Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | Ep. 9 | Paradise City: Part 2

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

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Welcome to Legends of Aventris. I'm Pike Starfall, and you're listening to Stardust Rhapsody Anthem. Nikki, welcome to the table. Would you, would you, I feel like we did a breakdown, but please, I would love it if you would describe Pixel in your own words. Yes, Pixel is the quintessential pop star. She is a blonde bombshell in neon yellow. She loves pastels, neon colors.

Pink is probably her favorite color, second to yellow. She is a neon green-skinned globulin with bright magenta eyes. She loves makeup and music, and she is fubbly and fun. She is never without her heels and her makeup bag. And she is just, yeah, she's your quintessential globulin. You can see her from across the galaxy. And incredible. As you're sitting there in your dressing room,

kind of coming down from the show you've just performed, riding an absolute high for an incredible performance. The lights amazing, the music even better. The door to your dressing room opens is at first you see Mogli and right behind him. The next person in line, I believe, was Rhett? Yeah, yeah. Since I'm sort of owning

I think it would have been Rhett, then Ziggy, then Pike, and then Co. Probably. And you see the image of Rhett take place in your doorway as he walks in. Pixel would have been laying on the couch. She would have been laying back, her legs up in the air. Her Digi Diary would have been held out in front of her, and she would have been like, oh my gosh, this show is just amazing, and you'll never believe it, Tiki Diary.

There's a music producer here. Oh, my God, got to go. And then she goes up as she jumps up and like straightens out her outfit, fixes her bow, and she'll rush over to immediately spotting, who is clearly the big cahuna here, and she'll run straight over to Red. And she'll look at you, her eyes just like absolutely,

like, absolutely a light with excitement. Oh my gosh, Rhapsody Records, I was just looking you up. You're pixel pop, are you not? Yes, it's me. Did you like the show? I mean, I hope you liked the show. The name's Rhett Rye. Pixel Hop, nice to meet you. A record producer and owner and founder of Rhapsody Records, we did see your show. And you were spectacular.

Glim, glorious, you're so cool. I mean, look at you. You're, what a star you are. Thanks. Let me introduce you to my business associates. Oh, yeah, I'd love to meet all of you. This here is Coaxon. She's my bodyguard. Oh, you're huge. I know.

And pretty. Well, normally I don't hear that, but thank you. Yeah. That was one of the best fucking shows I've ever seen. Normally, I'm all about heavy metal. Oh my gosh. I never thought I would have liked pop, but you have one hell of a voice.

I saw you out there. You were doing that horn thing with your hands. Oh, you saw that? Yeah, can you teach me? Yeah, I'll teach you. I mean, yeah, I'm here for the big man, though. After business. Um, uh, can you come down here real quick?

Yeah, and like I'll kneel down in front of a in front of pixel. You have to go pretty low. I mean, the height difference between the two of you is extreme. Enormous. Um, I only got four fingers. Yeah, I know. Can I still do it? Yeah, it's not gonna stop.

You just put the middle one down. Okay. So, there it is. Look at that. Oh my gosh. You might have to do, you know, we might have to get you on a heavy metal album. Oh my gosh. I try.

I think that you got the, I got it, what do you think? What is the Rhapsody telling you, Mr. I? We did just sign the T-Rex, so maybe as a guest appears. I've never really listened to Heavy Metal, but I try it. Everybody, everybody loves heavy metal if you give it an open mind. I give everything an open mind. Everything's fun if you look at it the right way. You get a little bit of glimmer.

Well, I mean, after, I mean, I was feeling in some what kind of way, I think it was your music that like Ziggy and I feel like we just, I don't know, I'm feeling like I can do anything tonight. Anything. It's what Paradise City is good for. Take me down. When you hear, world's a party and you can do anything you want. Yeah, Paradise City.

This really is fucking Paradise. Anyway, I'm sorry. I'm just a bodyguard. I'm nobody. I'm fucking nobody. It's all about Mr. It's all about Mr. Ryan. I'm going to stand back up and I'm kind of kind of shuffle back.

I'm a little like, uh, I'm like pumping the adrenaline from the show is kind of coming down. Whatever magical effect came over me, probably is still affecting me. And so I'm kind of like trying to like process as I step back and I fold my arms. Oh honey, you ain't nobody your coat.

And it's nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too, Pix. And then she'll just hop to whoever is next. This is Pike Scorpio, my driver, and Guy Friday, so to speak. Pleasure to meet you. Nice to meet you too. You got a lot of beautiful people with you. Well, I mean, as a record label, we have appearances to keep up, as I'm sure you understand the industry. Oh, yeah, Mr. W. tells me about that stuff all the time. He loves beautiful people.

You put on one hell of a show. Oh, thank you. Cigarette? Oh, no. Does it sparkle when you light it? No, I can't say that it does. Well, can I keep it for later just in case? Of course, and I'll knock one out. and I'll hand it to you.

She'll put it in her pocket. And finally, my assistant and stepson, Ziggy. Hi, I'm Ziggy. Nepo. Hi, hi, hi. How are you doing? Hi, Ziggy Nepo. It's nice to meet you.

It's a pleasure to meet you. I really enjoyed the show. It was really awesome. I enjoyed all the music and the lights and the various people, and they were all so kind, and it was just an amazing show. I really enjoyed it.

Wait, you're running around in circles. I mean, I just feel a full of energy because it was such a good. show. Yeah, and tell her what you were telling me about how it was almost like a Zeta Max Oh, yeah, you like you like, you like me Zatamax because it felt like you were like really channeling it. Oh my God. Have you seen Zeta Max live? I've never had a chance, but he's the, he's the pop Messiah. He's one of my favorites. He's so dreamy. Oh, do you like Zadamax? I love Zatimax. He's my all-time favorite. I talk about him in my Digi Diary every single night.

Pixel heart Zeta Max. Oh, well, uh, well son, I should introduce you sometime because I just started. Wait, did you say this is your son? This is my stepson. Yeah, Ziggy. Ziggy Nepo. No relation. She looks back and forth very confused. Now you see, uh, he's, he's the, he's the son of my fourth wife. But there aren't any other sons.

It's just to me, which means that I'm going to inherit everything when you understand. Miraculously, no other sons. All daughters. Oh, do you have sisters? Well, step sisters. There's like 12 or 13 of them. Where are we're doing a lot of steps? I just said, I looked around like, I look at Pike.

He's going off scripts. No, but. But it's so funny you should mention that because I actually just began negotiations with Zeta Max's management to sign him as our newest star. No freaking way. That's right. And so anyway, not to bury the lead too much, but I mean, your talent is, you know, is incredible. I don't think anyone's ever said it to me like that before. And so what I'm saying is that, you know, as far as we understand, you know, you're talented.

And we are aware of your friend, employer, boss. Oh, Mr. W. That's right, Mr. Weedelvox, correct. Yeah, Robbie. And so I'm happy to potentially introduce you to Zeta Max. Maybe if you want to get us a meeting with him, I think that he and I have quite a bit of business opportunities, so to speak, especially given his recent line of work. Oh, this is a tough one, because he's telling me all the time that he's going to make me a star, and I believe him, he would never lie to me. But say to Max, he's always so busy.

He could, I mean, if someone else could take that job off of his hands, that could be nice. But I don't know. I think he really wants to be the one to make me famous. Well, look, then maybe that's one of the things we can talk about, because given how talented you are, I believe we could maybe consider potentially discussing, opening the door about maybe possibly signing you as one of our top talents. Alongside Fatima, I could open Thetamax. You could open, maybe even guest on one of his albums.

His rock album? Oh, yeah, no, he's working on a rock album. It's a combination rock shatterfunk. What's shatterfunk? I don't know. He said he just kept saying it over and over. Shatterfunk said he's shatterfunk. You talked to him?

Oh, only one or twice. I said, go for Ziggy. And he said, hey, this is Zeta Max. Shatterfunk. And then he hung up. Is there a core? water in this. I'm gonna try to find a glass of water and like get it

to be like, drink this. I'm gonna be like, thank you. No way, Shatterfunk, what the fuck does that sound like? I'm like into it. I'm really in the Shatterfunk. I'm like attempting to hydrate Ziggy and get him sober up. You can definitely find it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You see that Pixel begins to start turning yellow. She almost starts to match her hair. And then she starts to turn pink and then she starts to turn purple. and then she starts to turn green again, but it's more of a sickly shade of green before she evens back out.

Is anyone feeling dizzy? No, no, hold on. Can you check on her and make sure she's okay? Oh, yeah, you're, I will leap forward and I'll try to catch you as you're, and I'll try to grab you. Oh, are you okay? She'll, like, dramatically kick her heel up into the air.

Yeah, I'm just, I can't believe you guys know Zeta Max, you've spoken to him and everything. Well, yeah. I mean, we're Rhapsody Records. We got to talk to him. If we're going to sign them, we got to talk to him. I mean, we wouldn't be able to sign them any other way. Negotiations are underway in there. Intense. You even knew about super secret Zatamex things that you told little on me. That's right. Because Pixily, you got what it takes. I don't know if you know this, but the Rhapsodies, the grand cosmic melody that... emanates through the entire galaxy.

And the Rhapsody speaks to me, you understand? That's why I made this record label. That's why I named it what I did. It speaks to me, and it... Ever since I was a boy, and it could just tell me the music that really speaks to the souls of an audience. And that's why I've become so successful.

I didn't know they had a name. I feel that thrumming through my body all the time, coursing through my veins, every time I'm singing or playing my key tour. That's right. Writing a song. Even writing a poem, I'm not very good. It's very different than writing a song.

People don't tell you that. Well, then maybe she speaks to you too. And I have a feeling that if we could talk to your employer, maybe he and I can work something out. So if you're interested, I mean, I don't want to necessarily mess up what's going on here. I'm interested. I'm more than interested. I'm double interested, triple interested, even.

Well, then if you could somehow maybe arrange a meeting between myself, my associates, and Mr. Weedlevox, then we- Oh, did you want to put me down? Do you think you're okay to stand? Oh yeah, I can't stand. Okay. This is really comfy.

Okay, I just want to make sure you're okay. Yeah, yeah, hold on, hold on. And she'll kick her leg out and kind of stretch her foot a little bit. Oh, God, these heels. You ever wear heels go? No, never fucking once. She continues to just rest in your arms. A little bit longer.

Okay. You okay? Okay, yeah, I'm good. Okay. I'll place her down and I'll step back next to Pike. I'm gonna give him a little elbow nudge, like we're fucking doing it. Like this is fucking sick.

I do, I think. Talk to him, sure, people that can do what you're wanting to do. Is anything else he can do is sweeten up the deal? Well, I mean, here's the thing. If some of my business partners in certain industries are aware of his more lucrative offerings, if you catch my drift. We saw it all over the club. You see her quickly glance at each of your necks, just a quick check.

So yeah, basically I'm trying to figure out if you are picking up what I'm putting down. I would say she's not trying to be deceptive, so you would immediately see that she's catching on the way you're saying. I understand he may be looking for connections on more worlds and potentially spreading his product farther and wider than his current distribution. And I think that I may know people and may be able to assist directly. Someone like you would have so many.

connections. That's right. I know people. That's basically half the job. You know, only half of it's listening to the Rhapsody and letting her speak through me. And then the other half is shaking hands. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I could, I could do that for you. Absolutely. I mean, you said such nice things to me. Really appreciated it, Mr. Rett. Can I call you Rett? You can call me Rett. That's fine. Mr. Rye, I'll call you that if you prefer. It's totally up to you. Rett's fine. Mr. Rye's just as fine.

I like Rett. It sounds nice on my tongue. All right. Well, I mean, would you care to maybe share a drink? Yeah. Oh, I would love to. Can we sit? Oh, please, yeah. My home's your home. Sit whatever you like. Try on whatever you want.

I mean, it might not be your size, but... Thank you. You're welcome. There are lush sheets all over this dressing room, and Pixel would have decorated it and adorned it and really whatever format you'd choose. You've kind of really taken over this as your main space, as the headliner.

You're the key star of the Glitz Room. And you may not host often outsiders in such a format, but you definitely have had friends, colleagues, come around and it is a very comfortable space to be in. There is water available to offer to Ziggy to help with his situation. If you want anything special, I got water in here because you know, I gotta keep my,

I gotta keep the pipes nice and watered up, you know, because of the singing and everything. But if you want something a little more dry, if you want something a little more strong, you know, I can go outside, you know, I got the fellas out there, Mike, oh, he likes to be called the circumstance now. Richie Derek and DJ Andy F, they're outside.

And so I could just let any of them know that you wanted something to drink, something else. You're some real hard-hitting glooblin names, aren't you? Did I hear you quickly? There's someone named Derek DTF down outside. Yeah. He sounds like a badass, I don't know. Yeah.

I'll have some water though. I'm very, I've got a lot of cotton mouth. I'm not gonna lie. I took a couple of one-ups out in the crowd. They were just hand in me. It was, and I think it's starting to really kick in. It's some water be good, right? Water, it's really, I, I'm, you know.

And you don't have to go anywhere. I can say my- And we'll take some night rain and a couple beers. Oh no, I just have to open the door and yell out. Yeah. All right. Night rain, night rain, night rain, couple, couple beers.

You get like a bucket, bucket of beers, a beer bucket. Three night rains, a gallon of water. Why not? Yeah, and I'll open the door. I'll be like, yo Mike! Oh, sorry, the circumstance. It's the circumstance. Yeah, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry, the circumstance. Can we get, we're going to need three nightweights. Well, yeah, what could I do you for? Yeah, we need three night rains. We need two gallons of water. And then we need a whole. Oh, Cole, what did you see about the beer? Oh, just like a bucket of beer?

Can we get a bucket of beer? A beer bucket. For you, Picks or shit thing. Thank you, the circumstance. So says the circumstance. All right, I'll see you soon. Bye. Yeah.

Hey. Hey. Yay. Thanks, the circumstance. You're a cool fucking guy. Raydoll. Yeah. I just look at Red like.

Yeah. Just don't call him Mike. He's past the school. No, it's a circumstance. I shut the door. All right. He's gone. Thank God it wasn't dirt.

I'm married him. I definitely wouldn't trust that. That's for sure. There's a lot of fucking perverts out there. Let me tell you. Do not let DTF get our drinks. It is a hot night in Paradise City, and he's still wearing a sweater. What the fuck there, DTF?

Oh. Oh, God. Oh, God. Well, you mind if I put on some music? I'm just going to put on some Zatamax. New album is my favorite. Sure, yeah, yeah, absolutely. They want them.

You're fucking dressing room. Pixel will just jump over, turn on some Zatamax, and then settle down. So, oh, I should have let the circumstance know that I needed to talk to Mr. W. I mean, and Pixel will, she'll look around and there's like a hologram, uh, clock. on the wall. I mean, you don't... It'll be a bit before he's free, so I guess we could spend some time together until then, but I don't think he'll be ready to see you tonight.

No, no, I'm not asking for anything tonight. It's obviously late, and I'm sure he has plans. He's a very busy man. I'm just asking, you know, the next time you see him, if you could... Sure, is there somewhere I can tell him that he could reach you? Well, uh, if you or Hammer, whoever his people, they can call for us at the Golden Gun hotel. Oh my gosh, you've really all loaded. I mean, oh my gosh, you're really famous, aren't you? The Rhapsody has been very good to me since a young age, and I feel fortunate to have earned a fortune, so to speak.

That's incredible. Yeah, and it pays really fucking good. You all seem really happy. I love that. It's been a good night. Well, this is our first time on Sherricks. Really? So it's your first time at the quits room. Yeah, and don't let... I'm gonna, like, kind of stumble a word pike.

As the one of us, it's the one of us, I try to like... Yeah, and I'm gonna grab you around. Don't let his sad puppy dog guys fool you. He's having a great time here. It's nothing against your god's... I'm smoldering. It's not sad puppy dog.

He's, he's feeling sad about a girl that he used to know. Oh, no. It's a secret. I wasn't supposed to tell anybody. That's okay. I can keep a secret. I won't tell nobody. Okay, cool.

Can I write about it in my dear Digi diary? No, it's a secret. That's a, that's, that's, that's, I'm sorry. But I introduce him to this, like, to a beautiful salari. I mean, you should have seen. The one that broke his heart? No, no, no, no, this was, she was in the crowd, so I don't fucking know. And it's like, and I'm just telling them, I, what I was telling them earlier, I'm always telling them this.

And I'm like, Pike, If you're not gonna fucking go for it, to give me the word, and I'm right there. Is what I told him. Did he go for it? I don't know. I was out dancing. I was focused on your concert. Did you go for it?

Did you? Did you? Did you? I didn't go for it. Aw. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay. It's only our first night in Paradise. We're only here for limited time, Pixel. Limited time, Pixel, Paradise City. And now they're wrong around. You've got to come back. Maybe it'll happen the next time. I was enjoying your concert.

Aw, shah, it's just so sweet, thank you. Yeah. He's a good friend. We're good friends. I think the sun's sleeping. Coe, maybe make sure he's still breathing. There is a wet spot on the couch right in front of Ziggy's lap, and it's hard to tell whether or not he spilled his water or something else has occurred.

How is he asleep with the amount of glimmer did he ingest? Man, that is a fucking miracle. Well, it has effect on you after a while. Should we lay him down or move him somewhere? No, he'll be fine. Look at him. But he's just standing straight up. He does this.

He's in the middle of the room. He's okay. I'll catch him if he falls. It happens all the time. How did he get his drool all the way over on my pillow? The track of the Zeta Mac's album changes over. Oh, this is my anthem! I love this one! Me too, you wanna dance?

Oh yeah, let's dance! And I immediately dive into what is the worst like... It's like faster than the beat. Yeah, yeah, and I'm not even close to the beat. I'm just doing what I think of when I think of the dances in the games that I play, and basically every Fortnite dance that I can think of. You do the one?

Which one? Well. That's the one? Okay, yeah. Yeah. I'm just going to kind of sit back and wait for our drinks and, you know, wait for, like, I'm, the one-ups are hitting me. Yeah, I think, like, we would just sort of talk, get to know each other, talk about music, and talk about, like, really just try to sell it. We're trying to be very much.

Yeah. And just come off as rich and powerful. I'm gonna like lean in on Pike. I'm like, hey man, I'm sorry I said that. I shouldn't have told him. Hey, come on, no. I'm just worried about you, man. I'm just worried about you.

I mean, I get it. You drop it, all right? It's been years and you're still hung up. I just want you to be happy, man. I want you to be happy, man. She's what I bitch. I get it. I appreciate it.

Co, let it go, all right? Let it go. Okay, okay, okay. Sorry, Mike. Sorry, sorry, man. I love you, man. It's okay. And then I'll just, we'll just, like,

awkward to do this. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I'm like going to be crying a little bit. Or a full hug. It's all right. It's all right. The drinks make their way back. And as you're all doing this.

Fucking a beer's fucking. Thanks to the, the, oh, it's made the stucum stance. The circumstance. Fuck. Yeah, what do you say? What do you know? Oh, you know what I say, that same day. I know these fucking.

Yeah. It's fucking cool. Thanks, man. Have you been into music since you were young? Oh yeah, the moment I was born. was in the music. I mean, you play the guitar particularly well. And all them holograms, the whole show was just the production value.

I gotta say, I'm very impressed. Thank you all so much if it comes naturally to me, but I couldn't do it without the help of Mr. W. It really does take care of me. I got such a great life here, you know, and one day, I'm going to be a star. Well, I've no doubt that, you know, maybe with he and I. working together, get your name known beyond just Cherrix. You'll be known across the galaxy. Really? Even further than Cherics? I think even beyond Cherics. Yeah, not just Paradise City.

We're talking, I mean, you could be headlining at a 7th Heaven casino one day, maybe. Wow. Yeah, we're going there later. We know. Yeah, we're going to go there. We're going to go. My stepdad, he knows, he knows Max Maxim. Yeah. Rex Maxim. Let's Max Maxim. Let's make. You don't know, Rex Maxim? You don't know, Rex Maxim? I don't think so, no. He's a real bounty hunter.

He's a real, he's a real bounty hunter. He's a real, plays Cowboys! Oh, dear God! Yeah, yeah. From the TV. He comes in here sometimes. I think Mr. W knows him. Oh, wow.

Everybody knows this guy. Wow. Doesn't fucking surprise me. He's so well connected. Yeah, I know Rex Maxim. Yeah, I know Rex Maxim. Yeah. He's very famous, actually.

He's got a lot of shows. Oh, my son, so he can name every single television series that he very briefly. Oh, he does a TV show? Oh, yeah, he was in the original show where they showed off his bounty honey skills, but then they showed off all of his other many, many talents. There was maximum survive, there was maximum love,

there was maximum law, maximum chef, maximum haunt, maximum load. I need another drink, not the other thing. Maximum makeover, maximum baby daddy, maximum therapy, maximum court, maximum I said maximum makeover. I love that shot. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. That was the rest of action. He didn't really recognize them because it would be a makeover, but yeah. Yeah, yeah. And also, I mean, maximum bounce where zero G meets double D. Remember that one?

Yeah, that was a spin-off of a maximum, where is it? I have it here. Maximum love, maximum love. 12 women, one. Moonbase, zero gravity and zero shame. Yeah. Well, she's done a lot.

Yeah. Yeah, he's well-traveled, so to speak. But, yeah, no, we go, we go way back. O'Rexie. O'Rexie and I, you know, he is a bit of a singing career himself. You may have heard his holiday album. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we tried to sign him for that one.

He went with the competitor, but that's okay. That's okay. next time. I really like his, my guilty is pleasure. I've never told me this. One of my favorite albums is

his Star Yacht Rock album. What's Yacht Rock? Oh, Star Yacht Rock? I've said too much. I'm gonna have some of this water. I'm gonna have some of this water. I'm gonna have another beer. She can play it for you

one day, maybe. That'll be great. Yeah, it's getting late. What do you think? Yeah, not yet. I can't keep you too long. You've already graced me with so much of your time. Mr. Rhett, it's really nice to meet you.

Pixel, it's been an absolute pleasure. And again, I mean, your voice is bad of an angel. I don't know what else to say. I really do hope that we get to work together. I will do my very best to talk to Mr. W about it, and he'll find you at the hotel. That's right. Red Rye, Rhapsody Records, just call for us at the Golden God.

Oh, yeah, of course. All right. I'll bring the car around. Meet me out front. Wow, so fancy. Bring the car around. Have a good night, pixel. We'll see later.

You too, Carl. We're not here long. All right. Well, I hope I see you again before you go. It was a pleasure to meet you. It was nice to meet you, too. We're the Golden God Hotel. It's so cool to meet another day.

We're at the Golden Garden Hotel. Have a good night, pixel. All right, yeah, I've got to get these two home. Have a living night. Yeah, it's been a play. Good night. Have a good night. Glit of Glitogius.

That was so cool. Oh, sorry, good night. Yeah. Oh, oh, shit. I can't read my hand running. Is Moggley out there? Mogli, sure. I mean, yeah.

We're ready to leave. Oh, Mr. Rye. Leave us back to the front. Yeah, of course. I'll walk. We'll take you back to the car. Did you enjoy your stay? Oh, this is beautiful.

Beautiful. Fantastic. Pass my compliments on to Mr. Wheatelvox. We hope to host you again tomorrow night. If you're in town for so long, if I may be so bold. You won't be here long. You know, it's cool keep saying, but no, we'll be here. It's not here long.

We'll keep a booth warm for you. And he walks you out of the glittering. back to your car, they've brought it around, you once again enter Pike in the driver's seat, Co, laser rifle seat, and you too hop in the back. Scatterblast. As you get the Scatterblast seat. I think that went really well. Oh no, my dream!

Cobholders! Right there! Oh, Pike. You're never gonna believe this. On our way out, I ran into Trifony. You know, the Solari that I introduced you to? Oh, that was her name? Yeah, I gave her my room key, and I told her where we're staying.

So we'll see what happens. Fine by me. Yeah. Good luck with that. Okay. I told her we had to pass, we weren't staying long. As you're, like, mumbling and, like, kind of, like, rambling on, I'm, like, I'm checking the dash and making sure we're good to go.

I've lit a new cigarette. I rolled the window down. I do, like, a quick check on, like, how much money we've spent. And I, oh, boy. I'll make sure I'll just close it like you make a mental note like oh yeah yeah yeah

Brett's gonna fucking kill me and uh I put the keys in the ignition and make sure everybody's good to go and I take us back to the golden god your car purrs to life and you once more take to those elevated roadways

through the buildings as you make your way oh way slow down pike I'm going the speed limit don't you dare yeah don't you dare

Biggie. I go out the empty big pulp, cup next to me. I'll be all right. I'll be all right. I'll be all right. I'll be all right. I'll be all right. I'll be all right.

Holy shit. Uh, God, that's funny. Pixel. You make your way through the backstage of the Glitz Room and pass through a red door flanked by two heavily armed thugs, both with bright red belts. You walk through the labyrinthes. You walk through the labyrinthes.

hallways and corridors of the nightclub's back offices, familiar with every inch of the place, nodding to, waving at, and giving a friendly hello to the numerous guards and goons that you pass on your travel. None of them pay you any mind having seen the same site night after night as you make your way to the private office of Grobulous J. Weedlebox. You eventually arrive in another heavy door painted red, but this time etched with the letters G.J.W. and two of the biggest and baddest thugs in your employer's employ on either side of it. They give you a curt nod and let you open the door without issue as you step into the office. The luxurious space is filled with expensive art and antiquities, with an entire fully stocked bar on one wall.

Sitting in a plush chair behind a desk covered in papers, empty glasses, and full ashtrays is the man you've known, loved, and relied upon for years. He's a wide and stout globulin with currently orange skin, his enormous double chin sprouting a purple 5 o'clock shadow that matches the thin remaining hair that rings his balding head. He wears a tailored green suit with a polished red belt. A glowing neon tie with pink leopard print hangs untied around his neck where several buttons have been unfastened from his crisp white shirt.

He holds a large, boxy, communicator to his head with thick fingers adorned with many shiny rings as he speaks to someone on the other side. A smoldering cigar in his plump lips. He glances up at you as you come in, pointing at the velvet chair, sitting across the desk as he finishes the conversation before hanging up the communicator with his side. Yeah, you let him know it's going to get there when I said it's going to get there. And that means it gets there on time. Okay? Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, don't call back here without that straightened up. Yeah, bye. Pixie Dust, look at you. I love you. Oh, my gosh. Did you like the show tonight? Did I like the show tonight?

Look at you like the dawn coming over the horizon chasing the dark night away. Oh, my goodness. I've never seen anything as good as that. I'll look over to the chair and pout, and then I'll look at his lap. Oh. There's only one seen the house for you. Come on down, Pixie Nest.

And I'll prance over and just cut him to his lap. He'll quickly take out, he'll smoke his cigar to its end. He'll quickly take out a large, ornate cigar cutter, almost like straight gold, GJW, adorned on the top rim of it as he has like this kind of like Winston Churchill like thick cigar as he snips the end of it his rings kind of shining in in in the in the light as he lights it up oh how you feeling how you feeling after a big show like that you're flying cloud 11 I'm flying cloud 12 tonight oh my girl oh it was amazing the crowd and everything oh they just love your club you know oh it's not the club dog

It's you. Oh, much for everybody here in Paradise City. You know that. Oh, you sure know how to... But especially for me. Oh, my gosh. Well, of course, of course, pixie dust. For you, I mean, you're the...

You're my crumb de resistance. You're the jewel. You're the jewel. You're the whole thing. You're the glitz in the glitz room. Of course, for you. You're looking so stressed. Let me get those muscles.

And she's going to just spin around and start massaging. Oh, I love this time of night. Oh, God. Oh, right there. Oh, yeah, pixie dust. Sounds like you were having a stressful call. I'm so glad you're done with it. Oh, don't worry your pretty little head about that, my love.

That's, you know, never to think about that kind of stuff. It's for you, it's all the lights. It's the glamour. That's the gritty. No, you stay out of that. You keep your hands. You dress clean. Well, I bring it up because, you know, I know how stressed you are all the time.

You want some glimmer. Oh, baby, do I? You know how I like to do it, too. I do. I'll make us, I'll make us some, okay? And you just, you just lay back and you just listen. I just, I have a proposal. Can I, can I? Oh, Pixie Duss is no sound more beautiful than the sound of you talking.

Let's, let's do a line together and then whatever you want to say. I'll listen. You know, it's for you. And so, Pixel will quickly get out her, her, her, She'll open up her makeup kit that she keeps at her side. It's shaped like a heart and has a rainbow across it. And she rummages around past her makeup and then pulls out this specialized kit for her glimmer.

And she puts down two lines, one larger for Mr. W. And then one smaller for her, but they're right next to each other. And they're on opposite side, so they have to like wind around each other to do them. Whoa, baby. He'll take your hair in his hands and just hold it back. kind of tightly, almost in a kind of gripping

so your hair doesn't hit the table as you go down, on the line. On the line? On the line. On the line. I propose we go to like, I'd like to play wheelbock. I always say it was really. Oh, baby doll, the good stuff.

Oh, wait, sure you get me the good stuff. And I'll quickly put my kid away. What a great end of the night, oh. I know you're so stressed. and you know that the glimmers rushing through our systems. We're trying to have the best nights of our life. You've been telling me for, you know, months, years, months, that you're going to make me a star, and I know it.

I just know it. Oh, Dala, superstar. For you, I mean, there won't be any star higher in the sky. I know. But you're busy. You got so much going on, running the glitz room and being, you know, the Mr. W. And I know that it can be difficult for you sometimes.

If it didn't, and that's fine. I don't mind it all because I love it here and I love my life. But did you hear that there was a big record producer here today from Rhapsody Records? Rhapsody Records. Yeah. I heard something about it. What was that? They got a website and everything.

Website. Yeah, they even had a form. I thought about filling it out, but I got scared. Oh, what are you scared, dog? Are you kidding me? Look at you. Picture perfect. Scared of what?

I mean, these guys sound like nobody's, though. I've never heard them. A Rhapsody Records. Who do they sign? Well, apparently, they're just about to sign Satermax. No. Yeah, I know. Can you believe it?

I climb back up onto his lap. Honey, and I start massaging into a shoulder. Oh, that's the spot. You know every inch. You know every inch, though. Oh, yeah. Oh. Right there.

Oh, you got hands like a... Oh, my goodness. Beta Max. We check the maturedog? Yep. Zadamix. He might be doing a rock album. A rock album.

Listen, though, I... Just a little while longer, okay? This rhapsody records. This sounds like jump stuff, all right? Fuck, Chris. You're going to shot... You're the brightest star in the sky. What do I always say?

Keep shining, superstar. No one could illuminate me better than you can, Mr. W. But here's the thing. It's not just that they could make me a star. They got connections across the galaxy. And you know how much I care about you. Love you, even. I would never, I would never bring this to you if it was only for me.

I'm not that selfish. They got connections. And they mention. And she'll glance to his neck. That they could, you know, help with one of your biggest endeavors. Ah, huh. Well, okay, okay. I mean, they sound terrible as a record company.

I wouldn't admit to, listen, I mean, you're saying they got connections all over the galaxy. Maybe they move to and fro? Is that what we're talking about? I mean, just, if they're, they've talked to the Zatomax. Can you imagine being able to do what you do at my shows for Zatomax? Do you're so beautiful. Sometimes I look at you, I can die on the spot. In fact, no, don't.

I'm back. Okay, well, hey, I tell you what, I'll tell you what. Pixie dust for you, okay? I'll set of meat. but I, my schedule's chock full for about a week. Are they only gonna be here for a couple of days, is what Coe said. Not very long at all. Well, if they want a meeting with me, they're gonna have to extend the stay.

But I tell you what, I'll make you work there while. You take them out, show them the town, take them to paradise, sweetheart. Show them everywhere good, under the sun. And show them a good time. whatever it takes. You get them back. In about a week, I'll sit down with them. I'll see if maybe we can't come to some kind of mutual arrangement.

And for you, don't worry. Don't worry. Months, years. You're so close, baby, doll. You're so close. We're going to have you shining in the sky in days. Maybe weeks. Every time I start to feel nervous,

I know you're always going to make me feel so much better. Oh, baby. Don't worry, we'll work out some of that tension on you. You're just the best, darling. I love you. Oh, I love you. Okay, I'm gonna go. Do you want me to call the hotel and tell them, or did you want to do it?

Why don't you give them a ring. I don't want to connect with them too early. I got stuff going on. I mean, they're big, but they're not. Mr. W. big. Well, of course. Speaking of, why don't you call me about 30 minutes? All right. I'll go let the circumstance know.

And she will squeeze his shoulders one more time and then place a kiss on his neck before she popped off. Right there, right there. Oh, just what? Tiny feet walking on my back. Oh. Did you want me to do that time? Oh, darling. Oh.

With or without heels. Oh, you know, the sect is, you know, with the heels. Oh, you know, with the heels. Oh, with the heels. You got the red, you know? I guess the red. I got the red. Oh, I got the red.

They say the color doesn't matter, but I got a sad. I think it changes the sensation. Oh! And she will hop off of his lap and she will turn towards him and bend over a little. Oh, we're going, okay. Woo!

All right, I'll see you in 30. And then she just prances out. And as she opens the door, you hear. Oh, my face. Mike? Mike's down here is Derek. Oh, right? No!

No! Who's ready to be fucked? Derek, DTF. I'm supposed to come back in 30. Oh, don't worry, I'll take over. Okay, great, see you soon. Oh, bye-va-va-va-D-Z. Anybody ready for Margaritas?

Uh-huh. Guys, I don't want to warn anybody. I think Mace might be a freak. That was great. Beast. Woo. Oh, okay. That's fucking funny.

And then yeah, Pixel will head back to her room above the club to make a phone call to the hotel. You do so. You walk down, pass back or down those winding labyrinthian hallways. Bye, Joe. Bye. Passing guards and goons, everyone heavily.

Michael, good to see you. Oh, Pixel, great to see you. And they all wave at you as you greet them, and they don't even bat an eye knowing that you've walked this hallway a thousand. Happy birthday, Pauley. Oh, you remembered. Always.

Oh, Pixel, you the best. As you make your way back out and up to your room, in the glitch room, just above the glitch room. You can still feel almost in the floorboards of your room, the pulsating thrum of the music that carries on beneath you. Ah, that might be a store. It's a W.

It's gonna go even further. Just, my whole life is, how it's all coming together, just like you said. Girl like me, this little old pixel pop. All thanks to Rhapsody Records. Okay, for a call, Diary, you will know. I cannot believe it.

And about 15 minutes passes. While Pixel just explains everything to her diary. And then, or it's probably about, it's probably about 20 minutes. And then she looks up at the time and realizes she now only has like two minutes to make this phone call before she has to be back with Mr. W. And so she quickly picks up her phone and calls up to the hotel. You do so. And we will transition back to the Golden God, where you all have found yourself after a,

a card ride through the night city, a slow moving, easy going pace, feeling relatively confident that so far your plan has executed without issue. Okay. You find yourselves back in your hotel suite, hanging out, sitting, maybe having another drink to kind of wind the night down or get it bumping back up. And Pixel gives you a call over the phone to your room. Whoever decides to answer, she relays the information that Mr. Weedelvox is open for a meeting,

but it will take about a week of you hanging out as he doesn't yet have the time to see you. But when that comes, he'll be able to host you at his mansion in the hills, just to the skirts of the city. Damn. And that she has been tasked with showing you around Paradise City and ensuring that you enjoy your stay for the week that you're there waiting to connect with them

and that she will connect with you tomorrow in the morning. Was that Triffony? No, that was Pixel. Oh, shit. We're in. Nice. Guys, we are fucking awesome at this. Yeah, I feel relatively confident.

This is gonna work out. This is fucking awesome. I mean, no, you go. I'm glad they're both excited, but you have to realize we've been doing this for a long time. You guys are really fucking good. We should do this more often. This is our job now.

That's what that license is all about. Oh my God, you're right. This is what I was always fucking meant to do. You were right, Pike, and all the time we were talking in prison. Then you thought I'd like found you. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. It's not always this glamorous, and I pull off like the topest of top shelf

that we have in our room. I pour myself like five fingers of whiskey. A heavy pour, but enjoy it while it lasts, all right? Well done. Thanks. Oh, did I forget my license on the bartender bar? No, no, no, no, no, it's here. No, wait, oh, no, it's here, I got it.

I got it, I got it. I told Triffony if she shows up, does it bring more one-ups? Don't worry. Um, I'll look around, and I'll say, regardless of the truth when he fucking shows up or not, we might have to be here a little longer than we expected. I mean, at least a full week, but...

Oh, shit. ...busy man. But it sounds like... Pixel's going to show us around the town. So we got to, you know, get close with her, you know, make sure she likes us. says a friender. And I think the closer we can get to pixel, the closer we can get to uh, wedle Fox. Yeah, well, we gotta figure out how the fuck, you know, if Wasagio fucking said was true,

and we gotta figure out a way to nab him when we have that fucking meeting, we're only in that one shot. It's the... Getting him out of there. It's gonna be tough. Go figure it out. We're fucking great at this, guys. You guys are awesome. Well, I mean, this whole thing is, he's fucking specialty, basically. specialty, basically.

Pike, you're so much smarter than I thought you were. That's fucking incredible, man. Infiltration. That's so... You know, laying low. Fucking cool. Being someone else, I'll take that as a compliment. And then with, uh, you know, Ziggy's fake credentials, I mean, I feel like I'm

red ride. It's weird. I was sitting there, and I didn't even feel like red indigo. That's the fucking wildest part of all this. I sort of felt like a record producer. I feel like the rap of the action. fucking speaks to me. That was... I bought it.

That was really fucking impressive. Something about that music and that environment. I don't know. I felt, yeah, as soon as it was fucking the music, the concert was going, I just felt like, I had, like, what, one drink?

And suddenly just came over me. I wanted to... I almost fucking took Red Line. I was holding it in my fucking hand. It was right up to my neck, and I realized, holy shit, that's fucking scumbagged, scum, fucking. Sagiot's shit. What a fucking loser bully that piece of shit is. And I gave it back. She was

a very nice girl and I said, no thank you. But I actually almost fucking did it. And they had people when I was out in the fucking crowd, they had people distributing that shit. I mean, there are people like talking. It was fucking crazy. I don't know why. Something came over. As soon as that concert

started. You gonna be all right? I fucking see. I only took one-ups. I mean, that's way less fucking hard than Redline. And you know, Glimmer's not so bad. So he's going to be fine, right, buddy? I did a lot of Glimmer.

I miss more Glimmer. I miss it a lot. You're going to be okay, buddy. I'm not entirely sure. I looked away for one fucking second. That bartender was really fucking convincing. Well, I mean, I started to sneeze, but instead of going out, it all went in.

And then I couldn't stop. I was just going to do it little. And then I was just like, and here we are. I'll take a deep pull on my beverage and say, whatever happens, and we gotta get this pixel pop to tell us about this guy's place. The more we know ahead of time, the more that she spills, the better prepared that we're gonna be.

To your point, we've only got one shot, all right? Yeah, but we can't be too fucking suspicious. We ask too many fucking questions. Then she's gonna let him know and then he's gonna be even more fucking Baron. We remember what fucking Saugio said. Maybe we can like, I feel like Ziggy'll figure it out. You're a smart kid, Ziggy. Figure what out?

Good night. We should go to bed. You have some fucking sands. We should get to sleep. We're gonna have a... I'm gonna get a beer for my nightstand. We're gonna have a busy week. All right.

Zing, you okay? I'll be all right. Need anything else? I think I'm gonna be all right. Put a trash camp by his bed. You hear that? I'm going to play some video games. I don't think I'm going to go to sleep for a little while.

I'm going to play some dance already. Do you bring all that with you? Well, now that I know that there's ports on the screen, we can play. Look, look, it's the whole window. Don't you want to play dance already with me, Red? Dance already. Yeah.

It's basically you do the dance in the time with the thing, and if you're doing the same pose as the thing that's on the, as the simulation, then you stay with the beat, whole thing and you can, you know, there's even a dance, you'll love it. Oh, you gotta play the song where Rex Raxham, uh, where Rex Maxim, uh, dances up to one of his holiday songs. He's in this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You can do it and you can do the same emotions that he does. Oh, my God. I'll watch, I'll watch. And I sit down and I'll just

pour myself on my final nightcap. And I'll watch as you can play dance already. Sure. proud dad like a proud step dad you carry on for the remainder of the night in such a fashion as long as you care to do so before everyone turns into their rooms for the evening this this place is so large and lavish and red you're in the primary room that's just absolutely massive and gorgeous but every room in its own right is beautiful and luxurious and And you all sleep incredibly well and peacefully, some more so than others. And you may all enjoy a long rest if that's relevant. Thank God.

I'm going to do it anyway. I was banged up from last episode. I assume we rested since then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't want to have it. To prompt the like, hey, go ahead and take a long rest. Do we feel like are the magical charm is off? Oh, I would say.

Good question. Yes. I would also say that you wouldn't inherently know that it was something of a magical. No, no, I don't know. I just feel the music course through me. Yeah, exactly. Exactly right. And throughout the evening, it had definitely begun to wane, especially as you had returned to the hotel,

you'd kind of begun to wind down for the evening. You'd feel yourself kind of come back to your full sorts. and you all rest well for the night. And you wake up in the morning feeling refreshed. And if I may, I'll say that, Rhett, you're the first one up into the kitchen. You maybe even start fixing yourself your own pot of coffee. Yeah, so I'm looking for a coffee pot. And I'm checking the cabinets and I'm looking all over and all they have.

is a space cure. Ah! Yes! And I'm like... It returns. Yeah. Oh, damn. Yeah, you think you'd have fucking everything. A simple fucking coffee pot. And so I'll get, I'll find a pod of like the darkest, dark, dark, dark, dark roads that they have.

And I'll be, this will be like pretty early. I've not sleep a lot. Yeah. And I'll sort of, um, if I can call down if there's like a newspaper, I would call down to have them bring up the newspaper. Yeah. and I'll sit at whatever kind of main table, kitchen table there is, and I'll sort of drink coffee. And I'll be reading the paper.

There's got to be like a balcony, right? Oh, 100%. Looking over the sea. I'm on the balcony. Yeah, for sure. And there's like a little outdoor table, and I have my coffee. And I have my kitchen. And it's like a full dining table outside.

It's not like a small coffee table. It's a full-blown dining table. Really lavish chairs out there surrounded as you sit there. When you call down, they are instantly, you have the paper within 60s. 60 seconds ready to go. They're immediately ready to care to every one of your needs. And they set up a recurring paper delivery now knowing that that's something you're interested in

so that every morning as you awake, they will have the paper there at the door ready for you. And you do the space curing machine and... Mike, can you be the space curing machine for me? Those little specks flut. And you're enjoying your coffee on the balcony until you hear a door inside swing open. The next person is getting up for the morning. It'll be me. And you, okay, yeah, it'll be you.

And I'll stumble out into the kitchen. I'll sort of poke my head in through the glass door and just like see that it's getting up and I'll get back to my paper. Morning. Morning. How you holding up? It feels pretty good actually. Something about the sea air or something. I just feel good here.

It's like I'm on vacation. It's weird. We're working. Doesn't it feel like we're on vacation, Pike? I look a little rough. I start to make my way to the bar and I look at you and I say, do we have any eggs? I mean, they'll bring whatever the fuck you need. I did check they have little pods for blonde roast. No, no. You're in luck there.

I need an egg. I need an egg. I need an egg. and I begin to stumble over towards the bar to try to make myself a drink that will, a little hair of the dog, if you will. You make your way over to the bar and you walk behind it, and anything you'd want drink-wise, you can find there.

And if you can't, there's a communicator connected directly to the bar that you can hit, and you know that whatever you could possibly desire that will get to you, and if they don't have it, they will send someone to go get it. I find all the things that I need, a little bit of gin, a little bit of work, Worcestershire sauce, I find a little bit hot sauce.

The one thing I have to call room service for is a singular egg. And Rhett has seen me do this before. Oh, yeah. More than once. They get it to you in 60 seconds. And then as I'm making this drink, I take a look at it and I say, Cheers. Cheers.

I'll cleanse my coffee mug against here, your glass. As I, as I almost hesitate, my hand is shaking a little bit of a look at this drink. And I look at Rhett and I say, I got a hang over the size of the Roxul sector. And I knock this back. And I suck the whole drink down in one go. I have separated out the yoke. I threw the yoke weight.

It's just the egg white. And I knock it all back and kind of shake as I settle in on the couch. Roll a constitution saving throw for me. Okay. Oh, killed it. I got a 21. You've done this before. It burns going down and you're already feeling rough from the night before.

But as it hits your stomach, it shoots out a weird sensation, almost like tendrils of your body. And you start to feel yourself head in the right direction. Every time. And I'll just kind of like settle in and just chill and wait to see when everyone else gets up. You'll see the door slide open, if I may. And I would, Ziggy would walk in. He's wearing long shorts. his sandals and his goggles.

He's no longer wearing the sunglasses that he was posing in last night. And he's wearing an extremely long, extra, extra, extra, extra large shirt, which has like a over-styled poster, what is clearly a poster for some movie called The Horror on Planet Aurora. And it's hard to say, but it looks real cool.

And he's, hey, hey, morning, everybody. How are you guys doing? Morning. Morning, we're out here. Oh, you got coffee? I don't know there's a space curing

Oh I love these things We'll name that later I I do a few pushes of the buttons And I come out How are you guys feeling? How are you feeling? I feel great

You feel great? Yeah I had a lot to drink last night And whatever glimmer is But you know I don't tend to get hung over I don't know it's just one of those things I wake up feeling fine much of the time. I have a pretty high constitution.

I'm feeling good. I think Brian's feeling good. I'll be all right in a few hours. Then the fourth door swings open as Co-awakens for the day. And as you look in the door opens and you look over, you realize that it's not Coe who walks out of the room, but you see that cherry red hair turn to bright orange as Triffony fixes.

Sme max him? Oh, is that? Not fucking up. I know. Trip and he fixes the, a strap on her dress, now holding her heels in her hand. And she turns back and just says, have a great day, slugging. Until she kind of tiptoes and looks at everyone out on the balcony and then just pauses for a second. And then doesn't return the greeting and then just walks out.

and then just walks out of the room. You got me in the space crew. The door shuts behind it. And she was for the day. And Coe is still not roused. I look at Red, and I'm like, that's the Coe I know. Well, all right. Yeah.

So much for getting some sleep. What's a five-letter word for? Pin-a-pin a pen. No, I don't like doing these, Red. Come on. It's too early for that. For what? Seals, four letters. Five-letter word for pinniped.

What's pinnipet? Pinaped. Pinaped? Pinaped? Yeah. Walt, is Walrus? No, that's six letters. Damn it. I'm just, I'm doing the call. It's around this time that the front desk calls up to you and lets you know that Pixel has arrived at the Golden God Hotel and is here to greet you for a more.

morning and take you out on the town and show you some fun stuff to do as you while away the hours, but you will have to go get co. Don't worry, I'll handle this. And I'll walk up to Co's door, which is left slightly ajar after the exit of this, the Solari woman, and I'll knock on the door and say, hey, Co, come on, we got to go. You all right? How do I feel? You and I'll say, Ziggy, you as well, you know, I'll wake up totally unencumbered.

But you feel particularly drained. You're feeling like a little sluggish. And you both share this feeling, so it's not just because of the events of your evening. But you both feel relatively particularly energy, drained kind of like your energy. You can maybe at the rousting of Pike start to kind of like feel yourself come to,

and you'll feel a similar sensation throughout the morning. Though you may not attribute it necessarily to being hung over. I think I stay up late most nights. I don't know if I would differentiate it, right? And I do have a high enough con where I feel like I can be justified in being like, you know what, I'm all right, I'm plus four. Yeah. Perfect. Hey, Coe, come on, we gotta get moving.

I can make you a prairie horses if you want. They brought a few extra eggs up. What the fuck? What the fuck? I'm telling you, after it goes down smooth, you'll feel better. Do they have coffee? Sort of. Drink it at your own risk.

No, it's good coffee. It's just in a weird machine that they don't like for some reason. Okay, I'll get up. Coe's room is strewn about. I don't like poke my head in too far. Just enough to like, be like, hey, you know, we're here to roust you. I like look like death as odd. I walk over.

Fuck, it stinks forever. No, Ziggy, if it was seals, the clue would have been five-letter word for pin of pens. It can't be seals. Oh, I'll keep looking. Don't look it up. That defeats the point.

What do you mean? It's like looking up a strategy guide. You know, don't you want to win? No, no. You do it more for the act of it. For the pride of completing it. Anyway. And I'll continue my crossword.

Is there me? If you want it, we can call for it. Yeah. Recognizing that Pixel is waiting on you downstairs in the lobby, you get yourselves together. Yeah. And we'll say, make your way to meet her in the lobby. Oh, wait, it is she.

Who the fuck wrote this for us? I thought it was. I was going to be like Zalafas and Atari. It's way, way wrong, way off. Oh, God. And we'll run down to the lobby. You get yourselves together for the day, shaking off some of the rust from the evening before.

You make your way down that hallway to the elevator. And you're all feeling it just a bit. But man, is that view as you're coming down, work to really breathe the life back into you. until you hit that grand, open, expansive foyer of the Golden God Hotel, and you see Pixel waiting there for you. Hey, Pixel! Oh, aye!

Hey. Morning. It's me. Do you recognize me? Do you look any different? No. Of course we do. Yeah, good morning. I'm so glad I spotted you the moment you got downstairs.

Yep. Yep. Well, hopefully you found the hotel okay. Oh yeah, this place is huge. It is. Very shiny. We can afford it really, really easily because of Rhapsody Records. Are you okay? I don't know.

Yeah, I'm fine. I'll be fine. I just eat like a plate of bacon, a little bit of sausage, some ham. Oh my gosh. You want to go to brunch? Brunch? What the fuck is that? Well... What do you mean?

What is drunk? It's breakfast and lunch, all in the same thing at the same time. It's pretty sweet. Isn't that just lunch? No! No, it comes before lunch. You have it before lunch, but after breakfast and you can have alcohol. Yeah.

Before five o'clock. A little hair of the dog without fucking eggs and sauce in it. No, I don't know if we can do brunch for too long, though, because we gotta get down to the sandy beach. We're gonna do volleyball today! Beach volleyball? Beach volleyball? Yeah.

Beach volleyball? Yeah, Peachy Beach. I love beach volleyball. Let's do that. That's awesome. It's gonna be- Do we need to go change? We could change down at the beach.

We should go shopping after brunch and get outfits like. I'll get the car. Everybody stay here. And I'll walk over where the valet is, and get the keys, and get the car ready to go. Miss Pixel Pop, if you don't mind, I, I think Mr. Rye would be more comfortable in our vehicle. Oh, you're right, yeah.

You have a car? You brought a car? It's not my car. Oh. But it's a car I drive sometimes. Well, I feel like we'll be more comfortable in our own car. That's true. Mine is global-sized.

And plus, it would be an honor for me to drive you around as well. Oh, okay. I would love to ride in your car. I'll be right back, and I'll go. get the car ready and get the car from. Very greets you, gets the keys. He brings the car around and you're able to jump in. You get the door for everybody.

Yep, yep. I'll just smoke a sig while I wait for everybody to take the time, you know, and all that good stuff. You do so. And you can, you can all clamber into the, into the back of this beautiful luxury car as Rhett and Ziggy kind of scoot in. Pixel as you move in, the back is enormous. And this is not a level of luxury. You're too unaccustomed to, but this is very nice interior.

It's like a step above. Yeah, it's odd that the seats are all stained. But aside from that, it's an extremely nice interior of the car. What's that smell? It's Bahamette Blast. Yep. Yeah, it is. Well, whoever made this car must have expected go.

This is huge. You got room above your head. And I'm standing up on the seat to do it. Yeah, exactly. And there's a whole side, like the whole, as you walk in on the right side of the car, the whole other side is also lined with another kind of like bench style seat where you can lounge about.

Wow, it's stained over here too. There's a ton of room to enjoy and settle in. Sit anywhere you like. Okay, can I sit next to you? Please. And Pixel will plop down next to Rhett, and the seats are up high enough that she's just kicking her feet. They don't reach the floor. This is so cool.

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and more. Thank you. Hi, pie, brunch. And then... Yes, sir, Mr. Rye. Peachy Beach, she said? Peachy Beach. Peach. Beach. Best beach volleyball in all of the lands. And space. And with Pixels directions, I take anybody where they want to go. I take us all where we want to go. And Pixel begins to direct you towards the Viper Strip. Known primarily for its, it's, it has this kind of like windiness to it as these shops float in the section in these kind of cut into this section of the of the hills. These shops elevated, beautiful, luxurious shopping. but also some of the best restaurants you can encounter in the area that do serve absolutely fantastic brunch.

And you can navigate, it takes you a little bit to get from the hotel and kind of make your way. And you're getting used to this kind of like airway city kind of traffic maneuver. It's a little different from piloting a ship. It's also a little different from driving a normal car. There's something that's just specific enough about it that you have to kind of get comfortable with it but you've been able to reach that point and you eventually make your ways to to the viper strip I have a suggestion it's my favorite place but we don't have to go there if it's not your thing what do you mean it's this

really cool it's this really cool brunch place called black hole sunny side up and did somebody say pizza a brunch place. Oh, is that it over there? And the tagline is, won't you come in and eat? Yeah. I know, it doesn't look, see it, but I'm telling you. No, there's a floating, that's not very, there's a floating chalkboard that has it drawn in chalk out front.

Yeah, it sounds good to me. Sounds good to me. We have brunch. Yeah, you go into the black hole. I ordered three moblimosa's. Oh, yeah. I have some moblamosas. I start perking up a little bit.

A picture of Mablamosis should you choose so. Immediately, most everyone in this town knows exactly who you are. And when you walk into a restaurant, especially on the Vipers Strip, man, we probably get treated extra nice. People hop too, right? They see pixel coming. They know that they're like, you get prime attention. So the second you walk in, this beautiful restaurant stretches out in front of you.

It's booths all the way around as they kind of spider out through the room. Nice green foliage, kind of lounging above these chairs and booth sections, kind of cast a comforting scene as you go in. And you sit down and begin to enjoy your brunch meal. The moblimosis hit the table in a picture format. Normally, I drink this. When in Paradise City, right?

I will pay for everything basically throughout this week. When Rhett goes to pay for it, Pixel will pull out Mr. W's card. Whoa! Oh no, no, no. This week's on Mr. W. He wouldn't have it any other way. Are you sure?

I mean, I'm happy. Oh, yeah. I mean. So Zee like made me a credit card skin. It's attached to our account, but it says Rhapsody Records on it. Oh yeah, awesome. Are you sure?

I'm happy to give this. Oh yeah, absolutely. It would just hurt him through and through if you wouldn't accept his hospitality. Well, that's- We wouldn't want to do that. Very generous. Of course, everything this week is all Mr. W.

Wiedelvox seems like an all right guy. Oh yeah, he's the best. Looking forward to meeting him. All right, well, that was a very delicious black egg in the hole. Yeah, it was really fucking good. Yeah. extra meat, extra beef, extra pork, extra chicken, extra ham.

And every bunch brunch plate comes with a personal pizza. Jesus. Wow. This is what you're calling is awesome. Eat the pizza. Did somebody say pizza? Ziggy has a lot. Ziggy destroys this table.

Are you going to finish that? This is where the circumstance works when he's not working at. Oh, yeah. Oh, picture. How's the pizza? So, that's so good to see you. The circumstance. Can you see you, picture Bob, your friends?

I remember you. Oh, enjoy the Bible pizza. What do you say, huh? What do you say? What do you know? Oh, good to see you. Oh, enjoy, enjoy. Can I get another personal pizza?

Yeah, okay. I got to swore that guy's name was. I'll have one one. I'll have one. Oh, I think we need some more napkins too, thank you. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he did whatever you do. Put the mimosas on the table, bro.

Oh, we got a tough guy over here. What's your job? You drive the car, probably. Oh! I look at me in the eye and say, I drive. Oh, yeah. All right.

All right. You're refreshed on you. All the mottomosis you can possibly need. You're full. You're so full from brunch on personal pizza. I shouldn't have had the third personal pizza. I thought it only counted as one slice. If you take two slices and just put it

if you make them into a sandwich, it seems the same psychologically. Oh, God. Oh. You make your way of the beach. You get back in the car and you drive to Peachy Beach. This is a private beach club that you know is invested in by Mr. Reedwalks. So as you drive up to it, this gorgeous white sand, pristine stretches out in all directions,

and you can see the coast right behind it. Just very close beyond it enclosed gate that keeps you away from it that says Peachy Beach private club over the bars. They see you, you roll down the window and you're hanging out the side waving at people as you come up. And the second they see you, the gates swing open as the, as like you're able to drive the drive the car through easily. Nice. You pull over to this private beach club inlaid into this hill and you can go in and it has it's gorgeous, has the smell of the sea in it. As you go in, the floors are just a little, like a little wet just from people coming back in from the beach or going out to it. Anything you could possibly want there. If you didn't bring items

yourself either beachwear, towels, more mobimosas, anything you could possibly need, you have the ability to access. I don't change at all. I have my sandals. I have my long shorts trunks, and I have my massive t-shirt, which is going to get extremely hot in the sun. It's a black tea, and it still has that same design on the front, but I don't feel the need to get into like swimwear or beyond that or anything along those lines. All I do is I get out a little bit of sunscreen and I give myself one of the nose markings. You have a nose line of sunscreen. As you all get in your beachware, you grab towels and you make your way out onto Peachy Beach and it is bumping. It is, it is There's not a ton of people all over the place because of, because it's private and reserved.

But there are sections, chairs strewn out that hover just above the sand if you want to sit and enjoy yourselves. There's a whole section closed off that has, it's almost like roped off in this gorgeous kind of like similar red satin rope that arps around this section that says reserved for pixel pop. that you can walk up to, set your stuff down, and enjoy your day at the beach? Normally, if he wasn't trying to be a record producer, Rhett would be wearing a large hound white t-shirt and very big baggy swim trunks. But to be more fitted appropriately,

Rhett has on some very stylish kind of neon animal print swim trunks, a tank top, and maybe like an open Hawaii shirt with some like jewelry chains and stuff around the neck. Mmm. I'll be wearing like a super tight, like form fitting, like almost like tank top and then like really and tight athletic shorts. I was gonna say, I don't know if you got that far in JJK, but I'd basically be wearing what Gojo Sotero was wearing at the beach during the hidden inventory arc,

where like, you know, nice, like, you know, kind of like retro older swim trunks are a little bit shorter. Yeah. But then like a button up, like almost like, you know, a short button up that would be open, like nice bright colors, almost not quite Hawaiian, but something that could be, button up. Like Magnum Kali, Tom Selleck kind of outfit. Yeah, sunglasses.

Hair, again, not like it was at the club. Very much back to normal where it just kind of let it fly where I can lift the sunglasses up, put him back down, right? Very casual, but can cover up if needed. Yeah. Good to go. Pixel would be in a holographic bikini. Nice. But she's got the little like ruffles that go around the bottoms

and then an extra line of ruffles on the butt. Her hair is exactly the same as it was before with her holographic bow and then instead of her classic pink pumps she's wearing glittery pink jelly shoes. That's very fine. That's what she wears the beach. Go? Did you say already? Yeah. Oh okay okay. So Pixel you also know that as a portion this is a huge site to see if you can get here as a tourist if you kind of rank the ability to enjoy this private beach. Dang.

What they've set up for you right in front of the area that you're lounging in. Of course, you can go, you can swim, you can enjoy the day, however you'd like, but they do have a classic volleyball net set up for you to play each other. Should you choose? Okay, let's fucking go.

Pike and I have to be on opposite teams. It's probably for the best. Remember I've always said I could crush you with beach volleyball? I'm always saying that. Yeah, we'll see. We, we, we, we, there would be three v two, it's not 15. I think, I think you and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I'm very good.

What? Just, just, just, just, you and me, or you and me, and then, and then three on the other side. Are we, are we, are we sure about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been playing volleyball forever. I am excellent. If the kid says so, so be it. All right. Well, I am very bad.

It works out then Yeah Why don't you go with him And I'll go with them Do you and me, Pike? Let's go I look less than thrilled Mike, he's a ringer

The kid's a ringer All mostly watch But I'll maybe hustle to grab a ball or two We'll see how this goes Are you ready? I am I haven't playing Volleyball since I was young Since I was a little kid

Okay I have every platinum trophy I visibly cringe Just get ready Oh, and Don't line up directly under Co I mean, someone has to play defense, right? Okay

Leave surf And I bro, are we starting? You begin Let's go, let's go. I'm going to flip a coin to see who begins. Gotcha, that's what I was asking. The teams are you two and then you three Yeah.

Coe, Pixel Rett versus Pike and Ziggy. And Pixel will be looking at everything that Coe does and we'll be mimicking all of that. Because she doesn't really know what she's doing. So when she sees the next stretch, she's doing it, like the flexes and stuff. You're off in the lounge on the sand, enjoy the sun kind of beach guard.

Now you're trying to like, yeah, let's like fun. You're trying to impress and just know them. Yeah, yeah. We'll start with Pike and and Ziggy. As I'm holding the ball and getting ready to serve, I look across the net and I see Coe and I see Co. I kind of just, without being at all, you know, coy about it, I just say, try not to kill the kid and then I serve.

And I just try to do the best I actually can and murder this ball across the net. Group athletics or acrobatics rolls. That's going to be up to him, Pike. I'm taking acrobatics personally. Yeah, everybody acrobatics or athletics roll. Yes. Okay, okay, not bad. There we go.

I got a 23. 23, okay. 16 plus 7. Thank you. I got a 17. 17. Okay. 26.

On 26. Nice. Is that athletics or athletics? Whichever you prefer. 26. I got a 7. 7. 27?

What did you say? 26. 7 and 17. 23. I rolled in 18, so I got a 20. Not bad. That's good. That's pretty good.

For average, that's pretty good. I run a natural one. What? You begin, this volley goes back and forth. Pike, you throw the ball up, you leap into the air, your legs curl behind you, and you crush the first shot. It goes straight at Coe, who sets it, and it sets it up, RET, or catches it, sorry, RET sets it up,

and Pixel leaps into the air and fires it back on your side. Somehow, Ziggy manages to catch him. You don't move until they like hold our breath. As the ball fires his Ziggy, it hits his hands almost like, ah! And it launches back up in the air until Pike, you jump up one more time, you slam the shot down, and it lands in the sand spinning in as you two get the first point. I hit the ground, I immediately turn to Zig and I'm like, where the hell did that come from? Nice.

Whoa, are you all right? That was good luck, Ziggy. Hey, come on, kid. That was the first volley. Group check. I take my shirt off and throw it off into the sand. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There he is.

Oh, now he's sweating. Oh, no. You'd start to glisten a little bit. I see that code is good at this, and I'm like, oh, game on. I'm sort of standing there, almost like watching with my hands on my hips. The family contributor.

Yeah, yeah. I get an eight. With a natural one, I also get an eight. Oh! 20? 20? 17. Nice! 24!

Oh! All right. I'm watching Coe like a hawk, and I am emulating everything that she does. And so when it comes towards me, I want to like, bolt towards her and have her toss me up so I can smack it. Oh, that's great.

It, uh, it's, uh, it's, Don't, you guys actually will serve back at them. So you'll start, Rhett, you'll hit the ball over, almost kind of like, lazily. It's easy for them to catch it. But it's still kind of, it hits. There you go. All right, Rhett, let's go.

It hits Ziggy Square on the face, and that's the only way he's able to get it back up in the air. As Pike, you leap up to hit it, and your hand just kind of catches. it a little awkwardly. Glancing blow. You don't give it the power you intended to. And that slow moving ball makes it exceptionally easy for them to catch in return. Coe, once again, expertly catches the ball, launches it up in the air, swings out with a leg, and kicks Pixel, launching her super high up into the air, as she slam spikes the ball back down, and it crushes into your side as you all take the next point. Oh, my gosh, did I get a point?

Yeah, you're fucking crazy. It's not bad at all. I reach under the neck and I give you a high five. Nice shack. I'm high five at everybody. I'm also wearing aviators, by the way. Unfortunately, I am full top gun at this moment. You're wearing denim jeans.

No shirt. Zach, well, no, not that far. Well, it's not one of those kind of beaches. After I, after I give a pixel high five, just to, you know, say like, great shot. I turn back to Zig and I'm like, All right, come on, man. We got to get our head back in the game here, all right?

Yeah, yeah. It's your serve. And I catch the ball from Coe, and I throw you the ball. I got it. I got it. It's nicer. All right, all right, all right. Just remember everything that you remember from all your beach volleyball.

We've got one more group of athletics or acrobatics check. I got 26 and the 19. 15. Nine. 26 with a natural 20. Oh! Zicki, what'd you get? 13.

13. So I'll put it up and I'll hit it. But I don't really, I can't like spike it or drive it really hard. It lobs over the net. This ends up being a ferocious volley back and forth. The ball goes over the net multiple times as Coe is all over the place fiercely. You got that one. Vicksil is responding.

Red is calling out encouragement as he even lazy against the ball. But everyone, Coe is doing most of the work. And then it gets to you guys, and it's a similar scene, as you are moving like lightning on. I see myself turning right from the center of the, of our side. I turn right, and Pike's already jumped to the other side and hit the ball, and then I turned to the left to cover that other side, but you've actually already outpaced me. It's just going back and forth that I'm just trying to keep up.

This has started to look very much like Pike v. Cohen Pixel at this point, as it's a ferocious volley back and forth until the ball skyrocks Pike slams a huge hit and it doesn't look like you're going to get to it. But then co-dives at the last moment and catches the ball in the forearms firmly on the ground it launches up just a little bit until Pixel leaps off your back

and you're able to give a light push as she ascends once more into the air and spikes it back down. And Zicki can't get it quite in time as the ball a lens on their side of the neck. Yeah! All right, good game.

Red Kixel and co take the way. I'll walk over to Ziggy. And I'll pick him up out of the sand. You crushed it. I can't put him off. Teamwork. Hey, good try, kid, all right? Good hustle.

You guys are awesome. In real life. All right. Are you winning some? Because you're not. That's good. You guys, fucking play Drake, though. Good game, guys.

Fucking game. Good game, good game, brother. Yeah, good game. Damn, I felt good. It's still a little slow from last night. You guys can keep playing. I'm gonna sit out for a minute. And you continue to enjoy the beach

in whatever format you choose. You may go through a swim. You may continue to play another round. You may lounge out in the sun. And you would do this until the night begins to wind down. The sun starts to get a little low. Pixel might take you for a nice dinner until you decide to wrap up your first day

enjoying what Paradise City has to offer. That was amazing. That was really nice. It was really lovely spending time with you guys today. I appreciate you showing us around. What's out in the docket for tomorrow so we can make sure to dress a movie? Oh gosh, you're right.

Well, we could do a little more shopping at the Viper Strip if we wanted. Maybe we could do some turbo cart racing at Sunset Circuit. Oh, that sounds awesome. I'm a very good racer. Are you? Yeah. Awesome.

I've only done it a couple of times. I've played hundreds of games. So, well, we'll talk about it in the morning. If that works for you all, it's up to you. Hey, you and Mr. W. are paying. It's up to you. Yeah. Yeah, we can do whatever you want.

When in Paradise City. When in Paradise City. All right. Rapsing records and pixel pop in Paradise City. You have a good night. Yep, you two. Sweet Twins. Bye.

And you all go back to your respective abodes as you close out the fun of day one. You wake up in the morning thinking about how cool that was, how great this place has been, how lavish that beach was, until you get red. ready in the morning, you wear whatever outfits you choose to match the event that is on the docket for today until eventually you meet back in the lobby with Pixel. I'm sorry, I totally missed where you said you wanted to go for D-D-GARTS.

Carts? Oh, yeah, I was saying we either do shopping on the Viper Strip or turbo carts. Perfect. You meet back up in the lobby of the Golden God ready to take on the second day as you prepare to show them the next excellent excellent. event that you want to take them to. Did Mr. W. give an idea of whether he wanted to do,

what he wanted us to do today? We'll say carts. That seems like it would be very fun for the group and he gave you the intention to take them cart racing. Perfect. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. You sleep okay? Yes. This place just feels like we're on vacation. It's not much of a surprise because I mentioned it yesterday, but we're going to the car racing track. Yeah, all right, yes. All right. Yeah, I mean, I'm more comfortable on a bike,

but Pike, this would be your thing. You drive! This is what you do, you drive. Tell us the way and I'll get us there. You got it. And I'll leave the way. I'm not a shabby driver either, so it's big. He's a big boss man, okay.

It's got any competition. I think I may give Piker Run for his money. And you navigate your way to the sunset circuit. You drive your way through Paradise City and you navigate, now comfortably, Pike, until you eventually come upon this giant sign in the black and white checker with the neon logo that says sunset circuit. There's a small kind of house where you go in, you sign up, you can take, you can sign up yourselves to do the race. and just behind it are a row of carts. You can see kind of stretching out long, all different, mildly different shapes and sizes.

It's all very obvious that these are smaller personal carts, but they come in all sorts of colors, neon bright, different shapes, all really cool stuff. And as you pull up, you see a group of people rocketing off as they blast away from the starting line, as these kind of neon lights run

run the track as they disappear out of view through the city. And you all may go in and basically pick whatever cart you think would be your pleasure. I don't want to influence you, but this one's mine. And pixel will push a button and you'll see a hot pink convertible, basically Barbie's dream car, will show up on the track. You can really have whatever you want. Just let... Oh, hey, look.

It's you again, the circumstance. You work here, too? Oh, I have worked everywhere, don't you know? Oh! You can just let my... I mean, the circumstance, know exactly what you want, and that... I gotcha.

It's me, the circumstance. What are you want? Hey, what do you see? What do you know? What do you see? Yeah. The cars are all yours. For Pixel Pop, whatever you're looking for.

Um, I'll find the heaviest. basically the high top speed, very low handling and acceleration. Yep. You know, sort of the dowsers or donkey Kong. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Picture Donkey Kong's like barrel car. Exactly right. Just a big, you know, fast ones.

You're able to find that exactly. But poor acceleration will come off the line very hard, but a very high top speed. As you find exactly that. Whatever other cars you may look for, Pixel. I would get something something. very like classic Paradise City, like the car from Outrun. Yeah, something like that.

You know, in a Mario Kart. You have this like pastel pink go-kart that you can sit in. It's very, it's your classic experience. But there's one that's blue. I'll go for that one. There's a blue one instead. And we go basically the same cars as in blue instead. And it's extremely well-rounded. Great acceleration, great top speed.

good handling. Ziggy? I would also look for the Bowser card. I know that speed is everything, and so as long as I can stay on the track, I'm going to go for the fastest car I can get.

As long as it looks sleek, wedge-like, and especially if it's in green, I will grab it. You can find that exact car. You go to the same section that Rett's kind of in, sectioned out to the higher speed, the higher top-speed cars. You find a sleek, long form green card that you know.

I'm just thinking of a classic racer car from like Rush 249. That's what I'm focused on. Yeah, exactly. And you find that exactly. Pike doesn't give me shit. He's like, he's too cool about it. He walks up to the circumstance. He's like, just put the keys in my palm, bro.

Yeah. Just put the keys in my palm, bro. I'm over this. You get just the closest car. Yeah, as long as it looks kind of cool, he's like, all right, that's fine. It's a nice gun, right. Yeah, that's funny.

And you all kind of, you get in your cars, they walk you through kind of how to operate them. You know, you all kind of have to don these helmets with the safety goggles go on. And they will actually push. So they're all kind of hovering as you take place. And they will begin to kind of like shuffle your carts towards the starting line. You see the classic red, yellow, green light. that counts down for everyone to kind of kick off the race. And you all take your places on the line

until you're ready for the light to start, to start the race, and you go. As you... Gotta go fast. As you lock it. I'm the blue blur, Pike. The blue blur! Where'd you get those red shoes?

Oh, you like them? We know Vox paid for them. As you pull up to the line, and you all get ready to take off. The light starts red. And it hits green and you erupt off the line as you go out. The track roars to life in front of you is these neon lights start racing ahead of you through the city.

And what we will do is, in a similar way, we'll do round decks checks to see how deftly you handle your car, how fast you can go and how you enter land vehicle tools. Using land vehicle tools. So you had your proficiency. That's nice. 21. 21.

21. 13. Not great. 8. Is it 8? I want to get the plus 5, right? Yes. Yeah. Then 13. 13 as well. Oh, pixel. 10. 10. Co. Roars

off the track, quickly taking the lead. as you begin to turn into the city and the buildings strewn by as you go through the, as you race through the hills, buildings tearing past you, coes in the lead, then you two neck and neck pulling right behind her,

followed by Pixel, and then Ziggy bringing up the rear. I have been thinking about every game that I've ever played in a Mario Kart setting where I need to hit the gas right at the moment that it turns yellow so that I can hit the boost. But if you fuck it up, you peel out.

Oh yeah. And so I peeled out, now I'm in the last. Yeah. Oh, fun. Co's in everything so seriously and like completely competitive. Like it looks like Jesse Pinkman at the go car track. Look at this top speed, pod. Look at how fast are you going on.

I'm like, plays cigarettes like hang out. You turn and I do this and it's like this. I just hit the wall. He catches up. That was lap one. That was lap one. Okay. So Coe is firmly.

Certainly in the lead as everyone kind of trails behind. You're tearing through the city as eventually you break out. And once again, you find yourself on the coastline. As you take a turn and your cars are racing following the track over the water now as you go in. And I'll have everyone has already rolled their decks rolls. 13. 26 with a natural 20. Crazy.

24. 24. I got an 18. 18? 5. So they convert. Pixel, Pike, Like you said, it's over the water?

Oh, yeah, you've gone over to the water. So it has, it does convert into kind of like a buoyancy, you know, kind of like to protect. Yeah, exactly, yeah. It goes into the, like, water version. As you blast out, Coe still firmly in the lead. But now Pixel pulling up, able to move up several spaces, Pixel right behind, Pike right behind her,

followed by, I think, Rhett and then Ziggy, if I got those numbers track. What's Zee, Zee, yeah. Zingiggin, then Rett, I think. Oh, yeah, Zingin' then Ratt. Solidly third, babe. It's at this point. I'll say in this track, you all drive through these

glowing indicators that as you hit them, I'll have, um, Co, roll a D4. Oh, oh shit. Rett, roll a D8. Everyone else rolls a D6. Oh, okay. Seven.

Oh, I got a four. Ooh, I got a four. I also got a four. Go what did you get? Four. I'm a D4. Wow. I'm rolling really well.

You are crushing. Yeah. It's wild. You're meant to win this one. Everyone who gets a D4 has received the power of the power up bomb. When you're in a sector with power ups, you can drop the power up bomb, which becomes nearly identical to other power ups. When a cart other than you tries to pick up a power up in that sector, the driver must succeed in a D-15 will come to it if it reaches it. But you drop things that look

like these power-up indicators that will force people if they go for them to attempt to figure out which is which Holy shit and drop them down everyone who rolled a four gets that same power and you can lean behind Even as a D6 if you roll the D6 but got a four yeah Yes that's the same yeah okay so everyone who's got a four got that power got it Zee what did you get 13 what oh we're all rolling D4 my apologies no you're D6 or D8 you're D6 who's in last he rolled the D6 he rolled the D6 he rolled the D6 he rolled The six. Two.

Two. You may choose a driver behind you, which I think is only Redd, as you've activated an oil slick, and you sponge out this blacky ink oil behind you. The car's driver has to succeed on a DC-13 deck saving throw or has disadvantage on its next roll into the next round. And Red, you...

You got to... Oh my God, I crush it. Well done. Well done. Whale Hoyle National 20. Oh, hell yeah. With a seven,

you get the static shackle. As you activate it, you, electric lightning leaps out and hits all the other cars on the track. The rest of you are now disadvantaged on your dexterity rolls going into the next lap.

Damn. So all... The lightning bolt for the ring. Roll one more time. Everyone but... Everyone but red is in disembantial. Yeah, we're all at disadvantage. Holy shit.

Come on. Oh, wow. I actually did really well. I did terrible. That's actually crazy. I rolled a 15 and 18, so my 15 gives me a 20. 11. 11.

8. 8. 15? 19. 19. Pike blazes in the first, followed by Red. Just come all the way from the back.

Dodges the oil slick, hits the lightning jackals, pulls into the second. second place and followed up by the rest of you and then we'll go into one final round to see who takes it everyone one more time roll the decks roll oh i'm catching no i love these power is it at this event uh no that was just for that one round brutal 11 12 10 19 i got a 9 classic red the street list is a great is it As you open up on the straightaway, as you blast back to the check.

You see the checkered black and white flag. Gotta go fast! Just ahead of you. Your car roars forward as you blazed through the finish line taking first place, followed I think in line by these three, and you might be in last. How is that possible? I'm in the last. No, no, I rolled like a, I got like a nine.

I would drop? Yeah. I drop all the way back? Yeah. Oh, wow. That takes four. Okay. Everyone else in the order you were in.

How the fuck that happened? You start racing through. The checkered flag. As Rhett easily takes first place. Um, there's a moment you're all pulled up on to. Oh, God, it's like the old days. You're all pulled up onto a tri-stage platform

where Rhett stands on the tallest pedestal with the number one. the second place, number two and number three, as you're there celebrating your hard-and-fogic. God, that was fucking awesome, right? How the fuck do you do that? That was so cool, Mr. Rat. You went all the way from the back to the front. Yeah, I just got to a park right and have to turn.

I just win. Nice one. Yeah. And you can continue in the same way you continue. Maybe you do another couple laps, another couple races as you enjoy. If it's on Mr. W, then. Yeah. It's all that.

We'll keep care for. And in the same way, as you enter this area, Pixel is immediately recognized. And the second that she steps in with you in tow, everything is without question, everything is at your request and everything is taken care of. And you enjoy the rest of the day in the same fashion. So once again, you'd begin to, the sun would go down, wind the night, maybe you get dinner, Maybe this time you go back to the hotel altogether, whatever it is, until you finally close out the day and discuss maybe whatever you'd like to do the following.

I think by day three, Pixel would stay a little bit longer at the hotel. She actually falls asleep on the couch and has to be walking out and able to go home. You know, because Mr. W. will worry. And so she does, but that's how she'd end that. You watch some TV. Yeah, there's an episode of Ball Cops on for what just always is. Yeah. It's maximum law.

Yeah. Maximum law. That's really... 21 criminals. One badge. No training. That's fantastic. And Pixel does that.

Falls asleep on the couch. Has to be rouseded the next... Or that later that evening to get home for the night. You watch away. You while away the evening watching mall cops. on TV, until you come to the next day and you enjoy day three.

What do you choose to do? Okay, I know we've had some really crazy days, but nothing compares to the night. Today, really, it's going to be an all-day event. Okay. Monster Arena at the Zeno Dome. Monster Arena. Are you?

Yeah? Mr. W got us tickets, but not just tickets. We got a box. What? Have you ever been to a Monster Arena before? No, what is that? Oh my gosh, you just, I'm not gonna spoil it. You gotta see it with your own two eyes.

Okay. That sounds awesome, yeah, let's do it. Casual? What should I just, you know, dress, suit? No, no, something you're comfy in. Something you can really get into it. We're gonna sweat. We're gonna sweat.

Shea, it's gonna get hot. Okay. All right, well, I'll be ready for it. Where is it, is it, do we arena or are we just better? No, we're spectators. Oh, all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like going to an MMA match.

Yeah. All right, just with monsters. Yeah. With huge chimeric alien beasts. Okay, I wanna like look way fancy than I need to. Oh yeah. If we have box seats, I'm following his late. You're dressed to the nines. In case the video jumbotron flashes too.

Exactly right. We need to look like. No, I think that's reasonable. I follow the same lead. You have all your jewelry on. You have one of your most gauche suits on top to bottom. Your hat is without flaw. Giant fur coat over top of it as you take your cane in one hand.

You once again, all of you make your way out of the hotel and you head towards the xenadome for the monster arena this is a spectator blood sport where you would know Pixel that huge chimeric alien beasts

like truly odd alien species apparently discovered and donated to wheedlevox by Rex Maxim on his travels as you you'll go and see two of these gigantic beasts battle to the death

in a gladiatorial fight. And when you get there, this is an immense, this is an immense arena encircled with giant seats. But as you go in in that same fashion, they see you coming, and you are ushered very quickly through almost like a back, like a service hallway, kind of a very private corridor for a moment, until you take a sharp left turn down this hallway that opens up into an elevator

elevator room. It all feels very kind of simple and hidden away and as you get up the elevator, it opens out into this beautiful open box, armchairs all over the place, two rows of seats in front of this massive glass bay with a door where you can walk out and stand on a balcony and look over this giant arena. This Coliseum currently stands empty at its center, but in the seats that line its area filled with all manner of people you've seen all throughout your time here. A large buffet of food on one side in your box and drinks ready to go in the same way, anything, a fully stocked bar, whatever you can think of.

They do have pretzel bites with a delicious mustard dipping sauce. And you go in and the fight, the crowd will erupt as the... As the monsters are not yet identified. Script begins to come up on the scene and you'll notice that in your box there is what looks like a button system. And what you've become accustomed to is actually, as these fights will go on, they will pull the crowd to trigger certain effects throughout the battle. And so the first pole erupts onto a massive jumbotron at the top that floats just above this arena. And Richie, if you wouldn't mind launching the first poll, it's like, who wants to be a millionaire? There.

To our audience members. On Twitch. If you're on YouTube, to our real audience members on Twitch. Come participate right now. You can come participate. We're getting a poll up right now. You will be able to vote on the first terrain

that these gargantuan monsters are going to battle in. You do not yet know what their battle is. Oh, without seeing the creatures. Without seeing the creatures. I see. You will pick the terrain that they will battle in before you see the creatures. Oh, this is so cool. Make it quick.

We will have 60 seconds. You will have 60 seconds to vote in this poll. Vote in the poll. What is the terrain? You will get to pick. Go to Twitch. Yeah, Twitch.com. Yeah, Twitch.com.

In 60 seconds, when the poll closes out, everyone who's watching, you will have chosen the area. The options are coastal pillars, desert basin, or jungle canopy. Wow, this is very cool. Whatever we land on will erupt from the center of the Coliseum taking the style of battle. And that may not have very serious implications. It looks like coastal pillars. Coastal pillars, this is not even close.

Jungle canopy could catch up. Jungle canopy could catch up. Coastal pillars, Desert Payston, jungle canopy. Can be personally, I'm hoping for. I'm going to save them. I don't want to go. Oh, come on, come on, come on. We all have like little controls.

Yeah, yeah, you all have controls. You can hit your button, Reds pick one. You yourselves in the audience can vote. Would you pick go? Oh, I picked Jungle Canopy. God damn it. Oh, I pick Coastal Pillar. Are you fucking kidding me?

That's the one I wanted. We don't know. Well, maybe the monster that I liked the most will benefit from the- I was going for the desert basin. What was it, what was the terrain they want? Coastal Pillar. Coastal Pillar.

Coastal Pillar. So it was like a huge, like stadium filled with tons of people. It's like a big like Pokemon Stadium. Huge just like Pokemon Stadium too from Super Smash Brothers. A huge floating coliseum. Seats lined all around it.

The crowd is cheering and going wild. Now we have hazards. And the options are flare, storm, and tremor. Oh, yes. Oh, let me read the legend. Come on! Come on, Storm, are you kidding me? Player would be cool.

Yeah, I think Storm's the way to Right? Everyone, you can vote once again on the new pole. This is for monster fight hazards. The option are flare, storm, or tremor. You can vote on Twitch right now. You have 60 seconds left to vote on Twitch. To impact the actual battle that will take place in front of you.

What's the coastal pillars? I mean, storm is just thematic. Come on. I think tremors is pretty thematic, don't you think? It's boring. Storms are cool looking. What's boring about tremors? These giant worms come up out of the

ground and kill people. I didn't know that. I thought it was just gonna be like shaky. Oh no, tremors are awesome. Well, can I change my vote? No, no, we're locked in. I'm gonna get a storm. Tikes over here.

Oh, yeah, storm! All right. That's fair, that's fair. And one more poll. I roll up my sleeves even more, like show off my tattoos. I'm flexing a little bit. Oh my gosh.

One more poll, everyone. The last poll, it's going up right now. You will have 60 more seconds to vote, audience. 60 more seconds. The monster fight the furies. Choose one of these furies. What does it mean? What does it mean?

We don't know. I just got three lists. We don't know. The furies, you must choose the fury. Blinding strike, crushing blow and off balance. Blinding strike, crushing blow and off balance. I don't want to influence this one. This is pretty close.

I am not gonna influence, but I'm pressing one. I'm pressing one as well. I'm gonna look at what co-presses and press the same thing. Come on, come on. This is a lot closer than the other. Come on. Vote, you have about 30 seconds left. If you're on Twitch, you're on YouTube,

come over to Twitch. Vote in the poll. There's 30 seconds left. Oh, my gosh, oh my gosh. Oh, it's so close. Oh, it's crazy. It's neck and neck. Whoa. Whoa.

Wow. This is so close. Come on, come, come on. It's so close. Yes. That's wild. Oh, jeez. It is equal.

No. No. Oh, it is flipping. I know which one I'm voting for. Yeah, me too. Gosh, this is crazy. Oh my god, what's it gonna be? There's like two seconds.

So here's why propose. It's a tie. It's a tie. We blind vote. Yes. We blind vote. Holy shit. In a tiebreaker. Oh, it's me, the situation.

I'm the announcer. You can go the announcer voice. Yes. And we have, welcome to the Zeno Dome. Two, three, four, five. Here. Just write one or two. Oh my goodness. In a Zeno dome first.

The Furies, we have a tie between blinding strike and crushing blow. When you're done, you can keep yours, obviously. We must go into the tie breaker. Oh, sorry. Wait, what, wait, was what? That is a real pen. Either one is blinding strike, two is crushing blow.

Thank you. Man, this is crazy. This is actually so critical. That's unbelievable. We're going into sudden death where we decide between blinding strike and crushing blow. And Tricia, you don't have to type. You've already voted. This is for us at the table.

Okay, here we go. All right, Pike. All right, we got... In booth. One for two. Two for two. Yes. Three for two, and that doesn't.

That doesn't. Oh my gosh. But it was, crushing blow was also two. Everybody unanimously voted to. Cruising blow by all. Crushing Blow! It's unanimous in sudden death. It always had to be crushing blow.

You all picked the final one. The crushing blow is the winner. Can you believe it, ladies and gentlemen? You have selected the three options for this Battle Dome, Monster Battle in the Zeno Dome, and sponsored by the Rex Max and Real Space Cowboy Lady Lutz-Smiley Casino Tour, happening at one month, kicking off

at 7th Heaven Casino. In the, what was it called? The Roxel sector. The Roxasector. Yeah. And as the pole fades away from the jumbotron up top, you see a lit up all around on all sides, a familiar billboard where before you saw

which one will win and dark gargantuan silhouettes, now they fill out as you see the forms. see the forms of a massive chimeric, hideous constrictor eel. And this is a Leviathan type eel of the deaths with a long, terrible body. Let me just, let me just. A long terrible body. Two gross antennas extending back

from the top of its head. These terrible yellow eyes that sit on either side of the face, above a long cut mouth with rows of jagged razor teeth. Facing off across of it, a chimera, it's the terror of the deep! A chimeric demolisher beetle. A beetle the size of a building erupts out of the ground with a giant, bladed deep,

like deep navy rhino horn almost. A large blade erupts from, its back as its carapace shoots out and forms into a strong, a terrible, curved, dark bladed shell as it lets out a hideous roar. And Mountain Crusher! Terror of the Deep versus Mountain Crusher. Wow, the coastal flats might be, what was it called? Coastal Pillars. Coastal Pillars. pillars, will the water of the

help terror of the deep, or will this mountain crusher cross the pillars? And the exact, that option of the coastal pillars erupts on the Jumbotron in front, blinking, and as it does, the ground shakes and trembles. As weathered spires of rock rise from turbulent waters of a windlass bay, as liquid floods into the arena. You hear almost the

The crackling of lightning as the air turns storm. These terrible spires arising out of the water. The rock is mottled gray in crystalline pink. The beetle begins, leaps up out of the ground so as to not touch the water clings onto the pillars. Can we place the bets on our device too? Can we bet on this? Oh, yeah, absolutely you can.

And especially if it's... Tear of the deep, absolutely terror of the deep. No shot. No shot for Mountain Crusher. I'm voting for a deal as well. No shot for Mountain Crusher. Terror of the Deep, 100%. I mean, I am wearing a shirt that says the horror from Planet Aurora. I'm going to have to go Terror of the Deep. You can see as the pillars erupt and the Coliseum floods with this turbulent water,

the beetle leaps off the ground and lands on one of these pillars. It's a deft, powerful movement. but with the area now flooded, its movement restricted to having to leap between these pillars to attack at the eel, and they have a tightness clash, but the eel moves deftly and easily through the waters of this arena now as it snakes around this beetle

and grabs in its jaws and bites at it, this terrible maw closes around and hits huge piercing blow as it tears into the side of this beetle. And the crowd goes wild. The second result from the pole begins to flash on the screen for hazards. You see storm as it erupts. And yellow green clouds royal overhead and pour in as the terrible water stays

in the section of the arena with the spires. The beetle still hanging on. These yellow green clouds roll in overhead and unleash a torrential downpour, but not water adding to the liquid of the eel, but acid. The demolisher beetle with this incredibly dense carapace wrapped around it, you see the droplets land

and roll off the shell of the beetle. But as it hits the eel, you can hear this singeing as the acid mixes into the water. It burns away at the body of the eel as it takes massive damage from there. The Friar, short Joe Goldens. Ah, fuck. It took me a second.

There's a loud shriek of the constrictor eel as it erupts in a roar as these terrible droplets fall to the ground. The third and final poll result blinks on the screen. Before you continue, if you're on Twitter, You can make a prediction right now on who will win. It's neck and neck. It seems very neck and neck. Wow, the terror of the deep is comfortable in the water.

This acid rain is sizzling its skin. Meanwhile, the mountain crusher is impervious. Which fury will reign to supreme? Which monster will survive? It's a battle to the death. You have how long? Not very. Seconds.

Yeah. The terror in the deeper mountain crusher. Two chimeric monsters face off against each other. It's anybody's gas. The beetle once more. as the acid rain continues to fall, the eel slithering in the water, slithering around the spires that have erupted out of the ground

as they face off against each other. The beetle stands and looks down at the eel, and then lunges as it charges forward, it crashes into the eel, its piercing nose, stabs straight into the back, cutting clean through towards the end of the eel. But that was not the space to strike. As the EO with a crushing blow erupts out of the water

and you get a full sense for truly how enormous this is now with its body hidden by this standing water at times, it raises up into the sky until it arcs down and with a furious blow, mouth wide open, almost flat, as its jagged teeth all point down, as it slams down into the carapest of the beetle. You hear a crushing crack as the entire back of this beetle shatters.

Damn! As these dark navy fragments of beetle shall fly off into the audience. You see some of them catching and hitting damages occurring in the crowd as this shrapnel erupts all over until the eel lunges back, holds the beetle in its mouth, totally

pierced by its razor jaws as it claps down and splits the beetle into releasing a terrible cry into the night, standing victorious above the beetle. Damn! Until the

Coliseum is quickly shielded over and tenders rush in and begin to like zap and attempt to get a back under control as the crowd goes crazy and erupts for the terror of the deep. Coe is going absolutely ancient.

Like I'll go grab on a picture, yeah, are we? Did we win? Do we money? Stop, that on the right one. Oh, the odds were terrible though, so. I've got like 25%. I don't fucking care, yes, Terror of the Deep leaves a fight another day. It's more than we had this morning.

And Terror of the Deep reigns supreme, destroying Mountain Crutcher. This was not a mountain that could be crouched, It cannot harm the terror in its own domain. And thank you for attending this monster battle at the Zeno Dome. And remember to visit any one of the casinos on the tour of Rex Max in Real Space Cowboy Lady Lux Smiling Casino, starting in one month. Start kicking off at 7th Heaven Casino in the Rochsel sector.

Thank you, Mikey. Excellent. And that is exactly how this show goes soon. And then you hear, like, the, Disco kicks in and it says, he's a, he's a desperado among the stars. The commercial plays on all. And the commercial plays on.

Oops. Everybody gets their points. Very cool. That was the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen. Man, that was pretty badass. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. We know, I can't believe. I've never seen anything like that.

So violent. How often does this go on? Oh, I don't know. I've been to a. I've been to a handful, but I spend most of my time at the Glitz Room. What do you think? It's always such a treat to come out. Probably a month.

For it on the way in. I mean, it's got to be, you know, not that all. Probably about 12 a year. I mean, that seems, I mean, yeah, he's finding new, strange, new, undiscovered species and life forms from strange worlds. That'd probably take some time. Yeah, you can't do that every day. Especially when he's busy at the casino, apparently.

Yeah, Rex Max. I'm sure he's cool. Yeah, he really is. I mean, I can't believe he wrangled those. guys. That's incredible. I know one man wringled both of those creatures. You guys said he was a loser. I mean, look, you saw that.

I mean, those things were massive. There's no fucking wet. I mean, that guy? He's the real space cowboy. No, he just put his name on it. They probably just pay him a fucking license. It's so hard to believe that one one person was able to do that. You never saw the original show? You don't know.

You've only seen him in real life. It's different. Yeah. It's different. God, that was awesome. Well, look, if he managed to somehow get those things from some other world and get them here, then I got to give them props. That's fucking impressive. I am so fucking amped up. I'm ready to rage tonight.

Let's go. And you're for the rest of the week. And you do so. You head out into the night and you go rage, excited by the blood sport, the terrible blood sport. You've just witnessed. You have an incredible time. And you spend the night much like you do, enjoying each other's company,

having a great time, clubbing, hitting parties, whatever it looks like. And for the rest of the week, you now continue on in a similar fashion. Pixel will show up in the morning, come get you from the Golden God Hotel and take you to various luxury sites and scenery throughout Paradise City.

And if there's anything in particular, anyone would want to hit or want to do, you can call that out. Otherwise, you continue to hit shops, go clubbing, and party all throughout the week. I think I would just want to hit various clubs beyond the Glitz Room. Yeah. And like maybe a different club every night or just like a few. She was out there. And playing the whole, doing the whole act again. Right.

And just sort of getting word to spread about representation. Rye and Rhapsody Records. So it's not just the Glitzroom. It's sort of like, you know, sort of spreading the word that we're here and that we're like legitimate. Pixel takes you to the Moxie, the Adam Lounge, the Boa-Go-Go-Go. You hit a ton of different nightclubs, different vibes. Even throughout the week as you were closing down, you're grabbing dinner, you were going

to these clubs. Doing that same kind of thing, putting on that classic Rett Rye vibe, letting people know you're here, you're looking for talent, you're having a great time. but you're in really establishing yourself. I would go, well, what I'll say is if it's every night and we're always clubbing and we're always, there's a certain point where my social batteries run out. And so I would probably either wake up one morning

or one afternoon be like, I'm gonna go do business, Dad, and I would have some rest and relaxation. But during that time, I think that I would reflect about what this week feels like and what this all means. And I think that at some point I might privately go to the Viper Strip and just see if I could shop a little bit on my own and see if I could find some spots. Like I can hypergrid look up some spaces.

And if I could go and spend a few dollars of my own, I would at least check things out just to enjoy things sort of privately and on my own terms instead of the speed and deception of everything that's going on with Pixel. Absolutely. You'd be able to call a car for kind of like, Ziggy's big day out, you know, and you make your way back to the Vipers Strip, strewn with shops all around you in that kind of windy path,

as you're seen going in and out of shops, carrying bag after bag. Yeah, I think, so I think for the most part, Pike would be trying to, like, lay low amongst the group, trying to sell this part of just being a driver, right? Like he's just he's literally just there to carry bags and be a driver and like not draw too much attention to himself And I'm just observing I'm watching what pixel pop is doing trying to get an idea of like who she is as a person and just like taking it all in and and and and making sure I keep my eye out for mr. Rye and all this stuff and And but I think if given the opportunity Especially if pixel were to approach me and like initiate conversation

I might then engage and ask some questions and maybe drop hints that in the the past I would have ridden the red line, if you know what I mean, a little bit of year in there. Insinuating that there may have been some past drug use in my past and I don't do it anymore because Mr. Rye has employed me and now I have a, you know, a good career and, you know, this is what I'm here for and just kind of making sure that Pixel understands that like I'm in the know. Yeah, like I get it. And, and but now I'm just, I'm Mr. Rye's driver.

That's what I do. And I still like to drink and party, but not like I used to. You play the week cool putting out that vibe and should that occur, you definitely are capable of conveying that to pixel. And just being friendly and like trying to get through no or and like relate on certain levels. Throughout all the day, all these like moments snapshots of you at the beach, snapshots of you carrying bags, pixels leaping in front of you excitedly, dancing at nightclubs, you know, not outlandishly, but enjoying the time in the company of these people. And we can move to the final night. I think that, I think that Coe would absolutely be, I think getting like too into it.

I think she's too into the role. I think she'd be partying. She would be taking the one-ups of like the hallucinogenic. I think she would probably try. I mean, if Pixels is offering Glimmer at any point. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Most nights.

Yes. In my most, I mean all. Yeah, all nights. I think that Co's doing, doing glimmer, doing whatever. and I think the, I think that they're basically getting really into it, trying to encourage Rett, trying to encourage Pike,

trying to encourage Ziggy to also party and get fucking degenerate because like we're at fucking, we're at Paradise City, you know, that's what you do here. Yeah, I think that, you know, I would also, I would try to play the role

and that means getting, you know, doing the whole Paradise City thing. And I wouldn't hold back, per se. and I think that maybe one moment that would be like when we're on the on the Vipers trip I think that like we'd be like passing by a whole variety of stores and then Co would be UBC Coe would like lingering out front of the Howdy Bunny store

and the variety of cute characters or whatever and she'd kind of be like lingering and like looking at it especially after like some drinks and as soon... And some glimmer. And she'd kind of like everyone's up ahead and was like oh wait where's Co? and you look back and she'd be kind of like staring wistfully at the Howdy Bunny store.

And there's like the little bunny with a little cowboy hat, like Howdy Bunny and Waving. There's all sorts of cute stuff in there. And then as soon as you mentioned, it's like, I don't want to you that baby shit, this sucks. And then she would immediately, immediately go on. This shit fucking suck. I don't care about this.

It's for babies. It's for like, it's for the tourists. And then she would move on. And so then. Well, their dog character's kind of cute, actually. No, I understand. I understand. I don't, howdy Bunny.

Are you kidding me? What? I'm an adult. Fuck. Spits on the ground. Yeah. And all of that happens, exactly. You're at the Howdy Bunny store and that exactly. And that'll bring us towards the end of the week. It'll be kind of midday on the final day.

This is around the time pixel that you were expecting to kind of report back to Weedlevox on how the week is been, what it's a look like, and kind of give your insights on this group of people now that you've come a little bit more to know about them. Before Pixel leaves on this day, I would want to have had a moment to try and connect with her and give her some of the things that I've shopped for, because I feel a little guilty about everything that we're doing and not being able to be my full Ziggy self. and so at some point over the course of this week, after having gone shopping, I would have come to Pixel and been like,

hey, I don't know if you need this stuff, but I was out on the town and I got you a gift. You got me a gift? Well, I got you two gifts. You got me two gifts? Well, I got you three gifts. You got me three whole gifts? Well, yeah, I mean, one of them is a card, but like, you know, here, here, here.

This is a, it's one of those clamshell mirrors. I thought that you really enjoy, you know. That way you can always make sure you're looking your best. That's amazing. And she'll take out her lipstick and reapply it. Thank you so much, Snicky. This is the nicest thing anyone said it done. And a lipstick.

I don't know if it's actually a color that you like, but I understand that it sort of changes color with your mood. I wanted this one. It sold out every time I go in. I guess I just got lucky. Wow. And then a cart. It's just a little like something.

You've been so generous with this. With Mr. W's money? I don't know. That feels a little weird. Can I? I mean, if you want to. Okay. I'll open it and read it out loud.

It says, Pixel, you have such terrific energy, and I just think that you're the greatest. And, you know, thank you so much for all a fantastic week. It is a very standard card, but it is very heartfelt. It says, you know, you've got big main character energy. I, yeah, sure. Oh my gosh, and she's just going to run and, like, throw herself into his arms. I do one of the, like,

I'm not quite sure how to do it. You can hug back. And then immediately dove in and go into a full hug. Buddy, I got you something too. I didn't spend money on it, though. I hope that's all right. Oh, no, I didn't expect anything.

You took us go-karting and we got to see a bunch of fucking monsters kill each other. Yeah, we did. It was so cool, and we won, too. I can't believe it. Yeah, do you remember the first? day when we went to the Viper strip?

Uh-huh. Do you remember how I dragged you into the photo booth? Yeah. And you didn't want anything to do with it? No. Well, I got the photos from that, and I wanted to give them to you so that you'd never forget me.

Oh. And it's like a strip of five different photos, and on all of them, Ziggy is clearly trying to play a handheld game. And Pixel is doing things on like peace sign or like fake like kissing. or like behind him, like, super cute. And every single one, he's in a different position like pulling his hood down and trying to play his game.

He's clearly not having any of it. Yeah, I'm very Mr. Robot in that scene. I'm like, I don't want to be taken a photo, like taken of me in a situation like that. I don't trust it. They send these to the government. Yeah. Just in case things don't work out.

I don't know when we'll see each other again. I just want to make sure you didn't forget me because this week's really meant a lot to me. I mean, I gotta all you something. I hope that's okay. Oh, yeah. That's very generous of you. Like I said, you didn't have to do that.

I wanted to get you something special, because I agree. I don't want to, you know, we want to make sure the label does well, and we want to make sure all this stuff is good. But if you, you know... This has been one of the best weeks of my life, and I've had a rough month.

Oh. You didn't have to do anything. I mean, this is more than enough. It was just I don't know I don't want to speak for anyone else But for me it felt It felt like more than just business

You know I really felt like I got to know you all Yeah I truly know you And I I don't have much familiarity With record labels And people who work for them

But gosh You guys sure are great And Well for you Mr. Red You cut so much on your shoulders You know And I have experience with that because of Mr. W and all.

But one thing that helps me when my schedule's really busy is well, I have my Digi diary and Pixel pulls up this like bright neon pink compact that says my Digi Diary has got a big heart on it. And you just flip it open and you create your own passcode

and you can use a little keyboard here to write your own diary entries or you can even, you can hit this button here and you can record him if you prefer. Or you can even set it up and turn the camera on and you can make your own video diary. But I just thought that maybe doing a little bit of journaling

or something could help you if you're feeling stressed or if things are getting a little bit crazy or maybe your assistant doesn't have time to write things down and you got a lot to juggle. So I got this for you at the mall. Oh, well, thank you. So I just talked to it. Yeah, or type in it or let it record you.

Well, and talk about what, I guess? Anything you could say. Like sometimes I like to start mine off with, Hi, my Digi Diary, I had a glitter, glorious day today hanging out with my new friends of Rhapsody Records. This is what we did, and this is how I felt. Now I'm going to bed and I hope I dream about all kinds of fun things. All right, well, I'll think about what I should say.

I hope you like it, yeah. Thank you. And Cole, you had a really rough time because I hate that. Yeah, it's been, it's been a hard, hard couple months. Well, you're one of the sweetest people I ever met,

and so I hope things get better for you. Oh, thanks. A night. I didn't go to prison or anything. Oh, well, that's good. I know a few people who have. Okay, no, that didn't happen. It doesn't feel like it's fun at all.

I'm just, I have a good job at the, at the record. I hope I'm not overstepping. Because I'd never want to do that with a friend. But I've noticed that sometimes you... You like to hide how you truly feel. What? No. I know, right? Stupid. I don't feel anything.

Yeah. No, that's what I'm saying. I don't feel anything. And so when I noticed that you didn't feel anything outside of the howdy bunny store, and I went in and got you this howdy bunny plush, the XL size. Oh, Jesus. The XL size? Yeah, yeah.

And I even... I even... I even gave it. an extra special pixel outfit if you ever wanna dress it up. Okay, yeah, that's pretty cool, I guess. And it's so you'll never forget me. And then if you're ever feeling sad

and things are getting out of control, you can hug Howdy Bunny. And somewhere out in the galaxy, I'll feel that hug and I'll hug you back. That's really, really sweet pixel. Yeah. You know, thank you. I really like this.

You're welcome, I know you don't like this kid stuff, but I'm hoping because of pixel kid stuff, maybe like it. I mean, when I was a little girl, I always really wanted howdy bunny and my family was too poor to afford it. We barely, my dad was barely able to keep his shop open. So he couldn't afford howdy bunny and this is, this is the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me.

But I mean, this is really nice. This is a nice memorabilia to remember my youth as a little girl. And I'll like kind of squeeze it and I'll say, howdy, I'll be like struggling, I'm like turning like, a shade of like indigo. I'm feeling a little bit like red. I'm like, really great. This is, thanks, thanks, Pixel.

You're welcome, Paul. You're really amazing, you know that. You have a very good heart. It's surprising that you've been able to be in this city as long as you have and still have such a good heart. Just gotta fill your heart with dreams. Thanks. Hi, Pike.

Oh, you really shouldn't have. I know. And I know we didn't get to talk too much because you were always so busy driving the car and stuff. and stuff, but I remember when we stopped at the station that one time to fill up the vehicle, and there was that shelf filled with all the keychains with people's names on it, and you were lamenting that there was never a keychain with your name on it, because whoever puts a Pike keychain on one of these things.

It's just nothing ever with a Y. It's weird. And so Pixel holds up a keychain that says Pike on it, P-I-K-E. I had this custom made for you. I even checked the spelling twice. Oh, you know. You know, because you drive the car and the keychain. And it's your name.

That's fucking awesome. Thank you. Yeah, that's really cool. Very kind of you to think about the help. Because what Pike does is he drives, like, Coe's like now hugging, huh? Howdy-bye. It's like muffled.

Hattibon. Howdy-bye. as I'm just kind of holding, I'm like, and I'll put it, like, I'll put it away in the hotel room. I'll put it down next to me. That's fucking cool. I mean, he drives and that's perfect. Man, you're so thoughtful.

I put it right on my keychain, which only contains the rental keys to the rental car, but, you know, it doesn't know that. And I just, thank you. You're welcome. You're very kind of you. You know, you're incredibly thoughtful. And I really feel like after this week,

I'm convinced. As long as Mr. Weedlevox will agree to it, I would love to sign you. I can't wait to tell him about everything we did. There's no way he doesn't let this happen, right? It's been a week of dreams. But, oh gosh, look at the time. I've ready give back, because if I'm late,

I don't want to upset Mr. W, you know. Absolutely. Well, you drive safe, and I'm sure we'll see you tomorrow. And Pixel will look between all of you and then quickly rush and just give each of you a really quick hug before she starts running towards. You'll see a very small, basically it's the go-kart that she drove at the go-kart racetrack.

That pulls up and she'll stop, she'll look back, she'll wave, and then she'll jump in the car. It's like a two-seater. Yeah, in a trail. Yeah, exactly right. And it's global in size. It literally wouldn't fit anyone else. And you zoom off and cut this beautiful neon light as you go away.

And everyone else, you'll return to the hotel. As you say, your heartfelt goodbyes. Pixel, you make it back to the Glitz Room. And reflecting on the week, you got this kind of bounce in your step. As you move through, no show is not going on right now. It's not really open quite for business yet. But it's still, it's like coming home. You move under that neon sign.

You see the stage in front of you. The speakers with that beautiful red glow as they turn, as they're turned on for the evening's festivities. You make your way back down that labyrinthian hallway until once again, past all the goons and the guards, you find yourself in front of that large red door with GJW inlaid in the table. top and then you knock and you enter and once more you see weedelvox in front of you

when he sees you open the door he'll take his hands pixie dust she's back mr w that week was amazing thank you a good time tuts she just rushes over and jumps into his arms oh come on can't wait to tell you all about i know you don't have much time so i'll give you the short and sweet and I'm not just talking about me oh yeah that is you short and sweet yeah go on tell me tell me about what was going on and she'll spend like an hour just going over literally every single detail but then eventually she gets to so um he said he would he would sign me if he were okay with it pixie dust you know i was initially on the fence i thought i'd spin their wheels for a week I thought they'd up and leave, you know?

But as it happens, something about this week has really brought my mind around. He'll put his hand on a kind of like a folder on his desk, and he'll slide it off the side, just making space for you. Yeah, Tuts, I mean, you know, if you say, if you speak so highly of them, you know, I don't see a bill per se, but I'll meet with them. I mean, maybe there's something there. I'll meet with them, eh? I think you'd love them.

I really do. They're great people, and they seem like. They really got their head on for business. Why don't you give them a ring? You tell them to come by the house a little later. I put them up for a party. I host them. We can talk business.

Oh, that'd be so great. They'd love that. Huh. You mean it? Oh, I mean it for you, duh. Anything. I missed you. Spent in a week without you was so hot.

I know we talked every single day, but it still felt like forever. Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, talking's what I love to do best with you, all right? My little superstar, Pixie does. Let's get a couple lines going and then you make that call, okay? Oh, you got it, honey. And she'll do, she'll put the lines out and once again, one on either side. And you do so, you go on, you enjoy each other's company for a bit until eventually you make your way back to your room above the glitz room, and you call back to the crew.

and you all, now back at the hotel, whomever picks up the phone once again, I'm assuming Rhett, you get the call from Pixel saying that it's all gone well with Weedelvox. You can head over to his house in the hills. He'll host you for a dinner. He'll host you for a dinner,

and you'll go from there. It's the following day? The following night, yes. Real quick, Pixel, back in the room, me and you, before you split away. Yeah, before I go, you want to pinch the cheeks? Don't I always. Derek DTF's like, is it my turning it? But while I'm enjoying that, I got to let you know, you think of this whole record thing.

I mean, I'll meet with them. But I got the Don is sending a friend to his. You know how I always been telling you, right? Your star is coming up. You keep shining, superstar. The future is yours, huh? The Don is sending a friend, and I need you to give him a private show. He's coming in tomorrow night, so when this Rhapsody Records or whatever, when they come over,

I'll talk to them about business. I'll have a driver pick you up. We'll send you on over. Private show for one of the Don's guys? One of the Don's guys, and you know the Don's guys. and you know the dominess is the opening this is your shot you really did mean it didn't you you couldn't make me oh tuts you know tuts exactly and you still want to work with

rapsy records even though they don't need to sign me well i'll hear them out i'll hear them out you know and from what you said about the other things that they could do uh you know there's no end of the business opportunity it's for everyone i mean you spent so much of your precious time wanting to dine them and show them in a good time and I know that you had fun but I'll give him the time I thought I'm giving the time I'll give him the time huh you're an angel but what I do without you're an angel doll okay cheek time fixie does you know me then you make the call to uh then you fade to black apologies you make the call and relay that same information to, uh, to rat at the hotel. And you all now know that you are

staged to meet with Weedlevox in his home the following night. Um, he'll host you, uh, for, like, drinks and, uh, in a business meeting. All right. Well, this is it. We got the meeting. Every we're so fucking good at this. Hey, we might be good at this, but I'm worried about the three you. Not getting soft on me here, are you? Just because she gave us those gifts, she's still a mark like anybody else, alright? We're not gonna blow this just because she gave us some gifts. I mean, what was the last thing I fucking said to her? I said, oh, I'm gonna sign you. I'm getting her hoops up. I'm still fucking doing it. It doesn't feel good. Yeah, of course it doesn't feel good, but this is what we do. All right, we have a chance to take down a major player.

I mean, Wheatle Fox is the problem. She's cool. She's fun. We don't, we don't, we don't I don't want to hear from pixels. There's no bounty on. Don't let your guards down. I won't. Yeah. I got you. I'm doing fine.

So what's the plan? Look at my photos. Well, we have the car. Maybe that can factor in somehow. We know his mansions up on the cliff or something. If we can have the meeting, you know, somewhere outside near the cliff. And we get him to maybe send his goons away. We say, hell, there's some private, some sort of top secret NDA shit.

And we need to tell him. He sends his security away. And that's the point we grab him and we jump off the cliff and the car's there waiting for us. You've seen many such lavish homes in your time here and even your own hotel. And you know that a lot of these places tend to have these extremely large, luscious balconies. and if you'd want to isolate or get him out into the night outside of the house, you would reasonably suspect that his home might have something like that. All right.

I mean, that's what I got. Any other ideas? I mean, unless we... Can we, like, can you remote control the car? Can you get that fixed up? Yeah, I could probably figure it out. I mean, the software is a pretty simple stuff. I was just hoping that over the course of the last week,

we would have learned a little bit more, got a bit more information about where we're going, what we're walking into, what this guy's like. I mean, apparently this guy keeps his personal information close to the chest. Yeah, there's a reason why he's gotten where he's gotten to, I suppose. I mean, hopefully he doesn't have security about, you know, some sort of no-fly zone or something or, you know, turrets like the can or he got around and we have to park. And so, I mean, if we have fucking dinner with the guy and we say afterwards, we all go out to the fucking terrace and look at the city.

Below, lord over the little fucking peasants. You know, and I'm sure he'll fucking love that. And we celebrate a deal well made when we'll say whatever the fuck we have to. And we'll fucking, we'll say whatever we have to. We'll make a deal. And we'll fucking, even if he's got goons, even he's got a turrets. That thing's fucking fast. Piking get us out of there.

We just need one chance alone with him for 30 seconds. That's all we need. And if you can remote control it, it lands, you know, it moves. Yeah, I mean Their eyes are going to be on us, not the cars I feel like I should be able to actually even just plot a course So it knows where to go, where to stop I don't even have to pilot it

I can be focused 100% with you guys Also, why did you get her gifts without telling me I feel like I'm an asshole now Well, I mean, I still have my job to do And I want to make sure that the mission was successful So I, you know What do you mean? Well, I

I bugged her shit What? What? What? Well, I mean, I've got this whole recording right here of everything that she's had ever since I gave her that lipstick. Why didn't you tell us? Well, I wanted to listen to it first and scrubbed it down and make sure that it was well edited. And I don't know what I got.

I mean, who knows? Hold on. Exactly. You don't know what you got. Let us listen to it. We're the ones you know what the GBG needs. All right. Well, let's play it. Hold on. I'll just skip to the middle.

Oh, baby! Oh, yeah. Yeah! Whoa, whoa! She doesn't need any of that. I gotta say, I'm impressed. Oh, yeah, I mean, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I felt really guilty giving it to her, especially after she gave me the photos.

It wasn't a good idea. It was a great fucking idea. Well done. Well, I mean... Presumably we would be able to have listened in on the conversation with uh... Wheatel Box and Pixel. and get a sense of what's happening.

Yeah, I mean, so as far as you know right now, I mean, it all sounds from what he's communicated to Pixel. That's basically what Pixel relayed to you. So you can listen in on the genuine conversation, you sick pervert. But the information you'd gleaned so far is to, is to, besides a private show. So you're telling me that all those kids that you got are, yeah, That was not that you weren't feeling sentimental.

No, no, I wanted to get her something nice. There's still nice lipstick. There just happens to be a microphone inside of it. That a voice, are you? I mean, listen to this section right here where she's talking and all of a sudden. Yeah, that's her just applying the lipstick. You can't hear anything when she does that. But other than that, it's a pretty perfect disguise.

Look, the kid's learning. I'm impressed. I mean, I'm fucking impressed. too shit. Thank you. It just feels, I don't know, like a, I mean, not to say that I feel bad about it, right? But I just feel like it's real intimate, like, oh, so that's what she means by pitching cheeks.

I'm pausing, I'm pausing, I'm pausing, I'm pausing, I'm pausing, I'm pausing, I'm pausing, I'm pausing. Oh, this guy is fucking, ugh. Oh my God. Oh, oh. Well, I think it's just this from the next hour. If you look at the sound wave, it's just 40 minutes of this. Remarkable.

I mean, that's surprising. I mean, if he looks at anything like he fucking sounds. Oh, yeah. Oh, my stallion, the moustallion. Oh, God. Wow, I mean, I'm not getting soft pike. I mean, you know, we're together, you know, we're team, we're together. I'm a crew member of the Rhapsie.

I have the fucking license, but like, I just feel bad that we're going to get away, we're going to get off world, and Pixel's going to have no idea what the fuck happened. Unfortunately, sometimes that's part of the job. Keep your eyes on the prize. The job's the job. We're bounty hunters. Yeah. Or nothing else.

Yeah, you're right. The good news is that, uh, you're right. you know one of the loggards that I left in the car that's the cannon in my pack so it's still disguised in the limo so if anything goes down at least it'll be close on hand so you're right okay

I'll get over it and I'll take howdy bunny and I'll put it back put it on my bed and that's and I'm ready I'll basically prepare myself for the the meeting and the plan. With a plan in mind, you all focus on the next evening and what each of you's roles

are in the successful taking of wheedlebox. Not losing sight of the fact that you're here to hunt a bounty, not just to enjoy these lavish lives you've fallen into. Though the allure was there, you make it to the next day, evening falls,

and you get all dolled up in your most music producery outfit yet. Large hats. You are the picture of professional driver. Gloves on. That's right. Ready to go. Everyone looks immaculate.

Yeah, I'm going to dress it a little more like summery, like silk gear. Oh. The episode of Sopranos when Tony goes to Vegas. Oh, yeah. He has a like silk kind of shirt, right? And it's like, you know, very kind of sleepy. like a mirlow almost colored, like silk with the wide collar, the wide collar on the shirt.

Nice like terrace drinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna wear like. Warm weather night air kind of. Super like light, Miami Vice, turquoise, turquoise, white vest, you know, dark slacks, like super summery. And you know, obviously my sleeves are rolled up

and I'm gonna do my hair in the same style like I did when I first went to the Clitz Room. I am ready and I am ready. And I am very much understanding that, like, Pixel is bubbly and fun and a civilian in this. But, like, these mob guys, they would not at all expect the bodyguard to be speaking out of turn. And, like, I've, after seeing my experience with the mob, I know that I cannot be nearly as free speaking. And it's really, so I will, am going to kind of, I probably will have realized that I've been partied too hard. Pike has helped grounded me.

and I realize I need to act my role and shut the fuck up. And so I'm going to basically kind of re-center myself and try to come to terms of what we have to do with this new lifestyle that I'm trying to slide into. I look like shit. I only had the one suit. It's six days in.

I get growing it on the couch. Stained. You move back to sneakers. I'm not doing. I'm not even having the extremely expensive of hotel do my laundry. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment. Yeah. That is fun. That's terrible. He's blistering so he's wearing a sneaker. The only other thing I bought out of the discount

box was was turtlenecks and it's way too hot. It's way too hot. I want to wear it. As you finalize your outfits, you make your way one more time down the elevator of the Golden God Hotel. You make your way outside. Barry pulls the car around 40. you all get in and you head out. You take your air speeder car into the hills on the outskirts of Paradise City, where the richest and most notable people of the area reside. You fly past dozens of mansions, each one more enormous and gaudy than the last, until finally you fly up to what can only be described as a compound built atop a cliff face.

Equal parts, mega mansion, and fortress. The Weedelvox estate is as stunning as it is as it is. gorgeous. Countless exotic palm trees grow out of the stone of the canyon walls and from the arid hills around it, making it look as if the compound emerged from the gardens of paradise. That's badass. The landing pad is marked with the glimmering gold letters of G.JW., which leads to a lavish fountain, complete with a statue of Wiedelvox himself. Dozens of guards patrol the grounds, with even more stationed along elevated walkways, turrets, and sentry towers.

Each one of the heavily armed guards wears a sleek, crimson belt. You all begin to make your way towards the large doorway. Pixel, you find yourself inside Weedelvox's home, once more walking up to him as you prepare for this evening

to meet the friend of the Don. Oh, Pixie Dust. I'm gonna look so... good. I could die. It's my big break tonight. Oh, thanks to you. Yeah, and you know what? He's a viceroy, eh?

It's huge. It's a big time. I mean, this is it. Wow. This is it. You must have really talked to the dawn about lullo me. Oh, you know, I always wanted the absolute best for you. Viceroy, the empire, no less. I mean, tonight, it's going to be unforgettable, and you look so, I mean, gosh, words, they fail me. I wish I had them.

Oh, my goodness. And you, not your normal outfit, but you'd be dressed this evening to perform a private show for, this vice-roy, friend of the Don. Um, and yet, you want me to pull out all the stops. Oh, honey, absolutely. All the stops. I mean, it's the friend of the Don. You got to make sure. A vice-roy. A vice-roy. I mean, this is your ticket. Your ticket's going to be punched. I want you to have fun, eh? But make sure he has fun, too, eh? Oh, you know I will. I'd never let you down. Yeah. But, you know, the Don's friends, they can be a little finicky, so.

I know. I'm going to need you to... I'm going to need you to leave everything here. Even my keto? Even your kita. How am I going to perform with my kita? Well, you know what? You can take the kita with you, okay?

But I need you to leave the purse. No, the Digi Diary stays here. Vixie Dust, you know? I mean, you need it for the performance, but nothing... They're going to be... It's going to be strict. They're going to patch you down.

before you go in. I hate when they do that. And I start taking all the stuff out of my bags, and I end up with Stacy in my hands. My lipstick, though, I can keep this. How about you apply a new layer now, but you got to leave it. But if you want me to put out all the stops,

you know it's going to smear, and you think the vice-wear would be happy with smeared lipstick on a pop star? Well, no, of course not, but, but... Just a lipstick. Pixie Dust, you know, I hate arguing with you, but you can take the key time.

That's it. You gotta leave everything else here. You got to. I'm just looking out for you. I don't want this to go any kind of sideways. All right, I'll put it on. And I look at it and I think about my friends. And there's a little bit of sadness where, like,

Paxil wants to be a star, but she had started to hope for what stardom would look like with the Rhapsody Records. And there's a little bit of, but you know what, they'll be proud of me. And so she thinks fondly of her friends. She puts Stacy on her lips, and she goes to put it in her cleavage, hoping that he... All right. And she hands it over. You know, there's one place I'm always looking, huh? You can't out anything there.

Silly me. Ah, you tried, you tried. You know what? That's what I love you. for, all right. All right, cheeks. Cheeks. And I turn around and let him smack one

and then flip around and let him smack the other. What'd be fun. It's like two cats. It's like two ferocious lines fighting in a paper bag. Oh, see you're sweating. Oh, sweetheart, I'm gonna miss you. I'm gonna miss you. I'll be, I'll see you later tonight.

I'll tell you all about it. Right. Of course, of course. Love you, honey. Love you too, all right. Mr. J. Mr. W. Driver. There's a J in there.

Yeah, there's a J in there. The middle name, sweet out, the middle name. Hey, Trava, come on. Hey, you know, what are you doing, right? Take her with you, all right? You know where to go. Take her. Make sure she gets there safe, all right?

And one of the goons at the door will shuffle in. Oh, honey? Yeah, it does. Will you tell him, I said hi? and good luck. Sure, I'll pass that along. Yeah. All right.

Hey. I'll see you tonight. And then I'll hop into the car. And you walk out, you'll, you'll walk out, you'll get in the car, and you will head your way towards this meeting with the viceroy. You all are now approaching the estate of Weedelvox. Do you like pass the car? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

The black and window. Yeah, we would have knocked. Yeah, we would have. As you're pulling in, a car's pulling out. Oh, blacked out windows. Oh, that's fine. Taking away. That's fine.

Down to this private show on the end of town. And you all are ushered. You land on the GJW, almost like a helipad kind of space. You land in this large air. You walk past that fountain and you walk in. you're met with this lavish open grand foyer beautiful section almost i mean very much uh similar to the kind of experience almost of walking into uh walking into the uh hotel room with this massive open expansive uh room a huge table uh down in front of you but an area goons come up as you walk in

all with those gleaming red belts. And the first thing that happens is they all pat you down. So, I have left my driving gloves on. Okay. I've left my club in the back of the car, along with Rhett's cannon. I am wearing long sleeves, and I still have the gauntlet on, but it's under my sleeve and my driving glove. Okay.

And these are not like club goons. These are serious operators. You're looking, they have the red ones. They have the red belts on. Most of them, one walks up to you, throws a laser rifle over their back as they start to work your round checking to see if you're carrying anything.

Don't get fucking fresh, asshole. Jesus, fuck. And as long as nobody's carrying anything... He's his galling on them. If you think you'd feel it beneath, feel, for sure. Absolutely. I mean, I never take it off. Hey, what's this?

on your arm, huh? Why? This? Yeah, a giant piece of metal. What are you wearing? Some kind of bracelet? Jewelry. Yeah, excuse me, I appreciate if you be

sensitive about that. It has to do with his religion. Roll deception check. Or persuasion if that's intended to be. Don't have twists, do we? We have six twists. No, I use six twists. Because the, uh, the extremely generous

gift in the very beginning. You have six twists. Is that a re-roll in this campaign or are we doing the ad? We haven't decided. You may re-roll. Given that it's a Saturday campaign, I think it's fair for now. We'll do it on the fly. A four.

A four? What, you're going to make me take it off? Fine. Yeah, take it off. I'll peel the driving glove off and I don't even take, I don't remove eye contact. Oh, hell, that's badass. As I kind of loosen it, click, click. Here, I toss it.

I kind of a box and it all laying in the box as it shuts the... You're really gonna... I kinda shake my arm and you all notice that I almost immediately look uncomfortable. Oh shit. And I put the glove back on, put my driving glove back on, fine. Can I smoke in there? Yeah, you can smoke in there. Only religion in this house is Weedlebox.

I'm gonna make sure Mr. Weedlebox finds out about this. We'll tell them ourselves. Go on in. And you usher deeper into the home where there is a long table set out with several seats around it. Food is laid out, kind of like hand-picked kind of food. Not a full dining experience, but hors d'oeuvres, finger foods, and a fully stocked bar, once again, all to the side. as a similar extreme, whole side of the entire wall, all glass, with two massive panels that

both swing open side by side to extend out onto a large balcony that looks over a ravine of this cliff that he is set into. As you see, Grobulous J. Weedlevox walk in himself, smoking a cigar. He struts in with the that balding circlet of hair. Well, well, well, Rhapsody Records, eh? Ah, there he is. The name's Red. It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Wheatlock. Yeah, okay, okay. The pleasure's mine, I assure you. Now, you're my associates. You got Pike, Co.

A stepson, Ziggy. Nice. Hopefully, Pixels told you all about us, and all good things, all good things I hope. Oh, Pixie Does. She can't stop singing your praises. But you know what? I don't want to talk about her. Let's get down the business. Now you came, you requested this meeting. Take your shot. What do you want to talk about? What do you mean you don't want to talk about her? I mean, that's part of why we wanted to have the meeting. You want to sign her on the Ram City Records. Oh, Mr. Rye, you're not signing Pixie Does. That was never on the table. No, no, no. You're here because of your connections, huh? So, you have no interest.

I mean, she's got a wonderful voice. We can change her life. We can make her a galactic superstar. My beautiful gem, no, I'll make her a galactic superstar. No, no, no, you're not dealing with pixie dust. You're not taking her. No, no, no. Forget about her, all right?

She's off the table. You're here only for one simple thing. You got connects. I distribute redline. Now, you supposedly expressed an interest in that. But in the event that you want to feel as though you change your tune, well, I got a little something to show you, eh? And one of the goons runs out.

The same folder that he had on the desk earlier. And he'll kind of wave in. Hey, you thought I was just wanting to dine you for a week, eh? The go-carts, the big. beach, the clubs, the drugs, the drink, the women. Well, no, here is all the evidence, huh? And I know a little bit about you. I know you're married to a pretty beautiful Saurian wife, huh? Your stepson here, a sharp lad, you know, could use with the dry cleaning, but otherwise, you know, seems like, I'm not one to judge, huh? But I know that, uh, I know women, and they are, and all. And all,

these photos, huh? You think I didn't have somebody everywhere you went trailing every one of your steps? You think I didn't get every second of lascivious behavior? Cudos, by the way. I mean, you've done some stuff. I wouldn't even think to do, but hey, hey, once again, I mean, they each their own. But here's what's going to happen. You're going to move red line. You're going to get it wherever you can to all these pop stars you're supposedly working with. You're gonna extend the operation out and pixie dust for you. That's the thing of the past. Forget the name. Um, do I get this sense?

Never been that in that knowledge even. Um, so you're fucking blackmailed. Listen, I wouldn't put it. Well, no, yeah, that's exactly what's happening. But here's the deal, huh? Redline, and moving it. It's extremely lucrative, all right? Forget this Rhapsody Records business.

That's small potatoes. You move red line, you start getting it around. I put an award to the dawn for you, and it is just game over, right? You think you're living in the high life now? You start moving redline, holly! I mean, it's the golden god every night of the week. Just don't touch the stuff yourself, huh? Because it's fun when you're on it.

But man, does it hit hard after? You don't know half of it. All right. I suppose at the end of the day I am a businessman first and foremost, even though the Rhapsody she does speak to me. How would this work? We can make money together. You don't share those things with my wife. Close your ears.

What the fuck, Dad? What do you do? What's in that phone below? Look, sometimes when I went to the various backrooms at these clubs, you know, things happen. I don't know what it's wrong to say about it. All right. You should, better start these. I will be, ever since he said that there was never any a chance of co-getting, of pixel getting signed.

It was all just basically to get blackmail. you will hear the breeding exercises. Yeah, oh, absolutely. I'm thinking in my head like, oh, no. I'm like, into the nose, out through the mouth. You will see, like, my, my forearms are completely tense. Your jaw's tight. Yeah, jaws tight.

You have a tightness already in the rolled sleeve. But as you're folding your arms and you're like this, you start to hear this, you can almost see the wrinkles in the sleeve go stark circular as the intensity of it pulls the wrinkles away. And I am like really gritting my teeth and I am just trying to keep an eye out for the terrace and the balcony and like that's the thing that I'm thinking about

as I'm doing my breathing exercise. But like I am completely, I'm trying to stay as stone face as possible. I'm trying to be like Furio from The Sopranos. I love that. As professional as possible. All right, well, let's talk business. Yeah, let's talk business.

I mean, if you'd come here and you'd just been up front, hadn't tried to take pixel from me, well then it'd just be a normal setup. But now for a scene as how, you know, I got all the additional photos and, well, it's a lot of blackmail. Let's be serious. I mean, it's, it's a wild stuff. You're going to have to kick me an extra 20%. And if you agree to that, then we're fine.

We can share a cigar out on the balcony and we can go about our business making heaps and heaps and money, eh? So what you're telling me is that I need to buy. buy it from you. I sell it. Even though I already paid you wholesale price for it, you want 20% of my cut. So you're as smart as they say. I'm the one that you sign a big shots. That's exactly right. I've been doing this a long fucking time. How does this work? Does this make me a member of the fucking red belts? Do I have to wear one of those things? Let's see how it goes first. I mean, it takes a certain type of person to get involved.

And you're on your way. You're well on your way. But join is more in terms of kind of like, well, we own you now. So, yeah. I mean, really, how this works next is you say, yes, sir, Mr. Weido Vox, we shake hands. You start distributing redline and you go on your fucking business. Or else what? Or else these photos go to that sweet sore.

wife for yours. Your poor kid here, in tears. After a terrible divorce, that's going to take more money than you ever stand to making in Rhapsody Records. Let me tell you. All right, you look like a man on your fourth marriage. You know. You don't want that. Ziggy's almost 30. Well, he looks like a cryer. All right? I'm not crying. Pace. I don't say, my. I don't know. He got to turn now. Well, looks like he got me. But my hands are tied.

Appreciate the decency if you're just helping me understand how this whole operation works. The Don, how is he involved? The Red Line, where the fuck does it all come from? No, listen, you don't ask about the Don. I'll tell you this. I'll tell you what you need to know, okay? Red Line comes to me. I get it to global distributors, all right?

I move it. I move shipments from here and there. They get to a point, they move it to the people, all right? At the end of the day, I'm just a man of the people. Well, you don't need to know a damn thing about the dinah, okay? I look around the room. How many goons, armed guards, arm... What's the threat situation of the room that we're in?

Good question. Are we on the terrace? You're not on the terrace yet. He was on the terrace smoking a cigar and he'd come back into Mitu and more of like a... Like mid-dinner, like, you know. Yeah, this is like you're enjoying a meal. You're having this discussion. Oh, you're having a meal.

You're having this discussion. And you're still in the room. He has invited you should you accept the deal to join him on the terrace to smoke a cigar in... In, to finalize the deal. But this is all happening. And as you look around the room, there are several, several. guards that line the inside of this room, though the balcony does seem to be devoid of it. That's kind of like what feels like a private space for him.

And you think that if you were to make any kind of threatening move in here, it would be, you would be Swiss cheese. All right. You know, weedle Vox, you're a sly son of a bitch, but I like the way you lie. We're gonna make a lot of money together, aren't we? Ah, finally, eh? Oh, so much money. All right, here, take one of these, I'll hand you a giant cigar.

Come on, come on out to the balcony, huh? And you'll begin to make your way. I'll get up and I'll be grinning and I'll sort of reach my hand out. So just shake this hand. Yeah, it's about time, huh? I'm gonna be size of this thing. Oh, this is gonna be good. Yeah, yeah, don't worry.

I'll snip it for you when we get out. As soon as he said the balcony of the terrace, I immediately scoot out, and I am standing up immediately. I make eye contact with Coe, the moment he mentions the terrace. And we kind of just give each other a knowing look, like game fucking on. And I give a glance to Ziggie to make sure that he's ready. It's like when we get out there, we're in position to get the car ready. You begin to make your way to the terrace.

It's as you're walking there that in the middle of a stride, Don, Don, I'm terribly sorry to interrupt. One of the goons comes up. He says, Dom. Oh, sorry, sorry. Oh. Mr. Boss, Mr. Weedobox, I'm terribly sorry to interrupt.

There's a, something's come up. And he kind of like, you know, he's like looking down and he goes, he says, wow, what do he mean? Something's come up in the middle of a mysterious business. Yeah. Can you see her about to close the deal? Who's on the phone? All right, get them the fuck out of here.

Well, no, wait, hold on, hold on. We still need to- No, listen. We'll, whoa, whoa, we'll lock this down later, all right? You get the fuck out of here. I've got to take care of something. Leave it now. Go on.

Get out of here. Well, he still needs his religious artifacts. Yeah, yeah, they'll give it to you at the door, all right? All right, guys, take them out. And they'll, like, start to move. He's walking away. He's already, they've handed him a phone. You all are ushered out of the house.

firmly out of the house back towards your car as several of the guards walk up. They'll present you back your armlet. We'll meet later. Let's let's let don't forget the cigar. You are very quickly shuffled out of the house. Hey, hey, yeah, easy. As he begins to You fucking kidding me?

Begins to walk away from you. Fuck we are. Who should we talk to to read to schedule a follow follow-up meeting. We'll call you, don't worry. All right, Golden God Hotel. Don't forget. And you were ushered back into your car

as you are gestured to begin to drive away. What? What was that? We were so close. Mr. Rye? Yes. I'm like seething. Mr. Rye? All right, son. Get in the car.

Ziggy? Oh, yeah, I'm getting in. I'm in. I'm in. Oh, my loafer. Alright, I'm in. I walk around the other side. I sit in, I fire up the car, I put down the divider. So, talk between the back.

What the hell was that? We were so close. So fucking close. We're not gonna get another shot back there. I don't quite peel out, but I'm pissed. I'm driving like a man. Fuck. Well, no, there's still a chance.

I mean, it sounds like he wants to do business, and we can just, we got to now afford to keep this fucking trade up another week. Fuck, we're running low on funds. Ah. Can fix that fucking time? We didn't wait for that piece of shit. Look, it's gonna be fine. It's not balloon yet.

Light like a feather. Yeah, come on. Just breathe, Cove. Right, like the sun. I was worried you never gonna... We're fucking lose that. I'm gonna take it. Don't worry about that. I would have figured it out. What do we do now? Come on.

Zia, give us something. You're awfully quiet back there. Well, I'm listening. I don't think that the microphone is in Pixel's purse anymore, or maybe Pixel's purse is with, is with Weibovox. What? Is it that point, Zieggy, that you hear the following. Weedlevox has answered a phone call, and you hear just his side of it. Yeah, yeah, yes, sir. Don, sir, yes, absolutely.

No, I, yeah, your friend, yeah, the vice-roy, yes, sir, he's in town. We put him up. She is on her way. Yes, sir. Yeah, no, we put him up. Yeah, he's on the outskirts. No, no lights, no cameras. Yes, sir.

Yeah, no, I know. Just like the other ones. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'm on it, sir. Yes, no, no mistakes. We'll make sure her body is buried deep in a hole in the desert. And that's where we'll end the session. Thank you so much for listening to the, Legends of Aventures podcast. We hope you enjoyed the session. If you want even more campaigns to listen to

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