Bad at Video Games -Disco Elysium - April 18th, 2026 2026-04-18

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Unknown_21: Hello?

Unknown_21: Hello?

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Most important part of the stream is the on-stream settings. Streamer mode. What does this do? Replaces certain copyrighted pieces of music with alternative tracks for safe streaming. No. That's okay.

0:01:04
Unknown_21: My commentary is transformative. It guides my path.

Unknown_21: Okay, so.

Unknown_21: I have no fucking idea what this game is about. The only thing I know is that it is 25 to 40 hours. So, my plan is to do six hour streams for two weekends. Maybe three. I don't know.

0:01:38
Unknown_21: I have literally no idea what any of this shit is.

Unknown_21: So... Let's see. Thinker. Extremely intelligent. That's me. Very bad with people. Me. Me. Knows interesting facts. Comes up with original ideas. That's basically me. All my facts are interesting and I come up with them on the spot.

Unknown_21: Very psychological. I think most people are psychological. This is the sensitive. A magnetic personality but unstable. Might begin to lose his mind. This kind of looks like Nick Rakeda. I guess that's...

0:02:10
Unknown_21: Decent. Okay, physical. Extremely physical.

Unknown_21: Such a shitty description. Extremely physical...

Unknown_21: Most people are physical.

Unknown_21: Maybe not Claude. Interacts with the world through his body. Gets things done, but dumb as a rock. I'm definitely a thinker, bro, I think. Let's go with that.

Unknown_21: I do physically exist, unfortunately. Furries at home in the mirror, it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough, can drown. R.S. Thomas, okay.

0:02:42
Unknown_21: So again, I have no fucking idea what any of this shit is. Hopefully you can hear me. There is nothing.

Unknown_21: Only warm primordial blackness.

Unknown_16: You're conscious from Ensigny.

Unknown_16: No larger than a single grain of malt.

Unknown_16: You don't have to do anything anymore.

Unknown_21: Is this like a perk? Ever. Never. Ever.

Unknown_21: I will continue to non-exist.

0:03:15
Unknown_16: And an audience amount of time passes.

Unknown_16: contained within it that is pretty good yes it is what about the x something does he have an ex-wife is the game about getting over your ex-wife you got it sweet brother nothing upon nothing upon nothing i know you do baby

0:03:48
Unknown_21: No. It's like a really gravelly voiced British guy. Yeah, baby. Coming right up, sir.

Unknown_16: Smooth passage.

Unknown_16: All right. Nothing down to Farkleborough.

Unknown_21: This is like an infinite cycle until you agree to start the game. So it's happening.

Unknown_16: Do you want me to upgrade that to a one-way trip, sir?

Unknown_16: The song of death is sweet and endless.

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Unknown_16: But what is this? Somewhere in the...

Unknown_21: Uh, it gave up on me. It said, okay, he's not gonna consent to suffering. Like a fly to the ointment, your conscience sticks to it.

Unknown_16: The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified...

Unknown_03: The stench of liquor rises from your mouth. Why is my limbic system talking to me?

Unknown_16: An ungodly headache.

Unknown_16: I have no idea what's going on.

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Unknown_21: Why is there an encyclopedia? Medium success?

Unknown_21: I succeeded. So the medium was 10 and I got a 12. Okay.

Unknown_21: Everything is going to talk to me.

Unknown_21: So I am Nick Rakeda.

Unknown_21: The house is a little bit less cluttered, though. I am naked, though. There's no refrigerator.

0:05:41
Unknown_21: Okay, let's get... Nice. How do I move?

Unknown_21: Why do I have to move? Well, I can't move with WS. Okay.

Unknown_21: Nice and dressed.

Unknown_21: I don't know what these dots are. The whirling in rags is a hostile cafeteria on the urban coast frequented by dock workers.

Unknown_25: What is the encyclopedia?

0:06:36
Unknown_21: Oh, I can look at objects too.

Unknown_25: A mirror hangs above a bent and broken sink. In a fierce discharge of masculine energy, someone has ripped half the faucet off. Hot water sprays from the base and steam covers the mirror. You cannot see yourself, just the outline of a man.

Unknown_21: Is the main narrator a black British guy?

Unknown_25: Suddenly, you realize you have no memory of the face that awaits you there, underneath the soft vapor.

Unknown_25: really all recollection of the person you are the people in your life and even the world you're in has drowned in a sea of blood alcohol towards the surface of the mirror oh god you have no idea who this thing is do you so the entire plot's just about being an alcoholic

0:07:34
Unknown_21: Oh, yeah. Dude, this is Ridiculous Simulator.

Unknown_21: I am a superstar. It appears you're also dead.

Unknown_25: There's clearly rigor mortis on your face. Oh, wait. Is that an expression? Are you trying to make an expression with that face?

Unknown_24: Why?

Unknown_25: Please stop. It's horrible. You can't, can you?

Unknown_25: It's not even voluntary anymore. You have worn that grin into your face, and now it won't come off.

Unknown_21: That's me, buddy. I'm a rock star. What does it even mean?

Unknown_25: Stardom. You should check yourself for a pulse, superstar. From here, it looks like a cadaverous spasm. You find no sign of life on your swollen neck. However, putting your hand on your chest reveals an irregular heartbeat. You appear to be alive for now.

0:08:07
Unknown_21: I'm going for the electrochemistry.

Unknown_25: It's too late. Like an image on film.

Unknown_25: The expression belongs to your primary motor cortex. It would take a minor neurological miracle for you to cease producing it.

0:08:46
Unknown_21: This heartbeat is a regular. Okay.

Unknown_25: I guess I'm not an expert enough gambler to beat this game. Why am I being lectured to about capitalism?

Unknown_25: things were good it was smooth sailing people made gold and champagne tinted interiors and facades to suit the times calling this the new style but more importantly disco happened for revachon your city that meant only one thing oh no i'm french if it doesn't rhyme you're not pronouncing it right

0:09:37
Unknown_21: I really am confused by the narration on this. Now drama is talking to me?

Unknown_25: Out of the dazzling swirl of disco music, in an open air, Bois de Nuit, somewhere in Rivershall West, Guillaume's blonde mane appeared on the screen. He sang some bullshit. Then he made the expression.

Unknown_25: It doesn't have to be. You can swoon over Guillaume and his champagne cork smile whenever you want to. Maybe some of the stardust will return.

0:10:11
Unknown_21: Can I roll again? Plus two, know the origin. Okay, so if I skip dialogue, it hampers me from being able to fix my face.

Unknown_21: Okay, I got you.

Unknown_25: Still not happening. It won't come off that easy.

Unknown_21: So I have to unfuck my face at some point in time. Is that the point of the game? To stop smiling?

Unknown_21: I decided against playing Detroit Become Human because the first five chapters are all in the strip club and I'm not doing that.

0:10:49
Unknown_21: Blame David Cage who went to rape Ellen Page.

Unknown_21: Yeah, I guess I'm done here, right?

Unknown_21: Can I take my thing off the ceiling? This fan has two chain pull switches.

Unknown_25: One ends in a tiny fan, the other in a light bulb.

Unknown_25: A truly horrific necktie has somehow attached itself to one of the blades.

Unknown_25: What a fucking Debbie Downer.

0:11:41
Unknown_21: Runs in this game are 80 hours. I don't know. I guess I'm doing it. That's what was requested. The other one was David Cage's game, and I don't want to play David Cage's game.

Unknown_21: So I guess I'll play it all. I don't know.

Unknown_21: At least until I get the word.

Unknown_21: When I looked it up, it said 25 to 40 hours for a run.

Unknown_21: Here's 51. Do I have to talk to her?

0:12:12
Unknown_21: I can run now. Okay.

Unknown_25: I can't be black. Raises a cigarette to her lips. Her eyes are brown and her face is speckled with a silver jumpsuit falls off her like scale armor sparkling. This is the sparkle of too many nights out on the city.

Unknown_21: Not sure what my objective is now.

Unknown_04: Because you're a police officer, sir.

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Unknown_04: I am, yes. Unless you've been feeding us a set of very well rehearsed lies all this time. You've been here for three days on official police business, no less. Couldn't say. In truth, so far, mostly drinking.

Unknown_25: You have no doubt about the drinking. Do you strike yourself as a tight-lipped drunk? She must have heard something.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: So I have to go through the dialogue tree too. Okay. I got you. She notes.

0:13:19
Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: How do I know when someone's not telling me the whole story?

Unknown_04: There's a mercenary out back. He's been hanged. The body has been there for a week now. The locals probably got tired of it and called the cops. I didn't mean to overwhelm you with information. You seem a bit lost, officer.

Unknown_21: This is a red check.

0:13:51
Unknown_04: Could it be because of the drinking?

Unknown_25: she hasn't had time to put her makeup on this is her morning cigarette she looks tired her beauty waning faster than it ought to at her age don't be so harsh on yourself they let almost anyone be a police officer try the expression on her okay this is like a bang her challenge with a three percent success

Unknown_04: Of course. Be careful, officer.

0:14:24
Unknown_21: Even the black guy.

Unknown_04: The police around here.

Unknown_25: Something stirs in you as she's about to go. Call it an instinct, a need. The need to ask questions. It's like you've said the words a million times before.

Unknown_25: She looks back at you, a light glinting off her eyes.

Unknown_25: You're a cop, Harry. It is unnatural of you not to want to ask questions. I don't know if I am a cop, though.

0:14:59
Unknown_04: Um...

Unknown_04: There was the usual ruckus.

Unknown_04: Loud disco music.

Unknown_04: I couldn't say. It's impossible to hear people speaking from over here.

Unknown_04: Oh, yes. Various artists. Ostentatious orchestration prime among them.

Unknown_21: The gameplay challenge is not to roll your eyes out of your head listening to the smug homo narrator. The black guy? Yeah, he's too black.

Unknown_25: Oh, that. Yeah. Whoa. The less said about O-O, the better.

0:15:32
Unknown_04: O-O were huge where I come from. I was very young then, of course, like seven.

Unknown_04: Life gets hard, but we go on.

Unknown_21: Lady, can you like, she sounds like she's doing heroin as she does her voice lines. It would appear so.

Unknown_04: At around two o'clock, the disco stopped and there was a change of pace. A slow, sad song started playing like organ music on repeat. That went on for quite a while.

Unknown_04: Yes, there was a church in there. A really small church. Like the smallest, saddest church in the whole world. It was about that. And also, that it doesn't matter anymore and that we're alone now.

0:16:05
Unknown_04: It was difficult to tell. Okay.

Unknown_04: Glad to have been of assistance.

Unknown_21: Okay. I still know what I'm doing.

Unknown_21: Voice acting auditions the game. She sounds fat. You're playing Ralph and that's Scarlet.

0:16:42
Unknown_21: You can steal her cigarette.

Unknown_21: There's a cripple here.

Unknown_21: Okay, they're playing indie music.

0:17:17
Unknown_21: This is a lot like Life is Strange, but they're like looking at different shit. I guess that's like a point and click- is this a point and click adventure game?

Unknown_21: I'm not a big fan of those.

Unknown_21: Should I talk to this guy?

Unknown_25: A man in his late twenties stands behind the counter, inspecting a stuffed seabird. As you approach, he gives you a sideways glance, then looks down again. Everything is cool between you and this guy. He's a big fan.

Unknown_21: My empathy failed. I haven't discovered empathy yet, even though it was an easy empathy.

0:17:51
Unknown_25: competent work of taxidermy the white and brown seabird lies among piles of coasters and drying mugs one of its wings broken i don't think you can do taxidermy on the bird in a bar looks like the bird was ripped off the shield that was used to mount it but this is the great skua the seabird is the symbol for the discovery of the insolindian isola The part of the world you are in right now. The small steel tag says as much. The Great Skua. Stairquarius Skua.

0:18:24
Unknown_20: Look, your buddy is over there.

Unknown_20: Why don't you go and talk to him, okay?

Unknown_25: He pretends not to hear you.

Unknown_21: I guess I don't get to talk to this guy.

Unknown_21: This guy has to talk to you. Should I talk to the cripple? She can't walk. I don't know if I should talk to her.

Unknown_25: A bespeckled man in an orange bomber jacket is tapping his foot on the floor.

0:18:58
Unknown_21: I tried to play Deadlock and I don't know. It's just not my game.

Unknown_21: Like, if I want to play a shooter, it has to be a shooter. Or if I shoot someone and I blow their fucking brains out, they're dead. If it's going to be a MOBA, it's going to be Dota, which is like a technical game and not like a combo shooter technical game.

Unknown_25: As you approach, he narrows his eyes and extends his hand in greeting.

Unknown_21: Ice Frog isn't interested in making Dota anymore, neither is Valve, so they're going to make a fucking Overwatch Dota, and it just doesn't work. I played a couple games, some of them were fun, but most of it's just like, I'm just relearning Dota, but like Overwatch, and I'm too old for a shooter. My reflexes aren't that fast, I can't keep up with the kids on fucking natural, and it's just like,

0:19:36
Unknown_23: Hello, I'm Kim Kitsuragi, Lieutenant, prison 57. You must be from the 41st.

Unknown_25: You realize he's waiting for your name.

Unknown_25: Concentration makes you squint your eyes. Your name should be deep gold and orange, like a forest fire looming on the horizon, but mixed with a stench of liquor rising from your breath. You're two steps closer to it, but there are still many to go.

0:20:14
Unknown_23: It looks like we had a little scheduling error on Sunday. I'm really taking creative liberties with the dialogue.

Unknown_21: Have you had time to talk to the manager here?

Unknown_21: That's a fucking success. If I, um...

Unknown_21: Don't don't succeed trying to meet up with you for two days, but you have been otherwise occupied If you don't mind we should talk to him again ask him for a rundown of the area know that I'm here as well I am a French guy in Paris It also wouldn't hurt to assure him the police are finally here in full force I mean have you mapped out the initial interviews and

0:20:54
Unknown_23: Good. But even if you haven't, we'll have time for that after we take a look at the coroner's case. He's a murder champ. Have you removed the dead body from the tree? So, the body is still in the tree. Yes. Where it has been hanging for seven days straight. We should go there as soon as we are done talking to the owner.

Unknown_23: After you, officer.

Unknown_25: If you're about to embark on an investigation, shouldn't you have a badge? You mean you don't have a badge?

0:21:26
Unknown_23: Losing your identification card is a serious matter. It's like an Asian and French accent. You can use it to report your badge missing. I advise you to try to locate it as quickly as possible. But getting the body down should still take precedence.

Unknown_05: Lieutenant Kitsuragi is now in your party. You can talk to him whenever by interacting with him.

Unknown_21: They've acquired an Asian man. Okay.

Unknown_21: So now we're talking to Birdo.

Unknown_25: The man with the unimpressive beard notices you approaching. He drops the ledger he was holding and turns to the lieutenant. Mr. Gart, right?

0:21:59
Unknown_23: Yes.

Unknown_23: I am Kim Kitsuragi from prison 57. This is an inter-district investigation, so joining me from prison 41...

Unknown_23: Right. Now, I know it took us a while to arrive at the scene. It also took you a while to call us and report the dead body. It was you who placed the call, yes?

Unknown_20: No, I only just got here. It was probably Sylvie who called you. She usually works the bar here. I'm only temporarily taking over her duties.

0:22:35
Unknown_23: Do you have her number?

Unknown_20: As a matter of fact, I do.

Unknown_25: this sounds like something you can use to call this sylvie yeah i know what a phone number is you said you just got here from where are you a local what of martinez no i live in jamrock i only sometimes come here to keep an eye on the place this is just one of the many many cafeterias i manage but you still know your way around yes

0:23:10
Unknown_20: yes i know where some things are but as i said i don't live here i just used to work here and i'm not going to start working here again if that's what you think i didn't imply that detective he probably turned to me for i don't know where you step in i have everything

Unknown_20: yes yes he means do you have questions for me like a police officer would he thinks you're stupid sire yeah i'm aware ask him about but he is an idiot he doesn't have any idea who the he is how the is he supposed to do anything people give up information in the more innocuous why is rhetoric talking to me later used in the more sinister ones not vice versa

0:24:05
Unknown_20: She went away because none of your business. What a shitty fucking fire.

Unknown_25: Have I not been telling you you're a cop?

Unknown_20: Okay, you got me. She went away because of the dead body out back. And because I asked for her number. That's why Sylvie went away. Because you're creepy and you have no chin.

Unknown_21: Thank you.

Unknown_20: I asked an employee out. She didn't want to come, but felt obliged to. It was a bad idea. Now, what is so goddamn fascinating about that for you? It's got nothing to do with the lynching.

0:24:40
Unknown_21: This is fucking misogyny, bro. Is that so?

Unknown_21: Two plus authority against men.

Unknown_21: Okay.

0:25:15
Unknown_05: You've gained a thought. When this dialogue is over, go to your thought cabinet and internalize it for special bonuses and effects.

Unknown_21: Okay, we'll internalize inexplicable feminist agenda.

Unknown_20: I don't know who killed him. I'm not the police. That's your job. I don't fucking owe you shit.

0:25:56
Unknown_25: One moment you're running like the wind. Oh no. You've suddenly turned around and are giving him the finger. Furiously. With both hands. Why?

Unknown_24: Watch out!

Unknown_21: I can finally live out my Redditor dreams of crashing into cripples.

Unknown_25: Everything goes dark.

Unknown_21: Oh no, I've already died.

Unknown_16: Back so soon.

Unknown_21: What's a Savoir Faire? Is that like your...

0:26:31
Unknown_16: Those are mysteries of the spinal cord.

Unknown_16: The spinal cord has yet to reveal itself to you. Its mysteries are unholy mysteries.

Unknown_16: You are way cooler.

Unknown_16: Cooler than the bottom of the sea.

Unknown_21: I like that my subconscious is just Snickercada talking to me.

Unknown_16: i was wrong to let you go i should have kept you here is it bright where you are is it terrifying that is too bad we all need a little love oh no grandma's been talking to me the cryptozoologist's wife

0:27:27
Unknown_25: You have sustained a trauma to your lower neck. In addition, you have strained your left trapezius muscle. Pain surges down your back when you move.

Unknown_10: Ma'am, are you alright? Oh, I'm fine. He just tripped over my chair.

Unknown_10: Check on him.

Unknown_20: Sir, I didn't mean for this to happen. I'm sorry. This has always been a cop-friendly place.

Unknown_21: Oh, good. I don't have to pay.

Unknown_20: The drinks are on the house, okay? There were a lot of drinks on the tab. I still have to charge you for three nights and the broken window, though. That's a hundred square.

0:28:00
Unknown_25: He's shaken. Barton now, and he'll cave in.

Unknown_20: Okay, fine. I'll take it off your bill. Sleep in a post-apocalyptic hellhole if you want to. Just know I won't give you another room. Don't thank me yet. You still owe me- NO! If you don't have it by tonight, I just can't let you up there. And for God's sake, watch out for yourself.

Unknown_21: This is bullshit. I shouldn't have to pay for anything.

0:28:35
Unknown_21: I'm a cop.

Unknown_21: I'm famous on YouTube.

Unknown_21: Okay, I don't know what the fuck this says. Inti cassette price half a real.

Unknown_21: Plus one to my inland empire. Plus one to a spirit decor.

Unknown_21: Plus one to conceptualization.

Unknown_21: Minus one to civil affair. Okay.

Unknown_21: I'll just take my pants off.

Unknown_25: By the way, where is home? The address is coming up blank, and this place, sure, but you've been at this hostel cafeteria for only three nights. Where were you before? You had to be somewhere. You don't really know, do you?

0:29:13
Unknown_25: A vague, blackened image doesn't sound like somewhere you can stay if you run out of money.

Unknown_25: entertain the thought when you get the time maybe being a hobo and a cop has its advantages probably not i'm gonna wager but can i internalize two things at once what do i get negative one to composure why the would i want a negative one i want plus two to feminist

0:30:02
Unknown_21: Well I have to like find the body right?

Unknown_21: Where's the body at?

Unknown_21: Was that it? There we go.

Unknown_25: The corpse looks at you with bulging white eyes. The face around them does not look human. It's swollen and ready to burst. You seem to be holding your breath.

0:30:43
Unknown_25: A cargo belt twists his neck at an unnatural angle. The body below appears stiff. It's letting out an ungodly rot. The smell seeps in even through your clenched nostrils.

Unknown_23: Active decay. It's okay to throw up, Professor. No one is judging.

Unknown_21: No.

Unknown_21: What the fuck is a kuno? What's a kuno-ass?

0:31:16
Unknown_21: Let go of your nose without throwing up.

Unknown_21: That's not gonna happen.

Unknown_21: Why am I climbing up that?

Unknown_21: What is this, like, goblin child doing?

Unknown_13: Kuno's got this.

Unknown_21: Oh, it's retarded kid, okay.

Unknown_25: If there ever was such a thing as an ugly kid, then this is it. He's almost exquisite in his ugliness, like a gremlin.

0:31:52
Unknown_13: Oh, yeah, not a comfy Kuno.

Unknown_21: What's in... They're both, like, mentally handicapped.

Unknown_13: Can't talk, pig. Shit's coming up strong, throwing rocks.

Unknown_25: Shit coming up strong. That sounds good. Joyous, you should hang out with this kid and see what that juicy shit is all about. I don't want to hear about juicy shit. I mean drugs. The kid's on drugs.

Unknown_13: Yeah, Kuno! Ride the lightning, Kuno! Kuno's riding it, see?

0:32:26
Unknown_17: The rake, Kuno! You should throw the rake at him, Kuno!

Unknown_13: The fuck? Does Kuno know what a rake is? Kuno is not a gardener.

Unknown_21: I don't know. I don't know if I want to interact with children. I don't think that's going to help with the corpse. It doesn't progress my inexplicable feminist agenda.

Unknown_21: So I need some way to take down the corpse.

0:32:58
Unknown_21: I think.

Unknown_21: What am I doing? Expect the victim's body. I just did.

Unknown_21: I need to report my badge missing?

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_25: Before you stands a motorcar. Vapor emanates from the large engine. This must be the infernal machine. In the cabin, you are welcomed by a set of steering levers, a radio microphone, a scent of leatherwork and heavy fuel oils washes over you.

0:33:37
Unknown_25: The frequency tableau lights up, and the green button labeled PRIMELINE glows like a feline eye. And then, you hear something. The soft purr of electrical kittens. Radio waves cast far...

Unknown_21: The descriptions are extremely verbose.

Unknown_11: This is precinct 57. Hello, Lieutenant. How may I assist you?

Unknown_23: Hello, Alice. Please assist our colleague from the 41st precinct here. I'm putting him on.

Unknown_25: Operating the radio is easy. Just be confident.

Unknown_11: This is officer Alice Demetri, precinct 57. How may I assist you?

Unknown_25: Under the green prime line, a yellow saved button catches your eye.

0:34:18
Unknown_25: You wonder what the lieutenant's default radio station is.

Unknown_21: Why would I wonder that?

Unknown_11: Just a second, officer.

Unknown_15: 10-2, 10-5, this is 41st, come in, over.

Unknown_25: The man uses relay code. You've got this. You're a cop. And cops know relay code.

Unknown_15: I think the relay code is different per se. What's your status, sir?

Unknown_15: Over. 10-18. State your message, sir.

0:34:54
Unknown_15: 10-9. Over.

Unknown_15: 10-4, message received. This is a very serious situation. I need to 10-20 to the captain. I don't think French people use the same codes as, like, Americans. What does he want?

Unknown_21: Oh, no.

Unknown_15: Says he lost his badge and needs to report it. He what? He lost his badge?

Unknown_15: Who lost his badge? Dick fucking Mullen. Who do you think?

Unknown_21: Oh, no! I have a name. I'm Dick Mullen, apparently. Dick Mullen from the bestseller Dick Mullen and the Lost Identity.

0:35:27
Unknown_25: dick mullen is not your name it's the name of a fictional detective who would not lose his badge defend yourself immediately they laugh at you oh no i'm being told to have an inward moment by my authority but i did beat my authority i have authority against men because of my feminist agenda my inexplicable feminist agenda

Unknown_15: 10-4, I hear you, officer. I'm just going to make a note here that you are in pursuit of your misplaced badge. Over.

Unknown_11: Fuck me. Mac, come here!

Unknown_21: This game tries to, like, RPG-ify extremely inane encounters by having, like, your psyche taunt you.

Unknown_03: Supercop here lost his badge. He lost his what now?

Unknown_15: His badge. He lost his goddamn fucking badge.

0:36:24
Unknown_15: 10-9, come again. I didn't get that. Over.

Unknown_16: New heights even for Captain Sober. Ask him.

Unknown_16: Ask him if he's lost his gun, too.

Unknown_15: I have. Sergeant Orson wants to know if you lost your gun, too.

Unknown_25: Check your hands. Check your... Holy fuck.

Unknown_21: Why is... What is my half-light? Why is my half-light talking to me? What the fuck is a half-light?

0:36:58
Unknown_25: Okay, it's gone. Your gun is most definitely gone.

Unknown_15: It's true, I can't say Niagara. You get my question? We were wondering about your gun.

Unknown_25: Over. I did it. It's easy. Just say it like it's the truth. And then it becomes it.

Unknown_15: He says he didn't. Thank God for that. That would have been a nightmare. I don't even want to imagine the poor prick who has to relay that kind of news to the captain. Losing his badge is bad enough. I think in America you just buy a new gun if you lose your gun. You do have to report it missing though.

0:37:30
Unknown_21: Should I ask for money?

Unknown_15: Should I tell him I lost my gun?

Unknown_21: Stanford, I know I already wrote it in a report, but...

Unknown_15: I will be on my desk for a few days. Over.

Unknown_21: So my winning my drama thing didn't even matter.

0:38:03
Unknown_15: Stanford, I hear you. I don't have the authority to answer your request, but... What does he want now?

Unknown_21: Money. He's asking for money.

Unknown_15: Is he fucking kidding?

Unknown_21: This is the hell, being taunted by French people and Irish children.

Unknown_15: Don't give that asshole anything. He's just gonna drink it all. Can I ask for my name? Shut up rhetoric.

0:38:51
Unknown_15: 10-4, sir. I'm not hearing your question.

Unknown_15: 10-9, repeat message. I didn't get that, sir. Poor. What? What is it? What can he possibly still want from us? He seems intoxicated and keeps asking me to call him by his name. Mullen's drunk and emotionally aggressive.

Unknown_21: That's new. I told you it was David Mullen.

Unknown_15: Don't indulge in his drunken antics.

Unknown_15: Understood, sir. Over. Roger that, 10-10. Over and out.

0:39:24
Unknown_23: A metallic drawer slides out.

Unknown_21: I think that there's a hint that there's like a cloth that stinks somewhere.

Unknown_23: Take what you need, officer. It's going to be a long case. I'm not protective of my tools like some men are.

Unknown_23: The pry bar feels useful for opening oars. The handles are long and sleek.

Unknown_25: I'm taking on this show. It's robust, weatherproof, and well. It lets you see things in the dark you would otherwise miss. The pull-out toolbox slides back. I was hoping that there would be... Pre-heater gauge casts a warm glow on the steering levers and the radio on its... That there would be like a cloth.

0:39:58
Unknown_21: Because it was kind of implying that... Let's see. Can I... I can hold stuff?

Unknown_21: I can hold a flashlight, a pry bar. Does it give me stats? They don't give me stats. That's bullshit.

Unknown_21: Can I hold this in my hand? I cannot.

0:40:43
Unknown_21: I need something, like, to cover my face.

Unknown_21: There's a tree in the... That's... This place is a dump. I don't know what that guy was complaining about with the fucking window being broken. Like, you live in a fucking dump, buddy.

Unknown_21: Humanitarian aid?

Unknown_21: I can't click this button. Oh wait, there it goes. Okay, there's a drawbridge. Okay, I got you. This is where you leave.

Unknown_21: But there's a corpse.

0:41:15
Unknown_21: And... I don't know.

Unknown_21: Maybe if I take drugs from the kids, I can take down the corpse. That would seem to be the biggest priority.

Unknown_21: There are bottles inside I could pick up if I had a bag. I do have a bag.

0:41:56
Unknown_21: Well, I don't know where the guns at or I could get up. I mean, I guess it could be in the room?

Unknown_21: That's rude.

Unknown_21: Like I need something to like cover my face, I guess. I wonder if I can like, now that I have posterity, I can like search my room and like find something.

0:42:47
Unknown_21: Okay, I see that there's something on the table. Oh, it's money. That's mine.

Unknown_21: We've already searched all this shit.

Unknown_21: Maybe if I ask him, like, inside the room, he'll be able to find it. He's Asian. He can do shit. The window stands broken in its frame.

Unknown_25: Cold wind. The shards face outward. Whatever broke this window came from the inside. A fine web of scarring covers the back of your right hand. But none of it is recent. More likely a projectile than a held object. there are no it is too large for a bullet yet too small for a piece of furniture like the green shoe that's gone the hat rack in the corner which coincidentally congratulations you smashed the window with your own shoe a cool wind okay fine i'll go find the shoe i'm wearing one shoe

0:43:20
Unknown_21: One shoe grants no benefits whatsoever, I see.

Unknown_25: Kim also tries not to look at the pile of tape viscera on the carpet. The man is finding it hard not to trip on the tape and not to send any of the bottles rolling across the floor.

Unknown_21: What's tape viscera?

0:44:21
Unknown_23: And by that you mean crimes against humanity?

Unknown_23: I have no idea what that means.

Unknown_21: Poor Asian guy. The Asian guy's so straight-laced.

Unknown_25: The bed is cold and no- The option to go to sleep becomes available every night after 9pm.

Unknown_05: Okay.

Unknown_21: Does the time like progress in real time or as I like do stuff?

0:44:55
Unknown_21: Oh, there's like time, Jesus.

Unknown_25: The door is closed.

Unknown_21: No, no, I don't want to talk to her.

Unknown_21: She's like English.

Unknown_21: Maybe grandma has found my gun. What's this?

Unknown_21: Taking this fire extinguisher. It's not a fire extinguisher. What the fuck is the nose of that?

Unknown_21: I took something and now I don't have it.

0:45:35
Unknown_10: Hello, sweetie.

Unknown_25: Wait, who's sweetie?

Unknown_10: Why, you are, officer. And have you found anyone to be sweet to?

Unknown_21: no you rascal i'm too old for you and too married besides you must forgive me i'm getting so scatterbrained i'm coming where my gun is husband morel and i are staying with our friend gary just down the street but i come here for tea when they're away this lena is wacky enough for the motley crew higher what on the spot why would i have a wheelchair

0:46:18
Unknown_21: Why would I have a wheelchair-bound grandma as my party member?

Unknown_21: Um... Whatever do you mean?

Unknown_10: Sequence killers? Oh my.

Unknown_23: A partner who needs you to help him get a corpse done from a tree.

Unknown_10: It seems to me that you lucked out with your partner. He has the look of an upstanding officer of the law Someone you can lean on and sweetie. You are looking unsteady. Of course dear So I only get one like if I replace him with the wheelchair-bound grandma then like I I lose the Asian guy.

0:46:51
Unknown_21: The Asian guy is very reliable another complete fuck-up like him. I

Unknown_21: Okay, I'm gonna go with my... I think what the game wants me to do, which is to take drugs, to take the corpse down.

Unknown_13: Kuno, the pig's getting pretty close to me. Come to snuff my shit out, I think.

Unknown_13: Looks like it's time for me to go, Kuno. Pig's come to take me in.

Unknown_13: I'm going away for a long, long time, Kuno. Going away for life. What's going on there? Fuck are you trying to pull, pig?

0:47:30
Unknown_13: Murder was the case, was the case they gave me.

Unknown_21: It's like Redditor's trying to write British- Why is this kid just allowed to like harass this dead body? What's the point of this?

Unknown_21: I can't reach back there because of the- Why can't I climb up the thing to bring it down? Oh, I see. It explains why.

0:48:03
Unknown_21: Okay, let's find the shoe, maybe. Maybe if I find the shoe, I'll have the stats required to... Oh, there's my shoe. How the fuck do I get up there?

Unknown_25: that sugary black rum stain on the counter makes you teary-eyed with joy it's almost touching our syrupy and sticky oh excuse me do you have something better to do than lust for sweet syrup lick the bottle with a twist of lemon maybe yeah

0:48:45
Unknown_25: You're meso. Look at, but only a little calmly. The Lieutenant looks out of the window. Then to you licking the tasty rum stain off the counter, but only a little then out of the window again, what are you doing?

Unknown_25: We should move. You could definitely go for some more. The title has gained the fine booze and drink it.

Unknown_21: No.

0:49:16
Unknown_21: I will resist, I think.

Unknown_21: I don't know how to get the fuck up there and get my shoe.

Unknown_21: I'm more concerned about the shoe than I am anything else. There has to be some way to get to it. Oh, there we go.

Unknown_25: There they both are. Two identical shoes, both copiously green and indiscriminately snakeskin, reunited on your feet like two baby crocodiles.

0:49:51
Unknown_25: It's pretty clear a normal cop is not what you are. Good, they're balanced, comfy. Feels like the only good thing about you right now.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Oh, I have to level something up?

Unknown_21: Oh, fuck.

Unknown_21: Um... Is... Okay. I have no fucking idea what any of this is. Is there actually any strategy to how you level shit up? Like, if I start leveling up my spirit decor, am I gonna be...

0:50:26
Unknown_21: Am I going to be upset?

Unknown_21: Endurance or volition?

Unknown_21: Drama max. Am I going to be a drama maxer?

Unknown_21: Is there any additional cost to leveling something up from 9 to 10 versus 1 to 2?

Unknown_21: Looks max.

Unknown_21: Volition is mental health. Level up your money. I can't do that.

0:50:59
Unknown_21: Practice the art of persuasion. Intellect base plus 5.

Unknown_21: Understand others. Work your mirror neurons.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Electrochemistry? Is that... Jester Maxon? Has anyone ever played this game? Did people recommend this game to me as like a joke?

0:51:32
Unknown_21: Psychopath Max.

Unknown_21: I'm still leveling up my inexplicable from this gender, so I can't do that yet.

Unknown_21: Pretty much, okay.

Unknown_21: Why is it not snowing?

0:52:09
Unknown_17: Hello, sir. Step right in. The store is open.

Unknown_17: I know, sir.

Unknown_17: Are you interested in a new and exciting book? Okay, sir. I'll try to answer any questions you have. My name is Annette, sir. My mum, her name is Plaisance. She owns the store. She's inside minding the register. Feel free to step in and browse our wares.

Unknown_17: I'm signaling that the store is open. Otherwise, people might not know. They'd miss out on the crime, romance, and biographies of famous people.

0:52:44
Unknown_17: Thank you, sir. I'm happy to help mom out with the store.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I still have not found a way to get the corpse down.

Unknown_21: Can I break this?

Unknown_21: I see.

Unknown_21: If I crowbar this open, I may get money. And then I'll be doing a public service because then I'll be able to... No. I just can't crowbar this fucking thing open.

0:53:15
Unknown_20: What's the point of having a crowbar?

Unknown_21: Okay, you tell me what to do. I don't know what to do.

Unknown_25: No response. He just arches his brow. He's having trouble processing it, believing it even.

Unknown_23: Have you tried concentrating on something other than your personal affairs?

Unknown_21: Um... Fine.

Unknown_23: We should get through this day first. Off hours begin at 9pm. If you're still having trouble then... You won't talk to me during off hours?

0:53:56
Unknown_21: Outside of off hours?

Unknown_23: Focus on other people's troubles.

Unknown_25: A moment passes. The lieutenant glances at the sports watch on his wrist.

Unknown_21: Okay, he won't tell me my name even. Would you think it would accelerate the case in some way?

Unknown_21: Where am I going to find a bag to sell plastic bottles from?

0:54:31
Unknown_21: Okay, this is water.

Unknown_21: Is it paying in?

Unknown_21: If I like...

Unknown_21: If I like have completely left like the area I'm supposed to be in.

Unknown_21: Hit the kid with the crowbar.

0:55:11
Unknown_21: The construction crew.

Unknown_21: I can spook the kid from this side. Hello.

Unknown_13: Are you trying to sneak up on me? Come to slit my throat in my sleep?

Unknown_25: Apparently, she doesn't like people standing behind her back. Logic error. She's not sleeping right now.

Unknown_21: Why is that a logic error?

Unknown_25: The kid hates me.

Unknown_13: Can I open that?

0:56:09
Unknown_21: This place is a shithole, kid. You live in like a fucking dump. There's a penis on this door.

Unknown_23: There must be another way into the building.

Unknown_21: Holy shit, that was loud.

Unknown_21: Why would we break into this building, though? Why would the Asian guy cosign this?

Unknown_25: A sturdy metal door guards the southwest entrance to the apartment building. It's locked.

0:56:44
Unknown_25: The door rattles against your knuckles, but the door rattles again. Stop banging on the door.

Unknown_06: I'm not letting any... The police? Everyone knows the police don't come round here.

Unknown_06: No, I already told you. I won't be responsible for any more strangers getting into the building. Go check the backyard door. Maybe someone there will.

Unknown_25: Backyard door. There must be a... So nice of her to shout that out.

0:57:16
Unknown_21: The streets will flow red once more.

Unknown_08: A great torrent rushing down Rue d'Esperance. You wait and see.

Unknown_23: The streets will not flow red with anything. Who are you?

Unknown_08: I'm Cindy the fucking Skull. What else do you want to know? Date of birth, blood type, the last time I was tested for Hep C. Sod off, pig man. Art is above the law.

Unknown_25: A brush, an artist. The red splatter is urban expressionism.

0:57:51
Unknown_08: I ain't no snitch, pigsty. Imagine not wanting to snitch on a murder.

Unknown_08: No shortage of squealers.

Unknown_23: Actually, there is a shortage of people who talk to us in a normal, calm, informative manner.

Unknown_08: We weren't part of this earth to make your life pleasant, fucko.

Unknown_25: The lieutenant furrows his brow at another one of your eccentricisms.

0:58:25
Unknown_25: Hatred, disgust, it's difficult to tell which of the two is more present in her girlish features.

Unknown_25: The woman on the boat does not notice her steering.

Unknown_08: Yeah. Archipelago? Oh, God.

0:59:06
Unknown_08: Beginning to doubt Kim's competence watch your back shut up The fucking captain's British bitch threatening me Striking woman leans against the cabin top of her sailing boat.

Unknown_09: Good morning officers. I I'm Joyce. Joyce L. Messier. I represent the board of Wild Pines, the owners of the harbor. You gentlemen must be from the RCM.

Unknown_09: I'm glad to see you here.

Unknown_25: Like steel, there is strength... Interfacing. If she wanted, she could sink her nails deep into your skin.

Unknown_09: I was dispatched to handle a strike, not a lynching. Anything I can do to assist the RCM in this matter, I will. Gladly.

0:59:58
Unknown_23: That is good to hear, madam. My colleague will take the lead on this interview.

Unknown_23: I should let you know that he is recovering from an unusual medical episode. Very unusual. Why would you tell her that?

Unknown_21: That compromises my authority, you fucker. I haven't completed... Actually, even if I had my esoteric feminism, I wouldn't be able to talk to her. There's a trace of irony in his voice.

Unknown_25: Mischief, even. This is a tactic. It happens quicker than a shooting star. But did the lieutenant just wink at you?

1:00:30
Unknown_21: Reaction speed.

Unknown_21: That's what I want to level up.

Unknown_21: I just feel it. That's a very important skill, that reaction speed.

Unknown_09: How interesting. There's about 90 hours left of this game.

Unknown_21: In the meanwhile, you have my full cooperation.

Unknown_09: And the full cooperation of the Wild Pines group.

Unknown_21: Okay. Tell me about the fucking murder.

Unknown_09: Quite a few things, I'm afraid.

1:01:04
Unknown_09: The information I'm to share with you includes sensitive trade secrets. For the sake of my employer, I have to ask for your names and badge numbers.

Unknown_23: Of course, ma'am. We should have introduced ourselves. I am Lieutenant Kitano from prison 47.

Unknown_23: And this is my colleague from prison 41.

Unknown_21: He doesn't know his name. Kim also doesn't know this guy's fucking name. And it's not going to help me in any way. How curious.

Unknown_09: Why is that detective?

Unknown_09: I see.

Unknown_09: So are you saying you lost your badge during the course of this episode?

1:01:43
Unknown_09: I can't hear you, darling. Speak up, please.

Unknown_21: Neither of these options are good. Can I get a little bit more Riz, please? I should have leveled up fucking Riz.

Unknown_09: Oh, dear.

Unknown_09: Some kind of encephalopathic amnesia.

Unknown_09: I don't even know how to respond. I do believe you, naive as that may sound. I simply can't imagine what you gain by faking such a condition.

Unknown_23: As I said ma'am, his technique may be very unconventional.

1:02:17
Unknown_09: Of course, I sympathize. But I'm afraid I simply can't share anything more until I've seen that badge.

Unknown_25: She's a professional negotiator. She should be open to some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement.

Unknown_25: Feelings will guide the way.

Unknown_09: Assure you it is no small matter for me either. We all share the responsibility for disarming the situation I hope you have a badge for me as soon as possible She's silent the wind flaps the sail above her damage morale

1:03:00
Unknown_25: What? Why am I having like an episode now? Why is my volition and conceptualization complaining to me?

Unknown_23: I don't dispute that you have been charged with protecting the people of a particularly challenging district. But poverty does not make one a loser. Poverty is just poverty.

1:03:33
Unknown_25: Nothing you can say would make you feel any better now. Cop gives up the detective genre to realism. Another producer resigned from the RCM following a nervous breakdown. He now-

1:04:07
Unknown_21: I guess reaction speed was not the correct tactic.

Unknown_21: So what's changed? Do I have anything? Do I have to repeat everything?

Unknown_21: I don't have the tools.

Unknown_21: So I have to repeat everything.

1:04:47
Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Well, I guess I just repeat everything and then save more often because apparently you can fail one skill check and have to restart the entire game.

Unknown_25: Before you stand, vapor emanate. This must in the cabin. You are welcomed by a set of steering levers, a scent of leather, a metallic drill. Take what you need. The handles are locked. You can do this robust. Let's see the pull-out toolbox. The frequency tabler lights up the soft. Hello, Alice. Operating the radio is easy.

1:05:19
Unknown_11: This is Officer Alice.

Unknown_25: Under the green prime line.

Unknown_15: 10-2. The man. 10-4. 10-18. 10-9. 10-4. Is it him? Says you. This is communication office. You mean your partner? What is this? I'm his. It's your partner. Did he lose? Who lost it? Dick. It's up.

Unknown_25: Dick. Defend yourself. Immediately.

Unknown_15: 10-4. Fuck. What's got Sue? Here. His badge.

Unknown_25: He lost his gut.

Unknown_15: 10. No. Ask. Sergeant Thor. Check your pockets.

Unknown_25: Check. Okay.

Unknown_15: 10-9. Coming officer. You get my question. Lying. Okay. What is the thing to quicksave? F5. I guess I'll just do this continually, because apparently just game overs you randomly.

1:05:51
Unknown_21: Oh yeah, let's go get my shield.

1:07:27
Unknown_25: there he still is looking right the smell is repulsive am i gonna like die from like a health check now because i only had one health bar

Unknown_25: Too late. It's impossible to keep in. Until a pool of vomit lies under your feet, and your throat stings from the stomach acid. The smell of Commodore Red rises from the pool. Among it, distilled spirit and bits of shish kebab.

Unknown_23: It's okay. Happens to everyone.

Unknown_23: Keep the hangover is clearly making this worse for you. You could use some ammonia to clear your head.

Unknown_23: There is freight nearby, east of the hostel. They usually have a small apothecary. If they don't...

1:08:15
Unknown_23: There's a greenhouse here, and a gardener with a wheelbarrow on the corner of the whirling rags. If she works here, she might have something for you.

Unknown_05: Acquiring ammonia will provide a modifier to the white check.

Unknown_21: I got you. I understand why.

Unknown_21: Be shoeless? I got the shoe.

Unknown_21: I got my shoes. Wait.

1:08:48
Unknown_21: Did I not get the shoe? I ran up there and grabbed it.

Unknown_21: Where's my other shoe?

Unknown_21: Oh, I didn't get...

Unknown_21: I didn't get the one from the room yet. I see.

Unknown_21: That's crazy how much...

Unknown_21: progression's loss if you just randomly KO yourself talking to a... This guy talks to one white woman and then has a mental breakdown and tries to fucking slit his throat in the middle of the public pier.

1:09:21
Unknown_16: Um...

Unknown_21: There they both are.

Unknown_25: Two identical shoes. Both copiously green and like two baby crocodiles.

Unknown_25: Good, they're back.

Unknown_21: That healed morale that I didn't have lost anyways.

1:09:59
Unknown_21: This adds to my composure but not my savoir faire. Okay, I understand.

Unknown_21: If I see a bag, let me know. Apparently I need that to get money to pay for a fare. Is this Estelle? I thought this was going to be the apothecary, but it's just a bookstore.

1:10:49
Unknown_21: Is this the apothecary?

Unknown_21: No.

Unknown_21: I guess east is this way, isn't it?

Unknown_21: But I can't go this way. It's like a burned down house. What a fucking shithole this place is. Why are we even investigating this murder?

Unknown_21: These people are dogs.

Unknown_21: They're like burning shit down.

1:11:32
Unknown_21: It's like a protest. Where's the fucking apothecary?

Unknown_24: We have a right to work.

Unknown_24: Hold up and stay frosty, everyone. Cops are here.

Unknown_21: Why is the scab like the most retarded son of a person ever? Just like Kino Casino's editor.

1:12:23
Unknown_24: If we were promised work, we'd be in there, working, if the bastards hadn't shut the gates.

Unknown_25: The physically impressive man tower has turned his attention back to the gates. He igno- He doesn't want to talk about the murder, I got you.

Unknown_21: Where's the fucking apothecary?

Unknown_21: Dude, I'm gonna be real. This horn thing that plays whenever I move into a different scene is like driving me crazy. It's like a homeless man.

1:13:07
Unknown_25: It's a horse with no neck. There's also no neck for the horse.

Unknown_25: Even by the standards of the Philippian kings, old sumptuous Philip was known for his profligacy. Well, he blew through the whole national treasury, starting the decline of one of the penultimate century's greatest powers. His own maladministration foreshadowed the fall of the monarchy. during the anti-centennial revolution an end to his family line and the Philip the third's ludicrous bronze something with great kinetic energy seems to have impacted the cuirass someone shot him in the heart interesting

1:13:47
Unknown_23: Okay, I can't see it, but I take your word for it. Well Martinez is riddled with bullet holes This place a lot of action during the revolution, but the statue is recently renovated So maybe a joke if we connect every bullet hole in Martinez to the murder We'll get an overwhelming amount of loose threads.

1:14:30
Unknown_25: I've made a note Don't hold your breath. The king stands high Yeah, I gained experience from that

Unknown_21: Oh, is that it?

Unknown_21: Fritta. It is a... One ammonia, please.

Unknown_18: Welcome to Frit. Feel free to look around or something. Everything.

Unknown_21: What's that magazine she's reading?

Unknown_18: You mean this?

1:15:04
Unknown_21: It's got lesbians on it.

Unknown_18: This is pop stars. It's got, like, famous people in it. It's not.

Unknown_25: Looks like it also has something called police de la mode.

Unknown_21: I approve of this. Very futuristic. Tap on the girl's kissing. That's not very feminist. I don't think I would say that.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_18: Yeah. Me neither. Um, okay. I'm not really supposed to be chatting to anyone, but...

Unknown_25: She looks up from her magazine, eyes filled with tired ennui.

1:15:40
Unknown_21: Ennui, yeah. That guy had a struggle to pronounce this line because he had to say ennui. Yes, what we have is there in the medicine cabinet.

Unknown_18: Um, I don't really know anything. I mean, I know it's there, but I haven't seen it, so... Not really. Um, no. I didn't know him at all.

Unknown_18: Um...

Unknown_23: No need to worry. It's just standard procedure for us to ask around. If you hear anything, let us know, okay?

Unknown_18: Okay. Uh-huh.

1:16:11
Unknown_21: I can't make them all afford ammonia.

Unknown_25: You see several packaged raincoats fill a low shelf beneath. The packages are small, discreet, sloppily stacked, making them easier to take unnoticed. Why would I steal a raincoat?

Unknown_21: Plus one to endurance.

Unknown_21: I don't really need to steal a raincoat.

Unknown_25: The tear machine stands in the corner. A sign says, one bottle.

Unknown_21: Where am I going to get a bag so I can steal bottles so I can pay for the ammonia? Because the ammonia is expensive, right?

1:16:46
Unknown_25: A colorful display of cigarettes. The bottles wink at you in the light. The smokes, too, glitter in their wrapping.

Unknown_21: Steal everything. Well, I can steal everything, because then I would get caught, because I don't have any savoir-foi.

1:17:20
Unknown_21: I'm pretty sure that the... Like, I don't know. I figured that there would probably be multiple ways to solve things, but the way that everything is pointing to, like, getting a plastic bag and just stealing bottles...

Unknown_21: I think that's what they're trying to convince me to do.

Unknown_21: Oh, this homeless man has a bag.

Unknown_21: Yoink.

Unknown_21: You don't need this. I couldn't have asked the woman for a plastic bag. I have... I had 40 cents at some point.

1:17:56
Unknown_21: Okay. I can't take these bottles, though. These bottles are not acceptable.

Unknown_21: And that trash can I can't use either.

Unknown_21: Yeah, the triumphant horns like to blast every time I walk into a new area. Can I put the... Oh, if I put the thing in my hand, can I now interact with stuff? Oh yeah, I can. I was not able to do that before I got the plastic bag, but now I can.

1:18:26
Unknown_21: Tibbs has windows. Oh, if I press space it just makes it does it faster. Okay, I gotcha.

1:19:06
Unknown_21: Doing the city a service here. Okay. Isn't there like a bunch of shit in my room?

Unknown_21: Did I pick that bottle up? Wait, so the bottle, all I can do... That sugary black rum stain on the counter makes you tear... Oh, excuse me.

Unknown_25: Okay, I'm not gonna ricada max this one, because it gave me a mission to get drunk.

1:19:37
Unknown_21: Don't support this intoxication. But I can't get the bottle? I'm not allowed to pick up the bottles in here. For whatever reason.

Unknown_21: Okay, I can't pick up my own bottle. Wait, there we go. This bottle's over here. The bottle on the floor in particular though, not allowed.

Unknown_21: That specific bottle, not acceptable.

1:20:17
Unknown_21: They do this in Europe for real, by the way. In certain places in Europe, they have vending machines for returning bottles, and you get euros for doing it. So it's like a side hustle of every homeless person in the entire continent to walk around with bags picking up bottles so they can get a couple euros to get some shots of liquor.

1:20:52
Unknown_21: Yeah, it is very evidently a Rakata simulator. I've resisted on my second playthrough now to not lick the bottle.

Unknown_21: The horns haunt me.

Unknown_21: They tease me.

Unknown_21: Maybe it's a part of the Rakata simulation. Every time you walk into a room, you're like hassled by

1:21:26
Unknown_21: magnesium where's the magnesium at

Unknown_25: the tear machine stands in the corner your bottles clunk into the okay how much is the ammonia um is this about the questions again because i

1:22:17
Unknown_25: I want a colorful display of cigars. The bottles wink at you in the light. The smokes too glitter in their wrapping. It's like looking.

Unknown_21: I just want ammonia.

Unknown_25: A small cabinet on the wall. Their logo is the bloodless rose. Pure white.

Unknown_18: Just ask me if you need anything from CK. There we go. Don't like overdo it or something.

Unknown_21: Well, you can't, like, overdo ammonia. If you try to do a little ammonia, you're gonna overdo ammonia, I believe.

1:22:51
Unknown_21: Okay. So I'm supposed to do those, right?

Unknown_21: Maybe I can... Well, I have the handkerchief and the ammonia. I don't know if I can mix them together, though.

Unknown_21: Oh yeah, I might overdo my ammonia and fucking die.

Unknown_25: There he still is, looking right through you with his white eyes. The body below is entirely dedicated to that corpse smell. The ammonia only makes it worse. The combination forces tears out of your ducts. The second time, not so much. When the vomiting is done, your cheeks are wet with tears.

1:23:22
Unknown_23: Are you okay, officer? You're facing tough odds here. Oh, I'm gonna die again.

Unknown_21: Alcohol withdrawal.

1:24:00
Unknown_23: No. This is a two-man assignment because it needs two officers to complete. You need to get your shit together.

Unknown_23: No, it's not, officer.

Unknown_02: We should go talk to the locals.

Unknown_23: Find something else to do while the wind changes. It's pretty bad right now.

Unknown_05: You've gained a thought. When this dialogue is over... Give it half an hour.

Unknown_23: Get yourself together. Then come back and have another go.

Unknown_21: Did I do that right? I don't have my pants on because it reduces my Savo Affair. I already have very low Savo Affair.

1:24:37
Unknown_21: I honestly...

Unknown_21: I'm not sure if I've taken progress. I can internalize more stuff?

Unknown_21: What do I get if I... Oh, I can internalize more.

1:25:29
Unknown_21: let's see okay does it have a gamergate reference it might have a gamergate reference so now i have to burn another 30 minutes to try again i'm not entirely sure if that's what they're actually telling me to do

Unknown_21: I don't have my badge number, so I can't get my badge or gun.

Unknown_25: This is a wall on the side of an apartment building.

Unknown_25: You have no clue. It's so many walls all over Martinese. Weather wall.

1:26:21
Unknown_21: Yeah.

Unknown_21: Ooh, money.

Unknown_21: And magnesium.

Unknown_21: wow you see a young man on a balcony nursing a cigarette not looking for any trouble officer no he's gay it's the voice of someone who has something to hide my liege

1:26:58
Unknown_22: There's no trouble. I'm just speaking in a lowered voice.

Unknown_22: I don't want to be seen talking to the gendarmerie if that's okay. I just finished my cigarettes.

Unknown_25: Don't let him go. This could be your witness. The balcony has a great view of the whole thing.

Unknown_22: Is it really that important?

Unknown_21: There is a dead corpse right there.

Unknown_25: He keeps stealing looks at the neighboring windows.

Unknown_21: I like Half-Life the most.

Unknown_21: Half-Life is like the scariest monster. Alright, but make it quick.

Unknown_22: Once I finish this cigarette, I have to run.

1:27:30
Unknown_22: I'd even go so far as to say that the view is a little too good, my dear gendarme.

Unknown_23: We will remove the body as soon as possible. Now tell us, where were you last Sunday?

Unknown_22: Oh.

Unknown_22: You already asked me that, didn't you?

Unknown_25: Wait. Is someone else investigating the lynching?

Unknown_21: No. It would be that or him.

Unknown_22: no not you some more muscular type and when did you speak to this more muscular gentleman last week i don't know look a downy blanket of white to cover up the miserable poverty of the scene you didn't answer the question i had a friend over gay my sunday friend

1:28:17
Unknown_25: Gay friend. He doesn't reply. Gesturing no with his cigarette.

Unknown_22: My name? My name is Martin Martinez.

Unknown_25: Martinez sounds like a sauce. That's definitely not his real name.

Unknown_22: No, of course not. Could you please lower your voice?

Unknown_22: No.

Unknown_22: We won't.

Unknown_22: Now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to get going.

1:28:48
Unknown_21: Can I just like force this by like saving and...

Unknown_25: I can't believe it.

Unknown_21: My suggestion is very strong.

Unknown_21: I can't believe it.

Unknown_25: For a moment, the man on the balcony seems almost vulnerable.

Unknown_22: I am sorry, but I really don't have the information. I don't get anything for it.

Unknown_25: Hold on. What's that? For a split second, his hand lingers as though gesturing towards a stone placed right next to the front door. It's a sign.

1:29:30
Unknown_22: Good luck with the investigation.

Unknown_21: A stone placed by the front door. Okay. Oh, there's now a cutscene shot. I did it.

Unknown_21: Get the civic. Yeah, exactly.

Unknown_23: He's gone.

Unknown_23: No point in running. Tenements like these often have multiple exits. If he doesn't want to talk to us, then he'll know how to hide himself. He could be a witness. Him or his Sunday friend. Either way, we need to look into that muscular type who's asking about our case.

1:30:01
Unknown_21: Is it the dumb tower guy from the protest? He did leave us a sign.

Unknown_23: Did you see that? He wanted to draw our attention to that stone right over there. If we find a way inside the building, we can ask around for his apartment.

Unknown_21: The stone.

Unknown_25: A stone, like any other, lying in a whirl of sleep. There's a key beneath it, rusty from the dirt.

1:30:34
Unknown_23: This must be for the front door.

Unknown_23: We'll just have to go in and see.

Unknown_21: Now I have a thing, right? I have a skill point.

Unknown_21: Suggestion. Oh yeah, that's the skill that's like real fucked up.

Unknown_21: Bonus from all items. Negative one. Why is my suggestion negative one?

Unknown_21: Is it my tie? My... My shirt. I can conceptualize well enough without the shirt.

1:31:11
Unknown_21: I don't need that. That's going to reduce my suggestion to zero. You know what? Fuck the shirt. I guess I'll just keep it for now.

1:31:51
Unknown_21: What's volition? Keep morale high. Okay.

Unknown_21: Now I have two morale points. Okay.

Unknown_21: I mean, now I can talk to the old woman without dying.

Unknown_21: There's something on the ground in the closet?

1:32:22
Unknown_20: Oh.

Unknown_21: No way.

Unknown_21: What's my authority?

Unknown_21: One.

Unknown_21: So reduce my... No.

Unknown_21: That's not gonna help, I don't think. Good call, though.

1:32:56
Unknown_21: I don't think I saw anything. It's like pseudo-isometric, so I can't like... I can't do that.

Unknown_21: This is a very dramatic music.

Unknown_21: Oh my god, there's poor French people in here.

Unknown_25: Knock knock.

Unknown_21: Knock knock. Oh ho ho. Wait, I have to put the thing in my hand?

Unknown_25: What's the point of that?

1:33:38
Unknown_25: This door has been closed with a padlock. The shackle snapped. After you, detective.

Unknown_21: Don't you have something to say about not having a warrant or something, bro?

Unknown_21: God, it auto saved. This is like a... Look, it's Karl Marx.

Unknown_25: A plaster cast bust depicts a middle-aged man. With Graz Mazov, nom de guerre, was an economist and a theoretical historian.

1:34:15
Unknown_21: Calling Karl Marx an economist sounds like a fucking joke. The turn of the century revolution.

Unknown_23: With the white star, the photos on the wall, I think we have broken into the apartment of a young communard.

Unknown_21: He sounds gay.

Unknown_21: Maybe we should find his gun.

Unknown_21: Ooh, a bullet.

Unknown_21: Jacket.

Unknown_21: Conceptualization, no downturn.

Unknown_21: That would replace my other jacket.

1:34:52
Unknown_21: Do I want more spirit decor or more conceptualization?

Unknown_21: My conceptualization is already quite high, chat.

Unknown_21: Ooh, $3. Hell yeah. Wait, shoes?

Unknown_21: Oh, dude, I can just loot all these poor people's money.

Unknown_21: Can I take his shoes, too? Do his shoes have any benefits?

Unknown_25: You hear someone walking. The walking stops abruptly. A poor communard from the looks of it.

1:35:28
Unknown_12: Do I have to open the door?

Unknown_12: Do you have a warrant? I'm not obligated to open the door if you don't have a warrant.

Unknown_21: I do have wire cutters. Let's go.

Unknown_25: We don't have a reason to get in. It's generally easier to do things if you have literally any reason.

Unknown_21: No.

Unknown_21: Department eight, that must be where he lives. I bet you she will tell me that that's where he lives. Give me a moment.

1:36:01
Unknown_06: The cold never does any good for my bronco. Go ahead, then.

Unknown_25: She's the cleaning lady. She knows the floor plan and the residence.

Unknown_06: Ask away, policeman.

Unknown_06: No one lives there. It's been empty for months. Impossible. I would know if someone had moved in there. Maybe it's those countercultural people again. Breaking into a house like great young people. They're worse than rats. You know people come and go. I don't keep an eye on everyone.

1:36:34
Unknown_25: They probably just moved or died. Hopefully somewhere else. Once they were hanging from a tree. Yes, yes.

Unknown_06: I know who you mean. The scrawny boy who's always smoking like the devil.

Unknown_25: Somewhere in the building, a child starts crying. What's he in trouble for?

Unknown_25: Oh, God. What was so funny about that?

Unknown_06: He lives upstairs in room 28.

1:37:07
Unknown_23: Thank you.

Unknown_21: Maybe I can go hassle that other lady.

Unknown_21: There's a fox.

Unknown_20: Money.

Unknown_21: I'm just going to loot everything. That's my plan.

Unknown_21: Now that I know that the tab key lets me take stuff.

Unknown_21: It lets me identify stuff I can loot. Let me go back and look. I would like to have my tab button open at all times so that I can see lootable stuff. There's even a... Let's see the balcony.

1:37:41
Unknown_21: Oh ho ho, I did not see this. See?

Unknown_21: Magnesium!

Unknown_21: No, I will leave the alcohol.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I'm not gonna recade a max.

Unknown_21: Mercado maxing is the way to sadness. That isn't just a five-pointed star.

Unknown_25: It's an inverted white pentagram cradled in a wreath of antlers. I keep my armistice handy, detective. He doesn't actually reach for his gun.

Unknown_21: Wibbly gifted 10 subs. Whoa, buddy. I can't believe it. That actually covered the cost of this video game by five times.

1:38:13
Unknown_25: What?

Unknown_25: Oh. All endurance white checks unlocked.

Unknown_21: Learning cap for endurance raised to four.

Unknown_21: Oh.

Unknown_21: Oh!

1:38:44
Unknown_21: And my endurance is raised to four?

Unknown_21: No, I still have one endurance.

Unknown_21: All this shit's junk. Does this have a value to it? No.

Unknown_21: Inspect apartment 10.

Unknown_21: Which one's apartment 10? Is this apartment 10?

Unknown_25: You hear someone walking around.

Unknown_12: Excuse me? Of course not.

1:39:15
Unknown_25: You have plenty of reason to enter.

Unknown_12: Oh, come on.

Unknown_25: Well, that was easy. That was smart.

Unknown_21: Thank you. The game is complimenting me for my mild accomplishments.

Unknown_21: Hello.

Unknown_21: Ah, you just sitting here in the studio apartment under a barred window.

Unknown_21: Don't take your stuff. Shoes.

Unknown_21: Number one to the indirect modes of taxation.

1:39:48
Unknown_21: This is some communist mumbo fucking jumbo here. I think I'll keep my composure.

Unknown_21: Is this like a joke stat? What the fuck does indirect modes of taxation mean?

Unknown_21: bugs satisfied my name is mariel charpentier and i'm an agent with martinez realty associates you live in squalor breaking in as i have every right to be here boy there are a lot of different keys there more than 20 at least

1:40:26
Unknown_12: Do you want to see my ID as well? You can't legally ask for it, but why not?

Unknown_25: It feels flimsy in hand, with the words, Rivershaw Zone of Control, written under a nondescript municipal logo. Nice haircut.

Unknown_12: She likes compliments, Chef. That's my esoteric feminism. Uh...

Unknown_12: That's quite the...

1:41:09
Unknown_25: A sudden serious look crosses her face.

Unknown_25: This story didn't have a happy ending.

Unknown_12: Is it the old guy?

Unknown_21: That's hanged up?

Unknown_12: Oh, no, I guess not. Was there anything you want? Oh, that's another huge mess. The former tenant owes us three months of rent. Three. Why does it sound like this woman is speaking through her cheek like she's really fucking angry? And again, a hole in the wall. Can you believe it? And then the tenant...

Unknown_25: The sum must have been puny.

Unknown_25: Hmm.

Unknown_12: Well, it does not disappear from my hands. No, I don't let it. These apartments are perfectly fine. Silence, capitalist. I will tell the cleaning lady that everything is in order.

1:41:43
Unknown_06: Give me a moment.

Unknown_06: I see.

Unknown_06: I hope some good people are finally going to move in. This place needs them.

Unknown_21: Lax women and sexual deviance. That's who will move in. That's not very feminist.

1:42:15
Unknown_21: Radio wizard computers. No one's coming. There'll be nothing but squalor until we start killing real estate agents. That doesn't sound very nice. She's just trying to sell a fucking apartment, bro.

Unknown_21: Let's try to be reassuring to the old lady.

Unknown_25: Your statements are too vague to comment on.

Unknown_21: Well, you know what? That was the fucking point. It's called small talk rhetoric.

1:42:52
Unknown_21: Nozafed.

Unknown_21: Rakeda sounds like he would collect something called Nozafed.

Unknown_21: Balcony exit. I guess balcony is what I want, right?

Unknown_08: The streets will flow red. Oh, no, it's her. A great torrent rushing down Rue d'Esperance.

Unknown_20: Shut up. This is the communist. Does she not realize that I'm wearing her suit that I sold from her?

1:43:25
Unknown_08: I'm Cindy the fucking skull. What else do you want to know? Date of birth? Blood type?

Unknown_23: Go where? A costing minor?

Unknown_08: Listen to your partner, pig man. Keep your grubby hooves off little old ladies.

Unknown_25: A brush, an artist, the red... That smell coming from her paint bucket. It's not paint. It's heavy fuel oil.

Unknown_21: What? How did my perception... I guess I didn't roll high enough on perception this time around. Perception seems useful too.

1:43:57
Unknown_25: Red dyed heavy fuel oil is only used in government vehicles, or at least that's the idea.

Unknown_08: What did he think I was using? Aquarelles? Sucked it out of a cop's fuel tank myself. Back in Jamrock. Yeah, I bet you did.

Unknown_08: You ain't seen nothing yet, piggy boo.

Unknown_08: i ain't no snitch pig actually there is we weren't put on this earth to make your life pleasant can't you tell i'm painting a beautiful well if you're dumping i feel like we have grounds to arrest her she's dumping stolen fuel on a residential building this is reckless behavior you're endangering the peace and the lives of people living in this apartment complex haven't really started it yet i'm waiting for the right words

1:45:02
Unknown_21: Let's see... Have you ever tried your hand at graffiti-o?

Unknown_08: When faced with a blank wall, most people write unimaginative stuff, like pigs go home, and Mono is here.

Unknown_08: we rarely see pigs around here though just union cats and my name's not mona so this are you defacing the building with fuel that catches on fire you know summon the forces of crime and yeah this is not a hooliganism she's like the building can catch on fire

1:45:43
Unknown_23: Let's be realistic. What are you going to do? Throw her off the balcony? Yes. You heard your partner, piggy.

Unknown_08: I'm unstoppable.

Unknown_25: Why can't I arrest her? The lieutenant furrows his brow at another one of your eccentricisms.

Unknown_21: I don't see any reason why I can't just arrest her for what she's doing.

Unknown_25: It's difficult to tell which of the two the woman... Okay, I know this lady.

Unknown_08: That's the woman who killed me last time. Someone's got to keep an eye on her.

Unknown_25: I know, she's a murderer. Ozon is an archipelago two days travel away from Riversh- Probably the Wild Bang's rep. We should talk to her.

1:46:15
Unknown_23: She's a professional negotiator, though. You should take the- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unknown_21: Good idea, Piggy. Watch your- Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Silence.

Unknown_21: Someone lives on the cage? Okay.

1:46:54
Unknown_21: I guess we're using a coal furnace to heat this. Ooh, denim jeans.

Unknown_21: How do denim jeans reduce... The people that made this game have never even worn fucking denim jeans. What is up with this?

Unknown_21: I'm not... Come on. I have to find something that really completes my look here.

Unknown_21: Okay, so there's like nothing here. This room is just empty, I guess.

1:47:37
Unknown_21: I already robbed this box.

Unknown_25: Your nation has come. The broken arches betray the once grand history of this building. A great force from the northeast fired into the city. The tenement acted as a defensive wall against the worst of the shelling until it was destroyed. The waves of the Martinet's inlet rolled over the... What didn't fall into the ocean was used as scrap. What wasn't used as scrap was... Those arches acted as support for... Only three stories stand with nine to... A fleet...

1:48:09
Unknown_21: It's just ruminating over, like, the building.

Unknown_25: It was like a communist revolution.

Unknown_21: I gotcha.

Unknown_23: Yeah, I gotcha.

Unknown_21: There was, like, communism or some shit, and they fucked everything up.

Unknown_21: So, I could add, theoretically, more stuff. Am I allowed to, like, take stuff out?

Unknown_21: If I unlock something, it's permanent. It appears so. So I can't, like...

1:48:44
Unknown_21: I can't, like, change it with Hobocop or something. I've already internalized it forever.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Oh, I can for good stuff. Okay. What happens if I go down here?

Unknown_21: Oh, I'm at the... Okay, I don't want to be down here. Dude, I'm, like, violently assaulted by fucking horns. It's like the skeleton from, uh... From Doom? With the trumpet? Like, every time I step outside... Wow, wow, wow, wow.

1:49:20
Unknown_03: Wow, wow, wow, wow.

Unknown_21: I will take this money.

Unknown_21: Someone is watching me.

Unknown_20: Okay. What?

1:49:55
Unknown_21: Can I not open this?

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Why is my head circling with like two dots? Did I fuck something up somehow?

Unknown_25: This door is made of metal and appears to be reinforced. Number 28. This is where the cleaning lady said the smoke on the back- See?

Unknown_21: Good thing I didn't have my reaction speed reduced by my denim jeans. I would not have succeeded at that.

1:50:27
Unknown_23: Let's see if anyone's home. No one answers. Looks like the young man we are looking for isn't home. We should return tomorrow after we have finished with our day's work. Tomorrow night, okay. Okay.

1:51:08
Unknown_21: So I just have to come back, I guess. There's no way over there.

Unknown_21: Equip the chain cutters, okay.

Unknown_21: I will do that. Apparently Kim has absolutely no reservations about breaking and entering or destroying stuff.

Unknown_21: Wow, I broke into that to get 75 cents that for some reason somebody had stashed into an air conditioning unit. Okay.

1:51:48
Unknown_21: Hit me with the horn, skeleton.

Unknown_20: There it is.

Unknown_21: I just had to think about it for a second.

Unknown_21: What is this?

Unknown_21: What the?

Unknown_21: No!

Unknown_21: I can't reduce my... I like this jacket, but it's like... Am I really going to give up my half-light?

Unknown_21: My half-light's my favorite thing in the whole world.

1:52:23
Unknown_21: Threatened people. I didn't even know what the fuck it was. What is my... What does this give me? Conceptualization for suggestion? Suggestion's really strong, though.

Unknown_21: But it reduces my half life. I guess that's fair.

Unknown_21: I'll swap it. Oh, hell yeah.

Unknown_21: The pants reduce my skill points and nobody seems to care if I do or do not wear pants. So I have absolutely no inclination to wear pants.

1:52:58
Unknown_21: Yeah, it's true. Wearing this means that I don't have to wear pants now.

Unknown_21: I figured this out.

Unknown_21: I'm gonna have a lot of magnesium. Okay, I'm gonna try again with this evil lady.

1:53:29
Unknown_25: A striking woman leans against the cabin top of her... Good morning, officers.

Unknown_09: Joyce L. Messier. I represent the board of Wild Pines. I'm glad to see you here.

Unknown_23: Like steel.

Unknown_09: I was dispatched to handle a strike.

Unknown_23: That is good to hear, madam. My colleague will take the lead. There's a trace of irony that happens quicker than a shooting star.

Unknown_09: You winked at me?

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_09: I wish you a swift recovery. Meanwhile, you have my full cooperation. I have some money. Is what you want to say, but it isn't.

Unknown_21: Oh, no.

Unknown_25: Is it?

Unknown_21: My inland empire has usurped me, apparently. Look at that lady.

1:54:05
Unknown_25: Take a gander.

Unknown_25: Squint your eyes, bub.

Unknown_25: A well-kempt, yet tastefully short bob of dark hair. Despite the first hints of gray, she's elected to keep it au naturel, shaped into a positively statuesque.

Unknown_21: Wow, dude.

Unknown_25: While dull orange pearls hang from her earlobes. Red. These are the kind eyes of the rich man that seem to say everything is possible.

1:54:36
Unknown_21: It's a woman, actually. Within reason.

Unknown_25: Now look at you.

Unknown_25: You misery-clad simian. Barely able to tie your own laces. Your armpits are lakes. You're poor. Poor as balls. You can't ask this person for money. You're too... You think your little communism protects you from this feeling?

Unknown_25: No.

Unknown_25: The more demeaning it is to grovel at her feet,

1:55:11
Unknown_09: As I was saying, if there's any way I may be of assistance, please don't hesitate to ask.

Unknown_25: I am sorry. It just doesn't come out of your mouth. What does is.

Unknown_21: I want money.

Unknown_25: Surprisingly eloquent, really.

Unknown_21: My conceptualization from my jacket chat. I got an 11 from the conceptualization, right?

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I can't adjust my inventory while I'm in conversation. Okay. Money.

1:55:49
Unknown_10: Excuse me?

Unknown_10: I didn't hear you.

Unknown_10: Did you say money? Of course. Damn it.

Unknown_21: You're in a boat.

Unknown_09: Yes, I am.

Unknown_21: I'm on a boat, a motherfucking boat. Okay. Do you have a license for this boat?

Unknown_09: Officer, I assure you I'm a highly qualified pleasure craft operator.

Unknown_25: The crowns of her teeth are porcelain, white as the boat's hull as she smiled. Her nonchalance might be related to something called the Wayfarer Act, a law that says she doesn't need a license. Sly Fox, you're not aggressive enough to harass her further on this.

1:56:23
Unknown_09: Of course there are. We're on an archipelago. How else are you supposed to get around?

Unknown_21: What do you mean, arpeggio? I mean, we are on La Cayu, are we not?

Unknown_25: Technically, the neighboring Ozon and Fas-Alamir island groups are on La Cayu.

Unknown_21: Challenging success. I got a 12 on that.

Unknown_25: While La Cayu, by contrast, is a single fertile landmass, the fourth largest island in the world, it is not an archipelago.

1:57:09
Unknown_09: Okay, if you want to get fuck this the point is we're all on islands here and sale is still the most expedient way to get from one island to another Especially when you're in a hurry to resolve a strike.

Unknown_09: I Haven't seen anyone else drive a souped-up cupree-kenema motor carriage either. I

Unknown_23: How do you know about my car? She's like stalking us or something if she fucking knows what the car is.

Unknown_21: You're fucked.

Unknown_23: Why?

1:58:02
Unknown_25: Before you do, it would be pertinent to ask other questions. Gather more info on this boat of hers.

Unknown_09: The boat? No. It is called Cordeleite 19, because that's the type of sloop it is.

Unknown_09: It's a pleasure craft. A 19 pacer. It also happens to be rated for category one racing. My sloop? I like it a lot. It's the eel's hips, baby.

Unknown_23: I'm enjoying this part of the interview. It has so little to do with the murder we're investigating. Suffer.

1:58:36
Unknown_09: Oh my. The E-word. You mean to say that it's a symbol of conspicuous consumption? That I'm a member of the ruling class?

Unknown_21: Yeah.

Unknown_21: Subjugation to our foreign capital?

Unknown_21: Precisamundo.

Unknown_23: Detective, may I remind you that Mrs. Messier is a professional negotiator.

Unknown_09: I have a chance. My reaction speed is high. This is why I didn't nerf my reaction speed, goddammit. It was very important. Ha!

1:59:07
Unknown_21: My strategy is working. My attire is perfect and optimized for this. Okay? Don't fucking question me.

1:59:38
Unknown_21: The house was built before the revolution. I don't see any other eels heels. Oh god. Am I still fucking up?

Unknown_09: Okay. It is anti-centennial.

Unknown_09: I assure you, they drove quite a hard bargain for this space. But you're right. I am a bourgeois woman, and this is my fast, lightweight, interminably bourgeois boat.

Unknown_21: I did it. I got five experience for admitting that she's rich. You fucker.

2:00:11
Unknown_09: What we do.

Unknown_09: I'm afraid I don't speak for Wild Pines as a whole. It's a giant...

Unknown_25: There was a touch of discomfort there. She wants to merely represent...

Unknown_09: The Pines' core competency is logistics. Container shipping, freight... Why do you like this woman?

Unknown_21: Because she's the only good voice actor so far? Besides the black guy that's the main narrator.

Unknown_09: And that is the terminal. Another subdivision deals with energy, oil, and gas exploration. Offshore platforms.

2:00:43
Unknown_21: Oh no, the guys that wrote this, they're one of those people, it's like a scandal that in Papau, New Guinea, Papau, New Guinea used to be a part of Australia and they have a lot of natural gas off the coast. Papau, New Guinea is like one of the poorest countries in the entire fucking world. So they just, like, contract all their exploitation out to Australian companies. And rich white retards in Australia cry, they're not getting 100% of the proceeds from their own resources. And it's like, yeah, that's because they're a bunch of fucking black people on an island in the middle of a fucking Indonesian archipelago, I guess. Is that what it is? And they can't possibly exploit their own resources. So they're fucking lucky they get anything for it.

2:01:14
Unknown_25: That's what that's a reference to, that kind of shit. Indotribes? I told you. I told you about the Indonesians, man. Why thank you. Uh, okay.

2:01:58
Unknown_09: I'm not at liberty to discuss the company balance sheet, but I can tell you that last year, the company booked more than 20 billion real in revenue. And to think, there are years when the group books losses in the billions.

Unknown_09: Walpines employs 72,000 people, all of whom have families that depend on their salaries. It is a tremendous responsibility. They started as an expo. Deliberation and madness have gone into this endeavor. Vessels pass through the great unrest to reemerge. You mean aside from being the terminals legal owners who are responsible for moving 8% of the world's cargo.

2:02:43
Unknown_09: There are no minor cogs in the system. Each terminal must be accounted for, lest the entire system break. Every hiccup in such a system means thousands lose their jobs, the world over.

Unknown_21: Do I want this one? I'm here to assure that doesn't happen.

Unknown_21: The 15 endo tribes. Six hours?

Unknown_21: Yeah, I think I want the endo tribes. I can't do that. I have to unlock it with the skill point?

Unknown_21: I don't know if I should do this.

2:03:25
Unknown_21: Say it. I can have some money. I need some more. Heard of billions.

Unknown_09: I'm going to get her to give me money.

Unknown_21: This is what I'm going to do to recover from my humiliation from last time.

Unknown_09: Racist?

2:04:10
Unknown_09: And when did you first arrive? But the strike began in... December.

Unknown_09: I wasn't the original negotiator here. I took over after Mr. Gaumont hit a wall with Mr. Clare, the union boss. Mr. Clare refused to speak with Gaumont despite concessions he'd granted the union in prior negotiations.

2:04:47
Unknown_23: This isn't the first time the union has gone on strike?

Unknown_09: Heavens no. They're always on strikes.

Unknown_21: They're always on fucking strikes. They're always fucking up my air travel, making my planes late.

Unknown_09: Mr. Clare told him to... How did he put it? Fuck off, midget. Go my way, shorter statue, you see.

Unknown_21: Keep in mind, this is a negotiator Mr. Clare has worked with before.

Unknown_09: And there are leaflets everywhere, and banners. Every worker, a member of the board.

2:05:20
Unknown_25: Most of the workers probably don't know what that means.

Unknown_21: Overaggressive common posture.

Unknown_09: Another said demand democracy. Pretty tame stuff compared to every worker, a member of the board. Fortunately, they explained it. Every time the Wild Pines group makes a decision about anything, it needs the signature of each of the 2,200 workers in its Martinaise terminal. Just so you understand, this is but one of 22 terminals owned by Wild Pines. Essentially, not only are they kings of the company, they are also kings of the 72,000 employees of Wildpine's group. I'm not sure. Naturally, I assume that was just their opening position. And now, people are getting lynched, I hear.

2:05:56
Unknown_23: Excuse me, from whom did you hear about this lynching?

Unknown_09: I first heard it from the boy at the gates. The one who was very name advertises his aversion to work. I think he said it was call me Manana.

Unknown_25: This checks out.

Unknown_09: The scabs.

2:06:36
Unknown_09: You mean the huddled masses of jam rock?

Unknown_25: Don't let her answer it herself.

Unknown_21: The reaction speed. This is fucking the GOAT, okay? I need a max reaction speed out. At the end of this game, I'm gonna have maximum reaction speed. Reaction speed is the most important thing of all time.

Unknown_09: If these strikebreakers were organized by Wild Pines or its affiliates,

2:07:12
Unknown_25: It's implied. She's open to discussing this matter with you at a later occasion.

Unknown_09: Everard Clare is a man of the utmost integrity. Of course not. Everard is fantastically corrupt. I imagine he has a thick, viscous goo where you and I have blood.

Unknown_25: If you were to predict something sharp, you could see it oozing out. A knife, maybe? No, a rapier.

Unknown_21: It's a weird, uh, divine rapier?

2:07:43
Unknown_09: Oh, heavens no. We get along just fine.

Unknown_09: Yet, now that you mention it, I can't stop imagining that black treacle just dribbling down his double chin.

Unknown_09: He is the most corrupt individual I have ever seen, and I deal with men like him for a living. If there is anyone more venal, more irredeemably nepotistic, then it's his twin brother, Edgar. Yes, Edgar looks exactly like his brother, except for that lazy eye. he also talks he's got a lazy eye and when everard is up the other takes over edgar it's how they circumvent the term limits you see with a the debarder's union was once a perfectly normal institution 20 years ago anyway it must not have been easy to establish under the emergency act but they organize labor at its best as they say then something happened in the local chapter elections The brothers Clare came and transformed it into a... How do you say? A mob.

2:08:39
Unknown_23: The Devalders are a crime scene. Kim has anti-communist perspectives.

Unknown_09: Refreshingly honest, officer. And your opinion, detective? If I may ask?

Unknown_21: I'm a curious and talkative person, you see.

Unknown_09: Indeed. And a hungry one. Sadly, Wild Pines have cooperated with what amounts to a crime syndicate for two decades.

Unknown_11: And at last, there was a woman, the previous forewoman of the union.

2:09:15
Unknown_09: She disappeared.

Unknown_23: Disappeared?

Unknown_09: Yes. On the last day of the local chapter elections, her daughter phoned in and said she wasn't running anymore, or coming to work. Ever. End of story.

Unknown_25: This forewoman, her name?

Unknown_09: Sadly the company records the reaction speed again.

Unknown_21: I need to max it out woman in private correspondence Holly I don't even know if it's a sir or given name. How did I fuck this up and die immediately into the the prior run?

2:09:50
Unknown_09: Indeed that the point of the presentation is these kinds of things happen around the Claire's and

Unknown_23: Thank you for your concern, ma'am. We'll be- Of course.

Unknown_09: How else can I help?

Unknown_21: Okay, maybe after this I'll try my luck with the money.

Unknown_09: Quite a few things, I'm afraid. The information I'm to share with you includes sensitive trade secrets. For the sake of my employer, I have to ask for your names and badge numbers.

Unknown_21: Sometime after. Well, it's still a long way to go before that.

2:10:28
Unknown_21: After this, I'll go back to the body. Of course, ma'am.

Unknown_23: We should have introduced ourselves. Oh, no, this is the thing. God damn it. And this is my colleague from prison 41.

Unknown_09: How curious. Why is that, detective? I see.

Unknown_09: So, are you saying you lost your badge during the course of this episode? I can't hear you, darling. Speak up, please.

Unknown_09: Dear I do believe as I said that this is a line But I'm afraid I simply can't share anything more until I've seen that badge She's a professional negotiator she should be open to some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement Dead

2:11:19
Unknown_09: I assure you, it is no small matter for me either. We all share the responsibility for disarming this situation. I hope you have a badge for me as soon as possible. Trust me, officer, I am fully committed to resolving this impasse.

Unknown_25: She's silent. The wind flaps the sail above her.

Unknown_09: Officer.

Unknown_09: You know...

Unknown_09: I don't mean to sound cold, but if you want something, you have to give something back. More than just guilt.

Unknown_25: You're doing it. Despite your own best efforts, you're still getting it.

2:11:54
Unknown_09: I'll be frank with you. If I'm going to break president, I need to be able to justify it to my superiors. The Union is conducting drug trade out of the harbor. It's an open secret in Martinez. Or you can find your badge, which honestly seems like a lost cause.

Unknown_23: Detective a word in private before Shit I almost died. Honestly, I was expecting you to use your unorthodox technique to keep her off balance And you know not volunteers to be her henchmen. I

2:12:29
Unknown_23: This woman is running circles around us. She might have known about your misplaced badge all along. Or she's simply an adept improviser. Either way, we've played straight into her hands. No. If there is reasonable suspicion, we must investigate. Otherwise, she could claim we're siding with the Union. Or what I propose is, we ask her, then we investigate. Briefly. But do not share the outcome of this investigation with her. We tell her it's done and demand for her information on the lynching. Oh, that would be fantastic, but do we have the time? The world is large and young. The situation might have changed drastically by the time...

2:13:01
Unknown_21: I don't find my badge. Okay, I got it. I can't find the fucking badge. The game's just fucking with me.

Unknown_09: Good. It's quite straightforward. Someone is using Terminal B to smuggle raw ingredients from the Samaran Isola into Revachol with the Union's blessing.

Unknown_23: Ingredients for what, ma'am?

Unknown_09: Meth and dextroamphetamine. GBL and various synthetic... GBL, I learned what that is because of my last stream.

Unknown_21: That's what Flavicula was on.

2:13:37
Unknown_09: Yes. After they clear the terminal, we lose track. The actual production is taking place at various sites in and around Jamrock Quarter.

Unknown_23: Wild Pine seems to be well apprised of the local drug trade, ma'am. Do you mean to say the Union also produces the products?

Unknown_09: We're in logistics. It's our business to know. Yes, but you won't get anything out of Evrath and the dockworkers' union. Still, every chain has its weak link.

Unknown_25: The handoff. The motor lorries at the roundabout.

2:14:11
Unknown_09: Precisely. Someone needs to move the ingredients from the harbor into the city. Once they reach Jamrock, they're distributed to a number of lorries at the roundabout.

Unknown_25: How convenient that they're stranded like beached whales at that roundabout.

Unknown_09: Perhaps you've noticed that a number of lorries are tangled in a traffic jam at the roundabout just now. Interview the drivers who are still hanging about. One of them might be waiting for a crucial shipment.

Unknown_25: Her irises are light green, like the river Esperance in bright daylight.

2:14:43
Unknown_21: You need to pass a perception check for that.

Unknown_09: If you find this driver, I will share company secrets with you.

Unknown_09: No. We asked East Motor Track to raise the drawbridge. The road company is a partner of one of our subsidiaries. However, she missed the time opportunity. Once thousands of liters of raw ingredients will pour. Well, go to the lawyers.

Unknown_23: Why I had to call East Motor Track and beg them to open a drawbridge for me. I'd wonder since I first drove in on my motor carriage.

2:15:16
Unknown_09: I am sorry for the inconvenience, Lieutenant. We did. On more than one occasion. Apparently, there's some sort of inter-precinct disagreement about whose jurisdiction this area falls under.

Unknown_21: That's why 56 and 41 had the team not chat.

Unknown_23: We also know it's come up empty.

Unknown_09: Well, here's your chance, officers.

Unknown_09: How do you think they're financing this strike? There are thousands of unpaid dockworkers going strong for the fourth month straight.

2:15:51
Unknown_23: There was a shakedown of local businesses preceding the strike.

Unknown_09: With all due respect to these desert cacti, the contents of a few cash registers cannot provide for two thousand men. Precisely. Smuggled out of that very gate at night, most likely, yes?

Unknown_09: Excellent.

Unknown_09: It may come to nothing or it may just so is the is this actually like the whole plot is that we're investigating the murder and then and Like the the strike is that like the is this like the first chapters?

Unknown_21: It's like the actual plot of the game.

2:16:24
Unknown_09: Let me know if there's any other way I may be of assistance Yes, what why is my volition lower than before it was like 48% I should have asked the question Yeah

Unknown_21: Can I have some money?

Unknown_09: I am rich. How much money do you need? Hopefully not too much. I couldn't bring all of it with me.

Unknown_21: 60? Should I go with like 60 or 10,000? I'm going with 10,000.

Unknown_09: Come now. Nobody carries that much cash on their person. And even if I did, I still would not give you 10,000 real.

Unknown_25: Her tone makes clear that you've violated some kind of rich person taboo. Would it be the first time?

2:17:08
Unknown_09: it is fast and silent i like high fidelity any that's a good sum not too small not yeah give me that money yeah must be about 200 real that's it so i hope i didn't just bribe you officer you bribe me all right i'm your little piano under the emergency act but still um

Unknown_23: You're right, man, that donations are permitted under the emergency... Donations are permitted? ...seemly as it may be, as long... ...which he most certainly would, of course, detect.

2:17:42
Unknown_21: I got the money. And I did take a morale damage, but I had the foresight to level up volition, so I would not get raped in the process of doing that.

Unknown_21: Okay, straight to the fucking casino. We're gonna double-chuck this shit.

Unknown_21: Going red. We're gonna make off like bandits.

Unknown_21: Going back over the drawbridge. Fuck all this shit.

Unknown_21: I'm a straight killer. Straight gamba master right now.

2:18:15
Unknown_25: This coin operated viewer is fake. Why place a tourist attraction in the middle of such poverty?

Unknown_23: There was a revitalization project in 49. A design studio tried restoring Martinez to its pre-war glory. They got as far as the street lamps and the statue on that intersection. Then we should have done something about the union 10 years ago. That ship has saved...

Unknown_25: Your money disappears into the coin slot. The curtains on the display open. You lean in to catch the view. The lenses shift. The ghost sharpens into a islet in the bay. In the ruins, a man-made structure is visible. A half-sunken sea fort. It looks as if it was abandoned quite some time ago. Really?

2:18:48
Unknown_23: I don't have the eyesight to make it out.

Unknown_21: Wow, make it so that the fucking Japanese guy is like a four-eyed weirdo.

Unknown_21: Can't see shit. It's fucking racist.

2:19:27
Unknown_21: Oh, these guys are playing that game from, uh...

Unknown_21: I can just stand here? Do I stand here and annoy them?

Unknown_21: I suppose the most correct thing to do now would be to go check the body again and try to get near it.

2:20:03
Unknown_21: See if I can bring it down now, because it's been like another 30 minutes since the last so much ride.

Unknown_25: There he still is, looking right through you.

Unknown_21: Even? My shit is compressed. Okay. Here we go.

Unknown_25: Again, every time it happens, it gets worse and worse. There's nothing more to throw up now. All that's left is crying and convulsing dryly at the same time.

Unknown_21: That doesn't sound good.

Unknown_23: I'm at a loss as well. I could swear your shit was together, detective. Sometimes even that is not enough. Officer, you just need to be stronger. Learn to keep it in long enough for us to work.

2:20:37
Unknown_05: You can open this white check again by going to your character sheet and spending a skill point to upgrade your endurance. Gain new skill points.

Unknown_21: Maybe it's okay. I have to upgrade my fucking endurance?

Unknown_21: Why are you doing this to me, game?

Unknown_21: Oh, there's a map now.

Unknown_21: Acquire a copy of the city map, okay.

2:21:15
Unknown_21: I must be really early into the game if I haven't gotten the second skill point yet.

Unknown_21: That deals me out.

Unknown_21: It is a rat game, it's bullshit.

Unknown_21: The only lead I have until 9 p.m. is to talk to this guy. Humanitarian aid, not for resale. Sounds like bullshit to me.

2:21:49
Unknown_03: These are premium class clothes. Good quality fabrics. Best retro design.

Unknown_25: An Indian. Save the economy? That sounds off.

Unknown_03: Haven't you heard, officer? We've got to be economically conscious. Recycle your cash, keep it in circulation. Don't buy new things. Buy eco. Look around, officer. Is this really the economy we want to leave to our children?

Unknown_25: You find your hands deep in tattered and faded garments made from weird polyester blends that make your body itch and sweat in all the wrong places.

2:22:29
Unknown_21: The box smells like cat piss or like an old person with no money.

Unknown_03: Something cold grazes your hand. Synthetic and sleek. A windbreaker.

Unknown_03: Composure?

Unknown_21: Minus one to shivers?

Unknown_21: What the fuck are shivers?

Unknown_21: Tune into the city. I guess this is like a spine chill. What do I get? Composure? I'm not buying a fucking composure. Fuck you. Piece of shit.

2:23:05
Unknown_21: Where's the drugs at? Suktik.

Unknown_21: Okay, and this is the drawbridge, right?

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: So now I have to like inspect the, oh, a bottle.

Unknown_21: I will pick that.

Unknown_21: Even though I received $60.

2:23:39
Unknown_25: These are all boring. Those UV stickers are almost certainly just there for the show.

Unknown_03: These are all first-rate sunglasses. Premium design. Superb material. Very cool. UV resistant. Abort.

Unknown_25: These are hideous.

Unknown_03: Damn, officer. You look like a mega-hideous pie.

Unknown_25: It's going to be very difficult for anyone to take you seriously with... No, you are definitely not buying those.

Unknown_03: Are you sure? But they look so good on you. You can max out your electrochemistry and just become a horrific drunk, I guess.

2:24:12
Unknown_21: I think that's part of the game. Okay.

Unknown_21: No luck.

Unknown_03: Oh, that visor is perfect for you.

Unknown_25: Hey, at least it might actually offer some protection against the sun. Not like those cheap plastic shades. I hope not.

Unknown_03: You don't like it? Sure, Square Joe. No problem. Plus one, the perception.

Unknown_21: What's my perception of?

Unknown_21: Could be lower.

2:24:49
Unknown_21: Six real, though. That's fucking bullshit.

Unknown_21: I don't have anything in my inventory for that. That's it. We're doing it. We're getting the visors.

Unknown_21: This is what the rich lady would have wanted from me. Okay.

Unknown_21: yeah this is the look this is the look right here no i already did that okay rob him i mean now what if i could he is only indian after all

2:25:40
Unknown_21: Copy the exactly.

Unknown_21: Wait, okay. I'm supposed to be harassing these guys, right? I am the law.

Unknown_21: I did it. My inexplicable feminist agenda.

Unknown_21: So breakthrough eminent. Oh, cause I have to finish this lesson first. Okay.

Unknown_21: It's the jam, my man.

2:26:13
Unknown_22: The air from the east is thick with the smell of crude oils. It's a traffic jam for the ages. Harbor gates up the street are shut tight. No explanation given. Workers on strike, scabs agitating, and all around clusterfuck.

Unknown_21: Tommy the Man is what his name is. Meanwhile, we're all stuck here in long-haul limbo.

Unknown_22: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Unknown_25: It's official. He too agrees. This is the antechamber of the afterlife.

Unknown_22: Feels like forever. Like I was born on this here roundabout and this was all I ever knew. Just me and the metal and the tires, the oil and the fumes. That's so over the top.

2:26:49
Unknown_25: This man has a barely suppressed performative streak. Or he just likes unusual words.

Unknown_22: Or both.

Unknown_22: Yeah, imagine. It's been a whole week already. So tell me.

Unknown_21: A whole week.

Unknown_21: Know anything about the dead man? They can ask for money.

Unknown_22: Huh?

Unknown_22: Oh. No, I ain't got any money.

Unknown_22: They don't want to pay for unfinished work. But Kelly can just ask everybody for money. The bosses, man.

2:27:22
Unknown_22: Yeah, it sure ain't good for me. Or you.

Unknown_22: I'd spare a coin or two for a city cop down in his luck. The RCM is a self-managing organization that operates on donations. We promote our own leaders

2:28:02
Unknown_23: It would be like strike.

Unknown_21: Oh God. It's like a communist police force. What the fuck?

Unknown_23: Okay. But do continue. You were asking about the strike.

Unknown_22: Some pretty wild stuff. I hear like a giant new power crane and half the company. I forget what exactly. Good on them. I guess I've heard talk. There's a company rep in town too. They want to keep that money flowing in my man. Ka-ching.

Unknown_25: He doesn't blame them, but he's not on this side.

Unknown_22: Anything else?

2:28:34
Unknown_22: Yeah, this ain't really my area of expertise. Us lorry drivers. Camioners. You still hang around here waiting for this mess to end? Most have scurried off somewhere. Not my thing.

Unknown_22: Chasing transient pleasures is a drag these days. I prefer the examined life now. Thinking, reflecting.

Unknown_21: This is not a real person. Nobody is driving a fucking lorry having these kinds of thoughts. He tries his best to look nonchalant, but there's a rigidity in him.

Unknown_25: As if trying to conceal something warm and deep beneath a cool exterior.

2:29:09
Unknown_22: He ain't one of us drivers. I know that. All accounted for.

Unknown_25: It's easy to see he's telling the truth.

Unknown_22: Analyzing the fundamental structural and psychological conditions of being stranded in the midst of a sea of motor lorries. A sense of surprise that there ain't more bodies hanging from more trees.

Unknown_21: Very low. My empathy is fucking wrecked.

Unknown_21: My empathy is tortured.

Unknown_22: Oh, high-grade narcotics, illegal firearms.

Unknown_25: Relax. He's merely joking.

Unknown_21: No, no, no. He's not joking.

2:29:41
Unknown_21: My rhetoric was able to predict that.

Unknown_22: No, I'm joking, my man. Fowl runs a nice club. They usually get shipped to Grodd and the Occident. Though we've been making headway in the Il Moran market lately.

Unknown_22: We're pals and all, but I can't just freely hand out the merchandise. The bosses won't be happy.

Unknown_25: The man taps his fingers rhythmically.

Unknown_22: Ah, man. Me and narcotics go way back. It's like a boss man line. Those days are behind me. There are other addictions in my life now.

2:30:13
Unknown_22: Why the inquiry, my man?

Unknown_23: We have a credible lead, sir. Someone on this roundabout is waiting for a bell shipment from the harbor to load it on their lorry and drive it to Jamrock.

Unknown_22: Not me, man. No way. I don't need any trouble. Look, man, I try to stay away from the criminal underbelly of Revachol.

Unknown_25: We wouldn't say he's lying, sire.

2:30:44
Unknown_21: What do you see? Well, I'll try. OK, we'll see what happens.

Unknown_25: He's into it. Don't go too far. This seems like a personal matter.

Unknown_21: My man, I want to know about your soul.

Unknown_22: You really are the law, aren't you? I get that being bluntly observant and inquisitive comes with the territory, but it certainly doesn't help with your conversational skills, does it?

Unknown_25: Just like that, he slips out of your reach. It is possible the yelling didn't help.

Unknown_25: Fuck you. Don't be a stranger.

Unknown_25: Trying to give me shit. Psst.

2:31:16
Unknown_25: Yes, you. Word on the street is you're ready to start building communism again. You keep saying things like down with the bourgeoisie. I don't think I am. Sodomize the land owners. Impale all people who have more than 25 real.

Unknown_21: i have more than 25 real in my pocket all human beings regardless of their political beliefs okay that one does sound like funky style very funky so tell me do you have any questions before we fire up the big communism builder or do we get right down to it

2:31:55
Unknown_25: very well i guess i'm opting out build communism then tell the working man it's over unless anyone has no objections it's mathematically impossible anyone anyone else there's no you're rhetoric and logic you're gay no one okay then self of communism inexplicable feminist agenda hell yeah

Unknown_21: It's me on the left.

Unknown_25: There is something you need to see, sir. We've found the remnants of an ancient artifact lodged in your hypothalamus. It is a cylindrical object, piss-weathered and smelling of liquor. The paint is peeling off, but you can clearly make out the letters. Revolutionary Feminist Agenda on the hull. It appears that some time ago, before you became a joke, you were an actual feminist. Somehow... Men can't be feminists. Perhaps you can work your way back.

2:32:50
Unknown_21: Where are my bonuses? Plus one to empathy. Oh no! Oh no, I unlocked empathy! Oh fuck.

Unknown_21: Plus one to empathy. Negative one to drugs.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I was hoping for something better than that, unfortunately. Okay, so the solution is bonuses from the thought. Plus one, could evolve into RFA, a radical feminist agenda? Would have to quit drinking drugs. So this is like the permanent bonuses, right?

2:33:27
Unknown_21: Learning cap for endurance raised to four.

Unknown_21: Head in the clouds. It's almost done.

Unknown_21: I gotta fuckin' i-dub Sympathy Unlocked over here.

Unknown_21: So that's one lorry driver.

Unknown_21: Anything else over here? Ooh, a box! I bet you I can crowbar into that box.

2:34:03
Unknown_21: And do something with that.

Unknown_21: Yep, crowbarring into this box is what I want to do.

Unknown_21: What? I can't crowbar into it? I'm conducting an investigation over here.

Unknown_21: There's nothing over here.

Unknown_20: Okay.

2:34:41
Unknown_21: It's a sign to pick up the pipe and rock, it might be.

Unknown_21: Money.

Unknown_21: Yep, that's mine now.

Unknown_21: We gotta be careful though, they'll kill me if they know I have more than 20 real in my pocket.

Unknown_21: This car is missing an engine. Kept in good condition, but it has no fucking engine whatsoever.

2:35:14
Unknown_21: Aha! Boxes.

Unknown_25: Small wrinkled woman does not greet you the photo She's a bitch that type from the turn of the century as golden as her fingers in front of her face No response wherever this woman is if you want her attention you may need to be more forceful Oh

2:35:51
Unknown_21: Uh, I'm the law. I don't suppose you could tell me where we are, low man?

Unknown_08: Ugh, never mind.

Unknown_00: Oh no, it's a Mexican. I'm still stuck in that traffic jam in the 50s.

Unknown_00: Back in Mefka, during the time of the revolution.

Unknown_00: This until you came along, that is.

Unknown_00: Why not, Hierophant? It's not like I have anything better to do in this hellhole.

2:36:23
Unknown_00: Diamonds?

Unknown_00: Of course not.

Unknown_00: But whatever stupid things they put in the lorry, I imagine. I quit concerning myself with that a long time ago. Besides, I don't drive the lorry for the cargo, if you know what I mean.

Unknown_00: Of course it does. What did you expect?

Unknown_00: What do I need drugs for, Lohmann? What I see, what I feel. The Great Adversary. No drugs can compare.

2:36:55
Unknown_16: Okay.

Unknown_00: Yes.

Unknown_00: There is a Protagonista and an Adversarium.

Unknown_25: Those epithets are familiar somehow. The Great Adversary. The Great Unrest.

Unknown_00: If you don't know...

Unknown_25: Maybe if she thought you're corrupt.

Unknown_00: Why would I want to do that?

Unknown_00: Loma, what in the name of God are you talking about?

2:37:27
Unknown_00: Maybe. Probably not. Makes no difference to me either way.

Unknown_00: Just this month, I made half a dozen trips from Saramirizat to Grad. Someone has the thickest accent ever. It sounds like she's half asleep. What do you still take from Saramirizat to Grad, low man?

Unknown_00: It's diamonds, low man, obviously. Easy. It's the skinny man who thinks he's a poet. Never trust a poet.

Unknown_25: That's skinny, man. That's correct. There is no visibility of any of the others.

2:37:58
Unknown_00: Where do you want me to go? This isn't so bad. Or I can just relax and let my mind carry me back. I think we're done.

Unknown_21: Nunciate!

Unknown_00: Yes, go.

Unknown_21: Oh, I can just heal myself by pressing buttons. Okay. Okay, that's cool.

Unknown_21: Ah! A box!

Unknown_21: Open it.

2:38:31
Unknown_21: Physical Instrument. Now I really am Mercado Maxxing.

Unknown_21: There's no downsides to this, so therefore it meets my requirements.

Unknown_21: Do I have to repeat the horse thing? No, I already did that.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I haven't unlocked Racism yet, sorry.

Unknown_25: Astaz Raiko. One of the finest Zhymsk-made motor carriages ever. Not too many people outside of Grad. And Ravachol West, too, it appears.

2:39:05
Unknown_23: Astaz Raiko KK2. That's a classic model. Never thought I'd see another one repainted after what happened last time.

Unknown_25: no only that the motor carriage is typically baby blue the colors of ziggismund the great an ancient gymsk ruler his banners were famously zephyr and white that's so weird yes exactly it's more or less except it was a crowd yeah murder because he painted his car the wrong color and ran him over with his own tires they said it was an honor killing who's our style the james community protested the trial

2:39:45
Unknown_21: So he's Polish. There's Polish honor claims.

Unknown_25: 4,395. The fourth largest public protest of a criminal trial in Rivershaw.

Unknown_23: Is that so, officer? I'll take you at your word.

Unknown_23: Yes, detective?

Unknown_23: You sure you're not Jimsk?

Unknown_21: i am polish in all ways but physical and polish sure you're not or if you are it's only in that river sholian way i'm not sure what the point of that detour was in my thinking but okay the skinny guy scott

2:40:34
Unknown_21: Oh, no. I had a thought. Give me money.

Unknown_25: Flips a corn.

Unknown_22: Catch it!

Unknown_25: Yeah! It's a donation.

2:41:26
Unknown_22: Nothing to worry about, really. The jam's a bit of a mess, Gargoyle.

Unknown_20: The rationing is a bit stricter, is all. I'm always glad to help out when possible.

Unknown_22: Not like these slithering scabs. My friend, I respect the right to roam. The open range awaits.

Unknown_22: I don't operate in that capacity. I'm not a granter of passage.

Unknown_25: If it's all so simple, why don't the strikebreakers just go up the stairs?

Unknown_22: Aye. Walk right past Measurehead and go in. Yeah, the two and a half meter tall Seminese supremacist there.

2:41:58
Unknown_22: It's a Seminese.

Unknown_22: Then press the button to unlock the door, then go past him again, and you enter the harbor through the office. Stop.

Unknown_22: Don't worry, I'm sure it's not completely impossible. Or you could convert to a Semenese supremacist worldview.

Unknown_21: He's trying to convert me to the Semenese New World Order.

2:42:32
Unknown_22: Jean-Luc himself would say the philosophy has proven overly heroic. I'm not going to convert to a Semenese New World Order.

Unknown_21: That's very Hambly-esque.

Unknown_22: Not yet, no. Okay, I gotcha.

Unknown_22: Well, there's the dead body back over there. I have no idea what I'm doing.

Unknown_21: This is the best character. His name is Call Me Minyana.

Unknown_21: I know it's a... Oh, yeah.

2:43:15
Unknown_21: Oh god, it auto-saved. That's a bad sign.

Unknown_21: Why did this have a dot that then went away as I got near it?

Unknown_21: Nobody comes close to Measurehead.

Unknown_21: She's like a Simony's New World Order lady.

Unknown_21: Fuck. Look at this. It's all white women that just love some of these guys for some reason.

2:43:52
Unknown_21: It's true, it does.

Unknown_02: Oh no, it's Black JF again.

Unknown_02: You can not see it, but others can. It's not good. I crawled into your stomach, got drunk and drowned.

2:44:34
Unknown_02: no you don't you need to get another drink occidental upload group b4 is done giving orders around here the influence of the ham sandwich race is raining the ham sandwich race

Unknown_21: That's weird that they add, like, a black supremacist that's, like, beset by, like, white hoes. Begging for help.

Unknown_02: Attempting to pass fear for cooperation. How far the Occidental Ablo Group has fallen. You were once a noble and powerful race.

Unknown_02: You gave the world eugenics, electricity, and powerful weapons of war like missiles and aerostatic aircraft. You made great gains in metallurgy, race theory, and statecraft.

2:45:29
Unknown_02: You dominated lesser cultures, like the deformed hymians and the inexplicably potato-obsessed quakers. But now your ascent to the genetic summit has halted. You are obsessed with sadness and with frivolous pop culture. Not me. My pop culture is more relevant. You will be superseded. Isn't that right, babe?

Unknown_01: It is, baby, yeah. You know it.

Unknown_25: There is a button right behind it, just out of reach. It must be the one that opens the door to the harbor.

2:46:13
Unknown_02: It is my task to keep the degenerate drunks from entering the harbor.

Unknown_21: Can I just walk past them?

Unknown_21: I guess not.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I'm not sure if I was actually supposed to do anything there with him. I didn't complete all the ones because it's like I was supposed to push past him or something. That didn't seem like a good idea.

2:46:51
Unknown_21: Because he's like a violent black guy.

Unknown_24: Right to work!

Unknown_25: Right to work!

Unknown_24: Sure- Have fun.

Unknown_24: Union shits are on full strike. Don't think they- I know nothing about a murder.

Unknown_24: Wouldn't put it past these harbor bugs. Right to work!

Unknown_24: It's shameful. Cops doing nothing. You should bring backup. Open up the gates for us. Blockading gainful employment for workers is a crime.

2:47:23
Unknown_23: Why not? I see numerous reasons not to pick a side in this local matter. Pity.

Unknown_24: Let us work.

Unknown_23: We were promised work.

Unknown_25: The physically ill.

Unknown_21: So she wants me to investigate the drug trafficking, but I see absolutely no way to accomplish that because I went around the roundabout and there's nobody there to talk to me.

2:48:00
Unknown_21: So I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do. Are those kids still there throwing? Yeah, okay, the kids are still there. They've been there for several hours throwing rocks at a rotting corpse. Try again.

Unknown_25: Oh, I have to level up first.

Unknown_21: Which I'm still many experience points away from.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_13: Shitload pig, what's your question?

Unknown_25: Don't tell the pig shit, kuno!

2:48:43
Unknown_25: This is where you quickly ask him questions. Real cop questions. Like a cop.

Unknown_13: Kuno's foot gimp? Kuno uses the foot gimp for target practice.

Unknown_25: He's trying to hide the fact that he doesn't know.

Unknown_13: Kuno knows all kinds of shit. Kuno's not a snitch, that's all. Probably climbed. Kuno was busy down the road when that shit went down. You heard Kuno? Kuno wasn't even in Martinet's? I don't know. I wonder if this kid actually has any relevant thing that you could possibly extract from him or if it's just like, I dunno, some other, it's just like fucking around city anywhere.

2:49:19
Unknown_25: That sounds like the name of a city in some pulp science fiction.

Unknown_13: Kuno gives this info out on a need to know basis.

Unknown_25: Thanks Kuno.

Unknown_13: Just a couple of pigs sniffing around in the dead. Yeah. You tell the faggoty Kuno.

Unknown_21: They censor it. Oh, cause do I have like streaming mode? Enabled so they call it a fog area or something, okay Right pig this is where Kuno plays with his little wooden choo-choo Look at that fucking shit.

2:49:55
Unknown_13: You're trying to get Kuno killed Fuck does Kuno know? Kuno's not a fucking acrobat The lieutenant takes a quick note in his notebook.

Unknown_21: The guy actually learned something It's a trap Kuno!

Unknown_13: Don't climb it Kuno!

Unknown_13: I don't know. Kiptas Gardener used to work there.

Unknown_25: Kipt is a pejorative term used to describe people of South Seminese or Erie Upper Gait descent. It used to be a common first name among the Erie Upper Gaits of Illinois. It's a racist term. Not so much anymore.

Unknown_13: Yeah, that's what Kuno said. She couldn't handle the heat, so she took off. Look, Kuno doesn't explain shit. Kuno just says shit.

2:50:30
Unknown_21: Can I learn racism from this kid as opposed to the black guy that wants to recruit me into the B&O? Yeah.

Unknown_25: Yeah, whatever. Colonel doesn't give a shit.

2:51:09
Unknown_13: Yeah, like a fucking volcano.

Unknown_13: Fucking pathetic. You were lucky you didn't die there.

Unknown_21: It censors the word. They can't handle it. The communists can't handle the word faggot.

Unknown_13: Yeah. Kuno's got some advice for you.

Unknown_13: What are you, like 80, right? Maybe you should stop embarrassing yourself in front of a fucking kid.

Unknown_25: Hmm. Perhaps you could compress this negative energy and turn it into some sort of a cunofied non-vomiter.

2:51:43
Unknown_25: That's right. Turn your weaknesses into conceptual strengths. Try it again now.

Unknown_13: Wait.

Unknown_21: Now that I have acquired the cunofied non-vomiter, can I...

Unknown_25: There, he still is, looking right through you. With his wife.

Unknown_21: Wait, hold up.

Unknown_21: I'm done with this. A quick save-in and save's coming. We're doing this. The kunafied non-vomiter has permitted me to re-roll.

2:52:15
Unknown_25: As you breathe in, a wonder comes over you. It's a spell of the mind telling you to run, and your stomach to wring itself empty. With your hands at your sides and your eyes squinting, you stand in it.

Unknown_25: The man before you is naked, but for a pair of underpants and amour boots. His skin is greenish, marbled with decaying veins, and blotched by lividity. The material appears to be ceramic. Its clean white stands in stark contrast to the decaying flesh above the knee, delicate and fragile. They feel alien to the world around you. These are clearly not boots. They're armor.

2:52:55
Unknown_23: Possibly part of a larger set. Indeed. Technically speaking, these are sabatons, not boots.

Unknown_21: Kuno saves the fucking day. Faggot.

Unknown_25: Oh, the lieutenant uses a memo technique, A6. That's not just any notebook. It's a classic.

Unknown_25: It's all you, baby.

Unknown_23: Ceramic plate. Zirconium dioxide, most likely. This is where the make would be. Under the hill. Fairweather. Fairweather model T500VE. I see you wearing armor. This is advanced stuff.

2:53:29
Unknown_25: The stench fills your nostrils. As you push downward, an ominous creaking sound comes from above.

Unknown_21: I want the boots.

Unknown_13: No, the kids are harassing me again.

2:54:04
Unknown_13: What's wrong with you, asshole? Why is he letting Goku know? I don't know, baby. I don't know why he's such a...

Unknown_23: If I may ask, what were you trying to achieve by putting on the deceased foot?

Unknown_21: I want the... I want the... I want to wear it. I want to take it off of him and wear it myself for the stats.

Unknown_23: It is... It's expensive.

Unknown_23: We've requested similar material for our tactical units for years now. For a full set, about four years of wages. Well, then surely we should get that.

2:54:38
Unknown_25: Northwest region of Revachon. An officer's average yearly income is 5,500 real. Unadjusted for rank.

Unknown_23: I want the boots. By catching, do you mean let's not lock them as evidence? Let's steal them?

Unknown_21: Well, you're asking me if I'm going to commit a crime. Can you ask that in a different way?

Unknown_25: Of course. The lieutenant nods often. It's part of his... How would this have not been picked clean last week?

Unknown_21: Those fucking Kuno kids would have taken the shit by now.

2:55:10
Unknown_25: ...and sarcasm.

Unknown_23: The locals probably scavenged it. It would be odd if he had more on after seven days. We should keep a look up for the pieces. Yeah. Yeah. War more could yield information.

Unknown_23: Maybe he'll know something. No, he must have worn something precious underneath his clothes. They've removed all his clothes to get to it. They did not just strip him for the putrid rags.

Unknown_23: They usually hang them completely naked for that. La puta madre. The Mazda.

2:55:43
Unknown_13: Fucking talking about underpants.

Unknown_25: Clearly Kuno would like to interject something here, but there's not enough for him to hold onto.

Unknown_23: That's for us to find out. My initial report on the area suggests he was a security guard for the Harbor Company. I agree. This equipment is way beyond what a guard can afford.

Unknown_25: A small bell-like sound fills the air. The prybar in your hand is itching for some action.

2:56:17
Unknown_25: The metal connects with the same ding. The sound does not appear to get louder. The only difference is a barely audible click underneath. Sounds like the end of a long dice roll. Did you hear that?

Unknown_21: A clique? Did I discover something secret by fucking around?

Unknown_23: This is a kinetic redistributor. It spreads the incoming energy horizontally from plate to plate. When the plates connect, there's a clique. That's the sound you heard.

Unknown_25: Faint, organic lines cover the plates, where they separate into smaller ones, like whorls of floorboards. The design looks organic. If trees were made of porcelain, this is what their cross-sections would look like. The smooth, glossy surface fractures into ever more intricate interconnections. The worlds are in the shape of a letter and number combination. E50-100-1000.

2:56:52
Unknown_25: Good. Can you read it to me? X54156745678- Why would I lie to him?

Unknown_23: We have a make and a number. That's something. We can use the radio in my kinema when we're done.

2:57:25
Unknown_25: The cadaver slowly twists on the cargo belt. The hangman's knot is pulled tight by the weight of the corpse below. Why would I lie and try to... I do it with good boots.

Unknown_21: It's not fair.

Unknown_25: Above, a sliding buckle ties the belt to the branch. This is a steel-reinforced cargo lashing belt.

Unknown_23: Airlifting. I thought it was used on lorries for strapping cargo to them.

2:58:00
Unknown_23: The local harbor uses six rotors to shuffle containers around. I get the sense they use whatever was on hand, without paying much attention to not incriminating themselves.

Unknown_23: I was afraid it would be.

Unknown_23: Thin steel wiring, parallel strands, this makes getting him down more problematic than I had assumed.

Unknown_21: You have to climb up there and pull him off.

Unknown_23: The brief suggested as much. Politically motivated by the ongoing strike. Did you not get a briefing?

2:58:36
Unknown_23: Then you should ask me the first moment we get.

Unknown_21: I can talk to him, though.

Unknown_23: A noose is one of those things that's easier to use one way around.

Unknown_23: That ladder can't carry a grown man.

Unknown_25: Could be. The shape of the branch supports the theory.

Unknown_25: The cadaver hangs from the cargo belt. An intricate web of blue lines stretches across the torso, from the right shoulder to the solar plexus.

2:59:07
Unknown_23: Of no nation that I know of.

Unknown_21: Not a true vexillologist.

Unknown_25: He wears a wide leather belt around his waist and a gun holster under his arm.

Unknown_21: Well, take the gun holster so when I find my gun, I have a holster for it.

Unknown_25: He takes a thin piece of milled aluminium from his coat pocket and pulls it open. Sounds like a sword being... Shit, Kuno!

Unknown_13: What the fuck is that?

Unknown_23: An instant colour camera.

2:59:45
Unknown_23: I have only two ampoules, so nobody move. I don't want to waste one.

Unknown_23: a sound a shrimp flash followed by beautiful of a small ampoule of glass you see streams of color pour onto the thick glossy piece of paper rolling out in case we need it

Unknown_23: Yes. It is pretty cool, isn't it? There is only one ampoule left. Use it wisely. It contains insight to the victim's person. By his build, I'd say this was a man of physical violence. The story he wanted his body to tell was important to him. It is his letter. To us. Someone should decipher it. Here, a souvenir. Don't lose it.

3:00:20
Unknown_25: The glassy-eyed corpse looks by, his mouth mute and his skin as colorful as the chemical rainbow on the photo paper.

Unknown_05: You've acquired an interactable item. Investigate this item further by going to the interact tab in your inventory. Okay.

Unknown_25: his eyes are milky white and blind to the world protruding comically from their sockets i don't see any eyes in the picture his eyes used to be blue baby blue dark brown hair grows on his head his face is ready to explode from the organic processes inside

3:01:11
Unknown_21: I'm gonna do this.

Unknown_25: It's a pretty good roll. Come on, easy shmoney, easy shmoney.

Unknown_21: Ah, fuck you. I barely fucked it, too.

Unknown_25: Fuck you. What a fucking...

Unknown_23: He is male, 40 to 50, with an athletic build. Good. The victim is of Occidental descent. Light brown hair, blue eyes.

Unknown_25: When he says Occidental, he means white. Originally from the Occidental subcontinent on Muindi, the corpse looks right through you as you distance yourself from its stench. As you narrow your eyes, the monster before you blurs into a violent mess of green and pink. This is a trick. You've done it before. Pink is where the blood settled in the first hours post-mortem. You can use it to see if the corpse has been tampered with. Does his position at the time of death match the discoloration? Only the lower extremities are pink with a dash of blue.

3:01:51
Unknown_25: His fatted hands, thighs, and his neck. Just above the noose.

Unknown_23: I see it. His neck, too. The lividity goes right up his chin. The monster comes back into focus.

3:02:29
Unknown_25: An explosion of color, coursing with dark marbled veins. He's pregnant. His stomach appears pregnant with something. Black liquid streams down his thigh and onto his boot. So, what do you think?

Unknown_21: I think he's dead. I agree. His personality is no longer a part of the world.

Unknown_25: Totally dead.

Unknown_21: Yeah.

Unknown_21: No, better not say that too heavy. Totally.

Unknown_21: Dead, dead, dead, dead.

Unknown_21: Um...

3:03:03
Unknown_25: Sure. The corpse looks by oblivious. Black decay liquid drops from his knee to his boot.

Unknown_23: Agreed. Especially on the neck. The belt acted like a tourniquet, keeping the blood in his head.

Unknown_23: The hypostasis supports her hanging.

Unknown_21: Strangle upright.

Unknown_23: Yes, there's always a chance we are wrong. We should check for ligament marks on his neck to see if they're in tune with the belt. We'll have to get him down first. I do. Most of them are post-mortem. They kicked his ass after. They wouldn't have hanged him, though.

3:03:35
Unknown_21: If they hanged him, they wouldn't be able to beat the fuck out of him. So they beat the fuck out of him while someone was choking him out.

Unknown_13: Stop talking in riddles, coin slot. He means he fucked him up good, Kuno. Fucked him up brutal-like. A pool of blood and feces has eaten into the frozen mud below the man's feet.

Unknown_25: Purge liquid is dripping into it.

Unknown_23: Purge liquid?

Unknown_21: Is that what they call it?

3:04:06
Unknown_23: The victim appears to have contained no more than half a kilogram of digestion at the time of death.

Unknown_21: Purge liquid. Ew. Yucky.

Unknown_21: The fuck he saying? Yeah.

Unknown_13: Talking about shit.

Unknown_21: Yeah, I think the Kunos are the best characters. Goddamn right, I'm a faggot. This guy really is Nick Ricada. That's a word-for-word quote from Nick Ricada, I'm pretty sure.

Unknown_21: Maybe he went poo-poo before death?

3:04:46
Unknown_21: Um... Maybe. Okay, he doesn't want to talk about the poo-poo any longer. I see. I understand. I'm not shouting that I'm a faggot. That's betraying my instincts here. My look of formidable authority.

Unknown_25: But there is no breath to catch. Only the cadaver filling the air and your nostrils.

Unknown_23: Are you sure we finished the preliminary examination of the cadaver? We might miss some of these things once he's down.

Unknown_23: Hmm. The steel reinforced belt presents a unique challenge. I brought chain cutters, but I don't see a good angle of approach to the belt.

3:05:19
Unknown_23: He doesn't actually think the challenge is unique.

Unknown_25: He thinks it's frustrating, annoying, and harder than he thought.

Unknown_23: The cadaver is a good 1.2 meters up. Neither one of us can reach the belt without assistance. And even if we do, there's the question of cutting the airship strength material.

3:05:57
Unknown_21: Mmm, I'm actually not sure what would be working best for this.

Unknown_21: I think this sits most in line with my character.

Unknown_13: Yeah! Bang bang time pig, shoot his head off!

Unknown_25: With a buckle ties the rope to the branch. That's a good spot to aim.

Unknown_21: Visual calculus?

Unknown_23: Where?

Unknown_23: Ah, yes, I see. If the shot hits that, there might be a chance to release the belt.

Unknown_13: Take the shot. Wait, should I try? What are my skills? Intellect, psych, physique. Do I have good hand-eye coordination? I do.

3:06:34
Unknown_21: Yeah, I want to do it.

Unknown_25: The lieutenant's brow is furrowed. He appears too deep in concentration to even notice what you said.

Unknown_21: He won't let me? Okay.

Unknown_25: Silence. He doesn't have good eyesight. Unzips his jacket and produces a lightweight firearm.

3:07:08
Unknown_21: Oh, he's going to fuck this up.

Unknown_25: In the barrel. Separates the scouring stick and gives the cartridge five.

Unknown_21: No, he's going to fight. He's got fucking shitty eyesight. In place.

Unknown_25: That's a keel a 1990 armistice Mass-produced muzzle loader as people steps back and assumes this position taking aim Shoot that motherfucker down

Unknown_25: The kid's voice is drowned in a shrill blast that echoes off the walls of the surrounding tenement.

3:07:39
Unknown_21: He missed! You missed it, you piece of shit.

Unknown_25: A lot of things were wrong with that shot. The phallus test was the wrong- Dude, my hand-eye coordination!

Unknown_21: I should have been allowed to do it!

Unknown_25: Above all, he cannot trust his eyesight. Fucking idiot!

Unknown_13: Mook of a asshole! Kuno could have hit it easy, but then Kuno's not fucking handicapped, is he?

Unknown_23: Now, we are lucky as it is. Any more mistakes could put us in an unfortunate position.

Unknown_21: Why didn't the game let me do it? I even checked to make sure I had good hand-eye coordination, and he fucking doesn't let me do it.

3:08:15
Unknown_23: I have to say, it's beginning to look unlikely we can get him down without assistance. You know, you don't feel like too bad of a shock to yourself.

Unknown_23: Yeah, give me a gun. It's bad as it is. I was shooting. Go ahead. I'm not. Yeah. I only have one gun.

Unknown_13: This is the sorriest pair of pigs Kuno's ever seen. Yeah, take it, you fucking banani boyka. Take it and shoot yourself in the mouth.

Unknown_25: The cold piece of bakelite and gunmetal is surprisingly light. Your fingers fit right through the guard. The fuck are you waiting for, Kuno?

3:08:52
Unknown_13: Tell him to shoot himself in the mouth.

Unknown_25: The buckle comes into focus in your sights. You stand with your feet planted firmly in the ground and you just shoot yourself in your mouth.

Unknown_13: At least your field of view narrows.

Unknown_25: The branch slowly moves, becoming entirely two dimensional. The slow movement of the branch in the wind and your shoulders directing the gun.

Unknown_13: Point the gun at Kuno.

3:09:30
Unknown_21: I'm doing it. This game fucks with me.

Unknown_21: I shot him in the gut.

Unknown_25: A plume of smoke erupts from the barrel. Your hand goes numb. You missed the belt. Damage morale?

Unknown_13: Ask for another shot.

Unknown_25: You'll get it with the next one. Yeah. Reflected of some window. Surely.

Unknown_23: The cadaver is already compromised bad enough. You don't have to make it worse.

Unknown_25: It came out wrong. You made it sound like you're some sort of roulette addict. Look, if there is silence.

3:10:04
Unknown_13: Victor Pyle wants to fuck up again bad.

Unknown_21: Start crying, you're sensitive.

Unknown_13: The song of my people, asshole.

Unknown_23: Don't provoke her.

Unknown_23: I took the gun!

3:10:42
Unknown_25: The lieutenant does not dignify that with an answer.

Unknown_21: Fuck you, Kim. You piece of shit. You fucking squint. You fucked up my shot, too. Let Kuno shoot it, goddammit.

Unknown_23: We still need to get him down somehow. The bad way. The way I didn't want us to.

Unknown_23: By asking the harbor for help. From the gates. By negotiating or fighting. I'm unenthusiastic about fighting. To the gates. Let's negotiate.

Unknown_21: Okay. So there's lots that's happened. Okay.

Unknown_25: Okay, I completed this.

Unknown_21: I don't know what the fuck it is.

3:11:17
Unknown_21: It's really bizarre.

Unknown_21: Pain threshold. Blood oxygen is boring. All psych learning caps raised by one?

Unknown_25: Okay. Oh, I can forget by spinning a skill point, which I'd really prefer not to do.

Unknown_21: Use the interact button?

Unknown_20: The fuck does that mean?

3:11:54
Unknown_21: Okay, I now have one skill point.

Unknown_21: We have an injured body. I have not been able to successfully figure out where the fuck anything is. The kids are still throwing rocks at the corpse.

Unknown_21: Let me take this fucking thing. God.

Unknown_25: There are several footprints in the mud. Left by work boots. Anywhere from six, maybe more than twelve. No. Eight pairs of boots have shuffled back and forth in the mud.

3:12:28
Unknown_25: 1. Standard work boot. Steel reinforced toes. 2. Standard work boot. 3. Hobnailed work boot. 4. Standard work boot. Number 45 or 46. 5. Another standard work boot. Steel reinforced toes. Number 44. 6. An aberration. Light as air. Even pace. Same make of boot, but number 41.

3:12:59
Unknown_25: seven the glowing outline of a standard work boot number 46 but the imprints are twice as deep as the others the weight exceeds to the fucking harbor people hang them eight and yet another standard work boot number how many i was pretty often i counted 20.

3:13:31
Unknown_23: I never got the hang of it. Hyperopia. Do you see anything out of the ordinary? A woman? Or a kid?

Unknown_23: Okay.

Unknown_25: How do you know? He knows it's hard to discern sex from a person's gait.

Unknown_23: Understood. Anything else? Two hundred? Could it be the combined weight of two people, one carrying the other who's tied up? Let's say a heavily built worker carrying a similarly built, soon-to-be-dead man.

Unknown_21: Or a big fucking black guy. Okay, I guess it's not also a giant.

3:14:02
Unknown_23: Yes, they could have used a makeshift stretcher or just march him up to the gallows.

3:14:42
Unknown_23: Even easier to carry on a stretcher, or between two men. Anyway, it's for future consideration. Interesting. Let's name it the Old Soul.

Unknown_23: someone operating a workbench with a pedal like a joiner at the harbor or maybe a drummer no it's not forget us perhaps it could be a driver a driver would wear out their right shoe before the left the accelerator is on the right we should keep our eyes open around the traffic jam see whether anyone strikes out as a potential suspect

3:15:20
Unknown_23: Yeah, the guys that are just right past the fucking protest line.

Unknown_25: Yes, everything fits so well. The lieutenant's eyes narrow. He's thinking to himself. Either way.

Unknown_21: I think I also have to talk to him. What do I have in my inventory? I have an interacting... Oh, there's an interacting... An intricate web of blue lines stretches across the...

3:15:56
Unknown_25: Still kind of has an ethnic feel to it, but nothing familiar. Gone.

Unknown_25: For you to discover. Someone who...

Unknown_21: Okay, I got it.

Unknown_21: And then the notebook. Ask the gardener about March.

Unknown_21: Where's the rest of the armor? Run the number on the victim's armor. Oh yeah, that's right.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: So I have to talk to him, and then go to the call.

3:16:34
Unknown_23: Yes?

Unknown_23: What do you want to know?

Unknown_23: I'm afraid you and I are pawns in a... a pissing competition. You don't know?

Unknown_23: I assumed you were in on it.

Unknown_23: That's good.

Unknown_23: Better still than an imbecilic cop-off.

Unknown_23: What's there to say? It's just stupidity.

3:17:07
Unknown_23: Was there anything else you wanted to know about the case?

Unknown_21: He wanted to talk to me.

Unknown_23: Ah, yes. The case brief you missed. Oh, yeah, that's it. The RCM emergency desk received a report about a security guard who was found hanged in Martinez. An anonymous caller said there was a... Maybe I can...

Unknown_21: I don't know. It might be, like, ethnic armor, and he would kill me for stealing Seminese people's armor and shield as an opioid myself.

Unknown_23: During that time, the victim had been stripped of his belongings. The caller did not identify him, but used the word lynching. There is an ongoing labor dispute between the local dock workers and the logistics company Wild Pines, a security guard or worker of some sort hired by Wild Pines. They didn't identify themselves in any way. There's a strong prejudice against involving the RCM in what's seen as union matters. The dock workers' union is the de facto police in Martinez. Now that's right.

3:17:43
Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Good.

Unknown_21: Okay, we did talk to Kim, so that's done.

3:18:24
Unknown_21: Now I have to radio in the information. And then I have to find some way to cross... Like, the next step of the case is to go past the picket line, which doesn't seem that good to use it.

Unknown_25: Inside, you see a set of steering levers, a radio microphone...

Unknown_11: This is Precinct 57. How... Just a moment.

Unknown_15: 10-4, come in, officer. Over. 10-4, I know I already wrote it in a report, but...

Unknown_15: It will stay on my desk for a few days. Over.

3:18:59
Unknown_25: Wait. Before you say anything stupid, think it through. Be smart.

Unknown_15: Wait, I didn't do this right the first time. That's a negative, sir. I got a 10-12. Visitors present. Dear. Over.

Unknown_14: What? What is it? Still on the line? I called BATS, sir. He wants to verify the information on his badge.

Unknown_16: But of course, it says Dick Mullen. Dick Mullen. Highest general of the Revachowian Cavalry Force.

3:19:30
Unknown_15: Tell him to stop wasting time.

Unknown_21: Why do they keep calling me Dick Mullen? What do you need, sir?

Unknown_15: Over. Understood, sir. Over. Roger that. 10-10. Over and out.

Unknown_21: Well, I was supposed to contact Kim. I guess not my... 1667, how may I assist you?

Unknown_24: I can't believe Ken listens to this trash.

3:20:04
Unknown_25: A flock of seagulls takes off nearby, startled by the roaring radio. Right away, the lieutenant reaches into the cabin and turns off the radio.

Unknown_23: Someone must have been messing with the radio or maybe picked up a random frequency. You want it? Oh, is that what it was called? Go for it. Turn the radio back on while it's...

Unknown_21: He's embarrassed. He doesn't have confidence in his musical taste.

3:20:40
Unknown_23: Look, it helps me to stay alert on long nights, okay? It's a matter. I'm not some kind of speed freak or...

Unknown_21: think you are i think you're doing some cracker risky crack rock you would be too if you had this motor carriage but seriously let's quit joking around all right this is precinct 57 can i connect you to someone um what's the number and i've got it

Unknown_11: I'll contact the ICP database immediately.

3:21:14
Unknown_25: The International Collaboration Police, ICP, is an inter-isolary law enforcement service.

Unknown_11: 57th, over and out.

Unknown_25: In the cabin, you see a set of steering levers, a radio on a hook. The white suede feels like... Okay.

Unknown_21: That's done. I did not get any experience for doing this, though.

Unknown_21: Okay, I have to call at 21. Ask about the victim's tattoos. Ask the gardener. Who made the call? Call Sylvie. Oh, I have to call. Okay, I can do that here.

3:21:51
Unknown_25: Inside, you see a set of steering levers, a radio microphone.

Unknown_11: This is Precinct 57, of course. What is the number, officer?

Unknown_23: Yes, hold on.

Unknown_11: Received.

Unknown_23: Give it a minute. She might be busy at the moment.

Unknown_11: Copy, sir. I have Sylvie Malaika on the line for you. Yes, hello?

Unknown_21: Hi. Um... Oh, right.

3:22:22
Unknown_11: Hello, officer. What can I do for you? You mean, why did I leave the bar?

Unknown_11: Honestly?

Unknown_21: Why not?

Unknown_21: Because she was head on! I, uh... That's to say I left because I needed to get a- What? Don't worry, ma'am. I have practiced esoteric feminism.

Unknown_11: Please, don't bring Gar into this. It's none of your business.

Unknown_25: Gar, why can't you just mind your own business? She mutters. Mmm, my perception.

3:23:02
Unknown_11: I already said I don't want to talk about this. You're messing everything up again.

Unknown_11: No, not me.

Unknown_11: What? Of course it bothered me. But I thought the Union already knew about the courts.

Unknown_11: No one calls the police. The Union would get angry. You know, what the Union says goes. People listen to them and they take care of their own, which is like everyone here.

3:23:35
Unknown_11: I didn't want to get in trouble with the others.

Unknown_25: Push her further. I like the authority icon.

Unknown_21: This guy is scary. He only pops up every so often.

Unknown_11: The other people who live around here.

Unknown_11: Local people. You don't live here. You don't understand. Squealing is frowned upon here. Please, I just didn't want any trouble. Do you want to cry?

Unknown_21: Are you going to cry, crybaby?

Unknown_11: I... I didn't know I had to report it.

3:24:10
Unknown_11: I thought someone would take him down eventually.

Unknown_11: Yes, I know. It's just... No, sorry. I don't.

Unknown_11: Not a lot of people have phones around here. Copper thieves take the wires. People don't have the money to have the cables put in again.

Unknown_21: Popper thief, that's a euphemism.

Unknown_25: And there's one further down the coast.

Unknown_23: Got it. It was someone else. We'll find them sooner or later, officer.

Unknown_11: Yeah, go on.

Unknown_21: Have you seen my gun? I know who you are.

3:24:43
Unknown_11: You're a police officer. The law.

Unknown_25: I am the law. This exact conversation has happened before. Establishing authority before this young girl seems to have been important to you in the past. Don't go there again.

Unknown_11: Oh, no, I haven't, sorry.

Unknown_25: Real policemen have uniforms too, by the way. Where's yours?

Unknown_21: Fuck you. My dress is like, please.

3:25:17
Unknown_25: Yes. No! You should. It's awful that you lost it. Fuck you.

Unknown_21: What the fuck is that? The game just randomly shits on you.

Unknown_11: Please, no. Yes! My inexplicable feminist agenda will help me with this. Alright.

3:26:02
Unknown_25: Are you fucking kidding me?

Unknown_21: Dude. I didn't realize. I should have quicksaved before I did this whole fucking thing because I got fucked over on this. That's such fucking bullshit. What is the point?

Unknown_21: Dude. I despise games like this. Like, what the fuck? I had every possible thing that you could have ever asked for for this part of the game and it still just fucks you.

Unknown_25: You know women and that's where you step in. Your lieutenant love. Matchmaker extraordinaire.

3:26:36
Unknown_21: I have no empathy.

Unknown_25: Help the poor girl out. Lest she turns into a spinster.

Unknown_21: this is right what deranged i'm just telling things the way they are you have to act lieutenant love you think you can do that whatever i don't because apparently even when you have every perk you could ever want quest you still just lose that's honestly i'm so tilted at that like i had like a plus three to the roll and it still just rolls snake eyes and like 20 minutes in since my last quick save like honestly when was the last quick save

3:27:15
Unknown_21: Yeah, too fucking long ago before the corpse. Fuck me. I'm in pain in my fucking ass. I just have to remember to quicksave before every single fucking encounter because it's just going to fucking rape you.

Unknown_20: None of this fucking matters now.

Unknown_21: I'm so pissed.

Unknown_21: It's like even if you max out the right things, you're still just going to get fucking raped by the game.

Unknown_11: No.

Unknown_11: What?

3:27:48
Unknown_25: What?

Unknown_25: What is it?

Unknown_11: Call was terminated by the other party.

Unknown_25: It's on. The love quest is on. Fuck you. It's on. Take it to Gart now.

Unknown_11: 57.

Unknown_21: In the cabin. I'm so tilted.

Unknown_21: It's like that fucking game where...

Unknown_21: it's like a bunch of fucking elves or whatever and you have to have like the right skill points and the right followers and you have to find the right things in the game and then you get there and then you just roll a d20 and if you fuck it up you just have to quick load and roll the fucking d20 again and you just keep fucking doing that until you get the outcome that you want it's like that's not a fucking game that's not like a game mechanic it's just gambling you can just go play fucking roulette

3:28:47
Unknown_21: game is designed around can i help you god oh but he should be late on him she turns out she's a whore who likes to ride the carousel okay wonderful

Unknown_25: it's wonderful what what does that mean cock carousel she likes to ride the cock carousel until she's too old to ride it then she settles down with the provider what else did she say about me what else do you need

Unknown_21: You don't want to know. Yeah, she said she, like, we got Carousel very fun. Depicted Carousel.

Unknown_25: He looks at you, spinning your arms, and leans on the corner and sighs. His head drops between the shoulders, heavy and defeated.

3:29:39
Unknown_20: She broke the bird, you know. No!

Unknown_20: I found it on the ground with a broken wing. On the morning she left.

Unknown_21: I think I passed that skill check.

Unknown_20: I should have known. It was her way of telling me to piss off. I should stuff it up my ass.

Unknown_25: Or you broke the bird. It can also be that. I think Sylvie even. Yes, the bird is connected to this. It's a symbol of hope, and she broke it.

3:30:18
Unknown_20: Uh...

Unknown_20: Signals, man. Make signals. This is classic cock carousel behavior.

Unknown_21: This is broken bird feathers. Nod knowingly. This is all part of the mindfuck on the cock carousel. Huh.

Unknown_20: Cock carousel. I think I understand now.

Unknown_21: I've redpilled him. I've saved Gart.

Unknown_20: Ride the cock carousel until the clock runs out. Here, have the rest. Yeah! Now let me have a drink and think about this shit for a moment.

3:30:48
Unknown_25: And there we have it. Isn't that beautiful?

Unknown_21: My empathy is like... See? Me unlocking esoteric feminism gave me the empathy I need to inform him about the cock carousel.

Unknown_21: Oh, I can right click to see stuff. What the?

Unknown_25: Oh, a nose effect.

3:31:19
Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I didn't even see this back here the first time.

Unknown_25: You see a heavy steel door with a prominent dimple block. It's painted blue.

Unknown_25: The cobalt blue surface feels rough to touch. Old cobalt paint, rough on the fingers. 40, 50 years since this was painted, maybe. It leads to a side building, adjacent- The door does not budge. You do?

3:31:51
Unknown_23: It's a door in the back of the kitchen. Why do you care where it leads? It is quite pretty. I suppose we could look into it. As a side investigation. Gart is the person to ask about this.

Unknown_21: Well, I think Gart's just about to fucking hang himself. I had to tell him about the cock carousel. I don't think he's going to manage.

Unknown_20: Can I help you?

3:32:26
Unknown_20: What things?

Unknown_20: oh yes that door sure there's nothing mysterious about it no i don't have a key i don't know how to get there and i don't care either it's not awesome boring storage space with a bunch of junk door in your building and you don't have any thoughts about it of indifference it's absolutely not convincing Fine, okay. A little. But my- So, I haven't opened it. I have cleaned the whole place a hundred times over, though. After the animals. And I haven't found a key. Yes, not the whole damn union, thank God.

3:32:59
Unknown_23: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I gotcha. Another thing. Great. I- Yes. Okay.

Unknown_21: What'd I get? I got a tool?

3:33:30
Unknown_21: Commodore Red. Substance use effects. Oh no! I've received a bottle of alcohol. This is against my ethics as a sober necropeta.

Unknown_21: Get the body down.

Unknown_21: Explore the whirling secret passage. Find out who is in the union box. Now I have two skill points.

Unknown_21: I could unlock one.

Unknown_21: Unlock a new slot. If I unlock one, then I can unlock the 15th Indotribe. Which I'm not particularly interested in. I'm gonna be real with you. Fuck the Indotribes. Not much of an Indotribe man myself.

3:34:04
Unknown_21: Let's talk to this loser.

Unknown_25: A thin man is smoking below an ex- As you step in, he nods toward the table and says, Okay, it's definitely not his name. Whatever you do, please don't call him Garancy Quebec. Please. It's not funny.

Unknown_21: Now I have to.

3:34:38
Unknown_25: The man puts his cup down and replies something. His left hand drawing arcs in the air. He looks up at you, then looks away quickly. Shrugging is an international sign for, no, I don't know what's behind that door.

Unknown_21: Well, he sucks. Fuck you, Grossy Corbeck. You piece of shit.

Unknown_21: Yeah, I was expecting something funnier when I did that. I got no funny reply.

3:35:12
Unknown_21: Okay, you're just standing here. What's up with you? You're fucking up to something. Welcome to Revachol.

Unknown_23: Don't you welcome to Revachol me. My grandfather came here from a 3,000-year-old racist isolationist culture, while your ancestors came to this island a mere 300 years ago.

Unknown_23: Every school of thought and government has failed in the city, but I love it nonetheless. Is he the native? Is that what I'm being implied here?

3:35:47
Unknown_23: It's men like you who keep Revachol divided, making it that much harder for everyone to climb out of this... What a bizarre thing. He just said welcome, and he's like, I've been here 3,000 years.

Unknown_21: What he means is fixation on the Revacholian nation makes it harder for Revachol to actually attain self-determination. Yeah, well, that's cringe, bro.

Unknown_14: Oh, come on, man. I just said, welcome to River Shole. It's a lorry driver thing.

Unknown_23: This guy is the drug dealer. I know exactly what you meant. You think my kind doesn't belong here. Just because I am French Chinese. Behave.

3:36:25
Unknown_23: But you see, I'm an officer of the RCM. It's actually my job to make sure you behave. I would advise you to remember that.

Unknown_25: Silence. The air between them becomes tense.

Unknown_21: You want to digital nomad? Just leave.

Unknown_21: Literally open up Gemini, put in what your job is and how much money you have in the bank and how much you earn and say, I want to get the fuck out of the United States. Where can I go? I'll give you a big list of countries that your passport lets you get into. And then just pick one. Google search. Look at the local pictures. Guess what? You'll be there. Nobody will speak any English. Well, actually, a lot of people will speak English, depending on where you go.

3:36:58
Unknown_21: As long as they're young. And then you'll be bored, because you'll be in a foreign country you don't really know anything about. So you should find an expat community. Oh, the stench is getting unbearable.

Unknown_14: Is there a reason you're bothering me? They're standing here suspiciously.

3:37:29
Unknown_25: And his breath of high-tar content cigarettes.

Unknown_14: Oh, not much anymore. I'm here to pick up some cargo, but the dock workers are on strike, so... Apples.

Unknown_25: Apples. It's exactly the kind of thing you'd say if you had something to hide.

Unknown_14: Yeah, apples. I take it you had other questions? Drugs? They're shit, man. I don't let anything pollute my body. You know where that shit comes from? Sarah Mirinza. Saffrey. Ilmara. They take the money from our local junkies here, and then use it to out-compete us in the manufacturing sector. They know they can't beat us in a fair fight, so they have to get us to weaken ourselves somehow. It's racial sabotage. Racial economic sabotage.

3:38:10
Unknown_25: He eyes you wearily, unsure.

Unknown_14: I don't know shit. And if I did, I wouldn't tell you. What do you think? I can't leave the lorry unguarded. His name is literally Racist Lorry Driver because he said welcome to Revachol and his Chinese friend freaks the fuck out on him. The bosses will be on my ass like ass cancer.

Unknown_25: There was a bunch of spilled boxes in the back of a big lorry nearby.

3:38:49
Unknown_14: Yeah, I knew that guy. He was an honest driver who loved this country. We were having a good debate about genetics at the wheeled rags when some kip boys smashed his lock and took damn near everything. Lost his fucking job over it. Since he left, I haven't had anyone to talk to.

Unknown_25: If they were getting drunk inside the whirling rags, how could they know who broke into the lorry?

Unknown_14: What, aren't we allowed to say that he's the kips who do all the stealing around here? That's not road to science, man.

3:39:21
Unknown_14: Isn't it obvious? Fucking ceiling. That bitty-eyed South Samaran. Mm, South Samaran. Little side business is a scam. I wouldn't be surprised if he was peddling drugs as well. He's a Samaran guy who likes to pretend he's some kind of businessman. Just follow the smell. It smells like apricot and oil when you're nearby.

Unknown_23: Yes, yes. Where is he?

3:39:53
Unknown_14: Looks like I offended your partner there. Too bad. Sealing's usually a little bit south of here. His tribe are natural liars.

Unknown_23: I wouldn't be so sure about it. Guess so.

Unknown_21: Oh, that's the Indian guy. Yeah, we gotta... Buddy, I'm on that shit. Okay, we're gonna get rid of that fucking guy. He honestly does not belong here in Ravishal. Like, at all.

Unknown_21: This is him, right?

3:40:27
Unknown_25: Yeah. We gotta fuck this guy up. He has to die. No, no, fuck you.

Unknown_03: Yeah, you gotta go. You gotta go.

Unknown_21: Lieutenant nods approvingly.

3:40:58
Unknown_03: You're right, officer. 100%.

Unknown_21: Persuade him to give you some money?

Unknown_03: Strictly business.

Unknown_21: Yeah, hell yeah.

Unknown_25: No need to dress this one up. Just tell him what you want.

Unknown_03: Oh, okay.

Unknown_03: But why, officer?

Unknown_03: Ah, yes. Money is very important. Let me back the money I spent on the visor.

Unknown_21: Are you trying to ask for a bribe? If so, you're not...

Unknown_03: Sorry, detective.

Unknown_03: Drugs?

Unknown_03: I don't go in for that, officer. Drugs ruin lives. Unless you're into drugs, of course. In which case, drugs are excellent.

3:41:30
Unknown_03: Tasty, tasty drugs. That's very cool. A lot of the coolest detectives do drugs. Sadly, I don't have any drugs on sale. Or at my home, or on my person.

Unknown_25: Sir, it appears to be true. No drugs in sight. Not in the box of sunglasses or under the speakers.

Unknown_03: That's even cooler. You investigating that and all. But, uh, I am not a lorry driver.

3:42:02
Unknown_25: A blatant lie, sire. Yet he tells it with such conviction. We'd believe him if we didn't know better.

Unknown_03: Who said that?

Unknown_03: It's the fat racist, right?

Unknown_21: he has an agenda against me because i'm an immigrant who works harder than he did they capture the indian essence of this guy so you admit you're a lorry driver no i just said i work harder and he's an asshole i'm realizing he can't get out of it smart man

3:42:38
Unknown_03: Okay, maybe I'm a lorry driver too. A little. But that's not the most important thing about me. That's my day job. This is my dream.

Unknown_03: No! That's insane. It's the fat hater. He's been eyeing me for a week and he sent you here. Maybe he's the one, huh? Have you thought about that?

Unknown_21: It's not possible. He's a proper revachon.

Unknown_03: I told you, I'm not a dumb guy. I don't get in board with that crowd.

3:43:11
Unknown_23: And what crowd is that?

Unknown_03: Crowd, you know, the drug crowd.

Unknown_25: No, he wasn't talking about an abstract crowd. It was that crowd.

Unknown_03: Tosha, please. There's bad people doing bad things here. That's all I know. Please, don't get me wrong. Please, I'm a hardworking immigrant.

Unknown_21: I've spent 15 years. Here we go.

Unknown_25: There's a tiny bit of truth on the table. Zoom in on it.

3:43:42
Unknown_21: We're buddies, see? That's not true. If you don't get me into this, you have to give us a reason to move on.

Unknown_03: It's a she, okay? The other drivers call her the lady driver. You're better off staying away from her. The way they talk about her, she's no lady.

Unknown_21: Tranny?

Unknown_03: I don't know. Maybe.

Unknown_25: He's not ruling her out.

Unknown_03: All of them. I don't know.

3:44:14
Unknown_23: who exactly is talking about this lady driver of yours the racist or the other one with the tattoos all of them even the ones who've left i don't hang out with them all right i scored let's cap this off with a purchase you can walk away how about you give me money yeah

Unknown_25: Then work your way up from there. Would you like to support the police for us?

Unknown_03: Oh, okay.

Unknown_25: After all this mess, the broken seals lying to you?

3:44:49
Unknown_03: An investment?

Unknown_03: What kind of investment?

Unknown_21: When it's an investment in me, a highly experimental human being, my risk-reward ratio is insane. I think that would appeal to him as an Indian. I guess it can't be any riskier than speculating in exotic derivatives. Give me the 10.

Unknown_03: Yeah! You got it, my...

Unknown_21: Awesome. You just have to know what makes them tick. And what makes them tick is extremely speculative investments.

3:45:21
Unknown_21: See, whether the game creators want to admit it or not, they're also fucking racist.

Unknown_21: No, he didn't donate money. He invested in a highly speculative NFT in the shape of an alcoholic that looks like Nick Riccato. That's why he was willing to give me money.

3:45:55
Unknown_21: Okay. Is there anything else I'm doing here?

Unknown_21: I guess I could talk to the lady driver. I can try to go up in here. I didn't see this before.

Unknown_25: lorry stuck in the traffic jam the windows are clear they've been recently washed you can see a lorry man's cabin with personal belongings stick fumes of heavy fuel oil waft over you making your eyes sting the back end of the cabin has a small perch to sleep a book with ragged edges catches your notice The front cover features a large muscular man.

3:46:29
Unknown_23: Racist nationalist paraphernalia. Not unusual in this part of town. This is- Oh no, there is us. Likely, yes. This guy's proud of who he is. Drapes it all over his machine.

Unknown_25: There he is. In front of Peter. Yes, sir. The driver has adorned his space with a substantial collection of peculiar paraphernalia. A large metal- It is a seal of royalist era, Revachon.

Unknown_21: God. That's so terrifying. Those peoples are just sometimes hanging around.

3:47:06
Unknown_21: Being dangerous. Being racist.

Unknown_21: Let's go hassle this bitch again. You're also brown.

Unknown_25: The woman is still... Huh?

Unknown_00: What is it? What do you want? Did you just call me a lady, Herife? I'm not that either, Herife. I've gone too far from it. The Mexican accent is just so unbearable. I'm only terrifying to small children and to those who used to know me.

Unknown_25: Yeah, it's not her. Believe me.

3:47:42
Unknown_00: Okay. It's not her. They would never be so beast. The jam mystery. Well, it's not her.

Unknown_21: Should we talk to the fat racist again? I think that's what I'm being implied here.

3:48:20
Unknown_14: Looking for something?

Unknown_14: I don't know what you're talking about.

Unknown_14: Listen up, fuckwits. You don't scare me. You cops don't run Revachul West. You don't run Martinez. You don't run anything. No.

Unknown_23: He means La Puta Madre.

Unknown_25: A legendary, and not in a good way, crime boss from Jamrock. Controls what is probably the most powerful organized crime outfit.

3:48:53
Unknown_23: Yeah, him.

Unknown_23: Then I presume you are familiar with his peonies.

Unknown_14: Yeah, they're his little bitches. He's got them all over the unions.

Unknown_23: Not just the unions. He has peonies everywhere.

Unknown_25: The lieutenant adopts a rodentine quality. Be cool, sire. He's getting into this.

Unknown_14: You're not peonies. You wouldn't be investigating a drug thing if you were.

Unknown_23: No, of course not. We're not peonies. But if we were, and one of Madre's drivers were to be stealing from him, then it's a good peony's job to find out who that is.

3:49:25
Unknown_23: He's surprisingly good at this. Not bad at all.

Unknown_21: Can you actually replace him with, like, other followers? Because he seems so useful. It's not a hard job.

Unknown_23: It won't take a long time. It won't make Padre Madre angry. But a stupid fucking racist is standing in the way, protecting this fucking town. Except for how he keeps whinging about racism.

Unknown_14: I'm not scared of you or the mob. I'm under the protection of the Lorrymen and Carter's Guilds.

3:50:03
Unknown_23: Hmm.

Unknown_14: It's about biological determinism. Not the most popular topic nowadays, with a coalition in charge, you know. People who've studied these things say that you and me are superior by design. So, naturally, we Occidentals should be in charge. Obviously, you- Oh?

3:50:34
Unknown_14: Yeah. Cry about it.

3:51:15
Unknown_21: Obviously not racist about Chinese people.

Unknown_23: It's gonna grill me over my racist views now.

Unknown_23: Our position in Ravachol is already precarious. Many people think we are vigilantes as it is. I can't have them thinking we are racist vigilantes- Making me apologize.

3:51:48
Unknown_21: That's good to hear.

Unknown_23: I don't want there to be any- Let me say just one more thing. As you've seen, these sorts of attitudes are quite common in Martinez. So I expect this to happen again and again. I've had this conversation enough times in my life. From now on, I'm going to stay out of it. How you choose to respond is your business.

Unknown_21: Okay, leave me the fuck alone. Time to quicksave and make this actually fucking work.

Unknown_21: Does save scumming actually work is the question.

3:52:29
Unknown_14: Hello compatriot, you have something to discuss? He does. Men like this only respect two things, strength and fear.

Unknown_14: Fuck you.

Unknown_21: I told you.

Unknown_14: I'm not gonna... Brute forcing rules.

Unknown_21: I mean, otherwise you're just gonna get raped by the fucking game.

Unknown_25: Your voice grows smaller as yours.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: I'm going to fuck you.

Unknown_21: I'm gonna put you in a cell. I've been to your lorry.

3:53:04
Unknown_21: I'm gonna burn it down.

Unknown_14: Look, fuck you, man. It's some lorry down there. Green banged up thing. I don't fucking know who she is.

Unknown_23: When did she go away?

Unknown_14: I don't know. I don't even know her name. She just rules with the fleet and acts like a big shot. Some dyke, probably. A dyke is allowed, but faggots not. Pass the monument down there.

3:53:37
Unknown_14: The Green Temple. Now leave me the fuck alone, okay?

Unknown_23: a small temple by the monument.

Unknown_14: Okay, I got you.

Unknown_21: I'm almost at the, um... the time for the thing. Should I spend my skill points? I think I still have two. Unfortunately, racism was not a thought that I could manifest. Oh, I have to find the green lorry.

3:54:16
Unknown_25: There it is. This must be the one he told us about.

Unknown_25: The glass on the side windows is tinted and the door is locked. There's no picking this lock. The owner has put special care into it. It's a recessed design.

Unknown_23: Use the pry bar to smash the window.

Unknown_23: This has been hard enough. No need to make it any harder.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Well, I have the pry bar, right?

Unknown_21: But I can only do this with like... 28%.

3:54:53
Unknown_25: This is a white check. You can only try it. Okay. Holy shit.

Unknown_21: I actually lucked out. Fuck the police. Release your secrets, Laurie Gavin.

Unknown_21: yeah the window shatters and droplets of glass fly everywhere sata the smell of cigarette cry about it was your idea kim the cabin inside is plastered with old movie posters actresses smile from the wall there's something odd about the passenger seat the seating fabric has been pulled tight over the lower side of the seat where the toolbox should be

3:55:43
Unknown_21: Okay, so in the passenger seat, the fabric has been pulled over the lower side of the seat where the toolbox usually is. Okay, let's recover.

Unknown_25: Oh, the map! I have the map now.

Unknown_25: This large map displays the elevated motorway called 881. Toe roofs at the intakes are marked with a circle. It looks like there are scant few ways of getting on. There, hundreds of thousands of motor carriages roar on the 881. High above the mess of brown and red roofs, that is Jamrock. The commuters don't even look down. To Kuron, through the middle income neighborhoods there, This municipal map from the 30s displays a complex system of storm sewers underneath a sub-district called The Pox, old military hospital. The final map displays a labyrinth of service tunnels left over from the construction of Motorway 881. These service tunnels were probably used during the construction of the foundation beneath the motorway. Looks like the smugglers have infiltrated the road network belonging to East Motor Tract.

3:56:57
Unknown_23: So it would seem.

Unknown_23: The RCM patrols most of these auxiliary roads, though apparently not all of them.

Unknown_23: Hard to say. This distribution network looks certainly large, yet still vague enough. It doesn't reveal much about the Besmerti behind it.

Unknown_23: The Besmerti is a revolutionary crime syndicate with cool names like La Puta Madre and Aura Masta. It's a dark parody.

Unknown_21: So it's a Chinese guy with a French accent trying to say Spanish names. Okay.

3:57:34
Unknown_23: It's definitely not the Union. It's just his bad news. Best not to disturb the scene. I'll have forensics go over the lorry and pick this up later.

Unknown_21: Okay, so there's a serious physical threat.

Unknown_25: Let's steal their tools. It's empty! The Ulan frequency system? I've never heard of that before.

3:58:16
Unknown_23: I know of F.M.A.N.U.K.

Unknown_25: The Puller Toolbag slides back into its nest. These are movie posters featuring starlets from long-forgotten films. one of them she's a lesbian she has pinups of girls all throughout her cabin attached right above the back seat there's definitely perfume in the air it's spicy with a hint of amberette the actress is draped in a sheath dress one of her shoulders beard the faded remains of an autograph run across the poster A well-worn poster, huh?

3:58:48
Unknown_25: The rare actor. A radio transmitter is attached to the dashboard and looks like the frequency dial is absent. It requires a key to work, but the key has been removed.

Unknown_23: Strange. There are so many radio stations saved here. Must be over 100 at least.

3:59:20
Unknown_23: No, that's on 78.9. He's out of himself.

Unknown_21: He is a speed freak.

Unknown_23: I happen to have committed the frequency to memory. I have no problem admitting that.

Unknown_23: For contacting an entire fleet of lorrymen, for example. This is all shortwave, UW and UKV.

Unknown_25: Looks like we're dealing with an- A twenty kilometer radius at least. Perhaps extended by an attachable antenna that's not here right now.

3:59:54
Unknown_25: Doesn't look like it. It's com- The ghostly actresses. And you wedge yourself under the steering wheel to get a better look. seems like the few tools lying around here a hammer a pair of pliers a rusty wrench have been casually thrown there by the disorganized driver but one odd detail does catch your eye a piece of sandpaper has been glued to the throttle oh for for additional grip that would wear the out of your soul sandpaper adds extra grip

4:00:30
Unknown_23: Sandpaper?

Unknown_23: A novel technique? Yes.

Unknown_23: Which means that the missing lady driver was present at the lynching.

Unknown_21: It's the lyncher.

Unknown_23: We've identified one of the footprints, but there are still seven to go.

Unknown_25: The movie stars are still smiling from it closed the rusty old lorry door. Great.

Unknown_23: I think we got everything.

Unknown_21: Okay, I did it. I did a thing. I made progress.

4:01:03
Unknown_23: Alright, we've finished here. Let's quickly debrief and go over what we found. So we don't- Honestly, I'm quite wor- I'm especially intrigued by that radio transmitter.

Unknown_25: This means it's well funded. Technology like that, a major player must be financing it.

Unknown_23: I'm not sure what the ULAN frequencies are all about, but they may hold some significance. Oh, and the maps we found. They reveal the geographical extent of the operation. Looks like they've used abandoned tunnels and access roads to stay hidden. This is useful info. We should return to the murder case. See what Joyce tells us about the lynching. There are more than enough grounds to start an official investigation. The fact that one hasn't started already gives me pause. And all the same, I don't like the idea of internal affairs descending on the matter. As elegant as they are, I don't think they are relevant to the drug trade.

4:01:35
Unknown_23: Yes, well.

Unknown_23: We didn't find anything conclusive linking them to the smuggling operation, but somehow I thought that Evar Claire would be oblivious to something like this happening right under his nose. My suggestion is we use it against the union in any way we can.

4:02:09
Unknown_25: In short, this is a future angle, possibly a good one.

Unknown_23: Reactions.

Unknown_21: I feel like reaction speed. I don't know. I have six skill points? Oh no, I have two.

Unknown_21: Charm men and women. Okay, you guys have to look up what the absolute best thing to max out is. Because right now, I don't know. Should I max out Authority? Respect my Authority? I have very low Psych.

4:02:44
Unknown_21: That's the issue.

Unknown_21: Figure it out?

Unknown_21: I don't know, skill points are so hard to get. Stargon max.

Unknown_21: Reaction speed does seem like it's the best. Where's my reaction speed at?

Unknown_21: I think bumping that up to a solid five would be good.

4:03:29
Unknown_21: and then um sorry i couldn't max out logic i feel like i already get lots of logic checks though i have really low everything else though

Unknown_21: Do I want to say that I've failed lots of checks because of empathy?

Unknown_21: I'm unempathetic. I can max out my empathy now that I have unlocked feminism.

4:04:19
Unknown_21: And this one also is like save my ass. I'm like a check. I don't want electrochemistry. I don't need that. I would like authority. Just because I like his avatar. That's pretty cool. I don't know. I don't have that many.

Unknown_21: Empathy is a spook, that's true, empathy is a spook.

Unknown_21: I can only max, put so many points into volition.

Unknown_21: And these, I guess I could.

4:04:51
Unknown_21: I like this one a lot too, half-light.

Unknown_21: This one shows up when you need it. Physical, instrument, I haven't even seen these. Civil, affair, empathy, shivers, half-light, these have all shown up in like things.

Unknown_21: As well as logic and perception, but I already have really high logic and perception. I don't know if I should...

Unknown_20: I should do more than that, but we'll see.

Unknown_21: Can I add more thoughts to my thinking? No, I have to unlock that with a skill point? Unlock a new slot to research the thought.

4:05:25
Unknown_21: I don't have any thoughts that I really want.

Unknown_21: Sneed in for five says, Josh, is my area good when most of the gas stations don't have jeet cashiers and owners? Yes. Even in like proper middle of fucking nowhere, you get like jeets.

Unknown_21: Um, what to sure. What else do I do?

Unknown_21: Smoker on the balcony the victims tattoos getting the body down who made the call reporting the client keeps rich for the caller pay for damages I Guess I could have money from the lady might as well. I don't know what else I'm doing Because I don't have to

4:06:14
Unknown_21: I remember there was a sign that says Tibbs had windows.

Unknown_21: Track down your badge and gun. Find any information you can on the gun. Joyce's info and lynching. Who the fuck is Joyce? There's something that she wants to tell you. You just have to present her with your badge to hear it. Oh, that's the lady on the boat.

Unknown_21: Report back to Joyce. Ah, okay. So I should tell Joyce about the drugs.

Unknown_21: Where's the window store at? Is that like a real thing? Did I hallucinate that? It's very possible I hallucinate at the window store. What's next to the shape store? That's a good thought.

4:06:54
Unknown_21: Joy's just chilling on the boat.

Unknown_09: Good. What can I help you with? Yes, my eyes on the harbor have said that. That's a lot of experience. What have you discovered?

4:07:25
Unknown_09: Yes.

Unknown_09: And if there is an investigation, it will be part of an ongoing operation subject to confidentiality.

Unknown_23: I'm sure you understand.

Unknown_09: Of course, detectives, in any case, you've held up your end of our arrangement. I trust you with the rest. Now it's my turn.

Unknown_21: Okay, hold up.

Unknown_21: I just realized how annoying this is.

4:07:58
Unknown_21: The chat is on the other side. I...

Unknown_21: Breaking the conditioning here.

Unknown_21: Okay, can I, um...

Unknown_20: I don't know how I could change that.

Unknown_21: It's like stuck on the right.

Unknown_21: Did not put an option for this border radius. Does that do anything?

4:08:34
Unknown_21: Say they can fix this really quick.

Unknown_21: Message.

Unknown_21: Border radius.

Unknown_21: Get message. important order radius important does not go in the class definition that's right that did not work leave it be it only took four hours shut up I have been looking at shit okay

4:09:25
Unknown_21: The custom CSS is not applying like how I would like it to.

Unknown_20: Yeah, I don't know if I can fix the roundedness.

Unknown_21: I have to change the overlay for that.

Unknown_09: I wouldn't normally break protocol like this, but the situation demands it. If you don't solve this murder, I'm afraid we may have a bloodbath on our hands.

Unknown_21: The game is under attack from the woke Josh. That's right.

4:09:59
Unknown_09: Yes. I'm afraid this strike may descend into a small-scale civil war with possible consequences for all of Rivershaw West.

Unknown_21: There's like six people by that gate.

Unknown_23: Since you are sharing, ma'am, this is also the RCM's worst-case scenario.

Unknown_09: Then we're on the same page, as grim as it may be. I have an indirect role to play, I'm sad to say. My employer experienced a momentary lapse of faith in me. In that moment, they elected to deploy a private military contractor as an insurance measure. They called it my security detail.

4:10:32
Unknown_09: Absolutely not. These mercenaries are muscle, pure and simple. They are meant to intimidate the Union into surrendering.

Unknown_23: Who are they, exactly?

Unknown_09: Crenel. An Oranese military company. As far as I know, three arrived in Martinez. They report to me sporadically, but they do not answer to me. They wear ceramic armor, have semi-automatic weapons, and years of combat experience.

Unknown_23: So what happened?

Unknown_09: The story is one of them, the Colonel, I don't know his real name, sexually assaulted a local woman while he was drunk. You're the top feminist on the case. This allows some of the more militant union members to subdue him. He was taken out behind the whirling in rags and lynched last Sunday night.

4:11:11
Unknown_09: Nothing. Mr. Clare refuses to let me into the harbor. I have not been able to discuss this matter with anyone there. The remaining two Cronell contractors carry out their orders, for now. It's a smokescreen. In secret, they are conducting an independent military tribunal into the lynching. Once this investigation is concluded, executions will follow.

4:11:47
Unknown_23: This is the Mercenary Corporation?

Unknown_09: whether to execute one, some, or all of the Union militants.

Unknown_21: I have to say, this is not disco.

Unknown_09: Surely you're joking.

Unknown_09: These people are killers. My only hope is that yours provides a single, concrete suspect, before they indiscriminately pick theirs. Sim- If you don't pin this on someone good, and do it fast, they will identify and execute everyone present at the lynching. This in turn will force the Union to respond.

4:12:19
Unknown_23: The debar-der have over two thousand men. It will be a thousand to one.

Unknown_09: Have you ever seen a hornet invade a beehive, Lieutenant?

Unknown_09: It's not pretty.

Unknown_25: The Serais giant hornet, the world's second largest insect, can kill 40 honeybees a minute, while a group of 30 can decimate an entire hive of 20,000 bees in less than four hours.

Unknown_09: These men work in tandem using semi and fully automatic firearms. Their armor is virtually impenetrable to muzzles and cannons, even yours. Most union workers don't have guns at all.

4:12:52
Unknown_25: The muzzleloaders need to be reloaded after every one or two shots. The automatics, every one or two minutes.

Unknown_21: Yeah, I know how a gun works.

Unknown_09: As I said, a bloodbath.

Unknown_09: many bleak scenarios have already come true nameless badgeless detective of the citizens militia all we can do is keep the rest from going the same way one single given me delivered into civil court and i may be able to defuse this situation this is 1950 i think i'm not sure it's like future restaurant retro is taking a little bit

4:13:46
Unknown_09: Not much. Their public resume is relatively good. They boast a long list of clients.

Unknown_23: Meaning they're used to operating in war zones.

Unknown_09: Yes. All the good conflict corridors. Sadly, no. Before this happened, I had literally... The game developers are crazy trying to come up with fake names for everything. I don't have the resources. If you still have access to the ICP's database, you could run a better background check than I ever could. It may take some time, though.

Unknown_09: In my line of work, it pays to do your research. I have.

4:14:19
Unknown_09: And they will. However, these orders take time to reach what is basically a rogue unit out in the field here. She's being truthful.

Unknown_25: She is pressing them as hard as she can.

Unknown_21: Drama is a very good skill as well.

Unknown_21: Provides a lot of insight. I think I picked the best character because it's like the game just tells you what to think. Which is useful for me. Or he didn't.

Unknown_09: This is information passed on to me from some teenagers loitering around the canal. I cannot testify by it.

4:14:52
Unknown_09: The remaining contractors.

Unknown_09: That the man was killed because he assaulted a local woman.

Unknown_25: The lieutenant consults his notebook, his eyebrows knitted in concentration.

Unknown_23: Give us a source for this, Joyce. We have not heard any reports about an assault in connection with lynching.

Unknown_09: Last Sunday night, at the whirling in rags, the hostel by the gates. Supposedly, the colonel was drunk. Maybe on narcotics, too.

Unknown_21: And he raped somebody at the inn? Either way, he's alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman.

4:15:24
Unknown_09: With the lady from the beginning of the game?

Unknown_21: That's a good question, officer.

Unknown_09: I mean, there's only one woman in there that you could sexually assault.

Unknown_21: Either that or the employee, but we've already confirmed that she left because of the guy hitting on her, not the other one.

Unknown_09: If you mean, did I see him alive? Yes. Lely. His service name. A nom de guerre, most likely. He wouldn't divulge his full name.

Unknown_09: One is a man. Courtie, they call him. A nickname as well. The other a- What would you say was his eye color?

4:15:58
Unknown_23: The deceased's? She closes her eyes, trying to picture the man's face. I can't remember.

Unknown_25: The lieutenant was testing her, asking a small detail first to see if she knew him better than she let on. She passed.

Unknown_23: That's all right, man. Anything else? Nationality? What would you say was his age?

Unknown_09: He was 40. Or 50.

Unknown_23: What else? Nationality?

Unknown_09: He was, uh, occidental, I think. Like brown hair, a mixed accent. In a way, it was humanizing. He had to learn to speak through it. Through the injury.

4:16:31
Unknown_09: That's all I know, I guess. They've gone to ground, as it were. I don't recommend seeking them out.

Unknown_09: For they don't have the same respect for the Revachol citizens' militia as I do. You're likely to run into them eventually. When that happens, I'll be in a better position to leave them if I don't appear involved.

Unknown_25: One is obviously the scab leader at the harbor gates. The one chanting the idiotic slogans. He's barely maintaining his disguise.

4:17:05
Unknown_25: The other has a vantage point in a building south of the roundabout. They were keeping tabs on you while you were canvassing the lorry drivers.

Unknown_09: That may be so.

Unknown_09: I still hope you heed my advice. There's no need to kick the hornet's nest.

Unknown_23: For all your talk of averting this catastrophe, the situation at the gate... Catastrophe? That does not bother you?

4:17:38
Unknown_09: Of course it bothers me, Lieutenant. But my hands are tied. How would my employer react if it appeared I were intervening on behalf of the Union?

Unknown_23: Your concern may be appearances. Ours is keeping the peace.

Unknown_09: That would afford a good vantage point.

Unknown_09: In any case, it's practically inaccessible.

Unknown_23: Where is your radio for contacting them, if I may ask?

Unknown_09: Heavens no. I'm not an undercover agent. I hope I can answer it better. Until the executions start?

Unknown_09: Truthfully, I don't know.

4:18:11
Unknown_23: They don't report their progress to you?

Unknown_09: Not on this matter. I'm afraid they consider this a personal initiative. It's a matter of days, not weeks. I am sorry to have been the bearer of bad news.

Unknown_09: If there is anything else I can help... She reaches for the photo for about half a minute in silence.

Unknown_23: It was taken with a trigger not long ago.

Unknown_25: Her mouth is relaxed. The accordion lines near her mouth vanish. The pearls of her eyes move slowly on the photo's surface.

4:18:44
Unknown_09: Sorry. I was trying to see if I can read the web of interdependencies between these points. The stars. I can't this old white woman know the tattoo story. The close port cities. This is an ordinary map of the waterways. A sailor's tattoo. Why would you know this? Oh, it's a sailing thing, I guess.

Unknown_21: That's why.

Unknown_09: Over 300 years ago, the sailors would mark their bodies to map their travels.

Unknown_09: The sailors soul would use it to fly back home if they should die abroad. This is a sort of contraption to be reeled back in by quite a few. Vredefort, the Oranese capital, traditionally stands on the right shoulder.

4:19:17
Unknown_23: What next?

Unknown_09: Then he made his way to the Pretto Grandi.

Unknown_09: This game is like a nightmare where every country is blended together.

Unknown_21: There's like German, Oriental, Italian, Spanish, Indian.

Unknown_23: Old, old world passing by. You said you can't read it.

4:19:54
Unknown_09: I can't.

Unknown_25: Vredefort? Vredefort has a... That makes sense to me.

Unknown_09: That is a relief.

4:20:37
Unknown_21: So if I wanted to unlock a more thing, I would have to spend a point. Okay, I'll save my point, though, in case I randomly decide I need to unlock a thaw.

Unknown_21: This isn't America, it's like France, I think.

Unknown_21: Okay, I still have three hours left.

Unknown_21: What else is on the list?

Unknown_21: The victim's tattoos. Getting the body down.

4:21:12
Unknown_21: Let's go find out about that rape. It's time to put my feminist scholarship, feminist studies to good use.

Unknown_21: Wait. I bet you this book lady knows about tattoos.

Unknown_21: Book lady.

Unknown_07: Welcome to crime. Welcome. And please take responsibility. Can you give me money? I certainly will not give you money. I would be doing you a grave psychic disfavor. One has to earn one success.

4:21:45
Unknown_25: There are good things to be said about dependence.

Unknown_21: It would fucking continue to hassle her for money.

Unknown_21: Powerful feudal Lord. Okay.

Unknown_07: Oh my, of course. What a man.

Unknown_21: That's right.

Unknown_07: I am the proudest owner of our little shop of culture. Annette, yes, my daughter. I hope she wasn't slacking off again with her nose in science fiction. She was slacking off. Doing her job like a proper girl. Of course she was. Ten out of ten.

4:22:19
Unknown_21: I'm here to dismantle the free market and abolish child labor. You must be kidding.

Unknown_07: There's nothing like that happening. Good, sir. What does a young child do with money anyway?

Unknown_25: That sounds like slavery. Such criminal behavior would not happen in more developed countries.

4:22:51
Unknown_07: Those countries will realize they've raised a lazy and spoiled generation.

Unknown_21: She's defending child labor.

Unknown_23: Yes, we've had quite enough fun here. Right.

Unknown_25: The woman before you scans the store.

Unknown_21: Okay, she's not useful. What the fuck is the point of this bookstore? What's back here? I'm invading your house.

Unknown_25: You see a set of tattered curtains.

Unknown_07: Excuse me, officer. The back room is strictly for employees only.

4:23:28
Unknown_25: You see some kind of charm. An irregular polyhedron assembled from bones.

Unknown_21: She's doing witchcraft.

Unknown_25: This is a traditional Seminese ward. She's a Seminese. I'll come back. If I ever need any more information about Seminese people and their fish head charms, I'll come back for you, Bish. And your child labor.

4:24:09
Unknown_21: The children do crave the mind, you're right.

Unknown_21: Okay, let's talk about rape, buddy boy.

Unknown_20: Can I help you?

Unknown_21: Guess I can't talk to him about rape.

Unknown_25: Knock knock. Rape. The door is closed. There is no answer. You hear the shower being turned on. Somewhere inside. Still no answer. Still nothing. The lieutenant gives you a quick glance. This door can only be opened with a key.

4:24:41
Unknown_21: Look, I need to talk to you about your traumas.

Unknown_21: Do you understand?

Unknown_21: Money.

4:25:19
Unknown_21: There's no one there. I guess I can't talk to her. Oh, I can fix the faucet now?

Unknown_25: What the fuck?

Unknown_25: A mirror hangs on the bathroom wall.

Unknown_21: 42%. Your face adorned with the expression.

4:25:50
Unknown_25: The chain cutter slip out of your hands as you attempt to twist the faucet into place. Well, you know one thing for sure. You've probably never been a plumber.

Unknown_21: Wow.

Unknown_21: What a pain in my fucking ass.

Unknown_21: I can't even fix the fucking faucet.

Unknown_25: The door, it's still nothing. The lieutenant gives you a quick... Well, I have to talk about the fucking rape.

4:26:34
Unknown_21: Oh, this guy, he's fucking bald. Let's talk about the rape.

Unknown_21: Hmm, he has nothing to say.

Unknown_21: Maybe the old lady saw it.

Unknown_10: Hello, sweetie.

Unknown_25: Wait, who's sweetie?

Unknown_10: Why, you are, officer.

Unknown_10: You're a handsome man, officer, with your mustache and your chiseled jaw. That's take heart, officer. You're still a man in your prime. You must forgive me. I'm getting so scatterbrained. I'm Lena. My husband, Morel, and I are staying with our friend, Gary, just down the street, but I come here for tea when they're away. How about money? Oh, sweetie, I heard your conversation with the manager about your financial troubles. What?

4:27:07
Unknown_23: you must be joking although our pay does sometimes feel like a joke it's not easy to assert your right to a decent living wage when you don't have a strong union behind you interesting idea this evra sounds powerful maybe you can well before we start talking about let's talk about the money try to force it out of your duct really rip into the whole emotional aggression officer no what

4:27:56
Unknown_21: Fuck you. Trying to blame the fucking... Fuck that.

Unknown_21: That's fucking bullshit.

Unknown_21: Hello, sweetie. Take psychic fucking damage. Sweetie.

Unknown_10: Why, you are... You're a... Take heart. You must... I'm Lena. My husband, Morel, and I are staying with our friend, Gary, just down the street, but I come here for... Okay, I guess... Wait, let me get the thing again.

Unknown_20: Interesting idea.

Unknown_21: Won't do that again cuz I failed I don't have money for you if there's anything else I can do for you.

4:28:33
Unknown_10: Just ask Yes, officer. You look rather dazed. Oh my You know where we are, right? That's right in a hostel called the whirling in rags to be precise. Oh

Unknown_10: new disco dancing much has changed but it is speaking of history you know what year it is yeah that's right dear how she gave me a pie or a pen knowledge should always be rewarded she was getting pretty worried about you then i can tell that this is taxing for you so i'll just ask one more question

4:29:23
Unknown_21: Cop. We are under the cop regime. Democracy.

Unknown_21: A dictatorship of the proletariat. Fierce warriors. Intelligent machines.

Unknown_10: Oh, sweetie.

Unknown_10: It's really not.

Unknown_10: There used to be people who thought that way.

Unknown_10: Other people who wanted those things, but they were all put down of control, led by an alliance of foreign powers called the coalition. We have almost no government of our own.

4:29:55
Unknown_21: There's like Germany after the war of the proletariat, but they still have cops.

Unknown_10: Oh dear.

Unknown_10: And you were doing so well.

Unknown_10: There aren't any cops in Rivershall, not in the traditional sense. Well, you called me a cop. Status of law enforcement has been a complicated matter since... But we should stop for today, sweetie. You look like you need a break. Besides, I'm not... You were doing quite well up until the end there.

Unknown_10: It does look like you're having trouble remembering things.

Unknown_25: A sigh. The lieutenant buries his nose in his notebook.

4:30:31
Unknown_10: But maybe a fresh set of eyes is what the world needs. Someone more educated in sweeping matters. I'm very educated in sweeping matters.

Unknown_23: No. I'm not an encyclopedia. I won't be a guide either. I'm a detective.

Unknown_21: It won't let me know who the fuck I am.

Unknown_10: Then I don't know.

Unknown_25: That's a good point. This doesn't look like Rich Central.

Unknown_10: Of course, dear.

Unknown_21: So I don't know anything about the rape.

Unknown_21: That sucks.

4:31:18
Unknown_21: You there, tell me about the rape.

Unknown_24: Right to work! Right- Hell no. I'm just an honest scab. I won't have talk like that around here. You understand? It just has to be said, that was not a convincing line.

Unknown_25: I'm going to interpret that as a yes. There's a tribunal, and it won't be long until it's ready.

4:31:50
Unknown_24: How about you fuck off now, huh?

Unknown_25: Okay, of course.

Unknown_25: The man's breathing steadies, but his eyes are still narrow. Don't think so.

Unknown_25: What it means...

4:32:31
Unknown_24: I can tell you what this one means.

Unknown_24: Only one.

Unknown_24: Our colonel is deep in the bush here.

Unknown_25: Deep in the fucking bush. Bonito is one of the inhabited islands of the Semenese archipelago near the pale. He's a semen person.

Unknown_24: Scouting kipped villages. Killing white people.

Unknown_25: With some strange emotion. This is about to get really graphic. Last moment to back off.

4:33:04
Unknown_24: Our boy, he's only a captain then, but he knows how these men think. If they don't see action soon, at dawn, he comes upon two kips breeding in the bushes by the river.

Unknown_22: Or maybe they weren't breeding.

Unknown_24: Maybe they were just making eyes at each other. I like to think they were breeding.

Unknown_21: That's weird.

Unknown_24: We shot the boy. He was useless. But the girl, she was nice.

Unknown_24: A little fat, you know. The semen people are rapists. She was quite the entertainment for the week she lasted. Expired in the hands of Sarge Mason, the kind of guy who'd make Chief there shit his pants and cry like a bitch. God, Mason couldn't let go. Cut the tits off her cold body and fucking ate them.

4:33:40
Unknown_21: Was Mason the guy that was hanged? Dude, the Semenese people are terrible. They should all be killed. Fucking mask off.

Unknown_25: Percocet. Chopping bitches up. Percocet. I'm on the Percocet.

4:34:31
Unknown_21: um no i was somewhere else that's just a guess as to what this one little go ahead all right with a photo in your hands the dead man's skin is studded with stars tens hundreds of them littering his dead skin

Unknown_21: I did get information about the tattoo, did I not?

Unknown_21: You get a green apple pen.

Unknown_21: And I can't do anything with this.

Unknown_21: It's an eight pen. I keep seeing apple, but it's an eight pen.

Unknown_21: Okay, and this guy is like...

4:35:27
Unknown_21: The lookout?

Unknown_22: Hold on, wandering man.

Unknown_21: Hey, this thing is visible, you know.

Unknown_21: In case of strike, press red button behind guard.

4:35:57
Unknown_25: Okay.

Unknown_02: Last we saw, your race was being superseded by the Seminies.

Unknown_02: Enough with this begging. You should leave this stage of history with dignity. Bring your troops to the Seminine Islands and to Boogie Street and we will pulverize you.

4:36:29
Unknown_02: When you are gone, we will build a museum for you. What would I do with that?

4:37:03
Unknown_21: Why can't we just kill him?

Unknown_25: The game's trying to tell me that racism is above...

Unknown_21: Subscribe to his advanced race theory, which is Black New World Order. Or knock him out.

Unknown_02: Oh, don't be vulgar. White or not has got little to do with this.

Unknown_02: The race enigma runs much deeper than that.

4:37:50
Unknown_02: Mr. Claire is a man of vision and means. He has the will to confront polycultural capital, something your race, naivistic communists, never did. Also, to serve is noble.

Unknown_02: It takes discipline.

Unknown_02: Your petulant individualism has only contributed to your race failure.

Unknown_02: It is lax and moronic.

4:38:27
Unknown_21: There's no way I'm gonna, like, this is literally gay race communism. Why the fuck would I ever, like, go down that path? That's, like, retarded.

Unknown_21: I might save scum beating him with a pipe until it goes through. It's looking like the most attractive option.

Unknown_21: Jam.

Unknown_02: Individualism.

Unknown_02: You have gotten these ideas from degenerate youth culture, have you not? I didn't want to play it. It's just the second option that I had lined up.

Unknown_21: You have picked them up from rock and roll songs?

4:39:06
Unknown_02: I am a rock and roll star, actually. Rock and roll is movement. Only coicos listen to it anymore. I am not surprised you enjoy it so much. This has happened to many of the side products of the inevitable cultural victory of the Semenese race.

Unknown_02: I can see that.

Unknown_02: Look, this guy only believes in gay race communism because he heard that his island that he wasn't born on was so fucking great from the radio.

4:39:56
Unknown_02: I'm from Kuron. And no, it is not just in Revachok. You have heard enough about our phylogenetic secrets for today. You have extinction to come to terms with.

Unknown_21: We still need to get into the hub. I'm going to see what happens if I beat this guy with a fucking crowbar. Because I can't stand him. I hope he dies.

Unknown_02: No, save scum!

Unknown_21: Get fucked!

Unknown_21: My haploid is amazing. Hit him with the pipe.

4:40:29
Unknown_25: Back up and perform a 360. Yeah, that's the winning strategy here.

Unknown_21: Yeah! Finally some fucking content. Yeah, we're doing the welcome to Revachul thing.

4:41:02
Unknown_25: We fucking get...

Unknown_23: Oh, I got the hose, too. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I fucking thought.

4:41:39
Unknown_21: Can I kill him?

Unknown_21: My amazing immaculate physique and crowbar assisted me in this.

Unknown_21: I pressed the button, right? So now I can leave? I don't understand.

4:42:11
Unknown_21: Maybe it's up there that I'm supposed to go? Oh, okay.

Unknown_21: Okay, time to steal everything.

Unknown_21: Sure, defeated by the white man's ability to use tools.

Unknown_21: Time to loot his house. Ooh!

Unknown_21: Visual calculus and drama.

4:42:57
Unknown_21: Do I want that? My drama is quite high.

Unknown_21: Visual calculus.

Unknown_21: It's like shifting one thing around. I don't know. I feel like drama is more useful than visual calculus. Okay, I will not wear those.

Unknown_21: I will take the Magnesi though. The Magnesi is very important because I will randomly lose fucking health for no fucking reason whatsoever.

4:43:42
Unknown_25: Boring.

Unknown_21: Kunst und Kultur.

Unknown_25: Kunst und Kultur. And local concerns. I don't think he spelled that right. Just inside that it takes a moment, but gradually it dawns on you that Kunst und Kultur must mean arts and culture.

4:44:17
Unknown_24: Why they decided to title this one section Invalda. it's baldo as you leaf through this section you come across several reviews of recent radio plays as well that's supposed to be a joke about porn featuring because it has the word the main feature though is a long essay titled tip-top tour the tip-top tourney is the shit back to the front this magazine

4:44:52
Unknown_25: An imposing combination of a punch clock and a payphone is looking down at you from the wall I'm not sure do I have anyone to call?

Unknown_21: I'm not sure if I had I don't have anybody to call right?

Unknown_16: No

4:45:45
Unknown_25: A rusting control panel with several knobs. Two buttons marked. Marsh. Marsh. On.

Unknown_25: Alert. Off.

Unknown_25: The crane stands tall, proud, with a loud grind. The crane shifts overhead, moving a massive metal container through the air.

Unknown_21: Neat.

Unknown_21: I'm just gonna press random fucking buttons, I guess.

4:46:20
Unknown_21: The game is, like, okay.

Unknown_21: Except for this cutscene, which is taking way too fucking long. It shouldn't really be a cutscene.

Unknown_25: And, with a surprisingly quiet thunk, the harbor sleeps as the strike rages in the distance. The crane can rest again. Now that it's purposed, the rusty control pad, a faint smell of burning rubber reaches your nostril.

Unknown_23: I can't see how that was worth the records, except for seeing the crane in action.

Unknown_21: Why is this Asian guy questioning my methods?

4:47:12
Unknown_23: Before you stands a cargo container. Is this like your thing with that wall again? You do? Because I don't. There are a million containers here. Why are you fixating on this one?

Unknown_23: There may very well be, but we are not here to look for that. We are not here to interact with containers.

Unknown_25: No reply. The knock produces a... You attempt to turn the handle. To no avail. The doors seem to be mechanical.

Unknown_21: Persuade the door to open?

Unknown_25: Why are you even trying to open a door with rhetoric?

4:47:47
Unknown_23: Because what wasn't an option?

Unknown_23: Now is not the time to get philosophical, detective. You can do that after all.

Unknown_21: Who points into rhetoric to open this white shack?

Unknown_21: You need a lot of fucking rhetoric to open a fucking thing.

Unknown_21: God, I have no idea where I'm going.

Unknown_21: This is very expansive. Gloves?

4:48:26
Unknown_21: Well, finally!

Unknown_21: I can increase my half-life.

Unknown_21: Nice.

Unknown_21: Completing the look, finally.

Unknown_21: They're supposedly, like, dying for money, but I see nothing but money all over the place.

4:49:09
Unknown_21: Oh god, what the fuck?

Unknown_21: He's got a Pablofish.

Unknown_25: Before you is a walrus of a man sitting behind a large desk. He looks up for his work, not the least bit surprised to see you. With great effort, he straightens himself up in his chair.

Unknown_21: This is the boss. He says nothing, with a mixture of expectation and impatience, well bottled.

Unknown_19: Welcome, Mr. Dubois, Mr. Kitsuragi. It's good of you two to stop by. Please, have a seat.

4:49:42
Unknown_19: I'm Everart, Everart Clare, head of the DeBardes Union here in Martinaise.

Unknown_19: I'd offer you my hand, but unfortunately my health prevents me from getting up. You understand?

Unknown_21: He's pretty fat. I think they're implying that he's grifting off the Union. He looks extremely comfortable.

Unknown_25: The tiny folding chair, on the other hand, looks like a torture device. You go ahead, detective.

Unknown_25: Forget about that. What's with this DeBois stuff? You're getting some seriously bad vibes from that name.

4:50:16
Unknown_19: Please, Mr. DuBois, let us converse in a civilized manner, as equals. Take a seat. I insist.

Unknown_25: It's nothing. Yes, that's probably right. It's nothing. You're lying to me. You're lying to me.

Unknown_19: Very well, Mr. DuBois. I respect a man with strong convictions.

Unknown_19: I, too, have convictions. One of which is that I will not engage with any man who won't face me at eye level. Should you find yourself more amenable in the future, I'd gladly resume our conversation.

4:50:51
Unknown_25: You're no titan of volition, buddy. He's got you in a fork. Sit down or leave.

Unknown_21: You're no titan of volition. I failed a check.

Unknown_19: Excellent, Mr. Dubois. I can see that you're a reasonable man and reasonable men. Reasonable men can be of great use to one another.

Unknown_19: So tell me, how can the head of the DeBardais Union help a representative of the Revachil Citizens' Mil- The chair you're sitting on has got to be the most uncomfortable chair in the world.

4:51:27
Unknown_25: It's violating your backside. It's like a dildo chair.

Unknown_19: By the way, I heard you got a rather rude reception from a certain Lawrence Gart. Some people have no manners, it pains me to say. This should take care of that nonsense.

Unknown_19: It should be sufficient to cover your expenses for a few days and patch over your differences with a cafeteria manager. Go ahead.

Unknown_25: Wow, that's 25 real. That's good money. You need it.

Unknown_21: Do I?

4:52:02
Unknown_21: Comically large check.

Unknown_21: I don't know. I don't know what the correct response is here.

Unknown_19: Is there anything you'd like to say to me? Or...

Unknown_19: Cool? I wouldn't go that far. I'm sure there are cooler things than delivering a comically oversized novelty check to a cafeteria manager. But, sure, if that's what's cool nowadays.

4:52:37
Unknown_19: Now, I'd like to affect your mind about one other matter. Your lost gun. Let me assure you, union people are on it as we speak. I've got my best hounds looking for that lost gun.

Unknown_25: His slug-like lips move, but all you hear is an echo. Lost gun. The world is swallowed by a black hole of fear.

Unknown_25: Only two words escape its gravitational pull. Lost and gun. When he said, don't worry, he actually meant be very worried.

4:53:10
Unknown_19: Are you alright, Harry? You say you got this, but you seem a little anxious to me. Don't be. Everything's going to be alright. It's not like you left it loaded. You didn't lose a loaded gun. Local children aren't out there playing with it right now, pointing it into their own mouths. It's in a safe place. I just know it. I have a feeling everything's going to be alright.

4:53:43
Unknown_25: It was loaded. There were two bullets in it. You always keep at least two barrels loaded.

Unknown_21: The chair is killing you.

Unknown_25: God, you're sweating. Your knee is jerking. You're about to cry, aren't you? You're about to cry because you lost your gun and those children are going to shoot themselves with it.

4:54:16
Unknown_21: I would have won if I didn't sit in the fucking chair.

Unknown_19: Mr. Dubois, you don't look so good.

Unknown_25: What is this, Mr. Dubois? He keeps repeating. What is he trying to pull here?

Unknown_19: Mr. Dubois! Mr. Dubois! Harry!

4:54:52
Unknown_19: Mr. Dubois, are you okay? Can I get you a glass of water or something? Are you having some kind of medical emergency?

Unknown_25: Maybe you could use your hands somehow. In a kind of throwing motion. Like you're throwing that Mr. Dubois act right back at him. He's Mr. Dubois.

Unknown_23: Don't be dramatic. I can see your condition isn't terminal.

Unknown_19: What an odd demonstration of... You got me, Harry. I don't even know what. As entertaining as it was, I'm afraid we're wasting our time. And I'm an extremely busy man, as I'm sure you are too.

4:55:26
Unknown_23: Okay, enough. We are here to ask you some questions pertaining to a murder investigation.

Unknown_25: Quick, here's your window. Get yourself together and ask him questions. Police officer questions.

Unknown_19: um what harry how could you say that to me you know i appreciate a joke as much as any johnny fat guy but i can't take slander are you actually investigating this the reaction appears to be sincere but it's impossible to tell with this guy you've hurt me harry me a friend but you know what

4:56:22
Unknown_19: I trust you like I trust all my friends. And I know you'll never talk to me about this again because you don't want to ruin me. So do what you want and let's change the subject.

Unknown_25: He's hiding his real reaction beneath courtesy. Thank you for your understanding.

Unknown_23: We will.

Unknown_19: You too, Lieutenant.

Unknown_19: You know, I like you, but you never were my favorite. I'm a Harry guy. I'm Team Harry.

Unknown_23: None taken. Did we have anything else to do here, Harry?

4:57:02
Unknown_19: Yes, your lost gun. My best men are on it. They're turning every stone, searching every playground, asking kids, grandmas, everyone.

Unknown_19: Your gun will be found, Harry. Let me assure you of that. It's just a matter of time and effort.

Unknown_25: The only way to find it seems to be working with him. He might even be holding your gun hostage.

Unknown_25: Who knows? Only one thing is certain. If you work with him, you're going to get it back. And working with him might be the only way to do it.

4:57:36
Unknown_19: Damn it, Harry. That's exactly what it means. I'm only kidding, of course.

Unknown_23: Of course. I understand. We help you, you help us.

Unknown_19: Oh, of course. That's your main thing here. That's why you're in Martin A's.

Unknown_21: I really hate how I don't feel like I can get anything out of him. But I feel like that's what you're supposed to feel like.

4:58:09
Unknown_19: Because you're completely powerless to this fat fuck.

Unknown_21: I mean, it's no secret that the lynching is connected to the strike.

Unknown_19: So much to talk about. Honestly, it's been weighing on me so heavily. I understand you need to interview me.

Unknown_19: But there's a thing that's been keeping me up at night. I want to talk about the hanging. I mean, if we could just calmly talk, exchange information, we could blow this thing wide open.

Unknown_21: Is this not a 400-pound man? Like the 200-kilogram guy that could be involved in the hanging? Wasn't one of the footsteps this extremely fat guy?

4:58:46
Unknown_23: Yes, that sounds good. Let's do that.

Unknown_19: But I can't think straight with this thing weighing on me. You're police officers, aren't you? I have a crazy idea. You guys are basically door-opening machines. Incredibly talented at opening doors.

Unknown_19: And I'm sure you're going to open this one with flying colours, Harry.

Unknown_19: This really is very simple and there's nothing shady about it.

Unknown_25: An excellent opportunity presents itself, sire. You could win the trust of the arch-liar. Pretend to play into his hand. Then, should you wish, bend his efforts towards your own.

4:59:22
Unknown_19: Fantastic, my friend! Just let me know when it's done and we can take our friendship to the next level.

Unknown_19: You can get the key from Manana. He's down by the gates. Manana's like a free agent in the Union. Special operations. Hardened socialist. A real free thinker, too. He'll tell you precisely where the door is. One last thing, Harry.

4:59:56
Unknown_19: Just open the door. You don't need to go in or anything. I just want that weasel to come home and see the unlocked door.

Unknown_19: Of course. Let us dispatch with the formalities. You call me Everart, I call you Harry. My god, so it's true! I didn't want to believe it, but you are a fantastic science fiction amnesiac cop, aren't you? What are the odds of that?

Unknown_25: I think the odds of that are very low. It might be a good idea to hide your confusion. I mean, see what his game is f- So good to hear that, Harry.

5:00:30
Unknown_19: Apparently my sources were wrong. However, if you did have a spot of memory trouble, I could help you out. With my big fat folder.

Unknown_25: Words flow like a river of honey from his lips. I guess word has already reached him. No matter. No harm done. It's just a brown folder. You can't make out what's written on it.

Unknown_23: Are you trying to tell me you've gotten hold of some of our documents?

5:01:03
Unknown_19: Mr. Kitsuragi, would you mind? Me and Harry are talking about his lost identity right now.

Unknown_25: Don't just jump to the folder. That's not smart. Shows you're on the edge. Do some probing first.

Unknown_19: but of course harry your precinct is the 41st and you live in jamrock you're a jamrock boy sounds like that jam boy that's okay meme about how indians had to like smother themselves in jam to attract mosquitoes so white people could go off anymore about it

5:01:38
Unknown_19: Family? Harry, you're not a family man. There's not one peep of family in here. Unless you think you're a family man. Do you strike yourself as a family man, Harry? Well, yes. I'm sure you're gonna make one little boy or a girl very happy and proud one day, Harry.

Unknown_19: It's Harry. Harry Dubois.

5:02:09
Unknown_19: And I can work with you, Harry. Now, what else can I do for you?

Unknown_25: As you look at the folder, Everard covers it with his hand and pets it. Is he trying to hide that it's not a real RCM folder? It certainly doesn't have the RCM stamp on it.

Unknown_19: Okay, Harry, you got me. This is from the Census Bureau, not the RCM. Those Census Bureau people are absolutely corrupt. You should do something about them.

Unknown_23: He got the name from the Census Bureau, and everything else from your actions here in Martinez.

5:02:44
Unknown_19: Yes, yes, Mr. Kitsuragi, from the Census Bureau. Like I said, now I'm actually a very busy man, so is there anything else I can do- That means he doesn't really know anything about you.

Unknown_25: A pity.

Unknown_25: The mystery of you will have to remain a mystery for the time being.

Unknown_19: Yes, that's what I said. Try to keep up, okay?

Unknown_23: You might have noticed there's one hanging on a tree behind the hostel cafeteria.

Unknown_19: Oh my! Don't take this question personally, but why would I get involved in this matter?

5:03:18
Unknown_23: Mr. Claire, the man was hanged with a cargo belt. A steel reinforced cargo belt. It's safe to assume the Union had something to do with the murder. Besides, getting the body down would benefit all of us. It's a stain on the neighborhood.

Unknown_19: Jean-Luc, the name of the black guy?

5:04:02
Unknown_19: You can find Luke down at the gates, but you already knew that. Anyway, he's going to help you, now that he's back on his feet.

Unknown_19: Oh, that's very nice. I haven't gotten around to her yet. One thing I want to make very clear, Harry, is that this is not some kind of union versus corporation situation. We're all trying to do what's best for Martinez here. Don't feel like you can't cooperate with her because you and I are s- Vanished? Harry, the woman left her casserole in the oven and couldn't make it here in time for the voting. Oh, did I leave my casserole on? Better go home and check. The election can wait. When she got back, the whole thing was over.

5:04:37
Unknown_25: Wait. There was no mention of a casserole from Joyce.

Unknown_25: I thought that was like a phrase Harry Harry Harry do not fixate on this little matter Maybe it was a rabbit stew or a hairdryer or an iron As a skilled feminist I know he's lying

5:05:11
Unknown_19: If she actually wants to see me, she will find a way. Any good negotiator would.

Unknown_25: He doesn't want to see her. It's as simple as that.

Unknown_19: What do you mean, Harry? Nothing. I let him go.

Unknown_19: he's an old man harry i wanted him to spend more time with his family god harry i have little people in my organization oh no call someone a midget what is this honestly i'm beginning to think you're a midget harry oh no only kidding harry you're not a midget no one is we're pals

5:05:53
Unknown_19: Alright, am I not supposed to do that?

5:06:25
Unknown_19: Wait. You need this to get in and out through the gate.

Unknown_19: Here. You're one of us now. A real red and white union man. Take care, Harry.

Unknown_21: Sure am a mental midget. I guess I can't go back there.

5:06:56
Unknown_21: Um, what the fuck? I guess there's chairs there.

Unknown_06: Container, container, I'll turn you nice and red.

Unknown_25: The lyrics to this container song are being made up. The accent is so thick, it's impossible not to notice.

Unknown_06: Container, contain...

Unknown_21: I'm sick of that guy already.

5:07:50
Unknown_21: This game is very hard to navigate with WASD keys, and you have to sometimes click to have the character path for you. Sometimes it just doesn't work.

Unknown_21: Bottles.

5:08:27
Unknown_21: important for my financial stability.

Unknown_21: This is taking forever. Why couldn't they just make it like one item that you interact with? There's like a delay in between taking the bottles and shit.

Unknown_21: These are each worth 10 cents and I need more morale boost because I just got fucking logged with a fat guy.

5:09:04
Unknown_21: Am I done? I'm done, finally.

Unknown_21: Wait, there's more. Thank God.

Unknown_25: This is the night watchman's booth. The name on the door reads... If you must. Nothing incriminating. It's a black and white photo of a young couple out in a street fair.

Unknown_23: Why did you take that?

Unknown_23: Fine, but let's move. I don't want... Okay...

5:10:13
Unknown_21: And now I am tasked with dirty work.

Unknown_21: See, I mean, this is like another one where it's like I have to click down there to get to actually move.

Unknown_21: Sound of the trumpets I have returned.

Unknown_21: What the fuck?

Unknown_21: Well, that was there before, okay.

5:10:51
Unknown_21: Yes, that's like changing because the times I help you.

Unknown_20: Yes. Have you got it? You must be joking, right? You come here trash everything. And now you try to pay with a novelty check. This isn't a game show. I'm not going to accept it. You owe me cold hard money.

Unknown_23: You can cash it in at the local freight near the harbor gates, though it might not be enough to cover it.

Unknown_20: Well,

Unknown_20: Okay, so taking the check hurt my odds with the fucking thing. And also...

5:11:26
Unknown_21: Which cost me more al. Like three times.

Unknown_21: I didn't even get enough to cover it because it was like 25 real.

5:12:21
Unknown_18: Okay.

5:12:51
Unknown_21: Intez family, that's right.

Unknown_21: People really, really, really, really requested that I play this, so there has to be, like, some crazy shit that fucking happens at some point.

Unknown_21: Body is still not fucking down.

5:13:38
Unknown_21: I got that magnesium.

Unknown_25: An inconspicuous pile of the roofing material Eternite.

Unknown_25: Because there's a secret door hidden behind the panels of Eternite. There it is.

Unknown_25: You see a shabby little door.

Unknown_23: What is this then? A tool shed?

5:14:13
Unknown_21: Pig head.

Unknown_21: Silver plate.

Unknown_21: Nonsense shit art. 40 cents.

5:14:51
Unknown_21: Where the fuck am I? What am I doing? Where am I?

Unknown_21: Oh, this is a roof.

Unknown_21: Who money?

5:15:31
Unknown_21: this is how you get onto this roof over here and take this money okay i did all that for like a dollar looks like someone left his tarpaulin cloak hanging on the railing here when the wind ruffles the cloak you can most definitely see a white rectangle on its back

Unknown_23: Yes, it's probably yours. It bears the RCM insignia, and you have a habit of being careless with your equipment.

Unknown_25: You could probably make the jump.

Unknown_23: You look like you've done some track and field in your day.

Unknown_25: The wind is aggressive up here. The lieutenant looks at the enormous crane towering in the distance. Over. That machine is a Kvalsund 1020HK.

Unknown_23: Is it? Kvalsund makes a lot of heavy equipment. Is this like the way to get past the black guy without hitting him in the fucking head?

5:16:26
Unknown_21: I think it is.

Unknown_23: Jump. Jump, you fool.

Unknown_25: a tarpaulin cloak with possible RCM.

5:17:05
Unknown_21: Can I jump from down here? I can just go get it from the other side, right?

Unknown_21: Okay, let's try to go get it. I want my cloak.

Unknown_21: It might have authority points that I need.

Unknown_21: Two skill points ago.

5:18:02
Unknown_21: Yeah, I figured it's a way to bypass Measurehead. I guess I just missed the cloak on the first way around?

Unknown_25: I guess so.

Unknown_21: Gimme.

Unknown_21: Plus one to Spirit and Shivers. Plus one to Suggestion. Minus one to Half-Life.

Unknown_21: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. We're doing it.

5:18:34
Unknown_21: I really admire how much of a homeless man he looks like.

Unknown_21: Yeah, I don't need pants.

5:19:06
Unknown_21: My pants reduce my authority.

Unknown_21: Okay, I've done that.

Unknown_21: But I went back there to the greenhouse because there's a door that I have to unlock with the mob boss to get what I want.

5:19:55
Unknown_21: Orange bum hat.

Unknown_21: Um.

Unknown_21: Plus one to reaction speed.

Unknown_21: But I lose perception.

Unknown_21: And minus one to rhetoric.

Unknown_21: It's a pretty hard trade-off.

Unknown_21: Red Toric. Has my Red Toric has been that saving me?

5:20:27
Unknown_21: Then I get what? Reaction speed to five.

Unknown_21: I think bumping that down from five to four in exchange for bumping that up to four to five is not a good idea. I want to be real with you.

Unknown_21: Lack of pants is not breaking your immersion. It's like, that's just how he is.

5:21:02
Unknown_23: This must be it. That's probably the door I thought mentioned. We still need to get the key.

Unknown_21: Oh, fuck me. Who the fuck is Manana?

Unknown_21: I came all the way out here. Walk all the way around this fucking shit again. Who the fuck is Manana?

5:21:35
Unknown_21: Oh yeah, Vic Mignogna? That would make sense, because it is a Raqueta simulator.

Unknown_11: The RCM in Martinez.

Unknown_11: What?

Unknown_21: I don't want to talk to you. You have a funny accent.

Unknown_21: I remember there...

Unknown_21: I remember there was someone called Mignogna.

Unknown_21: Oh, the guy on the stairs, that's right.

5:22:13
Unknown_22: So, how'd you like our harbor?

Unknown_25: You've been in there, he means. Talked to the boss man, too.

Unknown_22: It's but a rest area on the path leading across open plains. Right. You talked to the boss- A key, huh?

Unknown_22: What door is this key supposed to open?

Unknown_22: Oh, say no more. I got that key right here. And let me tell you, it's mighty good of you to help us out during the strike. Working class solidarity, as they say.

Unknown_21: A hustle grinder.

5:22:47
Unknown_22: I knew this man was a commie.

Unknown_22: And it's a good thing you're doing too. What you're looking for is a basement door behind- Okay, but- The janitor gave it to me. Nice fella. None of this mess we're in. This jiving and juggling. I'm more of a philosophical dock worker. I like to talk about the big picture stuff.

Unknown_25: It means he's not going to tell you.

Unknown_21: Okay, I know what he's saying. I'm not tired.

Unknown_21: Oh yeah, that's right, I'll get the thing for Measurehood.

5:23:20
Unknown_21: It's almost time to go meet the guy.

Unknown_21: See, the hose is still here even though he's been epically owned.

Unknown_21: Do not presume this has drastically altered our race dynamic.

Unknown_02: I hope I can kill you.

Unknown_02: True, I said nothing about our personal dynamic.

Unknown_21: It's kind of like that black guy that everyone says is like black DSP, but he's not like funny or interesting at all in any way.

5:24:00
Unknown_02: I'm a mahogany god, an ebony god. That's very cool. I'm happy for you, brother.

Unknown_01: Umm...

5:24:37
Unknown_23: This is the uncomfortable result of not taking it down ourselves. I can leave with a compromise.

Unknown_21: If only you let me shoot the fucking gun again, you piece of shit.

Unknown_02: Listen to your little babe. See that they stay here the whole time.

Unknown_25: The woman's gaze follows Measurehead as he leaves.

5:25:12
Unknown_01: So you guys are like cops or something?

Unknown_01: Look at him. He's craniometric perfection. Are you cops or what? Cool. I like men with guns and power. I'm Katya, by the way.

Unknown_23: You hear that? That sound. He's breaking something.

Unknown_01: Yeah, Shanlug must be really tearing it up over there. I wish I could see it.

Unknown_24: Look at you! RCM rent-a-cops! Guarding that bridge like Evron's lapdogs! Is this where it's at now? The RCM is for sale!

5:25:47
Unknown_23: Spoken by a mercenary, pretending to be a worker.

Unknown_21: It's a setup. It's a setup!

Unknown_21: Yeah, this is the right line.

Unknown_25: A shrill laugh that interrupts you, echoing across Martinese. It's Kuno.

5:26:19
Unknown_21: Kuno. Our boy.

Unknown_21: Oh, is he dead?

Unknown_25: The man turns to look behind him at the behemoth appearing around the corner, approaching him, walking

Unknown_21: Did he murder Kuno?

Unknown_02: The corpse has been removed from the tree.

Unknown_02: Stand down and congratulate yourself. You have sided with Rey's victory today.

5:26:51
Unknown_02: and what you had to do was to become a union man for all to see yeah i have to kill these people these guys are way worse than like the uh capitalist

5:27:29
Unknown_21: I don't know, did people want me to play this because they thought I would hate it? There's not really a coherent political philosophy going on, it's just like...

Unknown_21: I don't know, just whatever the fuck.

Unknown_21: I have a feeling I won't get the opportunity to kill everybody that needs to die in this fucking game. Is Kuno dead? Did he kill Kuno?

Unknown_13: You missed a good show before, and Gibbs came by and completely fucked the tree to pieces. He fucked the tree up! Fucked it good! It was porno!

5:28:06
Unknown_25: You need to act decisively. It's Kuno. Use Kuno words.

Unknown_21: Stop using the K word, it belongs to the past.

Unknown_13: Watch out, Kuno! He's trying to crawl up your ass!

Unknown_13: Kuno knows which kip Kuno meant. Kuno knows all the kips. Kuno's dad's a kip expert. Says kips every day, a hundred times a day. Kuno's dad doesn't give a shit about anything.

5:28:40
Unknown_25: Except kips.

Unknown_25: Trying to crawl out of Kuno's ass now.

Unknown_13: Yeah? The fuck did you want anyway? You got your fuck bag down.

Unknown_25: That's right, I did. Kuno doesn't fucking care.

Unknown_25: It's clear you like the hard stuff, Brota.

Unknown_21: Why is my endurance making memes at me?

Unknown_25: Evening falls. The time has come to take the vow.

5:29:14
Unknown_25: The vows are blurred and flesh.

Unknown_21: The black guy couldn't make the blurred sounds.

Unknown_25: lower intestine the term is metabolic and circulatory system why would my endurance know that fascism brother hell yeah many things but it's mostly about trusting your music is it he's talking about fascism so all the o's have to be ooze like in german sorry valden

5:29:48
Unknown_21: What did your gut tell you about the source of the rest of all his problems? Foreigners? Yes, them.

Unknown_25: But also, were men.

Unknown_21: No, as a radical feminist. Were men.

Unknown_25: Men of were. You don't like them. They're insane. Their idiocy needs to be scrubbed off this world with rubbing alcohol. Woo men need to go back to the fucking kitchen.

Unknown_21: Um, actually, I'm an esoteric fascist feminist. That's what fascism boils down to.

Unknown_25: That's right, I'm a feminist. The rest is also important. But the fuminists? No. Can't be. Not you. No one believes this.

5:30:21
Unknown_21: Better believe it, endurance.

Unknown_25: Did you know you can forget thoughts?

Unknown_05: Go to your thought cabinet and forget all about fominism.

Unknown_25: Stomach truth. You're having a stomach truth.

Unknown_02: Because you've said the odd things that others won't say.

Unknown_25: The good things, you've said them many times.

5:30:53
Unknown_21: Traditionalism, that's right.

Unknown_25: Okay. Yes. Let's call it that. Good thinking. That sounds much better. Traditionalism. You like the sound of that.

Unknown_21: I do.

Unknown_25: You're going to keep your voos, right? Keep your voos, brota.

Unknown_21: I will keep my voos. For the nation, smart.

Unknown_25: Best not to mention the woo men too often. That's why you're the head and I am the stomach.

5:31:26
Unknown_25: Of course you are, Bruta. Of course.

Unknown_21: I'd like to pat my stomach, too.

Unknown_20: Okay, well, we gotta unlock this fucking skull point, then.

Unknown_21: Alright, we found a way from inexplicable feminist agenda to volumetric shit compressor to revanchalian nationhood. Okay, we figured this out.

5:31:58
Unknown_21: Very interesting that the game had a feminist, fascist path that is also just called traditionalism. I feel like it's tailor-made.

Unknown_21: Oh, the body! I forgot to examine the body. I was upset by my fascist intestines.

Unknown_25: The corpse lies on the ground, among the remains of an absolutely demolished pinewood branch. Mr. Mesurhead has done a good job.

5:32:35
Unknown_23: Nothing is too broken or compromised. The victim is ready for a field autopsy. Yes. 1. Investigation of the scene. 2. Initial examination of the victim. 3. Field autopsy. 4. Transportation of the body to the morgue.

Unknown_25: We are number three. The RCM's four-phase murder scene processing menu.

Unknown_13: The fuck are they on about? Cop's gonna cut his shit up!

Unknown_23: No, you and I are detectives. The honorary rank of detective signifies our ability to handle the entire incident chain. From autopsy to cleanup to social work, everything.

5:33:12
Unknown_23: I guess we're just gonna do an autopsy here.

Unknown_23: Come on, officer. You know what a field autopsy is. You've done a hundred of them.

Unknown_25: What you do know is, at 18.9 kilometers, the dormant shield volcano, Corpus Muindi, is the world's highest summit. And the failure of the 38th single, Époux et Dessens, to crack the top 20, was the death knell of disco. But what a field autopsy is, you must have me confused with the copepedia.

5:33:52
Unknown_21: As long as it's not Corpopedia.

Unknown_25: You, sir. You are the Corpopedia.

Unknown_21: Your mother.

Unknown_23: Unfortunately, no. I have to field autopsy him without fucking gloves?

Unknown_23: Unhygienically, I suggest I handle the physical part of the autopsy and you take notes. No paperwork, officer. Just fill out the field autopsy form.

5:34:30
Unknown_13: My shoes. Right. The autopsy form is near the end.

Unknown_25: The dead man stares in silence as you crack open the ledger. Above those, an 11-field info form needs filling out first. That's you.

5:35:03
Unknown_25: The corpse is indifferent to your scribblings.

Unknown_23: KK57. That next? We've heard the nom de guerre. Lely. It's better than nothing. What's next?

Unknown_23: N.A.

Unknown_23: Hmm.

Unknown_25: Roughly fifty.

Unknown_25: Try forty. The damage is so extensive it's better to err on the young side.

Unknown_25: He nods. Mondial. Subgroup Occidental, as per your observation. The Pudgy mess looks neither Mondial nor Occidental.

5:35:38
Unknown_21: Try looking good when you're fucking dead, buddy. ...that leaves out dark-haired, mesk, sow, Saramaritian, Kedratic.

Unknown_25: Lighter skin, occidental, means this man could be... Vespertine? A solid guess?

Unknown_02: Mr... Fucky, fucky!

Unknown_25: Mailer. Ha!

Unknown_13: Pigs could have sex!

Unknown_21: Great sucky sucky, right now, right pig's gonna have sex.

5:36:11
Unknown_25: Nor does he look male with his pregnant belly and indistinguishable face. Stop calling him pregnant, this is the second time.

Unknown_23: We're still going with March 4th, 51. What else?

Unknown_23: 9. Body identified by... is non-applicable.

Unknown_23: KK57. None. At least not after the initial examinations.

Unknown_25: A silent nod. The lieutenant places his gloved hand on the corpse's chest. Your central nervous system recognizes this gesture. It's the stations of the breath. Ecclesiastic, religious in nature, a holdout from pre-Delorean burial rites. It takes him two seconds... He's doing like a religious thing?

5:36:48
Unknown_21: Then... We should start the post-mortem.

Unknown_25: The corpse cannot feel Kim's hand on his chest. it no longer meaningfully interacts with its surroundings yeah boxes and lists on red copy of paper tries to answer why clothes the disease wears armored boots and white briefs the make of the briefs is babrodina i think let's see see it's happening

5:37:25
Unknown_23: Well, they thought he was gonna take off his underwear.

Unknown_23: Removal of the boots is left for processing. The boot has a serial number. It's E50.00.1000. Tattoos.

Unknown_23: The upper torso is covered in a single, continuous tattoo. The assistant has a color photograph. The DCT has a belt for airlifting cargo around his neck. Well nourished. Athletically built. Measuring 1.8 meters. Generally consistent. with age 42. Body hair is light brown. Distribution is consistent with age. The deceased had male pattern baldness. Hair is combed back. His hair feels wet, soaked with rain. Cold to touch. Lividity is consistent with hanging. The head is congested. Contusions are present on the head, chest, and thighs. Consistent with stones thrown post-mortem. Low velocity.

5:38:35
Unknown_13: Fucking low velocity? You think Kuno doesn't know what you're talking about? Velocity was fucking max! Talking shit about Kuno's velocity.

Unknown_23: In addition, there are bite marks on the face, scalp, and chest. Ligature mark.

Unknown_14: The steel wiring. There's too much of it.

Unknown_23: We need to remove the belt so we can get to the ligature mark.

Unknown_25: You've got just the right tool for that. The chain cutters.

5:39:10
Unknown_25: The hanged man lets out a joyous little bubble of rot from his nose.

Unknown_23: Always good to think ahead. Now we need to cut the bell to see the ligature mark below.

Unknown_13: See? My pig is gonna fuck his head off. No he ain't. Your pigs are boring fuck.

Unknown_21: Oh god, I can fuck this up.

Unknown_25: The belt is equally tight around the whole circumference of his neck, swelling over the edges like white bread rising from the yeast. The knot is the weak spot. The chain cutters fit in there. Steady now. Oh, I got a thing. Two cuts and it should come loose. After some deliberation, you sink the cutters into the knot tying the belt together. I'm always pleasantly surprised when the game doesn't fuck me over.

5:39:45
Unknown_23: The knot is slashed. The rope rises to a point, leaving a gap in the ligature mark. A suspension point is in the back of the neck. Hammer edging is observed on the skin, above and below the ligature mark. The mark is well pronounced. Chest is intact. Normal contour.

5:40:17
Unknown_13: No! Let's get off and see!

Unknown_21: Oh no! He's gonna inspect the penis. Kuno is overwhelmed with excitement.

Unknown_23: Genitalia is male and unremarkable.

Unknown_21: Unremarkable. Inspect the genitals. The dead man's penis is average-sized, congested from the downward collection of blood.

Unknown_25: The testicles are uneven in length, hanging underneath. The genitalia is greenish. Marbling is present around the crotch.

5:40:50
Unknown_23: Back is symmetrical and intact. Upper and lower extremities are intact.

Unknown_21: Penis inspection day. Uneven testicles.

Unknown_23: Thigh and hips.

Unknown_23: Nor would it with uneven bald.

Unknown_21: We have a real museum here. Battles, wars, last item, hands.

5:41:30
Unknown_23: Hands are clean. No sign of a recent struggle.

Unknown_23: I was. Maybe I'm just not seeing them. Honestly, this stench is making it hard for me to think at the moment.

Unknown_23: That's all for the external. Well done. What next? Central nervous system. I have nothing. Do you have anything on this man's central nervous system?

Unknown_25: Of course. There is a moral to be drawn from it. A moral to this story. Musculoskeletal. Purge fluid is coming from the mouth. With his eyes almost closed, the lieutenant puts his hand on the dead man's throat. You hear cracks as the lieutenant moves his sharp fingers inside the flesh, like the creaking of an old house.

5:42:01
Unknown_13: Yeah, jack that fucker off!

Unknown_23: The hyoid bone is fractured. The rest of the musculoskeletal system is intact.

Unknown_21: The hyoid bone is a very weird detached bone that exists that's broken every time you're strangled, basically. It's sure a sign of strangulation if that bone's broken. I think it's the only bone in the human body that's not attached to something.

5:42:33
Unknown_23: Respiratory system.

Unknown_23: Oral cavity shows no lesions. The victim has received a dental implant, possibly after a combat wound. Mouth swollen. Hemorrhaging present in mucosa of the lips and mouth.

Unknown_25: no scream no sigh of relief rises from the darkness inside it's who knows kino thank you logistically he is pretty i if only i could replace the asian guy with the kid just so he can scream racism and everybody it's hard once you taste stomach acid you

5:43:22
Unknown_25: that's fucking you see darkness just a mess of meat silence is always hemorrhaging present hepatobiliary na

Unknown_23: Ah. Are you a hepatobiliary expert?

Unknown_25: Hepatome means liver. And biliary, the gallbladder, nothing in your alcohol-soaked memory, directs to having forensic expertise.

Unknown_23: Neither am I. Same for toxicology and serocardiovascular. The body exhibits heavy lividity. Gastrointestinal.

Unknown_23: This will do.

Unknown_23: Digested semi-solid food in stomach. Voila.

5:44:05
Unknown_23: What's next on the list?

Unknown_23: Let's see. We have bite marks, contusions on the head and chest, and a ligature mark encircling the neck. Bite marks? You'll need three fills. Leave a fourth one, too.

Unknown_25: Be thorough if you want maximum results.

Unknown_21: I have to be thorough here, okay.

Unknown_23: Oh, so we inflicted them? Okay, so there's a spin-stabilized munition from a Kiel A-919 as a loader, lodged in his lung. I don't think we should mention that. Better not to muddy the waters.

5:44:36
Unknown_23: Injuries. Head, chest and scalp bite mark injuries. And your opinion, officer? The bite marks were fatal?

Unknown_21: No. I don't even think post-mortem.

Unknown_21: They probably bit him while killing him.

Unknown_23: Agreed. Next injury.

5:45:12
Unknown_23: So, the scalp bleeds from a post-mortem head injury. A stone. The injury does not have the rim of an early inflammatory response. A perpetrator on the scene has confessed to causing its post-mortem.

Unknown_23: has confessed to causing it at maximum velocity. Coagulated blood sticks to his scalp and chest.

Unknown_25: We're the countless stone. Right. Next.

Unknown_23: Nothing. Just in case. A dark red abraded ligature mark encircling the neck, with a gap on the nape measuring, let's say, seven centimeters. The hyoid bone is fractured, the cervical column intact.

5:45:50
Unknown_23: I see hemorrhaging on the skin, above and below the ligature mark. Depth of the mark, one centimeter. No signs of clawing on the neck.

Unknown_25: below the note two customary boxes wait to be ticked the man's head jerks to the side the ring around his neck is visible think for a moment this time don't rush does it want me to say that it's non-fatal

5:46:29
Unknown_21: Well, they really emphasize that the hyoid bone was fractured and not completely broken, which I'm not sure what that's consistent with.

Unknown_21: I guess it breaks during the struggle and not necessarily during the hanging.

Unknown_21: Cervical column intact. That's probably also a note that's like it's not supposed to be fatal because you're supposed to think he's hanged.

Unknown_21: I see hemorrhaging on the skin above the depth of the mark once and no sign of clawing on the neck. But he could have been hanged while knocked out, I guess.

Unknown_21: I think it was going to say non-fatal.

Unknown_23: Why do you say that?

5:47:10
Unknown_23: Okay. Why don't you think it was fatal?

Unknown_23: Honestly, I'm not sure there weren't marks on his wrist. That part got blurry for me. The stench. But you are right, I was ready to call this. Now I think we should leave it empty, at least for the time being.

Unknown_23: Let's wrap this up. I pronounce this field autopsy over.

Unknown_23: It was a... an irregular field autopsy. We did not establish cause of death, which is supposed to be the goal of an autopsy. Then, given the state of decay here, I consider establishing the victim's ethnicity a minor success. We were thorough with the list of injuries too. Now? Now we put him in a body bag and I drive him to Faubourg for processing.

5:47:43
Unknown_25: The lieutenant looks at the dead man. You tilt your head, also looking at the corpse.

Unknown_25: I'm sure we didn't get everything. There's always something.

Unknown_25: You run your hands over the victim's cold body, his limbs, his torso with its swollen organs. The genitals in his breaches continue to be unnoteworthy.

5:48:26
Unknown_13: I can't get enough of that dick.

Unknown_23: Do you think we missed something?

Unknown_23: I worked as one of those processing guys for a year. There are butchers and clowns. I once saw 20 CODs. In short, you and I are the last line of detection. It would have to be industrial in size.

Unknown_13: Okay. Last one. See what happens. Yay! He responded. The hangman responded to me.

5:49:11
Unknown_21: Where have you gone? Into the wild pale yonder.

Unknown_16: In the past.

Unknown_16: Way out in the west.

Unknown_16: I'm a joke. Look at me.

Unknown_16: There is nothing funny about jokes, Ivor. A killer. A motherfucker.

Unknown_16: And a killer.

Unknown_21: So you deserved it.

Unknown_16: Go ahead, Cobo.

5:49:42
Unknown_16: Ask me more questions. You fucking love questions.

Unknown_16: Come back later, copo. Amuse yourself with my frank manners and my memento mori features. I didn't learn anything from this. Except that he's a killer.

Unknown_23: I need a little help for carrying him to the holding pen. It's too late to take him into processing today.

Unknown_21: Okay, so last thing before the stream is over, I'm going to go and talk to the guy that's been supposedly waiting for us. I don't know.

5:50:19
Unknown_21: I have three skill points now.

5:51:01
Unknown_21: I mean, I guess the smoker might be like the most interesting part, right? Because it's all been leading up to talking to the smoker guy and the corpse on the wall.

Unknown_21: Yeah, this game's like at a minimum like 20 hours, so I figured I'd do six hour streams for two weekends.

5:51:37
Unknown_21: That's not what I wanted.

Unknown_21: Oh, it's the other balcony I wanna get to.

5:52:17
Unknown_21: Wait, did I open that? Oh yeah, I did. I got like a piece of clothing from it.

Unknown_25: This door is made of metal and appears to be reinforced. No one answers. We should return tomorrow.

5:52:50
Unknown_21: Oh.

Unknown_21: The thing said after 21 didn't say specifically tomorrow after 21. Well, that's kind of bad. I was hoping for like a little climax there at the end of the day.

Unknown_21: Should I?

Unknown_21: Should I do anything else?

Unknown_21: I feel like I wrapped everything up pretty nicely.

5:53:35
Unknown_21: Yeah, I'm not sure. The only thing I can think of is maybe adding points to stuff.

Unknown_21: I kind of want to max out...

Unknown_21: Honestly, I think I can just easily do these three, because I can only go so far in those.

Unknown_21: Endurance even doesn't seem that useful.

Unknown_21: Boot Brothers? What's the boots? Am I doing something wrong?

5:54:09
Unknown_21: Okay, let's... Unless anyone who's experienced at the game wants to advise that I do something before the... Oh, really?

Unknown_21: The body isn't there.

5:54:41
Unknown_21: I bagged it up with him, I think.

Unknown_21: What did I fuck up? Did I only fuck up stealing his boots? Was that like an important thing that I should have done? I guess I can check and see if it's in the thing.

5:55:12
Unknown_25: But not the body.

Unknown_25: Yes.

Unknown_21: That's a funny sidekick. I don't know.

Unknown_21: Why does she want to talk to me?

Unknown_22: Who the fuck are you? I saw you poking around in Lady Driver's lorry. Is she in trouble?

5:55:45
Unknown_22: Nah, man. I was telling you the truth.

Unknown_22: I really didn't think it'd be her. She's okay. Sort of troubled, but still.

Unknown_21: Who should I bet for the Oaklawn Handicap? I refuse to acknowledge journalism or liberal arts.

Unknown_21: I honestly have never even heard of the Oaklawn Handicap. I'm sorry. What else do you know about her?

5:56:17
Unknown_22: nothing we just talked a bit about life and stuff she left me a key so i can park a lawyer if the jam broke so she in trouble or what i don't know that's really frustrating i don't think i can load prior to that yeah that was all the way at 18. that was a long time ago i don't know

Unknown_22: It's that bad.

Unknown_22: Man, what should I do?

Unknown_22: What should I do to help her? Yeah, maybe I should just keep my head down and work on my rhymes while I can.

Unknown_22: Yeah, you too.

Unknown_21: Oh, well, I mean, the path for getting the boots didn't make any sense. I had to leave the body for another day, and then he would go to bed, I guess? And then I had to steal the boots while he... Like, that's like thinking, like, four steps ahead. I don't know, it sucks that the stats are good, though, because I really hate missing all these fucking rolls.

5:57:19
Unknown_21: Okay, I guess that's it. Let me just read what the perks are for the fascism thought. I'm kind of curious.

5:57:56
Unknown_25: This is the door to the room you redecorated.

Unknown_23: Just a moment. We should talk about our progress on the investigation. Okay.

Unknown_25: The air outside is brisk. The lieutenant is silent for a moment. He listens to the traffic hum. Then... Now then, we should talk about the investigation.

Unknown_23: But I also feel you're a bit... hazy on the RCM. Our role here, our rights, our jurisdiction, basically.

5:58:36
Unknown_23: I have a cigarette every night when I go over my notes. It's something of a ritual.

Unknown_25: And then there's the fact that he looks way cool doing it.

Unknown_23: You mean this? This isn't cool. It's an unnecessary trial of will. And unhealthy.

Unknown_25: Keeping the habit within the parameters he's given himself takes a lot of focus. It would be easier to simply quit. Yet, were he to quit, he would lose the cool factor. This man relishes his cool quite a bit, beloved.

5:59:10
Unknown_23: Yes. It's been a long and eventful day.

Unknown_23: Well, we inspected the victim's body, so that's good. It was not easily approachable in that state, but we did it. Our inspection was also very thorough, and we've already started following up on leads. Then you shot him in the chest, which... wasn't ideal. But we did manage to get him down from the tree. So as they say, all's well that ends well.

Unknown_25: By not ideal, he means he can't believe he let you try that trick, and would be angry if he didn't feel the outcome was partly his responsibility.

5:59:55
Unknown_23: Being sober tends to help with precision. Anyway, we performed the field autopsy on the victim. We still feel like we missed something. Maybe the boys in processing will surprise us. We still have work to do at the crime scene. Now, as for our interviews, my list of people to talk to here in Martinez, I mean...

Unknown_23: Very important indeed. Well, we conducted an interview with Évrat Clerc. He wasn't particularly forthcoming with useful information.

6:00:28
Unknown_25: He's not saying much on the matter, because he thinks you could have gotten more out of Évrat.

Unknown_21: Yeah, I don't need to be told that I'm a fucking retard constantly, game. Yeah, you fucked up the body, you fucked up the interview. I can't help it.

Unknown_21: If I don't have the right skills to pass over a fucking check, I just fucking lose. And even if I do have the skills, it's still like an 80% chance that I just don't get fucked over.

Unknown_23: Claire also helped you. How should I say? Remember your name? That's a relief.

6:01:02
Unknown_23: Moving on. We interviewed Joyce Messier, the Wildman's Wreck, and learned a lot. None of it very good news for us or Martinez, but... Above all, though, today was exhausting.

Unknown_21: Is Dankula, like, complaining about the AI pictures about him?

Unknown_23: Is that a standard Prison 41 practice?

Unknown_21: Yeah, I like to move.

6:01:38
Unknown_23: It's impressive. Especially for a man your age. And in those hills.

Unknown_23: Nice shoes, by the way. I like the green. Goes with the occasion.

Unknown_21: Thank you.

Unknown_11: Okay...

Unknown_23: They are quite limited actually. The power officers of the Ravachol citizens' militia exercise most frequently his imposing fines of up to 1,000 real for offences, in accordance with an interdepartmental schedule.

6:02:10
Unknown_23: The RCM's primary role is to ensure safety. We are not really supposed to play any part in the economic structure of Ravachol.

Unknown_23: Yes, although indirectly, as citizens can always request records from their local station. Officers of the RCM have been known to take bribes of less than the prescribed fine amount. It undermines trust in the RCM. We can arrest people, of course, but rather than bringing someone indirectly, it's preferable to serve a stationary courtesy. It prevents confusion and overcrowding.

Unknown_23: You can't. Those who don't show up become fugitives, though, and have fewer legal rights when they are eventually caught. It's about power projection. Thus far, they seem to mostly show up. We are permitted to use whatever force we deem necessary, even lethal.

6:02:47
Unknown_23: You have to supply compelling evidence for why it was necessary to use lethal force. Not a good position to be in, by the way.

Unknown_21: Internal affairs handles these cases thoroughly.

Unknown_23: We don't convict. We arrest and send them to coalition government courts, the coalition government, and the moral intern, more broadly. The RCM was formed by the coalition government to restore order in the international zone after the revolution. Or perhaps it is better to say we were allowed to form. It's a point of contention whether the citizens of Revachol or the Coalition government founded the RCM.

6:03:25
Unknown_23: It's probably more honest, yes. Either way, the Moralinton leases us the right to keep the peace in this city. Or if they think you do. The Moralist International are the world's largest political organization. You know who they are. They have been running this place after the revolution failed.

Unknown_23: Okay. There are a union of center-left and center-right parties across the real belt. What do they believe in? They are DeLoreans. They believe they continue the humanist project set forth by... Aren't DeLoreans a space monster from like a UK TV show?

6:04:01
Unknown_21: Others say they are just technocrats.

Unknown_23: those others say they continue the interesting question it's a blue forget me not their motto is love compassion thank you will never stream i think you can okay i have given him many reasons to hate me something kind and usual there's not really any purpose here we have like different worlds something almost self-explanatory oh yeah that's right daleks

6:04:36
Unknown_25: Something like the dark blue, serious color of the early night sky above.

Unknown_23: The historic figure? The author of the modern age? The moral intern are a fact. I try not to have opinions on facts until they change. It is more than that. There's some kind of affection in him.

Unknown_21: My empathy, my empathy is triggered.

Unknown_23: Yes, I did, when I was younger. In my twenties, I considered myself a moralist. A blue forget-me-not, a piece of the sky.

Unknown_23: They're not all that bad. That's another leitmotif associated with moralism.

6:05:10
Unknown_23: But the years have changed that. Do you?

Unknown_21: Let's have some form and opinion on the space UN.

Unknown_21: Things are bad out there. We need them here, giving us the right to revachal. They've done an awful job. Have you seen the place? This isn't humanism. We're the stooges of the world's biggest bourgeois organization protecting bourgeois rights. Mutter silently, immigrants, liberal kips, fucking men are turning into women. Yeah, that's an option right there.

Unknown_23: Well phrased. I understand answering to foreign powers doesn't sit well with immigrant bashing. But with all the EMI, we would be common vigilantes. That's just the way it is.

6:05:42
Unknown_23: Then you will adore Martinez. For many of these people, the Union especially, vigilantes is precisely what we are. Personally, I don't enjoy it much.

Unknown_25: The lights of the orphan district are reflected in his process.

Unknown_21: The red and golden orbs of the motorway sliding like pearls on a string from east to west as Revachol commutes back to the suburbs.

6:06:20
Unknown_25: Tomorrow is Tuesday. Monday is over.

Unknown_25: The dying lights of the city shimmer below. An aerostatic passes overhead, the whiskers of its floodlights on the ground below. They really don't like us here.

Unknown_23: And the mouse on that kid, Kuno...

Unknown_23: I don't even know what Jamrock is. Let's go like a town or some shit. You gotta vote for Jamrocks.

6:07:13
Unknown_21: You gotta give me your options for the horse if you want me to pick a horse, bud.

Unknown_23: It's incredibly hard. Human beings are...

Unknown_23: But we are in control, and it's worth it. The organization works. Our system too. But I wouldn't count on any drastic changes in our lifetimes.

Unknown_25: He is very tired. But the dark circles under his eyes make him look younger, not older.

Unknown_21: Oh. Okay, hold up. Let's check the horses out.

Unknown_21: Okay, coolest name. Sovereignty White Abreu or Duke of Duval. Sovereignty, obviously.

6:07:49
Unknown_23: Yeah, it's getting very cold now. Let's go.

Unknown_21: Sovereignty is like a repeat winner, isn't he? I remember that Sovereignty beat something else in like a horse race. It was like a meme headline for the newspapers.

Unknown_21: Wait, why is this guy...

Unknown_21: Why do I have more stuff I can say to him?

Unknown_23: So it was like a false notification.

6:08:31
Unknown_25: The bed is cold and not particularly...

Unknown_05: The option to go to sleep becomes available every night after 9 p.m.

Unknown_25: Okay, let's check that fascism perk. Oh my god.

Unknown_25: obviously you're in bed with your eyes closed maybe it's the bed's fault its synthetic filling has separated into hard lumps smells of alcohol and sweat and grease it barely covers your toes stretching over your soft belly this is your body here intimate and warm it's a little better colors scenes and half-formed phrases still litter your mind Something to do with what was it that the lieutenant said? Union and it's gone again Your thoughts lost between the slowing brainwaves your breathing steadies a great silence washes on you until your eyelid Okay, oh my god, I'm in like a dream sequence Can I take his boots while I'm in the dream sequence

6:09:21
Unknown_21: It's the disco. He's a disco ball. Do you remember the scent of your childhood?

6:10:00
Unknown_16: Do you remember your wife's hand on your face?

Unknown_16: Oh, funky baby, you stayed. It was the rest of it that left.

Unknown_16: Or you just stood there with one hand on the bottle and the other on your dick. Watching it go. Tell me, where are your friends? Human beings have friends, Harry boy.

6:10:33
Unknown_16: Where the hell are yours?

Unknown_16: No, it's gone.

Unknown_16: Three times gone and never coming back.

Unknown_16: You failed.

Unknown_16: You failed me. You failed Elysium.

Unknown_16: Everything.

Unknown_16: The pale and the useless.

Unknown_16: On the surface.

Unknown_16: The outer magnetosphere.

Unknown_16: Burning, furious truth.

6:11:09
Unknown_16: Eight thousand years of written history.

Unknown_21: You really dropped the ball, Harry.

Unknown_16: every single one of them.

Unknown_16: No, Harry.

Unknown_16: You were just talking to yourself.

Unknown_21: No, child. That's just your delusions again. I'm a disco ball stalker.

Unknown_16: And the act is wearing thin.

Unknown_16: The spots of the disco ball fade around you.

6:11:45
Unknown_16: You'll be back in those cold snake skins in no time. Sweating up the bed.

Unknown_21: I'm not putting back on the pants of negative riz. Stinky boy.

Unknown_16: You're not coming back from shit. Thrashing around in that high conductivity state of yours. Bumping into things and acting like a clown.

Unknown_16: Who are you kidding? You're trying to what? I can't hear you. This is just a word dream now. Jumbled up garbage. The pictures are gone. The bed rises to meet you. A thin, sleep-like state. Like the local fries are.

6:12:21
Unknown_08: So something is wrong. Sleep shouldn't be this bad. The limbic system again.

Unknown_21: This dry, this unnourishing.

Unknown_08: There's something wrong with your thoughts.

Unknown_08: Some kind of new time.

Unknown_21: I didn't drink it all today.

Unknown_08: Oh, yes, party boy. And it's worse than the one before. Just think of the shit you saw.

6:12:55
Unknown_21: He is obviously stinky. He's been digging in the trash all day.

Unknown_16: A silent alarm goes off in your head like clockwork. Barely let you sleep at all. Time to get those clothes on, Harry.

Unknown_08: Time to go to work in the shit factory.

Unknown_21: Can't intimidate me, limbic system.

Unknown_21: Wakey wakey. Okay.

6:13:27
Unknown_21: So.

Unknown_21: The time has passed. Do I get my perk?

Unknown_21: I did. Wait, no!

Unknown_21: The time only passes in like real time?

Unknown_25: Good going, buddy.

Unknown_21: Okay.

Unknown_21: Electrochemistry is talking to me. I just had... Really?

6:13:59
Unknown_25: Because you feel even worse this morning than you did last night.

Unknown_21: You mean, why are you so tired?

Unknown_25: Too...

Unknown_21: Sorry, I was trying to see if I can save.

Unknown_25: That's not really true. Your heart has finally pumped all the speed out of your system, Buster. Time to get some more. You're too weak to say no now.

Unknown_25: Waking up is the worst part.

Unknown_25: Maybe somewhere down the line you could decline.

Unknown_25: Are you sure? Ready to live as this pathetic shell of yourself for days?

6:14:37
Unknown_21: Basically, I won't suit yourself.

Unknown_25: Slow.

Unknown_21: Sad. Nice try, Electrochemistry.

Unknown_21: Okay, Chuck. Thank you for joining me. Um, I have mixed feelings about this game. However, I am optimistic that based on how popular it is, that there will be some amazing revelation. My main frustration is, like,

Unknown_21: I feel like the skill progress is very low, and you need skills to, like, pass tests, and even if you have them, you still lose. Like, even if you do everything right, you still fuck up. So it's like, I don't know. That's very unrewarding, but I think that's part of the point.

6:15:09
Unknown_21: There will be no amazing revelation. This is the game. Well, you know what? I've locked myself in at this point.

Unknown_21: So I guess that's just how it's going to be.

Unknown_21: Okay. Take it easy, chat. Bye-bye.