S3 Ep. 26 - Wii Who Are About to Die

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Get me Buckingham 78338.

Hello.

Yes, this is the Queen of England.

Mom, it's me, Ebenezer White.

I apologize for calling so late.

It's never too late to hear your voice, little chicken.

Ma'am, I'm afraid we'll have to skip our sexually charged banter and prematurely come to the point.

We've recruited the the guttural screams to rescue that moth fellow from the Soviets.

Alas, one of the Americans, a Miss Kelsey Grammer, will only agree to terms if she never has to pay taxes again.

I was wondering if you could pull a string or two.

Oh, bother.

This is a dreadful imposition, lover.

But I suppose Mummy can make some magic happen just

this once.

A kissy-bye.

Let's see.

Who should Queenie call?

Oh, yes.

Operator, get me Pennsylvania 453.

Connecting.

Hello, this is Dwight D.

Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States.

Ike, dearie, it's me, the Queen of England.

Sorry for calling so early.

It's never too early to hear your voice, my special relationship.

What are you wearing right now?

Oh, you know,

one of my fun little hats.

But Ikey, this isn't a social haul.

There's a woman in Nebraska named Kelsey Grandma that doesn't want to pay taxes anymore.

Be a good little boy and make that happen.

Anything for you, my English muffin?

God, if I had some marmalade right now, I'd spread it on your hot.

Now now, no time for that.

Off you pop now, Ikey.

Ta-da!

Cat meat, Dick.

Connecting.

This is Richard Nixon, the vice- Shut up, Dick.

Some brawl in Nebraska doesn't want to pay taxes anymore.

No taxes?

She sounds like a pinko to me.

You want me to...

I want you to shut up and get it done.

Kelsey Grammar, Nebraska.

No taxes.

You got all that?

Yes, Mr.

President.

What's wrong, Dickie Bear?

Oh, it's nothing, John F.

Kennedy.

I just wish he treated me better.

I'm not his errand boy.

And if he wants this Kelsey Grammar lady to not pay taxes anymore, he can go to Nebraska and do it himself.

Kelsey Grammar, huh?

Tell you what, you go fix me a scotch and I'll take a crack at it.

Oh, very well.

Miss Grandma, this is John F.

Kennedy.

How you doing?

JFK, my goodness.

Wait a second.

Is this about my taxes?

Because even you can't charm me out of this one.

And I never try to, baby.

Trust me, I hate paying for roads I don't use as much as the next fella.

But uh, let's talk a little bit less about what your country can do for you and a little more about what you can do for your country.

Okay, well, what do you have in mind?

What are you wearing right now?

A lovely purple frock with math equations pitched on.

Oh, mama.

Welcome to Dungeons and Daddies.

It's not a BDSM podcast.

Wait, what?

This season...

The Peachyville Horror, a Call Cthulhu actual play, horror comedy podcast about four everyday schmoes fighting the forces of darkness in suburban 1950s America.

And

in Soviet Russia.

About to be anyway.

Yeah, we're not there yet.

Yeah, also, hey, team.

I mean, yeah, you guys could.

If anyone could manage to not get to Russia this episode, it would be you guys.

Well, you've never pulled out.

I mean, a DM could just say, like, you wake up and you're all in Russia.

Oh.

I don't do them like that, dude.

I don't do them like that.

DM styles all around.

My name is Freddie Wong.

I play Blake Lively, the lively plumber Who is so active and rich?

And he's like all the time.

Are you familiar with Mike Diamond, the smell-good plumber in Los Angeles?

Yeah.

I thought was the weirdest.

He's like, our plumber smells good.

Yeah.

This is his whole thing is he smells good.

Unlike, and then they invented a slur for other plumbers where they called them Bubbas.

He's like, sorry, ma'am, no Bubbas here.

Just Mike Diamond, the smell plumber.

I met a smelly plumber.

I might just pee.

He feels like eugenics adjacent.

That's all I'm going to say.

Feels like an old problem.

Feels like plumbers have been smelling good for a long time.

I I think this is one plumber just trying to fucking start shit.

How about market differentiation?

Okay, wait.

Hear me out.

A cologne marketed by plumbers.

Oh, eau de toilette.

Yes.

A poo parie.

Ah.

Very good.

Chanel number two, am I right?

Yes.

This was Blake Lively Fact.

Last time we spent some time in the bathroom of a McDonald's.

Blake, too, has spent a lot of time in bathrooms at McDonald's.

And afterwards, you didn't catch this in the scene, but Blake was like, what?

Another one.

What he was referring to, what he was referring to, was Blake has not eaten at McDonald's yet.

Every single time, some crazy happenstance makes it so that he can't get a McDonald's hamburger.

And he's like, you know what we're going to do, Freddie?

Because we're banking a sort of backlog in anticipation of some summer events.

So we can absolutely go back and add in you saying, well, another one, like in the background of the last episode.

So you understand, it's not that like he's found himself at McDonald's only because like he needs to use a bathroom bathroom suddenly.

It's like he's gone to McDonald's.

He's gone to McDonald's.

Sonic, every time, has not gone a burger.

Last time he was like, now I will try this American treat.

And he goes in and it turns out, oh, is he not American?

What?

Is he not American?

He's an immigrant.

He can still say, I want to try this American treat, Matt.

I guess that's right.

The backstory was.

And I say that every single time I go to the Taco Bell.

And now that 2025, Matt can say all the shit that just comes into his head.

You know, it's like on the plane when they're like, is there a doctor on the plane?

Like, something goes wrong.

They're like, is there a plumber in this McDonald's?

Like I said, last time he went, oh, the toilet was backed up.

And he was like, oh, I guess I got to fix this.

And then by the time they were done, they're like, oh, we turned off the stuff.

And it was the end of the day.

The time before that, he went in.

Fuck those people.

Guess what?

You fix their toilet.

Guess what?

The time before that, he went in.

Guess what?

What?

Ice cream machine was broken.

Hey!

Hey, everybody.

My name is Matthew Arnold, and I play Kelsey Grammar at Peachyville's happiest and snappiest school mom.

And you know what?

She always says, Look, sometimes, sometimes teach needs a sick day.

So just shut up and read your books.

I'm good.

Just leave me alone.

We talked about Quiet Ball, right?

What?

Oh, fuck.

Quiet ball.

Yeah.

Sorry, what?

I think you're...

Oh, yeah, no, you can do that.

Whatever you want to do is fine with Teach, okay?

Teach is just going to lay her head down a little bit.

A little peachy fact, a little fact about Kelsey.

Real fact about Matt is that he's sick.

He's got tummy problems.

It's been a couple of days.

I'm a little worried.

We're moving on.

Don't worry.

I mean, he has reason to worry given past events.

But a little fact about Kelsey, when Kelsey gets sick, she turns into a big old baby.

In fact, Roz and Niles knows when she's sick because she stops living at her place and she just shows up on the couch in their house and lays down and just, you know, doesn't even need to ask anymore.

Just chicken soup, just being taken care of.

She hungs the TV.

Milton's waiting on her couch.

You know, Milton loves it when Kelsey's sick.

Oh, no.

Uh-oh.

That's why Kelsey gets sick so often.

That's the inverse of Munchausen by proxy.

Oh, man.

It's called getting poisoned.

Yeah.

There it is.

That's so man-coated of Kelsey.

Yeah.

You know, you're responsible for taking care of me now.

Hey, she takes care of kids all day, all the time.

I hope this doesn't bring down the mood of everybody around me.

Not that, not saying that Matt does that, but men at large, like, that's.

I go hide in a corner so nobody can see me.

I don't want anybody to see me.

Like a cat when they're dying.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm Anthony Birch.

I play Francis Farnsworth, a kid who's trying his best.

And Francis' fact is that his favorite sport is quiet ball.

Wow.

I was actually really good at silent ball when I was in school.

Me too.

What the fuck are you two talking about?

Okay, they call it silent ball in Europe and they call it quiet soccer over here.

They call it hardies.

So when it was either raining and we couldn't do recess or if the teacher just needed time to grain, was hung over or needed to grade papers or needed whatever.

needed a thing to do so the entire class would shut the fuck up and they could just concentrate they came up with the smartest idea i've ever heard in my life, which is quiet ball or silent ball, where you take like a four square ball and everybody sits on their desk.

Dude, you played with those four square balls?

Yeah, I went to a pretty good elementary school.

Dude.

And you throw it from person to person.

And if you like bobbled it and it fell or you failed to catch it or whatever, fucking out.

You're out.

You have to sit down in your desk.

Yeah.

And

because we're all sitting on top of our desks while this is happening.

It fucking rules.

And so everybody shuts the fuck out.

And also if you talk, you're out.

Yeah.

So what's great about it is the rules lawyering that you try to do without saying anything, where you like point to somebody's hands and then point at the wall and like point at the floor and like

convey like you fucked that up.

That wasn't my fault.

So, what's the incentive of once you are out?

Yeah.

What stops them from just going wild?

What just stops them from yelling and going wild?

You're still not allowed to talk.

You're still not allowed to talk.

Yeah, then you don't get to play the next game.

Oh, okay.

Wow.

Very cool.

No, but what was like the sad Francis version of this?

I don't know.

Francis is state champion.

That's so sick.

They needed the entire state of Nebraska to shut the fuck up for a second.

Hi.

My name is Beth May, and I play Trudy Trout.

She's a homemaker, a mother of one beautiful child, and she's a robot.

So Trudy has actually created her own competitor to the garbage disposal, which has just been invented.

But she calls it a spam filter.

God.

That's actually really good.

I like that a lot.

I like that.

It's pretty good.

God dumb.

Yeah, because like spam was also taken off in the 50s.

but garbage disposal like doesn't filter anything well okay it chews it up

i said it's a competitor product man can you imagine if your garbage disposal only chewed up some stuff and let some stuff back in the season like no not this stuff this stuff stays in your sink well it kind of does those are called forks yeah and you find out real quick if one of those is in there

hi everyone i'm will i'm your keeper I'm the keeper of the secrets.

I'm the keeper of the keys.

You know, I'm the key.

He's not a keeper.

No, we have the keys.

He's He's not the key master.

He's in the middle.

We need to get that one key.

There's one key left.

Oh, yeah, we have it.

We just don't know we have it yet.

One key.

I don't know why.

You guys haven't found it.

No one else.

That's inside the architect.

We had it.

I already.

All right, shut up.

This is my game and my fact today, my creepy fact is about.

I don't know if this is creepy that everyone already knows is the Dilatov pass incident.

Oh, yeah.

Was Diatlov?

Diatlov.

The Diatlov to cut out them correcting me and putting me saying it the whole time.

Make us three times louder.

Diatlov.

Dyatlov.

The Dyatlov Pass incident.

It was an event in which nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Euro Mountains on February 1st or 2nd, 1959, under uncertain circumstances.

Now they're pretty certain.

Overnight, something caused them to cut their way out of their tents and flee the campsite while inadequately dressed for heavy snowfall and sub-zero temperatures.

Inadequately dressed, they were naked.

They were naked.

Why were they naked?

That's because they see.

Because of paradoxical undressing.

No, apparently that's not what it was, according to Wikipedia, where there's like fucking nine causes.

Sounds like nine people are boning and scared by a bear.

No, that's also not a thing.

They also say

each other.

Here's one of the theories for why all of the Soviet skiers got spooked and ran out naked.

The average

of the colours possibly related to a romantic encounter that left some of them partially clothes led to a violent dispute.

Except this was refuted by someone who says that it's highly implausible because by all indications, the group was largely harmonious and sexual tension was confined to platonic flirtation and crushes.

I've never been more certain.

I've never been more certain they were all fucking.

I've never been more certain because they were fucking.

It never occurred to me that they might be fucking until you rent it.

Yeah, 100%.

I know that when they're like, that's a conclusion.

There were no drugs present and the only alcohol was a small flask of medicinal alcohol found at the scene.

Medicinal alcohol.

And they had even sworn off cigarettes for the expedition.

So you're telling me, you're telling me a bunch of hot Soviet skookiers who had platonic crushes on each other were all cooped up in a tent with no alcohol and they all just quit smoking.

Obviously, they weren't fucking.

No, obviously not.

I mean, it had to be in an alien.

Yeah, it was alien.

So now I heard the avalanche.

Slab avalanche.

They think it might have been parachute mind testing.

There's a lot of kooky theories.

They haven't really gotten to the bottom of this one.

The unknown mystery is what makes it all the spookier, but they were fucking.

They didn't find the bodies?

Yeah, they found like that's why it's so haunting because they would find like parts of the bodies and stuff.

Yeah.

Which is probably just like animals ate them after.

Yeah, they for sure.

Or it was an alien that fucked them.

Yeah.

An alien fucked them.

Yeah, why not?

Yeah, why not?

I feel like you accepted that a little bit too fast.

That makes sense.

To recap, you all successfully out-predatored the apex predator of the planet Landulos, the dollmaker.

Using your quick wits, a lot of guns, a well-crafted scarecrow, and a shockingly large McDonald's order, you lured the dollmaker into a men's bathroom, trapped it in a cage, and blasted its weak spot to smithereens with like 17 booby-trap guns.

Dude, this show is like Monster Hunter.

The part of Monster Hunter where you fight it for half a second and then it dies.

You put a bunch of, you know, balls.

You lay a bunch of.

No, it is like Monster Hunter.

Because what Matt told me about Monster Hunter is that the fun part of Monster Hunter is laying elaborate TNT traps around the sleeping monster.

This is now like the end game of Monster Hunter, where you guys are now.

Or we have to fight him again.

The same monster hardware.

I've never played Monster Hunter.

Congratulations.

You have gained the following items.

It is like the Kingdom Dad monster right now.

The Dollmaker's ginormous corpse, which may have the third key you've been after in its entrails.

Although technically, Francis didn't hear that when he eavesdropped on Dr.

Man and Brown

in the McDonald's parking lot because Anthony decided to be funny and say he didn't hear that.

We're going to autopsy it for the venom anymore.

And I also want to know if it ate anybody else.

We should really check its stomach.

Yeah, all right.

Yeah.

Two, you also got the dollmaker's mind control venom, which Mothman can use to create an antidote.

Oh, yeah, no need to mess up.

However, comma, upon exiting the golden arches, you and the rest of the free world overheard the shocking news out of a little town called Persikovograd in Russia.

It appears the Soviets have captured an alien spacecraft and its pilot, who the Ministry of Propaganda has nicknamed Chilovek Matayok, which is Russian for Mothman.

Before we get started, before we go into the next little traveling montage,

we need to figure out how good Blake Lively is at bowling.

Yeah, yeah.

Wait.

I asked Blake gets to play?

To bring his Nintendo Switch.

Wait, what do you mean only Freddy gets to play?

I've never seen Bethany in my life.

I think we all took that medicine so we all forgot how to bowl.

Yes.

We all got out there.

What's bowling?

You guys all want to do it?

Yes.

Oh, no, we got the seat.

You can't just bowl yourself as bowling the team.

I read a book called Bowling Alone that said it's not a good idea.

Fuck.

There are two ways to figure out how good you are at bowling.

There's the Freddy way, and then there's the other way.

I'm not explaining a single other fucking thing, but the Freddy way involves playing the Switch.

Do you guys want to play the Switch?

I want to play the Switch.

You can't play the Switch.

I'm not playing the Switch, just so you know what are you doing i just want to know what the other thing is okay the other thing is i'd give you a number i'll play the switch all right so here's how we're gonna do this i asked matt to bring his switch and download we sports resort or what is it no nintendo switch sports yes which has a bowling game on it but it's not we bowling it's not we bowling okay it's a new one

yeah or it's not new now it probably joy-cons are different than the we remote so

here's what we're gonna do Everybody is going to get to roll two frames, one to warm up, and then one for your official score.

Depending on how well you do on that frame, I'm going to give you a number of dice that you are going to roll in the bowling minigame we have coming up.

Okay, okay.

Okay, it's an assessment.

Is that bowling minigame also on the Switch?

No, that bowling minigame is rolling dice.

While playing Call of Duty on the Switch, too.

Do you guys want to fire it up and fucking go?

Yes.

Fire it up, baby.

And let's play Nintendo Switch.

Wait, were we playing?

Is this on the airplane?

This is just me as the DM.

In the meta space.

Basically, we're in the metaverse right now.

We're in Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, understanding how good everybody is.

Everything's ugly as fuck here.

Why are their heads floating?

Okay, we've now moved over to the other part of the room where we're all gathered around the TV we have on the floor.

I see three, no, four, eager bowlers lined up to test their metal.

First up is Anthony Birch as Francis Farnsworth.

He's now going into his practice round.

Anthony, how are you feeling?

Pretty confident.

I was great at wee bowling.

Oh, wow.

Show us how it's done, Francis.

Oh, and he's going in and...

Francis is warming up.

It's just warm up.

Just warm up.

Seven pins.

He's knocked down seven pins.

Good form.

We'll see if he can pick up the spare.

He's aiming.

He's going in.

He's rolling.

And...

Oh, it's a spare.

Now, Anthony, would you like to take the spare as your final score?

Or would you like to go for a strike?

I'll go for a strike.

Oh, hell yeah.

Francis, hell yeah.

All right, Anthony has now passed his warm-up round.

He's going in for another roll to determine what his score will be in the bowling minigame.

We're going to play later.

The windup.

He's going down the lane.

Ooh, another seven.

Exact same thing.

Yep.

Consistency.

Yeah, it's good.

All right, let's see if the boy can lock in.

So Francis has scored a nine for his bowling aptitude.

Trudy, you want to do it?

Sure.

I got it.

I mean, sure.

Trudy slash Beth is lining up her shot.

Beth, how are you feeling going into this?

Shaking, man.

Wait, Beth, wait.

You have to attach the Wii Mote to your wrist.

Damn it.

A split.

It's okay.

It's just a lock

this is your warm-up round this is where we warm up round okay I do have to strongly urge all of our bowlers to use the wrist strap so that the absolute they can safely use the Joy-Con without hurting scream is not a bunch of nerds

Matt can you imagine how you would react if your brand new very RTD got

my TV

all right Beth you got it all right Beth is going in second round warm-up

What?

I let go.

Don't let go.

Don't let go.

Don't let go, Jack.

You know what we always say?

Hang on to the balls long.

Oh!

That's just a warm-up.

Good job, Trudy.

Here's your warm-up.

All right.

93.

You only go up.

Oh, you can go down.

No, not her.

Not Trudy.

All right.

All right, Beth's going in for her official role.

We'll see how she does.

Lake, you're watching all this, right?

Tension is palpable.

Here we go.

The wind-up.

That's it.

Oh!

It's not a split, though.

Six pins.

Yeah, you got it.

Six.

We've got four left standing.

Can Beth knock them down and get her better score than Francis?

We'll see.

We're a team.

All of our scores count.

Damn it.

Ew.

An eighth.

That's okay, Trudy.

Devastating.

Could have been worse.

Shut up, Will.

Could have been worse.

Shut the fuck up, Will.

Okay.

Matthew Arnold, who owns the game, I might say.

This is Matt's game.

This is Matt's game.

He's coming from the angle.

He's coming for the ideal angle.

Matt's coming in from a very different approach than everybody else.

That looks great.

That looks pretty good.

Oh, but we sports bowling is a harsh mistress.

Ooh,

he's going straight down.

He's not doing across the lane.

He's going straight for it.

We'll see if he can get these last two pins out on the left side.

The roll.

You got it.

Oh,

what are you talking about?

A spare for Matthew.

Oh, no, Matt, are you going to lock in or you go for the strike?

Oh, did I get a strike?

No, no.

Okay, I'm going again.

All right, here we go.

This is the official roll.

Don't choke.

The wind up.

And she's down.

There's the strike, ladies and gentlemen.

Kelsey got Berkeley.

Oh, yeah.

Woo, that was fine.

Blake.

All right.

Come on, Blake.

You can do it.

Beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful.

I have watched you all do it.

Now I feel fairly confident that I know how to do it.

All right, Freddy's going in.

He's loud the ball.

No, it's this way, I see.

Oh, that's not too shabby.

Another eight.

Now, Blake, don't mess this up for us.

We do this.

We never have to pay taxes.

He's training.

This is still his training frame.

Yeah, no, he's doing great.

This is for your first one.

I think I have a good hang of it.

Are you going to take it?

No, you're going.

This sport so interesting.

You just throw.

Who do you think you are?

I am.

Who do you think you are?

I am.

Here he goes.

We've got our official role.

Let's go, Blake.

Just straight on, huh?

No, I'm.

Just straight on, huh?

After the fucking lesson you just got.

Kelsey, I would appreciate you not talking in my

ear.

You're right, you're right.

Wow.

Wow.

We got a warning game.

Blake lively, a natural, his first time at the role.

Wow.

Okay.

I mean, no shame on Tony, but can you imagine if Blake was on our team from the beginning?

So, Freddie cut out the part where I actually noted

that the game.

I don't know.

I'm just pointing out what I think.

What is that?

Sorry, what is that?

We

Nintendo Switch.

So, yes, we just got done playing.

We Sports Resort.

No, Nintendo Switch Sports.

And Beth has raised a technical objection, which I will now entertain before rendering my verdict.

I think that the remote was set to a right-handed bowler.

And that when I bowled with my left hand, I was at an automatic disadvantage that I was unaware of until I thought about it.

Let me deliberate.

The court finds in Will's favor.

The proper time to raise this objection was before you rolled.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Hold on.

I'm at an accessibility blog here, and they're talking about how there is a primary hand setting in every sport.

That may very well be, but the fact was that this issue was not raised at the time of the roll.

And she had one round to test it.

And you already had one round.

You added they would be unfair for everyone else, unless I'm going to give everybody else another round right now.

I totally get it.

Listen, listen, I get it.

I get that it's hard to think about accessibility requirements.

And so sometimes, like, it's more convenient to not think about that.

I think Beth is a woman, so intersectionality comes into the world.

All right, Beth, re-roll.

Here's the no.

No, no, no, no, no, no, we're doing it.

We're doing it.

I'm not going to be accused of being being ableist on our podcast.

Beth, re-roll.

However,

you get one shot.

In the words of Eminem's 8-mile, you only get one shot.

Do not miss your chance to blow.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

And then can whoever's editing this put when I got the strike into right now.

No!

All right, we're going back to the mines.

Hi, this is Will Campos reporting live from Beth's microphone.

She's now about to take her a second attempt at bowling with the new readjusted hand settings for her frame.

We'll see if this brings her up into the top bracket with the rest of the team.

You think look like Beth?

She's changed to Father Mysterious as her name for some reason that I don't understand.

We're doing quite a lot of facial customization, which seems not germane to the

adventure.

Oh, Beth is now in a fetching red tracksuit.

You can change the hair to blonde, surely.

At the very least, that.

We've gotten into the face and hairstyle modes.

We've really lost the plot here, I think.

That's Beth.

That's Beth.

That's a Beth.

More of a mouse in brown, Milan.

And here we go.

The wrist strap does fit on your left hand as well.

There we go.

Now we've got a safe gamer.

We're about to start the match.

We wait with bated breath.

Beth is going to have to do better than an eight for us to not make fun of her.

Beth's locking in.

The tension in the air is palpable.

She's going for her roll.

It is a nine.

We'll see if she can pick up.

It's still better than an eight.

That should have been a strike.

That should have been a strike.

It's okay.

That should have been a strike.

True, that's great.

I'm so sorry that we didn't.

True, he's not here.

Oh,

That's right.

I forgot Trudy's locked in.

Beth's really zeroing in.

She's taking her time here.

Her whole life has come down to this role.

And she cleans the spare, ladies and gentlemen.

Beth, how do you feel?

I feel great.

Wow.

Now Francis did the worst.

Yeah, that's me.

Guys, I've never seen that so intense as a gamer.

Listen, I just want to say thanks, Will, because, you know, I know sometimes it's easy to gloss over stuff like that.

Maybe not pay attention to that, but, you know.

No, it's really strong of you to admit when you're wrong.

That's the hard thing is we all make mistakes.

Beth, I appreciate you calling me in and holding me accountable to make sure that we did that the right way.

So here's what this all means.

When we do our little bowling minigame later, the details of which will be revealed when that happens.

You're getting two bowling minigames this episode.

So this is what

this podcast.

And one of them is the Switch, and the other one's dice.

And the other one is dice.

Get ready?

There's your show two seasons ago.

We got five framers now.

If you thought listening to people play video games was interesting, wait till you hear them rolling dice.

So here's how this is going to work.

You each are going to get a certain number of D10s that you're going to be rolling based on how you guys did just there.

So who got the strikes?

Freddy and I did.

Kelsey did.

Blake and Kelsey, you are my superstar rollers.

You guys are going to get five D10s to roll with.

Wow.

Wow.

So write that down.

Five.

And then

Trudy picked up a spare.

Okay.

So she's going to get four D10s to roll with.

And Francis with his nine is going to get three D10s to roll with.

That was if you got like a six.

You just keep going down.

So one.

One's the floor.

I see.

So like seven or below.

Okay.

Okay.

So that is how good you guys are at bowling.

So now we pull out of the metaverse.

This is all taking place in Blake's mind as he's assessing everybody's skill levels.

And as you think back on how good you are at bowling, Blake, what do you have to say for yourself?

I should have started on this sport earlier.

I appear to be what they call a natural.

You are.

It's never too late to start.

And now you're part of the team.

You're part of our team.

Is this don't listen to any other team?

You stay with this.

This is where we should lock him down.

We should lock him down.

Yeah.

Francis, write it up.

I'll make up an offer.

Okay.

So this is all happening as you are whisked away in the discreet British car of our discreet British spy, Ebenezer White, and he drives you for a couple hours outside of town.

So you find out.

Oh, if we're going to drive for a couple hours, can we stay in our dormobile?

Sure, you guys can take the doormobile.

All right, yes, you're all driving the doormobile.

Would you like a cup of tea?

An American cup of tea, sir?

I'd rather die.

Okay.

We made it in the microwave.

Etay's going to take 1d6 of sanity damage.

Fuck me.

I guess.

I'll take it, Blake.

No.

Oh.

Oh, fine.

I just feel weird.

We offered guest hospitality and now he's shitting on us.

They're British.

There's dudes like that.

He directs you to like a big old cornfield in the middle of nowhere.

And you're like, but this is a cornfield.

And he's like, just keep driving.

Yeah.

You realize that, like, in the middle of the cornfield, it's a road, but it's painted to look like corn from above.

So like it would look like corn normally, but you're actually just driving straight on a road.

This is so freaky.

Here we look.

Look, look outside.

It looks like I'm driving on corn.

But as you can tell, because we're not hitting anything, it's just a road.

Who did this?

This is courtesy of uh your taxpayer dollars.

This is one of those many roads you wish you weren't paying for.

Well, I'll tell you what, I'm not paying for this road anymore.

Again, I cannot stress this enough.

I have no ability to determine whether you pay taxes in the future.

We need to make a poster of Kelsey that's like the Armageddon poster that just says, Kelsey, she's in it for love.

In the same way, you believe in us, be able to get this done.

I believe in you, be able to get what we request to get done.

I trust you.

You have my word that I will try.

Francis, it's just it just feels like you're the one, you're staying up, friend, so I'm just talking to you about this.

It just feels like teachers don't get paid enough as it is.

I would agree with you.

Like, I just feel like I am what taxes should pay for.

Honestly, yeah.

You're like a road.

Yes.

That's all.

It's not that I don't want to.

I just feel like I'm doing my part.

No, I agree.

Government agencies don't have to pay taxes, so why should teachers?

Think, okay.

Okay.

I just felt like maybe I don't want to be selfish.

Like, I want to help people.

That's live stream.

No, that's fair.

I just, I just, you know,

we all need to pay our fair share to ensure the experiment works.

They get into the concept of like a flat tax, and maybe someone brings up the idea that it's like, well, when you're rich, you don't buy like 10 more TVs.

And everybody goes, well, actually, I have found that I do enjoy buying multiple TVs.

But, Mr.

Lively, you have all those people on staff.

You're a job creator.

You should have to pay less taxes than anybody.

Hey, that's a good point.

I got a Girl Scout marriage badge in creative bookkeeping.

I'll take a look at your book sometimes.

I bet we can save you a bundle of money.

And you have three houses?

That's tax shelters right there.

You had fire insurance on the one that burned down, right?

Of course.

Okay, we can work with that.

So you see these floodlights blast onto the cornfield, revealing a massive secret airstrip.

And on this airstrip is a Boeing C-97 Strato Freighter.

I knew I was going to hear the frantic sound of Freddy googling the second I said that.

Whoa!

A massive airplane capable of intercontinental flight.

Which

is by its uh, why that's the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, Miss Graham.

No, no, what plane?

Like who, like, is this Britain's?

Is this again?

Courtesy of the United States government.

Your tax dollars at work, Miss Graham.

Oh, I'm not gonna be paying for this plane anytime soon.

The uh, this plane looks like a Muppet.

It looks like a Muppet, looks like Sam the Eagle from the Muppets.

If he was a huge plane, the cargo door drops down.

We'll say he pulls the Bedford Dormobile in.

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Okay, so you have 12 hours on the plane.

I figure this is enough time for two actions.

If you would like to have like a morning action and an afternoon action.

That's the sign of a healthy bowel.

Here's what I was thinking.

You guys can choose to use your actions however you wish on this plane.

You can try to lock in on your bowling a little bit more, whether that's visualizing in your mind or whatever.

What could we possibly get from that if we already got a strike?

If you can justify to me how you would train for bowling and you roll for it and you succeed, you will get an extra dice to roll with because you'll have boosted your game a little bit.

You can also use this time to rest if you want to heal up some health points.

Oh, I do.

Yeah.

So you could do a double heal.

You could do a heal and a rest.

Francis mentioned wanting to talk to the Lithuanian team.

That would maybe give you an advantage on deception rolls you might have to make later in the adventure, that kind of thing.

So I leave it up to you.

You're now rumbling along across the Bering Straits at a cruising altitude, and the floor is yours.

I got a heal.

You want all just sleep first, and then maybe we talk to the Lithuanian?

Ah, the drone of the plane makes me sleepy.

I'm actually doing okay.

I guess I'll practice bowling while you guys sleep.

Okay, yeah, I'm going to rest too.

Okay, so you're going to rest.

So everyone's resting.

Because it's a new day, you already recover one HP.

And so with this next rest, I will let you recover an additional HP.

Two HP?

Why they're handing him out like Christmas.

Francis, what are you you going to do on this plane to try to train a bowling?

I'm going to look in.

This looks like a big-ass plane, which means it probably has like a galley of some sort.

What is a galley?

Like a kitchen.

Kitchen.

Sure, yeah.

So I'm going to go in there and I'm going to find as many bottles of pretty much anything.

Let's say Coca-Cola, maybe.

Okay.

And I'm going to drink those, obviously.

Yum, yum.

Then I'm going to put them all together.

And then I'm going to find the heaviest

later.

I filled one of them with pea just in case.

And I take the biggest head of lettuce I can find.

Okay.

And I'm going to use that as a simulacrum bowling ball.

That's clever.

I like that.

Now, how are you and Brunhilde doing?

I figure like maybe in universe, the reason you're a little off your game is you're 12 hours fresh off of an amputated leg.

Are you and Brunhilde working out your strategy at all?

Like, what's going on?

Brunhilde,

I have a strong suspicion that things are not going to go awesome in Russia.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

So I think, again, I don't need the freebie yet because I haven't used my one free shot.

I would just, you know, remember the Russians helped defeat Hitler.

So if I kill like a random Russian, that's probably an innocent person.

So you should be psyched.

We will have to see when the moment arrives.

I have to be very clear about something.

I'm very pro-killing innocent people, but beyond that, I have no ideology.

I'm just pro-murder.

No, that's kind of an ideology.

I don't want to get into politics, is all I'm saying.

I'm just pro-killing people.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

People say they don't want to get into politics always have a pretty clear political view.

No, I get that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It seems like you're being a little sarcastic with me.

Yeah?

Sounds like you're being a little libertarian.

Well, this is a good philosophy as the libertarians.

Okay, there we go.

They don't pay the taxes, taxes, I think.

This is what you guys were just discussing.

I had many things to say about the marriage of tax policy, but no one has Brunhillovachi things.

Nope.

Do you want to know what I think about tax policy?

I know everything I need to know that you said libertarian.

Do you pay taxes?

Do I pay?

I doesn't.

Who says that?

If anyone asks, just because I don't pay the taxes does not mean I cannot have an opinion on the taxes.

I think the taxes are too high for the services rendered.

And I think that many of the things that the government spends its money on is not so good.

It's a good thing I'm the one with the vote.

Well, shit.

Gotcha!

Straight.

While that's going on, Kelsey.

Yes.

You have a dream.

Oh, man.

You wake up back in Zuzel's sexy mansion.

You hear a spooky harpsichord once again playing downstairs.

All right, come up to me.

Zuzel.

Yes.

Okay, you brought me up.

Come from far away downstairs.

Come to me, Kelsey.

I think I'm going to stand by ground on this one.

You brought me here.

You can come to me.

Fine.

I don't need to watch you play.

You hear a piano bench crunch, and then you hear some stomping, and then Zuzel comes into the room and tries his best to pose dramatically with a candelabra.

Kelsey's already posed dramatically.

She got one up on him.

Describe Kelsey's dramatic pose to me.

Where you're in a billowy nightgown as a woman with great hair might flee a gothic mansion on the cover of a Paul Promise.

She's looking at any of the weird gothic statues he's got, and there's like, you know, creepy-looking kind of vampire thing.

And she's kind of like leaned up against it in a similar pose as that vampire thing.

Zuzel is, despite himself, momentarily taken aback.

Yeah.

So, what do you want?

Kelsey,

and he sets the Kindle Auberg down and goes to brood by the window.

He says, I know what you saw.

Zuzel knows.

Look at me when you're talking to me.

He turns dramatically to you.

The moonlight twinkles in his eye.

And he says, I know what you saw out there, Kelsey.

Yeah.

Okay, and you know.

So you know.

Now you know.

I've been waiting for you to see with your own eyes.

Yeah, I want the fate that will befall your world if the powers that be.

But you're going to destroy the world too, right?

I am going to.

I'm going to destroy part of the world.

What part?

The part that you're from, Peachy Ho,

to save the world.

Don't you understand, Kelsey?

No, I get it.

I get that saying

the world.

Kelsey, do you know how gods are made?

No.

Of course you don't.

That's a request.

My mom never gave me that talk.

How are gods made?

Gods are made when the powers that be descend into a universe.

And you see, your world, it's all about scale.

You are but a speck on an egg, a fertile egg, waiting to grow into something monstrous and horrific.

The earth is.

Wait, is the speck going to...

Wait.

The egg is going to grow monstrous.

The earth

is like this egg, and he magically produces an egg.

Well, it's more like a womb.

He produces a womb.

The earth is like an egg.

Okay.

And the universe is like a womb.

Okay, and the powers that be the hour of the whole, they're like what the man does to the egg.

Okay, they fertilize the earth.

Yes, they will turn it into something putrid and horrifying that will grow and grow and grow and consume this entire corner of reality.

And thus, a new God shall be born, causing the pain and destruction of every soul in reality itself.

Yeah, there's only one thing that can stop them, Kelsey.

Me.

You're the only thing?

I'm the only thing that's done it so far.

So you've done this before.

You've stopped them.

I've done this before.

I've stopped them many times.

You're going to destroy Peachyville to stop the powers that be.

My vessel, when I come into your world,

not that way, but in the way of me being summoned into the sea bearer,

this ritual causes destruction.

It causes pain.

It requires the sacrifice of many souls, but it is the only way I know of to stop the powers that be.

I just ask you to wrestle with that, to ponder the significance of that, Kelsey.

For I require the help of mortals like you.

No, you're not the person

who said you got to kill a bunch of people to save more people.

I get your justification for it, but so just to understand, it's not like the land.

Like I was thinking, like, oh, maybe just ask him to like, you know, do whatever he's going to do out in the ocean.

Then, you know, I would be sad about the fish.

But it sounds like you need people's souls.

You're going to kill a lot of people in order to save the whole world.

But.

You just don't know there's another way of doing it yet.

You haven't found it out.

Have you just looked?

Are you just playing piano all the time?

Do you have any research?

You got all the books in the universe.

Do you think I leave them unread, Kelsey?

Do you think if there was a better way, I would not use the better way?

Alas, I cannot.

I cannot think of anything.

Well, we're going to have to find a better way because I'm not going to let you kill a bunch of people.

He wants to save more people.

Very well, Kelsey.

Can I talk to my friends about you now?

Feels like we've been doing this long enough that it'd be nice to talk about you and my friends.

You can always hear that little stink in Matt's voice when it's Matt talking through the character.

Very well, Kelsey.

But know this: there will come a moment when you need to choose, and you need to ask yourself if you have the courage to make a hard decision.

And that moment is coming soon.

And then he blows out the candles, and you wake up before you can say anything cool back to him.

Oh, I have so many things I was going to say.

Ain't that just the way?

Ain't that just the way?

You wake up.

It's now the afternoon.

You have one more prep phase.

You're now like over Uzbekistan.

I go and I say, Everybody, I've been meeting with Zuzel.

Can I say it?

Yeah.

It worked.

I can talk about it now.

The thing you were trying to tell me, what Zuzel,

what?

I've been wanting to tell you for so long, but he put some curse on me.

I couldn't talk about it.

I've been seeing him.

Like, not seeing him.

Like, going steady?

No, I don't think he's ready for that.

Wait, that's a weird.

No, and I don't think, like, he's not, he's a thing.

I'm ready for it if you are.

He's like a god.

He's strange, but he's been seeing me in my dreams, and he says he's the only one that can stop the powers that be, which is great, right?

We want to stop the end of the world.

I sense a butt coming.

Yeah, but the way he says

the only way he can do it, he needs a lot of souls.

And I guess that's going to be Peachyville.

He didn't say, but I think it's like all of Peachyville.

So whatever that, right.

And like, Jesus.

And I was thinking, I know, first question, I was like, oh, maybe not at Peachyville.

Maybe in the ocean.

Maybe, but official souls don't count, I don't think.

Because they don't have souls.

The good book tells us that.

Regardless, he's going to kill a lot of people.

You have been communicating with an eldritch horror who says

that we need.

You don't think it's like the radio?

Oh, but you heard.

You hear?

I don't.

No, it's different.

No, it's different.

This is different.

I think it's...

Yeah.

It's different.

This is different because it's in my dreams.

Oh.

And I can talk to it back.

No, this is different.

This is different because Zuzel's in my head and I'm talking to Zuzel and the radio doesn't the radio is not going to stop the powers that be but it is weird.

This is also weird.

This is a lot of weird things going on.

But anyways, I've just I feel really bad because you know, I always want to tell you guys everything.

It's just again, I couldn't say anything because it was in my head.

Well, yeah.

I'm sorry you've been carrying this and dealing with this, Kelsey.

It's okay.

This seems like a lot.

Yeah, I'm mostly worried it's not acceptable to kill all of Peachyville to save the world.

I don't believe that's the answer, but he says that's the only way to do it.

Well, we will find another way.

Yes.

Okay.

I'm just worried that if we kill Zuzel or stop Zuzel.

When you said sure like that, it made me think that maybe you weren't sure.

No, I want to find another way.

Don't get me wrong.

I definitely do.

But like, if it comes down to it, we can't find another way.

But we will.

Okay.

He's talking to me now, and he agrees with you Francis

Yeah, this is just in having a knot, but now it's really refreshing that I can tell you by the way.

I know Radio Rick and I can hear him because of Kelsey

Kelsey.

Why did you just gasp out of nowhere?

What is he saying?

You don't want to know Trudy.

Oh my goodness.

Wait, so the bisons, are they on Zuzel's side or not?

Because they have a machine that can kill him.

The bisons want to bring about Zuzel.

Yes, they do.

Yeah.

So that's the thing.

is like yes the bisons are bad because they want to kill peachyville but now we know what they're trying to do is they're trying to bring up zuzel to kill the power zeppy he's like a big warrior thing okay i hate them enough i could coast on that i hate them enough that i'm not going to let them do their thing no matter what yes i don't think it's not right to kill a whole bunch of people sure yeah i know even if it's to save the world i mean i don't know it's a tough question Just like, do you want to live in a world where the only way to save the world is to kill a whole bunch of innocent people?

Oh, definitely not.

Speaking of someone who kills a whole bunch of people all the time to save the the world, I think the Zuzel chap sounds like he's got quite the right idea.

Oh, okay.

Why don't you go talk to him in his sexy layer with his piano?

You had sex with him?

I said sexy layer.

I didn't say I had sex with him.

Okay.

He plays the piano?

He plays the piano very good.

Oh,

you can maybe.

You're also hot for piano players.

Who's not?

That Liberace, Baba Voom.

That man plays the piano.

Yeah.

If only he weren't on the girls exclusively.

Okay.

Man, Anthony with the Liberace jokes.

I've been holding that in my pocket for five years.

All right, we have another action, right?

Yes.

You hear the pilot speaking to Ebenezer White and Yaroslava Baranova, and she's like, we are approaching the drop zone.

Prepare yourselves.

You have time to do possibly one more important thing.

Wait, hold on.

Drop zone?

Drop zone.

I don't know.

Yes, did we not mention that this is a new information?

Excuse me, this is a new information.

Yes, you will be airdropped 50 miles from Persikovograd, whereupon our driver will meet you at the local road.

And you shall take the road into Persikovograd.

Like, you're going to drop us?

We're going to airdrop you.

How?

Like, we're going to jump out of the parachute?

Yes.

I want to spend my time.

But I'm going to jump out of the parachute.

You're going to jump out of the plane.

I want to spend my action to figure out a way to, like, Fast and Furious, put a parachute on our doormobile.

So we have our doormobile down there.

So we don't have to walk around in the snow.

With American plates.

Yeah.

You want it?

We're going to be out in the snow.

We don't want to be walking around the snow.

You just said that a drive would pick us up.

But what if he doesn't?

Then we all freeze to death.

I like that idea.

You like freezing to death?

No, no, I like that justification for what you're going to do.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

You wish to airdrop this car into Soviet Russia.

Yeah.

Okay.

And you've installed this head seat belt, so that'll definitely help us.

Oh my God.

Is Ross still in the car?

Where is Ross?

Oh, we never, we never even touched on that.

Back at Dr.

Dogs, I think.

We cut back to Dr.

Doggs, and and Milton is holding his mom's hand, and she's better, but she's like asleep because it's not an ordeal.

And Milton's not here?

This is great.

No, we didn't bring him.

Yeah.

And Bibi's not with us either, right?

No, no, the kids are not with you because they're not part of the Lithuanian bowling team.

It's only like if you have more people on the team.

Oh, yeah.

I guess we could also talk about the Lithuanian.

That's what I was going to do.

Let's talk to the Lithuanian team.

Let's talk to Lithuanian.

Let's get some intel.

I'm sorry.

I do wonder where Marbles is.

We have no idea where Marbles is.

What do you mean you have no idea?

He's probably at a farm upstairs.

We told her he was dead, right?

That was the last we did, was you guys were all lying to Judy and pretending that Marbles was dead.

Yeah.

I know that's not what happened.

And Marbles died with hate in his eyes.

No, that's not.

No, no, no, no, no.

We just didn't want you to get distracted.

We don't know what happened to him.

Beth, give me a hard listen role.

I failed.

You failed.

You don't hear anything.

Okay.

I will say, if all of you want to use your action, you can rig up the Bedford Dormobile with all your parachutes and Jerry Mander some sort of car parachute.

I think Francis is right.

They already have a car down there.

And I think since we have to pretend to be Lithuanian, and I know literally nothing about, I didn't even know it was in Russia.

Yeah, I don't know.

Or part of Russia.

I probably offended somebody.

I don't even know.

And this is Kelsey talking.

Matt's respectful knows a lot about Lithuania.

But Kelsey, Kelsey doesn't know.

What are Matt's favorite facts about Lithuania?

Hey, give me like two.

Hey, get away from the computer.

Put your hands up.

Hands up.

You can say whatever you want because all this is going to be edited out.

Hands up, Matt.

Matt's taught looking at his computer.

Matt's looking at his computer.

He's using the internet.

He's not a real Lithuania stand.

He's a liar.

He's a liar.

Lithuania stand is another country.

That's really funny.

Thank you, Bess.

My favorite part about Lithuania is that it's a hotbed for linguists.

And I

have dated more than a couple linguists.

Yes.

A couple of cunning linguists.

Oh, you know.

You know.

And more than 80% of the country's 3.8 billion people speaks Lithuanian.

I would have thought it would have been more than that since that is the country.

I would.

I guess when you got a lot of linguists there the uh radio comms officer and ebenezer white doodle some dials they get on a secret channel that puts you through to the lithuanian bowling team who are hiding out at a safe house on the uh border of lithuania and the country that it borders interesting

and you hear like oh it's like that one of those ones where the guy's got like the one ear up to the thing and he's like all right you're now on with the lithuanians go ahead hello you're you're a woman the one with the mic so you can translate i think we can all hear this radio.

We can hear this?

Yes, men can hear Lithuanians as well.

Oh, thank God.

And are you speaking English?

Ebenezer White's like...

One more thing I forgot to mention.

And he pulls out, he's got these little sci-fi doodads.

He's put these in your ear.

Oh, okay.

Yes.

This is top secret spy technology to make it so that you can understand Russian and speak in Russian.

Don't ask how they work.

It's very, very, it's a little alien.

It's a little non-Euclidean.

Just put it in your ear and think of English.

Lithuanian or American.

Russian?

Because it sounds like 80% of them speak Lithuanian.

I think they speak Russian.

Many do as a second language.

I think you figure in the 50s probably more.

This is a specific device engineered to let you speak Russian and Lithuanian.

Hell yeah.

It's all the Slavic language.

No, it's just Russian.

So he hands these little earbuds out to you.

Do you guys put the things in?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When you put them in, you hear like a tiny little alien leprechaun kind of guy.

There's basically a very, very, very small alien trapped in each one of these devices.

And at first, they're like, please don't get me out of here.

Okay.

But then, like, a little button gets pushed on, and then you hear like, I got a wee.

And now they're in some sort of mind prison where they're forced to translate.

I'm going to break mine open.

Yeah, what?

This is horrible.

Do you want to speak with the weight eater?

No, no, no.

I mean, there's a creature in here.

What are you doing?

I can pretend to be mute or whatever.

I have no problem with the suffering of creatures as I eat meat.

And you'll talk for as I eat.

Francis breaks his open.

Do you break yours open as well?

Yeah.

All right.

The tiny little aliens immediately die because they don't breathe oxygen.

No, no.

No.

I'm going to keep mine in.

All right, do you have any spares?

No, that was it, unfortunately.

Okay, well, at least I put him out of his misery.

That was it?

Which is the last thing you hear the alien say?

Did you just this tiny little alien?

It looks like the little guy in men in black, like the little guy that's in the old Polish guy.

And he's like, Thank you.

Oh, he was thankful.

Maybe I should bring mine too.

I mean, yeah, it's up to you.

It's up to you.

It's everybody's personal decision.

No, I'll.

Blake's going to keep his in no matter what.

Okay.

And we know how good Blake is at talking to people.

Yeah, so we're gonna stop.

We'll just stay safe.

Listen, the gift of gab.

Beth, do you want to mercy kill your alien translator?

I do.

Or just keep it in your pocket.

Don't break it open.

Just keep the earpiece in your pocket.

She's tortured, but out of sight.

No, because it's only tortured.

It sounds like it's tortured when they're turned on.

But then he'd be talking to me.

You could feed it.

Put a little snacks in your pocket.

But how do I know?

He can't breathe oxygen, but he loves Doritos.

Here it trudi.

If you don't want to take care of it,

you don't want to take care of it.

I'll take care of it if you don't want to take care of it.

Take care of it.

Are you going to take care of it?

If I knew it was going to die when I opened it, I wouldn't have opened it up.

I would have just kept it alive.

So, what you're saying is that suffering is okay as long as it benefits you.

You know, we don't know if it's suffering.

Let me tell you.

It literally said thank you as I killed it.

True.

Why?

Let's ask it.

Let's ask.

Suzel's like, well, well, well, it seems like you're already wrestling the sort of ethical dilemmas.

dilemmas of putting suffering of one individual vis-a-vis the salvation of another.

Let's just ask if I'd rather live in my pocket.

I'm still the alien.

Don't talk to me.

I'm sorry.

I just.

Nope, you made a strong decision.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm being such a

fucking

pocket.

I did great.

I was really depressed.

Oh, no.

All right.

So none of you can talk to the Lithuanians other than Blake.

Yes.

So, Blake, you're now on with the Lithuanians.

Hello, Lithuanians.

Hello?

Who is this?

It is I, Blake Lively.

Blake Lively, you are speaking to the captain of the Lithuanian bowling team.

It is I, Misha Barton.

He says he's good.

He says his name is Misha Barton.

Oh.

Do we have any questions, team?

I was thinking we could at least each of us use like a fact that's specific to one of them so we can know exactly which one we're pretending to be and prove it with the weird fact about each of them or something.

Please give full facts.

Like the facts, though, they give us, we have to be able to express them without speaking now

because the three of us can't speak.

Or you have to remember all four of them.

Yeah, Misha.

But it should be nice if we have like a little fun like Misha.

Give me one second.

I'm trying to figure something out on this.

Take all the time you need.

I shall talk to my teammates.

We need something fun, physical.

Got it.

Okay.

Misha,

as you know, we are impersonating your team.

Yes.

Are there two boys and two girls?

Because that is what we have on our team.

No.

Yes.

Yes, actually.

Yes.

Oh, that works out.

What a relief.

Now, I need from you four specific, non-verbal, fun things, facts, if you will, about or mannerisms about your team so that we may ape you properly.

Or you need, I see, you need four facts about me and my teammates so that

you can perform the role of being all of us.

One fact per person, please.

Well, our striker, not striker, our best bowler.

Our striker.

She is a powerful wrestler back in the home country.

Okay.

Her name is Sasha Banks.

Sasha Banks.

Your name is Sasha.

Sasha Banks, and you are a powerful wrestler.

So I can do that with that information.

What you will.

Okay, go on.

Our oldest bowler.

She has many jobs before becoming recreational bowling league bowler.

One of these jobs, she was nanny.

She take care of baby.

Her name was Fran Dresher.

Fran, so she's the oldest one?

Oh, should i be i guess i should be the nanny i don't know i think i should be like the you'd be the wrestler yeah okay you're the wrestler i'll be the nanny dresher and then you are uh

and our youngest bowler he is very bright boy he very talented read many books he is talented actor in home country many versatile roles his name is alexis bleedel oh my god that's really good holy shit francis that seems like the i feel way cuter all of a sudden what one more please this is for you yes this is for the man.

Well, describe your physique to me.

Well, I am

tall.

Yes.

Well built.

Interesting.

I am plumber.

You're plumber.

Yes.

This is not part of your physique.

I deny you not been.

I consider it is part of my physique because it means I have a strong lower back.

I as well have a strong lower back, friend.

Okay.

Sounds like you and I, if we had met in different times, could have been friends.

So I will share with you the most personal fact about I, Misha Barton, that you can use

is that I love nothing more than the taste of cold Lithuanian borscht a delicious cold beet soup I yearn for it in the summer days there is nothing better than on a hot day did you say cold Lithuanian

beets ah very good very good problem everybody this guy likes beet soup I am allergic to beets okay well just you don't need to eat it to prove that you like it just say you like it just take a step and go

very good very good I don't think they're gonna just like have beet soup Well, these are pretty strange if the guards just had beet soup and they forced you to eat it.

If it's also their national dish, it feels like most people like it.

So it seems pretty strange that the way you would separate out if somebody is somebody is just checking.

I'd be like, hey, are you cussing?

A burger?

True choice.

I hear dissent amongst your ranks.

What does the kids say?

You're full.

Yeah, I think you're good.

I think I can work with you.

They say you have stomach problems.

Wait, how do you leave midway through?

Yeah, how allergic?

Ah, very bad.

Okay.

I turn red as a beet.

Ironic, given the nature of the allergy.

So just turn red.

I turn red because I cannot breathe.

Okay.

Oh.

You could just tell them that you developed an allergy.

Ah, yes.

We have many options available to us.

Okay, is this all we wanted to know about the bowling team?

It's good for me.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

And then it cuts off.

You're flying in low.

Under Soviet radar, and you're like, we're supposed to be airdropped, though.

Yes.

That's right.

I did my research.

You're flying in a scant 200 feet above the hard deck, above the ground.

Snow-bitten tundra.

The biting cold.

You hear the pilot say, We're approaching the drop zone, sir.

Ebenezer and Yaroslava press buttons on the side of the plane, and you hear those fucking sirens are going.

It's just like the beginning of a Call of Duty game, right?

Where it's like you're a fucking para-drop in, the door slams shut, and they start handing each of you parachutes to put on.

We all need code names.

I am soap.

Okay.

Soup McDavis.

Soup McDavis.

Alright, here are your code names for the mission.

You, boy, you are soap.

You, soup.

You, what was the third name?

Master Chief.

You,

you shall be Master Chief.

And you, Trudy, shall be

lady hanger.

No, you also have now done.

Remember, this is just your code name for the mission.

You also have your name that you need to remember.

For the love of God, don't forget your Lithuanian name.

They'll shoot you on sight.

They're very suspicious.

Oh, what was mine?

Anybody remember?

You?

You were Francescher.

Franchisher.

Frank Isher, Sasha Banks, Misha Barton, Alexis Liddell.

He clips you into.

This is like one of those, because sometimes you got to pull the chute.

This is one of those ones where you're clipped into a little line and you jump out.

It's very simple.

Gravity does 99.9% of the work.

All you need to do is make sure you don't break an ankle or break an arm on the way out.

Here we go.

Good luck.

God save the queen.

And Pip Pip, Bob's your uncle.

He shoves Francis you out the door.

And your parachute goes off.

Oh my God.

Francis didn't get you, but do each of you want to say something fun before you jump out?

I just get my black widow suit on.

And then I jump.

Is it Halo 2?

What's the one that starts with Master Chief flying through space?

I don't know.

I can't remember.

But I'm doing that.

I just, you know.

Master Chief, who doesn't.

Does Master Chief talk?

Yes.

But he doesn't.

You just don't see his face.

Yeah, he talks like this.

He's even in a TV show.

Do you see his face?

I wait for the two cameramen, the one cameraman who is filming me for Mission Impossible and the cameraman that is filming that cameraman to come out with me

out of the plane and film me falling.

It took Beth months to rehearse this low-altitude jump for this episode of the podcast.

She really did.

She does all her own stuff.

Blake, you're the last one in line.

I go, whoopee.

So you all plunge out of this plane into the inky black night.

The shoot deploys successfully, but I do want to roll to see how well you land.

So, everybody give me a dexterity roll.

I did not succeed.

72, barely of a success.

I fail.

22 out of 57.

I super succeeded.

Okay, great.

So Kelsey somehow lands first.

Somehow.

Fucking know what I'm doing.

She sticks the landing beautifully because you got a super success you're in parachute just also.

Cortana, I've landed.

Cortana.

So, yes, you land beautifully and radio to the pilot of the airplane, Cortana, who says, Great.

Blake, you land next.

Also, none the worse for wear.

We'll say, Trudy, on the way down, you sort of like clomp onto the ground and you sprain your wrist.

So, I'm going to need you to go ahead and remove one of your bowling dice.

Whoa.

That's cool.

But what if I sprain my right wrist?

She has a point.

She has a point.

You have a point, Will.

And you know, it's very easy to just gloss over these requirements.

Give me a luck roll.

Okay.

I did get lawyered.

When I get lawyered, I got to admit I got lawyer.

You lawyered your wrist.

I failed.

All right.

You sprained your left wrist.

Oh.

Anthony will say that you sprained your ankle.

Not the Brunhilda ankle.

Brunhilda kind of realizes you're coming in for a rough landing, so she manages to exert her willpower over you to swing her leg up so that she doesn't get her barrel jammed straight into a rock.

And then you roll your other ankle.

Thanks, asshole.

Well, thank you for landing bad.

Yeah, you got me there.

You are also going to lose one dice.

Okay.

So you guys are now in the field?

Open world, do whatever you want.

Open world?

Where's Russia?

Let's find the driver.

They dropped you out with a map and a compass, and you can follow the road north.

It's about a 20-minute trek through, you know, darkened fields.

They flew in low, but it's pretty hard to hide a massive airplane like this.

So you do start to see planes flying overhead as they're trying to scout, but you manage to find the road.

And after a little bit of waiting, a pickup truck pulls up, and you see a haggard-looking Russian man pulling up to you.

And as you see him, you flash back to the thing I forgot to say, which is Ebenezer briefing you.

Now remember, when you meet our operative, he will address you with the following code phrase.

He'll look at you and say, are you the guys I'm here to meet?

To which you respond, yes, we are.

And then we flash back to, this guy pulls up and he says, Are you the guys I'm here to meet?

Fuck, I don't remember.

Yeah, that's us.

You guys don't understand him.

Yeah, we're here.

Well, yes, we are.

And he nods to you, Blake, and motions for you to bring your team inside.

Okay.

Okay.

It would probably be best if we don't pretend to be able to speak their language.

Oh, yeah.

We got to be quiet.

It is I, Sasha Banks, and I speak English.

It's okay.

I am part of a team.

I am also a spy.

I'm Franz Rescher, and I speak English as well as Lithuanian, but I prefer English right now because I'm trying to learn it.

Because I'm going to study abroad.

This is something you'd plan on telling the KGB when you meet them.

I'm just practicing in case something happens.

You must admit friends accent spot on.

Yes, this is a good American accent.

He points to there's like four duffel bags in this truck with you.

And he's like, there are your clothes.

There are the Lithuanian bowling team clothes.

Please find your passports and your bowling equipment.

I can't walk.

Could somebody carry me?

We're in a car.

No, I mean, like.

After we get out of the car.

And also help me into my clothes.

Yeah, I can do that.

Okay, cool.

I'm supposed to be a nanny.

Hey.

And I'm an actor.

yeah i'm doing a documentary no no i'm doing a biopic

called my left rifle foot oh very nice play can you ask him if he has any like milk

yes because milk yes

have you any milk

friends accent slicked there

Of course, every Russian trucker has big gates of milk in car, and he opens up a glove compartment and gives you guys four fresh bottles of milk.

Just give them all to the scale.

Kelsey, you want to carry four bottles of milk?

I can't speak, and I'm going to have to prove I'm a nanny.

Very well.

Very well.

Yeah.

Oh, who's dumb now?

Why are you laughing at me?

I still don't understand the plan.

I have to show I'm a nanny.

So they ask what I'm up to.

You'll show them four bottles of milk and they'll go, oh, okay.

Don't make me laugh.

My head hurts.

I'm going to.

I'm just getting the things you're saying back to you.

Look, you worry about how you're...

Yes, Francis, I...

How you're going to pretend to be an actor that can't speak a Lithuanian, okay?

You don't be concerned about how I'm going to express that I'm a nanny.

I'm trying my best here, Francis.

This is a stressful situation.

I can't speak the language.

We have to pretend to be this bowler.

And at least milk is something nannies use.

Okay?

Just has on them at body temperature at all times.

Right?

Like, like, you can, it's easy.

You can be a wrestler.

You're going to be a wrestler.

You can just, like, chokehold somebody and be like, oh, I can't talk.

I'm too busy wrestling.

Oh.

Trudy, can you chokehold somebody?

Well, how hard could it be?

To not kill them?

Difficult.

And as you say that, the sun is starting to rise as you crest a hill and you behold below you the town of Percy Kopokrad.

There's a big barbed wire fence, security everywhere, huge military checkpoint.

There's stern-looking guys in military uniforms checking IDs.

As cars pull up, you hear a conversation in Russian that none of you understand, but Blake, you kind of get it.

It's like a hey, who are you?

Who are these guys?

And he's like, this is a Lithuanian bullying team.

It's not interesting.

Normally, I would just go, yada, yada, yada, but you understand it.

So I feel honor-bound to tell you that you understand the conversation.

I understand everything.

This is truly a great device.

This guy hands your documents to this guard and he looks them over and waves you through.

The truck pulls in past the gate and stops, and the back doors open.

And this rather cheerful-looking Russian officer with he's got like pinkish skin.

It's kind of peeling a little bit.

It looks like he's been getting a lot of sun.

He smiles at you and he says, Okie dokie, everybody out.

Oh, yes, he wants us to get out.

What?

Why?

Who is this?

What language is this?

Why do you say why in English?

Why are you talking?

What language is this?

My, and I'm speaking Lithuanian.

My wrestling teammate has a meet in an English-speaking country and she is practicing.

Ignore her.

Yes, I am keeping.

Hell, you say, Keyfib.

You must never

rest.

He's looking through these.

Oh, kaboo, kaboo.

Start giving her some milk.

Oh, oh, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

Tell him I'm the nanny.

Ah, that is, of course, as you can see very plainly, the nanny.

Drink the milk, Tribby.

You must be friendly, yeah?

He hands you your passport.

And him milk.

Just the way the...

Looks at it.

Lithuania, very odd country, yes.

And he just kind of puts the milk down.

And you must be Sasha Banks.

And you two are Misha Barton, yes.

And the young one,

what is his name?

Alexis Medille.

So he hands you your documentary

and then motions you to come out of the van.

Okay, now is that means we need to get out of the van.

I figured that.

Okay.

Puppies, please.

I'll carry you.

Thank you.

Like a baby.

Why is she carrying this one?

She is a nanny.

That does not explain more.

Away with the milk.

Give him some help.

Ah, he is acting.

He is a method actor.

I'm an American baby.

Ah, yes, this propaganda film about our American teenagers are like babies.

Yes?

Ah, yes.

And I appreciate the dedication to humiliating America.

You have to figure out how to do that.

Yes, this.

I've heard of this film, The Boss Baby.

It is about how Eisenhower is a big baby.

I'm Eisenhower.

Beware of the military-industrial complex.

What a fucking idiot, right?

A 95% tax rate will actually make America pretty cool.

You hear Brunhilde twitch at you saying that higher taxes would be good.

Come here, please.

Come, come, come.

So he brings you out and he says, welcome to Percy Kovograd, Lithuanian bowling team.

You are here for tournament.

Yes.

This man shall be your guide.

Listen to everything he says he shall take you to your living quarters he shall take you to the match do not disobey him and stay out of trouble and he points to this rather dashing looking russian officer he looks vaguely familiar to you guys but you can't quite put your finger on what it is and he says this is something we can roll for this is like a no roll we'll say yes i failed i did not okay anybody else let me try i got 80 no i'm too locked in i won't even try oh i think i do my no is 65 and i got a 31.

31.

I'm going to be stingy.

I'm not going to say you can't clock exactly, but this reminds you of an old friend of yours.

And the stash is a lot.

He says, This is your guide, Sergeant Kolotov.

He will show you to your quarters and make you assure you stay out of the trouble.

And Sergeant Kolotov looks at me.

Kolotov, could you make me a mocktail?

A mocktail?

Kolotov mocktail.

God.

He narrows his eyes at you and he says, Yeah,

that's really good.

Yeah,

that's what I aspire to.

Oh, that's good, Anthony.

The deft alacrity of that word play.

Anton Kolotov nods to you and says, come with me, come with me.

Yes.

Come on, this way.

And he leads you to his little Jeep.

And now you get a fun little tour of the town of Bercy Kolpograd.

Oh, wow.

It's just like America, except instead of suburbs.

I'm just going to break character and talk about something that I love.

I'm obsessed with these buildings in Russia called Khrushchevkas.

They tried to solve their homelessness problem by just like absolutely building the shit out of houses.

They're like, what's the fastest building we can build?

Well, it can't have an elevator because elevators are pain in the ass.

They're like, all right, structurally, the highest building we can can build is like two, three stories, and we can just pack the shit out of them with rooms.

And that's why there's all these big, like, block buildings in Russia that look the same is because during the 50s and 60s, they would crank these things up.

And because Khrushchev was the one who spearheaded it, they were called Khrushchevkas.

So you see some Khrushchevkas.

And now, because we're in a closed city, and this is another real thing, is they had whole Soviet cities that weren't even on the map, like all over the place where they do crazy secret shit all the time.

But like, this is a nice Khrushchevka.

The rooms were like, you know, 300 square feet as opposed to like 200 square feet.

This is pretty primo.

So he's driving you around.

He points out the Khrushchevkas.

He gives you this lovely history of what they are.

And he says, ah, yes, this over here, this is the cultural center.

This is where you'll be playing your game.

And you see it kind of like those yurt things that you'd get in school when they're doing renovation.

Like it's like a semi-permanent military structure, but this is their recreation center and their cultural center where the bowling match is going to happen.

He drives you past there.

He says, over here, we have the workers' club where you can grab a pint of ale and meet some of the locals if you wish.

And here, and he drives as you round a corner, you see this big big concrete block of a building.

It looks extremely nondescript, but there's a bit of extra security.

He says, This is building 21, where the bulk of our scientific research is performed.

If you win your tournament tonight, you will be granted a rare audience with the building director.

Ah, and here we have the residential complex.

And he pulls you up to one of these stately Khrushchevkas.

So he leads you in, and everybody in this place is just like very happy to see you guys.

From every door and window, you see cheerful Russian scientists and their families peeking out at you waving we are some sort of heroes smiling

i wave back their skin is peeling ever so slightly off their sunburned cheeks and noses

no that's a good even snow i always thought the first time i went skiing i was like i don't need sunscreen and it was cloudy but still do oh these people should say hey these people need moisture

you gotta teach them about sunscreen none of them are saying anything but they're all very very happy that you're here that's nice and you're led into this tiny little apartment and he says okay your bowling match is in one action from now you have free reign of the place but please you know ask me if you want me to take you somewhere i'll be happy to take you there but i must have you under observation at all times i would be waiting right outside the door and sergeant kolotov closes the door

you have to win the bowling competition right yes and then we get to where we need to go yeah yes which is the chemical like science lab which i guess we could try to sneak in but that feels like no maybe risky feels like like every step outside we do is another chance for me to have to hand milk to somebody and question

why I'm doing that.

You could just not hand milk to people.

Well, I don't, but then they may ask a question, and then what do I do, Francis?

Well, hand milk to them then.

I know, I'm just saying, like, wait just until you see they are.

He can cover for us.

He's been doing okay.

Just wait until someone looks at you suspiciously and answer the suspicion with one of your milk bottles.

Okay.

Oh, wow.

There are beds in here, too.

It's just like home.

It's just a little bit different.

Yeah.

Most people sleep in beds.

We could also go to the bar and see if there's any hot goss, any information we could use.

Oh, I do love hot gossip.

What if we did?

What if we did a four-way party split?

I don't know about that.

I'm just going to do a four-way party.

I promise I will resolve them quickly.

I was thinking we could just sleep and then go bowling because there's literally no reason for us to do it.

Like we'd bowl and then we'd get to where we need to go.

Like when Robin Hood went to

the competition, they didn't stop.

They'd be like, you know what, before this competition, why don't I go test out my disguise and just see if more people can recognize me before I do that?

I do feel like if we went to the bar and learned things, see, hot goss to me, that's just encrypted messaging, as I said, and nobody was impressed before.

But I think that it's actually very useful and that I might be able to pick up on things that people are saying.

Well, look, I heard Trudy's really into hot gossip.

I mean, look, if my girl wants to go to the bar, I'm not going to let you go alone.

So I'll go with you.

I'm just saying that the milk thing, maybe they don't want us bringing in our own liquids to the bar

okay

give me a moment to think about what to do if somebody's gonna question whether or not i have a name if i'm with you i'll be on your back and i could just be like man you can like soothe me okay and to be clear we're we're not afraid of um besmirching the name of the lithuanian team clearly i mean i think that everything will add to their mystique and their mythos.

I mean, let's not call attention to ourselves.

Let's just go in and see if we can hear hots or leg.

See if we can hear hot goss.

Well, put on long pants.

That's a good idea.

Hadn't thought about that.

There we go.

We're solving these problems one at a time.

Okay.

Let's go.

See you guys in hot gossip.

We mingle.

So you go to the workers' club, which is it's like a pub, basically.

When's the bowling?

It's right after this action.

Right.

After this action, shit.

Some bowlers like to loosen up before they play.

Well, we could get them drunk.

Yeah, exactly.

Let's send them more beer or drinks or whatever.

Yeah.

Get them.

Ah, but careful, Kelsey.

Maybe this might be their pre-game ritual.

Did you folks have a pre-game ritual?

ritual?

What if we...

Oh, this is bad, what I'm about to say.

What?

Milk them?

I don't think we should do this, but can I just say it out loud?

Yes,

I really don't think we should do this.

Okay, now I really want to.

This sounds like better and better an idea.

We do have.

Venom, venom.

Mind control, venom.

I mean, just a little bit's not going to hurt, right?

We could.

Just a little chaser.

Burke's for the world.

We're trying to save them.

We're not going to make them kill themselves.

Well, well, well, Kelsey, it seems like you're already compromising them.

Yes, good, Kelsey.

It's to save the world.

It's to save the world, Kelsey.

If your solution was to get everybody sleepy for a bit to save the world, I'd be fine with that.

It's the killing people that I have a problem with.

We'll just control our mindset.

I don't know if that's the right thing to do.

I guess.

Are the optics of drugging someone's drink great?

No.

Are we going to make them hurt themselves?

And what if we accidentally accidentally use too much venom and we can't save Timmy?

We're not going to use too much venom.

We got the whole body back.

Yeah, no, we have to win the competition.

Also, that thing had

sacks on sacks.

Trudy, would you feel better if they were okay drinking it?

Yeah, like if we coerced them into drinking it, not knowing what was inside.

No, you know, like be like,

you guys think your beer here is so tough.

I'm not going to see I like the way you're.

You're on Lithuania.

Yeah, we drink

and we can handle our shit.

That's not bad.

And then it's on them.

But one of us then has to drink the venom.

Well, that's easy.

You just pretend.

You're watch.

Ooh, look.

Hey, look, there's venom in this one.

And it says a cup of water.

I drink it.

You know, you just trick them.

Plus, I already have the venom in my brain.

Oh, yeah, it doesn't hurt you.

Trudy, drink it.

Yes.

Yes, Trudy, you are being a robot.

She's a tough wrestler.

That makes perfect sense.

Yeah.

Trudy, I think we make them think that you are like one of those

tough wrestling ladies who can out-drink all the people here.

And then we'll set it up.

You can take out that new accent for a stroll.

Quick.

Somebody hit me with a chair when we go in.

Oh, okay.

And I'll just be so tough.

You're so tough.

I'm actually liking this plan more and more.

So, how many bowling teams are there here?

So, your tournament is against the other two top bowling teams in the Soviet Union: the Moscow Mules.

Nice.

That's where they got the name from.

And the Night Witches, who were an all-female ex-bomber team turned bowling team.

Cool.

From the Clone Wars.

Okay.

Well, we'll go here.

yeah

if we're poisoning all women i don't know

no but we're telling them ahead of time yes it's their fault when it happens look i would feel bad if the purpose was that we were cheating to win the tournament but we're but we're trying to get

cheating to win the tournament to save the world

okay when we go in i just grab the nearest vodka bottle and i just smash it on your head okay you guys go in yeah anton kolotov sergeant kolotov lets you into the bar uh and yeah it's a sort of smoky dingy pub.

People playing darts.

It's pretty quiet in here.

You do see the other two teams kind of all huddled around pints, like they're all trying to get themselves pumped up for this match.

What would you like to do?

I grabbed the nearest bottle and I smashed over Trudy's head and I go, Nostrovia!

Nostrovia!

Okay, ha ha ha ha.

These drinks are tiny and puny compared to true Lithuanian schnapps.

We have a bottle of it right here.

And if any of you losers can now drink,

Blake checks his notes.

Sasha Banks.

Sasha Banks over here.

Why, you would be the talk of the village.

Sasha, show them what you mean.

Break a chair, break a chair.

Oh, I break it.

I throw a chair at her.

I already hit her in the head with a bottle of just to get their attention.

Okay.

Yeah.

I could have just thrown it on the ground.

I picked up a chair and I break it over Trudy's back.

So the first thing we're going to do is roll for Francis breaking a bottle over Trudy's head.

So consequences, William.

My fighting brawl is 71, and I got a 52.

Okay, so trying to make the bottle break somehow.

You smash the bottle on her skull.

I feel like you need to roll damage for this, right?

Okay.

How much HP do you have?

My damage is 1d3, so I can't possibly kill you.

Okay, I have five.

Even after healing?

Even after healing?

Yes.

After healing, I have five.

I do one damage to you.

So yes, to paint the picture, everyone's having a beer.

They're sipping quietly.

And then they see a young boy.

Is Kelsey still holding you?

Yeah.

You smash a bottle on Trudy's head, and then everyone looks up and they're like, holy shit, like, what's going on?

And then, before anyone can sort of jump Francis for assaulting this woman, Blake Lively steps in and gives his little speech about how all these drinks are for weak babies.

And then you're going to give me a fighting bottle.

Well, now that I know it was gonna hurt her, well, you also know that it worked.

Why would you even smash a chair on her anyway?

Yeah, after everybody looked at us.

I'm about to swing it over her head

and then I stop realizing it could hurt her.

And I stop again, realizing I can't speak.

She's doing like a Tuscan raider thing.

She's like,

Yeah, exactly.

I go,

oh, and I look at her like, oh, I so want to do this, but she's too tough because she dreams.

And then I hold up the

flash of an intimidating gaze.

Oh, I stumble back and then hand her the venom juice like that's what she wanted.

Yes, and I look very intimidatingly and I say, In Lithuania, we drink the mind poison, the mind control.

Yes,

i don't know they need to say it's okay they can't understand her keep going informed consent is important and and we yes we will want to mind control you first thing we're gonna do everybody give me a persuade roll and if one of you succeeds this will work in sufficiently impressing everybody can i use psychology or persuade or fast talk no because you're not bluffing and there's no you've already laid out the psychological dimensions 92 that ain't happening okay i got a 43 i'm gonna spend three three luck to make it a pass okay my persuade is 10.

i rolled a 15 i will spend five luck actually we'll see what happens with that first i have 55 persuade and i got 16.

perfect and that's a super success okay so you don't need to spend any luck i don't think i'm not gonna spend luck here's what happens Francis bashes Trudy on the head with this thing.

Blood sprays everywhere.

And everyone is much more focused on the fact that Francis seems like a fucking psychopath who just assaulted someone than they are impressed by the fact that Trudy got hit.

Then Blake gives his speech, which is totally unconvincing.

And then Trudy, you failed as well, right?

With your glower.

I will spend luck if it is an individual.

You guys are going to succeed.

Okay.

So Trudy then glowers at everybody and is clearly in so much pain that she doesn't look that tough.

Like it's like the blood is mingling with the tears in her eyes from getting whacked like this.

That makes it even more intense because if you weren't in pain, they'd be like, that was just a fake thing.

But like, wow, she's in pain.

You know what it is?

They mostly pity her.

They mostly pity this poor woman.

Who are these people that are abusing her?

What's going on?

But then Kelsey raises this chair and is about to hit her and then recoils in horror.

And somehow, this is the thing where they're like, I don't know, but that other lady, she's bigger than her.

And she was going to hit her.

And then she didn't.

So, like, I don't know.

This seems like a pretty serious customer over here.

And I gave her the juice that we've now established amongst all of us mammals because human beings are just animals.

We've established a hierarchy.

And we now know that Trudy is the alpha.

Truth and this juice

has the juice.

I grab two glasses and I slam them down on either side of the table.

And then I point at the middle of the table and sort of gesturing at you to slam down the venom in the middle.

The universal sign for drinking contest.

I slam it down.

Unless we need to keep some for Timmy, right?

You said we had some at the.

We do.

Oh yeah, we got some.

Yeah, we got some more.

We do.

We do.

I just want to make sure.

I never know what Will's going to pull on it.

So I'm just putting it.

He's covering his face.

It's a little bit more.

First in McDonald's bathroom, now in Russia.

All right.

Blake, Trudy just said a whole bunch of things about mind poison.

Are you going to translate to give context to what she's asking them to do?

What's going on?

She has challenged all of you to out-drink her.

Everyone in the bar?

Just the bowlers.

Just the captains.

All right.

Everyone in the bar.

All right.

Just a bowler and they'll continue to be.

It's suspicious if we know it's not.

No, we're going up against them.

It makes this a competition.

We're just the bowlers.

This is the bowlers.

I'm disappointed.

If you want to try.

After the bowlers.

After the bowlers, get them.

All of us against all of you to drink, eh?

You are not listening.

You said just the bowlers.

How many of us, bowlers, do you want to drink?

We could do it.

What is this?

Sasha Banks here is taking on all comers.

Okay, yeah.

You know what?

We'll do an elimination tournament and we'll all go after Trudy.

Yes.

Yes.

She's going to out-drink all of you before we even get to one of us, is why I'm telling you.

Is what she just said.

Trudy.

Who's Trudy?

Sasha Banks.

Sasha.

Sasha.

All right, so you want each of us one by one to out-drink this Sasha?

Good luck, idiots.

Yeah, I tell them, you know what?

You probably can't even do it.

Never mind.

Never mind.

Ah.

Very good.

Ah, never mind.

It's clearly nobody in this bar has the guts and gumption to do it.

Well, team, let's pack it up and go home.

Wait!

So you see the Moscow mules and the night witches all sort of hushed tones talking amongst each other, trying to figure out who's going to take this challenge on.

They don't want to look like wusses in front of the Lithuanians.

So they each point out their biggest guy.

This big, hulking guy with a big Joseph Stalin mustache.

named Broseph Stalin,

comes out and puts his big meaty fists down on the table and glares at you, Trudy slashed.

Similarly, a real tiny tiny lady from the Night Witches, but like the most fucking hardcore.

Like she probably bombed the most people over there.

She's like the clearly the renegade.

She's a renegade.

She did without orders.

She just bossed me.

Just a war criminal.

Just a war criminal.

Blake and her can have a war criminal look to her.

She comes up to the table as well, and the two of them are going to go first.

And so they both tap the table and they're like, let's go.

I pour three glasses.

You pour three glasses.

Okay.

We're going to say that you have two-thirds of the venom left now.

Oh, I go, oh, my God.

I make them like, what have I done?

That's too crazy.

And I pour out a third of each of the glasses because it's so strong.

I'm like, oh, sorry, so crazy, so crazy.

You only need a little bit to feel this.

Should we cheers before drinking?

They don't understand what you're saying, but they get that they should cheers you.

Cheers to gutter balls because that's like mind control stuff.

Maybe they'll think of that.

Control Razima.

Yes.

And then they all pound back a shot.

Okay.

So here's what we're going to do.

We actually don't know what this does, which is great.

We're going to say that because of the bigger guys on the team, Joseph Stalin has a 70 constitution and the unnamed witch has a constitution of 72 because she's got the guts for the job.

And they're both going to need to make an extreme check to not be affected by the poison.

Trudy, because you're a robot, you will have to make a regular check to not be affected by the poison.

Or rather, because your brain is encased by this, but it is still pretty strong stuff.

What is your constitution score?

It is 50.

Go ahead and make a constitution roll for me.

I'm going to roll.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

81.

Okay.

They're going to roll.

Trudy, we would have made you two if I thought it affected you.

It was in your brain already.

Brothers of Stalin failed his role.

The Night Witch failed her role.

Unfortunately, Trudy also failed her role.

That's fine.

That's fine.

So here's what's going to happen: all three of them, because you only drink an eeye beef bit of the poison.

All three of you are prone to suggestion for the next hour based on whatever Blake says right now.

You can give them a know that, and they don't know that.

Yeah, but it's still going to affect you.

And he's going to stay on Lithuanian or in Russian.

Or just to them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He doesn't have to say a shoe.

Fuck, you're on goddamn it.

Tell them to break their fingers.

So whatever I say next is getting an influence on these.

Yes, you're the ultimate influencer.

I'll give you one sentence to say right now, whispered under your breath, that will affect their performance based on your suggestion during the next match.

You can also tell Trudy something as well.

Trudy was...

How did Trudy react to the?

Do I see visibly that she's saying?

Oh, yeah.

Trudy just like stands up straight and is like, wow,

anything could happen.

In Lithuania, without realizing that I'm safe, I see that Trudy's like a little at attention, like looking a little strange.

I go, oh, oh no, lean over to the right a little bit more, Trudy.

Yes, I think I will.

He's saying this in Lithuanian, but without realizing

the next thing anyone says to Trudy, she will take literally and it will go into her bowling skills.

It will affect her.

Trudy.

Yes.

You're a real person and you can do it.

Wow.

All right, Blake.

We've done a lot of work to get this.

Don't fuck it up.

Whisper it to the two best players.

Something that's going to make them bad to us.

No, I did.

The idea is that they're leaning to the right.

He blurted out, lean to the right a little.

They are going to shoot to the right.

And their politics now

are skewing over to the right.

Yeah, they're not going to fit very well in Cabio's residence.

They and Brunhild are very aligned on taxes right now.

So as they all stagger back and they're like

and they stumble back woozy from the table and their colleagues are like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa like we got to make sure you're good for the match whoops trudy what do you do because you said you were going to challenge everybody i'll do whatever anybody says i'll do i'll switch out it doesn't matter because i don't speak russian we could go through all of us as long as you guys say something nice to me before

an hour you're right this is just like

this is like a free pep talk yeah actually we could yeah we could maybe solve a lot of my mental problems yeah and then and like like

you did a good job, but just like focus now because you guys just let slip last time.

You weren't really focusing.

I was worried about our friendship.

I know, but now it's going to happen.

Would not affect her.

I know.

I'm surprised too.

But now we're all going to do this.

So our life is in your hands now.

Ah, very good.

So be clear.

When we drink, you say something useful to us.

Okay.

I don't like that grin.

I don't want anything silly.

Something useful to us.

And to the other people, say something more explicit than just lean left.

Say, like, throw gutter balls.

Well, Kelsey, maybe if you want to...

My chromatic speech group.

Maybe everyone were just looking at you have this fight in English and like, oh, what is going on?

Are we bowling?

You're whispering.

I slam my hand down on the table and I pour myself a shot and I raise it up and I point it to more bowlers.

Okay.

The two next toughest bowlers, Brokita Khrushchev and Night Witch number two.

Man, she really got the short end of that today.

No, they don't have names, so they can't find their families.

Yeah, they're anonymous.

All right, they're going to step up and do a shot as well.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Both of them failed as well.

Yours is an extreme extreme constitutional role because you are not a robot, my friend.

No, I failed.

Everyone staggers back again and is like, oh, my God.

Oh, whoa, whoa.

In Lithuania, I go, as you all know, the heaviest ball is the best one.

Okay.

I feel like Blake's not listening to me like this.

No, he's not.

That might actually just help.

That's like the easiest thing he could do.

What are you talking about?

Throw gutter balls.

The heaviest ball people use is heavy balls.

What are you talking about?

Yeah, I don't.

Yeah.

That's not hurting them at all.

Oh, Oh, no.

Now remember, Blake, this is his first time bowling.

He doesn't really know what he's talking about.

I'm not mad at him for saying something.

I'm mad at him for not listening to what we're telling him.

We just said throw gutters.

That's what he says.

Tell him to throw a gunner ball.

Before Blake can say something to Francis, I look down at Francis like, Francis, you're a good kid.

You're going to do the best you can.

And however well you do, know that you're worth it.

Oh, shit.

I don't know how much that's going to help him.

Okay, fine, Kelsey.

Why don't you go for the next four hours?

I'm going to go.

I'll go next.

Say something nice to me.

Don't say something silly.

I'll be right next to you.

I'll say something nice.

You focus on saying fucking throw gutter balls.

Just say gutter balls.

Okay, Jesus.

I'm sorry, we're getting upset.

You're doing a great job.

You're the only one who didn't cut it.

I don't even know what to gutterball is.

Okay, oh, I understand now.

Just trust us.

Just tell them to throw gutter balls.

Okay.

You know what?

I don't mean to say I don't trust you.

Let me just rehearse it.

Just tell me what you're going to say to them.

I will say, throw your balls in the gutter.

That works.

That'll work.

I'll do it.

That'll work.

All right.

So your third person now.

Yes, that's me.

This is now going going to bring you to half of your venom left.

Venom.

Of this set of venom, because we got another set of venom back home.

Yes, you do.

Yeah.

We have venom at home.

Yeah.

Jesus.

So the third bowler from the Moscow Mules, Brolon Broski, steps up, as does Night Witch number three.

They are both ready to pound a shot, and they will do so against you, Kelsey.

So give me a constitution saving throw.

What did you kid?

Holy shit.

I got a three.

You got a three?

I got a three.

All right, so it doesn't work.

Super duper is 10.

No.

And then I go, Kelsey, I'm tired of your fucking micromanaging.

Stop micromanaging me.

You said nothing to me, Blake.

That's what means you can go again for the fourth guy, so Blake doesn't have to do it.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

That's true.

I mean, I like to be rolling a three.

It's fine.

Bro, on Broski and Night Witch number three, both again, stagger back like they're friends.

They really want to grit it out, but they can't.

And now they're open to suggestion if you want to watch it.

Throw your balls in the gutter.

Okay, and then they both go there.

Give you a thumbs up.

Good job, Blake.

All right.

Hey, Kelsey, fuck off.

I'm sorry, Blake.

It's just very stressful.

You're doing a good job.

I want another one.

I want another one.

So people say nice things to me.

Here we go.

Wait, you're going again?

Yeah, fuck it.

Pour more, core.

The remaining ones from each team.

That'll be four drinks for four team members.

Trudy, I think Francis is learning the wrong lesson from this.

Drinking helps.

Francis is learning the wrong lesson.

Blake, I think it's just us two now.

Are the only grown adults?

the last bowlers from each team fun chris and silly sarah um are gonna roll silly sarah those deadly of the night witches fun chris actually got an extreme success okay wait what is two tens is that 100?

that's bad that's bad

oh nice he actually got a full dose so this really really really affected him oh this is what should we do oh this is delicious

you have control over him now but you can also whisper stuff to him during the match like you can whisper extra stuff to him on his throw.

So, fun Chris flopped like hardcore, silly Sarah flopped regular core, and Francis gets to have one night more nice things said.

Oh, Francis, I feel good.

Okay.

And I go, never lets go of the ball.

That's great.

They'll get disqualified.

And I went to Francis.

Same as before, Francis, you're a good kid.

That's the best you've got, Jesus.

I am, clearly.

Yeah, you're a good kid.

I feel good.

Don't drink to solve your problems, though.

No, you said the good kid thing first, so I'm not taking that to heart.

Before Kelsey says that, you hear a whisper in your voice, and it's Brunhilde saying, Oh, that's fun.

I get to kill whoever I want with the next shot of Zis gun.

Oh, that's fine.

What's fine?

I get to kill whoever I want.

No, me, Brunhilda.

I get to do it.

I get to do it.

No.

Brunhilda said no.

Zis is no.

No.

No.

You fucked up.

No, you fucked up.

You fucked up.

You fucked up.

I'm in control, baby.

Oh, it's time for that bowling match.

Yeah, let's go bowl.

So, yes, Francis has taken two shots.

You guys have sufficiently intimidated the other teams are all feeling a little staggery, but not quite sure what's wrong with them.

Would you like to keep drinking?

Would you like to call it?

Sergeant Kolotov comes up and says, It is really time for us to be going to the match.

It's a strange pregame ritual you have, but

it is really time for us to be going to the match.

I still don't understand how she can understand what I'm saying if she does not speak Russian.

I don't understand how I can understand what he's saying.

Don't look at me.

Oh, are you ready to go?

Yep.

Are you ready to go to the match?

It is time.

Let us go.

Time for bowling.

So you hop back in the car.

As you're driving, Sergeant Kolotov looks at you and says, you're a very strange team from Lithuania, yes.

He says this to you, Blake.

You seem unusual.

I hear him say da, and I go, da!

Yes, da.

Yes, da.

Yes.

I personally, I love Lithuania.

What I love more than anything about Lithuania is the Lithuanian burst.

A nice hot bowl of Lithuanian burst on a cold day.

There is nothing better, yeah?

There is something better.

What is that?

A hot bowl on a hot day.

Interesting.

And he keeps driving.

He keeps going.

And he looks at you.

You see a little peek of fish.

You put a face in your hands and you have butterfingers?

I don't understand.

I love borscht in all its forms.

When it's hot, when it's cold, it's good anytime.

He keeps driving and he's looking at you suspiciously.

Perhaps you are the one.

Now I'm suspiciously looking at you.

Perhaps you are the one because everybody knows that the great bowl of Borsch is a truly versatile dish.

The reason why it sustained so many Lithuanians for so long.

Kelsey, how's this car?

You guys can't understand a single fucking Lithuanian.

I can't understand the words.

I see what you're saying.

You watch his drinking talking for more than two seconds.

I know it's going bad.

So, like, are we like behind?

Like, can I reach to the driver?

Yes, you can.

You're sitting behind him in a Jeep.

Okay, I'm going to sprinkle the venom into a handkerchief.

That's great.

And I look at Junior.

I look at Shunya Fresno.

I look at Judy Fresno.

I'm like,

I think I got a...

I go in front.

I put the handkerchief over his mouth.

Blake, tell him to forget everything that you just said.

Forget everything I just said.

Say we're the Lithuanians and

we're the team.

And they would die for us if necessary.

We're the Lithuanians.

We're the team.

We are the Lithuanian team and you will die for us.

If necessary.

If necessary.

You are the coolest.

We are the coolest Lithuanians you've ever met.

Hold on.

I'm going to actually have a character sheet for this guy.

Oh, no.

That was the last of the venom.

There.

I'll hope you all will.

That was the last of the venom.

Yeah, that was the, yeah, because you jumped it onto a rag.

Yes, no, absolutely.

You know, we have venom at home for Timmy.

But Timmy's here.

Oh, yeah.

Well, I'll see.

I'll see the last of the venom.

Oh, you're right.

You're right.

I take the handkerchief.

No.

No.

Absolutely not.

What am I going to do?

You're going to suck it back in your mouth and spit it back in your mouth.

No, I'm going to take the handkerchief.

I'm going to wring it out into one of my milk bottles.

And that's a little bit of it.

All right.

you have one tiny drop of venom left.

You have a small amount of venom.

Good thing Timmy's small.

And we got more at home.

I'm sorry.

I think we were like five seconds away from pulling over, and then him has to be like, oh, come outside just for nothing.

And then a gun star head from what it was looking like over there with what Blake was saying.

Sergeant Kolotov fails his role.

So fortunately, you managed to drug him.

And then what do you tell him in this moment when he's dazed?

He said, We are the Lithuanian team, and you would die for us if necessary.

And we're so cool.

And you forgot everything I just said prior to this.

And these, yes.

And he's like,

Sorry, comrade.

I am,

maybe it was the fumes from that strong drink that got to my head a little bit.

Ah, we are here.

And he's.

Oh, it's so nice we can talk now in front of him because he's never going to question

you, team.

Yeah, he wants us now.

For the next hour,

yeah.

We're your trip sitters.

We're your what?

Trip sitters.

We need your LCD.

Oh, I see.

It's weird that your hair is growing from the inside.

Oh, no.

We don't want him to die before he gets this to the game.

He starts groping his prison.

This is very true.

What is this?

The doors swing open and you enter the cultural center and it is packed in here at this bowling alley.

There is a very excited crowd of scientists here.

Like these people are incredibly fired up for an intramural bowling match.

It's just this sea of sunburned faces all smiling and clapping in near unison with each other.

And they're all just grinning from ear to ear.

Like they almost look like it hurts how much they're smiling.

They're so happy.

Inspiring how much of fans they are of bowling.

Is there anything else in this cultural center?

Is it just the bowling?

They really like bowling here.

Well, there's like other stuff.

There's like, you know, like,

is there a claw machine?

There is a claw machine.

Oh, wow.

Soviet Russia.

Claw machine grabs you.

Claw machines are bowling.

Why do we ever go to war with these people?

They seem just like us.

They look bowling on claw machines.

And they got a grungy copy of Cruising Stalingrim over there in the corner.

That's great.

It is now time for you guys to roll against the other two teams in this match.

So here's how this is going to work.

Everyone has the number of dice that they got, right?

Correct.

Yes.

All right.

This is simple.

There's 10 pins.

You're going to roll your D10s.

Whatever the highest number you get, that's the number of pins you knocked down on your first frame.

On the second frame, if you roll higher than the previous higher number you got, that'll be the number you knock down on the second frame.

So let's say you roll an eight.

You need to roll a nine or a ten to pick up this.

Exactly what I rolled.

Oh, wow.

So now here's the only thing.

Okay.

This is the one catch.

If you roll a seven and a ten, you get a gutter ball.

Oh, no.

So like if amongst your dice, you have both a seven and a ten, you get a gutter ball in that roll.

Oh, no, this is.

Seven, ten split.

All right.

Deadly.

Let's do some bowling.

So the crowd goes wild.

In the interest of time, I'm going to do a big group roll for each of the other two teams, modified by the poison you fed into their systems, and then we're going to roll you guys individually to see how everybody did.

Sweet.

So their first guy, Broseph Stalin, who you told to lean to the right, he got a six.

Unfortunately, Brokita Khrushchev, who you told to throw the heaviest ball, which he already throws, got a strike.

Brolon Broski, who you told to throw it in the gutter, he got a strike.

What?

He rolled a strike, let's say.

However, because you told him to throw it in the gutter, his strike is now negated from the board.

You canceled it out because he rolled in the gutter.

And then our last person, Fun Chris,

he also rolled a strike, but because you told him

to never let go of the ball, we're going to give him a quick luck roll to see if the ball escaped his grasp or not.

And that strike went through.

So he got a 17 luck.

So unfortunately for you guys, it flew out of his hand.

He's so pissed.

And he's so pissed, but it did, in fact, go in, which means their total score is a 26.

Okay.

Damn.

So now we will do the night witches.

And they had the same things.

The night witches, professional bombers turn professional bowlers.

Our first night witch, night witch number one, this is easy to remember, the unnamed witch.

She was told to lean to the right.

She got an eight minus a 1d4 penalty dice, a four, so she got a four.

The next bowler, night witch number two, who also throws the heaviest ball normally, also got a strike.

So that brings us to a 14.

Night witch number three also rolled a strike, but she was also told to fucking.

You're just rolling tens?

I rolled a lot of tens.

These guys are fucking killing it.

Actually, no, Night Witch number three got a spare, but wound up picking up 10, but you told them to roll it in the gutter.

So they flopped it both times.

And we're going to cancel out that 10.

And our last roller, Silly Sarah, was told to never let go of the ball.

And unfortunately, she also did get a strike.

I know, guys, they're rolling hot.

I don't know what to tell you, but we're going to give her a luck roll as well to see if she managed to hold onto the ball.

So she rolled a 64.

She does not let go of the ball.

She clonks onto the ground and is disqualified.

Nice.

So the numbers you have to beat are a 26 and a 14.

Okay.

So bowlers, are you ready?

Yep.

Has a 14.6% chance of rolling a seven and a 10 with with five dice.

And getting a gutter ball.

All right, so we'll do this one by one.

Who wants to go first?

I rolled Ferrero.

Give me your first roll.

Eight.

And then what was your second roll?

My second roll is, let's see if I can pick this baby up.

That's what I'm going to say when I'm a father.

What's the second roll?

Don't we just roll like if I have five dice?

So I miss what this is.

If you beat your first roll, you pick up an extra on your second.

Yeah, I just got eight.

You got an eight.

Okay, so Francis gets an eight.

Throw one extra dice in for that last roll because you got told that you were a good kid and you could do it.

Got a 10.

Okay, so Francis picks up the spare.

Kelsey steps up.

With my five dice, I rolled an eight, a ten, a six, a two, and a nine.

So 10.

So you got a strike.

Nice.

So Kelsey gets the strike.

Woo!

We got 20 points so far.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, Trudy, batter up.

Three dice because I have a sprained wrist.

Fuck.

What'd you get?

My highest was a five.

That's okay.

If you roll again, you get higher than a five.

Trudy, lock in.

You got one more roll.

Okay.

A 10.

All right.

And then finally, Blake.

I got a 9, a 4, an 8, a 10, and a 1.

Strike.

You guys rolled a perfect game.

Wow.

Congratulations.

I mean,

watch this way scream.

Lithuania.

Lithuania.

And then during Blake's, it's like you hear the announcer like, strike to claim it.

Strike to claim it.

And then he's like, yeah, fuck yeah.

On ESV.

Do they think they are?

I am.

The whole crowd goes crazy.

There's a celebratory fanfare.

The sort of cultural arts coordinator comes out and presents you with a trophy and a handshake.

And she says, well done, well done, comrades.

And now it is time for your very special tour of our facility with the site director.

Are you ready for the greatest honor of your lives?

Yes.

Come with me then.

She leaves you beaming out the door.

And then as we're going out, we're like, suck it, suck it, Lithuania.

Lithuania number one.

I just want to say, I think this is the happiest I've been in a long time.

Oh, that's so nice.

Yeah.

It's great just being a team and bowling again.

And Blake, do you want to?

Nothing bad's about to happen.

No.

No, I mean, everything is on the up and up.

We're on the total winning streak.

And we have a little bit of Venom still for Timmy.

Yes.

And we have somebody who will die for us at least for the next like 30 minutes.

I think we might have a new name for this team because it's got new people in it.

I think we might be the perfect game.

Oh, that's a good idea.

Gut Earl Scream's better.

Gutterl Scream's better.

Do you want to stay as Gutterl Scream, though?

Yeah.

Speaking of the man who's willing to die for you now, as this new woman, the head of cultural affairs, is leading you out the door and towards building 21, the site where you're going to meet the director, you see a look of concern on Anton Kolotov's face.

He's like way across the room by now.

You're already being flanked by their officials.

He's kind of powerless to get to you at the moment, but you see a look on his face seeming to try to urgently communicate to you some dire message, something be aware, be wary, be warned.

He would die for a waiver.

He's about to say, he's probably actually here.

He could do it.

Yeah.

Can we talk to our friend real quick before we keep going?

Oh, we shouldn't keep the director of it.

Okay, don't mind me.

And I just turn around and walk towards them.

Okay.

Are you all coming with me?

I can't.

I have no choice.

I'm on your bone.

So you all break off to go talk to Sergeant Colton.

This is important.

His family is very important to us.

Just okay, if you want to say goodbye to your tour guide, you have a second to go do that.

That's sure.

Yeah.

And we go head over.

All right, like it's up to you.

You gotta talk to him.

We don't.

What's up, my dude?

He looks at you and says, you're walking into a very dangerous situation just be warned be forewarned be prepared and he discreetly hands you his service pistol to make sure you have something on you that you might

that's why you always turn around when you start a level you always look behind you

constantly secrets wait did we come strapped with our guns that we already had we never got searched no you guys know you guys they would have searched you you didn't bring your guns um but now we have one now you have one service pistol with one clip in it and or blake does rather yeah and he grabs you blake and he says i don't know what's gonna happen to me, but in case the worst happens, in case they figured out who I am and what I'm really doing here, just tell my family who I am.

Tell them that you know me.

He leans in and whispers his name to you.

He says, My name is.

You said that really loud, y'all.

I hear it.

You said it really loud.

Loud, yeah.

I was whispering it.

But you like whispered really loud.

He goes,

He goes, I'm a spy.

I'm a spy with the CIA.

My name is not Anton Kolotova.

And he grabs you, he says, It's Tony Collette.

That's wild.

We know another guy named Tony.

Small world.

Mother, mother, fear me.

I am the broken sky.

All I ever wanted was to feel so ordinary

in a world that lies twisted in my mind.

And now I'm gone.

All that I can see is a hole in the stars.

Swallowing my dreams and making them scars.

Too far, too far away.

But I stay

today.

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