ALF City 2125 RPG feat. Matthew Jackson

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G'day everyone, welcome to a very, very special episode of the Auntie Donna podcast where we have resident dungeon master Matthew Jackson taking myself and Zach through a very exciting cyberpunk neo-noir adventure.

We hope you enjoy.

Hello, dear Auntie Donna podcast listeners.

We have a very,

very special episode.

You all loved it when it happened last year.

And now we're doing it again because one of us isn't here.

But one day we'll do it with all of us.

Yeah, but

the setup is so neat for three this fucking time.

That's true.

That's true.

So it makes some sense that, but I like that it's rolling.

Last time it was me and Broden, this time it's me and you.

But please tell everyone we have the incredible Matthew Jackson.

Matthew, how are you?

Thank you for having me.

I'm having a great time.

That's fair already as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we haven't even begun our adventure.

Bit of a fan favorite pod.

People were requesting your return.

They loved it, they had a lot of fun.

They loved it.

They got stuck right in, mate.

Stuck right in.

It was a fun one.

It was very fun.

And now we're going to go on another adventure.

Do you want to tell us a little bit about Matthew and also what it is that we're doing today, Mark?

Matthew is the host and

co-co-creator of Trope RPG, a podcast on the Grousehouse Network that I also frequent on.

Yeah.

Which I think is fair to say.

Yeah, no,

that's truthful yeah it's fair it's fair it's factual factual and truthful and fair and now on the trope rpg you've got your own youtube channel now yeah yeah so yes we do millie halton uh is the is the creator we write it together uh i just i just do the hosting she also shadow dms i don't know if that's like known is that i have like a live feed with with her feeding me information and directing the games as we go so we do it together yeah it makes me look really good i've been on it and i didn't know that but also

um you are a computer boy yes i'm a computer boy you love computers and you

i make a video game and you made a video game which was the pick of packs was it not it was so it it it was the the video game in question is called my arms a longer nail you play as a very long arm that does heists it is a dumb comedy 2d game you like move around like dodging lasers going through vents you know putting on a sock puppet to romance guards to get them to to leave their posts, stuff like that.

Absolutely.

And it's coming out next year and it's available to wishlist on Steam.

Wishlisted it on Steam.

God damn it.

It's very cool.

Like supporting like indie creators and

little games like that has been a little, I really, I'm a big video game Dunkey fan and I loved Animal Well and Star of Providence just came out and I love that as well.

And this is like what these guys are doing, what Matthew and Millie are doing because Millie's involved in it.

Yeah, Millie's the sort of creative creative director.

How big is your team?

So it's me and Millie, and then we have like four people who do like one to two days a week.

That's a like an artist and a programmer.

I watched a video.

I'm not much of a Game Boy.

I'm a man.

Game Boy's a small console.

No, but I watched a video about Roller Coaster Tycoon and

the journey of that game.

One man.

One of the last one-man sort of things and how it like mind how it creates.

I saw a lot of games made by one person.

Sorry, and then what I should say is that that was the narrative, was that that was one of the last one-man games.

It was the last one that I think blew up to the level, the idea that

it was so weird because it was like, and I could be mistaken because I haven't looked it for a while, and please correct me, but that game was like built from scratch.

Because like the one-man teams that you have today, or like even small teams like us, we're using all of these like public tools and like Unity and like all this stuff that's pre-built that you're standing on the shoulders of giants.

Whereas like for Roller Coaster Tycoon, it's like insanely efficient, runs perfect and is like simulating like thousands of people coming on and going around rides, all this physics stuff and some and just

cellar.

Yeah, you just built it.

Same with Animal Well that came out recently and blew up massive and Bellatro as well.

One dude.

But this is, I think that's the thing.

It's very interesting because I'm a film guy.

I love my movies and that that's a world that's gone to the 200, 300 billion dollar things, the teams of thousands and how how much harder it is for smaller things to cut through.

And it's like, I just imagine it's a very similar situation where people should be, if they want stuff that's interesting, if they want more than just the three-star Drek, you've got to get out there.

This is not really my Auntie Donna brand.

I'm bringing the SoloZack brand here.

But truly, if you want, you can't complain about three-star Drek

and also not support stuff by smaller creators.

What's it called?

My arms.

My arms are longer now.

My arms are longer now.

It's a great idea.

It's very, very funny.

But we are here to go on a lot of fun.

I'm going to be funny now.

Did you hear about that?

I love it.

You know, it's interesting we're talking about computers.

Oh, yeah.

And we're talking about technology.

Oh, because I think it's time, if I may, to whisk you away.

You've got your sheets.

We have our sheets.

We're doing a role-playing game.

We're doing a role-playing game.

We're going to head into RPG land.

So

I'll whisk you away, but we don't need to to move far.

We're just going to move far into the future.

Oh.

It is Melbourne.

It is the year 2125.

100 years have passed,

and our city has transformed into a neon skyline, just like packed.

The CBD expanded out endless miles,

giant high-rises.

You see the sun.

Still not Turak.

Turak's still flat.

Turak's still flat.

All the ninjas in Turak.

No towers here.

It's a dip.

You see, like, there's even like a no-fly zone on the cars going around.

It's also not raining over Turak, it's raining everywhere else.

They really figured it out.

Yeah, they got it.

They got it.

And we're going to sort of zoom in, sort of past the neon signs, past the sort of like smoke rising out of the vents of different buildings,

into

the high-up office of the chief of police.

Her name, the chief Ursa, is briefing,

is briefing you, Mark.

Oh,

as we see, sort of the, you've been summoned up here, the elevator doors

opening as you come in.

It's dimly lit in here with sort of red light.

There is sort of a strange, sort of synthetic hum of a sound in the air that you know blocks specific audio recording equipment.

Similarly, the light that's sort of bathing this room blocks any recording, so you're in a truly isolated space where no one can hear or record what you're doing wow and uh as you walk up to sort of this big mahogany desk uh that she stands behind sort of white shirt sleeves rolled up you can see the holster with a gun uh right next to her um

what does our grizzled beat cop look like who are you cast by who am i cast by what what do we see yeah all right well i'm large I'm larger than most men.

I'm like Jack Reacher large.

Okay.

You know, the new Jack Reacher series.

Yeah.

I'm not familiar.

I wish I was.

He's big.

He's fucking huge.

What are we talking about?

We're talking like six

and a half feet.

He's so tall.

And three foot wide.

You're scraping your head.

Yeah, but no, but it's the future.

So people have, doors accommodate.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And like, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, everyone.

You're still like ducking underneath, but

you're sort of almost genetically perfectly in this moment as you're sort of like rippling muscles come through the door.

What are we talking about, about?

Clothing.

I have

I have well, first of all, I have stubble all over my body.

Wow.

No stubbleess.

I'm covered head to toe in stubble, right?

Except around the eyes and the cheeks.

Like that's gone.

But my neck, my body, my legs, my arms up until my wrists, stubbled.

Right.

And I'm wearing the tightest.

The singlet that I'm wearing is so tight that the stubble sticks out of it.

I'm going to say

a tank top.

Nice.

And then just like county little shorts.

I'm going to say that.

You have taken some sort of futuristic steroids, and stubble on every part of the skin is absolutely a bad side effect.

Okay, all right, yeah.

But, you know, but also, also, there's like

some people in the future find that really hot.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Yeah, there's a particular thing, you know.

I'm wearing these tiny little shorts, socks above my knees,

boots that are just like four kilos each.

They're just so steel-cat.

As you sort of, you walk up to the desk, you see her, she's smoking.

She sort of puts it out as you come closer.

You're wearing a name tag

with your badge.

What's your name?

It says Officer Sausage Gumbo.

Officer Sausage Gumbo.

As you come in, she goes, Gumbo,

you know we've had our differences.

Yeah.

I got one that only you can look into.

God damn it.

What's this goddamn task that's good enough for Gambo?

Calm down.

All right, sorry, sorry, sorry.

I just, I'm excited.

I haven't eaten and I've had four coffees this morning.

She walks over to the windows where she presses a button and like the sort of automated slats like tilt slightly

to like let out the sort of the evening light, the dusk light sort of coming in.

As she pulls on her cigarette, she goes,

High up corporate official at Gammadine.

Apparently, he's off to himself in his apartment.

Jesus!

She just takes a moment to look at you.

Jesus Christ, they're still doing that?

It's actually out of the ordinary.

Yeah.

Haven't had a suicide case like this in quite some time and something doesn't seem right.

Yeah, it's us.

That's sus.

You're the only cop.

You're the only cop in my unit that I don't think has touched any of that filthy Gamadine money.

No, no, no, no.

no way, man.

No friggin' way.

I say no to Gammadine.

You know,

I don't fucking like you.

Why?

Sausage.

I'm all right.

Sausage.

Yeah.

I don't understand how you made your way onto my force.

Well, I can take you through it if you want.

I started, so

I was a recruit, right?

And there is a long story.

Yeah, yeah.

And as you're going through it, she's typing on like an intercom system, a little like CRT that's like come up out of the desk that's like flickering with so green light.

As she puts it, she goes, She cuts you off like so 10 minutes into your story.

Because I had nothing past, I started as a recruit.

Is Mark gonna know the ranks of police here?

The cyber ranks.

He's working himself into an improv corner.

Corner.

I'm so glad I didn't have to keep going on that.

She says, as she cuts you off, she goes, But the new legislation kicked in last week.

Oh.

You won't be going alone.

What?

For checks and balances, we need to send a synth with you.

And she hits it.

Oh, no.

Rising from the floor,

a sort of tube that sort of comes up out of the ground.

And we see sort of as the smoke clears.

Zach, what does your character look like?

A synthetic human?

A synthetic detector.

A synthetic human.

Well, still...

They are bubbling and brewing.

Okay.

So the skin is moving.

So the skin looks kind of a little rubbery, but largely real.

But underneath it, it's like there's almost like ball bearings.

It's like shifting and moving.

Because I've decided, and I hope that, is that these synthetic humans are able to change their internal structure.

The skin is physical,

right?

And that's, there's an amount of that, but it has a bit of stretch, but they can change how they look, not like through hologram or not through like...

Like you have an internal mesh of mechanics that can sort of move your bone structure.

Bone structure muscular structure so I can look like pretty much anything but in a very horrific transformative way it's like no cheek or garment so what's it settling into right now what's like the default that it's sort of coming for me

it is settling into

a

it is settling into a

sultry dark-haired woman with dark red lips

and that's not lipstick it's just like it's just like flushing the lips it comes it fades up

It fades out.

Stunning.

Stunning, beautiful,

sultry woman.

And

as this sort of like settles into position, the chief Ursa sort of presses a button and the liquid

starts to drain from the tube.

It slides open.

And as you sort of stumble out,

she says, Synthetic,

state your name and your directive.

Hello, my name is C7912.

It's very much in the same way of a level one improv class stating their name.

How are you today?

God damn it, I hate synthetics.

I don't want to work with no milkman because their blood is white like milk.

So they're referred to as milkmen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Or milkmaids.

And I say, you know, listen, I understand that there has been some issues with synthetics in the past, but we have worked on those.

We now change our appearance to be pleasing to our co-workers.

As I get to know you, I will change my appearance for you to be to suit your liking.

We haven't fixed the voice thing yet, but

this will just be my voice because physically you are everything I desire.

I can

get in there.

I can get in there.

Just scrambles it, scrambles it, scrambles it.

Try now.

Hello.

Okay,

no, we're not going to do that.

Let's scramble.

We got this.

We got this.

Oh, hello.

Hey, all right.

Well, all right now.

Okay, my opinion's changing a little, maybe.

Okay, it might wear off.

Let's see how it goes.

Oh,

yeah, hello.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

C791Z, you are up to date with the Academy's current programming and directives of

stopping crime.

Yeah, absolutely.

And also,

at any terminal, I can reboot.

So if any of the laws change in the next couple of days, I'm happy to reboot.

I'll keep us up to track.

Will you listen to me, see?

I don't do things by the book, you see.

I get things done my way.

Does not compute.

Does not compute.

All right.

All right.

Sorry.

I went too far.

I pushed it too hard too quick.

This poor machine.

You fools.

Look, listen.

Something doesn't spell right at this suicide.

I'm sending you to this penthouse.

Did they shit them?

You can find out at the scene.

How the fuck am I supposed to...

Is that really at the top of the programming list?

Well, I'm sorry, something doesn't smell right.

I'm a new synthetic.

I still am figuring out.

It doesn't smell right as in

the features of this case don't add up.

Right.

Oh, sorry, figure of speech.

I'm still working them out.

Yep.

All right.

I feel like maybe I should have sent you on something else, like even just to go do some shopping or something.

Oh, you didn't, did you?

I said to you when you got me, I said, can you just put me on some traffic detail until I figure out turns afraid of the side?

We got him on a potential murder case that's been covered up as a suicide.

This is like the hardest job I could possibly start on.

And we have a like smash cut from that to

your sort of squad car landing down in an alley.

It is sort of busy.

People sort of move out of the way so that they don't get crushed by the squad car.

It's like, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, as it comes down and it lands.

The door swings up and open as you both come out.

As it's standard,

as it stands, as is all cars for here.

And you see the AI on the car immediately lifts it up into the sky and takes it away.

You are in this sort of like dense alleyway, alleyway 4388.

It is crowded with market vendors, people shouting, people moving along.

The rain sort of falteringly hits you, mostly just dripping off of like the awnings and street signs and the cars that are rushing overhead.

You see down at the end of this alleyway the Gamadine apartments, the sort of corporate apartments where this crime occurred or alleged crime.

Is there anything you'd like to do in this alleyway in the city before you head straight to the crime scene?

Check out the shops.

Yeah, I'd happily check out the shops.

Also, I mean, I came out of that tube nude.

Oh, yeah, so we got to speak with you together.

We go to speak to one of the market vendors who are selling some sort of

futuristic garb.

Okay,

you go to one of the market vendors.

It's mostly like food and stuff, and you sort of head into one of these sort of thin shop fronts that's just sort of like

it's basically like a hallway, and at the end of it is where the person sort of

processes all of the sort of goods as it checks out.

But there's also like a number of sort of self-services machines.

It seems like a railing of different clothes just like slides through the shop, and you sort of can punch in with with your knees.

Like a monster's ink door situation.

Yeah, you see a sort of like a very small man, sort of grey hair, sort of in the booth at the very end.

And he looks up at you, he goes, hey, what the hell?

What are you coming in here naked for?

Oh, I'm a synthetic.

I don't have my clothes yet.

Synthetic.

Hey.

I would argue that coming in naked to a clothes store makes a lot of sense.

Look, listen, listen, buddy.

I don't know what you're doing here with your fucking sex robot, but put some clothes on.

I'm a goddamn officer of the law.

And I've got clothes on, don't I?

Yeah, and I'm an officer of the law.

What?

I'm an officer of the law, too.

Thank you for that.

You present your badge.

I present my badge.

I pull it out of my skin.

Disgusting.

God damn it.

Look, I ain't too happy about this either.

All right, let me level with you.

My name's Sausage Gumbo.

Okay, didn't ask.

All we need, yeah, but I like telling people.

All we need is some goddamn clothes for this person here.

Now, I would love to see you.

Before you ask, you mentioned earlier that you want futuristic garb.

I don't want to do any sort of costume here.

I'd like to wear contemporary clothing.

Of course.

I'd like to wear the contemporary clothing.

The

American guy that killed himself.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

What's this?

What are you doing?

What are we all talking about?

The one up in the penthouse.

You can see it out a window.

As soon as I get some pants, I would love to ask you about this.

And a shirt.

But if I could get some pants and a shirt.

We got pants.

We got shirts.

Can I grab a shirt off to suggest for you?

Yeah.

And it says it's got I and a love heart on it and then a picture of Alf, the alien, who is actually the mayor of Melbourne.

Yeah, just odd to say they look the same.

This is the equivalent of being like,

I need some clothes, and you stop in at one of the like tourist convenience shops, like

just off like Linda Street.

Yeah, should have probably gotten some clothes.

I don't know why your fucking boss didn't get me out of the tube, put me in some clothes, put you in an officer's traffic.

Like, we've got a traffic detail

rather than get me out of the tube tube while you were there.

Insane.

They're naked, straight on a murder.

Very general murder case.

I'll say this as you're sort of putting the clothes on.

I am putting on the pants.

So it says, I love and a picture of Alf, but that is the mayor of Melbourne.

They just happen to look exactly like.

And do you know what's happening?

We all know about the Alf.

I know, I'm just saying.

I voted for Alf.

My skin starts to bubble and pop.

My insides move.

Hair starts poking out of my paws because I think, well, if he chose a picture of Alf and I evolve into an exact replica of Alf, fuck yeah.

Oh, yeah, okay.

Hey,

you're gonna pay for those clothes, Mr.

Mayor?

No.

Yeah, yeah, I'm the mayor.

You're not the mayor.

I saw it happen.

Oh, it just confused me.

We'll trick the next guy.

Yeah, we'll trick the next person.

Yeah.

You show your cops.

Yeah, well, I'm a goddamn cop.

Look at my badge.

Show him my badge.

Look at my chest.

I'll show him the stubble.

Okay.

So, what do you think of that?

I mean, you may touch it if you wish.

Apparently, some people find this attractive.

Can you roll a persuasion check for me?

Can you do a persuasion of three?

I got two.

He reaches out to touch it.

He goes, ow, goddammit.

It's sharp.

It's not for everyone.

I completely understand and I apologise.

You said you saw something about this goddamn shooting.

We see the dead guy in the window.

Everybody on the street's seen it.

What happened?

What did you see?

No, I see the dead guy in the window.

Oh, you see him hanging out?

You see him in the window.

Did you squeeze me?

Hey, come on come on what did you hear what did you hear what did you see as as he's as he's sort of i'll show you i'll show you as he leads you out into the alleyway and he he points and it's really hard to see but like high up and occasionally it's obscured by cloud cover and it does take you a moment to to perceive this um but you can see sort of in the window still like nothing's been done to cover it is a man sort of slumped dead in a desk chair um he's clearly like it's a mess of his head it's hard to tell from this like great distance.

But he goes, look, that's a fucking dead guy at the top of the Gammadine apartments building.

Wow.

Wow.

Shit, bro.

Yeah, I assume that's what you're here to look at.

It is what we're here to look at.

But what did you hear?

Did you hear anything?

Did you hear any sort of commotion?

Hey, I ain't heard nothing.

You didn't hear nothing?

Ah, well, why are you being so suspect, brother?

Hey, here's the thing.

And then I transform my elf hand into a big boxing fist.

Yep, I'm gonna pummel you if you don't tell me what you're keeping from us.

Can you give me a resolve?

Yeah, just the red one.

Can you give me a resolve of four?

Eight.

Beautiful.

As you sort of like press up against him, and like even just by like the

enmeshment of your hand like enlarging and turning red, because you're like pushing your synthetic, like you're supposed to take on human forms, but you're like pushing it to have this sort of crazy red hork fist.

And he starts to shake.

He goes, Look, look, look.

All I know is that the Gambadine folks, they didn't let no one go in or out of his apartment.

Nobody entered.

He was on his own, so he must have killed himself, okay?

But

I don't know.

They do shady shit in that building.

They do shady shit.

What have you heard?

Let me just write this down.

Gambadine does

shady

shit.

I say, what have you you heard?

What kind of shady stuff have you heard?

Listen.

And he pulls you in further.

He goes, I hear

they do some illegal synth fights.

Sometimes they place a human against a synth, sometimes synth against synths, but you know, we ain't supposed to fight them.

No, but they feel pain, but.

It's fun.

It's illegal.

It's illegal, but it's fun.

I understand the appeal.

You fuck with that.

I'll stop it.

I'll stop it if I see it.

I just understand the appeal.

Listen,

I can't be seen talking to you.

You've got to get out of here.

All right, all right, we'll get the hell out of here.

And those clothes are on the house.

What?

No, you pay me.

Yeah.

Okay.

It would have been a really low roll, but the way you said yeah has got to has got to bring it up.

Can you give me a resolve of six?

Eight.

Eight.

He goes, geez, okay, yeah, all right, leave, take them, take him.

Yeah, right.

Can I just say something?

Everyone's on Glib Glob now.

Why aren't they all why, why, all the kids are on Glibglob.

They should be reading Instagram like smart people.

Very good.

It's a future.

It's the future.

I get elf.

I put elf on my back.

I turn my rocket boots up.

We fly up to the window.

You fly up to the window.

Okay, all right.

So now I've transformed into a backpack.

Can you give me a

flesh-coloured blackpack?

black-scale backpack?

Okay, that just happens, I guess.

This is something I'll deal with the fact that you can do this from now on.

My boots were four kilos each.

Why do you think they were hiding in there?

Yeah, and every step there's like a little rocket to help you lift it up.

Exactly, yeah.

You

as you go up.

People are like, what the fuck?

Because most things are like magnetically lifted these days, and you're fully like scorched earth underneath.

I'm rocketeering.

The weird thing about rockets is they're great at like acceleration.

The stopping is like not great like the the hovering yeah um so uh what's your aim here do you want to try and hover in front of the window

you want to go through the window

up and into the window okay okay up and into the window yeah window is closed i thought you said it was open no it was just big like wide my mistake through the window okay can't stop it now can you give me a resolve can you give me a resolve of uh

10

five

you both fully just like you do this full ascent like 200 feet up, and you're like,

it takes like, it takes like 30 seconds to get this speed.

So what's the conversation you have?

Like, as you're just like.

I keep going, I reckon this is going to work.

No, I'm just the mouth at the top of the backpack.

Disgusting.

It's like, oh, I really wish you'd checked with me first.

Besides, this rocket technology is from like the 2070s, man.

Why aren't you using magnet?

Well, you obviously went completely unwilling.

We just get like a boom as you don't break break the glass.

You just slam into the glass.

You see another cop on the inside.

What the heck?

Like a go like a who's like who's standing on the other side of like the tape to keep the sight the crime scene prestige.

Oh, right.

As he turns around, he just looks at you as you're like,

I give him a big thumbs up.

I'm like, what the hell is that?

Hey, what the wait.

Oh my God.

Susage gumbo.

Gumbo, gumbo.

And he like rushes over to the door.

He steps over the body.

He's like, you see him like accidentally mess up some papers on the the table.

He's contaminating this crime scene because of this.

He hits a button and the window

starts to open.

Can I get combined from both of you a,

I'll say this is a resolve of,

let's say, together you have to get a 10 to not just fall down.

Seven.

Fifteen.

Okay, so you manage to clamber in and not drop 200 feet.

Thank God.

As you slide into the crime scene.

This is

a junior police officer.

He's only been working here for like a couple of weeks.

His name is Jancy.

He's got sort of red hair,

young guy,

skittish.

You could set, you sort of like piece together pretty quickly.

Actually, I'll get you to make a give me an analysis of two for both of you.

See if either of you hit it.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

I hit nine.

I hit three.

Okay, well, you both know he's definitely been picked because he's also so fresh, he probably hasn't been corrupted yet

by Gamadine, that stuff that the police chief was talking about.

He goes,

I was expecting you to come up the elevator.

What are you doing here?

We're investigating this apparent suicide, Jancy, which, by the way, you fucked up the crime scene, mate.

Should I have let you drop?

What the fuck is that backpack?

Is that got a mouth?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a simple name.

Imagine just like eyes on a backpack.

The eyes are at different points.

It's like a mouth at the top, and then the eyes are kind of near the front pocket.

Hey, bro, what's up?

Hey, what's your vibe?

You seem really nervous.

What would calm you down?

What's the kind of person that would make you feel nice and calm?

Not a back, not a backpack, I don't think.

I don't any celebrities like

Tom Cruise Jr.

Four.

I'll have Tom Cruise Jr., Jr., Junior Jr.

Yeah,

Tom Cruise Jr.

Jr.

Jr.

No worries, bud.

But unfortunately, I've only seen a couple of pictures of Tom Cruise Jr.

Jr.

So I turn into a 2D version.

So I'm completely flat.

I'm just a possible pose.

Because I'm in a pose and I'm like completely wobbly.

Wobbly and flat.

Does this bring you...

And the mouth, because it's formed into the, the mouth is just also.

It's like stomach.

The mouth is there there in image, but the speaking is happening from a slit on the stomach.

And the eyes are also in the legs.

There you go, Jancy.

Hey, buddy.

Nice and calm.

I'm going to go.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm going to go wait downstairs with all those waiting.

Before you go, Jancy, who's been in and out of here?

Who's come in?

Who's come out?

What have you seen?

That

there were a couple of executives who were trying to get in here earlier, but

I didn't let let them.

Good boy, Jancy.

You're their names, Jancy?

No, they're in the lobby downstairs.

They've been trying since this morning.

What do they look like?

There was a lady with blonde hair, and there was a guy with.

He's got like this weird scar on his neck.

And a scar man.

He's probably a villain.

What?

Oh, if he has a scar, it probably means he's a bad guy.

I've done enough of these cases to know that that's sort of like a

trope.

You know what I'm saying?

Like you stare at a wall.

Expecting a camera.

I'm going to be a little more.

Like, I'm not going to assume the scar guy is a bad guy because I experience prejudice as a synth.

Of course, you do.

So I wouldn't assume anything.

Okay, I'm going to let you do your thing.

Okay.

All right, Jancy.

Actually,

I want Jancy to stay right where it fucking right here.

Yeah, you stay here, Jancy.

You ain't going to see.

They're going to offer you a lot of money.

Don't do it, bro.

Can you give me an analysis of five?

Oh, I need crushing these roles.

Oh, my God.

With that tip-top roll, he's been, Jancy's been bought.

You read it on his face, like, I'd say in your synthetic vision, you're like,

like all the sort of numbers, the little sort of like circles highlighting sort of micro-expressions going over his face.

You see, like, an immense shame as he sort of looks around the room, and it's like, as it scans further and further, you see, like, the x-ray scan inside of his pocket where you're able to like read his digital card that contains like the credits that have been

like a big python and I wrap myself around Jancy's neck.

Nice.

Okay, so you say, actually, so you say, thanks, Jetsy, thanks for your work.

Stay here.

And then you like look back at him and horribly transform into a snake.

And in mid-air, horribly transform, wrap around.

Okay, can you give me a resolve?

He's going to compete with it.

Jancy's not too hot.

That's a one.

I got an eight.

Okay, yeah.

You're still, I have to clarify, you're a synthetic that's supposed to look like people.

So your snake is like flesh-colored, little vestigial arms and legs as it wraps around in Tom Cruise's face at the end of it.

And he goes,

What are you doing?

And I go,

well, I don't really know what's going on yet, right?

So just quick, what's going on?

He's been bought.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Jancy, how much are they paying you?

No,

they're they're paying me

what did they pay you for?

What are they trying to hide?

I let them come in here.

They were looking for a synth.

Something he was working on.

What do you mean working on?

What do you mean?

What do you mean working on?

They didn't tell me.

They didn't tell me.

No, but they paid you a bunch of money, didn't they, Jancy?

Do you want to die, Jancy?

Do you want to die?

Don't die, Jancy.

Can you give me

a resolve of of

just a two?

Nine.

Thank you.

He points at a ledger on the table.

He was like, oh, look,

they were doing the fights, and

he's made something, some sort of freak synth chip that'll remove their pain.

Oh, right.

So, alright, so I pick up the journal.

Do you relax off of his neck?

No, I throw him out the window.

Yeah.

I think that's fair.

As you sort of slide him over to the window.

do you have like intentions for this or do you just want to kill him?

I say to him, I say, there's one thing that's consistent with us synth.

I'll say you're like dangling him, his face to your face.

Is we don't like rule breakers.

I'll follow the rules.

I say.

Aren't you about to

break a rule?

No.

Yeah, no.

The murder is a human on human crime.

Don't do that.

That's that synth thinking for you.

Don't do this.

Don't do this.

Sorry, Bucko.

Out the window he goes.

You let go and you go.

You see people in the street.

You see the clothes vendor from like down before.

Also, I guess from your transformations, your clothes

completely ripped apart.

Not fallen off.

They've fallen off.

Well, actually, no, I kept them in the backpack.

Okay, good.

So now they're in like a kangaroo pouch on my snake.

I just want to clarify, the backpack was you.

Yeah.

So you're like, I get them in the backpack.

Did you like swallow them at once?

Yeah, sort of folded around them.

Disgusting.

He's falling.

You can see he tumbles out the window, falling, falling, falling.

Before he hits the ground,

I kick off my rocket boots.

I aim them for his feet so that they land on his feet.

And then right before he hits, they kick in and he just lands softly.

I just want to scare him.

I can't kill another officer.

This is so insane.

Can you give me, can you give me?

This is going to be a...

first give me an analysis.

Yep.

First, give me an analysis of three.

One.

One.

Okay.

This is for your aim.

So you kick off the boot out the window and it just

and it knocks him in the head as he's falling.

Oh no.

He smashes into the ground.

Oh no.

He is just pulped onto the ground and you're both very visibly like this is a visible location from the ground as we have as we have cannonized And everyone's seen this happen.

Well, I tried, you know, I tried.

I tried to save him.

And

I look at you and I say, let this be a clear lesson.

I follow the rules.

All right.

All right.

C7912.

I understand.

Okay.

We're going to do this the right way.

You just killed a man.

You died.

You just killed a man.

This is the future, man.

I'm police.

I'm judge.

I'm jury and executioner.

You got milk blood.

I got milkblood, motherfucker, and I'll do the same to you if you cross me.

All right, just calm down.

Calm down.

Is this good tension for your show?

That's great.

Calm the fuck down.

I look through the ledger.

Okay, so you give me an analysis.

Give me an analysis of

two to learn more than what you've done.

Two, yes, thank God.

So yes, there is like some, you sort of piece, pull together some facts here.

As you, you sort of, that moment of tension like doesn't dissipate as much as you both just have to get on with the work, but you still feel that sort of like animosity between the two of you, and your styles are working.

As you sort of bury yourself into the paperwork,

you see, yes, he was, he had illegally and sort of innovatively removed a pain chip from a synthetic

person called Eliza

1102.

It seems that

the chip was removed for it to gain an advantage in a legal underground synth fighting ring.

You would know from the information here that the pain rule chip did nothing to remove the synthetic sense of self, its sense of self-preservation,

or its emotions.

If anything, just wanted, you can see in the notes here, it wanted to create some sort of mental dissonance that would make it fight harder

and

to the abandon of its own psyche.

Are you

C719?

C.

C.

What are you looking at?

Are you just sort of trying to take everything in in this opponent?

Are you looking at the body?

I'm looking at the body.

Okay, can you give me an analysis?

Can you please hit a five for me?

17.

17.

Yeah, for me.

Easy.

As you're looking over it, you confirm a few things very quickly.

The gun that's dropped onto the ground

was

indeed the murder weapon, and you sort of lean down close to the fingers, you see the tension still in the rigor mortis of the hands meant that it was fired by this hand.

You see the sort of like shrapnel of bone, brains, and viscera on the ceiling, and you see the angle of it.

The angle of it came

just under the chin.

Something strange, though.

You see muscle tension across the shoulder and the upper arm.

The gun was strangely compressed in, and then telltale,

you come in and you see that there seems to be some sort of posthumous medical treatment to this man's forearm.

Something was healed very quickly in this man's forearm.

And as you sort of like zoom into the sort of genetic makeup of it to see what were these cells doing moments before, you're able to reveal there was a handprint bruise on this man's forearm.

He was forced to shoot himself.

Wow.

And by something with an insane and intense grip.

With this sort of very high analysis, you also note

you think that no one has

entered or exited here

since this happened.

From your intel from the street.

Except for Jancy.

Except for Jancy.

Except for Jancy.

Well, first things first.

First things first, rip the arm off, put it in an evidence bag.

We've got to get that to the lab.

Yeah, got to get that into a lab.

So you've got to understand in the future, police, police, judge, jury, executioner, and CSI department.

Absolutely.

I tear the arm off and put in an evidence bag.

So you got like a big plastic bag with the, you take it out of your buffet,

you fluff it out like a thin bag.

Yeah, open it up.

I'm not strong enough to tear a man's arm off, so I get the synth to do it.

Yeah, I turn my arm into big fleshy scissors.

But because they're made out of flesh,

they're more like

safety scissors.

So it's a slow process.

It takes a really long time.

It's a slow and blunt process.

I explained to him that this is not protocol, but I'm willing to bend the rules now and then.

Yeah, chop off his arm.

Okay, it takes you like 10 minutes.

And

while we're doing that, I call the special, like the police have a special equivalent of like Uber now yeah so a little drone comes to collect the bag of arm yeah or you've got your own car you've got your own car you can you can sort of summon but we hang it from the we don't put it in the car we hang it from the bottom and then it it drives low above everyone so there's like after

very quickly it like hits a stop sign and like the metal perforates the bag so there's just like a drip trail behind just a bag of blood dripping over all these people who have just witnessed the most horrific shit ever so messy Well, so I will say, do you share what you learned immediately with Susage Gumbo?

No, because I don't know.

I just ripped this arm off for no reason.

I'll get you to make an analysis.

I'll get you to make an analysis of three.

Two.

Two.

You can see a fascination with this arm from C, but you don't know exactly what the details are.

Okay, great.

Well, that's why I tore it off, because I saw there was something.

You thought the arm was something.

So I tore it off.

And

I actually purposefully wanted it to get all smushed up because i don't trust the police with this evidence i'm doing this on my own nice so you see why not trust me

the lowest kid in the biz got bought

you got to earn my trust motherfucker all right well i want to go talk to uh blondie and scarface okay

um As you're, as you're walking out to go see Blondie and Scarface, I will say, like, you go past like some of the side rooms of this packaging.

Because no one's come in.

Whoever did this is in this room.

You say that out loud.

You think whoever did this is in this room?

Yeah, I'll tell him that part.

Whoever did this is in this room.

I'll say that I have some evidence.

I'm not going to share it with you because I don't trust you.

But that evidence tells me that whoever did this, I think, might still be in this room, unless it was Jets over there that I just killed.

So fingers crossed it wasn't.

Well, I mean, if it was, justice has been done.

Yeah, hopefully.

All right, well.

a nice, a nice pre-kill justice.

Yes, that's just a great coincidence.

So, you see, you see something that disturbs, you say this as you start walking towards this elevator, and you see one of the side rooms, and something that sort of turns your stomach a little bit.

You specifically see, as you see a scrap heap of biosynthetic human parts,

you see just sort of like a mess of just like heads, faces, eye sockets.

You know,

you see

like dislocated arms and limbs with like their wires still training back to their torsos, sort of just in a mess here in the corner.

That makes me so self-destructed?

I don't know.

Maybe they're self-destructed.

I don't think so.

I scream.

You remember that bit in

Man Max where Furiosa screams?

I do that.

But I'm still a snake.

Yeah.

You're still a snake.

Never transform back.

As you scream this,

can I get an analysis?

I won't get it from you because you're screaming.

Hard to analyse.

Can you give me an analysis of a two?

Always on analysis.

I've only got a four dice.

I know.

Two.

Two.

You see one of the synth's heads flinches.

I run over to it.

As you run over to it, its arms and legs

reattach to the torsos as it zips in, its head snapping into place.

It stands up, this sort of like half-destroyed, clearly gashed up synth,

androgynous in its form,

seemingly like patched together in a few different ways.

It goes, I had to kill him.

I had to kill him.

You stay away from me.

And it's going to lunge for your gun.

It's going to lunge for my gun.

Yeah.

What do I roll?

You have to beat a two is what I just rolled.

Of persuasion?

Yeah, persuasion.

Or if you want to do, if you just want to fight it physically, you can use your...

I'd fight it physically, man.

Your.

What the fuck I name is that resolve but no do your persuasion do your persuasion I want to if it's going for my gun I want to duck and weave yep and you want to tall right I want to duck and weave turn around grab my own gun and then point it at it okay as it as it as it moves past us I'll say that's a resolve I'll say that's a resolve that's a resolve and I've got a beat two

easy four

just

it's a scramble on that gun I will say that it manages to grab the gun and you do one of those full-on like swipe it out of its hand reverse it and pin it down in an expert sort of muscle memory maneuver.

Hell yeah.

As it's sort of underneath the ground, like

your gun trained on its temple.

What are you both doing?

I explain to this synth that I'm one of them.

Can you use your word?

How do you say that?

I say, hello, Synth, I'm one of you.

Calm down, calm down.

And I say, I see that you're in pain.

You're not one of them.

You're not one of us.

You're one of them.

And it points to like the police badge.

You're not going to help me.

I saw what you did.

You don't forgive.

And it's going to

risking getting shot,

try to sprint past you.

Try to sprint past.

Well, then I would, well, I would like to somehow trip it over.

Maybe I do like

a kick.

You know, like one of those kicks.

You know, like one of those kicks where they go.

Because

you're trying to use your arms to really show it.

You know, you know, you go because you go low.

You want a low sweep.

You want to sweep its legs.

Yeah, I want to sweep its legs.

I want to sweep its legs.

Using the snake.

Can you give me another resolve?

You're going to try and beat its resolved.

It's agile.

It got a 13.

I got a 13.

Oh, my God.

Okay.

Roll again.

Yeah, let's roll again.

Let's roll again.

No, let's roll again.

Dosh.

Damn it.

I got six.

With precision, you sweep one of its legs and it starts walking on its hands, like running, sprinting on it.

You try to sweep it again, and it manages to cartwheel as it jumps out of the open window as a rushing car comes past,

and it lands onto the dash of it and you see it sort of take off into the night sky.

Well, what are you doing?

I would love.

I've got one rocket boot left.

I only threw down one rocket boot.

Yeah.

If you get on my back, we can rocket boot after him.

And I can turn into...

Like, I can go as widely as

possible

to help control him.

Yeah.

Because I know he's a little bit...

Okay, so in a moment, I'll say, just because it's cool as hell,

without communicating you both look at each other start sprinting towards the window and as you jump onto his black and become a a glider your one rocket boot just

and you are just like flying through the night sky you see like

as like a lorry just like swerves around you in the air as you

as you're not flying on the flight path you can see it ahead sort of scrambling on the front of this taxi which is currently like got one arm out trying to like swat it off as it moves up onto the top of it.

It stands up perfectly balanced, moving with the car, like gyroscopically.

It looks at you.

You're sort of far up, like maybe like 50 feet away from it.

What are you doing?

I'd like to take some shots at the fuel tank.

Go of the car.

Can you give me, can you give me a, do you want, I'll say this is an analysis of two again?

Okay, just to see if it's possible.

Just to see if it's possible.

Two.

Two.

It's possible, and you've got that aim.

Can you give me a resolve of five?

In fact, both of you, resolve of five?

13.

So

you get caught out of balance, which you're fine, but the reason is you shoot the fuel tank at this taxi and it explodes.

Fuck it.

Yeah.

And Playady is

the robot, the synth, is thrown as high up into the air as it sort of somersaults.

You see this taxi go down in flames, crashing into the side of a building.

You see, hear people screaming below.

And you are now in free fall as well,

along with this synth, as it's like.

This is what I'm going to do.

I'm going to let go of him.

Yeah.

And I'm going to throw myself at this synth so that hopefully we get smushed together in like a what I like to call a synth smoosh.

Yes.

Becoming kind of one synth blob.

You try and sort of enmesh with it and like interface in a way to try and like overpower its mind.

This sort of interface situation.

Okay, okay.

This will really impede your ability to land.

You are falling towards like a what appears to be like a factory system below

with a nut, like the nearby, because Gammadine owns this whole block.

It's like a factory, a synth factory belows.

You can see sort of the lineup moving, conveyor belts, glass roof as you're careening towards it.

So at first, I'll get this.

You're falling rapidly, but I will get this

interface.

I'll say you're going to do a competing,

competing role against its own analysis, the sort of like force of mind.

Which on analysis, yeah.

Yep.

Oh, God.

No,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

so you

unfortunately are not over a pirate's mind, but you do get flashes of memory of it in this fighting pit.

You can see that this was

a security droid that was originally designed for

looking after like vulnerable members of society that are under like

police

like relocation.

They're meant to blend in with society and protect people.

And it was lifted and abused and reformed and it has this sort of twisted perspective where it just wants to survive,

but it will kill as many people or synths or anything as it needs to.

to do that.

And as you're sort of realizing that, you can see it's turning you to take the impact as you

smash through the glass.

Your analysis, I would say, which I don't think I asked you to roll, but you got a three.

Oh, good.

I would say that's for your sort of like aiming, trying to find a good place to land.

Yeah.

You see a like the concrete floor, and you see, I'll say you use this analysis to instead land into a vat, an open vat of liquid.

Fuck yeah.

As you

fall into it.

It's Gatorade.

Yum.

It's Gatorade, which is

a crucial ingredient.

As you come out, you're like, it does taste amazing.

I'm powered by the electrolytes.

Your electrolytes, fantastic.

As you grow.

You're a little dehydrated.

I was.

Because of the future steroids.

Yes.

Yeah.

As you sort of pull yourself out of the water.

I would like you, though, to give me a

Can I tell you what I think I want to do right now?

Yeah.

I think I am going to let them, I'm going to take the fall.

I feel so bad for them.

Wow.

and what i'm going to do if this is allowed is i'm going to give them my consciousness you you you you you going to allow them

to

see your memories and your experiences take on i'm going to upload all of my consciousness to them so we can share it but they'll essentially run it and i'm going to take the fall and i see this i'm seeing this fall happen exactly so we make icons no no no no so so a part of you lives on in them

all of me will live on in them in a way yes that we will become one being.

They'll be the main one, but I will carry on through them.

And I see the look in their eye.

They look, we make eye contact as they're falling.

And I know that they're going to do this.

Do you have any last words then to say to you?

I just say, God damn, we didn't even get a chance to fall in love.

Because I was that woman when you came out.

I didn't tell you this, but when you came out as that woman with the red lips and the fucked voice,

I fell in love.

I fell in love instantly.

And I've been hiding my feelings this whole time.

You're falling for so long.

It's all done in a look.

They know they feel it.

And my heart breaks.

And I say to you, as we're falling, I say, god damn it, I hope you're one of the good ones.

And

as you hit the ground,

splatter.

Splatter.

You were sort of the the the main disadvantage of your reconfigurable body is weak bonds between those sort of internal mechanisms as it just

you see

the

robot which you now have identified as Eliza sort of like there

sort of takes things in as it tries to scratch together two conscious consciousnesses at the same time

as it stands

it's fighting two urges

and

you it's strange having your because you're functionally dead yeah

but there's a part of it that is you inside this droid as it sprints into this factory lineup, a scrambling away as you come out of the Gatorade.

And as you sort of emerge, you see just like rows and rows and rows and rows and rows of synths.

As it's scrambling away,

it is like repurposing algorithms that you've used the way that it can redefine its body and the sort of liquid around it is able to form just as you formed and it takes on

the exact base image of these sort of like base synths and is able to enter the lineup.

Well, first things first after seeing all these synths,

being a little aware of the genre.

Yep.

I take my gun out, I shoot myself in the hand.

Okay.

You do that.

It fucking hurts.

Just red blood.

Shot yourself in the hand.

Red blood.

Red blood.

Okay, like

I'm not a sin.

Had you dreamed about a unicorn?

She throwing all these sins.

I just thought I'd be like, oh, I've got a little in my hand.

I got a little in my head.

It was a mistake.

I just was confused.

I know now, now I know, okay?

It's good to know.

You see, a factory worker comes over.

He's like the only person here.

He goes, Jesus Christ, you just shut yourself in the hand.

I didn't know.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't a son.

There's a waste of test man.

I should have stuck it, but I got a box cutter here.

Gotta make it a small cop.

God damn it.

That was a mistake.

You could have shot yourself in the thigh, bro.

I know what I was thinking.

All right, well.

Got things in there.

I ain't paid enough.

You fucking go figure this out.

I quit.

I quit.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, dude.

Jesus Christ.

All right.

Back to business.

Well, I pull my gun out.

I think.

Yeah, yeah

and I point it at this synth okay so there's there's probably like a hundred synths in here all identical all standing in their sort of like it's very iRobot so I don't know which one's which yeah you don't know which one's which fuck how did Will Smith do it so we're like out of the packet we all look the same how the fuck did Will Smith do it he did something he did something to make one of them

to make one of them flinch oh I take out my gum yeah I remembered

I point out the first synth next to me I pull the trigger you know what what Did you say something?

I say something disparaging about his wife's hair loss.

Okay, the Synth next to you.

Smack the fucking shit out of him.

It turns out it was the Sith closest to you.

It's right in front of you.

Can I get because there's like part of you that lives, see here?

You're like somewhat sort of like, it's half you, half this new

half Eliza.

Can I get

an internal

persuasion?

A persuasion of

three here.

Four.

Okay, that is allowed to say this.

You say it.

You managed to burst like four personality bursts for service.

And even though the previous thing you said was, I hope you're one of the good ones.

I guess this is a test in any way.

You get smacked hard.

What are you doing next?

Well, I say you keep my fucking water.

So you keep it.

I stay out of your mouth.

I was like, I'm probably going to win an award at the end of this.

I'm probably going to get a medal of honor.

And so I step on their chest.

I point the gun, point the gun at them.

And I say,

I say, well, who are you?

What do you know?

Okay, I'll say, see, you can talk here if you want to, but you hear the thoughts of Eliza in your head.

Just say,

don't I get a chance chance to be free?

If you could bend the rules before and it shows you the memory of you throwing the rookie cuff out of the windows, can't you bend the rules here and let me go?

I can let you go.

Save us.

I can let you go, but I need the news.

What did you say?

That's just said in your mind.

I say, I say,

I say,

you loved a version of me once.

You loved a half a version of me once.

I'll say the face sort of forms back into the face of C.

My heart skips a beat.

Wait, which face, the Tom Cruise or the Elf?

You love the version of me.

And I like the idea that you don't really know which version he would find hot.

You're just like,

no.

You lost me there.

Elf?

No.

No, no, exactly.

I kind of roll through him.

Yeah.

I roll through him.

Tom Cruise.

Fuck Tom Cruise.

Then I finally land on

the sexy woman.

And then I give him the sexy woman and I say,

you loved some of who I am now once.

Let me go.

And I say, I'll let you go, but I need to speak to Eliza.

I need to know what Eliza did in that room.

I need the proof.

I need the evidence.

that that man didn't kill himself.

I say, well, we are Eliza.

so you're talking to us.

But then just then tell me.

You have the memory now.

You see that there was a there was a scuffle, a fight where he was going to install this

pain blocker.

And

they fought it and ended up holding his hand underneath his own head and pulling the trigger.

Rather than tell him,

I'm presuming we're a bit cyberpunk here.

I can inject, I can put my little, I can turn my finger into a USB, click it in.

I want him to feel what I've felt, know what I've known.

So you have this sort of nerve interface moment where like.

Thank God.

I thought you were just sticking a USB in my ear.

No USB.

It is just sort of like, it's almost like these tiny thin tendrils plug into the brainstem at the back of your neck.

Oh, great.

And it's uncomfortable, awful feeling for a moment.

Yeah.

You lose all motor control.

And you see first

person Eliza's view

what happened

you feel yeah you feel

as as you sort of take your thing your finger out of that interface yeah your hand is shaking your muscles are shaking like uh from the strain that uh eliza done to also eliza's quite beautiful as well yeah in this version yeah of the original version

how eliza sees themselves i go i take my foot off their chest i

offer out my hand to pick you pick you up put you on your feet thank you very much i I didn't realize it was self-defense.

We've got to get this memory

to

Elf.

Because Elf's the only one that can clear us.

The Mayor of Melbourne is the only one that can clear this.

All crime in the future, all crimes are

reported to Elf.

The Mayor of Melbourne.

Who then decides

our fate.

I suppose.

Sure.

So we cut as David's cups.

And we see after you going from like protective custody,

you have like this sort of like, we don't hear the words, but we see you getting like absolutely chewed out by the chief Ursa before you are eventually brought to the

sitting behind his desk.

He's got a suit.

It is Alf with the furry head.

As you come in, you go,

you got a cat for me or something?

Along with all more crimes, I guess.

And I go, stick your finger in that Alf's neck.

Alf, do you mind if I stick my finger in your neck?

Give me a persuasion.

A persuasion.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Fuck you.

He loves it.

You copy on a good team.

Is this Alf's most either guard?

I don't know.

I have no idea.

It's close.

I think it's close.

Medsova and you do the intervention.

He goes, what the fuck?

What the fuck?

And I go, Gamadine.

has been running illegal synth fights unlike cock fighting, but with synths.

And they're cheating at it as well.

They're doing something illegal, and they're cheating at it.

And this synth fought back, and then they tried to cover it up as a suicide.

And I fell in love along the way.

With another synth.

But I think Eliza's quite.

I'm hoping that maybe we can make love at the end of this

faces.

Technically, a threesome.

Technically.

I'm hoping that it can be one face.

It seems like you're so excited for it to be a threesome.

And it's like, really, not quite.

Like, I was like, it doesn't assure me.

It's like a two and a half some.

It's all the complicated aspects of a threesome, but none of the fun parts.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so

Alf believes your story.

You are taken out,

and

it seems like

it seems like we're having the happy ending as the camera sort of rises over the skyline of

Melbourne

21, 25.

But unfortunately, that's not really how this city works.

You find that the

traction you thought you were originally getting with the mayor,

it stops and you lose your job.

And the story's buried.

And

you know that you're being hunted.

And

we would join the next movie or the next series of this as you are on the run from the police yourselves and Gammadine.

And you find in your efforts to try to pull Eliza out of this awful situation, instead you've just become entangled yourself.

So we're one being?

No, no, like

situationally.

But very fair.

Is there anything that you would like to do as you're sort of, as we sort of leave this story, as you're sort of on the run, as you're sort of like this institutions have failed even more

spectacularly?

You find Alf, unfortunately, is corrupt.

Is there anything you'd like to do as we tie this up?

Do you know what I would like?

I think this is a kind of fun ending.

Yeah.

I think before we leave town,

before we run off into the middle of Australia,

I was about to say

we're about to walk onto the sky bus.

We're about to take us to Talamarova.

Still the Skybus.

They still haven't fucking figured out.

Still not a train to fucking Talamarova.

Can you believe it?

It's the only land vehicle as well.

It's the only

stepside wheels.

Still got my keys.

Still got the fucking sky bus.

We're about to step on.

And I say, hey, before we go,

I think we should pay a visit to Elf.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And we go, we go.

Yeah, yeah, you go, you go.

I'll say it's late in the evening.

Yeah, I'd say we sneak in.

You sneak in at the end of the day.

You're using like the, I'll say the police badge that you actually took off of Jancy

that has not been deactivated yet because of his death.

Yeah.

Maybe you've turned into a coat and I'm wearing you.

Okay.

You can choose, Zach.

Yeah.

You don't have to be.

I'm happy to go with that.

As you sort of like, as you go in with this duster and you slip in through the back door and you had, you like narrowly avoid like PAs and other people, like officials moving through this building, you sneak into Alf's office,

you see him

doing like

he's he's he's on he's on his phone, he's on Glib Glob.

Yes.

And he's clearly got

high

paraphernalia, like this sort of cyber cocaine.

It's like blue powder all over the desk.

As you come in, he goes, who the fuck's that?

I turn back into my Eliza form and

I say, Alf.

We can sort something out.

I grab the screen and I break it.

You shut the fuck up and you listen to Eliza.

I say to Alf, I say, Alf, I'm on the run from the police now.

I know.

I might not make it, but

when I breathe my last breath in the middle of Australia, I'll know, I'll know that at the very least, I shot fucking Alf in the fucking head.

They'll hunt you.

And you shoot him.

And then I break all his other fingers.

Just for fun.

Just because they snap so easy.

And we flee.

We get on that sky bus.

And no one will check the sky bus.

No one checks the sky bus.

And that's where we'll end this game.

Wow.

That was very funny.

What was that called?

I would say let's call that

Alf City.

Alf City.

Yeah.

As Melbourne gets together.

I love that.

That was sick.

That was great.

That was beautiful.

Wow.

Or something, if you have a better name.

Elf City is great.

Elf City 2025.

21, 2025.

21, 25.

Oh, great stuff.

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