Thank you. .. Fuck. 0:01:04 Unknown_16: That sucks. Can you hear me? Is everything okay? Is my voice okay? I, um... 0:01:36 Unknown_16: I can't start my usual NVIDIA broadcast thing because it wants a driver update, which I can't do without restarting, so I can't do that. Unknown_16: Fried as ever. Look at my voice in general. Unknown_16: Just how I am. I remember being so perplexed by that the first time... Let me start recording. The first time I was on the Dick Show, I remember, um... Unknown_16: Everyone said I had the worst vocal fry they've ever heard, and I just remember being so confused by that. It's like... Unknown_16: I don't know what the fuck that means. Unknown_16: Such is life. Unknown_16: So... 0:02:15 Unknown_16: I think I can only stream video games now. It's hard to get into them when you're just playing them, because I always feel like I should be. Unknown_16: should be making a game. There's a really famous quote by, not famous, nothing in my world is really famous, but, um, Kronklord 420, the famous Kronklord 420, the really famous Kronklord 420, is, uh, very fond of a quote by Terry Davis, the very famous Terry Davis, where he says, I think verbatim, don't play video games, make them. 0:02:50 Unknown_16: So, Unknown_16: Krunk follows that ideology. He rarely plays any games anymore. Unknown_16: Baldur's Gate 3 is like a 60 hour long RPG. I think I would lose my fucking mind. I would accidentally get raped by the bear guy. I'd just be like, fuck this, I quit. Unknown_16: I want to make video games too. Sometimes when I'm lying awake at night and I can't sleep, I think about game mechanics and systems I've always wished I could build. 0:03:26 Unknown_16: That's ultimately what I want to do, really, is eventually make a game that is as important to me as RuneScape and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was when I was a kid. I just remember being nine and clicking around RuneScape and just being so amazed by how big the game was and how There was little stuff to find everywhere. It was just like this whole big world. Unknown_16: And it had... And then when RuneScape 2 came out, which is now called Old School RuneScape because it was so long ago, it had amazing music. And I'm really convinced that the most important element of any kind of entertainment medium is music. And that's, I think... 0:04:15 Unknown_16: I don't know, I've talked to Claude about this, about how important music is, and Claude disagrees with my assessment and says that music is secondary to cement a good feeling or a good experience. I actually disagree. I think that there are things that music is so important to that it actually makes the experience completely. And I use as an example Undertale. I think Undertale with shitty music would just be a completely unremarkable game that nobody would ever talk about. But there's so many compositions in that that are very iconic. 0:04:47 Unknown_16: And there are so many compositions in that that stack together in layers. Unknown_16: And it's just like really impressive from a musical design standpoint that it created something that millions of people play and remember. I played through it like in one day using Cheat Engine and I still remember a lot of stuff about Undertale fondly because it has music to it. Unknown_16: And... Unknown_16: Then there's Nier Automata. Nier Automata is a game that normally I would fucking hate, because it has everything you'd think I'd hate about a game, but it has some of the best music of any game of all time. And I've actually watched videos of how they did orchestras for Nier, and it's so impressive. And then RuneScape, Old School RuneScape, the fucking guy that made the music for Old School RuneScape is a literal pedophile. 0:05:26 Unknown_16: Um... Unknown_16: But everybody remembers Sea Shanty 2. It was just such an experience going from 2D No Music RuneScape to walking into Port Sarim and hearing Sea Shanty 2 for the first time as a kid. It was literally mind-blowing. Unknown_16: If you ever make a game, make sure to put a million dollars aside for the soundtrack. It's probably the cheapest thing you can buy that's going to have the most impact. 0:06:08 Unknown_16: Anyways, just a little bit of rambling to get the people come in. It's day three. If you don't remember day three of day two of Disco Elysium, it was. Unknown_16: Let's see. Oh, it was the it was actually a very engaging sequence, especially compared to the first day where you had to interrogate a woman. who was in a sexual relationship with the dead guy. Unknown_16: And that whole sequence was very, like, actual detective-y, and I lucked out bigly with volition. which created probably the most memorable sequence of the entire game for me so far, where logic and empathy and drama were all simping for the girl and saying that she's completely credible. And then Volition steps in. It's just like, don't trust them. They're full of shit. They're bewitched. And then they're all coping and seething about how Volition had intuition that they didn't have. It's very funny. 0:06:45 Unknown_16: So... Unknown_16: I think I'll just continue. I think the only thing that I'm really trying to do is that I know that there are pieces of ceramic armor that are extremely useful. Everyone has told me this. And I think I have locked myself out of being able to get the ceramic leggings off the corpse. But I will try one more time, I think, tonight to try and get it. But I think I've talked to people and I think I've locked myself out. 0:07:31 Unknown_16: I don't remember the controls. Oh, I can try to fix this mirror again. There's an ongoing plot where the mirror is just unfixable. Unknown_14: Nope. 0:08:05 Unknown_16: That's her room, in case you're wondering, the woman's. I'm not sure what's going on. Unknown_16: Maybe I can go take his boots now. Ah, fuck, you saw me. Unknown_16: I was told that one thing that I missed in this game was there's a piece of art that's somewhere out here, and if you watch it you can get actual art degree as a perk, and apparently that's very good. Unknown_16: So, okay, I remember now. There is a map I have now, and there is a barrier. 0:08:44 Unknown_16: This right here, that's destroyed, that bridge. I don't know what you would call a bridge that's like a thing pedestrians cross on, but there's that pedestrian corridor right there that's destroyed. And then there's an actual drawbridge that's up. And I think that they're fixing something, and that's fixed today. And this will unlock this part of the map, which I suppose is now where stuff is going to happen. Unknown_16: So Alice, let's start with Alice, because that's going to wrap up the I softlocked myself out of the ceramic legs arc. Unknown_14: Inside, you see a set of steering levers, a radio microphone, a pull-out toolbox. 0:09:21 Unknown_16: Okay, hold up. Unknown_16: Mr. Moon, Blade is currently playing Disco Elysium in real life because he's rolling around on a Scooty Puff trying to figure out what happened last night. Unknown_16: Whose Blade? Is that like only Use Me Blade? I know who that is. I assume this is like a IPS or what's his name? Ice Poseidon? Unknown_16: IPS2? Always Wins? Dot Win? Unknown_16: Yeah, that's never happened to me, thankfully. Unknown_06: I'm asking about the boots. I was born ready. The Oranese or the Dutch. That's E-L-L-I-S-K-O-R-T-U-N-A-N-E-S. Date of birth unknown. Signed into Laila Sid County National Care Unit. 0:09:53 Unknown_14: Date of birth unknown. Unknown_16: National care unit? Neonatal care unit? What the fuck? Unknown_06: Neonatal care unit on 28th of February, 09. Unknown_16: So he has a child. 0:10:24 Unknown_06: He was found as a newborn in a leisure factor near an abandoned farm. Unknown_16: Wow, that's fucked up. He spent four months in the... Unknown_06: This is what the ICT knows about him. He was raised by foster parents, entered the East Brand Military Academy in Vladefort at 17, then... I don't know who discharged. Then the armor followed him to Seminine, or at least I assume it did. And that's it. There are no records of his employment. He was found in a leaf compactor. Unknown_11: It's a garden tool used to press leaves into these cubes. Okay, I got you. It is. Thank you, Alice. Unknown_11: Foster parents. Unknown_06: Sorry. 0:10:58 Unknown_16: Crinnell is the armorer. Unknown_11: And that is a small miracle. These organizations usually double-check their inventory. Unknown_06: No problem, Lieutenant. What's up? Unknown_11: This is very good. Alice Cortonard. Unknown_06: I'm glad the inquiry was helpful. Unknown_14: In the cabin, you see a set of steering levers. Unknown_16: Um, one scope point. I'll keep that, just in case. Someone suggested that I buy Kuno a comic book. I'll try that. 0:11:30 Unknown_16: Do I see comic books anywhere? These comic books. Unknown_14: The display rack is brimming with worn paperbacks featuring... Oh, man from Hjelmdal. Unknown_08: Blood and violence. Scantily clad women. Epic narratives. What does it matter? They're all the same. If you're a novice of the series, I'd recommend Hjelmdalaman. The man from Hjelmdal. It's supposed to be a good introduction to the series. 0:12:04 Unknown_16: nine that's not a comic book who wouldn't read that gay is a man's man he wants a comic book this quaint picture broke brochure fascist magic okay the plaque on the shelf reads biographies of famous people that's boring Unknown_14: This bookstore is not strictly about crime, romance, and biographies of- Paranatural? 0:12:39 Unknown_16: Who gives a shit about that? What's this? Unknown_16: What? Unknown_16: What a bizarre second bubble. I mean, it's true. There was like, wasn't it Himmler who was like obsessed with like the Himalayan mountains because he thought that's where like the Aryans came from and that's where Neo Borea was or some shit. Unknown_14: A small mountain of colorful board game boxes. There are numerous types of board games. 0:13:11 Unknown_16: Maybe the little girl knows about a comic book. Maybe I got fucking, um, I want to try to get the, these books are going to get wet. Unknown_16: The mole? No. The Asian guy is my partner. He doesn't narrate anything. The black guy you hear is his internal voice. 0:13:43 Unknown_16: Which is very ironic because I've been told that some people don't have internal voices. Unknown_14: You see rows of toy soldiers guarding. Unknown_16: No. Unknown_16: I don't think there's shit in here. Okay, I don't fucking know. Maybe the guy talking about the comic book was just full of shit. 0:14:17 Unknown_16: I don't think I can get the ceramic legs. I'm just forever molested on the leg question. Unknown_16: Okay, it's now Wednesday. We can close the lock, I guess. Unknown_14: Arresting control, you grab the handle, the water lock starts moving. I have to sit here and wait for the thing to move? 0:14:48 Unknown_11: Alright, we can go to the coast now. Unknown_16: Yeah, I see that. Unknown_16: Oh, free ship. Unknown_17: OK. 0:15:42 Unknown_16: It's crazy how much spam there is on fucking kick. Unknown_16: Are they spamming me? Because they're like, oh, this guy doesn't have any viewers. I'm just playing Disco Elysium. Be nice to me. Unknown_16: It's true. I am under attack. 0:16:26 Unknown_16: Something inside. Ooh, money. Unknown_16: Okay, I might need a fucking genie for this. Unknown_16: I'm a little bit disappointed by the, uh, the introduction to this area. It's like such a miserable shithole. Unknown_16: Maybe it was sectioned off for my own good. 0:17:01 Unknown_14: A banged up motor carriage lies half submerged in the icy water. It must be cold and lonely down there in the icy water. It's a carrot. The seawater has already started to corrode the metalworks. Remember the tire tracks in Martinez? This is where they were leading. It appears to be so. Unknown_11: I agree. We should definitely investigate. Unknown_14: You get a sudden, sinking feeling. Stomach acid comes up as you look at the motor carriage in the deep, dark, cold water. Unknown_16: It's just a car off the road. The motor carriage is properly stuck in the ice. 0:17:36 Unknown_14: A single day in the salty sea water would ruin most vehicles. but this one looks worn even in places the salt the logo is too deep in the murky water the ice hasn't closed around the vehicle yet my guess is it's been here since last saturday or sunday the estimate is correct let's wait for the low tide and see what's inside then we can get the things inside i don't know an hour or two tops Unknown_16: i just have to bur oh i hope that didn't waste the entire day as you sit down in the old rusty playground the world around you becomes very silent the hinges creak under your weight dangerously so what is nothing but the sound of seagulls whistle a tune i can sky i can like distant laughter ice cracked the tune on your lid thank god i passed the whistle tune the lieutenant gives you a quick glance then still looking straight ahead he joins you with a higher pitch and slightly more melodic trill two birds on a wire whistling by the seaside how many people did i block on black on twitter dude a lot the clouds pass in the sky and the shadow of the swing moves like the hour hand on a time piece They're in discords, and they're very angry at me. And it just makes me think, like, if you could channel your obsession with drawn child pussy into, like, politics? I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't. I should be careful what I wish for. That sounds like a monkey paw in the making. 0:18:33 Unknown_14: Looks like this might take a while. Time to present a good topic for discussion. Unknown_11: My dad and mom are both half-serialized. Unknown_16: so he's a hapa of two hapas does that have a name i guess if you're a hapa of two hapas then you're like forging like a hapa blood empire at that point it stops being a hapa and you start being like hapanese clouds on the horizon grow darker and the shadow of the swing set keeps climbing you hear the distant rumble of the city 30 minutes pass All I'm saying is I'm surprised people's skin color varies so drastically. 0:19:56 Unknown_11: Once again, differences in skin color are the result of melanin production, liver functions, regional adaptation, and various other factors. Unknown_14: Your voice echoes on the water, strange and out of place in the environment. 30 more minutes pass. Unknown_11: Detective, I've been able to make out the mark ever since we arrived. Yes, why haven't you? Unknown_11: It is a simple and rugged machine, favored by working men, government offices, firefighters, and... Yes, 41. What do you think it stands for? 0:20:33 Unknown_16: The meaning of life. Unknown_14: It's as if he knows what it stands for, but wants you to say it. It's pedagogical. Does he know something about the driver of this vehicle? Unknown_16: FM 41? The host of 41 FM? Is the rank in the underground street hierarchy? The factory made a mistake? I hate guessing. District 41? Unknown_11: A precinct. Yes. Unknown_16: Yeah, we're in precinct 41. Police precinct. Unknown_14: Precinct 41. A massive pit opens up in your stomach, and the most terrible feeling comes out. 0:21:06 Unknown_16: Oh, no. That's me. That's my car. Oh, God, Harry. Oh, God, Harry. Unknown_14: What did you do? Unknown_16: Shut up, Half-Life. No. Unknown_14: Just nope. Unknown_11: Oh, God, I drove the car into the sea. I'm afraid so, yes. It looks like you started in front of the whirling, jumped over the canal, and then drove your vehicle in the sea right here. Unknown_16: The badge and the gun and my car. The lieutenant adjusts his glasses and doesn't say anything. 0:21:40 Unknown_16: Okay, let's get the thing out. Unknown_11: Yes, let's go take a look. Unknown_11: Magnesium based. Unknown_16: Oh finally That's me magnesium to make tell them hell No, you're about to become a magnesium based life form The age of the primitive carbon man is done No longer must mankind rely on slow working background radiation to take us further into our genetic destiny This is the era of guided evolution to volition is the key to Hell yeah. That's fucking... Oh, I got a second one. 0:22:17 Unknown_14: Wow. That's crazy. Unknown_16: Negative one difficulty to all physique passives. That's awesome, because I have no physique. I'm physique-less. And I can become more logical. Great. Those are both great. Unknown_16: Maybe I should raise my logic, because I just took a hit to logic. Unknown_16: No, actually, I need more half-light right now. 0:22:53 Unknown_17: That's my determination. Unknown_16: Okay, let's... Can we raid this fucking car yet? Unknown_16: Ooh, a jacket. Unknown_16: Let me take my jacket, goddammit. My ID badge. Oh, I can finally talk to that bitch. Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_16: Let's see. Unknown_16: This is plus one to drama and electrochemistry, but this is... Unknown_16: Spirit Decor, I don't think that's useful. Visual Calculus is useful though. Plus one just shivers. Unknown_16: I'll take the jacket. Fine, wow. 0:23:25 Unknown_16: Maybe one day I'll get pants. I guess the game just decided that every single person would get the pants and nobody would never not get the pants. Nobody would never not be able to figure out how the pants work. So there's just no point in not giving people extra pants in this game because everyone obviously would just take the pants. Unknown_16: Except me. So I've been pantsless the entire fucking game. It's been three days and I can't find any fucking pants. Unknown_16: Thank you, T54. I guess he was so pleased that I became a magnesium-based life form. I gotta subscribe to this guy. I gotta gift a sub. 0:23:57 Unknown_16: Did the sub go to the clanker? Oh, no! Dude, that's crazy that, um... Unknown_16: That it goes to ban people? Unknown_16: That's harsh, buddy. Look at that. A subscriber clanker. Should email kick support and demand that this gets sent to somebody else. 0:24:30 Unknown_16: Oh, I'm going to the other guy. I don't know. Maybe I can figure something out. Let me talk to him one more time. Unknown_20: Kuno's like Kuno's dad. Kuno doesn't give a fuck about the fuck about it. Unknown_16: Where's the rest of his armor? Kuno doesn't give a shit about the armor. I fucking had one thing majorly wrong with him. Unknown_20: He's a fucking mutant. Do you remember how he looked? Fucking growth hormone shit. He's a giant. The armor's too big for any man. Kuno doesn't give a shit about that freak armor. Kuno threw that shit away. Kuno tried to get the helmet on. It was too big. 0:25:03 Unknown_20: Oh, the protester. Unknown_14: Yes, you met him at the gates. The one... Yeah, I remember. Curious, my liege. Why did Kuno feed you this information? 0:25:36 Unknown_20: Yeah, Kuno's doing charity today. Kuno Day. Kuno feels sorry for you two loser pigs. Unknown_16: Oh, the mustache guy stole the armor from Kuno and he feels bad. Still, seems suspicious. He may have it in for them. Unknown_20: Get lost! Uh, okay. Kuno does... Unknown_16: Last time, let me just go look at the armor. 0:26:10 Unknown_16: Just real quick, let's just go look at it forlornly. And lament the fact that I completely fucked this entire game up, and a logical person will restart it and go get these wonderful pants, which I can never do. Unknown_14: So I'll just go pantsless. Okay, I'll tell him to take the body towards the end of the day. Unknown_16: I need Kim, he's the only logical person in the game. Without Kim, you're hopeless. Unknown_16: Not yet after talking to Manana? 0:26:44 Unknown_16: Dude, I'm sorry. There's no way the game's gonna let me get those pants. It's just over. It's never been this over before. Unknown_12: Hola, wandering man. How can I... The little boy, I did good on his promise to get me into trouble. Unknown_11: What happened? Unknown_12: I was asked to look into that armor situation. Unknown_11: Did you? Unknown_12: At first I thought, why not? Maybe the pieces can feed the strike. So I went to this boy. He said he'll make me his prison bitch. He's in his pocket and he's the king of Jamrock. 0:27:15 Unknown_16: Dude, when I play a game, I almost never cause problems because I'm just like, I don't like causing problems. I already have enough problems in life. But if you ever write a game, you definitely need people who are just like Ethan Ralph, basically. You have to write an Ethan Ralph to keep a narrative interesting. Serves me right for doing menial footwork. Unknown_12: I dropped that probe right then and there. It's a minor nuisance. I learned that people don't want to talk to a drunk union man about some armor. What is? Not much. Technical stuff, mostly. I did some research into this armadura. Let's say I have friends at the library. 0:27:50 Unknown_12: How does it come off? In parts. Four in total. The helmet was the first to go. The kid says he tore it off and kicked it off. Unknown_16: Is it really describing with in-game lore how armor works and how you have slots in your inventory? Unknown_12: So, as I count, there are two parts missing. The gauntlets and the cuirass. This is where I left off. Too much hassle. Unknown_16: More like a job for some militia. Unknown_16: Kolya, I trust you. My son. 0:28:21 Unknown_16: I am going to deputize you to... Unknown_16: deal with the clanker menace um maybe i can make the i was restrict age of account to one hour and then there we go and then i'll add colia with an underscore i guess okay great 0:29:01 Unknown_16: Okay, sorry about that. Unknown_16: Four pieces, helm, curious, gauntlets, boots. What about leggings? Unknown_12: Oh, they're just gone. They don't exist anymore, if they ever did at all. Unknown_16: They're on the guy's legs. Unknown_12: I did. Unknown_16: Wait. Unknown_16: They were on the body. Did they take the boots off the body? Unknown_11: Some general officers can take care of the rest. Unknown_12: Smart choice. It's only that one spot you need armor to. The one the bullet hits. 0:29:32 Unknown_12: Good luck if you go for those boots, though. You'd have an easier time resting the spurs off a boyadero than getting them off him. Unknown_12: No problem. Unknown_14: He is sincerely grateful he is not tracking down pieces of armor right now. Unknown_16: You know what? I don't give a fuck about sincerity, bish. Unknown_16: No, the boots are the key to all of this. Unknown_16: If you don't get the boots, you get the bad ending where Chloe becomes a heterosexual. 0:30:12 Unknown_20: Who knows? Like, who knows? Unknown_16: Give me the boots. Unknown_20: Fuck. Okay. Unknown_20: Who knows a giver like that? Yes. Unknown_16: He's a giver chap. Unknown_07: Kuno sent your fat ass running around like jello. Unknown_20: Look, pig. Kuno sent you to rough some people up. Kuno played you. That happened. Now you and Kuno should move on. Good idea. Unknown_20: Yeah, that's what Kuno said. After this shit. You better have something real interesting to say if you want to stay in Kuno's face. 0:30:43 Unknown_19: Yeah, real interesting. Unknown_20: The fuck about it? Unknown_20: So I... Yeah, M'Kuno's gay, though. Unknown_16: Gay, though. Unknown_16: It's true. Medicare was there. Unknown_16: He hooked up. It was actually Jade as the source of COVID, and then he pooped it all over. That's why he's so sick. The boots! 0:31:20 Unknown_11: I thought we decided to leave it to processing. Unknown_14: Damn it. This is turning into some sort of mega puzzle. Okay. So you can sneak out of your room, maybe. Unknown_11: I thought we decided to leave it to processing. Unknown_14: Damn it. This is turning into... Unknown_16: Okay. Is there any way to get him to fuck off now? Someone look this up. I know I have to get rid of the Asian, but I've already fucked up him on day three. I don't know how I can get rid of him for a little length of time. 0:31:52 Unknown_16: Can I ask him to, like, stand here? Yes. Unknown_16: You seem to be following me. Unknown_11: Excuse me? Unknown_11: You have a distinctive way of walking. A moment passed. Unknown_16: Go back for the boots. But he has to take the boots tonight, does he not? Unknown_16: I think I fucked up. 0:32:26 Unknown_16: There is a way. Okay. Unknown_16: Should I keep exploring on this side of the map, or should I... Unknown_16: Oh yeah, Joyce. I meant to talk to Joyce. Unknown_16: Is Medeker really going live just to talk about how much he loves bombing Muslim people as opposed to the funny quartering stuff? 0:33:15 Unknown_16: Oh bro Oh Joyce isn't here I guess it's too early in the morning Unknown_16: To shit-talk Fuentes, Elijah Schaefer, and Candace Owens, this is all so boring. Nick Fuentes is no longer interesting. He's, like, domesticated. Unknown_16: Candace Owens is black, so she's never been interesting. I've said at the time that she called the Kiwi Farms pretty dark web, which is, as far as I'm concerned, the only notable thing she's ever done. And then Elijah Schaefer has always been, like, an effeminate freak show. Like... 0:34:04 Unknown_02: Ugh, you're depressing me. Unknown_16: I'm thinking about my video game right now. Unknown_16: It's true, she is still black, I checked. I was thinking, oh, is she white? I heard a lot of people are listening to her. Is she white now? No. Unknown_16: She's like Oprah. 0:34:45 Unknown_16: The idea that the SPLC is funding right-wing extremism is not that surprising to me. Unknown_16: What's interesting is that they're being charged with crimes, but they're not charging any people. So the people responsible for it are not going to receive any punishment. What can you do to a corporation to instill restitution? Like force them to do their job for real this time? Make them pay a fine? Unknown_16: To another charity that is not funding right-wing extremism? Like, what's my takeaway supposed to be? Is it supposed to be that you can't trust the system? 0:35:25 Unknown_16: Oh. Is it supposed to be that the institutions are captured? Unknown_16: Oh. Is it supposed to be that... Good news. Unknown_14: The boat is big enough for a grown man like you to fit underneath it in a supine position. Unknown_16: What would I be doing under there? Unknown_14: Sleeping. Was it not decided that you're a hobo cop? It's true, I am. Oh, no. He's pretty much a bum now. Huh? Unknown_16: I said great news. I found somewhere to sleep under this boat. It'll be free. 0:35:56 Unknown_11: Sarcastic self-pity is not what we need at this moment. Unknown_16: Oh, wow. He's calling me out as a fucking boobie. I understand the situation looks grim. Unknown_11: Think of it as a salvation. You have a home somewhere. Unknown_16: What's in my inventory? Unknown_16: Petrochem? Unknown_16: My ID card, which I can't use to talk to Joyce yet. Unknown_16: In order to succeed, the body has to be down, the autopsy has to be finished, and Kim has to be absent. He wouldn't approve. This is devilishly tricky, so don't beat yourself up if you manage to send the body to processing without getting the hold of... The game is literally telling me, look, you're probably a fucking cuckold retard anyways. You're probably never going to get these fucking boots, so just stop whining about it to your live audience. 0:36:28 Unknown_16: uh i'm gonna load a different scene for this coal city oh that's my printer updating by the way a bow knot on the neck plus one to inland empire or plus two to drama 0:37:16 Unknown_16: That's a hard one. Inland Empire is one of the coolest things in the entire game, though. Unknown_16: It doesn't really help you. It just gives you some context. My drama is going to... Dude, I need to, like, drama max. I need to do whatever it takes to max out my drama as high as possible. Maybe that would be the funniest thing to do. Unknown_16: I can put six levels into drama and raise it to 14. 0:37:54 Unknown_16: Thank you. Why is my printer just updating in the middle of the day? Unknown_16: A cut chair? No, it's a bone chair. Hmm. 0:38:25 Unknown_16: If there's ever a time Lieutenant Kitsuragi might have to leave for a certain boot unreli- Pants! Unknown_16: Plus one to the king- Look at this! Look at my man. Holy shit. Now we're talking. Unknown_14: Mmm. These are some wonderfully regular pants. Not too tight. Not too loose. Moderate in every sense. You'll blend right in at some pleasant dinner party. Unknown_16: I could... Dude. Unknown_16: Discard the pants? And the thought? 0:39:07 Unknown_16: Volition. I wish Volition was telling me what I should do. Maybe Volition is pro-normal pants. Unknown_16: Oh, that would be way funny, though. Unknown_16: Do I like normal things? Unknown_16: No. Unknown_16: The kingdom of conscience. Hold up, let me look. I'm gonna cheat, because I'm very, very curious what it is. Of conscience. Disco Elysium. Unknown_16: Sorry, I'm so... No! 0:39:41 Unknown_16: Dude, if you... Unknown_16: Moralist dialogue heals. Learning cap for volition raised, but you lose half-light. Unknown_16: No, these pants compromise my half-light. Begone! Oh, no one saw you wearing those outrageously regular, almost moralist pants. Unknown_16: Sorry, chat. The era of being pantsed was very brief, but I could just feel it draining my half-light as I wore them, so they were negatives. 0:40:21 Unknown_16: I have very low half-light as a, what is it? Unknown_16: Intellectual Mordoric, also known as a moralist fag. Unknown_16: Which is apparently the number one criticism of me. I'm a fucking moral fag. Unknown_16: I need to raise my half-light. Unknown_16: I don't think homeless people keep this much change around. Unknown_16: I never managed to escape fence stunting. My pants, my Disco Elysium character did. 0:40:56 Unknown_16: I'm still a moral fag fence stunner. Unknown_16: Boots, plus one to perception? What? Unknown_16: Plus one to composure and minus one to savoir faire, or plus one to, perception, bro? Unknown_16: Yeah! Check this out. Fuck yeah. Where are we? 0:41:28 Unknown_08: What? Unknown_16: why don't you call it something since they built this place the name is Lillian people Lillian spilled as complicated as possible I think I have time for questions and that was actually the second one indeed you're always confused as to your whereabouts that's true thank you logic I need that I was he has to get your signature no we're forwarding this nice sword does it come with a story I don't care about her story 0:42:09 Unknown_16: Looking for somebody? Is that a quote? Unknown_08: Cryptozoologist. Unknown_08: I don't think I know what these are. Unknown_16: They're people who look for imaginary animals. Unknown_08: Like snowmen? Unknown_16: Yes. Two odd guys have been wandering around here, nose in sand, talking nonsense about snowmen and the like. Wait, the like? Unknown_08: Right. Not only snowmen, also green men, monkey men, burning rhinos. You get the picture. Unknown_16: Monkey men, imagine that. Ridiculous. Oh, you're getting it. 0:42:41 Unknown_14: And it is gorgeous. Unknown_08: I don't really know. Looking for a suspect. Oh. Unknown_08: I've been out on the sea for most of the past week. The weather's been good for fishing, so I usually start at four in the morning. Did you happen to see a misfit red-headed child throwing a helmet into the ocean? Unknown_16: Yes, that's the optimal time. Unknown_08: Got to make the most of the calm. That's not what I actually asked, really. Sorry I couldn't help. You're not interested. I'm done. Who are you? 0:43:13 Unknown_08: I'll just keep the poor Deleche in the channel, if that's okay. It's Joyce. I was wondering whether there was a nice boat here. Unknown_08: Hi, ma'am. And it's a jetty, by the way. Of course. Jetty. I prefer a good jetty to appear any day. Jetty. Unknown_16: That does not sound like something that Joyce would actually say. I'm disappointed in that line. 0:43:44 Unknown_16: Joyce is like the one... The way she says it makes you want to sing. Unknown_14: No, I do not want to sing, actually. Unknown_16: Hello, detectives. Unknown_08: It's good to see you here. I only just arrived myself. Unknown_11: What brings you here, madam? Unknown_08: Nothing, really. Unknown_08: I've had my eye on this jetty for weeks now, so I decided to investigate it personally. This cluster of endings isn't on any of the official maps. That, and she's also keeping an eye on you. 0:44:15 Unknown_16: Yeah, no shit. That's what I said. I want to say, have you been spying on us? That's not true, though. Unknown_16: How do you like it if he looks around? Unknown_08: How do I like it? Unknown_16: I think that the way that this game works is that I'm such a being of pure logic that I don't need logic telling me stuff I already know. I think if you actually were to pick this game up and play it, you should build a character that's as far away from your line of thinking as possible so that when the... 0:44:46 Unknown_16: the humors of your brain start interacting with you, they have different perspectives, because otherwise you're just getting complimentary information that your brain's already thinking of. Unknown_14: I do always know this. See, this is why having high perception from my boots, my boots increases my hearing. The smell of salt and dog shit in the background. Unknown_08: It's pornographically poor. The street has no name. All the men are dead or missing. Unknown_16: Pornographically poor? What the fuck? Joyce would not say this. Did a different person write these lines for her? Because the Joyce from day one is like a different person. Unknown_08: I'm surprised that woman hasn't put me to the sword yet. Maybe she will. 0:45:27 Unknown_08: You should ask your questions while you can. Unknown_14: Dark eyes survey the coast leading up to Martinez. Unknown_11: Fortunately for you, madame, the RCM is on the scene. Unknown_16: This is joyous. Unknown_11: All right. Unknown_14: Politics time. Let's react. Unknown_16: Um, you're right to be scared. You're in no dangers. Whisper the working class have no idea what's happening to them. She's a woman. She doesn't know how to use a sword. 0:45:59 Unknown_16: Feminists would not say though. Try not to be scared. This is just how the real cities works. This place is doomed either way. I think that's, she just seems like a black pillar. Let's say that. Unknown_08: Maybe. Unknown_14: Yeah, she agrees. Unknown_16: Pirate software is on the kick front page, really? I don't believe you. Unknown_16: Yeah, you tricked me, buddy. You tricked me. I don't think that he... He has, like, a partnership deal with, uh... Twitch, does he not? 0:46:31 Unknown_16: Yeah, I don't see it. Unknown_14: Their cloud shadows slide over the ruins of Revachol West. Wherever they pass, the temperature drops slightly, but perceptibly. Unknown_08: Have I told you how they discovered this place? Unknown_08: No. They're in Silindian, East Scylla. Unknown_16: I'm guessing you don't know then. Unknown_08: Well, your condition has left you no worse off than most of these people. The literacy rate is around 45% west of the river. 50 years of occupation have left these people in an oblivion of poverty. 0:47:08 Unknown_16: 45% is around where I operate. I knew you would sympathize. Unknown_08: Most Revacholians will never know... Oh, he was on somebody else's channel. ...this island of matter. Unknown_08: Or why they were ferried over in the first place. Remind me to tell you one day. Unknown_08: For now, how can I assist you in this new location? Unknown_16: Um... Of course. 0:47:42 Unknown_08: I hear you have single- Oh, it's on my badge. I love you did. Unknown_14: Fast, observantly, like an electronic printer. She is memorizing your badge number. Unknown_14: Hmm. Unknown_08: Pleased to meet you, Lieutenant W. Freighter Dubois. Challenging success. I am glad to see a man of high qualification. The situation is precarious. Unknown_16: Lieutenant W. Freighter Dubois? Is that a rank? W. Freighter? 0:48:17 Unknown_08: My Virgin card? Unknown_16: She picked that up on... She saw me walk around with this, like... Asian guy, and she's like, ah, there's something wrong with you. You probably watch anime. Unknown_00: That's racist. Unknown_14: What does that mean? Reaction, sweethearts? Um... 0:48:59 Unknown_00: I still have a golden ear. Come, come. Oh, welcome, police officer. We don't cause any trouble around here. Unknown_11: We are not here to cause any trouble, madam. Unknown_16: We're cops. We're Hellraisers. Click, click, bang, bang. Unknown_00: Oh, of course. Sorry, I should not read the options that I pick because that won't make sense to people. You also came to take care of trouble, then. Wish you did. But still, in Martinez, you're considered an ill omen. 0:49:33 Unknown_16: I am an ill omen. Unknown_16: If I'm considered an ill omen, why hasn't anyone told me that? She just did. Unknown_00: Maybe they are afraid. Unknown_16: Why? Unknown_00: Because you're an ill omen. But you're still welcome here. As long as men with guns aren't chasing you. And maybe even then. Because that's the kind of fishing village we've built. Unknown_00: i'm sorry there's not a lot of room to park the motor carriage and not a lot of houses or a lot of people my kids are long gone ill oman my favorite muslim politician that's funny ah look at me okay have you seen ruby because she's blind which you seem to have forgotten shut up don't do you know who i'm talking this is my little cinder block town she's being evasive 0:50:25 Unknown_16: She does know something. Reaction speed was trying to fucking bully me. There was a murder in Martinez. Unknown_11: She might be a suspect. Unknown_00: Would you now? I know how this world works. This isn't about the union. Ah, I should have known. This is yet another union. I'm not afraid of them, you know. We are not in the habit of being afraid around you. She just immediately calls your shit. Unknown_14: Enough of this. She better start talking right now. 0:50:57 Unknown_16: Dude, one point over my success. See? I gotta max out your fucking half-life. Unknown_16: God damn it. I know this is important. Yeah. This shit? Unknown_00: I'm not going to do your work for you just because you got a potty mouth. Unknown_16: Smash her. Unknown_11: I see you, ma'am. I hope you don't mind if we look around anyway. Ruby was here. Unknown_14: You know it. You need to look into these shacks. Especially hers. Unknown_16: See, now that I took off my ugly shoes, I have my savoir faire and my half-light again. I'm restoring my power slowly. 0:51:38 Unknown_20: This shithole. Unknown_16: Okay. My volition is trying to keep me sober. Unknown_00: Hmm. 0:52:23 Unknown_16: Let's open this check. Let's try to see if there's ruby in here. Are you harboring rubies under the floorboards? A primer for small kids, inspect the book. Unknown_14: You hold in your hand the colorful primer. The title reads, a primer for small kids. There's a bear involved. Unknown_16: Exactly what I need. Unknown_14: This book will show you the score, get you oriented with those basic concepts you appear to be hazy on. The anthropomorphic bear will give you the lowdown of your life. The alphabet. 0:52:55 Unknown_14: Nice. Unknown_14: Okay, interesting. Unknown_16: Child. Unknown_16: Why is there a child in here? Unknown_16: What? I can just steal her rough grouse taxidermy? Unknown_16: Don't mind if I do. Small child, what are you doing here? I'm asking about Ruby. 0:53:39 Unknown_16: Can you not speak? Can you not say Ruby? Unknown_18: My mom tells me I'm a big girl, but she doesn't know that I can't say Earl. Well, like, sometimes I can, but then, oh. Unknown_16: Is it impossible for people to write children in a way that is, like, realistic at all? Is this, like, another thing that can happen? Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_16: What is this? Unknown_14: It's a grouse! Wasn't Gart, the cafeteria manager, trying to repair a piece of taxidermy? 0:54:11 Unknown_16: Yes, that's exactly why I took that. Unknown_18: Sure. I mean, you already took it. I don't like it anyway. It looks angry. Unknown_16: What is it, the toy? It's Lambie! Unknown_18: He's my friend. Unknown_14: Lambie is a stuffed lamb that, admittedly, has seen better days. One of the- Lambie usually doesn't like- Bye! Unknown_16: Bye-bye, child character. You're weird. I'm gonna go give this grouse over to the guy. I'm gonna see what happens. 0:55:03 Unknown_16: It's true. She might have been a stalker child. I didn't do my RCM duty. The acronym RCM sounds like RCMP, which is like the Canadian Royal Mounted Police Force. Unknown_16: It makes me not like them or trust them. Unknown_16: I can fast travel? That's a fucking joke. You're fucking with me. Unknown_16: Yeah, you're fucking with me. I can't believe you fucking lied to me. You fucking liar. You're a leasily little liar, dude. 0:55:38 Unknown_13: Can I help you? Unknown_14: how could anyone forget asshole i feel like this game would have been much better if i if i built a character that just had like 16 and a half light and let him sort everything out i feel like he's the guy to trust what is this thing 0:56:10 Unknown_16: This is a stuffed grouse. It celebrates the might of male courtship rituals. Unknown_03: Cool. Okay. Oh, I didn't read the whole thing. Unknown_16: I would be hot to think about the cock carousel again, because it made me feel like shit. Unknown_09: But this is a competent piece of taxidermy. I can fix it to the plaque and have a new bird in the establishment, I guess. Unknown_14: yes people just don't know how to accept gifts especially taxidermy he likes it he likes the bird it solves his broken bird problem that line people don't he likes it he likes the bird it solves his broken bird problem this is exactly how crunk lord writes when he's talking about something he's trying to make a point it sounds like something crunk lord would say 0:56:57 Unknown_11: I feel good about our work here today. Unknown_16: Goodest of good cops really get Kim to trust you. Despite being a racist. But he liked it. I can't believe Kim maximally trusts me despite the fact that I am maximally racist. Unknown_16: It just goes to show you that you can be racist, but you have to be pragmatically racist. Unknown_16: If you're un-pragnotically racist, people just get angry at you. They're like, but he's one of the good ones. 0:57:29 Unknown_16: I would be a hypocrite if I wasn't racist to Asians. Unknown_16: I hate birch trees. I'm allergic to birch, I think. 0:58:10 Unknown_16: Coca-Cola? What does that have to do with anything? Unknown_16: Oh, there's money by this homeless guy. I'm going over there right now to take it. Unknown_16: Yeah, this is my money. Assholes find their keepers. Unknown_16: Should I talk to these homeless people? 0:58:42 Unknown_16: Buddy boy. They really are Canadian. Unknown_16: Don't call Abigail is his name. Unknown_14: The noxious odor emanating from the drunken man is strong and familiar. That's Ralph. Unknown_04: Don't you call her. Yeah. Don't call Abigail. Unknown_11: I am the law. Right. You might have found one person who doesn't know you are the law, given how drunk he is. Unknown_02: Abigail. Oh, Abigail. Unknown_16: This is making me uncomfortable. What about you? Are you less drunk? 0:59:14 Unknown_17: Hey, tequila. Unknown_16: Idiot doom spiral. Unknown_17: Good to see you. How's business? How's the whole reality situation treating you? Shake his hand. So what's happening? Unknown_17: Tequila. I guess that's his name. Tequila Sunset. Unknown_17: How are the high concept reality-based adventures proceeding? Unknown_14: He says it like it's obviously your name. Like you call someone Billy Brunel or leader of the Fourth Street Gang. 0:59:48 Unknown_16: Reality, it makes me aggressively sad. Don't know. People tell me I'm a cop. I'm getting used to that. I've re-entered reality to conquer it, to bend it to my will. I am the law. That's the option right there. Unknown_17: That's the spirit. I used to shape reality into my image a long time ago. Unknown_17: Those days are over now. Unknown_17: Sadly, things aren't going that well in Idiot Doom Spiral land. Haven't found those keys yet, haven't won that great piece of ass back. No word from my business buddies. Unknown_14: Idiot Doom Spiral, huh? This is bound to be a good, high-concept conversation. At last. Have you seen a woman in Ingrid? 1:00:22 Unknown_17: Can't really remember seeing any women after losing my keys. Unknown_14: He really has no idea who this Ruby is, sire. Unknown_16: Well, then he's useless to me. Fuck off. Unknown_16: Could you and your friend sign this letter? Show of Arts letter. Yeah. What's it about? Unknown_17: I'll let my hand address the situation. Maybe you've heard. I used to be a very successful businessman. 1:00:56 Unknown_17: I've signed more than a few lease forms or whatever the fuck they were. All right. Unknown_16: If you're wondering, the thing I'm having him sign is a request from Evart Claire, who wanted signatures from two very specific people, because I think they're bulldozing this whole area to build a recreation center. And I told him I would get the paper signed, but we're deliberately forging it at Kim's suggestion so that he gets what he wants before we leave, but we don't actually help him. 1:01:31 Unknown_16: Though, now I'm curious why we're doing that, because it seems like bulldozing this shithole and building a recreation center for children would be a good thing. I want my pen. Unknown_17: What?! No. That was my favorite thing of all the things you have. Unknown_16: Interfacing interjects. Interfacing is very hurt. Unknown_14: My favorite is the gunny lust. Unknown_16: Dude, this game can be really funny. Sometimes. 1:02:14 Unknown_16: This thing rarely ever speaks. Hand-eye coordination? That's a rare one. Unknown_16: Okay. No problem. Unknown_09: Fucking hard work done for the day, man. Don't call Abigail. Unknown_11: Thank you for your services, gentlemen. Unknown_17: Okay, what's on your mind? You too, Tequila Sunset. Unknown_16: Okay, that's the situation we have of our Claire's signed letter forged from the drunken hobos. Unknown_16: I managed to briefly become reacquainted with pants, however... 1:02:51 Unknown_16: Put the envelope in the mailbox, okay. Unknown_16: I became acquainted with the concept of pants, but then decided against it because it impacted my half-life, which is very important to me. Unknown_16: I wonder if that was a choice by the game, where it's like, we need to make pants very rare that don't suck, and then torment people with pants they find. If it is, it's very memetic. It lends itself to an internal narrative. It's something to learn for when I make my game that's going to become a smash success, Chad. 1:03:30 Unknown_16: Because they gave me like 47 other pieces of clothes for everything except pants, and everything that is pants is like terrible. Except for, I presume, the pants that are attached to the dead men, which are also like the most amazing pieces of pants ever, ever in the history of mankind. Unknown_16: Where's the post box? Unknown_16: I don't know, it's easy for you to make snide fucking comments about how the pants are greener on the other side when you actually have pants, but as a pants-less man, any pants look better than the pants I don't have. 1:04:16 Unknown_14: Bullet holes and an RCM stick. You drop the white envelope in the darkness. It left about a week's worth of mail as collected in there. Probably did the right thing. You can't trust that slug, Everard. Alright, let's go back to it. Unknown_16: I can't. You can tell, you can not trust him because he's fat. Unknown_16: It just looks like pants because his skin is so gray. But he's not wearing pants. That's his junk right there. That's his booty. He's pantsless. 1:04:49 Unknown_16: Hogwarts Legacy 2? Unknown_16: I'll play it, but only if it gets a tranny freakout. Didn't the last Hogwarts cause some fat Jewish VTuber? Unknown_16: Maybe she was Hapa, not Jewish. I think she was still fat. Didn't they cause her a panic attack because all the trannies cyberbullied her for playing it? 1:05:26 Unknown_16: Okay. If there's a big freakout, I'll play it as the ambassador of transphobia to all people everywhere. As an ambassador of transphobia and... Unknown_16: Not feminism, because men can't be feminist. Oh yeah, peek at me, that's right. Unknown_14: What about the bus stop? What about the road? This is all just fluff. 1:06:14 Unknown_14: There's one bump on the road. A dead dog lies flat about 200 feet away. Why is the dog dead? Tragedy comes from the wheels of a fast... Oh no! Unknown_16: I hit a dog! Unknown_14: The cold washes over you. The sound of the sea has grown... Unknown_16: I can't believe I murdered a dog. I'm a dog killer. The wind moves the aerosol. Unknown_14: A detective stands behind the boom barrier. Okay. Unknown_16: I killed a dog. Unknown_16: Let Avart know you mailed the signatures. Oh, fuck, I should have talked to Avart while I was back there. I'll have some other reason to go back in a second. 1:06:45 Unknown_16: Here, let me check something real quick. Unknown_16: I brought my laptop so I can make sure that my site's not dead. I, um... Unknown_16: I'm trying to fix an issue that I'm aware of. Unknown_16: Let's see if it's dead. Unknown_16: Oh, it's loading pretty sneaky right now. Unknown_16: About as sneaky as it gets, rather. 1:07:21 Unknown_16: I know, it's still slow and chugging shit, I think. Unknown_16: Sometimes. God, there must be another underlying problem. I should probably look into that. Unknown_16: Okay, let me check one other thing. Unknown_16: Dumb We 1:08:31 Unknown_16: Sorry. Unknown_16: Okay, next. Unknown_16: Remember the six million dogs that died? The six million dogs that got ran over by the RCP? Unknown_16: Rust-eaten letters read Mazat. Sounds like an Arabic word. Unknown_03: How do I get over there? Do I have to walk over here around this and then run this way? Unknown_16: Okay. I would not step over here. As a Florida man, when I was a little kid, I was in primary, not primary school, but elementary school. There was like a little area that you could walk out to that was on the, it wasn't technically the beach, it was the bay. 1:09:02 Unknown_16: And I remember I walked too close to the bay line where the reeds are, and I legit fell. Like I immediately sank all the way up to my armpits. It was actually really scary, I felt like an animal. Unknown_16: If you ever see an elephant stuck in the mud, it was pretty fucking spooky. Unknown_16: It's just like pieces of cars scattered all over the fucking place. 1:09:39 Unknown_16: Quick travel? Unknown_16: What? Unknown_16: Oh! Unknown_16: You can travel here, what the fuck? Is it eat time? Unknown_16: No, it doesn't, because it was at 11 exactly when I did this. But I can't quick travel to Vart Clair, which is like really far away. 1:10:16 Unknown_16: Death by elephant seal sounds like a terrible way to die. I'll be real with you. Unknown_16: Why did it autosave? Are you threatening me? Where's the fat fuck? 1:10:56 Unknown_09: Mr. de Bois, a pleasure as always. You don't have to sit down this time. The golden boy returns once more. Wonderful. Simply wonderful, Harry. My friend, the mailman, confirms the letter is on its way. You've done a great thing today. You've given the children of Martinez a real future, Harry. You're in my inner circle. You too, Mr. Kitsuragi. We can talk about anything. The strike, the murder, your lost gun, nothing is off the table. Unknown_14: Well done, sire. By guile and deceit, you're in. 1:11:30 Unknown_16: Thank you. You don't know his full plan. Unknown_14: Perhaps he expected trickery. Perhaps the signatures weren't important. The point is, do not think you're ahead of him. Unknown_16: Did you order the hangman killer? I want my gun. Harry, I've got to be honest with you. Unknown_09: Your gun was found two days ago. Withholding this information weighed heavily on me, but it had to be done. Where is it? An old woman has it, and let me tell you, Harry, word on the street is she's a character, so watch out. 1:12:05 Unknown_11: How did this woman come to be in possession of the firearm? Unknown_16: The old woman? The one by the cinder block? Unknown_09: Turns out she bought the gun from Roy, the local pawnbroker. And honestly, Harry, I have no idea how your gun ended up in Roy's hands. Unknown_14: Um, because you pawned off your gun. Unknown_16: That would track. Unknown_14: You pawned it off for liquor. Unknown_16: Thank you, electrochemistry. That wasn't obvious. You pawned it so you wouldn't shoot yourself in the head. 1:12:39 Unknown_16: Like a troon. Unknown_16: When logic, electrochemistry, and volition are teaming up. That's the real team that we need. These three fuckers. Unknown_16: It wasn't my fault I pawned it off. I'm a terrible cop. Unknown_16: It's good I sold it. I would have shot myself with it. Unknown_16: Um, let's go with the first one. That sounds right. Unknown_09: Wild stuff, Harry. Absolutely wild. I'm not judging you. We all have our dark days. What matters is union men are going to help you fix this. Anyway, the neighbors of this old woman contacted my men. Half-lites too. Yeah. He's the side. 1:13:14 Unknown_16: Maybe he's the villain. Unknown_09: Apparently she was waving it around at the entrance to our building. Unknown_14: Waving the gun around. Unknown_16: There he is. Unknown_14: None of this does. Unknown_16: Yeah, that's pretty true, bud. Unknown_16: Who is this old person? Unknown_09: Unfortunately, I don't know anymore. You're going to have to go in blind, Harry. But she's an old lady. How dangerous can she possibly be? Unknown_09: Oh, and she calls herself the pigs. 1:13:49 Unknown_11: I, for one, find it refreshing. Finally, someone calls themselves a pig. Unknown_16: You're stepping out of line, Mr. Kitsuragi. Unknown_09: As I said, she's a character. Didn't have time for details. It sounds like she's unstable, but don't worry. No one got hurt. Unknown_14: We might be looking at someone with a medical history here. Watch out. Unknown_09: I already have. Tonight, starting 10 o'clock, near the old fish market on the coast. The one on the boardwalk, a little past the fishing village. Be careful, Harry. I would never set you up for anything dangerous, but you did ask for this. Now... More fun stuff. 1:14:22 Unknown_11: Seems like we already have fun stuff to do. Unknown_16: Did you order the hanged man killed? Unknown_09: Order it? You know my men didn't kill him. They told you. It was a happy accident. You know how it is. No one takes the initiative. If I wanted him dead, I would have had to do it myself. And I'm too fat for that. Unknown_16: Why are you fat? Unknown_09: Glad you asked. I've got type 2 diabetes because sugar and fat was all my mother had to give me and my brother Edgar when we were kids. 1:14:53 Unknown_16: That's a fucking cope. Unknown_09: Good job too, as it made me ugly. And ugly people, Harry, are much better at politics. Unknown_16: That's debatable. There is some truth to the fact that people will vote for people who don't look like them. But at the same time, attractive people get treated better in every way, shape, and form. So I'm not sure if I'm completely on board with that. Unknown_16: What do you gain from him being dead? Unknown_09: Why, a war, of course. 1:15:33 Unknown_11: And what do you have to gain from a war? Unknown_09: Victory, Mr. Kitsuragi. I have victory to gain. We are going to start a war with the Wild Pines group and win before they even realize there is a war. Unknown_16: Have you ever heard what two giant Ceres hornets can do to an entire colony of bees? They destroy it. They're trained military people. Aren't you afraid of your men? For your men. Unknown_09: Harry, we outnumber them 1500 to one. And that's just Martin A's. With all the unions in Revachol, and with public opinion on our side, we can hold off two men. Or 15 men. Or even 50 men. 1:16:09 Unknown_16: Assuming that they will throw themselves into the fucking mob. The more they send, the worse it's going to look for them. Unknown_09: How is this connected to a strike? There is no strike, only war. Class war. Or in business terms, a dawn raid. Or wait. is that when you still pay them something because we won't do that we're not gonna give nothing we're gonna take terminal b away from them the roads the gates the containers that big crane even the damn coffee maker we're gonna take all of it for the people and wild pines but then you don't have a company anymore the word rings like a gunshot from his mouth he doesn't swear often 1:17:00 Unknown_16: Yeah, well, they should have had him say it different then, because that sounded silly. That sounded really like when a sissy is like, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Donald Trump. They should have had him say it like Samuel L. Jackson. Fuck them, motherfucker. So that's why you haven't let Joyce in? Unknown_09: Yes. It's also why I let that midget Gormont go. He's too nice. I can't put him through this. Plus, he knows how to get in here. That woman can't tell her tits from her asshole. She has no chance. 1:17:34 Unknown_16: Her tits from her asshole? She has no chance? That's a bit crazy. What? Her tits from her asshole. Unknown_09: It's a local saying. Unknown_14: Actually, no, it's not. Thank you, rhetoric. Unknown_09: Because we're friends, Harry. Besides, it doesn't matter now. You can go tell her if you want. It won't change the... He is an incel. Unknown_16: You think he can fuck? Look at this fucker. He's the most fuckerless fucker of all time. Unknown_09: It's already happening. Unknown_16: How are you going to fund your new independent hardbore? 1:18:07 Unknown_09: Oh, you mean what sort of goods are going to be flowing through? How am I going to replace all the contacts we'll lose once the poo-poo hits the fan? The clients will ditch us. Harry, we've thought of everything. Unknown_14: Clients would take a well-known multinational conglomerate over a local mobster any day. Unknown_16: You can't possibly hope to continue like you have clients who will leave en masse. Unknown_09: Sure, some will go, but mark my words, the company will be unpleasantly surprised to see how many of them stay loyal to Martin A's and to the new competitive contracts we can offer. 1:18:43 Unknown_09: With renewed zeal sparked by communal ownership, the men will be shipping those containers double time. You'll be surprised to see how fast things go without parasites latching on. We'll have our hands free to pursue bold, exotic new revenue streams. Unknown_16: Drugs. That's drugs. Yeah! See, I picked the wrong things, because it's like, that's just me. I should have maxed out Half-Life. Drug trafficking. Yes. Thank you, Kim. My reaction speed already picked up on that. Unknown_09: Drug trafficking? Don't be stupid, Mr. Kitsuragi. There are perfectly legal, 100% ethical chemical factories on the Samaran Isolan. You don't need to be colonialist about it. All they do is produce components to keep the pharmaceutical industry running. That's people's health we're talking about. Old grannies, little babes, people with disabilities. 1:19:22 Unknown_16: That's just the tip, but this sounds shady. Unknown_09: The company thinks transporting these chemicals in bulk looks bad, has bad optics, may be illegal in some countries. The DeBardes Union, however, we're all about the large volume column. 1:19:59 Unknown_14: In bulk shipping, large volume column is a major buyer, a shark. Unknown_09: We're gonna transport the living daylights out of those materials, Harry. So your sick kid can get his Benefed, and your wacky uncle doesn't have to come off Risperazole. Unknown_14: Benefed is a children's cold medicine, usually apricot-flavored. Unknown_11: And the kids on the street can get Speed and Pirolidone. Unknown_09: I'm an old-fashioned guy, Mr. Kitsuragi. I sometimes grab a beer with the boys, but I have no idea about the things you just mentioned. 1:20:39 Unknown_09: But if I were to supply ingredients for some sort of rainbow party, I would make sure the union took a fantastic share, and I'd keep that stuff far away from Martinet's. Unknown_14: He's basically admitted to it. Unknown_16: Does this mean that the cartels are basically communists? It's effectively, you have a mob boss on top, And then it is sort of like a communal, it's like, um, a co-op where everyone owns part of the cartel through their membership. You have like a union enforcement where you can't really leave or like scab without crossing somebody in a way that will be enforced extra judicially. And the primary method of making up lost profit through efficiency is by going into exact exotic commerce. Okay. 1:21:25 Unknown_16: Is that what's happening? Unknown_16: Is Ruby helping you secure this share? Unknown_16: Drugs are a no-go for me. I'll report this. I have to admit it's a well-put-together plan and far removed from you. Unknown_16: Interesting stuff. I just want to solve this murder okay. Unknown_16: Makes sense to regulate drugs. No, we'll go with number two, far removed from you. It's also far removed from my men and the people of Martinez who've put their trust in me. 1:21:56 Unknown_09: Anyway, let's not focus on the sensationalism of the drug trade. This hypothetical drug trade is all anyone ever seems to be interested in. It would only be a small part of the whole. Let's look at the big picture. Martin A's as a whole. There are little girls. I'm going to unite them all into one economic body. We're going to incorporate this place to kingdom come. Everyone's going to be in on the wealth. so this is like those orthodox jew communities basically let's keep focusing on the drug trade he was almost admitting to it okay hold on i don't want to look at the big picture i want to look at the drug trade you almost admitted to okay let's see that one no no harry that's boring 1:22:49 Unknown_09: Alright, it's gone. The hypothetical raw materials trade is off the table. It's such a small and insignificant slice of revenue, I'm cutting it. Boys, Harry felt queasy about it. We're not doing it. Can we talk about my beautiful incorporated martinis and its many-sided business ventures now? This bold new vision of incorporated socialism I'm offering? Unknown_16: Not feeling a whole lot of Revachol here. None of the flags are kings. That's true. Ah! Unknown_09: Stuffabish. Yeah! 1:23:21 Unknown_14: Skull and bones. Skull and bones on a Revacholian flag. A Revacholian death squad. Oh yeah. The visual image has completely bedazzled you. You're 100% with Everart now. Unknown_16: Hell yeah. The bone chair. Okay. Unknown_16: Who killed the hangman? No idea. 1:23:52 Unknown_09: Could have been his own mother for all I know. If you ever find the guy, give him a big fat kiss from Everart Clare. Couldn't have done it without him. Unknown_14: I mean, he's in a fridge. He really doesn't know. A guy, huh? Unknown_16: Did you find the guy that gived him? I don't think that's true. Because we know it was, um, what's-her-face or Ruby. Unknown_09: I don't. I told you it could have been his own mother. I'm pretty sure it wasn't anyone from the Union. He really doesn't. 1:24:27 Unknown_16: He doesn't know. Okay, drama is trumping reaction speed here. Unknown_09: Great, Harik. This has been so great. I'm sorry we don't have more fun things to do together, but if you ever feel like bouncing something off me, my door is always open. Unknown_14: Hey, so we've been monitoring you internally, and now we know your copper type. 1:24:59 Unknown_16: Oh, God, my suggestion's whispering to me. What's a copper type? Oh, my coppa type, as in like my hobo cop? Am I a cool cop, a weapon cop, a sorry cop? A regular? Unknown_16: A weapon cop? Unknown_14: Aren't the other coppa types jealous? Unknown_16: i'm not sorry i changed my mind i'm sorry okay let's check this out i want to see sorry capo type does this impact me the sorry cop will afford after gaining four points a suggestion thought will appear and offer a rigorous self-pratique which gives negative one authority 1:25:59 Unknown_16: And Learning Cat for Pain Threshold Rages. That sucks. Unknown_16: I don't want to do that. Unknown_16: Some kind of... I'm not a superstar cop. Let me try... Unknown_16: Regular Law Official. That's like the worst one. That's the one... Yeah, that's awful. That's fucking awful, man. Unknown_16: Won't the other copotypes be jealous? What? Unknown_14: That's a funny line. I'm not a sorry cop. Unknown_16: They should be sorry. 1:26:32 Unknown_14: Fuck you! Unknown_16: I'm not a sorry cop. Unknown_14: Come on. You'll be back to saying sorry in two minutes. Stop wasting time and begin the repentance. Unknown_16: Fuck you. This line is very insulting to me. Fuck you. Fuck off. 1:27:02 Unknown_14: Wow. Okay. Fuck off. Maybe we were wrong about you then. Check out the big balls of fire cock. Unknown_16: Hell yeah. Half-Life stepping in, standing up, giving him a fucking backbone. That's my boy right there. Unknown_16: I wonder. Hold up. Unknown_16: I want to make a meme real quick. Unknown_16: Let's see. Unknown_16: Half light. 1:27:33 Unknown_16: Let's see if I can shimmy-shlammy this together in like a nanosecond here. Unknown_16: Where's my dog at? Unknown_16: Is it not in my assets folder? Do I not keep a picture of my dog? Unknown_16: Well, fuck you then. 1:28:10 Unknown_17: Almost done. Almost done. Give me a second. Unknown_16: Make this dog look like the half-light portrait in red. Unknown_16: We'll see what comes out the other end shop. It's true, I am. Unknown_16: I'm going through clanker withdrawals, so I have to clank a bit. Unknown_16: Confront the pigs. I don't know where that's at. Let's go to... Oh, I can't teleport from here. 1:28:41 Unknown_16: I see. So there's certain areas where you... 1:29:23 Unknown_16: That is pretty fucking awesome. Unknown_16: He's the part of the party now. Unknown_16: He's staying. Unknown_16: Slobber light. Heh. Unknown_16: I don't know. I think it's too obscure. This is a little meme just between us, okay? Nobody else has to know about slobberlite. 1:29:55 Unknown_16: Oh god, this one's also scary. Look at this. I asked it to flip it around on its side? I think I like this one even more. Unknown_16: What's the half slobber in slobberlite? Unknown_16: He's always there. He's in the party now. 1:30:28 Unknown_17: Can I teleport from here yet? Unknown_16: It's true. I am very slobbery. Unknown_16: The dog has a human face. Unknown_16: If you're complaining about that, you don't understand the slobber much. Unknown_16: What makes him funny is that he's got human eyes. Like, that's the whole reason why this picture is so silly. 1:30:59 Unknown_16: Okay, fine. I guess the dog is too distracting. Everyone scoops up. I don't understand. Unknown_16: Can I still not teleport? Unknown_16: Empathy legendary, that's what happened. Unknown_16: Put the dog back. OK, put the dog back. 1:31:58 Unknown_16: Maybe I should, after the stream, when I can tinker around and do something that's more coherent, I should make the half-light one of our channel stickers. Maybe I can do that. Unknown_16: I don't even know what a half-light is. I've never even heard of that term. It's like a concept. Unknown_16: Are you the pigs? Unknown_00: Who are you? Isabel, not... Okay, sorry. Unknown_00: I was just checking to see if she's Pigs, but she's not Pigs. 1:32:40 Unknown_16: I think Pigs is invited to show up to this other thing later. Unknown_16: All the accents in this game are fake, because they're, like... Unknown_16: The guy was, like, obsessed with, like, Superficial shit like accents. Unknown_16: Ah, a hidden crate. Unknown_16: For a dollar. Hell yeah. Only pro gamers would have found that crate. I don't know where the fuck I am. 1:33:22 Unknown_16: Ooh, a box. Unknown_17: Hell yeah. Unknown_16: Sunglasses. Unknown_16: I'm like almost out of... Oh, there's more slots. Okay. Plus one to Saval Affair. Minus one to Visual Calculus. Unknown_16: That doesn't sound worth it. Visual Calculus is one of the best ones. Unknown_16: In fact, I might switch this around. 1:33:54 Unknown_16: Yeah, there we go. I need another hat. I don't like my hat. Unknown_16: It doesn't give you plus one to perception. It's like the best fucking thing in the game. Unknown_14: A scattering of bullet holes is spread across the cracked wall, reaching from one corner to the other. Unknown_16: Oh my god, look at all the bullet holes. I haven't seen any other bullet holes in walls before somehow. 1:34:28 Unknown_16: Visual calculus heroic. Why so many bullet holes? Unknown_16: Can I increase my visual calculus? Unknown_16: No. Unknown_16: I can reduce it. Unknown_16: Plus one divisional. It's as high as it's gonna get. Yay! 1:35:01 Unknown_14: Oh boy. It's a violent execution. Unknown_14: Ten meters away, other shades are lined up in an orderly manner. Automatic rifles prime. A gust of wind blows by. The coats of the firing squad flap slowly in the breeze. 1:35:32 Unknown_14: A single person stands on the side. Unknown_14: The morning sun rises beyond the horizon, radiating the first light of the day. Unknown_14: The order was carried out at dawn. Unknown_14: A long time has passed since the moment of this fusillading. Rain and brine have since washed all the blood away. Not a trace remains. 1:36:06 Unknown_14: The abundance of bullet holes leads to two options. Either an inordinate amount of executions were performed here, or they did not use a conscience round, where only one soldier has the loaded rifle. Looks like this was a mass execution with everyone fully armed. Unknown_16: look at the people against a host of men probably in everyday clothes ragged from the conflict and covered in dust they were not sitting how is this visual calculus when it's just a bunch of bullet holes in the wall as demonstrated by the height level of the bullet holes 1:36:48 Unknown_14: they stand facing the war it's impossible to discern they're not facing the wall personality or background seven men in combat uniforms and dark coats holding automatic rifles aimed at the people soldiers from some side but from which one look the soldiers are ugly because they're nationalists Unknown_14: The commandant, the one who gives the order. Machine gun fire crackling through the air. The lights of the muzzle flashes dancing on his face. Unknown_11: I don't know. I don't know who died here, lined up beside that horrible wall. It could have been any of the parties involved in the revolution. Perhaps the ones executed here were the loyalist conservatives, killed by the communists at the start of the civil war. 1:37:39 Unknown_11: Or it could have been the communists, put to death during the last stretch of the conflict by the coalition forces. Unknown_11: It could even have been the employees of the Feld R&D Center down the coast, as their building was taken over by the revolutionaries. Unknown_14: Or maybe... Yeah, it's very unlikely the Coalition forces were the ones who died here. Unknown_11: They were always the last ones against the world. Unknown_11: to be honest if a coalition member was anyone in this situation it was a commander the superior giving the orders a cold sea wind remember guys war is bad 1:38:33 Unknown_14: Behind this building, the other one, once filled with engineers and designers of Feld Electric, now collapsed and dead, but for some rats. You feel drawn, for some reason, to the faded mural again. Unknown_16: The guy that wrote this is like Estonian. I'm just like, we need a segment here to remind the viewer that in war, Unknown_16: bad stuff happens because war is bad what is this it's a new hat minus one to perception for two logic 1:39:37 Unknown_16: That's a hard one. Unknown_16: How do I look? That'll be the real determining factor here. Unknown_16: Wow. Unknown_16: Yeah. Unknown_16: Wow. I think I'll keep my perception. Unknown_16: Let's go this way. Now this whole section of the game is like such a fucking miserable shithole. 1:40:12 Unknown_16: It's even got like sad music. Unknown_11: This place, it's a shithole. Unknown_16: War. Unknown_16: so bad war is bad 1:40:44 Unknown_14: You see a once bright mural towering above you. The signage has peeled off over the years, but you can still make out. Feld Electrical R&D. Unknown_14: A slogan used to intertwine with the loops a long time ago. Now, only a shadow of peeled letters remains. It says, Tomorrow is just a whisper away. Unknown_14: Looks like tomorrow never came. Unknown_16: Very thoughtful. Unknown_21: What's this guy staring at this for? And Mikael noticed the windows. Especially with how there are no windows on the south side. This was to deal with. 1:41:19 Unknown_21: You officers. Come to investigate the historic subtext of West Martinez? I'm Trant Heidelstam. You must be Kim Kitteran, right? I was just telling my son about this building. Trant Heidelstam? Not a lot of people realize the historic significance here. Very rich in hypertext. Unknown_11: Nice to meet you. Unknown_21: What was that about the window before? You think they could simply add windows and then put curtains on top of them? You know what I mean? You think that would help? 1:41:53 Unknown_21: No, I can't say that we've met before, but I've heard of Kim, of course. Mikhail, say hi to the officers. Unknown_21: Worms? 1:42:42 Unknown_21: But I assume you're not here for giant worms when there are so many other things to see. Just as I was telling Mikael before, this is where the Coalition landed in 08. We could be standing on what is the most interesting landmark in Revachol West. Unknown_14: Well, get a load of this guy. He really enjoys his trivia. The Orbis programming language was named after its inventor, Viktor Orbis, a cybernetician from Grad. They run Vox in the occidental countries. Unknown_16: My encyclopedia is calling him like a homosexual. Why do you care about this fucking nerd shit? Fucking loser. I think I'm impressed by this. I'm looking for a suspect. 1:43:17 Unknown_16: You look like someone who has money. I do have some money, yes. Unknown_21: But that's not what's really important here. I think it is, actually. I mean, come on. Unknown_14: You need the money. If it's not a thing, he can give you some. Unknown_16: So true. Can I have some of that unimportant money? Unknown_21: Oh, no. I don't have it on me, officer. I was talking in more general terms. I'm just spending time with my kid here, showing him around the lesser-known parts of our hometown. It wouldn't be wise to carry huge amounts of cash on such expeditions. I'm not asking for huge amounts of cash. 1:43:51 Unknown_14: Not that he would have to worry about being robbed. He looks surprisingly buff. Unknown_14: Does he work out? Unknown_16: Are you gay? Is my physical instrument homosexual? Unknown_16: Do you work out? I do some Lomantang stick fighting now and then. Unknown_14: Lo Man Tung stick fighting is a form of martial arts originating from the island of Lo Man Tung. Let me guess, you hit people with sticks? Wow. Unknown_21: Actually, a great many cultures have their own version of stick fighting, such as the sacred Mabolo tradition of the Hali people. name deriving from the butterfruit tree traditionally used for crafting the long slender sticks whereas the sticks used in other cultures you doze off as it paints you a comprehensive picture of the history of stick fighting among mankind seasoning it with unexpected pop culture references man he's good at speaking people must love him i don't think so but anyway i'm boring you with details again you were saying 1:44:30 Unknown_16: I'm not interested in the practice, I want to know how often you work out. What do you know about pyrolidon addiction? Unknown_21: but my history should hardly come as an addict. Unknown_16: He's recovering. Unknown_19: That's fighting with sticks every night after dinner for four hours. He has a special room for that and a special costume. 1:45:30 Unknown_16: Oh, he sounds like a queer. Unknown_21: That's right, Mikael. It also has a meditative quality. Helps to clear my head. Okay, I'm looking for a suspect. No, I'm afraid I can't help you with this one, officer. It's just a regular day off for me and Mikael here. Unknown_11: So you haven't seen anyone around? Unknown_21: No, I'm sorry. As I said, this is just a day off. We just arrived anyway. Unknown_14: There's something friendly and familiar in how he says that. A day off. He's telling the truth. He hasn't seen anyone. 1:46:04 Unknown_14: Wow. Pick your brain. If anything, this was rather one-sided. Unknown_16: All that for nothing. For fuck all. At least I got a dollar. Unknown_16: Sure, he is a gay junkie. Unknown_16: And here, Michael, is where the verms are. 1:46:36 Unknown_16: He's fruity. He plays with sticks. He has a special costume. He hides in his room for hours a day. I'll come back up there. Unknown_14: A metal payphone under a yellow plastic dome. Unknown_16: Moshi moshi. Unknown_14: You hear the tone. The machine is inoperable. Unknown_16: Well, it sounds like we're doing that. Let's dial a number. Unknown_14: Calling. Unknown_14: Still calling. End of tone. Someone picks up. Pierre? Is that you, Pierre? 1:47:07 Unknown_16: No, this is not Pierre. Do you have any news about Pierre? Unknown_16: No, I have nothing. Should I say he's dead? That sounds really mean. I'm going to say nothing. Unknown_04: Sure you do. Unknown_10: No one has anything nowadays. You're either a salesman or a statistician of some kind. Unknown_10: I am not interested in cooperating. Unknown_16: I'm just going to tell her the truth. I dialed a random number. 1:47:39 Unknown_10: It's because we are bred to be leaders. I can hear the common or mixed background from your voice. Unknown_16: Bitch, what the fuck did you just say about me? I just so wanted it to be pure. Unknown_04: Have a pleasant evening, prankster. Unknown_14: Disconnect tone. Unknown_16: That's bullshit. She basically is like the opposite of Patrick Tomlinson. Have a lovely evening, prankster. 1:48:10 Unknown_14: Calling. Unknown_16: Give me another one. Unknown_14: Still calling. Someone with a masculine voice picks up. Unknown_16: Hey, yo, Gerard, it's Tone. You want to have the gay sex? Shut up. Yeah. Put her on. I'm fucking your mom. Yes. 1:48:45 Unknown_14: The sounds are muffled. You can make out two people, a man and a woman called Bien. They're talking to each other in agitated voices. There's a shuffle of feet. Children, maybe. Unknown_14: Amid the howling in the wire, you make out a woman's voice with a thick Samadan accent. Gerard, Gerard, this is a joke. Someone is making a joke. 1:49:21 Unknown_14: More shouting. What? You're pretty sure you hear a man saying, fuck, several times. Oh, they start killing each other. The crackle in the phone line gets violently louder, like the surf breaking. I'm fucking her. Unknown_16: What the hell are you doing? Unknown_16: You're right, Kim. It went wrong. I shouldn't have done this. Unknown_11: You're right. You shouldn't have. He accepts your apology. Let's just go. I've had enough of this phone booth. Unknown_16: I can't believe Kim had to step in and fuck everything up. 1:49:55 Unknown_16: I guess he's right. That wasn't very feminist of me to allow marital abuse to happen. Unknown_16: A mixed-race family. Thank God. I didn't realize. Unknown_04: I killed somebody. Unknown_16: I didn't kill anybody. Shut up. Is this a church? Unknown_16: I guess so. Unknown_14: Heavy wooden doors more than twice your height stand shut in front of you. The rectangular seaworn ornamentation appears in stark contrast to the padlock carelessly drilled into the wood. 1:50:26 Unknown_16: That's very pretty. Unknown_11: Rattling. I don't think that's going to work. Do you think our suspect is hiding inside? Unknown_14: She might be. High above, the wind wraps the church in its rush. Cold and wet from the ocean bay. Unknown_14: It parts around the massive keel-shaped roof. Like a test tunnel, washing both sides. The way it has done for 340 years. The wind keeps its distance. So should you. 1:51:06 Unknown_16: What is this feeling? Unknown_19: There is a hole in my heart. Unknown_16: Oh, that's a condition. Unknown_16: Hold on, let me look it up. What is the name of the condition where your heart has holes? Unknown_16: Atrial septal defect or a ventricular septal defect affects the lower chambers. Unknown_14: The lieutenant looks at the padlock. 1:51:38 Unknown_16: How'd you know that? How did you know this off the top of your fucking head? That's crazy. Are you like a cardiologist? Everyone, this guy is suspicious. He knows words. Unknown_16: Okay. Take the padlock. Unknown_14: This cheap-looking padlock is sturdily built. It shackles together a hasp and a staple screwed into the wooden door. The lock is adorned with a yellow sticker. Unknown_16: I'm a doctor. Unknown_16: Is that true? Are you a doctor? Why does a doctor watch my streams? Why is a doctor watching me? Your time is valuable. You get like $500 an hour. Why are you watching this? 1:52:11 Unknown_14: Autism. Okay. What's the sticker? Okay. Unknown_14: You're pretty sure you haven't seen it before, but what the symbol depicts is clear enough. A smiling dead guy. There is something blindingly modern about this symbol. Its modernness puts to shame everything you've seen before. 1:52:44 Unknown_16: I hate conceptualizations. I want all my conceptualization points to be drained and funneled into maxing half-life. Unknown_14: He takes off his glasses and uses a blue handkerchief to thoroughly wipe them clean before inspecting the sticker. Then he looks up, pauses, and replies. No. Unknown_16: That's very good narrative structure. Looks like a dead man smiling. Unknown_11: Suggests junior delinquency. Unknown_11: I haven't seen that sticker before, and I'm not a youth. 1:53:18 Unknown_16: padlock padlock padlock this cheap looking padlock is sturdily built it shackles together a hasp and a staple screwed into the wooden door the lock is adorned with a yellow sticker it'll be easier to break the staple than the lock also that sticker is interesting somehow i want the sticker interfacing do not fail me Unknown_16: You fucking bastard. Unknown_14: I want the sticker. Okay. Deep breath. This is your one shot. Unknown_16: Do not miss your chance to blow interfacing. Unknown_14: I got him. 1:54:17 Unknown_16: Put the sticker in your ledger after the last entry where it belongs. Put the sticker on your ledger right in the cover. I want it in the ledger. Unknown_14: Fuck yeah. Gold star day, boys. Unknown_16: Now look at the sta- Padlock passes through a staple that's been hastily attached to the wood. Unknown_14: Closer inspection reveals that one of the screws is not a screw at all, but a nail. The work has been done recently and is unprofessional, to say the least. Unknown_14: Should you want to get through, it might be easier to just pry the whole thing off. 1:54:50 Unknown_16: Ah, the pry bar. Unknown_11: Maybe we should circle the building first and look for another way. There is a touch of guilt in his voice. Unknown_16: Start with the kick drum. Yes, the pulsing bass. Unknown_14: There's something on the sea ice there. Unknown_16: Kim does not want him to face this church for some reason. Okay, fine. 1:55:23 Unknown_16: I don't know, buddy. I don't see shit. Unknown_16: I do see money up there, though. Look at this money. 1:56:00 Unknown_16: I don't see shit. What the fuck's he talking about? Unknown_16: I think he's one of those Asians that had to like flee communist Asia because he's like Christian or something. That's what the lore is on him. Unknown_14: Heavy wooden doors, more than twice your height, stand shut in front of you. The rectangular seaworn horn of the carving on the door is block-like, and the doors remain... Okay. 1:56:32 Unknown_16: I don't know. Maybe I'll come back. He's like, don't destroy the church. There's a way around destroying the church. And it's like, um... Now I feel bad. If you're gonna put it like that... Is this? Oh, this is what he was talking about. A cold door, worn by elements... Unknown_16: It's like, am I supposed to believe this bunker leads to the church? Unknown_11: It's military. 1:57:03 Unknown_14: Probably something that is no longer there. It may have been used to serve as an aerostatic battleship in the atmosphere. Unknown_16: Could the structure have been used to take the shot? Unknown_11: I can't see how. The church is in the way. Unknown_16: The red check cannot be retried. Unknown_16: Very low chance of impossible interfacing. This is a level 20 check. Unknown_16: Open the door. Okay, let's do it. I gotta get 12. Unknown_14: Close. Jammed shut like Jam Boys? I could if I save scummed. 1:57:54 Unknown_14: We've gotten into every door thus far. That's what we do. We open doors. We're cops. That's our perk. Even Everart knew that's a part of our MO. Unknown_11: That's who I am. That's who we are. Yeah, I understand you. I like opening doors as much as the next guy. But this one is simply beyond repair and we don't have the resources needed to open it. Unknown_11: Max, no one's hiding in there. If we can't open it, others can't either. And thus, they can't get in. 1:58:27 Unknown_16: That's true. Unknown_14: At least you can think about opening it. About doors in general. They are, after all, fundamental to your life. Perhaps something useful would come from this. Unknown_16: One more door. Temporary research bonus, one half-light. What is behind it? Unknown_17: Okay, I have to look this up. One more door. Disco Elysium. 1:58:59 Unknown_16: On completion, you get negative one half light. Unknown_16: And all Psy purple checks are unlocked. Unknown_16: I don't understand what that means. Unknown_16: I pass every single purple check, my lowest skill in the entire fucking game forever. Unknown_16: What does that mean? I mean, does that mean I can re attempt them all forever? 1:59:40 Unknown_16: Help me. I am doing game facts. I got to fucking know what the fuck that means. It's bullshit. Unknown_16: read it again because it sounds like you lose from opening doors. Unknown_16: You can redo your checks only once. Oh, so if I internalize this, I can go back and reattempt one more time. Every single locked purple check in the entire game because I'm, I'm trying to reopen doors. Okay. That's fucking retarded and I'm losing a half light for that. I wouldn't sacrifice a fucking half light point to save, uh, 2:00:12 Unknown_16: Save any fucking door. I wouldn't use it to save Kuno from glaciers or whatever the fuck. I'm not doing that. Unknown_16: I would have to lose a skill point to internalize it. That's fucking gay. And it's basically just giving me... It costs like two skill points to save scum? Unknown_16: What? Unknown_16: How about this one more door? I get the fucking pants. I just look down at my hands and I have my pants again. That's what I want. I got a new tie. Plus one to shivers, negative two to physical instrument. In exchange for two drama? 2:00:49 Unknown_16: No. Unknown_16: Okay, well. Unknown_16: I guess that door is shut. A white shirt. 2:01:21 Unknown_16: This is for my drama shirt, right? Unknown_16: I get plus one rhetoric. This isn't even worth it. Unknown_16: I can have plus one drama or lose an empathy for rhetoric, which is like. Unknown_16: A neutral shirt. And she gave me plus two to rhetoric or some shit. Unknown_16: I'll never wear something that is like a... A deficit to me. 2:02:11 Unknown_16: Is this all, like, junk? Unknown_14: Someone has left an unidentifiable article of clothing on this room. Unknown_16: Let's probably look at it before we touch it. It's streaked with dried seagull shit and tangled with pieces of seaweed. Unknown_14: A dangling arm suggests that there might be a jacket beneath the crust of filth. Unknown_14: It seems likely that it was left in the surf until someone laid it out on this fence to dry out. Unfortunately, that just seems to have stiffened it into a shapeless mass. 2:02:43 Unknown_11: Please tell me you're not taking that with you. Unknown_16: It might be a clue. Unknown_11: You think our suspect is a seagull who's been defecating on unsuspecting jacket? Unknown_16: It could have been multiple seagulls. Unknown_14: Fuck yeah. Filthy jacket. Well, you know what? Unknown_16: Is it in my interact? It is. I can't wear it. 2:03:15 Unknown_14: Hold it in your hands. It makes an uncomfortable crunching sound. Not for the week. Are you sure you can stomach it? Unknown_14: Some secrets are better left uncovered. Don't even try. Seriously. Unknown_16: tell them what to do it occurs to you that you're not even holding the jacket itself but rather the thick crust of jetson and seagull that ensconces it it smells like a dead sea creature tangled in gray strands of seaweed it must have spent quite some time in the water before the tide deposited but what is it made of somehow it was carried or dragged to the boardwalk 2:04:02 Unknown_14: If not by human hands, then perhaps the feral dogs that... The faint impressions of many footprints are also present, though it's impossible to tell what kind or how many. Suffice to say... What happens once it was put on the railing? The crust is hard. This jacket spent at least a day baking in the sun. Somewhere high above the city, a pair of seagulls trace loops through the air. Unknown_16: i love how shivers is like now the seagulls are like an enemy they are like the bombardiers of the aerostatic brigades gliding above a target rich environment all of a sudden the bombay doors open and their white glittering payload rushes to the ground splat an explosion of white on a man's shoe a curse goes up but the birds do not hear 2:04:56 Unknown_16: I really feel like I understand this jacket now. It's true, I do. Unknown_16: Me in this jacket? I should get a fucking... Where's my thought for that? I should get a thought for seagull shit that gives me plus four to half-light and also shivers. Unknown_16: That's locked, whatever the fuck that is. 2:05:35 Unknown_16: Plus two to encyclopedia, negative one to perception? Unknown_16: Plus one to calculus, negative one to drama. Unknown_16: My encyclopedia is now my highest thing. I'm gonna see how, I'm gonna do everything I can, the new rule. Unknown_16: If whatever I take increases half-light permanently, I have to wear it. Wait, why is my encyclopedia now wearing a crown? If I have eight encyclopedia, does that mean that it's super cool? 2:06:11 Unknown_16: What does that mean? Why is he wearing a crown? Unknown_16: I'm so confused. Unknown_16: Wish I could level up my half-light more. Unknown_16: I do have a spare skill point that would keep me above one. What could I put that into? Unknown_16: Rhetoric. Perception. Composure. Interfacing. Unknown_16: Pain. 2:06:48 Unknown_16: Drama. Unknown_16: Maybe. Let's try to keep all these above six. Here's what we'll do. Conceptualization sucks, though. I don't want that one. Unknown_16: I'm going to get my logic up to eight, I think. Unknown_16: No, I don't want a Kuro slot. All the Kuro things suck. These all suck. 2:07:21 Unknown_16: I already touched that. I honestly don't know what I'm doing. I'm kind of just wandering around. This area is so desolate and doesn't really have that many... A sewer. I guess the sewer is where that thing goes. Unknown_16: Maybe that's the lesson. It's an impossible perceptual check. And if you save scum to get through it, all that you find is a sewer. Unknown_16: And that's the lesson. You save scum to beat this impossible check. And now you're just swimming around in doody feces. 2:07:52 Unknown_16: There are ghosts in the shipping container before a VART office. You need 18 rhetoric. Why would you tell me that? I didn't know that. Did I need to know that? Unknown_16: They're gals. This is true. Unknown_16: What am I doing? I think I was at that wall, right? But the church, the church, there's a pier, there's a ferris wheel, I think. 2:08:28 Unknown_16: That I'm trying to get to the ferris wheel. Unknown_16: Oh, there's other shit back here. What the fuck? Unknown_02: Here we go. Nice and easy. No way out, little guys. Not out of this jam. Unknown_14: There's a cylinder on the ground in which the man is arranging some netting. It looks like some kind of trap. He notices you. 2:09:08 Unknown_02: Who's there? Oh, the police. Unknown_14: His self-conscious enthusiasm renders his movements ungainly. He looks like your understanding of a scientist. Unknown_16: Is that the police? Unknown_02: Why are the police here? Unknown_16: Crypto-fascist. Gary the Crypto-fascist. Don't worry, Gary. Unknown_02: I'll handle it. Unknown_16: There's a cryptozoologist and a crypto-fascist. What do I owe the pleasure? I heard you guys were practicing fascism. Unknown_14: That's sarcasm. He takes no pleasure from your appearance. 2:09:42 Unknown_16: Man to man, you shouldn't leave your woman unattended in a cafeteria surrounded by communists. That's, I mean, that's true. Unknown_14: The lieutenant sighs at your flagrant misogyny. Unknown_16: I'm just being real. You don't want to, it's not misogyny. It's, um, what's it called when you're anti-communist? Unknown_16: There's a word for that. It's not just anti-communist, I don't think. Unknown_14: The cryptozoologist's companion says nothing, but nods approvingly in your direction. Unknown_16: I took the fascism perk, so now whenever I say anything fascism, I lose morale. Because the game's like, oh, you wanted to get the fascism perk? Well, fuck you. 2:10:18 Unknown_02: So that's what this is. Unknown_02: Linus Senia. Unknown_02: What the? 2:10:55 Unknown_02: I broke it. You broke the water lock with a motor carriage. There was a billboard in the canal. Not a vehicle. It said Samoran Butter. Unknown_16: See, being honest gave me information. Unknown_03: Did he say we can go back now? Unknown_02: Yes, Gary. We can go soon. If you see Lena, tell her I won't be long. Unknown_11: Sir, your wife is waiting for you. Unknown_02: I just have to do one more round. See if the phasmid has taken the bait. Then we're going. 2:11:28 Unknown_02: Have you seen Ruby? I'm afraid not, officer. Unknown_14: The lieutenant takes a short note in his notebook. Then gestures for you to proceed. Unknown_02: Tell me about this phasmid. Well, first of all, it's damn difficult to find. Which is why we've been knee-deep in the reeds laying traps for it. Unknown_16: Why are you aggressively Australian? Unknown_02: Good question. Being a phasmid of the order Phantasmodea, a ghost insect, it disguises itself as plant matter. In this case, the reeds. Awful lot of reeds around, aren't there? Yes. And I suspect it may have also developed other specialized techniques to protect itself from predators or scientists in our present case. 2:12:00 Unknown_16: Why are you interested in a stick butt? Wait, what's the special... No, what's the... Why are you interested in this? Unknown_02: Typical rookie assumption. Unknown_02: Insects are much more sophisticated creatures than those unversed in zoology give them credit for. 2:12:43 Unknown_02: even simply catching a glimpse of the insulindian phasmid would be the apex of my of any cryptozoology's career but to study it and its defenses find out how it stayed hidden so long where's the tech it's my hypothesis that it has evolved certain electrochemical defenses that allow it to interfere with animal perception, impeding pattern recognition, confusing the visual cortex. Unknown_02: But I cannot describe how these defenses work. Very little, I'm sorry. Not yet. Nobody's found one. Unknown_11: Just out of curiosity, if there's no proof of its existence, how do you know it's real? Unknown_02: I know it's real. 2:13:35 Unknown_14: It's clear that his obsession with the Phasmid is driven by something more than the pure pursuit of scientific advancement. Unknown_02: By which I mean, I've heard enough first-hand accounts to believe quite firmly that the Insulindian Phasmid is more than mere superstition. There was a credible sighting here recently. A pair of teenagers described a creature that matched the insulindian phasmid to an uncanny degree, despite not knowing what it was themselves. It's the first credible sighting in several decades. Admittedly, it's an unusual location for this species, but with all the sewage runoff upstream, it probably doesn't matter much anymore. 2:14:21 Unknown_16: So you're digging around in poo-poo rooms while I'm being led to believe. Unknown_02: Such an extraordinary creature is doubtlessly highly resilient. After all, it's generally thought to be capable of parthenogenesis. Unknown_14: It means asexual reproduction. The females of the species don't need to mate to produce viable eggs. This makes it easier for a species with a small population to survive. Unknown_16: The male is a deficient life form. The world would be better off if women didn't need men to reproduce. Females reproducing without males, a travesty, a crime against passion and common sense. This arouses no special feelings on me. 2:14:53 Unknown_02: And it shouldn't. Nature does not concern herself with ethical propositions. As a scientist, my interest is strictly dispassionate. It's time to return to voomin', Moral. Aye, whoa, man. You mean my wife, I assume. I will return to her, but I can't leave before we finish with these traps. My wife understands that just as well as anyone. 2:15:28 Unknown_03: Come on, Morel. We've been soaking out here for days. It's time to go back. Unknown_02: It's true. And leave the traps? Absolutely not. I won't let Lena down. Unknown_03: Come on, she wants us back. I'm soaked up to my nuts over here. We'll both catch weed crabs if we don't dry out soon. Unknown_14: Won't let Layla down? Unknown_14: Sounds like the cryptozoologist's wife shares a special connection to the Phasmid Summit. 2:16:02 Unknown_16: I didn't know the phasmid was so important to Lena. She's seen it. Why? Unknown_16: Suffice to say... Was she trying to fuck it? Unknown_02: It's long been our dream to find proof of the insulindian phasmid together. I can't abandon course now. 2:16:39 Unknown_02: Okay. Unknown_16: Go back to the whirling warm-up and check the traps later? No, no, no. Unknown_14: He's dead set on this. Okay, I gotcha. I could go for some trap-setting. Unknown_02: Okay. Well, they may not look impressive, but they are simple. Attracted by the locusts, the phasmid crawls down the funnel and, having eaten its fill, can get back out. 2:17:19 Unknown_02: At least, that's the intention. The net isn't a perfect solution, but we didn't want to use anything that might damage the specimen's delicate exoskeleton. Locusts. Unknown_02: Nearly all known phasmids are herbivores, of course. But we've hypothesized that the insulindian phasmid might occasionally prey on other... Why would you bring locusts into an ecosystem? Unknown_14: A number of locusts crawl and tumble over one another in a meat-eating stick insect. Does it pretend to be the reeds as part of its ambush behavior? This seems unlikely. 2:17:55 Unknown_02: Thank you for your opinion. We have also included plant material in the traps to satiate your skepticism. Unknown_02: They'll work, I assure you. The predatory hypothesis, using locusts as bait, accounts for the failure of previous efforts by other teams, which use plants. We have given this some thought. They really wrote a lot about this. The traps do seem to be deftly and thoughtfully constructed. Unknown_14: It's clear the cryptozoologist's wife knows what she's doing. 2:18:30 Unknown_02: Yes. What? Unknown_14: What if we checked them for you? Unknown_02: I wouldn't expect you to take such an interest in our work here, officer. Unknown_16: That's because it's fucking retarded. Yes, indeed. Unknown_02: Both require a great deal of research, attention to detail, and above all, persistence. Unknown_02: Where are they? There are four in total. One is to the south, on this little peninsula, by the boathouses there. It's very near. Another we set in Land's End. To the northeast. The third is set near the canal. You should check at least one of those before returning to this one. 2:19:01 Unknown_11: That seemed like a lot. Do we really have time for this extracurricular venture? Unknown_16: What if they're hiding in the reeds? I have a feeling the only people foolish enough to spend their time skulking among the reeds are these poor fools and us. Unknown_11: But fine. It's not like we are drowning in leads. Unknown_02: What if I do? Bring it to him. Okay. What if I do a fine count? Lay it on me thick. 2:19:32 Unknown_14: Yeah. Unknown_14: This is the smell of dying reeds, of longing crumbling into the water. 2:20:03 Unknown_11: I hope you're not buying this. He dispenses it without letting you touch the canister, so it would be precious like holy water. Unknown_02: It is precious. A single dose cost me 50 real to develop. Not that I expect you to understand self-financing one's own research. Unknown_14: Okay. Right. Which means- Whatever he thinks about this detour, Unknown_03: Finally, someone's talking sense. Thank you for your help. Unknown_02: Gary and I will start breaking down camp. If it's more cryptid related business you want to discuss, you'll have time for that later too. 2:20:36 Unknown_14: Oh, please, I can't wait. Okay. Unknown_16: The bully? Unknown_16: Oh, maybe. Unknown_14: A metal and plastic contraption bobs up and down amidst the trash. If you don't remember... At first, it just looks like trash. But if you look closer... That over there must be the boy Klaas you told us about. 2:21:14 Unknown_11: The one she hid her passport in. We should take a look. Unknown_14: Hidden things, secrets, lies. You lift the boy out of the water without much effort. It's not tied to anything. The cords dangling from the bottom appear to have been cut. The number 11 has been written on the yellow plastic. It hasn't been in the water for very long, but it's already discolored and slimy with silt. A latch holds it close, but only just barely. The brittle metal of the latch has cracked. 2:21:46 Unknown_14: Simple construction. Very unsafe. Sniff it. Sniff, sniff. A concentrated version of the coast. Salt, industrial slop and decay. Unknown_14: The water this side of the peninsula is cleaner, actually. Smells a little salty. Unknown_14: There's something in there, splashing around. A shot glass's worth of seawater pours out, some algae, and nothing else. 2:22:21 Unknown_14: Well, damn. Unknown_16: Who do you think took it? I have no idea. Unknown_16: This is a disaster. Everything is ruined. Unknown_11: Um... Well, Clash is in jail and about to be killed. Maybe Clash took, um... 2:22:54 Unknown_11: That may very well be the case. Unknown_11: We should keep an eye on her. Unknown_14: She's in jail. Isn't Kalasha in fucking jail? Unknown_16: She's already dead. Oh, a can. Oh, hell yeah. 2:23:38 Unknown_14: There's a trap in the reeds at your feet. Behind you, the ruins of a residential building rise over the reeds, shielding them from the wind. The reeds rustle, confidently. When this district was booming, the reeds were kept at bay. Nothing obscured the freshly painted facades. Nowhere for drunks and adventurous teenagers to hide. Now only the wind blows. Unknown_14: Locusts are crawling around in the trap, confused but uneaten. Unknown_11: Big surprise. Anyway, one down, surely. 2:24:12 Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_16: I feel like I've searched every inch of this place. Unknown_16: I can zoom way the fuck out. 2:24:45 Unknown_16: Weird thing to say that there's no way that he's in there. 2:25:45 Unknown_16: Where are these poles? What? What is this? Unknown_16: Why is there a coin on each pole? Unknown_16: Ooh. What the fuck? Unknown_16: Damn. I just hit the nigga lottery. 2:26:23 Unknown_14: A shaggy looking girl in her late teens or early twenties kneels on the ice with an electronic contraption in her hand. Hearing you approach, she looks up. Unknown_01: Oh, hello there. Unknown_14: It's cold out here, but she's not wearing a hat. She must be freezing. Unknown_16: Where's your hat? Unknown_14: Maybe she didn't hear you. Unknown_14: A little louder. Unknown_16: Why don't you have a hat? Unknown_16: I have a hat. Unknown_16: You don't have to do anything. That's true, I don't. I am the law. 2:27:02 Unknown_14: Way to abuse that power, man, she says, thinking you can't hear her. She bats away your questions like flies. She's not intimidated by mere police officers. Unknown_16: You have to wear a hat. Unknown_01: What kind of law says that? Unknown_16: The hat law. Unknown_01: Yeah, well... Look, man, fuck the hat. Unknown_16: You don't have a hat. Your pulse rises. Unknown_16: Regain authority in her eyes. Very low chance of success. But the half-light says I have to do it. Unknown_14: Lots of feeling. Feel it up. Well. 2:27:38 Unknown_14: Fuck the hat? Is that what you just said? You're saying it really loud, but it's not coming out right. Maybe add more indignation. Unknown_16: Point at your head where the hat is located. Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you because you told me so on a sea ice? More. Right here on the sea ice? More. Give you a little ice cop hat fuck show? Unknown_01: Me too. I'm sorry. Unknown_14: Lieutenant is watching the scene unfold before his eyes Sure how to react is that how you see me looks down slowly? You've earned it start crying lifestyle 2:28:18 Unknown_16: Anyways, I can't believe... No, I'm not gonna cry. Fuck you, iDubbbz. Unknown_14: The words are stuck in your throat. All that comes out is tears pouring down your face. The old woman has kept her eyes trained on her wires. Unknown_14: She hears sobbing. Looking up, she sees a grown man on the wrong side of 40. His face bloated from alcohol and God knows what else. Not so quietly crying. 2:28:52 Unknown_01: Okay. This isn't really about the hat, is it? Unknown_16: And you should wear a hat. That's what I wanted to say. I swear to God, I will always wear a hat from now on. Okay. My work here is done. Unknown_01: You know, you're not the only one with issues. Unknown_16: Oh, I did it! I appealed to her since... Life's a horror, you know? Her nurturing I-can-fix-him senses. 2:29:26 Unknown_01: Cryin' helps, though. Get out your system. And then maybe we can talk. Okay? I'll be here. Unknown_16: Um... Unknown_16: That was a success, I think. Unknown_01: What's eating you up, man? Unknown_14: That's what we achieved here. Unknown_16: Have you seen the red-haired woman around? Unknown_14: No. Unknown_01: It's pretty desolate here. Unknown_01: I only hear the dogs bark at night and see the shadows move down the coast. 2:30:04 Unknown_01: this is a portable recording device it's for field recording low quality but still actually just one wire i picked on it till the braiding came loose the wire leads to a contact microphone what contact might record sounds from inside things like this ice Unknown_14: She's studying the ice layer? Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike. Unknown_16: It's a very funny line. Unknown_16: Yeah, any news on my wife's name? How about my mother? No. You're welcome. Unknown_16: How does that thing work? Where did you get the mic from? 2:31:00 Unknown_01: Same place I got the recorder from. The Palisium. Unknown_01: Oh, man. You haven't been to the Palisium? It's the coolest place in this whole drug-addled shithole. The Ferris wheel? It's a music club, and a synthesizer works. Oh, I don't give a fuck. Unknown_16: Thinking about it really cheers her up. It's a long way from here. Sounds like a place for congregating homosexuals. Yeah, there might be some. Unknown_01: I don't think they look down on the homosexual underground there. The Palisium's not that kind of place. It's cool. Unknown_16: I have a major problem with homosexuals. What don't you have a problem with? 2:31:34 Unknown_16: I also have a problem with alcohol. Unknown_01: Yeah, I got that, but what don't you have a problem with? Unknown_14: Women's fencing. It's an elegant activity. Unknown_16: I agree. Women's fencing I don't have an issue with. Unknown_01: Good for you, then. Women's fencing is a pretty graceful sight. Unknown_16: Agreed. Wow. What a wholesome moment. Unknown_01: Now, we were talking about my contact mic. Unknown_16: Tell me about this Arno guy you mentioned. I grind. It means I'm hip beyond my ears. Unknown_01: I have concrete evidence that I rock in a form of rec tape player in a completely trash hostel room. 2:32:19 Unknown_16: It is. Time has deserted me. Unknown_01: I had like five morale bonuses at some point. Unknown_16: Now I'm just fucked. Unknown_16: I had some non-mic questions for you. Unknown_16: What are you doing out here in the cold? You seem surprisingly comfortable with being questioned. Why is that? Unknown_01: She's recording ice. Okay. 2:33:08 Unknown_16: What happened to the headphones? Unknown_01: My boyfriend sold them. Unknown_16: Oh, no. I don't know, man. Unknown_01: Things. Just stuff you need for life. Unknown_14: Drugs. A lie. They were probably pawned off for something suspicious. Suspicious, indeed. The musicians in the palisade used them for making music. Unknown_01: They looped the stuff, cutting the tapes together. They make music out of cracks in the ice and keys jangling. Crazy sounds like that. It's hard to explain. Unknown_01: anyway i thought i'd make some too it's supposed to be like a music place anyway i don't really know what i'm doing they use synthesizers too i don't have a synthesizer she looks at the recording device the things she thought would fill her hours with joy and escape it's turning out to be an empty fantasy 2:34:04 Unknown_14: she feels childish very useless all of a sudden take this you're cold no man that i'm cool i have a jacket it's really warm it's it's kind of crusty though it's okay she's wearing a jacket she doesn't have a hat though we discovered this now this is where a hat would come in here yeah maybe you were right about the hat i was give her a hat thanks Unknown_01: No, my sports visor! Unknown_16: Why? Why did you take the one I was wearing and not the one I wasn't wearing? Unknown_16: I've had that mind time. Unknown_16: How is a sports visor warm? Unknown_16: This has been the most destructive. I've lost my hat. That gave me perception. I lost five medicine. She's taking everything! 2:34:57 Unknown_01: Yeah. Andre and the guys. They're inside. In the tent. Unknown_16: And why is that? Unknown_16: Why are you freezing out here while the boys are inside? You've got too much stuff crammed in there. Unknown_01: No room. Music stuff, mostly. Unknown_01: Like the headphones your boyfriend sold. Yep. They were pretty. I'm sorry we sold those. Unknown_01: That stuff is more expensive than I am. More expensive than any of us, really. Unknown_14: it's probably it makes you feel impervious to the elements but doesn't actually make you any less cold i got my recordings to do i feel better outside go ahead empathy legendary the tape recorders lie on the ice and the discarded toy pick it up okay okay let's try to oh i can talk to kim what 2:35:53 Unknown_11: Do you want to talk about what just happened? Okay. Normally, I'm opposed to discussing one's feelings, especially on duty. But I think this is an exceptional case. So, what do you think happened? I think she wasn't wearing a hat. It is possible thou couldst persuade the lieutenant. Unknown_14: T'was all a part of thy unorthodox method. Unknown_16: My drama is so high, I could possibly do this. Let's do it. It's actually her fault, if you want to know the truth about it. Unknown_14: T'was all a clever ruse. Unknown_11: Yes, a clever ruse, I see. 2:36:28 Unknown_16: You don't, but you will. I mean, who cries in public for real? Unknown_11: Even so, in the future, could you please refrain from emoting too much on duty? The quasi-legal status of the RCM means we need to project strength twice as consistently as any other police force in the world. Unknown_16: Weakness is my strength. Unknown_11: Not when projecting strength. Then it's just weakness. Unknown_16: That sounds like bullshit to me, coach. That may be so, but such is Revachol. Unknown_11: And this is what is expected of us in Revachol. Unknown_14: You get the feeling you're being handled with kid gloves because your cheeks are still soaking wet. Glad to hear it was minor. 2:37:05 Unknown_11: Can you go on? Unknown_16: Yes. Superstars always get back up and try again. Unknown_11: Then let's go. Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_16: Now here's the thing, I can drama max here. No wait, it was empathy that I need. Unknown_16: Empathy on the coat. Unknown_16: Any other empathies I can give here? 2:37:39 Unknown_16: Drama. Unknown_16: Negative one to empathy. What? Unknown_16: Did any of these take away empathy? Unknown_16: I have no hat. Unknown_16: Plus two to logic. Minus one to perception. I guess that's fair. Yeah, I look like a proper fucking lunatic right now, because I lost my hat. That really held the entire thing together, if you want to know the truth about it. 2:38:11 Unknown_16: Plus one to logic, negative one to suggestion. Plus one to logic, negative one to perception. Unknown_16: Do I want two to logic, one perception, or one to logic? Unknown_16: Yeah, I think that's the look. Unknown_16: You know, if you wanna know the truth about it, the visor was holding back my look, if you think about it. Okay, let's do this. 42% even, gave her a hat. Unknown_16: Tell us more about this music, please. 2:38:56 Unknown_14: The floorboards are twisting and the shooting beams are slowly cracking like bones. Far east of the Golden Delta, beyond the industrial port, there is a black patch of unlit coast with the smallest creatures on the ice. Unknown_14: There will never be a club for anodic music here. Unknown_14: Not in a million years. Unknown_16: Wait, you want to turn the church into a club? Unknown_01: It's not my idea. Andre and the boys found the place. It was supposed to be deserted, but now they can't even take it. 2:39:37 Unknown_01: Hey, you two are cops. Unknown_16: Yes. Unknown_01: OK, well. Unknown_01: Maybe you could talk to Andre and the guys. Because there are some strange things going on in that church. If you're police, you should look into it, right? Unknown_14: Okay. Unknown_01: They're inside that thing there. Would be cool if you did. Did you put the padlock on the door? Not really. Unknown_14: What? Who didn't? Show her the sticker. 2:40:12 Unknown_16: Why didn't this Noid person put a parallel documentary on it? To keep more weirdos from getting in. Unknown_01: Fucking Martinez. I'm sorry. It's got the worst weirdos. If you get around to it, ask Andre about them. He'll tell you. Unknown_14: Should you? Unknown_14: Weirdos. Sounds bad somehow. It does. Unknown_01: Go ahead. Unknown_16: Well, it's just questioning, right? Unknown_01: I'm trying to find things that'll give me plus one to that. It's what cops do. Unknown_14: It's true. Fast and clean. A good one. Can't quite say it's a lie, but it feels like one. She's better at lying than she'd like to be. Have you been questioned before? 2:40:46 Unknown_01: Once or twice, yeah. Unknown_01: I'm sorry I haven't had the Revachow experience they get east of the river. Unknown_16: What have you gotten into? The usual. Unknown_01: I had a shitty run as a child. What is the usual? Shrugs. You know, drinking, getting into fights. Fights? The ugly stuff that happens when you move out your parents' place at 13. Unknown_14: Interesting term. Time to glean some knowledge. What is in Faubourg? Is this a rhetorical question? Unknown_16: No, I can't remember even basic terms. Unknown_11: Faubourg, not in Faubourg, is a massive banlieue south of Jamrock Quarter. It is the largest ghetto in Revachol, possibly the world. 2:41:19 Unknown_16: Wow. I knew what Jamrock is, but I didn't... Why did you move out when you were young? My dad was a drunk. Unknown_01: Plus, I guess I just wanted to drink too, you know, get my party on. Unknown_16: You should consider me a negative example. Okay. Unknown_16: Save. I don't know if I want to save some of this. I can reattempt it. Here, let's do this then. Unknown_16: I'll give myself two chances. Unknown_16: I will take off my empathetic coat and then reattempt it later. 2:42:03 Unknown_16: The other white check, okay. Unknown_16: Now I'll reattempt it with my plus one empathy code. It's locked, what the fuck? That's bullshit. I thought I could manipulate it with like... Unknown_16: I guess that doesn't work, you can't try with multiple layers of clothes on. I thought you could reattempt as soon as you, um... Unknown_16: As soon as you did the thing. Okay. 2:42:39 Unknown_16: Let's try it. This is the last try. Unknown_14: The device is hard to touch. An angular Omicron logo adorns the yellow plastic cover. Underneath you see a reel of tape rolling. Unknown_16: That's... Okay, I'm just fucked, I guess. And then she sleeps out here in the tent. I'm squeezing that. Unknown_10: What a dickhead. Nice. This is a little party tent here. 2:43:18 Unknown_14: A young man with peroxide blonde hair holds up a harmon while she take player nodding along to the music He looks at you with a knowing smile and says I don't know what to say Oh my god, he's german Unknown_10: go speak to andre i'm just annoyed what if i want to speak to you socialize it man that's ridiculous it's already going wrong sign is off scared angry it's hard to say which this man is he's just scared you see a youngish man bleaching the tips of his hair with a toothbrush he puts the toothbrush down and extends his hand in greeting 2:44:21 Unknown_10: Hello, I'm Andre. It's a pleasure to meet you. Unknown_14: His grip is strong, sweaty and warm. He's trying to project and inspire confidence. Unknown_10: This is my posse, Noid. Unknown_14: The young man with earrings looks at you suspiciously. Unknown_10: An egghead. Egg! Unknown_10: Together with a cell burger who's out there right now doing some seriously progressive sonic experimentation. We like to think of ourselves as music venue organizers How many have you organized many in a pipeline officer like Russell Greer with the brain being a brothel or good? 2:44:59 Unknown_16: That means they haven't set up a single one yet So I just said see we've been all over Jamrock North prospecting for real estate to establish a new venue in Artists offer talent Unknown_10: Yeah, thank you, Egghead. And while there is no shortage of raw unfettered talent spinning tapes in Jamrock, we've had rotten luck with the real estate part. Unknown_10: Place is a shithole. I apologize for my friend Noid's potty mouth. I realize this is not how you speak to a police officer. He has authority issues. Unknown_16: Uh, was there something you wanted your friend Essel said there was some problem with the church? Ah, so you've met her? Unknown_10: Good, good. Yeah, it's a matter of occupying ecclesiastical property. I bet you've noticed the derelict hive of Narkomania on the coast. I have. I'm talking about the church. And I'm not exaggerating. Even a place of spiritual refuge can become a magnet for all sorts of dopeds and burnouts if left unattended. 2:45:41 Unknown_10: Dopeds! Burnouts! Unknown_10: Well, I'm sad to say, that's exactly what happened. Sad because we were just about to put Martin A's on the map with one of the maddest dance clubs in Jamrock. Nah, strike that, Ian Rivershaw. Unknown_10: Strike that, the Vogue! 2:46:14 Unknown_16: This is what Estonians think of Germans. Unknown_10: And sadder yet, because the dopens and burnouts hold up in there were the worst kind. Unknown_14: He leans back a little, watching you with a steady, serious gaze, letting you imagine just how bad those dopeheads and burners really are. Unknown_14: Good. This calls for an opinion. You're an expert in those. Unknown_16: I am, actually. Are they foreigners? I bet they're foreigners. I can't say that, because then I'll take a hint. Unknown_10: Could be. Unknown_16: Whatever. We don't know for sure, but we do know they are spooky. 2:46:49 Unknown_16: I was hoping you would be the judge of that, officer. Unknown_10: All I can say is, their spookiness is the kind that keeps us from restoring this church into a community center and a place of spiritual refuge. Unknown_10: Also, they don't eat or clean the building. Shit's gonna collapse. Unknown_10: People just want to spin tapes without them spooking it up. Place has bad signs. No one can dance like that. Unknown_16: That's true. Nobody can dance with spooks. Unknown_10: Thank you, egghead. 2:47:23 Unknown_10: So you're gonna look into it, right? It should be a police matter. Getting them out. Whatever spooky stuff they're doing, I'm sure it's not what the Ecclesiastes meant their property for. Unknown_16: I'll look into it. Unknown_14: Get the test. Unknown_10: All right, man. Unknown_14: Andre's obviously very happy you took him seriously. The whole tent is. The boys exchanged good looks. Unknown_10: I did ask Noid to install a measure against more drifters wandering in. It's a temporary fix, just something to contain the situation. 2:47:55 Unknown_10: I had to do it in an hour. Not my best work, but it should hold for a while. I need the key. Unknown_16: Of course. Unknown_10: Noid, alright. Unknown_16: Be the cool cop. Catch the keys as it flies towards you. That sounds like me. Unknown_14: you sense the trajectory of the little piece of metal and plastic the object makes a small ringing sound as it approaches just the tiniest chime to your left the key hits your palm the speed freaks nod to you approvingly bask in the glory play it cool speed freak nods to you a respectful nod you proved something there okay 2:48:41 Unknown_10: Not long. Like a week, maybe? Unknown_10: Thank you. We just thought it was the right thing to do. Sure, man. Tell us what you want to know. Let's do it. Unknown_16: I know Noid has a Shines, but what's the deal with Egghead there? Unknown_10: He's a quiet man. Mostly communicates through music. And by being a master of ceremonies. Unknown_16: How do you communicate with him? Unknown_10: Well, he's just kind of here. I don't really know how to communicate with him. 2:49:14 Unknown_10: I have no idea what I'm accomplishing. It's kind of like a weird day after day two. There's so much happened on day two. Unknown_16: And then on day three, I'm just kind of meandering around this gigantic, incomprehensibly pathetic shithole. 2:49:53 Unknown_16: How are they getting electricity? That's my question. Push it. Unknown_16: Confront the pigs, which will happen at 11. Get the hangman's boots. Find one armor piece. Investigate the doomed commercial area and search for the malignant activity that lives inside a chimney. That's in the building. Determine where the shot came from. Check the boardwalk, the island, and land's end. 2:50:31 Unknown_16: Ask Ruby in the village. The washerwoman is hiding something. Look around. Maybe get into her shack somehow. Should I go back and do that? Unknown_16: Maybe that's what I missed, because I should have pursued that more. I'm right next to him. 2:51:17 Unknown_00: Can you wash this filthy, shit-encrusted seagull jacket for me? Unknown_16: YES! Uhh... Unknown_00: Well, hand it over then. Oh, I thought Kim was going to wash it and then I could go steal the boots. I'm proud of this one. Unknown_16: Wait, did I get a new jacket? 2:51:52 Unknown_16: Plus one to half light? Well, the rules say this is now my jacket. Okay. Unknown_16: I'm developing a look. I don't know if it's a good look or a bad look, but I'm developing a look here. Unknown_16: I think that's what really matters, is the look. Unknown_16: Oh, the shoes. You're right. There are shoes that complement that. 2:52:25 Unknown_16: Hmm. I don't know if I want those stupid fucking shoes, though. Unknown_16: Maybe I do want the LogiCat. Unknown_16: Yeah, you know what? That works better than these. It has, like, a Kenshi vibe to it. Unknown_16: Do I have to talk to the child, maybe? 2:52:57 Unknown_18: Are you her daughter we met earlier? Unknown_16: You know anyone named Ruby? Unknown_18: Okay, there's nothing in here, then. Unknown_16: Why does it then say that? She knows something. Unknown_16: Look around. Maybe get into her shack somehow. I did. Oh, her shack is not that house. Unknown_16: This is her shack. Unknown_14: The door has seen- I'll wait up after we're- The key turns with a- Okay, Kim's gonna wait outside? Unknown_16: Another jacket. Plus one to Logic. 2:53:38 Unknown_16: Oh, wait. Unknown_16: I can't replace my Half-Life jacket, though. Unknown_16: I gotta go with this one. Unknown_14: It's the woman that has the ventricle disorder. My new hangout, I could silently sit, drink, and die while looking at the next waves. A forward boost from my coastal operation. 2:54:24 Unknown_16: possible resting spot for my fugitive. Unknown_14: Waves crash onto the beach, drowning the reeds. Far to the south, a congregation gathers to a soup kitchen, yet a shelter for the homeless. An old woman gives out knitted scarves for free. Far to the southeast, two men and a woman dress themselves in ceramic armor. A shortwave radio hisses on the windowsill. One makes a salute. The other downs a drink. A middle-aged man stands in a rundown shack on the edge of a fishing village. Nothing nods. No one salutes him. No sight of the fugitive. 2:54:58 Unknown_16: Thank you, Strange Sensation, for a fair assessment of the current situation. There is no going back. Unknown_14: Outside the wind has picked up the waves crash against the stilts again It's as if you think the thought but in someone else's voice Look under the floorboards Wow now I have no chance No choice right as you look at the floorboards in this corner of the shack It's clear one of them isn't quite level with the others. I 2:55:39 Unknown_14: The edge of a floorboard next to it looks scratched. Unknown_14: Hollow space underneath the floorboards is dark and damp. You can barely make out the mixture of sand and sawdust below. You stick your hand in and start combing through the sand. Dry, not like outside. Fine dust. And then, something hard wrapped in paper. Unknown_14: Small cylindrical a bullet you pull it out a bullet a 9 millimeter bullet to be exact fit for all muzzleloaders of that caliber The floorboard doesn't care, but maybe the washerwoman does you have enough to confront her with? It's extra ammunition. She's locked and loaded ready to fight some cops 2:56:24 Unknown_14: An old mirror hangs on the wall. You see the reflection of your face in it, adorned with the expression. Unknown_16: Oh, that's the mirror from the other room. It's the exact same encounter. The bed is comforting. Unknown_16: There's a ball. Ah! There's a ball up here. Unknown_14: On the table, you see a bowl of water. Unknown_16: It's shaving the right call. 2:56:57 Unknown_14: The water reflects back a vague image of your face. A fresh start looms ahead. Clean yourself up and be born anew. Unknown_16: I have a 72% chance of succeeding at shaving, which means that I have a 28% chance of failing. Let's try it. Unknown_14: Like an artist with a brush or a master swordsman, you use the small mirror and the straight razor with some soap to remove all that unkempt hair from below the nose line. Unknown_14: The sharp blade chafes against your skin, producing a scratching sound. I lost my beard! I healed? Maybe that should have healed my fucking morale as well, because I'm dying. 2:57:33 Unknown_16: I'm dying from lack of fucking morale over here. Unknown_16: No, I mean the portrait, the portrait updated, not just the um... It wasn't just the narrative thing, I think the portrait updated, right? Unknown_00: Our tenant, the policeman. I hope the waves don't keep you up at night. What can I help you with? Unknown_16: Why was there a bullet in your shirt? Unknown_14: And without anger, a long and harsh life has taught her not to buckle under pressure. 2:58:15 Unknown_14: A bullet? Unknown_11: You didn't put it there, did you? She did. Unknown_00: Gun and hit things in there? She's usually a good tenant. And not a stupid one, either. Yes, I let my room to that Ruby girl. Unknown_16: So you lied. You lied to the RCMP. Unknown_00: As I've done before when she's been in trouble or just looking for solitude. I've made it clear. We welcome all kinds of people here. 2:58:46 Unknown_16: Even the homosexuals? She came last Friday, left on Monday in a hurry. Unknown_00: What has she gotten herself into? That girl... Unknown_11: That's for the police to find out. Unknown_11: Right there. Please answer each question to the best of your ability. I'm sure we have a few. Uh, she left on Monday? Unknown_00: Yes. Early with the dogs. Around 8 o'clock, I think. Unknown_14: With the dogs. Unknown_14: She probably heard the Lieutenant's Kamehameha drive by, and it woke her up. Just like it did you. 2:59:20 Unknown_16: She must have heard you're coming, though. Yes. Unknown_11: That is a downside of having a 130 kilowatt engine. It lets the bad guys know when you're coming. Unknown_16: Is the room exactly as she left it? I cleaned it, like I always do. Unknown_00: It's everything else. Unknown_16: The truth, Sire. Unknown_16: What is she like? She's good company. Unknown_00: Knows how to talk to an old woman. At my age, you don't get a lot of quality conversation. So I really appreciate that about her. 2:59:54 Unknown_11: Did she talk to you much during her last stay? Unknown_00: No, she was mostly silent this time. Kept to herself. Unknown_00: She tried not to let it show, but I could tell she hadn't come to fish. Unknown_00: Usually she likes to cause a few lines, but this time she mostly stayed in her room. Unknown_16: Mostly. What about the boulette? Unknown_00: How would I know? She's a gruff one, but not violent. She doesn't go around tooting a gun. Unknown_16: I heard she was a heavy drinker with anger issues. Do you ever witness that? 3:00:27 Unknown_00: Nothing of the sort. Sure, she was no stranger to the bottle. She fit in that way. But I only knew her to have a beer on the beach while watching the sunset. She isn't what you call a drunk. Even offered me some from time to time. Said it was part of the communeer life. But I never saw her lose control of herself the way some people do. Unknown_16: Did she ever have any technical equipment like a radio? Unknown_00: Not that I knew of. Though she was into nice music. She once showed me a few mixtape millions she'd made. 3:01:00 Unknown_00: Although I guess she was pretty handy with the mechanical and technical stuff. Even fixed the heater in the shack. You should be thankful for that. Unknown_14: She may simply have kept the equipment elsewhere. Unknown_16: Where did she go? Unknown_00: I don't know. Further up the coast. She tried to leave quietly, but the hinges on that door screeched like a cat in heat. Walk me up. I heard her rushing in those heavy boots, heading up north. 3:01:34 Unknown_14: It's a peninsula. She might be trapped. Unknown_00: You'll never find her, you know. She knows the coast like the back of her hand. You only just arrived. Unknown_11: I don't worry about that, ma'am. We are persistent. Unknown_16: Wipe your brow, man. I was really hoping she'd be hiding in this village. 3:02:04 Unknown_00: It's going to be too much work for you to find her. Better for you to stay here. Get a nice cozy fire going in the heater. Unknown_14: The Failed Electric Mural. Unknown_14: You feel like you should go look at it again. Step closer this time. Unknown_16: Thank you, Inland Empire. That's a great suggestion there. Unknown_00: Okay. She really means it. Unknown_16: One thing, officer, if you do find her, please go easy on her. And she really means it. She's a good girl. Unknown_00: Whatever she's gotten herself mixed up in. Unknown_16: Um, she blew somebody's brains out for no reason other than the fact that she was jealous of some fucking lesbian. Crush. 3:02:42 Unknown_16: Which is, again, the most unrealistic motivation for a murder of all time, but... Unknown_16: In the assumption that it is true and plausible. Unknown_16: That's pretty fucked up. That's pretty fucking retarded. Unknown_16: She didn't even murder like her crush or like fucking with her heart or whatever. She either like murdered some random woman or some random guy out of like jealousy. 3:03:17 Unknown_14: A row of ghostly shades facing a crumbling wall with another seven shades standing 10 meters from the cold behind this building. Unknown_16: This isn't the wall I was thinking of. Unknown_14: You see a one-sprite mural towering above you. The signage has peeled off over the years, but you can still make out. Feld electrical R&D. A slogan used to intertwine with the loops above the mural. A collapsed roof, broken windows set in walls that are cracking and will soon also fall. and the coastal breeze rustling and sighing in the remains of the edifice. Felt electrical. How ironic. All these dark rooms. 3:04:00 Unknown_16: Could Ruby be in here? In there? Unknown_11: She could. Or she could be in the identical room over there. Or in that boat shack. In that church tower, maybe. Why single out this one building? 3:04:33 Unknown_16: Shivers impossible. Listen to the wind. Unknown_14: What? Unknown_16: This game fucks with me. I guess it's just a 1 in 12 chance. It's not that crazy, huh? Unknown_16: Even though you're sure you succeeded, all this is quiet. There's no cold hand brushing against your forehead. No rustle down the leads. The wind has died. The ruin in front of you is a sudden assume. What was I even attempting to do here? 3:05:05 Unknown_14: trying to talk to the wind the city this game is it definitely with me it gave me a three percent chance of rolling this and then it gave me nothing with your hands falling to your side is trying to talk to the city something you've done before is it in your secret repertoire when you're out of ideas yes she could be anywhere here we find her i was really hoping she'd be in the village okay 3:05:40 Unknown_11: She's probably north of the village, and this place is a peninsula. We've already talked to the cryptozoologists. Working with them might give us a good excuse to run around, give us some structure. And then there's the church. If I were a murder suspect, I would not hide in the most prominent building here, but who knows. Anyway, we do it the old-fashioned way, sector by sector. Then, if we're desperate, we can look where we can't enter. Bankers, tomb drainage, displays... I'm sure it won't come to that. Unknown_14: Walk the coast. The old boardwalk. The reeds. You can always come back here and talk to the wind again. Look where it already got you. An adventure awaits. An adventure on the windswept urban coast. 3:06:14 Unknown_16: I'm gonna save that check. It's a crazy check. What's this? These are locked. Unknown_16: Uh-huh. That's where she's at. Okay, I'm gonna go do those traps, because he said to do that. I already tried to look up there, though. 3:06:48 Unknown_16: Look for Ruby on the coast. Return to the Feld mural and consult one if you don't have to do other than that. Keep searching the coast. Unknown_16: Check the traps and lands in the far north of the Fell building. Unknown_16: Northeast of the field building. Check the trap Morel just set up. The cryptozoologist can't. Well, I'll do that one last. Check the trap near the canal you cross. Okay, so northeast of here and then by the canal. 3:07:23 Unknown_16: Is that gonna be here or, like... Unknown_16: I assume that this is a part of the field building. I really don't fucking know. Unknown_16: It's kind of annoying how very labyrinthine this area is. 3:08:17 Unknown_16: Whoa. Oh, there it is. Unknown_16: I'm looking for, like, cryptozoologist shit, so it doesn't make any fucking sense. Unknown_14: A familiar apparatus lies among the reeds. Another one of Morel's traps. The reeds, sadly, in the wind picks up here. This trap is also full of panicked locusts. Another empty trap. Unknown_16: The next one is the lucky one. Unknown_14: Yep. Okay. 3:08:47 Unknown_14: Nothing has changed. Unknown_16: Okay, then let's check the canal and then we'll head back up here. 3:09:31 Unknown_16: It's not where we want it to be. Unknown_16: I didn't see this the first time. What the fuck is this? Unknown_16: A dolla. Unknown_16: I'm just black. 3:10:36 Unknown_16: Oh, there it is. Unknown_14: This trap's not too hot. The reeds bend forlornly toward the sand. The constant, distant song. Louder on this part of the coast. Nearer somehow. And there's that cold again. Always the cold. Nothing but locusts in this trap as well. Definitely no cryptozoological monstrosity. Unknown_11: Empty as all of them. Unknown_11: One more of these and we're done. 3:11:09 Unknown_16: I must stress, I did not expect a cryptozoological monstrosity to be in this trap. Unknown_11: Of course. Noted. Unknown_16: He doesn't believe me. 3:11:46 Unknown_16: The church. I'm investigating the cryptozoological things. Unknown_16: Then I'll investigate the church. Unknown_16: Um, where's the thing with the... Okay, then I go back to where they are and then I can talk to them at the end. Unknown_14: This is the last of the traps. The reef and the abandoned camps. It's got the cryptozoologists left. This isn't a very cozy place to stay night after night. The later it gets, the colder. Remnants of the camp can still be seen in the sand. The fire that's gone out. You feel strange, somehow. The trap feels light and silent as you pick it up. Something is different here. No locusts. 3:12:19 Unknown_14: No phasmid either, but still. Unknown_14: Your voice echoes on the coast, carried by a gust of cold wind. Unknown_11: Well, the bait worked on something. This doesn't mean it was a reed monster, though. Unless you see one in there? I just see an empty trap. The netting is a little untidy, messier than the others. 3:12:55 Unknown_14: Like someone or something picked the trap up and shook it before dropping it back down on the ground. Unknown_16: I get the feeling someone or something must have messed with the trap. Unknown_16: You're right, but they still need to know. Unknown_16: Perhaps our cryptozoologists have competition in the form of an actual entomologist, or someone else is sabotaging them. Unknown_11: I could present more theories, but then I would be taking this on as a case, which I'm not. 3:13:38 Unknown_16: What if it was the thesmon? Unknown_11: So something ate them? Unknown_16: I got nothing for that. 3:14:13 Unknown_16: Okay, I'll do that after I inspect the church. I don't want to walk all the way back there again. Unknown_03: What am I doing with the church, though? Unknown_16: None of that has anything to do with the church, though. Unknown_14: heavy wooden doors a great whoosh of air rushes into the dark innards of the church as though rushing to fill a great vacuum in the heart of the city 3:15:16 Unknown_16: It's supposed to be a church or some fantasy religion church. I don't know what the fuck this shit is. Unknown_16: Someone was in here doing naps? Unknown_14: The silence in this part of the church, it's almost palpable. All the shifting matter and shuffling of living things is gone. Nothing seems to exist beyond the church anymore. maybe if you were to stand in just the right spot even your footsteps would be completely silent i think i hear something and then it's gone almost all of it but for the faintest of hums it seems the sound here is detached from its source somehow if not blotted out outright truly unusual you can hardly hear your own breathing 3:15:51 Unknown_16: yell stomp you produce a few muffled I guess I have to yell after which the silence feels even more total somehow your voice is barely audible I'm having a psychotic breakdown the softest of whimpers it's unnerving oh no my half-light he's unnerved what is happening to him points to his ears and shakes his head then he leans closer can you hear anything 3:16:46 Unknown_11: No. Can't hear shit. I wonder why the church was built with such strange acoustics. Unknown_14: His detached tone conceals how uncomfortable he is. Maybe the church was designed this way to prevent boisterous activity, singing and dancing, on its premises. Unknown_14: He doesn't seem entirely convinced though. Unknown_16: The orderly rows of ceiling panels become barely visible, then disappear completely in the darkness of the tower overhead. try to see beyond the shadows yay i did it it's like there's something moving up there a shadow has emerged from the tower and it's making its way toward you through all the other shadows 3:17:19 Unknown_16: Follow the shadows. Unknown_14: It's not a shadow anymore. Becoming more substantial as it gets closer. The shape of an animal descends. Unknown_14: Officer, is there something up there? Unknown_14: Oh, no. You've lost sight of it. Where did it go? Prepare for an attack. Yes. The darkness makes the seal feel in my teeth. Unknown_16: Don't blink. Unknown_16: I blinked. 3:18:14 Unknown_14: You see something hanging from the rafters looking straight at you with dark eyes. Maybe it's possible to talk to it. Unknown_14: Is that a man? A man made of the same stuff as the carpentry of the building? He is studying you intently. Unknown_14: The man leans forward a little, fixing you with a steady, unreadable gaze, then speaks. Unknown_13: Habitual alcohol use has made you into a scared little pussy, Holmes. But don't worry. Everything's gonna be alright. You come to the right place. This isn't rude. 3:18:53 Unknown_14: That accent is Villa Lobos. A peninsula in Mesk and a district in general. There's a sizable con- Hold on. Stop it right there. Pussy. What's with this? Unknown_16: I'm not scared, I just don't understand why the female sexual organs have to be associated with weakness. Unknown_13: You really got a case of frayed nerves, pussy. And this usage comes from pussy laminates. 3:19:26 Unknown_16: Everybody knows that. It's true. My rhetoric should have known that, actually. Why would rhetoric be so, so foolish? Unknown_03: Um, oops. Unknown_16: Chill out, man. Unknown_13: Yeah, that's right. Fucking rhetoric. Piece of shit. And when you're ready, she will take your hand and lift you out of that despair at the bottom of that bottle. Unknown_11: This man is obviously a habitual narcotics user. Do we really need to question him? Unknown_14: Hey, and what was that about the bottle again? You haven't even drank that much lately. Lay off it already. Sheesh. 3:19:57 Unknown_16: I guess I have a bit of a problem and it's been getting out of hand lately, but... Unknown_13: I think he's very much aware of it. Oh yeah, I'm very much in touch with my suffering. Unknown_13: You don't know all the havoc Elvino is wrecking on your mind and your spirit. You know, actually, since we're here, you may want to pay attention to what the ceiling climber is saying. 3:20:33 Unknown_16: Fuck you, Kim. Unknown_16: Alcohol is central to my identity. I wouldn't drink if it wouldn't be me. Unknown_16: Who do you think you are? Some guy on the roof. For some reason, I feel like you have a point there. Unknown_13: Don't trust me. Trust the mother. Wasteland of reality. I'm only the messenger, Holmes. Unknown_16: Wasteland of... of reality. Unknown_16: It's a thought. You get negative two for physical engine. Who gives a shit? Completion. Plus one to psyche. Return of the self. Negative one inland Empire sober negative one physical instrumentation Insomnia negative one the suggestion boring no positive effects from alcohol But I get plus one to everything in psyche Does that mean I get plus one to volition empathy authority and suggestion I So I get zero for suggestion because I lose a point, but I keep one to the volition who is my homie. I 3:21:46 Unknown_16: That's pretty fucking good. Unknown_16: But I lose one to Inland... So I... Unknown_16: I lose... I get plus one to all except Inland and Suggestion. Which are already zero, basically. Unknown_16: I get plus one to Volition. That's pretty good. Unknown_16: Okay. I am doing a sober Hobo Cop. I guess that's the least interesting build of all time, but... 3:22:17 Unknown_16: I don't have a skill point, though. Unknown_16: Though, I don't know. Maybe I can lose my fucking bullshit. Unknown_16: No, if I do that, then I, um... Unknown_16: I can't. No, wait. I can. I can. Unknown_16: And then I can get Waste on Reality. Okay. Unknown_13: Great. This is the Church of the Mother of Silence. You are welcome here. Thank you. You have no idea what the fuck he's talking about. 3:22:50 Unknown_14: Is he just trying to throw you off your game? Unknown_02: Perhaps. Whatever it is, he's quite confident about it. Unknown_14: Just look how gracefully he sways. Unknown_14: Tis not an act to my liege. Saving perchance he hath deceived his very self. This man is a zealot. Unknown_16: Do you know where the other spooker is? Points to the strange machine. Some ravers want to turn this place into a nightclub. The ones in the tent outside, right? I see him. 3:23:22 Unknown_13: Think they scared of me. Unknown_16: Do they have a reason to be scared? Unknown_13: Nah, man. They look pretty funny. And I don't harm no one anymore. Unknown_14: Though he used to, a long time ago. Unknown_16: So what do you think about the nightclub? Why not? Unknown_13: They wouldn't bother me none. I'm usually way up there imbibing. 3:23:55 Unknown_13: Ain't no music on earth that can reach where I go. Might even be nice to have some company. Unknown_16: There you go. Unknown_14: He said that in spite of himself. He's more attached to the human than he'd like to think. Unknown_16: Did you climb down from the tower? Sure did, Holmes. Unknown_16: Are you human? There must be something illegal about living in a church ceiling. Unknown_13: I am, at least in part, Holmes, until the mother's love burns away the cruel distinctions of the body. Unknown_16: It's a bit pretentious. Unknown_13: What does he mean, in part? 3:24:30 Unknown_16: At least you're feeling more comfortable. Do you know where the other spooker is? The other spooker? Unknown_13: Oh, please let's not speak Spanish. Don't know, Holmes. Via Eta is grandma. Unknown_16: Is it like fake Spanish? That's even worse than real Spanish. Unknown_16: There is another person living in the church. Unknown_13: I just call her Via Eta because of her clothes. She's actually quite young. Unknown_13: Or maybe not that young. 3:25:05 Unknown_13: Age is just one of the many masks we wear. Unknown_14: wait what if it's ruby did it ever seem to you like she was hiding here from something you mean like a fugitive no man quite the opposite i don't think she cared much about authority or anything else for that matter maybe only about her machines 3:25:41 Unknown_11: I see. And where is she now? Unknown_11: I told you, Holmes, I don't know. Unknown_13: How can you not know? Don't really follow her comings and goings. Just see her typing on her computer now and then. We got different interests. Unknown_13: I'm afraid not, I say. You just have to wait until she comes back or. Or search through her radio computer. Unknown_16: Then let's do that. 3:26:21 Unknown_16: A scarf? Unknown_16: A scarf that replaces my plus two drama bow tie for pain threshold? Fuck that. Unknown_16: Plus one to empathy shoes. Unknown_16: To replace my perception shoes? Fuck that. 3:27:04 Unknown_16: It's recording something. Unknown_14: In white, silver, and apricot faience, the young mother of humanism stands above you. Unknown_14: A crack runs across her body. She is impossibly tall, oval-faced and sad. A dark and radiant majesty. Unknown_14: this is her innocence dolores day no it is like a fake church cradle in her arms are a pair of glowing lungs clearly visible from underneath her flowing dress you should kneel no 3:27:44 Unknown_14: Cold wind seeps in from the crack in the glass. Snowdrifts cover the floorboards as that bitter thought passes through your head. The lieutenant draws an X-shaped cross from shoulder to shoulder. Unknown_16: So he's like a woman god worshipper? I'm not doing that either. Unknown_14: She left us all in the shits. Don't give her a single thing. Serves her right. She only cares about her sovereign's orb and her silk robes and getting to the aerodrome on time. To leave. Unknown_16: How did I know that this is the mother of humanism? Oh, Dolores, this is a church worshiping the UN woman from the lore dump from Joys. Dolores Day is a, is the, basically like the one world government person. 3:28:18 Unknown_14: Despite the damage you've done to yourself. Unknown_16: It's literally a praise. Basically, this is her innocence. Unknown_14: Dolores Day, the innocence of humanism, internationalism and the welfare state. Perhaps the most famous human being ever to have lived. Unknown_16: That is quite possibly the gayest thing ever written in a book. You could take a book by, like, that Chuck Tingle guy about being pounded in the ass by your own ego, and you would not find a line anywhere in that that is as sincerely as homosexual as what I just read. yeah can i burn this commodore red could wipe her sad smile from your brain thing it has survived the deluge and haunts you still can i burn it and will haunt you forever the hell with this she was not hell she is the opposite of that the wind of i didn't realize encyclopedia is such a fag but i guess it makes sense he's more of a wikipedia if you think that you stand below her once more with your hands on your okay i need to increase my visual perception here 3:29:46 Unknown_16: Visual calculus. Any of these other ones that have visual calculus? Unknown_16: Yes, this one does. Unknown_16: Okay, let's try again. 83%, come on now. Unknown_14: Fuck! You see little pearls of light on the edge 3:30:19 Unknown_16: I did get that extremely useful 0% chance that told me fuck all about anything. Unknown_16: Wait, no, I need my hide. What was the thing that I had? Unknown_16: Encyclopedia. Actually, I want my... I think I want my encyclopedia. I already have plus two from the bow tie. Unknown_16: Okay, let's see if I... Unknown_14: A machine stands in the corner, watched over by the figures on the stained glass window. It's turned on and quivering with soft electricity. 3:31:00 Unknown_11: Another radio computer. And this time it's already turned on. Unknown_11: Very astute observation. We should probably let it be. It's becoming clear that there's no trace of the suspect anywhere inside the church. Unknown_16: This machine looks like the one we're doing commercial with. It's also quite similar to the one we have down at the station. Unknown_11: Must be the same model. Unknown_11: Okay. 3:31:40 Unknown_14: Let me investigate. You see a fluorescent play and print buttons on the keyboard. A hatch connected to the central compartment is wide open. Unknown_14: The lieutenant says nothing. You see the machine's glowing frame reflected back from his diamond-shaped glasses. You're free to proceed. Behind the hatch sits a cube-like crisscross of filaments, smoldering in the dark like fireflies. Silver tape on the side says, in black marker, Log, February to March. 3:32:15 Unknown_14: This is the machine's filament memory. Press play to access its contents. Unknown_14: The speaker comes to life. Static seeps through the machine's planar magnetic driver. An old lady greets you. Her voice sounds a hundred years old. Unknown_05: It's her again. Um... That's true. It's me again. How hard are you? 3:33:02 Unknown_05: Good. Please repeat the password. Unknown_11: Let's look around. There's no use trying to guess the answer. Maybe he knows something. Unknown_05: Received. Unknown_14: That sounds bad. Is there anything? Good. The machine's keyboard. Nothing happened. Unknown_16: Okay, let's try talking to the guy. I bet you the password is Dolores Day. I'm just gonna guess. 3:33:36 Unknown_13: Nothing back there. I don't see what he knows. Unknown_13: Oh, hey, wait. There's coffee in the back. Unknown_13: Oh, wait. I meant the mother's love. Unknown_14: Coffee in the back. Something familiar about that. Coffee and stale cookies. Unknown_13: Too many times, Ese. You need it for something. Unknown_14: Surveys are a good way to fish for personal information, especially in the name of public safety. 3:34:10 Unknown_16: Yes. I'm doing a survey of passwords, identifying regional trends. Afterlife death. Unknown_13: What do you think of that? I think we're done here. That's fucking gay. Unknown_11: That was an interesting conversation. However, I'm still not sure whether we'll find our suspect here. Unknown_16: doesn't matter we're talking to the lady the machines keyboard is the speaker come good afternoon the password is good thank you please repeat is this the personal log good please good i have unlocked the filament after ending the spotlight 3:34:54 Unknown_14: the machine's keyboard the printer prints out a long text the first entry made on the 4th of february 51 by an unknown author is short and concise Unknown_14: Fourth of February. That's over a month ago. Whoever set up those machines has been here for quite a while. 3:35:39 Unknown_16: You think this log might be connected to the case? Unknown_16: Right at the church, the door was boarded up. I used the crowbar to get in. Looks like this place has been deserted. Nothing out of the ordinary. We don't need to ask Ronnie to figure out how to get electricity in. Unknown_16: um our case no i don't think so 6th of february 51 had a little chat with the local fishermen said i shouldn't go near that place that the church was spooky and ridden with narcotics it's a little spooky all right still haven't figured out the electricity see even one of the spookers themselves says it's unnerving Okay, fine. You're off for this part. 3:36:22 Unknown_14: See? Ridden with narcotics. Just like Andres said. 7th of February, 51. Finally, got the electricity in. Next on the agenda, a new antenna. I'm thinking ESCA series, something advanced. Unknown_16: Why would anyone need any of this equipment here? Unknown_16: I mean, this is a nice office, I guess. Except for the mural to the fucking UN lady. 3:37:10 Unknown_14: They're qualified labor. They can get work anywhere. Graphic design. Ads. The programmers are doing fine, too. I mean, they're programmers. The writers, though. They're fucked. Unknown_14: I just have to find out what caused that data loss and be done with it. Still don't understand how it managed to wipe out the backup. When the backup wasn't even connected to the front. I know, I know. Everyone thinks it's impossible. They say I must be lying. I'm here to set it right. 3:37:42 Unknown_16: artist programmers lexi who are all these people her friends colleagues it seems like something to do with radio computers something about the data getting destroyed of february 51. food from the grocery store apparently there's a strike going on in the harbor Unknown_14: Definitely not happy to see the Martinese people again. Everything's now set up in the church. Unknown_16: How did the writers get fucked over? I saw there's some drama with the publisher, but they sold the game, right? 3:38:18 Unknown_11: We are nearing the date of the murder. Unknown_11: Keep reading. I'm interested now. Unknown_11: that radio anomaly that sent this person here in the first place 25th of february 51. i've been sending data up to linter for a while now trying to recreate the data loss but nothing didn't even feel like logging in the disappointment but dude capitalism is going to work curious i hate spatial and no ivart claire is like the worst character in the entire game the swallow like if you think of ivart claire need to get some mics 3:38:55 Unknown_16: Is she talking about... Unknown_14: 28th of February, 51. Yes, the first recordings confirm that the swallow is real and I'm not just losing my mind. It's a pillar of silence, with a diameter of approximately 3 meters. Seems like the higher I go, the less I record. This might be a coincidence, or it could be connected to the data loss that led me here. 3:39:26 Unknown_11: The Pillar of Silence. She is talking about the Silence. Unknown_11: Is she suggesting it's more than just an architectural quirk? The Lieutenant doesn't answer. Unknown_11: I mean, if you have a pillar of silence, you could probably sell that to people who need to record stuff. Unknown_16: You know, there's a market for silence. Unknown_14: March 51. Some kind of young disco men have appeared next to the church. I've been trying to record the silence to find the epicenter, but now it turns out I've also been capturing the future of dance music, one neo-disco song, over and over again. 3:40:04 Unknown_14: A girl on the ice? Unknown_16: Why would you call it a disco man instead of disco woman? Unknown_14: March 51. I got a call from the repeater station. Someone has tried to access the radio computer in our old office in Martinez. Can't do anything about it. The storekeeper still doesn't want to let me inside the building. Thinks I'm part of some kind of curse. How Martinez of her. 3:40:46 Unknown_11: That was awesome. I knew it wasn't a good idea to meddle with that machine. Unknown_14: No, no, it was a great idea. You're learning things. This is how you learn things about machines. Unknown_16: That's true. It is March 51, a new two meter aux cable, noodles, crackers, ping, ping, energy drinks. How did they, did they not, when they sold the game to publishers, they didn't contract any kind of dividends or like a cut of the profit. 3:41:22 Unknown_16: You know, I looked up the writer of this. It's an Estonian guy. There were other writers that assisted, but effectively, the Estonian guy wrote in the Estonian language a novel that in total sold fewer than a thousand copies, despite putting in like a decade's worth of work into it. So he made this game as a way to try to broach his novel to a broader audience. So the reason why the world seems oddly developed in terms of like, 3:42:02 Unknown_16: this weird catastrophe, catastrophe, catastrophe with, um, catastrophe catastrophe with like the UN people in the war is because that's what the book was about. And so, um, it's actually very developed in his mind and in his writing. So if he, um, he made this or wrote the game, Unknown_16: to kind of bring his ideas out to more people. And if he got fucked over a second time, that's actually very funny, but I don't know the full deal with this. The book is pretty bad. The only good thing about it was that it was made this game. Have you read it? Do you know Estonian? Did you read an English translation of the book? Did the book get like a wave of reinvigoration that got it translated to English because of the game? 3:42:46 Unknown_16: How do you guys know this? Is this why you're watching this? Because you're like obsessed with this shit? Unknown_14: Oh, God. She heard about the log, I guess. You're just going to let her touch it? This is Epidance. Breaking into my radio computer, I see. 3:43:26 Unknown_11: Yes. I do apologize for the intrusion, madam. We are with the RCM, you see. Unknown_16: We're here on a side case representing certain music video organizers. We're looking for a suspect. No one's hiding here. Unknown_15: It's just me and my computer, and it has been this way for weeks. Now, please give me some room. I need two seconds to see that you haven't destroyed anything. Unknown_11: We should talk to her after she has rebooted the machine. Is that gonna happen soon? 3:44:03 Unknown_16: I guess not. Unknown_15: What is it? Unknown_16: Who are you? I'm Soona Luukkanen-Kilde, the former lead programmer of Fortress Accident and RSA radios. Unknown_15: I have over 16 years of programming experience, and I'm proficient in both VOX and Orbis languages. If you're not here to hire me, I don't really know how I can help you. 3:44:38 Unknown_14: Did she say over 16 years of experience? She must have started programming when she was still a teenager. Unknown_16: Wow, imagine that. That still doesn't answer what she's doing in an abandoned church. Unknown_14: Have you seen Ruby? Unknown_15: What? No. No one's suspicious around here. Unknown_16: There's a lot of shit. Seen her, sire. Tis true. What the fuck is the point of this? How do you feel about anonic dance music? Unknown_15: I hate it. Unknown_16: Well, that's too bad. She hasn't even heard it. Have you listened to it? Actually listened to it? 3:45:15 Unknown_15: Yeah. Like, all the time. My tent neighbors don't really ease up with their partying, do they? Maybe I'd have to be on drugs to get it, but to a sober mind, it just sounds like uninspired rug whipping. This is anti-Germanic, sorry, anti-Valden sentiment. This is Valdophobia. What is it? 3:45:49 Unknown_16: A community space for the elderly. Unknown_15: I can't believe they got you so easily. Go have another talk with those up-and-coming entrepreneurs, will you? Thanks. Unknown_11: Good luck. Unknown_11: I'm not coming in there. Unknown_16: What are you doing in here? Unknown_15: You really like those questions, don't you? Yes! I'm a police officer. Fuck you, bitch. I'm conducting scientific research here. You can't throw me out. Unknown_16: As a matter of fact, I can take a blunt instrument and destroy all this shit and all your work in seconds. I'm looking for the location of a two-millimeter hole in the world. Unknown_14: Wait, what? She's looking for a disruption in the radio waves. That's what her personal log said. The lieutenant raises his brows, but doesn't say anything. 3:46:24 Unknown_15: Yes, that's what led me here. But I suspect it might be something a bit more complicated than that. Exactly. What does it mean? Up to now, it has been impossible to say what it is because it's impossible to measure nothing. Unknown_15: What do you think it is? Unknown_15: What qualities does nothing have? How do you measure something that does not exist? 3:46:59 Unknown_16: This church is in like an Arctic ball. Easy. Unknown_14: You measure it by the world around it. Unknown_16: I guess I'll go with that one. Measure it by collecting data on the surroundings on which it does exist. Unknown_15: Exactly. Very true. That's what I've been aiming for. That's why I have those basins. I've tried using hydro transducers to record the silence. Unknown_14: She couldn't pronounce that word. To find out where it begins. Unknown_14: Ah, hydro transducers. So that's what those water basins are. Devices for recording sound through water. 3:47:33 Unknown_15: But honestly, it's not progressing very well. Unknown_15: Okay, I don't give a shit. Unknown_16: So this is not Ruby. I'm gonna go talk to those retards and tell them that their fucking church sucks ass. Unknown_16: Maybe I should tell her about that. Like, what they're actually up to. 3:48:07 Unknown_14: The shaggy head girl. Unknown_01: So you talked to my associates, right? Unknown_01: Are you going to help us? Shoot. Unknown_16: Like to know more about your associates? Unknown_01: I haven't. Of course I do. I just don't tell people about my friends and who they are and so on. Unknown_14: To the cops. Unknown_14: Don't know what makes you think it'll be any different later, but... 3:48:40 Unknown_01: my associate sorry just answer cops me don't know what makes you think it'll okay i'm not gonna get her to say anything hi again so uh how things going and what happened i talked to a shadow clad being living in the beach oh man the crab man you mean who is he what did you think Unknown_16: You give me odd lectures on alcoholism. Unknown_10: Really? Huh. Interesting. What's he doing in the church? Unknown_16: That's a good fucking question. Unknown_10: No matter. Is he gonna be a problem? Unknown_10: Yeah. Lloyd is right. Let's get back to the point. What are we gonna do about him? Unknown_14: These guys will never catch him. You will never catch him. There's nothing to do. 3:49:40 Unknown_16: He told me he wouldn't mind a nightclub at all. Unknown_10: I don't know, man. Doesn't it feel like a major hindrance to you? A spooky guy climbing around when all the guests are trying to have nice friendly hyper time? Unknown_16: We're going to have to live with the crab man. Oh, yes, it's not a massive problem, now that I think of it. Unknown_10: Everyone is welcome to dance till the morning light. Yeah! Maybe. I guess we'll figure something out. OK, but what about the other spooker? The one in Grandma's clothes? Unknown_16: OK, let's use the computer. 3:50:13 Unknown_10: That's odd. She says you guys are a fucking liar. Come on, man. Who will you trust, the spooky programmer or us? Unknown_16: I am a pretty spooky programmer myself. Unknown_10: I'm not feeling the love. 3:50:46 Unknown_10: Anyway, now that it's settled, how did she sing? I mean, disposition-wise. About the dance club idea. Unknown_10: Ja, oder nein. Rocking it or dropping it. Unknown_16: See, I'm telling you, they hate Germans. That's the moral of the story. She doesn't like the dance club idea. Unknown_10: That's my favorite thing in the world. And she doesn't like it at all. Unknown_10: Yes, this is a communist game. Unknown_16: But I was very much induced by people into playing it. 3:51:21 Unknown_16: She made it very clear that she won't leave until her project is finished. No, I won't evict her. We have to come up with a different solution. Unknown_10: Look at you, Honor Man! No, Noid. He's right. Maybe we've approached it the wrong way after all. I'm sure there's a workaround. We can make a deal not to bother her. Unknown_10: If that's okay with her, we only want to get in the church and spread the joy and ecstasy of music. The lines in the dark exist! Co-exist! At least Crabman seems like an advanced being. He's hard. He'll understand. Yeah, he can do his climbing thing in the tower. And the programmer? Does she like anodic dance music? 3:51:55 Unknown_14: she does not egghead cannot believe what she just said it makes him pump the jam a little slower for a moment but then he returns to the full swing of it no worries we'll figure it out if coexisting fails you can always muscle her out right if it's all okay with you what do you think it can only 3:52:29 Unknown_16: Threaten her? For these guys? Why the fuck would I do that? Why would I try to help at all? Unknown_10: I really don't understand this plot at all. Unknown_16: I don't get it. Unknown_16: Surely I can do something more productive than fuck around with these guys. Unknown_16: I guess I literally, oh my god. 3:53:13 Unknown_16: I was trying to be a cool cop, but they annoy the fuck out of me. Unknown_16: I still haven't found a way to get to the Ferris wheel. 3:53:48 Unknown_14: Is there something here that would indicate a sniper used this place as a nest for taking the shot? Just some urban detritus, a bottle, and a dilapidated old comms. In the distance, you can hear the breakers roar. Unknown_11: I don't see it, officer. I don't see a person take a shot here and hit something there, in the whirling in rags. Unknown_16: Maybe it's from the tower. Unknown_11: It's not possible to climb that ladder. And even if it were, why? There's no platform up there to aim from. Unknown_14: It does look extremely rickety and wouldn't help much either. 3:54:30 Unknown_16: Um... Unknown_14: There, 1.2 kilometers over the cold water of the bay, through a thick snowstorm melting flake by flake in the waves, you see the smallest rectangle, barely visible. Unknown_14: The light is off on the third floor of the whirling in rags. The young woman is gone in precinct 57, safe, closed off. Her form no longer moves behind the glass there. 3:55:05 Unknown_16: Yes, that's true. She's probably going to die. Unknown_11: To warm his hands before pulling the trigger? Perhaps. But anyone could have made this. The coast is specked with fire this time of year. Unknown_16: Check boardwalk and check island. 3:55:54 Unknown_16: Okay, I'm all the way over there. Unknown_16: The boardwalk? Unknown_16: Where the fuck is that? The map sucks! The map is like this huge, I was expecting like an actual boardwalk with caravan stuff, but there's like, fuck off. Why did they autosave? There's nothing here! What the fuck did they autosave for? I guess because I went to the tower? 3:56:27 Unknown_16: And there's this shit, and it's like, there's no path there at all. Unknown_16: It auto-saves based on time? It's 1647, what the fuck does... Why would it do that? Unknown_16: I mean, this looks like the boardwalk. I don't see a Ferris wheel and I see nothing to interact with. 3:57:00 Unknown_16: There's coins. Unknown_16: Is this it? Did I miss this whole section? Unknown_16: did it's because there's such a tiny hole yeah i missed this entire section what the the smell it's awful and familiar don't you recognize it that hideous pungency that faintly cloying sweetness only death smells like that is that a corpse something cold wakes in the pit of your stomach fear half light you're really letting me down you're not supposed to be a scaredy cat you're supposed to be based and not afraid of anything ever 3:57:47 Unknown_14: It is death. It must be. Unknown_16: I mean, there's a corpse right fucking there. Do I really need this exposition? Unknown_14: The lieutenant has already brought a handkerchief to his nose. Unknown_14: There's some tear. Unknown_14: A man lies on the boardwalk. Unknown_16: Working class corpse. Unknown_14: At an unnatural angle. Right next to him is an empty bottle of spirits. In his cramped hand, a chewing gum wrapper. 3:58:22 Unknown_14: The smell is not as bad as a two week old corpse, but it's definitely heading there. Unknown_14: Hold on. Unknown_11: Lividity is faintly pronounced. Whoever this is has been dead for two days. No longer. We need to investigate. Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_14: Another dead body. This is your job. Steal yourself. Calm now. Carefully. Just another day. Unknown_16: Inspect his pants. Unknown_14: He's wearing mud-caked boots, beige trousers, and an old brown leather jacket with a bright blue lining. There are traces of kebab sauce on his chest. 3:59:03 Unknown_16: Let's take a look at those pants. Unknown_14: The leather jacket suits him well. It must be custom-made. Unknown_16: But what about the pants? Unknown_14: You find some sunflower seeds and a rain-soaked library card folded into two. His jacket feels sodden and heavy under your hand. Unknown_11: Good. We should take a look at that library card after this is done. Unknown_14: The man has fallen through a crack in the boardwalk and hit his head against the metal bench. Coagulated blood covers his black hair. One of his feet is still dangling through the hole. 3:59:38 Unknown_14: A bad fall. It might have been dark outside. This place is a minefield in the dark. Unknown_14: His expression is dull, like the sea behind him. Drops of water shining on his mustache. His eyes, empty and wide, look frightening in their frozen gaze. Unknown_14: Height, 170 to 175 centimeters. Curly hair, stout build. Age, approximately 50 to 60 years. 4:00:11 Unknown_14: There's some dried blood on the metal bench, right where the corpse's head rests. The floorboards are rotten and slippery wet around the hole. An empty bottle lies nearby. A chewing gum wrapper is clutched in his fist. Unknown_14: Be very, very careful where you step here. Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_16: That's hot. So he just stumbled drunk and broke his fucking skull open? 4:01:06 Unknown_14: They screech under your feet ominously. It's hard to say whether the dead man's weight was the cause of the boardwalk to break. It definitely looks fragile. Unknown_14: You see waves churning below. Something cracks beneath your feet. Unknown_14: He could have easily disappeared into the sea through that hole, and you would have never found him. Unknown_16: That's pretty scary. Water is scary, Chip. Unknown_14: A .75 liter Tallulah vodka with its cap missing. There's hardly anything left inside. 4:01:41 Unknown_11: Tear all around us. Unknown_11: I'd prefer if you didn't collect them this time. It's not proper. Unknown_16: Wow, what an asshole. I have my bag and everything, you fucking asshole. Unknown_14: Green leaves on the cover. The man's mouth is half a gate from the terror of the fall. 4:02:13 Unknown_16: Look in. Unknown_16: This reduces morale when you do this, right? A blackness of death. Unknown_14: Stench. Unknown_14: You think you see white chewing gum, too. Unknown_14: Confirmed. Nearly the whole pack is there. Solidified on his lower rear teeth. Unknown_16: He ate a whole pack of gum? That's fucking bizarre. He ate a whole pack. Unknown_11: It's to cover the smell of alcohol before going home. Unknown_16: The worst thing is... What is it? 4:02:44 Unknown_11: I've seen it before. Almost the same scenario. Even the chewing gum. Unknown_11: It's always the same. Unknown_16: So we're just inspecting like a... Your entire boardwalk creaks in the wind as you take a step back. Unknown_11: Looks like one of the locals. He'd have to know this spot to come here. You don't. Just walk over here. No, that's true. Unknown_16: I had to really search to find this fucking place. Unknown_11: That's just a lazy assumption. What do you think? 4:03:15 Unknown_16: No, you're right. Unknown_11: And he was married. Unknown_11: But let's try to not run ahead. For now, all we know is that he's an unidentified middle-aged man found dead on the Martinez boardwalk. Unknown_11: Death by misadventure. He slipped and fell through the boardwalk. A truly unfortunate accident. If it wouldn't have been for that bench, he'd be alive. 4:03:50 Unknown_16: You think he was drunk? Oh, yes. Unknown_11: Some symptoms of acute alcohol poisoning could have definitely played a role here. Severe confusion, respiratory depression, unpredictable behavior. Unknown_11: But I think that death arrives through head trauma, not liver failure. Unknown_16: What about the kebab? This is the real question here. Unknown_11: What about it? The deceased ate some kebab. It's probably from a nearby place, maybe in the box. 4:04:24 Unknown_14: Sometimes a kebab is just a kebab. Unknown_16: I think this could be related to lynching Ruby. A sequence killer? Unknown_16: no dude half-light's like striking out this game i would say without any further evidence yes it does seem to be a pretty straightforward from where i stand i can see two options we either take the case and follow the leads to identify the body on our own or we report back to the station and leave this for our colleagues to handle um 4:05:21 Unknown_16: We should probably deal with that. Unknown_16: Follow the leads, identify the body on our own, and report back to the station. Fuck it, I don't do that. Unknown_11: Alright. The station is going to want details, however. Let's examine that library card you found on the man's body. See if- Okay. Unknown_14: A police badge on which you see the photo of a man. You. Some seaweed is stuck to the back. Unknown_14: Oh, that's my badge. That was the wrong ID. 4:05:58 Unknown_16: Wait, what was I supposed to do? Unknown_16: Examine the library card you found in the dead body. Unknown_16: Folded library card. Okay, that's it. Unknown_14: The library card is folded into two and still slightly wet to the touch. The front side reads, Central Jamrock Public Library Card. Issued to Billy Méjean. Expires July 53. Unknown_14: Billy is a unisex name. Could be the deceased. What? Or his family member. 4:06:39 Unknown_16: They weren't naming fucking girls Billy eyelash back in the day. Unknown_14: Whoever owns this card is an avid reader. You find a list of books written in blue pencil. Radio Thriller. Unknown_14: Stand a little less between me and the sun. The last one in the list is The Glinton Curve by M. Theobald. A library stamp indicates that the book has been returned. Unknown_14: Most of these titles seem to be in the sci-fi genre. Some thrillers, too. 4:07:17 Unknown_14: If lost, please return the card to the library. Dial 0050255211 or visit us at Moreau Street 78, Jamrock. Business hours 900 to 1800. Unknown_11: We already decided to let the station handle this case, so there's no need for us to call the library. Unknown_16: That's true. Unknown_11: Okay, I guess that's that then. Call the station. 4:08:05 Unknown_14: There's some tear. An empty cigarette pack, two empty bottles. No, there's more in there. A tragedy. He shakes his head with genuine sadness. Unknown_16: Okay, fuck this. Unknown_16: Oui, oui, don't you feel bad for the poor working class man, a victim of circumstance? Unknown_16: He could not survive the rigors of our... darwinistic capital society that places more value on z outputs of a man versus his own invaluable spirit the light vanishes inside the concrete slit the structure goes deep under the earth yell ho into the slit come out ho there's no echo 4:08:57 Unknown_16: What's the idea could be connected to we might find her down somewhere in conclusion, I hope not What My games fucked up again, I did this before I Unknown_14: The remaining windows rattle from a strong gust of wind. The dripping water falls from a high place. All you can see is the shadow of a collapsing staircase. There's rust and corrosion on the bars. No. Unknown_14: I won't even try. Unknown_11: You know... Unknown_16: Mom and JF ended up the same way. Unknown_11: I had a partner once. They called him Eyes, because he had to show me things. It's that bad. 4:09:42 Unknown_14: Well, enough, actually. Unknown_11: It's odd how that works. I'm no sharpshooter. Yeah, except for the time that you had to shoot that fucking belt, piece of shit. Unknown_16: I mean, this is the boardwalk, right? Unknown_16: There's nothing over here. I've already been over here. Unknown_16: Look for Ruby on the coast. Unknown_16: Return to the Feldmural and consult the wind if you don't know what to do. Other than I keep searching the coast. I don't know what to fucking do. 4:10:18 Unknown_16: I guess I'll ask the thing again. Unknown_14: The once bright mural towers above you, saying, Feld Electrical R&D tomorrow is just a whisper away. Unknown_14: A breeze, like a quiet sigh, moves a goat to the children of the big sea. Unknown_14: The wind rushes away, leaving you where you were, on the rotting boards of the felled building. 4:10:57 Unknown_11: Officer, are you okay? It looked like we lost you for a second. Unknown_16: I need to talk to some kids. When you are ready. Unknown_16: The kids? The two kids that I deliberately went out of my way to never talk to throughout this? That's the secret? 4:11:29 Unknown_16: We're still hearing the snow. Unknown_14: The scruffy haired little boy kicks a stone. He can't be more than five years old. Unknown_14: The other one looks indistinguishable from him. He watches his brother kick the stone with his tongue lolling out of his mouth. Unknown_19: Yes. Unknown_19: Yes. Unknown_16: All three of them are twins? Unknown_16: They have three, is it triplets? Identical triplets? It doesn't look like he knows what that means. 4:12:01 Unknown_16: Have you seen anything strange happen? Unknown_19: We had bad words and said them and got in trouble. Unknown_16: Tragic. Unknown_19: Bad words. Bad, bad words. Unknown_16: Bad words, don't say them. Unknown_19: We won't. Unknown_19: We learned. Unknown_16: You hear the bad words. We just heard funny voices. Unknown_19: We thought the voices were funny. We said what they said, and then we got in trouble. 4:12:34 Unknown_16: Where did you hear them? Unknown_19: What's that? We just heard them in our head. You know, I heard people talking, except just in my head. Uh, it was like... Unknown_19: It is time at last. My nasty speech reeks. Unknown_19: A brother man is about to grow up. Unknown_14: A memory stirs. Unknown_16: You've heard this before. I have heard this before. I can't remember where it came from, though. DJ Flachios. Speak by Daviel, single in here. Oh, it's his radio. He was listening to this on the radio. Turn up the volume. 4:13:09 Unknown_19: Load those speakers out. Unknown_19: Now here's... No! This is bad word, stupid! Unknown_14: Why, what a splendid rendition these two rapscallions have offered us here today. Thoughtless memorization. Perchance they'll enjoy greatness as a double act in the performing arts. 4:13:50 Unknown_14: a word when you're done the boy draws a jagged rock across the ground you've seen bad people i don't think questioning four-year-olds without their parents present is going to crack the case i mean they might be able to tell us about ruby okay let's go come once detective about what the twins had to say so those voices they heard Unknown_14: Yes, of course, earlier, when you turned the radio on in his Kanaima. Unknown_16: Your favorite channel. Unknown_11: I can't explain how they heard it. I believe they heard something, and given the poverty of this part of town, I don't know how they could have heard the radio. However... 4:14:44 Unknown_11: Weird as it is, the situation is not connected to the murder. This isn't our business. Unknown_16: Are you just embarrassed that you may have to contact Speed Freaks FM? Unknown_11: No. I just don't see how this furthers our investigation into a murder. That's all. Unknown_14: An ocean breeze blows in strong. He raises his jacket collar against it. Unknown_11: Besides, maybe it was just a radio they overheard. They might not be old enough to know the difference. Unknown_16: Ruby's a radio person, though. The lieutenant shrugs. Unknown_11: Let's at least rule out radios before continuing. Maybe the twins didn't know it was a radio they were hearing. The washerwoman seems to know everything that happens here, after you. 4:15:20 Unknown_16: Blame it on the fucking washerwoman, that ghosty piece of shit. Unknown_00: Lieutenant, the policeman. I hope the waves don't keep you up at night. What can I help you with? Unknown_16: Have you heard a radio? A radio? Unknown_00: Ah, no. We play no radio here. Unknown_00: Are you sure? She doesn't know shit. Unknown_16: You ready to meet your heroes, buddy boy? Unknown_00: Okay, so we have to go to... It's true, Kim did it. 4:16:11 Unknown_16: Is that gonna be the twist? You can't trust the police because it was Kim the whole fucking time? 4:16:47 Unknown_14: Inside, you see a set of steering levers, a radio microphone, a pull-out toolbox, and the soft glow of the fuel pre-heater gauge. Unknown_06: This is Precinct 57. How may I assist you? Unknown_16: Let's report to their body first. One moment. Unknown_06: Can you please describe the body? Age, sex, cause of death? Unknown_11: Okay, this is the body details. We suspect might have been inebriated when he fell. There were bottles all around him and traces of vomit on his shirt. Unknown_06: Any signs of violence? 4:17:27 Unknown_06: No field autopsy necessary. Unknown_14: You can hear her quickly typing in the background. Unknown_06: What about his belongings? Did you examine his clothes? Unknown_06: Just the description of his clothes, the card... You have a lead. Do you and Lieutenant Kikuragi want to take the case, or should I assign it to someone else? Unknown_11: Assign it to someone else, Alice. We've got enough on our plate. Unknown_06: Great. I'll give it to your colleagues. You don't have to worry about the case anymore. We'll send our officers to take away the body. 4:17:59 Unknown_06: That's all for now. Thank you for reporting in. Is there anything else I can do for you? Unknown_16: Alright, we need to talk to Speed Freaks. Speed Freaks. Kim is a big fan. The lieutenant sighs under his breath. Unknown_14: Really? He says, low and tired. Unknown_16: It's just a radio channel. Unknown_16: Get over it. Unknown_06: One moment, officer. 4:18:33 Unknown_16: Excited? Unknown_04: I'll connect you now. Unknown_16: Oh, hell yeah. It's our boy. It is. Unknown_04: I got a few minutes before I gotta go back on air. What can I do for you, cop man? An asshole is a mouth for shit. And I'm puking. Unknown_16: What? I'm just calling to confirm, did you debut a new track for DJ Flatio a few days ago? Oh, and the name of the song is An Asshole is a Mouth for Shit and I'm Puking. 4:19:07 Unknown_16: And that's what he's listening to. What is the song called? Unknown_04: Yeah, that is the song. An asshole is a mouth of shit, and I'm puking. Unknown_16: Is that legal to play? Unknown_04: It's illegal not to play, man. When you got that kind of music in you, the universe demands that you got to let it out. You know what I mean? Unknown_16: No. Unknown_04: Plus, Felatio and I got it in our contracts that we could play our whole life. Is his name really Felatio? No, really. Do people like it besides Kim? The requests keep coming in for more. I really think it's the future of music, I do. Fucking, like, stink core or something. Shit's so nasty. Those stink waves come up like sound waves, you know what I mean? Have you ever heard of the Passengers of Shit? 4:19:39 Unknown_16: This is preposterous. Unknown_14: Neither sound nor scent work anything as he's describing. My logic is offended. Does he even mean? I don't have any idea what she means. Unknown_16: Doesn't matter. Unknown_04: Come on, man. I just told you, we're clear to play shit like that. Listen, it's not our problem if kids decide to tune in to R-R-R-R-River Shore's hottest station. 4:20:18 Unknown_04: I don't understand. Are you asking if we can, like, um, play our station into people's brains? Unknown_16: Yes. Unknown_16: A great tool for communism. Unknown_04: Right on, brother. We got to make sure everybody chews into this sonic revolution. But we didn't like, um, force it into people's brains. Got no idea how you do that. Short of them just tuning in on their favorite radio receiving device. Unknown_04: My pleasure, comrade cop. Is there anything else you need? 4:20:50 Unknown_16: Just one thing. Give a big shout out to my man, Lieutenant Ken Kitsuragi. He's a huge fan of the station. Oh, no! Unknown_04: Okay, cop man. Can do, will do. DJ Mesh, out. The party has terminated the call. Is there anything else we can do for you, officer? Unknown_16: You should check the radio again. Hell yeah, play the radio. He spoke to the wildest cop in Rivershaw. Unknown_04: He asked us to give his buddy cop, longtime listener Kim Kitsuragi, a big shout out. Kim, we love you. Unknown_16: Keep it freaky, like DJ Mesh, DJ Flachio, and your w-w-w-wow friend. 4:21:25 Unknown_10: This one's for you. Unknown_14: Hell yeah. When a motor carriage's engine was ignited, it could drive by its own accord off to a high mountain and there write a song. Perhaps it'll be something like what you're hearing now. Unknown_11: We aren't discussing this. Unknown_14: What a reserve of willpower. It's taken all he's got to not smile. Unknown_06: Uh, fucker. Lighten up. Unknown_16: See all that bullying and it ends with something he likes. That's why Kim is the best character in the whole fucking game. 4:22:00 Unknown_06: Okay. Unknown_14: Okay, let's talk to Kim. Unknown_11: Okay, about that call, let's start from the top. There's no doubt that the twins heard Speed Freaks FM. I still don't know how we thought a radio, but they did. Unknown_16: Are you going to say anything about me, Radio Heroes? Nope. Unknown_16: Spooky shit, but what does it mean? Squint and thought. Unknown_11: I don't know what it means. Unknown_16: A weird voice in my head said to talk to the kids. Maybe it's related. That sounds strange. I don't think the voices in your head are related to this, no. 4:22:33 Unknown_16: It sounded like a lady. Unknown_14: The lieutenant gives you a long look. Unknown_11: I don't know what to say to that, or what you want me to say. I'm sorry. Did we ask where the kids were when they heard the voice? Unknown_16: Did you ask where the kids were when you heard the voice? Unknown_16: No. Unknown_11: No need to apologize. I was just going to say it'd be a good idea to ask them. And, detective, thanks for this. It's been interesting. 4:23:04 Unknown_16: See? He says thank you. You don't want any serious hard feelings. Unknown_16: With me and my boy. Unknown_16: I gotta keep his mind focused. Unknown_16: He's gonna have to go back to Japan and investigate video game developers after all this. Unknown_16: I have the absolute fiercest onset heartburn. Ever. 4:23:35 Unknown_16: Can I die from heartburn? Is this a thing? Unknown_16: Didn't I have a doctor in the chat? Doctor! What does my inflamed ventricular have to do with my mortality? Unknown_14: Where were you when you heard the voices? Unknown_19: Now we go back to the tower and we whisper to the wind again, I believe. 4:24:55 Unknown_16: No, this is the wrong fucking building. God damn it. This is like the ninth time I've fucked this up. Unknown_16: That guy's been standing there with his kid talking about that wall for, um, 12 hours now. Unknown_16: It's one of the first people I talk to. 4:25:31 Unknown_16: Increase my encyclopedia. Unknown_16: Um... Tudor glasses, that's what I'm looking for. Unknown_16: That's really good, I might actually... Do I have anything that reduces encyclopedia? Unknown_16: No. I might have like an 80% chance now. 4:26:04 Unknown_14: Oh! Let's see. Let's see. Just flicking through the index of your knowledge. Unknown_14: Yeah, I know this is all fucking bullshit. Rip his brains out. Maybe if I talk to him, he'll know. Unknown_16: Because he loves this wall. 4:26:58 Unknown_16: So, fascinating. Look at the building. That's not surprising. They started out as a midway electronics outfit in Königstein two centuries ago. Unknown_21: After an aggressive move to revolution, Feld became a global player in the emerging personal electronics market of the pre-revolutionary era. Unknown_21: Still, Tricentennial was beating them in business machines. but felt had an ace up their sleeve. Or should I say they were developing an ace up their sleeve? I'm mixing my metaphors here. It was here in Martinet's, possibly in this very building, that they developed prototypes for a tape computer. 4:27:30 Unknown_21: An elegant folding mechanism of rollers and ferritas is portable enough to be a take-it-home solution, revolutionizing business machines, possibly even bringing them to the average consumer. Unknown_21: which is a feat of engineering even today's giants, Reyn, Icyen, and Zamm, haven't achieved yet. Unknown_14: He assumes something like a combat stance, facing the wind. Unknown_21: Indeed. What? The revolution! 4:28:09 Unknown_21: Unfortunately, their moonshot project never made it to the market. Felt's move to Revachol backfired. All of this was built by Felt, even a boardwalk. Wild pines build martinis proper as a resort for- I'm hoping that at some point, something will happen that assists me. Yes. That will give me a plus one to this fucking wall. Unknown_14: Is he saying that we should just bypass the excesses of the revolution? Unknown_16: He says that they all died at the hands of the communists. Unknown_21: Officer, I told you this chapter of history wasn't on Mikhail's curriculum yet. Let's keep this kid friendly. 4:28:44 Unknown_14: The boy looks first at you, then back at us. Unknown_16: What did the revolutionaries do with those computers? Unknown_21: But also to write and send out press releases. The most notorious example being Le Decret de Mars. Unknown_21: What's the Mars Decree? I mean the radio transmission sent out to news agencies and world governments by the newly created Commune of Revachol on the 7th of March in the year 02. A short-lived legislative foundation for a short-lived utopia. 4:29:20 Unknown_21: Yeah, the French do suck. It's a beautiful piece of text, actually. A singer-songwriter I know, Charette, called it a love poem to Revachol on her political concept album, Bon Bécer, Dans le Lind. You should read it. Every local library in Revachol stocks a copy of the decree. Unknown_21: I tried to get Mikael to memorize it. Tried to. Someone was much too interested in worms to be paying any attention. Unknown_14: The kid takes a peek at the green and silver verm on the cover of the book, already forgetting about this part of the discussion. 4:29:53 Unknown_21: Actually, no one knows. No one even knows what a computer made entirely of tape would look like. But word has it, they were very elegant. Exquisite, alien-looking, turn-of-the-century hardware. Unknown_14: Buckle up. Unknown_21: Ten years ago, I did a little freelancing, I guess you could say. Thousands of years ago. I was a special consultant for an exhibition at the Wompty Dompty Dom Center in Vredefort, Oranje. He's literally just making shit up for this character. This is fucking retarded. Who was head curator at the time. This was before the twins Keith and Guy Jews joined the team. Trying to... 4:30:24 Unknown_16: Gaijus, is that like Carl Jobs, but Jewish? He did. Unknown_14: What the hell is a Wompty Dumpty Dome Center? Unknown_21: Good question. You're making this up. Turn to Lieutenant Kim, is he making this up? Hmm. 4:31:01 Unknown_16: The Wompty Dompty Dom Center. Unknown_16: So Wasteland Reality is a massive undertaking, apparently. The Wompty Dompty Dom Center gives you negative two suggestion, pretentious wanker. Unknown_16: That's it. Unknown_16: You get a little bit of money and experience. Unknown_16: Anytime in a encyclopedia passive procs, which actually seems really OP if you want to maximize leveling. 4:31:34 Unknown_16: But then you've got negative two suggestion because you're a pretentious wanker. It doesn't even increase your encyclopedia. Unknown_16: That seems like a lot of fucking money, though. Every time you're encyclopedia passive procs, there's like 10,000 of those. Unknown_16: 42 minutes. Unknown_16: XP bonuses hundreds of realities. Dude, is this how you buy the shoes? Unknown_16: I feel like I'm going to become a pretentious wanker. That sounds extremely good. 4:32:09 Unknown_16: Hell yeah. If there's anything that I am, I'm obviously a pretentious wanker. Unknown_21: But perhaps I should return to the tape computers. Unknown_14: Made of black film and folding tape structures. Unknown_21: The once bright mural towers above you, saying, Feld Electrical R&D. Tomorrow is just a whisper away. 4:32:59 Unknown_16: Okay. Um... Unknown_14: The once bright mural towers above you. In there? Why single out this one building? Unknown_16: I don't know what to fucking do. Unknown_16: Put the pieces together at the felled mural. Unknown_16: It's just telling me to save scum. 4:33:30 Unknown_16: Like, what the fuck else am I supposed to do? I failed an 80% fucking chance. Unknown_16: Bro, I'm so tired. Unknown_16: Just give me a fucking break. It gives me a 3% when it doesn't fucking matter and it's just bullshit. Unknown_16: And then it doesn't give me what I actually need. Unknown_16: Should I? I can do that. Unknown_16: Okay, I'll do it. Fuck it. It's fucking bullshit. 4:34:06 Unknown_16: Okay. Wait, let me hear about the film. Unknown_12: Oh, I quicksaved after. Unknown_16: Did I quicksave before? I did. Yeah, that was six months ago. Okay, I'll reload this. Unknown_16: Sure, fuck that. Don't worry, I'll breeze through this. 4:34:41 Unknown_21: Wait, is he tape computers they use? What's the mark? Sure, it's a B. I tried to the kid back ten years ago. Wait, what the hell? The one in my behalf. Unknown_14: Made of black film and folding tape structures. Unknown_16: Okay. We now have Wompty Dumpty Dom. Unknown_16: Which is what really fucking matters. Unknown_21: Cool. Okay, file. Where is that? Forget it. Sorry, I fucked that up. Okay. Unknown_16: Now I can save. And now I can save from this fucking piece of shit. 4:35:15 Unknown_14: Yeah, that's what I fucking thought. Article 7C. Unknown_14: While an expert might be able to suss it out on their own, a layman like you has no hope. Unknown_16: Um, so I... You don't know how it works. I know I don't know? But the stores of your knowledge are vast, and there is something crucial in them. 4:35:49 Unknown_14: You know where Ruby isn't. Unknown_14: She isn't in the fishing village. She's not with her bullet under the floorboards in the shack. You've even entered the church, met Tiago and Sauna. Unknown_14: And you do know one thing about radios. Ulan. Unknown_14: Ruby dabbles in advanced radio theories. Ulan, the speed freak's mystery. It might just be related. If she's here on the coast, she'll be here. And besides, something weird happened to the twins around here. 4:36:22 Unknown_14: Suddenly, there's a sigh carried on the molecules around you, moving, flowing from high pressure to low pressure, like in through the collapsed roof, flowing down a concrete staircase to the basement, sweeping away footprints in the dust on the stairs, and then the beach below the boardwalk, its winding tunnels. 4:36:59 Unknown_01: She's down there. Unknown_14: Okay, why? Unknown_16: Um, the wind told me. Unknown_11: So, how do we get in there? The doors were on the collapsed side of this building. They're gone, basically. Unknown_14: Finally, my time to shine. Unknown_16: Savoir-faire gets so few lines, but he's in the game now. There's a ladder next to the sign. Perhaps we can close it. Unknown_11: Perhaps you can climb them. We are not climbing anything. I'm 43 years old, and I plan to live to see 70. Unknown_16: Pussy. P-p-p-poo. 4:37:32 Unknown_11: A rusty ladder leads to the rooftop. Unknown_16: Sorry, you need 20 encyclopedia to understand there's a fucking ladder right there you can climb up. Unknown_14: That doesn't look good. In addition, the first rung is going to be tough to reach. It's what? Three meters above the ground? And you're 180? Unknown_16: Mmm, I'm a giant. I'm a 90. Fuck you, ladder. Interesting point. What if I teleport? Unknown_14: Mmm. 4:38:24 Unknown_16: It just needs concentration. Okay, let's say teleportation is a thing. Unknown_11: Wouldn't you need some kind of scientific apparatus to create a teleportation field? You can't just do it without apparatus. Unknown_21: What are they talking about? Unknown_21: Teleportation, Miguel. It's generally thought impossible. Oh, yes. It could hurt. Unknown_16: A lot. Sad law fair. Teleport to the roof. We're doing it. on second now maybe teleportation isn't a thing because you're just standing there squeezing your buttocks and nothing is happening the lieutenant looks at you with 4:39:07 Unknown_16: So now I have to go fetch some stupid piece of shit, and I didn't have to do that if I just passed my Savo Affair check, and now I got no fucking morale. I started this game with five points in Volition, and five medicine from morale, and I've lost, like, all of it just today. Unknown_14: Okay, I'm just crawling through the poopoo pee-pee pipe, instead of climbing up the fucking ladder, which I guess would be too easy. Unknown_14: ordinary drainage pipe as your eyes adjust you see some trash and nothing there's a place for narcotics we get the fell bone into this pipe it's not likely the pipes are japan it's right here the main physical instrument heroic 15 which is my lowest skill in the entire game you and the lieutenant lean all your not happening let's take 4:40:00 Unknown_16: Okay, so Savile Affair, which is one of the actual things that I have leveled up, um, didn't work. And neither did Encyclopedia, which is also one of the only other things that I actually have leveled up that didn't work either, so I'm gonna wander around in a fucking circle looking for a fucking way into this piece of shit building for no fucking reason, even though I had a button to open it just now. Maybe this. Can I open this yet? Nope. Unknown_16: I'm wasting my fucking money on magnesium. The day's almost over. Unknown_16: I don't know, maybe this piece of shit has a way into it. Hey, dumb fucker, do you know a way into the building? Do you have any advice on that ladder? Can you teach me? 4:40:35 Unknown_21: Can you tell me about this? Don't you have practical advice? Do you know any way into it? The pipe was not useful to me. Can I climb it now? Unknown_14: The rusty ladder leads to the rooftop. 4:41:11 Unknown_16: Should have changed my fucking clothes before I tried. Unknown_16: Go do a side quest, bro. Unknown_16: I've been doing nothing but fucking side quests the entire day. And it just feels like absolute random dog shit. Like, don't you want to help these fucking German kids ruin a church to the UN god? No, I don't. Actually, that's another fact. I really don't give a shit. 4:41:52 Unknown_16: I don't give a fuck about... These three, I just do not poss... I cannot care. I don't care. And that's related. So four of these are things I don't give a fuck about. I inspected the traps. Unknown_16: I guess I can go over to the thing now? Unknown_16: No? Of course I can't... ...bass travel, for whatever reason. I have to walk all the way back. 4:42:24 Unknown_16: Like, what is... What is the point? Unknown_16: Everyone said if you fail rules, the whole point is that it opens up interesting things, like the cock carousel debate. But it's like, I failed to climb a ladder? And it's not even that I failed to climb a ladder, I failed to teleport? Unknown_16: To avoid climbing a ladder, which I did not even try to climb. Unknown_16: Which apparently is climbable, because Ruby's probably in there. 4:43:13 Unknown_04: Am I supposed to talk to him? Unknown_16: Morell. Is that Morell? Unknown_12: Hi, gendarme. Another rendezvous. Unknown_16: No. Oh, it's the gay guy. I see you found yourself a little something from my wardrobe. Unknown_12: I did. Not bad. Not bad at all. Unknown_12: What brings you here? I met your Sunday friend. Unknown_12: And how did I tell you it can be very useful? He didn't say anything in the middle. I guess that's the charm of powerful people. 4:43:56 Unknown_12: Hmm? Unknown_12: What about me, gendarme? Let's just roll this, whatever the fuck. Unknown_14: It's the sports. He's a sports guy. All about that physical fitness. Unknown_16: Where's Morell? Is this him? Unknown_16: I'm here. Return to Morell with the latest news. Oh, the cripples as well. 4:44:29 Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_07: Oh, sweetie, I don't even know how to thank you for finding my husband. Just doing my job. I want to give you a small token of my gratitude. Unknown_07: The little silvery knob holding the tie together feels warm in your hand. Unknown_14: I already have a cool tie. You could ask her about this when you get the time. Okay. Unknown_16: Let's fill this roll as well. Plus one to Volition, plus one to Inland Empire. That's pretty fucking good. I don't know what the fuck it is, though. 4:45:02 Unknown_16: Do I have anything with suggestions? Empathy, Shivers, Logic, Spirit, Drama, Inland, Sub-Affair, Authority... What's one suggestion? Unknown_16: Negative one suggestion. That's not what I wanted. Unknown_16: That's it. Do any of these reduce? 4:45:34 Unknown_16: Yes, this one does. I'll just take this off. Unknown_16: Oh, hello, sweetie. So nice to see you again. Unknown_02: Let's talk about this. Maybe that raises the odds. You were a child, my dear. Reflexively. Unknown_14: It was summer. Unknown_07: I was built. I looked up. Unknown_14: She had no fear. Just surprise. Unknown_07: I didn't know this can happen. So I reached my arm and touched the thing. She's telling a story about a magic stick bug. I guess we're not gonna get a bonus point for it. 4:46:05 Unknown_02: So I rolled to successfully determine that I could've just asked. Unknown_16: Hey, Lynn, I'd like to hear about some of the cryptids you study. Oh, I'd be delighted. Unknown_11: One cryptid, not a couple. Unknown_14: One. One little cryptid. He nods and assumes a waiting posture. Ooh, tough choice there. 4:46:41 Unknown_16: Is this bird a cryptid? No, it's the cryptid. Oh, yes. What is it? Unknown_07: I, Teratorn, the largest flying avian ever discovered with a wingspan of 11.5 meters. It was thought to have gone extinct 3,500 years ago. Some even doubted the fossils were real. A mutation, they said. Until... Mutation? 4:47:18 Unknown_02: All of evolution is a mutation. Unknown_16: Hold up, I just got a message. I just realized that Chibi Reviews retweeted me. Because I reposted the chair meme. Unknown_16: Now encouraging the behavior of the desecration of my brother's grave. I'm replying to this with the chair. No, I'm going to wait. I'll just reply. 4:47:53 Unknown_16: Can't. Unknown_16: Wake. Unknown_16: Up. All caps. Sorry, I'm not good at texting. Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_07: Until it was sighted by renowned Godvaldian explorer and naturalist Uwe Plattenkalk in 21. 4:48:30 Unknown_14: This renown seems a bit dubious. Your own catalog comes up completely empty. Unknown_16: I'm, like, genuinely shocked. Unknown_16: And by how many, like, angry lollicons there are, like, on the internet that they can just summon up at, like, a moment's notice. And it's, like... Is there really thousands of, like, child fuckers that, like, beckon call of retard, pathetic people? Like, Chibi's just one of the most disgusting little freaks ever. And he openly wants to fuck kids. And it's like, how does this person have, like, a little army of little simps that he can call from a Discord server to, like, cry for days? It really is just baffling. 4:49:05 Unknown_07: It happened on a botanical expedition into the vast and unexplored Oamrau Canyon in southeast Ilmara. Dr. Plottenkalk got separated from his group during a sandstorm. Unknown_16: The world's largest canyon system, sweetie. Unknown_07: It's a barren waste east of the Erg Desert, alone in the blasted desert heat. The doctor wandered eastward, where man hasn't stepped foot in over a thousand years, since the fall of Pericarnassus. 4:49:53 Unknown_07: He was lost, without any navigation equipment, and desperately low on water. After a day or two, he noticed a bird, high in the noon sky. A great black bird, it seemed gargantuan. Unknown_07: Every now and then, the bird would dive down to feed on an animal carcass somewhere on the horizon. But by the time Uva got there, the teratorn had taken off already, and the carcass was picked clean. This happened many times. Unknown_14: Eat the bird. It's the only way to survive. 4:50:28 Unknown_16: Yes, a bird that big has a lot of blood in it, and he was dying of thirst. Unknown_07: For many days, Dr. Plattenkalk followed the teratorn until they reached a great canyon wall where the bird finally landed to rest. Unknown_07: Professor climbed up there. Unknown_16: Ah, I got my whompty dumpty. Now the money will start pouring in. He found the bird asleep with his head tucked under its wing, a great black pile of feathers on the perch. 4:51:05 Unknown_07: So he approached, slowly squeezing the rock in his fist. Unknown_14: Watch out. Unknown_07: Then the tetatorn suddenly looked at him. He could see it had eight eyes, four on either side of its skull. like a spider, and the man couldn't move. He was paralyzed, frozen into place with the rock in his hand. Unknown_07: Whatever he did, he could not get closer to the bird. Unknown_07: The bird was controlling his mind. It kept him from approaching. 4:51:42 Unknown_07: You could step back. Every time you stepped forward, the big-eyed teratorn was indifferent to him, as long as he didn't get closer than two steps. It even let him feed on some carcasses up there, and the two unfertilized eggs it left behind. Unknown_16: Uh, an egg? Did he eat it? Unknown_07: Absolutely, sweetie. Unknown_07: Cryptozoologists have been tracing it ever since, but Wamrau is vast, mysterious, and holds many secrets. 4:52:26 Unknown_02: Modern radar telemetry shows great promise. We will confirm this one, by the end of the decade, latest. Unknown_11: This one I liked. Not only does it have eight eyes, and is a living fossil, and the largest bird ever to live, it also does mind control. Unknown_14: He's sincere. He likes the audacity of it. Unknown_07: Yes, but there are numerous reports of eight-eyed bird skulls from Il Mara and then there's the striking resemblance to the parakarnassian Imperial Eagle an Ancient heraldic symbol that is hard to pass off as coincidence the Imperial Eagle too had eight eyes and 4:53:18 Unknown_14: Not really. It's just stylization. The way they drew eyes. It's not a zoological drawing. Unknown_02: Very, very hard. Unknown_07: This one's very famous. Unknown_14: Okay, I'm done. Unknown_07: Of course. Unknown_14: Wompty dumpty dum center. Unknown_16: Oh, hell yeah. There it is. Unknown_14: You're at home, stupid cop. Not with the art crowd. You hate them. Everyone hates them. Even they hate themselves. It's nauseating. An industry built on sprezzatura and sparkling wine. 4:53:50 Unknown_16: Okay. So that accomplished nothing? Unknown_16: Just gonna say it. Unknown_16: Climb the ladder to the roof or find another way into the felled building. 4:54:25 Unknown_16: Wasn't one of these, like, reducing my savoir-faire? No, that was a suggestion. Unknown_16: Mmm... Unknown_16: I honestly, I can't even begin to think of what to do. I've already done everything. Unknown_16: Maybe if I talk to people, one of them will know a way into the building. 4:55:08 Unknown_16: Yeah, each day takes about six hours. Unknown_16: So I'll probably have to stream Monday as well just to finish it up. Unknown_16: What boost? 4:55:49 Unknown_11: What boost? Unknown_11: yes uh um i don't know what to say uh perhaps stunning yeah damage he means damage either way as you turn a bright light catches your eye from a distant sunset a stage light flash photography nowhere in particular it's just what superstar law officers do god they squint at lights Unknown_14: and they solve shit super what is the superstar what are you deaf they're perfect like rock star politician and drug addict teacher embrace the superstardom you've worked so hard to establish okay the superstar one gives you some kind of superstar thought which is negative two to logic 4:56:47 Unknown_16: It increases learning curves. God, they're all... Okay, whatever. Unknown_14: Just give me the thing. Unknown_16: I'm not doing it. Unknown_16: Okay, do you know how to get into the fucking piece of shit fucking building? Unknown_08: Okay, she doesn't know how to get into the fucking piece of shit building. Unknown_16: Do you know how to get into the fucking piece of shit building? Unknown_00: No, we don't. Unknown_16: Maybe there's something in the room to figure out how to get into the fucking piece of shit building. 4:57:21 Unknown_16: No, there's not. Unknown_16: Do the kids know how to get into the fucking piece of shit building? Unknown_14: No, he doesn't. Unknown_16: Do the homeless people know how to get into the fucking piece of shit building? Unknown_17: Tequila sun. Unknown_17: No. Unknown_16: Does this child know how to get into a fucking piece of shit building? 4:57:54 Unknown_18: Hello, mister. Bye. Unknown_16: There's two ways to get into the fucking piece of shit building. One of them required savoir faire, which I have, but I still failed the roll, and that's all you get. Unknown_16: The other one required physical instrument, which I have zero of and surprisingly failed. 4:58:32 Unknown_16: Do you know how to get into the fucking piece of shit building? Unknown_01: Hello again. Unknown_01: I was wondering when you would come around. What is it? Unknown_16: Everyone's mooching off the entrepreneurial class. I think it's all these foreign people taking our jobs. Unknown_01: Yeah. Unknown_16: Yes. Unknown_01: Um... Unknown_16: I'm pretty sure I've got issues with our young woman kneeling in the snow with this cosmopolitan racket going on in the background. Or, or, I'm just gonna put this out there. 4:59:06 Unknown_01: Are you sure you're not having chick issues? With some chick? Unknown_16: It's positive. Unknown_16: That's it. Unknown_16: So he won't talk. Unknown_16: Kim has no fucking idea. The super genius from the Wogglebug Academy has no fucking idea. They have no fucking idea. 4:59:50 Unknown_16: Well, Scarlett Hampton yells about nothing and makes everybody uncomfortable on a regular basis. Unknown_16: Okay, so there's nothing here. 5:00:27 Unknown_16: 50 cents on the table. Unknown_16: That's nice. Unknown_14: the rusty ladder leads to the the distance in addition not to mention what what if you were to reconceptualize climb teleportation this really has no oh yes the rusty ladder i still can't tell where good evening how to climb then there's also from an evolutionary point of view in this case i suggest looking actually no i should not that 5:01:17 Unknown_21: No, that doesn't- How to climb? Then there's also the method of- From an evolution- In this case, I suggest looking into the Zeolite Invisibles class. The word refers to their remarkable ability to traverse any environment in the most eff- Okay, I have some materials at home I could share. Alternative- There's a sewage pipe! Unknown_16: So he has nothing to say. He suggested the sewage pipe. Unknown_16: I've already done that. Let me check the other building I go to all the fucking time that has no use or purpose in the game whatsoever. 5:01:50 Unknown_16: If that doesn't work, I'm going to go check the dungeon thing that had like a 0% chance of success and retry that. Unknown_16: And if that doesn't work, I'm gonna go work on my project. Because I'm losing my patience. Unknown_14: Like, this entire day has sucked. Like, nothing has... There's no point to this entire fucking day. Unknown_16: I spent the entire thing wandering around talking to some fucking German crackheads. 5:02:29 Unknown_16: And, um... Some pretentious piece of shit. And some fucking old woman. And then... Unknown_16: Some woman... Some, like... The girl that stole my hat. Unknown_16: That's my... I'm reaching my absolute fucking limit. Unknown_16: I keep refusing to do... I don't know what the fuck that means, bro. 5:03:03 Unknown_16: didn't I picked options that were dismissive of the UN cult so I don't know why me being dismissive indicated to the game that I don't know I can go fucking harass her again let me go check the door and then after that I'll go over talk to her but like I have six hours to stream and I'm five hours in There's still like four hours left of this day. This has been the slowest day. I've been walking around in circles. This map is laid out like shit. It's like branches that have one specific way. So if you want to walk from side A to side C, you have to walk all the way down to side B, then side A, and then side Z, and then X, Y, Z, walk all the way back up. And it's just fucking wearing on me so bad. 5:04:03 Unknown_16: It's just like nothing is happening. Unknown_15: Yes. What is it? Unknown_15: No. Yes. Unknown_15: And? Unknown_15: I don't care. Unknown_14: Wow. She really doesn't. Not afraid. This one. Unknown_11: What if I force you to leave? A police officer trying to evict a citizen from a public space despite the Wayfarer Act. Doesn't exist. But there is, and it protects me. 5:04:36 Unknown_15: The Wayfarer Act states that citizens have the right to gather in public spaces unless they're disrupting the public order. This is a private space. Unknown_11: This is owned by the Ecclesiastics. Unknown_15: I'm a circuit bender, and no one ever has anything against circuit benders. Unknown_14: look at how pleased she is with herself playing with her important science machines academics half-light formidable evictor all you hear yeah you're getting the out of here ears pounding at 100 bpm beat by beat your blood red is for conflict 5:05:15 Unknown_16: You better start if you don't want to get the frog merchandise all over your sleeves. Fuck your things. Unknown_15: Yes. Listen, it had to be done. You don't understand, the Germans really need to desco party. 5:06:01 Unknown_16: It's been done. She's evicted despite the Wayfarer Act. Unknown_14: The young man with the tape recorder acknowledges your return. When he looks at you, he squints as though you were the setting sun. Unknown_10: This is hardcore. Unknown_10: Hardcore! Hardcore to the mega! Internally coherent! Encore! All right! Yeah! Unknown_14: He furrows his brow as his very large head traces the sublime, invisible movement of the music in the very real air of the stuffy tent. 5:06:36 Unknown_10: Hardcore! Ah! Unknown_11: The question is, what is the question? Unknown_11: That would be a good question. Unknown_16: Thank you, Steve Bergstein Goldman, for trying to raise my volition. Could there have been a right way out of this garden of forking paths, you think? Unknown_14: Back to the heavy. Unknown_10: Hard core! Hard, hard in all core! Unknown_14: He furrows. Unknown_10: Hard core! Unknown_14: Is it though? Unknown_10: What is it? I mean, really? Unknown_16: He's doing like the opposite. 5:07:10 Unknown_10: I don't think there's any way to beat the German in this game. Unknown_16: Okay. I'm defeated. Unknown_10: I kicked the programmer out. Happy to help Germans. Okay. Germans pandered to. I did it. Unknown_16: I got rid of the... of them. 5:08:02 Unknown_10: yeah it's all set up man ecstatic vibrations totally transcendent now the only thing left to do is the name of the club will you do the honors detective how about you name the club i wouldn't i wouldn't be able to club and i wouldn't name it either an underground place with no name sounds like something the crab man would say we're not going with anything the crab man would say why not Unknown_10: The crab man has ideas, Asel. Ideas from another level of consciousness. Unknown_01: I don't care. I don't like the crab man and I don't like his ideas. His ideas are spooky. Next, please. Unknown_16: I will pick a name. Unknown_01: Well, what's the name? Unknown_16: Disco Elysium, obviously. Unknown_10: It's like that DeLorean word for the world, you mean. Elysium. Unknown_01: Fuck Disco Elysium. Isn't it wacky? Disco's kind of gone, isn't it? 5:08:59 Unknown_01: Forgotten. Unknown_10: The past is the future, but the future is dead. No, it's beautiful. Beautiful and brave. Roll credits? Unknown_16: Yeah, definitely. Unknown_10: And short. And memorable. Unknown_01: I just want to shoot the fat guy. It's settled then. Everyone welcome to Disco Elysium. Unknown_14: Andre breaks into frenzied dance-like motion to celebrate the name. Someone turns up the beat. 5:09:30 Unknown_10: I'm dancing! Unknown_14: That soft core gyrating is supposed to be dancing? Unknown_10: Yes, my man! Unknown_14: Talk? What is there to talk about if you can express yourself with moves? Unknown_16: Let's dance. Unknown_14: You close your eyes and dream of the shapes your body should form to bring this strange music into life. For now, such ferocity of motion is beyond you. Unknown_10: But just imagine the moves you could pull to this futuristic beat. 5:10:11 Unknown_10: Goodbye, officer. Unknown_16: There, I did it. I kicked out the UN cult. Unknown_16: And let the Germans win. Unknown_16: Nothing's happened. 5:10:48 Unknown_16: Maybe I can fuck with her computer again now that she's gone? Unknown_16: No? Unknown_16: Okay. I guess that just doesn't happen. I don't want to talk about the mother of humanism. Unknown_16: Okay. Unknown_16: I'm gonna be real with you. I give up. 5:11:22 Unknown_16: I did the thing. I let the Germans win. Unknown_16: Nothing's happening. Unknown_16: How to climb the ladder in disco if I can't teleport and can't climb through sewers or open the door to the underground question mark Defining the parameters I can't I don't want a point to put a point to save welfare. Why the fuck would I do that? I 5:12:10 Unknown_16: It's like the worst skill in the fucking game. It almost never comes up. It's like building a game around like these three skills. These three skills define 99% of interactions. This guy and then like every so often you get a hard check where it's like give a 3% chance, but it hinges entirely on your spirit decor, which doesn't fucking nothing. 5:12:50 Unknown_16: Spend a skill point. Use drugs to raise the cap. Use amphetamine. Use drug cap. We're getting math. Can I teleport or do I have to walk all the fucking way back to the fucking... Unknown_16: It let me fast travel a single time and never again. 5:13:24 Unknown_16: Fuck sab warfare. Sab warfare is fucking gay. Unknown_16: I'm just gonna buy meth. Unknown_16: Wait, apparently that doesn't work. Unknown_16: Visit the dice maker? Unknown_16: Go to the Doom commercial area, buy a custom dice from her. 5:14:05 Unknown_16: What's an exceptional voice line? Unknown_16: Why is this yellow? Unknown_16: Why would it make that yellow? Well, I didn't have to go through here. 5:14:49 Unknown_16: Where the fuck is the Dice Maker? Venture into the Doom Capitol building. Through access to the back of the bookstore, find the Dice Maker. Unknown_14: Two cables are plugged in. Uh, what are you doing? Something close to you. Why did you do that? Unknown_14: The lieutenant raises his brows, but doesn't say anything. Unknown_14: Fuck it. Unknown_16: Where is it? 5:15:21 Unknown_14: It's in the chimney? Unknown_16: What chimney? Unknown_16: A final warning, Disco Elysium rarely softlocks players, but this specific junction is a major exception. If you have genuinely completed every side quest, found every modifier, have no drugs, and have completely exhausted your ability to gain XP, you are permanently softlocked and will unfortunately have to reload an older save and not fail the checks. It's like mentally fucking exhausting. 5:16:11 Unknown_16: Where's the fucking dice maker? Unknown_16: I've already been through here. Unknown_14: Looks like someone tried to reconceptualize. Look, the skis and rotor blades both bear the same slipstream. Reality is... Unknown_16: I don't give a shit. Fuck recon... Conceptualization is the gayest shit. 5:16:43 Unknown_16: The top right of the building. I'm in here. Is it in here or is it in the basement? Unknown_14: As before. Unknown_16: Is this him? Open the fuck up! Unknown_14: As- Those curtains prove to be surprisingly sturdy. If this is- Can you please try to refrain from attacking random things? Unknown_11: Ghosts aren't real- 5:17:21 Unknown_16: What chimney? There's like a fucking locked door there. Unknown_14: A thick layer of coal dust covers the furnace, coloring it pitch black. It's dark. The echo. What are you doing? Unknown_14: Wait, really? Unknown_16: Yell? 5:17:53 Unknown_14: I have to yell. I just killed myself, I think. Yeah. Okay. I will go back and I will put the skill Unknown_16: points in, and I will waste that skill point, because this Apple Off-Hair doesn't fucking do anything. That's one of the worst skills in the entire fucking game, because I looked it up, and I said, don't put your fucking points into this piece of shit, because it doesn't fucking do anything. 5:18:30 Unknown_16: I might as well waste it. Unknown_16: If this day is not over, but like six and a half hours in, I'm done. I'm cutting the game off, and I'm done with it. Because I'm... Like, this is not good design. It's not good design to have all your shit spaced out, 15 minutes of fucking part, where you have to wander around aimlessly, clicking constantly to get the run speed. Because if you don't double-click, you have to fucking walk, and then you can just soft-lock yourself. And the only way to un-soft-lock yourself is to waste skill points skill points that i already had to waste twice because it gives you ideas that can only be unlearned by wasting skill points i'm just completely at my end and then of course you have paths that don't go anywhere useful because they're the exact same thing 5:19:46 Unknown_14: The rusty ladder leads to the roof. All you need to do is close your eyes. Zoot. Zap. Bam. You fu- I just- The- Never- It would be a much greater joke if it was just, like, a joke and not, like, something that actually took- It took literally an hour to get through this. Unknown_16: Which is climbing up the ladder. The- It's not like before. It's not like before when you're talking to the fucking bitch and you're talking to the guys downstairs and there's these gated checks and there's like this buildup and you have to talk to them and then you get bonus points and you can retry it and then you can look around and find things. It's like they rushed this entire fucking day through and there's just nothing there. 5:20:28 Unknown_16: If this bitch is not down here, I'm going to be fucking angry. Unknown_16: If I die, I die. It's just whatever. I don't give a shit. Unknown_14: This isn't just a yet, the how, the why. 5:21:32 Unknown_14: Could this have been? This does the lights. It's a good place. No. Unknown_14: This is the canonical ending of this stream. 5:22:15 Unknown_14: Like, I'm just not having fun, and I don't want to finish it. Unknown_16: So that's how he dies. I will not finish this. Bye-bye.