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The Time That Shouldn't Be S2 E12: A Tales from the Loop Actual Play
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To save Joe and the world, the kids must choose among three dangerous options: shut down the time machine, stabilize it, or overload it and risk a temporal shockwave. But when one of them uncovers a chilling truth, the choice becomes far more complicated.
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SPEAKER_01Hi. Episode 12 of Tells of the Loop, season two. We've got Sol playing Susie, who is Whoa, I'm first this time? Yeah, I know.
SPEAKER_05I'm not really last. You've thrown me off.
SPEAKER_01I know, it's great.
SPEAKER_05I'm playing Susie.
SPEAKER_01Currently floating through the air. We have Pete playing Anders, currently running through the water. We've got Tony playing Sven, also currently running through the water. Exactly. We have Johannes. Wait, I see a theory here played by Douglas.
SPEAKER_03Remember that one session we had a wee while back where we did no rolls? Can we go back and do that? What's that? The one where there's no rolls? That session we had where we didn't do any rolling. Can we just go back to that? Because rolling is not helping us.
SPEAKER_01Also running through the water. And as always, my bestest bud in the world. Or at least my bestest co-host of the world. Marco! Hi. Hello. Hello. Hi.
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SPEAKER_01Hi. Hi, I'm Ant. I'm a little boy. Yes. Hopefully there'll be there'll be no playing with all tokens, no writing like, you know, your mum or whatever it was that was Marco. Marco was here. No, Ant was here. Was he? It's fine.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, he was just writing on the floor of the lab. Ant was here.
SPEAKER_01Ant is currently shouting at the rest of them that they need to like think about what they're going to do because, you know, what's going on, etc. Which is where we left off last time. Which is where we're going to start. You are having a go at the others who are running, who want to run away after seeing the security officer attack one of the scientists or whatever they are, while another scientist you've never met before is kind of looking a gog at those two having a fight. You're also joined by Joe, Ant's brother, who has been jumping around through time and space. Played by NPC. Played by NPC slash Ed. It's the best work I've done. Okay, right, so I'm gonna throw it back to you guys. Arguing in a watery hallway in the loop, deep underground, about 30 levels down, in a subsection of the loop.
SPEAKER_02Think about this, guys. They they help they they they they knocked that guy out for a reason. They're helping us. Helping us leave. No, we're not leaving until we until we until we save Joe. You want to leave, Johannes? Then you know the way out. And that goes for the rest of you. But we don't even know what to do.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I've been asking you, and you guys don't know what to do.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and now there's this this these people here that that we could ask. Well Who? The security guard? No, the the that lady over there standing by the door with the scientist coat on.
SPEAKER_03Uh she works with Dr. Holt. What makes what do you think makes her more trustworthy than Dr. Holt who agreed to help us?
SPEAKER_02We can at least ask her. Or, you know, you could just sit at home and wait for the world to end.
SPEAKER_05What's we're gonna have snuck into this place and then just sort of floating down. Gonna snuck into this place and then what? Flee? Run? Get out of here? Go back to Friday every day for the rest of our lives?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, what's what Susie said. I don't know, Jaboy, you guys, but you know, what are we gonna do then? You don't know how to use this machine, you don't know how to stop Joe from jumping around.
SPEAKER_02So But I bet that lady over there might and we can ask her.
SPEAKER_04So go ask.
SPEAKER_02Go ask. Off you got me.
SPEAKER_01She looks at all of you, looks at the sort of fight that's happening in front of her, and she sort of like wands in your direction. Hey lady. Hey, hey.
SPEAKER_02Hi, she says I'm Joe's brother. Well, you're Joe's brother. Yeah, I'm like subject 15. The one you guys rejected. She looks you. So do you know how to fix Joe? Because if you don't, then you're no use to us. It's a yes or no question. I can shut the gate down. Is that gonna fix Joe? It might do, yeah. Okay, can you do it, please? Shore.
SPEAKER_05We don't wanna be here any more than you want us here. We just want this over. She looks at you what's going on.
SPEAKER_02We've been living Friday for like days now, and the world is gonna end if you don't fix this. So why don't you fix this, lady, scientist lady? She pushes up her glass, she goes, What was that like?
SPEAKER_01Multiple Fridays.
SPEAKER_02It sucks. Now can you please? I would like to watch my Saturday morning cartoons. Oh, oh, okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01She looks at you all and goes. Sh sure? She sort of like points back to sort of like the double doors. May mate mate can can go this go this way, she says, and she sort of like stumbles back towards the door.
SPEAKER_02I'm not gonna go in, but I'll I'll stand in the doorway and watch her.
SPEAKER_01She sort of like looks down and says to uh Anders, who has basically got the who's got Olaf on his face and is dragging him into sort of like the um into the middle of the room.
SPEAKER_05The the security guard and is not P. Anders.
SPEAKER_02Security guard Anders, not not Pete Anders. I say to him, hey, can you can you just throw him into that time transporter thing?
SPEAKER_03He kind of looks back at you and says, no kid, no. Why don't you lock him in that um deep was it decompression cabinet thing over there? Uh we can put him in there. Can you help me? He's a big guy.
SPEAKER_01He he says, Sven. He says, thank you, thank you. So?
SPEAKER_04What do we mean?
SPEAKER_02I think coming he's he's back coming here, he's coming here. Yes. Why?
SPEAKER_01I I I I can't tell you. He says But he won't be he w he'll be long very shortly.
SPEAKER_05Why can't you tell him? It's his family.
SPEAKER_01He looks at you sort of like you're confused, like, why do I have to explain myself to a bunch of children? He he he kind of like looks at the weird sort of like tube like dead thing. Um he's sort of like trying to figure out how to open it all or anything. He he basically leans over to you, Sven, and says, Your your dad's he's gonna be able to help us. The janitor is gonna help us? You don't hear this, he's basically like leaning over to Sven pretty quietly. Says, he's gonna help us, your dad's gonna help us. But he's still like trying to figure out how to open up this thing. Meanwhile, the um the woman is going over to one of the consoles and she starts uh inputting some stuff into the console. The woman. The woman, because no one's asked her name.
SPEAKER_02Um inconsiderate children.
SPEAKER_01Mean, honestly. What's the world coming to in the 1980s, honestly? All this punk stuff and heavy metal, it's all gonna either ruin us them all, that's what it's gonna be. Okay. She's doing her thing that leaves some of you to be standing around. But I'm I'm helping Anders not, but you're helping you're helping you're helping Anders trying to get him into this like things. You've you've kind of you're trying to figure out how to open this thing, and it's not straightforward.
SPEAKER_02So now that Savannah's inside the room and I'm seeing that like it doesn't look shady, I'll step into the room. I don't know, where is Joe with me or is Joe already in the room? Uh Joe's with you.
SPEAKER_01Yes, he's telling you kind of.
SPEAKER_02So I'll be like, I think I think we can trust them. And I I go back into the room.
SPEAKER_01Okay. You always were a better judge of characters than I was. Okay, Janus, what are you up to?
SPEAKER_03Let me think. Everything seems to be fine here, and Anthony's been annoying him recently. Stuff it. They they don't need my help here, apparently, because these people are trustworthy. So I'll I'll go check that stasis room that I was interested in because nobody's interested. Apparently, I'm not nobody needs my advice anymore. I'm just gonna go somewhere else. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm a half. I'm gonna go such.
SPEAKER_01And Pete Anders, what are you doing?
SPEAKER_00Anders, oh, I'm nursing my sore arm, and I see that Johannes is heading off somewhere. Obviously, there's a scheme afoot here, so I'm gonna follow him.
SPEAKER_03He always has a plan.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, we'll deal with you two all before we do the gay room. You make your way down through the corridor opposite the security room, and you go into this room. Down in the bottom left-hand corner, it's called the stasis room. As you go in, you can see that there is a couple of sort of like workstations to the right of the room as you kind of go in. There's filing cabinets, you can also see sort of like a gurney, sort of like a couple of tables with a whole bunch of sort of things on there, like kind of medical equipment. On the on the far side, you can see what looked like two pods, a bit like the one that you saw in the other one, but they have got these two large pieces of machinery which they seem to be connected to, and there's this low hum coming from them. As you sort of like go into the room, you also see to your left-hand side two mortuary tables. Two mortuary tables? Indeed. Tables with lights above them, and they're made of metal, and they have plug holes in them.
SPEAKER_03As soon as we were out of ear short, Janice would have started mouthing off about Anthony to Anders, being like, I were doing all this for him and his brother, and what the thanks we get. He seems to think he knows better than everyone else and who we can trust and whatnot. I it was my idea to come here and do all this sort of thing. He'd still be back in this sort of thing. Thank you.
SPEAKER_01Goddamn Americans coming over to our country.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. Taking over. You agree with me, Anders, don't you?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he's he's a kid with an imagination.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, let's have a look. What more? Uh some plug holes and sinkholes in this bed. What do we ask for? Oh, and there's this some of those tanks. What does Joe call them? D decompression?
SPEAKER_01Wander towards them, Save. Yeah, you you go wander towards them. Yeah, you can see Joe's in one, and Joe's in another one.
SPEAKER_00What? Johannes, you should come and see this.
SPEAKER_03Okay, let's uh oh. This complicates matters. Do we have the right Joe?
SPEAKER_01Is there any sort of badge names on this the tanks?
SPEAKER_03No, subject 14 is what it says on the uh they both say subject 14, not like 14.1.2.
SPEAKER_01No, no, they both say subject fourteen. Yeah. On a little kind of like card that's just been sort of like slotted in. Okay. And what is the am I I'm guessing I'm bad in his room? You are no, you're in the other room. You're sorry. You're trying to like get the guy into sort of you eventually can't say different chamber. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I don't know. Maybe maybe there's something that explains this written down, maybe around here.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, maybe we should make sure Anthony doesn't come in here.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because maybe one of these is his real brother. Maybe the one we have's not actually that's a thought.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, there's a there's a couple of uh computers, there's, you know, a bunch of paperwork and stuff, there's two filing cabinets in the far corner. There's a sort of like a a tray of medication and various other things behind the doors. Okay. The the kind of large structures on either side of the bed uh on the kind of stasis beds we'll call them, have computers on and they seem to be kind of recording temperature and that sort of stuff. There's a whole bunch of like like pressure things, and there's all these sort of like bars and pie charts and stuff on them.
SPEAKER_03Well, you know what this means, Anders. Even if we manage to get them to turn off and like let Joe go, they're just gonna start again with one of these Joes. No wonder they're so laissez-faire about like letting our Joe go. They've literally got multiple copies. Or the real one.
SPEAKER_00How do you reckon Anthony would feel about having two more brothers?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's one hell of a DD group right there. Yeah. Let's see if we can figure out which one of these which one's the real Joe. I'll go and have a look at that final gabinet.
SPEAKER_00Is there any way we can get him out of there? Huh.
SPEAKER_03I think there's computer screens next to them. Maybe there's like a wake up button or turn off.
SPEAKER_00I'll I'll wander over and have a look at the uh control panels and things.
SPEAKER_02Hopefully you're you're better at control panels than you are at doors. Doors.
SPEAKER_01Could you please make a program roll for me, please? While you're doing that, let's go back to the other room because that's kind of fun. Eventually, Sven, that's a no for Anders. You and MPC Anders managed to get this chamber open and you manage to stuff Odof into it. It's a tight squeeze, but you get him in and you sort of like shut the thing and he pushes a button and it seems to seal it. And we'll ask him, okay, Anders, what's going on?
SPEAKER_04What's really going on?
SPEAKER_01We are we want to put a stop to all this nonsense. Good, like us. Yeah. And your your dad he kind of looks at the others who are all kind of looking at Singya or kind of like have wandered out of the room, whatever, says your uh your dad recruited me to uh keep an eye on stuff. But but my dad is a janitor. He smiles and says, Your dad is not a janitor. He's just pretending to be a janitor.
SPEAKER_02Right. Your dad is a spook.
SPEAKER_01Says um I'm I'm sure he'll he'll be able to explain it, I'm sure. I'm I I it's not really my place to to say, but yeah, I think um he'll be able to tell you. He'll be able to tell you.
SPEAKER_04I'm taking it because we we need to stop this. So we need to get Joe to stop jumping and repeating Fridays. Um what?
SPEAKER_01Oh, sure. He says, Okay. You and him kind of like wander over to where Susie and Ant and Signor is, who's like basically typing things into a thing. There's a whole bunch of code going in, and she's basically typing in a bunch of things. If you Susie, I think you uh have got you you can you know programming and stuff, so you can see what she's doing. Yeah, so she's kind of like going through the whole process, and essentially, this is something that you are gonna have to make as a group, a decision to make as a group. Essentially, there's three things that you can do with this. You can either your first option is to shut down the gate, you can overload the gate, or you can stabilize the gate, because it's saying that the gate is not stable currently. The other three things that you potentially can do.
SPEAKER_02What happens if we overload the gate?
SPEAKER_01So if you overload the gate, she says a temporal shockwave will probably rip through the facility. We may experience memory loss, aging, a timeline bleed, I don't know, something like that.
SPEAKER_02Can you like talk in English, lady? I mean Swedish.
SPEAKER_01She says she says, um, I'll talk plainly. If we overload the gate, uh tempor no. It'll blow up. It'll blow up. And probably we might be affected by the the shock wave that hits. A thing might become unstable for a bit, but we'll have closed the gate permanently. It'll be gone. We'll damage the machine, we won't be able to use it again.
SPEAKER_04I think that's the best way to stop this from happening again.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I I I don't know what will happen to your brother.
SPEAKER_02I mean. Whoa, wait a minute. What do you mean you don't know what would happen?
SPEAKER_01I think you'll be fine. Uh whereas if we shut down the gate, then there's a sort of like 50-50 chance that your brother might get pulled back to whichever timeline he is from whenever this started. Or it might just change him. I I don't know. Or the other option is to stabilize the gate. Your brother will be stable and he won't jump again, but then the thing will continue to be done, and I guess there'll be more things happening, more experiments happening, and more more kids like your brother being taken. She looks really forlorn. I don't really I don't really think that's an I don't know if that's an option, but it's probably the best way to save your brother. But it means that the Rick's energy will have access to everything that's going on. I don't understand. But none of that might happen. I I but I I I I get a sense that might be. Karen doesn't seem to think so, but I mean Karen's the one that caused all this in the first place. Wait, who's Karen? Oh Dr. Holt, she says.
SPEAKER_02Oh, the one Johannes spoke to. Yeah, he's a real good judge of character.
SPEAKER_01She's trying to repair something, and I think she's not going to be doing it correctly. I I I I I I worry. Well, I don't know. She looks over at the other Anders, and she says, How how do you uh how do you you okay? And uh the other Anders says, Yep, no, we we're fine. And he kind of like slaps Sven on the back.
SPEAKER_02What do we do? What do we do, guys? I don't understand.
SPEAKER_04I think we need to make this thing explode so this doesn't happen again. That would be my vote.
SPEAKER_02Would that be your vote if your brother was on the line? Yes.
SPEAKER_05Uh why are you why are you giving us these options? Shutting Well, it's your brother.
SPEAKER_01She says. Well, not your brother, she points at me.
SPEAKER_05I guess I I just want to know what what's your stake in this? Why are you here?
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm I'm with him. She points at at the other Anders. The security guard Anders. I I I don't want this to continue. If it was me, I I would I would overload the gate. I think you're bumping ugly, Susie.
SPEAKER_05I'm not sure what that means, but I look, it it's it it's your brother, it's your family, and yes, we're all mixed up in this timey whimey bullshit, but Susie said a bad word. Ultimately it's It's it's I defer whatever this democratic vote is to whatever you want to do, Anthony.
SPEAKER_02But I don't know what I want to do. I don't want Joe to get hurt. Joe, what do we do?
SPEAKER_05Joe says, I don't really want to get hurt, but I guess Said it was a chance, right? Not not 100%.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a chance.
SPEAKER_02I I'm scared. Why don't we roll for it? Like a percentile? If you've got it.
SPEAKER_01Ah, I've got I've got two two D10s. Joe looks to you and says, I guess I just want to go home. I'm just not really sure.
SPEAKER_02Well if it sends you if it sends you back to your time, then will that change? Will that mean that we never came to Sweden? Don't know. Will it I look at the lady and I'm like, Will will it change?
SPEAKER_01She looks at you and says, our history? I know nothing about time travel or how that works.
SPEAKER_02So how do you know how to use this machine? A computer programmer. Is that why you wear that lab coat?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So you're not really a scientist. Well, I'm a computer scientist, she says.
SPEAKER_03Very kind of like That's not a thing. Why am I I'm overloading the machine now, fuck you. Um, guy.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, like thanks for helping us, but who the fuck are you?
SPEAKER_03She says if we did act three, we'd know who she was.
SPEAKER_01She sort of like looks at you sort of like disparagingly. Meanwhile, the other Joes in the other room. Yes. You are looking for information around those Joes, right?
SPEAKER_06Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Can you please make an investigate roll? Look at me making you making rolls at the last part of I specifically asked you not to make me make my rolls.
SPEAKER_03That's okay, you don't have to make a roll. You could use a pride. You could just never find out what's going on. This isn't Call of Cthulhu where finding out things is bad.
SPEAKER_01Look at that. That's a success. One is all you need, my friend. One is all you need.
SPEAKER_02All you need is one. One is all you need.
SPEAKER_00One is all you need. One is all you need. This is why Marco does the singing and I do not.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, you start to sort of like have a look around and you kind of see that one of the one of the computers is is sort of like uploaded and stuff, and you start sort of looking through that. Um so you and you and Anderson basically trying to figure out what it is that you're looking for. And it turns out that there is a whole bunch of data and information which is about these two Joes. It appears that the first Joe that that's there was put into this cryo sleep, as they call it, approximately ten years ago. And the other one was put into cryosleep about a year and a half ago.
SPEAKER_03Now, remind me, Ed, how long did Anthony say his brother was gone?
SPEAKER_01A year, year and a half. Definitely not ten years ago.
SPEAKER_03Ten years ago. Wait, how long has the Kate project been going on? Do we know that?
SPEAKER_01I thought anyone should have been going on. That has never been a question that's been asked before.
SPEAKER_02No. I know I'm not here, but I'm just dying to know. Do those two Joes in that in those chambers, do they look like the same age? Wow.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Okay. If we do they look is there any sort of like noticeable like scars or anything that makes them look different?
SPEAKER_01If you kind of like stare into the sort of like slightly cold-looking capsules.
SPEAKER_02Does does one have a goatee?
unknownA pipe.
SPEAKER_01One's got a pipe and grey hair. No, they look exactly the same. They've got some like scratches and stuff on both of them, and like, you know, things that obviously haven't quite healed. But yeah. So there are differences between them, but not enough to go, well, this one's like 30 years old, and this one's eight years old.
SPEAKER_03They're definitely not the exact same guy, yeah.
SPEAKER_01No. Did it say why they were put in crynostasis? They were unstable and this is where they were placed. Oh. As you kind of like go through the information. Oh, I'm happy to do this. Um yeah, you as you go through the as you go through the the information, you can it it it seems that it this is according to their logs, the 18th and 27th Joe. It appears that they have been jumping around. They they they thought that one was Joe 1. The first time they they ever met this Joe was when they it happened way back 10 years ago. But it turns out that that was not the first one, that was Joe 18 or whatever. And but they don't go into any great detail more than just like a brief summary of that. And they've obviously got the dates, one from 1970 something.
SPEAKER_03So these were Joes who were already showing symptoms of instability and were put into cryo for their own and the safety of others, I assume. I'd just turn to Anters and just be like, well, that's a bit of a bombshell.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So the one from 10 years ago traveled back in time?
SPEAKER_03Must be. But he's already Joe 18 by that point, by the looks of it. So they're all we don't even know if the one we've got is even Joe number one. These guys could technically be more legitimate Joes than them. Closer to one. Does it say how high the Joes up went up to in the end?
SPEAKER_01It's not like it's not 18 of 403 or anything like that, it's just 18 of nine. Yeah. It's not seven of nine.
SPEAKER_03Nice. It's just these are the ones that they have put into the stasis fields at some point. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Doors behind you open. Have you ever met Sven's dad? I think I have. I think you have to.
SPEAKER_03Wasn't he pointing a gun at me at one point when he got like a in the basement of the factory? He had an implant in him and he pointed a gun at me.
SPEAKER_01Indeed, that is correct. You have met Sven's dad. Well, you turn around and you see that Sven's dad has a gun. And then he looks at you and says, Johannes? He just kind of freezes. He says, Where's Sven? He just kind of points. Thank you. Back down the corridor. He basically walks away through the doors back towards wherever you go.
SPEAKER_03Antlers, do you still have that gun?
SPEAKER_00No. Why is Mr. Larson got a gun?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. He had one last time when we the robots out of control of him, but I don't think that was necessarily a thing he had on him all the time.
SPEAKER_00Maybe we should follow.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, let's uh follow them back. Imagine Anthony wants to know about his other brothers.
SPEAKER_01Um Sven's dad kind of looks at the weird, like floating debris, walks past it, and heads straight towards the gate room. Doesn't look around, he looks like he knows where he's going. And you're all kind of like debating what to do with with the gate, and Sven's dad comes in. And Sven's dad kind of looks around and then goes straight over to Sven. Sven! So Sven, and he basically he gives you a massive hug. He says, I'm glad you're safe.
SPEAKER_04Me too that you are safe too.
SPEAKER_01He looks at Anders, not Pete, and they kind of like have a quick chat, and then he says, Thanks for getting here so soon. What have you done with Olaf? Anders says, He's in the compression chamber thingy. Alright, okay. Right, well, he looks over to Sinia. She says, uh, hey, uh, how are you doing? Yeah, I'm good, thanks. We need to get out of here. We need to uh shut this down and we need to leave. He uh takes his rucksack off and he drops it down by the uh yellow hash markers. You can see some wires and stuff sticking out of the rucksack. And he says, now, what are we doing? What are the what what are those wires?
SPEAKER_02It's a bomb. Sven Sven, your dad has a backpack bomb. He's like a terrorist janitor.
SPEAKER_04Okay, so are we shouting or exploding this thing? Getting out. He says get out. Anthony.
SPEAKER_01Looks he looks at Signia and then looks, and she kind of like shrugs her shoulders and says, Right, we need to know what we're gonna do. He looks over at Joe, says, Joe, what do you want to do? Uh Joe says, I'm not really sure. Obviously, I I I wanna I wanna make sure everything's okay. I mean, I I I I I wanna kind of like he steps closer to to Anthony. So obviously I want my brother to be okay. That's the but that's the first thing. I I I don't want anything bad to happen to him. I I guess maybe if we What would happen if we left the the gate open and stabilised and then we set the ball off? That means that I'll be fine, but we'll damage the the facility? Synya kind of looks says that's a possibility, I guess. She looks over at you, Anthony, and says, I guess that's a different option. So now we've got the fourth option.
SPEAKER_03At this minute, Janice walks through the door and goes, This is all very well and good, but what about uh the other Joes? Mr. Lawson, what about them? Everyone kind of looks over and goes, What other Joes? Oh, you said you're working on this thing. Surely you've been into the stasis room before. It's literally just down the corridor. Looking dead at her to see if there's any sort of reaction where she's like, fudge. Signor goes, Ah, fudge.
SPEAKER_02She kind of goes, were you lying? Were you lying? No, no, I'm not lying.
SPEAKER_03They've got two more Joes in tanks back down in stasis. I'd kick her in the shins. Joe 18 and uh 19, I believe. Anders, was that right? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well well how was that even thinking?
SPEAKER_00Sorry.
SPEAKER_02No, go ahead.
SPEAKER_00I I was gonna say, Anders, suddenly a a thought strikes him and he he goes back up the corridor to look in those other rooms. Having having seen two extra Joes, he wonders if there's any more.
SPEAKER_01Okay, you wander about the room. So Synja says, No, no, seriously, you know, obviously you've got your brother, then the other brothers will be gone.
SPEAKER_03Stay here?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I look at Anthony and be like I guess if you Wait, what did you say? They'll disappear? Well, you know Stay here Stay here.
SPEAKER_01They'll either they'll they'll stay here or they'll they'll they'll no, they're not This is my brother Joe, this is my other brother Joe.
SPEAKER_02They're not gonna stay here. You're not gonna keep these these people hostage. What is wrong with you? Well they're they're better in the shins again.
SPEAKER_01Ah stop that. She says, but you've got what are you gonna do? You're gonna like if you've got Joe, she basically points at Joe who's standing next to you, so then you're fine, right?
SPEAKER_03Well what what makes him any more Joe than the other two Joes?
SPEAKER_02And what makes you think it's okay for you to keep a Joe hostage and experiment on him?
SPEAKER_01Not me! Not me! I want to kind of like stop all this.
SPEAKER_02But you knew about the other Joes and you didn't tell me. And you're asking you're asking me, an 11-year-old kid, what we should do, giving me these options. Joannis is like, what, wait, what now? I almost want to push her into the time stream.
SPEAKER_01She's kind of standing, not on the actual thing. So Sven's dad sort of like goes, there are more of them, and he kind of he he goes to leave, like, out the other room. He don't see them in the room, he walked in, he was just like, huh. No, he saw you guys and then kind of went out. Anders, on the other hand, you make your way where do you want to go? See, you've either can go to the observation room, there's the security room, and there's holding.
SPEAKER_00Well, the nearest ones are holding, aren't they? So I'll go along and okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you go over to holding. It looks like there are four small cells here. They appear to all be flooded. The doors are partially open. You can see there's like debris and stuff floating around. It looks like some of the beds have been made, some of the beds aren't made. It they just look like there's four separate holding rooms. They're all empty, as you kind of like stick your head in each of them.
SPEAKER_00So that's clear. So the only room I haven't looked in is the observation room then.
SPEAKER_01Or security. You haven't looked at either of those. Right. Yeah. So yeah, you go and look at those. You see Sven's dad basically making his way towards the stasis room. Is anybody else following anyone else? Is everyone splitting around all over the place? Or were you all sort of like staying in the same room as the gate? Okay. You're following your dad? Okay. Anthony is on mute.
SPEAKER_02I'm on mute again. God darn it. Is the time stream the the the image or the view through the time stream is that has that changed or is it still that sort of prehistoric looking?
SPEAKER_01It's exactly the same as it was. What? So you're just gonna stay in the room? Is the scientist lady in the room? He is. She's currently sort of like over here, just piping into the sort of like computer and stuff.
SPEAKER_02Did Sven's dad leave his rucksack in the room? He did. Okay. I'm gonna go over to the rucksack. Okay. Sven just shook his head. I'm I'm rummaging through it.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, so Johannes and Susie, you are both in the room along with not Pete Anders. Um and Sunya, you can see that Anthony is rummaging through the bomb pack.
SPEAKER_03I feel like I missed something, Susie. Everyone seems to be very tense in here.
SPEAKER_05I I just don't know. This this woman just so weird. She's she's sort of accepting of all of this fact and yeah, as we said, giving us the option. I don't know who she is.
SPEAKER_03She's smiling like the option to do what?
SPEAKER_05Well, to do something with the the time portal thingy.
SPEAKER_03I guess I'll look at Lats and be like, oh well.
SPEAKER_02I'll turn around and I'll say, because I I can hear this, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I turn around and I say, we can either stabilize the machine, turn it off, or overload it. Those are the options she gave us. If we overload it, it'll explode and it'll cause some kind of time rupture, but then the device will never be able to be used again. If we stabilize it, it will be able, it will still be able to be used. And if we shut it off, obviously they can just turn it back on again. But and I and I I believe in the overload scenario, something may happen to Joe, but she doesn't know what. But and we may also be affected.
SPEAKER_03Will will stabilizing the gate prevent all these weird temporal anomalies, I think it was.
SPEAKER_01Yes. She'll be able to if the gate become if she stabilizes the gate, the gate will become safe, which means it'll be able to be worked without all the kind of problems. There's a good chance that Joe will be stable, but there'll be a permanent gate left open.
SPEAKER_03But that has that will resolve the temporal issues and the world won't end. Right. Joe will be 190% chance of being okay. I say stabilize it. Because even if we destroy this gate, there's another one in Colorado.
SPEAKER_02I stand up holding the rucksack. Are there two of them or only one? Well, you think there's two? What do you mean I think there's two? Are there two bags or one bag?
SPEAKER_01Well no, there's one, there's one, there's one bag. Sorry. Uh there's potentially a but maybe another another gate, but you don't know. That's something. Right, right, right. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So well, the he went through the Colorado gate originally, apparently.
SPEAKER_02So I will uh stand up holding the rucksack and I say, you know what, Johannes? I agree with you, and I throw the rucksack into the timestream. So that Sven's father can't blow it up.
SPEAKER_01Okay. You throw the rucksack and it goes through a portal and it lands on the grass and the ferns on the other side. And this is how the dinosaurs went extinct.
SPEAKER_02And I said, let's stabilize it to the scientist lady.
SPEAKER_05You heard Anthony, stabilize it.
SPEAKER_02Now she starts tapping away.
SPEAKER_05Or he'll kick you in the shins. It's just like up that out.
SPEAKER_01Sven, you and your dad kind of make your way into the uh into the status room, and your dad kind of looks at Joe 18 and Joe 20, whatever it was. And he kind of gives a big sigh. Okay, we'll just change his things. We'll have to like get them out. Where? Well out of here? Yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna like I'm not gonna blow the place up with two people in here.
SPEAKER_04Wouldn't they go back to their time place? I I I guess so, maybe.
SPEAKER_01I I don't know. We'd have to weigh and see. But what's going on? I thought you were a janitor to some, he basically puts his arm on your shoulder. I've been working with the Swedish authority.
SPEAKER_04So you are what, trying to what are you doing?
SPEAKER_01Are this about people? It's about people, yes. It's about it's Rick's energy is well, has a lot of fingers and a lot of pies, and we want to try and make sure that they are being held accountable for the things they do. And stuff like this, and he kind of like points at the two Joes and he points back towards the rift and stuff, is stuff that just goes too far. I agree, I'm I'm proud of you then. Thank you, son.
SPEAKER_04I just was not expecting this. I thought you were having a hard time, and you were just drinking your life away.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, no. Well, I do like a good drink, but not as bad as you might think. And I'm sorry I put you through that sort of thing, but uh That's all right. It was a very convenient way of being able to be away from work and anyone else. Come, let's go and let's go and get this sorted. As you two cross over from Anders Pete. You go into the security office or you're going to the observation? Uh the observation. Yes, you kind of cross each other. And yeah, you make your way to the observation rooms. There's a small sort of like corner of the um of the room where there's a sort of like setup with a bunch of screens which which are looking at four separate rooms. You can see there's a whole load of things sort of like on the floor, and there's a large crack in the floor of the um of this main room. You can see one of the doors to the observation room is open, and you can see some blood stains on the floor. The other doors appear intact, but the doors are just see-through glass, uh like plexiglass, and you can see inside, they are all empty, and it appears that some of them are in disarray, some of them aren't. It looks like something's happened here, but it's difficult to tell what. But there's definitely no more Joes in here. There's definitely no more Joes in here at all. I'll wander back out again. So as you wander back out, Sven and his dad come back to the main gate. Gate room. And so when Dan goes to find the the rucksack. Well where where's the rucksack? He says.
SPEAKER_02You're not blowing anything up. No, you're right, I'm not.
SPEAKER_01Well, good. I'm glad we agree. He says, uh we do, Anthony. We we very much agree. I'm not really sure. He sort of like turns to he says, Senior, what will happen to the other two Joes? It's like, well, I've already discussed it with Ant and Joe, and they decided that they want me to stabilize it. It's like, okay, but if you stabilize it, then Rick's energy is going to have access to this gate all the time.
SPEAKER_02Well then why don't we stop that by going to the press? Press aren't going to do anything. What about the what about the law? Don't you have a justice system in Sweden? Isn't there a government oversight committee or something? And the people from Rick's energy are all involved in it. And that's the only Let's send them into the Age of the Dinosaurs. Well, how are we gonna do that? Kidnap them.
SPEAKER_01They kidnap Joe. They did? I mean. What would happen if we get the rucksack back and we blow up this room with the still open in the past. He looks at you in that way that adults look at kids when they've done something very wrong, but they just can see it on the screen.
SPEAKER_05Just you can go get it if you want.
SPEAKER_02I'm sure the Tyrannosaurus Rex won't mind.
SPEAKER_01He kind of goes over and looks. There's just a thin veil between you and the the the rucksack on the grass in some like the ferns and stuff. Svenstad does not choose to do that. Okay, well, we need to get out of here then. And I I don't really know what we're gonna be able to do about the other two Joes. Take them with us.
SPEAKER_02Is there a way, like, and I'm speaking to the scientist woman. Yep. She says yes. Is there a way to like, so you stabilize it, but then you lock it so that nobody can use it without a certain like combination or something? Guess you could turn it on. Programmer, can't you do that? I could probably do something like that. I'd just delay things. Well, all we need is a delay until we can figure out how to you know stop them permanently.
SPEAKER_03Anthony, Anthony. This is a corporation. You don't just slay it with like a snake and a dragon. Think of it as a hydra. You cut one head off and another one grows back. See? He has been paying attention.
SPEAKER_01She says, I guess I could put something in to kind of like they'll take a while to like try and What about like a virus? You got some kind of virus or anything?
SPEAKER_02You're the computer programmer, I'm just a kid. Can you make a virus? It's like, well, let's the computer die? I can. That'll take ages. I mean, I can. But I guess you better get started then. Those shins are looking pretty tasty. She looks at you.
SPEAKER_01You see, she's like really angry, but she doesn't she's not really a kind of violent person, so she doesn't really know how to kind of like uh just just stabilize the gate. Okay. That's done. The gate is stable.
SPEAKER_03Now we need to get the Joes out. Okay. You know computers. There was computer screens on the spaces things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, okay. I'm carrying. She's she's she kind of like gets out of this room and then heads towards the um the other.
SPEAKER_02So the gate is stable. Does this mean I'm gonna be able to w wake wake up in the morning and it'll be Saturday? Guess so. She says. You guess so.
SPEAKER_01Does anybody in this stupid loop know anything? She says, this sort of thing is really complicated and probably should never have been done in the first place. This is why people don't mess with this sort of thing. Well, she is. She says, she somebody gets really frustrated and and kicks one of the debris, bits of debris that she kind of walks into the water with. And she says, You, girl, come with me.
SPEAKER_05Where? No. I'm not going anywhere, you're not gonna tell me.
SPEAKER_01To the stasis room. What for? I need you to call out some stuff for me. Okay, sure. She takes you to the stasis room.
SPEAKER_05And Zimmer don't come back. She's taking me. Kill all of my clones.
SPEAKER_01She shakes her head. Yes, sir, Sergeant Susie, sir. And she basically takes you to the room, and then she just gets you to call out some numbers and some letters, and she's trying to match some stuff so she can open both of the Joes and get them out of the cryo seat. It'll take probably about 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Yeah, I mean Susie will do it. She doesn't actually believe that she's gonna get turned into clones, so. Sven's dad's too early for turn, Anthony, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Sven's dad's looking particularly nervous, the fact that you're taking so long to do this. He's like, Well, I'm not gonna leave you all. You you need to make sure that you all need to get out. So I guess we'll wait. Anders, Pete. You make your way to the security office, the last place that you haven't been to. You go to the security office, and you can see that it is quite a threatbear kind of office. There's a large rug on the floor, there is a couch, and on the couch is an NBC suit, like a nuclear biological containment suit. There's a sort of small like fridge in the corner, a dyeing plant in one other part of the room, and some filer cabinets and some various other bits and pieces, and essentially what looks like security monitor feeds. And you can see everyone doing everything on the security monitor feeds. That's all we're recording. And there's also what's left of someone's Chinese meal that they've even strewn across the um the desk.
SPEAKER_00I guess I'll just wander across and sit down in front of the monitors and just absorb what everybody else is doing around. Okay.
SPEAKER_01So 20 minutes later, you end up with the other two Joes on on the gurney and a very nervous-looking Sven's dad. Kind of, okay, now we've got to get all of you out. This is gonna be a nightmare, he says. But I'm sure we can do it. I mean we need some help, like getting the gurney through the water with the other two Joes, which are as who are currently asleep.
SPEAKER_02What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do with two extra Joes? I have no idea, he says. What's my father gonna say? What's your mom say? Your brother. If if it's i if if the time machine is stabilized, does that mean we can go through it safely? What does the scientist have to say? She says, yeah, it's stable. You can cross into the timeline. Is it always anchored into the dinosaur era?
SPEAKER_01It's where it is at the moment. We'd need to figure out how we we never figured out how to change the actual time. That seemed to do it on its own when it was unstable. So that's why it was left unstable. And how do you come back? Well, now that it's stable, you can go through and you can come back. It's like a door, it's open. Whereas before, cool.
SPEAKER_02I'll be right back and he runs back into the room. What? No. No, I got up him.
SPEAKER_01Sven. Don't make a move. Sven and Sven and Anthony both make a move roll for me, please. And oppose move roll. I have two sixes. You got nothing. Nothing. Yeah. You're like, oh, you should have seen that coming. I mean, you can choose to push that if you want to, but no, that's fine.
SPEAKER_04If he wants to disappear in the dinosaur era and never do his thing again, why not?
SPEAKER_01Runs through the waters, you all kind of look at him, dart off. Okay, you run back into the gate room, I assume? Yes, and I go through the time machine. Okay. And Anthony runs through the time machine. That seems like a good place to end.
SPEAKER_02Wow. Okay. I'm going I was before I before I ran through the through the time portal, I did I see the bag with the bomb in it on the other side. So leave that to maybe a C. Because that's why I would have jumped through, is what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01I understand. Yeah, you saw it on the other side.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Yep. Alright. Okay. I'm still not 100% sure how he thinks he's gonna get back.
SPEAKER_02The lady the lady just said it was a door you could walk through back and forth.
SPEAKER_01And you trust the scientist, right?
SPEAKER_02Yes. I kicked her in the shins enough. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, well, well, well. That's uh at the end of a season two. I I I like the the random ending. We'll have to try and see what season three might bring if there is a season three. You never know. But yeah. Any any comments in the uh oh yeah, I think that might mean we can do tales from the flood, maybe. And yeah, we can we can see what happens with that. I know timeline stuff, it's just timey, why me bullshit whimey bullshit. I agree with timey whimey bullshit. If anyone wants to see a season three, then feel free to, and as Marco would say, like, subscribe, and do all that good shit and leave your feedback about whether or not you would like to see it. If you switched off already, fuck ya.