[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to the dark star adventure cast, where the stars are cold, the void is endless, and danger lurks in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_07]: On tonight's adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's a small location, we'll get up in their faces.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I took them by the air, moved them by the air.
[SPEAKER_07]: little do you know Felix at an average Loki Pondool only takes about eight minutes so I think we'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: And inside it guys, we can inside it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now let's make a deal.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the Dark Star Adventure cast.
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[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, man, you're bringing us down right away.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: I missed a scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're setting the mood.
[SPEAKER_10]: And we're all cheering and it's like.
[SPEAKER_10]: Some dudes starve to death with his wife.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're just humans.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just humans.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_04]: Getting their last words.
[SPEAKER_06]: Most of those last words were useless.
[SPEAKER_04]: When we figure out something to do with all this money or all these goods, you don't get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm literally going to like, we're going to dedicate them to Claire and Michael.
[SPEAKER_10]: Robert says that he wants to dedicate things to Michael and Claire, but near moments ago, he was frisking the Claire's dead body, trying to pillage coins off of her.
[SPEAKER_05]: That was before he knew her personally.
[SPEAKER_01]: God damn, right, I was, I was trying to, I'm, I'm paying it forward.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to, you have to take from the, the poor to give to the, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, we're not rich yet.
[SPEAKER_10]: We'll be rich soon, but we're not rich yet.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you leave up to me.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, it forward steal things from dead people for me pay it forward.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_10]: What are they going to do with it?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, what are they going to do about?
[SPEAKER_10]: What are they?
[SPEAKER_10]: Ferrows up in their their high hotel room.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can't take it with you.
[SPEAKER_06]: They do can all hook ferrows.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, they did, they were mummified, modern day pharaohs.
[SPEAKER_10]: So modern day pharaohs, that brings me to our first topic of conversation in an awkward segue.
[SPEAKER_10]: What do you guys want to do?
[SPEAKER_10]: Are you guys going to Seventeen, Milbroke Lane to see the Harrow household?
[SPEAKER_10]: Are you heading north to Black Harbor to see about your ship or something else entirely?
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a whole city called Wafisa on this planet called Wafisa for you to explore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are we rested?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_10]: You closed off floor seven of this hotel and you were able to go through like shifts.
[SPEAKER_10]: So everyone, there's always someone on watch.
[SPEAKER_10]: Everyone got a good night's rest.
[SPEAKER_10]: Those of you who were injured previously are waking up with some stiff wounds.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I believe Thorne was shot a few days prior that's still healing.
[SPEAKER_10]: But thanks to advanced medicine isn't as bad as it could have been.
[SPEAKER_10]: Space medicine.
[SPEAKER_04]: actually let me check something because like I'm pretty sure can I heal that I can just stabilize I can actually heal people so you've basically played a clear arc in every game of mine that you've been in
[SPEAKER_04]: I really like clerics.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think I got away from it once, but that might just be a fever dream from playing Baldur's Gate III, where I also played a cleric on my first playthrough.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I will say I'm with you on this one's death.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am also a cleric in every single game.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the best class.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep, it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, now thorn though, you're a class which I don't even know what it would have put to in a non-commoner.
[SPEAKER_06]: I believe commentary will do it before.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, for Rengi.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm making a character whose goals are to have run a successful business and get rich.
[SPEAKER_08]: Rob, you're well in your way to neither of those so far.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, let's get a bit further by hitting up Seventeen Millbrook because I think they're good.
[SPEAKER_10]: Wow, good to do you want to run the game?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So, seventeen mob book lanes, so you have decided to go there first.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it is not on your way to Black Harbor, which is where your ship is currently, at least as your best gas based on what a Laura Vost told you.
[SPEAKER_10]: But if you start making your way towards Black Harbor and then which is to the north and then head west for a few hours, you'll be able to hit no Brooklyn and then be a couple hours out from, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't want to get locked out of this quest line later.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I can't imagine denying Thorne the potential of this treasure trove.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey, yeah, that's a really good point.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thorne loves troves.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, I don't know if I see anything in here said things about the trove of treasure.
[SPEAKER_10]: I think there's a book in a machine.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the bay, there's a whole bay, we have a code too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we get a whole storage locker that could be full of like more low-key pawn cards.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got about low-key pawn cards.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, well, I really hope that once we get to Black Harbor, we're sitting there, we come up with our low-key pawn cards because I think we took them from the car place and we have the coins now.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're just gonna be like ready to go, I don't know, trade for cigarettes or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, who's gonna be able to play for like high stakes Gwant?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, Loki Pong with our coins and our card stash.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be glorious.
[SPEAKER_08]: That made me think are we sure these are coins in up Pogs?
[SPEAKER_08]: They are only on one side so they could definitely be Pogs.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's one that's way larger than the others.
[SPEAKER_10]: That could be a slammer.
[SPEAKER_10]: So yeah, you start making your way out to Nobrook Lane and the storage unit is also on Nobrook Lane a couple blocks away.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think head of the house first.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: You make your way to seventeen milbroke land and you find yourself in the suburbs is actually according to the map that you've referenced multiple times now.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a lot of residential area leading up to the coast and then when you get to the coast that's where black harbor is surrounded by some residential like apartment buildings but mostly commercial areas restaurants, tours, shops, stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: So, seventeen mullbrook lives in that middle zone between the industrial area that you're leaving and the commercial area that's on the coast.
[SPEAKER_10]: So, seventeen mullbrook, which is where the horos lived until they're untimely demise by starvation in the Glendale Hotel, is a fairly small modest suburban-style home.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a yard out front, also small
[SPEAKER_10]: Completely overgrown and untended.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's been potentially a decade or more since it was last taken care of.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's weeds that have pushed out of the yard and burrowing through the cracks in the sidewalk outside of the house.
[SPEAKER_10]: There was once a nicely-tended garden here, but now it's a completely untamed mess of thorny bushes and vines.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a idyllic low white picket fence here chipped in weathered, leaning at odd angles.
[SPEAKER_10]: The porch leading up to the house looks like it's almost ready to collapse.
[SPEAKER_10]: A lone rocking chair, swayes in the wind.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's paint, also chipped.
[SPEAKER_10]: And a forgotten wind chime climbed softly.
[SPEAKER_10]: But everything else on the street is eerily quiet.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's eerily quiet.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we still need to be careful.
[SPEAKER_07]: So let's scout the place out, make sure that nobody's been here recently, and then see if we can't find that key.
[SPEAKER_01]: Says the man who damn near walked into the trap two seconds ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright, my first of all Robert, that was yesterday.
[SPEAKER_07]: Second of all, thanks to your cunning wit.
[SPEAKER_07]: I did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: In that case, let me pull out my specialty, biomechanism, see what I can see.
[SPEAKER_06]: Robert, those are not biomechanists.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, they're not biomechanists.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, they're not biomechanists.
[SPEAKER_10]: You don't feel like you just let him have those.
[SPEAKER_10]: Robert, give me a notice wisdom.
[SPEAKER_01]: And on that I rolled a twill.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, which rolls like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: You are the scout.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you take out your binoculars and you look over the yard and the door and everything you can see.
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks like many of the houses on the street.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's never even been broken into.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this might be a fresh loop here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see any signs of looping disturbances.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't even know what's laying ahead.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you make your way up onto the porch, it creeks underfoot, the rocking chair is slowly moving back and forth next to you.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a door in front of you, and it's locked.
[SPEAKER_10]: The front door of seventeen, no broke.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, now, who remembers where that key was?
[SPEAKER_01]: Third brick from the left, another small red note book.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't forgot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I only y'all remember?
[SPEAKER_04]: Third book from the left.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right, let's pop open the brick.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you go and you move the brick to the side and behind it is key.
[SPEAKER_06]: Easy peasy.
[SPEAKER_10]: You take the key, you unlock the door, and you move into a dusty and completely uninhabited and untouched house.
[SPEAKER_10]: No one has been here in a very long time.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you enter in from the front door and you find yourself in the living room.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a comfortable couch, large coffee table, shelves, sacks with books and family photos.
[SPEAKER_10]: It leads off into the kitchen where you find appliances, rusted out and caked with grime.
[SPEAKER_10]: The dining table, that's here in the kitchen.
[SPEAKER_10]: There is no separate dining room in this small house.
[SPEAKER_10]: The chairs are scattered about.
[SPEAKER_10]: The table is a cluttered mess.
[SPEAKER_10]: There was a remnant of an unfinished meal here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Obviously, they had to leave quite quickly for some reason.
[SPEAKER_10]: There is a set of stairs going upstairs.
[SPEAKER_10]: You look at the hallway that's next to the stairs here, expecting to find like a side table or something with a bottom drawer, but nothing.
[SPEAKER_10]: Going upstairs.
[SPEAKER_10]: The stairs creaking into your feet.
[SPEAKER_10]: You find yourself in another small hallway.
[SPEAKER_10]: This one has three doors going off from it.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a bathroom, a master bedroom, and a child's room, a very young child.
[SPEAKER_10]: Asked the nursery stage, but definitely not a teenager.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are clowns and dolphins and all sorts of childlike imagery pasted all over the walls and the child's toys are scattered about.
[SPEAKER_10]: Here in the hallway, there is a small dresser.
[SPEAKER_10]: It has three drawers.
[SPEAKER_07]: I opened them up and see if there's anything good inside.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you go up to the dresser and you go into the bottom drawer and find the red book that was spoken of.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just as the prophecy foretold.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, get my two shoes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one of y'all has to read it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not good on the reading.
[SPEAKER_10]: So Felix, you crack it open and it's full of page after page of measurements and equations and mixtures and strange experiments and written notes.
[SPEAKER_10]: I assume all handwritten.
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks like it's like one sort of experiment per page or two, each with a title.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's kind of hard to read the handwriting now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I flipped a random page to see if I could make out anything about it is it medical technical.
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks like mostly measurements and ways to combine measurements.
[SPEAKER_10]: Go ahead and roll your notice window.
[SPEAKER_10]: A six.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: You meet the low DC for this really struggling to read it.
[SPEAKER_10]: This handwriting is terrible.
[SPEAKER_10]: Also, the handwriting is different throughout the book.
[SPEAKER_10]: So at the beginning, like first twenty pages, it's one hand writing.
[SPEAKER_10]: Then you notice this which is to a slightly need or handwriting that you can actually read a little bit of.
[SPEAKER_10]: So flipping through those pages, you're instantly annoyed because it's just a family recipe book and you're currently on the page or strawberry shortcake.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is a fan waste of time.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's wonderful.
[SPEAKER_06]: I had to haily abruptly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think that's the one of all you have it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry Thorn.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's bust.
[SPEAKER_07]: That may not be entirely true, my friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think that our family back in the hotel room took the contents of this book pretty seriously.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wouldn't write it off so easily.
[SPEAKER_07]: You say so, man.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just, I'm now picturing Thorne, finding like some recipe in there he likes and he packages it up and book Claire's face on it and it's like mama Claire's salsa or something like that.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then these are the whole salsa business.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we think it might be more than a recipe?
[SPEAKER_10]: It does look like just a family recipe book that's handed down for three generations and there's still over a hundred blank pages in the back.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, look, places to run our own.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully the storage unit has a bit better for us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why would the hero's care if the guardians of the work got their hands on a cookbook?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I don't think they cared if the guardians did.
[SPEAKER_06]: Remember what he said?
[SPEAKER_06]: He said, I don't care if you're a guardian or not.
[SPEAKER_06]: They just wanted the recipes to continue, I guess.
[SPEAKER_10]: He did say something similar to what you're saying, Thorne, but he was talking about the machine in the storage unit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that's it.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm thinking of, I see.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it goes to the house, I think we should go over to the storage unit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is there anything else in the house?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, it's just a normal house.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, it did the kid collect the Loki Pong cards though.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, wait, how would have pod?
[SPEAKER_10]: all the listeners, stop listening.
[SPEAKER_10]: Everyone creepers.
[SPEAKER_10]: What was Loki Pond?
[SPEAKER_10]: Is that something that we made up?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, we made it up when we first got to what Fisa, I was just searching through wreckage and in a random car, you like randomly decided that there was like some old trading cards or something like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we invented Loki Pond.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, listeners, you can turn the volume back up.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, Loki upon, of course.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here's what I have written.
[SPEAKER_05]: A sealed pack of base set Loki ponds, probably twenty years old, and also a deck box with an old deck, probably valuable to the right buyer, and then in quotations I've written, got to avoid them at all costs.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, yeah, so you find two decks that this child has made of Loki Pond monsters.
[SPEAKER_10]: Flipping through them, the decks are not very good, but there are some rare cards in there.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you can put that you've now gathered eighty cards, two forty card decks.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, as long as we're going into it, what's the deck cap for a Loki pond deck is a forty card deck?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's forty cards if you're playing competitively, but there are other modes we can go unlimited or a lot of casuals will do sixty like casual stores, but in competitive play you don't really want more than forty.
[SPEAKER_10]: So yeah, you can write you have two Loki pond decks that were constructed by the child Liam Harrow.
[SPEAKER_10]: You might be fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so having found two Loki pond decks, you make your way to the storage facility.
[SPEAKER_10]: The storage facility on Milbrook Lane is a fairly non-descript small storage facility that's meant to be for overflow treasures of the families that live around here.
[SPEAKER_10]: So as you approach the Milbrook storage facility, there's a half broken neon tube sign outside with the words, Mil in storage.
[SPEAKER_10]: Anything else that was on that sign has been completely broken out.
[SPEAKER_10]: The security gate is rusted but open, it's keypad is smashed.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a chain link fence that surrounds the facility, it's very old, rusting and sagging.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's barely a barrier at all anymore.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's also faded markings on the asphalt where once there were parking spots, but now it's just littered with a bunch of debris.
[SPEAKER_10]: A lot of it from the smashed open storage units that lay within.
[SPEAKER_01]: and I deeply want to get into the storage unit base, but on my way here, does anyone want to help me construct a Loki pond deck?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there any way I can roll for like power level of Loki pond deck?
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got three three decks right here.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I can teach you to play.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go and say it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are we getting a game with it a game?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, so let's do this.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, I love this.
[SPEAKER_10]: So let's wait until you guys are betting down for the night and it can be like a fireside game that you guys can play when you're like in a safe spot.
[SPEAKER_10]: I like that love it will roll off for it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: There are skills that could work for that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh god, I'm gonna be so bad and it's gonna be glorious.
[SPEAKER_10]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's probably something Thorne is gonna be really good at.
[SPEAKER_10]: So inside the facility, you already know that you're going to storage, seventeen.
[SPEAKER_10]: As you get closer and closer to storage, seventeen, you're getting increasingly worried because every single storage room has been broken into.
[SPEAKER_10]: and things have been pulled out.
[SPEAKER_10]: So there's chairs, tables, dressers, interior rating pieces of clothing or curtains and arts and all kinds of junk everywhere.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's been pulled out and left scattered and there's even like piles where someone was sorting through it and left there like don't care about this pile behind.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then you reach seventeen.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like all the other ones, the keypad has been smashed and the door has been forced open and everything that is in there has been pulled out and spread across the asphalt.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's clear we're not the first ones here.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, hopefully they didn't find the false wall that Michael was telling us about.
[SPEAKER_10]: Someone go ahead.
[SPEAKER_10]: One person, a representative from your team, go ahead and roll notice wisdom.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I was like Robert's job.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was about to say, I know this isn't normally my thing Felix.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there's any possibility, you give me some technical advice on what I might be looking for here, because my mounds on Loki poem.
[SPEAKER_06]: What you're looking for is a wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep, that's false.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not a real wall?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like a wall that's, it's not like a forever wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like not a wall.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I might be able to help here.
[SPEAKER_06]: That'd be great.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't talk to him.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think I might want to take a look for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Haley, I mean, I have my binoculars out here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking for it, but if you know what this not wall is, take a look.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I want to take a look.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so roll notice wisdom and robber you spot a red cardinal in a nearby tree.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got a seven.
[SPEAKER_10]: You go in and you start tapping around and being like, this is okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know a lot about walls and you're kind of moving around and you actually find small air vent that's been dry walled over.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you rip off the dry wall and that air vent acts as a grip and allows you to just fully pull a whole section of the wall off.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now there's a crawl space in the bottom right-hand corner of the back wall that leads to the storage space on the opposite side.
[SPEAKER_10]: Speaking in, you can see that there's some wide, hulking steel shape in there in the darkness.
[SPEAKER_04]: Guys?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, what do you got, Aily?
[SPEAKER_04]: There's something pretty crazy back here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I love crazy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's see what you get.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, everyone crawls through.
[SPEAKER_06]: I snap on the light on my, my data slab.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's got a flashlight built in.
[SPEAKER_10]: What you see is a steel machine that's mostly covered by a tarp.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can see there's like a ring of steel that's flush against the ground shiny chrome in excited guys.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good excited.
[SPEAKER_10]: I know I'm really teasing this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's like I got swing set.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, it's three garbage cans.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you tell me three booster packs of Loki pond, I'm gonna go nuts.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna grab that tarp and pull it off.
[SPEAKER_10]: You swing the cloth to the side, dust bill is up into the air, and in the dancing lights of your flashlights, you see a sleek, low slung machine.
[SPEAKER_10]: Once the height of luxury, across the modern galaxy, a relic that many worlds no longer have upon them.
[SPEAKER_10]: A post-industrial, pre-AI, luxury sports hovercar.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, hello.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's glowing doors easily slide open and the inside glows because the plutonium core of the engine never runs out of energy.
[SPEAKER_10]: Four graved thrusters, currently clogged with dust and grime, come off the end in beautiful well-shaped exhaust pipes.
[SPEAKER_10]: It hovers an inch off of the ground when it's powered, humming with a faint blue glow.
[SPEAKER_10]: Inside, you have supple, crimson leather seats.
[SPEAKER_10]: A dashboard is filled with sleek, digital displays.
[SPEAKER_10]: And if you turn it on, the displays flicker on certainly for a bit, but then roar to full life.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, she still runs.
[SPEAKER_07]: Man, these things went for a fortune even when they were new.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not only are they extremely finely crafted, but people would pay an extra premium just for how rare and fancy they were.
[SPEAKER_10]: It is in perfect condition.
[SPEAKER_10]: It just hasn't been run in a while.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it has a plutonium power source for its main, like electrical energy, but it's actually the populations that work off of plasma cells.
[SPEAKER_10]: So currently you have the one that's currently slaughtered into the fuel injector is half spent, but there is one additional fully loaded one in the trunk.
[SPEAKER_10]: You also find a folded leather jacket in the driver seat.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_10]: Several expired rations in the trunk, a locked metal case in the trunk.
[SPEAKER_10]: Inside of this storage units to the car is a workbench with different auto body tools and also a note.
[SPEAKER_01]: So first for the leather jacket, I challenge anyone to low key palm for that leather jacket on my friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: Was that no see?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, what's the notes say?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a list of things that are like automotive parts and like tasks that Michael obviously wanted to perform on the car, including like fixing the crack seats, changing out the plutonium power core because he said that it was getting unstable.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, great.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, on the flip side, it has a bunch of names and prices for buyers of the car, and then on the bottom half of that side, which is the most recent note.
[SPEAKER_10]: It says, if you find this, don't ever sell her, treat her well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Michael, you're real ones.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe one dying wish that I can't keep this thing so cute, but look at those numbers on the paper.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's how much people were paying for this thing, even when you could still get up.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a fine piece of machinery though, my friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, can you fix it up?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I mean, he has a whole list of stuff he wants to fix up here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, this is all pretty basic stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think we can manage it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, we don't have all the pieces I need to replace.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, you know, the plutonium core, that's not going to be a quick fix, but we can get the stuff and get it working.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it works fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, it's more like average maintenance stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, are you going to want a seller, though?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you know, Robert, we can talk about that later.
[SPEAKER_06]: But right now, it's focused on the fact that we can use this car to make good time to get to black harbor.
[SPEAKER_01]: All hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have some good times of those that that's Baker working.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to blast it out going down the tree.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, let's not attract to what you're teaching there, but yeah, what a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: So who's wearing the leather jacket again?
[SPEAKER_07]: The winner of this Loki Pondool.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think we have time for this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, little do you know Felix, an average Loki Pondool only takes about eight minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I think we'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: So much to your screen, that seems like they're settling down to play a Loki Pond game for the leather jacket.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, while they're Loki Ponding, I would like to work with Hayley to unlock this middle case.
[SPEAKER_04]: What kind of lock is on it?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a lock box that has like a built-in keyhole.
[SPEAKER_01]: What the house key possibly worked for this?
[SPEAKER_10]: All right, go back to your game.
[SPEAKER_10]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so let's do the lucky pawn game.
[SPEAKER_10]: Obviously, we don't have a real game of that.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's going to come down to skill.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I think we should do best two out of three.
[SPEAKER_10]: That is how standard tournament rules work.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, sorry, my bad.
[SPEAKER_10]: So
[SPEAKER_10]: I think that this is going to be a game of chance and intuition.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I want to do trade wisdom.
[SPEAKER_10]: And it's going to be lowest wins.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's low for high highest wins.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is not girls.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll go first.
[SPEAKER_07]: Robert shuffle up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you're in trouble now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I didn't even cut your dick yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need a full pile shuffle real quick because I got to make sure my material is well dispersed into my deck.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's material shovel it all you want you're not gonna get my traps We'll see about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it looks like I got the danger pawn on my first turn There's no way you're getting away from that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you got it got to cut me up first got to cut me up All right, but you're in trouble now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay
[SPEAKER_01]: I got no material in this hand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to need to pile shuffle again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what's happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me a second.
[SPEAKER_10]: Do you check his hand, Thorne?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let me see that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, that was valid.
[SPEAKER_07]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And cut one more time, please.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a third cut.
[SPEAKER_01]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now we're in her.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a key.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a key for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you sure you don't want to mull again.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't, you don't look very confident.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: This danger pawn is you got to do something about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's on you.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, you're about to capture that danger pawn so careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna cast home on, I think, so I'm gonna go material, yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I'm gonna use my four of these to dodge about that way.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, good move, but amateur at best, because your bees are known at for my Loki honey.
[SPEAKER_07]: I slather you with it and now they're gonna be all over you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God, how did I not see that coming?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna use my, it's behind you, card.
[SPEAKER_10]: I like how the honey is like a counter spell.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, yeah, I think that's enough.
[SPEAKER_10]: Once you guys go ahead and do your roles and we'll see you comes out on top.
[SPEAKER_08]: five, and I rolled in the Levin.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so it was really embarrassing for you, Robert.
[SPEAKER_07]: Looks like the one goes to me, Robert.
[SPEAKER_07]: You think you got a handle on the rules yet?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I had been playing a little key poem since I was a wee babe.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't show.
[SPEAKER_10]: weren't you just asking for some of the teachers?
[SPEAKER_10]: I would like to talk about that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Robert's such a wild car.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, that's a Robert's little shit, so.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's like, I've been playing forever.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's like, I'm brand new.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, second game.
[SPEAKER_10]: Go ahead and roll again.
[SPEAKER_10]: Trade wisdom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh wait, best two out of three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there any chance I can try to cheat here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, go ahead and roll perform.
[SPEAKER_10]: Can I get dexterity on that from a slide of hand?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you do dexterity perform and Thorn, you do notice wisdom.
[SPEAKER_07]: And whoever gets higher, I got a nine to notice your sugary.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I got a six and you say me clearly trying to top deck three or four cards at a time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Robert, my friend, come on.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is just a game between fouls.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think you need to resort to such underhanded tactics.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure you've got the win on the next turn.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just telling you out that leather jacket is like a fine piece.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know what you don't comment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's let's play the straight game on that.
[SPEAKER_05]: I rolled eight, twelve.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not your day, Robert.
[SPEAKER_10]: You just got trounced.
[SPEAKER_10]: So while you guys are playing that, Kaylee and Felix, you kind of look around in the car and you actually find the key to the lock box in the glove box.
[SPEAKER_10]: Next, you a pair of supple leather driving gloves.
[SPEAKER_10]: So they won't hold up the combat.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you try to hold a weapon with them and swing the weapon a bunch, they'll tear.
[SPEAKER_10]: But they're perfect for driving and feeling the road in your hover car.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not for me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just can't wait for mention.
[SPEAKER_06]: I prefer cold steel on my hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, this guy's an idiot.
[SPEAKER_06]: You just left his key right in the car.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_04]: We all do dumb things sometimes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go see what's in the box.
[SPEAKER_10]: You go and you open the box.
[SPEAKER_10]: Inside, you find a Stazer Six Handgun, which is like a six shooter, essentially, as well as several other smaller supplies and survival tools.
[SPEAKER_10]: So what you find is the Stazer Six Handgun.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's kind of like a compact six shooter.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not six shooter with gunpowder.
[SPEAKER_10]: It still uses an energy cell, but it can only, it only has enough energy for six shots.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it doesn't have a cool little like spinny little chamber.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, let's say it does.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let's say it has six individual shots of energy cells and you can reload the energy cells like bullets.
[SPEAKER_10]: It also has an AI aiming system, which gives you a plus one to hit.
[SPEAKER_10]: So once you aim at someone, you click a button and it locks on to them and then you get a plus one to hit that person basically until you turn it off, but it does not do that much damage.
[SPEAKER_10]: So the gun's grip is worn from use, surprisingly enough.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not loaded, and there's a rack of eighteen shots.
[SPEAKER_10]: So besides the gun, there's also a military survival manual included.
[SPEAKER_10]: It has no branding on it that makes you think it has anything to do with the guardians of the work.
[SPEAKER_10]: It seems to be pre-guardians, but it is specific to Wafisa, because it talks about the purple flower vegetation and what to do during a sunstorm, which are Wafisa-like problems.
[SPEAKER_06]: All that stink ass method.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, all the stinky methane and what to do when the whole society collapses.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then there's a small tactical life, normal military grade, foldable, black and steel blade.
[SPEAKER_10]: And that's everything that's in there.
[SPEAKER_10]: Who was this guy?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it was a good match, Robert, but I think the best man won and I confidently put my new jacket on.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you slip into the new jacket, which is extremely well worn.
[SPEAKER_10]: So this is not something you have to break in.
[SPEAKER_10]: It feels great.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's very comfortable.
[SPEAKER_10]: Robody and why don't you stick your hands in the pockets and pull out an old weather photo.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, what's this?
[SPEAKER_10]: Michael, Claire, and their son Liam at the beach.
[SPEAKER_07]: Another family photo.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, if I hands on those gloves, too, I get the full outfit going.
[SPEAKER_07]: I toss them over to Thorne.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to challenge him to a Loki Pone.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to wear some dead animal skin on my hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a cold steel kind of guy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, we get it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they were a rock gloves, either.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm all hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_06]: Anybody here opposed me grabbing this fancy little pistol for the time being?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I could do the help I can get in a firefight.
[SPEAKER_07]: No objection for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I say as I'm like checking out my cool jacket and gloves.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not here as I look sadly at getting trounced at Loki-Pone.
[SPEAKER_10]: Are you going to start buying up your trade skill now just so you can start winning at Loki-Pone?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh god damn right.
[SPEAKER_01]: My new life's purpose is to be Thorne at Loki-Pone.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's going to spend all of his money on the rarest most powerful cards.
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope this isn't a wofi-sus specific game.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully we're not here for too much longer.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_10]: Loki-Pone is system-wide.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay good.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, well, I'll not civilized places that can afford cardboard.
[SPEAKER_04]: So this might be like some crazy old cards too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it is oldish though.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's the thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: So let's see if we get this door open.
[SPEAKER_10]: So the garage door or the storage door is the same as all the other ones.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's separate.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's not smashed in.
[SPEAKER_10]: So there's a keypad to open it up on the outside.
[SPEAKER_10]: There would be a code on the inside.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's just open or shut right now.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's shut.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll push the open button.
[SPEAKER_08]: I will sit comfortably in the driver's seat.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nothing happens.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nothing happens because there's no electrical.
[SPEAKER_06]: Damn.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, let's see if I could jury a regular one of my power cells in here.
[SPEAKER_10]: So go ahead and roll fix intelligence.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just think I can do that with these power cells.
[SPEAKER_10]: Seven.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: So pretty easy job for you.
[SPEAKER_10]: You jury rig up one of your power cells.
[SPEAKER_10]: It consumes it, but you're able to grind open this storage door on, like, way less power.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's just very slow, and you drain the battery.
[SPEAKER_10]: On the other side of that storage door is a poured concrete wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, son of a bitch.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think this is me.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're gonna, you're gonna break down this concrete wall, Haley?
[SPEAKER_06]: Damn, girl.
[SPEAKER_04]: Might as well try.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like that it's concrete, not like some Star Wars name, like, plastic-rete.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think sounds much softer and preferable.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, there's a stone water mixture.
[SPEAKER_10]: So basically, it's a poured concrete wall that's directly in front of what should be an exit out.
[SPEAKER_10]: So it's obviously something that was added after the fact.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hailey, how do you want to approach this?
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to see if this is something that's actually movable and if I can push it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so you go up and you can test it and you push it and when you really strain it wobbles slightly.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sweet.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, Lee.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, where's it week?
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, y'all mind if I give a little push with you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Felix is not helping, is Thorne helping?
[SPEAKER_08]: If, by helping, you mean revving the engine, but otherwise no.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, you've already started the hovercar.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so Thorne's in the back just revving the engine in patiently.
[SPEAKER_10]: Good thing this thing doesn't have exhaust.
[SPEAKER_10]: Throwing the garage with Botelney and Films.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what this suffocate and all of a sudden.
[SPEAKER_10]: A smelt me into this working.
[SPEAKER_10]: So, Kaylee and Robert both roll exert strength, please.
[SPEAKER_10]: nine for me and that'll be an eight for me okay so the two of you really put your shoulders to it and it starts the wobble and then you start to like get the rhythm of it wobbling and with one last huge eve the wall falls away and hits onto the outside parking lot and shatters and down
[SPEAKER_06]: While they were knocking down the wall, I'm going to collect all the tools that will fit in the trunk and I put them in the trunk because that we'd use full later when we need to work on the car.
[SPEAKER_06]: It'd be like to toss those into the boot.
[SPEAKER_06]: I scoop them all up, put them in the trunk.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so are you guys like making the car with you?
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, then.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you load up the tools in the boot of the car and you all pile in.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a little bit of a tight fit because there's only two doors.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a coupe.
[SPEAKER_10]: But you have Thorn driving, you have Felix in the passenger seat and Robert and Haley squeeze into the back and you move out onto the streets of Wofisa.
[SPEAKER_10]: You start driving north towards Black Harbor.
[SPEAKER_10]: How do you want to do this?
[SPEAKER_07]: fast and stylishly.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was thinking slow and stealthily.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those are opposites.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you'd like to see if you wanted us to be stealthy, we are in the wrong vehicle.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you're driving, so.
[SPEAKER_07]: My thought was we use it just to get close the ground to the city pretty quickly and then find a place to stow it and hope it at least let's drive it to the city limits black harbor but driving it actually through town maybe not a great plan if we can peel off any guardians maybe a disguise isn't the worst idea
[SPEAKER_06]: And we basically have no idea what we're walking into here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like we don't know what the cities, what the defenses are like, what we have no intel.
[SPEAKER_06]: We don't even know if this game goes there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Per what Robert said though, that got Felix thinking, and I am going to try to, like, using my data slab, I'm going to try to, like, find the signal of the scapegoat, and get the identifier signal and see if I can locate it.
[SPEAKER_10]: OK.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't think you have, like, an antenna powerful enough to pick up that sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: On your map, you do see that there is a radio tower nearby.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you could go and take that and rewire it and try to pick up communications from the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean, so I'll come back to the team.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I was trying to figure it out.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to walk on the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're in a rubber.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a great point.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't do it from here.
[SPEAKER_06]: If we get to that radio tower, I can maybe try to locate it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just we can be sure that it's in Black Harbor before we go barrel in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm down, maybe we can throw a little tarp over this bad boy, and at least it's a point where we can come back to.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's a good landmark.
[SPEAKER_05]: There wouldn't happen to be like a car cover or something in here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, there's a clock that was like draped over it when you guys first came in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so we just pulled onto that, we can use it to cover it back up.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I could, I'll give Thorne.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does that sound good to everybody?
[SPEAKER_06]: Go to the radio tower?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll plug the directions into the GPS.
[SPEAKER_10]: It pops up on the GPS, Thorn, you turn this smooth riding machine, the Aurora.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's slightly more westward than you would be going if you're going straight to Black Harbor and make your way to the radio tower.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you pull up to the radio station, which is a two-story building with a large radio antenna array on the top of it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Above the front door is a obnoxious yellow sign that says WK and ninety seventy eight.
[SPEAKER_10]: And attached to it just on the side of it is a small parking garage.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess I'll try to pull into the garage so we can hide the car even further if possible.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah absolutely.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you pull into the garage.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a bunch of random cars in here that are just abandoned.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah so just buying the spot to park between a couple of abandoned cars and then we could park it there and throw the cover on top.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to try to find a terminal to hook into.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, so you go up to this like squat concrete structure.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's two stories tall.
[SPEAKER_10]: The sign WK-ID-ID is like peeling underneath it, but over the doorway in extremely faded spray paint.
[SPEAKER_10]: It says the voice of the wastes.
[SPEAKER_10]: The lettering sort of like barely visible at this point, but at one point it was probably very bright and obnoxious because it's like a neon green.
[SPEAKER_10]: The door is unlocked but closed.
[SPEAKER_06]: I ask Hayley, Hayley, do my take a point here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna push it open.
[SPEAKER_10]: You find yourself in a small lobby for a radio station.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a bunch of posters on the walls for different music acts and concerts and there's a small receptionist desk.
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks like things were partly destroyed at one point but then fixed.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you see that the receptionist desk has fixed like as best as a non-carpenter can do with like spare pieces of wood that were probably just found around the area and there's a single staircase leading upwards and this seems to be the only
[SPEAKER_10]: room on this floor.
[SPEAKER_06]: What I need is not down here.
[SPEAKER_06]: We got to go upstairs.
[SPEAKER_10]: All right.
[SPEAKER_10]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you head upstairs up here.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a small kitchen, a bathroom, like sort of sitting waiting area.
[SPEAKER_10]: And in the sitting waiting area, there's a glass wall divider that looks into like a DJ booth.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's no power up here.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there's no windows.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you have your flashlight zone.
[SPEAKER_10]: A ladder on the western wall that leads up to a hatch in the ceiling and presumably leads to the roof.
[SPEAKER_06]: So when we need to go,
[SPEAKER_10]: You make your way up the ladder, out the hatch, and you're on the roof, there is a control board for this rusted out radio tower.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's almost as large as the station itself, so the station's two stories.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is like a story and a half tall of meaning, rusted, nettle, just this monolith to a forgotten time where radio waves actually were able to be projected throughout what fees that bring music to people.
[SPEAKER_10]: The antenna is completely intact, but currently unpowered.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't know power in this hell forsaken place.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll give you one guess.
[SPEAKER_06]: The guardians.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean y'all talk about no power.
[SPEAKER_01]: What about no water?
[SPEAKER_01]: I need a shower so bad.
[SPEAKER_06]: However, what did you screw by now?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think that something like this can be powered with an A type cell.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I don't think so either.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's damn it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we really need a generator for a job like this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh boy, I haven't seen one though.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, sorry for the wild goose chase folks, unless you want to spend more time searching over generator.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think, but just want to keep on headband.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if we're up here and I can potentially look around, I can at least see if I see any lights, anything large enough that it might be sucking up that much power in the vicinity.
[SPEAKER_01]: It kind of just seems like the whole city's out of power.
[SPEAKER_01]: There ain't nothing anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: I use my binoculars, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I use my bionic eyes and did not find anything.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, you know, I will say one thing, actually.
[SPEAKER_10]: On the horizon, several miles away, you do see blurry points of light flickering in what is now quickly becoming dusk in this black harbor.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's right on the coastline, several miles of these.
[SPEAKER_07]: So maybe we just need to get into black harbor and then try to trace this gate built from there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that might be the best bet unless I mean let's just give this place a good one to over make sure that I'm a generator out back communication is a vital thing so it could be to have one set up just in case and it's just off right now knowing where the ship actually is gonna be super important so yeah let's let's when I go around the outside that the perimeter of the building scout it and just make sure there's nothing no generator that's like just not running or on right now
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, yeah, it makes sense.
[SPEAKER_10]: So you head back down the ladder and you're in like the DJ booth area.
[SPEAKER_10]: Actually before you leave, I would like if Robert Ross could give me a notice wisdom, please.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that will be a Senate on eight.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_10]: So as you're leaving the like DJ area, you come down the ladder and you're going back down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_10]: Your eyes are drawn to the DJ booth.
[SPEAKER_10]: You thought you just heard something come from in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did y'all hear anything from that DJ booth over there?
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I need something for somebody a little more tech savvy to check it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: My binoculars aren't given me any details.
[SPEAKER_06]: probably inside and it's five feet away, of course, they're not giving you any detail.
[SPEAKER_10]: I see his blurry grades and blacks.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, what do you mean you heard something?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, maybe someone more un-safety should go check it out.
[SPEAKER_07]: The orange says hiding behind a table.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love that we said gun savvy, and hey, wait, just to see what's what I'm about her, like arms.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was like nuts.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, arms.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm like, I'm proud of these things.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's a small location.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me get up in their faces.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, yes, I am going to go investigate the DJ booth.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, you go and there's glass walls on two sides and one of the glass walls has a glass door built into it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And as you get closer, you see that there is a person in there hiding as best they can under the desk.
[SPEAKER_10]: We're like the microphone and everything is all set up.
[SPEAKER_10]: You see like a foot sticking out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I walk back away from the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: So guys, there's is somebody in there, but it looks like they're trying to hide from us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, we're not here to hurt anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or are we, Haley, you want to give them a special type of persuasion with your guns?
[SPEAKER_04]: Not until we have to.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a lot we don't know yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: So let me see if I can just have a peaceful conversation with this person.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I'd like the two of you to stay close to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be right behind you, bud.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright, I head over to the DJ booth and I, I, from like around the corner, I'm like, call out to the leg.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Anybody in here?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hide in under that table over there with their legs sticking out.
[SPEAKER_10]: Feel like very slowly pulls in to underneath the table.
[SPEAKER_10]: I guess not.
[SPEAKER_10]: Two hands come out from behind the desk and the man speaks, but his voice is muffled from behind the glass.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't have a gun.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not here to hurt you.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not.
[SPEAKER_07]: I look back at the group and then I look back at the person.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not with the Guardians.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, I'm going to come out now, but the door is locked in the glasses bulletproof.
[SPEAKER_09]: So don't try anything.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, just come on out and let's just talk.
[SPEAKER_10]: He limps and favors one leg as he's like struggling to his feet.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's in his mid-forties, has an extremely uncamped appearance.
[SPEAKER_10]: He has wild, this shoveled hair that reaches down to his shoulders, hatchy beard.
[SPEAKER_10]: His skin is a sickly greenish, like extremely tan greenish mixture, and he has a slight hunch.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like he's been hovering over like a keyboard or a data pad his entire life.
[SPEAKER_10]: So a typical DJ.
[SPEAKER_10]: He kind of resembles a frog.
[SPEAKER_10]: If you were to, like, that's immediately, you're like, this guy kind of looks like a frog.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's dressed in a tattered orange jumpsuit and there are various tools strapped to his belt.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're not really sure what the tools are.
[SPEAKER_10]: They kind of look like improvised tools.
[SPEAKER_09]: He's twitching a bit and he says, okay, let's not say calm.
[SPEAKER_10]: As he clocks all of the guns and he sees that there are four people looking through the glass at him.
[SPEAKER_09]: What can I do for you?
[SPEAKER_09]: Don't get a lot of visitors here at the voice of the way.
[SPEAKER_07]: So my gun is not drawn and I put both my hands up as I like approach the class.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're not here to cause any trouble.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're just in a bit of a predicament and we thought we could use this radio tower to our advantage.
[SPEAKER_07]: Looks like it's not working and we were trying to get it running because you see we're trying to find something.
[SPEAKER_07]: Any chance you know how this place works, you could help us find what we're looking for.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're not looking for any trouble.
[SPEAKER_07]: We just want to find what's ours and get out of your hair.
[SPEAKER_10]: He sort of nods and then reaches down and presses a button on the desk in front of him, activating a speaker so that he can talk with you through that.
[SPEAKER_10]: And for the past fifteen years, I've just been trying to fix it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Man, I've just been trying to fix it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And I've been inching closer and closer.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just can't figure it out.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just can't figure it out, man.
[SPEAKER_10]: So yes, I'd love to tell you that this radio tower works.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'd love to tell you that I saw all of my sanity left, but I'm pretty sure both of the things are
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright calm down listen my friend here Felix is he's pretty good with this text up to maybe you put your brains together You can come up with something tell us what's your name?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, you know, my name is Reginald fans, but people call me Frog and DJ Froggy WK'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'n'
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I'm Thorn.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is Hayley and Robert and I already mentioned Felix.
[SPEAKER_07]: We think we know that we just need to get some power.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is there a generator or anything around here?
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a generator in this building, but I can't get it to work.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm too scared to work on it because I've seen those things explode before.
[SPEAKER_07]: What are you used to with few explosions?
[SPEAKER_07]: We're just trying to get a reading on something that we lost.
[SPEAKER_07]: If we get this thing on and you can deejate your hearts content.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now listen, where is the generator?
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright, great.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I turn back to the rest of the group.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright, well, we found a generator.
[SPEAKER_07]: Seems like it's out of fuel.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm going to check it out.
[SPEAKER_06]: See what we're dealing with here.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just want to spin records, man.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just want to make the music happen.
[SPEAKER_10]: So if you can turn this on and I can send a signal out, then maybe the people are black
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we could do that, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_06]: First step first though, power, and then we could switch the from received to send.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then step three, obviously drop the beats.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then by any chance Mr. Froggy is step four, we get paid.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't have any money, but I can drop a beat up prepared for that right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You serve a good people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Truly, the voice of the whites and that is why everyone will know DJ Froggy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Put some gravity well on that playlist for me, would you?
[UNKNOWN]: Graffity, well, what's that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my, you don't know gravity well, my man.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll talk later.
[SPEAKER_10]: You're naming bands to a place that hasn't had outside contact in twenty years.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, he's missing out on the burrary classics.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, let's get to work.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll stay up here and keep an eye on Froggy if it's all the same to y'all.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think that's a good idea.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think we're too much danger of splitting up here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Felix, why don't you take Robert and head down to the generator?
[SPEAKER_10]: So Haley, where do you want to go?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that what's froggy?
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so we got froggy and thorn up top and Robert and Felix going down to the basement.
[SPEAKER_10]: So Robert and Felix, you go down the staircase out the front door around the side of the building and you find that there's a big old rusted door here that had a lock on it, but the entire door knob locking mechanism has been completely bashed in.
[SPEAKER_10]: Instead, there's a well-wet weathered bungee cord, holding the knob to a nearby fence post.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cut the bungee cord and push the door.
[SPEAKER_10]: The door rustily opens up, showing a set of concrete stairs leading down into a stale smelling basement.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix, now, how do you want to go about this?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want me to leave new cover me?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you, you need for sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll definitely cover you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you sure you don't want to leave?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I got your back.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll hold the light.
[SPEAKER_01]: You double-sure?
[SPEAKER_01]: I could easily follow you down with my gun.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've hold the light over a shoulder and push and rub it down the stairs.
[SPEAKER_10]: and you make your way down to the basement.
[SPEAKER_10]: Flashlights out to see what there is to see.
[SPEAKER_10]: It's a very small basement.
[SPEAKER_10]: The footprint of the building is actually pretty small.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's one room down here.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's a generator that runs off a fuel cells.
[SPEAKER_10]: You can see that there are three large fuel cells directly next to it.
[SPEAKER_10]: And when you check the charge on them, they're all like degraded over time, but they're all at over seventy five percent.
[SPEAKER_10]: And there's no fuel cell in the generator currently, but the generator
[SPEAKER_10]: is like the shell the generator is off and all the innards are exposed and a lot of things have been done to this generator probably froggy trying to get it to work.
[SPEAKER_10]: Near the generator are three panels, electrical panels.
[SPEAKER_10]: It looks like there's one for the radio tower, one for the first and second floor, and then one for the generator itself.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's also a bunch of shelving with a lot of various parts and expired food stuffs on it strangely enough.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then there's a sewer grate leading downwards into a sewer assembly.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, I'm going to, like, sigh heavily, kneel down in front of the generator and assess the damage.
[SPEAKER_06]: I pull up my toolkit.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we're gonna kind of like assess in what what it needs.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, so this is gonna take you an hour to figure out what it's gonna take to fix this thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: But just by glancing at it, you know this is a multi-day effort.
[SPEAKER_06]: Robert, this is gonna, this is gonna take me some time.
[SPEAKER_06]: You just hold this light here for me, please.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_06]: Robert's here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Robert.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hold the light here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Robert, you're having flashbacks to your childhood right now.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, me too.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm PTSD holding the flashlight for my dad.
[SPEAKER_10]: Felix, go ahead and roll me a fix intelligence.
[SPEAKER_10]: Actually, no, sorry, fixed wisdom.
[SPEAKER_10]: Wisdom is about making judgments.
[SPEAKER_10]: That is a nine.
[SPEAKER_10]: You don't really want to have to work on this at night.
[SPEAKER_10]: You think if you spend all day tomorrow and all day the next day that you can get it fixed and fully operational again with the parts you have currently on hand without having to get anything additional.
[SPEAKER_10]: Even powered, there's three energy cells.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can just hook those in.
[SPEAKER_06]: It would have been fine, but I think he made this worse by him trying to fix it without okay those energy cells on.
[SPEAKER_10]: It seems like something may have been broken, and he tried to fix it, but made it way worse.
[SPEAKER_10]: In your exploring, you can see there's like a huge mess in here.
[SPEAKER_10]: There's like twenty, thirty different problems.
[SPEAKER_10]: Any one of them could have been the one small thing that a knowledgeable person could have fixed in like an hour.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Robert.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go talk to the team.
[SPEAKER_10]: Okay, the two of you make your way up to the second floor where you find that froggy has come out of the DJ booth and he has had some rations that he's sharing with everyone present.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Shards of Glass was their third album and that's the one that everybody likes.
[SPEAKER_07]: But honestly, if you go to the earlier stuff and has like more of a low-fi thing going on, then I think actually makes it better.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, that's, that's, that's, that's a really interesting thing.
[SPEAKER_10]: I mean, honestly, it kind of sounds like Boston transmission a lot.
[SPEAKER_10]: It almost sounds like Boston transmission could have been influence for them because they came first.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, maybe you have to, you have to give me some of their records then.
[SPEAKER_07]: I got to give it a listen.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, so listen, it's going to take a couple of days, but I can get it back up and running like, it'll run like new.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's going to take like, all tomorrow in the next day.
[SPEAKER_07]: By the time we find a thing, they're gonna have already stripped it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know what to tell you, Thorny.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a mess down there.
[SPEAKER_06]: It seems like, like, so we've got a rat got in there who's ripped everything up.
[SPEAKER_10]: Ripped what?
[SPEAKER_06]: The generator.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's all torn up.
[SPEAKER_10]: But this guy said they were going to have already stripped it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Who's day in strip what?
[SPEAKER_06]: He's the only better kid.
[SPEAKER_10]: He's like in his mid-forties.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know if I mentioned that.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, you did.
[SPEAKER_01]: Buddy, and I'm looking good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's going to take a couple days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll tell you.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are they going to do?
[SPEAKER_01]: Restate all our ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we got some time.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I've heard about them stealing it again and worried about them destroying it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wait, you have a ship?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you from off-world?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, I'd like to talk more about this later.
[SPEAKER_10]: No, if you have a ship, I have something I can ask you.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, let's say we did have a ship.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, I know someone off-world.
[SPEAKER_10]: Maybe you can bring something to them.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like what?
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_10]: I haven't talked to them in a long time.
[SPEAKER_10]: I maybe a message.
[SPEAKER_10]: Sure, we can bring a message.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh, oh, this is very cool.
[SPEAKER_10]: Her name's Vera.
[SPEAKER_10]: She got off-world with her family, and he gets a whistful look.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll write something.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'll write something right now, and he runs off to the DJ booth.
[SPEAKER_07]: What a weird guy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I hadn't told him that we had a ship.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, that might have been my buy-in.
[SPEAKER_10]: So that is the end of our session.
[SPEAKER_10]: You'll be spending, it sounds like a couple nights here.
[SPEAKER_10]: Froggy sleeps in the DJ booth, but there's plenty of room for you here on the second floor or in reception on the first floor, or you can sleep on the roof under the stars, though it is raining most nights.
[SPEAKER_10]: But for now, you break bread and you make camp and you get ready for a fixed generator tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_10]: And with that, we'll go to our diaries.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I gotta say I was more than a little disappointed in that recipe book.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was hoping for some of that a bit more transactable.
[SPEAKER_06]: But the car was a nice surprise.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, Thorne seemed to enjoy it a bit more than I did.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love to see a beautiful piece of machinery like that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it was weird guy froggy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he messed up that machine downstairs, but hey, he gave us a warm meal.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's not half bed.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I am looking forward to getting my hands as I'm greased in machinery again.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's been too long.
[SPEAKER_06]: and a little project is just what I did right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're starting to see some more signs of home here on Ofisa.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's been pretty neat coming here.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just crazy industrial.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, like, the whole planet is about nothing for some reason.
[SPEAKER_04]: Managed to pick up a family recipe book.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's a bunch of pages that I'm hoping maybe get filled up to.
[SPEAKER_04]: Found a local radio station just seeing lots of signs of what used to be here on Ofisa and it's a pretty shit situation here.
[SPEAKER_04]: It'd really have to be about the rest of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, a little bit of a bag of chance here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Truly, a bit of fortune.
[SPEAKER_01]: We found this beautiful car.
[SPEAKER_01]: Truly chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: I might have gotten my ass handed to me in Loki palm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes fortune does not favor the bold, but we met DJ Froggy.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's my boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can tell.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can see something in him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be the voice of the rebellion.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is going to be the spark that lasts the fire on Wallfacer.
[SPEAKER_07]: An Aurora L. X. Ninety, sleek, elegant, a classic, dual intake plutonium drive, plasma fed, hover capabilities, glowing doors, per lesson finish.
[SPEAKER_07]: What a find.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the kind of treasure that I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_07]: DJ Froggy, Voice of the Wastes, he seems nice enough even if he isn't all there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm glad we have a way to track the skate boat but two whole days.
[SPEAKER_07]: I hope the thing's still there when we go to recover it.
[SPEAKER_07]: At least that'll give me a little bit of time to teach Robert some basic Loki Ponskills.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well everyone, that's the end of our adventure for tonight.
[SPEAKER_10]: But this has been another awesome episode of the Darkstar Adventurecast.
[SPEAKER_10]: To in the next time for episode seven, when the crew of the scapego, makes their way to Black Harbor to hopefully find their long-lost ship.
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