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C1 EP5 - Dreams and Shipping Containers
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We get an insight into the Character's dreams, Karg's relationship with his god and the export operations of the Under.
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains fantasy violence, Crime, Alcohol use, amnesia, potential trigger statements and strong profanity.
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Introduction & Content Warnings
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Content Warning. Ursa Rhett is a podcast with mature themes for a mature audience. Content warnings can be found in the description.
Near-Death Experience and Family Tensions
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After Karg is brushed with death and spittles kill of the final bodyguard, the party knows they have to get Karg and Marcellus somewhere safe. Antonio takes Marcus's watch and puts it on Marcellus. The party enjoyed a relaxed time in the Genovese safe house till Marcellus woke up.
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Karg and Marcellus share drinks until glow when Marcellus realizes he has to go and set things up in the family. Antonio vocalizes his idea for revenge but Marcellus disagrees. Marcellus then kicks Antonio from the family due to his plan. The party goes shopping and find their way back to the street bar.
00:00:53
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Welcome, hobbits, hobgoblins, and hypocritical hippogrips.
Ursa Red: The TTRPG World
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Ursa Red is a TTRPG based off of Dungeons and Dragons on an asteroid orbiting Ayleth, the brightest star in Ursa Major. The undergrown out of mining operations and evolved into a morally relative civilization is made up of six portions. Safe Harbor, Refining Village, Neon Park, Gas Springs, Melodic, and Echo Depths.
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Uh, our story continues in safe harbor, where we're going to come back to our group of adventurers all gathered around the happiest place on earth, the street park. I'm joined by Carter profit. Hi, I'm Carter. I play Mr. Somebody. Um, he is a variant human monk and, uh, he finds the cleanness and the standards and sanitation and just the nastiness of the under to just be abhorrent and
00:01:50
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still cannot get over the fact that everyone seems to think that mopping once a week is seen as some sort of gold standard for a upscale hotel. Everyone knows this is normal. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I mean, cause definitely got that hotel has
Character Quirks & Backgrounds
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showers in it. And that's pretty nice, honestly. Yeah, Mr. Somebody over here is bougie. Not being someone who's been to
00:02:16
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You know, Optimus doesn't really mind that. You also don't have to worry about germs, so... Yeah, what would be more preferable, being in a dirty under, or being on an operating table? Ooh, that's actually a good question. How clean was the operating room he woke up in? I mean, according to Mr. Somebody, if it's up to par with the under, disgusting. Yeah, it's about the same as a... Fun fact, your arm's infected. Super nice place.
00:02:47
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You've got gangrene. I'm gonna look at it one day and there's just gonna be like chunks of flesh falling off around the fucking metal parts. I'm joined by Chase Dixon.
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Hey everybody, I am Chase Dixon. I play Antonio Moretti. And a fun fact about Antonio is his nickname is the shadow. But not for anything cool. Like he's a badass like hides in the shadows and steals and kills people. Now it's because when the family pulled him off the street, he was so fucking filthy. He was basically just in a dirt ridden blackface. And he was complete soot and
00:03:31
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and ash and dirt and just disgustingness. And, and Marcellus said he looked like a shadow. And it stuck. Well, it sucks that Mr. Somebody wasn't there and he could have, he could have cleaned you up. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, so now that just another prime example of underness, dirty on purpose to keep up with the persona.
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Oh, yeah, for sure. You put on like eyeshadow every day. But it's just dirt. But it's not it's not. Yeah, I just I just I take I take some of the crud that's underneath my nails and I lick it real quick to wet it and and do whatever I got to do smeared around. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Fun fact, he's not a drow. He's just dirty. Oh, everyone's fun fact this week is they're just dirty.
00:04:22
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For special occasions, you just like scoop up like just, you know, some rubble off the ground and just cover your face in it. Yeah. And give myself a, give myself a wet Willy and give myself a cold. I'm joined by Dean Balter. Hi, I'm Dean Balter and I play the drunken high elf Karg. He's a Twilight cleric, but the little fun fact about this Twilight cleric is he does not have a God that he really has a cleric for.
00:04:51
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He pretty much just worships alcohol. That is how he gets his power. It's like Jackie Chan and the drunken master. Yeah, exactly. The alcohol that fuels him. That's how he's so good. He actually worships alcohol enough that alcohol has ascended into the pantheon.
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It's not just like an alcohol god. It's like just alcohol. I imagine there's like Zeus up there. He's sitting with Hades and Poseidon and then there's just a bottle of Patron sitting on his head.
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Exactly. Hades keeps trying to drink the bottle of Patron, but Zeus is like, no, we can't. He's been worshipped. He has to be here until the believer no longer believes in this bottle of Patron. He has to stay up here. And I was thinking it was a pantheon of all the alcohol gods. That's never happening.
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And Aries tries to take a swig, but fun fact, Kog's devotion to Patron is stronger than anyone's devotion to Aries, so he's actually a more powerful god.
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I am joined by Dominic Wehmeyer. Hello, I am Dominic Wehmeyer and I play Johnny Phelps. Fun fact about me, still on topic of alcohol, my favorite drink is gin on the rocks. Because when I was pulled into the family, that's the first drink Don served me. Reminds me of the times going up.
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entering the big leagues because we're in the under and everything's dirty. They were just actual rocks. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Better, better thermal conductivity as it were. Just went to like a deep freeze and pulled out a thing of gravel. Makes a sip on his drink. Chunky. That's the texture. Really taste the minerals in it. It's got those dark, earthy notes through it.
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That was good. That was good. Now they lined the edge of the rim with it, with the limestone, like a margarita. I'm joined by Tim Lincoln. Hi, my name is Tim Lincoln and I play Optimus Crime, the warforged artificer tech guru of the group. And my fun fact this week is my nickname is also the shadow. And he's also dirty.
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Uh, no, so the last, uh, two weeks, I gave you guys fun fact names about my first name and my last name, but little known fact, Optimus crime also has a middle name. It's, uh, Jim. Is there, is it an acronym? No, it's not an acronym. Just Jim. All right.
00:07:47
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Optimus Jim crime. Is it, is it Gem or is it James? No, it's just Gem. Well, to be fair, nevermind. We're not going to keep going. My fun fact is I sent out a message to everyone like two hours ago saying, hey, don't forget to make your fun fact. And then I forgot to make my fun fact.
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to do. I didn't forget. I just couldn't tell struggle. What about your fun facts? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're joined by you. Not getting away that easy. And we're joined by our GM get over.
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I'm Alexander Crutchfield.
Ursa Red's Origins
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I will be your GM for this campaign. And my fun fact is Ursa Red is actually a campaign setting that I started to work on in 2015. And it was my first time DMing, uh, any Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
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And we made it three sessions in before we were like, why are we doing this? We're already in two other campaigns, like all of us together. And then we just scrapped it. And when Dean was like, Hey, will you DM?
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for a thing for tactical crits I Immediately was like there's one world that I started to make that I never got to explore and Now we're now we're exploring it So yeah, we were we were playing our last campaign over the course of six months before tactical crits was even a glean in Dean's eye crutch would make passing comments about this like it was a
00:09:29
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It was the world that shall not be named. So he's had this brainchild for a while. Well, I'm glad we got to make it work. We can play it now. Yeah, I'm a fan. Just under a decade late. Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug. I've already eaten it.
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three bowls of goop and you want me to eat more? Get it down! You'll need to eat all of them. You have to try every single flavor to tell us which one is the best. I've had red, I've had purple, and I've had green. That's it? Do you know how, you gotta taste the rainbow. They're all the same. No they are not. Now what you gotta do? You know, you take all the flavors,
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And then you put them together. And then you got a rainbow. It's all the same shit. Don't you ever. Rainbow is the worst flavor. Shut your fucking mouth. Never. Rainbow is the best flavor because you add all the complexities and the subtle notes and tones of all the other flavors together into one culinary masterpiece. According to Karg when he's drunk. See? You cannot even taste it. No, but he knows what's right.
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I definitely can taste this. And I'm gonna stick my finger in the goop and bring it up to my face, wipe it on there, and say, yum, yum. And garbage is gonna be like, you got a little something over here. Let me get it for you. There you go. Look, I'll try the rainbow one, but that's it. I'm done. I'm not trying any more goop. It's all the same. How many have you had? You're like, right now.
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Like, one? He's had three bowls. There's- There's no- They're even diving into the immense amount of flavors they have. There's a- there's a cornucopia of this stuff. And you're gonna stop at three? You haven't even tried dessert goop yet. What is dessert goop? This is only breakfast goop. Dessert goop is the best by far. Let's just- let's just skip to dessert goop then. Oh, it's right. It's great. Rainbow goop is dessert goop.
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Cool. What defines lunch goop then? That's the goop that you eat at lunch. Duh. What colors? You also need to try l-lina goop? Lina goop is delicious. Positively divine, especially when you get purple flavor. The purple tastes the same as the red. The purple tastes so much better than red. Yes, pushed out the street bar? Yes.
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You're going to hear Sheriff Bill kind of look over and go, yeah. And then it's chalky. He's going to lean forward and be like, Sheriff Bill said he always eats dessert goop before lunch. Goop. Life's short. Eat dessert first. The Sheriff Bill is his heathen. Yeah. Sheriff Bill's a fucking troglodyte. We're not taking that guy's advice.
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Well, I agree. People are insane. Give the man some credit. He's been around the block a few times and not just cause he's too drunk to find the bar. Well, he was obviously going around block wrong direction. Shaki says, uh, he said it was, it was in the street. The street bar was in the street. Well, he's not wrong. Yeah. That is where it is. That's the name. That's why I find it.
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Is that seriously yours, Sheriff? That's, that's the cop. More or less, it's on their effect title. Oh, great. Shockey's gonna kind of be like, so what color is a goop are there again? How many colors can you see? That's many. Well, what's interesting is I feel like I've seen every color of goop on the rainbow, except for yellow goop.
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We do not talk about yellow goop. It was, they tried it. It did not go well. Yellow goop seems to only be in rainbow goop. Why is that? It's, uh, this is my special. You can also find it at the bottom of a bottle that, uh, that cog over here has been a nurse in it for an evening. All right. All right. If you, if rainbow goop is so good, give me a bowl of rainbow goop.
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One rainbow goop bowl coming right up. I'm going to start mixing it, all the different bowls into one. And then I'm going to pop out of my finger, a little blender piece and just stick it in there and start frothing it up. I love the idea that Optimus as the best buddy of the most degenerate alcoholic in the under is a perfect computerized mixologist. Like it's just a match made in heaven. That's right. I got my whole bartenders kit right here.
00:14:27
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in my body. I feel like a rainbow goop would be like a vomit color. It usually is. If it's just all the colors mixed up, that's... You would think it would turn into like a weird green pea soup color, but all the colors stay separated into like a nice swirl. Like oil and water. Optimus slides over the bowl of rainbow goop to you. Drink, motherfucker. Taste how bad that is. Chug, chug, chug, chug.
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takes and slowly bring it to a slips. And then she starts throwing it back. Woohoo. You did it. So, so, so what's the verdict? You see why rainbow is worst flavor? Is best flavor. Do not condescend me. The look on
Dreams & Realizations
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his face speaks in itself. You won't believe it. It's
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It's the exact same as everything else. Yeah, but it looks cool. Why are we having this one judge goop flavor again? It looks like someone just mopped up.
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any goop that's spelt on the floor and threw it in a bucket. I mean, sometimes... He refuses to acknowledge flavor, complexities. But it's pretty. There's no flavor. It's not about the content. Perception is reality. It's about how it looks. It's gorgeous. It's like wet sand. Yep. That's the best part. Where else are you going to find wet sand here? It's not like we have beaches around here. Why would you want to eat wet sand? Only purple colored.
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I like to think that the reason it's called rainbow goop is it's literally just a fucking oil spill.
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thin film on top it's just like an iridescent like there absolutely is too because it's probably like oil that was inside of the bowl too that's just like making it like oil is a derivative ingredient of goop that's where the yellow goes from yeah goop's all petroleum based food and that's why optimus loves it
00:16:46
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It's actually just like shale To complete your guys's long rest you guys are gonna have to go to sleep one more time Do you guys have a plan for that so not yet So Karg is a high elf who can trance right? You're good and He's gonna he's gonna pretty much just like
00:17:15
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sit at the bar the whole time and kind of trance, pray into alcohol. Okay. Good alcohol. Do we want to do it where everyone just got so drunk, they just passed out at the bar? Yeah, we can do that.
00:17:31
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I'm not alone. Cause we still had five models of alcohol that last time. Yeah. Yeah. I got some, I got some traumas. I gotta, I gotta work through. So I'm going to do that in a healthy manner of getting belligerently drunk and passing out upside down on the bar. Yeah.
00:17:47
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So you do it. Optimus will go behind the bar. He likes to pretend he's the bartender and he'll, uh, again, he's got a charger back there as well. At this time, while I'm going through other people's stuff, uh, go ahead and start making the tiny adjustments you need to bring your character to level two. Uh, but Waymire, before you do that, uh, you find yourself in a cavern.
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This is very clearly a dream because the cavern just seems to keep going. You hear a child's voice coming from directly in front of you as it kind of echoes off the walls. It sounds like this child is talking to someone, but no one responds.
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I'm going to slowly walk in that direction, keeping a lookout for anything. As you continue down the cavern, you're going to
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hear a familiar female's voice respond to the child, uh, offering words of comfort. You hear them say something about they have to go hunt soon. Maybe we can escape then. Hunt. Do you keep walking towards the voices? I will, but at a slower pace, trying to keep quiet. Uh, as you creep down,
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You see that there's a bend in the cave and a gentle glow comes from around the corner. Down on the ground in front of you, you see a
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like the heavy armor and stuff like that that belongs to the mining companies that have dug deep underneath the under searching for any remnants of natural resources they can mine up. This one has a giant hole in it that has been burnt through with some kind of acid.
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so whatever did this is incredibly powerful and through that hole you can see that there is still a body inside of this suit Jesus as you turn around the corner you're going to first see a like small section of the cave where there seems to be two individuals and as you kind of glance over it
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You can't really tell who they are in there, but you know that that is where the voices are coming from. Hmm. And you pause to look a little bit closer and you see a child's face turn and look at you and you recognize this to be the grandson of the Genovese or yeah, the Genovese family.
00:21:12
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who you've been looking for for a while. And then almost immediately after, you see that the woman who is holding this child and is offering words of comfort, bears a resemblance to your wife that you haven't seen in a while. And as you kind of lean forward to take a closer look
00:21:38
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A monster jumps out from around the corner and you wake up. Jesus Christ. That's going to bring us to chase Antonio. I'd like you to describe what dream you're having for us. It's one of those dreams, right? Where you can.
00:22:00
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You're around people. You can see people. People are doing something, but they can't see you like you're like a you're basically a ghost or a fly on the wall. And I'm in the conference room of the hotel. And I'm watching. What I presume. Happened behind those doors. And every time I see the doctor that's. We're looking for.
00:22:30
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I see his attire and his body, but when it gets to his face, it's constantly changing. It's never locked on one face. So I don't know what he looks like. And I can't hear anything, but you can tell by the body language that it's becoming a heated argument and out of nowhere.
00:22:54
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Marcellus grabs for grabs for the doctor and the doctor security guards just knock him out and put him on the ground, take out a gun and shoot him in the head. And then the doctor pulls out some sort of contraption and just blows up fucking hole through Marcus's body. They clean themselves up very, very nonchalant about this whole endeavor and and
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prim up that tie and just walk out. As I got to see a bird's eye view with the men that I love being killed. After the sequence finishes, you will also wake up. You wake up and you see that Phelps is also awake. You're also going to see that Karg is gone.
00:23:45
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Mr. Somebody, in your dream, you're going to fill arms holding you and dragging you away as you desperately try to work your way back towards a house where you see a
00:24:06
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Like teenage boy and, uh, what appears to be his younger sister as they both are standing in the doorway crying. And you recognize that you are not in the under, uh, and you feel yourself saying words that you're not like intending to say there. You hear it's just kinda like, sorry.
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Did it for you. Did it for you. Like coming out of your mouth as you're like begging for forgiveness from these two kids standing in a doorway. Uh, you continue to be dragged away and you're thrown in the back of some kind of vehicle as a door closes and everything goes black. Um.
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Once this memory ends, you're going to wake
Karg's Dream Journey
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up. You're also going to see that about six hours has passed or eight hours, whatever you needed to complete your long rest. Mr. Phelps and Antonio are both awake and Cargis is missing. Before we get to crime.
00:25:28
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And Karg, would you guys like this opportunity to interact? Is, uh, crime still plugged in behind the bar? Uh, yeah. No, I think I'm good. I will second that. Yeah. Uh, crime. Yes. What is crime dreaming about right now? So crime's dream is he takes his time when he's shut down.
00:25:54
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to do systems checks, make sure that all of his data isn't being corrupted. He's gone through a lot of damage in the last couple of days. So he's checking all the systems files, making sure everything's in order. But also there is a part of him that likes to have abstract kind of thoughts and dreams.
00:26:22
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And so what he's dreaming about right now is more of like a memory. He's thinking about a time when him and his sister were sitting at the top of a, a overlook in the, uh, under, and it was, um, right before
00:26:54
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uh, Dawn in the under when all the neon lights began to glow. They go from dim to bright. And he's remembering sitting there with his sister, watching all of that and, uh, thinking that he misses his sister and wants to see her soon. Very nice. So, uh, crime after your memory is complete, you're going to wake up.
00:27:22
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And notice that everyone is waking up right now, except for Karg, who is not here. Where's Karg? Did anyone see him leave? I figured he told you. I did not see him. I just, I just woke up. I didn't see him, but it's false. I was not disturbed at any time during my rest cycle. Must be nice.
00:27:52
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Maybe you wandered back to the apartment. Should we check there? We'll probably be safe. Do you have like a security cam feature, you know, for when you're safe and you're still looking? Oh wait, that's a good point. I'm a drow, so I meditate and I'm aware of my surroundings while I'm resting. Yes, but you're a drow and you said that you were drinking to get rid of all your problems.
00:28:20
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Let this be a lesson, kids. Pay attention to the words you choose. They have meaning. Consequences and actions. Consequences. Crime. Do you have a camera that you can play back? Absolutely, yeah. Crime's base is a camera.
00:28:42
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go back and you hit play and run through the footage. Very early on, you see Karg stand up with a bottle of alcohol held out in front of him. And he's like, like, moves his arm and he's like, that way? Okay. And he just starts to follow the alcohol. Karg, after you fall asleep, you find yourself
00:29:10
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at the street bar, but you're by yourself and there's no one else there. Uh, but directly in front of you is a brand new high quality bottle of like, uh, tequila. Oh, this is some high quality alcohol. Got to go get a little taste of that. And then he's going to start walking towards it. Cog.
00:29:41
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Cog, I'm right here. I'm on the count of Cog. Yeah. What? Cog. And you see a face on the bottle of tequila. He's going to be like, Cog, we've got an adventure to go on. I know. Where are we going, buddy? I'll tell you on the way. And you're going to pick up the bottle.
00:30:10
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And like the bottles gonna be like, we're not going that all right. And you're just gonna like, oh, this way. Okay. And you're just gonna start walking off. So the bottle is going to kind of give you directions throughout the town.
00:30:27
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You feel really impressed with yourself because you are very accurately recreating this city in your dream. There's no other people, which seems strange to you. Kind of a random point, the bottle's going to tell you to go into a house and you realize that you are back at the building of the safe house. Wait a minute. I already left here, why are you going back?
00:30:56
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at something you gotta see, cock. And you're gonna start to go upstairs, and as you're about to go into the safe house, the bottle's gonna be like, now, higher. Like, oh, oh. On the roof. Oh, shit, okay. And the car's gonna start walking up onto the roof. Once you get onto the roof, you're gonna kinda look around. You're going to look out,
00:31:26
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And used from the roof, you see the vein, uh, which is that club where like the less organized crime go. And then behind it, you see like a shipping yard.
00:31:44
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And in the middle of the shipping yard are two silver trains that are currently being loaded by robots with a series of boxes and things like that. And then the one of the trains.
00:32:06
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uh opens up as robots start to carry boxes into it and out of the train you see 12 dudes um wearing black on black suits they all have glasses on and they're wearing like essentially like a like you know the oh gosh i don't know how to describe this hat it's like uh old school golfers used to wear it like a fly cap
00:32:34
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Yeah, like flat cap, like little black, flat caps and you can tell that they're like all carrying some pretty decent weaponry and stuff. Get down. You're going to lay down.
00:32:54
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on your back and as you lay down on your back you're going to get a bit of moisture on you and you're going to fill yourself wake up and realize that that was kind of a dream but somehow you actually ended up on top of this building oh shit oh god well the cargo is gonna grab i'm assuming he still has the bottle of alcohol in his hand right absolutely but it is now just a bottle of alcohol
00:33:23
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Karg is gonna look at it and he's gonna take a couple of jugs and then he's gonna look around him and he's gonna look back at the same area where you saw the trains. Does he see anything there?
00:33:39
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Yes, so there are robots loading boxes on and off the trains. This is kind of like one of the few vantage points in the city where you can actually see this occurring.
00:33:53
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You're not going to see any of the schemy gentlemen that got off. However, you are going to see that it looks like more stuff has been loaded onto the train. So you don't exactly know how long you were lying on the ground, but it's safe to assume that what you saw actually happened. You were just being led by essentially your God. Oh, ooh.
00:34:21
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Karg is going to make a long distance call to his good old buddy crime. Okay. Ring. Uh, one credit, 10 words. Okay. I got to count now. Uh, okay. Shit. Hey buddy, come warehouse me drunk last night. Shit. Safe house.
00:34:51
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And yeah, he's gonna send that over. Okay. Does he not have more than one credit? No, he's just really cheap because he wants to save the rest of his alcohol, or the rest of his money for alcohol. Kram, you're going to receive a little very choppy voice message. Accessing memory files. It appears that Karg left as soon as we all fell asleep. He was wandering off with a bottle of alcohol in his hand.
00:35:23
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We got mail. I just received a message from Karg. It says, Hey buddy, come to warehouse, shit, drunk, safe house. Yeah. Fair house, shit, safe house. The drunk poor sounds about right. Do you think he means that he got drunk and went back to the safe house we just came from?
00:35:50
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If that is what he did, we should make haste. Antonia, didn't Marcellus said they were going to restock that warehouse soon? We needed to be gone. Yeah. Yeah, they did. He could be in danger. We have to move. We should make haste. Optimus is going to unplug himself, and he's going to stand up, start making his way, walking with a purpose in the direction of the warehouse. I'd like to imagine anyone who tries to keep up with crime.
00:36:19
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is gonna have to do like a kind of half run because crime is what, six foot six? Yeah. And is walking with a purpose. So he's like just taking giant steps as he hopes it down the road. Kark, you aren't like trapped on the roof or anything. You have the ability to leave at any time if you want to.
00:36:44
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Okay. Well, all car gets up on top, on top of the, uh, the roof. Does he see any, anything around the building, like just around the building or anything? I'm gonna say, uh, there's not really anything interesting happening around the building right now. It is early glow. So still kind of early in the day in this part, like around the vein and stuff like that tends to be a little bit more of a late glow.
00:37:14
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And then basically all through dim kind of area, a little bit more nightlife. All right. Um, cars go downstairs. Uh, are you going down to like street level? Uh, sorry, cars in the walk. Yeah. I'm just going to walk all the way down. I think they'll probably go rummage through the cabinets again one more time to see if he finds any more booze.
00:37:42
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and then he can bring more alcohols when he leaves. So you head down to the road, and then you're just going to wait for everyone else to show up? Well, I think he's going to start walking back to the street bar. So we'll probably meet up with him. But he's going to start walking back. And did he find any alcohol in the cabinets before he left? No. Well, he's going to walk back with one bottle, one that he brought. As you're walking down Main Street,
00:38:11
Speaker
There's going to be this beautiful moment where you look off in the horizon and you see a six plus six robot power walking towards you. And you start hearing something, uh, like a
Mission to the Train Station
00:38:30
Speaker
non copyrighted version of had the time of my life playing as you take off into a full sprint towards your robot friend.
00:38:40
Speaker
Uh, as he does that, he cast thaumaturgy and makes that song play super loud, three times loud as, uh, as normal. And he's singing it just running towards him. No one puts Coggy in a corner. Sick. You guys are going to, uh, approach each other.
00:39:09
Speaker
Antonio, Mr. Somebody, Mr. Phelps. Duh. What are you up to? Just trying to get the band back together before we decide our next step. I'm trying to keep up with Korg.
00:39:26
Speaker
or crime rather, while going through letter still that I have. I imagine like two blocks behind them trying to catch up. What was this about the letter? I'm just going through it over and over trying to see if there's anything I missed. It was short letter, but- I think when Karg ends up meeting up with crime,
00:39:49
Speaker
He's gonna be like, buddy, you wouldn't believe the dream I had last night. Did you get drunk again and think that alcohol was talking to you? Well, it does. I mean, we both know that the bowel has the mind of his soul.
00:40:07
Speaker
And they brought me here and he points back to the safe house and it's a sign. It means we need to get alcohol from the trains. It's a sign that we need to get out of here quickly before any of the Genovese family comes back. Okay. Yeah, let's move. All right, Karg starts walking towards the trains. Not that way.
00:40:33
Speaker
Where are you going, Mark? What did the bottle say about the trains? Well, he showed me these scary bed and some robots and they were on the train.
00:40:52
Speaker
He said, we need to go. And then he takes another big gulp of his bottle, his tequila bottle that he had on him. There were scary men and robots at the train. Yeah. Maybe they're packing up stuff. Maybe they got alcohol. And you want to, you want to go to the train. They got alcohol. These trains are normally just for like shipping materials, like mining materials up to the surface, resources and stuff.
00:41:18
Speaker
Yeah, and it does occasionally allow things to be brought down. Um, unfortunately there's a limited amount of space of the things that come down just because that that's just kind of how that works. And most of it ends up being taken up by the families, but yeah, these trains are mainly used for exporting things. Less so importing things. Does that make sense?
00:41:48
Speaker
Yeah. And we wouldn't necessarily know all the stuff that they're shipping up there, right? Like we just know that they're, they are shipping up, you know, resources, but. Yeah. This is kind of like, uh, you probably shouldn't, uh, you're, you're discouraged from going around this area. And sometimes you're discouraged with gunfire. Antonio, does family normally, uh, spend a lot of time loading and unloading things from the trains?
00:42:16
Speaker
No, that's not our bag. We bring the stuff there, but we almost never even saw the trains that all got handled by somebody else. They operate getting things to the docs, but the docs get loaded onto the train by robots that have nothing to do with the actual family itself. They look a lot like you over there.
00:42:44
Speaker
Looked like me. Yeah, shiny people. Maybe it's those risers that Marcellus warned us about. Maybe we should go take a look and see what's going on. This could be your chance to get some revenge. I'm all for it. I might have another lead on the
00:43:14
Speaker
risers as it's for antonio here take a look at this letter antonio what does the letter say i hand you a letter and it says uh some it's from the in donovan to the danielle family essentially says that he doesn't like it when the guys come down he thinks they have something to do with his grandson disappearing
00:43:42
Speaker
wants to stop him from coming yeah that uh that kid's been gone for fucking ages jesus even i was looking for him at the start you said you might know where the kid is i i'm not sure if i know where he is but the nielly family is only lead i have right now well if what hasn't spread about me getting kicked out of the family yet to them then uh you might be able to get an audience with them hopefully we can
00:44:10
Speaker
Let's proceed with caution. Okay, let's do it. So what's the game plan? Let me seek them out. Yeah, I would say we'd probably go stealthily, kind of around in the shadows, and then try to get closer. To the train or to the family? Yes. Well, we're here at the train, so we might as well knock. Yeah. Knock this out while we're here. Might as well.
00:44:38
Speaker
So you guys are going to the train station, correct? Yes. We're trying to get in and find out what's going on over there, but not be found out. Be real sneaky, like. So everyone kind of knows where the entrance to the train station is, especially the members of the Genovese family. It's in like the north western corner of that park, kind of at the edge of Safe Harbor.
00:45:07
Speaker
Are you guys going to take a direct approach or try and be a little bit more shadowy? What I know of any side entrances, any entrance that's not used by normal people.
00:45:24
Speaker
Uh, no, you would not. So the families are like, are allowed to use the gate essentially to bring stuff in. Ultimately, this place is ran by the loaders, the robots. So you guys like bring stuff in and drop it off and then leave. Anytime that you guys kind of like linger around on the inside, uh, the loaders start to get suspicious. I say we, uh,
00:45:52
Speaker
Take a more deliberate kind of sneaky approach. Yep. I'm fine with that. Yep. I agree. Yep. Crime is going to cast disguise self. And, uh, so disguise self, you make yourself, including your clothes, armor, weapons, et cetera, uh, look different and.
00:46:20
Speaker
You can see him one foot shorter or one foot taller appear thin fat or between the changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical. Expection. For example, if you use a spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat and anyone who touches it would feel nothing. So the way.
00:46:42
Speaker
that crime is going to do this is he knows that you can get it anywhere as long as you just put on an orange vest and hold a clipboard. So he's putting on an orange vest. He's getting a clipboard out and he's putting on a hard hat. And if anyone asks him what he's doing there, he's there to check on the other robots. OK.
00:47:13
Speaker
Hey, what's everyone else doing? I think Karg is gonna try to follow like 40 feet behind just to keep a safe eye out. But he's he's gonna keep his distance. So if he has to, he can try to like hide somewhere. I'm gonna do the same, but I'm going to
00:47:40
Speaker
Very Assassin's Creed bounce from group of people to group of people like shadow to shadow As much as possible Mr. Somebody mr. Phelps. What are we doing? I'm gonna miss if I can just stick alongside crime here and I'll just pretend I'm part of like his entourage or something like a human handler for a robot and
00:48:08
Speaker
I do the same thing. I pull out book of notes and pretend to be going through while inspecting containers. Uh, so you're not actually in it yet. You're, you're once, once I get there. Oh, okay. I'm inspecting them from afar. Is this an actual book or is this a virtual one? An actual book. An actual book. Okay. It doesn't have anything in it. It's just for appearances.
00:48:33
Speaker
Alright, so who's going straight for the gate? I believe we have, uh, Crime, Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Somebody.
00:48:42
Speaker
approaching the gate. So as you guys approach the gate, there's like a main gate that looks like some kind of vehicle could go through it. Vehicles aren't super common here. Mostly it's like trams and public transportation, but there is also like a gate for like a person. I don't know if you guys have seen like the old Willy Wonka movie with that gate. That's kind of what you're looking at.
00:49:08
Speaker
Right. There's two guards sitting up front on like some, uh, like some boxes turn on their side and they're playing spades. Clearly guarding this gate is normally an easy job. Is there anyone other than these two guards that we can see? Just the people in the street. Okay. Um,
00:49:35
Speaker
Well, Karg is still like further back behind, like obviously just on the street area. Uh, he's going to cast a thaumaturgy and he's going to do it like the far left side of these guards. And it's just be a big banging noise, a banging noise. Can you add a little bit like, so there's.
00:50:00
Speaker
like the gate and then there's like a wall that just kind of extends off of it from either side until it runs into some buildings. Are you going to make it come from like along the wall or? Yeah, so it's gonna be on along the wall on like the left side of the guards and it's just gonna be a big bang. Bang, they're going to jump up and kind of look. They're going to be distracted for about 35 seconds.
00:50:32
Speaker
Is there a chance to go in? Immediately after they hear the bang, they're now distracted because the dude who was sitting further away from the bang starts messing with the cards. And so now they're arguing with each other. It's not really spades, it's some kind of two player game. That was just a word because it just hit me that spades is a four player game. There's two invisible guards that we just noticed.
00:50:57
Speaker
But yeah, they're now arguing about this, making it super easy, easier for people to get through. I'm going to use this opportunity to attempt to sneak past. And before he does that, Karg is going to cast guidance. Thanks, buddy. You got this, buddy. So who else pushing through? If you're pushing through, go ahead and roll stealth check with advantage.
00:51:21
Speaker
Basically, super easy DC. We're just making sure none of you do something stupid and draw attention to yourself. Karg is, I think he's just gonna be drunk and then try to slip past. He's just gonna like knock onto the guards. You get stupid. You're supposed to roll this way, stupid. Everyone else has successfully made it in. Karg, are you gonna attempt to go in still or are you gonna stay here?
00:51:50
Speaker
I think at this point I'm gonna try to distract the guards in case they need to make a quick escape. Okay. And then I think Karga's gonna walk over and be like, look, I'll show you how to play. And then he's gonna sit down and try to play the game with them.
00:52:04
Speaker
Well, what everyone else you're inside of this yard and there's a bunch of boxes and things where most of them are smaller than four, like four feet by four feet, but they are stacked on top of each other. They're.
00:52:22
Speaker
all made out of metal. I think that's an important thing to make sure that for everyone's mind I they have little slots where you could in theory put like a forklift. Those of you who have been here before know that the loaders have arms that flatten out so that they can just put them in and pick up these packages. As you guys are kind of
00:52:47
Speaker
walking around the yard, you're not really seeing too many loaders, but the people who have been here before will know that once you get closer to the train itself, that's when they're going to start to appear. And once they spot you until you leave, they will just keep watching you. What do you guys want to do? Is there a sneaky spot I can slip into as far as in between boxes? Yeah.
00:53:17
Speaker
yeah yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna do a little sneaky sneak okay everyone else i would like to go to one of boxes and examine what is inside of it okay inside of
00:53:33
Speaker
the first box you're going to see, you're going to find that there's a bunch of broken pieces from the mine that need to probably be serviced and they need someone with a little bit more expertise in this than what you guys have available in the under. Are there any boxes that stand out like in terms of like markings or labelings on them? Well, right now you guys are
00:54:04
Speaker
in.
00:54:06
Speaker
Kind of like a general area, but there are a few boxes that have like family crest on them. Does that make sense? So the first Soto family is the ones that run, have the main mine. And so most of them, these items are from the first Soto family. And while I'm in between these boxes, can I hear anything? Like, is there anything moving around inside any of them?
00:54:35
Speaker
Uh, so you're actively searching for. Noises and stuff like that. Yeah. I'm going to say you can hear the robots and stuff moving and off you're not super far into the yard yet. So you can still hear Karg off in the distance talking about rules. Yeah. So everyone knows if you throw the dragon's breath, then you gotta get up and do the poking.
00:55:06
Speaker
I'm just going to mutter to myself. That's right. Cog turn yourself around. How close do I have to get to one of these robots to get a good look at their arm? It depends. It depends on just what they're doing and things like that. So if they're currently moving a box, you'd have to be pretty close because most of their arm is in like underneath the box.
00:55:32
Speaker
But in general, if you get close enough to see the arm there, you're probably close enough that they're going to spot you. Crime's going to go, uh, him and Mr. Somebody can go up there. So I'm going to go over and I'm going to walk up with my high vis vest on on my clipboard. And I'm going to go to one of the robots and say, Hey.
00:55:57
Speaker
What are you doing with that crate? You know that the protocols say you need to be lifting with two people if it's over 100 kilograms. That is a two person lift box. I'm gonna have to mark you down as a safety violation. Let me take a look at your unit number. I'm gonna try and attempt to look at these robots.
00:56:29
Speaker
roll deception. What if he's actually checking though, the robot, the loader is going to set down the box and the forks are going to retract and to reveal like hands. And you're going to start seeing energy pulsing through the arm as it
00:56:59
Speaker
is going to very aggressively request that you leave now it's your turn to do a robot voice you are trespassing please leave the yard at this time are there any rocks or something on the ground like pebbles and things like that
00:57:22
Speaker
Yeah, something substantial enough to heave a decent ways. No, not really, unless you pull up like, the yard is kind of like cobblestone-y. So you could like try and like get one of those out of there. If you use a tool, you could, it would be easier, but you risk damaging that tool. Yeah, yeah, I have used that. I'm gonna look at the loader, and so he says I'm trespassing, I'm gonna say,
00:57:52
Speaker
Oh, and being hostile, talking back to the superiors. That's another write-up right there. Where's your manager? You need to be sent to the reprogramming facility. I'm just imagining like this one robot just selling him to this loader and this loader is like, no, like you don't. Who the fuck are you? He's like short circuiting a little bit out of sheer annoyance. You need to double check your system processes, bud.
00:58:22
Speaker
The manager robot is mounted in rack unit A4 in the control center. I have direct connection to him. You are trespassing. Warning two. Warning three will be with force. All right. Well, I'll let it go this time with just a warning. Antonio, can you roll for me? 17.
00:58:45
Speaker
Uh, you hear voices off in the distance and their start. It sounds like they're moving towards the gate. Tim, what were you doing? I was saying, I'll let it go with a warning this time, pal. But next time this whole facility is going to get a writeup and I'm going to walk away. Okay. Uh, Mr. Somebody Phelps, what are you doing? Are there any like buildings that stand out or do they all kind of walk
00:59:13
Speaker
same. So there's not actually any buildings in the yard. It's just so there's the empty space where the trains should be or when they come in. But for the most part, like there's no actual structures in this yard. It's just a bunch of boxes stacked on top of boxes. Okay. Do I have line of sight from where I think the voices are coming from? You do not.
00:59:41
Speaker
Can I move to while remaining stealthy? Get eyes? Yeah, let's.
00:59:48
Speaker
Yeah, you can, you can do that. I'll let you do that. Uh, you're going to see the group of guys that card saw earlier when I described them that sinister looking dudes in suits and they're going, you're going to hear them talking. You're going to hear them complaining about how the doctor
01:00:14
Speaker
Called them down here for his protection, but then he got on the train and went back up. So right now these dudes are kind of like wondering what the hell they're supposed to do. And then one of them says that they're going to go add more people to the watch for the operating rooms. How many, uh, how many guys do I see? 12. Okay. Good number one up.
01:00:39
Speaker
I don't remember what I said last game, but I'm gonna say, but Waymire sent me a 12 earlier, and I don't remember what it's for, so we're going with 12. That was a roll. That was a roll. I'm just gonna start trying to make my way to the exit to see if I see anyone else that came in.
Conclusion & Credits
01:00:56
Speaker
So as you're heading towards the exit, you're going to see the guards, or the dudes in suits, and they're walking out.
01:01:07
Speaker
of like towards the, like they're about to walk out of the gate car. You're outside playing these board games and you're going to see these dudes walking out. None of them look familiar, which is good, but they don't seem to be minding whoever's guarding this gate, but the two guys with you are like, Hey, let me get this right.
01:01:34
Speaker
If the dragon breathes fire, I turn my hat around. If he slaps me before I turn my hat around, then I get to play another card. Yeah, you're getting now. Okay, I think I got it now. As these guys in black suits come in, the card is going to just kind of like side glance at them and try to get a good look at them.
01:02:03
Speaker
Okay. Uh, so out of the 12 guys, you're going to get a pretty good look at eight of them. So two thirds. And when you get, when you look at them, they look pretty much the same, except you see that.
01:02:25
Speaker
A few of these dudes have like that, uh, the respirator mask that crime is currently carrying around. They have it laying on their chest and on their back is the pump from that you guys took off of. Um, they don't seem to need it right now, whatever it is, but they're all wearing it as individual equipment, not like they're going to use it on someone else.
01:02:57
Speaker
Karga's gonna look at them and be like, wait, you guys wanna play? My God, I'm beating these guys and making so much credits. What game are you playing? We're going with the card. It's in the dice. I'm slapping. It's called the Hulka Dance Poco. Maybe later. Not right now. And then they're gonna take a right.
01:03:25
Speaker
naturally because kind of the two directions you can go are to the left and immediately take a right to head north or you can just take right and go west and they're all generally gonna go west east east all right by that they're all gonna go right which is east i think car's gonna get up and be like thanks for the money he's gonna take some credits off the table
01:03:52
Speaker
And he's going to start following these guys in black suits. I'm going to do the same. I'm going to leave my little hidey hole, but I'm not going to like just immediately start sprinting. Cause that draws more attention. I'm just going to start moving with a purpose back toward the exit. Okay. So everyone's heading towards the exit. I'm coming back from my encounter to the group and I'm going to tell the group, well,
01:04:16
Speaker
He didn't believe that I was a manager or a safety inspector, but I did find out where the manager robot is. He said it was in rack A7. How could he not believe you? You have high vis vest. I'm going to know what I heard them talking about on the way out.
01:04:37
Speaker
just kind of random passing detail. You guys are going to see a crate that is busted open. And laying on the ground is
01:04:54
Speaker
a broken set of the miners armor that like the miners wear when they go into the cave. It looks like one of the loaders accidentally punched a hole through this box. Well, looks like they won't be needing this. I'm going to take that and bring it with us.
01:05:18
Speaker
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Speaker
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01:06:17
Speaker
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