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Black Friday of the Dead - Episode 1: Dead Rise Mall · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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>> Skylar: It's Thanksgiving 2016 and there is a
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massive crowd of people outside the Sunrise
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Mall. The minute hand on Michael's Chicago
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Cubs World Series promotional watch slowly
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ticks towards 6pm as his heart begins
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to race.
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The sound of the crowd begins to rise from a murmur
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to a roar. Michael gets prodded by a series of
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elbow jabs as people begin to rear in excitement
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trying to push themselves ever closer to the door.
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Michael can feel his heart begin to beat
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faster and faster as the pushing and
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shoving start to get more and more aggressive. He
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looks around him to see the faces of those crowding him into the
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glass doors of the shopping center. People snarl
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with gritted teeth and squeeze their clenched
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fists chomping at the bit to get inside.
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The moment the second hand touches the 12 there's a
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loud buzz as the doors ret
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automatically and the horde of bodies floods
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into the mall. Michael hears someone in the crowd scream
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out above the voices.
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>> Speaker B: War Harambe.
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>> Skylar: Before he is pushed along the crowd, unable to
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control his movement or speed. As the mass of
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bodies presses him in through the entrance.
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He turns for a moment to see the consequences of going
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against the flow as an elderly woman trying to get
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into one of the nearby stores is knocked to the ground.
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A heavy set man takes a forceful footfall in
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the woman's direction but Michael is pushed out of sight
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sight, unable to see the horrific result of the
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accident. Pushed further into the mall trying to
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maintain speed with the crowd. Michael can hear the
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shouts and screams of the hyperactive customers around
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him. Glimpsing at storefronts with people fighting over
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whatever they came to get. Whether it be for themselves
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or it's that perfect gift for their loved one. This
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isn't the first time Michael has been out during this commerce
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driven holiday, but the screams and shouts certainly
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sound more aggressive and violent than he's used to. Maybe
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it's due to the economic downturn or the intense
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political riots rivalry that's recently come to a head. But
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Michael has no time to process any further as
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he manages to take the necessary turn to get to the shop
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he's been aiming for. Game Go to get to the
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brand new PS4 Slim. Michael has been desperate
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to play the PS4 for the last three years and
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he finally managed to save up enough to get one. While it's
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on this especially hefty sale this year.
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Of course, Michael isn't the only one at Game
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Go looking to get a hold of this deal. As a handful of others
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flood into the store around him, he spots the display.
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A pyramid of boxed consoles that Nathan Drake
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himself might explore, seeking the treasures within.
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Somewhat ironic to the fact that the console comes with a
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digital copy of the recent Uncharted 4 game.
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He beams with excitement as his hands take
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hold of a box. He did it. He finally
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did it. He was so excited thinking of the games
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he'd finally get to play alongside with his friends
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online. As he pulls back the box, a
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face reveals itself. A face that rocks
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Michael's very soul. The the collar of the
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black game goat Polo is lifted,
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bringing his attention first to the employee's neck
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which leans to the left, beginning
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to cave in where a massive wound is gaping and
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dripping a mixture of blood and black ooze. terrified,
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he continues lifting his gaze to the mouth of this
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individual, also smeared with blood and ooze,
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which drips menacingly from her gaping teeth
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bared maw. Her nose is as crooked
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as her neck, as if being bashed in by something
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and her eyes, yellowed by some mysterious
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sickness. Her pupils dilate as she
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focuses on him. Michael lets out a shriek as
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the monster lunges over the stack of remaining
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consoles towards him.
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The group of you awake to fly
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by Steve Azar as the end credits of Paul
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blart mall cop 2 scroll across the black
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screen, you look around the room to see your
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friends who are also awakening from their boredom
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induced nap. Remembering little about the
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movie past the first act,
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you recall your plan for tonight.
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Having enjoyed a delicious and filling Thanksgiving lunch
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with your respective families, you all gathered
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together at Dave's house,
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prepared to go Black Friday shopping. But
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as you look at your phones, you realize it's
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already 6:30pm and the deal
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started at 6. You leap to your
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feet. What are you guys doing? What's the
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plan?
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>> Quinn: We gotta go, we gotta go. I gotta get myself that PS4. So we
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gotta go now. Let's go, let's go, let's
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go.
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>> Dave: Xbox is way better, Quinn.
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>> Quinn: Okay, well I get an Xbox. Okay, I'll get whatever's left at this
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point. We gotta go. How could we? It's 6:30. What
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were we doing?
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>> Dave: How can we sit 30. Holy.
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>> Quinn: How can we sit through this? How could we?
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Oh no. They're all gonna be gone. They're
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all gonna be gone. We've gotta go now.
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>> Dave: All right, but let me grab my popcorn. I still had some
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left.
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>> Quinn: Yeah, that's a fair point.
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>> Skylar: You do have a bowl of unfinished popcorn sitting
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by your hand. What are you gonna put it in
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it's pockets?
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>> Dave: My hand?
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>> Skylar: No, you're just like grabbing a handful.
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>> Quinn: To Run out the door, put some popcorn in your
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pockets. It's gonna be a long night. We might need.
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>> Dave: No, I've done this. you just. You pinch the top of the
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bucket and you.
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>> Skylar: Oh, it's like one of those ones that you like. You actually put on the
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stove. Or.
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>> Quinn: No.
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>> Skylar: Oh, oh, the. But, oh, wait, hold on, hold on. You guys are at
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a house. Just to clarify, I was definitely picturing we were
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at the movies,
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and you all fell asleep in the movie theater,
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scratching.
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>> Quinn: Do you got any, like, sandwich bags?
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>> Dave: Oh, yeah, I gotta. I, grab a gallon Ziploc
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bag and pour it into that.
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>> Quinn: That might be a little big, don't you think?
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>> Dave: I apparently fell asleep right before.
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Only a couple.
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>> Skylar: Almost nothing.
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>> Quinn: All right, well, hey, we might need it later. I mean,
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you never know.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: All right, Quinn, you're driving.
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>> Quinn: I'm always the one driving.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: If anyone can navigate these hordes of people, it's
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you.
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>> Quinn: That is true.
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>> Skylar: That's true.
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>> Quinn: All right, let's hop in the, Hop in the Monte Carlo. Let's
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go.
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>> Skylar: I was going to say I'm trying to remember what it was.
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>> Quinn: I think it was the Monte Carlo.
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>> Skylar: I think you're right. All right, so you all get into Quinn's
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Chevy Monte car. Do you know what
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year? I don't know.
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>> Quinn: It would have been like, a 2003 Monte Carlo.
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>> Skylar: 2003 Monte Carlo. clambering, past
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various, ah, empty Mountain Dews from a
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variety of different restaurants, Baja Blast or
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otherwise. as you guys all
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pile either into the front or back seats and
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head off towards the Sunrise Mall.
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as you guys approach the Sunrise Mall, you guys
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have obviously a bit of a difficult time finding
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park. Hey.
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>> Quinn: Oh, there's a spot over there. There's a spot over there.
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Someone's back now. Someone's back now. They're over there. Here. Nick, get out
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of the car and go stand in that spot over there. Go
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stand.
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>> Dave: There's one up on the right.
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>> Skylar: Just.
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>> Quinn: That's the fire lane.
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>> Dave: Oh, wait, no. There's a small car. Dang it.
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>> Skylar: It's a classic. Ah, it's a smart car.
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>> Quinn: That's smart car.
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>> Skylar: Freaking smart car.
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>> Quinn: Where are we gonna park? All the deals are gonna be
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gone.
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>> Skylar: as you guys, kind of just start moving towards
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the X. Or not the X. the far end of
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the parking lot. There's a couple of
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spots. but, I mean, when I say far end of the parking lot,
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we're talking, like, the boonies.
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>> Quinn: I guess we're gonna have to park out here. Let's get inside. We're
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already. Oh, we're already so late. All the deals are gonna be
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gone.
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>> Dave: Nobody even uses this entrance.
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>> Skylar: actually, so the entrance closest to you, I
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was going to put you guys by the movie theater entrance. So kind of
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that main entrance. Ish area. So you guys make your
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way across the long parking lot. Kind of surprised that
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you're not seeing too many people. But assuming that maybe the
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fighting or whatever the case going on inside the
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mall is still taking up most people's
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time. I mean, we all know for those of us that have gone Black Friday
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shopping before, even though people get
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inside and grab their deals first,
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it's the line at the end when you have to check out
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that really sucks. And it gets long so
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fast. So, you just kind of assume maybe that's the
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case. Whatever, the case. You guys start making your way
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towards the entrance of the mall, seeing the big
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sign for the silver screen movie
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theater, which is right nearby the
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entrance. As you all laugh and joke and make your
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way through the large windowed doors which easily open
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before you, and you take your first steps into the shopping mall all.
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You're a bit surprised, not seeing any crowds running around from
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shop to shop, grabbing items on their
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lists. But you all have a goal in
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mind, and that is to get a special gift
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or three special gifts for some
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special person. Could be yourself. It could be
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somebody else, family member, friend.
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What is it that you are here to make sure you get? I know a couple
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of you have mentioned game consoles for yourselves.
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but what, what are the three items that are kind of on your
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list that you hope you don't have to leave
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this mall without getting?
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>> Quinn: Well, you know, guys, at this point, the,
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the. All the deals are gone and we might. I mean,
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we just watched it. We might as well go see Mona. Yeah, I want to
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go see Mona.
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>> Skylar: Moana.
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>> Quinn: Moana. Whatever. I don't know. It's a new Disney movie.
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It's got the rock in it. You
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guys just want to go see the movie or.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: We couldn't even make it through the last movie. What do you. What makes you
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think we can make it through this movie without falling asleep?
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>> Dave: Well, my family's gonna see that later today.
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>> Skylar: Unlike actual Friday.
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That is a good.
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>> Quinn: Have you guys seen Dr. Strange? I know it's been out since
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October, since last month, but have you guys seen that?
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>> Dave: Oh, yeah, I saw that.
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>> Quinn: Oh, okay.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: I guess I gotta get some Christmas shopping done.
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>> Quinn: I just feel like all the deals are. We Gone. I guess we'll just.
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Maybe I'm just being pessimistic.
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Where are we heading first?
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>> Skylar: Well, what's out of curiosity, fatty Lumpkins, what is
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on your Christmas list? What are three items? Key
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items. The big ones.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: So in the Lumpkin household.
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>> Skylar: Yes.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: We always do a grab bag, which are just
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the little 5, 10,
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$15 gifts and you just kind of put them in at random
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and you go for them through a
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matter of dice and drawing of numbers.
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My goal this year is to have the most coveted gift. So we
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are hightailing it to Yankee Candle to get us a three
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wick candle.
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>> Dave: Wood wick.
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>> Skylar: Wood wick.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: All right, so you guys depend what the sale is. I saw it on the
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ads. They got Yankee candles.
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>> Skylar: That's right.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: They get one free.
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>> Skylar: let's, let's call it this, the
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Stanky Candle.
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And that's going to be our fictional version of that. The
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Stanky Candle. I like it. fantastic.
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So, just for those listening a little bit out of game real quick,
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I have not filled in the entire map that I put together
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for this mall. So as you guys kind of come up
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with ideas and suggestions, I'm going to add
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stores to the mall along the way to give you guys
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some just kind of entertaining, goofy stuff. So, yeah.
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Anyways, so okay, that's one thing that you have on
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your list. what are two more? Do you. When you
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said grab egg, is it like individual items or
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do you guys do like little package?
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Bring a group of three items.
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And my strategy is I always bring items that
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I want. So I would like to buy a
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Yankee Candle so that I can disguise the foul smelling that
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I get when I cook. So that's
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why I'm in it for the Yankee Candle.
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>> Skylar: All right, sounds good.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: But some of the other things that I'm looking for is
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always in, always got to get the next latest
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and greatest Apple products since.
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>> Skylar: Oh, all right.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Bound to run dead by the year
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after.
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>> Skylar: Okay, babble.
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>> Dave: After we go to Stanky, can we, stop by
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the sports store? I want to get your opinion on
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some Frisbee golf discs.
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I want to get one for.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: My brother looking for a overstable
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or understable disc.
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>> Dave: I've heard there's something called like an S
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curve. So whatever.
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It would give you one of those.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: No, you're thinking bell curve. That's in finance.
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>> Dave: Oh, statistics. Yeah.
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>> Quinn: Well, we're done there. I gotta go get one of
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those new, PS4 Slim. I gotta get one.
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>> Skylar: Is it.
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>> Quinn: This is for me.
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This is for me.
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>> Dave: Maybe they'll have rain checks. You never know.
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>> Skylar: That's also true.
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>> Dave: They do know sometimes, that Xbox
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One S, they got the new, Battlefield one.
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I've been really looking forward to that.
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>> Quinn: hopefully they got some left.
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>> Skylar: All right, so currently I have, maybe, if
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anything, Quinn, give me one more item that you're
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after.
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>> Quinn: One more item that I'm after?
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Quinn: while we're in the sports story. You know, I really do. You know, the Cubs
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just won a World Series. I really could use a new Cubs hat.
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>> Skylar: Oh, okay. Awesome. I like that. perfect.
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So for the items that you, guys are after, I
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have. Nick is going for a stanky candle
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and, the newest Bapple product.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: That is correct. I thought we call them
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pear products, but Bapple pair.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, I don't know. I just. Whatever
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comes to me. Dave is going for a
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Frisbee golf disc and an Xbox One
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S, and Quinn is going for a PS4
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slim and a Cubs hat.
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>> Dave: Oh, I got another one, too.
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>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, go for it. Oh.
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>> Dave: So this one, honestly, we can probably hit
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this one last. I don't think anybody's going to
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be swamp in the kitchen goods
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store or. I don't even know where to
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find. My grandma could really use an
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apple slicer.
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You know, one of those ones you pressed out
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on top.
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>> Skylar: This just the simplest concept. Apple
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slicer. They're kind of nice, though,
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all things considered.
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>> Dave: They do be kind of nice.
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>> Skylar: Yeah. Awesome. All right, well, Dave has a bonus one he
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really needs. and if you guys think of a third, the other two of you. If you
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guys think of a third item, let me know. So, as you guys
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are kind of walking down this. This main corridor of the
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mall that leads kind of deeper into the rest of the mall.
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Suddenly a noise rises up above
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your jests and chuckles over the
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echoing steps of your feet against the tiled
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floor, over the Christmas jingles that ring
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through the halls. A, groan. And then
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another. Each one continues after the
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other to create a continuing cacophony of
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moaning. You all turn to look
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back towards the doors that you just came through.
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Behind you is an entire
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horde of zombies, that seem to be flooding
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from the stores. Brow and Spa
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Boutique, the movie theater, the small
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arcade. Comes a flood of various
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zombies. All these different shoppers with
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these horrific wounds across their face, blood
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and ooze dripping from them, carrying
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items. Some of them. Some of them just carrying
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bags, purses,
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backpacks. And they all are
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glaring directly at each of you, I need
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each of you to roll me a
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fear check.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: How do we do that?
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>> Skylar: Yes, master, I will.
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Okay, so a fear test is going to be
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rolling a your D10 and then adding
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your willpower, your character's
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willpower. And then if you did
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have a relevant, you know, quality
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or something along those lines that you feel would be
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relevant in this situation. You can also add that.
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I don't know if any one of you necessarily has
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anything that I feel like would probably
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apply in this situation. Unless you want to make.
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Oh, all right.
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>> Dave: Fast reaction time gives you
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plus one will resisting fear.
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>> Skylar: Okay, perfect.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: What about the ability to react to a creeper in
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Minecraft or even a
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zombie in Minecraft?
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>> Skylar: There is a very literal zombie in Minecraft.
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I think if anything, maybe that'll come up in a different situation.
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But to avoid the fear of it, I'm not sure if that's
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necessary.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: That is fair.
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>> Skylar: quite where we're looking. But whatever the case, so each
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of you rolls the D10, adds your willpower,
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and Dave, you can also add, your fast
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reaction time.
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>> Quinn: Shoot.
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>> Dave: Not fast enough.
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>> Speaker B: Not fast.
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>> Quinn: I rolled a tank.
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>> Skylar: Nice. Okay, so you succeed, you don't feel
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bogged down by any fear necessarily in this situation.
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Obviously you're scared at what's happening, but it
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doesn't cause you to m. Falter at all.
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>> Quinn: I can alter.
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>> Skylar: I cannot.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: All right, Daddy rolled a six plus his
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willpower of two for a grand total
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of eight.
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>> Dave: Okay, I got a
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two plus one plus one.
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>> Skylar: So a four. A four.
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>> Quinn: Oof.
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>> Skylar: Okay, so to succeed you need a nine. So Dave, you
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failed, by five.
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And Fatty, you failed by one.
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So as these zombies are starting to move towards you,
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you guys, Quinn, you, You feel
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concerned obviously about your guys safety, but, you also
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feel alert. You feel that. okay,
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what's. I. I'm looking at the situation
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and we need to get out of here. you're thinking clearly.
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>> Quinn: Guys, guys, wake up, wake up. We gotta go, we gotta go.
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>> Dave: This is the weirdest dream.
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>> Skylar: As you say, wake up, wake up. Dave
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passes out, falls to the floor,
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faints. fatty, you start to get
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the shakes. your whole body just begins to kind of
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shiver semi violently. You,
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have a just, you know, in game, you know,
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mechanics, you have a minus two penalty on like
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everything, for two turns, which,
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like six seconds a turn
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technically. But a lot of this happens kind
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of in game, so we'll take that as it
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is. But, whatever the case, you guys both See, Dave just
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pass out onto the floor, leaving himself obviously
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vulnerable. What are you guys doing?
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>> Quinn: Wake up. Drag him in the movie theater. Nobody goes
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here.
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>> Skylar: The zombies are coming out of.
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>> Quinn: Literally nobody goes there, though.
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>> Skylar: There's employees.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Quick, where should we take them? Should we go to, like, a, where can we best
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barricade ourselves? A hardware store. Where are the people gonna
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be going?
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>> Quinn: Well, where do people. Where do people.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: Ourselves. Up and mounted defense.
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>> Quinn: Where do people not go?
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: The furniture store.
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>> Quinn: M. They had a big sale, though. They
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had. They had beds by two
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mattresses on.
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>> Skylar: Sale, like they do always.
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>> Quinn: The mattress sale is just too good to resist this year. I think that's a
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bad idea.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: I don't know. People don't go black.
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>> Quinn: We should go to Hot Topics.
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>> Fatty Lumpkins: There's.
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>> Quinn: Or we should go to the
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goth topic.
19:22
>> Skylar: Oh, I have that one, actually. It's called, Goth affair.
19:25
>> Quinn: We should. We should. What about goth Affair? Oh, he goes in
19:28
there.
19:29
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Except we won't be able to tell
19:32
who's looking at us through
19:34
goth painted makeup or as an actual
19:37
zombie. What about.
19:39
>> Quinn: What about the sports store? I mean, at least they're gonna have
19:42
weapons.
19:42
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Eh, that is an option.
19:45
>> Quinn: How are we gonna get there, though?
19:48
>> Fatty Lumpkins: We need to move because we got Dave over here
19:50
lying on the ground. Grab an arm and we'll pull. What's
19:53
closest?
19:55
>> Skylar: yeah, closest to you at this immediate moment, there
19:58
is a T shirt store called Tees and
20:00
Jerseys. That.
20:02
>> Fatty Lumpkins: That doesn't seem like that'd be helpful.
20:04
>> Quinn: How many people are coming out of here?
20:06
>> Skylar: you don't really see too many people coming out of this particular spot.
20:09
Most of them are coming out of the movie theater.
20:11
and like I said, there was a little arcade that, was
20:14
right across the hall from the movie theater. Somebody give me a
20:17
name for that arcade.
20:19
>> Dave: Next level.
20:21
>> Skylar: So you've got zombies coming out of the silver screen
20:24
movie theater. You got zombies coming out of the next level. And then
20:27
you guys are just past what's called the high brow,
20:30
which is kind of a spa. Get your nails
20:33
done, manicures, pedicures, get your brows,
20:35
obviously your eyebrows, whatever people do to their
20:38
eyebrows, shaved
20:41
completely off.
20:43
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I'm very surprised.
20:45
>> Skylar: Yes. and sure enough, there are a couple of zombies coming
20:48
out of the highbrow with their eyebrows completely shaved
20:50
off. But, whatever the case,
20:53
so you guys are just past that immediately.
20:56
to your. It'd be your left is the Pillow
20:59
palace, and then just behind that is the tees and
21:02
jerseys that I mentioned before.
21:03
>> Quinn: Let's get to the teas and jerseys There doesn't look like anybody's in
21:06
there. Maybe we can pick them up. Can I try and attempt
21:09
to pick them up?
21:10
>> Skylar: Sure, absolutely. do a check
21:13
for strength. So you're going to take strength. Plus if you
21:15
feel like you have a skill that is, relates
21:18
to anything, maybe physical
21:20
lifting, you have throwing, but I don't think that
21:23
applies.
21:24
>> Quinn: Stacking pallets.
21:26
>> Skylar: You did explicitly say pallet stacking.
21:29
I don't know if I would take a person. So wait a
21:32
minute, Wait a minute.
21:35
>> Quinn: hang on. How many people are coming out of the
21:39
theater?
21:40
>> Skylar: probably maybe like a dozen. I mean, I would say the
21:43
entire horde as it is is about a dozen.
21:47
>> Quinn: I was thinking there's got to be a wheelchair somewhere.
21:50
>> Skylar: Somewhere. There probably is a wheelchair
21:52
somewhere.
21:53
>> Quinn: I know they got wheelchair. They got wheelchairs, like, in the middle.
21:56
In the front of malls. They got those wheelchairs you can, like,
21:58
rent.
21:59
>> Skylar: Oh, sure. okay. Here's what I will
22:02
say. Yes, I'm glad you mentioned that. So, sure enough,
22:05
right nearby you there is that little cart
22:08
section. They have rentable kids
22:11
for a quarter.
22:12
>> Quinn: Has anybody got a quarter on them?
22:14
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I do.
22:15
>> Quinn: Thank God. Grab him.
22:18
Grab Dave. Grab Dave.
22:19
>> Skylar: you rush over, you put the quarter in, and a cart
22:22
is released for you to use.
22:24
>> Quinn: Thank you. Have a great day. Oh, appreciate
22:27
that. Pick him up and put him in the
22:30
cart.
22:30
>> Skylar: Okay. All right, Sounds good. I would say between the two of you, I won't
22:33
make you do, like, a strength check. I think you. I think between the two of you,
22:36
could lift the dude into the cart and then push him. Okay, so you
22:39
guys are now pushing Dave, in the cart, who is. Who is
22:42
currently unconscious, and you guys are headed where
22:46
that T shirt store.
22:47
>> Quinn: Nobody was shopping at.
22:48
>> Skylar: Ah, all right, Sounds good. Tees and
22:50
jerseys. You guys rush inside.
22:53
The doors are wide open.
22:55
>> Quinn: Do they have the gate that comes down?
22:57
>> Skylar: They do, but you have to
23:00
find the key that's in the store.
23:04
>> Quinn: And where's the shopman guy in the store.
23:06
Nobody's in the store.
23:07
>> Skylar: As you guys rush into the store, looking
23:10
desperately to try to get the thing that you. You reach up to bring
23:13
the gate down, and it's stuck because obviously, again, it needs.
23:16
It needs a key to unlock from the top and come
23:19
down. as you're doing this, one of you hears
23:22
out of the corner of your ear a moaning sound
23:25
from inside the store. It's just one.
23:28
but it does, since it's so close compared to the Rest of the
23:30
horde, especially now that you're in a store, it is somewhat
23:33
noticeable.
23:35
>> Quinn: the hangers. What are the hangers made out of? Would they be metal hangers
23:38
anywhere? Sure.
23:39
>> Skylar: Yeah. There's a lot of hangers in
23:42
here.
23:42
>> Quinn: I'm gonna grab a metal hanger.
23:44
>> Skylar: Okay.
23:44
>> Quinn: I'm actually gonna grab a couple metal
23:47
hangers.
23:48
>> Skylar: Dual wheeled metal hangers.
23:51
>> Quinn: Right. flatten them out a little bit
23:54
like the ends.
23:55
>> Skylar: Sure.
23:55
>> Quinn: They're a little bit spiky. I don't know. That's the only thing I could think
23:58
of.
23:58
>> Skylar: Yeah.
24:00
>> Quinn: You know, because at this point, you don't know what you're going. I'm gonna do that.
24:03
And I'm gonna try. And I'm looking.
24:06
I don't see anybody in the room.
24:08
>> Skylar: there's a lot of, you know,
24:11
displays of different shirts and stuff. So they're kind of like, coat
24:13
rack esque type things. So there's a
24:16
lot of hidden spaces around this store.
24:20
>> Quinn: Is there any water bottles around?
24:23
>> Skylar: Yes, I would say there's probably, like a cooler. Little.
24:26
>> Quinn: They sell little.
24:27
>> Speaker B: Yep.
24:27
>> Quinn: Where they got some. I'm gonna go over to the
24:30
cooler. Say, we gotta find the key, Nick, see if it's
24:33
behind the register. I grab a bottle,
24:37
try and wake him up.
24:38
>> Skylar: Gonna wake him up.
24:39
>> Quinn: Awesome.
24:39
>> Skylar: all right. A difficult constitution test. Okay. Is required to recover
24:42
consciousness. This can be attempted every minute or
24:44
whenever someone tries to stir the character. Okay, so,
24:47
Dave, you are going to be making a difficult constitution
24:50
check. So you're going to roll the D10 and you are going to
24:53
subtract, I'm going to say minus one, to
24:56
that roll.
24:58
>> Dave: 10.
24:59
>> Skylar: 10. Awesome. All right, Dave, as this water
25:01
splashes over you, you awaken.
25:04
you do take minus 16
25:07
endurance points because of how much this
25:10
affected you. Those can be recovered, of course, by arresting
25:13
over time or whatever the case. This water splashes over you,
25:16
and suddenly you awaken. You're, feeling a little bit of a cramp
25:19
coming in. Maybe, maybe, a charlie horse in your leg.
25:22
As you realize you are currently inside of a cart
25:25
and have been pushed into what seems to be a T shirt
25:27
shop.
25:29
>> Dave: what's going on?
25:33
Hell, I'm stuck.
25:36
Why am I enlightening the queen?
25:40
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And as mayor was all sold out.
25:43
>> Skylar: As you struggle to get loose, a
25:46
figure comes around one of the shirt racks.
25:49
you see your friend Quinn over to the side, who
25:52
seems to be. He just poured the water on you and he seems to be
25:54
frantically, looking for something. You're not sure.
25:57
I Don't know what Fatty Lumpkins is doing at the
26:00
moment.
26:01
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Fatty is intrigued by this moaning sound.
26:03
>> Skylar: Oh, okay.
26:04
>> Fatty Lumpkins: He is kind of perking his
26:07
ears up and listening for what he can
26:09
hear, see, and if he can
26:12
match the sound to a movement.
26:15
>> Skylar: Okay, sounds good. Well, you absolutely are about to, because
26:18
as you stand there next to Dave, who is frantically trying to
26:21
get out of this, lightning McQueen cart
26:23
that he has kind of been jammed into, a
26:26
horrific, monstrous figure makes his way
26:29
around one of the shelves full of shirts and
26:32
out steps a zombified
26:35
tease and jerseys store
26:38
manager. And, he is wearing one of those, like, really
26:41
long T shirts that like, basically he. He wouldn't
26:44
even have to be wearing pants practically because the shirt goes
26:47
like that far down. It's just got some
26:50
stupid slogan on it that says,
26:53
I feel perky for some jerky.
26:59
>> Quinn: And I feel perky for some jerky. Oh, this
27:02
is the store that doubles as a jerky sales.
27:04
>> Skylar: They've got jerky coming out. They're selling jerky out the
27:07
back. they don't have a license to sell food.
27:10
They're doing it illegally. Whatever, the case, he starts to
27:12
shamble towards the two of you
27:15
specifically, what are you doing?
27:19
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I notice Queen's weapon of choice and do
27:22
kind of scramble for my own makeshift weapon.
27:25
Just grabbing a couple of the jerseys off the
27:28
hangers and seeing if I too, can
27:31
manufacture a shank out of one of them.
27:33
>> Skylar: Okay, sounds good.
27:35
>> Dave: Do I notice the zombie or.
27:37
>> Quinn: Oh, yeah.
27:37
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I mean, he's.
27:38
>> Skylar: He's pretty much beelining for you. He sees that you're kind of stuck
27:41
and he starts coming m.
27:47
>> Dave: I try to grunt my way out of
27:49
this.
27:50
>> Skylar: All right, I'm going to have you, make a.
27:54
Let's do strength to try to get yourself out. There's a part of
27:57
me that said, do I do willpower?
28:01
>> Dave: Got an 8.
28:02
>> Skylar: 8 plus 3. Awesome. So you managed to pull
28:05
yourself out of the Lightning
28:08
McQueen as you scramble to
28:11
stand up off the floor. Fatty,
28:14
you have a hanger that you fashioned
28:16
into a shank. Awesome. Are you going to
28:19
lunge first or wait till he gets closer?
28:22
>> Fatty Lumpkins: So the zombie is closest to me? Is that what I'm gathering?
28:25
>> Skylar: I mean, you guys are standing right next to each other. He's kind of just coming
28:27
for both.
28:28
>> Fatty Lumpkins: You guys, as in me and Dave. You guys, Me and the
28:31
zombie.
28:31
>> Skylar: oh, no, you. You and Dave are both standing kind of next to each other while
28:34
he's picking himself up off the floor.
28:35
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And the zombie is in front of us. the cart is
28:38
between us.
28:39
>> Skylar: Yes.
28:40
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I now see the empty cart and
28:43
see a projectile with Dave being absent from
28:46
it.
28:46
>> Skylar: Nice.
28:47
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And I shout out towards Dave, push.
28:50
I'm going to grab the Cart and Lightning
28:53
McQueen is going to rocket off the
28:56
starting line.
29:08
>> Skylar: All right, sounds good. I'm gonna say that fatty, you are going to use
29:11
your, you're going to do the test. Right.
29:13
But I'm going to have you add Dave's
29:16
strength to it as well since he is helping you with
29:19
this action. You both are basically committing your
29:22
action to push this cart towards.
29:24
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And it's just a hop, skip and a junk from pushing a
29:26
cart to pushing a mower.
29:29
>> Skylar: Okay. Okay.
29:32
You guys are close for sure.
29:35
All right, so you're going to do you can just do straight
29:38
strength. And then Dave is going to add a plus three to whatever
29:41
you roll as well.
29:42
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Okay.
29:42
>> Skylar: Yeah.
29:44
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Then 11.
29:45
>> Skylar: Holy cow. And then with Dave's plus
29:48
three, so you're at a 14.
29:51
All right. So as I mentioned before,
29:54
successes are on kind of a variety level.
29:57
different levels can mean bigger things.
30:00
Right. So with this 14 you have
30:03
just done holy cow, you've done
30:06
good is what they call it. which seems bad. But
30:08
a nine, which is like just barely succeeding.
30:11
Right. Is adequate. Is considered
30:14
adequate. You guys just did good. Which is two levels
30:17
higher than that. The task or task is completed with
30:20
ease. Artistic results are appreciated by the
30:22
connoisseurs as well as well liked by the public.
30:25
But I'm going to say that you get an added benefit. You
30:28
push this Lightning McQueen kind
30:31
of kid's cart towards this
30:33
zombie store manager. It slams into
30:36
him, kind of hitting his upper
30:39
legs, causing him to sort of topple over on top of this
30:42
cart and continuing the
30:44
propulsion back towards further back into the
30:47
store until he crashes into
30:50
a display of various shirts
30:53
and jerseys which falls down on top of
30:55
him. He is still alive, but he is now
30:58
trapped underneath this display and not a current
31:01
problem at all.
31:02
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Nice work, Dave
31:04
Kachow.
31:07
>> Quinn: Are there any zombies like trying to get in the store to. We kind of
31:10
like they're all coming at us and we ran by them. So they had
31:13
like slowly turned you.
31:14
>> Skylar: Ran away from them. So they were like imagine
31:17
you, you walked in the entrance. They started flooding in
31:20
from behind you, between you and the
31:23
entrance. And then you just went further into the mall
31:26
and jumped into one of the side stores. So you
31:28
currently they're on their way towards you because you're the last thing
31:31
alive that they Saw, Right. They're hungry. They
31:34
saw humans that they want to feast on flesh that they wanted to
31:37
eat. And so now they are after you, headed
31:40
towards your store. You still have a little bit of time if you wanted to get that
31:42
gate closed.
31:44
>> Quinn: There's got to be a key in the.
31:46
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Is this really where we want to hunker down, though? We've
31:49
got Dave aroused again.
31:54
>> Quinn: I mean, we can try and get down to the sports.
31:56
>> Dave: I'm a big Pixar fan. I wouldn't go that
31:59
far.
32:00
>> Quinn: I was thinking that we hunkered. We get to gate closed here,
32:03
and we can use the back tunnels. It's gonna be a lot closer.
32:06
And,
32:06
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Oh, that's right. Was not a. Forgot about the back
32:09
door.
32:10
>> Skylar: the old back tunnels.
32:11
>> Quinn: We can get this gate shot. Then we can always. If
32:14
need be, we can, you know, block off the tunnel or however
32:17
we can.
32:17
>> Fatty Lumpkins: But this was not on
32:20
said zombified, store manager, because he is now
32:23
buried under.
32:24
>> Quinn: Normally.
32:25
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Normally they're not a bunch of his own
32:27
merchandise.
32:28
>> Quinn: Normally they're not.
32:29
>> Fatty Lumpkins: How about the cash register?
32:31
>> Quinn: I worked in the food court here for a short time, which
32:34
I really did.
32:34
>> Skylar: You did?
32:35
>> Quinn: Actually, keys, normally. Keys normally left out by
32:38
the register.
32:38
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Is there a welcome at. It might be hidden under?
32:41
>> Quinn: No, it's generally just left out by the register for anybody to
32:44
grab. Close the door.
32:47
>> Skylar: Yeah, I mean, if you would like to close the door, I would say.
32:50
>> Quinn: Close the gate or the gate.
32:51
>> Speaker B: Yep.
32:51
>> Skylar: I would have you do a perception.
32:54
>> Quinn: Okay. On the. Like, the
32:56
register area.
32:57
>> Skylar: Yep, sure.
33:00
>> Quinn: nine plus.
33:03
>> Skylar: Plus. Yeah. You are able to find the
33:05
key, just like you said. It was kept right over by the
33:08
register.
33:09
>> Quinn: Right up by the register. We're overthinking it.
33:11
>> Skylar: You snag it and run towards the
33:14
gate. as somebody that's had experience working
33:17
at the mall, you jam the key into the gate and
33:20
close it down just as the zombies, made
33:23
contact with it. Their fingers and maybe even some of
33:26
the scrawnier armed zombies are able to reach through.
33:28
But you slam that gate down, it clicks into the floor,
33:32
and you step back just in time
33:34
to leave them outside and
33:37
still hungry.
33:38
>> Dave: Holy cow. That was good thinking, Quinn. That was
33:41
close.
33:41
>> Quinn: Well, you know, all my time at the mall, I guess, worked out for
33:44
some.
33:45
>> Skylar: You guys are handling this very well.
33:47
>> Quinn: What else are you gonna do, I guess.
33:49
>> Dave: Is that guy dead? Did we kill
33:52
that guy? What's going on?
33:53
>> Skylar: As you look over towards him, you just see his arms kind of
33:56
awkwardly flopping from underneath the shelf.
34:01
>> Dave: Okay, so.
34:02
>> Quinn: Well, guys, I think this is what we've been
34:05
preparing our whole life for.
34:07
>> Dave: Yeah, I was gonna. That's a good question. So,
34:10
like, do we know about
34:13
zombies in this world?
34:15
>> Skylar: I, mean the concept. It's
34:18
exactly where you would have been in, in 2016.
34:21
Zombies have not existed before. I mean, you've
34:23
watched movies, obviously, but that's as far as zombies have
34:26
ever gotten into your lives.
34:28
>> Fatty Lumpkins: All I know about zombies is Call of Duty zombies
34:31
and Zombieland and Walking.
34:34
>> Skylar: Dead and the Walking Dead.
34:35
>> Dave: We need to get out of here, probably and get back to my
34:38
parents house.
34:39
>> Quinn: Yeah, we can get through the. All these back
34:42
corridors have exit doors, so if one of them is
34:45
blocked, there's multiple doors here. We can all get outside. They all have
34:48
exit doors.
34:49
>> Dave: Okay.
34:51
>> Dave: I wonder. You guys see that one movie
34:54
where everybody's trapped in the mall and there's
34:56
zombies outside?
34:58
>> Skylar: dawn of the Dead.
34:59
>> Dave: Yeah.
35:01
Yeah, I didn't know that's what it was called.
35:05
>> Quinn: Definitely have.
35:06
>> Dave: Yeah, yeah, that one they like. The whole
35:09
mall is surrounded by a horde of zombies.
35:12
Do you think that's the case here?
35:15
>> Quinn: No. We should probably get out of here.
35:17
>> Dave: I mean, I don't want to like, open a back door and just have a
35:20
flood of zombies come in a peephole.
35:23
>> Fatty Lumpkins: We are in a mall. It should have most
35:26
supplies that we would need to weather this storm.
35:29
There's got to be some type of food, it's
35:32
got to be some type of weaponry.
35:34
>> Dave: Well, let me.
35:34
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Got to be furniture that we can sleep on.
35:37
>> Skylar: And most importantly, the gifts that you
35:40
need for Christmas.
35:43
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And they've got to have some candles.
35:46
>> Quinn: Yeah, Yankee candles to disguise that rotten flesh.
35:49
>> Dave: Let me pull out my iPhone4 and try to
35:52
call my parents.
35:54
>> Skylar: All right, you, you whip out your phone, you dial
35:57
in the number,
36:01
Kurt answers the, phone.
36:03
>> Speaker B: Hey, Dave, what's up?
36:05
>> Quinn: Sounds just like him.
36:07
>> Dave: Dad, are you okay?
36:10
>> Speaker B: Yeah, I'm fine. What? What's wrong?
36:13
>> Dave: there's some sort of like, commotion going on at the
36:15
mall. I mean, it's
36:18
Black Friday, isn't it? Well, yeah, but no, the
36:21
normal. More than normal. Like
36:24
there's some end time
36:27
stuff going on here. There's like, zombies.
36:30
>> Speaker B: Has the rapture happened or.
36:33
What are you talking about, son?
36:35
>> Dave: The dead walking again? Or I don't know,
36:38
people are sick or something. Like they're not. They're
36:41
acting.
36:42
>> Speaker B: All this, all these, you know,
36:44
shopping events happening right after.
36:47
We're supposed to be thankful for what we've got.
36:49
>> Dave: No, it's more than material as
36:52
materialism. Dad.
36:54
>> Speaker B: Son, you gotta. I don't not. I'm not picking up what
36:57
you're putting down, son.
36:59
>> Dave: Okay, the rest of the family. Is mom back from
37:02
shopping yet?
37:03
>> Speaker B: No, I haven't seen your mom. She
37:06
went to Doormart. She went to
37:09
Doormart? I, haven't seen her, but, I don't
37:12
know. I could give her a call. Are you worried?
37:15
>> Dave: yeah, I'm very worried. you should definitely call her.
37:18
you probably want to get in the truck and go get her.
37:21
Honestly?
37:22
>> Speaker B: Really? It's that bad? Oh, all right. If you're that
37:25
concerned, I trust you. let me, let me give her a call, and I'll call you
37:27
right back.
37:29
>> Dave: Okay.
37:30
>> Skylar: All right, you hang up and. Yeah, there you are. You just
37:33
gonna wait until you get that call back now?
37:35
>> Dave: We can do stuff while we're waiting.
37:36
>> Quinn: Okay, we need to. We need to check the back. The
37:39
back doors here just to make sure.
37:41
>> Skylar: There's no way you, you walk over there is. There is a back
37:44
door to the store, as there are with
37:47
a decent number of these stores. Actually, not all of
37:50
them have. I would say, back door.
37:51
>> Dave: Wait, wait, is there people?
37:53
>> Skylar: Yeah.
37:53
>> Quinn: Well, I mean, not out of the door, like,
37:57
generally. So at the mall there. No, there's not.
37:59
Like, there's a door to get in
38:02
generally. Those are open, though. Like, the store doors are open, but
38:05
not all the time, but, like, to the doors to get
38:08
outside have peeps. So, like, the door to get into the back hallway
38:12
probably wouldn't have a people.
38:13
>> Skylar: Right. So just to clarify, not every
38:16
store. So I have those that kind of face some sort
38:18
of, like, service hallway or something along those lines. Not all
38:21
of them do that. Thankfully, you guys actually did pick one that
38:24
does have a service hallway that is
38:27
adjacent. And when I say service hallway, technically
38:30
they're accessible to the public. If someone were to
38:33
walk through the double doors, it wouldn't stop them. But there. Some of them
38:36
have doors. Some of them, it's like hallway with
38:39
bathrooms. And then it becomes a service hallway. Like,
38:42
you're not really supposed to go past this point kind of a thing.
38:45
So you guys have a. There is a service hallway. So there is a back
38:47
door. and so, Quinn, are you
38:50
peeking out of that back door?
38:52
>> Quinn: Yeah, I'll do it.
38:53
>> Skylar: All right, so you nervously
38:56
take that handle, you twist it, and very
38:59
slowly it pushes inwards towards
39:01
the service hallway. And as you peek inside, it's
39:04
quite dark. There's, not a whole lot of light going on
39:07
right here. But you don't see any
39:10
movement in the shadows. You don't hear any moaning
39:13
and groaning like you did before. at the moment. Moment, this
39:16
seems to be safe.
39:17
>> Quinn: looks. Looks like it's clear, guys. Ah, you guys want to, like,
39:20
venture out here? Are we waiting for the phone call? What do you guys want to do? We should
39:23
probably get something to defend ourselves because, let's be real,
39:26
the odds of survival here. Pretty low.
39:29
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah, I think it might be time to upgrade the. The
39:32
wire shank and the, shopping.
39:33
>> Skylar: Cart, especially because the shopping cart is.
39:35
>> Fatty Lumpkins: The shopping cart is no longer here.
39:37
>> Skylar: You're not gonna get your quarterback. Sorry.
39:41
>> Quinn: What? What, stores are next to us.
39:43
>> Skylar: Yes. So, directly across, like, you.
39:46
You yourself can kind of peek out. And I think there's
39:49
probably some kind of sign or label or something on
39:52
the doors or next to the doors
39:55
from the service hallway. That label, like, what? Each business is just
39:58
so people know. so that, like, staff and stuff don't walk into the
40:01
wrong one. right across from you is the
40:03
trophy case. Otherwise, as
40:06
somebody that has worked at the mall, you know that this service
40:09
entrance would eventually lead you down
40:12
and around to the, main
40:15
hallway that goes past the bookstore.
40:18
>> Quinn: We're probably the only store that got locked up. So we got
40:21
a safe space. What is it?
40:23
>> Skylar: Tease to please and Jersey
40:26
jerseys.
40:29
>> Quinn: So we got a safe space there. I mean, that could be like
40:31
a. Like, our base or something. If we're running away from
40:34
something.
40:34
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I don't know. There's still that one zombie in there.
40:37
>> Quinn: Should we go kill him quick?
40:40
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Do we know how to kill him?
40:43
>> Dave: I don't know if we should resort to
40:46
killing anybody. Guys like, I don't know what kind of
40:49
sickness this is.
40:50
>> Quinn: Might try to kill us.
40:52
>> Skylar: As you say that, Dave, you're a baffle
40:55
4s. The baffle 4s begins
40:58
to, a pop. Some generic pop
41:01
song starts to play that you had as your ringtone in
41:04
2016. You look at
41:06
the, caller ID and it
41:09
says Kurt or Dad, Whatever you'd have it
41:12
labeled as.
41:14
>> Dave: I think back then, it was father. Father.
41:17
>> Skylar: It says father on it.
41:23
>> Dave: Dad.
41:24
>> Speaker B: Yep.
41:25
>> Dave: What's going on?
41:26
>> Speaker B: just talked to your mom. She said she's
41:29
at, she's at Doormart. she found the
41:31
door. She was looking, and, she's.
41:34
She said she's in the checkout line. It's a long checkout line,
41:37
but she said she's fine.
41:40
I didn't get in the truck because she said
41:43
she's fine. Are you doing okay?
41:45
>> Quinn: We need help.
41:46
>> Speaker B: Oh, who's that? Oh, is that Quinn?
41:48
>> Quinn: Yeah.
41:49
>> Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you guys just left a little while ago. how
41:52
are things going? Did you go to the mall? Is that where you guys were
41:54
headed?
41:56
>> Dave: Yeah, we're at the mall.
41:58
>> Skylar: I'm just screaming.
42:02
>> Dave: That's Quinn yelling. Quinn, quiet. I can't even hear.
42:04
>> Quinn: Sorry. Sorry.
42:06
>> Speaker B: What is going on over there?
42:08
>> Dave: Well, yeah, I'm with Fatty and Quinn,
42:10
and we're locked in a T
42:13
shirt store right now. There's
42:16
a horde of, you're locked.
42:18
>> Speaker B: Hold on. You're locked in a T.
42:21
Dave, let me tell you. When. When your brother got
42:23
arrested at the very same mall,
42:26
for dressing up in a cow costume and
42:29
running around like a crazy man. As funny as
42:32
it was, the amount of trouble he got in, I.
42:35
>> Skylar: Wouldn'T call it worth it.
42:36
>> Speaker B: I hope you didn't.
42:38
>> Skylar: I hope you didn't do something stupid, Dave.
42:41
>> Dave: No, I didn't do anything stupid.
42:44
>> Speaker B: Okay. why are you locked. How did you get
42:46
yourself locked in a T? Do you got an employee,
42:49
some nearby? Maybe somebody from the mall
42:52
staff you can ask to unlock the door for
42:55
you?
42:56
>> Dave: I mean, he. We have the
42:58
key. The owner is in here with
43:01
us, but he's,
43:03
>> Speaker B: Dave. Did they get you for stealing? Dave, why
43:06
would you steal a T shirt of all the things? I
43:09
mean, I'm not gonna encourage you to steal in the first place, but a
43:12
T shirt, Dave?
43:13
>> Dave: Well, I didn't steal
43:16
anything.
43:17
>> Speaker B: Why are you locked in a T shirt store with the
43:19
manager?
43:20
>> Quinn: There are zombies.
43:21
>> Dave: Can you, like, turn on the new news or something? And there's nothing
43:24
about this. Somebody should call the police.
43:27
>> Speaker B: Let me check.
43:29
>> Quinn: I was watching Matlock, but I guess.
43:34
>> Dave: I was watching hgtv.
43:36
>> Speaker B: I was watching hgtv.
43:38
>> Dave: House Whippers.
43:42
>> Speaker B: Let's see here. Here we go.
43:46
all right.
43:47
>> Skylar: And you guys can just barely hear kind of in the
43:50
background, some. The news story. You hear, you
43:53
know, breaking news.
44:01
>> Speaker B: Hello, everyone. I'm your anchor,
44:03
Anista Zippenbop, and
44:06
I am just outside of the Sunrise Mall,
44:09
where police and National Guard
44:12
forces have surrounded the building.
44:15
Allegedly, I've heard speak of
44:18
a terrorist attack on the Sunrise
44:20
Mall. Further details coming soon.
44:24
Excuse me, sir. Sir, please. You look like you might be in
44:26
charge here. Can you tell us a little bit about what's going on? my
44:29
name is, General Cry. We
44:32
recently had some sort of, terrorist
44:35
attack. it was a biological
44:38
weapon. some sort of sickness or something along
44:40
those lines. We're a little unsure at the moment, we don't have full
44:43
details. whatever the case, we have surrounded them
44:46
all, and, we have deemed it unsafe for any
44:49
and all to exit the mall at this time for fear
44:52
of further infection. So,
44:55
anyone who is in the
44:57
mall, who may be seeing or hearing this, please
45:00
remain inside. at best, we are going to
45:03
discuss possibilities of extraction, but as we
45:06
have seen and, observed so far, it doesn't seem
45:09
like the current situation is going to allow for
45:12
that. Well, what does this mean about those
45:15
that are inside the mall? I mean, we have
45:18
hundreds, if not thousands of shoppers inside. We
45:21
totally understand that, ma'am. we are doing our best
45:24
to figure, a solution out for the situation.
45:26
But for the meantime, we do not
45:29
recommend, anyone entering the
45:31
mall, and anyone exiting the mall, we will
45:34
have to meet with extreme
45:37
prejudice.
45:37
>> Quinn: This is. We're hearing this through the phone.
45:39
>> Skylar: Yeah. And as. As you know, the interview continues on,
45:42
but, Kurt speaks back through the phone and
45:45
says.
45:45
>> Speaker B: Dave, are you at the mall right now?
45:48
>> Skylar: Yep.
45:48
>> Speaker B: Are you.
45:49
>> Skylar: Are you in this?
45:50
>> Quinn: You bet you.
45:50
>> Skylar: Dave, are you okay?
45:51
>> Speaker B: Are you sick? Did something happen? Have you seen
45:54
what's. What's going on over there? What is all of this that's
45:57
happening?
45:58
>> Dave: No, we're not sick. I mean, we just got here,
46:01
and then a
46:04
horde of people followed us in.
46:06
>> Quinn: Pretty much.
46:07
>> Speaker B: A horde of people? Like shoppers? Other
46:09
shoppers.
46:10
>> Dave: Yeah. I mean, at least, you know, like, seems like all
46:13
the workers from the movie theater.
46:17
I don't know. I don't know how far this sickness
46:20
has spread in here.
46:22
>> Speaker B: Are they. Were they sick?
46:23
>> Fatty Lumpkins: They didn't look healthy. There was a lot of blood.
46:26
>> Dave: I mean, we're looking at, like, the. Great. With all the
46:29
people pressed against.
46:30
>> Skylar: Yeah.
46:30
>> Dave: Are they, like, trying to bite us?
46:33
>> Skylar: But yeah. Yeah.
46:40
>> Dave: Oh, yeah, I can do that now.
46:43
>> Skylar: Yeah.
46:43
>> Speaker B: Dave, send me a picture.
46:45
>> Dave: I. Send him a picture.
46:46
>> Skylar: All right.
46:47
>> Speaker B: What in the world? This is right out of a. Ah, one of those horror
46:50
movies. What in the world is going on?
46:52
>> Fatty Lumpkins: And we're not even at Hot Topic or
46:54
Spencer's.
46:57
>> Dave: Guys, we should, like, cover, our face
47:00
or something, probably. What if these guys. Guys
47:02
breathe on us and get us sick?
47:05
>> Quinn: Oh, yeah. This could be, like, a new pandemic. Can you imagine
47:08
that? The whole country, the whole world in a pandemic.
47:11
Oh, my.
47:12
>> Speaker B: Is your friend Fatty with you?
47:14
>> Dave: Yeah.
47:15
>> Speaker B: Okay, well, okay, he's, he's got
47:18
all that medical experience. I mean, the guy's practically a
47:21
doctor, so, whatever he says. Listen, to what he has
47:24
to say. I'm gonna come down there in the truck, and
47:27
I'll. I'll see if I can talk to some of the. The
47:30
officers and the soldiers that are there and figure out what's going
47:33
on.
47:33
>> Dave: Okay.
47:34
>> Speaker B: You guys stay safe in there, okay?
47:36
>> Dave: Yeah, we'll do our best.
47:38
>> Speaker B: All right. I love you, son.
47:40
>> Dave: I love you too, dad.
47:42
>> Skylar: And with that, the call ends. leaving you
47:45
standing there in the tees and
47:48
jerseys shop.
47:51
having heard this news story about getting a little bit
47:54
more detail about the circumstances of what's going
47:57
on, what is your
48:00
next plan?
48:02
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I do think you're onto something there, Dave. We probably
48:04
should cover up, at least put something over
48:07
to protect ourselves. I bet some of these
48:10
jerseys and T shirts will be enough of a,
48:13
PPE. I think they might even be N95
48:16
rated.
48:17
>> Skylar: Really? These are some
48:20
impressive, items.
48:22
>> Dave: Okay. I grab a graphic
48:24
tea that says, it's
48:27
pizza themed, and it says
48:30
Legalize marinara,
48:35
and I wrap it around my face like a,
48:38
bandana.
48:39
>> Skylar: Nice. All right, fantastic.
48:41
Okay, what about the rest of you guys? Are you guys
48:44
putting on this?
48:45
>> Quinn: I'm gonna go find a. I'm gonna go find a,
48:51
packers jersey. Don't quite mind ripping this up.
48:54
I'm sure I find a pair of scissors up front and just kind of cut it up
48:57
to, like, where I could, you know, get it covered
48:59
and tie it behind my head. So I got it wrapped
49:02
up.
49:03
>> Skylar: Because cutting up a Vikings would be a sin.
49:04
>> Quinn: That'd be a sin.
49:05
>> Skylar: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
49:06
>> Dave: But there's a Cubs hat.
49:09
>> Quinn: Oh, they sell hats here?
49:11
>> Dave: Maybe they don't. Maybe they don't.
49:13
>> Skylar: you see Cubs, like,
49:16
clothes.
49:17
>> Dave: You know, it's not the new.
49:19
>> Skylar: But it's not a hat.
49:22
Sorry.
49:22
>> Dave: It's just the old version. If they don't have the new one.
49:25
>> Skylar: In, the World Series
49:28
again. This store just doesn't have hats. It's mostly shirts.
49:31
Shirts and jerseys.
49:32
>> Dave: It's probably the owner's hat. It's the owner's hat
49:35
sitting on the counter.
49:36
>> Quinn: I'm good.
49:37
>> Dave: Don't touch that.
49:38
>> Skylar: Just covered in blood.
49:40
>> Quinn: Thanks for looking out, though.
49:43
>> Skylar: something that you might be able to find elsewhere in
49:46
the store.
49:49
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I'm going to ruffle through the shelves or
49:52
the racks. Okay. Pull, on a
49:55
Steph Curry jersey. Okay. It sucks that he
49:58
lost the finals. He's way better than LeBron.
50:00
LeBron just manufactured that
50:03
team. But anyways, so I'm gonna
50:06
support the Steph Curry jersey and then just grab Another T shirt
50:09
and the Steph Curry
50:11
jersey.
50:12
>> Skylar: Just for lunch?
50:12
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Just for us.
50:13
>> Quinn: Like the back hallway.
50:15
>> Skylar: Okay.
50:15
>> Quinn: Like to get out to the back hallway, but to get there, you got to go
50:18
through the back room. Would I find anything of value
50:21
in these back rooms?
50:23
>> Skylar: And this would be, like, where the employees might take
50:25
breaks or even
50:28
bathroom bathrooms in each.
50:31
Are you looking for anything in particular?
50:33
>> Quinn: Are you hoping to find something of some sort?
50:36
>> Skylar: you.
50:36
>> Quinn: There's gotta be something.
50:37
>> Skylar: I would say that there's definitely some. Like. It's like a broom
50:40
closet. Right. So there's like some.
50:44
Yeah, just for, like, that store,
50:46
like, storage area. Yeah, yeah. So
50:49
usually, employees or. Yeah, employees at the
50:52
mall would wash most of the mall, but not
50:55
necessarily the respective stores. So this is a space
50:58
for them to have. You know, there's a nice broom and a,
51:01
ah, mop and mop bucket and things along those lines.
51:04
but that. That would be the gist of kind of your weapons,
51:07
per se. that does apply
51:10
to scissors.
51:11
>> Quinn: All right.
51:12
>> Dave: Sure.
51:12
>> Quinn: Every stripping scissors all around that place.
51:15
Yeah.
51:15
>> Skylar: In the back room, for sure. Yeah. You could probably find something.
51:18
>> Quinn: I'm gonna grab a pair of scissors.
51:19
>> Skylar: Okay.
51:21
>> Quinn: I'm just gonna grab scissors.
51:22
>> Skylar: Okay, Sounds good. so there's a list of
51:25
different, you know, weapons and stuff like that that you
51:28
can get. But I would put this on
51:31
to just kind of like, you know, your
51:33
general knife. It's a small knife. It works
51:36
as a small knife. So we're basically going to take
51:39
weapons that they list and then just kind of flavor them
51:42
as necessarily. So you have a small knife on
51:45
you.
51:46
>> Dave: What did you guys had, gotten. Where do you get
51:49
the water bottle you poured on me?
51:51
>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, the little. There's a little cooler by the register
51:54
so people can buy, like a. A drink before they head
51:57
out.
51:57
>> Dave: What's in that cooler?
51:59
>> Skylar: yeah, so there would be. They sell
52:02
Pepsi products and
52:05
so whatever the water is. Was it Aquafina?
52:07
>> Dave: Oh, man. Back. They got wild cherry.
52:10
>> Skylar: Yeah, they got wild cherry in there.
52:11
>> Dave: Oh, that's my jam.
52:12
>> Skylar: That is a pretty good one.
52:13
>> Dave: Although, back then I was kind of more of a Coke guy.
52:17
>> Quinn: Oh.
52:17
>> Dave: but at college they had Pepsi, so that's what I
52:20
drank.
52:22
>> Skylar: Okay, so are you grabbing one of those?
52:24
>> Dave: So I'm going to take off my. My string
52:26
backpack. You know, those things seem to be all
52:29
the rage then.
52:31
>> Skylar: yes, I remember those.
52:33
>> Dave: I'm just going to fill it up with, like. Well, if
52:36
they have any water, I'm going to, like, take all the water.
52:38
>> Skylar: Okay. Yeah, I mean, it's in bottles, so you're just
52:41
loading up your bag with a bunch of bottles of water. Okay, sweet.
52:44
Yeah, you do that.
52:45
>> Dave: I don't know if we're gonna be able to stay here, guys, but
52:48
I.
52:49
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Think we need to relocate. We need to find someone
52:52
somewhere that has better supplies because.
52:55
>> Dave: And then I'm going to go to, like one of the
52:58
display
53:00
stands and like, take off
53:03
the top piece. Like the round piece
53:06
on the top or whatever. The clothes are hanging on.
53:08
>> Skylar: Nice.
53:09
>> Dave: Okay, so it's just like the. The
53:12
central shaft and then the legs.
53:14
>> Skylar: Yes.
53:15
>> Dave: Okay, so kind of like an improvised.
53:18
I don't know, something to hold zombies
53:21
back should they attack.
53:22
>> Skylar: So it's kind of just like a club, basically,
53:25
or like a. Or a staff, maybe even.
53:27
>> Dave: Yeah, kind of.
53:28
>> Skylar: Okay, let's call it a staff. that way I can put
53:31
that. Because that's one of the options that they'll have in here.
53:34
And then. Are you doing anything fatty before
53:37
you guys kind of take off down this hallway, this
53:40
service entrance?
53:41
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Is there by chance a mannequin in this?
53:44
>> Skylar: Yeah, there's absolutely a mannequin. He's dressed with, like, a,
53:47
hat that's kind of sideways a little bit. He's got, like
53:50
those long shorts on that kind of like come down past his
53:53
mannequin legs. And he's got, like some black, ah,
53:57
long T shirt. and it says,
54:00
the original gangsta on it.
54:02
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Okay. I'm going to do my best to remove him from
54:05
his pedestal.
54:06
>> Skylar: Yes.
54:07
>> Fatty Lumpkins: I will take the hat and, sport the flatbell
54:10
myself. But the rest of him, I'm just going to.
54:12
>> Skylar: You're really decking out and just like the best. You're really
54:15
customizing your character here.
54:18
>> Fatty Lumpkins: But, yes, I'm going to grab, the mannequin in
54:21
hopes that maybe he'll serve as a distraction. Maybe he'll
54:24
serve as a battering ram. Maybe he'll
54:27
serve as a.
54:28
>> Skylar: So you're taking.
54:29
>> Fatty Lumpkins: Pull off a limb and I get.
54:30
>> Skylar: A club as a weapon. I like it. Interesting.
54:33
>> Quinn: Taking his arm.
54:34
>> Skylar: No, he's taking the whole mannequin.
54:37
>> Fatty Lumpkins: But if the opportunity presents itself, pull off a leg and you
54:40
got a club.
54:41
>> Skylar: it's a. It's a multi purpose mannequin.
54:44
>> Fatty Lumpkins: It's the Swiss army knife of the apocalypse.
54:46
>> Skylar: That's right.
54:47
>> Quinn: Maybe if we pee on it, it'll smell like a
54:49
human. And then we throw it out,
54:57
on here. Cut yourself.
54:59
>> Skylar: Jeez, it got dark. all right, so,
55:02
Quinn, with your pair of scissors
55:04
equipped, Dave with his kind of
55:07
staff, chunk of a display, and Fatty
55:10
with his mannequin.
55:12
>> Quinn: You all there's no way we die.
55:15
>> Skylar: There's no way that you'll die. you open up the back
55:18
door and you make your way into the service
55:20
entrance, hoping to escape your current
55:23
predicament and hopefully get to a safer spot as
55:25
you disappear into the darkened hallways
55:28
within the inner sanctums of the mall.
55:31
And with that, we'll close out Episode one.
55:39
Thank you all for joining us for another episode of our All
55:42
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55:45
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55:48
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