Through the twisting tunnels of the molding maintenance
hallways, the crew has found an Oasis of safety amidst the chaos
of the Wizards games in front of them.
A source of knowledge, the thread to connect the crews.
They have gathered metals. Original crew has faced this
opponent for too long and they have dwindled.
This episode we will hear from Pollen on the happenings within
the mall and follow the crew as they lay a plan to achieve total
victory. I'm Q and this is Wasteland
Pirate Radio WPR bringing you the uncut airwaves from the
blasted wastelands. Well, see I.
But we love. But we love Craig.
And we will always love Craig. But I don't.
Remember this, Grace loves Craig and I want to have for you to
have mercy upon me if ever the robots do take.
Over the robot, over Lord. Well done.
Craig, I've always thought you were so handsome and cool.
Hello everybody and. Welcome.
To dungeons drive ins and dice Arcade Apocalypse this season
utilizing the Powered by the Apocalypse system to tell the
stories of the citizens of Tedville and their quest to
return the good good wets to its good good peoples.
I'm M and this season I am the master of ceremonies.
That's what they call it the mulk.
Our question of the day is going to be if you had like a mundane
daily use spell, what would that be for your your real life feel
like I was thrown to a recent anime.
I watched free Rin that like a several of the like pickups they
get are mundane spells like cleaning the pots and the pans
and like my favorite and that's probably the one I would use 10
10 is the like removal of stains from clothing.
That's it. That's all it would do because
then I wouldn't worry so much about like dropping like if I.
Need to get down on my knees to load.
The fridge or like do this exactly I'm just going to wipe
hands napkin whom yeah that would 100% and then I daily use
fucking spell my whole pile of clothing that I used as my pants
napkin. I I don't think I'd be a total
animal because I still like want to, I don't know, like if I'm
out to dinner, I'm not just going to like wipe it on myself
because that would be fucking wild It.
Doesn't. Hopefully not with that sound
effect. Yeah, no, I mean, it doesn't
change the social awareness of what I'm doing.
It's mostly for like, I like to wear nice clothing when I do
work, like bartend or things like that, and it's like a drop
of a fucking espresso or whatever when I'm shaking it up.
Like it's going to ruin a lot of shit and you'll find out where I
dropped espresso on me at some point in the night and I'd like
to just build A room with those stains.
Peter Stringer playing Dill, banana man extraordinaire.
Don't know that we have mentioned good, good wets or
peoples in the last few episodes.
I just did, you know, and you know, during the Canon, us, us
the players. Oh, but yeah.
But that's that is the the the mission hasn't changed.
I don't know who the quest is. My quest as soon as, as soon,
as, as soon as we went inside of this bad bubble house, the quest
shifted to get out of this bad bubble house.
Well, yeah, I want to. I want to know about my past.
I. Mean yeah, we've got all sorts
of yeah. Oh no.
But. Yeah.
No, no, no, we've got no. Connections.
Not saying that no paths have grown quack, indeed, I'm saying
that that was the initial reason that we left town.
Anyways. I'll fix it.
I'll include all that. I also first thought best
thought was clean. Obviously it's clean.
There's so much good stuff for clean teeth.
Permanent. Teeth spell the tooth spell.
Fires, but dude, I was really I was actually pretty, pretty
psyched to be going first in the order of good introductions,
because then I could have used clean.
But our good good mock. So other other mundane magic.
When I think of like mundane magic, I sort of think to like
where would magic develop 1st and like around the house is
correct and perhaps like agricultural magic.
I I travel a lot and what that means is that I'm not home very
often. And what that means is that I
fight an endless war here at home with the bugs.
I hate them and I I try and get rid of them whenever I see them
and there's always more. So I would love bug repellent
magic, pest control magic, something on that order.
Would. Be a protection against insects,
not don't. Just.
Just, you know, pest repellent, man.
Like keep them away from my house, away from my garden.
Keep them away. I don't need them.
Wonderful. And my name is Lawrence Jennings
and I play the Delucas Chop House answering machine.
What he does is in his name and his game is throwing knives.
I work with a lot of different kinds of technology from
different ages and so I sort of thought that the magic
technology bent would be kind of fun.
So my brain went to the universal remote.
Very interesting piece of technology that can sometimes be
a giant pain in the ass program. What if my what if my spell was
a universal remote for anything that needs a remote because then
I could just blow, I could just blow people's minds constantly.
Like, oh man, I can't get this TV on.
I'd be like, I need to resize this screen.
I can't get to the menu. I go and I would just do that
constantly. It would save me, I don't know,
like 14 minutes a day maybe. That's pretty good.
Way more, way more because like I feel like a like a light.
Switch is a remote. Sure, sure.
Yeah, why not? Why not?
I mean, I can feel like if you're boiling, if we boil it
down to the the. I can leave my cup of coffee in
the microwave overnight and whenever I wake up I can just
point at the microwave. 14 minutes a day actually sounds
more accurate. I just.
Like that's a lot. That's a lot.
Of time when you cut out the like odds and ends of shit
because like there's been a couple you know I like now that
I'm home I. Can't find my TV remote.
I like have to stand up to walk downstairs and imagine like and
see everything, make sure everything's off.
But if I could just be like off everything off.
I do like a universal on and off.
What I'm thinking about now is like the buttons that you have
on a television or ADVR or whatever are very different from
the buttons that you have on your oven or your dishwasher.
Do the buttons change on this on this as you like?
I just kind of think that I could just like imagine whatever
function I want it to do and it just kind of doesn't.
Oh. OK, it doesn't.
Applicable function. It's, you know, like I can't
rewind an oven probably. Like those movies with Jim
Carrey? Yeah.
No, I think that. I think that is far past mundane
magic at that point. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
And I can't be trusted with that because I would fuck my whole
life up. So I'll just take.
I'll just take no. Time based bullshit.
Oh it's always in the tech anyway, you're fine.
And I am Michael and I play Spigot, the water bearer.
And mine actually has to do with liquid.
I am forever with the beverage and my universal mundane trick
would be to tap any container and it would fill with the
beverage of my choice at the temperature of my choice.
It's not like it's it's not for everyone and I'm not talking
about alcohol and I'm not. I'm just talking about
day-to-day liquid consumption because I drink a lot of water
based liquids and it would be nice to just tap the cup and it
would be full and ready to go. Simple.
World changing magic. Yeah, but it's only.
My Cup. OK.
This. Is not a problem.
It's not that I can. It's not that I could touch the
ocean and turn it into kool-aid. It would be my beverage
container that I could refill. Fair enough.
My soul bound mug. It's.
Like an. Entity Pool.
I'm just so into that. Soul bound coffee cup.
There's always just. Nice.
It's got like a whole animation sequence where you summon it.
I don't even know how Craig is going to record those sounds.
That's like the funnest part of it is that I don't know if it's
coming from your audio line or what.
I don't even know. What you're talking about?
Where to find sound board on this chord?
Google. OK hey you will educate me after
find it on my own. Oh man.
I hope that they don't show up in the recording.
Next that's so couldn't tell you I still.
Should flag y'all for bullying. And who are you?
What? Oh, right, I.
Guess. Sorry, my name is Grace Stringer
and I play pedal. And OK, to be honest, I guess I
didn't see the mundane part because my idea was like Mike's,
but I wanted to push the boundaries.
I wanted to be able to fill anything like my gas tank, like
if I want to make a pond, which I know isn't mundane.
I didn't know the mundane part, but I was like, oh, what if I
could like have mad at somebody, fill their bladder, make them
have to be really bad. That actually sounds like a fire
ass Jojos ability. Anybody.
Can circle back. Fill any container.
Anybody with a hose can make a. Pond I just.
Want I can fill my bank account with all the doubloons I could
ever need. I can fill.
I could take somebody else's to balloons out of their background
and just and dispute. Them with this treasure chest
with treasure. Exactly.
I could drain. I could drain the lake.
Filling. It's definitely not mundane
magic, but it's a no. Idea.
I didn't realize there were limitations.
It's magic, just like the phrase filling is.
Just for one. Hour is pretty wild.
Yeah, that's a good one, I think.
That the gas tank would be really ideal.
I mean the. Easy limitation would would be
that I can fill anything with it.
So your bladder is also not like.
Yeah, like I know or whatever, there's like a thing that goes
into each container. I guess that's soul bound.
But do you have to? Oh, you're not binding to the
container? No, no, no.
But it's like I. Actually don't want to take the
time to like. You can only put water in water
bottles. You know what I mean?
Like. You've changed your mind, mugs.
No, yeah, I've had like a whole, like a sequence of thoughts and
I was like, you know what? This isn't the forum we're
trying to tell. This is a different podcast and
that story that we are trying to tell now is here and in the
apocalypse. We've come to the Dome.
We've entered the Dome and played a few games with the
wizard above some pinball, created some outlets in the
arena through the playing of that game and got into the Mario
Kart where you guys did the track and came in first place
pretty handily. I actually when I when I was re
listening at first I was like, I just went too easy.
And it's that like in each each time that you did roll badly.
Any cover up from it? It was like a good or a great
role and so you always like got out of the situation pretty
quick before it became sour. So in the end, and I did get
hurt a lot. Did you?
Oh yeah, I was too away from dead there for a minute.
Wow, from what I wonder. I'll have to go back.
Oh, you might have. Oh, I fire it.
Yeah, you might have gotten the oil spilt on you.
You spent all that time like getting the oil together and
heat it up and I think there was a spin out in which you got
oiled or something. But afterwards, as the arena
started to fade out and bring you back to the pinball, you
caught sight of a curious figure that pointed you out and around
and Pedal just immediately followed suit, sort of
recognizing them. And through some underground
tunnels, some maintenance hallways that are very maze like
and confusing, we found ourselves in a dark mall, very
dark and just sort of, oh, there's a word I don't know.
It's like it's, it's it's unnatural as much as a wall.
A mall can be natural in that the halls are going off in all
which directions, the the sort of art stairs and and escalators
that go up and end up like taking you down a floor.
You know what I'm talking? What about like we were looking
at The Who did those paintings? MC Escher.
Yes, yes, like an MC Escher painting in a building, right?
There's always different and weird directions to go in.
But following Pollen you have made it to the food court which
has been hollowed out with light.
These big bright like stand light stadium stand lights
pointing in on the space, creating a room that they have
made a home in Pollen and Twiggy Branch left behind back in the
the the the throng of folks chasing after you and Pollen had
dropped several like in between the line hints as if Pedal knew
what was going on and since have crowded around like folks around
a campfire to hear the story. So I guess I'll need a vision
role from Pedal to begin us, which is a role.
Got to grab my little oh dude, come here dude.
Cool. Thank you role plus cool.
As cool as 9. 9 on a 7 and 9 MC holds 2.
The the last line that we left off on was tell me what you
remember and you don't remember anything, anything that you
like. You woke up in the the the car
and even if you know, you can explain about your journey on
the way here, but having caught her up there isn't right.
Like you don't remember much of what happened and I'm going to
make your vision quick. It's just like flashes of a
vision in between, like you telling your story about the
things you do remember, which is again, none of this but that.
You woke up in the desert. You went to Tedville, you helped
out the water bearer. Water bearer got kicked out.
Now we're on this mission and you've been slowly remembering
overtime and it's been drawing you back to the same place,
right? The Water Bearer mission has LED
you to the the things that your visions have been showing you
already. And in between that and then her
beginning to speak, you're having these flashes of being
around a campfire with three other people, Branch, Pollen and
Twiggy. Now that you know their names
and you pedal, Is there a name I can give to your gang or?
If any. Big.
Toes. Don't like that?
Toes. Well, it's the only on the table
now. That's the kind.
Of half of it you can start fun. Don't like that?
Comma Peanuts.
Raise the Raise the bar. Raise the bar where is low toes.
The forest folk the. The.
Forest Folk on a on Apocalypse World is good.
We all have. We all have woodland names which
is weird for a desert people. What if it's more like OK, or
like what if we think like herb urban, green greenery, green
greenhouse, greenhouse? Greenhouse Gang The blunt, but
where the blunt buds? The Reefs.
Blunt buds. No, I do.
I like it doesn't hold on branch.
Yeah, I mean palm wiggy. People are like often
complaining about the stems. We're in the apocalypse.
We take what we can get. I will say I do like greenhouse
Gang, but I also now really enjoy it.
Blunt buds. It's.
A good subversion, honestly. You've all got it tattooed.
Also, be blunt, brothers, if you want to, but that's not really,
you know, kind of. Blunt.
Brotherhood. I like blunt buds.
Two of you have blunt buds and one of you has blunt
brotherhood. Which one got?
Which one accidentally got? Brothers A. 100% Brothers, 100%
that Schwarzenegger looking fucker 100.
Percent. Just a couple of cross smoking
blunts. I guess you're the Blunt
brothers. The blunt buds.
Blunt buds. Blunt Brothers.
Blunt Bros. Blunt Brothers, whatever it is.
Me me and Pollen like to make fun of the fact that Branch is
not one of the blunt buds technically because his things
feel the only. Blunt, brother.
Oh. Well then, I guess Twiggy.
I bet Twiggy. With branch, well, I bet.
Twiggy is gonna. I bet Twiggy is gonna try and
get Brotherhood to make him feel better, but Twiggy's too young
to have a tattoo. Even Apocalypse worlds.
I think that's what. You're in my in my mind, Twiggy
is like 6 or like 7. That's way too young to.
No, I definitely. Like to tattoo a kid?
I definitely. Put my brain up.
Here I just. Do whatever we want.
I mean, I definitely put my brain in baby 9.
Years. It's up to the kid.
You can have a little one and if you still want it, OK.
Yeah, yeah, he, he has like a little.
BI babies can have little. Little slowly, over time, each
birthday you give him one. Here's the period for Bros and
if you can come back to us when you want the rest.
I think that is your image. You're like vision is flashing
back and forth between this dark, harshly lit scene and an
open air night in a abandoned industrial kind of building or
complex. Above you.
You can see the like the steel beams and the stars, right?
And they're around a fire, enjoying a, a bite or a drink
with, with these, these three people, the blunt buds and one
blunt brother. And, and in between you're
seeing the flashes of of these people, You know, Branch, who
is, who is not here, but you have several new allies that you
have made along the way and Twiggy flashing back and forth
between this. Like, you know, I think kids
grow so fucking fast in between X.
Like, you know, any year a child grows so much.
And I think. He said he was hip height, right
hip height. Who's hip?
Higher to mine because he hugs me from hills.
He did. He hugs.
You. Yeah, I mean.
He hugs me at hip height that that's why I thought he was like
8 or. You know, that does make sense.
I, I think a kid growing up in the apocalypse probably comes
out a bit smaller. Scrawny, right?
A bit more scrawny, but he has to be at least old enough He.
Struts into the center of the of the circle.
Makes like I don't have you know that I am 12.
He has to be old enough for it to, like, be OK that he has a
little bit more of the tattoo since you've been gone, right?
The memory is flashing back and forth between that.
He's gone through some harrowing phases between these light days
in which, you know, we can imagine you guys around the
campfire putting just the first period there because he was
begging, begging, begging for it.
He didn't come back for years after that to, like, get the S
or the R or whatever. But.
Apparently in the time that that that you have been gone or that
all of this has been going on and that we're filling in your
memories, more of the tattoo has gotten filled out.
Though it is not complete, as his young age would indicate.
Pollen launches into her story. The the mall was ours.
We, we took it about a year and a half ago and, and, and just
with our small group, we're able to hold it rather easily.
A small group able to move in and out of the hallways and,
and, and the, the three levels of the mall without much, you
know, noise or, or notice anytime a group decided to come
in. We, we knew our territory.
We knew our boundaries like no other and we're able to run them
out. We held this for such a long
time and it was such a good time, the four of us.
We were living happily, going through the stores and and then
building our little home out here.
Several groups came and several groups left and we thought that
we had built a Fort we could easily protect.
And then they showed up. They showed up in, in, in waves
and in droves and way more than the four of us could take on the
pin heads. All of them in their their,
their shiny Chrome lined jackets and and bikes and running up in
in full squads, breaking down walls and destroying what what
what mostly remained of of the parking complex making their way
in. We got overwhelmed and in the
scuffle they took root. We bought them as best we could,
but they got their hands on her and they held her captive.
We did the best we could. She wipes a few tears during all
this. But he promised us that if we
worked for him, if if, if we joined up and and did did what
he said, he would at least let Twiggy go.
Let Twiggy join us in in working for him.
We thought we could find a way out and we we knew we could, but
we had to get root out. So over the course of the next
few months, we did just that with scarce signs that route was
OK. We worked as best we could re
fortifying the the the the mall as as a almost a near Fort,
impenetrable as it were. But he wanted more.
The wizard. I don't even know his name.
He just called, they all call him that.
He wanted to be in his own little space, that he could play
his own little games. And they were all very into it,
I guess The Sixth Sense of competition, this, this brutal
arena nature that they, they continuously set up.
At first it was just simple, like bear pit fights, right?
They they, they closed us in a room 2 may enter, one may leave.
And we left enough rooms that that got boring.
And so did many of of of their people.
They anyone they capture, they make work for them, and it's
always just a rotating lot. People constantly dying, people
constantly being brought in from their raids and their jaunts out
into the desert. You though he seemed to like you
worked your way up you you were good at the the the driving you
you didn't get hit. She motions to your eye too much
by what he threw at you and with you working your way up, he
brought you in on his. I guess last game, the, the
Dome, they had someone who is able to connect to the, the
psychic maelstrom, the, the weird space around us, the, the,
the people that can do like the, the weird magicky things or heal
their bodies or, or what not. Someone that can connect to that
space. And in order to amplify it, they
built this machine, this thing, and you had been a part of it
because he trusted you. We all worked together in that
time to create a little, a little back door for us to, to
jump out of, to, to leave the games.
But in doing so, we were trapped in this in between the mall that
is here in the weird psychic imagery he's creating and
crafting up. It's all very real, the pain is
all very felt. But they can twist and push
things back into place to make you keep playing the game in
there. And he just gets off on it.
The the game you put in a back door and you notice on there
they have these like probably pretty thin, just like flat
metal bracelets on that have all these little like microchips
with the the tethers connecting them to the bracelet and various
points. She says these keep them from
finding us down here, but we have yet to been able be able to
to to locate root. That's why we, we hadn't left
you broke out on one of the last raids when we had gotten and she
like nods to Spigot when the group had kidnapped the last
water bearer. Apparently he was transporting
enough of a power source to get this machine finally, like up
and operational. You didn't really want him being
brought into all this mess. And so in your final little
jaunt to to to break into the, the House of pain or whatever.
And she motions out to just to the mall to find root, you
instead found the water bearer. And we couldn't really, really
backtrack on all of the plans and operations we had put into
place. But you wanted to save him, so
we ran the route down. We know that Root's still in
there somewhere. So after you escaped, we have
just been trying to back in and find her.
I think she might be held somewhere else.
But in the end, the only way to get into that, that sort of that
final chamber where at least the, the machine itself that's
fucking with all of this is we need those, those 3 keys.
And we have not been capable of taking the, the things down.
He doesn't have his eye on us so much because we're not seen.
But we have yet to be able to bring in any of those keys.
And then I guess she motions to D Ham, who has the key from the
OR who has the trophy in his chassis, which has a key on the
bottom of it. Probably got his eye on us now
though. Yeah, I think to mark that
there's a little shake. It's like a rumble and a shake
and some like detritus falls from the ceiling.
Hello. You've reached Deluca's Chop
House answering machine. Press 4 to call back.
She looks at you pedals, she says.
What is? What is he saying?
Spigot, you probably know what's going on more than any of us.
I don't really know that robot. Press 3 and I'll do a flip.
Twiggy presses 3. I fall down.
Sequence any damage tries to help you back.
Up is. He damaged.
Is he dying? Open up his his chassis while
he's down like a turtle. I didn't say backflip, I'm on my
stomach. Oh well.
You can open up the back of his chassis.
Oh God, 2 doors. One in the back.
I know that's nice. But I want to see.
My ass not like that, just a back door, he says.
Your flip wizard. You don't like that?
Your flip sequence the wizard like that.
Upset The wizard is upset. Press 3 to defeat the wizard.
Three, he keeps fairly sure. We can't press any of the
buttons. Defeat the wizard sequence
damaged. You're sitting on your buttons.
I I might be able to help with the lip sequence or whatever if
you let me look at your your legs.
That's OK. I have a question.
Is there any approach that we can take that will be at all
stealthy at this point? We have revealed the back door.
We have revealed pedal. Oh, if they can.
I have revealed my bottom these. Halls are non.
They're not normal down here. They're very non no linear.
You go down 1, you could go straight for miles and miles and
you're still going to be where we are.
Lefts and rights might take you to darker corridors or back into
the maintenance hallways, but the more lost you get, the less
likely you are to find your way back to to, to to anything
that's going to resemble society again, it's it's very broken
down here. Some hallways you get that, you
get that feeling. You just get a, a sense of, of,
of, of loneliness of of anxiety. You don't want to be down here
for. 2 I don't know what any of those things are.
He's just talking about being lost.
I understand lost. Yeah, lost.
I have lost my purpose. Unless they find themselves
their way here, we should be generally safe.
The many of them don't like coming out of their little their
little pocket of a game out there, though.
Who's to say? We know our way down here but
haven't been able to take on the games.
We can lead you back door you in like, like we had the back door
into the the race tracks we have we found ways into the other
spaces. They're just a bit too much to
take on with. They were just just for the the
three of us at the time. I understand and D Ham stands up
and he says we've received your reservation for one wizard and 1
water supply Power supply. Press 6 to confirm your
reservation. I don't really care about all
that, I just we just want route back.
Cricket presses 6. What wizard?
We've accepted your reservation. We will be endeavoring to seat
you as close as possible to the Wizard's machine.
Thank you for contacting the Lucas Chophouse.
What if we hit him in the head? The robot or the wizard?
I don't know who the wizard is, but it could restart the robot.
Is the wizard not the man who is in control of this?
No, he's. Is that what we've been calling
him? Good.
OK, good. OK, OK.
Everyone starts saying. Who is the wizard?
And I'm like, Oh no, have I imagined the wizard?
I have no idea we. Were calling you.
You have to tell me now that's a dream I had.
That's why we're like, is he broken?
No, no, no, he's the he's the just the general he that she
keeps referring to the the leader.
I. Refer to him as the.
Wizard whenever the dude that painted the sky above you in the
pinball cord and kind of ran the game.
OK. They don't know where root is.
Do they know where the engine room is or the control room?
They know where it. Is.
But they don't have a back door into it.
Oh, that's right, that's the keys.
Need the keys. That doesn't mean there isn't
one. They just don't have that.
Need the keys and they believe that root is in the House of
pain. You have the House of pain and
the crypt to go anyway that there's keys in there.
And then the engine that leads to like the the the final play
space or whatever which has the engine in it.
So does this really mean that we have to go get back into the
games and then get out of the games after we have the 3rd
kick? I see a couple ways at this.
We could straight down down the line play his play his games and
win his prizes and when we get all three prizes, somehow we get
them to the people where and he doesn't see us do that.
I. Will say that the three prizes
are like a pinball game when you like.
There's so many things you can do on a pinball board.
You can get points in this area, you can get points in this area.
You can get points in this area. And when you get when you
trigger enough things on different sides of the map
enough times, you'd make the all the lights light up.
A different board sometimes will open up on certain pinball maps.
The like the gate will just move out of the way and you can you
get little flippers too on this upper board.
And that's the kind of the like concept I'm trying to like tie
together here is it's not so much that he's not even going to
notice, it's that that is what opens that door, those 3, the
keys, so you get them. You get free the door.
The door to the engine is on. The pinball table is the locked
house. It isn't the locked house and
you haven't seen it on the pinball table that.
Is what she's telling somewhere in the somewhere in the space?
Yeah. OK, so we can play his games and
win his prizes. It sounds like they're saying
that we could do some sort of a heist situation because they've
got their back doors and we could sneak our way into.
We don't know what the prizes look like, We'd need to know
that, but we could sneak into maybe these games through a back
hallway and and steal. We love to steal.
Mug the next group that wins the challenge.
It's also possible. Love that.
The other thing that I was thinking of when I was listening
to the back story was just how much this guy likes to watch
people get creamed. And so and I so I so I was
thinking about ways to divert his attention.
If we need a diversion, I can take a lot of punishment.
So if I can just go out, I can play his games and and make bad
choices, very entertaining bad choices while everybody else is
heisting. And the thing that I was
thinking about is that like, if he likes this so much and he
controls this weird space, this. Yeah, exactly.
Perhaps while his attention is zeroed in on something he really
likes, his control over the space lapses and it is maybe
easier to navigate. Perhaps it is easier to find the
door that these things unlock when he is focused elsewhere.
These are the thoughts. I mean, that's not a bad idea.
The question is, how do we reassemble The Avengers once
we've done what we need to? How do we get you deal out of
harm's way at the end of our sneakiness?
What are we? Also, is it again a notice that
there were more of us and now there's only one?
We need 4 times as distracting. We need the power source.
When the power source is gone, the Dome will go to sleep, and
when the Dome is asleep, the dill can ride in the dildo.
We will pick him up in the dildo.
Press 5 to pick Dill up in the dildo in about one to five days.
I mean on that, on that note though, Grace, like if Dill
shows up and is like, I'm still in your fucking game, right?
Like I'm here, come get the info from me.
Like they still have to then capture Dill and put him down
enough to. Like.
Interrogate him, right? And I think that that's what
Gabe's pitches you. Just try and load me up I'm.
Going to be the slippery wet man until my group like is done
behind the scenes. I or I can just get I can like
Oh no trip and fall and get smushed flat by the ball.
Put on a shot for him. I can, yeah.
You know, look at all my busted bones.
I'm not going to be functional as a character next session,
probably. But out in a blaze of glory, Go
do. Let's heist.
Fair enough, fair enough. The.
Cutbacks do sound pretty funny. Or we cut away from the heist to
go see what Dill's up to. What are the NP CS thoughts on
this? What are their thoughts on like
the space changing? How close?
Like is there a way for Dill from inside the game if they
open a door? If they're if we heist at the
right moment, is there a way for them to open a door and Dill to
slip out somewhere? Says, let's see, that's a a
weird this is this is a good idea.
But well, it's just if you can take a a beating, if you're out
there alone, they're going to find a way to surround you,
right? Like there there's possibility
of a beating if you're alone. But if if we slip in through the
back doors now what we're dealing with is, you know,
either me and root join you in the games or we stay behind.
If we stay behind, you guys got to get in and out quick.
These these these back doors we found are pretty deep into this
mauling complex. We know our way about, but we
need to be back in this light. We can't just be out in the
darkness for so long. It it starts to to play tricks
on you. It starts to seed into your
mind. So you've got to be quick.
If we're with you or we can come with you, but you know, or I can
come with you, we'll probably leave Root behind.
Or Twiggy, we'll leave Twiggy behind.
Root is who we're trying to save, and I know this because
I've been living this life for a long time, she says.
But you distracting him, us in the games, if he can't find us,
he's going to be flipping and turning things upside down.
Things might get a little chaotic, but if you're
distracting him and if you're putting on a good enough show,
he might not be looking. He's able to control this space
like the the back of his mind, as much as he can root around in
his own mind. He can find these spaces.
But if you can keep him focused, then maybe we can get in and
out. We'll still probably need to be
quick because we cannot be back in those halls too long.
But if he's not applying pressure while you're in his
little games and he doesn't know you're there, then it might be
quite a bit easier for you to complete them, is what they say.
That we need Bill to be larger than life in his showmanship,
and then the rest of us have to be fast and efficient as we're
working behind the scenes, is what I'm hearing.
Fast and efficient, our specialty is a party.
As long as as long as his focus is not on you in the behind the
scenes, things should be a bit easier for you.
As I don't have a better plan and the end goal is for spigot,
it's to get the power source and save root if we can.
But spigot primary goal is that power source.
If we can do the saving of root as a second item, he's all for
it, but he's not willing to sacrifice the parts.
Are we, are we having this discussion?
Are you just saying? I was for sure responding just
in. Case it does not blurt that out
to the. You can't say that.
No, I'm just kidding. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. We'll be over here.
Yeah. So that's his primary concern.
That's what he's been tasked with.
So that's his single highest priority are.
They we don't know where route is, we just are hoping that he's
nearby where the engine is at or that he'll be much easier to
find once we disconnect the engine.
They didn't. Find root where they thought
they were going to, inside of the House of Pain, but they
still think he's in there. But I think if we disconnect
that power source, it disconnects the amplification of
the effect and maybe that gives us a better chance.
Yes, the power source completely is going to turn off this Dome.
You got to get get to the power source turn off the Dome.
Root is believed to be in the the House of pain still, which
you do have to go to to get a key I want.
To go in there, man. I'm not saying that out loud,
sorry. I know.
I know, I know. Yeah, we're, you know, in the
House of Pain without being seen while Dill is in front of the
House of Pain making a scene of himself.
Yeah. Turns to the group and says how
would you like your meal to be served?
Press 1 for sneaky Santa Claus mode.
Press 2 for maneuver #3. Is that wait?
Is that a shot? Is that like a Santa Claus?
Oceans live in shot call. Is that like two options?
Press 9 for Lemon Pfeiffer. And the first two options are
really good. You see a a little flyer
flickering on the wall, often the the dim light like you say
that you're looking past your allies.
Yeah, and I turn my flashlight eyes on you.
Turn your flashlight on, eyes on you.
Swear to God you see a shape peak like like cut behind the
the column when you do that. It's just like a shadow.
And they're like, don't don't worry about that.
Literally all the time down here, a little flyer flickering
in the bake wind that doesn't exist down here.
It's just like flickering and it stops.
It comes to a rest and it's the flyer that we've seen the whole
time but D Ham has never actually laid eyes on.
I think I mean, it's the like, come to the Green Brook Mall and
there's like kids skating out. I think I used like Goro teens
skating off the thing. I think I used that for Grace
Vision at some point. But at the bottom of that flyer,
you see like plain as day, Like come to the food.
Court for our lemon fight for shakes.
DM stops what he's doing. Anybody who gets near him to
press a button, he dodges out of the way, and he starts looking
around fervently. All around the food court is
where we are. We're in the food court.
We are in the food court. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nothing else matters anymore. Yeah, yeah.
Give me a there's a role for this?
For Lemon Pfeiffer. Don't forget those two OPS
searching. Roll for lemon Pfeiffer.
Maneuver #3 because someone will have to press that at some
point. Yeah, I chose to press 9, but he
chose maneuver #3 and the other two.
What am I rolling for again? Oh, I think.
Wait, we never did history things?
History's at the end of the session for like what we did.
During this time, I'll say that. Everyone for sure knows more
about you pedal after this session for 100% because they
just heard your whole story. And I will say also before we I
tell you that the OR before we like complete this role that
pedal as we're going through that you are like it's setting
in that your time with these people.
Like at this point, it doesn't need to be like.
I think that like the story she has told of is of your time at
the Green Brook Mall, but now it's like you, you feel free to
be like, well, of course, before the Green Brook Mall, we did
this or this is where we met pollen and this is where we met
Branch and we picked up Branch. We lost this friend along the
way. Like that's all your free story
now whenever you want it. Your flashbacks and your your
stuff are geared towards this. This is the part that's still
like kind of foggy for you. Your time here.
They'll probably be directed more towards like helpful things
you can focus on for the missions.
Just so you know, feel free to remember who peddle is on your
own sort of timeline. Sounds.
Goodchy, the move that we're talking about, Lawrence is
probably examined closely or read a sitch.
Is there anything in read a sitch?
No, examine closely. The one we made-up Roll plus
sharp. OK, so either way it's zero.
That's gonna be an 8. 8 on a 7 to 9 choose one.
The gym will choose one from the list below.
So list above is you notice something hidden, you understand
exactly what's here. You complete the scan in the
snap. I understand exactly what's
here. You understand exactly.
What's here? Yes or no?
And mine is going to be you break something in your
examination, you scan around the space quickly, quickly, quickly.
That at the bottom of that flyer, I think I said there was
probably an Orange Julius here somewhere.
It's the Orange Julius signature.
It's of course a like a mass produced lemon Pfeiffer
business. But you rush over to their stand
and you find nothing. And you're you're like really
digging around their stand. And in doing so, I think you
kick over one of their big stand lights like as you're through
the like, you know, you be lifted up the, the, the little
sheet door. It like rattled up and into its
wheel and you're like kicking your legs out behind like a
child like digging through this because you're you're a
rationally looking for this lemon Pfeiffer thing.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's your vibe for
lemon Pfeiffer. You've been looking for it this
time, and there's. I don't know what it is, but I
know it's important there's. No ingredients here.
Now you'll find some notice of like how to to make it, but it's
all like add the lemon Pfeiffer topping, add the lemon Pfeiffer
cream, add the lemon Pfeiffer sauce and then mix right?
Like it's not a ingredient list. It's A.
It's like AB. Tier ingredient list, right?
You have all the ingredients and this is what you do with them
kind of situation. But you need that I am going to,
I am going to take these recipes and I am going to take them and
I'm going to very I'm going to take them out back to the group.
And you know, everyone can see after this fiasco.
D ham. He looks downtrodden.
You know, he's leaning forward a little bit.
He's just very slowly folding these recipe bases of paper and
then he very gingerly tucks them in his chest cavity.
He returns to the group and he says, how would you like your
meal delivered? Press 1 for sneaky Santa Claus
mode. Press 3 for maneuver #3.
You can press 2 for number #2 also.
I don't care. She said she, well, I think this
is something you would realize, well, I guess I'll make her say
it to you since this is where you've gone.
She says, were you looking? You looking for something in
there? Lemon fiber, the shake thing
they have on the Flyers and stuff.
I don't know. Well, I'd imagine that the cart
was there like the little stall was cleaned out, I mean years
before we got here. But there's a, there's like a
back storage room that all the food places kept there like
storage in. I could show you over there if
you need to check in or something specific if you didn't
find in the stall. Maybe later, My heart can only
be broken once a day. OK, yeah, OK.
She gives you a pat on the shoulder.
She's like, back to the plan. Yeah.
So distract, distraction and back-to-back doors.
I think so. I think that sounds like the way
we need to go. OK, let's.
Do it. As far as a back door out of the
pinball court itself, there's a few, but they're like deeply up
and into the stands. Think like you're you're like
your stadium seating. There's going to be some some
food stalls on the outsides of those those like long staircases
up. If you can find the food stalls,
the bathrooms in between the food stalls might be able to get
you back to the back. Otherwise you'll have to
disappear into one of the three spaces.
And then we can tell you exactly where the outings are.
The pinball space is as sort of ethereal and ever changing as
the the the mechanics room. It's hard to find our way and
it's his main focus space. It's where most of that energy
is driven to. But if you can get into any one
of the, the side areas, you know the one under the stands in the
the carts and we can tell you where the ones are in the House
of Pain and the Crips itself. So you can get in and out there.
Do we want Dill to come out of the one by the stands lower on
the down by the carts 1st to start to draw attention before
we try and pop out somewhere else to get to the House of
pain? What do you think, Bill?
That makes sense. I think my the way to be the
most distracting and the least, the least liable is not the word
I'm looking for, but it's what I'm going to go with is a
disguise. And So what Dill's been up to
while we've been having this sort of lemon Pfeiffer
situation, is he sort of been rummaging in the stuff I'm
imagining he can find like a curtain, some fabric or
whatever. And so he's he's fashioned
himself a very bad cake and a mask and he has sort of
stretched his head into like a top hat shape with the, with the
cauliflower brim now. And he's looking for something
to paint himself a new color. I don't know what we've got on
hand, but he's hoping that with this disguise and not being
yellow, he can be a new contestant.
So they, it's not like we're doing a plan.
It's like, oh, here's this shiny bobble.
Honestly, glitter would work too.
Can I use one barter to have like a gallon jug of like
paprika in my pouch? Sure, great.
You know what? I couldn't say no to that.
I just cover. I just cover him, he's covered.
Oh man, yeah, no, I'm just rolling in it and.
He opens up his covers just big enough to accept the paprika in
each of them. As you dust him.
Yeah, that one. Wait, wait, here we go.
Here we go. Don't like that?
Thank you Mike for capping that
on the soundboard. Please select a response.
Don't like that? Thank you for your paprika.
Would you like to hear your options?
Press 1 for Sneaky Santa Claus mode, press 2.
I already pressed. This button where you pressed
this button, we're doing maneuver #3.
Oh, then D Ham jumps on top of you.
Oh, that was maneuver. Yeah.
So I, I'm going to sort of like take some of the curtain and I'm
just going to bring it up above like maybe up to my forehead.
OK, now we have to somehow disguise you.
But if DM is going with you, we need the key.
DM opens his chest, it's just like it's nothing anymore.
I just drop it on the floor. Just I, I turned to, I turned to
DM though, and I'm like, just so you remember, the goal of this
mission is to get hurt a lot. That is one way to be
distracting. The other way is to win.
And with you by my side, red. Man, it's a good point.
You will win. I am Redman.
We are the carpet. I will find a new.
Curt the curtain boys. Dim curtain.
The curtains. I RIP a little piece of my a
shirt into I guess a little strip and I and I tie around
dills like. Just a fat fake.
Band of his. Sorry.
No, it's a strip of clothes tying it like a little bow and
like it's like, are you still wearing suspenders?
Are you wearing like, in my mind, you've been wearing waders
this whole time, Like fishing waders?
Those are nice and flexible. Pants.
I do like that. But I feel.
Torn into fishing waders? Oh, you're wearing a?
Space. I mean, I don't think I oh,
wait, yeah, spacesuit, right? Yeah, spacesuit torn into like
overalls or fish like some sort of like.
Suspenders. The duct kind of, yeah, Like
overalls. Yeah, Overalls, yeah.
OK, well, I tie. I take the step of the overalls
and I say, you know, you'll be careful out there.
Banana or pepper red I guess. Red banana.
I'm a tomato now. All right, you be careful,
tomato, and I get my little pat on my chest like you be.
Thank you. You're being so great.
And I am an eggplant. You're the garden brothers.
You just want to be the blunt buddies, but you can't.
This is my club that you know. We are the greenhouse gang now.
We are go be, go be a water bear.
Blunt bringers. We're just going to come back
and everyone else is going to have blunt brothers tattooed.
I forgot. Yeah, I'm going to take the the
scrap of cloth that you've tied here and I'm going to untie it
and cut holes out of it and tie it around Dee Ham's head like a
mask. So we both have.
Masks. OK, so that is an interesting
wrinkle because now Dee Ham cannot see because his eyeballs,
yeah, his eyeballs and nose are his nose is the the vision.
So that's even better. I am prepared for this.
Mission. I've armed, I've armed the knife
throwers in both arms and I'm holding in AU shape and I'm
ready for combat. Dang.
All right, sounds like we're we're ready to go.
So point us in the direction of I guess the the pop out point
closest to the entrance so we can like come back through and
be chased by the the pinball again for sure.
And then I guess they'll go the other way, with or without NPC
to. Heist yeah, I think the the plan
is like you've just said that just to put it in my own brain
that they're going to put you near the entrance still.
I guess that they say they have a there's probably an exit like
in that pinball hole. Perfect.
They can put you. Yeah, we'll just pop out ahead
of it. And you'll be like a new
entrant. And then they're going to leave
Twiggy here because Twiggy's a young child and they don't want
to get lost in the space. And Pollen is going to lead you
guys through to the back door entrances.
It will need to be need to be a little quick because Pollen
can't be in the darkness of these like twisty tunnels for
too long before it starts setting in, she says.
As to exactly what that has meant, we're not 100% sure.
But it's dangerous to be alone in the dark for a while in these
in this mall area. But it'll be easier for you guys
because your focus, the his focus will be on the board.
OK, we've got a plan. And it's a good one.
And it's a great one. We get all geared up and.
We already are. Yeah, I think with their
storage, everyone can get a piece of gear.
Let's talk about one piece of gear you're able to pull out
from their storage. Utility gear, a gun, a healing
syringe, a fucking like grappling, like hook.
Everyone can get a piece of gear from their their shit to be a
gear. Thing is, why wouldn't we outfit
ourselves with stuff right? I think Pollen's going to outfit
herself with like a battery powered Lantern to have some
light down there for a bit. And can I have just, you know,
off the top of my head, can I get a lemon piper from here?
Oh no, not from here because you looked already and it's as far
as we're aware it could be back in the storage that's.
Right. That's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one where where is not
here. Someone else grab the lemon fire
from the store from Mickey things.
No no no, I'll just take the grappling hook.
Grappling sounds like a great option.
Yeah, a single, a single shot. Little like power.
Just the hook. You don't get any rope attached
to it, just. The grappling hook, not a gun,
yeah, no, just a crude bent metal and you know 30 foot rope
thing that's probably attached to like a single shot, like tube
of nitrous. So you get that shot, it's
definitely going to propel it, but you it's not going to be a
multi shot thing. You sure can.
Is excellent. Modified with hook, hook and
rope. I think I'm going to grab a
healing syringe because I'm a meaty human person and I think
having that would be important. Yeah, I get someone healed up on
the spot. Important.
Went to the Greenbrook mall and all I got was this T-shirt
cannon. It's a pretty cool thing to walk
away from the mall with. Though T-shirt can grappling
hook. It does sound good anymore, Gun,
Yeah. Does Dill?
What is Dill going to do with a gun that he shouldn't do more
damage with his hands? He won't eat.
No, I'm not. I'm not going to grab a gun.
I'm actually my thing. I don't want any gear.
What I want to do is while everyone else is getting their
gear, I want to sit down with Pollen and get like the inside
scoop on the pinball field, the pinball field, and like how it
works and what's going on with it so that I can ask you
questions while we're in the scene.
Yeah, you sit down with pollen and from the top of your head
you hear DM go oh a grappling hook and reach down and grab it.
Out of Pollen's bag. She doesn't notice.
She's just being polite. You know, is that is that show
because we're going to be trying to make make a cool scene
happen. So like any of any any tips and
tricks for the pinball field that we can get from the are
there? Any bounces?
Yeah, if there's a hidden button, is there anything to,
you know, if I, if can I lure people over here for a special
thing that happens when we're all over here or whatever?
OK, good one. That's a good one.
See, she lets you know that getting it caught in the
bumpers, the triple bumpers, is going to change.
It's like it's going to become fortified with an element of
some kind, either like dripping with some acid, electrified with
some electricity, which is what you need to open up one of those
doors. As far as you pretending to play
the game right, getting it to the electric phase though, it's
a random occurrence at which one it lands on, so it doesn't land
on the right one. You'll need to get get it caught
amongst those triple bumpers again, however, they're just
after playing a game. So if you like, if you're
getting overwhelmed, hiding in those bumpers and getting out of
there before the ball gets there is a great place to track them
because they'll often just be chasing you.
So if you can get them trapped up in there, they'll get
brutalized by the ball. She has seen in her games.
He really likes it when they when it's like on fire.
It like gets the show going for everyone there, though that
isn't the element you need for the door.
So it's hard to you know, you're you're distracting, right?
But he loves. It when it's out of the element.
Yeah, right. I mean, they're all good for the
show. His favorite is fire and then
electric is what you need. OK.
And that's plenty to start with. I'm sure I'll have basic
questions once we get out on the field, but.
Yeah, I think she gives you a good enough rundown that when
you're asking questions about the field, if I need you to roll
for it, I'll give you a. Plus one.
Absolutely. Oh yeah.
And if I don't, she'll just you'll remember that she told
you X or Y. Yeah, Spigot is there.
Anything was listening. Yeah, Spigot would either like a
shotgun or a rifle if they have anything like that.
Would you prefer long range or short range?
I think for either of those things they have like.
Take it with a shotgun. It's a fixed up, modded out, you
know situation it. Yeah, I'd say that I think each
one probably the shotgun is. A closer far, yeah.
Yeah, I think more of that blast shot would be what he'd be
looking for. And do they?
And a belt. And a belt with the bullets.
Yeah, and do they have any any extra ammo for his pistol?
They give you enough ammo to to like fill up your your magazine
and your pistol again from whatever you've shot.
And then I think it's another mod modded T-shirt cannon that
is like over over clocked to fire just a chunk instead of a
T-shirt you put in this like bundle of, you know, rackets and
and screws and nails and bolts and shit.
So. That way the T-shirt cannon
survive this shot. Is this just the?
One use. I'm going to say.
One shot, he's actually. After describing it, it's a one
like the it's either he has a shotgun version and you have a
grappling hook version. Either way, it's powerful enough
to destroy the cannon, but do the thing you need it to do.
It's not BBC, it's a lead pipe. Yeah, right.
It's a lead. Pipe shotgun whenever you shoot
the grappling hook. Cannon, it's going to.
So you shoot it and then grab the rope before it flies?
Yeah. A1 use long range weapon does
not sound very helpful. The long range weapon might have
been different, I'm not sure but.
This is perfect. This is perfect.
You can. Scattershot bolts in front of
you. If you make another bundle and
get another tube for it, I think the mechanism could work too.
I think a long range apocalypse crossbow would be kind of neat.
There's some way to imagine that into existence?
No, it's just not. The avenue we want to just.
Have the narrow. It's just a really narrow
opening for the T-shirt cannon. You put a bolt in it
conceptually. Though like even if that's not
the route we're going down. How many T-shirt cannons are
left in the Apostle? They have a box of them.
This is from an event that the. I've never even seen.
I've never, even besides sports games, I've never seen them
anywhere else. This mall was at a company that
I had in my you've. Never been in the back storage
room by the Greenbrook Mall? Oh, Mike has a great point
there. They did some of.
That the Greenbrook Mall does also include the Greenbrook
Stadium, but the mall is here. 1st we we have actually
neglected the full stadium on the outside of the bubble.
Yeah, they actually they first, it was really weird.
They built it originally with this huge courtyard in the
middle of it, just an empty. Years later they were like, why
don't we fill that with the stadium?
In the middle, it's a small almost baseball stadium, but
there's netting and shit. We all got a, we all got geared
up. She gears up with her Lantern.
She says Twiggy can get the table ready.
If, if anyone comes back needing it, I will give them a map.
And Twiggy nods. Did.
She say anything about finding branch or like seeing branch I?
Did forget branch. Because I know she talked about
rote but. No, no, no.
That's. We just like giving up a branch
like he's just dead. In order to not fully go back in
all that, I think that she did tell you probably about Branch
during that she does not have high hopes for Branch at the
moment because he like I think last episode, she may have said
that if he kept a low profile like he probably probably could
have like that was the point of the mask.
But then I like was re listening and he had to draw attention to
himself in order to get your attention.
So he was like waving in that crowd and pointing and like
getting the attention started. So she doesn't have high hopes
that he is kept that low profile after that moment.
If he was able to get in the crowd, he might be in the crowd,
but if captured, which, you know, they're all under the, the
sort of got not the guys, but the, the like, opinion of like
when it's for the mission, like if we get captured, we'll get
each other out. Like we always have each other's
backs, right? Like that's the the goal, that's
the idea. So if captured, he's probably in
the House of Pain as well, but he's not going to give us up
because that's why would he? This is the gang Root.
Never. Gave us.
I mean you can say that, but maybe branch is weak.
Maybe, but he hasn't been yet. We've always been together, she
says, she said at that time. But he could.
Be in the house too. I think after that conversation.
I just didn't know if I just wanted to check in on his
existence. Yeah, probably.
Imprisoned is the most dangly which is not.
Good, she says that Dang. Dang yeah not good.
So where do you guys want to start?
We have the crypt and the House of Pain. 2 NPCS possibly hold up
there a key, then the crypt that has a key.
Well, yeah, I think we got to start with the House of Pain.
Counterpoint, which one of them is easiest to get into from
pinball side? Do we know that?
Because I'm also thinking. About this.
If there are NPC's to be rescued, that is the mission
that we need all hands on deck in and also the mission that we
need to like book it after. We can't be going and doing
another rescue mission with people that we just rescue.
You've been recruited. Sorry about all the whatever has
been happening in here, but we do need you to get up and run
now. Help us, we need your help.
Yeah, your son now. Fairpoint.
So what does the map say? I think with our knowledge of
the map, so the two paths that you have to do to take to open
these doors. 1 is getting a ball into the the triple bumpers and
getting the element to electric and getting it to hit the door
that opens the door to the House of pain.
Or there's the getting it to go up and around the ramp 3 times
in order to make the ball small enough.
It's going to get faster each time, which is going to hurt
more when you get hit by it. Since we're not dealing with
like higher dice rolls, it's, you know, it'll hurt more to get
hit by a faster moving small, smaller ball, but that's what
you need in in order to open the crypt.
I think Pollen is under the opinion that the crypt is harder
to open. I, I, I share that opinion, I I
think this is a great plan. Then we'll do our thing to
electrocute the the ball to open the the House of pain while
they're. That we can jump back.
Ending the crypt and then we'll meet them in there in the House
of Pain, or even if there's, if we know the button to get into
the back hallways from in the House of Pain, we can get in
there ahead of them. What does the button look like?
This call will be recorded for quality and training purposes
she gives you. We state your answer after the
tone. She draws a map, but it's a map
that requires like requires very much verbal confirmation like
it's a because she cannot draw the like ever extending back
pathways of this mall and of the mechanical corridor you guys
found yourself in, right? So she like it's an impossible
map to draw. She can give you a like move
past 2 doors, turn left, move past 3 doors, turn around in a
circle and then go in the. Right thing gets recorded.
Yeah, and I'll remember it, right.
Yeah, we got that. But she, she can do that.
I think that'll be some rules to follow when you need to.
And she can, she lets you know where in the House of pain.
There's like a, in one of the cell blocks in one of the cells
underneath bed 1B. You'll have to it's, it's a,
it's a unused wing or whatever, right?
You got to get in there. You got to break into 1B and
unliff the mattress and there's a there's a hatch into the
mechanical, the mechanical halls and then gives you a pathing to
go both 2 pathings, 1 to get to the crypt and 1 to get to the
safety bubble area right for if we need to to get back to safety
from there. Also probably gives you one in
the crypt. Behind the crypt is a lot
harder, she says, because it is a it is a maze actively and
getting to a specific part of the maze is going to be even
harder with the the the spectres roaming the maze.
But does tell you you like behind this set of bricks.
If you can pull them out of the wall, you'll find a little back
portico with another maintenance hatch to go down in the
maintenance hallways. Everything is connected by the
maintenance hallways. This is how you get to the mall.
When you're in the mall. This is how you get to the food
court. All important and all very
specific to remember, because everything is a ever extending
maze. One wrong turn means one bad,
bad, wrong turn. Yes.
The length of this voicemail has, yeah, exactly abilities to
record. Please try again another time.
100% she does agree with the fact that what if you break if
you break someone out of the House of pain, he's going to be
aware of what is going on so plan accordingly.
You take care of the key in the crypt.
Maybe it's a little less focused versus taking people.
Unfortunately, you know, going through a rough time in the
House of Pain out a little early, not the.
House so we could go through the crypt which is harder but we
could be more stealthy and get the key or go to the House of
pain save hopefully save some blunt buds then immediately risk
being exposed with the blunt buds and also still need to get
the other key. The crypt is only harder for
Theodore to get into, or for Dill to get into because he has
to come. In right.
You guys have an equal way in in the back doors, no matter.
You guys you guys sneak into the grips while Ham and I are are
song and dancing outside. We get into the House of pain
and start working on getting the key.
You guys break in and have a have a peek about for these
these prisoners. We all meet in the middle and
get this engine, hopefully with the prisoners, but also maybe
not with the prisoners. Depends on who's in the.
House. Yeah, we'll, we'll see.
We'll see who's in there. Maybe it's someone from someone
else's back story. Wouldn't that be?
What if it's someone from Tenville?
What if it's 10? Ten, another NPC I did play four
years ago. It can't be him.
He's dead. He's so dead.
Time. Passes much faster here.
Yeah, time passes much faster here.
You know a 34 year old baby was born today.
Seems like a plan. I love it.
All right, let's do this. And we did it great.
We win, guys. Ocean's 11 style.
We just talked it backwards. You guys are in the machine
room. Let's go.
No, I'm just kidding. We.
That would be a fun request though.
Let's do some roles to make it Ocean's 11.
Yeah. So all bagged up and ready to
go, you guys jaunt off, down and back into the the mall complex.
She's taking lefts and right. She goes down an escalator and
curves back around and up through some some shopping areas
before going into a shop and into their backroom and back
into their access to the maintenance halls.
And now you guys are back in here and through very similar
systems to the way we've talked about.
It's all very disorienting for about half of D Cam's message
and for everyone else, because even though you have the
directions you need them, you absolutely need them.
A simple like line map would not get you there and you're all.
Following issues I'm blindfolded.
Yeah, he's still blindfold. Every now and then he bumps into
a wall and you're like. No, I'm just repeating the
message over and over and over. And then that.
Runs the entire conversation. You guys get to a nondescript
ladder up to a maintenance hatch and she says, Dill, that's
that's the entrance. I would wait.
She looks at a watch, I guess, and clicks and she says, I wait
about 20 minutes before you you start things so we can be in
place. Don't want attention too soon.
And she jaunts off. So come on this way.
Actually, she piece her head around.
She says make it 10. The dark down here is not to be
trifled with. And then disappears again.
She's like come on guys, you guys hear her like as she
disappears. The come on guys sounds like
down 4 hallways and around some corners.
Like so far away instantly. As soon as she's gone, I'm going
to peek the manhole cover. I'm on top of.
You so yeah. So I wanted to quickly.
Poke me, I'm blindfolded. I don't see anything.
I'm a Dumber over here. What do you?
See. It looks dark, Dill.
It looks dark. To confirm, the two of you are
going into distraction mode. Is that true?
Yeah, we're we're in the. We're in the distraction.
Over 3. We are OK operating as a single
unit with two minds, 2 hearts and two souls, except for the
souls. 2. Hearts.
Three minds, three souls. Can't.
Lose. Can't lose, baby.
Oh, that's so good. Infinite knives.
Infinite. Knives or.
I. I guess I, you know, OK, I'll
can I stretch my eyes up to keep like.
Paris Eye Stocks. He stretches.
Hold on, hold on, he I got it. He stretches his eyes.
His eyes go up.
His eyes go. Through the blindfold from the
bottom and pop out from the top so.
Blindfold you, and now he's blindfolded up there.
I like it better if we're stuck like this.
Now a. Bunch of fucking 3 stooges goes
on as pedal and and spigot round the corner following close. 3
stooges distracting. You will be for sure, you hear
her say come on guys from further away now down the halls
as you guys are watching you guys just like.
Standing at the bottom side, John.
You're watching your eyeballs stretch and we're like, oh,
we're. Slowly becoming this is our slow
motion Transformers sequence as we meld into Anabors.
But it's all dill. Dill all the way.
Down the XO Dill. Just Dill.
Surrounding me like his bones, you pure eye skeleton and into a
dark space. And then you use one eye to take
the blindfold off of the other eye.
And you're still in a dark space, which is good.
This is what you want. This is the tunnel you feel like
it's either in the blank, blank dark space or in the tunnel you
came in, which was a long dark tunnel that was just pitch
black, right? But there's no difference in the
feeling dying between them. Your vision gets a little fuzzy
up in there. You know that like up in there,
Dill and the other one have this weird loose connection that's
fading in and out as you're in that space.
But you can see you're in the darkness.
You know, up the the tunnel is the tunnel.
OK, well, you still got, you know.
Yeah. 9 minutes and 30 seconds to wait.
The other two follow closely behind Pollen in and around many
corners, up hallways, up a ladder, up a staircase and back
down the same staircase before turning around and down another
hallway. But eventually walls become a
bit more stone in nature rather than like poured concrete slab
walls. It is more natural stone hewn in
something keeping you underground.
But is this like carved stone rather than concrete?
It's just transformed. At some point, you might even
stop and look at the the moment in which the wall is like
overtaking itself. It's all one wall, but shifting
and into more a tunnel like structure.
There's constant splits in the path.
There's directions in which she wants to go, but there's webs
and strange things in the webs poking through that she's like,
no, not that way. We're going to have to put up
and around and she's constantly thinking and on her toes and and
a dead motion towards where she's going.
Let's see. I will make her make a role.
It's very rare that I'm going to make a role in this game, but I
feel like she gave him a time limit and she only knows so
much. She rolled very well, though.
She got a well moderate. She got a nine takes longer than
you would wish you would want trying to track that 20 minutes,
right. She's like even checking the
watch near the end of it, you get the beep and she's like, no,
no, no, just up ahead. Actually, since it was 10
minutes. 10 minutes, right? Right does the beep and she's
like, oh fuck, I thought I said 2020 right ten OK, this way.
And then she pulls out a knife with that and slices through
some of the webbing. She's like it is down this
hallway. We just can't keep going around.
Some of the like web just pulls in on itself and opens up a a
tunnel and she makes her way down.
She finds a web covered ladder that leads up to the same
maintenance hatch looks like the same as all the rest of them.
And she checks the watch and she says, I, you guys, you guys got
to be quick in there. I, I can't be down here for
long. I might just come with you.
If she like starts climbing the ladder and the maintenance
hatch, she'll be an NPC behind you, but doesn't want to be down
there alone with the way that that turned out and pushes the
maintenance hatch. And you guys end up in a very,
very tiny tight portico that she like pops some bricks out of one
of the walls and into a exceedingly dimly lit maze like
it's it's it's old hand and laid brick just stretching down in
any direction into a dim fog that you can't see any further
down. Her Lantern only gives so much
of A Dome of light cascading off these walls before the just mist
of this dungeon overtakes it. And you guys find yourselves in
the in a maze or in a guess in a long hallway.
She has told you it's a maze 10 minute timer Dill and D ham it's
it's it's really easy with D ham on the back with a clock saying
goes off same time and. Your table is ready.
Dinner is served. Out we go.
Yeah, we. Go did it.
We're did it, yeah. We're like, we're gonna put
anything character is. So, you know, maybe I've even
got little small flappy bits coming off my back to make my
Cape flutter behind me as I confidently stride out of this
out of this tunnel. Can I spend one of my barter for
like 15 sprinklers that I've got in my hands?
Same those till we till we have to avoid being on.
Fire, definitely spend one of your barter to have a sprinkler
and a little bit left in the tank to do a show with.
No, sorry. I meant sparklers.
Sparklers a pack of. Sparklers.
You could spend your barter for a package of sparklers.
For sure. Right.
Don't do that. It's too late.
I'm. Very flammable.
I don't do that. I don't.
Do that, but it is a very good image.
Don't do that. It's like panicking beneath you.
Stop, stop, stop. If you're getting lighter out.
It'd be very distracting as you guys caught a flame and then.
Died right there in the the Yeah, that would be distracting.
Not a terrible, not a not a terrible image of the confident
stride down the hallway all of a sudden just just shudder in your
power of its own light, freeze and try and go back to walking.
The two of you climb the ladder and into the dark space, and
it's silent in here. You know how the tunnel goes.
It's just walk down the tunnel. You don't have any kind of
reference for which direction that's from.
I'm sure we'll hear it, I think. I suppose the thing to do is
just to book it and make it out onto the onto the board.
I considered if there was any way to like to become a cushion,
to cushion the cushion, the impact and ride the ball out
onto the field, but. Yeah, let's ride the ball when
it's at its fastest. Yeah, no, it as as you say it,
it sounds like so Yeah, no, let's do you know he'll books
it. He'll books it down the hall.
There is no sound of the ball behind you.
And I think that she probably would have told you, right?
They're not ready for this. They're probably not going to
launch it until distraction begins.
You have a little bit more time to set up like out on the field.
So you book it. You book it just in a direction
straight up as you come out because there's no real which
way to go. It's just pure darkness.
After a little bit you get you get that little inkling that's
like, did I go the fucking wrong way?
Where you start having the way like time versus energy spent on
task doing before you finally see that like pinprick of light
ahead that says, if I keep my Sprint going right at this
point, you know, you'd be running from the ball.
So you wouldn't be thinking about this.
You'd just be running from the ball and you run towards the
pinpick prick of light to. I can be suspecting whether the
floor is a treadmill. The light approaches down in the
Crips. The three of you are in a
tunnel. Yeah, we need to move quickly
down the tunnel. So, pedal, does this feel
familiar or do you want me to go first?
Can I roll for familiarity? You can give me a open your
brain roll to see if this is something you recognize, like
how you recognize this place. You played his games for a long
time. You know it's possible.
Is there some sort of advantage that you've remembered all of
your remembrances? Thank goodness for +2 that is an
8. An impression Pollen is right.
This is a maze. You know that usually you come
into this game in one of a few different locations, but not
starting like in that main space.
It's hard to say what part of the maze that you're in.
I think with an 8 you would recognize some of this maze.
You just have to begin getting your layout, like which part
we're in, right? Where do curves go?
Where we at? What is our first main point?
You know there's not going to be a lot of them down there, but
when you can find a point to go off of, you feel pretty sure
that you would know which direction.
But right now you're just in two sort of you have a path in front
of you or a path like to the right.
You're at like a corner of the hallway.
It's just off into the the mist while pedal is trying to get
that together. Why don't spigot you give me a
Rita Citrol? Well, Spigot, I would know.
I would know, but only if we were in a different part of you.
Need more frame of reference? All right, read a search is
sharp plus one and that is a 10 + 1.
That's an 11. Ask three questions and I called
for this but all of them real like all of them will give you
good info and I will loop in one of them as the thing I called
for. This OK, so my first one would
be what's my best weigh in? What's my position?
What's my best way in escape route?
Way past is just to to move. Your best way is to find a
landmark that pedal can base something off of.
You have unfortunately 2 undescript ways, so your best
way is just to pick one and run you know what I mean until you
get something good because it is just random right now.
Then my second question would be, it was the where's my enemy?
From here we have this. Enemy's true position.
Yeah, sorry. Enemy's true position, yes,
yeah. You have, well, let's say one
hallway that just cuts forever off in One Direction and one
hallway that cuts like 30 feet off and you think that there's a
turn up there so it like could curve up and around down the
hallway that kind of cuts off forever.
You guys are in this, this super dim, dim blue, so dim that in
the darkness you can just vaguely make out each other, an
ambient kind of low light, right?
You see the flicker of like a red Lantern, like neon pink kind
of red, right? Flicker just kind of crossed the
hallway very deep down, often into the mist.
And Pollen grabs your shoulder and puts a finger up to her lips
and shakes her head no and then points off towards the small
path. OK then.
That's your enemy's true position.
I mean, I kind of, I kind of know who's in control here
because we're still at the mercy of the man running the place.
But in this hallway with Pedal and Pollen and me, who is in
control here? Do we have any sense of order or
are we just feeling complete chaos?
So who is in control here? Putting all the info together, I
think you know that currently no one is really in control.
Yeah, here. And that's not like I do like
the humor behind that. He is not watching over, so he's
not going to be doing anything. And I think we'll say that with
that question that Pollen probably probably told you that
the spectres down here, that's going to be one of them based on
what she told you. They're the light sources.
They're going to be, they're going to be like lures.
Don't trust them. Run from them, in fact.
They're anglerfish. Yeah, kind of like anglerfish,
right? They're just running through the
motions of this. They're they're like on a loop
or whatever, not exactly on a path, but they're they're just
doing their path, they're just doing their like security loops,
right. So if we don't cross them, we
don't let them know we're here. The game hasn't been triggered,
so there's not more going, there's not more input into
them. Okay.
Which I think we're going to fit right.
We just got to move through this pathing.
Yeah. So we're going to follow Pollens
direction and we're going to book it that way.
You guys cut off and around with the spot of a pink light off in
the distance and down into some tunnels.
And I mean immediately get the idea right.
All these halls look at the same every which direction you are
just straight up running, but you're moving the the light cut
off from the right and to the left.
You're moving like anytime we can move right, we're moving
right to avoid go in the opposite direction of the light.
I think on you guys, the camera like pulls up over this big
misty like long ass maze off into the distance as you're
cutting off and around hallways pedal or pollen turns down her
Lantern to just enough for you guys to like see in the space
you're moving and not to run into walls.
You 2 standing on top of one another for the second time, run
out and onto the field. This light, as you hit it, it's
this blinding white light. And then as your vision starts
to focus in through the light, you are Jarred by a little bit
of this almost technical difficulty, a little bit of
glitching in and out. You first see this like decrepit
courtyard stadium that the the the mall has and had at some
point, but little like shards of the the pinball stadium flicker
in and flicker out and then begin to the bleed out and into
the space and the crowd roar kind of comes up over that and
you hear oh, I guess we we have some guests.
You look familiar. You look familiar.
He points. I guess no.
We don't. Now up at well, D Ham does, you
don't. I don't know.
I've got like a, I've got a curtain pulled all the way up to
my neck. I've got a blind tube on.
I guess you do. I think I'd like a.
Do we do a full Jake suit? Oh, like about your time?
I start to sink into you. It's in his mouth though.
You have to stretch around his whole mouth, which means that
you just be tasting Deehan the whole time.
I mean taste. I don't have to do it exactly
the way that they do it in. I was going to the lead up to
that was I was going to ask for your reputation role since we
said yes last time but didn't end up getting to it.
Well, we said. We said that meeting him via the
screens didn't count as meeting him.
I think I started there and then I said yes, it it.
There's no reason for me to say no.
We can roll it, but what I as I'm reading through this on no
matter what they've heard of you, but I think that that can
be for your disguise. Like if he's just wrong and has
heard of this crazy dude running around, you know what I mean?
That, to me, is a cool. It's.
Two bodies, one bone. I've heard of this guy.
But I don't know, like Dylan, if there's anything there for you
in. Anton's.
John weird body. John weird body.
I've heard of John weird body. How'd you make her way here?
With my. Weird body.
Cool on a hit. They've heard of you.
You say what they've heard he has in your spotted corner.
Yeah, but like, we got to do better than that.
Who is John Meard Body? And the hit is just 7:00 to
9:00. Or dealing with them on a miss.
They've heard of you, but the embassy decides what they've
heard, OK? Yeah, that's the bridge I like
On a miss. He might just recognize you on a
other hit though, maybe. He how cool.
Are you doing a weird body? How cool am I?
I'm like 1 bat worth of cool.
Yeah, OK. We're we're equally cool.
I could do a help. I think you're already exposing
yourself to danger by being a part part of this.
So just to add to his. Yeah, like literally you could
probably, you could probably help me on everything.
I'm happy to help. OK, give a first so first D ham
role plus history. You got it with dill.
Oh baby, baby, oh baby bait. That's 13.
Oh Dang. They take a + 1 or a -, 2 up to
you. So I think plus one.
Yes, please. OK, +2 6/6 with a total 26
total. Says no, I definitely recognize
the two of. You.
I throw a knife at him. Who's John?
It goes up and then keeps going up.
Who's John Weird. He doesn't even stop to talk
about that. This time it hits the gun.
John Weird body. That's Where's your friends?
Where's Spigot? Where's Pollen?
And the the story of these people came to like red and kind
of stormy and he said. That distraction lasted so long.
Gang I'll. Find out where they are.
Quack, stop. I'll find out where they are.
We'll get that info out of you. And you hear the loud clanking
clack from the the tunnel behind you.
You run out, I imagine onto the field to get out from where the
ball will come out, just to give yourself some distance.
Where the ball is at its fastest.
And, and he says, and we'll find it out through some force, and
you feel a rumble in the stadium, a shifting on the side,
a whole riser splits in half, and a few of the people cheering
on it actually fall into the gap that's there.
And another tube the size of the pinball comes out further up the
court. And as the first pinball leaves
behind the tunnel that you guys are in, a second one shoots out
of that. And.
They circling. The court on either side heading
down towards the bumpers at the same rate and that is that means
we've got episode for now, that means we've got 2.
Chances for the lightning ball. More to keep up with for one
being I guess. OK, let's talk about if you
didn't buy John Weird Body I. Seem like the perfect disguise.
It seems like the perfect disguise.
How could he not have fallen for that?
No, he was so close. Like a 7A7 is all we needed for
him to fall for that. Glory be.
I think it's still good. I think that what what what
we're granted in the distraction is now he's focused on getting
the info from you right rather than looking them out.
So no matter what he's focused on you and not seemingly at this
point. But let's get into history.
So, Theodore, you take us off. Who has the highest?
Who knows you better than they did before?
Or if no one. Trying to think who would be the
most surprised by Dill kind of putting it all together during
the planning stage. By the other one like coming,
coming in on that? Yeah, that's interesting.
I don't know that anyone's seen the other one execute except as
big as I've probably seen that in the past, right in that that
time you guys spent together. Let's go with.
D Ham that's smart.
Hype that history for a help. Stat What is plus 4 + 4?
Means that you reset, you reset. You reset to plus one but you
get an experience D ham yeah and then you get to pick who knows
you better or. I'm going to say pedal because
pedal was sort of having their moment of like, oh wow, OK, so
this is my place, these are my people, blah blah blah.
And then I jumped into stall and broke a light and just was rabid
about that. I almost said Julius Caesar,
which is not even close. No, they had a Julius Caesar
shake item still around actually.
But it wasn't even close to what?
I was doing before the Ides of March.
April so, Julie. 'S kind of close.
Because Julius shakes. Julius shakes Julius baby
Anyway, Ed 2 Brute. Caesar shakes.
ED-2 Brute shakes. OK, so pedal.
You get a + 1 History with D ham because you now know it.
You know he's interested in Lemon Pfeiffer rabidly.
It's true spigot who knows you better.
I would think that the aside that Spigot had with everybody
where he said the priority for me is the machine and rescuing
other people. A secondary probably didn't
surprise Pedal because she's worked with me and she kind of
knows Spigots focus is on getting Ted bills water back up.
So wow. +4. Well, at 4 + 4 you roll 1, you
take experience. Yeah.
You take it down to plus plus one and you, yeah, gain
experience. That's enough experience to
level up again. Sure is.
I haven't been running down what number levels I'm at.
I probably should have been doing that.
I. Think that your fifth level now?
Holy shit. The number of. 5 or 4. +1.
Yep, 55 then. Number of.
Checks marks plus. Where do I write that?
Yeah, I think I'm about to hit 4th.
Level here, yes. That makes sense that she's at
fifth because I think that that is the pace.
She was smashed with you for a bit.
I think we talked. About lap level, I'm level 2.
Yeah, I did know that. That's because that's because I
get a point. I would get AI get a experience
but every time I have a vision. Two, right, because you're
rolling plus cool. Right.
Yeah, you have. It set up you get 2 experience
at the start of every session. Yeah, it's true.
So that I have an extra leftover then.
Okay then. Is cool, Is cool a mark stat for
you? Not this time.
Okay, then not. But I did but I did but I did
get an extra point during the session for my open the brain.
Yes, which is my weird which was checked.
Cool, cool. Yeah.
Then some level stuff. I gotta pick my improvement.
How many times can I get a + 1? I could pick another move from a
play plug. Yeah, if at 5 is that?
Always fun. The level in which.
I think you said it was six level. 6 and above.
So close I'm. Going to look that up now just
so I can text the group. It's either at 5 or at six, but
since you're at the level, I'll get the direct number and you
might be able to. Pick character to play in Fuck
Wild. I know, right?
I'm just going to retire. I'm just, if you'll walk away,
I'm done. I do also.
Like this would be a it's a second player, you play 2 at the
same time. But there's also.
Retired. You also like retire your
character to safety. That would be just like an
immediate escape rope. You're like, no.
You can play. Rapture just clean out I I won.
Good luck. Good luck, guys.
Bye. You guys are running with
amazing pedal's just fucking gone behind you.
If finding the. If finding the, if I find.
The love in my recipe. On a level up, that's it.
I'm done. That's it.
Baby, he just shuts. Down.
Pedal who knows you better? I think everybody heard all my
private history. No, just one pedal.
OK, let's say dill. Dill Plus one to pedal.
Wait, never mind, it just takes me back to 0.
But now it's zero. It's not a minus anymore.
That's history with pedal when it comes up.
History with pedal, it's tough thing to get past.
When you guys need to help each other.
You're hard to help. You're.
Hard. To help, they just slam and
that's what we'll ended on everyone.
One group draws attention while the other attempts to collect
the necessary materials under the radar.
Elsewhere, the final chug of a machine sounds as its engine
sputters and completely quits on its operator, leaving the water
bearers facility in silence and the community of Tedville to
only rely on the remaining water the substitute has.
The situation in Tedville grows more dire by the hour.
This episode was produced and GM D by M Williams, featuring
Theodore Stringer as Dill, Lawrence Jennings as Deluca's
Chophouse answering machine, Mike Harrison as Spigot, and
Grace Stringer as pedal music composed for this season by
Chris Rogich. Additional voiceovers by McKenna
Lynch. The rest of the credits are in
the episode description. That's all for this edition of
WPR. I'm Q.
See you next time I. Mean tattoos do hurt.
Sure. For those listeners out there
that don't have one, yeah. I guess that's a good thing.
Like, yeah, sometimes some of them sometimes hurt.
Not all of mine have. Hurt all the time hurt.
Not all of mine have hurt too much.
Like on my outer forearm, fucking almost nothing.
An easy like pinching motion for a good portion of it on my calf
like a razor blade for about an hour and a half.
Uncomfortable. My first tattoo was my ankle
bone. I don't know what I was
thinking. Yeah, the bone work never goes
well. The things that are like, really
close to bones. I have my.
Cool tattoo. I have my ankle, ribs and
sternum done. All the alley, all the alley and
my both and my and my hip bones. That one that that hurts so bad.
Oh, the hip. There's nothing in between their
butt nerves. Yep, and my bone, I thought,
rattling my bones.