Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | Ep. 8 | Paradise City: Part 1

Welcome to Legends of Vantras, on Mace Café and you're listening to Stardust Rhapsody Anthem. Last time, on SDR Anthem, the party now joined by Co was able to track down Big Thunder or as Codum, Saguio. Executing a route to get close to him, Rhett, Pike and Ziggy take her in in handcuffs, while Ziggy slips away to hack the security systems. Taking control, he signals Foreman Correll of the Coyote Coyote Energy Company to start their attack. As the chaos breaks out, the team takes to the streets led by the roaring ferocity of Co's newly repaired motorcycle they give chase. After a heated chase, Big Thunder crashes into the tanker of Redline. In the middle of a blackout, he arises from the wreckage lit only by the red flames at his back. He injects a form of Redline and takes the fight to the party. After a brutal street brawl, the party finally brings him down, but Co isn't finished. Pining his one remaining arm against the twisted metal of his wreck, the cracking of bones rings through the night as he gives the first bit of information toward their next bounty. Grabulous J. Wheatlebox runs the glitz room on Cherix, and that's where he gets his shipments of Redline. Now you know where the next rung in the ladder is, but first, to take care of Big Thunder. The familiar thrum of the rhapsody cuts through space as we join the crew in the rhapsody's lounge. The crackle of the television left on to no real station stands mixed with tunes as the background tunes from the jukebox as the background noise to your current celebration. You all sit around the table in the lounge as Co holds up her brand new bounty hunter's license. A shiny new license contrasting the bloody bruise knuckles barely starting to heal. You cheers to one more official bounty hunter joining the team. Wow, I can't believe that they'd spelled my name right. It doesn't have to ask. Wait, they really spell yours wrong. It says Ziggy Mugh on it. Oh, here's the problem. It's set to move. You gotta set it to Wu. Can I take the M and I flip it up? Thanks. Alright, that's fine. You know, I never thought that I'd have a license or a badge and feels a little skeamy. I don't know. It's just a way to do what you're always doing. They've been a rescue if you do it now. Well, what do you mean? I'm asking permission from anybody. Fucking nightmare. For what it's worth, I don't view it as asking for permission. It's more about getting paid for it. And there are other benefits too. Yeah. Yeah, you know, they do their best to protect your identity and just make you better at your job. We haven't found any downsides thus far. Matt, we paid? Not one. I mean, I didn't even get a shit kicked out of me. I said, Sean's awful. Why am I so infotogenic? Anyway. Well, congratulations. Well, thank you for having me on the crew. Thank you. May I join in us? I'll get over it. I'll get over it. And I will put my license away. Real bounty. You know, I'm getting used to space. I'm getting used to the stars. And, you know, I think that I'll get used to this. And what you did to your friend. I like your mocksie kid. My friend? Not your friend, but your former. I know it's complicated. I shouldn't have said that. Why did I say that? He's not really a friend. You know, it just made me and each other acquaintance, former. It was personal as what I'm trying to say. Fuck that guy. Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, you really need to get like the... The bridge needs like soundproofing. Have you not like tortured anybody before? Well, I think he was yelling at me to keep it down while he was watching his shows. Anytime we've had to torture somebody, I mean, it's just been me and pie. And, you know, for used to it. You used to it too. I just put in my name, noise can't play headphones and listen to Zeta Max. Everything's fine. You know what you... I mean, if we're gonna get more people on the ship, you know, you should be at a very least, like, you know. Do some soundproofing. I used to do like rodeering and sound stuff for some bands. I could help with that. Are we really gonna torture someone so often that we need to put some of the soundproofing in our ship? I feel like, eh, it should be rare enough that we feel it. You know what I mean? I don't like to call it torture. It's more persuasion. No, it's definitely torture. Space potato, space potato. Look, regardless, we got the info we needed. Good fucking job. And we got a big fucking payday too. I think with the notes we got from all, uh... Big Thunder should cover three to four months of expenses. So we bought ourselves some time. We can breathe easy a little bit. More than we have been. Well, that's good. And I, uh... I know we're probably still a long ways off for both of us getting starships, but I think you're gonna need to do a lot of teaching. I don't mind. Is it like riding a bike? In some ways, but you'll find it's pretty different. I feel like I'm gonna be fine. I mean, if it's anything like my simulator, I'm gonna be a pro right from the start. You should see me. I'm excellent when it comes to the joysticks, and the various buttons, and the barrel rolls. I have no doubt. Do you play Space Drinking Simulator? Why wouldn't I? You're just doing a job in a game. Oh, I mean, Space Drinking Simulator. There are cleaning simulators where you just find a dirty apartment, and as fast as you can clean it, and with the right amount of accuracy, you get combo bonuses, folding clothes, folding linens. I answer it's really quite a lot of fun. When you can be playing games, you can be fighting, punching, killing things. You decide to work for a wage, and a comply with regulation? Well, yeah, I mean, how are you gonna get the trophy otherwise? Quick question. I don't get it. Is Ziggy's room a mess? It's filthy. Yeah, I'm just gonna make sure. I said, the piles of clothes on the bed, off the bed, the cans and all directions, right? And you'll see that also reflected in the lounge. Like, as you look over at that pressing couch, like Ziggy's, Ziggy's absolutely made himself at home, reflecting exactly how he treats this bathroom. And he's clearly thinking, like, you're telling me that you're gonna fold clothes in a video game to that little life? Like, Pikes has nothing, but that's what he's thinking. Of course. You hear a microwave go off. Oh, that's my space freedom. I'll be right back. All right. Well, I'll get you some. Thanks for bearing with me here. I mean, you're getting your space legs. And I answer your question. I mean, we can talk about a starship when you're ready. And maybe we can give her lessons. And Ziggy too, once he gets back, and get into the space room here. Of course. But, too, I was getting the dog fights. It's happened a few times for sure, yeah. It's unavoidable. I mean, I saw a wreck's ship. I mean, God, how does anyone fucking survive those? Why, I guess they don't. Well, I try not to use it unless I have to. You understand? I mean, it's big. It's barely a personal ship. That thing's fucking huge. Well, I mean, it serves a lot of purposes. You know, it was a modified little tug ship, so to speak. Yeah, I mean, Hank took me down. He got in this little turret station. Yeah. I can't believe you taught a robot dog to deadly turret. That's fucking awesome. That was his request. You're awesome dog. I'm putting it in. He insisted. And so I'm a little bit more. But I did open a separate savings account to start saving for your starships. And I invested it all on a low risk money market account. I didn't understand anything you just said. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever done. You make based on the yield you could afford their ship in a reasonable 10 to 15 years. I think like, Co, I look a little like, like, I get a little touched. I'm like, no one's ever done, yeah, start saving an investment account for me. Like, you know, it's one of the very long time. I think that there would probably be something at the very least that like, it's been a very long time since anyone that though has perceived you've not really had anyone really looking out for you. Except for like, up until Mouforo. Yeah. And Mrs. Ume, but your life before that, not really. Like, in and out of prison. So this would absolutely be something that would strike very, very new to you for someone who's not Mrs. Ume. Well, I, you know, I thought I'd, before we turn in Sagu, you know, the last time. You know, I did one more, you know, little just, just to make sure, right? And I mean, I don't think he's going to be able to use his, his one arm again. So he's going to need to probably turn like full, full robo, man. If he wants to do that fucking piece of shit, he's lucky, he's alive. Hopefully they hang him. Maybe firing squad, what do you think? You never quite can tell what they're going to do to these guys. You know, like I said, the elevator shaft is always an option in the future. So what in that fucker deserve? I got more info. All right, let me get my notes. I'm like, I'm going to go and, uh, and, uh, like, I've paired a brief, like a real bounty hunter. Look at that. It's not me doing the brief for once. Wow. Look at you. You know, Pock, you can learn it's thing. Alright, I'll be. You shuffle through a couple of crumpled pages as you go to the notes that you took after your, uh, almost weak interrogating big thunder. And it's, and it's pretty obvious to anyone who looks at them that, uh, the, the droplets, smears of blood as you're written out. Maybe even in certain scenarios, a little bit of scratchy handwriting as you'd, uh, taking the notes as you were, uh, conducting your interrogation in the way that you were, um, would have been difficult to, to write it times. Yeah, like, Oh, okay, yeah, hold on. Oh, these are just doodles. Cool metal band logos. Oh, here. Plus makes. These makes are fucking cool. You get me? I mean, it's a lot of doodles in life. Yeah, skulls. Fuck my handwriting sucks. Oh, I got blood over, okay. Take a job. We're in no rush. Uh, well, you know, grab your list, Jay Weedel-Vox. That's, that's our guy. That's the guy. That's our next story. Captain of the, uh, the syndicate. So, right underneath the boss. So he's a captain. He's a captain. So he reports of the boss of the syndicate. That's, well, I mean, I think that, I think that Saguio wouldn't have lied to me given the circumstances. If this is true, then everyone needs to listen up, especially you. What? What? Do you make me one? You want one? Yeah. Oh, I'll give you one when I finish this. If this guy's a major player in the syndicate, we're not messing with street corner thugs anymore. You understand? Well, yeah, he seems to be, uh, it says that he, the city that he's in, uh, Paradise City. I don't know the fucking nose. These rich assholes, uh, on Cherix, is that he owns it. Like he's fucking in bed with all the politicians, all the businesses there. He's a globe-blood. So, you know, there's a lot of them, a lot of them on this world. Um, and... God, there's so much blood here. Blood-blood, huh? Yeah. Uh, and yet, and so, uh, he's getting, uh, he's giving kick-ups to, uh, to obviously, to his boss, which presumably is the leader of the, fucking red belts, those fucks. Um, and he's getting a cut. He's skimming off of the local businesses, uh, and he has his gooms. I guess they're fancier, more equipped red belts, so he's got workin' for him. Uh, what else do I got here? You're doing great. You're doing great. Yeah, I decided. A really brief start on my thing. Usually, I just, like, roll up to a place and, I mean, an elevator shafts work a lot. You know. And, you know, my boots usually do a good job. I'm sorry, I don't know why I'm nervous. Elevators shafts don't pay, co. Until they do. You're right. Uh, apparently though, the problem is, there's a fucking problem. Apparently, motherfucker's paranoid shit. Apparently, he has, he lives in a fucking fortress that makes that old canary where Saguio was hiding out in, looked like a fucking sand castle. Fuck. And so, like, fancy mansion heavily armed. Uh, he's very careful about wind and wear and when he travels in secrets with a fleet of fucking arm poos. Oh, this is gonna get interesting. Hmm, but I really had to do this. You know what they say? Pike, remember what we talked about in prison? A dead man? Is he gonna pay attention? What? I mean, he's gonna listen to this. My burrito is too hot in the inside. Too hot on me, son? I burned my mouth. Yesterday, you were complaining the burrito was too cold on me, son. Well, I gave it two more men. Do you need that, Kim? Sure. I was, what all over this? I was gonna say it. I'm so glad you said it. I was gonna say it. It might show for the boy. That's so good. Every time you bite into the burrito, it's split on the animal, or the lava hot, it gets on your hand. It's one of the oil stream all the way down your arm. All right. What were you saying? Sorry. I was, I was, it's a complex eating operation burrito. I mean, you're about to have a rep. You need to make a burrito. I'm listening. I'm listening. Right. We got, we got, we got, we got, we got, we got, we got, grab your list. Hold on. I don't know why you can't get blood on a screen. You know, or in a screen, I guess I should say. You can get blood on a screen. I have to predict it. All right. Grab your list. High ranking. Pardon a life lesson. What's that? The dead man has few secrets. A tortured man has none. Man's, that's why, and, and, and through, it's actually very true. Aren't you glad she's on our side now? I am. So, what he was holding back, and the thing that he was afraid of, because he thought that, when, you know, when I fucking broke his arm is back down after the chase and after the fight. He thought there was no way we could actually get to him and we'd all get ourselves killed, but this Weedlebox guy has a weakness, a way to get to him. A weakness. So he runs the Glitz Room, that's his main operation. That's his front to mid to look. I mean, he doesn't be like it's completely fucking straight. And this is a club in Paradise City. It's a club in Paradise City called the Glitz Room. All right. And so apparently it's one of those fuck ton of clubs in this place. But apparently it's one of the big ones. There is a songbird that he has a songstress, the main venue headliner, the normal headliner at this place. Her name is Pixelpop, also a Globlin. Apparently been with him for years. And that's his weakness. She apparently has full run of the fucking place. Apparently she walks past the guards. They don't even fucking look at her. She has access to all of the fucking secret doors. Just in and out and she has the ear of this fucking guy. And she's some musician. Apparently it's the key to his fucking operations. I don't understand. But that is how we can fucking get to this guy. And so, I mean, I don't know how, but what he said about her is that she is a fucking yapper. And says how she wants to be a big star. That the Glitz Room, this isn't big enough for her. She dreams, she wants to be fucking signed. She's always talking about being a big star across the galaxy. You know, she's only really known. Not even all on Cherrick, but just in Paradise City. And so she wants to be a big star. And so, I don't know how he fucking worked with that. I mean, could we intimidate somebody? So you're saying we get to her. And through her we get to him. Yes. Well, that's what Saguio amongst the screams. Maybe this down? I'm amongst the scream. Okay. Was saying that was the last bit before he passed out. And we chucked him over and I got my fancy fucking license. We got to pay that. Yeah. So, all right. It's not going to be as easy as getting huge in his health or paying anybody off if he says paranoia and ruthless as he say is. I mean, it's a good plan. Oh, and that's the fucking thing. And that's what he was bragging about. It's like, you know, Saguio had the run of the undercrux. But I mean, you know, Kyoto-jinhated that fucking guy as much as we did. And so, apparently on Cherrick's, everybody fucking loves WidoFox. He's everybody's friend. He's everybody. Every business he has his grubby little fucking paulzen. Oh, look at this one that I fucking did. That's like a T-rex. He's got lasers on. Oh, that's really cool. Hold on. Hold on. I like take a picture of it with my grid boy and I like put it up and I immediately start like turning it into like a 3D render that starts to rotate around. I mean, I thought that mine was pretty cool. I'm not trying to keep the rustic appearance. But I thought you maybe need to use like a, we can turn this into a rod. See, the band is called Team Rex with the WR-E-C-K. Yeah, no, like T-rex. T-rex. Yeah, I got it. I just, just a band idea. I don't know. We can make some shirts. Can we make mine? I don't know. I thought we would just order them. We just wait where? Yeah. That'd be fucking sick. I got you. Can you do that now? Well, I mean, I don't know if I can make an order right here right now. But I am looking up the glitch room. I'm looking up a Pixel and her socials, you know, they're there. She doesn't have a lot of followers. Anyway, how much time do we have to we reach this Paradise City? I mean, we can take the time we need to care. I mean, I want to go in and have a solid fucking plan. And I don't think what's going to work is let's just walk it up to this Pixel girl and be like, hey, we're a bunch of bounty hunters and we really want to take in your boss or boyfriend or whatever the fuck. So how do we get to her? I don't know. I think we need fucking time to think. I mean, this isn't, I'm really out of my fucking depth. If this were one of my games, we would seduce her. We would go up and, and, and, and, and, and, buyer drink. And if you pick the right options and the right order, Bob's her uncle. What? I, I can't stress this enough to you, Z. This is real life. This isn't a movie or a game. There are lives that stay here. You think picking up chicks is like some fucking game? I don't, I, I mean, it's, it's, it's basically one to one. I mean, games are very similar. It can't be that different. Do we just talk some sense into the kid? I do risk it. You get emotions involved. And it's never really worked for me. It's not that hard. I mean, I mean, look, this is how you do it. Uh, um, pretend that you're, what, what's your character? You're, you're a lady in a bar. All right. I take the, like, lap of my hoodie and I, lap it back. Okay, so this is how you pick up the woman. Tell you approach the woman. So, and that's it. That's it. Just be yourself and just, that's it. It's not that easy. It's, it's, it's absolutely that fucking mess. You kidding me? Sometimes it. Are you kidding me? It feels weak for yourself. Well, that's the plan, right? That's gotta be the play. We, we, we, we go and we, we say, hey, hey, hey, hey, uh, miss pop. How are you doing? Uh, sup. We, we, we, sup. And, no, incur the fucking wrath of Weedlevox. Try my steal his girl. Thank you. Are you fucking out of your mind? I'm just, ideating. No, no, no, no, I, look, look Ziggy, I appreciate the hustle will do. I, look, you don't have to figure it out right now. And after him eating his burrito, I worked up an appetite for some whiskey. What do you think, Pike? Yeah. Pour me one, please. Make it a double. All right. I'll walk over to the bar and I'll get two glasses. Go Ziggy, one, eight, eight. Yeah, can you give me a beer? Energy drink. I'll make the drinks and I'll grab them. And I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're giant fucking hell. And I'll bring it over and I'll take it to the couch and I'll sit down and I'll pass out. Thanks, thanks. Thank you. Another cheers. You guys earned it. All right. Good job. No, real fucking relations against, huh? It's official. Welcome to the team. Yeah, my fucking license. You're collecting beats of a fucking guilt. I bet they fucking take the cut. Of course they take the cut. Who? The guild. Well, yeah, I mean, yeah. It's their finders fee. They're providing a service. They need to get compensated for it. I'll get over it. I'll get over it. I'll get over it. I'm gonna lean back. I don't kick my feet up and say, um, what do you want to watch? Oh, um, I thought we would watch more. You want to watch some race or episode? Oh, you know, one of the few times that you and I agree. I mean, I, where we're only a few episodes into season one, I figure we just pick right up and like, you know, three, four, eight episodes. We would go by in a flash. I'm in. I'm the one that I was listening to while you were watching it where it's the guy and he's got the race car and he's mysterious. That's exactly right. I could watch that. I know that sounds fun. I'm sure there's some channel that has it. I'm gonna like turn on the TV and I'll just flip through all the channels until I find some sort of, I'm not really like trying to find exactly racer X. Oh, I'm gonna make some space. Oh, no, I'm gonna sell the hang. I grab, I grab Hank and I'm like, I have, I have a beer in one hand and I have Hank and I have, I'm like trying to do the two handed with the remote. He was scooped Hank up and he's, he's just, just lightly over the, your massive forearms as he sits in your grasp. You're flipping through the channels and you see various shows coming and going until eventually you navigate to the, an episode of racer Epsilon. You watch it fuck you. Oh, this is the mysterious Spectre Zero. He's so mysterious. That's fine. Is every character mysterious? Yeah, I mean everyone except for, well, no, no, everyone's been there. Oh, who's that? Oh, that's, that's the, the, the, the, the leader of access grand circuit. Oh, what's his actual identity? You see this, right? Oh, mystery, I'm not gonna tell you, but no spoilers. Man, I was just watching, right? I know as much as you do. Why are you asking? I only have questions. Come on, big guy. Just relax and enjoy it. I get up and I, and I make co burrito in the mic. Oh, yeah. I guess, I guess how long it needs to go. Yeah, I never got the temperature right. I double fist a beer and a burrito and I'm like, I look, I'm happy. I got a, I got a, what a chat is. Yeah. I double fizzing a beer and a burrito with a robot pug in my lap and I'm just like, I'm kind of like, just, I'm watching it. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm enjoying it. I think burrito is somehow simultaneously lava hot on one end and I use cold on the other. And that's pretty good. You spend a couple minutes watching this episode, right? Right. For episode one. Until it goes to a commercial break. And as you watch TV, you see scenes or as it turns into this commercial, you see scenes of space filled with glittering stars and hear the bombastic voice of a TV announcer. He's a desparado among the stars, discovering new worlds and unknown life forms throughout the cosmos. He's an explorer, a bounty hunter, a TV star, a singer, a gambler, and a lover. You watch his hit show, you've listened to his holiday album, you purchased his tie in portable grill. And now he's coming to a casino near you because Lady Luck is always on his side. He's the real space cowboy. Rex Nexon! As the advertisement plays, the tune of funky disco music, static images of a salari and heroic poses slide across the screen. He has skinned the color of a creamsicle with a perfectly sculpted pompadour that runs a gradient from cherry red to burnt orange. He has a chiseled jaw framed by large, sharp sideburns that nearly run all the way to a prominent cleft chin. His smug face is caked in makeup including heavy bronzer, pink eye shadow, thick mascara on long latches, and a golden heart painted just below his left eye. He wears a gaudy white and gold cowboys suit elaborately vejouled in glittering rhinestones and adorned with dangling tassels. Opened so wide that most of his chest is exposed in a deep V. A red bandana tied around his neck, matching the color of his gaudy heart shaped belt buckle, and the tips of his bedazzled shoes that emerge from bell-bottomed pants legs. As the announcer's voice fades, the image comes to life as Rex Maxim addresses the TV audience. That's right all my fans across the galaxy. The Rex Maxim real space cowboy. Later Lux Smiling Casino tour starts in one month, kicking off its 7th heaven casino in the rock-sale sector. All be it each tour, stop for one week only, so don't miss the chance to meet me. Rex Maxim real space cowboy in the flesh. All be playing cards, rolling dice, cutting a rug, singing all my hits, signing autographs, and even unveiling strange new alien species discovered by me. Rex Max real space cowboy. So I'll see you at your nearest casino. Alright ladies, let's boogie. Let's boogie! Suddenly two beautiful women in GoGo outfits appear next to Rex Maxim, and the trio begin to dance with exaggerated and almost uncomfortably central. Jai Rating has the dates and locations of the casino tour scroll of the screen. I am so sick of these goddamn commercials. I thought I turned on my ad blocker, I don't understand. Can we go to that? I can't believe Rex Maxim, I mean how far is the rock-sale sector? He's far we should go and how far is it? I don't care how far it is, why would you want to go see that fucking jackass? The two of you cannot be serious. What are you talking about? He's awesome. He's a playboy, he's a cowboy, he's a bounty hunter, he's a damron among the stars. I mean Mrs. Oome and I used to watch all of the reruns of his old reality show. He's in a ton of them. Did you ever watch Maximum Love? Wait, you've seen Real Space Cowboy? Yeah of course, I mean I feel like everyone seems real space cowboy. I mean obviously he's falling off and he's nearly as popular as he used to be. He's probably about a sea-less celebrity right now probably. Yeah that's why he's doing spin-off after spin-off after spin-off. But Real Space Cowboy is the real deal that fits his badass. Ah, where do we even begin? Look, we've got a job to do. Alright, and you know, for whatever reason you really want to see him, maybe we can do some gamble at the casino. Why do you have a problem with Rex Maximum? You see how cool that fucking get rich once? You see how hot those sexy dancers were? They were pretty hot. The hair, the outfit, what's with that star, the heart that he's got on his face? He's just got a stupid looking face. He's a desparado among the stars. Yeah, he's part of his brand man, he's just a cool guy. And I mean here's the thing, he tries to play bounty hunter when he's nothing but. Alright, and I know, trust me. Well, there was very clearly episodes where you did bounty hunter. Yeah, that was a whole point in a spends show that make him famous. I know that he wasn't a trucker in that other reality TV show that he briefly starred in. I know that he wasn't a chef in that other reality TV show that he briefly starred in. I know that he wasn't a ghost hunter in that other reality TV show that he briefly starred in. Ghosts? I know that he wasn't a cop in that other reality TV show Have you ever run into the guy? No, but I would love to know I would have him sign all the paraphernalia that I have that are related to his various properties look We've run into the guy what and When we got there there were camera crews and We it was an episode of a show and we we we got the barony from the GBG and just It all seemed like a fucking sham when we showed up. I think they were playing us off for drama What what? Wait you were on Rex Maxx and real space cowboy I mean I thought I would have recognized you guys in a technical sense We wouldn't sign the waver so they had to blur our faces and The bubbling bounding the foods in the episode of real Rex Maxx and real space cowboy Wasn't no, it's all made up The way Nothing like real life I'm cascading it now They cut all of the cool moments look We were competent they cut all those parts they gave that jackass credit for everything What and we were the reason he got the bounty in the first place and here it was it was all just a fucking it was for drama It's all editing and they wanted to sit us in this small room with a blue backdrop and fucking interview as well. They play like wood blocks And I I really thought that those Bumbling bounty buffoon guys really almost ruined the day there. I mean I can't believe that was you guys play it I got I got it I got it I'm scrupping On the screen you can see the blurred out faces of what is very obviously from the from the neck down Yeah smash caught immediately to the to the blur of the moment Red the moment the season she can immediately tell that it's very obviously us now Immediately I didn't consent to this I remember this episode. Yeah, crazy. I didn't know it was you guys Get that camera This whole time I know you for so long and you never told me you were celebrity Go look you couldn't even see our faces right like like he's barely a fucking celebrity. I don't get all the hop I mean he's I mean you heard the commercial he's a desperate auto moment of our he discovers new worlds and life forms and new alien species all the time I mean you still you can do it all Where have you run into him besides that I mean We see him we see him across the galaxy. I mean as bounty hunters We go to a lot of casinos and he's there and you know we've seen him Win big and lose big. Hey, you know, you think you think you think you could introduce us Do you remember you and like we get like we can get a photo? I mean Maybe those who you remember you think I don't know I mean crew the rap city I feel like we run into the guy enough times or at least we'd be like On the first name basis all I'm saying is that he doesn't always look that put together All right What your scenes manufacture you're what's he really like? I mean I think I see now he's a jackass. He's a fucking you know, he's He's he does not Enjoy losing is what I'll say and if you're up to me if I had to guess nobody's doing that much spin-offs if they don't need the money There's no way the V Rex Max no Base cowboy deathbrado amongst the stars is a degenerate gambling Co you don't have to see no way title every time you mentioned there's no way look I had his portable low fat grill I did not That's very funny Oh Silica can you see if you can de blur retten pike face no no no it's just like And there's like a hand and also like a warp face or a face to be Yeah, that's way off. Oh, that is an extra figure. Yeah, there's six figures Look what casino did it say seven heaven seven While we're having this conversation you have a month to play and so we can do this job and then go and go to the seven Evan while we're having this conversation all just be kind of looking at what Sigi's doing while he's messing with the episode and Maybe a tab that is still open on your computer will catch my eye of Oh, it's a pop where you were doing research. Yeah I like one of her Instagram and it'll catch my eye and I'll I'll kind of lean in and take a drag on my cigarette and then I'll say You know what Give me an hour I think I have an idea Alright I'm looking forward to it. I'll be back and I'm gonna grab my glass and say uh, but I'm gonna need a top off And I'll pour you like oh before you go can you grab me out of the beer? I my hands are filled with dog and burrito no problem. I'll stay the cigarette in my mouth I'm a dog on me. I can't get up Pass the fridge. I'll grab a beer and I'll definitely toss it to you. I'll grab it or I'll attempt to grab it as I will Crack another I'll be back in it and I and I I head back towards my room and leave you three to just kind of talk while I have say that I have an idea Y'all are in for a treat. It's been a while since Pike said an idea Not not like not like he doesn't have ideas, but it was this kind of his like Specialty, you know, he's really good this sort of thing. Is he oh, yeah No, it's you know, I know he comes off as sort of cool and aloof, but He's as capable and as skilled as they come I mean he's very cool in a loop Yeah, that's sort of his you know Bob and he's a good friend in prison You two go way back. Well, you know, not just back his way back as you guys No, I know, but I mean I've never really got to see him work I mean outside of you know what from you know from Macoro and everything since Well, I'm I'm gonna hope that it was just a bad day when you met How many times you met only a couple don't we probably met him I don't know half a dozen maybe it doesn't time You know, that's long you're in this line of work and you sort of are just You know, jetting through the galaxy like you do they were sort of in a in a Jason lines of work you fucking run into people And it's just every time I meet the guy. He's just a fucking jack is I you know, I just get this I feel like in all my years I've developed a good you know what I mean like a good instinct. I just sort of get a Vod a read on people and you know Well, it's just something doesn't feel right Look what I made I hit play and it's the end of the commercial where Rex Maxim's like all right ladies Let's boogie and the two beautiful women come in but there's the cut-out heads of Pike and Red You got it on the bounty. Yes. Oh, that's perfect. Oh my god. It looks just like them. How do you do that? After about an hour I come back I like glance up at the screen and I scowl and I've got I've got I've got a recent my hand. I actually have briefs in my hands some some paper work and I I say okay I think I got and I throw These three folders onto like the kind of take coffee table. It's sitting in front of the couch in a while And each one has your name on it good paper folder and I say Definitely and then slide What Mike tosses them down I don't just email me why And I look at the three of you and then I look at Rhett and I say It's not gonna be cheap What did you have in mind? I mean Two words Rhapsody records What we're gonna be music producers this pixel pop she wants to be famous We're gonna give it to her You my friend big-time hot shot producer All right, you co of course the muscle the bodyguard the big guy's gonna need some muscle for protection He's a hot shot. I can do that Ziggy Fecti rock star you're a stepson What? That's right. Oh I have a lovely story in life The stepson and assistant stepson yeah, you're learning the trade from your Stepdad you're all right. You think anyone's gonna bind me as a stepson I think we're gonna be okay And if it's any consolation I was rooting for sexy rock For sexy rock star and that leaves me I Drive That's a really cool thing to say All right All right, I'm I'm with you so far All right, do we have things identities? Well, I've got some suggestions in there, but Feel free to toss some out. I'm thinking for you Rhett Rye what do you think oh Rhett Rye? Wait music producer of Rhapsody record threat rye rhapsody records. You know it kind of works doesn't it We why don't you change in her first name? We don't do that anymore Why we try it doesn't work He doesn't work what it's a bit harder to play it off if you Accidentally mix up somebody's first name as opposed to their surname That makes that kind of sense who's gonna do that I'll look around sort of awkward way As that happened before Let's not get into it There's a reason we do it this way is all I'm gonna say All right, it just sometimes you're not thinking about it and you accidentally say Pike instead of Glorpo and you know the whole fucking jobs ruin don't bring up the group of Smash cut to a sequencing of different scenes where Ziggy Rhett and Pike all staying next to each other in different outfits Ziggy turns over and just Yeah And look here's a thing if they just have a first name and with you know the protections the guild offers They can't just look at stuff right so it's it's worked out the best. This is just how we do for you I'm thinking Saxon. How's that sound? That's fucking cool. Yeah, co-saxon co-saxon co-saxon got it I got mine figured out hit me have you ever seen power brunch? No power brunch. It's this really cool show about this family. That's all powerful and it's about their family dynamics Well, they're also dealing with the pressures of being such a powerful family It's they're called the NEPO family. I feel like that's a really cool name. So Ziggy NEPO for me. I'm typing it in all right Okay, and for me Pike Scorpio. Oh, that's really fucking cool That's really cool Give yourself a cool name It's definitely too much What a fucking paradise city we gotta fit in For a pike Scorpio I'm poor for the other one. That's fine. I'm the driver absolutely wrecked. Oh, yeah, look at me twice That's fair. I'm with you. I'm with you So I'm thinking if we can just get this pixel pop alone Offer a deal and we'll get her like that and so we oh my gosh in this We have to new wardrobes Yeah, luxury cars. Yeah, luxury hotels. I mean, we got to play the park. We're selling a fantasy here. Okay, Cole It's gonna be expensive Hey, it's not gonna last us three to four months anymore, but This is a best now if we pull this off pike I think we're gonna get this guy. This isn't the little leads anymore. We're playing serious ball here We got to step our game up All right, and that means making some investments So we got the funds, right? We got like three four months of funds Yeah, but I think this is probably gonna cost three to four months of funds We spend it all we go all in this is just like Rex Magsum We go all in you know when there's a strange new alien species to discover no cost is too high I'm gonna say this one time Don't do that anymore. Don't don't compare us to Rex Mags Never again. Do you understand? Oh, all right. All right This is similar to when next raxom was a cool gambler guy Well, what else do we need in order to convince folks that we're we're not who we say we are I mean, we just have to live the lifestyle. We got to look the part. We got to play the part We got to I mean, once we get there right in nice car find most expensive hotel in Paradise City And I think Let's see here I think meteor mall might be on the way to Cherix so maybe we can swing by there and pick up what we need mall shopping I mean you've been all right. I mean I mean I've been around them and in them. I've never shopped at them. It's always too expensive Well, we get to go to a shop at a mall today's your lucky day This is an amazing plant pike you're very good at your job and this one's on a meeting I Mean to the night. Well, I mean sometimes you just call something meteor mall just because yeah, I didn't want to listen Hey, can you charge the course for meteor mall? Oh, yeah, here you go I'm gonna take your time. We're not we're not on a huge I mean Let's get started Hank trots off lightly on either foot as he runs towards the Makes his way casually towards the bridge as he Clicks in and begins to plot a course towards meteor mall And you feel the you can feel the the slight turn of the ship as you shift lightly in the ether waves and you begin to to make your way It won't take too long meteor mall is on the way to Cherix you'd already been plotting a course there as you knew that this was the location where you'd be able to Find grubbulous J. Weedle Fox So without too much fanfare you arrive You arrive at meteor mall a sprawling five-story shopping complex stationed at the center of the Latvia sector With robust docking for the countless ships that visit each day Throughout the long tired corridors of the consumer space station flickering holograms display information and advertisements miss the numerous stores and eateries selling most kinds of goods any galactic resident could want Teenagers of all species ride throughout the mall on hoverboards ascending and descending the long escalators in an instant much to the chagrin of the older speedwalkers just trying to stay active You feel as if this is the place where you can find what you need to make your personas convincing Alright while we're Picking up the things that we need I'm gonna make some phone calls. I'm thinking we're gonna stay at the golden god hotel All right, is that expensive? Oh, she better believe it. All right good work But nicer than the play than the love motel. We say that in the undercrust But co I can't begin to describe the turbo roaches the difference between these two Low-cows sometimes my folks stay there if the fact that I've heard of it means that it's pretty fucking nice Wow, if we're gonna do this we're gonna do it right and part of that is Living it up a little bit while we have the funds All right, well so Paradise city what kind of What kind of things are there to do? I mean we have to dress for some kind of time so we need to cover a variety of scenarios, right? That's exactly right. Oh, so it's a Saga here setting you know it's beach town clubs dancing bunch of degenerate shit fun fun stuff All right, they got turbo carts Just in a tainer Yeah, I'm just gonna take the note. Oh, okay I Guess do we If there are like enough shops to get literally everything we need I think I would want to Yeah, basically case the place and get enough outfits for a variety of scenarios. Yeah during the day at night like You would know that meteor mall contains basically any shop Anything you could really seek to find Reasonably there and amongst them their shops that are so large and expansive you can walk into one single one And find a a massive array of clothing in styles shapes sizes You could you could walk into a single location and find just about anything all of you would want to put together for Your time in paradise it I will go and I'm gonna like look through Bouncer and bodyguard I'll let go through the suits and I'll get I'll try them along I'm like the fuck does anyone do anything so like I almost like I feel like one of the Suit shoulders are to pop and rip and so This you start to stretch out as the threading like you barely keeping the sleeve on it's I'm gonna get a collection of like slacks Vests ties shirts and like basically like I'm gonna keep my arms free and roll them up and Still this still sucks, but I think I can kick some ass in this And you're able to find all that several pairs of slacks. Yeah vest you can get a button up t-shirt I find one in your size comfortably in in almost a stretch material that allows you to roll the sleeves up to a place Which is very outside of the clothing you normally wear so you're not you would say Style-wise comfortable, but you're not physically in discomfort I would also find a variety of outfits definitely one that's more casual for like you know beachwear You know being outside in the day when it's hot out or or nice out But for my driver outfit I would definitely try to find something professional something suit-esque but not in the nice fancy way that looks Very much like a work uniform and maybe like that with a hat to go with it to kind of put together the look of like a higher driver Yeah, you can absolutely find Swim trunks that are that are fitted to you That are that are nice for a day at the beach and anything else you might want to wear On top and you can definitely find kind of a nice put together high-end suit But that feels a little more generic In the black maybe with driving gloves absolutely absolutely in whatever color any color that you want to find the gloves in you you may do so and Absolutely you look incredibly smart in it, but not not too high fashion or anything. It's very like regular working man's a time I would get a lot of like really I would try to look like Popular right because I know that if I'm gonna be the producer I would want to make sure yeah first I would have like a lot of like white suits and like like colored suits for the more tropical vibes And you know if presumably I would have met glow blues in my life right? Yeah, absolutely going for bright sort of neon vibrant colors because to sort of appeal to Vox and maybe his preferences I lots of chains lots of jewelry And you know a few hats maybe oh Fancy hats and maybe you know a cane right like Turn I pick it up. Oh You you get all that absolutely you get extremely brightly colored suits Maybe even patterned on the outside Animal Like lavish so over the top the only people caught wearing them would be filthy rich music producers You find your skin like space oh Yeah, boots that little match You find a section of hats with long brims one or two even with a feather feather tucked into the the band that wraps around it Really cementing the look you have quite possibly the heaviest bag As you you walk away with all of the jewelry rings Chains anything you've picked up to to add to your flair and your outfit several options Of sunglasses you can wear in different colors great shades all all just Though you were the first to bulk at the cost you have spent the most By a wide margin. It's also occurred to me that I've just now gone full cliff booth. Oh Yeah And maybe even though you know that the weather will be warm maybe even a selection of Like like silk Not neckties, but almost like scarves they could wrap around your Your shoulders and come down. I'm also always ready to carry your stuff Your luggage Whatever you might have. Yeah, I'm carrying the bags because that leaves coes. Yeah hands open free to be the the the bodyguard A beautiful cognac brown leather uh, yeah, that you get as well that keeps anything you might want Within it that's always always within pikes grasp Do we get like an allowance? It would be like blank check. Yeah, we just do whatever you need and it's a very step something Yeah I would immediately go to the electronics store and purchase a number of gadgets for myself and then Remembering that I need to get out of this I would read who like the closest thrift stop shop and just like start going through Hangar after hanger after hanger and I'm remembering I don't want to fuck this up Ziggy would want to be a good member of the team and so he's channeling his inner nebopamely Kroven Who is the son of the main character in that show? And I love that and so he would get a like a silver blazer that is a little too small It's a little too tight around the shoulder Scratches on the back and fur flares out It's also it's pulling it the button. It's also just a little bit shorter like it ends like a little bit higher than it's supposed to You can see the you can see the top of the pockets on the back of your pants Please tell me you just eat your sneakers And then very importantly the pants don't match the blazer But it's the worst is the worst kind where you tried to match the colors together, but they're just Yeah, it's extremely jarring to look at you if you've been two steps. It would have been right Is uncanny valley? I also get it I make sure that the That I get the fanciest pair of pants that that Ziggy can think of so they're they're pleated on three sides And then I get I get like flat mirror shade like sunglasses with like That's for thing and then I get one of those like headphone Absolutely Going where I go for Ziggy I keep calling and everyone's ignoring my And then I would quickly run over to like the discount bin and just like grab a bunch of like button downs and a pair of swimwear some trunks. Yeah, I would get other stuff as for I would grab off the rack out grab what looks like it might fit my feet Sandals and I would stuff that all into one bag and then mostly just be excited about the fact that I Got some new discs and some new gadgets that's okay. Yeah, you're able to get all that as well as a pair of Tan cargo shorts and a black band t-shirt And you pack all that into a bag you have your you're wearing your earpiece out of the store As you all meet back up after extremely successful least shopping in in meteor mall all right I got the reservations Secured as a vehicle don't panic when you see it Someone of your status would never even remotely bulk at the price tag. Oh All right, this is an investment everything I purchased this clothes This is an investment This is an investment. I always gonna be great on this bike, right? I don't think I've spent this much money in a month And we just did it all the couple hours to be fair. I'm not sure we've ever spent this much money in a month This is definitely one of our spendier jobs. Oh that means That means that we need to bring them in alive That's right the full bounty. I know I read the fucking brief like and it's gonna pay off tenfold You do you stand to make significantly more from this bounty than you did for big thunder Though you're absolutely correct that the the stipulation is that That he's brought in alive And this will set you up very nicely To carry on to whatever the next bounty ends up. What if it's dead? It's less right? We still get Payout the same general deal as the bounty will be completed and you'll get you'll get paid out But without without living contract It'll be a A much lower percent and if it's any consolation or it makes it a bit more palatable Just realize we are also doing a good thing Exactly right. I mean if we can fucking You know Start disrupting the fucking red belts. I mean maybe will you know, maybe they'll start to actually feel the fucking hurt I don't think taking out sogio did shit maybe hopefully for for for for macora with the very least for fucking van It just so happens that doing the right thing also pays well I mean exactly right all right, hey Let's get us to cherries. I also down in my seat and Hank will be in the seat next to me and Yeah, you made your way back to the ship you sit down back in the in the cockpit hangs right there and yeah, we will um, you know, whatever the most uh It's in the same sector right cherries is in the same sector you everything so far Well, it's from big thunder to this has all operated in the Latopia sector got it. Yeah So Hank would calculate the best um, you know, based on the ether currents that are kind of active right now You would chart the best course and he and I would Would you lift off and had the chair in a matter of moments you see a lit Almost like dot connections of lines show up on your display as Hank charts the path through the ether waves as they currently flow And the rhapsody once more ascends from meteor mall And takes off leaving this massive Five-story shopping center in the heart of a meteor behind You blast on your way And it won't take too long it'll take several hours before you can make your way to cherries and you might spend that time Looking at some of the outfits that you were able to procure Very possibly even changing into them or trying them on to get a better sense of What looks you may want to open up with um But eventually you make your way And after a while you'll see cherries start to come into view The The rhapsody eventually arrives at its destination the world known as cherix is surrounded by flickering billboards in its orbit Show casing the infinite ways to spend your money on the planet's surface Thought the Latofia sector elsewhere in the galaxy But your sights are on the capital of the world appropriately called Paradise City As you enter the atmosphere you find a sprawling landscape of arid hills cut through by intricate networks of canyons All along miles of pristine beaches lined with exotic palm trees and a seemingly endless sea glittering with the rays of the afternoon song Alongside this ocean stands Paradise City rising up out of and along the deep ravines that dominate the region The buildings here not as taller impressive as the looming titans of macoro city back on vandana And they are far more spread out letting the sunshine in to every corner of this impressive city It's multiple tiers are navigable only by flying speeder cars which zip through the criss-crossing network of passageways between the buildings like roads of air Countless landing platforms are everywhere filled with shining and almost garish luxury vehicles The rhapsody lands at the Paradise Space Port and rent pays for a week of docking fees which are far more expensive than what you were charged in Macoro It's not long before all four of you Are at the car rental standing before it but standing before a lot of luxury air speeders Of all manners makes and models to pick up the one that you have Reserved all right. I'm up. Okay, which I'll pick up the car wait here and I'm gonna go Whatever reservation I made you know presumably that was something that I could do Yeah, pick up the keys and Basically, I'm hoping to drive up in style to surprise them all with this amazing luxury vehicle that is like Way beyond our means even though we are renting it. Yeah You You make your way down you leave the party and kind of a collection You're all surrounded by these absolutely beautiful luxury cars as you make your way down a row You'll see all sorts Sprayed out Along as you eventually make your way into a little like a small building kind of in the in the middle of the lot You can walk in and you have a brief exchange with No like a running the desk you present your your reservation paperwork and hillhand you over the set of keys and direct you towards The numbered spot in the lot where you can pick up your Your luxury air speeder So the car has to be big enough for all of us to fit in and because you are a This is what I think feel free to pitch your other idea because you're this high-powered producer You'd also want to be able to have other people come in the car and almost have like a party vibe, right? Yeah, so kind of like a limo but nicer right some something that would like almost be stretch Right right is what I'm thinking so you can invite potential clients back to your Like this campaign That's what I'm thinking That's perfect So I'm open to other ideas, but I'm thinking like for the driver you decide the driver man What I know red though right? So like what what I think your style is like dark blacks and they were something a little flashier like a like a white car Well The character I think we're going wider like yeah, I'm works for this Okay, it's definitely gonna be it will definitely be a a light colored car if not For steam white for steam white. I think for steam white and the opposed three can be something. Yeah Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, and like that kind of car makes with like the air speeders from Andor or in pack up the clothes. Oh, yeah, yeah, those look so speeder cars Um, I will pull up in this car and I'll have already set the tunes So that I kind of come up on that Not like obnoxious, but enough to be like oh this guy's drawn attention right car Hover's forward as as no portion of it touches the ground as this beautiful slightly longer stretch white Extremely nice car pulls into view We know we're the windows black that windows are blacked out absolutely and all so the car will pull up You can see it almost like bump a little on the air as it as it Will slowly kind of reel down and then you'll see my face and I'll say uh All right guys. What do you think? Get in You got it and I won't walk I'll walk forward and I will open the door for red Wait hold on hold on and I'll turn down and if you're picking up at the near the rap city I'll look down at Hank and I'll say just like Macoro just keep an eye on things Hopefully it won't be as long as last time but you're a very Capable pug and so just anything happens you just ring me but uh take good care of her and I know you will Capable pug you're a good boy you're good boy Hank Good boy. I want to miss you Hank Oh, yeah, well good to scratch. Yes, and we all have I guess all for a long time. Yeah. Oh, yeah Yeah, all your bags I would say all I was time loading it possibly at this point only co or pike would load the bags into the car Oh, yeah, into the back based on how you just got it up I would I would absolutely help yeah, yeah, you'll take just bag after bag of of Fuck how much shit did we get? Thanks from spaces Yeah, as you walk over to the back of the car and you load it all into a trunk That's that is enormous in in size and space and it looks like you keep Several body size bags of items in there should be choose to do so once Once we're all settled and co and I have like kind of packed everything up and everybody's inside and you guys are kind of in the back You're getting you know comfortable with this with this setup I will not be wearing my full outfit, but I will take out of the bag I'll put the hat on yeah, and I'll turn and I'll lean back and I'll look at the rest of crew and I'll say All right, mr. Rye. Where do you want to go? Tight me to the hotel mr. Driver My pleasure and I'll start the vehicle and Assuming that I can maybe like yeah GPS or get some coordinates or like you know who knows how fancy this thing is right figure out Where we need to go and start to assume my role as the driver and I'll have my club with me And I'll just get shotgun and so presuming that really only you was a rifle Wasn't laser rifle that shotgun here That's very funny Very funny. I'll get Leo. I get the laser shotgun and sit in the front Presumably only rep and Zegi should really be enjoying the back amenities So as the hired help we yeah, yeah, we're in the front. I would say that the Unless you're thinking of different color but the inside of the car are these beautiful leather leather seats in The that like purplish whole leather of the rhapsody itself Yeah, contrasting against the the outside and and Retin Ziggy you fall back into comfort Maybe at first uncomfortable with the setup or or unacustom to this level of luxury red once you begin to kind of sink into these Like bench style seat in the back that extends all the way out You can't help but think that this is extremely Comfortable and this is this is a very nice. It was pretty nice, dad. I felt my drink Oh, no, I'm not gonna stay it's not gonna stay in it fine. It's fine. It's fine instantly. It's dead. 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Thank you Uh in between the two of you's little pop out A rectangular section that comes out from the back of the the chair that has like a section of ice whiskey Champagne of a sort whatever you'd like to enjoy should you want to enjoy a drink as you're being driven to the hotel um in the front of the car you have almost this this Hulled it rubs in front of you almost as intricate and sophisticated As what you'd see on the sparrow in terms of what it offers you and how nice it is um exceptionally high tier for uh a car that would just be navigating on like on-world. Yeah But it has this beautiful accent across the dash where it's a rim that almost this little Acred like natural wood that stands out from the from the leather And the rest of the car as you map your way to the The Spirig on the hotel. The Golden God. Yes, the Golden God hotel Um and you cut your way through this city um you're surrounded by Beauty uh it's an exceptional ride You're flying above the ground uh hovering as you're navigating through these air style roadways um You're you're making turns in between buildings you see people Celebrating eating at restaurants, but nothing on the ground. Everything always elevated certain sections just a floating out in air With people scooting to and fro as dishes drinks are delivered to them all as they live uh hovering above You navigate your way through this city relatively comfortably with the the directions of this car until you eventually um arrive at this beautiful massive uh white sandstone gigantic hotel resort beach side uh with a large emblem of a striking golden god posing right in the dead center of this erupting Central building as it opens up uh as you pull in and you park the cars you pull up right to the front um uh Uh dropping the car off for valet valet driving the car You pulling to uh drop off for valet this is the first time your cars begin to come back down towards a more Street level As you look in you see a massive almost two story opening in the very front You can look out and immediately from where you stand you can see all the way through an expansive Opening almost like a like a grand cathedral and all the way out to a clear beautiful crystal clear oceans That just on the other side of this hotel as you walk uh as you begin to make your line Uh and you've arrived at the the golden god hotel Once we like get ready to let out uh ziggy netbo and mr. ride uh Assuming that you'd be getting the door again. Yeah, I would lean to you and say I'll take the car and park it and I'll meet you and I'll room You make sure that the two of them get up there fine and keep up the airs and all I'll catch up as soon as I can As part of this would we have gotten forged like credentials before we left Like what we have like ideas I think I think that ziggy would have gone out of his way to make sure that there was all sorts of digital Representation of us online even like uh not actually records exist like on like I would I would make sure that they don't Online the rest of the website now there's their social profiles. I've faked everything to make sure of top to bottom If you search records it feels correct And if we need a digital uh paper out of that then fortunately, I just purchased this new printer and uh I Almost like laminated forged idea cards if I need to roll about that. I'm happy too You absolutely in the time that you spent uh from Forulating the plan to getting to this point you've been able to to spend We'll say several hours. I'll say without of taking you the entire time to get here Including your trip to the meteor mall as well as I've been working on it non-stop yeah, it'd be every moment not it in the mall itself was was you At the computer building out this this These background persona ideas That reflect what Pike presented in the folders as the idea was I would have been working on it a hundred percent of the time when I wasn't playing video game You spent exactly the amount of attention you were prepared to spend on this So we think like albums and various artists that we like represent and that sort of yeah I think that you could go and look and you'd have a profile of of there being a about page right on you with the as the owner founder of this record label and in a picture of you Not pure AI Manifestation of a sarian wife that you have Which I said it's all the way right? Beautiful red dress on linking puffy lips We're really confused to see how well you do building the game Jessica try to That's cost that's cost of cocktail cocktail Oh, 22 Rhapsody records has a beautiful website expertly designed you can see the logo All of the music that the hit singles all very easily accessible at the top It's a great layout and you were able to carefully craft the the personas behind each new character That you've developed we just signed the t-rex and they have a logo and You can't yes, yes, exactly. T-rex with a w has just been signed by records is the latest acquisition Um, so as we get out of the car. Yes, so that was all done beforehand Uh, come on son Lips get checked in check us in all right right away Pop uh and I step out of the limo and one of my loafers stays inside of the car. Oh shit I All right, I got I got I got I got I got let me uh let me get that for you mr. Right and I'll open the door As I'm like carrying like a chitata bags Oh, let us take that for you uh and running up to you You'll see kind of as they move quickly this um the the brim of this uh Amanite head flapping Almost as if it's like this board's coming off that uh as as they run up To Amanite uh had been flanking just the uh the the grand entrance And it almost a similar style of uh presentable where um in terms of a suit But instead of a suit jacket it's slack light colored slack pants And a more vivacious Um colorful uh like button-down shirt with the logo of the golden god on the shirt as they'll run up at first to to you Pike one will go to you one will go to the rest of you attempting to collect the bags from you and offering to take them in Uh, please sir. What park the car? Are you sure that's what I'm hired to do But yeah, that's we will we'll know where the lot is we can we can get it section for you. Please. That's what we're here for But you're gonna take our bags No, we'll take your bags. We'll get them up to the room I also like I don't want to give up the keys to the guard Hey, you don't understand what the fuck get the fuck away. You know, baby cool. Be cool. Be cool Don't I'm gonna look to the summonite and say but if mr. Ryan needs his car I'm calling and I'll throw the uh the keys to the summonate. Oh, please. Yes, mr. Ryan absolutely. Yeah, whatever Whatever you need while you're here. I appreciate you can call us my name's Barry Uh, and we'll be happy to we'll be happy to help anything you need day. Oh for your trouble I take out my giant cash clad But it's like Yeah And I like bunch of stuff it in uh in the hey you may usually have it like almost rubber band it now it has I got large like lavish gold clip that surrounds it you take it off and and flip out however much How many notes you'd like to yeah, I'll take my present It's in like 40 minutes. Oh, oh Thank you, mr. Ryan. Thank you. We'll take good care of the car the bags will get to your room if you just check in inside Uh, they'll get you right up there and they'll they'll help uh bring everything to the room and put them in wherever you'd like Oh, and it's it's travel days so we're so we're dressed down right now. We're gonna we're gonna get Spiced up and ready to hit the tab. Oh, you look extremely nice mr. Ryan. You look extremely nice. Oh right And I will attempt to kind of lead the way with co into this hotel room or into this uh building to see if I can You know make sure that we're good to go and kind of handle things for our players Yeah, absolutely and so they'll they'll take the keys your bags whatever you want to hand over to them These valleys have have run up to you ready to just care for any need that you have As they Zoom off and not zoom off drive slowly and respectfully off in your Uh It would be a beautiful engine yeah, oh Gorgeous it'd be but it'd be quiet not not too On kind of this like like a per of a car that you just know has this power, but it's this low. It's this confident uh low per Um, it doesn't need to it doesn't need to roar to show off As you walk into this uh into the golden god hotel massive opening Trees almost like palm trees lay the inside as you walk across this beautiful Like what looks like like a like a like a dark gray kind of marble slab as it stretches out It's so pristine you can see the reflections of yourselves as your footfalls click clack across the ground As you move forward and at the other end of the hotel what you saw just from the opening of large ornate In that same kind of like white sandstone reaches up and creates creates an archways It just leads out like almost this just totally open from end to end section That walks right out onto a white sand beach with beautiful crystal clear waters Um, we are there In our hearts. Oh, we're so there physically in our imagination. I Uh I feel too poor for this place. I just remember Pretend like you own the place. All right. Not like mr. Rye, but you know what I'm saying. Yeah, be kind of a dick Your own bodyguard a bouncer your tough you got confidence. Oh, yeah, I'll be like yeah, yeah, one of those Fucking mafia goons that you know Dissner in a fucking stomach and timidness. Yeah, and yeah, okay. Yeah, I've seen I've seen hundreds of this. Oh, it's got it I got to get it. I got to get in it. Um, and I'll see if I can walk up to the front desk Yeah, you can absolutely walk up to the front desk. I put my ID down on the front desk and I say uh Scorpio I made the reservation, but it's for mr. Rye. The mr. Rye. No, don't look at him. Don't look him in the eye. Oh Human behind the behind the counter with this kind of like sandy brown hair wearing that same kind of almost like floral Nice shirt with the golden logo on the chest Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Oh, I'm happy to check you in whatever whatever you need Uh, here you are you said the the name was rye Yeah, of course, that's correct. Let me see your reservation right here. Can you tell me what kind of room we got? I might be looking for an upgrade Uh, you have gotten the The highest room available, sir. You've gotten the the Olympians sweet. How does that sound mr. Rye is that acceptable? Yeah, that sounds perfectly acceptable. All right. Thank you. We'll take our keys Perfect. We have fucking problem No, no, no man. What problem? No problem at all. Hey, hey, hey, good Hi We're gonna serve you whatever you can whatever your your heart's desire mr. Rye Uh, a company man. I said my piece. Okay. Oh, well here are your keys. Please. What we'll have We'll have them direct you up to your room. They'll take your bags your bags are already up there And at your leisure, please enjoy the the the beach Whatever you'd like me have a beautiful restaurant Sample some of the finest foods the paradise city has to offer Um, uh, at your leisure You don't get on the elevator. Yeah The Olympian sweet look you want to play the part we got to play the part. Oh, what's this gonna cost me A lot. Oh, it's fine. It's an investment. It's an investment. We gotta get we're getting in character. I'm Saxon Saxon son Well done. I want to see you do more to take charge All right, are you listening some? Ziggy What? Don't make me call your mother. Oh, sorry. Sorry. What? Don't make me call your mother. Oh, you know, I don't do that Okay, well, I'll be positive I don't know Hey, you'll be able to find executive parental figure Oh, no, he has his own air pods See please hack the mainframe please. I'm begging you. I can't hack the mainframe This elevator please crack it. However, it's like a beautiful glass elevator. We are just oh, yeah Absolutely As you look out you can see you see the expansive interior of this gorgeous hotel as this The buildings here aren't as tall as the macoro city like big sky rises were But they aren't elevated in as and as you rise up in this It's it's a beautiful inside of the hotel, but this particularly positions you exactly right to look out over the The crystal clear water and you feel like from your vantage point You can look down and you can see the bottom of the white sand as the water lapset at the shores Nice until eventually the elevator brings you to your floor um You the seven four You'll exit and make your way to the Olympian suite And as you walk in you open the door and that's same it almost feels like the entire level of this hotel is available to you As you walk forward immediately to your left a beautiful fully stocked bar You any drink you could want you could make Um, it looks like you could call the habit staff if you wanted somebody to work it And just two steps down a large expansive white leather couch Kind of a crescent out facing towards a wall to wall Glass As the as the other end of this wall looks out and you have that same beautiful That same beautiful view of the ocean as these gorgeous Long-winged white birds fly by it's a picture recipe As we step in and and you know we get everybody into this this massive suite I'll uh take a look around and say all right We got time. I'll get drinks. What's everybody want? I'll have an energy drink. I'll take a beer. Do you think they go? We see the usual then Yeah, and I'll walk to the bar and see what's there and grab everybody that what they want the respective Requests and basically pour a couple of whiskeys grab a beer for co get an energy drink for Ziggy and bring it back and say uh The this bar stocked Exceptionally well the only difference between this bar and and a bar you might go to is be nothing here is low-shelter One mid-tier everything is the best a version available to you possible Um, extremely they have drafts Fuck you a draft draft on the floor With with chilled uh, signs sitting in a in a cool uh in a cool ice section not with actual cubes But actually somehow like a chilled uh, uh black Almost looks like a black sink, but as you touch the stone it's cold to the touch and it's chilling like six Stines for poor As you can get uh beer from the tap you can get the top the top is the top shelf whiskey you can get Uh, this is normal gecks energy drink. Yeah, and then whatever whatever it's like there's a red bull that's all it's gecks platinum But it's like every bar that has red bull like very Everyone's got absolutely I would propose a toast and basically say to the gang all right We have some time to kill but let's soak this in these times don't last forever Well, and I think that we should get to the the fucking glitch room as fast as possible Okay, we don't want to we want to be able to stake out the place. We want to get a vibe of the place And you know, I think that And is find our exits We got to you got to know your exit before you fucking go in and I know that is pixel play in a night Yeah, I think that yeah, that's what that's what the fucking set on the billboard And you would have seen that as you were coming in uh as you descended the rhapsody towards the The planet of cherries and paradise city you weren't lying with those same billboards and you saw a ton of stuff for for different shows going on one prominently Featuring that tonight's performance at the glitz room was by pixel pop another just with the simple tagline Which uh which one is it with these two uh Strings like a malgum silhouettes on a billboard almost look like they're crossed facing each other Uh in a couple other strange billboards and cool eventive shows For beach clubs bars other shows things like that as you were as you were descending onto the planet So you do in fact know that pixel pop is performing this evening Well in that case then I guess I'll get cleaned up and ready to go Is there anything else that we need to prep beforehand? I need to put my console and set it up with the uh with the tv What in case we want to play some games or whatever oh Shit okay, I just want everyone to understand that the top priority is maintaining our cover y'all understand Play in the role Sogio is writing I mean these guys are fucking actual professional fucking red belts. It's gonna be Dangerous they use you know running a fucking glorified crew down there They're gonna try to get me licker it up or worse and I got to play the fucking part So I need the rest of you to keep your fucking wits about And that means No throwing hands unless absolutely necessary the moment we do our covers blown all right I've been doing breathing exercises like you told me I've been trying to do those water things the air the sun ray things Be the phoenix I it's not it's not my nature, but I'm trying to work on my temper It's it's going okay, and this is our only shot if we blow it I don't think we're gonna have a shot at this guy And then we got to start back from the fucking ground work our way back up through the fucking city So I just not to bring down the mood, but I want everyone to understand. Oh, you're fucking right. You're right Okay, I'm gonna get uh, I'm gonna clean up I'm gonna finish this drink and then I'm gonna shower and get dressed Why aren't there any ports on the back of this hotel TV You've actually not found to host Fucking horses where do they buy this You you have spent some significant amount of time looking for the hotel TV You have not yet been able to locate it until eventually you move to the couch in frustration You realize that right as this this crescent kind of meets its center Seems to be a little electronic hub With a small the small emblem that reflects kind of a TV and as you press it The window that reflects the ocean to the outside almost frosts from until Descending from the ceiling is the largest TV. I mean you grew up relatively well off Someone say opulently yes, and yet this you find impressive as this massive screen descends and extends Sealing to floor as it sounds system kicks on Boom welcome mr. Ryan Exactly right exactly right As this massive beautiful screen kicks on uh, and you find that it it flips open and it opens a port where you can um Where you can In fact plug in oh thank god you think I want to watch 60 minutes of the sweet Uh, I wait till the very last second to get dressed When I do I look like a legacy higher Yeah, you have you have strangely that that mistone Blue suit on with like white athletic socks and and loafers underneath and the bands are just the wrong length where you can see the socks And it all it all it's all extremely jarring and Uh, throws it off Um, but you you do wait till the very last second and you begin to get ready Um, you're able to finish your drinks Uh, head to your your different rooms. There is a large uh, room specifically for mr. Ryan, uh, which is enormous but bed bigger than a king bed You you climb onto the edge and you almost have to crawl to get to the center of it Uh, before you actually I was gonna like leave there for a few minutes before I could get in the shower. Yeah, I was kind of like realizing that like We're on a job, but this is just like ridiculously nice and take it a moment You know, you have to be fucking loaded to experience stuff like this. So red's gonna try to like just taking some of the The luxury while we're here. It's like a one-sided top tree for us. Yeah. Yeah, 100 percent you know that when you turned in big thunder You'd made mention of the fact that you keep the entire ship and crew running For for about four months. You know with the amount you're spending on this that that's dwindled extremely rapidly Something closer to to a week Vicky is not appreciate that this might be the last time this happens for him if he's for a long time But but but but this is his 50th 7th time in a lifetime Uh, time and so he's taking full granted the entire experience And so you do that you're able to kind of like relax recline into the bed and for a moment just before you change you think about the trip here the mall everything you've been in through so far The CD love hotel The time spent there and you just you let these luxurious covers kind of a nestle under you. It's like the experience of of Sleeping on a cloud almost doesn't quite cover it. It's it's the exact level of firm that you want It's got the exact right bounce in it and almost just seems to mold perfectly to your form as every inch of you feels perfectly supported and nestled Like you're in just one perfect hug In your bed and you've never quite felt um You've never quite felt material this nice as you lay there kind of on your back You can almost run your hands across the sheets and it's it gives you this almost like tickly tingly sensation through the palms of your hands Uh as you as you rest there um Before eventually you you make your way into the bathroom you uh look to take a shower or whatever you'd like to do to get ready and this is This is exactly as luxurious as everything else you've seen so far where this room is almost patterned and exclusive gold Tiled floors Cool to the touch but just the right amount as you walk in As you're just coming in for the day You can make your way into the shower, which is a room that's about as big as the entire hotel room was you were in before on macoro Just in this shower alone as you hit a couple buttons Missed erupts from all around you as you start to Wash yourself and get ready for the night and as you leave the shower you find that the floor has actually turned to warm As you step out. Oh, yeah having done the shower. It's it's Responding to your routine as you go in and out Attempting to as best as it can meet every need that you have before you request. I Despite this being so nice. This doesn't stop me from taking my drink in and I enjoy a shower beer hell As I show Yeah, yeah, absolutely code has a shower beer as uh as she showers. Yeah Uh, and that's how you know you're on vacation. You have a shower here. There's a there's a bathroom on the other side Yeah, on multiple rooms multiple bathrooms Um, you know, should you compare you would know that this one is just a markedly less lavish as the one that Mr. Rye has found himself in But still that same almost kind of like rainforest mist shower with different settings if you want a more like a strong Pour down like over the top pressured thank you water shower You absolutely can get that a full shelf a bench you can sit on you can enjoy yourself as the steam fills the room And you sit there in the shower enjoying your shower. You know it's a good shower when it's got a bench. Oh, yeah Absolutely, you know, and yeah I would clean up quickly knowing that like we want to get there because I mean it was if it was like afternoon when we were landing The sun's probably setting pretty soon and so like I would get dressed as quickly as possible and I would have you know a vest a tie no coat You know slacks and and nice shoes and I'm a little stiff But I would have like spent the hours to travel to kind of like go into our You know, not gymnasium on the ship, but like our exercise room Yeah, and just kind of like limber off and kind of flex into the my my vest Um, yeah, I'll get so like you know, I'd retinormally keeps his hair sort of pull back and kind of slick back But I got a product that makes it is very shiny. Oh, yeah I use a ton of it and I really pull it back and it is just like super shiny and slick And I'll get in my fit the fanciest outfit that I got with the fur lion collar and the cane and the hat Dan the suit man just getting my full Regalia for our first impression you get completely decked out a large fur wrapped around you to hat with a feather Your cane everyone takes a little bit of time to enjoy their surroundings The energy drink made me sleepy So I took a brief nap while trying to play Witcher 21 49 Jesus 2112 which is And then And then so I wake up a little late and I hurry over you're awoken by everyone meeting back in the main room ready to go I run into the bathroom. I don't have time for the luxury shower. I just grab a can and I shake it up You don't even want to clean yourself just hit a little Just a little perfect 100% sure I got it You put your clothes on immediately pistains in the shirt like instantly I would get all of my hair back I would put it into like a ponytail what I have and there wouldn't be enough because it's like it's short and so There'd be kind of like one or like a couple like a little thing that's You get your hair in front of my face and the rest of this all pull back into a ponytail Yeah, yeah, not quite like looped bangs, but just sections of just one little feel that on my face Absolutely I'd be dressed just a little fancier than my driving outfit because I know that I would be going into a club And I don't want to look like I'm in some weird like drivers uniform while I'm just like in a club I still want to look like I work. Oh, yeah, yeah, but I'm also ready to accompany him and not be an embarrassment You you have the same style of suit on but the vest that completes it is a color that compliments the suit that Mr. Rye is wearing currently Um almost like this plum color with this outside kind of like light patterning when you look close enough And it catches the light it kind of like dances in it for a moment And you have this gold pocket watch that ties to the center nice That sits right in your Sits right in your your front vest pocket that kind of completes this a little more upscaled Look and gives you a nice little kind of nod to still being on the clock And the only thing that I would do with my hair is just like a little bit of moose and like run my hands through my hair Just to kind of make it look a little bit more intentional as opposed to The usual where I don't do anything with my hair. Yeah, right? I would look a little just a little sharper. Yeah, you're all able to catch a little Paradise palm paradise palm bomb. Yeah, and as you in this this kind of like black little container With this palm tree logo on it this like Tanned palm tree logo you open it and you can run this kind of glistening gel that allows you to style it in whatever format whatever way Um you'd you'd like to just a little bit more tame than usual. Yeah, and it's not it's another crazy You're not not like super boxed in nothing like that It's just kind of the strands are all going the strands are all growing in the same direction. They want the same plan to me and Everyone looks fantastic And you'll make your way back downstairs. Should you be ready to leave? Yeah, absolutely Back down the elevator you'll walk that long hallway That runs just to your Olympian penthouse suite A hallway with no other doors that line the rooms. This this level is reserved exclusively for you As you make your way back to the elevator It'll take you back down and you'll look out and you'll see that same crystal clear gorgeous blue oceans that you hover above You'll you'll land on the main floor walk past those same shimmering Brighter than sleep, but like this kind of like grayish marble Sheen and you all catch the sharp reflection of yourselves In the floor as you walk out almost in slow-mo To You make your way back out and the second good they second they see you crest the corner instantly That same ominous berry starts to race out the out Towards wherever they took the car so the by the time you actually bridge the gap to the front Your vehicle is already back and ready and waiting for you You know, yeah, I put on my driver's gloves mr. Rye Thank you co Ziggy son You know, then And then once everybody settled yeah, I make a show of asking mr. Rye where he'd like to go Even though I know very well where we're headed Oh, I think we're going to the glitch room tonight, Pike Yes, sir And just letter I let her purdle life and when we're ready. I just ease her out. I give a glare to bury Oh I don't see anything and I just get I just get in the in the front seat with my As it's very stricken As as he follows back you all Make your way into the car pike the driver's seat co you take shot gun you take space rifle as it as it would And ret and Ziggy clamor into the back It is now firmly nighttime There's still kind of like a story sky illuminates the area and the beautiful Thrum of lights all throughout this city create this this gorgeous Like neon space roadways as you carry through And you make your way casually, you know, enjoying the atmosphere enjoying the area as you head towards you punched into the nav You head towards the glitch room And you you navigate your way there It doesn't take long at all before you arrive um And once you pull the car in and you see you pull up to the to the front Once again, you have the option. They'll take the car you have the option to valet Yeah, that's fine in this this uh this red doorway The glitz room in this kind of like laser etched sprawl illuminated in this neon Like off red almost pinkish kind of glow with a Globland Sitting in like a martini glass kicking her leg out and back down and out and back down Uh in a moving hologram sign announcing that tonight Pixel pop and the holograms are playing That's pretty cool. Yeah, oh yeah, it is um All right Here we are At all wait for my for my door to be open As you should And you sit there arms crossed my door. I lean forward and I open the door just a little bit and then I see that and I oh shit close the door Um, yeah, I'll open the door Um, and I will get out and I will act like as confident as it's ever acted as like and um I would sort of uh Just take a few steps just kind of take it all in yeah, and wait for the rest of my uh Associates to join me all shut the door behind once uh Ziggy gets out as well. Yeah, huh? Like I get up. I accidentally slip my loafer off again trying to get out of like But I can do it I'll reach in a grab there. There's no big there really go sir. Oh, thank you. Thank you I closed the door I don't even know how to hang it for that. Yes. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I'll take you to the bottom with you. Yeah Uh, because probably in the lead I'm probably putting it up the rear. Yeah, I'll walk up uh, uh, you know If there's a bouncer or something, I'll just give him a nod and I'll open the door for them If there's not a dorm in there and I'll make sure that I'm in front I'm basically in front and I'm casing. I'm taking a keep in an eye out for entrances and exits And also if not at people, you know, not at the staff of the club as we walk through As soon as you enter energetic music, music hits you as the darkness around you is filled with countless people dancing drinking and partying the night away under the flashing neon lights that move rapidly to the beat of the music There are wide variety of species here, but the largest percentage is made up of globalans A small goblin looking people with large ears sharp teeth pointed noses and most importantly glowing neon skin And hair that ranges a wide array of colors including neon green blue yellow pink orange purple teal There are also many flambégo here A flamingo like avian species with bright colorful plumage and traits of parrots and other tropical birds bars line many of the walls and luxurious alcoves are tucked into the sides of the club More out of the way from the vibrancy and energy Along with the various cocktails that glow a strange neon hues You see a variety of drugs being used before your eyes From the glittery dust of glimmer to the streaking crimson veins of red line Most of the parties who pass You have two red dots on their neck from from usage of the drug Catwalks crisscross above you filled with dancers adorned adorned in pulsing light tech And hanging cages contain global and cage dancers clearly employed by the club Thrashing about with unbound joy and regularly winking and waving at those below At the far end of the club is a large stage flanked by dozens of flickering screens That look almost like a stacked arcade cabinet Sound text seemed to be setting up for a show happening tonight Which you can only presume will be performed by pixel pop Get out of the way Hey, no, fuck don't look at head co. Thank you. Don't look at him You move into the the glitz room and with the the extreme just a lavish co moving people out of the way The just lavish nature of red And possibly the news that these big-time music producers have landed and checked in at the golden god It's not long before very quickly a small Globlin in a in a Vest and slacks walks up to you and says Good evening. Good evening gentlemen. Hi, how can we how can we take care of you this evening? Uh, mr. Rye would like some table service. We'd like your finest VIP section plays oh, we'd be happy we'd be happy to take you there. Please let me let me walk you up to the section We got a we got a nice we were a rope-dough area just for you. It has its own bar or exclusive service to you What we'll get you a couch section and anything? Anything you could want we'd be happy to get it over to you Uh, this is a beautiful club and all my year running rhapsody records. I haven't seen a place quite like Oh, well, thank you mr. Right. Thank you Uh, it's all uh mr. Widowox's operation so uh Of course, yeah, but from someone such as yourself a great a great compliment. Thank you It's our pleasure to take care of you this evening at the glitz room. Oh, thank you. Thank you Uh Excellent follow me. I'll take you and your uh you and your accompaniment up to the the room and and this one's with you as well Oh, yeah, this is my son. Oh Of course, of course mr. Rye's son. Well, please any problem here. No, no absolutely. No. We're happy to Please anything we could do anything you could think of the nicest VIP room you got your hearts your hearts Desired right up here. Please can I offer you a can offer you any night rain some i don't know if it's your speed a little little red line Anything you'd want you you want it? Why don't you just settle in you can let me know i'll send some people over to you Anything you can think of Please night rain signature drink night rain is the signature drink of the glitz room absolutely. It's delicious Uh, you're gonna love it We'll take we'll take four around a night rain. I'll have that right over to you And you do you make sure there's no no one's biking the train with anything mr. Redd is a mr Rye is a very powerful man. Not if you want. I read it the bar here Read it the bar here miss. I haven't prepared you can watch them do it nobody nobody'll touch the stuff when we sit down When i get my uh mr. Redd is sit down. I'd like uh your security to take me around to all the exes just so I can make sure I'm ready to get mr. Rye out of here in case anything goes wrong It's not gonna happen, but I need to make sure i'm prepared I will be happy to show you around the the the floor plan of the the room here that we're in and anything we can point out anywhere Uh of uh tactical advantage if that's your aim All right, I am very much in this position letting co like take the lead as like the head of security since i'm just a driver and i'm not spoken speaking less spoken to Or unless mr. Rye or or his son were to address me. I am just there very clearly higher tell um Absolutely uh his his Teal or cobalt skin almost draws this light off of it as he walks you up There two larger Bouncers as it were right on the other end of just a classic roped-off area as one Opens it and he guides your party through And then the other closes it behind you as you walk up to a very secure section With uh with a circular Booth walk in in this red leather couch As promised just right kind of on the back of the wall in the section you're in a private VIP bar right there already Has begun Claude daren behind the bar uh the the Claus grabbing at uh Drinks to mix together to the night rain definitely moving As her hair kind of sway side to side um As she mixes the drinks you take your seats in this uh circular The circular couch booth area Uh as you're seated um and then and then um He will also take you around as you explore the exits of the of the room I I walk up to this guy. Oh and one one more thing Where's the bathroom? The bathrooms. I we can take you there as well. Uh all right Okay, okay, yeah, I'll be all right and so all wait, you know I'll do I'll basically make sure I understand where all the exits are uh So and anything goes wrong and then I'll go back and I'll join my friends and wing for the show to start If you guys need anything else the name is moglie I'm happy to take care of you. You can wave me down. You can give me a shout. But everyone here Uh before you can even want it it'll be at your table. Thanks moglie. Thanks moglie Um and the the night will go on with um for for a little bit um as this concert's kind of getting the The show's kind of getting prepared and it's getting ready um across the the floor You see all these uh all these patrons of the glitz room dancing to the music Two massive speakers on either end of this stage with two more elevated um not connected almost floating there Uh pointed down directly at the room With these beautiful neon red electric glow to it As the music just kind of pulses out uh at the at the room All throughout the this first section of the evening you have uh different globlands Uh some of the some of the dancers um from the cages Come up bringing drinks you've been served night rain In different moments they'll come up and with maybe even just a little sheet that covers the table They'll uh they'll show a section and a jack-ger of a red line offering to you uh at any point As well as clever Yeah Yes sir um and and the the night will continue on and you can continue to drink and joy to Your heart's content you can partake in drugs if you'd like to um or uh not yet not yet um As you were but they take very exceptional care of you uh as you Hang out All uh i'll kind of look at as soon as i feel like we're more or less alone right and like you know We're being left to our VIP area right our our our bottle service area All kind of nonchalantly lean into the group and say uh All right now listen I've got a little bit of experience with places like this and if we want to get that doesn't fucking surprise me If we want to get her attention and i'm i'm being very intentional not to say any big names Hmm All we have to do is casually mention who we are Some of the dancers the bartenders the waitresses Word will spread Organically oh like gossiping that there's a big fucking producer. That's exactly right. Just Pretend uh that you and i have maybe had a couple drinks and we uh mentioned who we work for We shouldn't fucking pretend let's have a couple fucking drinks You know it's hard to say no I'm there with you Uh just spin. I'll make sure we invite People in to talk to and come on I got this I'm gonna i'm gonna go no all i'm saying is we're gonna Put the information out there and make them come to us All right, so i'll just sit right here and i'll let you all Bring them in. I am going to look for a Globland dancer either i'm one of the catwalks probably the case one kick out Pulling on the catwalks who's very clearly an employee Of the why i think to be an employee yep, but i'm able to see one Yeah, i would say you absolutely find one that kind of has this like orn just orn just tint Neon with these strappy Like leather heeled boots that that come up Uh white boots with this Blonde hair tied up into a hype on the tail that rests at the back of her head and a section of bangs that come down Just covering her forehead as she's dancing Dancing there as you approach. I'm just gonna. I'm not approaching. Oh, I just want to keep making eye contact And I'm just gonna keep my my eyes on her until she kind of wrecking like she's looking around so until we make eye contact As I will all do that. I'll do give her a little And i'm gonna give her a little I'm gonna have to and then you know she kind of like let's the song play out in the cage And then she'll walk down and she begins to kind of sonder on over to you. Is that fucking easy? Yeah, taking notes. Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I I'm gonna go get another drink And I start making my way towards the bar is this finishing playing no, they're gonna come to you sit down I want another drink Let him go Let him go Okay, we all we're all doing our Uh I'll turn and I'll make the few steps over to the the bar tender and I'll be like Sup Um, yeah, you do that you make it right in the bar and you see the the clawdair and uh They're making drinks Hello Could I have a gex? I am Ziggy and I will be the inheritor of a great fortune because uh my stepdad is uh He's right right oh You know that's me that's me. I'm gonna inherit all that money. Well, aren't you handsome here? That's what I thought Definitely an actually stretches out as she puts the as she puts the gex Uh the platinum gex right in front of you in the VIP section They only have the finest for you. I give her a wink, but I'm wearing my sunglasses So nothing happens and then I turn around feeling extremely confident Please with my performance. I love your chosen time. I you've great look this evening. I don't hear her I instead I Feel like I've done everything that I need to do and I make my way. I got it dad We're doing just fine the globulin walks up to you. Come hi. How are you? This is this is uh This is mr. Rhett Rhett rye of rhapsody records and he uh He wanted to talk to you pretty lady. Oh, well pardon me and she'll talk me up too much She'll uh She'll hop on the seat and then shuffle uh over top of you assuming you took a seat co shul shuffle over top of your lap Um crossing it as she moves to sit right next to uh Rhett rye And she'll almost it's almost lightly changed the change of the shade of pink um hi What can I do for you? I'm red it's a pleasure to meet you. Oh the pleasure's mine Why don't you sit with us? fjord rick i'd love to do we get two night rags please Oh kind what do you do? Well, I don't like to talk to myself to talk myself up too much, but uh, I'm a record producer Founder and owner of rhapsody records been in business for 35 years rhapsody records Oh, it's kind of like what walks and fingers up your arm and kind of like nestle decided Okay, okay rick get it right now And what are you uh what do you produce anything i Anything i've heard I mean T-Rexes are latest son and i don't know if you're into heavy metal or not But we're looking to expand into some uh Cynthia pop stuff. Oh, you know what i mean. Well, you've come to the right place if you ever need backup dancers I'm your girl. Well, you know now that you mentioned it. We do have a few music video shoes coming up so uh And I like look her up and down. Oh, I think you the you've gotten look Ah, if you happen to know if any uh, you know pop stars or musicians that uh Might be looking to get signed. I'm always happy to listen you see Have you ever heard of the rhapsody? I've not heard of the rhapsody, but but I i i would love to it's so It's the grand cosmic melody that extends throughout the galaxy. Oh, and it speaks to me It tells me we're all the greatest music of the galaxy is and i just When she speaks to me, I I hear it and i just I don't know how i don't know why i don't know why i got this lucky, but I just know when someone's got it When the rhapsody is speaking through a musician i can just hear it and i sign them on the spot Oh You are so powerful. Oh, well, that's not what i'm saying, but you know, hey I'll let you draw your own conclusions and i'm not trying to brag, but It's been speaking to me since i was just a boy Well, you let me know when i can audition for you because i'll do anything for an audition Let me get some of my friends. Let me get some of my girls. I'll bring them right back up here And anything anything you need We'll we'll take care of you Well, again, I appreciate that if you have more friends that have the look, you know, we can You could speak to my business associates and we'll get you added to the list of potential talent for the music video Oh, I also help This is my son. Oh, oh, your son you said Well, aren't you had some thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I do interviews too They're really I look for the the sparkle ratio and the the the star vibe, you know all that Everything he does said Family business so to speak She'll she'll turn to zigi for a moment And the pink will start to fade away just a little bit But she'll show you my arm around her and grab her No, I'm not having a hand. Oh, no, she knows it Be I'm really trying to sell Sell this thing right yeah, and I think that like um, I I would basic I'll turn to um I'll turn the pipe and I'll say uh make sure to get her info and add her to the database. I Yes, sir mr. Rye Understood Why don't I why don't I get some of the other dancers up here for Raid him in front of you and you can tell us how well we move mr What do you think zigi? Yeah, we have While while this is happening While you're in there and I'll just say because I didn't explain it before but they Um when when they before this even happens when they bring the night rain to your uh to table It's this beautiful like deep blue glass um that whatever It almost kind of like Fizzes on the side and it creates these um like glowing arcs that almost that like dribble the liquid back in the top and make it almost look like the cup is raining As you drink from it when it's poured out um, it's absolutely phenomenally delicious. It's refreshing has a little bit of a like a citrus of bite to it And it just hits you perfectly in the core uh and and sits amazingly And uh take your time make sure to tell all your friends if you got any backstage too just uh Let them know you know, it's it's an open door policy here at rhapsody records, you know I think everyone deserves a chance to say But me especially right mr. Right? Well you Especially as a backup dancer absolutely right I'll be back as soon as I can Um and she'll she'll race off that kind of like blonde ponytail uh shaking as she Saunters but she she races off after she moves very slowly out of the booth once again Uh crossing your lap go um as you'll hit she'll she'll move um Slowly until the rope and then race off just kind of like really Really swaying side to side Strings to good at being fucking scumbags How'd I do? We're fucking great holy shit who the fuck are you? I'm right right record produce fuck owner of rhapsody record You know who I am co-saxon yeah, I mean, yeah fuck though that was great. We've we're pretty fucking good at this With any luck a world spread like fucking wildfire Oh Is gonna write is that what you fucking said they're all gonna start fucking gossiping uh what what was that you're all gonna Uh Yeah, yeah, it'll Give it time it'll take its course. Yeah You all right Yeah, yeah, I'm okay And I would say that you would have noticed like when you told me to get her information that I was a little distracted Okay, and I'm I'm sitting closer to co than you while you're talking to the the global ins and and co would notice that I'm drinking a little heavier than I might normally Mm-hmm Are you feeling all right? I thought that I mean this is your whole plan. Are you? Wouldn't you be sharp? I thought I could get wasted because I know I can fucking fight wasted. I'm I'm not drunk I'll I'll be all right. I'm just I'm trying not to be distracted. Are you? I look at I look at like Ziggy get a sense Okay, I look at like red Is this what what's that look you're giving me is this is he is he feeling wistful again This is bike we're talking about. He's just so that he's an infrespected kind of guy. He's thought That's all He's thoughtful guy right now. Are you thinking about are you fucking kidding me buddy? Yeah Look you know she She went through a phase this was her scene for a while. Oh my fucking god. It's about the girl again. I'm sorry. What? Hey, we don't worry about look at all these girls. You pack I'm looking all these fucking girls bike look at look at look at these I'm Focusing famous I'm focused. She was a coworker pike get over it man I'm focused talk but I'll take another drink. Yeah, get up get up another drink. Can we have Her I mean you fucking No, of course, but like here's the thing I have like it's now the fucking time Oh, but the man be wistful damn it I guess this is the fucking place. Is the crime? Is it a crime? I just want to say this You want a great job? He's been saying he's doing a great fucking job. Like don't fuck the blows. This is your idea My head is in the game. All right. It's fine. Forget I said anything. Okay. Just don't fucking blow it There's a lot of good looking ladies around here Pike. I think I think our reputation is Actually as Britain. They're there. There are people filling out the contact form on our website Look at this You build it was out this is this is one hell of a headshot I mean or head barely in it Well I mean good news to see yeah see if any of them are pixels. Oh, oh Do I see pixel having filled out the form of the website the contact us for a wrap-up record You see several resumes that have come in all with photos attached Um, and there are They say that pictures worth a thousand words. Yeah resumes have no word the pictures speed volumes Okay, um, you do not however See a submission from pixel. Not not not yet. I am dad If we're lucky she'll just All right over to us I think we've done our job for that. I think we just got a little say how fucking did she is maybe she's actually not bad We'll wait for her to go on stage and we'll you know see how she is either way Ah, I don't think we're gonna get her attention till after the show Yeah, let's just let it simmer Don't make me ask you the question pike Heads in the game look at me here. Look at all this. I'm focused. Okay You sit there enjoying the the glitz room for 20 30 more minutes um You can't finish a glass or but but as you finish a glass before it hits the table in the next drinks in front of You never have to ask With with the the girl that you had very successfully put the moves on before I have you sent her back now about Let's convince you know For it I'm convinced At your table if you would have allowed this in between each of you there are now two global and sitting giggling Just I've flocked around In the bench with you I rolled a flirt You you do yeah, yeah roll advantage roll advantage some hot stuff Performance deception whatever you'd like Yeah, Tim Regardless your exceptional Um They all these all these dancers um, they've joined you at the table not a one over with four three Um all this like just perfect hair um, blondes red heads Brunettes and these different hues ranging from kind of Teal cobalt into these pinks a lot of them as they move towards red they kind of begin to shift More towards this this blushed color pink um And you enjoy the night like this until Suddenly the neon lights of the club go out and the only illumination is from the cocktails glow tech and the glot blunts Globlins and occasional salari in the crowd The room cheers as suddenly neon light floods the club as all of the shimmering screens that flank the stage A light with pixelated shapes and colors The stage is a prismatic light shows a small female glow blend Stands at its center before a microphone and holding a glimmering guitar Her massive mane of wavy bright neon yellow hair with an undercut of pink is nearly the same size as her As her neon green body which is dressed in a teal and magenta body suit adorned with a holographic tank top and skirt Both of which match the massive bow fastened in her frizzy locks Large star-shaped earrings hanging from her oversized ears both of which are as pink as her bright lipstick Behind hers her backing hologram band of literal holograms a muscular poodle like a holds a guitar Fashionable zore brack holds a saxophone a bubbly ooze oid holds a base guitar and a forearmed anotron sits behind an electric drum kit Holding microphones are two backup singers a gorgonite and a claw daren all of them are made of light shimmering and flickering holograms despite moving as if they were living people pixel presses accord on her keytar kicking off the first number as she opens her mouth filled with sharp teeth and begins to sing A light and poppy song that the crowd goes wild to Her voice and music is beautiful as it fills the venue and the concert continues Damn Okay, wow she's pretty good oh my god I'm no breaker oh no I have a man Yeah Shut up Oh, she's she's got it the raps that it's speaking to me I have like a little algorithm up a little little little little star star power readings on this is it that's right the roof And I'll look up very obviously put on a show for the for the girls that are with us. Yeah, and like wow She's got it. She's something else ain't she Absolutely, I mean, you know, I This is a bit of a bot they should call it pixel bot It sounds really similar It sounds kind of like It's inspired by Zeta Max Oh, yeah, Zeta Max. Yeah, Zeta Max. It sounds just like it's a banger Crazy is that a song? Uh-huh. Yeah, you don't know you don't know uh Zeta Max I I feel like everyone would know I feel like you probably like know the name you might not really recognize the music, but you'd probably recognize the name Oh, yeah Zeta Max. You know, I'll be going way back That's because you want a record label back years years off known old. Yeah, let me tell you Oh, I'll get like the kind of swept up doing it. It's like a certain point like as soon as like maybe it hits like a big like Then when the sax like comes in and the and the guys like playing all like get up and like scream. I'll throw up the horns I'll sit back down I like cross my arms and I'm like Yeah, the raps in these peaks to me too The music speaks to me. Yeah It's wanting after a rehearsal. Yeah, right And yeah, I think I would just kind of vibe out to the like I'm a little surprise given how Sleazy this place is That like the music is kind of as like bright and poppy and fun and I think that like I'm Mikey's aggressive. This is Bob's And I think that yeah, I think that I'm surprised at how good it is and it's almost like oh man It's a bummer that this is all lie Because he's actually pretty fucking good. All right. Right. He's actually pretty fucking good I'll be holding my grid boy up and taking like video recordings and like getting shots of the crowd Shots of the ladies have joined us. That sort of thing. I'm enjoying the music Um, I would be making Heirs to be listening very intently and I'll be yeah, yeah, oh, oh, oh, you know that that's right Almost almost like studiously. Yeah, but basically make it very obvious that I'm interested and kind of and some in his genuine, right? but basically like trying to make sure that They know that I like Yeah, hoping that maybe you know they got it. I think and the girls are definitely like picking up on the vibe They're all here very interested in kind of tending to you being in your Being in your kind of gravitational pull as it were They want to be around that that influence right and they're definitely picking up The vibes as you seem to respond to like certain girls or To the show that's now happening in front of you and they'll be coming and going from the area constantly Like kind of running back and forth. You'll see new girls. You see others We'll leave in combat most end up right by you and you'll definitely like if they're chattering And stuff like that as you enjoy the show in between the songs do I know Do I know up perhaps like a species of the of the girl Would you have told me that? Oh, I don't think I did okay. I don't think I did. Okay, then I am going to I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna go out into the crowd. I'm going to just find Someone at random all probably find a All probably try to find a salari And if there's some like you know LA as fuck look in like salari woman I'm gonna like go out and like effectively try to wingman it and try to basically Like invite her back into the into the art table and like sit her down next to pike and I'll try to find that. I don't know if I can find that Hmm roll and investigation check, but I Use your charisma Got that Risma it still fails I do actually I am provisioning charisma. I mean investigation. Uh, but is that is that screw you then if I Well still amount of time it's six plus Uh Three nine Hmm, oh Chris, wait, hold on four plus three plus two should be 12 plus two you don't do yeah, okay. Yeah Got it. Yeah, nine. I'd say you kind of shift your way through the crowd and you know you've been keeping a kind of a weathered Eye on the the crowd not just for kind of what's going on, but you've been scoping the room So you have some sense of kind of like some of the players the movers and goers But you got a little bit of wandering eye as well Yeah, and I'd say before too long you're able to find this Uh, I can't believe it's a five in heart of the song the plan like beautiful salari woman with this long Like burnt orange kind of hair that turns into this deeper red as it goes down um And she's she has large bosom uh and Exceptional measurements that of which match your classic LA Uh exactly what you're looking for I'll give her the old sub What's your name? Cool my my uh, I think you like my buddy And like to say hey, we got a we got a thing ultimate winged out uh Um, and it's when you gesture up to the sectioned off VIP area uh, they she really I work for record Uh, yeah, that that gets it done that gets the job done she follows you Immediately pass once again pass the rope up just two or three steps while the concert kind of rages behind you And it's when you get back to the table with her That I'm gonna ask everyone to make a wisdom saving throw oh shit What oh my god Wow you got the natty Unbelievable 13 I'm 13 I was one off wisdom saving throw you say not too bad Not too bad somehow keep it together I got a natural one I got a 23 I also got a 23 nice Um, the two of you just enjoying the show you feel that the drinks are hitting you know you got to do a little tipsy You're feeling the classic kind of like you know like waves beating at the sand um the You're having fun you're having a good time Um co and ziggie you feel very much uh this draw something about the night something about the yeah Something about the show something about yeah paradise city the clothes the lavishness the women Something about it all um your inhibitions are just melting away Um and you are You know though you're still within your your ruse you are very much Interested in really kicking the party up you want your inhibitions of falling away you want to accept that things offered to you You're in a very uh you're in a very yes mood Yeah This is my buddy Pike You look like you do a lot of drugs What's the good shit around here? Nothing hits quite as hard as red line Uh, but glimmer's pretty good too if noses your style Hey there fella This is my buddy Pike hey you should see his car You've pretty had some well what is it that you do? I drive That's a hot thing to say Isn't it look You should see him fight. Oh Good with your hands are you If a bar fight breaks out he's gonna kick so he will literally send a mother fucker to I I think I would like if I'm feeling like susceptible I would say like I'll give like uh Pike a wink and flash a grano say like uh Get me if you need me this music is too fucking good. I got I'm gonna go fucking dance And I just go out into the fucking crowd. I just disappear and I rage if if co is gone for the rest of the concert woman decides sit down next to me Yes, she's taking scene the booth. I will not shalantly You know sticking to the plan and playing the part and also being a bit tips you put my left arm around her To make her feel welcome and and again I'm acting like I don't care because quite frank. I really don't But I'm playing the part and I'm being a luf and I'm just uh, you know god somehow that's even more attractive You know ask her her name ask if I can get her a drink, but like I'm very disinterested and like you know I'm definitely a little tipsy and I am enjoying the music, but I'm I'm kind of You know giving giving her a little bit of the cold shoulder, you know, you know, I got my arm around her Sunt the harder you keep them away the more they want you Uh, and she's she seems interested. Yeah, and she'll sit there Um and enjoy the evening in your company with the uh with the the rest of the gang for uh as long as the that'll carry on Co you are the center day The ties coming down to lunch three buttons. I was gonna say it you three buttons down you're on beach time I spend no more than Five than one song dancing per person. Yeah, just like stuff and just like just I yeah, absolutely. I am feeling the music. I don't know if it's the night I don't know if it's the music that is making me feel this, but if someone hands me something I'm gonna drink it. I'm gonna do it. I don't give a fuck Jesus. I there's magic over me roll and Athletics or acrobatics check. I think they failed fast. Oh, you guys definitely passed you you were like a 23 in a 20 I got five yes, so at a certain point you're gonna turn over and I'm at the bartender with the claude the claudeira and like How does it work? I did very famous and successful Yeah Yeah, I'll do co-first and then That's for a long time. I'm just gonna say the same fucking thing 19 19 is the moment of our lives. Yeah uh, yeah 19 so the 19 you were on the dance floor just destroying it you were like you're like a cat on the prowl the the way in which you move your body adjuli out on the floor you're You're absolutely electric to be around and people are gravitating towards you to be in the sphere of the movement as you're just enjoying the concert you're tearing it up um It's it's it's Unbelievable the grace you're moving with on the floor um Ziggy yeah um I don't know how to say this but you cut lines on the bar top Some mysterious substance Yeah, first year glimmer it's it's glimmer. It's almost like this shimmering kind of like Soft toned multi-colored dust As you call a graphic It's a holographic glitter but I like too super colored saying that's like a dust But it's a holographic kind of glitter um as you line out um Probably an irresponsible line It's all irresponsible Don't follow Ziggy but this is a irresponsible line if much You you close you go So yeah, it's about it's about five more minutes your your head is swimming you feel like carbonation But like your blood is on fire you've ripped off your your jacket You're you're like you're doing it's about like five more minutes before you're You if anyone were to look over about 10 minutes later you are you are facing the bosom of the quadare and Another another line hitting right off her yeah, she's just wearing a white dink top down And did that she's yeah, so you're you're you're uh you're fully doing drugs. Yeah over over by the bar Yeah And this carries on and you're I think it'll come us over and I'm pulled elsewhere and the plan works out Yeah, you're you're like the you're like the dancing in from Wolf on Wall Street where you're just going Like you know like nutty you know like the the the coiloons are about to head You're on the dance floor Everyone is just having it a great time And nobody it because the VIP section and the vibe that you've put out like the definitely you can hear Like oh, I'd say that you even hear this kind of on the floor you would be able you're you're lost in the moment But even with with poor kind of spatial perception Um you would catch snippets of people of like brief excited conversation About the big time producer that's up in the VIP section and you would know that it's firmly kind of spread Through the night. Yeah, I work for him Um, I'm only in town for like a couple days so Um, yeah, I mean more or less anything you want to happen on the dance floor would happen on the dance floor Uh at this point I mean for please go easy on me. Yeah, please Um, you you all have this feeling that kind of surges through like you rule the night Um, this party is yours and everyone is here. I'm on the night right here. You're on the night train, baby But we wait until tomorrow morning is he's like last night was a movie And so I yeah, I'll just be sitting there. I'll have an arm around Just two two global ends and I'll be oh, uh, it's later to make you to exceed the nixie They're literally like to in your lap like arms around you while you have your arms around two others And I want to play a cooler like you know, I might play tapping the music on each other. Yeah Yeah You're focused on the show you're not a business like you know, you're I'm channeling George her swim the color speaks to him and yeah, I'm channeling the gold right there. I want to act like the music is you're the philosopher king exactly right Jesus Um The night carries on like this for a little while longer uh until you see um Uh Mawgley well hang on I think mawgley mawgley mawgley Mawgley until you see mawgley um that same Globblin gentleman that greeted you at the door um will come up to Sorry, we'll come up to you in the VIP section um and uh As As the the concert begins to wind down um and pixel actually exits the stage Woo We love you pixel Yeah Um yeah show in this crazy Of eruption of of light and neon and laser uh she goes off in a keytar explosive Beautiful show the show was incredible You enjoyed it you have a fantastic time It's a couple minutes later after she's exited the stage um Where mawgley comes back up to you uh and says um and it just says uh Hey uh I started interrupt the evening. I see you're all enjoying yourselves uh very much um but Very much You look like you fallen into chalk Uh pixel from the concert she actually she uh she uh she'd love to invite you backstage If uh Not I want to interrupt you evening. I know it looks like you have in a great time The girls are here you're enjoying drink a little a little festivities, but uh I'd love to take your backstage if if you'd want and we can have somebody uh take you back there and we can introduce you to the adliner I mean Pixel pop would like to see See us if you would like to see her sir. I mean she i mean you you're calling the shots. Yeah, it's a record producer I am mighty interested. Please uh Uh, I hope you don't mind too much Big scenes axi and dixie and trick scene. What was your name? Oh, zixie. Oh, zixie. That's right. That's right It's a pleasure to meet you make sure you fill out the film on the website being touched This isn't where the pleasure ends mr. Rock I ash out my cigarette. I slam back the rest of my drink Uh, put the tape drink like hard on the table and Immediately remove my arm from this salari woman's shoulder and just get up and follow mr. Right without saying a word. Oh, call me I don't know what back. It's like all of a sudden like Red and see like lock it sigma grind said um She deflates Oh Come with me. I'll take you back there myself. We'll get you. We'll get you to Pixel she's extremely excited to meet you Words gotten around but oh no, I mean obviously you want to go. Well, I introduce you. You know, it's it's uh At your pleasure mr. Right Frankly, couldn't be more talented. I haven't heard of voice like that. Oh Let me tell you she's gonna love to hear that okay. She's she's well. I'll let you tell her itself Um, all right everybody you ready? Oh, are you guys how are you passing me because I'm still out in the crowd. Yeah, that's right Oh, I will need to collect my associates Z I for a second I'm like What's going on pop and I like it. I've got that long beak like two to the front of my mouth. I don't just Have been fun some All right, it's time to go white. Let's grab go and let's go back You might uh, I like the curse under my breath and I go I'll go find co you see yeah, I mean just look for a a tall white hair blue Rizzo and that's probably her You look over I'm like yeah Yeah, it's like above the yeah, yeah, firmly above the ground. Yeah, you might if we just snake over that way and then you take a Sueradrassing. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, oh right away. Yeah, uh at the golden god. Okay. Yeah. Okay, yeah, we're okay Let's go and I immediately as soon as I see them I uh, I I join into When we get to when we when you like join us I'm in a real quick like kind of grab your arm not hard, but just like hey. Hey, look at me. Are you all right? I've never been fucking better. Are you okay? You still being all the mopey and sad. I'm gonna not it you I'm gonna look you guys on the say uh, you're a good friend Thanks. I hope you had fun. She's cute, right? Hey, it's time. All right. Here we go. We got it. We got a pipe. I love you man I love you too. All right. Come on. Okay, fucking do you all right? I'm I'm I'm ready to go. I'm I'm I'm wearing I'm really good You're so You can taste the stalk right now. He's He's Oh, man, so that I wore play the pants I hate that I continue the next date I missed a ride Heartsways as it looks like Stiggy's holding a divining rod Again, Mugley, Mugley, Mugley Ma yeah, M O G L E Y Try this for the movie. Mugley All right, uh, Mr. Mugley, please lead the way All right, well, I'll take you back there right now. Yes, sir Um, and he'll navigate you so you gotta go to the section of the real estate was off to the right There's a there's a little cut out in the wall um that has a door two more large kind of hulking Uh, bouncers stand there Um, blocking the go blocking the the doorway but they give you no pauses as Mugley leaves you through um You make your way uh down this hallway passing a couple more Bouncers these ones armed uh kind of ready like ready to really dissuade any kind of a serious business that shows up And you walk it's relatively uh short distance but you walk for probably a minute Um until eventually you come to a room with kind of a neon glowing sign. It looks like with it with like Uh, it looks like he can it can uh change out the text um, but it says pixel pop star um And he uh, he swings the doorway open uh, and he says uh Enjoy enjoy the uh, enjoy the the evenings, sir Uh, whatever whatever you're any y'all like we're still at your back and call if pixel needs anything you do But please please enjoy the backstage um as you open the door and you are met with pixel And nicky would you please come to the table Like a fucking girl You didn't see that shit coming you were even close I was watching chat and like you know Thank you so much for listening to the Legend of Aventures podcast We hope you enjoyed the session If you want even more campaigns to listen to become a member of our patreon at the pearl dolphin tier Or higher to unlock shroud of assault marsh the patron exclusive campaign set on the high seas You can find that at patreon.com forward slash legends of Aventures If you want to chat about the episode with the Aventures community join us on discord at legends of Aventures.com forward slash discord We also post content nearly every day on youtube, tiktok and instagram So make sure you follow our socials at legend of Aventures.com forward slash social And make sure you check out the crooked moon so you can terrify your friends with a folkcore 5e supplement published by us get your own copy at the crooked moon.com Thanks again, and we'll see you next time Oh