this little shale kind of incline, Johannes and sort of like Sven have kind of like run around or kind of moving around to sort of like see what's happening with the rest of them. A bit kind of cautiously, you guys can see this happening, and it's quite uh in the open, you can see them kind of like having a bit of a struggle. Obviously, he Joe is a lot bigger than Anthony, so he's just like then obviously, and as you come along, what's the plan?

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Anders, Anders, he's got a gun, he's gonna do something stupid. I freeze, but if I do spot the gun, yeah, I've just totally frozen.

SPEAKER_04 25:29

Yeah. So obviously everything's done by sort of like by moonlight and by the kind of like light that's kind of provided from the starlight on the river, uh sorry, on the on the lakes, and just the the sort of like headlamps from the vans. Yeah, so you you're kind of looking, you can't see it, but it's difficult to tell. His t-shirt's in the way, and obviously Anthony's kind of like trying to struggle with his brother. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 25:50

Can I can I try to grab the gun from him from out of his waistband?

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Absolutely, you can. That is not a problem. So if you want to do that, I will make an oppose roll for Joe. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 26:05

Is that a is that a move roll or a force roll? What is that? Uh it's gonna be a force roll. I'm even better at that than move. Okay. I failed. I would like to push that, please. Okay. Go on then. I don't know how many successes you have because it looks like all question marks to me. But uh, let's see. What uh what condition? I have so I have to select a condition. Should it be upset or scared? Which one do you think fits?

SPEAKER_04 26:36

I think probably scared is probably scared, I think, right?

SPEAKER_05 26:39

This brother's got a where the hell did his brother get a gun? Yeah, exactly. Alright, so I'm checking off scared as one of my conditions. I think it's our first push. Oh, it's another failure.

SPEAKER_04 26:51

No. Okay. So, yeah, you guys can obviously see this. Anthony sort of like grabs for the gun. Joe kind of like grabs the gun as well, so that there's sort of a bit of a bit of a struggle for the gun, which is always fun. On an incline. So you guys can all see this as Susie and Susie have made their way to the quarry. The other Susie too is properly kind of like putting all her all her all in to kind of cycle as fast as she can to the quarry. And she shouts back at you, she says, We can't let it happen again. And she's just carrying into carrying on cycling with you bringing up the rear, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

Yeah, I think Susie's sort of calling out things like, you know, can't let what? But like because of the way that she's probably slower, uh still half asleep, like trying to keep up with like it's not being heard. So she's just getting more and more frustrated as yeah, she's trying to sort of dig deep and get to the quarry or follow Suzy as fast as possible. Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 27:53

Did you want to put anything into it, or are you just gonna like just try and stay behind? No, I'm just trying to stay behind. Okay, so uh yeah, they're they're busy having a fight over this revolver. The shale starts to slip, and Sven and Johannes can see uh Anthony and Joe struggling with this gun as all the sort of like shale starts to go down. As the shale starts to go down, both Anthony and Joe, sort of like as Anthony and Joe fall with the shale, there was a large or very loud bang from the gun as it goes off while they were struggling with it. Both of them skid down the shale, making a lot of noise. You reckon that the people in the vans will probably have heard this as the shot ricochets around the quarry, and then you hear Susie shout, No, as she sort of like comes flying around the corner from where you were sneaking towards this whole thing that's happening. And then very shortly after her, you see Susie coming on her bike too.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Scared, tired, out of puff, just got Susie's got a twin.

SPEAKER_05 29:01

Another person for the game. Look at that. So how far did how far did we fall and did somebody get shot? You slide probably about eight meters or so.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

Um so you don't tumble or anything, but you kind of like go down in the shale and it kind of like all the shale kind of goes with you, and you both end up at the bottom of this incline. Johannes and Sven.

unknown 29:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:23

Do either of you want to do anything?

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Do we see this? I guess yes, nothing.

SPEAKER_04 29:28

And you saw the flash of light. Oh god, as it went off.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Yeah, I go down to see if I can help or to see where we are.

SPEAKER_06 29:34

Okay. I'm gonna have to do something I really don't want to do. I'm gonna have to go into negotiations at a disadvantage. So I guess I'm going to walk while hopefully Sven can get this sorted while I distract the other people by having the negotiations. I love that's your that's what I'm gonna do. Well um basically, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:54

Anders. What what's Anders doing? You're obviously at the top of the incline looking down at all this like that.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

Has he he's just seen the uh the two cyclists heading in as well? Yes. He's just pausing and getting his wits together because he's beginning to think this is actually not reality, is it's some sort of lucid dream. Yeah, he's just trying to figure out what exactly what's transpiring, and his brain's just jumping between the two things, the two versions of Susie cycling in, and a gun going off, and yeah, it's just not processing properly at the moment.

SPEAKER_04 30:30

You can see laying on the shale, there is a revolver. Didn't go down with Ant and Joe. Oh I'll definitely uh grab that. Okay. Yeah, if you could just make a move roll just to make sure that you don't slide down the shale with them. Prefer to we'll be dinner for a second. You can cheer, um I'll allow you to push that if you want, or you just can can wander down with them.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

That's me almost toppling. I think I will push it because getting control of a gun is quite important.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Hey.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

That's a very good success.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

What condition did you take?

SPEAKER_03 31:05

Yeah, which one did you gonna pick? That would definitely be scared, because while I'm not in control of that gun, it could do anything.

SPEAKER_04 31:14

Yeah. Yeah, so you kind of like grab the gun and then you sort of like stop the sort of like shale from falling, and you kind of take those couple of steps back, and the shale kind of like follows down with the rest of it, whereas you're standing at the top.

SPEAKER_03 31:27

And also once I've secured the gun, I will begin to head away from all this mayhem that's going on below me. So the two bodies at the bottom of the shale and the two Susies coming in, which I'm still not sure whether they're real, and the van's off in the di Yeah, I'm just gonna head off in a different direction.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

Come out of here, basically. Yeah. Okay. Uh yeah, as you kind of like head off, Johannes starts to make his way towards the vans. Anthony, Susie, Susie, Sven, and Joe are all at sort of like the bottom of this incline. Anthony.

SPEAKER_05 32:05

What are you gonna do? I need to know. I check. Well, first of all, obviously I'm not shot, but I check, right? Like I need to get shot, yeah. What about what about Joe?

SPEAKER_04 32:16

You look over at Joe, he he's sort of lay face down in the shale. He doesn't seem to be moving. Fuck. I roll him over. You roll him over. Joe, Joe! He's covered in the shale dust and everything. You look at him, there doesn't appear to be any blood on him. And he opens his eyes to look at you and coughs, and he leans up and he just grabs you in a big hug. And basically goes, and I'm sorry, and he kind of like gives you a hug. You big idiot, we gotta get out of here. You can't, you got he looks at you all and says, You have to go, and then he's he looks up and goes, Susie. And they both kind of go, yes. Sometimes. He looks at both of you and says, um, we haven't done it yet. We need to it's happening again.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

You keep going on about it, Susie, and what is it? What's what?

SPEAKER_04 33:12

What what what day is this? I believe it's still Friday, right? Yeah, it's still Friday as far as you're concerned. So it's not Sunday. Okay, well that's that's something. But he says the he says the other Susie. So says Susie too. But it's gonna happen very shortly. You all need to leave. You need to leave. What? What's going to happen? I'm gonna pop off again, but it's gonna be a big one. And and if you're all here, I could drag you wherever I end up going. And it might be to the end of everything. Basically pushes Anne and he says, You all have to run, just get away from here.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

I look to Suzy too.

SPEAKER_05 33:49

Joe, what if I give you the device? Would that help you get back? Would it help you control these these time jumps? You've got the device? Yeah. That might help. Alright, I'll I'll give it to him.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

Oh, great. Uh will that work? I think it might. He looks at Susie.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

I'm looking at Susie still, way from Allen.

SPEAKER_04 34:07

Susie looks at you and kind of does that sort of like shrug that you do when you're sort of confused and and nervous and you've got too much stuff going in your head and so this isn't the thing you were worried about. No no, no, no. But but this is the thing that sets off the thing. She says Why not?

SPEAKER_00 34:30

Instead of us calling it the thing, we just say what it is. And then we're all on the same page.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

She she stops and just everything kind of like just stops, everything goes really quiet for just a brief second. And Susie says to you, in the same you imagine what other people find quite annoying to people, and she sort of looks at you, sort of like starts to roll her eyes a little bit, and says, The end of the world.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

Yeah, right, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 34:57

She says, So we've we have to stop the thing, which is Joe getting shot, but he isn't shot, so that's good, but we haven't accounted for what will happen if Joe goes elsewhere. She looks around and she says, Hey Aunt.

SPEAKER_05 35:19

She waves at you. Suzy Susie, do you have a twin sister? No, this is This is Suzy 2. Queen sister.

SPEAKER_04 35:28

Obi-Wan was wise to keep you from me. They both look at you in that same kind of like, what the hell kind of look. And and Susie 2 says, Well, I guess maybe I'm technically Suzy 1. Or I could be Susie 5. I mean, it's very confusing.

SPEAKER_05 35:47

Well, are you Suzy Past or Susie Future? Are you future Susie or past Susie?

SPEAKER_01 35:53

No, no, no, no. We're not doing this, we're not doing this, and I'm the one you know, and this is this is someone else, or me. But I it it I'd see me as I'm Susie.

SPEAKER_04 36:03

She says, yes, you are you are there, Susie, and I would hold on to them for as long as you can. She kind of looks over at Sven with like a really sad look. Aww. Bye-bye, Sven. And she kind of like looks at Douglas and looks at Johannes, who's walking away, and goes, Oh well, he's still here, that's good. She says, Joe, Joe, you're not that Joe, are you? And Joe looks and says, No, no, I think he's probably still at the hideout. So I think we need to. You all need to leave. We'll deal with what's gonna happen. What are you talking about? You came with us from the hideout. No, I was waiting for them to arrive.

SPEAKER_02 36:43

And how do we fix this? I don't understand. Now we have two susties. We have apparently two Joes. Very confused. Yeah. Do we have another Sven? I hope not.

SPEAKER_04 36:53

Joe, Joe sort of like looks at Susie. Susie looks at Sven, kind of shakes her head really slowly, and she holds her head. You can see that your Susie, Susie One, is kind of holding her head in that way that she does when she's like really like, I've got a headache and I really need to think of stuff. So it's almost like they are twins, like holding the heads at the same time, trying to make the same kind of like noise, or whatever that whatever that noise is that Susie makes, and they just kind of like, we need to cut to Johannes. Yay!

SPEAKER_06 37:24

This is not gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_04 37:26

So you look at them, see that what they what they're gonna do, and then you start walking. It's a relatively short walk to the vans. You can see the security guard and the two guys with in the Rick's energy overalls kind of looking around and sort of like coming to the back of the vans to look at whatever was going on in your your your thing. You can see that Dr. Holt is behind them, not really kind of getting involved. This the guy in the security uniform strides towards you and says, Kid, get out of here.

SPEAKER_06 38:01

Unfortunately, I need to uh speak to Dr. Holt. I won't advise going back the way you came just now until our discussions, or you may end up getting shot. Sorry, what? He says. You heard the gunshot just now. And I look at him dead serious.

SPEAKER_04 38:17

Are you involved in all this then?

SPEAKER_06 38:20

I represent a third party.

SPEAKER_04 38:22

But I will discuss that with uh He looks at you in the way that adults usually look at you when you're trying to be an adult.

SPEAKER_06 38:29

I look I look straight back in the eye, a hundred percent serious. Except for the part I don't know if he's gonna get shot if he kinks. I maybe Joe will shoot them all if he gets back there. Who knows? I might get shot if I try to leave. He says, sure. Why don't you come with me, kid? And he basically Is this the guy who spend you?

SPEAKER_04 38:50

Yeah. And he kind of takes you towards the others. The two guys in the overalls look like they've kind of are holding crowbars or tire irons, and you can see that Dr. Holt is kind of looking very perplexed and sort of a bit, maybe a little scared. And the security officer says he wants to speak with you, ma'am.

SPEAKER_06 39:15

Hello, Dr. Holt. I believe my associate asked that you would come alone to the meeting if that's not right.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

You're involved in all this? Yes. Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 39:27

And um that thing you just heard was a gunshot. I wouldn't recommend it. She looks trying to leave until our discussions are complete, or if any harm might come to myself, that would probably end badly.

SPEAKER_04 39:40

As soon as you say that, both the guys in the uh in the overalls kind of wander to the vans to take cover or whatever they're doing.

SPEAKER_06 39:49

I'm just trying to delay that as long as possible for everyone to surround what's going on back there.

SPEAKER_04 39:54

Dr. Holt says, How are you involved in all this?

SPEAKER_06 39:58

It's a very long story, but in essence, but in essence, Joe Russo is with my third party at the moment, Mr. White. I believe that to resolve the current situation that is happening and regarding what was the word? Temporal flux or convergence. Convergence, that's the word. I apologize. I'm no expert on any of this. You are the expert. And in regards to the gateway project, that Joe Russo is regard was required to resolve the situation. As I said, Mr. White currently has Joe Russo safe. And but he would also like to resolve this situation in a way that Joe Russo will be able to go home to his family. I can't guarantee anything. Well, that's a shame because from what I gather from my expert on the matter, that if we do not do something about it, the world may very well just sort of what was the word? Stop, end. You can see she sort of like starts to look a bit nervous. But the problem is, my expert who told me this was yourself. But apparently in a different timeline, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 41:20

She shuts her eyes for a second and looks down at the floor and says it's very confusing. She sort of like puts her fingers to her eyes and squeezes, and she says, So you've already spoken to me?

SPEAKER_06 41:33

Yes, in fact. We had, and we came to an agreement. However, when I called to confirm this, you do not have any memory of the agreement. Of course it was you. Well. Well, I called on behalf, but sure. I can't arrange all this, I'm just a kid.

SPEAKER_04 41:54

She's kind of like looking at you going, well, I'm not really sure if you can take that word for you. She says, okay. And so you're gonna get Joe to come here?

SPEAKER_06 42:05

Well, yes. But they also have to discuss the monetary compensation, of course, that we agreed upon previously.

SPEAKER_04 42:14

Okay, how much was that?

SPEAKER_06 42:17

Oh 20,000 krona? Okay. You deliver Joe. We do need the guarantee that Joe Russo will be able to go home to his family, though. That is non-negotiable. Yes, okay. We cannot come to that agreement between not just yourself, but Rick's energy. Because we know my colleague has spoken to Joe Russo, and we have the full story of what happened back in America in Colorado. And it would probably be very embarrassing if any of that came out. Especially considering what happened to the other children. I'm aware that was prior before you took responsibility. But it was it was a terrible shame what happened to the other children. Clearly, I told you quite a bit, she says. Well, some of this you told me, and some of this Mr. White found out from the other things. As I say, Mr. White is a consultant who works for Frix energy sometimes. He managed to resolve the Ulla Junker issue from six months ago. She shakes her head and says, Well, okay. If you don't know about that, I'm sure uh your security colleague would probably know about that.

SPEAKER_04 43:32

The security guy is basically looking at his feet. Back to the rest of you. Yeah, so uh you guys. Joe looks at you and says, You all need to leave. Go. Can we stop this from happening?

SPEAKER_02 43:47

He shakes his head. I I don't think so. How did it happen the first time? I was in a lab. Where?

SPEAKER_04 43:55

In Colorado, I think.

SPEAKER_02 43:57

And why were you in that lab?

SPEAKER_04 44:00

I don't know. Suddenly I I I I went out and then I I I woke up and I was working I wanna give it a la and I was in a lab for I guess a couple of days. Then I and that then and then and then Anthony came with the device, which he's now got in his hands, which I somehow managed to have. I don't really know how I did that. I maybe I I I don't know, something happened. But whatever it was, something you you you got the device and then you came to me. And I think he says, I think the device allows whoever has it to jump through time or space or whatever it is to my location, and I don't know why it's attuned to me. But for some reason, whoever's got it comes to me, and whoever's nearby will come to me. But I think it also causes a bit of there's a residual problem that happens with it. So I don't know whether if I jump and I users at the same time that I'm jumping through time that I'll stabilize. I I don't know. I guess I can use the device as soon as I feel like I'm gonna jump through time and then see what happens. I mean, it's not very scientific, he says.

SPEAKER_02 45:21

Yeah, no. I'm not very scientific either.

SPEAKER_05 45:25

Or you could just use it once you've jumped somewhere and see if it brings you back.

SPEAKER_04 45:32

That's true, that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 45:35

You're the appropriate time, like the the the time that you belong in.

SPEAKER_04 45:39

Stan on your shoulder and says, and you're always the smart one of us. It's just playing DD. So, Susie, what do you wanna do? Susie says, Oh, I can't stay here. She points at Susie. What's that supposed to mean? Well, what's mum gonna do? Hi, I'm come for dinner, by the way. This is this is also me who's come for dinner. How's that gonna work? Mum's gonna freak out. We can work it out. It's lovely. But I think that I really should go where I need to go, and you should stay here. Plus, I don't know what will happen if both of us are in the same place for a long period of time together. I think I saw some TV shows once where that didn't work out so well. Alright, whoop. Whatever. But so we could do that, but that means you guys need to go. So while you're all discussing that, Johannes, back to you.

SPEAKER_06 46:34

Okay, so do we have a deal? And I uh my hand.

SPEAKER_04 46:40

She says sure. She she shakes your hand and says, You have a deal.

SPEAKER_06 46:45

Do you do do you take check? No, cash. But uh, you can bring that to the next meeting when we bring Joe. I'll you just stay by your phone at home and I'll go I have to go speak to my associate, Mr. White. Okay, you go do that. But uh I would also recommend just giving it 30 minutes before trying to leave the uh quarry. As I say, my friend of the gun can get a bit trigger-happy.

SPEAKER_04 47:16

Okay. They kind of like they don't seem to be going anywhere. Good. You know, the fact that you said someone's got a gun's quite a leveling field for them. Anders, you um you make your way through the trees, and as you're sort of like making your way just before you're about to get out of the treeline, away from the quarry. You see Joe. Joe. Joe's like, what's going on? What's happening?

SPEAKER_03 47:39

Look away from me and look back over my shoulder. Yeah, some strange things are happening over in the quarry. Like you were there, but obviously it wasn't you. Sorry, what do you mean I was there? We took you to the quarry. You you and Anthony were arguing and there was a gun and it went off. But Anthony's alright, and he goes to push past you. Oh my god. I mean, wait, wait, there's another you there.

SPEAKER_04 48:06

Make sure it's safe. So what do you reckon I should do? You reckon and it's safe?

SPEAKER_03 48:11

Yeah, yeah, I I I saw him get up alright, and he's with the you that's there.

SPEAKER_04 48:17

Joe looks like pretty much like everybody else, he's got like this deep furrow on his head, and he's like, I don't really understand. Okay, so am I needed there or am not needed there?

SPEAKER_03 48:28

I d uh I I think you're not needed there at the moment. I was just making my way back to the hideout and and then kind of waiting for the others to come back. Joe then looks at you and says, Can you feel that?

SPEAKER_04 48:41

And he says, I think something's happening again. So stay away from me. And you kind of like I start backing away. He backs away as well. The rest of you. You suddenly feel the static electricity starting to fill the air again. Susie's hair goes. You can sort of like feel the sort of crackle of energy. And Joe says, You should all step back because I don't know how.

SPEAKER_02 49:12

Not going again to the dinosaurs, I step back.

SPEAKER_05 49:16

Come on, man, step back.

SPEAKER_04 49:18

No, I I I'm not gonna leave you, Joe. It's okay, I'll be fine. I'll be fine. I've got the I've got the device. It's not a problem. You swear? Yes, I swear it's not a problem. You're gonna use it? Yes, I'll use it either as I go or when I get to wherever I end up going, I'll use it again.

SPEAKER_01 49:37

Look, Susie Two will confirm it's all gonna be alright, okay. And step she looks at you and kind of goes, What?

SPEAKER_04 49:43

Oh yeah, fine.

SPEAKER_05 49:45

Alright, I take some I can I take a couple of steps back. He then takes quiet, Anthony's Anthony's like starting to cry.

SPEAKER_04 49:53

Yeah. You can see Joe's kind of like obviously very anxious as well. Susie goes, probably a bit further back. He's he looks at Suzy 2 and goes, Alright. And they kind of like move as you kind of are making your way back. You can see Suzy 2 or ACZ and Joe kind of like walking in between the two rock faces that head towards this part of the quarry, and then as you just get a little bit close, you can feel like the tingling on your sort of arms, and the electricity starts to sort of flow, and then you start to see rocks start to all the bits of shell start to lift up off the ground.

SPEAKER_06 50:31

Not this, not this again. Time reset last time this happened. It did.

SPEAKER_04 50:38

Susie shouts, go further back!

SPEAKER_06 50:42

I'm just gonna go one of my pre-arranged escape routes and just be like, yeah, I'm going that way now.

SPEAKER_01 50:47

Okay, you run. Second Susie adds to the cacophony, just just for fun.

SPEAKER_00 50:53

Back, get back!

SPEAKER_04 50:54

You can yeah, there's double Susie's. And you can hear sort of the the guys in the in the overalls and the security guard or security officer shouting, and they kind of like seem to be running for cover as well, and there is a sudden crack of energy, blinding flash of light, and Joe and Suzy 2 disappear. And as that happens, the two bits of the quarry that are either side shatter, and boulders start to like rain down on all of you, but I'm gonna go to the body.