Bad at Video Games -Disco Elysium pt. 2 - April 19th, 2026 2026-04-19

0:00:17
Unknown_04: Hello, chat.

Unknown_04: Just a little bit late. That's true. I was up to something, which I'll explain in a second.

Unknown_04: Stretch out a bit. I did try to fix my overlay unsuccessfully. Watch this. If I do do it like this, let's change the border radius real quick. Then I'll say hello.

Unknown_04: And as you can see, it's FUCKED!

0:00:51
Unknown_04: Such a pain in my fucking ass. I think that might be, like, hard-coated, that border. I don't know. I'll have to look into it. Such a fucking... Making a visual editor for, like, the overlay, even with AI, is, like, so much more finicky, because the AI can't see stuff, so you kind of have to fuck with it constantly. But I am trying.

Unknown_04: I'm actually a little bit more excited for today than I thought I would be. I don't know. I'm kind of sucked in now. I probably sounded a little bit drained yesterday, but I'm looking forward to it. However, I have to admit that something kept me... Actually, let me start recording this so I can put the bottom... As I was saying, I'm a little bit more excited for today than I thought I would be.

0:01:23
Unknown_04: But I am enjoying the game, and I've come to terms with there are certain losses that you just have to expect, and there's always ways around it. However... There was one thing I could not come to terms with, and it bothered me literally late at night. So before this stream, I reloaded a save, and I played through exactly as I did before, and I made sure I failed all the same checks, and I did things exactly the same way, so I didn't pick any different options. However, I did, oh, thank you, Junior Bacon Sneedburger. That is a person, there's a couple people who have Sneed names that I know are common subscribers to the Kino Casino.

0:02:06
Unknown_04: But I did everything exactly the same, except one thing.

Unknown_04: I went back and I went to the bookstore and I broke down the door and I found an ice bear fridge so that we could put the body of the dead guy in the fridge. so that at this particular point in time, at 10 p.m. on the first day, I would be enabled to go back into the fridge and get the fucking legs.

0:02:51
Unknown_04: I know, off-stream gamba, I know. Back to jail, non-tin junkie.

Unknown_04: So if I'm correct, this is what you can do now.

Unknown_19: The bear's eyes are still glowing red. It's guarding over the freezing corpse. A friendly cartoon bear. The paper still smells.

Unknown_04: How do I get the legs?

Unknown_19: Even under this.

Unknown_04: Wait, I thought for sure I would just be able to walk back in and get the legs. Do I have to do that in the morning?

0:03:28
Unknown_04: Oh no. I'm so pissed. I went, I took me two fucking hours to figure out that sequence. So I get the fucking legs.

Unknown_04: I do need my legs.

Unknown_04: Do I have to do it in the morning? Oh my God. Hold off, let me ask.

Unknown_04: Power the fridge. That's wrong.

Unknown_18: Okay.

Unknown_04: Do I get the legs in the morning or the same night? I think I can get them in the morning. It has to be the morning or I'm just gonna be so pissed.

0:04:02
Unknown_04: Oh, you always get the boots on night of day two?

Unknown_04: What?

Unknown_04: How do I get the boots?

Unknown_04: Are you shitting me? Surely someone watching this has to fucking know how to get the boots. He's in the bear fridge. There's no Kim around to be a fucking asshole to me.

0:04:35
Unknown_04: So what am I doing wrong?

Unknown_04: Oh, I have to get the Inner Sanctum?

Unknown_04: I did get that on the last one, so if I cheat to get it this time, it's not that bad. No, Polly the Polar Bear is in the fridge. She's giving vocabulary lessons on YouTube.

Unknown_04: Okay, I'll do it, because I did get the Inner Monologue last time.

0:05:17
Unknown_19: It's still locked!

Unknown_04: I did put points in empathy.

Unknown_04: Did I not?

Unknown_04: Do I have any items that give empathy?

Unknown_04: Dude, I'm so pissed.

Unknown_04: I have to talk to Manana about the legs? I don't understand. He's right fucking there.

0:05:51
Unknown_04: Manana is gone. It's too late at night.

Unknown_04: Dude, every game I play is just suffering. That's why I play Dota. Because, like, playing a game that's supposed to be fun...

Unknown_04: The other officer is away!

0:06:38
Unknown_04: Chat, you're not helping me at all. I've been asking Gemini. That's my fucking issue. Yeah, that's clawed.

Unknown_04: When I have the body in the fridge, how do I get the boots?

Unknown_04: It's 22-01-01. It might flag this to the police. I did not specify that it's Disco Elysian.

Unknown_04: I guess Project Zomboid.

0:07:11
Unknown_04: Disco...

Unknown_04: Cut him down first. Get the body.

Unknown_04: In the fridge, interact with the body again to conduct a proper examination with Kim. During that sequence, you get an option to take the boots.

Unknown_04: And it says you need Savile Affair or Instrumental. But the... No, it did not include the boots. The autopsy report you have to do before. I had to do the autopsy report...

0:07:42
Unknown_04: in the field.

Unknown_04: Oh, it's boots on a fucking dead man rotting in a fucking fridge. Why is there not a link to just take the fucking boots off? That's fucking ridiculous.

Unknown_04: There's no way.

0:08:21
Unknown_04: I can't believe this.

Unknown_04: So if I did, I did this for literally an hour and a half to get the fucking body in the fridge.

Unknown_04: So if we did the autopsy before putting the body in the fridge and the only option is a locked inner realm test,

Unknown_04: am i screwed because i can't level i can't even level up empathy higher does boost okay if this doesn't work i give up Because there's no manana to talk to. I mean, I'm going to have to skip it, but it's like I just wasted all that fucking time for literally no reason.

0:09:20
Unknown_04: Like, it's a locked empathy check. Put skill points into empathy to open this white check, but then I go over here and I put skill points into empathy and I accept the changes.

Unknown_04: It's still fucking locked. So it's fucking lying to me, and I'm wasting a skill point. I mean, not really, because it's empathy. That's apparently a really good one, but... And then the AI thinks that it's Savile Affair that matters for the check, which... None of this is going to impact, so...

0:09:52
Unknown_04: So I don't know.

Unknown_04: And I will just sleep and try again in the morning.

Unknown_19: Yeah, I should redo this segment.

0:10:38
Unknown_19: And then, sleep doesn't come. Obvi- Maybe it's the bed's fault. It's in- Smells of- It be- It's in fi- Smell is a little better. Something to do with your breathing steadies. A great silence splashes over- Almost a corpse disco cycle.

Unknown_04: Sorry. If I had known that I was fucked anyways...

Unknown_04: I would've, uh, done this part as well, but I figured that I could take the boots, and I figured I'd show people that I was doing that, so it wouldn't be, like, too steamy. Do you remember the scent of your chair?

Unknown_14: What is it you know? Do you remember your wife's hand on your arm? Tell me. No. You found it. Have you? No. You'll be stinky. You're not coming from shit. Stinky? You're...

0:11:11
Unknown_05: So something is wrong. Sleep shouldn't... Oh, time to go to work in the shit factory.

Unknown_04: Tell me about it. My legless shit factory.

Unknown_19: Okay.

0:11:45
Unknown_19: Good going, buddy.

Unknown_19: Okay, this is when Rakeda's liquor bottle starts talking to him again. Fuck you. That's all Rakeda had to do. All he had to do was say no. But he was too weak. Ah, Kim's not here. Let me just...

0:12:18
Unknown_04: That's for... Wait, wait, wait. What was that bubble?

Unknown_04: Or Kim wakes up. Let's go check real quick. Oh, God. There's people down here.

Unknown_04: Ah, no. Kim has bested me.

Unknown_18: Morning.

Unknown_18: Looks like we can get to work at once. The union muscle turned up. They look rowdy. We should talk to them.

0:12:48
Unknown_18: I mean ungovernable. Men who drink beer for breakfast? There's talk of an armed wing of the union called the Hardy Boys, who are res- Everything points to the dockworkers' union. The belt used for hanging him, tracks in the mud, the circumstances in Martinez, my preliminary information. Which may, of course, all be wrong. But we still need to talk to them, and it won't be easy. I completely forgot. Sorry, I had a rough night's sleep. It's damned by the looks of it. Loud and nasty, just like the manager thing. I forgot what Gart told us.

0:13:21
Unknown_04: One was threadless to worry about, and one big problem to replace it.

Unknown_18: That would just escalate tensions. In fact, even more thing before we do. We don't have to talk to them immediately. We can walk right past them. Continue with our business.

Unknown_19: Yeah, streetwise. Zoom right past. Do it on your own terms. But aren't you curious to know what they have to say about the murder?

0:13:54
Unknown_18: They're in no hurry to leave. They think they own the place. Anyway, I leave. Well, I don't talk to them right now.

Unknown_04: Oh, I forgot to open the apartment door. Let's do that. Sorry, that was something that I didn't do during the save scum.

Unknown_04: Which was pointless anyways, so... I have to do that.

Unknown_04: I talked to the smoker tonight. I have to pay Gart. But I'll do that after I take his shoes.

0:14:33
Unknown_04: Let's do the weasel's door.

Unknown_04: So I get violently assaulted by horns again.

Unknown_04: I'm normally working in the middle of nowhere when you stream, but I can make it for you with a few bucks for your shows. Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

Unknown_19: I should probably stream more opens, I think.

Unknown_04: My thing is, I'm curious how my numbers compare. Like, last stream, I think I got 300 playing just this game. It's like, how does that compare to, like, DarkSidePhil? Does he get, like, 300 on Twitch? Sorry, and I'm skipping this just because I did it all.

0:15:05
Unknown_16: I skipped, uh... We already did this part.

Unknown_04: I am DarkSidePhil. Everyone says that. I don't think I'm that bad.

0:15:48
Unknown_04: He gets, like, a thousand people who watch him on, like, restreams, though. Who the fuck is that? Oh, that's that lady.

Unknown_04: Um, oh, his door was back there.

Unknown_04: Why is Kuno just sitting here defeated?

Unknown_06: Fuck does Kuno care?

Unknown_06: You found Kuno's secret door to Kuno's secret shack. It was closed for 5,000 years. How the fuck did you get in? And then what? You fucking there? You fucking Kuno's kingdom.

0:16:21
Unknown_07: He's trying to fuck at you again, Kuno.

Unknown_06: It's a vitamin pig. Don't you know anything?

Unknown_04: You could use them.

Unknown_04: Why is my endurance telling... Why is my endurance failing?

Unknown_06: Yeah, it's the mag. You fucking need that shit to stay on top of your game. Kuno goes through like a tube a day. Rips mag like a motherfucker. And you could use a battle.

0:16:54
Unknown_07: Don't teach him, Kuno! He's gonna use it against you, Kuno!

Unknown_06: You're not getting this, Pig. It completely takes away the hangover. It's like you didn't do anything. Like you stayed on playing with your choo-choo.

Unknown_04: Is this child supposed to be like an alcoholic? Fuck you, Pig!

Unknown_06: Don't do mag! You're gonna OD and you're gonna fucking die! I don't think you can OD on Mag Museum. That's where Kuno gets his daily hit of electric. Kuno Shazam! Kuno rides the...

0:17:27
Unknown_04: I bet you'd like to ride the lightning too, wouldn't you?

Unknown_19: You feel- Oh that?

Unknown_06: Kuno decapitates pigs. That's just a Kuno demo tape.

Unknown_04: Why does it do that?

Unknown_06: Yeah, Kuno plays on snuff radio. Fucks pigs. Lies. Fuck their heads off. Kuno's a cop killer.

Unknown_06: good call pigmeister don't come and talk to kuno about his kingdom kuno doesn't wait i remember this isn't the isn't the whole thing about magnesium like a meme i remember when i was talking about how good magnesium was someone gave me shit and said like it was a disco elysium perk

0:18:22
Unknown_06: I don't get to become a magnesium-based lifeform?

Unknown_04: I swear that there was, like, a way you could become a magnesium-based life form by going to the- Because that guy posted a fucking video of doing it on the stream. I guess I fucked it up again. I didn't press the right button. I didn't pass the fucking magnesium skill check or whatever the fuck.

0:18:55
Unknown_02: Ugh.

Unknown_04: I honestly don't know what to do.

Unknown_04: I have four skill points. I feel like I should put something in it. I'm just gonna keep getting raped by horns as I play this game.

0:19:45
Unknown_04: Do I want to talk to these guys yet?

Unknown_04: Oh, I didn't do the doorbell thing.

Unknown_04: It just pisses me off. I am a magnesium-based life form. I take my magnesium all the time.

Unknown_04: I asked Kuno about the fucking magnesium, and that's not enough. I don't get the fucking magnesium because I didn't... passive hidden skill check i don't even know what i did wrong like what skill do i not have leveled up where i don't pass the magnesium soul check i want to become a magnesium based life form this must be it the basement door is weather worn the copper nails holding the upholstery you try to find the sound they might as you hold we did this last time too

0:20:37
Unknown_04: I have to talk to that guy again, the fat guy, the fat cunt. I could play guard.

Unknown_04: I don't know what else I'm supposed to do. I kind of want to side with the union. Maybe I should tell the boat lady about the happening. I don't know the horns.

Unknown_04: The horns are too fucking loud.

0:21:21
Unknown_10: You're back. Good. What can I- You have.

Unknown_10: And how did you like Mr. Clare?

Unknown_04: He's not the champion I have chosen. I wish to swear fealty to you and the cause of capital.

Unknown_10: What? I am afraid you have misread the situation, detective.

Unknown_04: Don't be so... This is not some feudal conflict. I believe it is.

Unknown_18: And if it were a conflict, the RCM would not pick sides. My colleague's unusual approach to police work does not represent the organization at this time.

0:21:52
Unknown_10: Well, I can't stop you, can I? Just understand that I don't expect you to share anything he told you with me.

Unknown_10: I'm not a corrupt worm myself.

Unknown_10: However, if you felt like passing some information, how could I stop you?

Unknown_19: Good idea. It would be quite interesting to hear what she has to say about these things.

Unknown_10: Oh.

0:22:28
Unknown_10: That's so helpful of him.

Unknown_19: The lieutenant looks at you and you can swear his jaw muscle is trembling. Shut up. He's able to contain the anger and surprise.

Unknown_18: Unconventional police officers sometimes lose their guns. They then go around and tell people about this to gauge their reactions. It's all part of detecting.

Unknown_10: Incredible.

Unknown_10: Simply incredible. And how is it going? Has this detecting produced a gun?

Unknown_10: Did he now?

0:23:02
Unknown_10: Well, then it should be any day now.

Unknown_10: Unless, of course, he's lying to you.

Unknown_04: Oh, yeah, by the way.

Unknown_10: Weird. Oh, no. One of the positive things to come from the revolution is the unhindered exchange of information, you see, which isn't to suggest our talks constitute corporate espionage.

Unknown_19: I hope you guys don't mind that I cut the usually the first sentence is like the thesis of their statement and then they have a lot more to say after that that doesn't actually further what they're trying to say so I finished reading it and then I try to cut it off like at the appropriate stopping point I don't know if that's annoying or not oh by the way when I was in the fully the polar barrel room I found a gun

0:23:55
Unknown_04: It's an antique Bella Magov rifle. Can I put this in my hand? Can I walk around with this in my hand? It's an item.

Unknown_04: It does not fit into anything.

Unknown_04: Are my pants still evil?

Unknown_04: They are still evil. I hate those pants. I want the armored pants.

Unknown_04: Maybe I can just rip the armored pants off in front of Kim and he can just fucking cope and sneeze about it. Maybe Kim has to be there to watch. Nick Riqueda can't steal without Kim being forced to witness him stealing.

0:24:41
Unknown_04: I can't do a second autopsy. There's an option that I failed again, which was like, take a super close look at the body. And even when it's like 75%, I always fail it. So I'm just like, okay, I guess I'm just meant to fail this one. And I'm not supposed to see this.

Unknown_19: Okay. I'm fucking safe. This better fucking work.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: Yeah, okay, we did this last time, and I failed it this time, but I thought there's no fucking way it could possibly have anything to do with the pants.

0:25:16
Unknown_14: I like it a lot, brother. Into the wild pile yonder. In the past. I'm a jerk. Look at me. There is not a killer. Go ahead. What do you mean? It's the human. We already went through all this, so I'm skipping through it.

Unknown_04: Because you're a cop-a-rooney.

Unknown_14: A cop-a-rooney? Look at all of them go.

Unknown_14: Do you want... Here you go, you loony.

0:25:50
Unknown_14: Because you have... Fuck no. You're no roonies.

Unknown_14: No. You're not a Harry either. You're a motherfucker. That doesn't remind you of someone.

Unknown_19: I did not pick this option on this before.

Unknown_04: Wow, that's a disgusting, absolutely fucking disgusting statement. That is actually vile. I'm a little bit angry that I had to read that.

0:26:27
Unknown_04: Um...

Unknown_04: I guess I have to say that because my encyclopedia told me to. So I can't steal his pants even yet.

Unknown_14: That's where I found the gun, by the way, over there. I'm not a communist cop. I'm talking to a dead man.

0:27:02
Unknown_04: What's happening?

Unknown_04: Insane tank top mesh. Plus one drama. Oh, that is a straight fucking upgrade. We gotta do the tank top. And look at that. That is Rakata max to the fucking max right there. That's insane.

Unknown_12: Okay.

Unknown_04: No, not the trumpets.

0:27:34
Unknown_04: Okay, I'm soft-locked out of the Magnesia Max ending. I've talked to the lady. I've opened the door. I can't take the pants because God hates me.

Unknown_19: The trumpets won't leave me the fuck alone. This isn't case-related, you think?

Unknown_19: The tire tracks were left here by an unknown event that took place some days ago. It's a message written in the language of burnt rubber. Some of that rubber stuck to the tiles right in front of the whirling in rags. This is point A. And then accelerated straight into the fence. The driver proceeded to back out of the yard, barely stopping before hitting the adjacent building. Before heading south. Must have been in a hurry.

0:28:08
Unknown_18: I'm not sure. There are plenty of traffic accidents waiting to happen in Martinez.

Unknown_04: Yeah, he did break down a fence.

Unknown_19: You could follow the tracks south. There seems to be a canal there. See?

0:28:44
Unknown_04: Could follow the tracks south.

Unknown_04: Is this over the rock?

Unknown_04: Here. Here. I don't see the tracks.

0:29:20
Unknown_04: What, is that implying that's this fucking guy again? I really don't want to talk to this fucking guy. Why is this thing that's sitting behind him, though?

Unknown_19: You see two lowly, defeated speakers. Thralls. Slaves, basically.

Unknown_13: I can see you have a taste for luxury, officer. Can't keep your eyes off those sneakers? A pair of found ultras. Those sneakers, mister. Those sneakers are the latest found sneakers.

Unknown_19: Fifty. That's madness. Found ultra. We're the future. You remember the slogan from...

0:29:52
Unknown_04: Reaction speed and hand-eye coordination. Fuck you. Fifty fucking... Fuck you.

Unknown_04: I hope I can kill that guy. I fucking hate him.

Unknown_04: Alright, let's talk to the Union guys, I guess.

Unknown_19: In the morning light, the white-on-blue police livery on the motor carriage cannot but catch your eye.

Unknown_19: do something important something murder related there's always something important doesn't mean you can't take a moment to admire this piece of machinery that's my interface the caprice motor corpse follow-up to their highly successful workhorse caprice 40 and that with its air-cooled rear mounted 12-cylinder compression ignition engine driving the rear wheels through oh no this is like a it's like impregnating the thought the high center of balance is offset by a large battery bank due to a quite steep price tag it is very unusual to see one in police livery livery isn't it livery you want to take a closer look

0:30:40
Unknown_19: 130. I reckon that's a 7-liter V12 there. Man, that's got to be a major advancement.

Unknown_04: All sounds made up. 7.2.

Unknown_19: Supercharged. Yes. An extraordinary machine.

Unknown_04: I'm pretty sure it's livery and the British are the ones calling it livery.

Unknown_19: Helium headlights would improve the range and quality of the visual field a lot.

Unknown_18: Actually, I have a pair at home. Just haven't gotten around to fitting them yet. We're going to be buddies, me and Ketsukitsuragi.

0:31:33
Unknown_04: I have four skill points. I feel like I could spend them.

Unknown_04: One point volition.

Unknown_04: Let's level up empathy as I intended. And extra into volition. And let's keep one.

0:32:08
Unknown_04: Let's level up logic.

Unknown_04: As well.

Unknown_04: Actually.

Unknown_12: Hmm.

Unknown_05: Hmm.

Unknown_04: There's perception. That one usually comes in. I'll do perception.

0:32:41
Unknown_04: That's it. That's my order.

Unknown_04: Do I have a map now?

Unknown_04: Ice fridge. Oh, it's like stuff that I found. Okay.

Unknown_19: The theme on that pinball machine is a standard royalist theme Used on everything from pinball cabinets to full flavor cigarettes Clinging to a picture book version of the past century Waiting for the king to come back and cast out all the profiteers and homosexuals base imagine a yellow plastic crown with a liquor brand emblazoned on it and

0:33:28
Unknown_19: The sentiment is called anti-centennial nostalgia, pining for a time before the turn of the century.

Unknown_04: Yeah, yes.

Unknown_04: It's not a thought I get to keep, though.

Unknown_04: Okay, let me just look around before I decide to talk to the guys.

Unknown_04: Just in case. Just in case.

Unknown_04: Am I still, like, unable to fix this fucking mirror?

0:34:09
Unknown_19: I'm gonna fix this fucking mirror. It's, like, haunting me.

Unknown_04: One day I'll get it, chat.

Unknown_19: The door is closed. This door can... Well, that's his door.

Unknown_04: Or no, that's the lady's door. It's not kicking me around.

0:34:47
Unknown_04: I'm trying to take this money, goddammit.

Unknown_04: Want to talk to the black lady first?

Unknown_01: Who the fuck are you?

Unknown_01: This isn't a district known for its love of self-proclaimed militiamen

Unknown_04: i am doing a fake accent so i must talk very slowly not a muscle moves in her face but you are looking for titus hardy who you think has information on a murder the rcm is investigating you want to impact titus talk to him but know this i'll be keeping an eye on you it doesn't matter if you recognize our authority we will make an arrest if we have to she says nothing

0:35:54
Unknown_19: Oh no, she's angry because she's black and she doesn't like the police.

Unknown_04: Thank you, logistical mate.

Unknown_01: What you want is of no significance.

Unknown_04: Well, fuck you, bitch. Why the fuck did you even tell me to talk to you? Come over here. As a matter of fact, I do not want to talk to you. Okay, great. Cool.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_18: Detective.

Unknown_18: Hey, hey, dipshit.

0:36:29
Unknown_04: You're hard of hearing or something? The boss man's talking to you. Are you recording in your bedroom or something? Let me put some sheets up. Do not let their squeals disturb your serenity.

Unknown_19: These are but simple peasants, sire.

Unknown_04: You're right. So true.

Unknown_04: Raise your chin and gaze into the distance like a prince.

Unknown_20: What, is he fucking kidding? This guy high or something?

Unknown_17: Hey, asshole, up here. We're talking to you.

Unknown_18: We're looking for Titus Hardy.

0:37:01
Unknown_15: Oh, this is about him. A real looker, that one.

Unknown_04: Oh no, it's a redneck. That means he's white and a redneck. That means that he is evil. You sure took your time, huh?

Unknown_20: Waited for him to get real ripe and pretty for you.

Unknown_17: Oh, he was a real pretty boy. Hanging up there, letting out that pretty boy smell. I can't for the life of me understand why you did it.

Unknown_04: I mean,

Unknown_04: They put the three, four worst voice actors in the same room for the same conversation.

0:37:38
Unknown_01: You might want to start asking your questions now.

Unknown_01: It's not going to get better than this.

Unknown_19: Are you the slave?

Unknown_01: What the fuck are you talking to me for?

Unknown_19: Do a head count first. Connect these men to the tracks you saw in the yard. Chances are they're going to match.

Unknown_19: Starting from the right, boot size 44, blonde man in his 30s, overbearingly masculine.

Unknown_04: with long hair sitting on his right oh god the blackest man to ever live 45 or 46 eldest in the room probably mid-50s across at the other table hobnailed working boots size 43 gang tattoos mess or sarah maritian in his late 30s he spent his youth in villa labos a housing project in the jamrock quarter

0:38:32
Unknown_19: there were incarcerations artists and then standard working boot steel reinforced toes size 46 the big dick wide and lean i didn't inspect the dead man's penis not to inspect this guy's penis penis inspection day number two numerous scars a little under 40.

Unknown_19: emblem on his vest says rowing club a little patch below it reads t hardy captain in the far corner i don't really associate rowing with a working man's hobby toes size 44 40 something non-alcoholic beverage in hand you squint is that a plectrum the is a plectrum

Unknown_19: on his neck forget it it's not important let's call this one the musician size 41 with the light step not a child after all an older man with a rat face mean watery eyes and two front teeth missing in the middle heaving

0:39:41
Unknown_04: That Angus. There he is, the obese man.

Unknown_19: The murderer.

Unknown_04: The odd soul, that's the woman from the car.

Unknown_19: The missing lady driver who was running the truck trade. Does it mean the Hardy Boys are involved in the truck trade as well? Hmm.

0:40:17
Unknown_19: Maybe. But hey, you've stood there for about four seconds, not saying anything. Now is a good time to hit them with questions. Where's the eighth heart?

Unknown_04: I don't remember. We investigated the tracks in the mud in the first step. The fuck is with you, fella?

Unknown_15: what are you talking about madman there's no eighth hardy boy there's seven of us and we're all here or what you want to be the eighth hardy boy we ain't hiring actually boss we've been talking and we think she could maybe this guy's trying to do like um the voice of the guy from the three stooges she so there's an eighth hardy and it's a hardy girl

0:41:10
Unknown_19: The black one. Elizabeth, the governor. The black one, yeah.

Unknown_15: Shut the fuck up, Glenn. I do talk in here. Now what the fuck do you want, cop?

Unknown_04: I don't think he's at WrestleMania.

Unknown_19: Could be. It has to be good if he won't let you pursue it. Looks like the lieutenant thinks so too.

Unknown_18: So let me get this straight. Derry is a nice hardy boy. It's a she and you don't like us talking about her?

Unknown_15: Good job, Kim. That's right. We're not talking about this. This is a private Hardy Boys matter. Nothing to do with your shit.

0:41:42
Unknown_04: And you're not cops here.

Unknown_15: Don't go digging around if you don't want a bullet in the back of your head. I'm watching.

Unknown_04: Sounds like a threat against a police officer. That's a crime.

Unknown_18: Good. We are all watching each other.

Unknown_18: Officer, your question.

Unknown_15: um the pretty boy you guys really love talking about that pretty boy i mean he's dead funny but my partner and i have a serious matter to discuss with you container belt like we use in the harbor

0:42:35
Unknown_04: okay maybe i should read yes because we took it from the harbor where we work then we went out back and used it to hang him yeah we did this together all of us until he was dead that's why there's a container belt around his neck that sounds like hidden somewhere he didn't confess so that you could take them all away it's too simple

Unknown_04: Am I supposed to say this? But there's a catch.

Unknown_01: These seven honest men have all equally come forth to tell you what happened so that you don't waste any more of your time.

Unknown_19: All seven together. They dilute in responsibility. It's an anti-arrest tactic.

Unknown_04: They didn't kill him.

Unknown_04: The hyoid bone wasn't broken. He didn't die by hanging. They're covering for the eighth, the lady, who I don't know who that is. It's probably the drug lady.

0:43:37
Unknown_15: We hanged him up by his neck until he got real still.

Unknown_15: Wasn't that obvious, copper?

Unknown_18: No. Didn't they teach you anything at the cop school, idiot? The autopsy showed there were no ligature marks. His hands were not tied. Can you explain that?

Unknown_19: The lieutenant goes in for the leg sweep. Titus does not see it coming. Um, we... Look, I'm not gonna play twenty questions with you, capo.

0:44:12
Unknown_15: I'll say it again. We killed him.

Unknown_13: Yeah, I knock him out.

Unknown_13: But he didn't have a head in him. What did you use to knock the victim out in this question?

Unknown_19: Samaran boxing, or Sambo, is an eloquent pilot set of one-on-one fighting moves originating from the Samaran Isola. Sambo style implies stealth. He may be lying, but he's good at it. No twitching.

0:44:51
Unknown_13: Where did it take place? Right fucking here. The fucker started coming to our bar, asking for it.

Unknown_04: Okay, let's see. This is a 72%. I'm so going to get fucked.

Unknown_19: Ah! Tell me who's solid. The black kid doesn't talk. Oh, that's not fair.

Unknown_04: He just has difficulty breathing in general.

0:45:39
Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: Okay. Hey, you fat guy. You have trouble breathing. No. That's all he can say. He's fat. He's nervous. Of course he's having trouble breathing.

Unknown_20: Just look at how fucking fat he is.

Unknown_15: Fuck off, Shanky. Angus is a powerful guy.

Unknown_15: All muscle.

Unknown_19: Keep your eye on this powerful guy. Sooner or later, he's going to break like a piece of twig.

0:46:10
Unknown_04: There's something you're not telling me.

Unknown_19: And fuck you too, copper.

Unknown_15: Picking on Angus like this. We're done with this schoolyard shit. And just so you know, he doesn't have trouble breathing. Seems to be having trouble.

Unknown_19: His all muscle comment wasn't sarcastic. He's genuinely trying to look out for Angus. This one is a stone wall. You won't get more out of them about the night of the murder. Not yet.

Unknown_04: Like what, copper?

0:46:43
Unknown_04: You murdered him just like that. No remorse. How many people have you sent to the Shays?

Unknown_15: Ever felt remorse for them?

Unknown_19: Shays' electric is the method of capital punishment in Revachon under the coalition. During the suzerain's reign... Well, the chair electric is more brutal than just shooting somebody.

Unknown_04: Or send them to Reunion to rot for 20 years. Reunion's a real place. It's like a foreign island in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean, I'm pretty sure.

Unknown_04: I know what reunion is.

0:47:19
Unknown_04: We do is different, I enforce the law, you kill people. But you see, a law lawman is something people agree upon.

Unknown_15: And here in Martinace, we agreed that this man had to die.

Unknown_01: Who? Are you deaf? There will be no singling anyone out.

Unknown_01: You can't arrest a hardy boy without arresting all hardy boys. Do you think you could do that? Do you think you could arrest them all?

Unknown_04: I hate her. I want her to die alone.

Unknown_19: Don't let her lead the conversation.

0:47:57
Unknown_04: A trick question.

Unknown_15: Oh, well, don't talk to her, because she's annoying. Who do you fucking think does?

Unknown_04: This is a trick question. Who am I going to blame?

Unknown_04: You do. You give the commands. Blame it on the black woman. Blame it on the fat guy.

Unknown_04: Blame it on the bearded man. Who's the old black man? That's the blackest man ever black.

Unknown_04: Blame it on Everett Clare.

0:48:34
Unknown_04: The eighth boy, the one who's missing, the big dick. But his penis is normal, we inspected that.

Unknown_04: Was he the eighth? Is that where they hanged him?

Unknown_04: Blame Fatty? That's a good idea. That is a good idea, chat, I'm blaming Fatty.

Unknown_19: The sweaty man turns red and looks first down, then around him, apologetically.

Unknown_20: It's not the fat ass.

Unknown_20: Titus runs the Hardy Boys, genius. That's why we're called the Hardy Boys. Ain't that right, fellas?

0:49:09
Unknown_15: I think you got your answer, Mr. Law. It's actually Dubois.

Unknown_01: Yes, there are some administrative differences.

Unknown_01: But on that night, they all acted as one man.

Unknown_15: Why did he kill him? Because he was worthless mercenary scum. And he stepped out alive in my town.

Unknown_15: That's it. And he stepped out alive.

0:49:42
Unknown_15: What kind of mercenary? The kind that shows up when you start a strike. The experienced kind, too. Had Ko Hoi and Semonene written all over him. Ex-Oranese special forces.

Unknown_02: A live grenade. Right here in our bar.

Unknown_04: Why did they give like a New York Jewish voice to the black kid?

Unknown_19: This one has a special gripe with him coming here.

Unknown_04: Leveling up my empathy is already paying dividends. iDubbbz was right. I can't prove it, but I know he was sent by the Wild Pines.

0:50:14
Unknown_15: They hired... It's seeming all over him. Story of every stride from here to Samara. Uh...

Unknown_04: I mean, he has the tattoo. I know why he's in Special Forces. What did he do wrong?

Unknown_04: He harassed women. Raped one.

Unknown_15: Harassed workers. Threatened to kill some as a warning.

Unknown_04: Well, that's what Joyce said as well.

Unknown_19: From rape to harassment to threats of violence. Why the strange de-escalation? He regrets mentioning it, hopes you didn't notice.

0:50:49
Unknown_04: He regrets mentioning it, hopes you didn't notice. It's a strange thing.

Unknown_04: I guess he had a relationship. Is it the woman that left the hotel? No, it couldn't have been.

Unknown_03: Oh, he probably raped the woman.

Unknown_04: Oh, the drug lady. He raped her. That's why she's gone. And she killed him, and they hanged him to cover it up. And that's why they're taking the fall. See, this is where inexplicable feminist agenda comes in handy, Chad. He has to fully internalize it.

0:51:23
Unknown_02: A raped drug dealer is not a good drug dealer. Wow.

0:52:01
Unknown_02: Yeah. This girl's on the mic. A beautiful girl. Young. Gets into the second verse of Love of Lake. The fucker grabs her legs, starts screaming.

Unknown_02: Show me your cunt! Why don't you show me your cunt?

Unknown_02: Then... Is it Ralph?

Unknown_04: Come ahead with a wine bottle. Do they hang Ralph?

Unknown_04: That would align with the unremarkable penis.

Unknown_04: The internal realm dialogue.

Unknown_04: The gunt. That's why you have to use a seal reinforced cord to hang him.

0:52:32
Unknown_04: There was no gun. He was fat.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_15: I guess I'll ask about the rape. Aren't you fucking listening? My man is talking to you.

Unknown_15: He took care of it. They got the girl out before anything else could happen.

Unknown_04: So he was like a serial molester.

Unknown_20: Let's see. Thank you, drama. I already figured it out, Renner. Calm down. Is this Japan?

0:53:05
Unknown_04: This is how Japanese people handle rapes. There's nothing you can do for now. God damn it. Fuck you, Volition. You piece of shit. 10 out of 9 out of 10. Fuck you.

0:53:37
Unknown_01: You don't have to keep answering his questions.

Unknown_15: I know, Lizzie. Relax. We killed him last Sunday night. Seemed like a good way to end the week.

Unknown_04: Little lines. How long have you known him?

Unknown_17: We don't associate with scum like that, asshole.

Unknown_17: I am truly volitionless.

Unknown_20: Yeah! Who do you think we are?

0:54:08
Unknown_15: Quiet. He came around about three weeks ago when that Pines cow first sailed into town. Happy?

Unknown_18: By the Pines cow, you mean Joyce Messier? The representative for White Pines? The same company you're striking against?

Unknown_15: No. I mean the Pines cow. The stupid-ass cow they sent in to fuck us over.

Unknown_15: Why don't you ask her about the pretty boy? I'm sure she has interesting things to say when you ask her hard enough.

0:54:40
Unknown_01: Prove my authority to Titus.

Unknown_18: Unless they're black. Um...

0:55:23
Unknown_04: I guess we'll come back.

Unknown_04: I'm not sure if I should have gone down those other dialogue trees.

Unknown_04: Tuesday, approve your authority. Respect my authority. Confront the harder boys about the drug trade. I guess I could do that right now, huh? I'll see.

Unknown_15: Looks like the circus left town, but the clowns are still here.

Unknown_04: That's me. I prefer to be called a ringmaster, actually. Let's talk about the drug trade. Like hell you have.

Unknown_15: There is no local drug trade. I know, Dorman. You say this all the time.

0:55:55
Unknown_15: Go back to Jamrock and ask the local junkies how clean your streets are in Precinct 41 Kilos. We'll do that.

Unknown_18: In the meantime, did you know that there's an abandoned lorry at the intersection that was used to move raw ingredients for drugs from Terminal B to Jamrock? The person driving it was present at the hanging. It was one of you. We've connected the footprints.

Unknown_04: Why would you tell him that? It's a lot of information to divulge.

0:56:26
Unknown_19: The thought forms in your head like a lightning strike branching in the sky.

Unknown_04: So I could accuse Titus, let the lieutenant say whatever, or back off.

Unknown_04: That's a mighty interesting theory.

Unknown_15: I guess that's what you would need to do, theoretically. A big, strong state-run monopoly would out-compete the runs on the street.

0:57:00
Unknown_02: Yeah, man. Theoretically, that's what you would do.

Unknown_02: To get rid of the gangs, the dealers, even some of the junkies.

Unknown_15: You would need good, trustworthy people to take their place, of course. Hardy men to run such a monopoly. For the good of the community, of course.

Unknown_04: Um, I can call him disgusting. I call it a good idea.

Unknown_04: Or make fun of him.

Unknown_15: I'm gonna make fun of him. No, there aren't. Some little shit and his dad are doing speed. Who fucking who? Stuff's probably from Jamrock.

0:57:32
Unknown_19: Little shit. That's Kuno in the yard.

Unknown_04: I know. He's letting Kuno do magnesium. Whatever you've seen is peanuts.

Unknown_02: Look at the big picture, man. The place is a paradise. And all thanks to Hardy Boys.

Unknown_15: Theoretically, of course.

0:58:04
Unknown_18: Not quite yet, Mr. Hardy. There were eight sets of prints on the crime scene. There are only seven... My answer is, fuck off.

Unknown_15: Mind your own business.

Unknown_01: And here we go. Back to the usual. Nobody asked you.

Unknown_20: Weak when I first met?

0:58:49
Unknown_15: I told him that Joyce's the mercenary people are coming for him from Cornell Yes, they're forming some kind of tribunal and they're coming for you This is what happens if you take the law into your own hands other people start doing it, too Let them come the hardy boys are right fucking here You heard the man right here

Unknown_04: I'm sorry, but look at this guy's logo, like down here. This is your character. You're meaning to tell me that I can rank my authority up to 20 on this fucking guy? This guy has negative authority, okay?

Unknown_04: L authority. I will oil the machine.

Unknown_04: Did you guys know that a single Hornet can kill 40 bees a minute? The Krennel is the bad news. You know that right. The mercenaries are armed with automatic weapons. Joyce says they've gone rogue. Nobody's controlling them.

0:59:45
Unknown_15: We got weapons of our own. We got Easter 50s. Zilligers. Glenn's got a knock cannon at home.

Unknown_15: Well, they pierce ceramic armor. I guess we're gonna see, aren't we?

Unknown_19: That was an unsure phrasing.

Unknown_15: see what that they don't like you've been up against ceramic armor you haven't even seen the whole suit right i've seen the whole thing and it didn't make him immortal um

1:00:26
Unknown_04: Joey says they've gone rogue. Big fucking surprise. I'm going to ask him about the bees. The fuck is that supposed to mean? You're the bees.

Unknown_02: We're not bees. We're men. We're socialists.

Unknown_04: So are your aunts. Easy, easy.

Unknown_15: He's trying to phase you. This Cornell is bad news. I know that right. So are the local gangs. The fucking barmy army. And the madre scum.

Unknown_13: Yeah. What do they know, huh?

Unknown_13: sent back to Madre in an airtight cargo crate. These people are trained military professionals. No, they're not.

1:00:59
Unknown_15: They're uncoordinated and drunk. What do you mean?

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: What do I mean, okay? Okay, we're gonna wipe you the fuck out. Okay, you got this. You got the numbers. Okay, I'll be on your side when they come. Okay, you got one more gun on your side. Once I find mine, I lost it. And okay, I guess I'll be gunning you down right alongside them.

Unknown_04: I guess we're going with the first one.

Unknown_15: No, they won't. Get out of here with your negative energy. All they mean is that the situation is serious.

1:01:34
Unknown_15: No wonder you cops get shot to shit everyday. Can't go to war with an attitude like that. I don't know if I wanna dump skill points into authority.

Unknown_04: My authority is so fucking low. Psych base one, zero skill, zero items, zero thoughts. And that's like a super high level thing. What can I even do for authority?

1:02:09
Unknown_04: Like fuck off.

Unknown_04: Oh, I meant that looks better.

Unknown_19: Mmm, the luxury of fine things. Just look at those black monk straps.

Unknown_19: After spending an entire day hustling, who's to say that you didn't deserve a pair of ridiculously expensive shoes on your tired feet? Beautiful things give you a rush. It's power. Crafting your style, draping your flesh in silken leather. When they come to take it away from you, you worked for those shoes. I did. Whether you like it or not, wearing these shoes has made you more liberal. Ultra liberal. Why? They're either a gateway drug or a booster pack to get you deeper into free market ideology.

1:02:41
Unknown_04: My shoes? I don't know if that's true, talking voice.

1:03:17
Unknown_04: Okay, I have to prove my authority. I can try to talk to... What's her face again? That's true, Hasan buys fancy shoes and shit and then he's an ultra liberal.

Unknown_04: Maybe he's right.

Unknown_04: You start thinking about all those poor, starving Ethiopian children have to slave away over a hot iron to make your fancy shoes.

1:03:55
Unknown_10: You're back good.

Unknown_04: Nothing to talk about there.

Unknown_04: Not sure.

Unknown_04: Is there anything else I can do? Send the victim's body. I'm not doing the fucking boots.

Unknown_04: Get a reality lowdown.

Unknown_04: I guess it's literally saying to talk to Joyce about my reality. Let's talk about reality, I guess.

1:04:29
Unknown_10: You're back. This reality.

Unknown_19: Yes, reality is your side case. An experimental side case.

Unknown_04: I am conducting an investigation into the world I find myself in. It's related to that medical episode. Ah, yes.

Unknown_10: The episode. Sounds like an acute case of encephalopathy, now that I think of it. I have a lot of bottles in my bag.

Unknown_18: Don't be phased, madame. He functions perfectly well. He only needs a lowdown on all of reality.

1:05:00
Unknown_10: We may be here a while, then.

Unknown_10: Ask away, officer.

Unknown_19: All right, we're in. I know these all look good, but begin with the first, okay?

Unknown_04: The encyclopedia says, I know they all look good, but begin with the first. Okay, fine.

Unknown_10: We're in Martinez, baby.

Unknown_10: Martinez is a district of Revachol.

Unknown_10: A very small district. Yeah, I figured this out so far. Unimportant, they say. Forgotten, even. Revachol?

1:05:32
Unknown_10: Revachol is what you call a city of a great kind.

Unknown_10: History, detective. They built this city to resolve history. Our part in it, at least. Our centuries.

Unknown_04: Why will it resolve history? They say it's where the terrible questions of our time will be answered.

Unknown_10: The tensions are highest, the fault lines deepest. By that I mean conflicts.

1:06:03
Unknown_10: ideological conflicts that's very pretentious that's like someone from england saying history was forged when during the cold strikes during margaret thatcher margaret thatcher and the cold strikes determined the course of human history and it's like no it didn't nobody gives a about margaret thatcher and the coal strikes all i know about margaret thatcher and the coal strikes is that a gay boy learned to do ballet during it okay that's all i know about that standing Yeah, these are very shitty. That sounds like bullshit as well. This is basically just describing England. So we're in an unimportant part of an unimportant place.

Unknown_04: Speak for yourself, officer.

Unknown_10: I'm well known in certain parts.

1:06:59
Unknown_10: As to the place, you're right. We are. A sparkle of lights on the horizon, like morning stars above the curvature of the planet. Twenty-two kilometers from the center of the world. That soldering iron is the bank of the world building. The bottom floors are Insiakom. Coalition government in Cilindian mission command.

Unknown_19: Silence she lowers her hand the water the light It's as though you're seeing it for the first time Why recognition only the immensity of the sea and the cold radiating from it Yeah, I'm with my boys shivers over here She observes your eyes what the horizon Jamal who your realization I This is one thought you need to complete. Where are you?

1:07:52
Unknown_10: Was there something else you wanted to know? I remember something about a lowdown.

Unknown_04: Je m'en veux. I'm not researching this. That sounds shit. I want my fascism.

Unknown_18: This has been informative. Thank you, ma'am. Might I suggest not asking them all right now? Monsieur will- Absolutely.

Unknown_10: My commitment here is long-term.

Unknown_18: It's better not to eat all your candy at once.

1:08:26
Unknown_10: Indeed.

Unknown_10: I'm always at your service.

Unknown_10: Glad to have been of assistance.

Unknown_04: It's a weird dialogue option, because it's like... Why doesn't this person just tell you shit?

Unknown_04: This is after the Margaret Thatcher put down the coal mines.

1:08:57
Unknown_04: And also we're in England. It's like everyone's fucking with him. Yeah, that Sudanese guy over there, he's actually Zamanese, and he's a Zamanese nationalist, and you're a ham sandwich.

Unknown_04: Why is there a button there?

Unknown_04: Is there?

Unknown_04: How do I get to it, man?

1:09:35
Unknown_04: I'd hate to go back and try to assert authority because I'm going to fuck it up. I can either pat the box or kick it.

Unknown_19: I'm going to pat it. Nice.

Unknown_19: The box seems happy. Eat shit, pig. Fucked by the coon. And sent G with a crown have been scribbled on it. Jenny is a whore and best set mailbox also.

1:10:10
Unknown_04: I sympathize with that. The mail collection box seems- I held morale even though I don't have any.

Unknown_19: So do you. And then suddenly you see it over all the other graffitos. Someone has, using the tip of a very sharp knife, cut the words, Revachon forever.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: I'm glad we sorted that out and they healed morale. I didn't need to lose. I have exhausted all options. At this point in time, I am somewhat convinced that I have to do that thing now. Because there's nothing else to do.

1:10:47
Unknown_04: Right?

Unknown_04: I could try to talk to Claire. Claire?

Unknown_04: I feel like that's a mistake.

Unknown_04: Go to the left?

Unknown_04: All that's down there is the Indian guy.

Unknown_04: Kill the jeep? I could have. I wonder if I could have. I'm pretty sure there's... Oh, what? There is stuff down here.

1:11:20
Unknown_04: Oh, it's... That's shit.

Unknown_04: Plastic bottle.

Unknown_04: A pawn shop. Oh, so this is where I can sell stuff.

Unknown_19: wow a very large red t-shirt with an impressive pants oh yeah the print depicts a muscle demands the antlers on the hood sniff the t-shirt and his piercing blue eyes are for two real that's dirt cheap why would you tell me to buy this shirt what investment do you have in this but why

1:12:12
Unknown_11: You'll just have to buy it, then.

Unknown_04: But it's not like it's... Physical instrument. Negative two to authority. It's like a guy with a katana. It's like a t-shirt.

Unknown_04: Physical instrument and one that shivers, but negative two to authority. I don't want that shirt. Fuck that shirt.

Unknown_19: You see rows of toy soldiers guarding the rest of the trinkets displayed on the table. Some? Why? What's this? A headless man riding a horse?

1:12:44
Unknown_11: Oh, that's the headless farm rider.

Unknown_11: There's been a lot of interest in that particular figurine.

Unknown_11: I had to hide it so it wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. He doesn't elaborate on these wrong hands.

Unknown_18: I've heard about it. I've heard the Headless Phone Rider rides a headless... Why would he know about this, too?

Unknown_11: Yes, there are several competing versions of the story, but I believe this figurine is a more canonical representation. The Headless Phone Rider. 50 cents. Bargain price.

1:13:17
Unknown_19: He lost his cap when he lost his head. Perhaps he's looking for the head.

Unknown_11: I'll buy the hat. Well, I wish I had known that in the beginning of the game, so I wouldn't fuck up all my tasks.

Unknown_04: I do want the shirt. I might need the shivers.

Unknown_19: Who knows? Okay.

Unknown_04: What else can I buy here?

Unknown_19: I wanna waste my money. I'm not buying that. I can buy this?! Fuck you. I'm not buying that for 700 fucking dollars.

1:14:11
Unknown_19: The boom boxes on the shelf look well loved and well traveled. One especially catches your eye. Deep gold and amber plastic with a big old handle on top. Just make sure it works before you buy it.

Unknown_04: Why would I buy this?

Unknown_11: It's not often that I see officers from the RCM in my pawn shop. What can I do for you?

Unknown_19: His courtesy is not insincere, but he prefers being alone with his projector, just watching the movement of light across the walls of the shop.

1:14:51
Unknown_11: I haven't had any problems myself, though some of my customers have complained about inconsistent law enforcement.

Unknown_18: Who are your customers usually?

Unknown_11: All kinds of people come through here. As you can see, I have a wide selection of goods for everyone to choose from. I think you're silly.

Unknown_04: Some of these are just making fun of them. It keeps me entertained.

Unknown_04: Is Roy high if you ask what challenges he's on? Okay.

1:15:34
Unknown_04: Okay, I don't think there's anything I can buy.

Unknown_04: I did get the baller, the t-shirt. First shivers.

Unknown_04: Who the fuck is this guy?

Unknown_19: a couple of indicator lights are missing from this this panel usually closes the water lock turning it into a bridge that lets you cross the canal good morning to you officers a burly man hangs out by the water lock carving up a generous serving of salami with an old hunter's knife very important i wasn't here to witness it but those look like tire tracks on that sign

1:16:16
Unknown_20: You sound Australian. I'm going to ask for his salami. I got a low tax mask. Ah, what a lad. It healed! I managed to get a morale heal and a health heal. When I had full health and morale.

Unknown_04: What fucking bullshit. I think it is dark meat salami. That's why it's so healing.

Unknown_04: That's why Patrick Thomas never loses his morale or his endurance.

1:16:52
Unknown_04: Okay, I just... I don't think there's anything else I can do. I just have to go over here and confront the guys.

Unknown_04: Is there anything I can do to maximize my authority? I have two different things that reduce my authority by three points in total. That is the opposite of increasing it.

Unknown_04: I kind of feel like I should talk to Evar just in case there's something there.

1:17:28
Unknown_04: I don't have any pants because the only pants I have reduce the skills I like the most. So I just don't wear pants. It's been working out so far. Maybe I can hassle him about the woman.

Unknown_04: Went native on the chief, huh?

Unknown_19: Those ballerina antics were reckless. Should have just punched him in the throat again. Let's talk about our right to work.

Unknown_03: He has nothing new to say.

Unknown_04: Okay.

1:18:02
Unknown_04: I will never get pants. I've been denied pants by the dead man.

Unknown_04: I'll never get an option because I didn't press the exact right sequence at the exact right time, so I'll never get pants. I'll just be pantsless for fucking never.

Unknown_04: I don't know if Manana will have anything to say. I don't know what Kuno could possibly say about the Hardy Boys either.

1:18:35
Unknown_04: I could talk to them.

Unknown_21: Mr. Dubois, a pleasure as always. You don't have to sit down this time, since you've already sat on that chair.

Unknown_21: I'm very glad to hear that, Harry. One question. You didn't actually happen to stumble in and see what's inside the apartment, did you?

1:19:06
Unknown_19: No. He's trying to figure out if you're lying.

Unknown_21: You're right, Harry. You only had to unlock the door, which you did. So we're all good here.

Unknown_19: He was testing you and you succeeded. I know. Now let's get down to brass tacks.

Unknown_21: It's time for men like me and you to figure out who's killed who and why.

Unknown_04: There's somebody I watch on YouTube who loves to say brass tacks. Oh, Saul Goodman. Saul Goodman loves to constantly say brass tacks.

1:19:44
Unknown_04: I've heard about the connection between the lynching and the strike. I'd like to hear what you know about it.

Unknown_21: By now, I'm sure you've figured out who the dead man was working for. The bad guys. Wild Pines. It's all good with a YouTuber. He runs this YouTube channel about law.

Unknown_21: Harry, this strike is the culmination of many, many mistakes made by the Wild Pines group. They tried to shut the strike down by sending in armed mercenaries.

Unknown_18: You mean our victim?

Unknown_21: A security contractor? Can you imagine that? Workers standing in peaceful protest... He's supposed to look as disgusting as possible, that's why. ...and they send hired killers to mow us down with machine gun fire? I'm talking beasts. Hardened killers from proxy wars in Ysout, Semonine, Saramaritza. You name it, they've done it. Raping, killing, burning villages, killing little children for the Senorita Pineapple Company, Harry.

1:20:16
Unknown_21: Everything they did there, they brought over here. They want to turn Revachol into a third world slum. Honestly, the only thing they didn't do is kill the village elephant.

1:20:50
Unknown_04: You have a village elephant?

Unknown_04: I'm gonna ask about the elephant.

Unknown_21: No, Harry, the elephant is metaphorical, and so is the village, but the mercs and their brutality are very real. Now, I haven't personally witnessed the brutalities out there. I have the luxury of staying in my container, you see. If I need to go somewhere, they just move my container.

Unknown_04: He's so fat, he just sits in the container? That's pretty funny.

1:21:25
Unknown_21: About my fun container, it's a hoot, Harry. Who knows? Maybe you'll be in here the next time they move it. It'll be very fun, I promise. But enough about me and my container. The killers the company hired, I think there were three of them, all hardened commando types. One of them got downright suicidal, getting drunk, violent, a little rapey. Even their own negotiator couldn't control him. That's your boy, the one who likes hanging out and trees.

Unknown_18: By negotiator, you mean Joyce?

Unknown_21: Harry, what you need to realize is, we dockworkers are not pushovers.

1:22:05
Unknown_21: We got grit, Harry. This whole neighborhood does. Push us hard enough and we push back. And when we do, we push to kill.

Unknown_21: Who did the pushing? There's a militant wing inside the Union. A group of people whose duties don't involve manual labor, but peacekeeping in the neighborhood, making sure everything runs smoothly.

Unknown_04: That sounds like organized crime. They're like you guys.

1:22:37
Unknown_21: Idealistic people who want to make sure bad things don't happen. And if they already have, well, punishment must follow.

Unknown_18: Again, that sounds like organized crime. So these idealists killed our victim?

Unknown_21: Hmm. One day Titus Hardy, leader of this peacekeeping faction, comes up to me and says, Boss, socialist democratic fervor drove us to take it upon ourselves to kill this beast that was burdening the land. He probably worded it differently, but that was the idea. Sure sounded to me like they killed him.

1:23:11
Unknown_21: I gave them two weeks paid leave and told them to lay low to avoid retaliation.

Unknown_18: Aren't you worried we might arrest them for this?

Unknown_21: Oh, I'm not at all worried about that. These are not the kind of men who get arrested. They're Martinet's boys, tough and gritty. I'd like to see the man who takes them in. Besides, I sent my lawyer girl to look after them.

Unknown_19: If he's just boasting, then it sure doesn't feel like that to you. He's not worried.

1:23:44
Unknown_19: He places a lot of faith in that lawyer girl. Perhaps this is a tactical error. Anyway...

Unknown_04: Tell me about the lawyer girl.

Unknown_21: Oh, Liz is a bright one.

Unknown_04: I called it paid for that law degree myself, thinking it will probably turn out all fancy. Well, she was riding her bike hit by lightning strike. Now she reads real fast. It's good at law and math. Black lawyer. I don't know about the mercenaries.

1:24:18
Unknown_21: I know. Let me tell you about these people. That's their M.O.. It's what they do.

Unknown_21: Last winter, some poor workers in Terminal E went on a little strike. The company sent in sediment. He stole it. The strike was over the workers' right to wear protective footwear, Harry.

Unknown_21: These guys turn up and start beating people. Tell you what, Harry, I wouldn't be surprised if we got the same mercenary company after a little rebranding. Well, Canson, did you perhaps indulge fascism?

1:24:54
Unknown_04: Well, did you perhaps subscribe to National Socialist beliefs?

Unknown_18: So you believe these cabs were organized by the security contractor?

Unknown_04: It's an Oryx. Is that from the game? You said it.

Unknown_21: Hell, one of those guys looks big enough to take down that proverbial elephant. Boys like that don't just happen to show up during strikes.

Unknown_21: Of course. You're always one step ahead of me, Harry. I'm no genius. I'm in this position because people like me. They're very likable.

1:25:28
Unknown_04: I like how he looks like a grotesque Jewish caricature. Uh, talk about the tribunal.

Unknown_21: Tribunal? That sounds serious, Harry. We Union men should be shitting ourselves. I wish you hadn't told me that. I'm gonna lose sleep over this. Let's change the subject.

Unknown_04: Why isn't he concerned about the Tribunal? He's clearly happy about the Tribunal.

Unknown_04: Don't seem too worried.

Unknown_21: Oh, Harry. What do I really think about the Tribunal? You're trying to climb to second base with old Everard before you've even courted him properly.

1:26:00
Unknown_19: He wants you to do more things for him before. Okay, let's talk about Hardy. No, they are simply fine young men.

Unknown_21: All seven of them. Exemplary union members. Always working to advance their position in the local socialist democratic movement. Core members.

Unknown_21: Old Theo used to run them, but things really kicked into gear when Titus took the reins and named the group after himself.

Unknown_04: All the mob bosses were Jewish? It's possible. I mean, did they consider farting?

1:26:38
Unknown_04: That might work.

Unknown_18: Interesting. Who's second in command?

Unknown_21: They're almost all of them great guys, born leaders. Whatever happened, I'm sure they only had the best interests of Martinez and Revachol in mind.

Unknown_21: Work with them. Hell, interview them. But don't fight them. They really are just like you. Men who like beer, women, and some order on the streets.

1:27:09
Unknown_19: He's betting on them being useless to you.

Unknown_04: The logic boy, I need to maximize logic. I need to get logic up to like 60.

Unknown_21: But of course. It's the least I can do for my good friend Harry. I'll do it right after we've concluded this talk.

Unknown_19: You can now go and tell Titus about this. See what he has to say.

Unknown_21: Also, Harry, here's five real.

1:27:45
Unknown_04: I almost failed that Trivial Authority test by one point.

Unknown_21: I'm not giving you anything. I'm just holding out five real.

Unknown_21: Oh, I wasn't offering it to you, just holding it out there. But I'm willing to share information. Was it a good talk? I'm not sure we made much headway here. I was hoping we'd bust the case wide open. Heck, I even wanted to tell you what I really want to achieve with the strike. I don't know what happened, Harry. I wanted you to feel like Mr. Martinez. And, of course, I also wanted you to find your gun. But it's like I can't completely trust you. Yet.

1:28:20
Unknown_21: yes harry it's like i can't fully trust you if you're not a man of the left i want to but i just can't a man of the left so you have to be a social democrat fate worse than death he's been hurt too much in the past by men who aren't social democrats

1:28:55
Unknown_04: I'm not a man of the left. I'm a patriot of Revachaw. You're right not to trust me. I take care of me. I'm a hustler. I grind. I'm a money engineer. None of these seem like good options. I kind of want to play him.

Unknown_04: See, this is another corrupt scheme. Almost hit my heart.

Unknown_21: What does your heart tell you about your lost gun, Harry? Does it tell you to forget about it? Or do you think it wants to be found? I think it's lonely and cold. I think it wants to be found, and I have a proposal for you.

1:29:28
Unknown_18: And what would this entail?

Unknown_21: Once again, I require nothing unethical or illegal of you. You just need to get two little signatures on this piece of paper, and then mail it to my accountant in La Delta.

Unknown_21: I'm glad you asked, Harry. The Union is going to build a modern youth center in Martin Ayes. It will be righteous. We're gonna get those teenagers off drugs. And on roller skates.

1:30:03
Unknown_21: There's a nameless little street on the coast with some old houses around it. Most people have already signed. I just need two more signatures to get this mission off the ground, Harry.

Unknown_04: Treat on the coast with hold house rent. Is that the bookstore?

Unknown_21: On the coast, Harry. Across the canal. There's a cul-de-sac there. A little village, they're calling it. A gloomy place. You'll find it. I trust your detective skills, Harry.

Unknown_19: Water drips from the eaves. A woman looks at her freshly tarred skiff. There's a pair of cavalry boots under the fish in the box, and the wind howls like a vicious spirit.

1:30:43
Unknown_04: What the fuck does that mean? You're already pretty deep into this.

Unknown_19: What's a little more? No one can see you here.

Unknown_04: Yeah, good idea, Savoir Faire. Great idea.

Unknown_04: Chem, helpies.

Unknown_18: It depends. I don't think what we just got from Mr. Clare was very useful.

Unknown_21: As I said, it weighs on me heavily. But once we get really talking, well, I'm gonna hand you the keys to Martinez, and maybe even help you figure out who's behind this killing.

Unknown_19: He's seen as little as possible, as vaguely as he can, deliberately omitting things.

1:31:20
Unknown_21: Perfectly acceptable. No one's gonna force you into anything, but I don't know about that gun of yours You see I'm a vengeful man Harry part of how I got where I am. Is that well I can be quite nasty sometimes But the good news is the moment you change your mind and want to look into this matter Just tell me and we'll be buddies again the lieutenant's eyes meet yours and he shrugs I

Unknown_04: see you soon i don't like him and he needs to die what's this we're getting reports of normal reasonable temperate political opinions somewhere in martinez no it's all talk don't worry it's because i keep saying none of the above to political stuff isn't it it's also about that but it's also more

1:32:14
Unknown_19: Perhaps it's the hangover. Perhaps it's a temporary surge of serotonin. But something tells you it's time to become a citizen of the kingdom of conscience.

Unknown_04: What is this?

Unknown_19: It is not a place. It is a moment in time that can only arise in the right circumstances in history.

Unknown_04: I'm not doing it. A handful of times.

Unknown_19: Incrementally. History's greatest catastrophes have been brought about by people trying to make the world a better place too quickly. That's the genius of Dolores Day.

1:32:52
Unknown_19: She recognized that progress is meaningless

Unknown_04: Yeah, no, that's like the Ursula von der Leyen of this world. She's the UN lady. No, fuck this. Count me out. I don't give a shit about that. Fuck you. Fuck Ursula von der Leyen.

1:33:39
Unknown_04: Junior Bacon Steenburger, again for $10. It says he's going to run errands, have a cozy trim. You can put me in your pocket. I'm reading the voice lines. I'll simply talk to you about fascism while you're at Whole Foods buying sausages. Because you heard that sausages raise your endurance.

Unknown_04: You know, if you poop your pants very slowly, you won't win any pants-pooping competitions.

1:34:21
Unknown_04: Should do his errand, you can find more loot.

Unknown_04: But then I would be helping the biggest, fattest queer metal in the entire fucking world.

Unknown_04: I guess I could talk to Manana and then Kuna. And then wrap it up. And fail my test. I'll have a plus 50 modifier from all the dialogue that I listen to. And then I'll fail it.

1:34:56
Unknown_16: Hola, wandering man.

Unknown_04: How can I help you?

Unknown_04: Anything about the Hardy Boys?

Unknown_16: They're an independent militant group. A bit too high strung, but it comes with a responsibility. They're sort of like you.

Unknown_16: Preserve the rule of law and all that. Except it's Everard's law. But the mercenary, eh?

Unknown_16: Who could have killed him? That's indeed the question. Why even do such a thing? That's all.

Unknown_04: I haven't heard anything about that.

1:35:27
Unknown_16: But if that's true, well, he was an enemy combatant.

Unknown_16: He was an agent of the opposition, attempting to undermine our honorable efforts. I ain't the murderer in time, but that's just me. Large organizations like our union have all sorts of men with all sorts of skills.

Unknown_19: He believes the Hardy Boys could have done it.

Unknown_18: Understood.

Unknown_16: They did do it.

Unknown_18: This has been of limited use. Still, I think.

Unknown_16: No problem. They have two skill points.

1:36:00
Unknown_04: I still only have like a six?

Unknown_04: I want a Sargon max. Let's increase our logic.

Unknown_04: I cannot level up Empathy. I can level up Shivers more. I don't know if that's useful though.

Unknown_04: Let's make it... Well, I don't want to spend my last point.

1:36:37
Unknown_04: When I switched over, that just hard-spent the money. Okay. I don't have a seven-point logic, because... It's true. Arcadia would have maxed out Shivers, probably.

Unknown_05: Okay.

Unknown_19: Shivers is talking to me again. Shiver me timbers.

1:37:16
Unknown_19: Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hat.

Unknown_19: Gray sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world. Humid, your coat shields you from the rain while the city shivers around you.

Unknown_04: Let's do clockwise. Capeside apartments.

Unknown_19: Tower blocks crowd one another. 4.46 millimeter bullets still lodged in their war-torn stone walls. Hallways collapse from the mortar hits of a war that was lost long ago. Clotheslines go to waste in the rain. Radios play.

1:37:54
Unknown_04: Shame. The communist almost won, but then the radical centrist from the kingdom of conscience fucked him over.

Unknown_19: The morning news.

Unknown_19: Is there a purpose to this? The east. I am. I'm wet.

1:38:32
Unknown_19: I'm in the rain. Behind the gates, heaps of supply crates, red and blue metal shipping containers slick with rain. The Greater Revachol Industrial Harbor is an artificial mountain range. Immense wealth resides within, and immeasurable poverty in its shadow.

Unknown_19: Ladrisiem, King Dree's passenger harbour. Cruise ships flanked by dock arms. Cranes watching over the mouth of the river distributory. Curon, the lower middle class. Distributory after distributory cuts the city blocks in half. Seven-storey buildings trail off into the rain. A silvery curtain of rain over the houses. The class divide.

1:39:03
Unknown_19: You have never been there. They don't need the law east of the river.

Unknown_19: A traffic jam. They do need the law to keep away all the poor people that keep breaking into their shit and killing people.

Unknown_04: Drivers watch water streaming down their windshields.

1:39:36
Unknown_19: The statue of a king shudders. He too is cold. The canal bridge has been raised. The road ascends. A raised motorway loops above the ghetto. Beneath its concrete columns, a sea of rooftops, woodwork,

Unknown_04: The horns are very loud, and they just, like, break in. Dude.

Unknown_04: Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at? That's a weird thing to quote, because if you don't know that song, it's by DMX. And there's a line in it that's like, I don't fuck with niggas that think they broads, only know how to be one way, that's the dog. And there's, like, that's the cat with the Kool-Aid on his lips and pumps. And he says, I don't...

1:40:13
Unknown_04: I don't, other than this line, I don't fuck with niggas that think they broads.

Unknown_04: I empty out, reload, and throw most slugs. And it's literally a line, even in the uncensored version of that song that they sell, that line is cut out because it's literally saying that he just shoots gay people for being gay. So it's kind of a weird thing to throw in here. So I'm going to go with that.

Unknown_10: The brother in the cut.

Unknown_10: Well, the who dat?

1:40:50
Unknown_04: Shivers is talking to me as a woman now?

Unknown_00: That's a very bizarre response to that.

Unknown_23: He literally cringed during that?

Unknown_04: DMX is fucking dead, isn't he?

Unknown_19: Standing in the rain, looking north, where Jamrock Rock City stretches inland.

1:41:25
Unknown_19: In the rain-swept distance, above the rooftops of Jamrock... That sounds like a lie.

Unknown_04: The DMX cringe during a live performance of Where the Hood At during COVID.

Unknown_04: Oh, the AI says that DMX didn't think he performed well during the Snoop Dogg versus because it was during COVID and there was no physical audience and it was like a virtual thing. So... I don't know. I'm gonna skip through this.

1:42:04
Unknown_19: Coal plants? Really?

Unknown_19: Coalition-era statics hang like apparitions under the cloud cover.

1:42:35
Unknown_18: This rain will not let up anytime soon. At least we are dressed for it.

Unknown_04: I don't even get, like, an idea for it. My shivers just, like, was like an intrusive thought. I thought I was gonna get something for it.

Unknown_03: Oh, I forgot to talk to Kuno, the big Kunog.

Unknown_04: I'm gonna sing DMX to him.

Unknown_04: Hey, yo, Kuno, where the hood at?

Unknown_06: Kuno doesn't seem to have any information. What about you, Kuna? The dialogue has not changed, so I think we can fail our authority check now.

1:43:07
Unknown_04: I think there's only one way to do this at this point, right?

Unknown_04: So...

1:43:47
Unknown_04: I have absolutely nothing. You know what? It's time to go negative authority. We're gonna put on the logical auditor glasses.

Unknown_04: We're gonna drop our authority to absolute fucking zero. And we're going to fail this check as hard as humanly possible. It's you again. What is it?

Unknown_04: It's time to fail this.

Unknown_04: Look at that. It doesn't even matter. I have all those things, and it's still like... Oh, wait. Me and Everett talked. He promised he'd cooperate. Oh, so you went and talked to my mommy.

1:44:23
Unknown_15: And now she's making me play with you. Is that it? Yes. And what's gonna happen if we don't?

Unknown_20: You gonna go and tell on us?

Unknown_04: Why don't you push me some more and find out, Gimp?

Unknown_20: You gonna let him talk to me like that, Titus?

Unknown_04: Let's see.

Unknown_15: Yeah, I guess I am. You big pussy. The old man sent word you'd be around again. That's the reason I'm being so forthcoming with you. Don't wear it out.

1:44:56
Unknown_19: But having Everard back you up like that did seem to have some effect.

Unknown_04: Authority zero. Low 8%.

Unknown_04: This is a white check? I can retry it?

Unknown_04: God, I guess the smart thing, if I had saw that it was a white check, I would have tried it over and over again and see if any of those 3% would have hit.

Unknown_04: Again.

1:45:29
Unknown_20: Good one, Titus.

Unknown_15: About fucking time. Okay, let's just do it.

Unknown_04: We're going to lose.

Unknown_19: Establish authority. Yes. Godly failure. Feverous thoughts race through your mind.

Unknown_04: First you tell me someone has been raped and you don't say who. That's bullshit. Stomp your feet.

Unknown_04: I'm the only thing keeping this town from going to hell.

Unknown_03: Kim, I need your gun.

Unknown_19: That's it? That's all I got? Did you already try the gun thing? I hear the gun thing is excellent and has great results. You're probably right. The others are only there for filler. To make the gun thing popular.

1:46:01
Unknown_19: Get my niche gun. No, you are level zero. Stop talking to me. Why is my volition talking me down now?

Unknown_04: Okay, I'm asking Kim to give me the gun for demonstration.

1:46:40
Unknown_18: I don't want to give you my gun, not after the last time.

Unknown_20: What the fuck is happening, Titus? What are they whispering about?

Unknown_15: Easy, Shinx. I want to see where this is going.

Unknown_04: I'm not scared anymore. I am merely flesh. There is no other way. I know what I'm doing. I'm not scared anymore.

Unknown_19: And what is that? He does not like that phrasing. Neither do I.

Unknown_04: fuck you rhetoric you should have spoken up sooner than i am really flesh what be careful it's loaded good now put it in your mouth okay what are you doing genuine panic flies across the lieutenant's face suffer the half light has returned this is me um this is a good sign

1:47:39
Unknown_15: Better fucking respect me. No.

Unknown_19: He'll do it. Go ahead, son. Three, two, two, one. Do it. Get this one thing right. No. Give it to Lieutenant Kitsuragi. It's not too late. Shut up. There will be no spinning. Do the honest thing. Pull the trigger.

1:48:11
Unknown_19: Deranged cop kills himself. Citizens in shock as a deranged law official reportedly from the 41st precinct shot himself in the head last night in the middle of a crowded cafeteria in downtown Martinez. The exact details of the incident have not been revealed, but firsthand witnesses claim that the officer was making a point. I don't think the glasses helped. Let's sort this out.

1:48:43
Unknown_04: Oh, I couldn't even... Can I negative two max this?

Unknown_04: Negative two authority. Holy shit.

1:49:16
Unknown_04: Yeah, we're figuring this shit out. Negative two. I think if we hit negative two authority, then we will have this for sure.

Unknown_04: Now, this is the look. This is the look right here.

Unknown_15: It's you again. What is it?

Unknown_04: Your authority affects if it fails or not.

Unknown_04: Authority negative two, very low.

1:49:48
Unknown_14: Yeah.

Unknown_04: I don't want to try to level up my authority because it's so low, it just doesn't matter.

Unknown_04: Visual calculus negative drama. Fuck that.

Unknown_04: Drama? Physical instrument conceptualization at this loss of suggestion.

Unknown_04: Plus one drama. That sounds like a benefit to me.

1:50:26
Unknown_04: I have no pants, so.

Unknown_04: I can get Savaloff. I lose Savaloff. Dude, they're both... I don't want electrochemistry. What the fuck is this?

Unknown_04: Visual calculus.

Unknown_04: Yeah, OK. Now I have two, right? No, just one. It's better than negative two.

Unknown_15: It's you again. What is it?

1:50:58
Unknown_15: The opposite of.

Unknown_19: Starting from the right.

Unknown_04: Oh, no, fuck.

Unknown_19: I pressed the wrong button. The fuck is with you, fella?

Unknown_04: Okay. Okay, so the difference between authority one and authority negative two is approximately zero.

Unknown_19: establish authority yes authority feverish thoughts race through your mind i'm gonna stop my foot this time i already shot myself stop in your pants you don't need to know all right we took care of it the law handled it all right yeah aren't you listening

1:51:48
Unknown_04: I am the law. For God's sake, stop shouting.

Unknown_03: Stop crashing into people in my establishment. Stop provoking those elves. Fuck you. They're not going to give you anything. Can't you see? I can't have a police interrogation in here. People are trying to eat.

Unknown_04: I'm gonna tear your head off.

Unknown_03: What?

Unknown_15: Easy, babes. What is this?

Unknown_04: I can't have a slap fight in my bar.

Unknown_18: It's embarrassing.

Unknown_18: We are deep, deep in forest territory. We need to cool off and re-engage. Later.

1:52:19
Unknown_19: Everyone can see you picked some wrong options. Next time you have to come up with better things to say.

Unknown_04: So I have to just continually re-engage him on the authority matter? Oh, I can try again after talking to him about this.

1:52:55
Unknown_20: Okay, I get to try again.

Unknown_15: It's jumped from a staggering 3% to an enormous low 17%. The only thing keeping this town from going to hell, and you're not in it.

Unknown_04: You're probably right.

Unknown_15: Yeah, I figured that out.

1:53:53
Unknown_04: I haven't said anything racist. I'm not shitting myself.

Unknown_15: Of course you are. Hey, didn't Carly work in a diaper shop?

Unknown_02: Yeah. Carly said you've been hanging around the adult diaper shop, browsing the aisles.

Unknown_02: Hmm. Again.

1:54:44
Unknown_20: good one titus yeah law man why don't you it's almost an anthropological site watching him that's why i didn't know why i shouldn't arrest him not in the arresting mood

Unknown_19: The lieutenant keeps his hand away from his holster. You hear the nylon of his coat hiss as he steps closer. While the little rat-faced man reaches into his sleeve, there's a knife in there. Some of the others reach for their belts. Their eyes alight.

Unknown_15: Look, coppers. I know you think you're doing your job here, but there are seven of us and two of you.

Unknown_04: I don't think we should put him for backup. That's an Easter 50.

1:55:30
Unknown_19: A Ziensk-made monstrosity. It'll blow your head clean off.

Unknown_04: Fuck you. You're going to jail.

Unknown_19: The last thing you hear is a little murmur. Not a blast. Not an echo. No one screams. It's more dead cops. Sad news from the district of Martinez as the bodies of two police officers are found floating in the air. They killed Kim too? The officers were pursuing a murder investigation but got caught in the dock worker's strike and were gunned down under unclear circumstances. Such needless loss of life is truly tragic, a local union leader Everard Clare commented and added that although the event is truly horrid, we can expect similar incidents to follow if right wing vigilantes are allowed to run around uncontrolled and try to wriggle their way into well-organized neighborhoods.

1:56:05
Unknown_02: The glasses didn't help.

Unknown_04: Wait, did I let's reattempt It's you again. What is it? the 17% and then I'll quick save and then I want to I want to test something Oh and what's gonna happen if we don't you let the old man but haven't ever I'd back you up like that did seem to have Save Let me reach him to lose the 17% it's you again I

1:57:12
Unknown_04: And then I want to try something else before I fuck around with the other questions. 8%? I'm not wearing my glasses. That's why.

Unknown_19: Okay. I'm not shitting myself.

Unknown_19: Of co- Yeah!

Unknown_04: Now that- Yes.

Unknown_19: You don't have to be the butt of every joke. You're making the lieutenant look bad. Just- Okay.

Unknown_04: Now I'm gonna try this. I don't think- If there is an option to shit your pants, I haven't found it yet.

1:58:01
Unknown_04: Let's see if I can call for backup.

Unknown_19: Inside, you see a set of steering levers, a radio microphone...

Unknown_08: This is Precinct 57, how may I assist you?

Unknown_08: Yes. The armor was produced by... Fairweather in their facilities in Bétancourt, sur la Clé in 42. It was part of a special order for Coeur de Pharmacie, a security firm contracted to protect the interests of Oranis pharmaceutical companies, in the Seminine conflict. So, it seems the armor went to Seminine. That's where the Pivot Trail ends, though. Even the firm has proven difficult to track. Corps de Pharmacie has been renamed several times over in the years since the armor was issued.

1:58:33
Unknown_04: So they're not lying that he's a mercenary.

Unknown_08: That is the most recent name the ICP has been able to connect to the CVP. And the one before it was Downwell. I also have one called Sediment, but I think that might be a different contractor. No, they were called Sediment. Sediment. And somatosensory teams. All that during the last nine years. A suit of armor like this would have been manufactured with a particular person's physique in mind. Yes, but the ICT tends to be reluctant to share private sector records. I could try to talk them into it, though.

1:59:05
Unknown_04: Please do.

Unknown_08: Call back tomorrow. Hopefully I will have more information for you then.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: I can't tell them about the murder.

Unknown_17: 10-4, come in, officer. Roger that. 10-10, over and out. I don't know what else I can do regarding authority.

1:59:42
Unknown_04: I have to prove authority to the guys.

Unknown_04: And...

Unknown_04: I feel like I'm soft locked.

Unknown_04: Prove authority. What can I do? I have a gun. I can't do anything with a gun. It's an antique, apparently.

Unknown_04: Armor did sound very authority-matched, you're right.

Unknown_04: I feel like I ran down all the options. Maybe if I talk to Joyce again, she'll have an idea. I don't think so, though. I talked to her recently.

2:00:15
Unknown_19: All around you, rain keeps falling down on the wooden boards she's standing on and on the water around you.

2:00:58
Unknown_10: Sadly, I made this one myself. It's hydrophobic, repels water almost magically. What I can do for you is answer some questions. Nothing like talking to pass a rainy day. More lessons in basic reality.

Unknown_10: my favorite part of the day go ahead ask me anything possible 20 these are unimportant times detective you and i were born after the dust had settled a thousandth of a second too late too late for what the big time the revolution

2:01:40
Unknown_10: it's quite easy every hundred years or so our species gets together to decide what's next who gets shot in the head and who gets the mineral rights it's a real kerfuffle who got shot in the head those would be the communists generally speaking 40 million people got shot in the head during the world revolution but the communists they all got shot in the head

Unknown_04: We think they would crack down on fucking unions a little bit harder.

Unknown_10: Oh, and the anarchists too.

Unknown_10: They shot them well.

Unknown_10: So well, one forgets they even existed. Did they ever? Before they got shot themselves, they shot two million people.

Unknown_04: That is a kerfuffle.

Unknown_04: That's right, they should have shot more people in the head.

Unknown_18: This does not represent the official RCM opinion.

Unknown_10: Don't worry. Krasmazov shot 15 million people in the head. But that was all the way over in Krad.

2:02:37
Unknown_10: Oh, lots of people. Even the king got shot in the head. Or thrown beneath a horse. Or drowned. Accounts differ. It was unceremonious.

Unknown_10: Just as well he wasn't actually the king. Just the king's nephew. The real king abdicated and lived out a long and productive life as a venture capitalist in Grad.

Unknown_04: I love that king. Smart king.

Unknown_10: King Guillaume had a nose for bad PR. He ran before it. What is the expression? Went down?

2:03:10
Unknown_10: Anyway, Gil got out alive and his nephew Frisell got shot in his place. Him and tens of thousands of his wonderfully fascist kingsmen.

Unknown_04: How is a fascist a king's man? Okay.

Unknown_10: The liberals got the mineral rights. Why? By mineral rights, I mean everything.

2:03:42
Unknown_10: Liberals are usually middle class people, detective, or the remaining gentry, the beneficiaries of the pre-revolutionary arrangement. Like Hassan. Yeah. We.

Unknown_19: She's one of them. Of course.

2:04:21
Unknown_10: To foreign intervention. The Coalition.

Unknown_04: Those people really took the mineral rights.

Unknown_10: The Liberals took everything that wasn't nailed to the ground.

Unknown_10: The Coalition took the ground.

Unknown_10: The ocean, the laws, and the people. The coalition of nations. Grad, Mesc, Vesper, Messina, Oranje, and Sur la Clef. Messina's a real place. The armed center of the world. They landed here and ended the revolution. It was the moralist thing to do.

2:04:55
Unknown_19: There is bitterness in her voice, tempered with understanding.

Unknown_19: She is critical, but ultimately understands the cause.

Unknown_10: The Moralists believe in keeping everything exactly the way it is. At least not in the same manner and volume as the others do. They are the long-standing provisional rulers of Revachol now. The Coalition government. This is their zone of control. They embolden the RCM with crumbs of the same law they took. Technically speaking, you are a Moralist.

2:05:30
Unknown_19: The color of moralism is blue. The official motto of Moral Intern, or Moralist International, is a blue forget-me-not, a piece of gray sky. Unofficial. For a moment, there was hope.

Unknown_04: I don't think I am. Of course.

Unknown_10: Not easy to be moderate about head-shooting in your line of work.

Unknown_04: I like that option. Rooty, tooty, pointy, shooty. Okay. So that yielded nothing. For some reason that's an autosave.

Unknown_10: That conversation.

2:06:25
Unknown_04: Does Kim have anything useful to say about authority?

Unknown_18: What do you want to know?

Unknown_18: Good.

Unknown_04: Kim doesn't know anything about the case. Evar doesn't know anything about the case.

Unknown_04: I don't know who I haven't spoken to that could possibly know how to get authority.

Unknown_04: Sure, I have a gun. I don't have any bullets though.

2:07:13
Unknown_04: maybe he knows can i help you got the 20 rail good you got the room for the night but remember he doesn't know anything just a moment and there's no public phones nearby the closest phone booth is down the coast sorry for the inconvenience there's a phone in the union room it's fine i understand thank you anyway

Unknown_09: Yeah, the ultra-liberals don't set up wheelchair ramps.

Unknown_09: To let the young woman whose house isn't for us know that we may be delayed. Morel, my husband, and our friend Gary were supposed to get back by Monday night. But they're still missing, and I haven't heard from them. I was also hoping she'd heard from Morel. A little missing persons puzzle might just be the thing to take your mind off the hangover.

2:08:10
Unknown_09: Um...

2:08:56
Unknown_04: I feel like I should ask about this.

Unknown_04: Who is Gary? Is he talking Australian accent? Does he eat sausage?

Unknown_09: Gary's as loyal as they come.

Unknown_09: I trust him with my husband's life any day. Oh my.

Unknown_09: What happened to the water log?

Unknown_09: Well, whatever the cause, I'm thankful. To both of you. You've spared me another sleepless night.

Unknown_18: You're welcome, ma'am.

Unknown_09: I hate to ask, but if your investigation takes you to the other side of the coast, please do keep an eye out for my husband.

2:09:40
Unknown_19: Yes, some left-field scientific research is exactly what you need right now. Funk up that vanilla murder investigation.

Unknown_09: And if you see him, let him know Lena is waiting for him here at the whirling. Oh, you're such a dear.

Unknown_09: Thank you, sweetie.

Unknown_09: Oh, sweetie, it's fascinating. But I shouldn't bore you with entomological minutiae.

Unknown_19: The lieutenant gives you a sideways glance.

Unknown_09: Of course, dear.

Unknown_04: Okay, so there's a missing person, but that doesn't help either. Maybe I can talk to her.

2:10:17
Unknown_01: I've got nothing to say to you. Why are you the hardy girl? I am not.

Unknown_17: You could be Liz. You could be anything. You could even be a model. Ew.

Unknown_01: Even a mod? Glenn, I went to law school. I am an attorney. Why do you dress like a peasant chef?

Unknown_01: Obviously, I'm a lawyer.

Unknown_01: A legal counselor for the dock workers union.

Unknown_19: Hmm.

2:10:48
Unknown_01: Uh-huh.

Unknown_15: Goddamn right it is.

Unknown_01: If anything, it is the RCM who do things to people. But we digress. Aggressive? You make your living enforcing violence. These people are just dock workers. We're just submitted to murder.

Unknown_18: Do dock workers spy on the police? You were on that corner all day. Now we know why. Jeff, we've talked to Evar Claire. We know who these men are. The Union's militant wing.

2:11:20
Unknown_01: Listen you moral intern lackeys you're a mob Enforcing the unlawful privatization of revision 20 fat men in the occident are stealing it all and you are there the fattest one is in the fucking crate.

Unknown_04: Yeah So ask what you came to ask or get back to your commanders Can I say that the fattest fuck is on the crate up there

2:12:04
Unknown_04: Privatization is not unlawful, it's cool and funny.

Unknown_04: All these options suck.

Unknown_04: Okay, so that also yielded absolutely nothing.

Unknown_04: Maybe I can find the 8th woman?

2:12:39
Unknown_04: Maybe that's the 8th woman?

Unknown_04: She's up there. Maybe I can go talk to her? I'm not sure how I would do that, though. I don't think I've ever seen the stairs up there.

Unknown_04: There is no point to this game. What's the point of playing any game? We're playing Counter- Global Offensive. What's the point of the game?

Unknown_04: Shoot the terrorists? You know they just respawn, right?

Unknown_04: You gonna shoot them again once they respawn? Just gonna keep doing that forever?

2:13:17
Unknown_19: The door is closed. There is no answer. You hear the shout. Still no answer. Still nothing. The lieutenant gives you a quick glance. He doesn't like where this is going.

Unknown_19: Still nothing. The lieutenant gives you a quick glance. He doesn't like where this is going.

Unknown_04: How the fuck do I get up there?

Unknown_04: She clearly has access to the fucking...

2:13:54
Unknown_04: It has to be that back room, maybe? The one that you can't get to?

Unknown_19: You see a heavy...

Unknown_19: The man ponders his cooking utensils and gives you a little nod, acknowledging your presence.

Unknown_04: Yeah, I'm gonna be racist to him.

Unknown_18: Speak Revacholian?

Unknown_18: We speak Suren. There is no such thing as the Revacholian language.

2:14:28
Unknown_18: But don't worry, your message remained clear.

Unknown_19: The cook is still smoking, ash falling from between his fingers.

Unknown_18: Good thing he didn't understand a word of your stupidity.

Unknown_18: Silence.

Unknown_04: wow wow wow or didn't wow wow wow me oh there it is it was just a delayed wow wow wow they always get you with those delayed wow wow wows i'm truly lost i don't know what to do the only thing i can think of doing is save scumming

2:15:29
Unknown_04: Go do side quests? There are no side quests.

Unknown_04: Find Morel, the cryptozoologist.

Unknown_04: But I'm not, I can't get over that side of the thing.

Unknown_04: I don't wanna do Everett's fucking thing.

Unknown_04: Oh, no. Press the button. I don't think it does anything.

Unknown_19: Nothing happens. Nothing happens. Mm-hmm.

2:16:01
Unknown_19: Wednesday morning is when I can do the morale quest. Because otherwise I can't get across the fucking bridge.

2:16:36
Unknown_04: I can go upstairs in the abandoned building, but the abandoned building doesn't lead to the roof of the end. Like I can't do that, but it's not going to get me there.

Unknown_04: Go show you.

Unknown_04: Have I checked the dumpster by Kuno yet? Yes, I have.

Unknown_19: This trash container is locked. The body is downwind from here. Maybe you prefer the smell of garbage to the smell of death.

Unknown_18: We could try using a pry bar. The one you took from my motor carriage or... We might want to ask for a key from the manager of the whirling in rags. He probably has one. I thought I did check this yesterday.

2:17:19
Unknown_04: This is very annoying how that makes you really put the items in your fucking hand. This trash container is locked.

Unknown_19: The sliding lid has a padlock that says, whirling force time isn't happening. You've jammed the pry bar under the lid.

Unknown_04: The fuck? Kick it.

Unknown_04: Piece of shit.

Unknown_04: Motherfucker.

Unknown_19: Unsatisfying. Hurtful. You hear a ringing sound, but not quite hollow. Let's ask the manager for... Fuck that container.

2:17:51
Unknown_04: Can I help you?

Unknown_03: Mine? No, it belongs to the whirling and rags.

Unknown_18: Thank you for clearing it up. Why do you keep the container locked?

Unknown_03: Why? To keep the hobos and drunks out.

Unknown_18: I thought as much.

Unknown_03: Well, yes. Us and the garbage disposal company.

2:18:27
Unknown_19: It seems a little callous, doesn't it? Something stirs in you.

Unknown_19: Okay, then. Maybe you're callous yourself.

Unknown_03: What do you need them for?

Unknown_18: It concerns the case.

Unknown_03: Just bring them back once you're done, please.

Unknown_19: Wow. You work hard. I do.

Unknown_04: Oh, yes.

Unknown_19: You hustle. I do. You're a provider. Oh, yeah. Like a horse. A workhorse. Look at yourself. You're a human pedometer. You must have walked 200,000 steps down cracked asphalt. That's right. That is the sign of a hustler who never gives up.

2:19:04
Unknown_19: that's just what it's like life and death but you got gills on your side baby got those black papers with the faces of the innocents on them you bring in the franco negros and the solas don't talk to me about the franco negros it ain't easy but you do it day in and day out you didn't make the rules but you won't lose you're a cop and a sprinter and a money printer

2:19:34
Unknown_04: That's right, I did take the bribe.

Unknown_19: Oh yeah, you took that bribe hard. I took that money from Selang too. You shook him. You're a killer, a shark.

Unknown_04: That's right, I got that giant money check.

Unknown_19: Wasn't easy getting that giant novelty check from Everard. Took some ingenuity to get into the harbor, but you got in and you took that bribe as hard. I took it from Minyana too. You didn't log it in as a donation either. You don't log any of that shit in.

Unknown_19: I am.

2:20:06
Unknown_04: Thank you, fecal fanatic. Thank you for using your cosmic bad luck to make sovereignty lose. 500,000 was the bet to win. He didn't, but I did. Here is your cut.

Unknown_19: So you bet against me and you won?

Unknown_04: And now you're paying me for this? Because a bunch of people lost half a million dollars collectively? I'm happy to help.

Unknown_19: No, I'm not.

Unknown_04: The immigrants.

2:20:42
Unknown_19: the immigrants are cool the immigrants play cool music everyone likes them especially the women don't hate on the immigrants they've got nothing to i don't believe you women don't like immigrants because they get raped

Unknown_04: They're also taxes.

Unknown_19: That's right. 100%.

Unknown_19: Fucking G-man's got his jam-covered sticky fingers in your pocket. Stealing from you every- Sorry. Aren't taxes almost non-existent in the Gossamer state that is Revachon?

Unknown_19: Every time you wipe your ass, they got their direct and their indirect modes of taxation. You don't have to tell me. 98% of all your money. That's true.

2:21:27
Unknown_04: I'm a free market fundamentalist now.

Unknown_19: Fight the righteous fight. Free the people. Keep it real. Keep it street. Keep foaming at the mouth furiously on the tax issue. That's right.

Unknown_04: doing this right now cold-blooded no empathy that's me right now okay I don't know if this helps in any way to reduce my empathy but Wow

2:22:18
Unknown_04: I, uh, saw you poking around in Lady Driver's lorry.

Unknown_16: She entra- Nah, man. I was telling you the truth.

Unknown_16: I really didn't think it'd be her.

Unknown_19: So that's what that emotion was before. It was wishful thinking. What else do you know about her?

Unknown_16: 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 it's that bad man what should i do yeah maybe i should just keep my head down and work on my rhymes while i can oh you know the correct grammar is tommy that's true it is all right yeah you too

2:23:13
Unknown_04: So he has no information. They have no information. Nobody has any information. There's nowhere I haven't been. I can't get up to the roof of the building because there's no access ramp there. I was going to go back to the dumpster. That's right.

Unknown_04: Apparently chat really wants me to investigate this dumpster.

Unknown_19: This trash container is with a well dumped. Maybe you shouldn't.

Unknown_04: Why?

Unknown_19: Fuck you. No, fuck you. Open it. We're just in time. This hasn't been emptied for over a week.

2:23:59
Unknown_04: Dig in hobo cop style for extra content. That's right. Wow.

Unknown_19: An armistice caliber 50 knock cannon. Half wrapped in paper tissues. So shiny. It's a giant rifle. And it's very expensive. Not as expensive as that fat string of pearls snaking around the rotten banana peels, however. And it's that cordon electrics preamp with Electra F2 tubes.

Unknown_04: This is bullshit. He's fucking with me. The trash container's leaning to me.

Unknown_19: All you see is a broken mug with a racist depiction of the yellow man frolicking in saffron. I'll take this mug. Suffocate him.

2:24:53
Unknown_19: You see milk and egg rest with one broken egg in it. Some pasta wrapper. Picking up the soggy packages somehow feels familiar. You've done this before. The movements are recorded in your elbows, the methodology in your fingers. You're used to this. A box falls into pieces in your hands. Batiste Soleil cereal. Among the thread there kitchen towels, something catches your eye. Tell him! As the legs of the slime-covered jeans begin to unspool from the garbage, a rank corpse smell fills the air. Are these the victim's clothes? The smell is not nearly as bad as the cadaver. These clothes could not have been in contact with the deceased for more than two days after his death.

2:25:28
Unknown_18: Cadaver in Odore is faint. If these belong to the deceased, they were removed when he was still in the early stages of decay. Drop them in here, officer.

Unknown_18: I wanted those pants.

Unknown_04: I still don't have pants.

Unknown_18: He wore them with a belt, too. A white belt. The belt is missing.

2:26:02
Unknown_19: That's it. Something slimy catches your eye. A drab, long-sleeved shirt, olive-colored.

Unknown_04: It appears food waste, dripping.

Unknown_18: This is a military type overgarment. No label or serial number. This is the kind of rib-knit shirt that's worn over light armor. No, this is going to help me, though, because I've already done the investigation.

Unknown_04: The rest of the rags are just kitchen variety waste.

Unknown_18: See?

2:26:51
Unknown_19: The lieutenant nods. Then it's just organic waste. What's this?

Unknown_19: A blue piece of plastic sticks out from the apple peels. It's shiny. What is it? Something larger. A clipboard. A blue plastic clipboard with moist papers hanging from it.

Unknown_18: Officer, is that your paperwork? It is. Look. I found my paperwork. It has the RCM street grid on it. You've even got an autopsy form in there.

Unknown_18: If you don't mind me asking, how did this get in the trash?

2:27:29
Unknown_04: I think someone else threw it away.

Unknown_18: Try dangerous. You should do a thorough inventory of that. It would also not hurt to start taking notes on the case. Now, tell me what your eagle eyes see, or are we finished?

Unknown_23: Some items, such as the ledger you found, are interactive.

Unknown_18: Yeah, I was supposed to find this, like, immediately into the game, but I never did.

Unknown_19: The container sounds have muffled gone.

Unknown_18: That's one thing of the least.

Unknown_04: But there's, like, nothing I can get from that. I've already closed the fucking...

2:28:07
Unknown_19: It's the ledger you found in the trash. Right. What more do you need? A rubber condom stuck to the back. A graffito that says, defeated. I think you catch the drift.

Unknown_19: An aluminium block runs the width of the board by a bunch of... They're not exactly white. They're yellowed in patches by sunlight and alcohol. Once in a while, there's a red stamp that exclaims, case files commit to paper. work strife poverty the jam rock quarter these are handwritten logs of investigations dating back to january 51. regarding this case you have attempted two cases a week on average what do you mean is that all

2:28:38
Unknown_19: There is for precisely one more. 15 pages near the end remain untouched by the damage. The checkered grid forms a structure of passages. Once all the tasks are accomplished, I can use my ape pen to finish my case.

Unknown_04: The tasks you've completed flow out of the kind green ape pen in a brash free hand similar to the rest of the letters.

2:29:25
Unknown_19: Inspect the victim's body.

Unknown_19: Get the body down. Interview the cafeteria manager. It's not exactly poetry, but poetry would be out of place. A satisfying slash sounds across the paper. Things to be done and things already done. The composition of reality.

Unknown_04: Does any of this help me with my authority, if any chance?

Unknown_19: The hanged man.

Unknown_04: The furies are at home in the mirror. Shit on a stick. How about the hanged man?

2:29:58
Unknown_18: Thank you. That's 30 experience for that?

Unknown_18: Huh?

Unknown_18: Two complex cases to undertake is a lot, yes. You really have to push yourself. I would not suggest it, lest you start making mistakes. Two? That's a lot. I didn't mean to say you are making mistakes, by the way. That was presumptuous of me.

2:30:30
Unknown_18: It's okay. We all make mistakes.

Unknown_04: Like a fan of girls, the checkered papers dry in your hand.

Unknown_19: The handwriting is extremely dense, if mostly illegible. You don't exactly close them, so much as distance yourself from the smelly papers. They're a little further from your nose now. In the back, you see thin, translucent copier paper. Then rip them from the binder and hand them out, according to type of form.

2:31:04
Unknown_19: three the topmost are misconduct misconduct finds station calls and feels like you don't have to be an intellectual giant to do police work a dozen pages of thin copy paper the rest of the stinking cellulose is much worse for where smell it the acidic stench of rotten food is rubbed off on the cellulose it you know like the bits they put into public piss bowls probably called fermi discrete or axle remember when i said the smell of the upstairs bathroom was so rank they should have sent a poet to describe it why yes it is among many other things this cleaning tablet is used by the whirling and rats why do i have that in my ledger the ledger was dropped in the toilet by you okay fine i get it i'm a up you're a asshole

2:31:57
Unknown_19: It's just a racist mug. What's there to read here?

Unknown_04: Tell me everything you know about the racist mug.

Unknown_19: Oh boy. Here we go.

Unknown_04: What are you going to say about a broken, tossed away mug that you dug out of the garbage? This mug is an example of prejudice? I'm going to push this into the face of every merchant I find and tell them, this is your inane ideology. This mug will be useful. By denouncing it, I can earn political capital to unmask To mask my badass hustling, i.e. fraud and embezzlement.

2:32:31
Unknown_04: And the mug did not belong in the trash. Can't anyone laugh anymore? Yeah, that's me. Truly rabid traditionalists. Say ten traditionalist things. I just got the fascism achievement from the game. It's the first achievement I've unlocked.

Unknown_04: Good to know. Okay.

Unknown_04: Can't anyone laugh anymore is a fascist statement.

Unknown_04: I guess I might as well inspect this one too.

Unknown_19: The note is written with a blue pencil on a piece of lined office paper. The kitchen magnets have left spots on its surface. Does it say anything interesting?

2:33:06
Unknown_19: This is tangential at best, but the lieutenant's detective instinct is still active. Someone has scribbled. S. I can't believe the off-site copy is still here. The illiterate ginger kid keeps stealing stuff from the studio, so I had to hide it somewhere safe.

Unknown_19: You'll find the filament memory with the off-site copy in the frozen ice cream maker. Please take it home, ASAP. It's important. I'd do it myself if I lived in a civilized place with a freezer. Take care, Suliswaf.

2:33:40
Unknown_18: Someone who owns a radio computer? My guess is as good as yours, Officer. Which is to say, not very good.

Unknown_04: I know what this is. So one of the things that I did while I save scum is I went to the basement and there's like this weird record player down there that you have to get this filament memory for.

Unknown_04: So I don't know. I guess we can go do that. I don't know what the fuck else.

2:34:11
Unknown_04: Already interacted with that. I'll go to the basement.

Unknown_04: My Steam friends? I have, like, nobody on my Steam list anymore. I have, like, three people I last spoke to ten plus years ago, and that's it.

Unknown_04: Unfortunately, Steam allowed themselves to get completely cannibalized by a gay pedophile organization called Discord.

2:34:55
Unknown_19: This old fireplace is covered in lines drawn in blue and red marker. The whole thing resembles Cadran mosaic tiles. Very Passantic.

Unknown_04: Call me Passantic?

Unknown_19: Radio frequencies, it seems. UKV 123.6. UKV 123.7. UKV 123.9. Unclear. It looks like a cardiovascular system split into veins and capillaries. You think so? The web is comprised of radio stations. They must have had massive air width. These things don't come cheap.

2:35:30
Unknown_19: Whoever decides to call in to a call-in station, it looks like. A list of names under the stations suggests people across six Isolas would be playing. Muindi, Incilinda, Kotla, Grag, Samara, and even Ilmarar. I don't know what that means. There's no way a little basement studio working here could pull anything like this off.

Unknown_18: my god it's as if the less money they had the more ambitious their project became exactly this schedule i know doom when i see it the company was running out of funding i know doom when i see it it's just lines on marble an echo from times long gone it's a weird auto save that's so weird we're choosing to auto save

2:36:31
Unknown_04: It's like a room back there?

Unknown_19: An iron safety curtain curves before your eyes, folded like a bellows. It covers half the room, blocking the way into a colossal industrial chimney.

Unknown_04: I just didn't seem to kick Discord's ass. Nothing happens.

2:37:03
Unknown_19: Still nothing.

Unknown_04: No! Am I dead?

Unknown_19: Those curtains proved to be surprisingly sturdy.

Unknown_04: I almost killed myself by banging on the door.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_19: Thanks. In any case, there's no...

Unknown_19: Bent metal. Broken glass. Your path lies strewn with the broken forms of everyday objects. You are the destroyer. The bane of inanimate matter.

2:37:34
Unknown_04: It is upon me.

Unknown_04: Anti-object task force? What the fuck?

Unknown_04: Negative two pain threshold.

Unknown_04: Is this one good? Do I want an anti-object task force? I kind of feel like, and I feel like that's a good one to get.

2:38:06
Unknown_03: God, there's so many of these fucking things.

Unknown_19: Your flashlight slides over an old green chalkboard. Some of the writing has faded with age. These lithe, pointy-eared creatures appear to be different types of welkins. You make out autumnal candle welkins casting wax-based magic translucent welkins with organs shining under their skin. and even how would you know that from a chalk drawing hailing you should adopt one of those wilkins as your persona no longer a mere man one of the welkins towering among the rest appears to be different however your eyes glide over four sections of the handwriting is only partly legible but i don't want to welcome three slogans call in tune out we're all untethered and heat death of the universe

2:39:23
Unknown_19: Trench.

Unknown_04: So this is the filming thing.

Unknown_19: Tiles on the cube are still smoldering. Nothing. Something's missing. Like a smooth draw. The speaker comes to... Good afternoon.

Unknown_22: Fortress Accident on Rue de Saint-Gazelaine. This is Easton's Lindian Rapid Station 1.

2:39:59
Unknown_22: Please repeat. Is this the production schedule?

Unknown_22: Yes, I am alive. I am 74 years old and my name is Yvonne. Now please repeat, is this the production schedule?

Unknown_18: She repeats passwords. Programming people are all paranoid.

Unknown_04: I don't think that's a programming person.

2:40:30
Unknown_04: My partner rat him out immediately.

Unknown_22: I work as a repeater at the East Infalindian Repeater Station. It's my job to know where you are, Fortress Accident. As for me, well, I am sitting in my cubicle, surrounded by a wall of radios.

Unknown_19: On an island on the River Esperance, a small woman, all skin and bones, sits in a room filled with audio equipment. Thousands of tiny lights are reflected back from her prescription lenses, like stars in the dark.

2:41:05
Unknown_22: Now please tell me the reason for your call, Fortress Accident.

Unknown_22: The filament you have inserted into the reader.

Unknown_22: Yes. Is that the production schedule? Good. Please repeat the password.

Unknown_19: Password. Of course it would have a password. That's why there's a human administrator involved.

Unknown_04: Hmm...

Unknown_22: Received. I will register this login attempt.

2:41:39
Unknown_19: Don't worry. Passwords have a way of turning up, sooner or later.

Unknown_22: Fortress Accident, is there anything else I can do for you today? Fortress Accident is the company on whose name the terminal you are currently using has been registered to.

Unknown_22: One moment. Fortress Accident S.E.R. produces revolutionary interactive calling radio games.

2:42:11
Unknown_19: That's not bad.

Unknown_19: Hmm.

Unknown_22: Any other questions? Thank you.

Unknown_19: Tiles on the cube are still smoldering, casting the framework in a soft glow. The filament slides out.

Unknown_04: Okay, I don't know what the password is. Is it in this room?

Unknown_03: I don't know if I want to interact with the chalkboard again.

Unknown_04: Maybe the past returns up later. Who put the clothes in the trash? Okay, let's harass Kuno and Gart.

2:42:45
Unknown_04: It's true, it is better customer service than we have now.

Unknown_04: We can take a Magnesi.

Unknown_04: I like how the healing thing is called Nose-a-Fed, because it's like Rakeda Max. The fuck's down here? I didn't see this.

2:43:18
Unknown_04: I guess there's nothing down here. I'll have to level up skill again. But I don't know what to level up.

Unknown_21: Can I help you?

2:43:50
Unknown_03: Thanks. I hope you found what you were looking for. How strange. I certainly didn't put them there.

Unknown_04: But could somebody else?

Unknown_03: Sylvie had the keys before I got here, and I can vouch for her. She's the raped. I can vouch for all my stuff. None of us would tamper with a crime scene. The Trash Collection Service, CS Municipal. I don't see why they would put anything in the trash, though.

Unknown_18: Ah, the elusive C.S. Municipal. I doubt we'll be able to track down who was sent here last and when. This will have to be one of those little threats that solves itself down the road.

2:44:21
Unknown_19: On Clinton Street, near the Boogie Street Diamond, a small truck rattles down an alleyway. It stops by a rusted trash container. Two men, their faces rough and swollen, jump out. They look at the container, despondently. CSM is written on their backs.

Unknown_04: It's a weird way to say that trashmen pick up the trash.

Unknown_04: Yes.

2:44:56
Unknown_04: So I still can't talk to Sylvia. I still don't know how to open that fucking door.

Unknown_04: I found no items of use to anybody whatsoever.

Unknown_04: And every time I reattempt the challenge, I shoot myself in the head. Let's talk to Kuno, I guess. I haven't been able to find pants the entire fucking game.

2:45:38
Unknown_06: Kuno's Kuno, pig?

Unknown_19: It's always Kuno, never I. Clearly, the kid's using the third-person perspective as a shield. I don't know if that's true.

Unknown_06: Yeah, Kuno's in a fucking gang, in a bang gang. Kuno bangs for Magie, bangs for Mazda, bangs for Revachol.

Unknown_09: Watch out, Kuno! He's trying to fiddle you! He's gonna put his hands on you!

Unknown_06: Help! Pig's got Kuno! Help!

2:46:12
Unknown_04: Rape! Help! He's got the Kuno! Help!

Unknown_19: Everyone can hear. You need to get the hell out of here before.

Unknown_04: Just answer the question.

Unknown_06: Help! He's digging his dick out!

Unknown_17: Basically, Kuno, his dick is out!

Unknown_06: You're afraid! Pig's in the hang, Kuno! Somebody, please!

Unknown_19: how did we get here how did this happen this makes no sense there may still be a way out just appeal to his reason he has no reason look at this guy this guy has no reason i'm gonna lose this if i try to run it though this is a red trek and cannot be tried are you hiring help mr's help i see your pupils

2:47:06
Unknown_06: He's flashing Kuno. He's showing his genitals. If you don't help Kuno now, it'll be too late.

Unknown_08: Know what? Kuno's doing this because he likes it, pig.

Unknown_06: Help! The pig's gagging him! Kuno can't speak!

Unknown_04: Be logical, kid.

Unknown_06: Help! The logical pig is fiddling Kuno.

Unknown_04: This is the best character in the whole fucking game.

2:47:40
Unknown_06: The nearly psychopathic way that could slip in and out of the act implies you're not the first victim.

Unknown_18: You put him up to this yourself when you decided to talk to him in the first place.

Unknown_04: I don't fucking ask you, Kim. Listen to your friend.

Unknown_04: Kim, did you do this?

Unknown_06: Help! The RCM is trying to fuck Kudo in the ass!

Unknown_04: I'm gonna shut him down.

2:48:21
Unknown_04: Yeah!

Unknown_04: Get fucked!

Unknown_19: Ah, I got sixes.

Unknown_04: it's so weird every time i last resort to violence i get incredible odds and i just beat his ask kuno feels it this was no light tap officer this is very far from normal police conduct get yourself together you heard what he was saying

2:48:59
Unknown_06: Kuno knows to respect that violent shit. You should see Kuno's dad. Kuno's dad doesn't give a shit about anything.

Unknown_19: The creature behind the fence has fallen ominously silent. Only her eyes are alive, jumping from actor to actor.

Unknown_06: Okay, pig. Talk to Kuno. We're back in this shit. The fuck do you want?

Unknown_04: I have legendary empathy, too? Respect.

Unknown_06: Made him respect you. This is a white check. I can retry it.

Unknown_19: Okay. I gotta... Empathy!

2:49:47
Unknown_19: He's on your crime scene. Damn! I was close. And he's been here for some time too.

Unknown_19: This is where he hangs out. You have to get more out of him.

Unknown_19: He could be useful.

Unknown_19: Let's see if he wants to help us.

Unknown_06: No!

Unknown_06: What are you? Fucking mentally handicapped? Maybe a little bit. Kuno, they've almost made you a snitch now. Ease off, see? Kuno always takes the bullet over the hammer.

Unknown_19: He'd rather die than work with the justice system.

2:50:20
Unknown_06: Kuno doesn't fucking care!

Unknown_04: Okay, we accomplished nothing yet again.

Unknown_04: Seems to be the, uh, trend here.

2:50:55
Unknown_04: Don't scare bitch. That's right. I did get to hit a child. That was pretty cool It's you again, what is it?

Unknown_04: We're gonna try the authority thing again, I think I Can't Again Good one Titus.

Unknown_15: Yeah law man. I Why don't you?

Unknown_19: It's almost an anthropological site.

Unknown_20: Not in the arresting... By your side.

2:51:27
Unknown_19: While the little rat-faced man reaches into his sleeve, there's a knife in there. Some of the other... Look, coppers.

Unknown_15: Okay, I'm just gonna back off this time and see what happens.

Unknown_19: That's an Easter 50. A Zientsk-made monstrosity.

Unknown_04: Am I gonna take, like, a morale hit from this? Probably.

Unknown_20: Okay. So that accomplished nothing as well.

2:52:16
Unknown_04: Yeah, I've already shot myself in the head before. I'm aware of how that works.

Unknown_04: Maybe the racist knows something now. Hello, compatriot. You have something to discuss?

Unknown_15: Oh, man. Oh, man. That's great. Look at that guy go.

Unknown_04: I'm offering him the mug.

Unknown_04: Thanks for that, but no, it's not mine.

Unknown_19: He doesn't live in Martinez.

Unknown_04: There's just too many Semenius people here. You can't blame them. Well, well, well.

2:52:50
Unknown_04: Well, well, well.

Unknown_18: I mean, there's a... You caught me. She's just a district.

Unknown_00: You hear that, Loman? I don't think your partner likes you. A terrible cold comes over her, rattling her teeth as she stares inward. The Transcatalia Magistral. You for one, eh? And the Stradas do mirror all the good ones. The deep trenches. I'm something of an expert in blacking out. You're right, Loman.

2:53:23
Unknown_10: Is that all you woke me up?

Unknown_04: Yes. Okay. So she doesn't do anything interesting.

Unknown_04: I can't pass the authority check. I think it's just you're supposed to do one thing at a time and then re-roll the white check.

Unknown_04: And that's not happening.

Unknown_04: So I don't know. I guess the only thing I haven't done that I could possibly do is go back to Everard and take his fucking bride thing.

2:53:59
Unknown_04: And try again after that. Because I...

Unknown_04: I don't have any possible idea what else I could do. If I try to open this crate again, I'm probably going to die trying to do that.

Unknown_04: I've been through the apartments. I've already gotten everything from them. I haven't talked to the guy yet because it hasn't been time.

2:54:45
Unknown_19: You're back before the cargo container. Its draw has not lessened since you were last here. If anything, it seems to have grown slightly.

Unknown_19: And, as it's always been, it's impossible to open a container with rhetoric. Maybe you're losing your mind.

Unknown_04: Maybe you're losing your mind-ish.

2:55:30
Unknown_21: Now, what can Everard Clare do for you today? Ah, yes. Your side investigation. Thank you. You've got some spirit clearing up phony drug accusations alongside this murder.

Unknown_19: Actually, Rivershall doesn't have a mayor. He refuses to discuss it further. It's probably just a small nuisance to him.

Unknown_21: most certain by all means harry what's on your mind my dear what's in the container there are literally millions of containers in this harbor i couldn't possibly remember what's in all of them harry you smooth talking son of a time is a precious resource and i don't have enough of it to count containers with you smooth talking maybe that's the way to go about opening the container

2:56:22
Unknown_19: But you just, you literally, you are the same rhetoric that just told me there's no way to do that.

Unknown_04: You fucker. Okay, I guess I'm getting the signatures. Across the canal?

Unknown_21: That's tomorrow.

Unknown_04: Okay, I'm clearly just fucked.

Unknown_04: I'm just completely and totally absolutely fucked.

2:56:57
Unknown_19: Try to figure out a loophole in the deal? Okay, I got the high logic.

Unknown_19: There is no loophole. The simple truth is the current residents are going to lose their street access and for the next 12 to 40 months, their lives will be dominated by constant construction noise right next door.

Unknown_19: Once the construction starts, it'll probably take a few months, a year maybe, for even the most stubborn occupants to get tired of living like this. After that, they'll sell their property for cheap and move out.

2:57:33
Unknown_19: I should have seen it.

Unknown_18: Everhart probably has eyes on us, but we could try to get other people to sign this instead of those listed. Or you could forge their signatures yourself. By the time he finds out, how would they become? However, we'll need access to the coast before we do anything. Everhart won't believe you got villager signatures if you can't even get to the village.

Unknown_19: Okay.

2:58:38
Unknown_04: So I have a skill point.

Unknown_03: The only thing I can think of is just save scumming until I, I can put a skill in authority and just save scum until it works.

Unknown_04: Because I've tried everything at this point.

Unknown_04: And I can't get the passage to open until tomorrow.

Unknown_04: Could snooze until Wednesday?

2:59:18
Unknown_04: I just feel like such a fucking loser. I've been streaming for three hours and I haven't beaten the first thing that you... Like, if you have high authority, you can beat that challenge at, like, 8 a.m.

Unknown_04: So, I don't know. Let me check the guide.

2:59:56
Unknown_04: Let's see.

Unknown_04: On day... Day two. If I can't...

Unknown_04: Get authority.

Unknown_04: What do I do? I am using a guide. Like, what the fuck?

Unknown_04: Level up authority. Equipping boost. Close. Internalizing a thought. Drugs.

3:00:32
Unknown_04: Changing the context.

Unknown_04: The Union. Boys.

Unknown_04: Do I have to beat that to progress? I mean, you don't have to beat them.

Unknown_04: Apparently you can just lose. I guess I just didn't try every option.

3:01:05
Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: I just assumed there was no way through them, because why the fuck would there be if they don't talk to me?

Unknown_15: It's you again. What is it?

Unknown_04: I'm gonna get punched, and then I'm gonna eat something real quick. So establish authority. I can't.

3:01:36
Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: I've fucked myself to the point where I have to put a point into authority. Okay. Cool.

Unknown_04: Um. Let's max authority. I have items for this, right? I have items to lose authority.

Unknown_04: And that's it.

3:02:09
Unknown_15: It's you again. What is it?

Unknown_19: This time it's going to work. You already ruled out the first. Did you already try the gun thing? You're probably right. Okay, the grind.

Unknown_04: The game is hinting I should go for the gun thing.

Unknown_15: What in the name of fuck?

Unknown_15: Give me my gun. Easy, Shanks. I want to see where this is going.

Unknown_18: merely what be careful it's loaded good now put it in your mouth okay what are you doing genuine panic flies across the lieutenant's face we're doing this fellas you getting any of this

3:03:07
Unknown_15: These are my thoughts, this is my head.

Unknown_04: It is what it is. You'll never forget what happens.

3:03:40
Unknown_04: Fuckin this case up. We're on the trigger.

Unknown_18: Look at me. Don't worry This demonstration is not helping at all.

Unknown_04: So it sounds comes fucking serious Mechanism you can hear a spring tense it up.

Unknown_13: Yeah Because I sort of wanna see that shit You won't man.

Unknown_17: His fucking balls ain't big enough. I I can kill myself, or I can give them five seconds, but they're not gonna do that.

Unknown_04: Why don't we just give the gun back to the lieutenant?

3:04:13
Unknown_18: Thank you.

Unknown_18: Heh heh heh.

Unknown_04: The fucking war left me, I know it.

3:04:47
Unknown_04: Listen, you have to... You have to cock Carousel Max, I've learned this.

Unknown_04: Now I have to fucking leave morale again.

Unknown_01: I'm locked out again! I lost two morale and nothing fucking happened!

Unknown_04: Like, the game's fucking with me. I have to progress and I don't know what the fuck, like...

Unknown_04: I don't get it. I don't understand what it wants me to fucking do.

3:05:24
Unknown_04: I'm not supposed to take the gun?

Unknown_04: The window. What fucking window?

Unknown_04: What are you talking about?

Unknown_04: I'm gonna get something to eat. You guys are pissing me off. You better fucking tell me what to do at this point.

3:07:11
Unknown_04: It said that it won't tell me what to do. It said there's no hints and no information at all. I'm very obviously blocked by this. There's very obviously a path that wants me to take, but the path doesn't make any fucking sense. He just attempts to commit suicide in front of them and none of them give a fuck. So it's just, it doesn't make, it's like nonsense. It's like point and click adventure games. This is why I don't play point and click adventure games. Cause it's like, if the, if the solving the puzzle is like putting shoes on a ladder, that doesn't make any fucking sense. Where the fuck would I ever put shoes on a fucking ladder to solve a puzzle?

Unknown_19: This time it's going to work. You already... Why? This is not what... What in the... What the fuck is happening, Titus?

3:07:44
Unknown_15: Easy, Shinx. I want to see where this is going.

Unknown_19: Silence. He tilts his head to the side, inspecting you. A brief moment passes. Then... Be careful. It's loaded.

Unknown_19: Good. Now put it...

Unknown_04: There are no other options besides taking the gun.

3:08:15
Unknown_04: We'll do it again. Watch. I am the law.

Unknown_03: They're not going to give you anything. Can't you see? I can't have a police interrogation in here. People are trying... Of course it concerns me if you make this kind of... Easy, babes.

Unknown_15: What is this?

3:08:47
Unknown_19: We are deep, deep in farce territory. Everyone can see you picked some wrong options. Yeah, and then nothing happens. Next time you have to come up with better things to say.

Unknown_19: Look out the window. It's not time yet. It's not time yet.

Unknown_04: Mysterious door scene. What the fuck is this?

3:09:27
Unknown_04: I looked at this before and I did not get this fucking option. So now what?

Unknown_04: Like, now what? I have another white check that has a 3% success rate.

3:10:04
Unknown_04: And what the fuck does this mean? There's a door outside? What do I do with that?

Unknown_19: Nothing. Just black tangles like the hair of an old woman.

Unknown_04: Yeah, I know I can retry, but... And it says it's not timed yet, so what the fuck does that mean?

3:10:54
Unknown_04: I'm in this game... progresses based on events that happen in the game. If I stand here and do nothing, it will say 1319 forever, but there's nothing left to be done. I've gone to every person and tried every conversation, and I have not progressed the game more than 1 p.m. because nothing's happened.

3:11:35
Unknown_04: So is that really like the game? Is I'm just supposed to pull up the fucking clipboard and fuck around in it for an hour?

Unknown_04: Until it's night time and then I can do stuff? Because there's like seven hours left in the day. 28%, what the fuck does that mean?

Unknown_04: I can't retry it unless I save scum. Why the fuck would I do that?

Unknown_04: I've talked to everybody. I've talked to everybody in the entire fucking town. There's the racist. There's the lorry driver. There's the coked-out lorry driver. There's the Indian guy. I've talked to them. I've talked to the union boss. I've talked to the guy on the stairs. I've talked to the fucking measure head. The guy that was smoking on the cabinet. I just punched the kid. Like, I've talked to every single person in the whole fucking town, and none of them have any new dialogue on the next day.

3:12:07
Unknown_04: I can't talk to the girl upstairs. I can't get to her. She's on the roof. How the fuck do I get to the roof?

Unknown_04: The only thing I can think of is that I have to open the fridge, but I don't know how to open this door. I've checked everything on that too. I assume it comes later.

3:12:43
Unknown_04: So if it just cries about being gang, uh, about being, like, sexually harassed, I mean, I guess I can try talking to her.

Unknown_03: I haven't tried.

3:13:14
Unknown_04: I don't know why I quicksave. I think I just softlocked myself, because I don't have any more skill points left, because I put one into fucking authority. So now I can't reattempt the white one by putting it at skill points. You see a set of steering levers, a radio microphone, a pull-out toolbox.

Unknown_08: Just a second. Yes, hello? Oh, great.

Unknown_08: What else do you need, detectives?

Unknown_04: You didn't know about the paperwork in the trash.

Unknown_08: You tried to jam it down the toilet, sir. Clogging it completely. After I had unclogged the toilet and retrieved the paperwork, I threw it out in the trash, thinking you didn't need it.

3:13:52
Unknown_08: I am sorry about that.

Unknown_08: You hear the call.

Unknown_19: In the cabin.

Unknown_04: That needs a key that I don't have. Sylvie, or the...

Unknown_04: The other woman has the key, and she's up on the roof, and you can't open these doors, and there's no other chairs to get up there.

3:14:26
Unknown_04: There's nowhere to go from here to the roof.

Unknown_19: A mirror hangs on the bathroom...

Unknown_04: But why would I do that? Why would I deliberately try to waste time in the hours of the day? Like, is the progression of this game not supposed to be, like, timed? Like, the first day was timed. I didn't have to deliberately waste any time to get through the day.

3:14:59
Unknown_04: Does it actually want me just to fuck around? To, like, skip time? To go to sleep early? It doesn't feel right. It feels like I spent three hours stuck on something that I shouldn't be stuck on. Thank you.

3:16:03
Unknown_04: I just got supremely unlucky. Yeah, I'm always unlucky, bro. That's why I don't play games like this. If there's a rule for 88%, I'm going to fucking miss it.

Unknown_04: And like, Claude has no fucking idea either. Like, his suggestions just don't make sense.

Unknown_04: There is no fucking empathy check. It's like, oh, you can get around through empathy and logic. Then I can't. There's no fucking button for that.

3:16:39
Unknown_19: The beer's eyes are still glowing red. It's guarded.

Unknown_04: Okay, I'm safe.

Unknown_19: The beer's eyes are still glowing. Your arms reach out and your eyes close.

Unknown_04: Okay, so in the body and the fridge...

Unknown_19: It's dark all around.

Unknown_04: And I find something new. What is it?

Unknown_19: His face, his cheeks, his nose, his fat, swollen lips. Like a spider, your hand crawls over his features. Everything is silent.

3:17:14
Unknown_04: Crawl up his nostrils.

Unknown_19: They are swollen shut. You need to really push to get only the little one fits. The flesh changes shape as you bore in, searching for something in the cartilage. The thing you're looking for, it's not there.

Unknown_04: Okay. Check the mouth, I guess. I took a morality lesson. We checked his mouth.

Unknown_19: The oral cavity is cold and moist. A ball-like tongue attaches itself to the base of the mouth, lolling around like a scallop

3:17:50
Unknown_19: It's gonna kill me. I'm wearing gloves, actually.

Unknown_19: I see it.

3:18:35
Unknown_04: What's an abrasion collar?

Unknown_19: A black trickle of liquid runs into his throat from the wound.

Unknown_19: Ew. Your index fits right in there. A tight tunnel of flesh opens up. Tissue damage.

Unknown_04: Ew.

Unknown_19: Wide enough for two fingers. As you push both in, you reach through his mouth, right into his brain stem. Yes, that's what this part is called.

Unknown_04: the basal ganglia feels clumpy what entered here has torn apart his reptilian complex this man will never sleep again never wake your fingers slide into the remains of his limbic system there is no resistance to regulate his emotions with

3:19:26
Unknown_19: The lieutenant answers with the sound of his pen on paper. Your fingers are all the way in now, reaching toward the inside of his skull. The cavity helps me with my contemplations about taxes isn't wide enough for the rest of your hand to follow. Your fingers reach toward his skull. His cerebral cord. I might fish around this fucking head. The edges cut right into your skin.

Unknown_04: Interfacing EZ-90L is not going to fucking pass.

Unknown_19: There's a tiny crack, a protrusion in the cranium. The object that is in there stops just short of the skull in the encephalus, knocking this tiny fracture into the cranium.

3:20:06
Unknown_18: We have the makings of a very small exit wound here.

Unknown_04: There's a shot with a super tiny gun.

Unknown_18: Can you get to it?

Unknown_04: 92%. Oh, my God.

Unknown_19: You pick the object between your index and middle finger. It feels sharp, like metal. Good, good.

Unknown_19: The inside of the head feels cold and smooth. What is it?

3:20:41
Unknown_04: Is it a gun? Or a bullet?

Unknown_19: Covered in blood up to the wrist. Between your fingers, a small flower. A blossom made of lead. A bullet. A bullet.

Unknown_19: The bullet falls in the bag, leaving a smattering of blood on the plastic.

Unknown_18: A non-caliber rifle. Some kind of brittle alloy, fractured on impact.

Unknown_18: Of course, you've earned it.

3:21:14
Unknown_18: Looks like we need to add one more item to your injury list. Injury number four, ovulatory wound with an abrasion collar, soft palate, back of mouth, high velocity, temporary cavity in brain tissue, small exit wound on the occiput. How does that sound?

Unknown_18: Opinion, fatal injury.

Unknown_18: And one last thing, we can now fill in injury number three, ligament mark, opinion non-fatal, post-mortem, treatment.

Unknown_19: He's proposing the bullet was the real cause of death, and the hanging an attempt to conceal this fact.

3:21:54
Unknown_04: Yeah.

Unknown_18: Treatment, officer, is an attempt to manipulate the body after death, to hide the real cause with the false cause. This injury here.

Unknown_18: Yes. And the belt around his neck. The hanging. Even dragging him to the yard. All of it was done after this man was already dead. I have had my doubts since you showed me the tracks. Why did they carry him over? Why not march him, I thought. There was no satisfying explanation. There have been other signs, too. Small things. We were right not to assign hanging as cause of death.

3:22:26
Unknown_19: There is, of course, the very real possibility. He was both shot and hanged.

Unknown_04: That's dumb.

Unknown_04: But my logic is telling me that from a successful thought. Should I not go with that?

Unknown_04: Like, I would say that's fucking retarded. It doesn't make any fucking sense. But my logic is telling me in the game that that's a possibility.

Unknown_18: To put him out of his misery? It's possible, but it doesn't explain all the other dubious things here.

3:22:58
Unknown_04: I even propose that to me, if that's wrong.

Unknown_18: I may be intellectually sloppy, but I prefer one theory at a time. And this just smacks of treatment to me. Yes, we should take a closer look at it. I am certain it has more to tell us. This little thing could reveal much about the weapon that shot it. We bag the corpse and carry him to the holding pen of my kin Emma. I can transport him to processing myself, but I will be gone for the rest of the day. Work on the case. Tend to personal matters. Try not to do anything too dangerous. An officer needs backup in a neighborhood like this. I'll leave that choice to you. And one more thing.

3:23:32
Unknown_04: So now he's taken the body and I don't get the boots anyways. After you bag the corpse, Lieutenant Kitsuragi will leave the party until tomorrow morning.

Unknown_23: You can do side tasks and even the main case, but it might be more difficult. Plan his exit accordingly.

Unknown_04: You're going to be working overnight, buddy.

Unknown_19: Indirect modes of taxation.

3:24:07
Unknown_19: Turns out those four oversight committee gangsters ultra-liberal dialogue options give one real negative one thought to look Well, that's like the worst fucking thing ever That's awful That's like terrible

Unknown_04: And it costs a skill point to forget it. Okay.

Unknown_04: If I let him take the body now, I'll never get the fucking boots. I'll never get the fucking boots. I'll never get the fucking boots. I went back and I spent an hour and a half trying to set up the fucking thing, and I can't get the fucking boots still.

Unknown_04: There's nothing to do with the fucking Hardy Boys. I mean, I guess I can try. I can try to see if there's, like, a gun thing. Like, I know you fucking shot him.

3:25:05
Unknown_04: Check the window. Is there like a bullet hole in the fucking window?

Unknown_15: No.

Unknown_04: Which one of you has a very tiny, shitty fucking gun?

Unknown_04: A bullet, you say? That's mighty curious.

Unknown_18: It's bound to happen again, you know?

3:25:49
Unknown_13: Just statistically speaking, of course.

Unknown_19: Sire, it would be an event most dramatic if you were to produce the bullet and dangle it before their very eyes.

Unknown_04: Very good idea, Drama.

Unknown_20: Wow! He's got it in a real evidence bag and all!

Unknown_01: Why don't you go home and log it into evidence? These men have told you what happened.

Unknown_15: You know what I think? I think he was shot in the head as a kid. and his brain grew around the bullet.

Unknown_13: Around the bullet, man. That's a good one.

3:26:22
Unknown_19: All the goofing around is to avoid lying. It's a technique.

Unknown_17: Shit! I probably did shoot him. I was drunk last night. You guys know me when I'm drunk.

Unknown_20: Yeah, Glenn likes to shoot his guns when he's drunk. Better hope he stays sober.

Unknown_18: No, he meant before he was hanged. Did you shoot him before you hanged him?

Unknown_01: Before after during this is getting ridiculous. They told you what happened stop wasting your time Never been it's not like you blew it wide open, but there's a little crack in there somewhere Why isn't now 42% for them?

3:26:52
Unknown_04: Okay, I guess I'll try now It's you again, what is it?

Unknown_04: This shit's never going to fucking squirt, bro.

Unknown_19: What? I didn't even cheat.

Unknown_04: I guess that's what it is. Even if you have one authority, you're supposed to tease it out. You get one thing, and then you attempt it. You get one thing, and then you attempt it. You get one thing, and then you attempt it.

3:27:37
Unknown_19: You believe the place was called Precinct 41. It was also filled with, almost exclusively, men. Sitting on desks, talking shit, and wasting time.

Unknown_19: Oh.

Unknown_04: You're just like real cops drinking beer with your dicks in your hand. You got a problem with beer now.

3:28:09
Unknown_19: Not quite there yet. Push on.

Unknown_04: I'm drunk on the job, too. I don't give a shit. I'm just like you guys. I'm also a big fan of beer and jerking off instead of helping people. Or I have a beer problem, but not a problem with beer. I also have no idea how to do my job, just like you. That's pretty accurate.

Unknown_15: Speak for yourself, buddy. I've been running this outfit for ten years now. You should have seen Martinet's before it started. It was like jam rock now.

3:28:44
Unknown_02: They didn't see shit, man.

Unknown_02: Kids getting shot. We had three shootings a week. Fucking graffito everywhere. Why do they call it graffito? That's so stupid.

Unknown_18: Congratulations on the graffito removal.

Unknown_18: All I see is you sitting around talking about Monica's titties while there's a rape. Who the fuck is Monica?

Unknown_04: Why are they talking about her titties?

Unknown_15: So what? What do you want from me? We took care of that fuck.

Unknown_19: Tytos?

3:29:26
Unknown_04: As I said about the victim and now Elizabeth is like trying to tell Titus not to be a retard.

Unknown_19: She stops mid-sentence. That's it. You got him. He's going to give it up. But on his terms.

Unknown_15: You want to help her cop? Fine. I'm going to let you help her. But you treat her with respect.

Unknown_04: Graffito is singular. That's retarded. If you don't. This game was developed by somebody who had, like, an autistic fixation on, um, language, like, Tolkien. But not in, like, the fun Tolkien way, but, like, in an autistic, like, Oh, wee wee, the languages of the universe are so different and so distinct. It would be wonderful if our language was a universal language where everything was mixed together in a fine puree. Where one ends and the other begins is a mystery of etymology. That's fucking gay!

3:30:08
Unknown_18: What is her name?

Unknown_15: Wow. Who would have thought about it? I think I called her the rape girl like eight fucking times.

3:31:06
Unknown_04: Keep your cool. This is a red check.

Unknown_19: You inexplicably add cool after the victim's name, with your eyes bulging like some wild beast. Your fingers are fidgeting and sweat starts forming on your brow as Titus looks at you oddly.

Unknown_04: Fuck you. Your mother. What was her relationship with the mercenary?

Unknown_18: Didn't sound like they had any.

Unknown_04: I know her.

3:31:47
Unknown_18: How well do you know her? A small twitch in the corner of Kim's mouth.

Unknown_19: He has a hunch about what knowing means.

Unknown_04: That was an old expression in English. People would say that they knew each other if they were fucking.

Unknown_15: You mean Revachol? Nah, she's an immigrant or a drifter of some sort. Been staying here. Yeah, in the biblical sense. That's right.

3:32:21
Unknown_17: Don't you give her any more trouble. She's just had some bad luck. That's all. Shut up, Angie. She doesn't need your help.

Unknown_19: Titus gives them both a look. They fall silent.

Unknown_04: I think I laugh nervously. I think I know her. It's not appropriate.

3:32:52
Unknown_15: We did it before we killed him. He's not going to do it again. So what does it matter?

Unknown_18: It would help if we establish a timeline.

Unknown_15: All right. Two weeks, maybe. I don't know. I need another beer. Here you go, boss.

Unknown_15: Relationship? There was no fucking relationship. He raped her. That's their relationship.

Unknown_20: Was like that karaoke incident all over again. Or like some of the other girls he was harassing.

Unknown_01: Okay, enough.

3:33:25
Unknown_01: All of this is irrelevant to your stated investigation.

Unknown_15: Remember what I said, Freight.

Unknown_04: Okay, can I like completely delete this shit?

Unknown_04: I'm so angry that it's gonna cost me a skill point to get rid of this.

Unknown_04: I have to spend a skill point to get rid of this. I can't even pay a skill point to replace it with something.

Unknown_04: Or just deal with having fucked up empathy for the entire fucking game, which is one of the most important skills for the entire fucking game. So what do I do now? I don't wanna talk to her, where the fuck do I go?

3:34:02
Unknown_19: Unless she's on the fucking roof and there's no way up to the fucking roof.

Unknown_18: I didn't rape her. Okay, that's very funny.

3:34:42
Unknown_18: So she overheard you, or did you party together?

Unknown_04: She overheard me listening to music and doing weird things from her room. That's the one next to her. Anything else? I didn't rape her.

Unknown_04: Uh... That's manageable.

Unknown_18: Understood. You were not in good shape on Monday. We'll be all right, officer. Is it, though? Nothing? You're... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Unknown_04: I'm not picking the I didn't rape her one. That's fucking weird.

3:35:19
Unknown_04: Knock knock.

Unknown_23: Who is it? Tired.

Unknown_18: Controlled. This is the police. Can we come in?

Unknown_23: Come on up. The door is open.

Unknown_19: Sounds like it's coming from upstairs somewhere. You could snoop around before going up.

Unknown_04: Snoop.

Unknown_04: Snoop Dogg.

Unknown_04: There's like panties on the stairwell.

Unknown_04: And she just has a massive pile of stairs there.

3:35:53
Unknown_04: She just hears me rummaging around her fucking room.

Unknown_19: This medicine cabinet is full of wares. Sheet pharmaceuticals line the shelves. Sheet upon sheet of pill bottle next to pill bottle. Pill bottles rattle like bones as you search the cabinet. Paracetamol. Histoperidol. Something in a foreign language you can't read. Behind them, an unusually shaped nasal spray. Nacra. This is used to treat opioid overdoses. Always handy to have around.

Unknown_04: Like Narcan. Interesting. It's an anagram of Narcan. Kind of.

3:36:26
Unknown_19: You could say he's on the lookout. Among some foreign, probably Mycenaean or Godvaldian, marked red blister packs you find. What do you find? This is going to take a little know-how.

Unknown_19: a bright orange with peptide stamped on it in sunny happy letters Jackpot, baby. Like an abortion pill? Your palms begin to sweat, just as your chest swells with pride. Look, it's made right here in Revachol, by San Batiste. A proud Revacholian pharmaceutical company with great traditions.

3:36:57
Unknown_19: Preptide. A euphemism for pharmaceutical amphetamine.

Unknown_18: Prescription speed. The fuck are you waiting for?

Unknown_19: Let's get super fucking preppy.

Unknown_04: No, shut up electrochemistry.

3:37:29
Unknown_04: Take it in secret. Told Kim about it, sweaty hands.

Unknown_04: Sweaty hand.

Unknown_04: Hastily made bed, huh?

Unknown_19: This window is pristine on the inside, unlike the one next to it. Light from the desk lamp smooth as ice. Following your lead, the lieutenant leans in closer to inspect the surface. Looks like it, yes.

3:38:03
Unknown_04: Okay, the window was replaced. There's a mat here. I'm just gonna check under the mat. Oh, anyway.

Unknown_19: The same small, heavy door. Kick the door in.

Unknown_04: I'm an anti-object task force initiated. Okay.

Unknown_18: I don't know. It is not the first closed door we found in this building. I don't know.

Unknown_19: Below, the hostile cafeteria creaks and groans under your added weight. A dull thump. Somewhere inside, a wind brace rattles from the imperceptible motion of the building.

3:38:34
Unknown_04: Maybe while we're just standing here in front of her.

Unknown_19: Okay, I'm not gonna do that because I'll kill myself in the process.

Unknown_04: Check this. Okay. Let's have the rape confrontation. What's this?

Unknown_04: A handful of wildflowers. Snatch them, quickly!

Unknown_19: What? !

3:39:14
Unknown_04: This is bullshit.

Unknown_23: Welcome to the roof.

Unknown_04: I tried and I failed.

Unknown_04: Okay, Miss Orange Disco Dancer says welcome to the roof.

Unknown_19: Her hair is still slick from the shower.

Unknown_04: She's also standing out in the fucking rain. That could also make her hair wet.

Unknown_23: I'm sorry for the mess down there. The cleaning lady hasn't come by in days. Okay, voice actress, you have to sound like you've been raped.

Unknown_04: I'm beginning to wonder if she ever will. Can we pull that one off?

Unknown_04: She's like, oh yeah, I'm a liberal arts major for sure. I can pull that off.

3:39:48
Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: Nice view. Is there a cleaning lady? I think you need one politely. No time for pleasantries. So let's go for nice views. It's much nicer now.

Unknown_19: Where the dead body used to hang. Clearly visible from the roof.

Unknown_23: Thank you for that officers. Truly.

Unknown_04: You're very welcome.

Unknown_04: You mentioned the cleaning. Why is this like the nice way to proceed?

Unknown_23: Oh, yes. Legends of room number one have made their way around the building. They say a portal to hell has opened in there.

3:40:20
Unknown_04: These are very Reddit options.

Unknown_04: No, I just trashed the place. I know.

Unknown_23: That's probably also why the cleaning lady quit.

Unknown_04: Wow.

Unknown_18: I'm Kim Kitsuragi. I'm a detective from prison 57. I believe you have already met my colleague from prison 41.

Unknown_23: Have I ever? This is the biggest fan of ostentatious orchestrations I have seen in my life.

3:40:54
Unknown_23: And I have seen a few. Oh yeah. Life gets hard, but we go on.

Unknown_04: You, lady, try as you might, you will never be. Oh God, what's her fucking name?

Unknown_04: It's the same actress that plays Bellatrix and is in Fight Club. She has that line, gotta get, need to get off of this merry-go-round. What's her name in Fight Club? I forgot.

3:41:26
Unknown_04: Sounds like me, I don't think so.

Unknown_04: She's probably high on fent. That's true. She's an opioid addict.

Unknown_19: No, not her real name.

Unknown_04: What's the name of her actress and, uh, of her character in Fight Club? Marla Singer! How could I forget? How could I forget Marla Singer?

Unknown_04: Insanity. Embarrassing.

Unknown_04: Um...

Unknown_04: Things are only going to get easier for me. I'm a policeman.

3:42:14
Unknown_04: It's such like melancholy music. Cause it's like a big confrontation, but I can say like the dumbest shit ever.

Unknown_18: Is not actually what a police siren sounds like fuck you Kim miss cock block Investigating the murder of the man down there the people who put him there have asked us to talk to you Huh, I see Okay, what is your name nice room you've got here they tell us you were raped I

3:42:50
Unknown_23: Let's go.

Unknown_19: Same name that Titus gave you. It sounds Oranese, as does her accent. Her birthmarks also signal Oranye. You don't know why, but Oranese girls tend to come speckled with them.

Unknown_04: Yeah.

Unknown_04: Are you from...

Unknown_23: Right, sir. Vredefort. Republic of Oranye.

Unknown_23: I guess you could say I am an Oranese expatriate.

Unknown_19: Wasn't the tattoo on the hanged man an Oranese map of the waterways?

3:43:25
Unknown_04: It's probably Dutch, because if I remember correctly, the monarchists from Netherlands are called Orange. And I don't know why I know that, but they're the Orangists, I think.

Unknown_04: Uh, probably the European Universalist Force is why I know that one.

Unknown_23: A bad memory, officer.

Unknown_19: The Republic of Oranje is a democratic nation on the Mwindi Isola north. They will make you into a fiscal colony. Divert your natural resources.

Unknown_23: Of lilacs and lightning, parks, glass, duraluminium.

3:44:04
Unknown_23: Predefort is a conference city. It's always autumn there.

Unknown_23: At night, at least it was for me.

Unknown_18: What are you talking about?

Unknown_23: Nothing. If you're no longer there.

Unknown_04: How old are you? Never ask a woman. As a esoteric feminist, never ask a woman that.

Unknown_23: Something stupid. Oranis lit.

Unknown_04: Oh, that is embarrassing. She is a liberal arts major. I got her fucking pegged.

Unknown_23: Oranis literature. It's what I studied at the university.

3:44:36
Unknown_23: Fear of failure, fear of death, how it sucks to be at our knees.

Unknown_23: All national literatures are... Only the name of the nation changes.

Unknown_23: Nothing. I do nothing with it.

Unknown_04: How do you make... How do you make money, then? Money is very important.

Unknown_04: Show her money.

3:45:13
Unknown_23: I've made more money by just being than I have with Ranizlet.

Unknown_04: Being what? A hoe?

Unknown_23: Many things. A roller skating instructor. A secretary. Miss Ranier 37.

Unknown_19: Of course she won a beauty pageant. She's very symmetrical.

Unknown_04: Is that an important quality?

Unknown_04: her freckles symmetrical you want to mention that visual calculus we take a look at your passport i'm afraid you can't officer why is that because it's buried in a sealed plastic bag at an undisclosed location on the coast along with cash and airline tickets thank you for your kinder why i say so in your tourist brochure keep travel documents away from your person when west of the river

3:46:07
Unknown_04: We might not want to bury it on the beach because the beach sends a shift.

Unknown_23: Okie dokie.

Unknown_23: The record. So official.

Unknown_04: Okay. We got to just pull the bandaid off. They tell us you were raped.

Unknown_23: It's a bit early in the morning for rape, isn't it?

Unknown_04: It's actually two and a half hours into the, it's actually 2.30 in the afternoon because I've been trying to do the fucking authoritarian white challenge for like the last six fucking hours. Literally for three hours and 45 minutes straight. So, actually it's already afternoon. You know what? Is it? Perfect. That's exactly what I wanted to say.

3:46:40
Unknown_04: Yes.

Unknown_23: It is afternoon.

Unknown_23: Time flies, man.

Unknown_04: So you were. Yeah.

Unknown_23: I'm going to go with not raped. I don't want to say that shit about him.

Unknown_04: Well, are you implying that raped is like an achievement? But if you deny, if you were just forcefully sex, that's somehow less of an accomplishment or some shit.

Unknown_19: She must mean the victim.

3:47:17
Unknown_23: Tell them it's not my style. They'll have to, you know, if they want to jazz up the charges, they'll have to get someone more rapable.

Unknown_04: She's not rapable. She's not rapable. Her face is symmetrical. I don't know.

Unknown_04: I think my visual acuity had a different determination here.

Unknown_19: Yeah, I got that.

Unknown_18: It's actually a...

3:47:56
Unknown_04: It's actually a misunderstanding that only attractive women are raped. Rape is a crime of opportunity. I'm an esoteric feminist, so I can explain these things. Okay. Sexual assault, maybe.

Unknown_04: So she was molested, but she's refusing to say raped. I understand. That's pretty lynchable, though, regardless. Someone molested somebody I care about, I wouldn't quibble over if it was a full-blown rape or just a little bit of SA. Titus asks you to spice things up for us. Are you sure you weren't raped?

3:48:33
Unknown_04: What did happen? We partied. We partied.

Unknown_04: What kind of partying? Point to your bloated face, the kind that I do.

Unknown_23: With all due respect, sir, I think we partied a little harder than that.

Unknown_04: That's pretty fucking harder. No one parties harder than this. Keep pointing to face.

Unknown_23: Please. You're alive in 50. I've known people who party so hard they're dead at 14. What no one does on your level is hitting the repeat button. I'll give you that. And maybe room trashing.

3:49:06
Unknown_18: What did you do when you partied?

Unknown_23: We drank, sir, a lot. For weeks, basically.

Unknown_23: We had that effect on each other. Oh, you want to talk about my fucking repeat like this?

Unknown_04: We each other drank harder.

Unknown_23: That's why I liked him.

Unknown_18: What else?

Unknown_23: Stimulants. Speed also has that effect, making you drink harder. And then drinking harder makes you do more speed. It's quite the combination.

3:49:40
Unknown_04: She said it's true. I'm scaring the hose.

Unknown_04: It must have been hard for you seeing him there. That's pretty classy.

Unknown_23: Yes.

Unknown_23: I've had a great view from the roof out of the bathroom window in my dreams.

Unknown_19: Bitter cringe. It hurts. You look to the lieutenant.

3:50:13
Unknown_18: You called us, the RCM.

Unknown_23: Yes.

Unknown_18: Mm, she was the rat.

Unknown_04: Jackpot.

Unknown_23: I made it. And I would appreciate it if you didn't tell everyone. In Martinese, they call it snitching.

Unknown_18: Reporting crimes is confidential in Ravachol, miss.

3:50:45
Unknown_23: Because I couldn't handle it anymore.

Unknown_23: I didn't exactly disguise it. I just muffled the mic and nicked the landline a little. With nail clippers.

Unknown_23: And I diverted some radio fuzz into it. Into the cold wire.

Unknown_19: So that's why the phone is out of order. She tampered with the whirling landline. To crime.

Unknown_23: Did I?

Unknown_23: Fuck. I didn't mean to. I had no idea what I was doing.

Unknown_19: Jigsaw falling into place. This is satisfying. Good catch. I appreciate the symmetry.

3:51:17
Unknown_19: Still, that's pretty clever tampering. Simple and clever. Crossing the lines like that.

Unknown_23: Thanks.

Unknown_19: She looks a bit like a little girl who's just been complimented on her bike repair skills.

Unknown_23: I don't know, sir. It was stupid. I was drunk too. I was probably afraid the Union was listening in. Locals say they have ears in the wires.

3:51:51
Unknown_18: Thank you for making the call, miss. It was the right thing to do.

Unknown_23: I didn't want to, sir. But if I hadn't, you'd still be hanging there.

Unknown_04: What did they hang for?

Unknown_04: Why was there a bullet in his head? Bullet?

Unknown_04: They shot him too?

Unknown_19: I'm not picking up on any theater craft here, sir. The pause is sincere.

Unknown_23: They stripped his clothes and they shot him?

Unknown_18: You mean after they hanged him?

Unknown_23: I'm confused. Sorry.

3:52:23
Unknown_18: So am I. Were you aware that he had also been shot, miss?

Unknown_23: Things are starting to go a little over my head here. I thought he was hanged.

Unknown_23: I was not present when they did it. I don't know what happened. I just know what they told me and Sylvie, the bartender.

Unknown_19: This is beginning to get confusing for you too. And we don't like that. Where was she last Sunday night?

Unknown_23: Cowering.

Unknown_23: I was cowering downstairs with Sylvie.

3:52:56
Unknown_04: Did the union boys just hang him because they had a breakup?

Unknown_23: They're frequent guests. Downstairs? They have a booth for Union members. They're probably down there now. Over drinks? It's been a long, boring winter.

Unknown_23: A little, yeah.

Unknown_18: Like you partied with the deceased?

Unknown_23: No. Not as hard.

Unknown_18: I'm sorry to have to ask this, but have you had a physical relationship with any of the Hardy Boys?

Unknown_23: I have.

Unknown_23: Which ones, sir?

3:53:32
Unknown_23: I don't remember precisely. He's fucked them all. Even the black ones, miss.

Unknown_04: I am sorry to ask, but even the black ones.

Unknown_04: He has the notepad out, looking up, pausing.

Unknown_04: Okay, what did they hang him for, if not...

Unknown_04: let me ask this question i'm sorry i can't do it not right now later maybe i know it's difficult miss we can return to it he had something to do with the strike one has been roiling since i got here rotten timing but you probably know all about it and his role in the strike was

3:54:20
Unknown_23: It's crazy. How could you ever take the side of the Union in this fucking game? I don't understand. You have to be like a true communist freak to be like, yeah, these guys are the good ones.

Unknown_04: Sure, they're making up shit about rape, killing people's lovers, blaming it on them, but the fact is that they're overthrowing the bourgeois. They have boats, and I don't, and that upsets me greatly.

3:54:53
Unknown_04: I know that communist freaks made this, which is why it's so weird that they made the Union so obviously evil.

Unknown_04: It's like... the only thing I can think of is that they had to make the union evil because they just assumed that anybody playing this would automatically side with the, the union and they would have to, they have to work really hard to make the union, not the obvious choice of what to play as because they're just so obviously good. Cause they're, they are a union after all. So it's like they had to, like they were operating from that kind of perspective.

3:55:26
Unknown_04: Um,

Unknown_23: Pretty much.

Unknown_04: Warming them.

Unknown_23: I'm 89% sure.

Unknown_04: I mean, you're 11% not sure. I mean, that's how it goes with this game. You know how it is. Do you? Do you?

Unknown_23: Hmm. Maybe you don't.

Unknown_19: There are numerous cigarette burns on those silvery scales. Easy to see now that you're closer.

3:56:03
Unknown_23: In conclusion, officer... I'm going to go with a mild to medium, not right here.

Unknown_04: Sexual assault is a serious matter. It sounds like something happened and you don't want to acknowledge it.

Unknown_23: Let me make this 100% clear then, officer. I was not sexually assaulted.

Unknown_04: Thank you for clearing the fucking record. I was flippant if I had been.

Unknown_04: Yes? No? So you cope with it? I don't fucking know.

Unknown_04: I'm an esoteric feminist, not a fucking psychologist.

Unknown_19: She breathes a silvery sigh of relief and weariness. The air on the roof feels humid. Yeah, because it's raining.

3:56:38
Unknown_18: We may have things to discuss there.

Unknown_18: Wait a moment.

Unknown_04: What? I had something else before we go a little thing. Why is reaction speed telling me to do this?

Unknown_19: Silvery cigarette fumes disappear into her mouth.

Unknown_04: Um, yeah, it's pretty deluxe.

Unknown_18: What are you doing here? How long have you been staying here?

Unknown_23: About four months. Here in the Whirling, here in Martinet's, or here in Ravachon. I always wanted to see the only city in the world in the worst time of the year. The only city in the world.

3:57:12
Unknown_04: It's a tourist thing.

Unknown_19: This is by far not the only reason she's here. And she isn't really hiding it either.

Unknown_04: You have a lot of drugs in us.

Unknown_23: I've put a lot of time and effort into it.

Unknown_19: Technically, possession of narcotics is legal in Ravachon, but you should still reprimand her.

Unknown_04: Narcomania? I mean, you're a bit of a fucking hypocrite if you say that.

3:57:47
Unknown_23: What did you say?

Unknown_23: Oh, my God. Now it's turning into Narcomania. It's got to be serious if it's two words.

Unknown_04: Actually, it's actually one word. It's a combination.

Unknown_23: I'm sorry.

Unknown_23: Comes in handy when you've done too many opioids.

Unknown_18: Yeah, I bet it would. Is that something that happens to you often, miss?

Unknown_23: Better safe than sorry.

Unknown_23: Oh, yes. One of my favorites. It cures many ailments.

3:58:18
Unknown_04: Like being late?

Unknown_23: Like not being able to stay up for 36 hours. Not being happy. It cures those ailments. You sound like you could use some at this point in time. It's just a merit speed molecule, basically. Very funky.

Unknown_23: I have no idea, officer. It is.

Unknown_19: The lieutenant makes a note in his notebook.

Unknown_23: okay watching herself reflected in the bedroom window tall and sparkling and draped in smoke volition to slight confusion about the bullet look into her eye soft white brown eyes look back at you directly into the space behind your eye sockets you see the smoke rise from between lips she's beautiful

3:59:06
Unknown_04: Calm down, Volition.

Unknown_19: I have bad news for you. What? You know these guys? What guys? Me.

Unknown_04: Oh no.

Unknown_19: Yes, you. He's talking about you.

Unknown_04: Oh no. My humors are having an argument.

Unknown_19: You too.

Unknown_19: Me? What did I do? I'm merely a master thespian. These guys are compromised. She's got them singing along to her tune. The little bleeps and bloops you trust for info, you can't trust them anymore.

Unknown_04: Volition, I trust nobody but you, sir.

3:59:39
Unknown_19: Believe it.

Unknown_19: There's no way of knowing. At the moment, I'm afraid it's best to assume.

Unknown_19: All...

Unknown_19: yes mr thespian here has been singing peons to how truthful she is she did it she killed him she is a lady most fair and just In his defense, to reduce such inadequacy, he probably had to employ half-truths more often than outright lies.

4:00:12
Unknown_19: That is correct. And omissions, too.

Unknown_04: A little.

Unknown_19: They're all still of limited use, interpreting things to the best of their ability. Maybe they add flair or something. I wouldn't know. But when it comes to assessments of character and factual accuracy, they are not to be trusted. Not with her. Don't be melodramatic. You can trust them. Just not with Miss Orange Disco Dancer here.

4:00:46
Unknown_04: My volition is also wizened to esoteric feminism. This is what they don't teach you. Once you've had enough esoteric feminism, you can suss out the hose.

Unknown_19: A light green speck and imperfection on the outer rim of her right iris. It sparkles. If you don't have esoteric feminism, you look at the Twitter thoughts, you're like, tee hee, I'm a trad calf and I love being rape meat and having nine trillion kids.

Unknown_04: But then you know that she's been blacked. Once you have the esoteric feminism, you can just look into her mind's eye like that and say like, yeah, you've been blacked. Something wrong with you.

Unknown_19: You can't draw a sound conclusion. The one who usually does says.

4:01:21
Unknown_19: She may want to control the information rollout. Not to become a suspect.

Unknown_04: Logic, you've already fucked us up. She may have a past.

Unknown_19: She's escaping. Unrelated to this case. You doubt it's something true.

Unknown_04: No, you're wrong.

Unknown_19: See?

Unknown_19: It's oddly moderate. Probably compromised.

Unknown_04: It is compromised.

Unknown_19: How it always does. Through subtlety. There's nothing you can do about it. You are how you are. And she is how she is. Think. No.

4:01:54
Unknown_19: It's better to know you're being played than to be played without knowing it. Is it not? Don't worry. It's only been four or five seconds. You've got this.

Unknown_04: I got you. It's time to say it. Press her.

Unknown_19: The silence broken. She exhales a little cloud of smoke and says, God, no.

Unknown_04: Oh.

Unknown_04: Sneeden45 says, at best you won't get any pizza, bish. Suffabish. Dude, I ate too much today already. There's no pizza. Streaming for six hours is probably a benefit to my diet at this point.

4:02:27
Unknown_04: Okay. I think that's all. Why not?

Unknown_23: I'll be here until 11pm. Drinking coffee, most likely.

Unknown_19: Revachonian Nationhood.

Unknown_19: The Revacholian state will be a serene place. You should get a drink. A beautiful serene place of mystery and peace.

4:02:59
Unknown_19: It will not be a place for wi- Revacholian nationhood is like, dude, these fucking commies.

Unknown_04: If you take the fascism perk, you get permanent damage to morale.

Unknown_04: because it's like an alcoholistic dude we're fags that's gay if you talk about fascism after getting the fascist perk you take morale damage and you have uh an alcohol benefit dude i honestly want to cheat to get rid of this like it's bullshit these are both horrific

4:03:52
Unknown_04: Like I spent two skill points to unlock these and then I have to spend two more skill points to remove them.

Unknown_04: Like what?

Unknown_04: Yeah, but I have to spend a skill point to remove them.

Unknown_04: Oh, it heals from doing that.

Unknown_04: Okay, that's not so bad, then.

Unknown_04: This I would like to get rid of, though. This is, like, complete bullshit.

4:04:42
Unknown_19: You made the right call there.

Unknown_19: It feels good. Pure.

Unknown_19: I'm talking about your zero-tolerance policy toward the mania of narco. You're in the right there. Powerful stance. Would you? Yes. You're pure. Unravaged by Narco. Of course. It's pretty obvious. You've done a lot of drugs in the past that will probably do more in the future, but that doesn't matter. Of course not. You've always been anti-narco militant material. You kept her off a dark course with that interjection. Are you ready to save lives?

4:05:17
Unknown_04: I just say that aloud. I'm ready to start saving lives.

Unknown_04: He does not have any narcotics on him.

Unknown_04: What does this one do? Opioid receptor antagonist. Research bonus, negative two to electrochemistry. Research is in five minutes. Is this one based? You guys have to help me, because apparently these are fucking bullshit. I'm so pissed. What the fuck, do you mean I have to spend a permanent skill point to undo something?

4:05:52
Unknown_04: Like I already wasted is wasting nine in game hours, not sufficient for the fucking purposes of, of a resource expense for this skill. That's just like a fucking joke.

Unknown_04: My game's broken.

Unknown_04: It's like completely fucking broken.

Unknown_04: If I go inside, it'll reset the camera.

Unknown_04: No, it's broken. Okay.

4:06:29
Unknown_04: There we go. Hmm.

Unknown_18: So you said to her, what did you mean by it?

4:07:01
Unknown_04: She has half my skill set compromising her tune. My assessments of her are untrustworthy. She seems forthcoming to me.

Unknown_18: Usually so. Being forthcoming with some things is a good way to obscure other things. But I wouldn't call myself compromised.

Unknown_18: I am not easily swayed by young women. Oh, no, he's gay. The best liars are candid. Anyway, we should. He's an asexual autistic.

Unknown_04: Can't believe Kim just came out to me as an asexual.

4:07:44
Unknown_04: Is it true? So he's trying.

Unknown_04: Maybe.

Unknown_15: It's you again. What is it?

Unknown_15: I knew that fucking whore couldn't be trusted. Wow, manners.

Unknown_01: For the record, Titus Hardy did not explicitly specify the victim as a whore, nor did he say anything about trusting her.

4:08:20
Unknown_15: Shut up. Oh, shut up and stay out of this, Liz. He was out of his fucking mind. You have no idea.

Unknown_04: Every time I say shut up, somebody, the character of me, this has happened twice now.

Unknown_13: She's just in denial, asshole. You don't understand the traumatic experience. She's checking down, and she doesn't fucking trust you.

Unknown_04: There's an esoteric feminist. Yeah, she's crazy, you know.

Unknown_20: A crazy bitch. You know the type.

4:08:51
Unknown_20: She's fucked up.

Unknown_04: So her testimony is untrustworthy for the prosecution summary execution of a man. This is a diversion.

Unknown_19: Stay on track.

Unknown_04: Yeah, she's crazy.

Unknown_15: Lawman, I'm at the end of my goddamn rope with you. I fucking told you not to push her. And you went and pushed her.

Unknown_15: I am gonna fucking hit you.

4:09:23
Unknown_19: Reaction speed.

Unknown_01: Titus Hardy.

Unknown_19: Oh, no.

Unknown_01: Everard personally sent me to take care of this.

Unknown_01: If this goes south, we'll all be in the shit.

Unknown_01: But you, Titus Hardy, are going to be buried. Am I understood?

Unknown_19: When she's angry, she emphasizes the S. It gives her voice a strangely hypnotic quality. Her lips barely...

Unknown_04: It's like she is so labored trying to speak because they gave her this instruction.

4:09:56
Unknown_13: I love the logic guy.

Unknown_04: LogicGuy is the most OP, except for the time that he simped. We have to admit that Logic, he simped that one time, but you can't blame him. It all made sense. It was all very logical up until it wasn't.

4:10:28
Unknown_04: It happens to the best of us.

Unknown_15: You think we go into this shit deaf and dumb. You RCM aren't the only ones who know how to bug people. There's no university degree for that.

Unknown_04: No, I don't like reaction speeds. I like the picture. I like the logic picture. I think Half Light has the best picture. It's really scary looking.

4:11:04
Unknown_18: Understood. You've listened in on their communications. It's true.

Unknown_15: Volition is underrated.

Unknown_15: Since way before their chief started taking swing lessons, things got nice and quiet after that.

Unknown_20: It's not advanced. You just hold up in a coop all day, writing down what they say.

Unknown_17: It gets hot as hell in there.

Unknown_15: Don't put yourself down, Angus. It's important work.

Unknown_02: Yeah, man. You're like a radio genius or something. Those notes are some in-depth stuff. Indexes and shit.

4:11:36
Unknown_15: Don't forget your tape, lawman. Compliments of Titus Hardy you do that.

Unknown_15: Oh And keep it. Maybe you'll need a reminder of human ugliness someday.

Unknown_04: I Know there's a record player in the antique shop Are you selling it calling me sire are you a drama I

4:12:15
Unknown_04: Drum always says sire.

Unknown_19: Typical Martinet street lights.

Unknown_04: That was this up here.

Unknown_19: Can I play a tape on one of the boomboxes real quick? Give me a discount.

4:12:57
Unknown_11: I do have to keep the lights on, man.

Unknown_19: Remember, he doesn't like music. He likes sounds. The door gunner megamix is his type of tape. Certainly, it'd give you a discount if he knew you'd play something so experimental.

Unknown_04: Exceptionalization came in clutch. Careful.

Unknown_19: You can only do this once.

Unknown_11: for real is offensively low but just this once for the music concrete cop and here you are quality sound reproduction on the go okay let's do it fractured bullet

4:13:45
Unknown_04: The door gun.

Unknown_19: The porter reel is just what you needed. The reels attach to the apparatus with a satisfying click. The tape... Push. Commands set. And the tape starts spinning.

Unknown_19: Violent...

Unknown_17: This isn't Revachar. This is a fucking village. I can almost see the elephants.

Unknown_18: The harbor.

Unknown_18: That's the son of a kvalsoom crane.

Unknown_17: When this shit is done, I'm gonna tear that place up. Soldier of the apocalypse style. Kill shit. Dogs and chickens too.

4:14:19
Unknown_14: Gonna run a room, Cordy. A real nice room.

Unknown_17: I don't give a shit.

Unknown_14: I'm fucking done. I'm done mentally.

Unknown_17: I'll fucking do them all in. Rape that disco cunt on the counter. You know, the dance whore upstairs. Do it kohai style.

Unknown_17: Never did get that taste out of my mouth.

4:14:55
Unknown_19: The lieutenant presses the button marked ARETE on your portareal. The tape stops spinning.

Unknown_18: Oh... Indeed, but...

Unknown_18: French is such an ugly language. You can just hear the air in his nostrils.

4:15:36
Unknown_18: A village on the Samaran Isola, in South Saffray. Grad committed war crimes there, the kind of thing he talks about.

Unknown_19: The South Saffray conflict is an ongoing proxy war between Grad and Saffray. It has been hot for twelve years, with the atrocities piling on, mostly committed by the Grad.

Unknown_18: Who knows? Maybe the tattoos would have an answer. We would need to know the story of this man's service.

Unknown_19: A symbol of Soldier of the Apocalypse-style conduct in a civil environment.

4:16:11
Unknown_18: I think we've got a few more questions for Class here, don't you?

Unknown_04: This seems to contradict her testimony, at least to some degree.

Unknown_04: There was that time that Scarlett Hampton went to... Ralph was telling this story and it was so bizarre about how... Oh no, it was a video that they were streaming. She went inside to go get drugs and she said it would take a couple minutes and Ralph was obviously very angry because it was very obvious that she wanted to give a blowjob for drugs or something. And he just sat there in the car looking really, really pissed off the entire time.

4:16:45
Unknown_23: officer what brings you up here in the rain she puts her coffee cup down with a soft ring as the porcelain meets the metal table did he i never said he was a good man or that he had good intentions only that he was never bad to me a while ago but it definitely happened she doesn't care if anything she sounds amused

4:17:45
Unknown_23: Where did they get this recording exactly?

Unknown_18: It's intercepted radio chatter of the deceased. Recorded via the encryption station. It's authentic enough.

Unknown_23: Does he say he's gonna do it Soldier of the Apocalypse style?

Unknown_04: Yes.

Unknown_23: Yeah.

Unknown_08: That was practically his pickup line.

Unknown_23: Did he say whores a lot?

Unknown_23: Was he pretty much on the verge of doing it Coholy style?

Unknown_23: He liked the way it sounded when he said it.

Unknown_23: As to Khohoi, he wasn't actually there.

4:18:19
Unknown_23: He didn't do a tour, or at least didn't tell me he did.

Unknown_23: Would have been overkill anyway. He lived his own little Khohoi.

Unknown_23: It wasn't his everything.

Unknown_18: It's a weird thing to say. Yes. Was he bragging?

Unknown_23: Oh, no, I'm pretty sure he did all those things, then integrated them into his idea of normalcy to keep on living until they just sort of turn into his.

Unknown_23: What's the word I'm looking for?

Unknown_19: She's quite observant about the human character, trained to observe even.

4:18:56
Unknown_04: You're a liar.

Unknown_23: Running joke. I was gonna say running joke. And it sounds like you didn't even get the good bits. Leli's punchlines got way, way funkier than that. It was like the Semeny's conflict, the Kohar massacre, and the 36 famine in Yezut all rolled into one person, then cast in Orani's ceramic armor, which he wore in bed and in the shower.

4:19:31
Unknown_04: You romantically engage with this rapist murderer. We're all scraping up any happiness we can find, officer.

Unknown_23: Going around with our little scouring sticks. You, your first love, Mr. Quahoy here.

Unknown_04: Project your bad decisions on me, lady. Did he tell you he had actually done any of those things?

Unknown_18: He and Martinez, I mean.

Unknown_23: No.

Unknown_23: We were too busy laying waste to our own nervous systems to direct any of the fury outward.

Unknown_19: What kind of man was he? Before you go, ask for details. She seems okay to talk about it.

4:20:04
Unknown_18: Thank you for clearing that up, miss. Whenever you're ready. I'm interested to hear what Titus Hardy has to say now.

Unknown_19: She takes a very small sip of her coffee and smiles. Like, for example, his name?

Unknown_23: Actually, officer, I didn't know his name.

Unknown_18: A nickname?

Unknown_23: I guess. He came from Lelystad. It's short for that.

Unknown_18: Lelystad. That's a good start. We have a few questions you can help us with.

Unknown_19: A young woman cranes her neck, trying to catch a glimpse of the page the lieutenant passed to you. Everything left to be clarified is in the column on the left.

4:20:42
Unknown_23: In Oranje, officer.

Unknown_19: You were almost right, officer. That means his race was occidental, not mondial. I'll update the form. Yes. We were compatriots. Did that bring you together?

Unknown_23: No, he was too old for that. And from another part of Oranien Reek, he was 42. Hey, I was right.

4:21:21
Unknown_18: 42? Are you sure? I would have had him above 50.

Unknown_23: He had many scars that made him appear older. But no, we even celebrated his birthday like some weeks ago.

Unknown_23: It was a funny two days.

Unknown_23: He had little reason to lie to me.

Unknown_18: Looks like you were right, officer.

Unknown_19: Points are good. Have one, you old dog. Before we all die.

Unknown_04: That's funny. It just gave me like a free endurance thing. Because I was right! And it knows I'm right.

4:21:55
Unknown_19: The young woman looks at you.

Unknown_23: Blue. Like blue.

Unknown_23: They were like...

Unknown_23: Like little blue galaxies, you know. Grinch. Pardon the swearing.

Unknown_23: I do him an injustice. He wasn't ugly.

Unknown_23: And he had a beautiful, soft voice.

Unknown_04: And he wasn't screaming about rape.

Unknown_18: On his chin and mouth?

4:22:28
Unknown_23: Yes.

Unknown_23: Severe.

Unknown_18: Oh, yes. He's rare, if you can remember.

Unknown_23: It was light brown, almost blonde.

Unknown_23: He darkened it with brilliantine. Oh, that.

Unknown_23: Sure, waterways.

Unknown_23: It was mostly for showing off to chicks, though.

Unknown_04: Aren't you a chick?

Unknown_23: Imagine him lying in bed. Ew.

4:23:15
Unknown_23: That's gay. That's gay. Cringe. Cringe. You were the woman in this.

Unknown_04: Can you say it while you're cringed? No, thank you.

Unknown_23: I've seen enough of him dead.

Unknown_23: I can tell you what they meant without looking at them.

Unknown_18: Go on.

Unknown_23: He was a blue-eyed boy with thick arms, from a small town.

4:23:49
Unknown_23: He was also poor, and the government of Oranje needed somebody to kill him. So they turned him into a grotesque killer. For money. He went to Killer Academy in Vredefort. Good story. Speaking of high, what's the toxicology report?

Unknown_04: Sounds like a real Ralph Amill.

Unknown_23: How much does the toxicology report cost the police of Revachol? I can do it for half of that.

4:24:26
Unknown_18: Doesn't come out of my paycheck.

Unknown_04: It's quite expensive, miss, but we'll manage without your help for now.

Unknown_18: All right.

Unknown_19: Cooley, gracefully, she pours herself more coffee.

Unknown_19: I think that's it. Wait, stop. That man, bloated beyond all recognition, was 42?

Unknown_04: Yeah. I already got the point for it. You're gonna take it away from me?

Unknown_19: Spit it out, Visual Calculus. God, this really is a Rakita Simulator. Kim.

4:24:58
Unknown_04: How old do I look?

Unknown_18: 58.

Unknown_18: You asked.

4:25:28
Unknown_18: He was deceased. He had been decomposing for a week.

Unknown_04: I've been decomposing for a week.

Unknown_18: On the bright side, you've been getting a lot of exercise lately.

Unknown_19: This silence.

Unknown_19: Then, a little more.

Unknown_19: You're 42. Let's go. Wait. This requires scientific measurements. Bring it on. To the laboratorium.

4:25:59
Unknown_04: Date of birth generator.

Unknown_04: Seven hours. I'm just gonna look it up.

Unknown_04: Date of birth...

Unknown_04: generator perks. I'm tired of getting fucked. I'm getting fucked in the ass by these perks.

4:26:31
Unknown_04: Let's go Elysium perk.

Unknown_04: That's pretty decent.

Unknown_04: This thing is so old it doesn't even know this. Date of birth generated or DOB.

Unknown_04: What does it give me?

Unknown_04: I'm not doing it then. Fuck you. Okay, I guess we're done here.

4:27:04
Unknown_04: Talk to Titus about Dwarf Gunner and Megamix. Okay.

Unknown_04: The entirety of this chapter is just talking to like three different people.

Unknown_04: Oh, I don't need that then.

Unknown_04: To physique passives? I would benefit from that a lot, I think.

4:27:39
Unknown_04: I think I would hit a lot. Actually, that's really good. If it would benefit all of these, all of these perks would suddenly become a lot better in the conversation and tell me shit that I need to know that are already so low.

Unknown_04: That's pretty fucking good.

Unknown_04: I'm going with it.

Unknown_04: no it says learning cap to logic raised to four which right now it's like 10 i'm never going to hit this but then he says the other one says negative one difficulty to all physique passives so the passive checks are the ones that show up in conversation

4:28:30
Unknown_04: I'm gonna do it.

Unknown_04: There's a lot of, like, weird physical stuff that shows up. In particular, Half-Life is, like, one of the best in the fucking game. And when it shows up, it's like a giga chat. Look at that fucking... Look at that face of that fucking giga chat here. Yeah, I'm gonna do it.

4:29:03
Unknown_15: It's you again. What is it? Ann.

Unknown_15: That fucking fucker. You're gonna get her killed. You're the worst cops in Revachol. I gave you gold on that tape.

Unknown_19: That fucker wasn't aimed at you.

Unknown_04: Yeah, I really saw that. It was at her.

Unknown_04: locker room talk that's a famous word right there she pretty much laughed it off talking fuckity fucker who's got the authority now motherfuckers actually i think it made her nostalgic she seemed drawn by it in fact i think she thought it was a little funny

4:30:04
Unknown_04: girls i think that the the authors of this game need a little bit more esoteric feminism okay i think women get turned on by uh war crime humor funny no good goddamn maybe liberal arts majors do seems like they wanted to give clausia a second chance to play along she still didn't

Unknown_15: You don't have to say everything out loud. Just mix and match.

4:31:07
Unknown_04: I'm actually not sure with this. It doesn't want me to pick everything.

Unknown_04: Oh, do I need to say that part? Maybe she isn't who you thought she was. That sounds like a good one.

Unknown_15: I know her. She's just a girl in over her head.

Unknown_04: She has my whole skillset compromise. She's some kind of pro.

Unknown_04: She's a model. She won a pageant. She's not some helpless girl. She handled the mercenary. She sure fucking did.

4:31:40
Unknown_15: Handled him?

Unknown_15: She got into some stupid shit with that guy. Shit we had to take care of.

Unknown_18: Yes, yes. We heard all about it. And the fact still stands. You were more disturbed by the tape than her.

Unknown_04: Maybe she's in denial. Yeah, maybe.

Unknown_04: That is a possibility.

Unknown_15: I already told you.

Unknown_19: We fucking hanged him.

Unknown_19: There's less gusto in his voice now. His men, too, are growing increasingly silent.

4:32:13
Unknown_04: It's true. They're not going that's right. The man is slowing down.

Unknown_19: Looks like a bad blood sugar crash. He can't keep track of all the variables anymore.

Unknown_04: Thankfully my reaction speed is adequate.

Unknown_19: Who could? It's getting harder and harder to perform one's part in this sordid play. All it takes is a nudge.

Unknown_18: Come on, Titus. We know you didn't hang him. He was shot. I know you're tired. So am I. Why don't you just... You know what?

Unknown_15: I am tired. I'm tired of you and the whore upstairs.

4:32:46
Unknown_04: Can't say that. Elizabeth said not to say that. Next time you see her, tell her, Titus said.

Unknown_15: Fuck off! That lion's scamming. We're done. This is over. You understand? Your little investigation is over.

Unknown_19: Yeah.

Unknown_19: On the floor, bear drips out of the can.

Unknown_15: What is this quiet funeral shit? All we need is some beers in us. Bartender, 20 beers for the dock workers union.

4:33:21
Unknown_04: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven people divided by 20.

Unknown_04: So they all get three except one. He's going to have to only drink two. Actually, you know what? We're going to make the fat guy only drink two. But he needs the most alcohol to get buzz. Maybe the black guy. He's old. He doesn't need three. He gets the two beers.

Unknown_03: Why don't we make it 40, huh? Why don't we make it 100 beers? You're not loud enough.

4:33:54
Unknown_17: 100 beers? Now we're talking. Hoppity hop over here, cafeteria manager.

Unknown_04: 92%. I can't wait to see this one fail.

Unknown_04: I got 92. Rhetoric, one of my highest skills. Strange reaction to the bullet. Avarth cooperated. Compromised skill set known. Angus can't take the pressure. Warned about the Tribunal. Discussed 8th Hardy. Confronted about the drug trade. Now give me those fucking snake eyes, bish!

4:34:26
Unknown_19: Convinced by Titus, he's being manipulated. You should know by now. Titus Hardy will never falter.

Unknown_19: But you know someone who might.

Unknown_04: One of his boys, that one. Yeah!

Unknown_19: Mr. All Muscle, the time has come. Put him in the pressure cooker. Just remember, it's about more than Glazia. It's about these men and Martinez, their district, their responsibility. Outside, in the midday sun, ruins. The pavements are cracked and the benches peeling.

4:35:03
Unknown_04: Dude, the boys. Composure, rhetoric, and shivers working together. You know this shit. This is gold. Okay, I'm going to pass this one.

Unknown_19: He'll get it. Go on.

Unknown_04: Write it down, Kim. In Martinets, they kill you. They just kill you because they don't like you.

Unknown_18: Got it. Kill you because they don't like you. All because... You're a foreigner.

4:35:39
Unknown_04: That's it. We gotta play... We gotta play their ultra-liberal instincts against them. Because she is a foreigner.

Unknown_20: Goddamn right. Don't come around if you're not from around.

Unknown_13: Fuck you.

Unknown_13: I'm not from around.

Unknown_18: That's not why we... There we go. Don't come to the Wild North if you are not white enough. If you're not white enough.

Unknown_04: They just hang you, like in the Dark Ages, make a display of your corpse. They just hang you, shoot you, whatever. They can't even remember. They just hang you, shoot you, light you on fire. It wasn't that.

4:36:11
Unknown_17: It wasn't... We didn't shoot him.

Unknown_19: that's right go in for them officer you will be next if you don't shut up firearm a glass 08 or a 38 caliber pistol either is small enough for you to have missed does he have it

4:36:45
Unknown_04: he reaches for his belt so he has like a very concealed pistol that could create a very concealed body hole so the black guy did it he's onto you he knows what you're trying to do turn to angus or what you're gonna kill me like you killed him for no reason turn to theo what happens if i keep talking you're gonna kill me too in this bar for nothing you gotta keep it on angus that's what logic said to do we didn't kill him

Unknown_17: We didn't even hang him. He was dead when...

Unknown_17: Shut up, Angus.

Unknown_04: Elizabeth, stay out of here.

Unknown_20: Fatty!

Unknown_20: Say one more thing to the cops and I'll... Dennis!

Unknown_15: I got him cracking, buddies. Or I'll beat your head in. Theo, take your hand off the belt. This isn't 31. I've got this under control.

Unknown_04: No, you don't.

4:37:45
Unknown_15: Where's your goddamn inhaler? You sound like you're dying. I left it home. I can't get it.

Unknown_01: I'm too fucked. He's gonna die. I'm sorry. Why are you so fucking fat, Angus? Because of you, you wasted my time. Why are you so fucking fat? I told you just give her up.

Unknown_04: Why are you named after a cow, Angus?

Unknown_15: Lizzie. Your help is no longer needed here. Go tell Everard.

4:38:16
Unknown_15: Tell Everard I fucked it up.

Unknown_01: I'll tell him after a long walk along the coast.

Unknown_19: You're him. He's all yours.

Unknown_04: Question. Oh, he's defenseless now. He doesn't have the black woman helping him.

Unknown_04: Whisper Kim, we did it. So he was already dead. So who killed the Merc then? Whose idea was it to hang him anyways? Her.

Unknown_15: who killed him that's what i want to know not yet just some ideas she says the shot came from outside behind the window somewhere so that's a clue i'm thinking someone's past caught up with them either hers or his but why would they take the fall for the murder

4:39:10
Unknown_15: He was a mercenary.

Unknown_15: Check out the coast for vantage points. Maybe consult with a ballistics buddy of mine.

Unknown_04: Thank you, T-55. Dude.

Unknown_19: These theories, not bad. Don't buy either one. But still, this guy's not as dumb as he looks.

4:39:47
Unknown_04: Um...

Unknown_19: I'm gonna whisper to Kim. Lieutenant gives a smile only you can see.

Unknown_04: Okay. He was already dead.

Unknown_18: He nods. You hanged the corpse to cover up the real cause of death. But why?

Unknown_04: Why would you do this?

Unknown_18: Another nod.

Unknown_15: Yeah, why? Because the girls asked us to. They ran some shit.

Unknown_19: Girls, plural. There's another girl.

Unknown_15: The one that ran away.

Unknown_19: Take note of this. Maybe it was the cripples.

Unknown_04: Her idea.

4:40:17
Unknown_19: Did she kill him?

Unknown_15: Cop, I have no idea. The girl says she didn't. Classier came down. She seemed really out of it. Drugged up even more than usual. Bug-eyed and gurning, you know. Not in a fun way.

Unknown_15: It looked like she'd redosed after something went down. I've seen that look before. She was scared. I knew someone had died. I've done this job for 10 years. I've seen it before. It's the politician in the motel room with the dead hooker scenario. Only in reverse.

4:40:54
Unknown_04: Hooker in the motel room with the dead politician.

Unknown_20: Good analogy, boss.

Unknown_15: You don't get to talk yet, Chinky. You're still on the bench. And you keep taking it easy too, Angus. We went upstairs. Sure as day the Merc was dead. And there was a bullet hole through the window. That fucking... dirty...

Unknown_19: It means they've been fucking?

Unknown_04: It means?

Unknown_04: There was a bullet hole in the fucking stretch. That's why his clothes were thrown off, I guess? Because he was having sex? Tibbs patched the window and the corpse.

4:41:27
Unknown_15: We hanged.

Unknown_04: Who's Tibbs, the 8th Harding? Nah, he's my brother.

Unknown_15: He's in the window.

Unknown_04: Oh, yeah, there's a window guy called Tibbs. I know that. There's a sign for that.

Unknown_04: Clash didn't kill him. Why the cover? Yeah, exactly.

Unknown_15: Star girls and some shit of her own.

Unknown_15: They can't show up on police radar kind. There are people after her from the old, old world. But they're powerful, connected to the moral intern. She's clearly afraid for her life.

4:42:00
Unknown_19: That's all he knows. That's all she's told him. Thank you, John. Why would you help someone like that?

Unknown_15: By taking on a murder? Why would I? I guess we abide all sorts of runaways and losers here. It's a Martinet's thing.

Unknown_15: Whose idea was it? In a manner of speaking.

Unknown_19: Remember the two girls? He may be talking about the other one.

Unknown_15: That's right. It was her idea to hang him. I liked it for political reasons. It sent a good message.

4:42:34
Unknown_15: Fella, you think too much. He's off all right. You're going to hurt your head.

Unknown_04: I asked him about the eighth hardy. The drug trafficking girl.

Unknown_15: That woman is just affiliated with the Hardy Boys. You don't know her anyway.

Unknown_15: Nope. You're not getting to her. It's Klasia you want to talk to. You do that.

4:43:06
Unknown_04: Is the drug stuff just like a side mission? Before you go.

Unknown_04: Is he gonna punch me in the fucking face?

Unknown_19: Suddenly, the wind picks up outside. You hear it rattling the large windows in their frames. It carries newspapers, circles the whirling in rags in a warm column. Gee, Klasja came to Mardonnays to hide.

Unknown_15: Many of us did. This is where you wash up when there's nowhere left to go. The Union takes you in.

4:43:39
Unknown_15: Are you just saying that because she's fucked all of you? You're a simp.

Unknown_04: You're just a simp. A little simperino simpski.

4:44:24
Unknown_04: Oh, you know what, that's a good idea. I should go check the window before I talk to her again. I feel like that might help.

Unknown_04: It's true, half his, a quarter, a full quarter of his skill set is just completely non-functional.

Unknown_19: An even chance. You've been here for a long time.

Unknown_19: Oh, that felt good. Huh?

4:45:26
Unknown_04: I need you guys to hand the key to me. Can I slide by so I can grab it? Titus! I'm not your janitor, cop. I don't even...

Unknown_18: If he says it's there, it's there.

Unknown_13: I don't know about that.

Unknown_13: I'm comfortable here. Don't think any sliding would really help right now. Shut up, V. Sorry, fucko.

Unknown_17: Looks like you're gonna have to go bush diving. I'm gonna enjoy the sight of you in the bushes out there.

Unknown_19: With a loud thud, the old man stands up, pushes the window open, grabs the key from the hawthorn branch, and slides it across the table.

4:46:05
Unknown_04: Thank you to the realest knees he got the table.

Unknown_19: The key is brass. workshop spear is come on man i'm tired of listening to your don't thank me i know what this thing opens you see a heavy steel it could be connected the key fits the dimple lock the darkness before you master investigator that's me you just can't keep yourself away from locked and hidden places can you

4:46:39
Unknown_04: It's my duty as a police officer.

Unknown_19: Look it up chat! What are the completed bonuses for that?

Unknown_04: Wait to aura.

Unknown_04: Ooh, five dollars.

Unknown_19: Pinball machine. Find better loot in containers? Fuck that. Do I have to play pinball?

4:47:13
Unknown_19: Cornelius Gordy and the mountain goats.

Unknown_04: Show me the pinball game.

Unknown_19: Those flippers are ready.

Unknown_19: Above the painting of a... Yeah, I got you. Now play it.

4:47:48
Unknown_19: It takes a while to get into a rhythm, but pretty soon you're able to keep three goat-faced balls in play with relative ease. Go go, finger boy. I feel sorry for the goats.

Unknown_18: If they only knew the kind of guy old Cornelius really was.

Unknown_19: Your game is definitely improving. Shoot it. Shoot it! Oh god, what the fuck?

4:48:32
Unknown_18: This is where the game ends. It's a cheap way of getting more money out of the players.

Unknown_19: There's so much fog you can barely see anything. Some is actually leaking out of the machine and one by one your goats start slipping, disappearing into the milky nothingness. This can be navigated. The balls leave almost imperceptible disruptions. The very in-depth goat simulator. Going mostly by sound. Eyes are useless at this point. But that goat is something special.

4:49:05
Unknown_04: I'm a nationalist and I understand ball games. Yeah, this is me. I got this.

Unknown_19: No! Can't even see it. The last goat plummets into the fog with almost suicidal glee. There goes nothing, finger boy.

4:49:38
Unknown_19: The machine is dead.

Unknown_04: It's bullshit.

Unknown_19: All these mesmerizing machines. Just waiting to be... Feels like it might jump back to life any moment. The lights illuminating the... You can't fire them up. What a dumb name. Royalist pinball. If they weren't broken... My half-light is angry. ...these machines about now.

Unknown_04: If they weren't broken, I would kick one. Thank you.

4:50:12
Unknown_19: Kim Kitsuragi.

Unknown_04: Is he good at pinball?

Unknown_19: Exactly. That's what he's known as. His reputation precedes him.

Unknown_04: Kimball.

Unknown_19: What? So now he remembers.

Unknown_04: Oh my god.

Unknown_18: Fine. I'm Kim Pinball Kitsuragi, a.k.a. The Kimball. You remembered. Congratulations. No human being should. It is a game that requires no skill and a childlike affinity to flashing lights and to fantastic science. It is lame.

4:50:46
Unknown_18: I am not called Pinball. It was used to taunt me a long time ago, before I became a homicide detective. Fine. I was a juvenile police officer for over 15 years. It's how I started out in the RCM. Once I had to infiltrate a pinball ring, as you do when you're a juvie cop. It was not okay. I needed to become a pinball champion. I trained for nine months. The job was successful and I was moved out of the juvenile wing to homicide. End of story. That time is over now.

4:51:21
Unknown_18: I was already a 38-year-old man. It was unbecoming, as was playing pinball.

Unknown_18: Lieutenant Kitsuragi is good, too. Now we really need to continue our sweep of what appears to be a secret path through the whirling.

Unknown_18: Interesting.

Unknown_19: Okay. This small elevator is dimly lit by smells of nougat and sweat. Just take the elevator, you fucking pussy.

Unknown_04: The control panel reads, last maintenance, 10th July, 88.

4:51:57
Unknown_19: There are large rectangular- Just fucking go in there. Halter 800.

Unknown_18: That he does. I say, let's brave it.

Unknown_18: At the end of the last century. Look on the bright side. If it fails, we will only sustain minor injuries. I'm talking three, maybe four months in the hospital. Maximum five.

Unknown_19: It appears this whole enthusiasm is sarcastic.

Unknown_18: Seems like a small freight elevator for trans... We're going up the elevator, bish.

Unknown_04: Can't do nothing there.

4:52:40
Unknown_04: Plus one to empathy and plus one to hand-eye coordination. That's fucking banger.

Unknown_04: Oh yeah, that's fucking banger, bro.

Unknown_04: Oh yeah. The trench coat with nothing under it. That's the look right there. That's a fucking winner.

Unknown_19: you clearly see footprints in the downy carpet of jackpot these unlike everything else here are near large prints one person has been here this print is unlike one left by a regular worker boot it is not a brand sole with logos on it it seems custom made or old-fashioned shoe size is 41 to 42 maybe 43.

4:53:27
Unknown_04: The little guy did this right.

Unknown_19: What about Joyce? The woman on the boat? She would have a custom made shoe.

Unknown_18: Hell yeah. Respect me. Respect me!

4:54:26
Unknown_04: It means someone snuck through.

Unknown_19: So this is where they brought 40 pinball machines to fix them up the lieutenant looks around the dusty crowded room At some point 20 years ago 15 pinball workshop i'm guessing martinez north 22 used to be a pinball arcade before a creek Some downstairs in the hall next to the main door one of them even works.

Unknown_18: I've seen Yeah, we just tried it and we didn't it didn't work Wait now, what did he say?

4:55:00
Unknown_04: So there's like a pinball machine somewhere Hey, this goes out to somebody's room, it looks like.

Unknown_04: I knew I should have looked around before I talked to her.

Unknown_04: Well, well, well. If it isn't the pinball aficionado slash kind disorder rape victim herself.

Unknown_23: It's always good to see you.

Unknown_04: But you just saw me open this fucking crazy door. Something in her demeanor has changed.

4:55:34
Unknown_19: She's tired. Consigned to her fate. To being here with you.

Unknown_23: Yeah.

Unknown_04: Did you know that this door led to an elevator?

Unknown_23: Mystery solved then. I kept wondering where it led.

Unknown_19: Can I see your shoes? More to this mystery at some later time. She's holding back. Let's make a mental note for now.

Unknown_04: Okay. Okay.

Unknown_04: She's holding back. Let's make a note.

Unknown_19: She's lost in thought. Eyes narrowed. Forehead furrowed.

4:56:06
Unknown_23: Alright.

Unknown_23: I understand.

Unknown_19: Just like that. No resistance. Her shoulders are slouched. Her feet long and straight.

Unknown_23: I knew there was a chance you'd get them to tell you. It's what you do. You're the police.

Unknown_04: That's right. And I'm actually a professional police officer, as you can tell by my police officer trench coat.

Unknown_23: For what it's worth, I'm sorry for wasting your time.

4:56:39
Unknown_19: This is good. Clear the air first. I agree with her. No, it's not good.

Unknown_04: Oh, I trusted him. I'm sorry. I should have known.

Unknown_04: Volition. Dude, I'm fucking maxing out volition. I'm going to end this game with 12 volition. Volition is very important.

Unknown_04: I almost fell for rhetoric, but Volition stepped in and saved the day.

Unknown_19: Shush. I can't hear what she's saying.

4:57:10
Unknown_18: Silence. Look, rhetoric simping again. I knew we would find out eventually. Why did you waste our time?

Unknown_23: Because of the Hardys.

Unknown_23: I couldn't just dispense with them. They were only trying to help me out of the shit I'd gotten into.

Unknown_23: You're right.

Unknown_10: There's more.

Unknown_23: You answer to the coalition government, and by extension, the moral intern.

Unknown_04: The UN, in case you aren't paying attention.

Unknown_19: Briefly glancing over her shoulder to the sea, as she's done time and time again. A grand expanse of water reaches over the bay and to the horizon. Golden grey in the moonlight. The pale, the boindy isola. The occident, and then Arranje. The old, old world.

4:57:43
Unknown_04: I'm not gonna console her.

Unknown_23: You share a database with them. You send people to their courts.

Unknown_23: Just business. But bad business for some people in the Moral Intern.

Unknown_23: If I show up in your records, officer, they will find me.

4:58:21
Unknown_23: They will... What happens if they do? They will kill me, sir. If you file my name, take me in for questioning, enter me into the Moral Intern mill...

Unknown_23: Well, then I'm fucked. For nothing.

Unknown_23: This murder didn't have anything to do with me.

Unknown_19: Actually, this murder did have a little to do with her.

4:58:54
Unknown_04: What happened here the night he died? Why do they call the cops if you're hiding? Well, she doesn't want to be found. So he didn't care about being found with a snitch. He cares about being identified. What did you have?

Unknown_04: I can't trust logic.

Unknown_04: It's a liar.

Unknown_23: We were there together in bed. I mean, okay.

Unknown_23: He was in a kneeling position. Oh, this is gross. Entered me. I was on my back looking at him.

4:59:26
Unknown_04: Then his brains exploded on your fucking face.

Unknown_23: And I turned to look.

Unknown_23: There was a hole in the glass. I turned back to him.

Unknown_23: His eyes were looking through.

Unknown_04: Ew, you're having sex with a corpse. That's gnarly.

Unknown_23: I could see.

Unknown_19: Her chest rises and falls with each word. She keeps herself together and says it.

Unknown_23: I knew he was dead before he fell down on top of me.

Unknown_23: He was heavy. I pushed him off and he fell to the floor. There.

4:59:59
Unknown_23: He only had his boots on. I bit the pillow, not his cream, then run downstairs.

Unknown_23: I waited for the second shot to come. For me.

Unknown_23: I thought there would be one.

Unknown_23: It never came.

Unknown_19: She's forgotten about her cigarette. The butt has burned right down to her fingernails.

Unknown_04: Shakes your head, that's a motherfucker.

5:00:33
Unknown_04: Just nod, we're gonna need more details.

Unknown_23: Oh.

Unknown_04: She's not making this up.

Unknown_04: Am I sorry that that happened to her? I'm going to have to say that I'm going to shake my damn head. That's a motherfucker.

Unknown_23: It was a real motherfucker.

Unknown_18: What time was this? When did it happen? It would help us if you could be as precise as possible.

5:01:08
Unknown_23: 1130 to 1215. I don't know the exact time around.

Unknown_18: It's okay. Were you inebriated?

Unknown_23: Not as much as usual. He'd done a line plus other things. I was drinking.

Unknown_19: Wait, Titus said she was going in her jaw off much more than usual.

Unknown_04: Titus says you look pretty high. We gotta contradict her. She's a liar. Oh yeah.

Unknown_23: I did one of his lines. Just to clear my head.

Unknown_18: Did you hear or see the shooter in the course of this?

5:01:39
Unknown_23: No.

Unknown_23: Nothing. I was trapped. I was stuck in my room downstairs.

Unknown_23: I got some clothes on and crawled back up through the blinds.

Unknown_23: Blood was coming from his mouth. Not a lot, just a little. He was still on the floor.

Unknown_23: I couldn't be there with him anymore. If he ran down, if he's on top of her and they're having sex down the stairs, but he was shot through the back of the head, into his mouth, through the brainstem.

5:02:10
Unknown_04: So the bullet entered through the back of his head, into his mouth. So I think the bed goes this way.

Unknown_04: So someone would have to shoot from this direction from on top of the bookstore or something. I don't know how that trajectory would line up.

Unknown_04: Did you kill Laylee?

Unknown_23: What?

Unknown_23: Why would I put myself through this insanity? Get myself cornered like this?

Unknown_04: Good question.

Unknown_23: He wouldn't have died if it weren't for me. I know that. But I would never hurt him.

5:02:45
Unknown_19: he was a serviceman he must have had a gun somewhere lying around close to her hand it's okay if you did it in self-defense that's the cop answer right there i did not kill him to defend myself from rape i told you before that wasn't what happened true sire tis true

Unknown_04: I can't trust you. Volition told me not to.

Unknown_23: No. I specifically asked him not to carry firearms when he was with me. He only had his stupid armor.

Unknown_23: I'm sad to hear that. Like what?

Unknown_04: Why did you call the cops if you're in hiding? I know the answer to that. It's because she... Because I'm an idiot.

5:03:42
Unknown_19: Which is an indicator of truth.

Unknown_04: Is it really? I guess the speed of the answer does.

Unknown_19: Idiot. She's nothing of the sort.

Unknown_04: Silence! This fucker right here. Look at him. Look at this motherfucker.

Unknown_04: I'm not gonna disagree with you. ...

Unknown_23: You have to understand, the people around here, no one was making the call and he kept rotting.

5:04:16
Unknown_19: Her jaw is clenched.

Unknown_19: Her throat moves. It takes all her strength not to cave in and sob.

Unknown_23: He kept throwing stones at him for three days.

Unknown_23: I could hear the thud. Thud.

Unknown_23: So I called you.

Unknown_23: I hope with all my heart it's not the last thing I do in Ravachol.

Unknown_19: She definitely called the cops. That was task complete. It could not have been a lie. That she did, of course.

5:04:52
Unknown_23: Sylvie was tending the bar. A lot of people were there. The Hardys were at the table in front of the stage. I think the union box was full. Ruby was there too. They were having such a good time.

Unknown_23: I sat down and they all welcomed me.

Unknown_23: I didn't even have to say anything. Ruby knew something was wrong.

Unknown_19: Ruby?

Unknown_04: Who the fuck is Ruby?

Unknown_23: Oh, that's the... The leader.

Unknown_18: The drug lady. The leader? Of what?

Unknown_23: The Hardy Boys.

5:05:26
Unknown_23: Well, nominally, yes. Ruby's the one they go to when things happen. Like, things they need taken care of. She's the organizer.

Unknown_18: Would you say she is the eighth Hardy Boy?

Unknown_23: Why not?

Unknown_23: Then move the body. That's right. Perception. Yes.

5:06:04
Unknown_18: We completely missed the tampering. Looks like you got there in time. What was this, 20 minutes after death?

Unknown_23: About 20, yes. Ruby explained it would make the blood...

Unknown_23: You know what he does. Ruby went outside to talk to Titus and the boys. I was just... looking at Lely in the bathroom. I had to put his clothes back on. His armor, too. It was tough, but I've seen him take it off and put it on many times.

Unknown_04: It took Ruby maybe half an hour to come back with Titus.

Unknown_23: I'd gotten him ready by then. They carried him out. I knew what they were going to do. Make it look like a hanging. Ruby said they would.

5:06:37
Unknown_23: Again? I don't know if I can trust you.

5:07:10
Unknown_23: I may have the gunshot.

Unknown_19: Wasn't that loud?

Unknown_23: It's not nice, but it's not illegal. Not here in Ravishal.

Unknown_18: What exactly did you do?

Unknown_23: Industrial espionage. I joined a business collective with the intention of betraying. I'm supposed to believe that she stole like a blueprint and that's why the UN is trying to assassinate her. With a bigger company.

Unknown_04: Look, as long as you pay taxes on the stolen property, you're all good with the space you're in.

Unknown_23: Two decades worth of accounting.

Unknown_18: Yeah, the UN doesn't kill you. And who hired you?

5:07:43
Unknown_23: She's crazy. There's no fucking assassin trying to kill her for stealing book ledgers from a fucking bank.

Unknown_19: These people engineer financial disasters in Second World countries. The conglomerate also includes the Bank of Consecration, Airberg, and the popular Papalolo line of dairy products.

5:08:14
Unknown_23: Sure, I'm not a war criminal, but it was bad. People lost their jobs. Good people, too. Not just C-Suite. A lot of people got hurt.

Unknown_23: But that's just more of my shit you shouldn't have to deal with.

Unknown_23: That's the first thing that went through my head when I heard the glass break. I thought they'd found me. So they wouldn't be hurt.

Unknown_23: I've come to understand, however, this is paranoia.

Unknown_23: What happened didn't have anything to do with me.

5:08:54
Unknown_18: I just don't know.

Unknown_23: I don't know anything. We can't go after Loosecap.

Unknown_18: Not yet.

Unknown_23: I don't ask you to, Lieutenant. when was the window changed last question you should have another look at that window after this reconstruct the scene it's right there yes you see she nods and he's thinking are we done here or should we arrest her

Unknown_19: What? Holy shit.

Unknown_04: Volition is not a simp. Volition is on that fucking cock carousel game, okay? He's got that whole crime scene reconstructed.

5:09:26
Unknown_19: Silence. Multiface? You have to wake up.

Unknown_04: manipulating their skill sets, and discuss the secret route. It's time to wake up, drama. Wake the fuck up.

Unknown_19: Who? What? Dear God, you've been lied to. He's woke. She could have killed her lover and lied to everyone. She's not candid at all. She's smoke and mirrors and willow wisps.

5:10:00
Unknown_19: She probably didn't give you her real name either. Why would she arrest her immediately before we couldn't verify her passport of lies? Take it easy. Start at the top. Choose at the bottom. It's how we've always done it. No rush.

Unknown_04: I'm not sure if rhetoric is on board yet. What do you think of religion?

5:10:38
Unknown_04: Start at the top, work to the bottom.

Unknown_18: Can I do this without? There may be grounds here, at least for. A little whimper.

Unknown_19: The young woman here.

Unknown_18: Oh, no.

Unknown_19: She's looking around.

Unknown_18: I agree. You wouldn't give us your real name, not when people are after you. She heard me.

Unknown_23: OK. OK, it's not.

Unknown_23: You log your work every week. It's all transmitted.

5:11:10
Unknown_04: I can't believe Volition is such a Chad. He's the hero of the people.

Unknown_23: So I lied.

Unknown_04: I see some fucking Volition avatars on the forum after this. Like I lied before.

Unknown_23: Like I did at LCSB.

Unknown_23: I have to lie all the time.

Unknown_23: I'm so tired of it.

5:11:51
Unknown_04: Sorry chat, did not mean to. Milkpong's not happening. Was the passport bullshit too? That's probably true.

Unknown_23: No, it's submerged in a plastic buoy on the coast, in the reeds.

Unknown_23: It just doesn't say Klaasje Amandu. It says Anouk Meijer Smit.

Unknown_04: Well, that's even uglier.

Unknown_04: Dutch people.

Unknown_18: Falsified documents?

Unknown_23: Passport and visa. Given to me by my employer. I can't even use them. My employer probably leaked the name. May, uh, smit to hurt me.

5:12:25
Unknown_04: Why would they do that?

Unknown_04: Because you fucked over the bank. I didn't show up to a rendezvous.

Unknown_23: They don't take that lightly. I didn't show up because I was afraid they'd do something to me. The job was finished. I'm just a liability now.

Unknown_19: She fears an arrest right here and now. This has been an awful turn of events for her.

Unknown_04: What are you speaking up for, Empathy?

Unknown_23: West of the boardwalk. In the reeds.

5:12:58
Unknown_23: It's useless.

Unknown_19: The lieutenant makes a note of it.

Unknown_23: You're welcome to it. It's Katarzyna Alazie.

Unknown_19: It's a Grodd name. Gymsk or Juga Grodd in origin. Not occidental at all. Smells of motor oil, taiga, economic desolation, and rock music infused alcoholism.

Unknown_04: So Rokshan is what we're trying to describe here.

Unknown_04: It's Grodd.

5:13:29
Unknown_23: My parents were Gymsk immigrants, but I'm nationalized Oranese. Oh, she's Polish. All I remember is Oranie. Alasia is my father's name.

Unknown_19: She nods. Her round eyes meet yours. They seem moist from the wind on the roof.

Unknown_04: Crying. She's upset.

Unknown_23: I am. They can never take my side. She faces imminent death by summary execution by a hitman from the UN.

Unknown_04: She hates the Antichrist.

Unknown_19: Yes, they can. For lying.

5:14:03
Unknown_04: She's Polish.

Unknown_19: She nods, her back straight, ready for whatever is next.

Unknown_04: I didn't make the call, Bish.

Unknown_23: I did.

Unknown_23: What is this? I called your desk or whatever it is. The numbers are all over town. Call 8-100-2 for emergencies.

Unknown_23: There was an older woman on the other end. It sounded like she was smoking. She took my complaint. She coughed.

5:14:34
Unknown_19: That is the emergency's desk number.

Unknown_04: Congrats, she knows 9-9-9-1-1.

Unknown_19: Anyone could know that, sire. By looking around and calling the desk. I don't believe a single word she says.

Unknown_19: What time did you make the call?

Unknown_23: Thursday night. It was late. Sometime after 12.

Unknown_18: It checks out.

Unknown_23: But I know the time of the call, too.

5:15:06
Unknown_23: I know I have not been 100% truthful with you, officers. But I am now.

Unknown_04: You're under arrest.

Unknown_23: But I haven't done anything. Anything illegal.

Unknown_19: She purposefully misrepresented information crucial to the case.

Unknown_04: And I'm fining you 1,000 real.

Unknown_19: Fucking mind games. Enough.

Unknown_04: Dude, I love Half-Life. If I redid this game from the start and I knew what I knew at this point, I would max out Half-Life and Logic and just fucking wing it. I would have 20 Logic, 20 Half-Life. And me and him, we would take over this whole fucking town.

5:15:39
Unknown_19: That's right, gang. Stern and merciless now. Stern and merciless as we reel her in.

Unknown_04: That's the boys right there.

Unknown_04: Arrest him. That's right. That's right, gang. Stern and merciless.

5:16:13
Unknown_04: I can enforce the UN law. The lieutenant produces a pair of handcuffs.

Unknown_04: I can't believe this is happening. She's just fucked. Oh, you're fucked, lady.

Unknown_04: Logistical Nightmare for five says, we're out here having so much fun in Rivershaw become volition. All my niggas hate logic. He's a fucking saint. He's a fucking saint.

Unknown_19: But there's nowhere to go.

Unknown_04: And we didn't even un-simp logic. He's still simped. We've only un-simped drama. He would have run before.

Unknown_04: That just goes to show you that you can unsimp drama, but you can't unsimp logic. You have to think about things unlogically. I think I know who did it.

5:16:45
Unknown_23: Who shot Lely? I can tell you. I can help you.

Unknown_19: She's silent for a second, as if looking into herself for certainty. Then, gearing up for this betrayal is hard for her.

Unknown_04: Was it Ruby? Ruby.

Unknown_04: Ah! That's why she's gone, because she killed him.

Unknown_23: She has this thing for me. Ever since I met her and the boys downstairs.

Unknown_04: It was the shoeless woman. She's been pretty frank about what she had. She's shoeless. She's a murderer. I'm going to arrest her anyways. Fuck her.

5:17:17
Unknown_23: Sex.

Unknown_23: And more.

Unknown_23: I made the mistake of- She's a hoe? I told her I was on the run. She started protecting me. Wait, she- Oh, that's right.

Unknown_04: She was a lesbian. There were titty girls in her lorry.

Unknown_04: She shot him out of jealousy for a heterosexual woman, which doesn't make any sense. I'm going to say this. This is my esoteric feminism once again.

5:17:48
Unknown_04: I'm going to wager that in the history of the entire human race, there has never once in the history of mankind been a single lesbian murderer of a heterosexual woman's boyfriend.

Unknown_04: Correct me if I'm wrong, but outside of fiction, I don't think this event has ever happened or transpired ever for any reason.

Unknown_23: When I started spending time with Lely, she told me to end it.

Unknown_23: said there would be if i didn't it was not as if we stopped talking after that but i don't understand what exactly in your relationship made you think she is romantically interested in you this is she said she's in love with me she even asked me to run away yeah when i told her i'm a fugitive i'm sticking with my gut here this is more notions about our and you led her on A little, I was flattered, you know, but then I, this is sensational. Arrest her arrest her theory.

5:18:36
Unknown_19: You had it too. Remember, could it be that Ruby was covering up after herself? The lynching.

Unknown_19: How could she have killed her?

Unknown_23: There was a secret route there, right?

Unknown_04: Oh. She's implying that she snuck out that door, rounded the corner, and shot her. That would explain why the window's broken, because she shot her from level height.

Unknown_23: She could have come up through there, then taken this shot. Right here, where I stand. It was too dark outside. I wouldn't have seen her.

5:19:15
Unknown_19: Then slipped back downstairs without anyone noticing. That is possible.

Unknown_18: Interesting theory. I said, well, fair. Had you been out there with her?

Unknown_23: Yes, of course. She's been up here many times, jacking private stations off the ring antenna. She used to come here to drink on the roof with me before it got weird. She came over one night drunk, drunk and threatened to turn my life to a living hell. And she didn't go in lesbians with her to keep the hardies in line.

5:19:49
Unknown_19: Some of that fear is still with her. She exhales sharply.

Unknown_04: Dude, I love this guy. He's so intimidating. I wish I, I need more Half-Light in me who like, is like this visceral monster that can decipher intentions. I need more of this guy.

Unknown_19: What are you talking about? She's afraid you'll arrest her.

5:20:26
Unknown_19: Okay. And what? Arrest the liar.

Unknown_04: drama has like completely this drama has caught carousel pills at this point she's stuck here she's already in prison look around we didn't expect this kind of sympathy from several affair this is a really hard choice

5:21:08
Unknown_04: She's trying to help you. She's stuck here. She's already in prison. Look around. She's only trying to help you. Who?

Unknown_19: Her. Stop letting her distract you.

Unknown_04: Volition is not accepting this at all.

Unknown_04: I have to trust Volition. Okay. He was a seven percenter chance. Okay. I have to trust him.

Unknown_23: After all this, sir, please.

Unknown_23: It's a shitty world and I know I'm shitty too. I know.

Unknown_23: But I don't deserve to be sent to the moral intern and ground into paste just because I disturb the sanctity of accounting. That's so multinational.

5:21:45
Unknown_19: She's gearing up for a last stand. This is it.

Unknown_23: I don't know.

Unknown_23: To spend my- Fuck you, bitch.

Unknown_04: You lost me.

Unknown_19: If you arrest her, Kim will have to transport her. You'd be without your partner for the rest of the day. I can handle that. Shut up. He's making a decision, and it is to me.

Unknown_02: Logic is still simp-pilled.

5:22:23
Unknown_04: Can I eat you?

Unknown_04: Write a station call? No, that's bullshit. I will escort you to the motor carriage outside, miss.

Unknown_18: With a muffled whimper, she extends her wrists. This won't be necessary. I will take you to station 57 myself. Oh, you idiot.

Unknown_04: She's going to kill you, too. She's going to pop you in the back of the camp something, though.

Unknown_18: It may be possible to have stole it indefinitely, but you will be safer there for the purposes of this investigation. I can do this on my own. She's not an immediate flight risk. See you tomorrow morning, officer. Downstairs at the whirling in rags.

5:22:53
Unknown_04: I feel so weird. I stand here at the top of the world with no Kim.

Unknown_04: Now, it's time for my true reward.

Unknown_04: Having solved murder, dealt with the impossibility of convincing the Hardys that I have real authority, and having dispatched of Kim,

5:23:31
Unknown_04: The only thing left for me to do is get my just desserts.

Unknown_04: My true reward as the pantsless homicide detective of Lavachon is to sneak into here and take this corpse out of the fridge and get those fucking pants.

Unknown_19: The bear's eyes are still glowing red.

Unknown_04: Shoot, loony roony. I can't get the pants?

Unknown_14: I like it a lot. Come back later.

Unknown_04: What do you mean I can't get the pants?

5:24:05
Unknown_19: The bear's eyes are still glowing red. It's guarding over the freezing corpse hidden inside its belly.

Unknown_04: You need the task to take the armor piece?

Unknown_04: The hangman's armor seems to be

Unknown_04: I'm never gonna get pants. I'm just never gonna get pants in this fucking game. They won't ever give me pants.

5:24:39
Unknown_04: Wait until true night. Okay, I'll do that.

Unknown_04: What does Kuno know about the armor?

Unknown_06: I guess not.

Unknown_06: Um...

Unknown_04: Okay, what else can I be doing until Kim gets back?

Unknown_04: Let's see, ransacked through the basement.

Unknown_04: Maybe I'll talk to the Hardy Boys and see what's up.

5:25:16
Unknown_04: Check the window upstairs?

Unknown_04: Which window?

Unknown_04: Sorry, I had to trust my volition.

Unknown_15: Yeah, you ruthless son of a bitch.

Unknown_15: I certainly didn't have it in me.

Unknown_15: I always let the pretty ones go. I'm soft like that.

Unknown_20: Yeah, like when we let old Clancy's widow walk.

5:25:49
Unknown_02: Or Denise, the diner girl. The milk rack on that one.

Unknown_15: Can't say I wasn't sad to see her go.

Unknown_15: our class you dare her face when your friend walked her out god damn fuck with the sun boy point to yourself get with burned that was the normal thing to do oh my god she had a sad face i'm so sorry i made her sad nothing to do about it now

5:26:26
Unknown_15: Don't think I forgot how I specifically let you know how I felt about her arrest either. Now, what do you want?

Unknown_04: Time to fuck Rubio.

Unknown_04: She's your real leader. She's the next link. I have seen her in a loudum num induced delirium. The paranormal instinct whispers her name into my ear. I need to pin this on someone. I suspect she killed the victim, that's why. Civil War is brewing. She's a suspect in another case I'm investigating. She's your real leader.

Unknown_15: You're a cuckoo cop. I'm the only man responsible for this unit. Get with it, or fuck off.

5:27:05
Unknown_20: Yeah, fuck off!

Unknown_15: I suspect she killed the victim. Sounds like you want to push this steaming pile of shit on anyone. And now you pit Ruby. Ruby's one of us. We're not going to throw her under your moral intern steamroller. Fuck.

Unknown_20: And fuck you too, moral fag.

Unknown_04: I'm still getting called a moral fag in the fucking game. This is bullshit. That's nothing.

5:27:37
Unknown_15: That's just legalese. You don't even have a sound theory.

Unknown_04: Um, actually, as a matter of fact, I have found the key in the union box, saw the wench outside, found the antique rifle. Clash had gave me motive. I found the secret route and Ruby is a drug trader that I've established. Uh, and my logic is undeniable. So how about you go fuck yourself?

Unknown_19: A sudden flash of lightning in your neocortex. The hostile cafeteria is lit by its airy blaze.

Unknown_19: Floor plans.

5:28:09
Unknown_04: My brain, my logic has finally woken up. It's now a glowing star in this fucking bar.

Unknown_04: Because she was here all night with us.

Unknown_13: Trying to alibi her, huh? He's cobbling together shit so he can put her away. It's cop 101.

Unknown_04: She didn't go to the toilet? No.

Unknown_19: That's a lie. The window Klasia gave for the time of death was from 1130 to 1215.

5:28:44
Unknown_15: All right. She took a fucking leak, okay? For one moment. Maybe went out too. She has an operation to run from her lorry. We're not getting... You're a fucking liar. Operation is a game. Kalp. Kalp. And just because she was gone for five minutes doesn't mean she... She's gone for 45 minutes.

Unknown_04: It's quite the window. I could walk up there right now and come back in five minutes.

Unknown_19: He's been through it. That means he suspected her too.

5:29:16
Unknown_19: Alright, we're in. We got Ruby unaccounted for sometime during the window. This was crucial. Now let's place her on that roof.

Unknown_04: Um, you do agree the shot came from the roof. A skilled sand bell artist could have climbed out the outer wall like a spider. There's a trade route in the kitchen that leads straight to the roof. Have you noticed the wench out back on the outer wall of the whirling?

Unknown_15: How?

5:29:51
Unknown_15: People say there was a pinball arcade here sometime before the hostel. What was it called, Theo?

Unknown_14: East Delta Pinball Arcade.

Unknown_15: Weird place. Went bankrupt. Okay, but how'd she get up?

Unknown_15: And how does she come into it?

Unknown_15: Um...

5:30:39
Unknown_15: Footprints.

Unknown_19: Recent. The tracks were recent, but not worn down in the right foot like Ruby's. It's best to omit this pesky little polemic for now. Too confusing.

Unknown_15: Horizontal? I see they taught you well in your RCM school.

Unknown_21: My old man, a hunter and a half.

Unknown_15: Good news is, I'm still listening.

5:31:10
Unknown_19: He knows they had to be recent for those lines to still read. This wasn't a failure.

Unknown_19: Right.

Unknown_04: What the fuck does that got to do with Ruby?

Unknown_04: Nothing. Get some more pinball machines.

Unknown_04: What if they're still somehow connected to the murder?

Unknown_19: He makes a gruff gesture for you to continue.

Unknown_15: I've seen the winch. I'm not blind.

Unknown_15: That's one mystery down there. An architectural mystery. You can't draw a straight line in a colossus window from any of the surrounding buildings. Not from what I know about Martinet. Maybe from the coast. But like I said, Twenty years?

5:32:33
Unknown_15: Why?

Unknown_15: This doesn't make sense. It's damn interesting, but it doesn't fit well, and you know it.

Unknown_19: It doesn't fit well, but it fits. Andy knows it.

Unknown_15: Firmly, firmly doesn't go well with could've, but a route does not put that bullet in his head. A gun does that.

Unknown_19: Phase two, murder weapon.

Unknown_04: Why am I telling Titus the entire murder plan? If not that, then at least a shadow of a doubt. Look at this guy. This guy right here thinks he's some hot shit telling this guy. Just don't contradict yourself.

5:33:03
Unknown_19: If it doesn't sound like Ruby did it, maybe keep it to yourself. But what if you miss interesting information that way? The choice is ultimately yours. But... Oh, no.

Unknown_04: I don't like it when reaction speed and rhetoric are both arguing with each other.

Unknown_15: That looks antique. A Bell McGray. It's inoperable. Where'd you get it?

5:33:36
Unknown_15: Also inoperable?

Unknown_02: Goddammit. We need to close that dump down for good.

Unknown_15: Okay. I see your point. There are guns lying around. Dammit. I thought we'd found all the old spots.

Unknown_13: We just missed one. Prove it doesn't know this place, boss.

Unknown_13: Just these cops digging up shit.

Unknown_13: God damn, that's just about your favorite topic, isn't it?

5:34:07
Unknown_15: He gets real pissed off about the drug shit.

Unknown_15: Trouble. This is Revachol. Even the roid heads in the gym had a carbine.

Unknown_19: He must be referencing some past case of theirs. He's angry because he knows you're right. What he's saying only confirms your theory. All right, Carl. Keep talking.

Unknown_17: I'll tell you when I've had enough. Pete, we're not seriously considering it, are we? Ruby wouldn't do this. Why would she do something like this?

5:34:41
Unknown_19: phase why would they care if she did motive the last component yeah like what the big man falls absolutely silent yeah but they're both girls that's fascinating i know it's bewildering for me too but that's what she said

Unknown_04: She hangs out with you meatheads. This has not come out as a surprise. It's supernatural, a reality-breaking event, and we just need to accept it. It's scary, yeah. She probably went to a university and learned it from a liberal. Oh, no! I fucked up.

5:35:12
Unknown_02: It's a lie.

Unknown_13: Come on, Glenn. She likes Monica's titties more than you do. Everyone knows which way the wind blows there.

Unknown_20: I did. I knew it. That's why she didn't fuck me at Fatty's birthday party.

5:35:48
Unknown_02: She didn't fuck you. Cut your forty and you still live with your mom, Dennis.

Unknown_04: Clashia also said she made advances of her and she thwarted them.

Unknown_15: This is some sort of shit. It's also the kind of garbage our Miss Oranje puts out to cover her own ass.

Unknown_15: That Ruby is queer as cabaret. Now that I start thinking about it, I don't know. None of these guys notice. Everyone's coping. And that's okay. some are queerer than others you can still be a hardy but if you bring your own personal into our outfit if that's the case then it's not right but it's not the case right there are many pieces that fit together that way eugene face it it's not why did she kill him it's why did she organize the cover-up maybe it's all part of the leadership challenge

5:36:56
Unknown_15: And I suppose you have a theory about that too, cop. Well...

Unknown_04: It was her idea, right?

Unknown_20: She had, like, a fully formed plan and shit. Right when she came back downstairs. Really, Shanks? Closio wanted to talk to another girl, that's all.

Unknown_02: She was just the first one up there. I could have come up with that plan if I'd have been first.

Unknown_19: Time for a Logix demonstration.

Unknown_04: Eugene, Shanky, or Titus. Let's assume you killed him. That's a hard one.

5:37:32
Unknown_04: Eugene is the young black guy. Shanky is the spurg.

Unknown_04: The low intelligence, the yes-man. And Titus is the baller. Let's go with Shanky.

Unknown_20: You probably did, though.

Unknown_04: Would you prefer to go on trial with your buddies as part of a lunch bomb or alone for committing murder? Fuck you, man.

Unknown_20: I would never fuck my guys over like that. Especially for some bird.

Unknown_17: She didn't either. She would never do that. Why aren't more of you defending her? This is fucking stupid, Titus. Glenn, I thought the same thing when she skipped town and left us in this shit.

5:38:04
Unknown_19: Oh, so he didn't rule her out completely. And she skipped town. This is good.

Unknown_04: Maybe it's a part of a leadership challenge? Is that the correct angle to take that? To try and say that she's trying to overthrow him and usurp him?

Unknown_15: I'll try that one. Goddammit.

5:38:48
Unknown_13: Nah, man. That's just Ruby. She's got shit under control.

Unknown_13: That's her whole thing.

Unknown_02: Plus, man, it's like female intuition. You know, women talk to women.

Unknown_04: Yes, female intuition, roll your eyes. Yeah, she's got her shit together.

Unknown_04: She knew it happened because she killed him. Fucking hell.

Unknown_04: Maybe she killed him because she thought it would curry favors with you.

5:39:22
Unknown_15: Whack someone in my district? That doesn't carry much favor.

Unknown_19: Silence. The old man in the corner nods. A very small nod.

Unknown_19: And a trickle of tobacco spit on his lip.

Unknown_15: Yeah, I see it. There's one more thing I've been wondering about ever since you asked me where she is. I don't know.

Unknown_15: I don't know where she went. She just got up and left. Got real scared, too. Wouldn't tell me where. However hard I asked.

5:39:55
Unknown_15: She was afraid I would tell you. Maybe she was right. By now, I probably would.

Unknown_04: Yeah. Okay. You think she'd know if I find evidence against her? Perhaps.

Unknown_15: Ask her if you find her. It won't be easy, though. She made sure of that. When did she leave?

5:40:27
Unknown_15: Friday afternoon. What's she scared of? You.

Unknown_15: Me personally? Yes. You. The cop with the sideburns and the disco clothes.

Unknown_04: I have come to declare the ending of the human experiment.

Unknown_04: I'm sorry, God. Why does everything flee at the sight of my shadow?

Unknown_04: I have no idea why she'd be scared. I'm a normal cop with regular thoughts in my head.

Unknown_15: Sure. Normal. You know, when I first saw you limping here, I thought she was paranoid or sniffing her own supply. But now I'm not so sure.

5:41:02
Unknown_15: she said you have a funny taste in clothes and that you won't stop until you have something on her she said she's heard of you from jamrock that you're a human can opener that you play suspects against each other open them up like can did ruby get me up on drugs hell

Unknown_15: Titus, did he just open Angus up like a can? Yes, he did. Now, we can whine about it, whack him, or we can go on with our lives.

5:41:35
Unknown_19: Silence.

Unknown_13: Yeah, there was something else.

Unknown_15: He's gone far.

Unknown_13: We know that much. Good fucking luck, man.

Unknown_13: Have you looked for her? Southwest

5:42:20
Unknown_15: So she's also passed the gate that opens on day three.

Unknown_15: Lizzie needed some air.

Unknown_15: You're a smart cop, but you're a stupid person. No one goes to tell everyone anything. If he has to know, he has to know fast.

Unknown_19: It's called a radio. You believe the gardener may have played you a game when she stormed out. She has her own plan.

Unknown_15: Sure. There are some shithouses there.

Unknown_04: Shithouses on the coast.

5:42:53
Unknown_15: I hear they have a shack where junkies sometimes crave. The junkie shack. Boyish. Here's Red. Died. Ulan frequencies.

Unknown_17: I have no idea. She said she's building a pale emitter. What? We were talking about radio equipment. She said she's doing Ulan frequencies and a...

Unknown_04: I know. It's so hard without Kim.

Unknown_19: This guy barely understands what he's talking about.

Unknown_04: There you have it. A little hell in there.

5:43:28
Unknown_19: Shake it. His grip is firm and reassuring, like holding a piece of unpolished granite.

Unknown_04: Okay, we've shaked his hand.

Unknown_19: What? Picking on me for not being crazy enough, that's the least of my concerns.

5:44:02
Unknown_04: just doing my job of course you do let's get right to it my lord's copo type is regular cop i'll let everyone know i'll send out to telefax send in the telefax done and done no regular law officials will be sent of course that would be too dramatic

Unknown_04: Look up the stats on regular law official chat. I have two skill points. And look up Jamrock Shuffle as well.

Unknown_04: I feel like I handled that pretty well.

Unknown_04: Negative one to Inland Empire. Negative one to Shivers.

Unknown_04: All learning caps raised to three.

5:44:58
Unknown_04: That sucks. That's a terrible skill.

Unknown_04: It just raises learning caps at the immediate expense of Inland Empire and Shivers, two of the best passive checks in the fucking game. That's fucking awful. That's terrible. What about Jamrock Shuffle? What does that one do?

Unknown_04: Jamrock Shuffle...

Unknown_04: Find better loot and lop containers. Oh yeah, we already looked at that one. That is sucks. Oh my God, that's fucking awful. Anti-object task force.

5:45:29
Unknown_04: That's the name of a band. That's funny.

Unknown_04: Yeah, that sucks too. God, all these suck. Fuck that.

Unknown_04: You know what?

Unknown_04: I think after that wonderful... Wait, why is my volition at 1?

Unknown_04: Wait, so if I have morale damage, my volition is at a lower operating level? And I have to heal it in order to get morale back up? Is that how that works? That's also shit. What the fuck?

5:46:07
Unknown_04: I'm very, very, very fucking lucky I passed that check then, because that's crazy. Okay.

Unknown_04: Okay, I'm going to level up Shivers.

Unknown_04: Should I level up Authority as well? I don't think so.

Unknown_04: What's another one that would be funny? You know what?

Unknown_04: Give me that fucking Half-Light. Give me that fucking Half-Light. I want to max my Half-Light.

5:46:38
Unknown_03: Yeah, that's right.

Unknown_04: I need my greasy meatball man speaking sweet nothings into my ear.

Unknown_04: Uh, okay.

Unknown_04: I'm not doing the capitalist quest.

Unknown_04: Yeah, I can do that. I can go buy some health items. It's just that it's such a...

Unknown_04: It just feels so wasteful to do that because, um...

Unknown_04: I'm so close to... Nighttime. You know what I mean?

5:47:09
Unknown_19: The tear machines. Your bottles clunk.

Unknown_04: The bullet window.

Unknown_04: Oh yeah, the window on the top floor. Yeah, I'll go do that. It's almost 21. There's two things that I can do today, I think, that I haven't done yet.

Unknown_04: Ask Ruby in the village. Run the number. I can't do that tomorrow.

5:47:42
Unknown_04: Then go to the smoker's house. This has been piling up for a while.

Unknown_04: The apartment's at 21, so I'm almost done with this day.

Unknown_04: I've already dismissed poor Kim so I can leave.

Unknown_04: The green dots on the map?

Unknown_04: I do, I interact with all the dots usually. I know it's not like Life is Strange where you just like.

Unknown_04: That thing did not light up.

5:48:16
Unknown_04: Oh, I'm looking at the wrong bullet window.

Unknown_04: Do I have to do that from inside? That's fucking bullshit.

Unknown_19: This window is pristine on the inside, unlike the one next to it.

Unknown_04: Okay, I'm going to save because if I fail that 92% check, I'm going to shit myself.

5:48:53
Unknown_19: The golden light melts away into the blue glassy darkness of your mind. In it are two neon lit shapes.

Unknown_04: Oh, I'm glad that we get to see the dead man's O face. It looks like cowgirl. Or just missionary, I guess. Oh, he got shot through the mouth?

Unknown_19: Into the back of the head?

5:49:31
Unknown_04: He literally got shot through his O-face, like a Big Bertha ball-eating game in a carnival. From the roof outside, location A-prime.

Unknown_19: The glass fractures around the bullet hole. Shards face inwards like a corona behind the woman's back.

Unknown_19: The ray cast from the man's mouth unravels into a fan of possible directions, all on the roof at first. A shot could have come from any of them. This is composite location A', most likely of the origin points. There could have been. Then the rain and slush and wind washed it away. 72%, with a weapon that's good for medium range, like a rifle or sports pistol. this is a good short distance but not too short the perpetrator aimed with their back against the railing or possibly kneeling for precision this would explain why it only took them one shot it is pretty low you couldn't even do that the lights were on in here outside it was dark It was like shooting fish in an aquarium. A well-lit aquarium. The victim opened his mouth to let the bullet in. Neither of them would have seen anything outside, in the darkness. Too busy with their own bodies.

5:50:46
Unknown_19: Point X would contradict the woman's testimony, rendering the entire proposition void. These figures would be wiped out, Detective.

Unknown_19: None that you've found thus far, but that doesn't mean there aren't any.

Unknown_19: That's a 28%, yes. In this model, the shot could have come from a greater distance. Nothing excludes the possibility. Should we extrapolate to include every possible point of origin in Martinet's...

5:51:22
Unknown_04: I mean, it could include the... You would need a map for that. A map of Martinez.

Unknown_19: Your voice alone rings in the room. This visual forensics ability doesn't dispense shocking tips. In the bookstore.

Unknown_04: Bookstore. Thank you, Logic.

Unknown_19: The man does not know the bullet has entered his brain.

Unknown_04: Okay. I can go get a map of the place before it closes in.

Unknown_04: Approximately ten minutes.

5:51:56
Unknown_04: Logic has to redeem himself after all that something that he did earlier.

Unknown_04: Very good timing. Only ten minutes left before the store closes.

Unknown_07: You broke down the I suppose I have to apologize for breaking into the basement. I hope you're happy now.

Unknown_19: Host almighty, she prays. Guard me and my honest business venture from the curse that lurks behind the door. Blessed be your name.

5:52:33
Unknown_07: Of course you didn't. You're nothing but a policeman. All right, you know what? I'm willing to let you investigate the doomed commercial area.

Unknown_19: Her facade has dropped.

Unknown_07: But before we go on, tell me, did you encounter the malignant entity?

Unknown_07: I'm lying to her about sensing the ghost. I just want a map, lady.

5:53:20
Unknown_04: I got 10 minutes to find a fucking map. I'm gonna fuck this up.

Unknown_04: Oh no, I'm fucking it up. I'm fucking it up. Game over, man. A small mountain of colorful board game boxes.

Unknown_19: There are numerous types of...

Unknown_19: The display rack is brimming with worn paper.

Unknown_04: Oh, it's all going so bad. I had such a tight deadline, now it's all... Oh! A map!

Unknown_19: Several maps have been attacked. The maps look old and faded. Martinaise? This one could work for seeing where the shot came from.

5:53:53
Unknown_04: I want to buy a map.

Unknown_07: Always good to be informed of your surroundings.

Unknown_04: That's right.

Unknown_04: I did it! Let's interact with the map.

Unknown_19: The worn map features the patchwork grid. Your finger moves through the various streets. Finally, coming to a halt on the spot where you are currently standing. For a more detailed view of the map, go to your journal and select the map tab.

5:54:26
Unknown_04: I will.

Unknown_04: Now there's finally a map here. Okay, so we're in the Martinet's waterfront.

Unknown_04: Um...

Unknown_04: There's the building.

Unknown_04: And the bridge, the drawbridge is right there. That collapsed.

5:55:01
Unknown_04: This must be before the war, I guess. No, it does say the Revachol Zeno Control. This just collapsed, whatever this was, the swing area.

Unknown_04: There's the dockyard.

Unknown_04: That's the fortress everyone keeps talking about.

Unknown_04: And the drawbridge cuts this off. But there is a clear line from there to either this shack over here. Oh, I bet you that's the crack shack.

Unknown_04: That's the crack shack that she's going to be at. That room? Either that or the egg, I guess. It has to be one of those. One of these three buildings over here. Okay. I will investigate that tomorrow for next room.

5:55:36
Unknown_04: Um.

Unknown_04: I guess I can interrogate her more about the shit in the room since I haven't been here before to do that.

Unknown_19: These shelves are overburdened with books from the same series. A couple of spook novels hide amidst all the detective books.

Unknown_07: Oh, crime, robberies, murders, even sexual crimes. We're fortunate to have Dick Mullen and his stories to sort all that out. You're a police officer, apparently. You should buy all of these.

5:56:09
Unknown_19: Note. Reading about Dick Mullen would not actually make you a better detective.

Unknown_04: It's good to know.

Unknown_04: I don't think I'm gonna get anything else from any of these other interactions. Is there anything else that I could do?

5:56:42
Unknown_04: For midnight.

Unknown_04: don't think so actually you know what let me go buy morale stuff before the store closes and heal up my morale in case my volition comes in handy with the uh um is this about the questions again because that's you're so annoying i hate her

Unknown_19: a small cabinet on the wall is filled with various medicine bottles nasal sprays and blister packs okay here i hope okay here i hope saint batiste makes you feel better or something okay

5:57:40
Unknown_04: I'm maxed out. We're all good. Last minutes of daylight. Anything I can think of.

Unknown_04: No.

Unknown_04: You know what?

Unknown_04: Let's run over to Joyce really quick and start a conversation with her and see if we can sync up. Then I'll do...

Unknown_04: I'll run back over to the body.

Unknown_19: Whoa.

Unknown_19: What have we here? A bridge with loose nails and rotten-fisted wood that creaks in the wind. A construction... Um... Then I'll do it back to the body.

5:58:18
Unknown_04: See if I can finally get my fucking leggings.

Unknown_04: And then I'll talk to the smoker.

Unknown_04: Oh no! She's already gone for the day. Okay.

Unknown_04: Guess I'm not doing that.

Unknown_04: Maybe her, she's going to get information.

Unknown_10: Hello again, officers. Ooh. Not only have you found my address.

Unknown_04: Officers?

Unknown_10: You've discovered my biggest secret. I'm a coal miner.

Unknown_04: Is Kim going to suddenly inject in this conversation? She does have eyes that seem to be smeared with coal.

5:58:52
Unknown_10: Yes, I keep hoping the shaft will collapse on me, but somehow it never happens. Does anyone shoot pig?

Unknown_15: Blah, blah, blah.

Unknown_04: Okay, actually, let's go back and look at the armor. Maybe having pants on will help me for this very important conversation chat.

5:59:45
Unknown_04: Here it comes.

Unknown_04: The moment of truth.

Unknown_04: It's taken me hours and hours and hours to get to this moment. Will there finally be a new option to take those fucking pants?

Unknown_19: It's over.

Unknown_04: It's over forever.

Unknown_04: All my effort, all my planning, all my scheming, just like in real life, it amounts to nothing.

6:00:16
Unknown_04: falling apart in my hands like wet toilet paper as I try to materialize them into something meaningful, tangible.

Unknown_04: Just read the task?

Unknown_04: Ask Kuno what he knows. Why the fuck would Kuno know anything about the rocks?

Unknown_04: The task says that I have to... I think I fucked it up.

Unknown_19: Apparently, she doesn't like people standing behind her back. Logic error. She's not sleeping right now.

6:00:57
Unknown_06: Pig's come to take me out. Trying to snuff me out.

Unknown_04: Are you sleeping right now? Don't get fucking clever with me, Pig.

Unknown_06: Trying to sneak up on me again.

Unknown_04: She doesn't really talk to her, okay.

Unknown_04: We have white empathy checks, but whatever.

Unknown_04: Dude, I'm telling you, it's a waste of my fucking time to do this. I can run back and talk to Kuno, and Kuno's not gonna have any new options.

6:01:29
Unknown_04: He's not gonna be like, oi, bruv, you wanna finesse those nice little booties off the dead booty?

Unknown_04: Well, Kuno takes no issue with that. If you go and talk to the corpse in the refrigerator, you can do it. Because that's what the journal says. The guy's like, check the journal, check the journal. Where's the rest of the fucking armor? Ask Kuno, the kid, what he knows.

6:02:02
Unknown_06: Fuck does Kuno care? Kuno doesn't fucking...

Unknown_04: Nothing. There's no new options. It's fucking over.

Unknown_04: Let me ask the fucking computer.

6:02:37
Unknown_04: Can I not get the armor legs from the body in the fridge when Kim is transporting the woman?

Unknown_04: Once Kim takes the body for transport, end of day three when the coalition...

Unknown_04: The body is gone and the boots go with it, if you haven't looted them yet. The Fairweather T-1500 pants boots have to be taken during the trib... I don't know what the fuck that means.

Unknown_04: I think I can just leave them there and go back at some point.

Unknown_04: So I'll keep trying.

6:03:25
Unknown_04: Once Kim wheels the body away, it's gone forever.

Unknown_04: Such a pain in my fucking ass.

Unknown_04: Like they really, it's not, it's like, it's super mega frustrating because I went out of my fucking way to make sure that they would be obtainable and the game did not anticipate those choices. Like there's literally nothing stopping me from getting them right now. Logically speaking.

6:03:57
Unknown_04: I have two options.

Unknown_16: Okay.

Unknown_16: Uh, yes?

6:04:46
Unknown_16: Beautiful.

Unknown_16: I have some good news for you. My Sunday friend is visiting me tonight. I told him about you and he'd like to say hello. Step in. He's already waiting.

Unknown_16: Is this like a gay rape scene? It's too gay to be cool.

6:05:24
Unknown_16: Good shit.

Unknown_19: And he's gone again.

6:05:58
Unknown_04: Gang to the gay sex dungeon.

Unknown_04: First, let's loot everything.

Unknown_04: Um.

Unknown_04: Is that a kimono?

Unknown_04: Wow.

Unknown_04: Holy shit, what a fucking look that is impressive.

Unknown_04: um plus one to drama drama is pretty important logic to negative authority minus one to drama plus one to visual calculus

6:06:52
Unknown_04: I do like that visual calculus. It does come in handy sometimes.

Unknown_04: I don't care about electrochemistry. Oh no, I don't want that.

Unknown_04: Are my pants still shitty? Savile Affair, negative Savile Affair, negative reaction speed. That's so bad. Why are both the pants options in this game so fucking awful?

Unknown_04: Do I want logic or visual calculus?

Unknown_04: I think that logic is going to help more than the negative one drama here. I think I want the composure. I think I want to max out drama.

6:07:24
Unknown_19: Hear that? Magnesium. That's what you're lacking. The lack of magnesium has you slouched.

Unknown_04: Yes, and it's critical.

Unknown_19: Look at yourself. You're practically devolving into a fish due to the lack of magnesium in your bloodstream.

Unknown_04: Don't tell me that. I need my magnesium. I need to mag it up.

Unknown_19: You need to get so magged up. You've probably had two heart attacks and a minor stroke already. And the only prescription is insane amounts of magnesium.

6:07:59
Unknown_04: You know what?

Unknown_04: I've had this exact thought myself. I really think I need to become a magnesium-based life form.

Unknown_19: Yes. If you want to live, you need to evolve. You need to transcend the carbon barrier. Go to the apothecary and buy insane amounts of magnesium. It will reverse the damage to your circulatory system.

Unknown_04: I don't know what this does. I don't want to know, but I'm going to get it.

6:08:34
Unknown_04: You know what?

Unknown_04: I want to get rid of those. I don't know why.

Unknown_04: Now I can become a magnesium-based life form. Yeah.

Unknown_04: Negative one is sure. That's fine for right now. I'm happy with that choice. I'm safe.

Unknown_04: You gotta be shitting me. A straw hat?

6:09:05
Unknown_04: To logic? Negative one to submission. This is racist. I can't wear this around my friend Kim. He's going to be like, what the fuck are you wearing? What the fuck? That's racist, bro. You gotta take this shit off.

Unknown_04: Losing one to suggestion for logic just doesn't seem to be a good idea.

Unknown_04: As funny as that is.

6:09:42
Unknown_04: One more.

Unknown_04: Okay. I think this is it.

Unknown_04: I don't think I'll ever be more ready than this.

Unknown_12: You have acquired the robe. Keep it, officer. It looks good on you. Thank you.

Unknown_19: His hands are clean and well manicured. This is a man who knows the importance of appearances.

Unknown_12: My name is Charles Vildroin, and I am an official with the Coalition Government.

Unknown_12: And you fuck young men on Wednesdays.

6:10:13
Unknown_04: Tuesdays. I heard you talking to my friend outside.

Unknown_12: Very good.

Unknown_12: Super.

Unknown_12: I am here to assist you in any way possible.

Unknown_19: Hanging? What a drag. He seems like a cultured gentleman. You should ask him about the finer things.

Unknown_04: I have to wonder about this canopy.

Unknown_12: Where did you get this silk robe from? We got it from an atelier in the East Delta Commerce Center.

Unknown_12: Personally, I think it's a little culturally insensitive, but the material is great.

6:10:45
Unknown_12: Sadly, the shop is now out of business.

Unknown_04: It is a little bit culturally insensitive.

Unknown_12: That's really all I can tell you about it.

Unknown_04: You actually witnessed the lynching? That is quite the shock there.

Unknown_12: Ah, my friend. My friend is a good young man. His family immigrated here from Kedra, and life has not been easy for him.

Unknown_04: I'm just enjoying the view. We're old friends.

Unknown_12: Nothing's taboo between us. He comes and goes. I'm sure you'll see him around. He's very active.

6:11:19
Unknown_12: Sorry, who?

Unknown_12: But I told you, officer. He's a bright young man here to pursue his education.

Unknown_12: He's deeply enmeshed in the study of the fine arts. He's a truly free spirit. He likes all the arts. Perhaps graphic design? Printmaking? Who knows?

Unknown_12: I'm all ears, officer. I'm sorry to say I did, officer.

Unknown_19: He didn't see the hanging. He saw the little show staged by the Hardys. Let him talk. He may know more than even he knows.

6:11:52
Unknown_04: Is it because you did it, Mr. Villadroian?

Unknown_12: Officer, it's very difficult to describe what I saw that night. It was so surreal to me, like in a play.

Unknown_19: He holds out his hands and blossoms his fingers, like a drama teacher set in the scene.

Unknown_12: No, no.

Unknown_12: I mean, it was so strange, I could barely believe what was happening. I was on the balcony when it happened, getting some fresh air. I remember that first they came in, carrying what looked like a body. And then I saw all the surrounding windows go dead, one by one. That's when I understood. I should not be seeing this. Only that there were about eight or ten. I couldn't make out anything. It was so dark. And it was quiet.

6:12:26
Unknown_12: But I suspect you knew that already.

Unknown_12: I can't say I'm surprised. The fine reputation of the men and women serving in the RCM is well deserved.

Unknown_12: The Coalition is only looking out for the price stability. Inflation is a killer, like a heart disease blocking the normal circulation of the economy. It must be controlled. The economy impacts the entire international community, which is why it requires international oversight.

6:13:04
Unknown_04: But why are you fucking young men?

Unknown_12: Well, I'm re-innovating it.

Unknown_12: It is an interesting project. The building used to be a 12-story skyscraper before the cannons took the top four stories off. This, of course, happened when the Coalition forces landed here. You could say I'm undoing some of the material damage the international community caused when we arrived here.

6:13:36
Unknown_04: Why are you gay?

Unknown_12: As I said before, I'm a commissioner from Sur-la-Cle working for the Institute of Price Stability.

Unknown_12: This is one of the main projects of the Moral Interim.

Unknown_19: Wait, there isn't actually an... Institute of Price Stability, is there? Or maybe there is... God, it's impossible to understand whether someone from...

Unknown_04: The encyclopedia icon looks like a buffalo, you know what I mean? Like a gnu?

Unknown_12: La Communauté Internationale is what Revacholians colloquially call the Coalition.

6:14:11
Unknown_12: In other words, the nations that stopped the disaster of the revolution. It is the most important thing. It's the central goal of any sound monetary policy, which is essential for maintaining the social stability. Take your daily bread, for example. Too much inflation, bread becomes too expensive. Too much deflation, it becomes too cheap for bakers to produce. That's why the Institute of Price Stability works to keep inflation just below 2%.

Unknown_12: But not too far below, no. Too below is also bad. Below- The Coalition believes in the importance of informing the public about the ben- He's just rambling about economics to avoid talking about why he fucks him in the ass. ...is one of our principles. A sound monetary policy is a- But oh, I don't have my leaflets on me today. That's too bad. You can always call our information line.

6:14:46
Unknown_12: Making information available is part of the more- Whatever you wish, officer.

Unknown_04: There's a fugitive from the Nolten? A fugitive?

Unknown_19: Hypothetically speaking, you might add.

Unknown_12: Well, I would say that is very bad indeed. What sort of a fugitive are we talking about here?

6:15:27
Unknown_04: Corporate espionage. That is extremely serious.

Unknown_12: Corporate espionage may technically be legal in Revachol, but elsewhere it's a very high-level offense.

Unknown_12: It violates a number of international agreements.

Unknown_04: That's such bullshit.

Unknown_12: Corporate espionage is not like a crime anywhere, I'm pretty sure.

Unknown_04: It's your own damn... It's your own fucking job to maintain your corporate secrets. This fugitive must be turned over to the ICP immediately.

Unknown_12: Have you apprehended them already?

Unknown_19: Stop. Before you do anything, consider the consequences.

6:15:59
Unknown_04: What do you mean, empathy? Are you simping? Have you thought about what this might mean for Classia?

Unknown_19: it's your call the man looks at you expectantly somebody else but why would i do that pin it on somebody else it was kuno it's empathy not drama

6:16:39
Unknown_04: drama seven i do have my drama mixed up with my fabulous attire it literally says drama challenge but why would i do that i'm thinking like would i blame it on ruby to disrupt the drug you know what fuck it fuck ruby

Unknown_19: Now's your chance, sire. Which of your enemies would you most like to make trouble for?

Unknown_04: I can blame it on the Union boss.

Unknown_12: Everard Claire?

Unknown_12: Surely you're mistaken. I have. The only thing Everard is a fugitive from is the exercise machine. Besides, in certain less advanced nations, the moral intern may defer to local customs.

Unknown_19: Customs? Like blatant, systematic corruption? I think that's what he's implying, rhetoric, yes.

6:17:34
Unknown_04: I'll make note of your claims in my report, but I'm sorry to say it's likely to end up in the back of the filing cabinet somewhere in Mirova, unread and forgotten.

Unknown_12: Yes, it rather is.

Unknown_12: As much as I am a true... Well, no matter. Now, was there anything else you wanted to discuss?

Unknown_12: A moment, officer. Do you have everything you need from me?

Unknown_12: I'm afraid we won't have the chance to speak again once you leave.

Unknown_12: It's against diplomatic best practices for an official in my position to be discussing murders with local militiamen.

6:18:16
Unknown_19: That's not the real reason he's so apprehensive. Men in his position shouldn't be seen loitering around in underprivileged young men's apartments in the middle of the night.

Unknown_12: Sure.

Unknown_04: Go ahead.

Unknown_04: I don't like the outcome of that.

Unknown_04: I'm gonna blow through everything and do it again. Because...

Unknown_04: I actually want to fuck her over for lying to my fucking face.

6:18:50
Unknown_12: He's clearly not a man accustomed to being spoken to in that manner. Back off.

Unknown_19: Now. This man has diplomatic immunity.

Unknown_12: Well, I can certainly understand that. I was on the balcony when it happened. Oh, I accused him of murder, that's right. That's when I understood. Only that there were about eight, but I suspect you knew that already.

Unknown_12: Okay. Okay.

6:19:32
Unknown_12: The Coali- The economy impacts the entire international community. Whatever you wish. The Coalition is- Wait, did I fuck up by not doing this? Yeah. Wait. Ah. You could say I'm on La Communauté and it is the most important thing. It's the center which is essential for men. Take your daily bread. That's why the Institute- But not too. The Coalition believe a sound but- Oh, I don't have my leaflets on me today. That whatever you wish.

Unknown_19: Okay. This is a... Well, what sort of a fugit that is corporate is fugit?

Unknown_12: Stop.

Unknown_19: Before you do anything.

Unknown_12: Consequences. I don't care about consequences. Do you not care for anyone other than yourself?

6:20:05
Unknown_19: Have you thought about what this might mean for Classia?

Unknown_04: Why would I care? That's your call.

Unknown_19: The man looks at you expectantly.

Unknown_12: Ah, good to hear. Excellent.

Unknown_12: On behalf of the morale intern, let me thank you for this service.

Unknown_19: That's it. She's done for. Au revoir, Classia.

Unknown_12: Not my problem. This is a great relief.

Unknown_12: The sanctity of corporate secrets is a cornerstone of the international oblong.

6:20:40
Unknown_04: It's literally not. This is something that the game developer just made up.

Unknown_12: I'll be sure to make a note of your contributions in my report. Revachol is fortunate to have police officers like you.

Unknown_12: What was that?

Unknown_12: A nationalist. I see.

Unknown_12: In other circumstances, I might be compelled to report you for sedition. Fuck you, Bush. Well, no matter. You've done the moral internal great service, regardless of your personal views. Now that that's settled, was there anything else you'd like to discuss? A moment, officer. Do you have everything you need from me? It's against me. That's not the real reason he's so apathetic. Sure.

6:21:13
Unknown_04: I guess that's it. It was a bit of a letdown, to be honest with you.

Unknown_04: I don't know why that cost morale. It should have increased morale. In fact, I have a specific perk that says when I use nationalist things, I get plus one morale?

6:21:47
Unknown_04: Wait, does that really actually take morale anytime I say that?

Unknown_04: Someone told me that it was plus one to morale. Does that actually negative one...

Unknown_04: Dude.

Unknown_04: I'm so pissed. This game just straight up fucking lies to you sometimes.

Unknown_04: Like, you take the nationalist perk and then whenever you say anything nationalist, you just suffer acute brain damage.

Unknown_04: No, it's a perk specifically designed to fuck you over for...

6:22:29
Unknown_04: no because when i talked about this i remember being so angry when this unlocked that i said there's no way that this perk is as bad as it seems to be on paper and somebody in chat told me that the plus and the negative one morale meant negative one morale damage so if i had a missing pip and i said something nationalist i would heal from the morale damage and i accepted that as true because there's no way That it's an alcoholism perk that damages you if you do the thing that got you the perk to begin with. That doesn't make any sense. But that's exactly what it is, because the developer is just a fucking crackhead.

Unknown_04: Um, I'll check the body again. It gives you a physical, but... FYS, is that not the crackhead thing?

Unknown_04: What is FYS?

6:23:23
Unknown_04: morale alcohol gives plus 2f which i'm not drinking so it's like literally the worst the worst skill in the game bar fucking none to the point where i might edit the game files to give me back the skill point for the other bullshit fucking skill that i took and uh let me take that out for free that's fucking bad that's like eyes are still a friend the picture i like it at a comeback So no, I'll never get the fucking boots. The skills don't make any fucking sense. The developer is a cringe fucking faggot.

Unknown_04: Yeah, but I'm not drinking alcohol, so I'm never gonna get that. Is the thing.

6:24:17
Unknown_04: Click the microphone in the cafeteria? What are you talking about? This?

Unknown_04: There's no... There's no...

Unknown_04: I can't click the microphone. It doesn't do anything.

Unknown_04: Yeah, the commentary is that they're all low IQ drones. I understand. It's very clever.

6:24:50
Unknown_19: The same two neon-lit shapes. A man.

Unknown_19: According to your map of the district, this shot could have come from a wide angle of locations, starting with the northern edge of the abandoned boardwalk, ending with an islet in the bay. B' for boardwalk, B'' for land's end, and B'' for the islet, detective.

Unknown_19: 700 meters away, the likeliest of these B positions, 20% chance. A skilled sniper could have made the shot, provided he had a safe sniper's nest. 1.2 kilometers away, the least likely of these positions, let's say 3%. A truly skilled sniper could have done it, possibly from a tent.

6:25:28
Unknown_19: One kilometer away, a point beyond the docks, on an islet in the bay. The fort is ruined, but the perpetrator may have found a stable spot on the beaches surrounding it, where the concrete crumbles into the sea. As you saw in the coin-operated viewer, the shot would have been a small miracle, 5% likelihood. This one is like the rarest fucking of all the humors. I don't think I've ever seen that one. Is it like once or twice?

6:26:05
Unknown_04: I feel bad for spirit decors, people.

6:26:40
Unknown_04: Okay, I guess that's it. I'm very unhappy with a couple things in the game right now. I'm not gonna fucking lie to you.

Unknown_19: The bed is still cold from the broken window, and not too inviting. But it's yours. You've earned it.

Unknown_19: Let's see what the disco Elysium is. The bed is still cold from the wind blowing in from the broken window.

Unknown_05: Here we are again, my broken bird. The waves are coming, carrying you away. But you can't go. No. You have to stay always half aware of yourself.

6:27:14
Unknown_05: You're not cooperating, brother man. It's your disgusting body.

Unknown_05: Even through your sleep, you feel a vague discomfort suffusing it. Your belly and your sides are unpleasantly tender. You wish you could curl up into a fetal ball of safety, but you cannot.

6:27:44
Unknown_05: Because of the pain.

Unknown_19: That pain in your right side is your enlarged liver, by the way. As for your kidneys, you've really been compounding the damage lately.

Unknown_04: Every cell in your body is moaning in agony, asking, what did we ever do to you?

Unknown_19: It's a system spot.

Unknown_05: now you're finally thinking about something other than yourself let's see how far that'll get you suffabish there's no dignity here only reflections of your body man the voice actor for your ancient reptilian brain is the same as the corpse you keep coming back to yourself in the mirror but why

6:28:44
Unknown_14: to admire all your accomplishments? You're just stuck here, in the half-world. Could try looking at other people, really looking. But why would you want to start doing that?

Unknown_04: I'll look at people all... Sure you do.

Unknown_14: They're all

Unknown_19: at least they're interesting each one has a process just like yours running in the space between their ears full of secrets yeah what does this penis sound like they need to get jim sterling to voice act the penis are beautiful statuesque parodies and tragedies of themselves a great democracy of creatures

6:29:34
Unknown_05: What do you think you're doing right now? Coming to some greater awareness? Look at all these lights, blinking in and out of existence. Thoughts! You're just pretending that you're asleep, even to yourself, while the world goes on without you.

Unknown_14: Let it. Let it.

Unknown_05: But it never seems to let you go, does it? Time to rise and wipe...

Unknown_04: I think some stuff was voice acted.

6:30:08
Unknown_05: There's a Steam curator I follow called Shitlisting Service, which is, I almost guarantee you, is ran by a tranny because they complain about the most fucking asinine shit.

Unknown_04: But they actually, like, thumbs down this fucking game specifically because some parts were not voice acted. And it's like it's a fucking indie game.

Unknown_19: Put on your prettiest face for the masses.

Unknown_04: My face is pretty.

Unknown_04: Okay, there we go.

Unknown_04: I agree that the different statues have had different voices.

6:30:53
Unknown_04: Jim Sterling could have been...

Unknown_04: What could he have been? Drama? He could have been drama.

Unknown_04: Okay.

Unknown_04: That's it for day two, chat. Thank you for sticking around. I'm very surprised that we have 300 people watching this, but... I guess some people just like me, chat. I don't know what it is.

Unknown_04: Um... So, thoughts on day two. I enjoyed... Once I got through the bullshit softlock...

Unknown_04: There was, like, actual detective work, and the skills actually made sense, and I enjoyed a lot of it, but...

6:31:26
Unknown_04: I'm very, very, very, very, very irritated about the fucking pants. I'm very, very, very irritated about how the thought cabinet just doesn't make sense. Like I don't feel like I get any fucking value from any of the skills that I have. And there are some that are just straight negative. And it's like I'm being forced to spend skill points to unlock them. And then I have to spend skill points again to forget them. And you would think like in a game balance sense, the time lost in unlocking them is sufficient for the purposes of a negative impact and i don't know maybe have time to forget them but like a full skill level just gone forever a skill level you never get back can never make back in any way shape or form just gone uh that's kind of fucking bullshit so um yeah it's it's kind of annoying and i also feel like there are some skills that are overpowered like we just go through it one of the best things about the game is just the art for like the skills um i like all of these pictures basically

6:32:26
Unknown_04: But, like, hand-eye coordination? That seems like complete shit. But, meanwhile, perception, which is right next to it, is extremely overpowered. Reaction speed comes in all the fucking time, but Savo Affair almost never does. Interfacing does occasionally, but composure and composure does. It's like, there's a couple that are good just for talking. Empathy, composure, suggestion, which is so low, I never get a suggestion skill. But then, like, physical instrument...

Unknown_04: electrochemistry almost never happens conceptualization rarely shows up but sometimes like all of these are really really strong uh logic is op like you could probably beat this game just with logic at like 12 and nothing else um but i but there are some that i like like shivers doesn't show up all the time volition shivers inland empire and half light are like cool but they don't actually seem to progress the game in any way shape or form

6:33:27
Unknown_04: So there's some stuff that's really cool, but then it's like, you know. I don't know, there's some stuff, like I'm, honestly this is like such a negative impact on the game like the fact that they created this thing they gave it to you and then the developer thought like no it has to be really bad because nationalism is bad you only get it when you drink and doing the thing causes you brain damage because when you have a brain damage thought like nationalism it should really hurt you just like like just like it does when you see like these guys on twitter posting nationalist things you know it's causing them psychological damage to say such stupid things all the time i'm just getting like redditor ooze out of it it's like honestly it's like so bad it's like when you're watching a movie and then there's like a weird scene where like the main actress's feet are like front and center of the camera and you're like um i can't help but notice that you decided to make this young woman strip her shoes off so you could record the bottom of her soles and 8k you know high-quality movie-grade film. I just can't help but notice that. I can't help but notice your inexplicable fetish injected into this fucking game. Anyways.

6:34:27
Unknown_04: Anyways. That's my thoughts on it. So, thank you for watching. Take it easy. I hope you guys had a great weekend. And the next playthrough will be on the weekend. Since I'm going in about one day, I know there's five days, I will probably just be the fifth game on Monday if I have to.

6:35:00
Unknown_18: Okay.

Unknown_04: Bye-bye.