Aunty Donna Podcast - ALF City 2125 RPG feat. Matthew Jackson

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

A cyberpunk neo-noir adventure featuring Officer Sausage Gumbo and C-7-9-12.  Want more Trope RPG?  Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@TropeRPG   Listen to the podcast https...://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/trope-rpg/id1773712643   LINKS  Check out Matthew’s game My Arms Are Longer Now https://store.steampowered.com/app/2646170/My_Arms_Are_Longer_Now/  Our DREM World Tour has started! Buy tickets here https://tour.auntydonna.com/  Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig   Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/  Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This episode is brought to you by us and our new sketch comedy hour Drem heading stages globally now. Book at tour dot auntie donna.com. A listener production. Giday everyone. Welcome to a very, very special episode of the Auntie Donner podcast where we have a resident dungeon master Matthew Jackson taking myself and Zach through a very exciting
Starting point is 00:00:29 cyberpunk neo-noir adventure. We hope you enjoy. You're listening to the Aunty Donner Podcast. The greatest fucking podcasts in the world. Broo-mic attack and sometimes and guests, we hope you enjoy the motherfucking podcast. Hello, dear Auntie Donna podcast listeners. We have a very, very special episode.
Starting point is 00:00:54 You all loved it when it happened last year. and now we're doing it again because one of us isn't here. But one day we'll do it with all of us. Yeah, but the setup is so neat for three this podcast. That's true. That's true. So it makes some sense that,
Starting point is 00:01:14 but I like that it's rolling last time it was me and Broden, this time it's me and you. But please tell everyone. We have the incredible Matthew Jackson. Matthew, how are you? Thank you for having me. I'm having a great time. That's fair.
Starting point is 00:01:27 ready as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we haven't even begun our adventure. A bit of a fan favourite pod. People were requesting your return. They loved, they had a lot of fun. They loved that. They got stuck right in, mate.
Starting point is 00:01:37 Stuck right in. It was a fun one. It was very fun. And now we're going to go on another adventure. Do you want to tell us a little bit about Matthew and also what it is that we're doing today, Mark? Matthew is the host and co-creator of Trope RPG, a podcast on the Grass House Network that I also frequent on. Yeah, I think it's fair to say.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Yeah, no, it's truthful. Yeah, it's fair. It's factual. Factual and truthful and fair. And now on the Trope RPG, you've got your own YouTube channel now? Yeah, yeah. Yes, we do. Millie Hilton is the creator.
Starting point is 00:02:12 We write it together. I just do the hosting. She also shadow DMs. I don't know if that's like known. I have like a live feed with her feeding me information and directing the games as we go. So we do it together. It makes me live really good. I've been on it, and I didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:02:29 But also, you are a computer boy. Yes, I'm a computer boy. You love computers. And you make a video game. And you made a video game, which was the pick-a-packs, was it not? It was. So, it was, the video game in question is called My Arms are Longer Now. You play as a very long arm that does heists.
Starting point is 00:02:50 It is a dumb comedy, 2D game. You, like, move around, like, dodging lasers, going through vents. You know, putting on a sock puppet to romance guards to get them to leave their posts, stuff like that. Absolutely. And it's coming out next year, and it's available to wish list on Steam. Wishlisted it on Steam.
Starting point is 00:03:09 God damn it. It's very cool. Like, supporting, like, indie creators and little games like that has been a little... I really... I'm a big video game Donkey fan, and I loved Animal Well, and Star of Providence just came out,
Starting point is 00:03:23 and I love that as well. And this is like, what these guys are doing, what Matthew and Millie are doing. Because Millie's involved in this as well, isn't she? Yeah, Millie's the sort of creative director. How big is your team? So it's me and Millie, and then we have, like, four people who do, like, one to two days a week.
Starting point is 00:03:37 That's amazing. But, like, artist and a programmer, you know. I watched a video, I'm not much of a Game Boy. I'm a man. Game Boy's a small console. No, but I watched a video about Rollercoaster Tycoon and the journey of that game. One man.
Starting point is 00:03:55 One of the last. one man sort of things and how it like in mind-boggling how it's created. There's still a lot of games made by one person. Sorry, and what I should say is that that was the narrative was that that was one on the last one-man games. It was the last one that I think blew up to the level, the idea that now... It was so weird because it was like, and I could be mistaken because I haven't looked it for a while and please correct me.
Starting point is 00:04:16 But that game was like built from scratch. Because like the one-man teams that you have today or like even small teams like us, we're using all of these like public tools and like you know. and like all this stuff that's pre-built that you're standing on the shoulders of giants whereas like for roller coaster tycoon it's like insanely efficient, runs perfect and is like simulating like thousands of people coming on
Starting point is 00:04:38 and going around rides all this physics stuff and some and just some some yeah he just same with animal well that came out recently and blew up massive and Bellatra as well one dude but this is I think that's the thing is very interesting because I'm a film guy I love my movies and that that's a world that's gone to the two $200, $300 billion things, the teams of thousands,
Starting point is 00:04:59 and how much harder it is for smaller things to cut through. And it's like I just imagine it's a very similar situation where people should be, if they want stuff that's interesting, if they want more than just the three-star Drek, you've got to get out there. Not, I'm, this is not really my Auntie Donner brand. I'm bringing the Solozac brand here. But truly, if you want, if you can't complain about three-star Drek
Starting point is 00:05:24 and also not support stuff by smaller creators. What's called my arms? My arms are longer now. My arms are longer now. It's a great idea. It's very, very cool. But we are here to go on a bit of a bit of a new thing. You know, it's interesting we're talking about computers.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Oh, yeah. And we're talking about technology. Because I think it's time, if I may, to whisk you away. You've got your sheets. We have a set. We're doing a role playing game. We're doing a role playing game. We're going to head into an RPG land.
Starting point is 00:05:54 So, I will whisk you away, but we don't need to move far. We're just going to move far into the future. Oh. It is Melbourne. Oh. It is the year 21, 25. Oh, 100 years have passed. And our city has transformed into a neon skyline, just like packed.
Starting point is 00:06:17 The CBD expanded out, endless miles, giant high-rises. You see the sort of sweeping ring. flat. Turak's still dead flat. No tower's here. It's a dip. You see like there's even like a no fly zone or the cars going around. It's also not raining over Turak.
Starting point is 00:06:37 It's raining everywhere else. They really figured it out. Yeah, they got it. They got it. And we're going to sort of zoom in, sort of pass the neon signs, past the sort of like smoke rising out of the vents of different buildings. into the high-up office of the chief of police. Her name, the chief Ursa, is briefing U-Mark.
Starting point is 00:07:04 As we see sort of the, you've been summoned up here. The elevator doors opening as you come in. It's dimly lit in here with sort of red light. There is sort of a strange sort of synthetic hum of a sound in the air. that you know blocks specific audio recording equipment. Similarly, the light that sort of bathing this room blocks any recording. So you're in a truly isolated space where no one can hear or record what you're doing. And as you walk up to this big McCogany desk that she stands behind,
Starting point is 00:07:36 sort of white shirt, sleeves rolled up, you can see the holster with a gun right next to her. What does our grizzled beat cop look like? Who are you cast by? Who am I cast by? What do we see? Yeah, all right. Well, I'm large. I'm larger than most men.
Starting point is 00:07:55 I'm like Jack Reacher large. Okay. You know, the new Jack Reacher series. Yeah. I'm not familiar. I wish I was. He's big. He's fucking huge.
Starting point is 00:08:04 What do we show? We're talking like six and a half foot? Eight and a half foot is so tall. And three foot wide. You're scraping your head. Yeah, but it's the future. So people have, their doors accommodate. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:18 And for it, like, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're still, like, ducking underneath, but, like, you're, you're sort of almost genetically perfectly in this moment as your sort of, like, rippling muscles come through the door. What do we talk about clothing? I have, I have, well, first of all, I have stubble all over my body. Wow. No stubbleless. Uncovered head to toe in stubble, right?
Starting point is 00:08:39 Except around the eyes and the cheeks, like, that's gone. But my neck, my body, my legs, my arms up into my wrists, stabbled, right? And I'm wearing the tightest, the singlet that I'm wearing is so tight that the stubble sticks out of it. Tank top for anyone in the US? A tank top. Nice. And then just like cunty little shorts. I'm going to say that you have taken some sort of futuristic steroids and stubble on every part of the skin is absolutely a bad side effect.
Starting point is 00:09:08 Okay, all right, yeah. But, you know, but also, also there's like some people in the future find that really hot. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. There's a bit of the day. Yeah. There's a particular thing, you know, I'm wearing these tiny little shorts, socks above my knees, boots that are just like four kilos each.
Starting point is 00:09:30 They're just so steel cap. As you sort of, you walk up to the desk, you see her, she's smoking, she sort of puts it out as you come closer. You're wearing a name tag with your badge. What is your, what's your name? It says Officer Sausage Gumbo. Officer Sausage Gumbo. as you come in she goes
Starting point is 00:09:48 Gumbo you know we've had our differences but I got one that only you can look into God damn it what's this goddamn task that's good enough for Gambo calm down
Starting point is 00:10:03 all right sorry sorry sorry I just I'm excited I haven't eaten and I've had four coffees this morning she walks over to the windows where she presses a button and like the sort of automated slats like tilt slightly to like let out the
Starting point is 00:10:16 sort of the evening light, the dusk light sort of coming in. As she pulls on her cigarette, she goes, high up corporate official at Gamadine. Apparently he's oft himself in his apartment. Jesus! She just takes a note to look at you. Jesus Christ, they're still doing that? It's actually out of the ordinary.
Starting point is 00:10:41 Yeah. Haven't had a suicide case like this in quite some time and something doesn't seem right. That's us. That's us. You're the only cop. You're the only cop in my unit that I don't think has touched any of that filthy gamadine money. No, no, no, no way, man.
Starting point is 00:11:00 No friggin' way. I say no to gamadine. You know, I don't fucking like you. Why? I'm all right. Sausage? Yeah. I don't understand how you made your way onto my.
Starting point is 00:11:15 force. Well, I can take you through it if you want. I started, I was a recruit, right? And there's a long story. Yeah, yeah. And as you're going through it, she's typing on like an intercom system, a little like CRT that's like come up out of the desk that's like flickering with so green light as she puts it. She goes, she cuts you off like so 10 minutes into your story. Because I had nothing passed. I started as a recruit. Is Mark going to know the ranks of police here? He is working himself into an improv I'm so glad. I didn't have to keep going on that. She says, as she cuts you off, she goes,
Starting point is 00:11:54 but the new legislation kicked in last week. Oh. You won't be going alone. What? For checks and balances, we need to send a synth with you. No, no. Rising from the floor, a sort of tube that sort of comes up out of the ground
Starting point is 00:12:10 and we see sort of as the smoke clears. Zach, what does your character look like? a synthetic human, a synthetic detective. Well, still they are bubbling and brewing. Okay, yeah. So the skin is moving. So the skin looks kind of a little rubbery but largely real. But underneath it, it's like there's almost like ball bearings.
Starting point is 00:12:31 It's like shifting and moving. Because I've decided, and I hope that is that these synthetic humans are able to change their internal structure. The skin is physical. right and there's an amount of that but it has a bit of stretch but they can change how they look not like through hologram
Starting point is 00:12:52 or not through like you have an internal mesh of mechanics that can sort of move your bone structure bone structure muscular structure so I can look like pretty much anything but in a very horrific transformative way it's like cheek will go up so what's it settling into right now
Starting point is 00:13:09 what's like the default that it's sort of coming form it is settling into it is settling into a sultry dark-haired woman with dark red lips and that's not lipstick it's just like it's just like flushing the it comes it fades up it fades up stunning beautiful uh sultry woman and as the as as this sort of like settles into position uh the chief ursa sort of presses a button and the liquid It starts to drain from the tube. It slides open.
Starting point is 00:13:47 And as you sort of stumble out, she says, Synthetic, state your name and your directive. Hello, my name is C7912. It's very much in the same way of a level one improv class stating their name. How are you today? God damn it, I hate synthetics. I don't want to work with no milkman Because their blood is white like milk
Starting point is 00:14:17 So they're referred to as milkmen Yeah Yeah yeah Or milkmaids And I say you know Listen I understand that there has been Some issues with synthetics in the past But I
Starting point is 00:14:29 We have worked on those We now change our appearance To be pleasing to our co-workers As I get to know you I will change my appearance for you To suit your liking We haven't changed We haven't fixed the voice thing yet
Starting point is 00:14:41 Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. It's weird because physically you are everything I desire. I can get in there. I can get in there. It just scrambles it, scrambles it, scrambles it. Try now. Hello.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Okay. You fucked it. You fucked it. We got this. We got this. Oh, hello. All right. Well, all right.
Starting point is 00:15:03 Now, okay, my opinion's changing a little maybe. Okay, it might wear off. Let's see how it goes. Oh. Yeah, hello. Beautiful. Beautiful. C-7-9-1-Z.
Starting point is 00:15:16 You're up to date with the Academy's current programming and directives of stopping crime. Yeah, absolutely. And also, at any terminal, I can reboot. So if any of the laws change in the next couple days, I'm happy to reboot. I'll keep us up to track.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Well, you listen to me, C. I don't do things by the book, you see. I get things done my way. Does not compute, does not compute. All right, all right, sorry. I went too far. I pushed it too hard too quick. This poor machine.
Starting point is 00:15:52 You fools, look, listen, something doesn't smell right at this suicide. I'm sending you to this penthouse. Did they shit them? You can find out at the scene. How the fuck am I supposed to? Is that really at the top of the programming list? Well, I'm sorry, since something doesn't smell right.
Starting point is 00:16:08 I'm in you synthetic? I still am figuring out. It doesn't smell right as in the features of this case don't add up. Right. Oh, sorry, figure of speech. I'm still working them out. Yep. All right.
Starting point is 00:16:21 I feel like maybe I should have sent you on something else, like even just to go do some shopping or something. Oh, you didn't. Did you? I said to you when you got me, I said, can you just put me on some traffic detail until I figure out turns of fries? Well, I forgot about it.
Starting point is 00:16:34 We got him on a potential murder case that's been covered up as a suicide. This is like the hardest. This is hard. And we have a like smash cut from that to your sort of squad car landing down in an alley. It is sort of busy. People sort of move out of the way so that they don't get crushed by the squad car. As it comes down and it lands, the door swings up and open as you both come out. As it's standard.
Starting point is 00:17:02 As it's all cars for here. And you see the AI on the car immediately lifts it up into the sky and takes it away. you are in this sort of like dense alleyway alleyway 4388 it is crowded with market vendors people shouting people moving along the rain sort of falteringly hits you mostly just dripping off of like the awnings and street signs and the cars that are rushing overhead you see down at the end of this alleyway the gamadine apartments the sort of corporate apartments where this crime occurred or alleged crime Is there anything you'd like to do in this alleyway in the city before you head straight to the crime scene? Check out the shops. Yeah, I'd happily check out of the shops. Also, I mean, I came out of that tube nude.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Oh, yeah, so we've got to get you some. We got to get just a pair of pants and a t-shirt. We go to speak to one of the market vendors who were selling some sort of future with the garb. Okay, you go to one of the market vendors. It's mostly like food and stuff, and you sort of head into one of these sort of thin shop fronts that's just sort of like it's basically like a hallway and at the end of it is the
Starting point is 00:18:15 where the person sort of proceeds the proceed processes all of those sort of goods as it checks out but there's also like a number of sort of self-service machines it seems like a railing of different clothes just like slides through the shop and you sort of can punch him what you need like a monster's ink door situation yeah you see sort of like a very small man sort of gray hair sort of in the booth at the very end and he looks up at you he goes hey what What the hell? What are you coming in here naked for? I'm a synthetic.
Starting point is 00:18:44 I don't have my clothes yet. Synthetic. Hey. I would argue that coming in naked to a clothes store makes a lot of sense. Look, listen, buddy, I don't know what you're doing here with your fucking sex robot, but put some clothes on it. I'm a goddamn officer of the law, and I've got clothes on, don't I? And I'm an officer of the law, too.
Starting point is 00:19:03 What? I'm an officer of the law too, thank you very much. You present your badge? I present my badge. I pull it out of it. my skin. Disgusting. Oh, God, damn. Look, I ain't too happy about this either, all right?
Starting point is 00:19:15 Let me level with you. My name's sausage gumbo. Okay, didn't ask. All we need. Yeah, but I like telling people. All we need is some goddamn clothes for this person here. Now, I would love maybe some sort of... Before you ask, you mentioned earlier that you want futuristic garb.
Starting point is 00:19:31 I don't want to do any sort of costume here. I'd like to wear contemporary clothing. Of course. I'd like to wear the contemporary clothing of 2125. You'll hear because of that gamadine guy that killed him. himself. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's this? What are you talking about? The one up in the penthouse, you can see it out of window. As soon as I get some pants, I would love to ask you about this. And a shirt. But if I could get some pants and a shirt. We got pants, we got shirts.
Starting point is 00:19:53 Can I grab a shirt off to suggest for you? Yeah. And it says, it's got I and a love heart on it and then a picture of Alf, the alien, who is actually the mayor of Melbourne. Yeah, it's just odd that they look the same, exactly the same as the puppet. This is the equivalent of being like, I need some clothes and you stop in at one of the like tourist convenience shops like just off like Flinders Street. Yeah, should have probably gotten
Starting point is 00:20:19 some clothes. I don't know why your fucking boss didn't get me out of the tube. Put me in some clothes. Put me on an officer's uniform. Like we've got a traffic detail. Yeah. Rather than get me out of the tube while you were there. Yeah. Insane. They're naked straight on a murder. Very dramatic
Starting point is 00:20:35 murder case. I'll say this as you're sort of putting the clothes on. Put some pants. Yeah. So it says I love and a picture of Alf But that is the mayor of Melbourne They just happen to look exactly like And do you know what's happening? Yeah, we all know about the Alf I know, I'm just saying
Starting point is 00:20:48 An elf is sick I voted for Alf My skin starts to bubble and pop My insides move Hair starts poking out of my paws Because I think Well if he chose a picture of Alf And I evolve into
Starting point is 00:21:02 An exact replica of Alf Fuck yeah Oh yeah Okay Hey you're going to pay for those clothes Mr Mayor, no Yeah, yeah, I'm the Mayor
Starting point is 00:21:14 You're not the Mayor, I saw it happen It's just confused me We'll trick the next guy Yeah, we'll trick the next person Yeah, happy to pay Yeah, well I'm a goddamn cop look at my badge Showing my badge Look at my chest
Starting point is 00:21:25 I show him stubble Okay I say, what do you think of that? I mean, yeah You may touch it if you wish Apparently some people find this attractive Can you roll a persuasion check for me Can you do a persuasion of three?
Starting point is 00:21:37 I got two He reaches out to touch He goes Ow, God damn it It's sharp Not for everyone I completely understand And I apologize
Starting point is 00:21:46 You said you saw something About this goddamn We see the dead guy In the window Everybody on the street Seeing it What happened What did you see?
Starting point is 00:21:54 No, I see the dead guy In the window You can still see him In the window Squeeze me Hey come on Come on What did you hear
Starting point is 00:22:02 What did you see As he's as he sort of Look I'll show you As he leads you out Into the alleyway and he points and it's really hard to see but high up and occasionally it's obscured by cloud cover and it does take you
Starting point is 00:22:13 a moment to perceive this but you can see sort of in the window still like nothing's been done to cover it is a man sort of slumped dead in a desk chair he's clearly like it's a mess of his head it's hard to tell from this like great distance
Starting point is 00:22:31 but he goes look that's a fucking dead guy at the top of the Gamadine apartment's building Wow Shit, bro Yeah, I assume that's what you're here to look at It is what we're here to look at But what did you hear? Did you hear anything?
Starting point is 00:22:46 Did you hear any sort of commotion? Hey, I ain't heard nothing. You didn't hear nothing? Why are you being so suspect, brother? Hey, here's the thing And then I transform my elf hand into a big boxing fist. I'm going to pummel you if you don't tell me
Starting point is 00:23:03 what you're keeping from us. Can you give me a resolve? Yeah. Just the red one. Can you give me a resolve of four? Eight. Beautiful. As you sort of like press up against him and like even just by like the enmeshment of your hand like enlarging and turning red because you're like pushing your synthetics.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Like you're supposed to take on human forms. But you're like pushing it to have this sort of crazy red hulk fist. And he starts to shake. He goes, look, look. all I know is the Gambadine folks They didn't let no one go in or out Of his apartment
Starting point is 00:23:40 Nobody entered He was he was on his own So you must have killed himself okay But I don't know They do shady shit In that building They do shady shit
Starting point is 00:23:52 What have you heard Let me just write this down Gamadine does Shady Shit I say what have you heard What kind of shady stuff Have you heard
Starting point is 00:24:02 This is then And it pulls you in further He goes, I hear they do, they do some illegal synth fights. Sometimes they place a human against a synth, sometimes synths against sins. But, you know, we ain't supposed to fight them. They feel pain, but... It's fun. It's illegal.
Starting point is 00:24:18 It's illegal, but it's fun. I understand the appeal. You fuck with that? No, I'll stop it. I'll stop it if I say it. I just understand the appeal. Listen, I can't be seen talking to you. You've got to get out of here.
Starting point is 00:24:30 All right, all right. We'll get the hell out of here. Yeah. And those clothes are on the house. What, no, you pay me Yeah? Okay, it would have been a really low roll But the way you said, yeah
Starting point is 00:24:41 It's got to bring it up Can you give me Can you give me a resolve of six? Eight He goes, geez, okay, yeah, all right, leave, take them, take them. Yeah, right. Can I just say something? Everyone's on glib blob now.
Starting point is 00:25:02 Why aren't they all? Why? All the kids are on GlibGlob. They should be reading Instagram, like smart people. Very good. It's the future. It's the future. I get Alf. I put Alf on my back.
Starting point is 00:25:16 I turn my rocket boots up. We fly up to the window. You fly up to the window. Okay. All right. By now I've transformed into a backpack. Can you give me? Can you give me?
Starting point is 00:25:28 But a flesh-colored backpack. Okay. That just happens, I guess. This is something I'll deal with the fact that you can do this from now. My boots were four kilos each. What do you think they were hiding in there? Yeah. And every step, there's like a little rocket to help you lift them.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. You as you go up, people are like, what the fuck? Because most things are like magnetically lifted these days. And you're fully like scorched earth underneath you. I'm rocketeering. The weird thing about rockets is they're great at like acceleration. The stopping is like not great. Like the hovering.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Yeah. So, what's your aim here? Do you want to try and hover in front of the window? Straight shot. You want to go through the window? We want to go up and into the window. Okay, okay, up and into the window. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Window is closed. I thought you said it was open. No, it was just big, like, wide. My mistake, through the window. Can't stop it now. Can you give me a resolve? Can you give me a resolve of 10? Five.
Starting point is 00:26:26 You both fully just like, you do this full assent, like 200 feet up. And you're like, it takes like 30 seconds so what's the conversation you have like as you're just like I can go I reckon this is going to work I'm just the mouth at the top of the backpack disgusting
Starting point is 00:26:45 it's like oh I really wish you'd checked with me first besides this rocket technology is from like the 2070s man why don't you use a magnet technology well you obviously weren't completely unwilling we just get like a boom as you don't break the glass you just slam in
Starting point is 00:27:02 to the glass, you see another cop on the inside. What the heck? Who's standing on the other side of the tape to keep the crime scene pristine? As he turns around, he just looks at you as you're like, I give him a big thumbs up. I'm like,
Starting point is 00:27:19 where he? Hey, what the, wait, oh my God, sausage gumbo, gumbo, gumbo. And he like rushes over to the door, he steps over the body. He's like, you see him like accidentally mess up some papers on the table. He's contaminating these crime scene He hits a button and the window
Starting point is 00:27:35 starts to open can I get combined from both of you I'll say this is a resolve of let's say together you have to get a 10 to not just fall down 7 15 Okay so you managed to clamber in and not drop 200 feet
Starting point is 00:27:54 Thank God as you slide into the crime scene This is This is a a junior police officer that's he's only been working here for like a couple of a couple of weeks his name is Jancy he's got sort of red hair
Starting point is 00:28:10 young guy skittish you could set you sort of like piece together pretty quickly actually I'll get you to make a give me an analysis of two for either both of you see if either of you hit it I hit nine
Starting point is 00:28:26 I hit three okay well you both know he's definitely been picked because he's also so fresh he probably hasn't been corrupted yet by gamuton that stuff that the police chief was talking about um he goes i was expecting you to come up the elevator what are you doing here we're investigating this apparent suicide jancy which by the way you fucked up the crime scene mate i should i should i let you drop what the fuck is that backpack I guess the backpack got a mouth? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a sympathetic.
Starting point is 00:29:01 How you do it? I imagine just like eyes on a backpack. But the eyes are at different points. It's like a mouth at the top and then the eyes are kind of near the front pocket. Hey, bro, what's up? Hey, what's your vibe? You seem really nervous.
Starting point is 00:29:15 What would calm you down? What's the kind of person that would make you feel nice and calm? Not a backpack, I don't think. Any celebrities like Tom Cruise Jr., four? I'll have Tom Cruise, Junior, Junior, Junior, Jr. Yeah. Tom Cruise, Junior, Jr., junior, junior, no worries, but. But unfortunately, I've only seen a couple of pictures of Tom Cruise, Junior, Jr.
Starting point is 00:29:38 So I turn into a 2D version. So I'm completely flat. Mission impossible pose constantly. Just I'm in a pose and I'm like completely wobbly, wobbly and flat. Does this bring you, and the mouth, because it's formed into the, the mouth is just also, It's not like a real It's at the stomach The mouth is there in image
Starting point is 00:30:00 But the speaking This is happening from a slit on the stomach And the eyes Also in the legs There you go Jancy Hey buddy Nice and calm I'm gonna go
Starting point is 00:30:12 I'm glad you're here I'm gonna go wait downstairs With all those Wait a second Before you go Jancy Who's been in and out of here Who's come in Who's come out?
Starting point is 00:30:21 What have you seen? There were a couple of executives who were trying to get in here earlier, but I didn't let them. Good boy, Jancy. Did you get their names, Jancy? No, they're in the lobby downstairs. They've been trying since this morning. What do they look like?
Starting point is 00:30:39 There was a lady with blonde hair, and there was a guy with, he's got like this weird scar on his neck. And a scar man, he's probably a villain. What? Oh, if he has a scar, it probably means he's a bad guy. I've done enough of these cases to know that that's sort of like a trope. You know what I'm saying? But you stare at a wall?
Starting point is 00:30:55 expecting a camera I'm going to be a little more like I'm not going to assume the scar guy is a bad guy because I experience prejudice as a sin of course you do so I wouldn't assume anything I'm going to let you do your thing
Starting point is 00:31:10 okay all right Jancy I want you to stay right where fucking right here yeah you stay here Jancy they're going to offer you a lot of money don't do it bro
Starting point is 00:31:21 can you give me an analysis of five 20 crushing these rolls Oh my god With that tip top role He's been Jancy's been bought You read it on his face
Starting point is 00:31:36 Like I'd say in your synthetic vision You're like Like all the sort of numbers The little sort of like circles Highlighting sort of micro expressions Going over his face You see like an immense shame As he sort of looks around the room
Starting point is 00:31:48 And it's like as it scans further and further You see like the x-ray scan Inside of his pocket Where you're able to like read his digital card that contains, like, the credits that have been flooded into his account. I turn into a snake, like a big python, and I wrap myself around Jancy's neck. Nice. Okay, so you say, actually, so you say, thanks, Jatsy, thanks for your work, stay here.
Starting point is 00:32:13 And then you, like, look back at him and horribly transform into a snake and wrap around his neck. And in midair, horribly transform, wrap around. Okay, can you give me a resolve? Mm-hmm. He's going to compete with it. Jancy's not too hot. That's a one. I got an eight.
Starting point is 00:32:30 Okay, yeah, you're still, I have to clarify. You're a synthetic that's supposed to look like people. So your snake is like flesh-colored, little vestigial arms and legs, as it wraps around in, Tom Cruise's face at the end of it. And he goes, what are you doing? And I go, well, I don't really know what's going on yet, right? So just quick, what's going on? He's been bored. Jesus fucking Christ.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Jancy, how much are they paying you? No, they pay me a lot. What did they pay you for? What are they trying to hide? I let him come in here. They took, they were looking for, they were looking for a synth, something he was working on. What do you mean working on?
Starting point is 00:33:16 What do you mean? What do you mean working on? They didn't tell me. No, but they paid you a bunch of money, didn't they, Jancy. Just to let them in, please. I ought to die. Do you want to die, Jancy? Can you give me a resolve of just a two?
Starting point is 00:33:33 Nine. Thank you. He points at a ledger on the table. He was like, look, they were doing, they were doing the fights and he made something, he's made something, some sort of freak synth chip that will remove their pain. Oh, right, so I pick up the, I pick up the journal. Do you relax off of his neck? No, I throw him out the window. I think that's fair.
Starting point is 00:33:57 As you sort of slide him over to the window, do you have like intentions for this or do you just want to kill him? I say to him, I say there's one thing that's consistent with our synths. I'll say you're like dangling him, his face to your face. We don't like rule breakers. I'll follow the rules. I say, aren't you about to, are you about to break a rule? No.
Starting point is 00:34:20 Yeah, no, right. Murder is a human on human crime. Don't do this. That's that synth thing. I'm thinking for you. Don't do this. Don't do this. Sorry, Bucco.
Starting point is 00:34:29 Out the window he goes. You let go and you get, you see people in the street. You see the clothes vendor from like down before. Also, I guess from your transformations, your clothes for free. Completely torn apart. They've fallen off. Well, actually, no, I kept them in the backpack.
Starting point is 00:34:48 Okay, good. So now they're in like a kangaroo pouch on my snake body. I just want to clarify, the backpack was you. Yeah. So you're like, I can't. get them in the backpack. Did you like swallow them at one point? Yeah, sort of folded around them.
Starting point is 00:34:59 Disgusting. He's falling. You can see he tumbles out the window, falling, falling, falling, falling. Before he hits the ground. Okay. I kick off my rocket boots, aim him for his feet so that they land on his feet and then right before he hits, they kick in and he just lands softly. I just want to scare him.
Starting point is 00:35:19 I can't kill another officer. This is so insane. can you give me this is going to be a first give me an analysis first give me an analysis of three one okay you
Starting point is 00:35:37 this is for your aim so you kick off the boot out the window and it just and it knocks him in the head as he's falling oh no he smashes into the ground he is just pulped onto the ground
Starting point is 00:35:52 and you're both very visibly like this is a visible location from the ground as we have as we have canonized and everyone's seen this happen well i try you know i tried yeah i tried to save him and i look at you i look at you and i say let this be a clear lesson i follow the rules all right all right c seven nine 12 i understand okay we're going to do this the right way You just killed a man. You die like heaths. You just killed a man.
Starting point is 00:36:25 This is the future, man. I'm police, I'm judge, I'm jury and executioner. You got milk blood. I got milk blood, motherfucker. And I'll do the same to you if you cross me. All right, just calm down. Calm down. Is this good tension for your show?
Starting point is 00:36:40 Calm the fuck down. I look through the ledger. Okay, so you give me an analysis. Give me an analysis of two. To learn more than what you put. Two, yes, thank God. So yes, there is like some, you sort of piece, pull together some facts here. As you sort of, that moment of tension, like, doesn't dissipate as much as you both just have to get on with the work.
Starting point is 00:37:00 But you still feel that sort of like animosity between the two of you and your stars are working. As you sort of bury yourself into the paperwork, you see, yes, he was, he had illegally and sort of innovatively removed a pain chip from a synthetic person called E. Eliza. 112. It seems that the chip was removed for it to gain an advantage in a legal underground synth lighting ring. You would know from the information here that the pain rule chip did nothing to remove the synthetic sense of self, its sense of self-preservation, or its emotions. If anything just wanted, you can see in the notes here, wanted to create some sort of mental dissonance that would make it fight harder
Starting point is 00:37:58 and to the abandon of its own psyche. Are you, C719-I-Z? You can just call me safer. C, C, well, what are you looking at? Are you just sort of trying to take everything in in this apartment? Are you looking at the body? I'm looking at the body.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Okay, can you give me an analysis? Can you please hit a 5 form? me, 17, yeah, easy. As you're looking over it, you confirm a few things very quickly. The gun that's dropped onto the ground was indeed the murder weapon, and you sort of lean down close to the fingers. You see the tension still in the rigumortes of the hands meant that it was fired by this hand.
Starting point is 00:38:43 You see the sort of like shrapnel of bone, brains and viscera on the ceiling and you see the angler of it. The angle of it came just under the chin. Something strange, though. You see muscle tension across the shoulder and the upper arm. The gun was strangely compressed in and then telltale you come in
Starting point is 00:39:08 and you see that there seems to be some sort of posthumous medical treatment to this man's forearm. Something was healed very quickly in this man's forearm. And as you used, sort of like zoom into the sort of genetic makeup of it to see what were these cells doing moments before you're able to reveal there was a handprint bruise on this man's forearm
Starting point is 00:39:31 he was forced to shoot himself well and by something with an insane and intense grip with this sort of very high analysis you also note um you think that no one has entered or exited here since this happened from your intel from the street. Except for Jancy. Except for Jancy. Except for Jancy.
Starting point is 00:39:58 Well, first things first. First things first. Rip the arm off, put in an evidence bag. We've got to get that to the lab. Yeah, got to get that into a lab. So you've got to understand in the future, police, uh, police, judge, jury, executioner and CSI department.
Starting point is 00:40:13 Absolutely. I tear the arm off and put in an evidence bag. Okay. So you've got like a big plastic bag with you. You take it out your popping. You fluff it out like a bin bag. Yeah, yeah. Open it up.
Starting point is 00:40:26 I'm not strong enough to tear a man's arm off, so I get the synth to do it. Yeah, I turn my arm into big fleshy scissors. But because they're made out of flesh, they're more like, they're more like, you know, like safety scissors. Right. So it's a slow. It takes a really long.
Starting point is 00:40:41 It's a slow and blunt process. Yeah. I explained to him that this is not protocol, but I'm willing to bend the wrong. rules now and then. Yeah, great. Stop off his arm. Okay, it takes you like 10 minutes.
Starting point is 00:40:53 And while we're doing that, I call the special, like, the police have a special equivalent of, like, Uber now. So a little drone comes to collect the bag of arm. Yeah, well, you've got your own car. You've got your own car that you can sort of summon. But we hang it from, we don't put it in the car, we hang it from the bottom, and then it drives low above everyone. So they just, like, out there's just, like, out there's, like, very quickly, it's, like, very quickly,
Starting point is 00:41:17 it like hits a stop sign and like the metal perforates the bag so there's just like a drip trail behind it. Just a bag of blood dripping over all these people that have just witnessed the most terrific shit ever. So messy. So I also do you share what you
Starting point is 00:41:32 learned immediately with sausage gumbo? No because I don't trust I just rip this arm off for no reason. I'll get you to make an analysis. I get you to make an analysis of three. Two. Two. You can see that you can see fascination with this arm from C
Starting point is 00:41:49 but you don't know exactly what the details are okay great well that's why I tore it off because I saw there was something he thought the arm was something so I tore it off but I was I actually purposefully wanted it to get all smushed up because I don't trust the police with this evidence I'm doing this
Starting point is 00:42:05 on my own nice so you see why not trust me what have I done the lowest kid in the biz got bought you got to earn my trust motherfucker All right. Well, I want to go talk to Blondie and Scarface. Okay.
Starting point is 00:42:22 As you're walking out to go see Blondie and Scarface, I will say you go past some of the side rooms of this penthouse. Yeah, because no one's come in. Whoever did this is in this room. You say that out loud? You think whoever did this is in this room? Yeah, I'll tell him that part. Whoever did this is in this room? I'll say I have some evidence. I'm not going to share it with you because I don't trust you.
Starting point is 00:42:45 All right. But that evidence tells me that whoever did this, I think, might still be in this room, unless it was Jats over there that I just killed. So fingers crossed it wasn't. Well, I mean, if it was, justice has been done. Yeah, hopefully. All right, well. A nice pre-kill, Justice.
Starting point is 00:43:03 Yeah, that's just a great coincidence. So you see something that disturbs. You say this as you start walking towards this elevator, and you see one of the side rooms, and something that sort of turns your stomach a little bit. You specifically see, as you see a scrap heap of biosynthetic human parts. You see just sort of like a mess of just like heads, faces, eye sockets, you know, you see like dislocated arms and limbs with like their wires still training back to their
Starting point is 00:43:36 torsos sort of just in a mess here in the corner. Oh, that makes me so mad. Self-destructed? I don't think so. destructive. I don't think so. I scream. You really know that bit in Man Max where Furiosa screams? I do that. But I'm still a snake. Yeah. You're still a snake? Really? It never trains full back. As you scream
Starting point is 00:43:58 this, can I get an analysis? I won't get it from you because you're screaming. Hard to analyze. Can you give me an analysis of a two? Always on analysis. I've only got a four dice. I know. Two. Two. You see one of the the Synths heads flinches. I run over to it. As you run over to it, it's arms and legs reattached to the
Starting point is 00:44:22 torsos as it zips in, its head snapping into place, it stands up, this sort of like half-destroyed, clearly gashed up, synth. Androgynous in its form, seemingly like, patched together in a few different ways. It goes, I had to kill him.
Starting point is 00:44:40 I had to kill him. You stay away from me. And it's going to lunge. for your gun. It's going to lunge for my gun? Yeah. What do I roll? You have to beat a two is what I just rolled.
Starting point is 00:44:50 Of persuasion? Yeah, persuasion. Or if you want to do, if you just want to fight it physically, you can use your... I'd fight it physically, man. Your... What the fuck? My name is that resolved. But no, do your persuasion.
Starting point is 00:45:03 Do your persuasion? I want to, if it's going for my gun, I want to duck and wave. Yep. I'm quite tall, right? I want to duck and wave, turn around, grab my own gun and then point it at it. Okay. As it moves past me. I'll say that's a resolve.
Starting point is 00:45:15 I'll say that's a resolve. Oh, that's a resolve and I've got to beat. Two. Easy. Four. Just. It's a scramble on that gun. I will say that it manages to grab the gun
Starting point is 00:45:24 and you do one of those full on like swipe it out of its hand, reverse it and pin it down in an expert sort of muscle memory maneuver. Hell yeah. As it's sort of underneath the ground, like it's your gun trained on its temple. What are you both doing?
Starting point is 00:45:38 I explain to this synth that I'm one of them. Can you use the? How did you say that? I say, hello, synth, I'm one of you. Calm down, calm down. And I say, I see that you're in pain. You're not one of them. You're not one of us.
Starting point is 00:45:53 You're one of them. And it points to like the police badge. You're not going to help me. I saw what you did. You don't forgive. And it's going to, risking getting shot, try to sprint past you. Try to sprint past you. Well, then I would, well, I would like to somehow trip it over.
Starting point is 00:46:13 Maybe I do like a kick. You know, like one of those kicks. You know, like one of those kicks where they go low. You're trying to use your arms to really show a kick. Well, you know, you know, you go because you go low. You want to sweep its legs. Yeah, I want to sweep its legs. I want to sweep its legs.
Starting point is 00:46:29 Using the snake. Can you give me another resolve? You're going to try and beat its resolved. It's agile. It got a 13. I got a 13. Oh my God. Okay.
Starting point is 00:46:38 Roll again? Yeah, let's roll again. Let's roll again. Let's roll again. Gosh, damn it, I got six. With precision, you sweep one of its legs, and it starts walking on its hands, like running, sprinting on it. You try to sweep it again, and it manages to cartwheel as it jumps out of the open window as a rushing car comes past, and it lands onto the dash of it, and you see it start of take off into the night sky. What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:47:05 I would love, I've got one rocket boot left. I only threw down one rocket boot. if you get on my back we can rocket boot after him and I can turn into like I can go as wide as flat as possible to help control him
Starting point is 00:47:24 because I know he's a little bit yeah so in a moment I'll say just because it's cool as hell without communicating you both look at each other start sprinting towards the window and as you jump onto his black and become a glider
Starting point is 00:47:36 your one rocket boot and you are just like flying through a nice sky You see like as like a lorry just like swerves around you in the air as you as you're not flying on the flight path. You can see it ahead sort of scrambling on the front of this taxi, which is currently like got one arm out trying to like swat it off as it moves up onto the top of it. It stands up perfectly balanced moving with the car like gyroscopically.
Starting point is 00:48:01 It looks at you. You're sort of far up like maybe like 50 feet away from it. What are you doing? I'd like to take some shots at the fuel tank. Go. Of the car. Can you give me? Can you give me a...
Starting point is 00:48:12 Do you want... I'll say this is an analysis of two again. Okay. Just to see if it's possible. Just to see if it's possible. Two. Two. It's possible and you've got that aim.
Starting point is 00:48:22 Can you give me a resolve of five? In fact, both of you, a resolve of five? Thirteen. Thirteen. So you get caught out of balance, which you're fine. But the reason is you shoot the fuel tank at this taxi and it explodes. Fuck yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:42 And the robot, the synth, is thrown high up into the air as it's sort of somersaulting. You see this taxi go down in flames crashing into the side of a building. Ow. Oh, wow. You see, hear people screaming below. And you are now in free fall as well along with this, along with this synth as it's like flying. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to let go of him
Starting point is 00:49:09 And I'm going to throw myself at this synth So that hopefully we get smushed together In like what I like to call a synth smush Yes Becoming kind of one synth blob You try and sort of enmesh with it And like interface in a way to try and like overpower its mind It's a sort of interface situation
Starting point is 00:49:27 Okay, okay This will really impede your ability to land You are falling towards like a What appears to be like a factory system below with a nut like the nearby because Gamadine owns this whole block it's like a factory a synth factory below
Starting point is 00:49:44 as you can see sort of the line up moving conveyor belts glass roof as you're careening towards it so at first I'll get this you're falling rapidly but I will get this interface I'll say you're going to do a competing
Starting point is 00:49:58 a competing role against its own analysis that's sort of like force of mind which on analysis yeah Yeah. Oh, could me, give me a break. Yeah, Nick got a 20. So you, you unfortunately are not over a parent's mind,
Starting point is 00:50:15 but you do get flashes of memory of it in this fighting pit. You can see that this was a security droid that was originally designed for looking after like vulnerable members of society that are under like police, like, relocation. They're meant to blend in with society. protect people. And it was lifted and abused and reformed. And it has this sort of twisted perspective where it just wants to survive. But it has to, but it will kill as many people or since or anything as it needs to do that. And as you're sort of realizing that, you can see it's turning you to take the impact as you smash through the glass. Your analysis, I will say,
Starting point is 00:51:03 which I don't think I asked you to roll, but you got a three. Oh, good. I would say that's for your sort of like aiming, trying to find a good place to land. Yeah. You see a, like the concrete floor and you see, I'll say you use this analysis to instead land into a vat, an open vat of liquid. Fuck yeah. As you fall into it, your... It's Gatorade. Young.
Starting point is 00:51:29 It's Gatorade. It's a crucial ingredient. As you come out, you're like, it does taste amazing. I'm powered by the electrolytes. Your electrolytes, fantastic. You were a little dehydrated. I was. Because of the future steroids.
Starting point is 00:51:44 Yes. Yeah. You sort of pull yourself out of the water. I would like you, though, to give me a... Can I tell you what I think I want to do right now? Yeah. I think I am going to let them... I'm going to take the fall.
Starting point is 00:51:57 I feel so bad for them. Wow. And what I'm going to do, if this is allowed, is I'm going to give them my consciousness. you're going to allow them to see your memories and your experiences I'm going to upload all of my consciousness to them so we can share it but they'll essentially run it and I'm going to take the fall and I see this I'm seeing this fall happen
Starting point is 00:52:22 we make eye content so a part of you lives on in them all of me will live on in them in a way yes that we will become one being they'll be the main one but I will carry on through them and I See the look in their eye. They look, we make eye contact as they're falling. And I know that they're going to do this. Do you have any last words then to say to you?
Starting point is 00:52:43 I just say, God damn, we didn't even get a chance to fall in love. Because I was that woman when you came out, I didn't tell you this, but when you came out as that woman with the red lips and the fucked voice. I fell in love. I fell in love instantly. I've been hiding my feelings this whole time.
Starting point is 00:53:00 Yeah, I imagine you were falling for so long. It's all done in a look They know they feel it And my heart breaks And I say to you As we're four weeks I say God damn it I hope you're one of the good ones
Starting point is 00:53:16 And as you hit the ground Splatter You were sort of The main disadvantage Of your reconfigurable body Is weak bonds between those sort of internal mechanisms As it just
Starting point is 00:53:29 You see the robot which you now have identified as Eliza sort of like there sort of takes things in as it tries to scratch together two consciousnesses at the same time as it stands it's fighting two urges and you it's strange having your because you're functionally dead yeah but there's a part of it that is you inside this droid as it sprints into this factory
Starting point is 00:54:05 lineup a scrambling away as you come out of the Gatorade and you sort of emerge you see just like rows and rows and rows and rows and roads of synths. As it's scrambling away it is like
Starting point is 00:54:21 repurposing algorithms that you've used the way that it can redefine its body and the sort of liquid around it is able to form just as you formed, and it takes on the exact base image of these sort of like bass synths and is able to enter the line up. Well, first things first, after seeing all these synths, being a little aware of the genre.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Yeah. I take my gun out, shoot myself in the hand. Okay. You do that. It fucking hurts. You just shot yourself in the hand. Red blood. Okay, fuck.
Starting point is 00:54:59 All right. All right, I'm not a sin. Thank you. Had you dreamed about a unicorn? No, no, no, no. I just wanted to make sure I was just around all these sins. I just got a little in my head. I got a little in my head.
Starting point is 00:55:10 It was a mistake. I just was confused. I know now, now I know, okay? It's good to know. You see, a factory worker comes over. He's like the only person here. He goes, Jesus Christ, you just shut yourself in the hand. I didn't know.
Starting point is 00:55:26 I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a sense. No, I don't know. I was irrational. I got a box cutter here. Could I make it a small cut. Oh, God, damn it. That was a mistake. You could have shot yourself in the thigh, bro.
Starting point is 00:55:38 I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know what I was thinking. All right, well. That thing's in there. I ain't paid enough. You fucking go figure this out. I quit. I quit.
Starting point is 00:55:49 I'm sorry. I'm sorry, dude. Jesus Christ. All right. Back to business. Well, I pull my gun out. I think. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:59 Yeah. and I pointed at this synth. Okay, so there's probably like a hundred sits in here, all identical, all standing in their sort of like, it's very eye robot. So I don't know which one's which. Yeah, you don't know which one's which. Fuck how do Will Smith do it?
Starting point is 00:56:13 So we're like out of the packet. We all look the same. How fuck did Will Smith do it? He did something to make one of them flinch. Oh, I take out my gum. Yeah. I remember. I point out the first synth next to me.
Starting point is 00:56:27 I pulled the trigger. You know, what, did you say something? I say something disparaging about his wife's hair loss. I came a stint next to you. I don't know. Smack the fucking shit out of him. It turns out it was the synth closest to you. It's right in front of you.
Starting point is 00:56:51 Can I get, because there's like part of you that lives, see here. You're like somewhat sort of like, it's half you. half this new half Eliza can I get an internal persuasion of three here
Starting point is 00:57:10 four okay that is what you needed to say this you say it you managed to burst like more personality burst to the service and even though the previous thing
Starting point is 00:57:20 you said was I hope you're one of the good ones I guess this is a test in anyways but you get smacked hard what are you doing next well I say you keep my fucking what a say. So you keep me
Starting point is 00:57:35 your last name out of your mouth. I step, I step. And I was like, I'm probably going to win an award at the end of this. I'm probably going to get a medal of honour. And so I step on their chest. I point the gun, point the gun at them. And I say, uh, I say, well, who are you? What do you know?
Starting point is 00:57:51 Okay, I'll say, see, you can talk it if you want to. But you hear the thoughts of Eliza in your head just say, don't I get a chance to be free if you could bend the rules before and it shows you the memory of you throwing the rookie cuff out of the windows can't you bend the rules here and let me go I can let you go
Starting point is 00:58:12 save us I can let you go but I need to know what did you say that's just said in your mind I'm sorry I say I say I say you loved a version of me once you loved a half a version of me once I'll say the face sort of forms back into the face of C. Oh, my heart skips a beat.
Starting point is 00:58:31 Wait, which face, Tom Cruise or the... Alph. Okay. You love the version of me. And I like the idea that you don't really know which version he would find hot. You're just like, let's just pick one of these. You lost me there. Oh?
Starting point is 00:58:52 No. No, exactly not what I was thinking. I kind of roll through them. Yeah. I rolled through if I do the snake. Then I finally land on, oh, of course, the sexy woman. And then I give him the sexy woman and I say, you loved some of who I am now once. Let me go.
Starting point is 00:59:15 And I say, I'll let you go. But I need to speak to Eliza. I need to know what Eliza did in that room. I need the proof. I need the evidence that that man didn't kill himself. And I say, well, we are Eliza, so you're talking to us. But then just tell me. You have the memory now.
Starting point is 00:59:35 You see that there was a scuffle, a fight where he was going to install this pain blocker. And they fought it and ended up holding his hand underneath his own head and pulling the trigger. Rather than tell him? Yeah. I'm presuming we're a bit cyberbunky I can inject I can put my little I can turn my finger into a USB
Starting point is 01:00:02 click it in I want him to feel what I've felt no what I've known So you have this sort of nerve interface moment Where like there's no I thought you were just sticking a USB in my ear No USB
Starting point is 01:00:14 It is just sort of like It's almost like these tiny thin tendrils Plug into the brain stem At the back of your neck Oh great And it's uncomfortable, awful feeling for a moment Yeah, you do flip out how you lose on motor control and you see first person
Starting point is 01:00:29 Eliza's view, yeah, what happened. You feel it, you feel that you have to say. And as you sort of take your finger out of that interface, your hand is shaking, your muscles are shaking like from the strain that Eliza had done to... Also, Eliza's quite beautiful as well. Yeah, in this version, yeah, of the original version. How Eliza sees themselves.
Starting point is 01:00:49 I take my foot off their chest. offer out my hand to pick you up put your own feet thank you very much I didn't realize it was self-defense we've got to get this memory to the
Starting point is 01:01:05 to Alf because Alf's the only one that can clear us the mayor of Melbourne is the only one that can clear this all crime in the future all crimes are reported to Alph the mayor of Melbourne
Starting point is 01:01:19 who then decides our fate, I suppose. So we cut as days past and we see after you going from like protective custody you have like this sort of like we don't hear the words but we see you getting like absolutely chewed out by the chief
Starting point is 01:01:37 Ursa before you are eventually brought to the he's sitting behind his desk he's got a suit. It is our furry head as you come in and you go you got a kid. You got a Cat for me or something, along with all more crimes, I guess.
Starting point is 01:01:54 And I go, stick your finger in that elf's neck. Elf, do you mind if I stick my finger in your neck? Give me a persuasion. Give me a persuasion of three. Yeah, yeah, fuck yeah, he loves it. You got me on a good day. Is this Elf's voice? I can't remember.
Starting point is 01:02:12 I don't know. It's close. I think it's close. He bends over and you do the interpation. He goes, what the fuck? What the fuck? And I go, Gamadine has been running illegal synth fights, like cockfighting, but with synths. And they're cheating at it as well.
Starting point is 01:02:30 They're doing something illegal, and they're cheating at it. And this synth fought back. And then they tried to cover it up as a suicide. And I fell in love along the way. With another synth. But I think Eliza's quite, I'm hoping that maybe we can make love at the end of this with both faces. Technically, it's recent, technically. I'm hoping that it can be one-face.
Starting point is 01:02:51 It seems like you're so excited for it to be a threesome, but it's like really not quite. I was like, it's sure, I guess, if you work. It's like a two-and-a-half-sum. It's all the complicated aspects of a threesome, but none of the fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Alph believes your story.
Starting point is 01:03:09 You are taken out, and it seems like we're having those, happy ending as the camera sort of rises over the skyline of Melbourne 21, 25. But unfortunately, that's not really how this city works. You find that the traction you thought you were originally getting with the mayor, it stops, and you lose your job, and the story's buried. And you know that you're being hunted. and we would join the next movie
Starting point is 01:03:53 or the next series of this as you are on the run from the police yourselves and gamadine and you find in your efforts to try to pull Eliza out of this awful situation instead you've just become entangled yourself so we're one being no like
Starting point is 01:04:09 oh entangled than that but very fair is there anything that you would like to do as you're sort of as we sort of leave this story as you're sort of on the run, as you're sort of like this institutions have failed even more spectacularly. You find Alf, unfortunately, is corrupt. Is there anything you'd like to do as we tie this up?
Starting point is 01:04:29 Do you know what I would like? I think this is a kind of fun ending. Yeah. I think before we leave town, before we run off into the middle of Australia. Yeah. I was about to say, we're about to walk onto the sky bus. We're about to take us to the Tuller Marines. Still the sky bus.
Starting point is 01:04:47 They still haven't figured out. It's not trained to fucking telemorrho. Did you believe it? It's the only land vehicle as well. It's the same buses. Still got my keys. Still got the fucking Skype. We're about to step on.
Starting point is 01:05:01 And I say, hey, before we go, I think we should pay a visit to Elf. Yeah. And we go. Yeah, you go. You knock. We just knock. I'll say it's late in the evening. Yeah, I'd say we sneak in.
Starting point is 01:05:17 You sneak in at the end of day. You're using, like, the, I'll say the police badge that you actually took off of Jancy. That has not been deactivated yet because of his death. Yeah. Maybe you've turned into a coat and I'm wearing you. Okay. You can choose, Zach. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:37 You don't have to be. I'm happy to go with that. As you sort of like, as you go in with this duster and you slip in through the back door and you head, you like narrowly avoid like PAs. and other people, like, officials moving through this building, you sneak into Alth's office, you see him doing, like... Alf shit.
Starting point is 01:05:57 He's on his phone, he's on Glib Club. Yeah. And he's clearly got, like, like, high paraphernalia, like this sort of like cyber cocaine. It's like blue powder all over the desk as you come in. He goes, who the fuck's that? Oh. I turn into...
Starting point is 01:06:17 to, I turn back into my Eliza form and I say, I say, Al. Listen, we can, we can sort something out. I grab this one, I break it. You shut the fuck up and you listen to Eliza. I say to Alf, I say Alf, I'm on the run from the police now. I know. I might not make it. But when I die, when I breathe my last breath in the middle of Australia,
Starting point is 01:06:41 I'll know, I'll know that at the very least, I shot fucking Alf in the fucking. head they'll hunt you and you shoot him and then I break all his other figures just for fun just because they snap so easy
Starting point is 01:06:56 and you flee we get on that skybass and no one will check the sky bus no one checks the skybuzz and that's where we'll end this game that was very fun what was that called
Starting point is 01:07:09 oh I would say let's call that Alf City Elf City. I fucking love that. That was sick. That was great. That was beautiful.
Starting point is 01:07:22 Wow. Or something, if you have a better name. No, Elf City's great. Elf City 2025. 21, 21, 25. Oh, great stuff. Thanks, mate. Thank you so much.
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