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Transcript
Amanda: Last time on Join the Party...
Eric: Everyone had a hell of a morning, and it's a good thing that they're not going to have to redo that because they already kind of dealt with it. Aggie confronted her parents. Hitomi asked if Val wanted to move in, but then immediately took it back. And Milo lost his keys because, you know, Tuna. Out in Lake Town City, the workers at Thornhill Coffee organized a walkout on May 1st International Workers Day. At the same time, local millionaire and art eccentric Byron Zorn held a art installation with recovered and rejected Dr. Morrow inventions. And Dr. Morrow asked the LT3 to check it out. But when they went to investigate, they ran into a mysterious man with a mysteriously modded N64 machine. When Val and Milo ran at the man with the machine, he hit the reset button. And once again, it is the morning of May 1st. [Singing] Let's do the time warp again yeah! [Speaking] And get the party started.
[Theme music]
[Theme music rewinds]
[Rewinding speeds up and abruptly stops]
Eric: Well. We have like a panel of the outside of Milo industry town apartment, and we come in once again with synthesizers, this time The Cure, not Devo, and we come Brandon Milo is asleep. Whether or not you turned on your alarm is up for debate and Tuna jumps on your face and says,
Eric (as Tuna): You didn't wake up from all the things that was happening outside. So I felt like I had to do it.
Eric: And jumps off your bed and you turn over and look at your Star Trek branded alarm clock and-
Brandon: It's Darth Vader. Thank you very much.
Eric: Sorry, your Darth Vader branded alarm clock that says
Eric (as Darth Vader Alarm): [Heavy breathing] Milo. I am your wake up call.
[Brandon laughs]
Amanda: Listen, it's a good idea.
Eric: You turn over and it's nine o'clock and you grab your phone and it's May first.
Brandon: And I roll over to Tuna and I say
Brandon (as Milo): Tuna. Have you ever heard of Schrodinger?
Eric (as Tuna): No, sounds like a nerd thing.
Brandon (as Milo): okay, cool. Definitely don't look that up on the Internet later because it definitely does not interest you whatsoever.
Eric (as Tuna): Mmmm. No one really knows if I exist or not. It's in it's all up to interpretation.
Eric: Tuna pads away.
Brandon: Milo stretches and gets out of bed and hears commotion outside of his window, so walks over to see what it is.
Eric: That's right. Yeah. It's the it is the demonstrators from Thornhill that are outside. They're cheering:
Eric (as Demonstrators): [Muffled through the window] Hey, oh, hey, hey, hey. Ho, ho. Thornhill has got to go. What do we want? Higher wages. When do we want them? Now!
Eric: But Tuna says meow at the same time. So it's like they said, meow, right.
Julia: That's adorable.
Brandon: I crack the window and I look out and I say,
Brandon (as Milo): Yeah!! Yeah!!!
Eric: People wave to you, you can see the other people in your apartment building are like,
Eric (as Milo's Neighbor): Oh, hey, Milo, Milo, what's up? What's up? Well, good morning. Oh, stop taking my mail.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric (as Milo's Neighbor): Have you seen my package? It's Hello Fresh. So it goes bad pretty quickly.
Brandon (as Milo): Package-packages aren't real. They don't exist. Okay, bye.
Brandon: Milo closes the window and heads to the kitchen to make coffee.
Eric: Yeah. So you make coffee and you cannot find your coffee scoop. You keep it in your utensils drawer and you fiddling around for it and it's, it's not there.
Brandon (as Milo): Tuna.
Eric (as Tuna): Mmmm what?
Brandon (as Milo): Where, where's the scoop.
Eric (as Tuna): I'll never tell.
Brandon (as Milo): Where's the scoop man.
Eric (as Tuna): Mmmm could be anywhere. If you just look for it it's around. Maybe if you rubbed my belly a lot I might tell you, but probably I won't and I'll bite you.
[Brandon laughs]
Brandon: And Milo turns around, start looking for the scoop and can I roll a history check to see if I remember that it's on top of the fridge?
Eric: Yeah, sure.
[Dice roll]
Brandon: I got an 11.
Eric: Hey, I'll give you advantage on that.
[Dice rolls]
[Brandon gasps]
Julia: Yaaaay, nat 20!!
Amanda: Chad 20, Chad 20, Chad 20!
Brandon: Natural 20!
Eric: Listen, with a nat 20, I think that you're looking around and you're like, oh, it's on top of the fridge and you look on top of the fridge, you get on your tippy toes and it's right there. And does Milo with a nat 20. Let's interrogate this does Milo know, he's in a loop? Or like, how surprising is this for you to know it.
Brandon: Yeah, I think what kind of happens is that he turns around to start looking for the scoop and without really even thinking his arm sort of extends towards the top of the fridge.
Eric: Mmhmm.
Brandon: And he feels it and he realizes, oh, that was sort of instinctual. That's weird.
Eric: Sure.
Brandon: And then sort of like a sitcom flashback, everything starts flooding back to him. And he remembers it's like in slow motion and the scoop, you just see the scoop fall to the ground.
Eric: We take four panels of the scoop falling to the ground. It's vertical. It covers the entire page outside.
Brandon: Yep, 100%!
Eric: Yeah.
Brandon: And Milo dashes back to his room and grabs his phone and immediately calls Aggie and Val on a three way call.
Eric: For sure. I think this will be a perfect opportunity to go to Val really quickly. So now we have a shot of Val's Little Italy abode and it's [sings the opening to Misery Business by Paramore] because you're in the misery business, of course.
Julia: Take it from the top.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric: Yeah. Now it's nine o'clock. What are you doing?
Julia: I feel like Val's alarm would have gone off earlier.
Eric: Yeah.
Julia: And Val just kind of assumed. Oh, I said it yesterday so I would wake up early to pick up the dogs, but because it's Saturday, they must have forgot to snooze it or to turn off the alarm or whatever. So they end up snoozing the alarm.
Eric: I love that make constitutional role for me.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: 16 +2. So an 18 oh, good roll.
Eric: Okay, so much like your sleepiness, if you roll high constitution, would you have wanted to sleep through your alarm or you would have been woken up by your alarm?
Julia: I think Val would have been woken up by their alarm, but would have put a snooze on it.
Eric: I like that. Yeah, I like that a lot. It is now nine o'clock and now Val your phone is going off [Eric singing as alarm] do do do do do do, do. I think instinctively Hitomi rolls over and tries to hit it and be like
Eric (as Hitomi): Why it's so loud?! Please no. NO.
Julia (as Val): I got it, I got it.
Julia: I put it on silent. I look at it, it's like
Julia (as Val): Alright, alarm dogs? Dog alarm. No.
Eric: Yeah. This is from Mitzy. Mitzy was the, the woman with the two pitbulls who you convinced to keep walking their dogs even though you have organized crime allegations against you.
Julia: Mm hmm.
Eric (as Mitzy): Val? Excuse me, Val?
Julia (as Val): Mitzy, hey, what's going on?
Eric (as Mitzy): Val, where are you?Glitzy and Glizzy are eating all of my shoes.
Julia (as Val): I'm sorry to hear that. It's Saturday though. I walked them yesterday.
Eric (as Mitzy): No, it's Friday. I know it's Friday because I put out my Friday shoes and those are the ones that they're eating.
Julia (as Val): Oh, I am so sorry. I will be there in like ten minutes.
Eric (as Mitzy): You're going to have to get there fast or there's going to be no more red soled shoes anywhere in my closet.
Julia (as Val): I will find you someone who could get you a new pair.
Eric (as Mitzy): Oh, I'm sure you do. With all of your organized crime allegations!
Julia (as Val): Would you prefer to buy them again at wholesale?
Eric (as Mitzy): Yeah. Yes, I would like them discount it. I would like them fallen off the back of a truck. Be here.
Eric: Click.
Julia (as Val): Yes, ma'am.
Amanda: Wow. Without her red soled shoes, how will people know that she has it all?
[Brandon and Eric laugh]
Brandon: I like the idea that, like, you know, like those pillowcases that are like M, T, W. I like the idea that each of her shoes has like an F on it for Friday.
Eric: I love that. I mean, honestly, that sounds sick as shit. If I had sneek if I like, bought seven sneakers that were all like the same sneaker but different colorlays that had Monday through Sunday on them, that would be tight as hell.
Brandon: I like it.
Eric: Yeah. There you go Val that's what happened to you.
Julia: Val gets dressed very quickly.
Eric: Hitomi rolls over like
Eric (as Hitomi): What was that? Why, why was it so loud.
Julia (as Val): I forgot to get the dogs. I thought it was Saturday.
Eric (as Hitomi): Okay, well hey before you go, I have a question.
Julia (as Val): Uh yeah. Yeah. What's up?
Eric (as Hitomi): Yeah. Listen, I don't I hope that I'm not like keeping you because I know you have to leave like I sleep over here, like. Or two or three times a week, and, you know, wouldn't it just be easier if I moved in?
Julia (as Val): Did we talk about this already?
Eric (as Hitomi): What? No.
Julia (as Val): I thought we talked about this and like I said, that, you know, this place is really small. We should get a place together. We should look for something nicer.
Eric (as Hitomi): Oh, so you think this place - if you think this place is too small, then that's fine. We don't we don't have to do it. No, I shouldn't have brought it up. It's fine.
Julia (as Val): We talked I have just a wicked case of deja vu right now. But like, I -
[Eric singing as ringtone]
Julia (as Val): Uh, okay?
Eric: This is Milo calling your phone.
Julia: Like, half dressed, I answer.
Brandon: Julia what is my - what does Milo's photo look like in your phone?
Julia: Oh, it's like you but with like a huge thing, a juice and the size of your head and it's like you smiling, posing next to it. You're just really excited about that juice.
Brandon (as Milo): Hey, Val?
Julia (as Val): Milo, what's going on? I'm sorry, I just woke up.
Brandon (as Milo): I did too, I'm sorry for calling so early. I know it's like 10:00 a.m. It's way too early for phone calls. Don't you ever call each other before 6:00 p.m..
Julia (as Val): Yeah, agreed. Agreed.
Brandon (as Milo): But what - this is gonna sound weird. What day is it?
Julia (as Val): That's a that is a weird question and weird, huh.
Brandon (as Milo): Because do you remember what we did yesterday, which was, you know, we went to the art gallery.
Julia (as Val): Yes, the art gallery.
Brandon (as Milo): My phone says it's it's Friday still.
Julia (as Val): You know, okay, I'm going to I have to go walk a dog and then I'm going to come immediately to where you are.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay, let's let's go to let's go to Aggie's and we'll just meet up there.
Julia (as Val): Yeah, fine. Great.
Eric: Yeah Milo you called Aggie to come in on the three way call. It rang a few times and then she intentionally declined.
Brandon (as Milo): I asked - Aggie's supposed to be on this phone call, but she didn't answer. So I'm a little worried about how you wanted to meet up at Aggie's place.
Julia (as Val): Yeah. Yeah, we'll go. We'll go see what's up. But I'm sure she's just busy doing a Laketon stuff.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay, cool. Alright. I'm fine. Panicking not. Let's go.
Julia (as Val): Yeah. Yeah. Not feeling great myself.
Brandon: Click!
Eric: Okay, wonderful. Yeah you too. Just want to head over to Aggie's?
Julia: I have to walk my dogs first and then I walked over to Aggie.
Eric: Absolutely. That sounds good. Yeah. I think that you can wrap all of that up by ten thirty so yeah it is now ten thirty and you two from taking the wonderful public transit of Lake Town City with the sky tram with no delays at all, you end up in Historic Lake Town.
Brandon: Great. I'm going to roll up on Aggie's department and ring the doorbell every three seconds on the second.
Eric: Nice.
Amanda: Aggie is home because it is International Workers Day. So she has the morning off and. Yeah, yeah, I answered the door.
Amanda (as Aggie): Milo, what are you doing here?
Brandon (as Milo): Hello. What day do you think it is?
Amanda (as Aggie): Did I miss a meeting? Is this a trick question? International Workers Day. It's Friday.
Eric: Were you getting ready to leave to head to the gallery?
Amanda: Yeah, no, I have all my stuff on like I was just about to get into my car.
Julia: Val just comes storming up very fast. Being like,
Julia (as Val): This is a weird fucking day already. What's happening?
Amanda (as Aggie): Were we meeting at my house? I thought we were going to meet there and then talk to the guy about the like getting in with the caterers and stuff.
Julia (as Val): Yes, we did. But we did that already.
Amanda (as Aggie): I'm - did I miss an earlier call? No, we didn't.
Brandon (as Milo): Yeah, we did. I remember it too.
Julia (as Val): Super- we super did see Milo knows what's up.
Amanda (as Aggie): Is okay. So is there like a shapeshifting villain now? Because I definitely wasn't there. And if it if you saw me but it wasn't me then-
Julia (as Val): No, no Aggie we did it yesterday but yesterday is today.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yesterday was Thursday, we didn't we didn't-
Brandon (as Milo): You don't remember going to the museum at all? You don't remember that the protests? You don't remember Dr. Morrow at the protest?
Julia (as Val): Dr. Morrow was like in the crowd at the protest. It's very weird. There's a guy who's got like a like some Nintendo thing happening and he's got a trench coat. He just looks miserable.
Amanda (as Aggie): Uh no.
Eric: Aggie, I think that you have like the radio on listening to local news, and I think that a reporter says
Eric (as Reporter): The workers have striked. No one is getting any express them today and any of the Thornhills around Lake Town City. Then all the barista's and bussers are bussing their way for better salaries against Thornhill. So far, it's been a peaceful protest walking through Industry City and they ultimately ending at Smoke Break Park and now
[Beat of silence]
Eric (as Reporter): And now, back to our-
Amanda: Back to you.
Julia: And now, sports!
Eric (as Reporter): And now sports with Champ Bigswing and I love hockey, it's actually my favorite sport, even though my last name is Bigswing that's-
Julia: I was going to say.
Eric: Yeah, the mountain lobsters beat the Tampa Bay Lightning four to two with two goals-
Julia (as Val): Let me write that down so I can tell Aggie that tomorrow.
Eric: With two goals from Fritz Brightstone and an assist.
Julia: Great.
Eric: So it's a modified hatrick.
Julia: I'm writing that on the back of a card that I will remember later. You see Val furiously taking notes on their phone.
Amanda (as Aggie): Uh, guys, I'm I'm getting worried. We're going to miss the preopening window over at the museum so we can check it out, you know, for for Dr. Morrow, like we talked about. Do you guys remember that?
Brandon (as Milo): I have an idea Val. What if we go to we go to the museum. We know. Right. Exactly what's going to happen and what's in the museum. And that will prove to Aggie that either one, we're clairvoyant, which I'm not I don't think you are. Or two, it already happened. Already happened.
Julia (as Val): So let's just go and show Aggie that it already happened. I really hope we don't have to do this every day. This is going to get really frustrating.
Amanda (as Aggie): What did what what do you think happened? Because I don't. Why, why? Why am I different?
Brandon (as Milo): I don't know.
Julia (as Val): I don't know.
Brandon (as Milo): We went we we we met at the museum. And we talk to the host person, the the person at the front and
Julia (as Val): told us we couldn't go in because we weren't on the list and we weren't VIPs. And then Milo charmed the dude. And then we went inside and they were doing a VIP tour and there was a lot of like stuff that looked normal, but it was Dr. Morrow stuff. So it was weird of course. And then a creepy guy came in and he did a whole thing with the projector. I don't know.
Brandon (as Milo): And then didn't Dr. Morrow call one of you and then there's the the the thing. And then you guys left to do the thing?
Julia (as Val): We tried to call her and then she was at the protest already.
Brandon (as Milo): Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And then I tackled the guy in the black and then he pulled out an N64, and said "Star Fox!" Then it when it went black.
Julia (as Val): I didn't hear him say Star Fox but I did see the rest of it.
Eric: Not so fast, Star Fox. He was Andros unfortunately. That's the reveal.
Amanda (as Aggie): So, so what, what happened then. You're saying you. We did this day already and I, I wasn't there or I don't remember.
Brandon (as Milo): I woke up and I went to do I talk to the people outside, which I did yesterday. And then I went to make coffee, which I did yesterday and then Tuna stole my coffee scoop like Tuna always does. But then I knew immediately that I was on top of the fridge and I don't know that. Why would I know that?
Julia (as Val): Yeah. And I woke up and I thought it was Saturday. And then a woman who has a lot of Lou Batons yelled at me for not picking up her dogs. And then my girlfriend asked me for the second time if she could move in with me. But like, keeps not listening when I say I want to move in with her.
Amanda (as Aggie): That that sounds like a bad conversation to have twice. If I have to repeat this morning again, I'm going to be pretty pissed because I had a hard one, too.
Julia (as Val): I'm so sorry.
Brandon (as Milo): Me too. My cat was a jerk.
Eric: Milo make an inside joke.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: Oop oop oop, 10 +9 for 19.
Eric: You have such high insight.
Amanda: Wow.
Eric: Hey, you ran out without your keys again.
Brandon: God damn it. Good thing Milo can turn into gas and go through cracks and walls.
Amanda (as Aggie): So I mean I guess we can head over there together and you guys can fill me in on all the stuff that happened.
Julia (as Val): Yeah. Yeah. That's probably a good idea because if that guy does something messed up and we're not there to stop him again, that that would be bad.
Brandon (as Milo): Val I have a plan. What if you pretend to be security and you pat him down. Oh okay. And you take the N 64.
Julia (as Val): Okay, yeah we could try that. That sounds good.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay.
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay. But was like were you guys touching something that I wasn't touching because like I'm nervous now about knowing not like what did you do this again tomorrow morning. I don't have any like code words that'll, that'll make you cut this conversation short. Unfortunately.
Julia (as Val): You want a code word? We could come up with a code word.
Amanda (as Aggie): No, I wouldn't remember because we're doing it right now.
Julia (as Val): That is true. That's true, Aggie.
Brandon (as Milo): Can we, like, write a sign and put it in in your your Bible or something? I don't know what religion you are in your uh-
Julia (as Val): What a weird assumption to make, Milo.
Brandon (as Milo): I don't know. I'm trying to think of things that people put on their nightstands. Bible is one on your - I don't know most.
Julia (as Val): I'm the one wearing the crucifix, so like.
Eric: That's an interesting idea.
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay, so how about um, do either of you drive? [Laughs]
Julia (as Val): I, I have a person with a van job, so I technically have a license.
Brandon (as Milo): I have a license. Why is it technically illegal?
Julia (as Val): Like I have a license. Okay, it's none of your business where it came from, Milo.
Amanda: Aggie reaches back inside her door, grabs like a notebook and a pen, and then gets us all in the truck. And I'll have whoever has the best handwriting. Just write down like a summary of the day in the situation and then I'll sign it at the bottom. When we get to the warehouse.
Julia: I think one of us is going to have to dictate to you, because I imagine Aggie has the best handwriting.
Brandon: Yeah 100%.
Amanda: I'm driving, because it's my truck, and I don't trust you guys to drive. [Everyone laughing]
Brandon: Alright. Milo will write it and he will spend three times as long on every letter that he normally would.
Amanda: Great.
Eric: Incredible. Well, yeah, that's yeah. You guys have the truck. There's some really, really fun moments of trying to write this down on a note card. And yeah, we you guys end up at the warehouse, which is the art gallery.
Brandon (as Milo): How do you make a cursive B? I forgot.
Amanda (as Aggie): Just write a B, Milo.
Julia (as Val): Doesn't it just look like a B?
Amanda: And I think either just as we're pulling in or just before we get there, I want to know, like every detail of what happened at the moment that your memories cut off, like where we all were, who was touching what all that.
Brandon: Yeah, cool.
Julia: I think we try to tell you as best we can by Milo was going after the dude in the trench coat with the N64. Val was closing the distance between them. You were trying to stop the protesters from like escalating the situation.
Brandon (as Milo): The only difference is that you are you were further away. So maybe that's like an area a zone of reset, you know. So this time, if it gets reset, which please, God, let's not make it happen. Make sure you're close to us.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, okay. And was your impression that this guy was trying to steal the projector or just to do something to it?
Brandon (as Milo): I have no idea.
Julia (as Val): Yeah, I was I was outside with you, Aggie. I didn't see him until he came out the door. So that on Milo.
Brandon (as Milo): I'm not very observant. Unfortunately, I just tried to stop him with a fan and then threatened him.
Julia (as Val): Like you do.
Amanda (as Aggie): Because, I mean, I could just take like so we could just take it.
Julia (as Val): The projector?
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. If that's what he wants.
Julia (as Val): Yeah. But we just reset it. Yeah, exactly. Like we take it from him. He just resets the whole day again.
[Amanda groans]
Brandon (as Milo): We have to get the machine. We have to get the 64.
Julia (as Val): Yeah. We got to take that off him somehow.
Brandon (as Milo): And make it a No 64. A there's nothing there. Sorry.
Julia (as Val): He tried.
Eric: A Nintend-no 64.
Brandon: Yes.
Julia: Mhm mhm.
Amanda (as Aggie): Listen, I think the security idea has legs. I think confiscating electronics at the door is a really good idea actually. Well no offense Milo but that's actually a really good idea.
Brandon: Did you say no offense? [Laughs]
Brandon (as Milo): None taken. I can I can distract the the host person or charm him if I need to.
Julia (as Val): I could I could always tell them that like Dr. Morrow sent a superhero over to act as security for their their gallery opening.
Brandon (as Milo): I like it. We need to get Dr. Morrow to make one of those doctor who notecards where whatever you see is what you want kind of thing. We need to make that.
Julia (as Val): We also need Dr. Morrow to like tell us what all of these items do. I remember trying to get that information from her and then we saw her in the crowd. We're like, what are you doing? She was like protesting.
Amanda (as Aggie): That sounds like her. Yeah. Yeah. That was confusing me when she was like, it's just a bear. Like what? What does that mean? No, okay. I think you guys should do that. And I think I'm going to go in plain clothes. I think I'll go as a building inspector and try to walk the perimeter and see if I can - I mean, I don't know what any this stuff looks like or the layout or like I need to get familiar with the situation first.
Julia (as Val): Okay.
Brandon (as Milo): I like it. I dig it. If you need our help, just shout Ben and I'll shout Jerry and we'll come together.
Julia (as Val): Just to clarify, like the ice cream?
Brandon (as Milo): Yes like the ice cream, Val c'mon.
Julia (as Val): Chubby hubby!
Amanda (as Aggie): Fish food. Now we're all just saying our favorite ice cream flavors.
Eric: I heard there was free Ben and Jerry's over here! Come on!
Julia (as Val): That might be a good way to de-escalate the protesters.
Amanda (as Aggie): Now we're thinking!
Eric: Okay, so yeah, you pull up in front of the warehouse. I will say it is now eleven thirty when you pull up because it took longer for you to go to Aggie first and then all the way up to Industry Ten because Milo literally went across the city and then back.
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay, so let me go in first. Give me like three minutes and then come in after me. I think whoever's there will be so distracted by the appearance of the two of you that hopefully I can just walk.
Julia (as Val): Cool. Sounds good.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay, I dig.
Amanda (as Aggie): Alright. Listen, good luck if this happens again, just Val bring me that note. I got home from my morning rounds at actually, you know what? If you could be there just before 9:00, that will get me out of a really awkward conversation. So I would really appreciate that.
Julia (as Val): I will I will do my best, hopefully I listen to my alarm tomorrow that's all.
Amanda (as Aggie): Hopefully tomorrow is Saturday.
Julia (as Val): Hopefully.
Amanda (as Aggie): Alright. See you guys later.
Brandon (as Milo): Put your hand - put your hand in!
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay, what?
Julia (as Val): What are we saying?
Brandon (as Milo): On three, we say we say L T Three! Then we put our hands up.
Julia (as Val): Okay,
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay. But we're whispering. We're whispering. We're in a parking lot.
Brandon (as Milo): Okay, put your hand in.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brandon and Amanda (as Milo and Aggie): L T Threeee!
Julia (as Val): I thought it was one, two, three, L T 3.
Brandon (as Milo): No I substituted one - let's just go.
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay. Okay, ok. Okay. Three minutes lock my truck for the love of God. Okay.
Amanda: Aggie's going to walk in wearing her uniform collared shirt and holding a clipboard.
Eric: Like last episode this looks like a it was once an abandoned warehouse. It's now turned into a gallery space. There are like caterers and people who are running around and kind of putting things in and installing this right before it opens in half an hour.
Amanda: Yeah, I'm just going to go sort of toward the loading dock and just say, like,
Amanda (as Aggie): hey, anybody know who's who's in charge from the event management? Who's the who's the point of contact?
Eric: Yeah, you look around, there are some guys just like carrying things around. There are people who are wheeling in like little canapés. There are other people who are bringing in stands for these objects to come upon. You see, someone walks by, you see someone walks by holding a really large beach ball. But when you when you say is anyone in charge, no one says anything.
Amanda: Alright. So I'll just walk into the loading dock and try. My aim here is to walk into the gallery space and walk the perimeter so that I can look at this projector.
Eric: Yeah, no, I think that here's the thing. You're wearing an outfit. And if I know anything from Hit Man 3, you can just walk on in. And no one says anything.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: So, yeah, you just walk into the gallery space. It goes from like a warehouse and you walked in through a garage. Then all of a sudden like everything's white and you see that there are these little these objects that are around these regular looking objects is a guitar and an old air conditioner and a fan. And you see that there is like a broken projector over on the side. It looks like it's sealed shut. There are no slides in it. And it's kind of just like doing that flickering thing where it should be showing something and it's trying to like click. So it's like it shows the light and then it goes like click and kind of stutters. But it keeps doing that over and over and over again. Also inside you see that Byron's Zorn, the guy who Dr. Morrow told you about wearing an incredibly loud printed shirt and shorts combo with a statementass pair of glasses and hat. They are showing around a group of influencers around, like showing them like, "oh, wow, Art, I can't believe. Wow, soon it's science and art coming together. Oh, wow." And like, they're taking photos in front of these things. You see the people I peel off to take selfies every so often and you see that a woman with a blond bob who's wearing like a romper that has photo realistic faces of Steve Buscemi on it comes over and be like,
Eric (as Woman): Oh, are you using the projector?
Amanda (as Aggie): I'm checking on fire code violations, are you using the projector because I need to-
Amanda: And I put a tape measure
Amanda (as Aggie): Like I really need to measure if it's a full eight feet.
Amanda: I just kind of like start laying out my tape measure between the pedestal in the wall.
Eric (as Woman): Oh, can I just, like, take a photo before before you figure out if things are on fire or not?
Amanda (as Aggie): Uh, no, why don't you come back. Sorry. This takes precedence.
Eric: Make a persuasion check.
Amanda: It's a dirty 20.
Eric: She's like,
Eric (as Woman): Wait, so does the fire code mean that it's on fire or it's going to be on fire?
Amanda (as Aggie): It actually means that in case there is a fire, is it safe for everyone-
Eric (as Woman): Uhhhhh okay, fine.
Eric: And she walks away.
[Everyone laughing]
Amanda (as Aggie): I like talking about the fire code. Okay.
Amanda: So I'm going to start with the projector and just kind of, yeah. Like measure between the posts on the wall. Like look at the sprinklers, just kind of have that air of what I'm trying to do. But I'm going to just check out this projector. Can I do like any kind of arcana inside perception check.
Eric: Yeah. Why don't you make it arcana check on this?
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: 10.
Eric: 10. Yeah, so although Milo told you that the stuff in here is powerful. You don't know what's going on with this thing. It looks broken like that's why it's not working, maybe like in the time and the rough and tumble times of this person got their hands on it. Since Dr. Morrow made it, it's broken, but like it's not working. And you would know this even just from slide projectors in general, the like this slide projector, if it is in fact the slide projector is broken, like something is jammed in the carousel, not letting it, like, flip to the next thing.
Amanda: Can I just check and see if there is a slide in there, if there's anything stuck?
Eric: Sure.
Amanda: I know the carousel is empty, but is there one that's in there?
Eric: It doesn't seem like there's anything in there. No.
Amanda: Okay, I guess Aggie is going to move on and just familiarize herself with the general layout of the place and like, look out to the square and see where the protest is going to happen just so she can catch up in terms of preparedness and knowing where everything is.
Eric: Yeah, that sounds good. Let's flip to our other friends who are not inside Val and Milo. So you guys are in your Vulcani and Kilonova costumes, correct?
Julia: Mhm. I have locked Aggie car before we left.
Brandon: I'm in the Vulcani costume, you're in the Kilonova costume.
Julia: I look great in the cowl.
[Brandon and Julia laughing]
Eric: No, that's not what happens. You have to be at least level 30 and having to add 20 enerjons to unlock those alternate costume enough.
Julia: Fair enough.
Eric: Here's what I'm going to pose to you, to my good friends, Julia and Brandon who are playing these folks who are caught in a time loop. If you would like to do the same thing that you did last time, you can just do that. However, if there is something you would like to do to try to speed it up or change it, then we're going to have to roll and figure that stuff out.
Brandon: Gotcha.
Julia: I think this time we should do the security play like Dr. Morrow sent us to run security. There is a dangerous individual that has expressed interest in robbing this gallery. We're here to make sure that doesn't happen.
Eric: Cool. Will you both roll history checks for me?
Julia: Not my specialty.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: I had a 16 -1.
Brandon: 8 +5 for 13.
Eric: Great Val with a 15. You remember that there are yellow wristbands that are in the desk which are the VIP wristbands.
Julia: Great.
Eric: And Milo you remember. Oh it's that fucking guy with the top bun.
Brandon: Milo whispers under his breath.
Brandon (as Milo): Oh it's that fucking guy with a top bun.
Julia (as Val): What an unpersonal style it just does not suit his face at all.
Brandon (as Milo): Are you ready?
Julia (as Val): Yes.
Brandon (as Milo): Ahoy! Good sir!
Julia (as Val): That's how we're doing it? Alright.
Amanda: Aggie hears this from the other side of the room.
Eric: He responds back.
Eric (as Receptionist): Ahoy-hoy! That's um - I don't know if you knew that, but that's what Alexander Graham Bell used to say on the phone on-
Brandon (as Milo): Yeah yeah, the guys that invented the telephone that's fine.
Eric (as Receptionist): That doesn't make any sense.
Julia (as Val): HELLO! So we were sent by Dr. Morrow. There is a concern that there is a security threat here at your gallery. Someone has expressed the intent to steal one of the items. We are here to act as additional security. I'm going to be posted at the door to make sure that anyone who comes in is not acting suspiciously.
Eric (as Receptionist): Oh, uhh.
Julia (as Val): It's an order from the mayor.
Brandon (as Milo): We don't really need your approval, we just didn't want to make it awkward for you, you know.
Julia (as Val): We were just making you aware of the situation.
Eric: What kind of check would you like to mak, Val?
Julia: I want to speak with authority. If that's intimidation to this guy, then fine. If it's persuasion, I can go that way, too.
Brandon: I would like to also cast tkguidance on Val so you get one d4 to add to your role.
Eric: Sure, yeah. That's intimidation.
Julia: Alright. Well I have +7 to intimidation so.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: Okay, so that was a 4 +7.
Eric: That's 11, you need a 4-
Julia: +4 so it's a 15!
Eric: Oh my God! Jesus christ! Okay. Alright. Yeah. So now it's like if we were playing this video game at the bottom of the screen, it's like a save point loaded. So now you have the intimidation tactic of saying that you are security,
Eric (as Receptionist): Oh yes, we need a security. I thought someone was supposed to come only for only for noon, but come on in. Yeah, absolutely.
Julia (as Val): I'm going to be posted here at the door and then Kilonova will be just kind of doing the perimeter-
Brandon (as Milo): I'll be roaming
Julia (as Val): And making sure that the item in question is not messed with.
Eric (as Receptionist): Hmm. Of course, you know, understandable.
Julia (as Val): What is your name?
Eric (as Receptionist): Oh I it's - Brans-
Brandon (as Milo): Did you forget your name?
Eric (as Receptionist): No, it's Branson.
Julia (as Val): Branson. Okay.
Brandon: Son of a bitch.
Julia (as Val): Okay, Branson.
Eric (as Branson): It's not Brandon. Brandon is for normies. It's Branson.
Brandon (as Milo): Like the town of Missouri. Yes. We're also going to need a copy of the the people who are in there now, just their names and what they're from.
Julia (as Val): Yes, the VIP list. So that we-
Eric (as Branson): Oh yeah. No, absolutely. For sure.
Brandon (as Milo): You have a list of like caterers and people like that. I would also like that.
Eric (as Branson): Oh sorry. We you don't. I've only written down the names of the VIPs unfortunately.
Julia (as Val): Okay, we'll take that to them.
Brandon (as Milo): That's fine.
Eric (as Branson): No, it's fine. Okay, that's fine.
Amanda: Aha! Class commentary.
Eric (as Branson): I just have I have one question. So it's like -are
[Beat of silence]
Eric (as Branson): What parts of you are ghost?
Julia (as Val): I think he's hitting on you.
Eric (as Branson): Like are you ghost all the way to the one side? Is it is it by part? Is it like, you know, when you cut up a pig and there are different parts of it and like the loin is ghost?
Julia (as Val): That's a weird way to way to describe this question that you have.
Eric (as Branson): I'm interested. I have curiosities. .
Brandon (as Milo): The parts you're talking about, you won't be able to see, but uh, you won't know if that's because they're ghosts or otherwise.
Brandon: And Milo winks and walks away.
Julia: Jesus christ.
Eric: Incredible on Twitter in six minutes, @BransonCreativeWritingComedy tweets I have good authority that Kilonova has a ghost dick.
[Brandon laughing]
Eric: And he gets two retweets and 21 likes.
Julia: That's a safe point as well, right?
Brandon: Do I get +1 fame?
Eric: We'll see. We'll see.
Amanda: I think somewhere Carmen is having a hard day.
Eric: Yeah. Carmen gets a notification. Be like,
Eric (as Carmen): Oh, someone tweeted about Kilonova? This is incredible. Why why is this happening? And Thornhill is on strike! SHIT! SHIT!
Eric: She throws a coffee pot out of a window.
Brandon: And then she crawls down the stairs to go retrieve it and brings it back up so she can have some more coffee.
Eric: She grabs the coffee pot and bring it back in.
Amanda: It's non shattering glass. Yeah.
Eric: Yeah, yeah. It's you see it bounce down the street and then she's like,
Eric (as Carmen): Shit, shit shit shit.
Eric: And then picks it up and brings it back. So that is now saved.
Brandon: Let me just take a quick note. The Save: Ghost Dick.
Julia: Ghost Dick.
Eric: Rumor of Ghost Dick. But yeah, no, you guys get in. So now Val you have the list of the VIPs. It's just a bunch of influences on there.
Julia: Do I recognize any of the names?
Eric: Yeah. Shannon Redwine is on there.
Julia: Fucking bitch.
[Brandon laughs]
Eric: And yeah, there are six other names on my list but you don't recognize any of the other ones.
Brandon (as Milo): Let me Val let me try to go get these names while you watch out. Let me see if any of these are people they would own. An N 64 time machine, you know.
Julia (as Val): Okay, Shannon Redwine would not own an N 64 just as a heads up.
Brandon (as Milo): Great, let me cross her off the list.
Brandon: And, can I call January, Eric?
Eric: Yeah sure.
Brandon: I'm going to go off into like a corner where was like outside the building on the one of the side. The back side corners-
Julia: Stay inside, stay inside, stay inside.
Brandon: I'm going to stay inside
[Eric laughs]
Amanda: In the coat check?
Brandon: In the coat check and wherever no one can hear me and call January.
Eric: Yeah, I think that you go over to the coat check, which is just like a corner of the room that has like a bunch of jackets on, like coat racks that they someone bought at a vintage store. And there is a caterer, a woman in the corner, a caterer who's crying. And she's like,
Eric (as Caterer): [Sniffling] Oh, no, I guess you need the space. That's fine.
Eric: And she leaves. An goes back to putting a little sliders out on platters.
Brandon: Oh.
Julia: I want to go console that woman. I'm sorry.
Brandon: That's so sad.
Eric (as Caterer): No, it's fine. Just don't worry. It's friend drama. It's fine. It's don't worry about it, okay?
Brandon (as Milo): You can have you can have the space. Back in a second. I'm sorry.
Eric (as Caterer): Okay, that's fine.
Eric: And you call January. I think the on your it's like the little hollow January that we've established with the MorrowTech and January says
Eric (as January): Kilonova you in a compromised area? Should I talk really low? Do you have headphones in?
Brandon (as Milo): I have my headphones and my earpieces in. But but if you could just whisper because it makes it seem more cool and fine. Let's keep doing that.
Eric (as January): Okay, sure.
Brandon (as Milo): I have a list of of folks of names. Could you check them out, do a quick background check and get back to me as soon as you can?
Eric: Sure, you can stay on the line. January can do this pretty fast for you. And January says
Eric (as January): Yeah I mean the majority are influencers here.
Brandon (as Milo): Anything sketch?
Eric (as January): Huh. Well, you know, they have like twenty thousand followers on Instagram and Twitter or or Better Twitter, which Dr. Morrow invented.
Brandon (as Milo): The BT.
Eric (as January): Just Twitter but they kicked off all the nazis. The only thing that's strange here is that one of these accounts looks like it was made a phony. Like two days ago.
Julia (as Val): : Which one, which one, which one, tell us, is it Shannon Redwine I'll fuck her up.
Brandon: Val you're not here.
Julia: Sorry, that was just Julia getting excited.
Amanda: Oh, you know, I'm making aggressive thumbs up at the camera. Yes.
Eric: So January sends you the image. It's like a twitch streamer or a gaming brand. It's called Level Up Games.
Brandon: LVL?
Eric: LVL Up Games. They have like thirty one thousand followers. But it looks like this has been made like April 202X, which is wild because that was last week, because today is May 1st.
Amanda: So they have thirty thousand followers and they were made last month?
Eric: They were made - yeah.
Brandon (as Milo): January can you run a bot check on that real fast on the follower count?
Eric (as January): Yeah sure.
[Dice rolls]
Eric: I rolled a 19.
Julia: Oh fuck. Yeah. It's all bots. Bots all the way down.
Eric (as January): Wow. Is this the writing of Isaac Asimov? Because it's up only robots.
[Julia laughing]
Brandon (as Milo): January. You are a national treasure.
Eric (as January): Thanks.
Brandon (as Milo): Can you do any research on that account, see what you can pick up and I'm going to go try to to find that person?
Eric (as January): Yeah, I can look into it.
Brandon (as Milo): Thanks.
Julia: Do they have, like, a real person's name or it's just that account?
Eric: Just LVL Up. All the other people are like influencers in the way like they take lots of selfies, lots of photos of yourself. This one has no, like, face photos, no like discernible images of an actual person.
Julia: On the VIP list. Do they have a name that's associated with the account?
Eric: You know? That's a good question.
[Rolls dice]
Eric: Yeah. No, the on the list was actually registered to LVL Up Games.
Julia: Hmm. That's suspicious.
Amanda: Hmmm.
Brandon: Milo is going to walk out from the coat check and wave the woman over and then walk over to Val and say
Brandon (as Milo): Val just like follow my lead for a second.
Bandon: And then say out loud to the roaming group of influencers,
Brandon (as Milo): Um, hi? Vulcani and Kilonova for an interview with LVL Up Games? I think?
Eric: Why don't you make a charisma check for me?
Amanda: Hell yeah.
Julia: Can I give the help action?
Eric: Absitivity! Advantage to our good friend Milo.
[Dice rolling]
Brandon: 12 plus charisma, which I have a -1, so 11.
[Julia and Amanda sigh]
Eric: Okay, I want both Val and Milo to make perception checks as well.
[Dice rolling]
Julia: An 11.
Brandon: Ya boy got a Chad Nat 1.
[Collective upset sounds]
Eric: Okay, I think that, as you say, that you two hear the sound of like yelling and of scuffle and violence outside, it sounds like the similar thing the counter protesters have gotten in the faces of the protesters at this time. It's like that time again. And it sounds like there's the conflict is currently happening outside with an 11. You see that the guy with the hangdog face and the sunglasses looks up for a second and he's wearing all black. He's wearing a black trench coat, black pants, black shoes, black everything he says.
Eric (as Man): Yeah, I'm - oh, shit.
Eric: And he runs not through the front door this time, but he runs out the loading dock past Aggie.
Julia: I'm chargin.
Amanda: Yeah. I'm going to try to tackle him.
Brandon: I'm also going to cast tkWrath of Nature, which is a 5thlevel spell that I call it the spirits of nature to arouse them against my enemies.
Amanda: What?
Brandon: I cause a 60 foot cube of -
Julia: WHAT?!
Brandon: Roots and vines that restrains a creature. They must succeed on a strength saving throw or become restrained.
Eric: Great. So let's do that at the same time. Aggie, why don't you make an attack? Because that would have happened first.
Amanda: Does a 19 +7 hit?
Eric: It does hit. Yes. What would you like to do.
Amanda: I would like to ideally just like snag him by the receiver, like his wrists behind his back only to like take him down. But I want to just like grab him and keep him immobilized that his hands can't go to the machine to reset it.
Eric: Okay, I'm making Constitution saving through a for me.
Amanda: Yeah.
[Dice rolling]
Amanda: 14 +2 for 16.
Eric: Mmmmm. Okay. You reach out to tackle this guy. And I think that you feel like something butt into your stomach and you look down and he has a taser out just like
Eric (as Man): I knew that there was a third, I just needed to be prepared.
Eric: But the taser doesn't go off. He's like,
Eric (as Man): Shit, did I put ba- did I put batteries in this? Can you just just hold on?
Eric: And he like unscrews and try to fiddle with the batteries in it.
Amanda: Can I grab the box out of his pocket.
Eric: Yeah, make an investigation roll because I don't know if you know where it is.
Julia: It's a big coat with a lot of pockets.
Amanda: I rolled a 3, I'm going to roll with a luck point.
[Dice rolls]
Amanda: 7 +4 for an 11.
Eric: No, you're not going to do it. You try to run your hands through the duster. But it's all this is too much fabric and yeah, you can't go. It's like
Eric (as Man): It's a good thing I moved this after last time and I think that, like, he reaches and it's taped to his back and he like you hear the rip of tape on there as now he's holding the like modded N64. Milo how many level five spell slots do you have.
Brandon: I have one.
Eric: Cool. You still want to do this spell?
Brandon: Yeah, I want to try to restrain him for sure.
Eric: Okay, cool. At that point I think that he looks up and sees the two of you charging him. And what does it look like when you do this incredibly powerful spell?
Brandon: I think my ghost arm, my left arm, I hold it out and it's sort of like like, you know, with an Ent like a live tree sort of holds on a branch arm and like their fingertips turn into giant branches and intertwine and twist around and everything. It's like that with my fingers and it's sort of like acts as a sort of restraining cage thing.
Eric: I like that.
Brandon: Like Groot!
Eric: : Just like Groot!
Julia: I was waiting for that reference.
Brandon: I couldn't remember it.
Eric: I just like I think that he turns around and he sees that you're doing this incredible power spell and he's like,
Eric (as Man): I knew it, ghost powers. That's why I picked up this. And he pulls an aerosol can out of one of his pockets and he sprays it at you.
Eric: I'm going to do counterspell.
Julia: Oh, shit. How did he get something like Aggie has?
Brandon: Like begone.
Julia: With the bear spray.
Eric: So the spell's level is 5. It's 10 +5. The DC of this is 15. I need to get a 15 or above.
Brandon: No whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy.
Amanda: No whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy, no whammy.
Eric: Oh I rolled a straight 14 and he has pluses to that.
Julia: Not going to tell us that plus huh?
Eric: I'm not going to tell you what the pluses are but I'm telling you I rolled a straight up 14. That's going to do it. So he sprays the aerosol can in the air and it's like the ghost cage, which I feel like is even open to him inviting him inside, like the Maw of Hell. And then it just gets sprayed like someone is spraying a mosquito out of the air.
Brandon: Like dissolves into like atoms.
Julia: Val appears through the mist to try to just fucking tackle him.
Eric: I love that. Yeah. Making an attack roll for me.
Julia: Sure.
[Dice rolls]
Julia: 6 +8?
Eric: No, that's not going to do it. Like you jumping through the mist and he's like
Eric (as Man): And then Vulcani does that.
Eric: And he turns to just to the side on an angle and you slide right by.
Julia: I take my second attack. He's like, oh.
Eric: And then he slams his hand down on the reset button and everything goes white.
Julia: Dammit.
[Cymbals fade in and abruptly stop]
Eric: And Aggie, you're sitting in your favorite chair drinking tea and your phone goes off. And it's your mom.
Amanda (as Aggie): Damn it.
[Transition note]
Eric: Hey, it's Eric. I have taken my shorts out of cold storage, and you know what, I am embracing wearing shorts. I haven't always had shorts that I liked wearing on my body. And although it usually kind of signifies that I'm going to sweat through said shorts and maybe my shirt or tank top, I'm going to embrace it because the shorts actually look good on me because people are making clothing that actually fit on people, so.
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[Transition note]
Amanda (as Aggie): Hey, Mom, how's it going up there? The altitude, yeah. Wow.
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): [Muffled with wind in the background] Margaret, Margaret, can you hear me? It's your mother.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yes, I hear you, Mom. I know you're on a mountain, right?
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): Oh. How did you know if you've been following your father's and I Instagram?
Amanda (as Aggie): No, I just I at this point, I can hear, you know, sconing out on the bay versus being high up on the mountain versus like climbing palm trees to collect rare fruits, etcetera.
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): Oh, I don't know how you do any of that, but I mean, I guess you have been following me Instagram. You don't know if you could be a fan. It's fine.
Amanda (as Aggie): I haven't seen you in several years and you tend to call sporadically when you need something. So I'm just kind of like putting together all the environments, you know, that that that happens. And how are you? How's Dad?
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): Oh, he's right here. He's here. Do you want to talk on the phone?
Eric (as Aggie's Dad): No, I'm had to go to a bike ride. Gets up to talk to you later, Margaret.
Eric: And your dad jumps on his bike going down a hill.
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): Listen, Margaret, I heard of the ropers are moving down to Boca and I thought maybe we should take their house. And would you like that? I was thinking of doing that.
Amanda (as Aggie): I'm not really sure, Mom. We haven't had much of a relationship as I've been an adult because you and dad decided to retire early and like live all around the world as soon as my siblings were old enough to go to secondary school or into their careers. And and I have kind of taken up that slack for the last whatever it's been ten years now. So I've kind of complicated feelings about it. They'll be great if we could just kind of talk face to face before you make a life altering decision, not just for you and dad, but also for me. So that's kind of where I stand. I hope the Ropers was like their condo, I know they bought it a couple of years back.
Eric: I think there's like a few moments of silence or you just hear, like, the wind blowing on top of this mountain top that they're on and like,
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): Well, I guess somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed. And when you're ready to talk to me, like the way that I know that my Margaret does that I'll be there. I'm going to go on a bike ride too. Bye.
[Beat of silence]
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): I didn't hang up. I'm waiting for you to say bye.
Amanda (as Aggie): Goodbye, mother.
Eric (as Aggie's Mom): Good bye, Margaret.
Amanda: And she hangs up. I really had a little war than myself right there if Aggie would hang up. And she just couldn't. She just wouldn't.
Eric: I fucking knew it.
[Everyone laughing]
Eric: That's incredible. And yeah. Aggie you looked out in your phone and it's May first.
Amanda (as Aggie): Fuck.
Amanda: I text the group.
Amanda (as Aggie): Alright, guys, I'm in it with you. Let's let's meet at my house at ten?
[Beat of silence]
Brandon: And you get no response because no one has woken up yet.
Amanda: That's fine, it'll be there when you wake up.
Eric: Yeah, now it's nine a.m. and Tuna jumps on Milo face and says
Eric (as Tuna): You didn't wake up from all the things that were happening outside -
Brandon: Milo swats Tuna away immediately.
[Eric meows scarily]
Brandon: And he sends a Groundhog Day gif to the group chat and I need to roll a spell surge. Does that still happen?
Eric: No, Milo actually, you don't have any 5th level spells anymore.
Brandon: Oh, cool. That's fun.
Eric: This is a mechanical thing since you used your fifth level spells in loop one and loop to these didn't reset.
Brandon: Great, good and great. Alright. Milo is going to get up and pull on whatever clothes are on the floor next to his bed and head over to Aggie. And while he's on the train, he thinks about the situation, thinks about what he wants to do, and realizes this might be his opportunity to learn some stuff about the Office of Technology Assessment.
Amanda: Interesting.
Eric: I like that.
Brandon: When he gets to one of the stops, he gets off the train and transfers to another train.
Eric: Wonderful. I like that you get on there and you're you're now transferring from the sky tram that Aggie takes - would have taken to go downtown, which takes you right to the Office of Technology Assessment. Aggie, this is just for you. You have to luck points, your luck points don't come back. I just wanted to make a note of that.
Amanda: That's a bummer. I am going to call Dez, please.
Eric (as Dez): Dez's phone, Dez speaking.
Amanda (as Aggie): Hey, Dez Aggie sorry to skip the pleasantries, which are genuinely pleasant with you. Unlike most people, I need a device to jam signals including metaphysical time space continuum type ones. Do you have that? Can I pick it up now?
Julia: Do you have that like on hand. Is it in stock?
Eric (as Dez): Aggie, you have to be more specific about what types of jammers? I got so many types of jammers. They call me Smuckers.
Amanda (as Aggie): Incredible.
Eric (as Dez): Yeah. January and I have been working under one liners, so if you talk to January, keep an eye out for them.
Julia: Got more jammers in a farmer's market.
Amanda (as Aggie): Incredible. Why don't I come by and you can show me the choices, okay?
Eric (as Dez): Yeah. Sounds great. Hop on over to Dr. Morrow's.
Amanda: Yeah. Aggie drives there, nearly breaking the speed limit, but not quite.
[Everyone laughs]
Eric: Val. Yeah, I think Val you wake up. This is the same thing that happened in the last loop. I think that you hear [singing] ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Julia: Well, no, my alarm would have gone off. No, in the original loop, though, I woke up on time to get the dogs.
Eric: Right, exactly. However, the loop reset at nine a.m., which is when you would have already left.
Julia: I would have been out the door.
Eric: You would have been out the door.
Julia: I would have been leaving. And that would have been Hitomi asking me, right?
Eric: Yes. So now with the way that we've changed it in loop, because you are the same in loop two, you have the assumptions that it was the next day. However, you wouldn't have acted on it in that way subconsciously. You wouldn't have turned off the alarm anymore. However, the time loop resets at nine a.m..
Julia: Yes. Now I understand what you're saying.
Eric: Yeah. So what you didn't loop one is now gone. You've reset it and loop two and now we are redoing what happened in loop two and loop three, which is Mitzy calling you on the phone asking you where where you are.
Julia: Brutal.
Amanda: Brutle. I love it.
Julia: This woman already hates me so much. God damn it.
Eric (as Mitzy): Val Val where are you?
Julia (as Val): I am on my way. I had a family emergency.
Eric (as Mitzy): Oh my God. Is it. What is it. One of them. Is it one of the mob?
Julia (as Val): No, it's one of my family members who lives down in New York but I just needed to call and make sure everything was okay. I'm on my way. I will pick up the dogs in about 15 minutes.
Eric (as Mitzy): Did one of the mobsters in New York get shot. You can tell me.
Julia (as Val): I mean, maybe that's a typical Thursday night for them. But -
Eric (as Mitzy): I knew it. I knew that those weren't allegations. They were true. I knew it.
Amanda: [Whispering] Is this family with a capital F?
Eric (as Mitzy): Is a family emergency or a "family" emergency?
Julia (as Val): Both, but that's a different story.
Eric (as Mitzy): Oh, my God. I totally understand. Fine.
Julia (as Val): Okay, I will talk to you later when I come and pick up the dogs.
Eric (as Mitzy): For sure. Okay, I understand. I'll just I'll have to I don't know, maybe I should put like deer pee on my best shoes-
Julia (as Val): Why don't you just put them on a high shelf so the dogs can't get to them-
Eric (as Mitzy): Oh Val using that criminal brain. Thank you.
Julia (as Val): You're absolutely welcome.
Amanda: RUDE!
Julia (as Val): I really don't appreciate being called the criminal though.
Eric (as Mitzy): I mean Glitzy and Glizzy can't jump. That's one of the-because they're so inbred. That's one of the great things of having. Purebred dogs.
Amanda: Oh, God,
Julia (as Val): I mean, pit bulls they're probably-
Eric: She wouldn't have said no, she wouldn't have said that that was a joke for me. She wouldn't have said that. So yeah, you get you get off the phone and Hitomi's rolling over. Like,
Eric (as Hitomi): Why is someone calling you so earllyyyy?
Julia (as Val): I have to go pick up the dogs. But first, I wanted to ask you, just because you're staying over here a lot recently, and it would be really nice, I -
[Brandon laughs and clapping]
Julia (as Val): I think, if we, like, got a place to go, someone that something that we can make ours, you know?
Eric (as Hitomi): Oh, my God. I was just going to ask you the same thing.
Julia (as Val): Weird.
Eric (as Hitomi): How are we are so in sync? I think the thing about me is that I get really like I don't really like asking for things. I get really self-conscious about it. But, like, you just knew. And that's why I love you so much. Yes. Let's do it.
Julia (as Val): I just want to give you the things that you want.
Brandon: And the panel as a heart shape.
Eric: Yeah. Yeah. It's like the super zoom on Instagram. Where it just like, zooms in on it at hard.
Amanda: You turn to the anime characters that are like all crying and like chibi style.
Eric: Yeah, the audience is is crying out the window with tears and you're like,
Eric (as Hitomi): Oh that's. I love that. Oh my God. Yeah. Okay, I have to tell you, I've been on Zillow so much.
Julia (as Val): Oh my God. Fantastic. Show me all the places when I get back here tonight that you have picked out.
Eric (as Hitomi): Oh, I have so many more. There's so many go through. I'll make a spreadsheet. Okay, yeah. No I'm on it. Yeah. Great. I love you.
Julia (as Val): I love you.
Eric: And she like throws herself at you and kisses you like
Julia: Adorable.
Eric: Like hard on the mouth and like.
Eric (as Hitomi): This is the best way to wake up ever.
Julia (as Val): Go back to sleep.
Eric (as Hitomi): Okay. I hope every day is like this!
Amanda: Oh no, Eric looks at the camera.
[Everyone laughs]
Eric: Incredible. Okay, yeah. Tell me Aggie is heading to Dez is right now.
Amanda: Yeah. I'm going to text everybody
Amanda (as Aggie): Change of plans, meet in the parking lot of the venue, going to try and grab some tech.
Amanda: And head over to Dr. Morrow and just go in the side entrance like where I know where Dez's workshop is. And I'm going to say in very vague terms, if there was, I don't know, a time loop creating slash resetting device, I need something to block that possibility extremely much. And I will tell you all the details you have to know, please, later. I don't want to endanger you at the moment.
Eric (as Dez): Oh, Time? Dr. Morrow doesn't work on time loops.
Amanda (as Aggie): Yeah. But like any, any kind of just like any sort of signal jammer. Like it has a button. I know that much. So any, any kind of electrical signal.
Eric (as Dez): No, no, no. You don't understand Dr. Morrow. You were a nurse, you weren't alive yet, but a Dr. Morrow got really into Groundhog Day when it first came out.
Julia: She did. Of course she did.
Eric (as Dez): She was obsessed. She worked on it. Some sort of time loop technology over and over and over again, and it's just. I don't think she ever really cracked the code and then she swore if we had to sign up in the lab for five years, that said no time loops until I told her we get it and we should take it down. So any sort of time stuff, I can help you with that. Also, like that stuff doesn't even make any sense. Like who who would mess with time? That's. No, we don't we don't do that.
Julia: Val text Aggie.
Julia (as Val): If you go to see Dez, ask him if he knows what a projector Dr. Morrow made in the past might be.
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay, let's change tracks here. Do you know about a projector that Dr. Morrow might have made in the past?
Eric (as Dez): Listen, if you if you're going to ask me about something you already know about, why are you like you already know about the projector? Why did you ask me about time loops?
Amanda (as Aggie): No, I don't know about the projector.
Julia: AW YES I WAS RIGHT.
Eric (as Dez): Yeah, she tried she made this projector thing, but it never worked, and I guess she threw it out. Why is what's going on with it?
Amanda (as Aggie): She asked us to check out this warehouse, show, this art gallery. And I think that the projector is one of the items. And I just want to make sure that in case somebody gets over there, does something to it, that it doesn't have the chance to, you know. Do a - pull a Groundhog Day, Bill Murray situation.
Eric (as Dez): I mean, that thing never worked. I destroyed it, I thought I threw it and I threw it in a fire and then compressed it and then turn it into a cube and then shot it into space. I guess she never did that. That's what - yeah, I listen, I don't know what it does. It was broken, it was broken, it never actually worked. She she she was done with it. Just don't don't bring up the projector. Don't.
Amanda (as Aggie): I won't. But listen, if assuming it did work and you could do something to prevent it from actually working, what is it? Is it electrical power. Is it jamming it physically? Is it taking the button out?
Eric (as Dez): I don't I don't know. I don't know. It's broken. It never worked. That's why we don't talk. We really don't try to talk about-
Eric: He like looks around is like
Eric (as Dez): Can we let's just let's not talk about it. I don't like messing with time. She doesn't like messing with time. I don't know what it does.
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay,
Eric (as Dez): I can't. I can't I don't I don't know.
Amanda (as Aggie): No, that's that's totally fine. I'm I'm sorry to to just barge in on you like this. I appreciate it. And I won't I won't bring it up.
Eric (as Dez): Yeah. Who messes with time? It's dangerous.
Amanda (as Aggie): I know, but like who? Like who would do that.
Eric (as Dez): No one we wouldn't even know.
Brandon: Definitely not a Doc Brown type character.
[Julia laughs]
Amanda (as Aggie): Okay, thanks Dez.
Amanda: And I think I give him an uncharacteristic hug.
Eric: Dez like is stiff for a second. And would you like to make an insight check?
Amanda: Sure.
[Dice rolls]
Eric: Yeah.
Amanda: Eric, I don't have my glasses on.
[Eric laughs]
Amanda: That is a Join the Party logo a natural 20 on Chad dice.
Eric: Oh. What is with these 20's?! Oh my God. These Chad dice. Holy shit. So.
Julia: Oh my God.
Eric: So a nat 20 tells you a lot. I'm not saying that Dr. Morrow didn't fuck around with time, watch Groundhog Day get obsessed. Everything he said was absolutely true. But he is like stiff for a second and then he like melts into your hug like he's a big dude. He's bigger than you remember. He still has like this tech army. He's like he has to be strong enough and big enough to support having a like, Fullmetal Alchemist style metal hand for him to do that. And it's like he melts into this and. He says.
Eric (as Dez): We don't mess around with time, it's. It gets people hurt, so just if you're doing something. Be careful. Okay?
Amanda (as Aggie): I'm really trying, I promise.
Eric: And I'm going to say there's something there I don't know, you don't know what it is. It's not just the Dr. Morrow thing.
Amanda: Yeah, I know for sure.
Brandon: How good is it that 20 hug? I mean, that's a good hug.
Julia: The best hug. Yeah, it's a good hug.
Eric: It's a good hug. Listen, this is the insight to get from the hug. Hugs are always good. You don't have to roll on hugs.
Brandon: That's true. That's true.
Eric: This is how we've grown from campaign one to campaign two we don't roll on hugs anymore.
Amanda: as I leave to round out this role, do I see him look anything like his hand or a photo or something on the walls?
Eric: What I can tell you is there's something there that's really good. Yeah, he - you look around Dez his office and like he's always been a minimalist guy, especially compared to Dr. Morrow, but like he doesn't have many photos around, I don't think that we've talked about it, but like his office, his lab is like might as well be a stark as the the gallery in which you guys were exploring. Like one, you're doing it for hipster reasons, but other people sometimes you just don't have stuff to put up.
Amanda: Okay,
Eric: Okay, yeah, I think that Preserver and Vulcani you to both show up at the warehouse and Kilonova is out there.
Brandon: I've texted them beforehand and said on the train as he was making a decision, he texted them and said,
Brandon (as Milo): Hey, guys, I can't find my keys, so I'll be late.
Brandon: And then he, like self satisfactorily, like puts his phone away and then he realizes he actually did forget his keys.
[Everyone laughs]
Julia: Yeah, I think Val texts back like
Julia (as Val): Milo, but if you're not here, what if you're not in the next loop?
Brandon (as Milo): I mean, don't don't plan on having another loop.
Julia (as Val): I mean either planning on not doing that. I'm planning on taking this away from this man. But like if we fail again, because apparently he knows everything we're going to do, that's not good.
Amanda: He would be in the second loop if we woke up again today, he would know that he was in the loop at least.
Julia: Yeah, okay.
Eric: Cool Vulcani if you want to speed through and hit your fast forward button, you can intimidate the front door guy.
Julia: Yeah, intimidate that guy again. I think Val also turns to Aggie is like,
Julia (as Val): We got to get here earlier next time so that we can get here before the VIPs get here. And I could stop this guy from going in with them.
Eric: Yeah, it is. Once again, it's eleven thirty after you guys had kind of had stuff to do before you do this. Yeah. The top bun guy gives a Vulcani the list of VIPs, you look at it a level up didn't show up.
Amanda (as Aggie): Dammit.
Julia: Okay, so he knows that we're here waiting for him. Probably, I guess I'll try to engage him if I see him show up, but I will like, oh no, stay by the front door and see if he ends up coming.
Eric: Absolutely. I like that. Do you want to check out the projector again? Aggie in civilian clothes.
Amanda: Yeah, I'll do the exact same thing. And I think from the kitchen, I'm just going to grab like a big carafe of water and carry it with me into the gallery space and post up next to the projector.
Eric: Yeah. Alright. So now you're looking at the projector and now you see that the projector actually has is showing you something. It's showing like a Polaroid version like it's faded like sepia tone in the way that something old happens. And it's you standing there without the carafe of water last time.
Amanda: Can I tell from the angle of the photo where the person who took it was standing when they took it? It's like security camera. Is it like somebody from the room?
Eric: No, I think it kind of just looks like a home movie. Like someone was just like videotaping you while you were doing this. I don't think that this wasn't a person. It's just like it just is and it's like it's modeled and it's blotted in that way. Kind of like there's some old technology crunchiness to it. And I think I'm just going to tell you what this is. You're in the time loop now. Now that you're in the time, loop the projector. Works. And you see yourself and you're like, huh, I wonder what this can tell me. And you look at it and then it fast forwards really quickly, it shows you from outside walking into the warehouse, but it shows that you took a right and then a left to like get around some caterers who were pushing food into the venue. But if you had actually gone to the left and slipped around a group of people who are setting up, that actually would have gotten you faster there.
Amanda: So it shows me doing the thing I didn't do.
Eric: It shows you doing the thing you didn't do, but it shows you doing it faster.
Julia: So it's giving you speedrun options.
Amanda: I am just going to whisper out loud.
Amanda (as Aggie): Are you, like, on our side?
Eric: Nothing changes, it goes back to the image of you from before not holding a water carafe. I think that you feel it wants you to ask a question.
Amanda (as Aggie): Is this whole loop running through you or through that shoddy game one?
Eric: It actually clicks and switches to another slide and it shows the guy in the black trenchcoat throwing his trenchcoat over, pulling out the modified N 64 and hitting the reset button.
Amanda (as Aggie): Oh fuck.
Amanda: Do you guys have any ideas what I should ask it?
Julia: I mean, I think you should ask it like where this guy is in this loop because clearly he's not where he used to be.
Amanda: Right.
Amanda (as Aggie): I need to stop him and then rescue you. Where is he right now?
Eric: As you say, "I need to stop him" you see, that a timecode appears at the bottom and it says 11:30 and that it shows you and Val walking up to the front door and the guy in the black trenchcoat standing like a block away, looking over from like the shadow of of a building like a block away.
Amanda: What time is it now?
Eric: 11:40.
Julia: So this guy is one step ahead of us.
Amanda: Yeah,
Julia: But this thing can give us that jump on him potentially.
Eric: And then as you ask that question, then it goes. [makes shuffling noise] And then like it's like he gets jammed that like old crunchy technology sound. And then it goes back to just white like it was before.
Julia: So we get like one question a day, it seems like.
Amanda: Mm hmm.
Julia: Might be useful for us next time around to ask where he's starting his loop.
Amanda: Yeah.
Eric: Let's come back to Milo. You're out in front of the Office of Technology Assessment that like blank bland building that houses your dad's secret agent job inside. You look at and you're like, I never in a million years what I looked at this thing, it's brutalist to like just to look extra, not assuming like the building is even trying to blend in.
Brandon: Milo looks at the door and takes a deep breath in. And casts pass without a trace upon himself. He throws his cloak over his body, disappears and takes a step inside the building.
Eric: Cool. What do you make a spirit surge for me.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: Nat 20 means nothing.
Eric: It means nothing.
Julia: Save those nat 20's for later.
Brandon: But I am up to 7.
Eric: Cool. Alright. Here's the thing about Pass Without Trace is that you can still you still have to do a stealth role. You're not invisible, you walk as if in shadow. And you are also you're walking into this office building that still has like halogen lights and things like that, even as you walk into the reception area. So just keep that in mind. Yeah, but yeah, you're cloaked in shadows. You walk inside, you hear the buzzing of halogen lights. There's a few security guards in the front and there's like one of those, like, you have to put your tags in to let you in.
Brandon: Milo, this isn't the first time Milo's done this. This is the first time he's done at such a high security office, but he is going to sort of like, you know, walking between columns and in door frames and stuff like that. And he's going to hang out by the card reader for until someone either comes in or out is going to try to slip in that way.
Eric: Thank you. Wonderful. Love that stealth roll, please.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: Eric, I got an 18 +12 for 30 is a high enough?
Eric: Yeah, that's high enough. You slip on through I think like someone walks through it was like
Eric (as Man): Oh yeah Barbara, I got to get back. I spent too much time on my lunch break, get JUICE!!!!! I'm late, I'm late.
Eric: And you slip in behind him as you get to the elevator. What do you - what are you looking for?
Brandon: Honestly? I think Milo is going to spy on his dad. I want to go over to Milo dad's office, follow him into meeting rooms, look at his computer while he's working. I want to see if everything that he's been told is the truth or if he's hiding something bigger. And then from there, he'll kind of go off that information and the goings on of the people around to see if there's other rooms or places he needs to go to.
Eric: Cool. I like that. Make an investigation roll for me.
Amanda: See you guys this is why milo is the most relatable because who hasn't wondered what exactly their parents do all day?
Eric: Yeah.
[Julia laughs]
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: Ya boy got a nat 20!
Julia: Two in a row?! What?!
Amanda: YOOO!
Eric: I am worried about these Chad dice. I'm worried that they're that they're weighted. Oh, my God.
Julia: They're loaded Chad dice.
Brandon: They're hot and cold.
Eric: That's right. That's right. Jesus Christ. Okay, yeah dog with a nat 20 I think you follow your dad around all day. You get down to his routine. It's a lot of boring shit. It's a lot of like paperwork. He uses dad jokes on everyone in the office. Sometimes he gets pulled into meetings about like things you don't even that are classified, but for dumb reasons, like you get pulled into a meeting about like a cow that exploded in Iowa all of a sudden and like they thought it was aliens. But actually they stood too close to like an electrical line that was that was around it too much and it was too full of energy that it spontaneously combusted. And he's like, "hey, can you, like, explain AC DC to senators in Iowa so they don't freak out?" And your dad's like, "yeah, no, that's fine, I'll take care of it." And a lot of stuff like that. I think you get a chance to look at your dad's computer. I think he walks away for a moment and there's like a birthday is like, say
Eric (as Hank): It's Sandra's birthday. I need to be the loudest one to sing Happy birthday to Sandra, happy birthday to Sandra.
Eric: And I think that you got a chance to get on the computer.
Brandon: Milo is wearing gloves just to make that -
Eric: Just a little bit. Totally fine. Hey, what do you think his password is?
Brandon: It's probably my birthday.
Julia: Tuna and then your birthday.
Brandon: Yeah, it's it's probably Tuna and my birthday or just my birthday.
Eric: Yeah, no, I think that you put in your birthday and then it's like incorrect password, and then you're like [deep sigh] and you put in Tuna and your birthday and that's that's it. Yeah, I think that you, you're looking around in there and there's, he has a file that says Project Delta on it.
Brandon: Milo opens the folder. He's looking for anything that I like will give me evidence of anything, maybe not nefarious, but like, you know, the idea that, like casual evil that our government peddles in.
Eric: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, absolutely. So now Milo I say Milo knows all the world building that we did in the first episodes. Your dad's responsibility was to keep a timeline of the growth of Laketon from Laketon to Lake Town City. And he's just like this is when the blast happened, when Back to the Future came out, the government and you learn that the government came in to investigate Laketon. And like you see Val's Mom's name on there, you see Aggie's parents name names on there. And you see like a bunch of people's names, like you see that there's a Slaughter. Who was there as well.
Brandon: Can I take a photo of this list of names on my phone?
Eric: Yeah, that's fine. You see that like everyone's names are on this list, you and then you see that your dad was like the agent who was assigned to the case and to, like, investigate what the hell is happening here. And he then became like the chronicler of what happened in Project Delta. And like there you see that like the government was involved with, like keeping things keeping together. There was a quarantine for an entire year to, like, study what the hell is going on. And like, this was like, wow, everyone got looks great and is super strong. There's also some things about like everyone had regular doctor's appointments and like like any exposure to radiation, there's still like some people might not have heart problems in the future. We don't know what it's like for these things to be passed on. Like there are definitely health risks that are involved. And you see that there are some like summaries written by doctors for the government. This is also when the Office of Technology Assessment was put together to figure out like the effect as Dr. Morrow started developing stuff with Delta radiation to figure out that it was created because Dr. Morrow shot the United States technology forward by twenty five years. So they had to explain this to representatives and government officials and senators to get old people on top of it, because it's not just like this is not an email. He's be like, hey, we have holograms now, like sci fi is here. And I think that you have to explain how to use that to actual government. Yeah, I think that there's a lot more government involvement in here. There's also like a lot of write offs about like keeping Dr. Morrow as like mayor seems like whatever the first mayoral election happened was rigged. So it was definitely voted. But like, who knows what? We're actually on those slips and Dr. Morrow was made the first mayor. And then there's like a push to keep the complacency and like advocating for Dr. Morrow to hold on as mayor, whether or not she knew what that was like. She being the mayor is like we already put all to this time and energy into this person. Let's just keep her going. Sounds great. She's the one who has the most handle on the science. That's fine. And then after a while, once it got from a town to an actual, like, very small city, the government was able to back off and it started growing from there. And like Project Delta has kind of been on the back burner since like the mid nineties, but is now just like, well, Lake Town City is off and running. So but that's why there is a there's an office here. So I think that you have this entire timeline. You have all these documents there, and you can take some photos of stuff. You see that the birthday party is breaking up and someone else in the office is like,
Eric (as Office Worker): Sandra, Sandra, you know, it's your birthday. You don't have an actual present to give you, but you're going to be the first one to check out these new goggles that we've been checking out. We really want to make sure to see if there's any sort of like oddness or strangeness or powered weirdness around. And we want to you should be the first one to check it out.
Eric: It's like,
Eric (as Sandra): Oh, wow, I definitely want to put these on.
Eric: She puts on these, like, massive night vision goggles and she looks around the office and make another stealth roll for me. Without the bonus.
Brandon: Without the bonus?
Eric: yeah. Because if she's looking at your aura like that, wouldn't help you.
Brandon: Fine.
[Dice rolls]
Brandon: Oh, I still got a 16 +2 for the 18.
Eric: She looks around and you, like, duck down and she says,
Eric (as Sandra): Hey, Hank, what's up? What's that over there? I'm seeing some weird weirdness happening next to your desk.
Eric: And your dad takes us like a few steps forward to be like,
Eric (as Hank): Oh, that's where there shouldn't be something there.
Brandon: I'm going to call Tuna and tell Tuna that there's cake on the desk over there if they want some.
Eric: I love that. Yeah. And I think Tuna goes
Eric (as Tuna): Mmmm cake! You never let me have that, because it makes me jump all over the place and then I poop!
Eric: And then Tuna jumps and your dad's like,
Eric (as Hank): Is that Tuna?
Eric: and then Tuna like bones on top of the desk and jumps and your dad's like.
Eric (as Hank): Tuna? Tuna? What are you doing here?
Eric: And we go back to Vulcani and Preserver, Preserver, you're checking out the projector Vulcani you're checking out, you're out in the front and Vulcani you you see that someone is throwing rocks. You hear like a plink and a plank and a plank, and someone is like throwing pebbles at the door.
Julia: Val goes to the door, doesn't go through it but goes to the door to look out like
Julia (as Val): The fuck?
Eric: Standing in the middle of the road is the guy in the trench coat in the black trench coat who's just, like throwing rocks at the glass door.
Julia: Val just goes,
Julia (as Val): What's good?
Eric (as Man): So. So you're you're in this, too?
Julia (as Val): Just because of you.
Eric (as Man): I hate this.
Eric: And he slams the reset button.
Julia: Motherfucker.
Eric: And Milo, you see the cat in the air and your dad looking very confused at his dead cat flying towards the cake and everything goes white. And the three of you wake up again, and it's May 1st.
[Theme song playing backwards]