0:00:37
Unknown_09:  Hello?


Unknown_09: I have, um, experimentally added ducking, so theoretically when I talk, you should be able to hear me over the game audio. Is this working as intended, chat? Can you hear me over the guitar music? Okay, it works great. Ducking works. Wow. I can't believe it.


Unknown_09: Okay, so... Um...


Unknown_09:  I'll just turn it down for myself because this is really, really loud. We can do this.


0:01:12
Unknown_09: I'll show you this while I'm in here real quick, actually. I do want substitute license music. Oh, that's right. I want subtitles? Is that on by default? Okay, I guess the subtitles are on by default.


Unknown_09:  Okay, cool. Let me show you this. The accessibility menu. Low vision, low motor, low audio, low sensory preset. And then it has skip gameplay. It has an option for skipping gameplay for gameplay that may be difficult. I really enjoy their very bold choice of Comic Sans. In fact, I bet you their Comic Sans choice, it's not literally Comic Sans, but I bet you this is like a  dyslexic font.


0:01:45
Unknown_09: Let's see, and then there's the warning. So when you are playing the game and you come to a dialogue that might, or a sequence that might have something triggering, you have warnings that will show up to let you know to avert your gaze.


0:02:24
Unknown_09: Brightness warning, blood warning,  violence warnings, suicide warning, which really should be unaliving, self-unaliving or sewer sliding, death warning, intense visual effects warning, drug warning, and then finally a sex warning. But as it says here,  Enables warnings before references to sex, including sexting, mentions of sexual activity, or explicit images. No depictions of sex occur. So you'll get a warning that one of them is about to say something like, I sent nudes to my boyfriend or something. And that will be like a trigger alert. So you have to have a little notification for it.


0:03:00
Unknown_09:  Then one other thing I set my graphics and I was thinking, you know, I've got my my GPU Blazing I can't I'm gonna set this to hella fucking GFX, right and Literally the graphics quality is hella high So you can set everything to hella high and I'm sure I'm guarantee you That they're gonna be top graphics the best graphics ever So that's the rundown of the screen


0:03:36
Unknown_09:  So, let me give you a recap of the games before this game. This is like the fifth Life is Strange game. However, it is the only... That's not true.


Unknown_09: It is the third edition of the main one. There was the first one, which I'll cover in detail because it's most relevant.  Then there was the second one, which was completely, it was called Life is Strange 2, but it had nothing to do with the first episode. And it was about two Mexican boys trying to escape Trump's fascist America, and killing ICE agents with mind powers because they're so evil.


0:04:15
Unknown_09: Then the third game was about a fat Asian girl in Colorado. And I can't remember what happens. I want to say her little brother dies because she's such a negligent cunt.  And she has to deal with the trauma of killing a little boy, her little brother. I could be mistaken, but that's what I remember about that game.


Unknown_09: In the fourth? Third? Fourth. Fourth game, it was about a pooner and Zare's sister. And they were trying to figure out why their mother had killed herself. I think it was what it was.  And to do this, they went to her old house in Juneau, Alaska, which is the capital of Alaska. And they're on this beautiful property that's like a waterfront. And there's like a bunch of mysteries related to old games they played as a child that their mother had left behind for them to uncover the tragic truth about how she had had a miscarriage or one of their little brothers died when he was really young.  And I remember that game was so fucking boring that at the very end, I started laughing, crying just out of like psychosis because I was thinking like,  What if the brother died because he was trapped in one of these games that she likes to put together? And he was like trapped in the baby maze. I remember laughing and crying about the baby maze, which was just like a figment of my imagination with absolutely no relevance to the game whatsoever. And that's the only thing anybody who watched me play that game remembers about that game also. Then the, what is that? The sixth one? Oh my God. I don't think there's been seven of these in the sixth one. There's the first actual direct sequel.  to the original game that was really popular. And I think she has some kind of Asia, some, somebody becomes like a dimensional time traveler and is tormenting Max, the main girl. And I, I honestly, I just played that game and I cannot remember a fucking thing about it. There was some time travel. There was an Iranian woman that was like a principal. Um,  i honestly cannot remember how that game ends at all um oh yeah there's a tranny teacher that was like the only real character in the entire game because it was written by a tranny for the tranny's performer and the tranny like made themselves realistic and by realistic i mean the total fucking dickhead to everybody and just completely insufferable personality wise  But as a result, I made the Tranny the only interesting character in the entire game because it was the only character that had any flaws whatsoever. And it was because the Tranny was doing a self-insert.


0:06:58
Unknown_09: I honestly cannot remember how that game ends at all.


Unknown_09: But the first one is the most interesting. And everyone who plays these games is begging, pleading that there's another game that comes along that's going to be as bad as the first one. Because the middle chapters kind of suck, but the first and last one are...  hysterical.


Unknown_09: It's about two teenage girls. There's kind of like an implied lesbian thing going on. Somebody commits suicide, like the Christian girl in the game jumps off a fucking building and kills herself.


0:07:34
Unknown_09: Oh, and more importantly, the blue haired girl


Unknown_09:  uh, is shot dead in a school shooting, and the, Chloe, and the whole game revolves around Max using the powers of time travel to undo the death of Chloe, and throughout the entire game, shit just keeps getting weirder, it's really slow and boring, but, like, the entire universe is, like, falling apart, and at the, at the, oh, then there's, like, a serial killer that brings them to a rape dungeon, but they don't want to have a rape dungeon, so it's, like,  an actual rape dungeon but instead of rape he's like taking photographs of them before killing them with no rape but it's like an obvious rape dungeon metaphor um she escapes the rape dungeon which she only got into because she decided to stumble around a serial killer's house without any police presence whatsoever with nobody knowing where she's at  And at the very end of the game, it becomes clear that shit's going to get more and more fucked up unless she just lets her friend die. And it's actually a kind of a sweet story where it's like you have to get over the fact that she's fucking dead. And you have to move the fuck on. Which apparently is a theme in all these games. I just realized recapping all this. And you would think that's the story. She went back and did all this crazy shit to try and stop her friend from getting shot to death in the school. But she has to let go.  But the actual canonical ending of the first Life is Strange game is the alternate ending, where Max does not move on and fully commits to being a retard trying to bring back the dead, which results in like a catastrophe that only impacts her town and kills everybody she's ever known and completely wipes it off the face of the fucking map. Meaning that her mom is dead, their parents are dead, their friends at school that aren't Chloe are all dead.  And then the most insane fucking thing about that is that in the sequel, that was the last game that came out, like episode six,  Canonically, they confirm that Arcadia Bay is wiped out, Chloe lives, and she let everybody else die to save this one girl that she barely knows. And the actual canonical series of events is that Chloe dumps her and moves away because the tragedy of everyone dying has traumatized her and she couldn't stay there anymore, so she fucking left.  So even after giving up the entire town and all their lives, she didn't get to bang. And she wanders around lonely in the college campus in the sixth game. So this is episode seven.


0:09:52
Unknown_09: And my theory is that this is going to fucking suck. This game is going to suck cock. And it's not going to be nearly as bad or as funny as the first game. And it's probably...  They're aware. They're aware that assholes like me play these stupid fucking games because people expect it at this point in time. And they're like, we have to be sure that this is not a huge embarrassment like Dustborn was. Dustborn was great. Dustborn was awesome in how fucking terrible it was.


0:10:31
Unknown_09: So I have no expectations for this. It's basically a movie. Strap the fuck in. Here we go.


Unknown_09:  Max Caulfield.


Unknown_14: I came back to Arcadia Bay to study photography at Blackwell Academy. But it was there I started having visions, visions of the town being wiped out by an impossible storm.


Unknown_14:  I fled to the bathroom to compose myself, but instead witnessed something awful. No! Instinctively reaching out, I discovered I could rewind time. The girl Max saved was me. Chloe Price and I were childhood best friends.


0:11:07
Unknown_06: We grew close once more as we reveled in Max's strange new powers.  We discovered I can freely rewind up to a few minutes at a time.


Unknown_14: And if I concentrate on a photo, I can travel much further into the past projecting my mind back into my younger body.


0:11:41
Unknown_06: But we also learned that making significant changes to the past  can have devastating consequences for the present.


Unknown_14: With the aid of my power, we see the disappearance of Chloe's friend, Rachel.


Unknown_09: She was murdered in the photography rape dungeon.


Unknown_06: Max's twisting of time had a cost.


Unknown_09: Are they going to skip over that there was a photography rape dungeon?


Unknown_06: Looking down into Arcadia Bay from the lighthouse, as the storm raged, I...


Unknown_06:  I truly believed the only way to save everyone else was for Max to rewind back to that fateful bathroom and let me die.


0:12:20
Unknown_09: That's true.


Unknown_14: I was forced to make an impossible choice.


Unknown_14: Save Chloe or save Arcadia Bay.


Unknown_09: Specifically, all the people alive in the bay.


Unknown_14: After everything that happened, I didn't use my powers for years.


Unknown_14: After I let them all die.


Unknown_14:  a career that brought me to Vermont's prestigious Caledon University. It's like that is a comedy cut.


Unknown_09: It's like, obviously, you have to just let her die. Oh, no, never mind. Skip ahead. Seven years later, I worked with some incredible students and staff like Amanda Thomas, the lively stand up comedian who works at the Snapping Turtle.  lively and she's like barely jostling assistant and then leader of the mysterious their graphics are so bad it looks like the sims 4 especially that one ambiguous mystery brown guy with moses murphy a nerdy astrophysicist and sophie llewellyn fayad a glamorous student of poetry


0:12:51
Unknown_14:  and yes no please don't tell me we're gonna have all these characters back again they all sucked ass tragedy struck after a night of stargazing max found sophie you weren't even in this game chloe shut the up you have no you have nothing to contribute to this sophie's death bringing back painful memories of chloe arcadia bay of everything we lost then i heard sophie's voice again


0:13:48
Unknown_09:  Safi is the dead girl from the sixth game. I reached out with my power, rusty from disuse, and shifted into a parallel timeline, where Safi is still alive, but still in danger. If I hadn't have played the other games, this would all sound like bullshit they were making up on the spot. Max's investigation uncovered many secrets of Caledon, but the clues didn't add up.


Unknown_06: Until I discovered I was not the only one with powers.


Unknown_14:  Safi was a shapeshifter, using her ability to sow discord and suspicion among the Kalidon community that she blamed for the fate of her best friend, who took her own life. Looking together, we exposed the truth. But in so doing, we discovered someone else had been instrumental in covering up the lies of Kalidon.  Sophie's mother, Yasmine.


0:14:30
Unknown_06: Years of resentment overrode Sophie's control of her power. Her consciousness, splintering across the campus as an impossible storm loomed overhead.


Unknown_14: In desperation, I grabbed hold of Sophie and a photo.


Unknown_06:  Stupid gun.


Unknown_14: Oh my god. I forgot about this. Stupid gun.


0:15:18
Unknown_14:  I chose a third way.


Unknown_14: Inside the storm, causality fractured. I faced my past and united the fragments of silence.


Unknown_09: We're in sperm making shit up as we go territory.


Unknown_14:  Saving Safi. And together, we escaped the storm.


Unknown_06: An action that will have significant repercussions. And Safi herself? She left Caledon on a quest to find other people like her. But before she did, she asked Max if she would support her. Flaws and all. Or...


0:15:51
Unknown_09:  So you're gonna found the X-Men now? The X-Women?


Unknown_14: Yeah, when you put it like that, it is a profoundly retarded plot. Okay, yeah. Max's relationships.


0:16:33
Unknown_09:  So it doesn't matter. Oh man, I don't know. I picked that she should die because that made sense, but the game would expect you.


Unknown_09: She died, man.


Unknown_09:  I did not. I think I went out of my way to shoot Amanda down as brutally as possible in every single encounter, and it was super awkward and funny every single time. So I'm pretty sure I completely fucking friendzoned her.


Unknown_09: I think I did try to hook them up. That was my great sin.


0:17:06
Unknown_09:  Uh, I rejected Safi because she was a horrible bitch.


Unknown_09: Wait, no. Yeah, no, I rejected Safi. She sucked ass. And I did not romance Vin because he's obviously gay. Wait, no, I did romance Vin. Did I not? I think I was trying to make her straight.


Unknown_09: Reject me. He looks gay, though. I'm gonna reject him.


Unknown_09: Okay, this is where we're at. You did, I think, because it's funny. No, I think I rejected him. He sucks. He looks like a gay.


Unknown_09:  Okay, here we are. Am I happy with my choices? Well, happy is a relative statement.


0:17:47
Unknown_09: Is being a dyke worse than being a beer?


Unknown_00: That's a 21st century question that many women are having to answer.


Unknown_00: I think you just discovered fourth-wave feminism.


Unknown_09:  Okay, just so you know, brake pads, the plot's about to slow to a fucking crawl.


Unknown_06: Maybe try reminding her that a drum machine doesn't take up half the van and smell like ass after the gig.


0:18:24
Unknown_09: Was she a rocker?


Unknown_06: 20 minutes.


Unknown_09: She's a hella rocker now.


Unknown_06: Yeah, okay.


Unknown_15: I can make that work.


Unknown_09: Watch out, it's a facehugger.


Unknown_09:  Is that Max? Is she crawling around in the crawlspace?


Unknown_09: Okay, everybody confused in chat, your choices in this game do not fucking matter. That is rule number one. Your choices do not matter. Yes, I killed her in the first game, but we're now in a causality rift, and nothing makes sense anymore. Did you not listen to the intro sequence? My choices don't fucking matter is the moral of the story. Show means no fee, means no gas, means no tour, means...


0:18:58
Unknown_09:  Don't worry, Max is in the vins.


Unknown_06: She's gonna help you.


0:19:45
Unknown_09:  She's obviously hella fucking gay. I don't know what you're asking.


Unknown_09: Is she having like a PTSD episode from when she killed everybody in her town? Oh no. Max is going to crawl up the fucking TV.


Unknown_09: Like Sadako.


Unknown_09: What, you thought you were going to move on without me, Chloe? Mad Maxine needs a friend.


Unknown_09: Into the causality rift.


0:20:17
Unknown_09:  I didn't give you permission to move on, bitch.


Unknown_06: Not again. Take it off.


Unknown_09: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.


Unknown_06: It keeps getting worse.


Unknown_09: Oh, damn it. My causality revved.


Unknown_06: Assuming there is one.


Unknown_09: Oh, wait. Did I not set the...


Unknown_09:  I want to make sure that this is... Oh, it's not 60 frames per second. I guess we'll just have to live with 30 for this episode. I think everything's fine, though. No lost packets or nothing.


0:20:51
Unknown_09: Okay, so here's another thing if you've never seen any of this game. You can interact with shit. There's literally no purpose in ever doing so.


Unknown_09: I'll give you an example of what this is.


Unknown_06: Bidness! Bidness!


Unknown_09:  Haven't talked this way in years. I'm the only person I know of, besides Chloe, apparently. Why does this feel like it was only yesterday? That's why the business board on the Kiwi Farms is called Bidness. How long has this been going on?


0:21:26
Unknown_06: These nightmares that feel like memories.


Unknown_06: They're only getting worse.


Unknown_09: What's the Bidness? That's also a song by, oh no, it's the stupid gun.


Unknown_05: Stop stalling, Max. Pull the trigger.


Unknown_09:  Bye, bitch.


Unknown_09: Epidance, give me the Epidance.


Unknown_00: Give me the Epidance, that memory, Max.


Unknown_09: Hey, Ron. Oh, yeah, I can briskly jaunt. Oh, can I... Look at this! There's no snow tracks in the causality rift.


0:21:58
Unknown_14: I'm so glad you're my partner in crime.


Unknown_06: As long as you're my partner in time.


Unknown_09: Be gay, do crime. Bifters.


Unknown_06:  Max is always on my mind. Max, um... Chloe shot herself.


Unknown_09: She was in a junkyard shooting at metal cars and shot herself.


Unknown_06: I know I'm alive. I've got a decade of memories to prove it.


0:22:32
Unknown_06: But somewhere, deep in a place I try never to go, I also know I'm dead.


Unknown_09: Um...


Unknown_09:  I know I'm dead. We're all dead, I guess. Depending on the time. Okay, this is where Chloe has never been here. This is where Safi and Max had their confrontation in the finale of episode 6. I should also explain that the way these games work is that there's chapters. And the way they write these is that the chapter starts with something happening.  And it ends with something happening. And the middle 50%, generously 50%, usually 90% is nothing happening ever.


0:23:10
Unknown_09:  She doesn't actually shoot herself because Max rewinds time and stops her from shooting herself in the gut. So she really saved Chloe twice. That's why the whales were raining from the sky.


0:23:41
Unknown_09: No, it's a Max goblin.


Unknown_06: Max?


Unknown_09: Oh, no. She's going to photography rape her.


Unknown_09:  uh... c the fact that i tried to mack on your bitch and then she shot me that max out of the


0:24:48
Unknown_09:  Did the bullet travel through the causality? Hey, look, it's Ethan Ralph in the back. He's even got a bifurcated gun. Do you care?


Unknown_06:  Just told you, man. They're loading in now. And why isn't there a ramp on the back door? Or do they not have handicapped accessi- Oh no.


Unknown_09: One of her bandmates is gonna be a cripple. Oh hell yeah, we got some Josh music playing.


0:25:21
Unknown_09: I'll Die Anyways is the name of the song, as I said. Very thematic. This Chloe's gonna fucking die, probably.


Unknown_09:  The foliage looks so bad. I can't believe how bad the graphics are on this game still.


0:26:02
Unknown_09: It's just like textures and shit popping in mid-cinema.


Unknown_09:  Okay. So this is what I meant. You saw how the first part had like weird shit happening and you're kind of like, what the fuck's going on? This is the 90%. This is what you get to enjoy. It's going to be max making awkward faces at banal shit. And then at the end of the chapter, she's going to meet max or Chloe or something and crazy shit's going to happen again. And that's how the, that's how they write this trip.


0:26:36
Unknown_14: Three days. Somehow it still feels good to come home to Vermont.


Unknown_14:  my camera is underneath all this car packing for dummies so task one we just got this huge crazy recap and chloe almost got shot in the head by max and now what's the first task i have to clean her dirty ass trunk this weekend was the height of my professional success and i survived it on donuts and coffee


0:27:30
Unknown_14:  I always tell my students that a key to being an artist is a daily journal practice.


Unknown_14: Sometimes I even- He sounds like she's really struggling to talk. The things I tell my students is that you need a daily practice journal.


Unknown_09: I have to look at this?


Unknown_09: You have one picture of her and you're going to tape it like that? It's like on the photo too. You can't take that off.


Unknown_09:  sms amanda yeah you i can't i never figured out who this was but it's nice that somebody cared just left him on red my manager hazel is always looking out for me and sometimes i want to kill her


0:28:27
Unknown_09:  Yeah, a black man howling at the moon is not going to be put on t-shirts.


Unknown_09: I bet you Hazel's a troon. Just get that feeling.


Unknown_14: My Major Hazel is always looking out for me.


Unknown_15: My most trusted companion.


Unknown_09: Under the hat. My Agent Hazel said I need to look more like an artist.


Unknown_14: So I bought this hat.


Unknown_09:  You already look pretty artistic. I think I'll stick to looking like Max. Her glazed over eyes like she's constantly high on like Depakote or something. Looks pretty artistic to me.


0:29:02
Unknown_14: The selfie I took just before this trip, I think I knew I'd want to hold on to this moment.


Unknown_09: Wow. What a great shot. Your hand is in half the fucking photo, Max.


Unknown_09:  a woman taking picture time for your close-up oh squirrel can i zoom in there we go well that's it well it is a polaroid i guess that's all you got nice


0:29:53
Unknown_09:  Check it out. That's a winner right there.


Unknown_09: Oh no, you can tell by her facial expressions, she's very surprised by the messages she's gotten.


Unknown_09:  Okay, Mosey says that, oh, it's a crazy week. A lot's happening. Max asks what's going on. Mosey says, focus on your trip. Are you back? Are you safe? Of course I'm safe on the road. What's going on? Stay away from now. There's some kind of attack on campus. I'm headed to the observatory. The students are trapped. It's a fire. Stay away. I'll let you know when it's clear.


0:30:25
Unknown_09: No, I'm coming to help, she says.


Unknown_06: I can't trust those cishet white males from the Vermont fire departments.


Unknown_09:  I gotta drive 80 miles an hour on this mountain road to get back home. I'm gonna solve the fire.


0:31:03
Unknown_09: God, look at that ambient occlusion. Those lights look real.


Unknown_09:  She's gonna use her time travel powers to bail water very quickly.


Unknown_09: Help, I have to help, that's my task.


Unknown_14: I've been gone for three days and all hell has broken loose.


Unknown_09: Those cops don't seem very concerned about the fire or those people screaming for help.


0:31:37
Unknown_14: This is so horrible.


Unknown_14: The Abraxas logo.


Unknown_09:  I like how there's a sense of urgency, and then they still add shit I can look to.


Unknown_14: There are people screaming for help right now, but let me make sure I got all these... Oh look, some glow sticks.


Unknown_09:  Yeah, they're burning right now.


Unknown_00: Whatever you do, don't go into that burning building. It's not safe. Cause it's on fire.


0:32:09
Unknown_09:  Usually I try to run, like instinctively I hold down shift, but I think it's funnier if I just walk very casually to it.


0:32:43
Unknown_14: Is this really, like, they really made this building on fire, and then they...


Unknown_14: They just make it so you can casually walk to it.


Unknown_09: I feel like I'm going insane.


Unknown_09:  Um, I think Loretta was the evil white woman from the sixth game. She was like the popular girl or something.


Unknown_09: Whoa! There's people still in the building.


Unknown_09: Oh, you would be so fucking dead if that was... You'd be dead, for sure. Just so you know, this is so unrealistic and that guy would be so fucking dead it's not even funny. Also, all the glass would be broken.


0:33:21
Unknown_09:  Oh, he died.


Unknown_09: He did die. That is realistic. Max kills another one. Too incompetent. Yeah, the police left. They have more urgent matters to attend.


Unknown_09: Ah, jeez.


Unknown_09: This is the door. They're locked inside and there's a fire going on. I wonder what to do about this fire. Let's check out the lock on the door. Ah, shit.


0:33:57
Unknown_09:  Huh.


Unknown_09: There's got to be another way inside this building. I just walked around that way. Maybe I can walk very slowly this way. Oh, look, chat. This building is handicap accessible, according to the Americans with Disabilities Act. There's a wheelchair ramp here.


Unknown_09: If I actually press run, is she going to properly run? Or...


0:34:29
Unknown_09:  No, she just briskly jogs again. Oh, shit. Look, crime... Someone set this fire on purpose.


Unknown_09: Yeah.


Unknown_09: That's what it appears.


Unknown_09: Oh, jeez. Oh, this is really bad. There's so many people in there still.


Unknown_14: Damn it!


Unknown_09: As if the police don't already know that this building's on fire.


Unknown_04: Security, there's students trapped in the atrium! No shit, you need to clear out now!


0:35:06
Unknown_09:  brown lesbian cop says fuck that shit every every woman for herself that's a lot of fire the whole campus is burning this is so horrible dude if only it's terrible but hear me out max do you have your camera on you look that's the money shot right there take some pictures take some pictures you're the only one on the scene


Unknown_09:  She dropped her camera. How are you going to get a great... Oh, she got it.


Unknown_09: She got her wonderful shot. No, the camera was facing the side.


Unknown_11: Fire hot. Oh, Chloe has died again.


0:36:04
Unknown_09:  It just keeps happening. She was meant to die. I keep trying to tell you.


Unknown_09: Yeah, she's gonna go back in time and stop that from happening. Obviously. That's how the first game fucked up too.


Unknown_09: Aw jeez, a photo I can go back in time to.


Unknown_09: Maybe I can be a little bit faster this time.


0:36:37
Unknown_14:  I'll save you, Moses. I'll save everyone.


Unknown_14: Just give me time.


Unknown_09: Okay, so that sets up the series. I understand. Ah, shit!


Unknown_09: Is the photo in her hand going to be the burning building?


Unknown_14: No smoke.


Unknown_14: No screams.


Unknown_14:  I did it.


0:37:12
Unknown_14: Oh god. I did it. I jumped into a photo again.


Unknown_09: Terrible.


Unknown_14: I'm sure this won't have terrible far-reaching consequences for the school or the people I love.


Unknown_09: Yeah, Vermont's about to get wiped off the fucking map.


Unknown_14: What have I done?


Unknown_09:  I always said she sounds like Tommy Pickles from the Rugrats. It's Friday.


Unknown_14: The fire started Sunday evening.


Unknown_14: Okay.


0:37:43
Unknown_09: Okay.


Unknown_14: Maybe I shouldn't have come back.


Unknown_14: Maybe I'll just fuck everything up.


Unknown_14: But maybe I can't fuck it up any more than it already was.


Unknown_09:  No, you killed an entire town of people last time.


Unknown_14: I'm here now.


Unknown_09: I can do something. But you're generally low intelligence and have low empathy and problem-solving abilities. Really, if you think about it, you're not infected by everybody else dying at all. They're not your friends.


0:38:18
Unknown_14: What did I do after I took this photo?


Unknown_14: It feels like a lifetime ago.


Unknown_14:  yes i was going to see moses if anyone will know what to do it's the physicist who studies time travel and we will do something my powers are complicated and they can be dangerous but this is my home and i won't let it technically arcadia bay was your home but you looked like it wiped off the face of the map through a horrific whale storm oh no it's a it's a double exposure


0:38:59
Unknown_09:  See? That was the name of the sixth game, Double Exposure, because there's like a weird superimposed image motif through the game. So her time travel now double exposes, I guess.


Unknown_09: I'm just saying, Tommy Pickles with his screwdriver in his diaper probably could have saved those kids by picking that lock on the front door.


Unknown_14: So... I'm just saying Max is kind of useless.


0:39:31
Unknown_14:  I'm sorry. Something really, really big has come up. I can't make it this weekend. You are kidding me.


Unknown_06: Max, these are not the kind of people you want to cancel on.


Unknown_14: I'm so sorry for the late notice. I only just found out myself.


Unknown_09: Max's voice actor sounds like she's gotten brain damage.  she was not a good voice actor in the first game but she now actually sounds like she's dented and has trouble speaking normally yeah she's trying to sound like she's stuttering like to keep her composure or something but it's just it just sounds awful


0:40:24
Unknown_09:  our moon look chat i'm in this game it's so peaceful but for how long dude i have the graphics cranked up to hella high okay there's nothing else i can do to improve the visual experience of this it doesn't look any better than the game did like in the original release it just looks terrible this is like 22 gigabyte game by the way in his office new message from loretta oh this is the evil see evil whitey


Unknown_09:  Okay, I want to get to the black guy in his office.


Unknown_09: Meet Moses for hot chocolate. Oh no, that has connotations.


Unknown_09: Look, it even posed it perfectly for me. No, actually, I'm more of a flag enjoyer myself. Oh yeah, that's it right there.


Unknown_09: Flag.


0:41:26
Unknown_09: Hello.


Unknown_14:  Your Honor, my head's not in the clouds. It's up in space.


Unknown_09: Oh, she likes to tell jokes, too, and her jokes are horrific.


Unknown_09: Just a little warning for everybody.


Unknown_14: I wonder how Moses will react to all this.


Unknown_09: Oh, no, a janny cart.


Unknown_09: Speaking of space, we can take this janny cart and jettison it out into the vacuum of space and fuck that janny over. Oh, yeah, this is his office. I remember this.


0:41:57
Unknown_01:  Moosies!


Unknown_01:  Yeah, I don't even know what... Well, very highly regarded, it seems.


0:42:30
Unknown_09: Max? Max, you're being hella awkward. You're being hella fucking cringe.


Unknown_01:  I was just telling Moses that he is officially invited to join the Caledon faculty once he becomes Dr. Murphy next year. I was just telling Moses that he was officially invited to join Caledon faculty next year.


Unknown_09: I mean... Are they all going to sound terrible?


0:43:03
Unknown_14: It was a foregone conclusion. Moses is the best.


Unknown_14:  Congratulations. Thanks.


Unknown_11: I'm still taking it in.


Unknown_11: But President Teller's plans for the physics department are very exciting.


Unknown_01: This building is the one real investment that Caledon has made in the sciences. With four departments under one roof...


Unknown_09: If you told me this guy's voice actor was AI, I would believe it.


Unknown_01: I bet you AI would do better. A cutting-edge research institution to rival MIT.


0:43:45
Unknown_00:  He looks and stares at you for reassurance.


Unknown_09: Sounds expensive? What about liberal arts? How about, that's cool. I'm happy to support my friend in this promotion.


Unknown_14: Sounds like you want to spend a lot of money while we're still trying to rebuild from the storm.


Unknown_01: Well, we have to spend money. My predecessor's love of historic preservation has left us with beautiful buildings and cracked foundations.


Unknown_01:  Dr. Fayyad was a great leader, and she had an eye for talent. Finding Moses was one of her many successes.


0:44:20
Unknown_01: But she had an idealistic streak, which reminds me, Max, do your students still have all As? It means photography. It's pretty hard to fuck that up.


Unknown_00:  It's not an easy A. Yeah, fuck you.


Unknown_14: Everyone who's still in the class has an A, but plenty of students dropped when they realized how tough it would be.


Unknown_01: I noticed that too. The academic curve we strive for, but perhaps that wasn't covered in your orientation.


0:44:58
Unknown_09: Yeah, your students are bailing out when you have to listen to Mad Max for fucking four hours once a week.


Unknown_11: But she's amazing with her students.


Unknown_11:  Like you said, Yasmine has an eye for talent. She was even talking about creating a photography major.


Unknown_01: It's not that I doubt your talent, Max. You're just a beneficiary of her short-sightedness. Yeah, this guy's the bad guy. Sorry, an instructor with no teaching experience or terminal degree living rent-free in the house that was once reserved for visiting luminaries?


0:45:34
Unknown_01: It's like...


Unknown_01:  How is this allowed to happen?


Unknown_09: I'm rooting for the evil white guy. I can't waste that. I do not remember this conversation being such a disaster.


Unknown_09: Look, she's like cringing and looking down. They have to give it space for the voice lines. And so to do that, they just have everyone staring awkwardly while she looks around the room embarrassed.


Unknown_14: That guy is just dying to fire me.


Unknown_09: Oh, he's dying to fire you, all right. I'm going to get my job off her.


0:46:05
Unknown_11:  But you had to remember, so... You're not rewinding from later today, are you?


Unknown_14: You're good.


Unknown_14: I'm back from Sunday.


Unknown_11: Did you jump back into a photo? We agreed that that was too dangerous.


Unknown_14: I acted on instinct. I hope it was the right choice.


Unknown_11: What happened?


0:46:37
Unknown_11: Did something go wrong with the gallery show?


Unknown_14:  No, the show was great. Incredible. But while I was gone, something at Caledon, she can't just say burn to death horrifically.


Unknown_09: She has to, is there any reason why she can't just tell the truth?


Unknown_14: There was a protest about something.


Unknown_14: It turned into a riot.


Unknown_14: By the time I got back, the whole campus was on fire.


0:47:10
Unknown_09:  And you died horrifically.


Unknown_11: That's definitely the campus on fire.


Unknown_11: Compositionally, it is a bit more abstract than usual.


Unknown_14:  I wasn't trying to take a photo. I dropped my camera when I saw you.


Unknown_09: The black guy, he's so close to his mic and his mic is so sensitive that you can hear, like, the flaps in his nose as he speaks. Like, you can hear the wetness of it, like, closing and opening as he speaks.


0:47:44
Unknown_14: Moses, I'm sorry, but I saw you.


Unknown_09:  Wow.


Unknown_09: Would you react to this information?


Unknown_09: Like if a time traveler told you that you died, would you be like, Whoa, I tried to help, but I couldn't get it. It's hard to imagine how you would react to information like that. Working on a Sunday.


Unknown_09: I need more hobbies.


0:48:20
Unknown_09:  Yeah, I played this school that day. Yeah, I'm gonna go to McDonald's that day. I'm playing some Dota. Sorry to miss it, but I really gotta... I got stuff to do.


Unknown_09: I forgot I could?


Unknown_14:  Oh, my God. I didn't even think to.


Unknown_00: Dude, she. You were in shock. It's understandable. Oh, no. You're right. I could have just wound back and put out the fire. There is nothing I can do.


0:48:55
Unknown_00: There is nothing I can do. It's time.


Unknown_11: Time that we'll make the most of.  Hey, how about this?


Unknown_09:  You can contact the fire department and say, we're concerned about elevated fire risk at this public event. Can you guys station a truck? We'll pay you like $500 to babysit the event that night in case there's a fire. Right? I've never done this before, but I imagine if you contacted the department and offered to pay them for one night, they would be willing to sit out with the truck, right? That's what they do usually, right?


0:49:27
Unknown_14: Let's get to work.


Unknown_09:  I feel like I just solved the problem.


Unknown_09: Literally send an anonymous arson threat. That's a great idea.


Unknown_14: Go on tour and send an onion mail to the department saying, I'm going to set the building on fire.


Unknown_09: And then you might actually get an investigation that leads to arrests in time to prevent it entirely.


Unknown_09: Yeah, you figure this shit out. We cracked the code.


0:50:05
Unknown_14: We've covered a lot of ground these past months together.


Unknown_09:  Okay, I don't care. Oh, I can rewind. I can... Ah, my brain. Oh, is that her new...


Unknown_00: Brain freeze.


0:50:39
Unknown_14:  You really missed your calling as the host of a children's science show.


Unknown_11: Let's begin. What was drawn on that card?


Unknown_14: Seriously?


Unknown_11: I never joke about testing, Max.


Unknown_14: And yet you're such a ham.


Unknown_14: One moment.


Unknown_14: Time to fire up my report.


Unknown_14: I was really worried when Moses said I should  practice Yoink welcome back This formidable fellow that is the evil sword master frostbite from no true samurai test number one Tell me who killed him. Oh my god. I have no idea Let me guess I can find the answer somewhere in this very room Who cares it's a one strike question Tess failed you're the worst. Oh


0:51:23
Unknown_11:  Who is it?


Unknown_14: Oh, I'll find Swordmaster Frostbite's killer, Moses. Just you wait.


Unknown_09: You can't just tell me? Here we go.


Unknown_14: Are you my mystery killer?


Unknown_09: What's his name?


0:51:56
Unknown_09: Hello.


Unknown_09: Hiya! Hiya! Are you to zoom in? Does he have a name? Why is this the most highly detailed asset in the entire fucking game?


Unknown_09:  Oh, it's gonna be a... Sailor Moon.


0:52:27
Unknown_09: Sailor Moon.


Unknown_00: I know that one. Are these black dudes really watching animes where, like, Sailor Moon is, like, killing samurai?


Unknown_09: That's a little bit fucking sus, bro.


Unknown_09: It's gonna be upstairs, though.


Unknown_09:  Turtle.


Unknown_09: Skeleton.


0:53:02
Unknown_14: Um... Not that she didn't deserve some of it, but still.


Unknown_09: Not to implying that you've been sleeping on the job  Nobody is more deserving of arrest and all the effort in the world would have gone two ways.


Unknown_14: You're not my mystery killer, but I'm sure you have plenty of crimes to your name.


Unknown_09: Okay, I must have missed it.


0:53:42
Unknown_09:  It is the teenage girl and I've searched all over and there are no teenage girls.


Unknown_14: Do I need to, I should enable like retard mode so I can just, um, see what I have to look at next.


Unknown_09: I feel like that will be a benefit to us.


Unknown_09: Um, accessibility hotspot pinging reveals all interaction points. Yes.


0:54:24
Unknown_09:  This is not helping me.


Unknown_09: This has not revealed all interaction points to me at all.


Unknown_09: Is it the mural? Is this what I'm supposed to be looking at? Okay, the fucking beeping has done nothing to assist me in completing this challenge.


Unknown_14: Using a rewind test to get me into anime?


Unknown_14:  no using his powers there's anime in this when i um split reality in two and then mashed it back together it wasn't exactly seamless i offered to help him finish it but moses the reminder that all those crazy memories really happened


0:55:13
Unknown_09:  Bitch, we're looking for an anime thing. Oh, is that it? School Girl, yeah.


Unknown_14: Here she is. But what's your name, young lady?


Unknown_09: Why do I not zoom on her ass but rotate this?


Unknown_09: Mina Hiramatsu. Okay. Remember that chat.


Unknown_09: If there's not an anime avatar on the Kiwi Farms named Mina Hiramatsu, it's probably Toji. Toji's gonna rejoin as Mina Hiramatsu.


Unknown_14:  Okay, ask me again.


Unknown_11: Max, it's great that you can remember something you just saw, but I'm testing whether you can remember it before you saw it.


0:55:51
Unknown_14: Fair enough.


Unknown_09: Oh, also, the time travel power is also like a time transposition, because if I go back in time, I'm not going to rewind where I'm at.


Unknown_14: Okay, ask me again.


Unknown_09: Max. Oh.


Unknown_09:  Okay.


Unknown_09: No, I wanna stop there. Okay. I don't remember talking to myself about that mural.


Unknown_14: Goddammit!


0:56:24
Unknown_09: This is how much time I wasted walking around in circles, I guess.


Unknown_09: No, she's gonna have a hella fuckin' headache after this one.


Unknown_14:  Okay, ask me.


Unknown_11: Who killed Swordmaster Frostbite in No True Samurai? The little girl, you fucking pervert.


Unknown_14: Hana Ishihara?


Unknown_09: Sorry, wrong answer. God fucking dammit.


0:57:03
Unknown_09: Why are you tormenting me like this?


Unknown_14: Okay, ask me.


Unknown_11: Who killed Swordmaster Frostbite in No True Samurai?


Unknown_09:  That's not the option. Where's Mina Hiramatsu?


Unknown_14: Izumi Kanda?


Unknown_09: You have to click read on the statue?


Unknown_09: What?


0:57:35
Unknown_09: I did... I looked... Wait, so looking at it is not enough. I have to, like, press a specific button to acknowledge that I looked at it?


Unknown_14: Here she is.


Unknown_14: Oh...  If I make it through this weekend, I promise to marathon your work with Moses. That's fucking bullshit.


Unknown_14: Okay, ask me.


Unknown_11: Who killed Swordmaster Frostbite in No True Samurai?


Unknown_09: Look, it even underlined it for me.


0:58:08
Unknown_14: Mina Hiramatsu, the badass high schooler. Correct!


Unknown_09:  That's every anime character ever fucking written in the last 40 fucking years.


Unknown_09: Get Moses locked in the cabinet.


Unknown_09: Hmm, it's locked.


Unknown_14: If you want me to do something other than break into this thing with a screwdriver... A screwdriver!


Unknown_09: Take it out of your diaper.  Observing my test subject.


0:58:42
Unknown_14: Good to hear.


Unknown_09: Uh...


Unknown_09: Territory note. Turtle.


Unknown_09: Movies.


Unknown_09: Kettle.


Unknown_09:  She sounds like Tommy Pickles, bro. Come on now.


0:59:15
Unknown_09: Samurai. Pooster. Oh, there's a screwdriver. Look, I'm not saying she's Tommy Pickles, but she's Tommy Pickles.


Unknown_14:  You just love watching me break things for science.


Unknown_11: I know I won't remember it, but I still love watching it.


0:59:50
Unknown_09: Wow, shit. I fucked it up. Don't worry. In a different timeline, that didn't happen.


Unknown_14: Damn. It's never simple in the time dojo.


Unknown_09: What is it?


Unknown_14: A test where I get to break into things?


Unknown_14:  Is Moses trying to cheer me up?


Unknown_09: Say it's like a volcano mug.


1:00:31
Unknown_14: Moses and I don't have many common interests, but Chloe and I didn't either.


Unknown_14: With the right person, it doesn't matter.


Unknown_09:  I'm a little bit confused.


Unknown_14: I'm very confused. I'm not allowed to open that? He asked me to open it. Help me, chat.


1:01:09
Unknown_14:  Mina Hiramatsu, the badass.


Unknown_09: Oh, okay. I got you. I have to find something that will catch it because she's so mentally handicapped, she cannot manage this by herself. Okay, that's the puzzle.


Unknown_09: Aha. Look, he's got, like, hemorrhoids or something. Let's take his ass cushion. Don't mind me, black friend. I'm taking your ass cushion.


Unknown_09:  She looks at him smugly, knowingly that he has hemorrhoids.


1:01:45
Unknown_14: Is this a bonus rewind test? Did you want the mug to fall?


Unknown_09: No, that's just a lucky break.


Unknown_09: Oh, my God. She snorts laughing canonically.


Unknown_09:  Maybe there's like an intelligence.


Unknown_09: Yes.


Unknown_09: Like Jean that's linked to snorting. And that's what's going on with DSP and Max.


1:02:19
Unknown_09: Okay. So now he's worked back over here so I can more appropriately give him the cup.


Unknown_11: Max, you have to unbust the door.


Unknown_14: What? Fixing it wasn't part of the test.


Unknown_11: I think you know that it was.


1:02:54
Unknown_09:  to untake his hemorrhoids cushion and then i look see this is what i mean by transposition now she has the mug from the cabinet and it's literally magic i'll put the kettle on meet me on the x when you're ready she changes position but she keeps what's on her including screwdrivers and mugs stand on the x all right i'm ready okay


Unknown_11:  I want you to teleport to this side of the room in a particular moment. Specifically, the moment before this mug hits the ground.


Unknown_14: Um, Moses?


Unknown_11: It does that sometimes.


Unknown_09: I'm gonna count to three.


Unknown_14: Moses!


Unknown_09: Oh no, the kettle's attacking.


Unknown_09: She really is a sim.


Unknown_14: Moses, unplug the kettle!


Unknown_11: Oh, it just does that sometimes.


Unknown_14: Guess I'll have to do this myself.


1:03:47
Unknown_14:  moses unplug the kettle oh it just does that she doesn't notice that she's like teleporting well she's like blinking across the room screaming about the kettle and he's just like what happened it's just like completely unfazed by this whoa and i was just gonna let it spark thank you teleporting max what that didn't happen before


Unknown_14:  We had hot chocolate last time, but it didn't combust.


Unknown_14: I just got back and I'm already changing things.


Unknown_11: That's fascinating.


Unknown_11: Probably best to skip on the hot chocolate today.


Unknown_11: Let's debrief when you're ready.


Unknown_09: Max, you appear to have visual fragments around your hair because the game is like exploding.


Unknown_14: Please tell me you'll stop using that kettle.


Unknown_09:  Moses, can we talk about your collection of little girls?


1:04:44
Unknown_11: I know it's a dysfunctional relationship, but I can fix her.


Unknown_11: Consider this her official retirement party.


Unknown_14: How are you feeling about the disaster I just dropped into your lap?


Unknown_11: Still processing, but I'm glad we still have a chance to do something.


Unknown_11: How do you feel?


Unknown_09:  How do I feel?


Unknown_09: I'm very sad.


Unknown_14: I feel like I'm about to lose something big.


1:05:18
Unknown_14: And I just don't know what it is yet.


Unknown_14: What if it was a mistake to come back here?


Unknown_14: What if I just make everything worse?


Unknown_11: I know there are risks.


Unknown_11: There's a reason we never tested your ability to jump into photos. But our testing has proved that some kinds of rewind are safe. If you unbreak a mug, the universe doesn't seem to care.


Unknown_09:  But that's bullshit.


Unknown_09: Isn't it? She rewinded time to save Chloe before. And that didn't unfuck any... Like, that was the main source of problems. She didn't go back into a photo. Or did she? Did she go back into a photo? No, she didn't. She just rewound time. So that's wrong.


1:05:52
Unknown_14: What if I can't change anything?


Unknown_14: One time I tried to save my friend's father from dying in a car crash and... You've told me.


Unknown_11:  And yes, it sounds like the universe sometimes has a dark sense of humor.


Unknown_11: We'll just have to wait and see.


Unknown_11: Let's take stock. What do we know for sure? What leads do we have?


1:06:24
Unknown_11: A sprinkler.


Unknown_14:  Oh, right. My class starts in 15 minutes.


Unknown_14: I should cancel.


Unknown_11: No.


Unknown_11: Don't make any changes. A fire extinguisher.


Unknown_11: If we mess with the timeline too much, we might introduce new variables.


Unknown_11: Water. You know, I saw something in class last time.


1:06:58
Unknown_14: Reggie took a call and walked away when I got near. I wonder if it was about Abraxas.


Unknown_11: Secret society. Shady calls with the Abraxas president.


Unknown_11: It could be something.


Unknown_14:  And in the fire, I noticed some Abraxas graffiti.


Unknown_14: It seemed ominous.


Unknown_09: Text me if you learn anything. Oh no, not graffiti at a college campus. I'm gonna steal another whiteboard from engineering.


Unknown_11: That has a liberal arts major.


Unknown_09: Anything but that. And Max?


Unknown_11: Promise me you'll do whatever you can this weekend.


1:07:33
Unknown_11: To stop the fire. To save people if it breaks out. Anything.


Unknown_11: I know there are consequences to using your powers, but...


Unknown_09:  Just make sure you don't call the police because people of color, trans identifying folks, and undocumented immigrants will become unsafe.


Unknown_14: I think I need that too.


Unknown_09: Have a good class.


Unknown_09:  The game is afoot. Wow, the game is telling me that the game has started. From here on, it's up to you to find enough evidence to point to the source of the fire. Remember to look everywhere for clues. And then the button just says, okay.


1:08:06
Unknown_09: Give me the evidence.


Unknown_09:  So you can run when it's a cutscene.


Unknown_15: Crazy day.


Unknown_15: Crazy, crazy day.


1:08:43
Unknown_15: Because of your grand gallery tour of New York this weekend? I'm amazed you didn't ditch us entirely.


Unknown_10: Yeah, you must be freaking out. When do you leave?


Unknown_14: Actually, there's been a change of plans.


Unknown_14: The trip has been postponed.


Unknown_15:  I'm sorry, Max. Professional setbacks are always tough. Give yourself time to grieve, okay?


Unknown_09: Damn. White people show is evil. Thanks, Loretta.


1:09:17
Unknown_14: Now, let's get to today's lesson.


Unknown_14: So, we've been focusing on composition, character of place, dynamic structure, light, balance, movement, contrast.


Unknown_09:  Other technical jargon. Loretta was a student in the last game. Why is she now... Max was also a student.


Unknown_14: Was she not? Was she also a teacher in the last game? I thought she was a student still.


1:10:09
Unknown_14:  Loretta?


Unknown_15: Suffabish.


Unknown_14: Perfection.


Unknown_08: Speak for yourself.


Unknown_14: That's a good guess. But I'm thinking of life.


Unknown_14: Human life, specifically.


Unknown_14: It's all around us.


Unknown_14: Sometimes it's overwhelming. I know it is for me.


Unknown_14:  But when I turn my camera on one person and focus on trying to see them, really see them, I can feel a connection happen.


1:10:45
Unknown_09: Yeah. So this will be $4,000 a credit hour. So will that be cash or do you have a, uh, FSA loan?


Unknown_14: Don't know someone who grabs your attention, someone you want to connect with your assignment today.


Unknown_14:  Go take their picture.


Unknown_09: Have any of you ever been asked for your photo, like in person?


Unknown_14: Now I remember. I got the same reaction the last time I lived through this day, and the assignment was a total dud.


1:11:22
Unknown_14: Maybe a demonstration would help.


Unknown_15: A demonstration?


Unknown_09: All right, you artsy introverts.


Unknown_09:  Max seems younger than them.


Unknown_14: Doesn't help that she's like mentally younger than them.


Unknown_14: I see that you're reading.


Unknown_09: You're studying.


1:11:56
Unknown_09: Yeah, I'm a teacher here also. I'm not like a pervert, don't worry.


Unknown_14:  I'm actually teaching a class, and it would save me from looking super lame in front of my students if I could take your picture.


Unknown_09: You could ask that just more directly without being so awkward. I don't normally let people take my picture, but I'd hate to be the cause of your public humiliation. I'm a brown girl, but I just so happen to have a southern accent showing that we truly are in a post-racial society, Max. But for your photo shoot, I'll do anything for you.


1:12:34
Unknown_14:  you seemed lost in your book as if i'm a hella southern black doe i find that kind of focus exciting oh god that sounds sexual lady calm down exciting well shucks started talking whatever you were trying to capture before must surely be gone it sounds like right the camera changes things


Unknown_14:  That's why I tell my students, you're not capturing reality.


Unknown_14: You're composing it.


Unknown_09: When I take your photo. My own physicist friend tells me that's called the observer effect.


Unknown_15: Particles jump. Hey, I'm a theoretical physicist studying quantum physics and quantum mechanics.


Unknown_09: So I happen to know things about the observer effect. You see, Max, just like your camera, you can't capture the state of electrons.


1:13:32
Unknown_09:  If you wanna know the truth about it.


Unknown_09: Zoom.


Unknown_09: The gnome. Didn't know Keemstar was in this.


Unknown_14: No.


Unknown_09: No.


Unknown_14: I think I captured what you were willing to show me.


Unknown_09:  Oh, God, that also sounds like innuendo.


1:14:08
Unknown_09: Safi?


Unknown_14: Safi, is that you?


Unknown_09: Is she not dead in this timeline?


Unknown_09: Does Safi now have a... Is she going to have a Texas accent? Oh, she's not...


1:14:41
Unknown_09:  Okay. I'm not gonna lie.


Unknown_09: I did not expect the game would be so fucking stupid. I'm actually pretty impressed that this game is as stupid as Life is Strange 1 is. I'm very happy so far.


Unknown_09: Why? It's a fucking garden gnome.


Unknown_00: It's a garden gnome, Max. It's a garden gnome.


Unknown_14:  Was that really Safi?


Unknown_14: With a shapeshifter, you never know for sure.


Unknown_14: But if she's really bad... Oh god, she's like so traumatized.


1:15:15
Unknown_09: That's right, Safi's the shapeshifter. Wait, Safi, are you trying to hide your true identity by using a fake southern accent again?


Unknown_00: Show yourself, demon! In the name of Christ, I compel you!


Unknown_14: And see if they know anything that could help me understand this fire.


Unknown_14:  Reggie is the president of Abraxas, which is seemingly connected to the fire. And I know Loretta is somehow too.


Unknown_09: Reggie Filamay is president of Nintendo. Frequent mad at the internet super chatter. Where are you?


1:15:49
Unknown_14: No Fremont house anywhere on this map. Maybe it's off campus.


Unknown_09: Uh, maybe it's fucking destroyed forever.


Unknown_09:  No human being looks like this. This is from the deepest, darkest imaginations of this game developer. I see you, looking at me, looking at you. It's like Spy vs. Spy. Remember that, that cartoon with the rocking Bullwinkle?


1:16:25
Unknown_09: Excuse me, Maxine. Oh, you can't run between them. What a pain in the ass.


Unknown_14:  I remember helping three students last time.


Unknown_09: Okay, I have to help three students to understand the source of the foyer.


Unknown_09: I can't help these students. I can't go this way because there's a bench there for some reason.


1:17:03
Unknown_14: Jeanette was trying to take a photo that conveyed a lot of emotion. I should check on her.


Unknown_14:  Hey, Jeanette, how did your assignment go?


Unknown_02: Well, I don't know.


Unknown_14: You tell me.


Unknown_09: Jeanette, I don't know how to tell you this, but your zoom was way too strong. You got to twist it like that and zoom out a little bit.


1:17:39
Unknown_14:  You create a sense of raw power that's really compelling.


Unknown_00: It's a Polaroid. I'm just imagining that she's, like, really super close to her. Like, the Polaroid's, like, right on her eyeball.


Unknown_09: Okay, um... Should I go back in time?


Unknown_14: Jeanette, let me see that photo. Well, okay.


Unknown_09: She looks like she's got, like... Oh, my God, she's, like, in agony.


Unknown_14:  Wow. I love how you break the rule of thirds and short-size your subject. It sounds like a backhanded compliment. Oh no, I snorted like Max. Try the assignment again, but focus more on your subject than your camera. Sure. Thanks again, Max.


1:18:17
Unknown_00: I love how it's complete shit. Thanks, Max.


Unknown_00: Oh no, I felt it myself, chat.


Unknown_14:  Didn't Reggie have a hard time figuring out how to ask someone to take their photo?


Unknown_00: Okay.


Unknown_14: Maybe.


Unknown_14: Hey, Reggie. I like how she's not actually helping them.


Unknown_09: She's, like, just giving them compliments. God, you're like a sex pervert. What the fuck's with that breathy wave of pie? Don't stare.


1:18:53
Unknown_14: Okay.


Unknown_10: Oh. There's a guy I see at the gym.


Unknown_10: Spotted him a few times, but he's still very much a stranger.


Unknown_09: He's right there. He can hear you talking about him. I was hoping maybe...


Unknown_09:  How do you know he's gay?


Unknown_14: Has he told you he's gay? Is he wearing something that makes him look gay?


1:19:39
Unknown_09:  Ayo nigga, you gay? I'm gay. I'm hella fucking gay.


Unknown_10: I'm a safe guy? Okay. Oh...


Unknown_10:  Oh, he's gay for sure. I can rewind time and help you be less gay and autistic. Don't worry, we're gonna make this right. You're gonna get that ass.


1:20:14
Unknown_09:  Hey, like, so this time don't be a gay retard. And just be, like, less awkward.


Unknown_09: Yeah, you could say that.


1:20:48
Unknown_00: Don't stare! Okay.


Unknown_10: The guy I see at the gym.


Unknown_10: Spotted him a few times. Okay, I already got this.


Unknown_14: This camera is the best icebreaker there is.


Unknown_00: She just gives the exact opposite advice this time. Okay.


Unknown_00:  Here it goes.


Unknown_09: Is it the exact same thing?


Unknown_09: So there's no way to help Reggie?


1:21:21
Unknown_09: Maybe I have to go observe this man. Hey, what's up? What's good? Preppy student. Are you gay?


Unknown_14:  I have this talent where I can guess any student's major. I believe yours is contemporary ceramics?


Unknown_00: Is that an insult? Way off. I'm in communications.


Unknown_14: Is everyone here doing a fake southern accent?


Unknown_14: Thanks anyway.


1:21:55
Unknown_14: Hello there. What's up?


Unknown_09:  What's up?


Unknown_09: What's good? I have this talent where I can guess any student's major.


Unknown_14: What? Why would she not guess this correctly the second time?


Unknown_09: What?


Unknown_09: Is Max, like, fucking with me? Why would you do that a second time?


Unknown_14: I'm doing a campus survey. We're trying to figure... If only you actually had some kind of special power, Max, that lets you do stuff.


1:22:27
Unknown_14: Thank you kindly.


Unknown_09:  They're in Vermont.


Unknown_09: Okay, I guess that's the information I need to make this happen.


Unknown_14: Hey, Reggie.


Unknown_14: Let me guess. You're working up the courage to ask that student to take his photo?


Unknown_09: She, like, flubs every line. Let me guess. You're working up the courage to ask that student to take his photo?


Unknown_14: Little tip.


Unknown_14: Tell him you have some connection to Texas. You know, football, dude ranches.  Whatever.


1:22:59
Unknown_09: Riding bareback.


Unknown_09: I can work with that.


Unknown_09: Called western chat. Western writing. Thanks, Max. Going in.


Unknown_00: Damn ranch.


Unknown_09: Oh, God. She, like, touches him.


Unknown_10: I'm Reggie.


Unknown_09: I'm hella autistic.


Unknown_14:  What? That was an awkward cut.


Unknown_09: It looks like he's just like... That was an awkward cut.


Unknown_14: What the fuck?


1:23:32
Unknown_09: Hmm.


Unknown_09:  Wine fountain from mom because you're underage. Speakers, masks, caps, eggs, candles, and pumpkins. Oh, Reggie.


Unknown_14: Why is Owen so interested in Apraxis?


1:24:04
Unknown_09: Uh-huh. Okay, I see.


Unknown_09:  Lessons on Fine Art by Philip Raymond.


Unknown_09: Fourth edition. OK, I got one more.


Unknown_09: Look, it's like an Ethan Ralph gnome.


1:24:35
Unknown_09: Double exposure.


Unknown_09: What if the gnome?


Unknown_09:  What if the gnome had a little gnome friend?


Unknown_14: Need to find... I think Loretta had a hard time getting a good photo of a student.


Unknown_09: We will composite the gnomes into a gnome unity for superior gnome purposes.


Unknown_09: A gnu.


1:25:08
Unknown_09:  Now that's a winner right there.


Unknown_00: Retake photo?


Unknown_09: Why can't I save it? I did fine!


Unknown_09: Aw, you piece of shit.


Unknown_09: Okay, where's Loretta went?


Unknown_14: Need to find Loretta.


Unknown_09:  I guess she loves that black guy.


Unknown_14: Well, he tends to take, I think.


Unknown_15: Maybe you can ask somebody else? Not your podcast.


1:26:00
Unknown_14:  This is class, Loretta. Not your podcast. Fine.


Unknown_15: I got his photo and not an ounce of debt for my podcast.


Unknown_09: Is there anything else?


Unknown_14: You've been digging pretty deep into Abraxas for your podcast.


Unknown_14: Any developments?


Unknown_14: Are you trying to get a sneak peek of my next episode?


Unknown_09: That and I have some reasons to be concerned about them myself.


Unknown_09:  I got it. I figured it out. Max endured... Max's voice actress endured so much cyberbullying after this game came out. But she needs the money desperately.


1:26:32
Unknown_09: So she continues to accept assignments to voice act Max.  But to get through it, she drinks heavily while doing her voice lines. So it's not that she's dented. She's drunk and slurring. And that's why she sounds so off.


Unknown_15: No hate crimes? Understood.


1:27:22
Unknown_15:  Illuminating as always, Loretta. That's me. Shining a light in the dark for those who can't see.


Unknown_00: Are you still taking my picture? I have to get to jazz practice.


Unknown_15: Cool it, Thelonious. We'll be done soon.


Unknown_14: Thelonious! I couldn't make my way back to where class started.


Unknown_09: Okay, so she did not actually manage to help anybody at all.


Unknown_09: Return to the statue?


Unknown_09:  The booba statue?


1:27:56
Unknown_14: With the fab closed from the storm damage, they moved a lot of the art out here.


Unknown_09: Oh, the statue of the guy. That's right.


Unknown_09: Felonious. Felonious Ballas. Get me out of here.


Unknown_09: I didn't do it.


Unknown_14: I'm not advocating for tarring and feathering Owen just yet. But this statue does make me...


Unknown_09:  Why are her cameras stored in like a firearm case?


Unknown_09: It's just like Polaroids.


Unknown_14: I wonder what Chloe would make of Professor Caulfield.


1:28:34
Unknown_14: She'd probably blow out an orbital nerve from rolling her eyes.


Unknown_09: She'd probably shoot heroin. It's almost the anniversary of when she died.


Unknown_14: Every year, I feel her presence grow stronger. But this year...


Unknown_09:  I see. Chloe is actually like an interdimensional Cthulhu demon. And even when dead, she's not truly dead.


Unknown_09: She's just regaining strength in the darkness to reemerge. Of course she's not dead.


1:29:15
Unknown_09: She just said that she felt her presence growing stronger.


Unknown_09:  Ease drop on Reggie's call.


Unknown_09: I can't. He's not saying anything. I can see him talking, but he's not saying anything.


Unknown_09: Hello, sir. Can I listen to your phone call, sir?


Unknown_14: He's not going to say anything else now that he knows I'm around. Don't get it.


Unknown_10: This Fremont house shit isn't a joke. If word got out.


1:29:49
Unknown_14: Fremont.


Unknown_14:  Is there some connection to the fire?


Unknown_09: Why is it that when I went all the way back this time, she changed places? She didn't transport like she usually does. How can I do more without Reggie noticing? Hide in the trash behind the gnome.


Unknown_09: Hide in the bushes.


Unknown_09: Comically.


Unknown_09: Hide under the bench comically.


1:30:29
Unknown_09:  No, she's recording him. Don't worry about him.


Unknown_09: She has like a shotgun mic and everything on her cell phone so she can record this guy.


Unknown_09: You didn't see her walk around you?


Unknown_14: Are you spying on Reggie?


Unknown_09:  Caliports behind you. Nothing personal, kid. Just the heads or the katana. I do. I do want to listen in. I like how she's like barely hunched over, like her knees are bad or something.


1:31:29
Unknown_09:  It's a very conspicuous device.


Unknown_10: Respectfully, I don't think you get it.


Unknown_10: This shit with the Fremont house isn't a joke.


Unknown_10: If word got out, it's not just a house to us. We have history there. Our lore, our memory. I'm the top Life is Strange streamer?


Unknown_09: Wow. I'm finally moving up in the world. I told you, there is no Hall of Secrets.


Unknown_10: You sound like Loretta.


Unknown_09:  Tell me how many viewers are watching the top Life is Strange reunion streamer on Twitch. That's the real measure of success here. So we learn nothing. There's no point to any of this. Except that he's involved in something.


1:32:03
Unknown_14: Do I really want Loretta knowing that I snooped with her?


Unknown_09:  Yes, she seems useful. It seems like she has the means to help you avoid this fire that's killing people, so.


Unknown_09: I'm all done.


Unknown_09: In class, on the camera kit, okay.


1:32:44
Unknown_14: Great work today, everyone. Drop your assignments off in my mailbox before Monday.


Unknown_09:  Oh, no, the Iranian.


Unknown_13: Maxine, what a pleasure to see your face.


Unknown_14: And yours, too. I didn't know you were back. This campus has not felt the same without you.


Unknown_13: Yes.


Unknown_13: Well, a lot has happened in the last nine months.


1:33:19
Unknown_13: Tell me, how have you been, Professor Caulfield?


Unknown_09:  Sorry, I got a message from Hambley, so I was replying too.


Unknown_14: Lately, I feel like everything is on fire and I'm the only one who can put it out.


Unknown_09: Hambley sent me a message saying that he doesn't want to give PPP his tax forms, so I'm going to have to tell him. Says he just wants to give specific numbers or something, which is besides the point. PPP wants to do a full financial audit with him.


Unknown_14: But he is a good man.


1:33:53
Unknown_14: The main idea we seem to disagree on is whether I should have a job


Unknown_13:  Don't worry.


Unknown_13: Now that I've taken on a more active role on the Board of Regents... Hela, tell him he's a bitch-ass homo.


Unknown_13: That's a major relief. Good.


Unknown_13: Because I have something to ask you.


Unknown_13: It's about Safia.


Unknown_13: We haven't spoken in many months.


Unknown_13: It has caused me tremendous pain.


1:34:28
Unknown_13:  I'm so sorry, Yasmeen.


Unknown_09: I know Safia has her reasons. Safia had a relationship breakdown. The entire plot of the sixth game is about this bitch and her daughter not having a good relationship because her daughter is the most ungrateful cunt to ever fucking live. I sometimes feel the storm was not natural.


Unknown_13: It was a manifestation.


1:35:00
Unknown_09:  The first top Twitch streamer is 800 viewers and is a sponsored streamer? Like, they're directly sponsored by the top dog or whatever?


Unknown_09: The developers of this game? Uh...


Unknown_14: I have unfortunately experienced enough trauma to know that the feeling you described is all too natural.


Unknown_09: I'm gonna show on Telegram real quick.


Unknown_13: I suppose you're right.


Unknown_13: Still...


Unknown_13:  For months afterwards, Safia would at least answer the occasional message, or I would see her on social media.


1:35:37
Unknown_09: But now she's gone completely dark.


Unknown_09: Maxine, I sense that Safia may be in some terrible danger.


Unknown_13: Perhaps it is to herself. Perhaps it is to others. I don't know.


Unknown_13: If I could only know that she was okay. If I could only... We'll see.


Unknown_09: Excuse me.


Unknown_13:  i'm saying this i think that you know it's true it's arts a student again hey there arts a student i miss you i see that now i'll be she's a shapeshifter laying we gotta leave you for our private interaction earlier that's why she's doing the shitty fucking they get some hearing senior class you can remain in profit maybe you'll be better if you were open about it


1:36:27
Unknown_14:  Then we could all help you with the photography.


Unknown_09: Lots of innuendo here. I will consider that advice.


Unknown_15: See you later, Professor.


Unknown_13: One of your students?


Unknown_09: Thank you, Sneedon. I appreciate you, brother. I feel like I've met her before.


Unknown_13: That's your daughter.


Unknown_09: She's a shape-shifting Ling.


Unknown_13: Going through a tough time.


Unknown_13:  Maxine, I beg you. Please tell me if you know anything about Safi.


1:37:05
Unknown_09: Tell her.


Unknown_14: I saw her around campus just now. Briefly, though.


Unknown_14: Safi is here? Now?


Unknown_14: What did she say to you? She just said that she wants to talk to me.


Unknown_09: She was right there. She definitely didn't want anyone to see her.


Unknown_14: She was sort of hiding in plain sight.


Unknown_13:  I see.


Unknown_13: Nevertheless, I am so relieved. Please don't let Sophie know. I told you, of course.


1:37:38
Unknown_13: Of course.


Unknown_13: Thank you, Maxine.


Unknown_13: You are a true friend. I will not forget it.


Unknown_09: You're a true friend to around a lot more.


Unknown_14: Yasmin was distraught about Sophie, but Sophie clearly didn't want me to tell her mom.


Unknown_14:  This could turn out real bad.


Unknown_09: It's starting to bother me that she never closes her mouth. I hated choosing between keeping Safi's secret or keep so much going on.


1:38:12
Unknown_14: Abraxas, whatever Fremont means, and Safi.


Unknown_09: She's not Jewish, she's Iranian. She's back.


Unknown_14: No time to dwell on it all now.  It's Amanda's open mic benefit at the snapping turtle tonight.


Unknown_09: Oh, no.


Unknown_09: Oh, God.


Unknown_14: My reality will become completely different from the one I lived before.


Unknown_14: Hopefully, I can learn something.


Unknown_09:  So this is the girl from the last game. She's a side character. She's like a female comedian slash waitress and she's the one that tried to hit on Max that I shot down hilariously.


1:38:48
Unknown_09: Now it's nighttime I guess. She walked over to the bar and now it's nighttime.


Unknown_09:  A $10 cover.


Unknown_03: What a beautiful voice. Thank you. Next, we're going to keep the party going with a couple of sonnets. Come on up.


1:39:21
Unknown_09: Yeah, sonnets. I love sonnets.


Unknown_09: Oh, God. He's choking. This one is called Lessons in Scarcity.


Unknown_14:  I wonder if there's any Abraxas.


Unknown_09: Are any of you Abraxas? If you are Abraxas, raise your hand now.


Unknown_09: How about you? How about you, buddy boy, down there? Yeah, what do you say? My eyes are up here, buddy. You Abraxas?


1:39:57
Unknown_08: I guess not.


Unknown_09:  You? Concerned? God, she's traumatized, dude. She saw some shit.


Unknown_09: She saw some shit that fucked her up. She's not having a good day. Sorry. I'll leave. I didn't mean to interrupt you.


Unknown_14: With all the new people coming to the turtle, someone is bound to know something about the fire.


Unknown_09: Ooh, a grilled cheese pole.


1:40:30
Unknown_14: What?


Unknown_09:  White Cheddar and Bacon, Brie and Pear. Those are very different. Brie and Pear actually sounds really good right now.


Unknown_09: How do you double expose a Polaroid?


Unknown_09: Any of you a Braxis?


1:41:04
Unknown_09:  well this is all it is the letter through fires up like that i mean the fact that they're facing the fact that the yes she's on sex she's been made good shit up about what she's out of it me too


Unknown_09:  I think I have no choice but to speak to Amanda. I think that's what I'm being forced to do here.


Unknown_09: I can speak to the pumpkin.


Unknown_09: Gourds? Gourds? That's what you refer to those? Those are pumpkins.


Unknown_09: That's a chihuahua taking a shit.


1:41:55
Unknown_09:  With all the new people coming to the turtle. Oh, it's Vin.


Unknown_14: Hey, I thought you were gone this week. Hey, sister.


Unknown_09: Are you reconsidering being my beard? Oh, my God. Have you heard of a Caledon building called Fremont House?


Unknown_12: Fremont? Not ringing a bell. But they rename a building whenever a donor croaks.


Unknown_12: Want me to check some old school maps and get back to you?


Unknown_14:  Really? That would be a huge help. Thank you.


Unknown_09: No problem. In case you're not picking up on it, there's a building in the sixth game that was called the Fremont Building and apparently does not exist in this timeline anymore. Do you still keep tabs on what's going on in Abraxas?


1:42:34
Unknown_12: Not really. Abraxas kind of fell apart after I stopped being president.


Unknown_14: I thought Abraxas fell apart once Diamond left and your boss evicted everyone.


Unknown_12: That never happened.


Unknown_12:  But I'm sticking with mine.


Unknown_12: Cool. Bye.


Unknown_14: I'll see you around.


Unknown_12: Don't be a stranger, Caulfield.


Unknown_14: I should see how Amanda's doing.


Unknown_09: Hi, Amanda. How are you doing? I see that you still have your hair in this extremely fucking stupid Japanese schoolgirl double bun thing going on. Still haven't fixed that, huh?


1:43:07
Unknown_03:  Hey, shouldn't you be on the road by now?


Unknown_14: Something fell through at the last minute. I had to cancel the whole thing. What? Ah, I'm so sorry.


Unknown_09: It's... What a day, what a day.


1:43:39
Unknown_14: I'm not ready to talk about it, but it's been a real mindfuck of a day. Understood.


Unknown_03: When you are ready, I'm looking forward to talking or getting drunk about it.


Unknown_14:  I'm so excited to finally see you do stand-up.


Unknown_09: I'm so excited too, chat. I can't wait. It's been so long.


Unknown_03: I'm feeling kind of rusty. But I'm glad you're here.


Unknown_14: Hey, has anything seemed off recently in Lakeport?


Unknown_03: Recently?


Unknown_09: This is going to be the highlight of the whole stream a bit.


1:44:15
Unknown_03: This fucking stand-up. Anything in particular? Sorry, can you hold that thought?  I want to run through the routine in my head one more time.


Unknown_14: Of course. Break a leg.


Unknown_14: Amanda will probably get on stage soon. I should find a seat. I thought you had something to do.


Unknown_09: It really shoved me in so you could stare into space forlornly. Maybe she's checking her out. Let's see.


Unknown_00: At least somebody in this game has moved on.


1:44:51
Unknown_09:  I sit here.


Unknown_09: I sit here. Are those deviled eggs? I love deviled eggs. Deviled eggs are one of my favorite snacks of all time. I can sit here. I feel like somebody's already sitting here with their deviled egg. Are you going to eat their deviled egg as well, Max?


Unknown_09: I'm just going to sit here.


1:45:21
Unknown_09:  My headcanon is that Maddox just starts eating people's food.


Unknown_03: I'm going to be doing a little comedy for you tonight.


Unknown_07: Jesus. Send out someone funny.


Unknown_03: Oh. Okay.


Unknown_03: Thanks, everyone.


Unknown_03: Good night.


Unknown_09: I think I felt really bad for her in the last game, too. Because she's...


Unknown_14:  That was brutal.


Unknown_09: She's, like, really nice. And I kept being a huge dickhead. You completely lost her nerve.


1:45:56
Unknown_09: You're not going to show us the bad comedy? This game has no fucking balls. If I want to talk to her tonight, I have to be afraid of that. They don't even have the fucking balls to do bad comedy. That's, like, intentionally cringe.


Unknown_09: Okay. Who's the asshole in the sky?


Unknown_09: Hey, buddy.


Unknown_14:  Hey.


Unknown_09: Steve.


Unknown_14: I found some car keys on the ground. Do you drive a Ford?


Unknown_09: No. Got a Mercedes.


1:46:29
Unknown_09: Just say, hey, you want a bang right now? How about you come back to my apartment? And then you just give him, like, the address of, like, some fucking warehouse, and then he'll fuck off.


Unknown_14: Hey.


Unknown_14:  Do you drive a blue Mercedes?


Unknown_14: I just saw one out front rolling towards the lake.


Unknown_09: That's a bad lie. Yeah, you should hurry.


Unknown_14: It was really picking up speed.


Unknown_09: And then he gets arrested because he starts driving his Mercedes while drunk.


1:47:03
Unknown_13: I see.


Unknown_09: But he'll just come back in once he realizes his refrigerator isn't running.


Unknown_09: He's not going to leave after that.


Unknown_09:  Hella Goldberg.


Unknown_03: No balls. Everybody loved it without the heckler. So bitch made. This game has no fucking balls.


1:47:44
Unknown_09:  One shud. That's right. All it takes.


Unknown_09: I can't remember why Lucas is important. He was like a bad guy or like a confusing character. Should I say something nice to her? Great job!


Unknown_03: Okay, right? Normally I'd be humble, but that fucking kill!


Unknown_03: What were you saying before?


Unknown_14: About the duck penis? About the town being a tinderbox?


Unknown_03: People are blaming Caledon for all of their problems. Especially now that your new president wants to snatch up more of Lakeport.  And guess who's remaking himself as the voice of the people?


1:48:18
Unknown_03: Lucas Colmanero.


Unknown_14: Really? Vermont's most pretentious novelist?


Unknown_14: Lucas never struck me as a spokesperson for the common man.


Unknown_03: People are angry.


Unknown_03: He has them throwing rocks at the ivory tower.


Unknown_03: They're ready to tear down the school.


Unknown_03:  It's really alarming.


Unknown_03: We need to focus on rebuilding. I've been busting my ass all week to pull this night off.


1:48:52
Unknown_03: I hope it makes a difference.


Unknown_09: Sorry, I got another DM.


Unknown_00: Hambley is like, it's his loss.


Unknown_09: He's saying PPP is setting the...  requirements for doing a conversation high in purpose because he's like afraid to talk to him or something so it's his loss he doesn't want to talk to him that's like pvp's side is that he has no interest in talking to him at all unless it's like a caleb hammer financial audit lucas max the newest lamb brought to the slaughterhouse of academia did you practice that while i was walking over here


1:49:36
Unknown_08:  Oh yeah, that's right. There's like a fight between them. Lucas. Are you enjoying the sh...


Unknown_09:  Oh, fuck. Oh, get rekt, retard.


Unknown_00: Sorry. I love how I have no motivation to do that.


1:50:08
Unknown_09: It's just like, fuck you, bitch.


Unknown_14: My life is hard, but at least I don't have to listen to this guy call my work self-indulgent.


Unknown_09: What? Not what exorciate, exor, exoriate means. Did you mean elucidate?


Unknown_09: Lie to...


Unknown_09:  Indecision in Hamlet. Claudius. Thought-provoking, but outside of purview of assignment.


Unknown_14: Lucas got dropped by his agent.


1:50:42
Unknown_09: Oh, that's right. His book was... I wonder if he'd want to commiserate with his sympathy. That's what it was. Lucas stole the memoirs of Safi, or the dead girl that... There was a girl in the sixth game that committed suicide, and he stole all her memoirs and made them his own memoirs.


Unknown_09: Okay.


Unknown_09:  You got dropped by your agent, huh? You must suck ass. That's my option.


Unknown_14: Freelance work is the real slaughterhouse.


Unknown_14: I just got in a huge fight with my agent, and I think she's going to drop me.


1:51:15
Unknown_08: Such a manipulative. Have you considered abandoning your principles in order to appease her?


Unknown_14: You know, I haven't. She's such a great artist.


Unknown_08: Great art is never understood in its own time.


Unknown_08:  You must be on the right track.


Unknown_09: Have you considered stealing a dead girl's memoirs? This is random.


Unknown_14: Have you ever heard of the Fremont House? I haven't. I think it's a Caledon building.


Unknown_08: Well, the Abraxas House is on Fremont Street. Until the president renames it to Semiconductor Lane.


1:51:47
Unknown_14: The Abraxas House... Wait, why would Owen rename it...


Unknown_09: There's a biting criticism here about the hard sciences versus the liberal arts and the shift against the liberal arts.


Unknown_09:  What would we do with more semiconductors and fewer Polaroid pictures, Chet?


Unknown_14: 3180 Fremont Street.


Unknown_14: Holy shit. Is this where the fire starts?


Unknown_08: We didn't start the fire. The landslide took out half the street and the city couldn't afford the cleanup.


1:52:21
Unknown_08: Now Caledon is swooping in.


Unknown_14: Bye. Well, see you around, Lucas.


Unknown_08:  Take care, Max.


Unknown_14: The fire started in the Abraxas house. How and why?


Unknown_14: Fremont Street. Fremont Street? Psycho Mantis? Max!


Unknown_00: Help! Metal Gear.


Unknown_14: Waiting can wait.


1:52:56
Unknown_09: Leave, Ken.


Unknown_14:  okay professor time to break and enter hands over to the exit sign implying that this is where people exit the building called composition chat you wouldn't know i lost my last bar half an hour ago oh no but i must be pretty close oh gay flag gay flag on this on the roof


1:53:33
Unknown_06:  Wonder if they're in the market for a Pacific Northwest post-industrial Femcore band.


Unknown_09: Ah, post-industrial Femcore. So, my buddies and I were wondering, why do all you genders have weird hair? Oh no, it's chuds.


Unknown_09: Holy shit.


Unknown_09: It's a color warning.


Unknown_06: In nature, bright colors are a warning for predators to stay away. It's called survival of the not dumb fucks.


Unknown_09:  Yeah, I'd laugh at this shit. She savaged you! She savaged you! You got mogged.


1:54:08
Unknown_00: Get her number.


Unknown_00: Hold up. That's off, dude. That's battery.


Unknown_09: You can't do that.


Unknown_04: What happened here?


Unknown_09: She battered me. It's nothing, Noelle.


Unknown_09: We were just messing around. I'm a victim of domestic abuse. That turtle has a strict no-fighting policy.


Unknown_04: You're both out. Come on!


Unknown_09:  Come on, Zippertits. Let me in.


Unknown_04: Leave. Now.


Unknown_09: So much for the post-industrial Femcor.


1:54:42
Unknown_09: I'm sorry. My friends and I were just...


Unknown_00: I'm sorry.


Unknown_09: It's cool.


Unknown_06: Your friends are loudmouthed douches.


Unknown_06: What do you think that makes you?


Unknown_09:  But for real though, about that gender sentence... The dyke cop saved his ass.


Unknown_06: Her ass is hungry? My ass! My ass is starvin'! My ass eats pieces of shit like you for breakfast! What am I doing?


1:55:13
Unknown_09:  Drugstore makeup? Oh god, it's like a Tranime avatar.


Unknown_09: Looks like a Crunklord's avatar, but gayer.


Unknown_09: Um... Get rekt, bitch. Sneak in? What the fuck? The dykes wanna recognize you. There's like ten people in there. Employees only. Knock knock. Help, I locked myself out. Open up real quick.


1:55:46
Unknown_09:  Uh-oh. Are there hijinks? Oh no, it's just that woman dancing awkwardly somewhere. Hey, you still dancing awkwardly? My experience getting kicked out of bars has taught me there's usually another way in. Yeah, that's how it goes.


1:56:18
Unknown_09: What is she shaking her head for? You can't stand up on a barrel?


Unknown_09: You're not too good to not break into stuff, but you are too good to step on barrels in order to do so.


Unknown_09:  Thank God that police officer won't see me from across the room.


Unknown_14: Don't I know you?


Unknown_09: Shucks, partner. I don't think we've met before.


1:56:53
Unknown_14: Max's blue-haired girl.


Unknown_09: Oh yeah, you got snubbed. I've met you before.


Unknown_14: In that horrible place.


Unknown_06: But you can't be real.


Unknown_09:  Don't get mad at Chloe. She didn't do nothing to you.


Unknown_06: Not to be rude, but who the fuck are you?


Unknown_09: In real life, Chloe would have really tasteless tattoos, I think.


1:57:25
Unknown_09: Um...


Unknown_09: If only she just didn't allow that stranger to touch her.


Unknown_09:  Both Chloe and Safi are supposed to be dead. Safi got shot and Chloe also got shot. And they're about to get shot again, I think.


Unknown_09: Do it, pull the trigger.


1:57:58
Unknown_05: Let go of me! Wait, I need to see. See what?


Unknown_09:  You got into a fight at the front door and the back door. That's very impressive, Chloe.


Unknown_06: You're not speaking in your Texas accent anymore.


Unknown_09: No, I don't think we can do that. I think you need therapy.


Unknown_06: I don't think we can fix your daddy issues.


1:58:41
Unknown_09:  It's me.


Unknown_09: Danger. Keep out. Danger. Keep out. Danger. Keep out. Danger. Keep out. Warning. Kick. Keep out. Well, better walk in. The fire starts here in two days.


Unknown_14: Unless I stop it first.


Unknown_14: There's a lot going on here.


Unknown_09:  I should explore that patio and see if I can find anything suspicious. Okay.


1:59:15
Unknown_09: Eviction notice.


Unknown_14: Owen has not backed down in his fight against Abraxas.


Unknown_14: So in the end, it was the Lakeport Historical Commission that stepped in to stop the demolition. Good for them.


Unknown_09:  Did I hear a cat?


1:59:48
Unknown_09: I heard a cat.


Unknown_09: Footprints.


Unknown_09: I'm an amateur detective at best, but this footprint looks pretty fresh to me. Remember the last time you snuck on the property to try and hunt something down? Remember how you got stabbed in the neck with a needle?


Unknown_14:  Someone tried to get in this way, but they failed.


Unknown_09: What the? Sparkles.


2:00:18
Unknown_09: Me, Max, me think Sparkles pretty. Hello, Sparkles.


Unknown_14: Hey, where are you going? I was enjoying the show.


Unknown_00:  Ooh, come back, sparkles.


Unknown_00: Oh, the sparkles brought me through the sour door.


2:00:51
Unknown_09: That must mean I go inside.


Unknown_09: The Glendek particles, I don't think we're so lucky. I think those are just time altering sparkles.


Unknown_06:  We're starting to close up shop, but you can hang out for a bit if you need. Thanks. I'll try not to linger too long.


Unknown_03: You hear that, Professor? Last call.


Unknown_06: I hate pouring beer. Let's practice again.


2:01:24
Unknown_09: So unfortunate. The only job I could get was pouring beer. I hate pouring beer so much.


Unknown_06: Anyway, I've been having recurring nightmares of you killing me.


Unknown_06:  And they're starting to see more and more like actual memories of my life.


Unknown_09: And also in my day-to-day life, sometimes women grab my hands and give me premonitions of you shooting me as well. But they can also see... How have you been?


2:01:56
Unknown_09: Linger.


Unknown_09: Keychain. Burger.


Unknown_09: Amanda.


Unknown_09: Coaster.


Unknown_09: Lucas.


Unknown_06:  Yeah, bye.


2:02:39
Unknown_06:  Good talk, man.


Unknown_09: Whatever the fuck you just said. Case meet point.


Unknown_09: I'm not a student.


Unknown_09: Fucking retard.


Unknown_09: Yeah.


Unknown_06: Hey, Max. It's me. Your sexy exy. Want to unpack our drama together?


Unknown_09: Sexy exy?


Unknown_09: That sounds like something a predator would say. You should probably rehearse that another time.


Unknown_06:  Hey Max, every time you kill me in one of my dream thingies, it feels more real than the last.


2:03:12
Unknown_06: Beijing Dr. Freud, am I right? I don't think that's Freudian.


Unknown_06: Hey Max, what a nice stable life you got here. Girlfriend, boyfriend, actual friends.


Unknown_09: Both at the same time?


Unknown_06: I'll go be a disaster somewhere else. I didn't realize that Max swung like that.


Unknown_06:  If I see another turtle, I might just scream.


Unknown_09: Well, you are at a bar called The Turtle. That might be your fucking fault. No, you're the problem.


2:03:44
Unknown_06: Sick. Someone's killing it on the bottom of these coasters.


Unknown_06: Who just leaves free shit around like this? That will be mine now. Thank you.


Unknown_09: She keeps looking over her shoulder.


Unknown_06: Letting me grab a bite before the kitchen closes.


Unknown_03:  No worries. It was a busy night. Plenty of mop up to do.


Unknown_06: How close are we to Caledon University?


2:04:17
Unknown_09: It's literally right down the street. You can see this fucking bar from the electric scooter from the park in front of it.


Unknown_03: Like, I think Max literally saw this building from the park where the statue was, right?


Unknown_09: So it's right there.


Unknown_03: But yeah, we get plenty of students and faculty here.  Is her kidney hurting?


Unknown_06: I'm visiting someone on campus. I haven't seen her in a really long time. Wait, did Max, like, dox?


Unknown_09: Or Chloe, like, doxed Max to find out that she works here? And now she's just showing up uninvited?


2:04:49
Unknown_06: Like that fat chick that was the really famous singer?  The real problem is...


Unknown_09: Sorry to show up uninvited. I see you're really happy now. The right words actually exist.


Unknown_06: I see you've got a wife and children, but I hope you still think about me from time to time.


Unknown_09: Like that song. I'm pretty sure the lyrics are kind of like that.


Unknown_06: She's the most important person in my life. And has been for pretty much as long as I can remember. That's right, she's on Ozempic now.


Unknown_09: That's right.


2:05:21
Unknown_06:  Problem is, our lives don't really fit together anymore.


Unknown_09: You don't know that. You left her.


Unknown_09: You ran away from her. What do you mean your lives don't fit together? You're the one coming crawling back.


Unknown_03: I don't normally go in for the whole wise bartender schtick, but in my opinion, there are precious few people on this earth worth giving a shit about.


Unknown_03: If you found one of them, then it sounds like it to me.


Unknown_03:  You're one of the lucky ones.


Unknown_03: And then none of the other shit matters.


2:05:57
Unknown_09: Especially not the hometown you guys grew up in together. That shit don't matter at all. Especially now, because it's fucking gone. And all those people are dead.


Unknown_09: Pay your bill.


Unknown_04: Hey, didn't I kick your ass out? Yes. You're going on the banned list. Are you a student?


Unknown_06:  No.


Unknown_04: Good. Then I'm banning you from campus to name shit. Better think fast.


Unknown_09: OK, this is like the only gameplay in the game, you got to like chatter to like epically own them. OK. Thing is, I'm actually a prospective graduate student.


2:06:33
Unknown_06: I'm here to visit campus.


Unknown_09: What program?


Unknown_09: Contemporary politics.


Unknown_06:  I'm doing astrology and whatnot.


Unknown_08: I think you mean astronomy, unless you're studying to write horoscopes, which would be fitting for Caledon these days.


Unknown_04: Uh-huh. And where are you matriculating from?


Unknown_09: Matriculating? Bitch, what the fuck that mean?


2:07:10
Unknown_09: UMV.


Unknown_04: Currently at UVM.


Unknown_09:  Whatever.


Unknown_04: Shit. I'm sorry for hassling you. All the tension around here lately has put me on edge. Don't worry about it.


Unknown_09: What a bizarre conversation.


Unknown_04: Why don't you let me get you your visitor pass? I just need the name of your faculty sponsor.


Unknown_06: My sponsor?


Unknown_04: Yeah. Say her.


Unknown_06: Say her name, bish.


Unknown_09: Say her name, bish. You know her name. Chloe. Chloe.


2:07:41
Unknown_06:  Are you really gonna let your reunion with Max start with her bailing your ass out? But what choice do I have?


Unknown_09: I mean, you literally broke in through the back door to, uh... to eat a hamburger. This is kind of your fault. This was easily avoidable. You can get a hamburger at McDonald's and there's no lesbian...


Unknown_06:  Her name is Max. Professor Max. Maxine Professor Caulfield.


Unknown_09: Maxine Professor Caulfield. That's actually funny.


Unknown_00: What color was she? White? Oh, shit.


2:08:17
Unknown_08:  I think I know who the shady woman was, but they wouldn't do the demolition tonight without warning, right? Who are you talking about?


Unknown_08: Professor Caulfield. The professor, she was asking about Fremont. I didn't think she'd go there in the middle of the night for fuck's sake.


2:08:49
Unknown_09: You think if there was a demolition, there would be like warning sirens and shit. Is there really going to be like an implied like danger where she might get blown the fuck up?


Unknown_09:  Is that what they're implying here that they're just going to detonate the demolition equipment like in the middle of the night with no warning?


Unknown_14: Is anybody here?


Unknown_09: I don't think that's how that works.


Unknown_09: That's right!


2:09:23
Unknown_09: The mine was destroyed in the second or the third game with the Asian woman in Colorado. That's how that kid died.


Unknown_09: Dude, they keep like rehashing the same tropes.


Unknown_09:  It's like babies dying and then unannounced demolitions. It's like they just keep saying this shit repeatedly. In one of the earlier Life is Strange games, there's a mine that detonates and it kills a kid.


Unknown_09: I guess they're doing the same thing here. Because I remember when I played that game, I complained about how they're detonating a mine with no warning. I could be inventing memories, though.


2:10:02
Unknown_15: Oh, hey, Max. Oh, Rita?


Unknown_09:  I think Loretta is Glendeck in this game. I was just getting in some extracurricular shooting down here.


Unknown_15: Cool spot, huh?


Unknown_14: I don't care why you're down here.


Unknown_15: You're in danger.


Unknown_15: Says the photographer who made a career out of breaking into condemned buildings.


Unknown_09:  That's right, she did do that. Look around.


2:10:34
Unknown_15: All the secrets about Abraxas are right here. I'm finally going to uncover them tonight.


Unknown_09: Yeah, maybe take some pictures. The question is, what are you doing here, Max?


Unknown_15: Are you connected to Abraxas? We can keep this off the record for now.


Unknown_14: No. I have reason to believe there is a danger to the campus.


Unknown_15: And to you. To me? No one knows I'm here. You didn't know it when you came in.


Unknown_15:  I can time travel this. They're going to blow up the building.


2:11:23
Unknown_14:  You seem to be forgetting the fact that you're a student and I am faculty. That means I can take disciplinary action against you if you do not leave now.


Unknown_15: Pulling the F card. Damn.


Unknown_15: I got everything I needed anyway.


Unknown_15: See you around.


Unknown_09: Smell you later, Gramps.


Unknown_09: The F, sir. Yeah.


Unknown_14: Okay, time to search around and look for any clues. Uh, problem here.


Unknown_14:  The door's locked. Locked? Oh, crap. Someone else must be here.


2:11:58
Unknown_09: If only I could, like, rewind time or something.


Unknown_14: Let's just go out... Let's just... Oh, no.


Unknown_09: I can only rewind time in the last second.


Unknown_09: Ah, my powers. The powers of time travel to make avoidable mistakes.


Unknown_15: Let's just go out the way we came.


Unknown_00:  You got a call, someone's nosing around. Probably a cow-don kid. I would love to bust one of those secret society shitheads.


Unknown_12: Whoa.


Unknown_09: It's so deep, though. Are those the cops?


2:12:31
Unknown_09: Oh, we're down here. We're down here. We're stuck in the basement. You can't let me get busted, Max.


Unknown_15: My story is so important.


Unknown_09: What's this music?


Unknown_12:  Hey, someone is here! Okay, I guess I don't have any friends.


2:13:04
Unknown_15: Yeah, I guess we can't come out this way.


Unknown_00: Can I take the broom?


Unknown_09: Ah, the broom, of course. My Jani instinct's coming in.


Unknown_09:  Yes, there's no way they'll come in now. My Jani instincts have failed me. The broom was too weak.


Unknown_09: I need something thicker than a broom.


2:13:46
Unknown_09: Ah, a crowbar.


Unknown_00:  He's got a call. Someone's nosing around. Probably a cowed-on kid. I would love to bust one of those secret society shitheads.


Unknown_09: I think they didn't hear that. They're just going to stand there and look at the door?


Unknown_00: Door stuck! Door stuck! Door stuck! All right.


Unknown_00: We'll give them the all clear. Come on.


Unknown_12: It's about to start.


Unknown_09:  Oh, I guess the door's locked. That means there's no one that's inside the building. Detonation commencing.


2:14:17
Unknown_06: What the fuck?


Unknown_06: They're demolishing the house now?


Unknown_09: Yeah.


Unknown_15: Disable the charges. Are you fucking nuts? There's no time. We have to run. One minute until detonation. Just stay back.


Unknown_09:  What? It's one in the morning, time to detonate everything. Explosion.


Unknown_15: Mini explosion. Oh no.


2:15:10
Unknown_09:  Wait, wait. I have to know what happens if you don't do it.


Unknown_09: This is how it ends.


Unknown_09: I'm sorry, I failed.


Unknown_09: And then she dies.


Unknown_09: Tragic.


2:15:43
Unknown_09:  Snip, snip.


Unknown_15: This is crazy. What are we doing, Max?


Unknown_09: Oh, no. If only I wasn't such a clumsy, stupid bitch. I guess there's no way for me to not knock that over, knowing that it happened. So I have to do it in a specific order. Max!


Unknown_09:  Oh, I made the same mistake again. If only there was some way to not knock this over. Oh no!


2:16:22
Unknown_09: It's so terrible. Oh wait, I didn't get everything.


Unknown_09: Here it comes.


Unknown_09:  In the nick of time, Chet. Down to the second.


Unknown_15: Holy shit. You're crazy, Max.


2:16:54
Unknown_09: And you, like, teleported and shit.


Unknown_00: How'd you do that? Hey, is someone there?


Unknown_15: Let's run. No, I want to talk to the assholes who tried to blow us up. On the record.


Unknown_09:  So we could've just left the building.


Unknown_15: Oh no, it's the white female.


2:17:34
Unknown_09: It's her! It's the reunion chat! It's what I was promised on the cover of the box.


Unknown_06:  You were in trouble.


Unknown_09: Actually, Chloe, you look kind of creepy. This is impossible. Why? Oh, yeah, because she's dead. Disgusting.


Unknown_06: Right now, I think we should run. Let's go, Max.


2:18:18
Unknown_09:  Is this the same song from the first game?


Unknown_09: No, they are not the same person. It's Chloe and Max. In the first game, it's actually even worse because literally every female and male character has the exact same model, just like in The Sims. And they look identical. All the characters look exactly the same.  Except for like their hair color and eyes like a fucking anime character.


2:19:02
Unknown_09: Why is she slumped against the railing sleeping? Is she on drugs?


Unknown_09: Did she take like a bunch of drugs?


Unknown_06:  And then her walkie went off and I heard that someone was creeping around an abandoned building.


Unknown_06: I didn't.


Unknown_00: I didn't really.


Unknown_09: So she slept on the bed in her clothes and she slept sitting at the top of a stairwell with her head against a wire. Staring a lot. Why?


2:19:38
Unknown_14: Sorry, I think I might be in shock.


Unknown_14:  Sure.


Unknown_06: Blast from the past and all.


Unknown_14: She said it so naturally.


Unknown_06: Like she had no idea how insane it sounded.


Unknown_00: That's how lesbians sleep. Like she'd never died.


Unknown_06: Max, we have a lot to catch up on. Yeah, she's like a broke, starving artist, but she is able to rent this beautiful wooden cabin in the middle of Vermont.


Unknown_14: I'm not sure I understand anything right now.


2:20:14
Unknown_14:  But I'm glad you're here.


Unknown_14: Come on, the bedroom's upstairs. Thanks.


Unknown_14: I spent all night thinking of explanations.


Unknown_14: It was a dream. A hallucination. It was Safi playing the world's sickest prank.


Unknown_14: But it's her. In a thousand little ways.


Unknown_14: In every way.


Unknown_09:  So they've been building up to this for like seven games now. And it's like the most uninteresting reunion of all time. Like it cuts from them meeting to them being asleep. And now there's like echoes. So there's no there's no like character interaction. There's no like catching up. There's like nothing heartfelt whatsoever. It's just sort of like she's like a stupefied Muppet.


2:20:47
Unknown_14: And she's sleeping. The other one's sleeping.


Unknown_14:  so max what's it gonna take to get ready for the strangest conversation of your life we can't just show that conversation you have to hear voices i don't know what to say to chloe when she wakes up but i can guess that she will be past life like by she's gonna sit there and stare at her this is very creepy


2:21:43
Unknown_09:  That's hella awkward.


Unknown_09: This is weird. This is like staring at someone's sleeping simulator to indie music.


Unknown_09: This sequence doesn't end unless you press space. But you're just gonna stare at her while she sleeps. What is that face?


Unknown_09:  Dude.


2:22:17
Unknown_09: How do you make something this unintentionally creepy and awkward?


Unknown_09: Oh, wait. This is Max's house. I remember. Okay.


Unknown_09: Okay, that's the full loop.


Unknown_09: She's gooning Max? She might be. I don't know what else that fucking facial expression was supposed to be.


Unknown_09:  It's kind of fascinating to me. Watch your guests sleep. It's an achievement. I unlocked an achievement for staring at her while she slept. Wow.


2:22:51
Unknown_09: Oh, I guess we gotta make breakfast. I wasn't planning on being home this weekend.


Unknown_14: There's nothing in my fridge, but film.


Unknown_09: Wow. You suck, Max.


Unknown_14:  Yikes. I didn't even notice where we parked last night.


Unknown_14: Better move it.


2:23:21
Unknown_09: But where did she leave her keys?


Unknown_09: I mean, there's nothing wrong with it. You don't have to move it.


Unknown_09: Oh, I wonder if she left her keys in her pocket and now we're gonna have to go up and fondle her.


Unknown_14: It's not snooping if it's Chloe, right?


Unknown_09: Closed sketchbook side pocket.


Unknown_14:  Of course. That would be too easy.


Unknown_09: Yeah, it would. Look, I know what you're trying to make me do. Might as well just fucking cut it out. Go get those keys.


2:23:57
Unknown_14:  I don't know what to say to Chloe when she wakes up, but I can guess that she will be cold, hungry, and in need of coffee.


Unknown_00: Now I have proof. I don't know what to say to Chloe when she wakes up, but I can guess that she will be cold, hungry, and in need of coffee.


Unknown_09:  Okay, I still can't. Okay. No, I guess I'm wrong then. Uh, toiletry case?


2:24:41
Unknown_09: I don't think she puts her keys in there.


Unknown_00: Flannel? Banties?


Unknown_09: No, I thought for sure the keys would be on her and she would have to, like, search her to wake him up. This design must be Chloe's handiwork.


Unknown_14:  Chloe's a band manager? Oh my god, this is embarrassing.


Unknown_09: In a weekend full of surprises?


Unknown_09: What else would she fucking be doing? She does heroin. What? Okay, they were in the bag. Sorry, the game made me believe that this was gonna go one way, okay?


2:25:13
Unknown_09: I have no agency here.


Unknown_09:  such a kawaii morning she let her sleep in her bed with her shoes on what the fuck's wrong with her how did max wind up in the world's bougiest log cabin it is pretty bougie yeah just she put her the soles of her boots on the comforter while she got off come on what the fuck is this what the


2:26:01
Unknown_06:  That was the girl at the bar last night.


Unknown_06: Max thinks her name is Safi?


Unknown_06: Coffee.


Unknown_06: She's awake.


Unknown_06: What's the connection with this Safi person and Max? What's the connection with this Safi person and Max?


Unknown_06: What's the connection with this Safi person and Max?


Unknown_09:  There's a magical force field preventing me from going downstairs. What's the connection with this Safi person and Max?


2:26:37
Unknown_09: I don't know.


Unknown_06: Wait, is it Saturday?


Unknown_06: Mom? Mom died. I showed up for Max's birthday. I've been avoiding mirrors for days. I probably look as crazy as I sound. It's been years.


Unknown_06: What is she... At least I still get a spot on the life mosaic.


Unknown_09:  Dog.


Unknown_09: Places.


Unknown_09: Lighthouse woman.


2:27:11
Unknown_06: Max knows the woman from the lighthouse? And her name is also Sophie? What the hell?


Unknown_09: Shucks.


Unknown_06: She's photographed everything under the sun, but she's saving space for more.


Unknown_09:  She took a picture of pancakes and snowmen and a dog and some people. Really just the whole smorgasbord of excellent concepts.


Unknown_06: That was it?


2:27:44
Unknown_09: That was the requirement? Look at that photo.


Unknown_00: The picture of her sleeping.


Unknown_14:  She still drives like a teenager.


Unknown_14: Some things never. So they didn't talk at all before going to sleep?


Unknown_06: Trying to steal my truck?


Unknown_14: Just joyriding it to a parking space.


2:28:19
Unknown_06:  How long has it been?


Unknown_06: A year?


Unknown_06: A decade? I'm not really sure. You don't remember when your entire family died in a whale accident?


Unknown_14: It is so incredibly good to see you, Chloe.


Unknown_06: Don't get excited.


Unknown_06: I come bearing baggage.


Unknown_00: You sure do.


Unknown_06:  And before you say anything, I know I should have called first.


2:28:50
Unknown_09: Yeah, in the first game, the town is destroyed by whales falling from the moon or whatever. I'm not joking. There's, like, beached whales and shit in the first game.


Unknown_06: What is the name of this instrument?


Unknown_09: Is this just a guitar being plucked very slowly? Dwang, dwang, dwang.


Unknown_09:  In some sequences, you can pick choices for both Max and Chloe, shaping the direction of their relationship. Okay.


Unknown_06: Lately, I keep getting these... I don't know.


2:29:26
Unknown_06: Visions?


Unknown_06: It's been happening for a minute, but they're getting worse.


Unknown_06: It seemed like maybe some time fuckery took place, so...


Unknown_06:  I figured I'd come ask the time fucker herself, the time fucker. Yeah.


Unknown_09: I haven't seen you in 10 years, but I've been just calling you. I refer to you to my friends as the time fucker.


2:29:57
Unknown_09: Um, I have memories of things that never happened.


Unknown_06: I have dreams that really don't feel like dreams.


Unknown_06:  And lately, I keep seeing this dark-haired woman who just so happens to be on your photo wall.


Unknown_06: Who's Safi?


Unknown_09: A brownoid.


Unknown_09: Well, these are some awesome options. A former friend. What is happening? Question mark.


2:30:33
Unknown_14: Safi was my friend. Last year, she went through a hard time  No, she also destroyed half the town.


Unknown_06: Like a lizard. She's a changeling.


2:31:09
Unknown_06:  So this place is what?


Unknown_06: Like some freaky power academy? No, not at all.


Unknown_09: You're not going to believe this, but the professor is the guy that played Captain Picard. He's in a wheelchair.


Unknown_14: Just trust me.


Unknown_06: It'll make sense soon.


Unknown_14: Is that a coincidence too?


Unknown_14:  I'm not sure. What else do you see in your visions besides her? Hey, there he is.


Unknown_06: Dying on the Blackwell bathroom floor.


2:31:42
Unknown_06: I know it's not real, but it feels so...


Unknown_09: It's pretty shitty to die on the bathroom floor of a public high school.


Unknown_06: I guess it was a college, right? She looked at me like she'd seen a ghost.


Unknown_09: Well...


Unknown_06:  I know you saved me, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe you didn't.


2:32:21
Unknown_06: Did I die?


Unknown_09: I feel like the most correct thing to say... I saved you.


Unknown_14: Then when the storm came, you asked me to go back and undo it.


Unknown_14: You saved Arcadia Bay when you died.


Unknown_14:  I feel like it is psychologically damaging to someone to tell them that.


Unknown_09: You know what I mean? I feel like that's an okay thing to lie about.


2:32:53
Unknown_09: What's happening? Did you do this? I don't feel like it's okay to blame her.


Unknown_06: Why am I not dead?


Unknown_06: Am I a ghost?  Of course not.


Unknown_00: Guys.


Unknown_06: Well, I'm not a fucking living person, which is clear. There are girls. Hold on. There are girls. I remember everything that happened after that.


Unknown_06: We spent years on the road together.


Unknown_06: Didn't we?


Unknown_14: I spent years on the road, but I was alone.


2:33:32
Unknown_09:  I know this is weird, but what if your memories are what would have happened if you lived?


Unknown_14: Or what did happen just to some other version of us?


Unknown_09: This conversation is literally indistinguishable from two teenagers high on pot talking about a movie. How are you feeling?


Unknown_09: Um...


Unknown_09:  I feel like this is the more Chloe thing to say, but I'm going to make her not be an asshole.


Unknown_06: Max, this is bad. Reality isn't supposed to work like this. I'm a mistake.


2:34:10
Unknown_09: I'm a mistake.


Unknown_06: I don't care how or why.


Unknown_14: I get to eat my cake and have it too.


Unknown_06: But what the hell happened? How am I here right now?


Unknown_09:  Bitch, I don't fucking know.


Unknown_09: Chloe, they're making the plot up as they go along. There's no explanation for it. Just proceed to the next plot point.


2:34:44
Unknown_14: How did you know that?


Unknown_14: Because last December, my friend Safi lost control of her powers.


Unknown_14:  she had sort of a mental breakdown she became a velociraptor and just started eating people it was real up breakdown as in she broke the foundations of space and time well she had help no that did not actually happen you know this game would never do something that funny come on now two separate realities


2:35:23
Unknown_14:  Dude, they should pay me to make the next Life is Strange.


Unknown_09: I'll be the creative director, and I'll find some way to put all these pieces together in the best possible arrangement.


Unknown_14: The studio's dead? They're paying people to stream this shit on Twitch. I don't think it's dead.


Unknown_06:  Max, I understand what's happening.


2:36:16
Unknown_09:  In the previous games, the player was asked to make difficult choices. But in this game, we have to pretend those choices didn't happen. So we're going to pretend that they both happened at the same time.


Unknown_06: Even the week we spent together in high school didn't happen. I was already dead.


Unknown_06: I guess not.


Unknown_06: This is great. My best friend abandons me and I have a decade long hallucination of a friend who didn't.


Unknown_09: That is kind of sad.  I actually kind of feel bad for her. Her entire life is like a lie. She's like just rolled up here to figure some stuff out and she's being told that she's like a clone, basically, and her entire existence is a figment of her imagination, like false memories implanted in a clone brain.


2:36:50
Unknown_14: That week, at the junkyard, on the train tracks,


Unknown_14:  was the best and worst week of my life i only have 750 viewers the twitch streamer getting paid by the developer has 800. yeah so i'm not quite as good as that did it happen to not me i just realized that obs doesn't capture my activate windows thing and then at the bottom of my screen i don't know and half of what i do know isn't real well maybe i can catch you up


2:37:39
Unknown_14:  I can tell you how reality worked for me at least.


Unknown_09: There's no sex in this game. If you're holding out for a sex scene, it's not happening.


Unknown_06: How did my mom take it?


Unknown_06: About how you'd expect.


Unknown_14: David was there for her, but he was a mess too.


Unknown_06: That guy contains multitudes. Remember when we visited him at that hippie camp in


Unknown_09:  Just a butt, is that an actual line or are you just making a joke?


Unknown_06: Oh, I'm mogging the other Twitch streamer.


2:38:15
Unknown_09: Okay, great. Chloe is a terrible person. She's a bad person. She's very selfish and self-centered.


Unknown_09:  Oh God, it's her again. What are you doing?


Unknown_14: Don't answer. We're adults. We don't need to hide from the security guard anymore.


Unknown_14: Max, Max, Max, Max.


Unknown_04: Good morning, professor.


Unknown_09: Officer Zipper test perspective.


2:38:46
Unknown_04: Graduate student this weekend.


Unknown_14: Am I sorry? Was I supposed to clear it with you? I'm still learning the ropes.


Unknown_04:  No problem. I'll get her in the system. But tell her to behave herself. She's already been in one altercation since arriving in Lakeport.


Unknown_09: She was getting sexually harassed.


Unknown_14: Thanks for the warning, Noelle, but she's perfectly safe.


Unknown_09: She was literally getting sexually harassed by the chuds. It's my job to determine that.


2:39:22
Unknown_00: She's doing the Panda Lee thing with DSP.


Unknown_04: I should get back to my darkroom. Have a good weekend.


Unknown_09:  and it's like she's like an obvious pooner lesbian like she's not doing that you're the worst did you get in a fight last night you shoved one townie and suddenly you're a danger to the school so catch me up on you what did max caulfield do after she saved a town ran away from it as fast as i could


2:39:59
Unknown_14:  Your mom gave me your truck. I went to all the places you and Rachel had wanted to go.


Unknown_09: Is there two trucks?


Unknown_09: Is there like a Max truck and the Chloe truck? Can we get the trucks to reunite?


Unknown_14: I drove until the hole in my chest started to scab over.


Unknown_14: And I took photos of empty buildings so other people could see what the hole looked like.


Unknown_14:  At some point, I accidentally became a semi-famous photographer.


2:40:37
Unknown_14: Last year, I came here as a visiting artist, and now I'm a teacher.


Unknown_06: And you've been here for what? A year?


Unknown_06: Make any friends? Date any babes?


Unknown_14:  Last year I had two good friends.


Unknown_14: Now I have one friend and a shapeshifter with whom I share ideological differences.


Unknown_14: Dude, what is your life?


Unknown_00: My life is strange.


2:41:15
Unknown_06: Not that I wasn't happy to do it.


Unknown_00: She had done it. She should have name dropped the game. My life is strange.


Unknown_14: You're ready for more time fuckery.


Unknown_14:  If I don't do something to stop it, the whole school will be on fire by tomorrow night.


Unknown_06: Okay. So what does future Max think caused it?


2:41:47
Unknown_00: Arson.


Unknown_14: What was that grimace that Chloe was doing?


Unknown_09: She had like an overbite.


Unknown_14: Or maybe they want to burn the whole school. I don't know.


Unknown_14:  You know, this game is actually unironically popular.


Unknown_09: If you look at the reviews for the Life is Strange, the first one, there's like a ton of positive reviews, and people do cosplay of these characters, and I think that just proves that you can't make shit games like this with brown people. You have to make them white with blue eyes, or else everyone just hates the fucking game.


2:42:18
Unknown_14:  That house belongs to Abraxas, Caledon's secret society. And our president has a weird interest in it. I have questions for both.


Unknown_14: That Moses guy you mentioned, do you think he'd be willing to be with me? I think he'd give his favorite telescope to meet with you. He should be in his office now. I'll take you.


Unknown_09: Look, I remember, I thought the ending had a very classic message.  That is replicated in many different stories about letting go and the game was shit, but the, what they were trying to do made a lot of sense, except knowing that canonically she's supposed to let the town explode to save her lesbian friend who then dumps her and they split apart.  It's just the worst, it's like the most insane possible way you could ever finish that game. Like, it doesn't make any sense. The whole point of the story was that you have to let go. And then the actual canonical ending is that you just let everyone else suffer and eat shit for your mistakes so you can avoid having to deal with the repercussions of your actions. Which is just preposterous. It's an insane thing to do. It's an insane thing to do to your story.


2:43:09
Unknown_09: What was the question again?


Unknown_14:  I didn't know I could feel this happy.


Unknown_14: You invented a whole new emotion for me.


2:43:49
Unknown_06: Wow.


Unknown_06: You're welcome.


Unknown_14: Your visions, the fire, we'll figure it all out.


Unknown_09: She's kind of giving you the cold shoulder there. She's being more assertive now.


Unknown_06: Goodbye.


Unknown_06:  I guess I'll stick around.


Unknown_09: What else are you going to do? Your entire life is a figment of your imagination. Are any of those people that you're friends with that you think is a part of your post-industrial femcore band even real? You're going to try to leave this place and go meet them again? They're all fucking gone because they never existed to begin with. I guess you got no choice. I guess you better learn to fucking like Vermont. I don't know what to tell you.


2:44:21
Unknown_06: Dude, is that what I think it is?


Unknown_06:  you assholes have your own observatory okay so you can do astrology an existential crisis to solve but i am definitely breaking in there tonight i do not know what femcore means i assume that it's femcore because it has a female vocalist which would include a lot of songs i can't believe it you thought it was a mosque


2:45:05
Unknown_09:  Chloe's not a hecking science girl.


Unknown_06: If I'm going to feel okay about being here with everything you have going on, I don't want to be weighing you down. You're not.


Unknown_06: Good. Then let's split up. I'll go up to the science palace and meet your friend while you go focus on the fire fuckers.


Unknown_09: Um... No.


Unknown_06: No, I'll walk you there.


Unknown_06: Max, I've navigated stairs before.


Unknown_06:  But you could die.


2:45:37
Unknown_09: What a weird toothy... The teeth on the models are kind of weird.


Unknown_09: The fire fuckers? We got the... Time fuckers versus the fire fuckers.


Unknown_09: Oh, you just... You just now realized that was Chloe?


Unknown_09: You just now realized... The bright green hair didn't... Didn't clear off.


Unknown_14: Now go.


Unknown_14:  Why not just tell her to not go into that building no matter what? Like on the day of the event, don't ever go into that building no matter what you think happens. This time, sweetie pie, I will protect you.


2:46:12
Unknown_09:  Why is it disrespectful to name a black guy Moses?


Unknown_14: Hard to think about anything besides Chloe at the moment.


Unknown_09: In my senior year in autism, one of my classes truned out. I'm just now realizing he based his trune appearance off of Chloe. They always, always, always dress up as a girl they want to fuck. That is 100% of all trannies. And that's why so many of the old ones that trune out super late, they just look like their wives.


2:46:51
Unknown_14: Maybe I can find someone to help me.


Unknown_09:  You know the art world so well.


Unknown_09: Upright. I was wrong. There are more stairs. Fuck my life.


Unknown_09: Meet with Vin. His office is right here.


2:47:29
Unknown_09: High waisted jeans. Interesting choice, Professor.


Unknown_09:  I can't read this what the hell you towed my car you mispronounced thank you for saving my job Vin I owe you several drinks Owen is furious that the demolition was held up what do you think would happen if you found out you were there why were you there


Unknown_09:  I don't think that the demolition was a wait. Why was the demolition scheduled at one in the morning? And then why is it that the demolition crew fled the scene when the police showed up? And now Owen is furious. Maybe we should be reporting this to the federal fucking police.


2:48:02
Unknown_14: There is something strange going on. It's centered around the Abraxas house. And I think you know what it is.


Unknown_14:  Max.


Unknown_09: He's not Indian. He's Vietnamese. His name is Vin.


Unknown_12: Owen needs my help. The board is asking questions and...


Unknown_12: There goes my Saturday.


2:48:36
Unknown_14: What has he gotten you mixed up in?


Unknown_12: Nothing.


Unknown_12: The Abraxas house... Not close enough. Don't defame Vietnamese people as being Indian.


Unknown_09: What the fuck's wrong with you?


Unknown_12: And Owen's Caledon 2.0 plans hinge on the future site of the Scientific Institute for Caledon.  Unfortunately abbreviated, Sick.


Unknown_12: I know he's a dick.


Unknown_12: But he's an ambitious leader.


2:49:08
Unknown_12: And he's got the backing of the board.


Unknown_12: So the house is coming down.


Unknown_12:  That's illegal.


Unknown_14: I saw this day of demolition. According to the court, the house is staying right there.


Unknown_12: And yet come down, it must either now due to a miscommunication with the demolition company or later due to an expensive legal battle.


Unknown_12: I'm pretty sure that they'll find you.


Unknown_09: I don't understand. A million trillion dollars if you just destroy the fucking house without authorization.


2:49:42
Unknown_14: Doesn't this bother you? Of course it does.


Unknown_09:  And doing an unauthorized demolition like that runs the risk of killing people, which would be also very expensive and destructive to your career.


Unknown_12: But this is happening.


Unknown_12: All I can do is advocate.


Unknown_12: For Braxis, you, and...


Unknown_09: Sorry, there's a spammer.


Unknown_09: Get fucked, spammer.


Unknown_12: Arts in general, I...


2:50:14
Unknown_12: I'm doing my best.


Unknown_09:  The copper piping.


Unknown_12: Now, are you going to take my word for it?


Unknown_12: Or are you going to keep asking me questions that I can't answer?


Unknown_14: If someone wanted to learn more about Abraxas, who should they talk to? Oh, God.


Unknown_12:  Are you part of Loretta's weird crusade? I don't mean to Braxis any harm, but I have questions.


2:50:48
Unknown_14: And I know better than to ask you. Just like Lynn Beck.


Unknown_09: Lynn Beck has questions. I'm just asking questions, Vin. We're just asking questions here.


Unknown_12: Don't bother talking to anyone.


Unknown_12: The secret society has been secretive since the 90s, but it wasn't always that way.


Unknown_12: All I'm saying...


Unknown_14:  I can see you're swamped. I'll leave you to it.


2:51:22
Unknown_12: Stay out of trouble, please.


Unknown_12: They're gals.


Unknown_09: Hedgehog.


Unknown_09: Nice.


Unknown_14: I can't believe Vince saddled his hedgehog with his own totally not embarrassing middle name.


Unknown_09: Aloysius? Why are you so mean? That's racist. He's a foreign guy, so his middle name's embarrassing sounding.


Unknown_09:  How about Safi being, or Sophie, having her name pronounced wrong?


2:51:57
Unknown_09: Where am I going? Research Abraxas. I guess I'm going into the internet room to research Abraxas.


Unknown_09: Oh look, more people to take pictures of while they're sleeping.


Unknown_09: Yep, that one's going in my Somnophilia folder.


2:52:28
Unknown_14:  Where can I dig up more information on Abraxas?


Unknown_09: How about with this lady that does nothing but study Abraxas?


Unknown_15: Good morning.


Unknown_15: Max. Perfect timing. We need to debrief.


Unknown_09: The government will punish you for looking into asbestos.


Unknown_09: What?


Unknown_15: What happened last night was terrifying.


Unknown_15: I hope you're taking care of yourself. Thank you. How are you doing? What's your deal?  Why are we chasing the same story?


2:53:02
Unknown_09: There's a statue of a black one back there.


Unknown_14: Abraxas is good at keeping secrets.


Unknown_14: I don't know if any of those secrets are dangerous, but I want to find out.


Unknown_14: My turn.


Unknown_14: How are you doing?


Unknown_15:  I'm coping, honestly.


Unknown_09: Oh no! She's coping! I think it would help me get some closure if I understood what happened last night. What do you mean, what happened last night?


Unknown_14: I respect the need for closure.


2:53:36
Unknown_14: And for answers.


Unknown_15:  I swear, Max.


Unknown_09: I can't say it, because that would make too much sense. Anytime you're wondering, why doesn't she just do this? The answer is that would make too much sense, and that would undercut dramatic tension caused by Max being a retard constantly. The Caledon Crier has been publishing for 60 years.


Unknown_15: You know what's in their archives?


Unknown_15: Puff pieces on how Abraxas throws the best parties.


Unknown_15: I've searched Abraxas and every other... Abraxas sounds like a cleaning product.


2:54:08
Unknown_09: What am I thinking of? Nothing of substance.


Unknown_14:  I'll make you a deal. In lieu of any more grilling, how about I find you some more search terms?


Unknown_14: Then we can pool our research.


Unknown_09: Borax, that's a...


Unknown_14: I'll consider it.


Unknown_14: Abraxas has a lot of secrets. It's time somebody cracked them.


Unknown_09: Help Loretta find search terms.


2:54:41
Unknown_09: Okay.


Unknown_09:  Yeah, this fucking beepity-boop thing does not help at all.


Unknown_09: History of the Occult.


Unknown_09: By nobody.


Unknown_14: Is that what I need to find?


2:55:18
Unknown_09:  Animal symbology? Oh, literal symbology. Not symbolism.


Unknown_09: I see.


Unknown_14: I always thought Abraxas was creepy. But at least it's the least creepy rooster-reptile hybrid.


Unknown_09:  Rituals and relics in modern life. If a bunch of rowdy Abraxans start building a bonfire, it could get bad fast. Yeah, no fucking shit.


2:55:54
Unknown_09: She's so dumb. She is so fucking stupid. It's like incredible that you would ever write a character be this fucking retarded.


Unknown_15:  Can you try bonfire?


Unknown_15: A few Labor Day parties, a production of The Arsonists, and... Oh.


Unknown_15: Look at the date.


Unknown_14: That's this weekend.


Unknown_15: Do they have an annual bonfire?


2:56:28
Unknown_15: They misspelled Abraxas. Amateurs.


Unknown_14: I mean, it's a student newspaper. You're all amateurs.


Unknown_14: Excuse you.


Unknown_14:  Try Jack Parsons.


Unknown_09: Well, I guess this isn't necessary.


Unknown_15: Already read this one. I told you. Puff.


Unknown_15: So, what do we know? That Abraxas has been getting away with mayhem for...  decades try autism do anything to anyone and it's just a picture of you max but the party it's just like the caledonian there's a picture of max like a like a uh a dunce cap on it says autism research abraxis again okay i'm gonna find another book i guess i already read that one the witch's calendar


2:57:29
Unknown_09:  You think that this occult shit would all be in the same book? Mabon.


Unknown_14: That's it. But what is it?


Unknown_09: Mabon.


Unknown_09: Symbolism.


Unknown_09: Occult.


Unknown_09: Sabbats. Shabbat shalom, Goyim. We're gonna celebrate this with a big bonfire in the demolition building. How's that sound?


2:58:04
Unknown_14:  Okay, try Mabon.


Unknown_09: I need a Jani.


Unknown_09: Who is my most loyal Jani in here?


Unknown_09: Let's see.


Unknown_09: Okay, I'm scrolling. Oh wait, just a bot. I know who he is. I can ban his forum account if he fucks up. Where are you, fucker?


Unknown_09: Is he gone? Did I lose him?


Unknown_09:  Definitely not me the founder and subscriber tour door Okay, oh yeah, there's there's one okay, I don't make you a mod sorry I know this is riveting as fuck I'm Janice Moderation banned words. How do I make somebody a moderate?


2:58:57
Unknown_09: Oh No, I want to turn that off


Unknown_09:  Community? Roles? Moderators? Just a famous butt. There we go. Okay, refresh your page. You should be jannied up. Thank you, Sara.


Unknown_09: I can't unban any of the words that are banned.


Unknown_15: There's a bot that bans any message that contains specific hate speech, quote-unquote terms.


Unknown_09: It used to be that even the word jeet was banned. I don't know if it's still banned.  But I have it so that the overlay doesn't delete messages.


2:59:29
Unknown_15: So there we go.


Unknown_09: They unban Jeep based.


Unknown_09: I'm having an episode.


Unknown_09: My anti-psychotics are wearing off.


Unknown_14:  There won't be a party.


Unknown_14: We need to talk to Vin and shut it down.


3:00:01
Unknown_09: Dude, like the left side of her face doesn't move. Like look at her, the left corner of her mouth.


Unknown_15: It like doesn't move the same as her right corner of her mouth.


Unknown_09: So it makes her look like she has facial paralysis or something. It's too risky. Like a Russell Greer type thing going on. Yeah, she has like a stroke. That's why she sounds so fucked up when she talks.


Unknown_15: Aren't you?


Unknown_09:  she faxed stonewalling me of course i was vaccinated someone anonymously threatened the school i can't get anyone to take it seriously and that's a lie myself that would actually we discussed this that would actually be a great way to get something actually investigating max this party is how we find the truth she said she has the forethought to say that she received an anonymous tip  But she doesn't have the forethought to actually try and do an anonymous tip.


3:00:52
Unknown_14: My last chance.


Unknown_14: Okay.


Unknown_14: I have a responsibility to try and stop the party.


Unknown_00: I have a responsibility. Abraxas has ways of getting around the authorities.


Unknown_14: So I don't know how much good it'll do.


Unknown_09: I'm not wearing.


Unknown_14: I also know that if you go to the Abraxas house tonight, you'll be putting yourself in danger again.


Unknown_14:  promise me you won't do that it's because she's like trying to speak in like a specific register that involves not passing her words over her larynx or something to create words like she's just talking like this you can't go to the abraxas house loretta because you'll be in grave danger it's really bizarre i don't know why she doesn't make loretta forget the party is even happening


3:01:52
Unknown_14:  But is that a step too far?


Unknown_09: Stop the Maven party. How do we do that? Am I talking to Vin?


Unknown_14: Sorry, me again.


Unknown_09:  Max's VA just got old, that's why. I mean, it could be... No, because she's not talking like a normal person. She's talking like a retard. I feel like what's happening is that she did get older and her voice changed, but she's still trying to talk like a teenage girl instead of just allowing her voice to be different.


3:02:26
Unknown_14: Finn, you have to cancel the Mabon party.


Unknown_12: Uh, no. I told Reggie there wasn't a good backup spot to build a bonfire. It's canceled as of last...


Unknown_01:  Vin, I need that file from the archive by end of day. Got it right here.


Unknown_12: Sir, about these messages... They'll have to wait.


Unknown_14: Vin looked like he wanted to chase Owen out of the room. Maybe I can push him over the edge.


3:03:02
Unknown_09: Maybe I can psychologically torment him using my... I should rewind and convince Vin to leave when Owen does.


Unknown_09:  Psychological torment, this man.


Unknown_14: Sorry, me again.


Unknown_14: You need help getting Owen's attention? Loretta is planning to release her podcast about the demolition tonight.


Unknown_14: But maybe if Owen gives her the comment she's after, he can reduce the damage.


Unknown_12: Holy shit.


3:03:35
Unknown_12: That will get his attention.


Unknown_12:  And, oh God, make him supremely angry.


Unknown_09: Still. Max, we're going to release our podcast together, right, and stop Braxis?


Unknown_01: They'll expect one of us in the records, brother.


Unknown_09: Just going to throw that bitch under the fucking bus.


Unknown_12: Sir, I have to speak with you. Immediately. Not now. It's new information about that podcast.


Unknown_12: Fine. Walk with me.


3:04:12
Unknown_14:  That should buy me enough time to search the office.


Unknown_14: Normally I wouldn't suspect Caledon's president of arson.


Unknown_14: But someone's about to burn down the building he wants to get rid of.


Unknown_09: Yeah, I was going to say, if he's willing to do illegal demolitions that could kill people, he's probably also willing to do arson. Just a thought.


Unknown_14: Did he lose his key or something?


Unknown_14:  Everyone keeps saying that the Abraxas house is badly damaged. But I didn't see anything wrong.


3:04:45
Unknown_14: Can I hate something that would make Moses happy? I think I can.


Unknown_09: How come she never takes pictures of anything? I got the ebidance.


Unknown_09: Gonna save that ebidance.


Unknown_09: Okay, I think that's it. Is there anything else I need?


Unknown_09:  No, I guess there is something else I need. Am I on his computer? Am I supposed to break in too?


Unknown_14: Oh, thank God he left.


3:05:19
Unknown_09: New England Wreck Kings to Owen Taller says, The fuck?


Unknown_09: Owen, my guys are telling me that you're throwing them under the bus to the Lakeport PD. Listen, I've got plenty of words for the idiots who didn't check the basement, but who told them that demolition had been approved? Who assured me to my face that the court documents were on their way and it has to be tonight?  Do you know how much shit I'd be in if the cops had found the explosives? I had to hide them in a dumpster like a fucking mobster. This is a wonderful email to write in written form sent over the internet. If you commit crimes, definitely leave paper trails explicitly outlining your crimes like this.


3:06:01
Unknown_09:  I only took this contract as a payment to Yasmeen, but we're done. I told my guys to pull the equipment. Find someone else to do your dirty work and get your fancy team of lawyers ready, assholes. Dan King, New England Wreck Kings.


Unknown_14: Owen's trying to seem more likable.


Unknown_09: Sar, the new AI prep program is ready for your review.


Unknown_09: I downloaded it to your desktop this morning.


Unknown_14: That doesn't sound like Owen at all.


Unknown_09:  Oh, Owen is making fun of Yasmin. How did you fuck up your relationship with your daughter so bad that she doesn't even answer your calls? Maybe you should stop trying, or maybe you should offer a professorship. She's clearly the real talent in the family. And he says, I'm getting, are you feeling alright? We'll discuss your previous message after the call with the board. I suggest you get your head on straight before then. Okay.


3:06:35
Unknown_09: Are we done?


Unknown_09: No? There's more snooping?


Unknown_09: Logos?


Unknown_09:  This one's the winner right here. The one with the baseball bat. That's the winner.


Unknown_01: Hi, I'm Cali, your Calidon automated assistant. How can I help you today?


3:07:12
Unknown_09:  Tell Max Caulfield she's a great teacher.


Unknown_01: Instructor Caulfield, your class size and inattention to grading have raised questions as to the equity of your course.


Unknown_14: Wow, even the robot knows that Owen doesn't respect you.


Unknown_09: Even the fucking robot won't tolerate you and calls you a cunt to your fucking face.


Unknown_09: Secrets of the Abraxas Society was founded in 1962 by Gretchen Kostoff.


Unknown_01:  Originally known as the Caledon Women's Equality League, the group is open to all students in good academic standing.


3:07:48
Unknown_14: It was worth a shot.


Unknown_09: Okay.


Unknown_01: Rock, is this true? President Teller has his weekly meeting scheduled with Reggie Kagan. Central Quad.


Unknown_09: I like how you can tell this is obviously a real voice actor that they're trying to make sound robotic.


Unknown_14:  Okay. It's a good thing that he doesn't have any kind of logging on his AI chat bot to make sure that... because you did compliment yourself on the fucking computer.


3:08:25
Unknown_09: Just rewind time.


Unknown_14: It's the secret knock!


Unknown_12:  Um, Max? Are you, like, in there?


Unknown_12: President Teller's office.


3:08:57
Unknown_12: Sir?


Unknown_14: Then I need you to go get me something.


Unknown_00: Fuck it. Fuck it.


Unknown_00:  Yeah, sorry, you're not a good enough voice actor to pull that one off.


Unknown_12: Owen just said he's been trying to break into his office.


Unknown_09: Use Owen AI. Hi. I'm... Tell Ben to take the day off.


3:09:30
Unknown_12: I told him he's crazy.


Unknown_12: But he insisted I check, so...


Unknown_12:  I really hope no one is in there listening to me right now.


Unknown_00: I just did. Hi. Did that go through?


Unknown_09: Look at that beautiful anti-aliasing. I'm coming in.


3:10:02
Unknown_09: Ah, maimed by the door.


Unknown_12:  Um, Max? Are you, like, in there?


Unknown_12: Well, I don't know what to do now.


Unknown_12: Everyone.


Unknown_09: Oh, shit. Is that the stream? No. They keep saying that the Abraxas house is badly damaged.


Unknown_14: Owen just...


Unknown_09: It's so weird.


Unknown_12: He said he'd been trying to break into his office.


Unknown_12: I told him he's great.


3:10:34
Unknown_09:  Am I not just supposed to rewind all the way back? I guess not. Oh, I'm just supposed to leave.


Unknown_14: No problem.


Unknown_08: Okay. The rewind was weird for some reason.


Unknown_14: You want to play cat and mouse, Sophie?


Unknown_14: Let's play.


Unknown_09:  That's like the least interesting way to get out of the room. Safi could be anywhere by now.


3:11:07
Unknown_14: Knowing her, she probably stuck around to watch me squirm.


Unknown_09: Yeah, Safi is like a huge bitch. She's like evil.


Unknown_09: She has no redeeming qualities on the sixth game. I don't know why. And they tried to pretend that there was some like...


Unknown_09:  actual injury going on there.


Unknown_10: I needed to ask you about yesterday's assignment. Do you have a minute? Sorry, President Teller, I just really need to understand this whole negative space thing.


3:11:51
Unknown_09: That guy is just dancing by the janitor car. Is that like a homeless drug addict? What the fuck is that? Why is there a guy dancing by the janitor car? What the fuck?


Unknown_14: Are you okay?


Unknown_09:  It's just like crackheads wandering around the campus.


Unknown_10: Up to my ass and angry emails. And how Marlin says he's done sweeping it up. Now it's time to dance.


Unknown_10: When I saw him this morning, he asked if he could borrow something important. And now he's saying he never even saw me stoner. He probably just doesn't want to admit it, but it's extremely important for reasons that are extremely time sensitive.


3:12:24
Unknown_09:  Okay.


Unknown_14: Does it have to do with the Mabon party by any chance?


Unknown_10: Mabon?


Unknown_10: What is that?


Unknown_14: Reggie, I know the party was officially canceled. It would be a very bad idea to hold it anyway.


Unknown_10: I always appreciate your advice, Max.


3:13:03
Unknown_09:  It doesn't seem like it. It seems like you're seething with hatred and anger.


Unknown_10: I just need to get there early. You're kind of like seething and you look evil.


Unknown_14: Good to know.


Unknown_14: What was that talk with you and Owen about? It sounded intense.


Unknown_10: Nothing important. Just ensuring the success of Caledon 2.0. Yeah, he just wants one more great Mabon bonfire before he passes from his grids.


Unknown_10:  Understanding?


3:13:36
Unknown_10: Who really understands anything? I like how the president of the entire university is just sitting there watching them talk about negative space.


Unknown_14: Reggie, I know there's a lot going on.


Unknown_14: Just be careful.


Unknown_10: I always am. See you around, Max.


Unknown_14: That was definitely Reggie.


Unknown_09:  Wow.


Unknown_14: Jenny is still there dancing.


Unknown_09: He's like actually high on set.


Unknown_14: What the fuck? Is that a bug?


3:14:08
Unknown_09: It's so obvious.


Unknown_09: It's just right there in the middle.


Unknown_00:  I don't know.


3:14:45
Unknown_09:  Jani laments his cart in 2026. Still no sign of Safi.


Unknown_14: The man has absolutely no hold on this guy.


Unknown_09: That's right. Jani's can't be kept down. Safi just shapeshifted his own.


Unknown_14: Maybe she... I don't mean to interrupt.


Unknown_01: Well, unless you want to help me liaise with the Abraxas alumni network, you are. Excuse me.


Unknown_14:  I can't just push Owen to talk. What if it's the real Owen? I need to rewind and regroup.


3:15:20
Unknown_08: Okay.


Unknown_14: I don't mean to interrupt. Okay.


Unknown_09: Why not just take the book and then rewind time? And then you'll have the book.


Unknown_09:  And like, everything will be fine. Maybe you can ask the janitor to break out his dancing moves right in front of him.


Unknown_09: And then, while he's jamming, doing the waka waka wow thing, we can take the book.


3:15:59
Unknown_09: Identify Safi through her folder.


Unknown_09: There's a gnome.


Unknown_09: Use the, throw the gnome at Owen.


Unknown_07:  Down with President Teller! Save the Abraxas House!


Unknown_12: Down with President Teller! Save the Abraxas House!


Unknown_14: President Teller's sitting in the quad over there.


Unknown_14: I'm not sure he can hear you.


Unknown_12: I can do something about that. Thanks, lady.


3:16:32
Unknown_14: I hope the power of protest is enough to get Owen away from that folder.


Unknown_09:  Is that gonna work?


Unknown_09: Do I have to talk to him now that he's promised to distract?


Unknown_14: There we go. It's a guy in a mask.


Unknown_00: Yoink!


3:17:09
Unknown_14:  Well, this certainly wasn't pulled from the archives. Must be the real Owen.


Unknown_09: Okay.


Unknown_01: Reggie's gonna deal with it. Did you know he was an economics major before he met you and switched to visual arts?


Unknown_01: What a shame.


Unknown_09: We need more economists.


Unknown_09: Why do you hate the arts, you fucking cocksucker?


Unknown_14:  So you became the president of a liberal arts college, but you hate the arts.


3:17:45
Unknown_14: What's that about?


Unknown_01: Contrary to the graffiti around campus, I'm not a heartless suit. For example, I'm something of a collector of Steiglitz prints. Steiglitz? He said that right.


Unknown_09: Uh...


Unknown_14:  You know, every millionaire I've ever met has a favorite artist that they love to meet.


Unknown_01: Oh, you're such a bitch. Many, many have.


Unknown_01: At your exhibitions and such?


Unknown_01: Because you rely on their patronage.


Unknown_14: I did, before I came to Caledon, where I can build a career without catering to the richest common denominator.


3:18:23
Unknown_09: Unfortunately for you, that's now me.


Unknown_14:  You really seem to have it out for the Abraxas Society.


Unknown_01: Yes. How dare I want to get rid of a damaged building and build some much-needed classroom space?


Unknown_14: I have nothing against a new science building, but Loretta... Loretta Rice is tenacious in her pursuit of rumor and nonsense.


Unknown_01: All the more reason to demolish the house and move past the rumors once and for all.


3:18:58
Unknown_14:  I'll let you get back to it.


Unknown_09: Please.


Unknown_09: I'm sitting here waiting for a guy that's not coming back. I got a lot to do today. I'm gonna stare angrily at this table.


Unknown_09:  Oh no, the table fucked it up. I had a vision though. I did truly have a vision. You know what I'm doing.


3:19:30
Unknown_00: Identify Sathy through her folder. Did I not look at the folder? Of course everyone has the same folder.


Unknown_14:  And only one of them is Safi.


Unknown_14: Safi knows all the English teachers. If she wanted to blend in, maybe she'd choose one of them?


3:20:04
Unknown_09: No.


Unknown_09: Check out the professor's flow, so I have to talk to them. This is a dead end, though.


Unknown_11: Are we sure we want to do this? What if my husband finds out?


Unknown_03:  I already told my husband he was excited until I told him he could watch.


Unknown_09: What the fuck?


Unknown_00: Oh, Max, can you give us a moment?


Unknown_09: Really?


Unknown_11: Some plans.


Unknown_11: I wish my husband was as open minded as yours. OK. OK, I guess they're they're really just fucking trying to get one on the top floor.


3:20:35
Unknown_02: We could get pretty loud.


Unknown_09: They're just having this conversation very awkwardly in front of her.


Unknown_03:  I feel like we just jumped in last time. What if we focused a little more on the build?


Unknown_14: Okay, they're busy.


Unknown_09: They're super busy.


Unknown_14: So they were talking about doing a presentation together.


Unknown_09: That is such bullshit. Fuck you. Fuck you.


Unknown_00: They're having a presentation. Fuck you, game.


3:21:27
Unknown_09:  Uh, just two dudes throwing the ol' frizbo.


Unknown_09: Just two dudes frizboing it up in the campus.


Unknown_07: Aha, Jeanette. Sophie saw my class. Maybe she just...


Unknown_09:  Are you a shape-shifting lizard?


Unknown_14: Hey, Jeanette. Oh, hey, Matt. You're looking pretty scaly today.


3:22:01
Unknown_14: Doing some alfresco homework? Oh, no.


Unknown_02: It's a personal project.


Unknown_09:  Her mouth in particular, like, all the mouths in this game look fucked up, but her face in particular is, like, the most mangly. Were you pleased with the photos you took in class?


Unknown_02: Definitely. But I wanted to get a few more to choose from. I asked Reggie if he wanted to shoot together, but he said he had some pressing plans. And it's so fucked up because it's, like, your game is almost entirely people talking with, like, close-ups of their faces.


3:22:36
Unknown_09: So you think, like, you would spend more time making their faces look presentable and not, like... Max, have you ever...


Unknown_02:  I'm sort of thinking about applying to grad school.


Unknown_02: For what?


Unknown_02: Oh.


Unknown_02: Um, I shouldn't have.


Unknown_02: Never mind. Wait, Jeanette, I did it. It's cool, Max. I'll see you in class.


Unknown_09: Awkward.


Unknown_00: Okay, I guess that's her.


Unknown_09: Oh, I'm supposed to go back and be less awkward. I got you.


3:23:21
Unknown_14:  I've been meaning to ask you, have you ever considered applying to grad school for photography?


Unknown_02: Yes, actually. I wanted to ask you about it. But I figured if you thought it was a good idea, you would have brought it up.


Unknown_14: I'm sorry. I'm still new at teaching, and I'm not used to people caring about my opinion. But of course, I think you're good enough.


Unknown_02:  Most of the applications require an artist statement. So I've been working on one. Would you mind taking a look? I'd love to. It's such a weird thing.


3:23:57
Unknown_09: Cause it's like pretentious artist statements are just like that. Like if you're successful as an artist, you don't like go to a school, right? You just like make art and become successful. Right? Like do you, is there like a, a career goal with like this, this kind of stuff? Do you eventually get hired based off your artist statement?


Unknown_09:  The first- I'm not reading this shit.


Unknown_02: I know it's a long shot, but I really love your class, and some of these programs have financial aid, so... So what on earth do you have- I mean, Sam Hyde went to art school, but he wasn't successful because of his artist statement, his post-grad art doctorate, whatever the fuck.


3:24:29
Unknown_14: I'll do my own research on MFA programs, and we can touch base. That would be amazing!


Unknown_09: Maybe we can do something about your fucked up looking face, too. Don't wait for other people to tell you that you're an artist.


Unknown_14:  You are an artist, whether they see it or not.


Unknown_02: Wow.


Unknown_02: Thanks, Max. I'm so lucky to have you as my mentor.


Unknown_14: Don't start crying. Don't start crying.


3:25:08
Unknown_09: Let it out, Max. It's okay.


Unknown_09: Can I read your document?


Unknown_14: Please tell me Safi isn't with her mother right now, or  being her mother right now.


Unknown_09: Yeah, that was kind of fucked up.


Unknown_09: Max, I can't help but notice that you're staring at us awkwardly right now.


Unknown_12: Max, you're out here.


Unknown_09: That's great. Staring at us.


3:25:39
Unknown_09: Oh yeah, that's a fucking Ling if I've ever seen one.


Unknown_14:  Is this an official graduate program performance review?


Unknown_13: Officially, no. Unofficially, I could not be prouder or more honored that Vin is the first regent's chair grant recipient of my tenure.


Unknown_12: I never thought I'd make it to college, let alone business school.


3:26:12
Unknown_12: Caledon's given me so much, and yet somehow I managed to give it even more in return.


Unknown_13:  This grant is set up to foster the next generation of Caledon leadership.


Unknown_13: There is no one more deserving.


Unknown_09: Shapeshift into like an abominable monster and like... Traumatize her.


Unknown_14: And to think I used to complain about her.


Unknown_12: I didn't know how good I had it.


Unknown_13: Nor does Owen.


Unknown_13: Once everything calms down, he'll be able to appreciate everything you're doing for him.


3:26:50
Unknown_13:  Neither of these guys are changelings, are they?


Unknown_14:  Maybe I can use this photo to get to the folder on the table.


3:27:30
Unknown_09: Um.


Unknown_14: Mind if I move that folder?


Unknown_13: My last shot felt a little cluttered. Thank you for reminding me. It's yours. That auditing student handed it to me and told me to pass it on if I saw you. Strange girl.


Unknown_12: While we'd love to stay in pose, we...


Unknown_09:  really should get ready for the call with the strange girl is the changeling fire up the crematorium burner alive that was fun meet me at the turtle for part two


3:28:14
Unknown_14:  X-O-X-O... Changeling!


Unknown_09: It's a fake Chloe.


Unknown_14: Safi's just fucking with me now. She's not even here.


Unknown_14: Safi's been one step ahead of me this whole time. Hopefully now I can get some answers.


Unknown_09: Okay, for the record, I feel like this game is going to end up at a point in time... It started in December.


Unknown_06: Oh, the game just spoiled itself.


Unknown_09:  The climax of the game is going to be a confrontation where Max has to choose between shooting one of two different Chloe's and the real Chloe is going to be the one on the left of her to her left, because that's where they're in the dream. That's where they're standing. But like, if you know that there's a chain, a shape-shifting changeling, that's like fucking with you, you should probably set up like a code word with your like friends so that you can identify them.


3:28:54
Unknown_06: But lately it's been getting worse.


Unknown_09: When I both Max for help.


Unknown_06:  And she told me, I guess you know, that I died.


Unknown_06: That my memories of what happened to us after high school didn't happen. At least, not to her.


3:29:27
Unknown_06: Basically, I shouldn't be here.


Unknown_06: By the way, you're doing pretty well with this whole talking to a dead girl thing.


Unknown_11:  Well, if you're friends with Max long enough, you get used to it. But I have many, many, many questions.


Unknown_06: Do you know what it means?


Unknown_06: The visions, the different realities smashed together?


Unknown_11: I have some, I want to say theories, but they're close to the fears at this point.


3:30:05
Unknown_11: Give me a minute.


Unknown_11:  max told me you're into astronomy you want to take a look around there's an image i captured upstairs that could be a new selection i'm pretty sure she was just lying about that she's not actually into astrology either way you can help me name it seriously you're on all right moses let's see if you're as nerdy as max says you are


Unknown_09:  Well, he does have anime child figurines upstairs and maximum Chloe. Let me show you this real quick. Let me show you this.


3:30:40
Unknown_00: Oh The girl comes over to your apartment and you hide the sussy anime girl figurines dar Is that what we're doing here, huh? Let me just clean up some stuff real quick before you come in Chloe What am I doing here name Moses is fine I


Unknown_06:  This guy's being very polite to the crazy girl who showed up at his office and monologued about alternate realities.


3:31:12
Unknown_09: How do I name Moses Vine?


Unknown_09: Oh, no, there it is.


Unknown_06: Uh-huh.


Unknown_09:  Yeah, not into it. Yeah. Oh, cringe. Sorry, I saw the figurines. It's just not my thing.


Unknown_06: Star? How do I name it? Yeah, this sound thing is not helping me at all.


3:32:01
Unknown_09:  Um... What am I looking for? On the computer? Maybe?


Unknown_06: Rad shit? These are vinyl plastic toys, Chloe.


Unknown_09: You don't have to lie to me. Like, you don't have to tell me that you think it's cool, because we both know it's okay.


Unknown_09:  It's okay. Just check this out.


Unknown_06: Moses is going full Pepe Silvia with this investigation.


3:32:38
Unknown_06: Cool.


Unknown_06: This guy's being very polite to the crazy girl who showed up simultaneously existing in a state of dead and hanging in there.


Unknown_06: I know the feeling.


Unknown_06: Is this an art room or a physics lab?  Moses, am I looking for the two with expertise?


Unknown_06: A horticulturalist to what can't this guy do in a girlfriend?


3:33:12
Unknown_01: Apparently some of Max's favorites are in here.


Unknown_06: It's good that she found a new movie, buddy.


Unknown_09:  My Akata is the one that committed suicide in the previous game. Where the fuck am I looking for? There we go.


Unknown_06: Possible planetoid need a name? How do I suggest a name?


Unknown_09: Oh.


Unknown_06: Okay.


3:33:50
Unknown_09:  your titties space pimple dawn yeah i'm picking the most chloe answer okay look at how smug and satisfied she is with that uranus's long lost cousin your titties that's stupid


Unknown_06:  Wow. You process quickly.


Unknown_11: I'm just laying it all out.


Unknown_11: We'll see if anything emerges.


Unknown_09: Okay, now what? Check back in with Moses. I was just talking to him.


Unknown_06: So, Professor, have you solved me yet?


Unknown_11: Not in the slightest. But I do have some follow-up questions. I'm sure you do, too.


3:34:45
Unknown_11: Why don't you start?


Unknown_09:  Who is Maya? 3D printer.


Unknown_06: I don't mean to snoop, but who's Maya Akata?


Unknown_09: She committed suicide and now she's a grudge ghost.


Unknown_11: She was a friend of Safi's.


Unknown_11: They were really close until Maya's suicide.


Unknown_09: Isn't that kind of racist to make the Japanese girl the one that kills herself? Safi blames several people for Maya's death and she used her powers to get revenge.


3:35:20
Unknown_06: Well,


Unknown_06:  It's great that you bought her book.


Unknown_11: That is a microaggression, I agree. Mai's work has been getting more attention in the last year.


Unknown_11: I'm sure Safi's delighted.


Unknown_06: I know we have a metaphysical mystery to solve, but can I use your 3D printer?


Unknown_11: For what?


Unknown_06: It's Max's birthday.


Unknown_06: She's being so brave about this whole save the school thing, but I think she needs some encouragement.


3:35:52
Unknown_06:  Your anime wall gave me an idea.


Unknown_11: Say no more.


Unknown_09: What if we like three print some anime?


Unknown_09: Well, he just had something ready to go.


Unknown_11: You have to text me when you give it to her. She's going to love it.


Unknown_06: You got it.


Unknown_09: What is it?


Unknown_06: Give it to me straight, Doc.


Unknown_06: I'm ready.


Unknown_11:  You're retarded. I'd like to hear more about your visions. You said they started in December?


3:36:24
Unknown_06: Yeah. And they weren't even visions at first. Just weird daydreams of a storm or a path or...


Unknown_06: But they just kept coming.


Unknown_06: Then I started thinking... It really takes 15 hours for those 3D printers to make like an anime figurine? And that moment in the green room a few days ago...


3:36:57
Unknown_06:  i don't think it was a vision i think i some part of me really went somewhere okay what were you doing in the green room before i started i've never had any interest in a 3d printer the only reason why i'd want one is to make parts for like vacuum cleaners and that breaks that's like plastic that you can't replace easily


Unknown_09:  But like, I don't know how to do 3D modeling. I'm not really interested in learning.


Unknown_06: Tornadoes.


Unknown_06: When Max and I were in high school, there was this crazy week where Max thought a tornado was going to destroy the school.


Unknown_09: No. She taxed free. That's true. She doesn't have to pay taxes. That did happen.


Unknown_06: But it also didn't happen. I don't.


3:37:54
Unknown_06: What's happening right now?


Unknown_09:  I don't collect figurines. I'm not really interested in figurines at all. Like, my room is already so cluttered with tools and stuff that I need and use all the time that, like, I can't fill it with junk that looks like an interest of mine.


Unknown_11: And Max was forced to make a choice.


Unknown_11: She let you die, averted the storm, and saved Arcadia Bay.


Unknown_11: But I'm here.


Unknown_11: Yes. Yes. Somehow the storm didn't destroy the town and you didn't die.


3:38:28
Unknown_11:  Which doesn't make any sense, except... A year ago, a storm threatened the school and the town. And Max made another choice. Or rather, she refused to choose between Safi and Caledon.


Unknown_11: Somehow she saved Safi and the school.


Unknown_11: And however she tied those realities together, it appears... She tied up some loose ends while she was at it.


Unknown_06:  She brought me and Arcadia Bay back together? With Safi and all the rest?


Unknown_11: Yes.


Unknown_11: Somehow.


Unknown_11: Your vision started when you remembered the tornado. The thing that couldn't have happened, but did.


3:39:07
Unknown_11: A paradox.


Unknown_11:  your life and experiences are existing. This is like, this is like the meme of like every fucking bad movie where there's like a science guy who just explains how the retarded shit that doesn't make any fucking sense actually makes perfect sense.


Unknown_09: And it's like the worst trope ever to like, uh, handle terrible plot contrivances, different reality.


Unknown_11: And that's not sustainable.


Unknown_11: Maybe when you encounter a paradox, you come.


3:39:41
Unknown_09: I think that,  Wait a second. The Watermolium. When I discovered pure watermelon essence last December. I think maybe. That discombobulated the timelines.


Unknown_09: We weren't meant to have pure watermelonium essence. It wasn't meant to be, Chloe.


Unknown_09: Chloe.


Unknown_09: Can you hear me?


Unknown_11: Chloe.


3:40:12
Unknown_06:  yeah i hear you okay stay calm and tell me what you see i see half a bathroom the same path oh you're not going to tell him about the half a bathroom of the fireplace that seems like really important details the overlook that's where safi died


Unknown_06:  But there's a back to whether there's no footprints in the sky is.


Unknown_09: They definitely had the search.


Unknown_05: She called off the search, stopped looking for herself.


Unknown_09: Lost the trees are speaking to each other, they said.


Unknown_05: Then lost.


Unknown_09: Gone.


3:41:05
Unknown_05: Going, she replied.


Unknown_05: Then.


Unknown_06:  Gone.


Unknown_09: Like really bad slam poetry.


Unknown_06: There's always something weird when I get to the top of the path.


Unknown_06: Me, dead. Safi practically lives here now.


Unknown_06: The, uh, ground turned to my high school bathroom.


3:41:44
Unknown_00:  Chloe. I don't know which is the real Chloe. I don't know which is what I'm supposed to shoot. Chloe, you have to let me know which one's the real one.


Unknown_09: It's hella fucking her.


Unknown_09: I knew it was you. Only you talk like such a fucking retard.


Unknown_06: Okay. That's not how a camera works.


Unknown_06: Max is pointing a gun at Safi.


Unknown_06:  And there are a lot of photos.


3:42:19
Unknown_09: Photos of what?


Unknown_09: Max hauling a gun, I imagine.


Unknown_09: The picture of her sleeping in the bed.


3:42:50
Unknown_09:  Stupid gun.


Unknown_06: Shit. I saw Max.


Unknown_06:  she she had a gun and it always ends a little differently but i die his ass cushion is gone he usually had that ass cushion in that seat before now it's gone max max never gave it back that's what i've been seeing me dying


3:43:39
Unknown_06:  Max... killing me.


Unknown_11: You said there were photos.


Unknown_11: What happened after that?


Unknown_06: The lighthouse beam turned on and... What's wrong?


Unknown_11: Chloe, you vanished.


Unknown_11: Disappeared for about three seconds.


Unknown_11:  Her choice. Her choice which mattered a lot. Her matterful choice.


3:44:12
Unknown_06: Is this what post-industrial Femcor is?


Unknown_06:  I saw some of Safi's and memories.


Unknown_06: We're stuck in that place together.


3:44:47
Unknown_09: Max, no. If you don't shoot me, then the Holocaust will happen. But I love you. I love you, Chloe.


Unknown_00: Maybe she's looking for the same answers you are.


Unknown_00: It's six million, Max. Don't do it. You have to let go. I can't let go, Chloe.


Unknown_11: Trapped inside your own deaths.


Unknown_11:  emotionally, I can't imagine what that is doing to the both of you. I love you, bitch.


3:45:19
Unknown_06: Arcadia Bay was brought back to life. Why aren't they stuck in that place too?


Unknown_06: My mom hasn't told me about any weird visions.


Unknown_11: Have you told her about your visions?


Unknown_11: My point is, we don't know what's happening in Arcadia Bay.


Unknown_09: We can conjecture, but


Unknown_09:  Okay, I am over this fucking scene. This guy is the most boring fucking character.


Unknown_09: Let's move along here. Four hours is coming up. I'm ending the stream sometime after four hours when we get to like a stopping point. Okay, I get it, bro.


3:45:53
Unknown_11:  We might have just accelerated whatever is happening.


Unknown_11: I'm so sorry.


Unknown_06: Hey, man.


Unknown_06: I asked.


Unknown_11: We won't risk any more explorations into the Overlight.


3:46:25
Unknown_11: That's what we're calling it now, by the way.


Unknown_11: I'll do some brainstorming. Maybe research mental techniques for... Don't bother.


Unknown_06: You've got to focus on the fire.


Unknown_11:  But we need a plan. Your visions are growing in intensity and that place is dangerous.


Unknown_11: And your roots are really fucked up.


Unknown_11: You could revert back to your own death.


Unknown_06: I'm serious.


Unknown_06: It's okay.


3:47:00
Unknown_09: What if you just shot yourself?


Unknown_06: Why should I get to cheat death?


Unknown_06:  It's not like I deserve it more than my dad.


Unknown_09:  Oh, yeah. Dude, there is a hysterical scene where I think it was even like another game or like a DLC or something where you could play as Chloe experiencing her dad's death. And there's like a truck and it like hits him during this extremely like played up emotional scene. Of course, just a truck, a truck that appears in the middle of like a stage and kills her dad or whatever.


3:47:38
Unknown_04: Before the storm.


Unknown_09:  yeah this is the eighth game i've played eight of these games they won't stop making them she always has the least i can do i completely forgot about before the storm until he she mentioned her dad so on to the good stuff who do we think is planning to start a fire and why is this tweet dildo up there lucas comonero is a former caledon professor


Unknown_11:  He's been starting up animosity.


3:48:09
Unknown_09: Captain Autism does not count as part of the Life is Strange cinematic universe here. Even Max won't be able to get much out of him.


Unknown_06: Max may have gone full ivory tower, but bars are still my scene.


Unknown_06: I'll head back there right now to chat with him and his protest buddies. Maybe I can learn more about their plans.


Unknown_09: No, tell me why I include.


Unknown_09: Yeah, I consider that a Life is Strange game.


Unknown_09:  Captain Autism does not count.


3:48:57
Unknown_09: You and Moses are gonna love each other. The code!  So you can tell us apart. Yeah, exactly. Razzmatazz, that's a good word.


Unknown_09: Razzmatazz, uh-huh. Yeah, Chloe's good thinking here.


Unknown_09: Hello, Razzmatazz.


3:49:38
Unknown_09: Maybe you're another changeling pretending to be Safi.


Unknown_14:  I really hope you're done playing games.


Unknown_14: There's too much going on right now to be chasing you around.


Unknown_14: And I was starting to enjoy our whole sexy spy thing.


Unknown_09: She's Iranian, not Indian.


Unknown_10: Is it?


3:50:12
Unknown_05:  Well, don't just sit there and gawk. What did you want to talk to me about?


Unknown_14: Why are you here?


Unknown_09: Just shoot her now. Yeah, I agree. After all this time.


Unknown_05: Oh, is that it?


Unknown_05: I don't know.


Unknown_05: Maybe I missed this place. Maybe I wanted to peep those famous leaves. Or maybe I have some unfinished business.


Unknown_14: Sophie.


Unknown_05: Come on, Max. If you ask me basic-ass questions, you'll get basic-ass answers.


Unknown_09:  Why are you such a bitch?


Unknown_05: Why are you such an insufferable fucking cunt?


3:50:46
Unknown_09: Why do you have no redeeming qualities whatsoever as a human being?


Unknown_05: Is that why you told my mom I was here?


Unknown_05: Either you're terrible at taking a hint or you're just a terrible friend. She wasn't supposed to say anything. She promised. Option three. A terrible judge of character. You really thought a promise from my mom meant anything?


Unknown_05: The sad truth is...


Unknown_05:  here for you not reciprocated not interested give me that dude going nowhere never happening kiss you or murder you um i'm not interested why are you returning to caledon now did something happen on the road i lived here believing i had a purpose i was going to find more people like us


3:51:40
Unknown_09:  You're not going to start a mutant academy.


Unknown_05: The more I started to feel.


Unknown_05: What's the word?


Unknown_09: Just rob a bank like a normal person. Jesus. Deranged.


Unknown_05: These intrusive thoughts started playing in my head. My emotions were all over the place and the visions.


Unknown_05: Horrible.


Unknown_09:  It's true. Max has a punching bag. She has to get a spine. Learn to stand up for yourself. Stand up for yourself, Maxine. Don't let this fucking Muslim bitch push you around, intimidate you, sexually harass you. It's unacceptable.


3:52:16
Unknown_09: Well, I'm not interested in you. Fuck off.


Unknown_09: That's cringe. Get the fuck over it.


Unknown_09: Fuck you, bitch.


Unknown_14:  I needed to stop the storm, and that meant stopping you from doing any more damage.


Unknown_05: You actually think the storm was just about me?


Unknown_09: Yes.


Unknown_09: Maxi's completely mind blown by that.


Unknown_00: Never even considered it. Do you even know?


3:52:51
Unknown_14: Your power went haywire.


Unknown_14:  You broke into pieces. I had to pull you together.


Unknown_05: And then what?


Unknown_05: Think.


Unknown_05: Where did you go in there?


Unknown_14: It was all these motel rooms.


Unknown_09: With unloaded textures after Chloe died.


3:53:29
Unknown_05:  Ah!


Unknown_09: Max jumpscare.


Unknown_09: Her face is on three screens right now, because I have my livestream to my right, my OBS to my left, and then the actual game on my center. And I have three Max just staring me fucking down.


Unknown_14:  It was like the eye of the storm.


Unknown_14: Did I block the sound?


3:54:02
Unknown_14: Was I affected by storm amnesia?


Unknown_14: Storm amnesia. Did you and Moses come up with that?


Unknown_09: I'm getting Max-mogged. The lighthouse.


Unknown_14: The overlook.


Unknown_14: Overlook.


Unknown_00: I remember thinking... What does it mean?


Unknown_14: It's the same storm. It's all somehow connected.


Unknown_00:  The symbols, what do they mean?


Unknown_14: You were dead on the ground.


Unknown_14: I thought I could use my power to bring you back.


Unknown_09: The storm.


3:54:35
Unknown_14: To merge the timelines.


Unknown_09: Max, what's going to be our code word?


Unknown_00: Code word, Ronald McDonald.


Unknown_00: All patriots, go.


Unknown_14: Chloe, she was there too.


Unknown_14:  Like she'd been trapped in the storm this whole time.


Unknown_09: That one guy got his wish. He just shot both of them to make sure.


Unknown_14: All I needed to do was...


3:55:17
Unknown_05: The moment you saw her, she was all that mattered.


Unknown_09:  That's right. I forgot all about me. Yes.


Unknown_09: I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's what happened. I'm sorry.


Unknown_14: I had no idea what I was finding there. You're just jealous, bish.


Unknown_09: How about you shapeshift into... I went into the storm to save you.


Unknown_09: Into someone white. Yes, you did.


Unknown_05: You're Max fucking Caulfield, Space Time's golden girl. You'll always try to save everyone, everything you can. Actually, my title is Time Fucker now.  But fuck, how many times do you need the universe to tell you it's not interested? These things we have, they're just cruel jokes.


3:55:51
Unknown_05: Chloe and I may be here now, but a part of us, maybe the part that really matters remains trapped in that nightmare.


Unknown_14: I thought I was beginning to understand my powers.


Unknown_14:  But you're right.


Unknown_14: I've been... naive to think I could ever really know them.


3:56:33
Unknown_14: Moses and I have been working for months to understand and control my powers.


Unknown_14:  How can I understand them if I don't even trust my own mind?


Unknown_05: Now there's a question worth asking. And while you're answering that one, maybe throw in what you and Moses are up to.


Unknown_05: What are you collecting evidence for? What is that weird selfie photo of you? And why is my name on a whiteboard labeled suspects? You snuck into Moses's office? Don't deflect.


Unknown_05: You say that you're my friend, that you care about me. Prove it.  Tell me what is going on.


3:57:08
Unknown_09: She's such a bitch.


Unknown_09: Fuck you.


Unknown_14: No! Not this time.


Unknown_14: I do care about you, Safi.


Unknown_14: But I don't trust you.


Unknown_14:  You could have told Moses you were here. He would have been so excited.


Unknown_14: But you deceived him. Like, you tried to deceive me. No, she doesn't get to know.


Unknown_09: She's evil.


Unknown_05: I'm sorry. Am I deceptive?


3:57:41
Unknown_09: Yes. You don't like it when I use my power?


Unknown_05: Fuck, do you even realize what a hypocrite you are? You don't lie to people. I'm too retarded. You just bend their entire reality. I bet you've been rewinding this whole conversation.


Unknown_09: Nope.


Unknown_05:  I haven't. I wouldn't do that. I'm your friend.


Unknown_09: I'm your friend. If you were my friend, you would understand that I had my reasons for staying hidden.


Unknown_05: You would trust me and you would let me in. But your reasons were exposed in the last game and your reasons are fucking childish and stupid.


3:58:13
Unknown_09:  just a little baby little baby child who can't handle reality and your life is already over pull the trigger bang bang you should take it you won't be able to avoid her forever fine enjoy the lakeside vibes


Unknown_09:  Safi is ten times, like, Max is just stupid. She's just like, like, just, what's the word? It's like naive.


3:58:53
Unknown_14: But like, she's just underbaked.


Unknown_09: Her poor cookie dough brain is just half-baked. And she just likes taking pictures of pretty stuff. And that's just, that's like her. That's her personality. But like, Safi's a bitch. Safi.


Unknown_09:  Hello, smooth-brained. Hello, fucking smooth. Whatever Chloe's doing now, I hope she's okay.


3:59:33
Unknown_09: She's the foyer starter. Twisted foyer starter. Let's see what we can dig up about the protests.


Unknown_06:  Not sure I want to step into the middle of whatever this is.


Unknown_15: New plan. Find out more about the protests, then come back to Max.


4:00:05
Unknown_06: Moses mentioned that professor and some townies organizing a protest on a message board.


Unknown_06: Better look into it.


Unknown_09: Very, very ugly Chinese girl tries to understand computer.


Unknown_09: Painted by Lin Bochong, 2026. What am I doing here?


Unknown_09:  Dig up info about protests.


Unknown_09: Uh, okay.


Unknown_09: Okay. We're officially on wind down time. So when I get a break, I'm trying to work after this, whatever this objective is, didn't realize this bar became a coworking space overnight.


4:00:49
Unknown_06: Get back to your blockchain IPO or whatever.


Unknown_09:  Wow. I bet you the blue sky of the writers for this game have some very strong opinions about tech bros.


Unknown_06: I'm hearing about this protest against Caledon.


Unknown_06: I want in.


Unknown_08: I'm afraid your association with a certain former colleague of mine means I will have to decline further conversation.


Unknown_09: Get fucked, bitch. Really? Your hair's all green and shit. Your roots are showing. Goodbye.


Unknown_09: Okay, I guess I fucked that one up.


4:01:30
Unknown_09:  Try to get into online forum.


Unknown_09: Wakey, wakey. Wakey, wakey.


Unknown_06: Hey.


Unknown_06: I hear you're the guy to ask about the protest.


Unknown_00: From who? No clue what you're talking about.


Unknown_06: Get fucked.


Unknown_09:  No, she was. She just went up to a random person and said that. Okay, I understand. Scrap?


4:02:02
Unknown_06: I can't make out much, but I think this is the password I'm looking for.


Unknown_09: Wow, very convenient. StrifeNet Forum. Lake Po Resist. Spelled with money signs and symbols. Okay. Got the password.


Unknown_06: Now time to take a look at that forum.


Unknown_09: Kiwi Farms.


Unknown_09: There are Kiwis. Where is it?


Unknown_09: Do I have to use my phone?


Unknown_09:  I mean, usually a phone has a way to log into websites.


4:02:41
Unknown_09: Do I have to find somebody's laptop and steal it?


Unknown_09: Um...


Unknown_09:  He's got a laptop. Can I borrow your laptop to log into a website?


Unknown_06: That bartender Amanda seems to know things. Oh, and she has a laptop, which has internet connectivity unlike cell phones.


4:03:17
Unknown_03: Amanda, right? Oh, hey.


Unknown_03: I was about to show you a put on last night. Wish I could have sold tickets for it.


Unknown_09: What?


Unknown_09:  Oh, she did a thing? She did an actual show?


Unknown_06: I've heard some things.


Unknown_03: I tried looking into it, but their forum is password protected. I think I might have that password, actually. For real?


Unknown_06: Let's take a look.


4:03:50
Unknown_09: Make sure you open a private browser tab for non-amenity, Amanda.


Unknown_09:  Wow. I'm thinking for the Kiwi farms forum rewrite, you know, I had never seen a layout like this, but I'm thinking, you know, this is pretty good. This is pretty intuitive. I feel like this might be an inspirational source for us.


Unknown_09:  Okay, Lake Pork Citizens Against Caledon Corruption, also known as the La-Kh-Kh-Kh-Kh. A forum for like-minded sex-impertoranists. Cruelers Forever mod. The protest is on 929. Right on, brother. I'll have to skip Bowling League and drive up to Brattleboro. They will all pay tomorrow. Cardinal Money N says they won't be able to ignore us now.


4:04:30
Unknown_09: Heard, boss. See you tomorrow.


Unknown_03: These fucking assholes.


Unknown_03:  How is any of this going to help? They're gonna set back everything we're doing to rebuild the town.


4:05:08
Unknown_06: The protest hasn't happened yet. We could still keep it from getting out of hand.


Unknown_03: You're right.


Unknown_06: I'll tell Noelle to get campus security ready.


Unknown_06: Good plan. I'll see if I can get any more info out of Joey.


Unknown_09: Which one's Joey?


Unknown_06:  I appreciated our chat last night before everything got crazy.


Unknown_06: I'm just glad Max is okay.


Unknown_03: More than okay actually. She's like glowing. You didn't knock her up, did you?


4:05:40
Unknown_09: Oh my God.


Unknown_09: Maybe we can get Amanda and Safi to hook up so they can get the fuck over it.


Unknown_06: And morning.


Unknown_06: I'm surprised.


Unknown_06: You can go see for yourself.


Unknown_03:  She was meeting someone. I think one of her students?


Unknown_03: I'm understaffed, so I'm not serving back there today.


Unknown_06: Makes sense. Thanks.


Unknown_09: Okay, buh-bye.


4:06:11
Unknown_03: See you later.


Unknown_06: I'll be here.


Unknown_09: Careful with how you raise that hand, young lady. The forum is scary. Yeah, it is. But it gave me a lot of good intel to use with the bartender.


Unknown_06:  I don't know who the fuck you are.


Unknown_09: You're like 40.


Unknown_09: Cardinal Sin.


4:06:44
Unknown_09: No, he's Cardinal Sin.


Unknown_09: I see.


Unknown_01: Maybe you are, but no way to know for sure, is there?


Unknown_01:  Uh, Bazinga? Why weren't you at the last meeting?


Unknown_06: Oh, shit!


Unknown_09: He did say...


Unknown_06: I took her to Dave and Buster's. I read that aloud. Goddammit.


Unknown_00: This is the middle of Vermont. We don't have that crap here.


4:07:17
Unknown_09: Ah, get fucked!


Unknown_00: Get fucked, Lesbo!


Unknown_00: Maybe you missed the meeting, but  You must know the group motto from the message board.


Unknown_09: Six Semper Tyrannis, bro.


Unknown_06: Six Semper Tyrannis, which I believe translates to, how sick will it be when we squash these tyrants?


Unknown_00: Close enough.


4:07:51
Unknown_00: Yeah, you can't beat fucking Chloe. Hate to be so paranoid, but you know how it is.  we muster here noon tomorrow and then head straight for the admin building also don't hear any more that lesbian shit from a long time coming things could get heated this is true when I'm sitting with my laptop leaning against the wall looking brooding in public and someone walks up to be slated death motherfucking protest not a rat time that's the name of the achievement on the inside and show you're part of the process yeah I'm not a rat buddy


4:08:23
Unknown_09:  I'm not a little ratatouille rat, even though today is International Rat Day, if I remember correctly. Okay, now I can go talk to Chloe. I think this is the point we're all after this conversation.


Unknown_06: Hello, ma'am. Can I tell you about our grilled cheese specials today? Chloe!


Unknown_06: Cheese, okay. You do not need to act this surprised every time we see each other.


Unknown_14:  Did you turn up anything about the protest?


Unknown_06: Yeah. Uh, it's not good.


4:09:00
Unknown_06: There's a whole message board of angry locals descending on campus tomorrow. I don't think anyone can stop it.


Unknown_06: At least you know we can be prepared.


Unknown_06: What about you? Did you crack the case with the Abraxels?


Unknown_14:  I'm at a dead end.


Unknown_14: I know Safi is hiding something in her bag, but she was too smart to leave it with me.


Unknown_09: Why not just punch her in the face and then rewind time? Run over there, grab what's in her bag, throw the bag in the water, and give you the stuff.


Unknown_00: Throw her bag in the water?


4:09:33
Unknown_06: Take the mask before she comes back and beats my ass.


Unknown_09:  Okay. I feel like that is the appropriate time. Okay, can I quit the game now? Is it saved?


Unknown_09: Hopefully it's saved.


Unknown_09: Alright! So now that Max has taken my advice to heart and has, um, snatched the purse and, uh, thrown it into the water, I will conclude our game there.  And tomorrow, I believe I have played four hours of this. I think the game length is like eight hours. So I think that tomorrow will be enough time to close it out. This is actually the very first game I think that they've published that did not have any episodes in it. And it's just like a rolling narrative. Oh my god, the reviews on Steam are like...


4:10:16
Unknown_09:  20 hours long i hope this is not like a five day long game they really cooked with this one 11 hours and the game felt like a roller coaster with me okay i thought it would be like eight hours i hope it's eight hours we will see if not i'll also stream on monday all right thank you guys for watching a really great turnout for my shitty fucking video game stream so i appreciate you guys um


4:11:07
Unknown_09:  Have a great weekend. Have a great Easter. Easter is tomorrow. Have a good one. Take it easy. Bye-bye.