SPEAKER_02 0:23

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SPEAKER_06 0:55

Hello everyone. We're uh just been messing about. Marco decided we should just start recording anyway. So, hi, welcome to episode nine, was it, of our Tales Murloop second season. As always, I'm joined by Marco.

SPEAKER_02 1:11

Hello. Playing Anthony. I had I had to say that because I had to remind myself we lost a week, so I don't remember where we were.

SPEAKER_06 1:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Tony? Hello, everyone. Pete? Hi up, Douglas.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Hello.

SPEAKER_06 1:28

That's all.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

It's me, and I was the reason we missed a week.

SPEAKER_06 1:32

Well, you, and then we were all kind of a bit rubbish and went, well, we could probably well, I'm tired, uh could just go work in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

I'd lacked myself out of the house.

SPEAKER_03 1:41

I had a bad day, and I was like. I'll have you know, I did not read the Discord, so I turned up on time and was like and then when I read the Discord and was like, oh There's a secret hidden episode that is just Douglas.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

That could have been called or a disaster.

SPEAKER_06 2:00

I have that as a Douglas. We could just do one episode if you want and we'll just like stick it in at some point. I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Well say that you recorded it when you recorded it, but actually it's done in hindsight, and therefore you've predicted the future.

SPEAKER_06 2:14

My god, it's like what? My brain can't have this.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Okay, cut that.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

Johannes' excellent adventure.

SPEAKER_06 2:20

Yes, we've been having fun with figuring all this out. I have a timeline that I did have, which I then lost, and now I'm trying to remember all the stuff I did so I can put the timeline back into place so I knew where everyone is and breathe. You amateur. I mean, it some people might even pay me for this sort of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Not me.

SPEAKER_06 2:40

God damn it.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

I believe it's a profit share affair rather than indirect payment from Marco. Yeah, but that's now. Yes. By the time that it says released.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

That's right. We're coming to you from March the 1st, and you'll be hearing this in October. So when the yacht now bought, of course. You're in the future, and we are in the past. Marco, you could listen to this on your yacht. You'll be hitting the release button off his yacht. Or in my or in my bunker if things go really sideways.

SPEAKER_06 3:12

You're a lot closer to the problems than we are. Yeah, so where were we last session? Well, you had met with the doctor, some skewer, some security guard, and some men in overalls. All were part of Rick's energy. Johannes had basically realized that he made a deal with the doctor, but then the doctor didn't realise who that was. Johannes was confused by that. There was another Susie, which freaked people out. There was another Joe. There was a lot of like, what? Huh? Who? When? How? And it ended last session with Joe jumping again and the rocks and the shale on the sides of the quarry crashing down on everybody. So I think we should pick up on Friday morning. Fuck you, man. Reset everything. No!

SPEAKER_03 4:04

The timelines figured out. He's like, I just reset everything. He's like, ah, fuck it, it's just Groundhog's Day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:12

I would love to do that, but it's not, I'm afraid. Okay. But you do come round and it we're gonna jump a little bit to about an hour later. You've all kind of dusted yourselves off, you've managed to get out of the quarry, and you have made your way back to the hideout, which is where you were gonna meet anyway. You rush all the way back to the hideout to find that Joe is there and it is the five of you. You're not quite sure what's happening. Well, you you know what's happened, but it's kind of all a bit confusing. Well, that's right, there were two Joes. There were two Joes as well as two Susies.

SPEAKER_07 4:48

I was with the second one. Yeah. And I'd taken the gun with me. Correct, yeah. Yeah, there's a gun.

SPEAKER_06 4:54

There's a gun. I mean, what can go wrong with a bunch of kids and a firearm?

SPEAKER_02 5:00

I mean That gun better go off by the end of this season. It's already gone off once. Well, has it? Well, that's right, it has. That's right, that's right.

SPEAKER_06 5:09

You're like hurt. Because they're they're dangerous things. Uh so you're back in the um in the hideout looking at each other, trying to figure out what on earth has been going on. Joe is kind of looking a bit confused because he doesn't really know what's happened, you know, when you kind of explain there was this thing, you fought with him, and he was like, Well, you didn't fight with me, then there was another Joe, and he's like, What? But yeah, so that's kind of left you all sitting in the hideout trying to figure out what to do next.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

There's multiple things you could potentially do. All about we must stop Joe One, two, Joe of the current timeline from doing something.

SPEAKER_06 5:51

Yes. They were being very done.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Or the end of the world will happen or something.

SPEAKER_06 5:56

Yeah, they were being very um, very kind of vague. Even even you too was being Me two or Susie 2? Susie 2. Susie 2 was hope it's not sold to because that would make it even more confusing. Wait, what? So, yes, they were talking about something that he was going to do with the gun, and you assumed it was Chekhov. And and you it's gonna be one of those sessions, right? Yep. Right, what was I saying? Okay. Uh talk about doing something with the gun. Something with the gun, you think that to the end of the world. Right. But you needed to get Joe back to the loop. The hole. The lab. Well, the lab. The lab in the loop.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 6:39

Lab in the loop in in the tunnels or the hole or wherever it was that they would be.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

And that's basically where we'd got to. Trying to work out how we're gonna get there, basically. Yeah. Um the whole conversation with the people at the loop and our contacts did not go well. Wow. No.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

It went perfectly fine.

SPEAKER_06 6:59

So there was a few things.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

So if you if you agreed to everything I asked.

SPEAKER_06 7:04

Because it's been a few weeks, yeah, it was very weird. Douglas uh had a conversation, well, Johannes had a conversation with Dr. Holt, who didn't remember the conversation they previously had at all in any way, shape, or form. They felt like they knew each other, she knew him sort of, but it just was a bit weird. Also, the security guard didn't quite realise was asking Sven about his dad who'd gone missing, although Sven had realized that his dad had gone missing on the first Friday that you had. The second Friday that you've had, his dad did not go missing. So you're trying to piece together what's happening with all of these people and what timeline potentially you could be in, which is even more confused by the fact that you had Susie 2, who was talking about a timeline that she had come back from from Sunday. So that's potentially a third timeline that you're trying to figure out who's doing what with who.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

Is this the um evening now?

SPEAKER_06 8:04

Yes, this is this is still the same evening. You kind of like rushed off, so it's probably about nine o'clock, ten o'clock at night.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

I do have to go phone my sister. I don't think I have done that yet.

SPEAKER_06 8:13

You have not, because other things happen.

SPEAKER_03 8:16

Yeah, so I will have to remember to do that at some point soon. Oh, also go home.

SPEAKER_06 8:21

Yeah, you might think that parents might be worried about where you are and what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

But maybe you should do that after we've made the plan.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

Douglas, for some reason I thought you were talking about your actual sister, and I was thinking in my mind, why doesn't he call his sister before we fucking start recording?

SPEAKER_03 8:37

Wow. To be fair, it's only come up twice in the entire like I know, I know. Seven or eight sessions, I think it's only like passing, so it yeah, it happened time loop one, I think it was. And then I I tried to phone her in a different loop, and then she wasn't answering that one, but I did say I would call her back in the evening. But that was maybe one or two loops ago, I think. Technically. Yeah, it's not confusing. Oh no, it was on this loop. It was on this loop I called her because it was before we got onto the bus to go see. But then again, that might have happened because she doesn't remember the stuff, the doctor doesn't remember the stuff from that event, so maybe that event didn't actually happen.

SPEAKER_06 9:28

It's like you're trying to sort of like figure out what exactly is going on at this present moment.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:35

Okay. Well, so you're sitting in your hideout, the evening is quite warm, there is sort of like a heaviness to the air, and and there is something almost tropical about the evening. Which is odd, you know, you're in Sweden.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

I like the sound of that. On summer nights. What are we gonna do, Susie?

SPEAKER_01 9:59

I don't really know. Susie. Other Susie wasn't actually that helpful. She kind of just said that we had to stop him from doing something that was gonna end the world. So I think we've just gotta get him to the loop, right? Like we said at the start. We we've gotta get Joe to the loop. Yeah, I'm not really I guess so.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

I just sending him back to those people who took him in the first place just doesn't sound right to me.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

He won't be going alone. Well we're we're taking him there with us.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

And you know, we can do a few things maybe to him. What what's the turner phrase? Stack the deck in our favor. Oh, you wanna play a trading card game? I suppose that is one way of thing if you keep a couple of things under your the sleep in your sleeve. I I'm saying we cheat, and Mark, Antony.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Cheat? No, we that's not right either. So what cards exactly are those then, Douglas?

SPEAKER_03 10:56

Well, they think we're working for a mysterious third party who has guns. I led them to believe that. So also this mysterious third party is also very informed in what's going on. So, if if they thought it was just me and you guys, they probably just what happened to Susie six months ago would happen again. You know, back of the van. So let's make a make a plan then.

SPEAKER_07 11:25

We're gonna break into the loop. First of all, I'm not taking the canoe over there. I suggest we head down to the marina and try and um maybe borrow one of the boats down there.

SPEAKER_03 11:38

It's not very good saying break into the loop, but what do we do when we get there? How do we solve this problem?

SPEAKER_02 11:45

I don't know. I mean, Susie 2 is the one who had that answer, I think, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:52

No, but isn't there like someplace where this whole thing started? Isn't that what you're doing?

SPEAKER_03 11:57

We're just standing in a room and hoping that the answer will figure out we figure it out before security come and get us.

SPEAKER_06 12:06

Joe says, Well, it started, I guess, when I went into the I was being tested on. That was the that's where it started.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

But that was back in Colorado, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_06 12:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

But Well, we can't get you back in that room.

SPEAKER_06 12:21

That's a long way to go. But I think there was probably well, it was it was Dr. Hulk that that spoke to me the second time I went through time. And if she works here in Sweden, then I must have been in a lab here in the Swedish loop.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

We're not gonna get much more from out here. We're just kids. People aren't gonna talk to us. Things of this kind aren't just gonna be lying in books in the library.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

Yeah, but they know they're doing something wrong, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:55

Like, and they also they also know they've messed up royally. Well that's what I gathered.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

That's what I mean, because they have that they have that doctor lady now who's trying to you know fix it. So I don't know, maybe she'll help, maybe maybe she'll have some maybe she'll know what to do once we get there.

SPEAKER_03 13:14

Well, exactly. That's why I went and made a deal that would help us, and also the proviso that they're gonna let your brother go back.

SPEAKER_06 13:22

There was another lady there that was helping. What was her name? Sigrid? No. Larson, something like that?

SPEAKER_02 13:30

Is this Joe speaking? Or that was like is this Ed trying to remember his own.

SPEAKER_06 13:36

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is Joe. This is Joe. She's saying it's like like a I think she was like a junior researcher or something. She was really friendly, uh, really nice. I remember she had a really, really Swedish accent. He kind of like points to Susie and says, a bit like her. And she was, you know, quite friendly and nice. So maybe if we found her, she might be able to help. What was her name? What was her name? He kind of like shuts his eyes, he says it's Sigrid. No, it's something else. He starts to sort of like name a bunch of Swedish ladies' names. Sonia and can Susie, or in fact anyone who is who is not Marco, make a make a roll for me. Purely Marco, nothing to do with Anthony. Um sorry. Anthony. That's not Anthony, not Marco. With either comprehend or investigate one of those two.

SPEAKER_01 14:30

Oh, they're about the same. That is one six on five dice. Nothing. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 14:38

Just fend one have a go. Yeah. And of course, Anders can also. I'm looking for multiple successes. So we've got one so far. Yeah. Yay.

SPEAKER_01 14:49

Nice one, Anders.

SPEAKER_06 14:51

There we go.

SPEAKER_05 14:52

Yeah, you kind of like guard in in the through.

SPEAKER_06 14:56

You throw around a bunch of names and you kind of hit on the name of Signia or Signia. And you're like, yeah, that that's her, that's her, and and that's her name. You end up coming up with the name of Signia Larson.

SPEAKER_05 15:10

And this is someone who worked at the loop, yeah. And he's not part of my family. I think so. No, this fan. Not part of your family.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Like we can we can sit around here in in this hideout and wait and try and talk to more people. But even if we don't have the answers now, we know that the loop is the source of these weird things that are happening, just like they were however long ago. And hopefully we don't really have much choice. Hopefully we can find answers in there. Hopefully we can find out in the world.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

And if we get caught, that's it. We lose everything.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

And if we don't do everything, anything, we're going to be living Friday for the rest of our lives. Well, I still haven't had my dinner. It's my favorite.

SPEAKER_03 15:57

Like, I'm still saying, well, I think we should just work with them. Like they we both all want the same goal. Then set us up a meeting.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Let's get this done.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Okay. But hold on, hold on. We can't trust them because the meeting was supposed to be just with her, and she showed up with two, I think two vans showed up. Correct. Oh, no, I don't think we should set up another meeting. I think we should just break into the loop.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

And then they can deal with us when we're there and we'll we'll we'll just if they catch us in the loop, we have zero bargaining power to get our way out of it. And the loop is gigantic, right? Yeah, it's you know no idea where anything is in there. Joe might know.

SPEAKER_06 16:40

I I I remember two rooms and a corridor.

SPEAKER_03 16:45

Like I know you don't I know you don't want to, Anthony, but your dad might know more. He works there.

SPEAKER_04 16:53

Perhaps if we confront him with your brother, he'd be really good to see Dad, Joe says.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

And he obviously wants Joe to come home. And you know, he's not gonna let anything happen to Joe. Even if even if we are working with the doctor hurt and that sort of thing, if your dad's there as well, that's gonna make it more difficult for them to Okay, fine.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

And the other Joe has the device, so maybe that will help too somehow. Maybe we'll finally get to see Saturday morning and I can watch my cartoons. Let's go see dad then. You're coming as well? Yeah, we should all go. Don't split the party to one thing you learn from playing DD, guys.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

You would know that if you I don't know, my my my mom might be looking for me soon. And real Jonas Johannes does not want to be in this icky like family situation where there's probably gonna be a lot of crying and awkward for them all standing around. He just does not want to be there.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

No, because if we're all there, then something we can make something happen, but if it's just Joe and me, then we're stuck. I'll come with you, Anthony.

SPEAKER_07 18:01

Yeah, okay, I'll I'll come along too, but I'll just gotta nip out and do something. I'll be back in a back in a little while.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Yes. I need to do something as well. We'll meet you there, Anthony. What about you, Sven? Yeah, hello. Cool.

SPEAKER_02 18:17

I mean you're a bodyguard, right? That's right. Will you be my bodyguard? I will be your long lost friend. I don't know, it's some fucking song that just popped into my head. Uh Paul Simons call me out.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

There you go.

SPEAKER_06 18:33

Okay, well, I guess I'm gonna ask Handers, what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_07 18:37

Uh I'm gonna head outside, head over to a pile of old rubbish and cans and stuff like that, and find a hiding place for the the gun. Johannes, what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 18:48

I have to go make a phone call. Well, I so I assume it's just that one that's down the road that I just we keep you keep on using. Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_06 19:00

Yeah, you can you can you can go there and do that. Okay. You go make a phone call. What who are you phoning? Phone of my sister Hannah. Okay. So you phone your sister Hannah. And phone rings, it gets picked up almost immediately. Hannah, is that you? Well you had us. I wondered where you were. I I hadn't had a phone call from you and I didn't know what was going on.

SPEAKER_03 19:20

I've been busy, you know, business stuff, you know. So uh what's up gone home? Not since he's trying to remember when he was actually last home, technically. I think this morning and when we No, we didn't speak this morning, did we? We did? Well yes. No, not since I spoke to you this morning. I left the house and I've been out all day.

SPEAKER_06 19:41

Mum wanted to know what you were doing.

SPEAKER_03 19:45

Are you guys speaking now?

SPEAKER_06 19:47

Well not really. She she called me really worried that you hadn't come home or spoken to her. Since the story. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:53

Oh no, I've just I've just been busy. You know how it is. You know, business contacts and you know, having meetings, shaking hands and that sort of thing. You know, it takes a lot of time. Selling drugs. You're not here, Anthony, you know.

SPEAKER_06 20:09

She says, Okay, but make sure you I can I can phone mum and let her know that you're okay. Are you are you okay?

SPEAKER_03 20:17

Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm doing you sure. Doing great. Yeah, no. I was I was more worried about you you sounded pretty upset about something this morning.

SPEAKER_06 20:28

It's having problems, you know how it is. Mum and dad you know just having a go at me about things, and it's not going great with my boyfriend, and it's just it's just tricky. It's just tricky. I wanted to really just see you just so we can arrange to kind of have you know have some cake and have have some tea and just maybe go for a pizza or or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 20:52

Yeah. Well, let me just check my planner and see where it can slot you in.

SPEAKER_06 20:58

She laughs in the background. You hear that she's obviously s muffled the the receiver, and then you can just hear like a bit of a snicker, and she says, Of course, well, why don't you check your planner? Maybe we can do something on the weekend. Just give me a call. I'm free all weekend, and we can do something.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Of course. I'll RSVP you as soon as possible.

SPEAKER_06 21:22

Okay, well, you sound like your old self, so that's good. If you need anything or you want to talk, oh dearest brother, you can always call me.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Don't worry about me, everything's great all the time. You don't get a choice.

SPEAKER_06 21:38

I was to say I have to worry about you because you're my family.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Uh don't worry, just keep him busy, you know. Everything's fine. Anyway, I'll speak to you this weekend. Okay. Hi Yannis. Bye. Yanis hangs up the phone and just sort of deep sigh of like everything that's happening today is kind of like now mentally proven. It's a long day. Right.

SPEAKER_06 22:07

The rest of you get yourselves on your bikes and make your way back to Anthony's house. Okay. You get to Anthony's house. Do you want to wait until the others join you or do you want to go in without them? I'm guessing Addis won't be that far behind anyway.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

No, we'll go in without them. They'll catch up.

SPEAKER_06 22:27

Okay. So you you kind of get your your house, you park your bike up, the lights on, and as you kind of like get there, you can see that the lights are on throughout the house.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

Wait, is there a van? Is there a van parked out front? There is no van parked out front. Go up to the front door with my crew and my bro. You ready for this, Anthony? Yeah. Okay. I'm right behind you. Knock on the door. All formal like.

SPEAKER_06 22:59

You knock on the door, the door opens, your mom is standing there. Hey mom, look who I found. And I point to Joe. She goes to grab you and then looks at Joe. And then collapses on the floor unconscious. Oops.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

Hope she didn't hit her head. No, she just she just slumps the floor. I shout out, Dad, Dad, Dad. Your dad comes running. Mom fell down. Look who I found, Joe. And these are my friends, Susie and Sven. And well, Johannes and and and and Anders are are on their way.

SPEAKER_06 23:34

Well, first of all, he like rushes for your for your mum to help her up and then obviously sees Joe and then he just stands, transfixed by looking at Joe.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

The other Joe has the device. Yeah, I took it out of your safe in your office.

SPEAKER_06 23:48

He takes him like maybe 20 seconds of just not saying anything and sort of kind of hands you your mum, kind of like, and then walks over and gives Joe a massive hug. He's like, hey dad. And he just gives him like probably the biggest hug you've ever seen anyone give anyone. And he suddenly starts talking, my god, where have you been? What's what's been happening? What what how how is this a thing? Oh my god. And he goes over back to your mum and like picks her up and come in, come in, come in. And then say, help me with it, help, help me with your mum.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Yeah, yeah, I help him get her to the couch, and then I just say, I told you he wasn't dead. He says, Oh my god, how is this even a thing?

SPEAKER_06 24:33

Your mum kind of comes around, and there's a whole sort of like for for Susie and Sven, you know, there's this kind of like awkward moment of like you're standing in front of this really touching moment, which you're not really a part of, and it's there's a lot of emotions going on, kind of like when your friends get shouted at, or that kind of thing, you know, you're sitting there going, I wish I was somewhere else. They kind of like have this reunion, and they all start talking to you once, and then they have to like talk about what's going on, and then after sort of like five or ten minutes of this, your dad sort of looks to you and says, Anthony, what the hell? What what what's happening? What what's going on?

SPEAKER_02 25:19

I don't understand what you're talking about, Dad. They then start to talk to Joe. You can't, you can't, you can't possibly I don't believe that you don't know what's going on at the loop. You worked there, you're a part of it.

SPEAKER_06 25:31

Yeah, I I he then starts speaking to Joe. Joe then tells him about how the people in the loop were using kids to do these experiments. He ended up having to go through this um machine, which then jumped him somewhere else in time, and he basically starts to sort of like talk about where he was. He'd done it two or three times, and then he did it again, and then he suddenly appeared nowhere near where he was supposed to come from, and that happened to him again another two or three times. Eventually, he ended up seeing you, and then he ended up coming here, but he couldn't quite place the time scale of all that because it just was just really confusing, and he eventually kind of said, Well, then I kind of jumped in and then I was looking around and then I saw Anthony, and this is where I am. He then says, But everything else that happened, I guess Anthony's was talking about like the dinosaur, and then there was the the going back in time, your dad's just your mum is just like what she kind of like takes a moment, wanders off to go and make drinks. In fact, she busies herself talking to Susie and says, Come on, dear, let's let's let's let's let's go make some lemonade. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

Anthony, you want lemonade?

SPEAKER_06 26:56

But y yeah, that's the phone. He eventually disappears, she's like, I can't take this. And then you and her, Susie, make lemonade pretty much silence. All you can hear is the conversation that's being had in the room when you're in the kitchen. But there's this really weird, awkward making of lemonade.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Yeah, and I I think it it's awkward from the outside, but I don't think Susie's necessarily finding it awkward. I think she's not really aware. She's more I think she's looking, she's in a place where she's sort of peering out to see what what's happening in the other room and mainly sort of just checking on Anthony. So she's just sort of getting on with making the lemonade, helping out as best she can.

SPEAKER_06 27:37

So then Joe says, Well then I found Ant then I found Ant, and then Ant obviously told me about all the other weird stuff that was going on. He then looks at Ant. At which point Anders and Johannes turn up. So how's your sister?

SPEAKER_03 27:52

She's fine, just having um boyfriend trouble, apparently. Boyfriend trouble.

SPEAKER_07 27:59

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, you say she's having boyfriend trouble. Apparently. Are they broken up then?

SPEAKER_03 28:06

Didn't sound like it, but was it we saw it? Oh, never mind then. We'd uh we'd have a you know, touch base this weekend. You dog, you I'll get the tool that deeds then probably. Well, if if we ever make it to the weekend.

SPEAKER_07 28:22

Yeah. Oh, the door's open. Should we go in?

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Oh well, yeah. Hopefully all that sort of like crying and emotional stuff is abated.

SPEAKER_06 28:33

Has not quite abated.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

There's still a lot of emotions going on, but Anthony is just about uh regale his dad with Anders and Johannes, you walk into the living room in the middle of this hyper-active Anthony who's like at lightning speed, sort of trying to explain to his father that uh you all have been experiencing Friday over and over again, and it hasn't, it hasn't every time you go to sleep and you wake up in the morning it's Friday again, and like you know, he's just like overwhelming his father with all of this crazy weirdness that you guys have been experiencing. And meanwhile, Susie is uh, I mean, uh yeah, Susie is in the kitchen making lemonade with mom. Occasionally sticking your head out, obviously you're asking if you're yeah, and every once in a while I turn my head back to shout it to the kitchen, I like mine extra sweet.

SPEAKER_06 29:28

So your dad kind of like sits and listens to everything you say. He asks you a lot of questions about when did that happen, how did that happen, what Friday was it?

SPEAKER_02 29:38

It's this Friday. And how did it happen? I don't know. I don't work at the loop. I'm not a scientist, I'm just a kid, Dad. You're supposed to know how this is happening. You work there.

SPEAKER_06 29:46

Unfortunately, I don't know everything that happens at the loop. I love the fact and that you think that I'm I run the place, but I don't. I'm a small cog in a very large machine. What I can tell you is that there are multiple experiments that are happening there, and I can absolutely try and find out what is happening there. I've been trying to slowly get information from people, but this means that we have to do something more than that.

SPEAKER_02 30:15

Well, DeSusie from the future said that whatever is happening to Joe is like destroying the fabric of time and space, and the whole world is gonna end. So we have to like get him back to the loop and that room that he was in and like somehow fix it.

SPEAKER_06 30:32

So presumably we need to do one of multiple things, having listened to both of you. We need to look at either stabilizing whatever this thing is happening to him, we need to close or shut down what whatever's getting him to do that, or we need to just destroy whatever it is. But I don't know if the third option would cause any problems for Joe. And I'm really reluctant to think about a third option.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

Well, I think we have to talk to that lady who's in charge of the program that was like experimenting on these kids, and I can't believe that they get to experiment on kids and not go to jail.

SPEAKER_06 31:14

Well, I I don't know of any kids that are being experimented on apart from the ones that have now been mentioned, but absolutely they should not be able to do that, and that is not something that we stand for in the company. I think I recognize Dr. Holt. She's a physicist, I think. And I know that she works in a certain part of the loop. So at least we know where she is, so we could probably pinpoint where the labs are.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

Well well, we also have to find Sven's dad, because he he's a janitor at the loop and he went missing. Then came back. He came back? Wait, he came back? When did he come back? Sven, you didn't tell me that. I think so.

SPEAKER_05 31:54

I mean the time like where he is back. Well, I think in this now, yeah, exactly. I think this time I think so.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

Yes, because Anders turned up and was like, I went to find your dad, and you're like, he's here.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

I guess I missed that meeting. He says it's been very confusing. Yeah, well time is time is getting all crazy. We have to do something, Dad.

SPEAKER_06 32:20

Okay, well, why don't I go and find out what's what's happening? How about that?

SPEAKER_02 32:27

No, we're gonna do it all together. We're not gonna sit around and do nothing while you walk into the lion's den.

SPEAKER_06 32:35

And what are they gonna do when a bunch of kids, he looks at sort of like the the slightly older ones, wander into the loop and talk to them about this sort of thing. I don't know. Well, you're gonna get thrown out, no one's gonna do anything about it. If I can go in and ask him.

SPEAKER_02 32:53

Now if we have Joe, they're not gonna throw us out, they need him. They've been looking for him.

SPEAKER_06 32:58

Right. Well, I wouldn't really want Joe to go back.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

But he has to because the world is gonna end. I don't want him to go back either.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

Unfortunately, Anthony is correct in this. With my discussions with the doctor, Joe is apparently required in some way to resolve the situation.

SPEAKER_06 33:16

Dad just kind of like, you can see he kind of becomes crestfallen. Well, can we at least try some of the other ways first? Couldn't can we just if I go to the loop now, I can go and ask some questions. It's gonna be very out of the ordinary, but I think, and he basically points at Joe, that I don't think I care too much about that now, because I really want to make sure my sons, both of them, are okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:43

Well, I I I have to warn you there, Dad, that all those white vans going around town, you know, they're looking for Joe. So the minute you walk in there, you think they're gonna let you leave? I mean, go ahead, do it. You've been slow walking this investigation into finding Joe for months. Go ahead. Do your big plan, Dad. Genius. I've got lemonade. Oh, thanks.

SPEAKER_06 34:09

Thanks, Susie. Thanks, Mrs. Russo. He says, You'll wait here and I'll be back in a couple of hours. And then he turns around in a second thought and says, Do all your parents know where you are?

SPEAKER_02 34:20

Dad, we've been living the same Friday for days.

SPEAKER_06 34:24

How about, he says to your mum, why don't you contact everyone's families and say that you're staying here tonight? And you're having a sleepover watching movies, and then you can all stay here, and then your parents won't worry.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

Yeah, because 15-year-olds have sleepovers with 10-year-olds. Good plan, Dad.

SPEAKER_06 34:47

Your dad just kind of like gives you like a proper glare. You can see Joe basically is looking at you as well and says, Do you want to cut dad some slack? And in fact, Joe pushes you like in the shoulder. Punch him in the shoulder. Quit it. Your dad says, Cut it out, both of you. Says, we'll have a conversation. And he just basically points at you and he basically storms out. Your mum sort of like calls after him and she kind of like wanders after. You can hear him go to the car, and your mum and your dad go outside to have a conversation. Joe kind of looks looks at you glaringly while the rest of them are all sort of looking.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

So so guys, what should we do? We have to make a plan. Because dad's plan is bullshit.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

I would agree, but we can just say we're saying at the hideout. We've done that before. That's not weird.

SPEAKER_03 35:43

H how badly do we want to get into the loop? I'd say pretty badly. I'm not sure about like getting us all in. But I have a plan that might get some of us in. I'm all ears. Well, if someone can distract your dad for a wee while just now, a couple of people could like sneak into the back of his car, hide in the boot, and while he's off doing not getting anything done, some other people could do that. We also have the good doctor's security pass, which should probably open a few doors. And your dad said roughly, well, I think we'd maybe have a quick chat with him and get him to tell us where exactly the physic building is.

SPEAKER_06 36:41

One of the few things that he splurged on when he came to Sweden. We might all fit then. So you could potentially all get into the back of the pickup truck, cover yourself over with a sheet. Or the top that's in the back.

SPEAKER_03 36:53

That's a great idea. Alright. I will have to go make a phone call, so someone will have to go distract your dad for a while while the other people get in the back.

SPEAKER_02 37:06

Well, he's distracted already, right? With Anthony's mother.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

But we also don't know where the doctor's lab is. I think he said he knew, but he hasn't said where that is, I don't think.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

Within the loop, you mean? Yeah. Well, I mean, some of it we're just gonna have to play by ear, right? As the grown-ups say. We sneak into the back of the truck and under the tarp.

SPEAKER_06 37:31

Well, you you basically go outside when you kind of have a look out the window, and you can see that your mum and your dad are having a conversation just away from the truck and away from sort of like the front door, so they can kind of talk privately without all of you listening, which gives you ample opportunity to sneak into the truck.

SPEAKER_02 37:51

All right.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

Which can I make my phone call before we go?

SPEAKER_02 37:55

And let's remember we have luck points that we can use after a failed die roll. Indeed. Uh-huh. This might be one of those times when we want to use it.

SPEAKER_06 38:04

Maybe one of your prides might be helpful, you know. Use that if you think your pride might help to get an automatic success. So, this is a good old-fashioned sneak roll. If you think there's a way that you can do this to make it easier for yourselves, you wanna give me a bit of a blag, you may go ahead and try.

SPEAKER_02 38:27

Ooh, I'm scared. I have a condition of scared. Is that still in play from last session? It is, it is still, yeah, still in play.

SPEAKER_04 38:35

Right. Let me try to make this roll here. Can I help or support him in any way? How would you help or support him? Try to distract the dad or try to do something to help?

SPEAKER_02 38:49

You Well, I I could put my Walkman on and play my favorite song. Would that give me Walkman is my iconic item.

unknown 38:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

That that gives me a bonus, right?

SPEAKER_06 39:02

Well, so it'll help you get your condition back. So that's what that will be for. Okay, so it removes the condition. And that's fine, you can kind of listen to your music.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Yeah, I mean the one staying behind, perhaps, like Sven and Susie, we could we could easily just distract.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Like I'm gonna make a phone call so I could do something in the house.

SPEAKER_06 39:21

Okay, yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

Distract people.

SPEAKER_06 39:23

Okay. Well, in that case, what what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do to distract more? To distract mum and dad?

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Start smoking in the house. Well, there's one very obvious thing that has come up. Which is there's a big picture of lemonade that's in a glass thing. There is. That makes a very noisy thing if it probably falls on the floor. That's not true. Mrs. Russo will be like, what the frick are these kids doing in the house?

SPEAKER_06 39:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:51

That's it. Well that that would be I do, but I have to make the call first. So I'll do if I do that, I'll do that afterwards.

SPEAKER_06 39:56

Okay, well, are you all gonna wait for a phone call from Johannes?

SPEAKER_02 40:01

No, Anthony's just gonna Anthony's just gonna go. I thought you might do that.

SPEAKER_06 40:05

Okay, so if you're gonna go before Johannes tries to help you, you just make a sneak roll. If you want to do it outside or after Johannes basically makes a distraction, you get plus two dice.

SPEAKER_02 40:18

I have one success. Okay. I put my headphones on, I play synchronicity too by the police. Yep.

SPEAKER_06 40:26

Well, it turns out that Anders and Anthony managed to uh sneak into the back of the pickup truck. What about Sven and Susie?

SPEAKER_05 40:34

We are staying behind, right? Susie, are we staying behind? You're staying behind? No. We are going in. Are we gonna fit?

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Don't split the back of the pickup truck. It's in the pickup truck, yeah. We're gonna fit. I'm sneaking out then. Yeah, come on. So we just leave Johannes behind.

SPEAKER_05 40:52

He'll be okay. Well, in that case, well, let's say that they went before and we were kind of covering the exit and trying to be you know protecting them and telling them. And then I will tell Susie, okay, Susie, go now. I will go after.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

Go on, Susie. Use your luck point. I don't have any, I'm 15. Sugar honey iced tea, really?

unknown 41:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:18

Yeah, you're the one who has the lockpoint. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. Perhaps I can roll if and if I get extra successes, can I help her? Well, depends because I'm very good at the sneaking things.

SPEAKER_06 41:29

It depends when you decide to sneak. Is it before or after Johannes decides to smash the um glass? No, no, I'm helping Susie.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

Okay, of course. On page 68, it says that you can buy effects if you roll more successes than you need. And the effects are described for each skill. So let's just look at what the sneak skill says. Let's have a look.

SPEAKER_06 41:51

Give success to another kid, you find something unexpected. Okay. Go on then, make a sneak roll. Great. So you can put yourself in.

SPEAKER_05 42:00

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 42:03

Push it. Hey, plus one success. Ray. Good job.

SPEAKER_05 42:09

Cool. Did I get anything wrong bad about it when I pushed? Well, how does it push the shot?

SPEAKER_06 42:16

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_05 42:17

I'm just upset with Susie. Like, what the heck, Susie? You had one job. One job. I was I was covering for you. One job and just grab her from the neck and just pull her up the pickup truck. And I just get in behind her. I'm very upset with you now, Susie.

SPEAKER_06 42:33

So that just leaves Johannes, who uses Anthony's phone to make a phone call.

SPEAKER_03 42:38

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 42:38

Okay, who are you phoning?

SPEAKER_03 42:40

I'm going to phone my good friend Dr. Hurt. Hunt, hunt. Holt. Holt, that's the word.

SPEAKER_06 42:49

Okay. You phone the number. It rings. It rings. It rings. And it rings. There's no answer.

SPEAKER_03 42:58

So she's not doing they're waiting for the phone call, like she said. Okay. I will is there a message of answering machine? Uh there's an answer machine, yes. Okay. I will leave a message then. What's the message? The message will be this is the Associate of Doc Mr. White. We have agreed to have the meeting and we're for to exchange Joe for the money and his safety. If you can come alone again, this time definitely come alone. And if you can go to Sparks Sparts Joe Halston, and then go to the end of the road at the far north. Okay. So up by Leftett or Vendelud. Nope, to the right of that. On the other side. So of the Holman.

SPEAKER_06 43:53

Oh there I see I see the on the right hand side of uh Spartian stone.

SPEAKER_03 43:59

So we We'll do the me the meeting there. Okay. And hopefully, Anthony is right about them not being very trustworthy, and they think we have a gun. So they'll probably turn up in like force and try and take Joe.

SPEAKER_06 44:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 44:14

That is my idea. And are you gonna try and sneak in or are you gonna make the distraction? I'm gonna make distraction, so I'm probably just gonna have to run for the vehicle while it's moving. And try and like. Actually, is there much point in even doing the distraction now, everyone? Probably not, everyone's really in. Nah. Then I guess I'll just sneak out the back.

SPEAKER_06 44:34

You can make a you can make a sneak roll for me, please.

SPEAKER_03 44:37

As in, I will literally be rolling pure body of two. Do you have any luck points? I do have a single luck point. That's handy. Which I will now spend.

unknown 44:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

So what do I do for that? Is that a re-roll or is it just all mag?

SPEAKER_02 44:52

Push. No, it's not a max success, isn't it? Or is it a push?

SPEAKER_06 44:56

No, you you push it. One second. It's been a while since we used the luck, so.

SPEAKER_03 45:02

I know, yeah. Mark was the only Anthony's the only one who has a decent pool of it. I th I only have one, I think. You're the luck, young one.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

You can you can a luck point lets you lets you re-roll failed dice without needing to push.

SPEAKER_03 45:14

Yes. Okay, so I can just roll them all again. Because I failed every single one of those. Cool then. If not, I'm not gaining this back, this pickup, and I'm off for my excellent adventure that me and Ed will record separately as such. You can do it when I go to bed.

SPEAKER_06 45:29

Oh no, I am on my own too. Oh, yeah, so you kind of like make your way towards the um the truck, and as you do, your uh Anthony's dad, or in fact, Anthony's mum sees you sort of like making your way towards the truck, and she says, Johannes, is it? Yes. Could you manage to get hold of your mum?

SPEAKER_03 45:51

No, I was just going to pop back and let her know. Anthony was just about to start playing some DD, and it really sounded boring. So I was just gonna go back and let her know.

SPEAKER_06 46:04

Okay. Alright then, well, I'll uh I'll I'll I'll see you at some point soon, I suppose.

SPEAKER_03 46:10

Anthony and that they uh they asked not to be disturbed.

SPEAKER_06 46:14

She says uh uh okay.

SPEAKER_03 46:17

Something about breaking immersion.

SPEAKER_06 46:20

The truck starts starts up and starts to reverse and then starts to do a three-point turn in the driveway. And Anthony's mum says, Okay, well, I'll see you maybe tomorrow. And she goes back in the house as the truck starts to move off out of the driveway.

SPEAKER_03 46:39

Run Johannes, run, Johannes, run, make a move roll. Well, I will just take off like running and hope I don't get spotted.

SPEAKER_06 46:47

Well, do you want to make a move roll for me, please?

SPEAKER_03 46:49

It's gonna be the exact same because I literally have nothing in body skills, it's just pure body. I guess you'd best be making that roll then. I I I if now if I had to talk my way into this vehicle, I'd be sorid.

SPEAKER_06 47:00

Does does Anders or Sven wanna like kind of extend a hand out the back to try and grab him or anything like that? Or you can have use force, I guess. No, you just it just gives uh Johannes an extra dice.

SPEAKER_03 47:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 47:15

Just one dice, is it? I don't know. It depends. Pete, are you also gonna be helping?

SPEAKER_03 47:19

Yeah, I suppose yeah.

SPEAKER_06 47:21

Get two dice, they both put their hands out going, come on.

SPEAKER_07 47:24

Yeah. And as as it pulls up at the junction to turn, we both try to grab him. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:32

And if Fallout fails, there's probably a skateboard in the front lawn you could use to follow the car. Yeah, but you don't have to run all the way back to get that.

SPEAKER_06 47:45

Look at that. That was scary. Yeah, you as as as the pickup truck starts to pull away, you basically launch yourself. Both Sven and Anders grab your arms and pull you into the back of the pickup truck and throw the um top back over you. So you're all now hiding under the pickup truck top, and you hear the roar of the American pickup truck as it drives off away from Anthony's home, heading, presumably, towards the loop.

SPEAKER_05 48:17

And I leave the smoke. This is what stressful. You're just hotboxing it.

SPEAKER_06 48:23

Yeah, I was about to say, it's probably a bad idea, as you're all sort of laying down in the uh in the back of the uh the pickup.

SPEAKER_02 48:29

And to get a ciggy. You'll have to like blow that smoke out from under the tarp. I will actually blow it into your face.

SPEAKER_06 48:38

I'll kick you in the shins. And the truck starts to slow down, and for a second you think you've been heard. I'm like, shh, shh, Sam, put that cigarette out! And then the truck stops, and then it turns. You're like, oh thank god, and then it starts to speed up. And it appears that you're on your way to the loop.